Why is it that the main motorway link from London to Scotland
goes to Glasgow instead of Edinburgh?
( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:14, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

its nearer and a bigger industrial centre

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:14, Reply)

But I'm going to Edinburgh.
This is all very inconvenient.
( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:16, Reply)

go by boat

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:20, Reply)

I don't have one :(

( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:23, Reply)

hire one, it'll be cheaper than petrol

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:32, Reply)

Lobby groups have been campaigning for over 20 years
to have the A1 upgraded between Newcastle and Scotland to dual carriageway, to no avail.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:19, Reply)

Too right.
The jocks should pay to widen the road.

It will then be easier for them to get to London and work whilst telling us how great Scotland is.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:21, Reply)

work sleep rough and drink Tennants
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:29, Reply)

contrary to folk music there is not only a high or low road leading into Scotland.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:19, Reply)

No, there's the M6 and the A1
But the motorway goes to the wrong place. Kindly fix it.

Regards,

Your natural overlords.
( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:22, Reply)

M74
/pedant
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:24, Reply)

M6 to Carlisle
After that it's Scotland and omg nobody cares what it's called, it's Scotland.
( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:25, Reply)

That bit of the M6 from the A69 down towards Penrith etc is a nice drive

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:27, Reply)

Some MP the other week
reckoned it was still quicker to get to Edinburgh via the M6 and then cutting across, rather than up the A1. This was part of the justification for not upgrading the A1.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:24, Reply)

That's the way I'll be going.
But do they not realise that this means I'm going to have to drive dangerously close to Birmingham?
( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:25, Reply)

Probably right
Depends where exactly you're coming from. M6/M74/A725/M8 is probably your best bet, unless you're coming from NE Englandshire.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:27, Reply)

In which case the military road is better anyway

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:30, Reply)

well boil mah haggis!
accordin tae yon Daily Mail, we're nowt but doll scum junkie scroongers.
Ahm afraid ye'll hae tae fix yon horse tracks wie a' yer hard earned English poonds.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:26, Reply)

Anglish poonds.
If you're going to affect a ridiculous regional accent, kindly do it correctly.
( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:28, Reply)

Nope, that wouldn't sound right.
Please listen properly to more Scots.

XXX

MMPS
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:29, Reply)

I will accept "AEnglish" at a push.
Even though the ash character is anglo-saxon.
( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:30, Reply)

Well no, cause I've never heard any accent up here that would start English with an A.
Sorry, no offence like.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:31, Reply)

The Scottish educational system at work.
How sad :(
( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:32, Reply)

fucking BNP all up in my face here.
MODS!!!!
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:34, Reply)

BRITAIN FOR THE BRITISH
get rid of these dirty Scots from our territory.
( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:37, Reply)

FINE.
Don't come crying to us when all you have to drink is sodding vodka or baccardi.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:39, Reply)

aenglish pawnds?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:30, Reply)

To try to ensure that all you soft southern woofters end up over *there* rather than over *here*.

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:25, Reply)

I think you'll find it's so that all you people
find it easier to leave Scotland to find decent work. Since everyone in Edinburgh works in the tourist industry servicing their colonial oppressors, they don't need to leave.

Oh hey, I've just answered my own question!
( Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:27, Reply)

Could I interest you in a tartan dolly in a plastic tube sir?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 28 Feb 2012, 16:10, Reply)

I'll take a tin of that shortbread as well please.
Yes, that's the one. The one in the tartan tin.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 16:18, Reply)