Scottish Politics / Independence - Vol 11

[Waitforme]

When I heard one of the news headlines this morning that before she leaves office, Chief Mammy was going to apologise on behalf of the Scottish government for ….

And I honestly thought it was going to be a bit of contrition for the failings for one or more of the following… roads ( A9 , A96 ) , healthcare services, ferries, not for profit energy Co, education, drug deaths ….

But no, and please don’t think I’m slighting the issue, but she’s going to apologise for babies being taken from unmarried mothers.

Maybe she’ll apologise for the mess she and her cohorts have left behind later .

[Ridgemont]

Wings is majoring on one side effect of the actual membership numbers: if membership has dropped from 125k to 72k why do the party accounts appear unaffected?

[alangla]

Ridgemont said:

Wings is majoring on one side effect of the actual membership numbers: if membership has dropped from 125k to 72k why do the party accounts appear unaffected?

Given a lot of this has been in the last few months, maybe members who have paid their membership for a year then resigned it? The impact of non-renewals would take up to a year to feed through in full.

[Roderick Spode]

Interesting, I have seen nationalist cult drones on Twitter claiming that the drop in membership is entirely down to people not being able to afford the annual subs of £12, due to "the Tooaarreee cost of living crisis". If people are unable to afford £12, apparently this an even more urgent reason for leaving "this English union".

A desperate reach, even for the terminally deluded, but an amusing aside.

[Klippie]

Edinburger said:

Klippie said:

I've been listening to the CH4 debate...holy fking Christ, if these three nuggets are the best the SNP can put forward for selection...we're doomed..!!!

One question which was cleverly put to show up their hatred for England...Scotland's head of state...King Charles or President Andy Murray, all three Andy Murray...there it is folk's the racist SNP in full view for all to see.

If it wasn't so serious it would be hilarious as no one would believe the Scottish people have been allowing this lot to govern over them for all these years.

Racist?

Perhaps they're in favour of abolishing the monarchy?

Please explain how you've interpreted it as racist.

Please see my previous answer to this question.

[General Price]

Tories have just taken Dunblane and Bridge of Allan off the nats in a local election.

I thought Bridge of Allan was popular with the nats.

[Roderick Spode]

General Price said:

Tories have just taken Dunblane and Bridge of Allan off the nats in a local election.

I thought Bridge of Allan was popular with the nats.

Perhaps seeing Nippy cutting about the streets in the scud brandishing an iron put them right off their vote.

[Klippie]

Jenny Tailor said:

Master Of Puppets said:

Penny Mordaunt today absolutely lambasting the SNP in the HoC, She is brilliant at this but this one excels.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1636350019203637251

Next PM material surely.

Penny's great, she plays it straight but is very funny and digs in where it hurts the most.

I agree she would be good as PM for these reasons...

1 - She is excellent at the dispatch box.

2 - She appears to have a good grasp on what the hell is going on.

3 - I have a feeling she would rule with an iron fist...no nonsense on her watch.

4 - Maybe I should have put this one first...she seems to have an avtive dislike for the SNP.

[General Price]

Roderick Spode said:

Perhaps seeing Nippy cutting about the streets in the scud brandishing an iron put them right off their vote.

Thank god I have finished my lunch.

[Edinburger]

Klippie said:

Edinburger said:

Klippie said:

I've been listening to the CH4 debate...holy fking Christ, if these three nuggets are the best the SNP can put forward for selection...we're doomed..!!!

One question which was cleverly put to show up their hatred for England...Scotland's head of state...King Charles or President Andy Murray, all three Andy Murray...there it is folk's the racist SNP in full view for all to see.

If it wasn't so serious it would be hilarious as no one would believe the Scottish people have been allowing this lot to govern over them for all these years.

Racist?

Perhaps they're in favour of abolishing the monarchy?

Please explain how you've interpreted it as racist.

Please see my previous answer to this question.

Saw it, thanks.

[Edinburger]

Klippie said:

Jenny Tailor said:

Master Of Puppets said:

Penny Mordaunt today absolutely lambasting the SNP in the HoC, She is brilliant at this but this one excels.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1636350019203637251

Next PM material surely.

Penny's great, she plays it straight but is very funny and digs in where it hurts the most.

I agree she would be good as PM for these reasons...

1 - She is excellent at the dispatch box.

2 - She appears to have a good grasp on what the hell is going on.

3 - I have a feeling she would rule with an iron fist...no nonsense on her watch.

4 - Maybe I should have put this one first...she seems to have an avtive dislike for the SNP.

I agree - she's a rising star.

[hutchst]

Evercross said:

George Robertson, John Smith, Nicholas Rifkind...., even Alex Salmond and Jim Sillars.

As many people have said - we get the politicians we deserve. I have long-lamented the loss of Douglas Alexander as my constituency MP. He was a hard-working, capable and ambitious, yet accessible politician. His replacement needs no name-dropping - a lazy, aggressive intellectual lightweight desperately short of social skills, who was in the right place at the right time. "Selected" even though her party thought she stood no chance of winning and has since made no secret of her reluctance to be in politics, right up to the point the paychecks come in. Invisible in her constituency, and even now that she occupies a senior role in her party her profile is still all mouth and zero substance.

Edited by Evercross on Tuesday 14th March 12:36

I personally think that invisibility in the constituency is her most redeeming feature. I'm not sure how I would react if she turned up on my doorstep with a wee leaflet and a rosette.

[Master Of Puppets]

SNP faces near wipeout in Glasgow as analysis shows Nats losing 14 seats at general election.

Article said:

The SNP is in line to be almost completely wiped out in Scotland's biggest city at the next general election, according to new analysis. And across the country, Nationalist parties face losing 14 seats in total as their hopes of winning Scexit through a 'de facto' referendum are dashed.

Labour is also highly likely to take Airdire and Shotts where Humza Yousaf's former case worker Anum Qaisar is the MP. Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill is also highly likely to turn red as is Motherwell and Wishaw making it a Labour sweep in North Lanarkshire.

Labour will also gain Midlothian from the SNP as well as the Western Isles, where controversial MP Angus MacNeil could be given the boot. Alba - which only has MPs due to defections from the SNP - will also lose its two seats to Labour in East Lothian and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-faces-near-wipeout-glasgow-29481747

Great to see the analysis showing the Western Islanders have finally woken up to them as well, it's long overdue, they've had the absolute
pish taken out of them relentlessly.

And already we are seeing the results of their shambolic administration in the council by-elections, the one mentioned above just round
the corner from Cornton Vale coincidentally, is absolute proof that they've had it. She'll be laughing on the other side of her face soon enough.

[Evercross]

hutchst said:

I'm not sure how I would react if she turned up on my doorstep with a wee leaflet and a rosette.

The only way she'd be likely to be turning up on your doorstep is if you live in one of the dodgy closes in Linwood. The type where you hear dogs barking and there's a RR Sport with 22" wheels parked outside.

KitKat dealers I think they're called....

[csd19]

Master Of Puppets said:

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politi...

Great to see the analysis showing the Western Islanders have finally woken up to them as well, it's long overdue, they've had the absolute
pish taken out of them relentlessly.

And already we are seeing the results of their shambolic administration in the council by-elections, the one mentioned above just round
the corner from Cornton Vale coincidentally, is absolute proof that they've had it. She'll be laughing on the other side of her face soon enough.

Is that her just taken her wallies oot?!

[Silverbullet767]

csd19 said:

Master Of Puppets said:

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politi...

Great to see the analysis showing the Western Islanders have finally woken up to them as well, it's long overdue, they've had the absolute
pish taken out of them relentlessly.

And already we are seeing the results of their shambolic administration in the council by-elections, the one mentioned above just round
the corner from Cornton Vale coincidentally, is absolute proof that they've had it. She'll be laughing on the other side of her face soon enough.

Is that her just taken her wallies oot?!

[Master Of Puppets]

That looks more like Salmond,

Liz Lloyd and Murray Foote have jumped from the sinking ship. Who's next I wonder?



Dyce/Bridge of Don = Labour
Corstorphine/ Murrayfield = Libdem
Dunblane/Bridge of Allan = Tory

And all in the space of 3 weeks, I think it's fairly safe to predict the game's a bogey.

[Silverbullet767]

Master Of Puppets said:

That looks more like Salmond,

Liz Lloyd and Murray Foote have jumped from the sinking ship. Who's next I wonder?



Dyce/Bridge of Don = Labour
Corstorphine/ Murrayfield = Libdem
Dunblane/Bridge of Allan = Tory

And all in the space of 3 weeks, I think it's fairly safe to predict the game's a bogey.

Not before time, anyone with half a brain will vote for someone else now, only the nutters left hopefully.

[Rick_1138]

Master Of Puppets said:

That looks more like Salmond,

Liz Lloyd and Murray Foote have jumped from the sinking ship. Who's next I wonder?



Dyce/Bridge of Don = Labour
Corstorphine/ Murrayfield = Libdem
Dunblane/Bridge of Allan = Tory

And all in the space of 3 weeks, I think it's fairly safe to predict the game's a bogey.

The interesting stat from the Stirling vote is the greens lost over 7% of their vote over the last one, i foresee the greens more than the SNP just evaporating at the next election...not before time.

a bunch of university Marxists posing as politicians.

[sherman]

Murray Foote has quit because he said the membership being that low was drivel.
It is though.
As Head of PR(communications) he couldnt spin it and had to go.