Scottish Politics / Independence - Vol 12

Scottish Politics / Independence - Vol 12

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Scrump

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22,963 posts

166 months

Friday 19th January
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Continued from here:
Scottish Politics / Independence - Vol 11
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

105.4

4,214 posts

79 months

Friday 19th January
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What have I missed in the previous 11 volumes?

Anything of interest? hehe

cuprabob

15,770 posts

222 months

Friday 19th January
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105.4 said:
What have I missed in the previous 11 volumes?

Anything of interest? hehe
I cant recall, and they've all been deleted.

irc

8,233 posts

144 months

Friday 19th January
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Deleted.

Edited by irc on Friday 19th January 21:32

sherman

13,873 posts

223 months

Friday 19th January
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sleep

Edited by sherman on Friday 19th January 21:47

Klippie

3,462 posts

153 months

Friday 19th January
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At the covid enquiry they should hook them all up to an electric shock machine linked to a polygraph...this might zap some truths out them.

As case in point - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc-Fe3c45g4&ab...

alangla

5,236 posts

189 months

Friday 19th January
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sherman said:
Nothing to see here.
Open Volume 13 at bed time please.
Maybe we should keep the post count down in this volume by us all deleting that day’s posts as part of our pre-bed ritual?

Scrump

Original Poster:

22,963 posts

166 months

Friday 19th January
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alangla said:
Maybe we should keep the post count down in this volume by us all deleting that day’s posts as part of our pre-bed ritual?
biglaugh

Evercross

6,368 posts

72 months

Friday 19th January
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irc said:
Interesting article which proposes that Useless is pursuing policies intended to get him well placed for any leadership challenge after the SNP get cuffed in the UK general election. In the process throwing a few of the current SNP Westminster cohort under the bus.


"By bringing conversion therapy to the fore, Yousaf is therefore placing down a clear ideological marker between him and Forbes in the hope of galvanising the SNP members who backed him previously. Revealingly, when the proposed ban on conversion therapy was announced last week, it was suggested legislation would not be brought forward this year, meaning it will be very much a live issue in any post-General Election SNP leadership."

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/comment/48...
Bring it on. I opined at the end of the last iteration that there was a chance the SNP could win another term with Kate Forbes at the helm and a pledge to reverse Humza/Robison's tax increases thus stealing Labour's thunder.

Yousless trying to stay in place after a GE kicking by turning inward and appealing to factions within the party is straight out of the Conservative leadership suicide play-book.

Glasgowrob

3,265 posts

129 months

Friday 19th January
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alangla said:
Maybe we should keep the post count down in this volume by us all deleting that day’s posts as part of our pre-bed ritual?
what posts biggrinbiggrin

alangla

5,236 posts

189 months

Friday 19th January
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Glasgowrob said:
what posts biggrinbiggrin
Plausible deniability is your middle name?

Ian974

3,006 posts

207 months

Friday 19th January
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You won't catch me deleting my posts.
I want to be honest and very, very clear, when I say
[redacted].

Edited by Ian974 on Friday 19th January 22:11

Carl_VivaEspana

13,258 posts

270 months

Friday 19th January
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105.4 said:
What have I missed in the previous 11 volumes?

Anything of interest? hehe
hehe

Wings Over Scotlands' ascendancy to 'must read' status has been great to see.

leef44

4,779 posts

161 months

Friday 19th January
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alangla said:
Glasgowrob said:
what posts biggrinbiggrin
Plausible deniability is your middle name?
I have nothing to hide...



...because I've deleted all the messages

Leithen

12,204 posts

275 months

Friday 19th January
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105.4 said:
What have I missed in the previous 11 volumes?

Anything of interest? hehe
It wisnae me, I'm no paying any tax, global warming's a bag of ste, I'll see you in the bar at Edinburgh Airport for our flight to Malaga at 5am.

I'll have my usual, it's your turn.

Essarell

1,732 posts

62 months

Saturday 20th January
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woohoo

Mammasaid

4,348 posts

105 months

Saturday 20th January
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I clicked 'Watch' on this thread last night, and I've come on here expecting to see a message saying, "Nothing to see here".

Most disappointed. biglaugh

irc

8,233 posts

144 months

Saturday 20th January
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In The Times. Jackie Baillie has cancelled her planned retirement as an MSP in 2026. She told Anas Sarwar she would stay on if there was a chance of Labour being the next Holyrood govt.

And in The Herald - developer blames SNP rent controls for cancelling new homes for rent project.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/24062530.de...


And again in The Times - The editorial discusses Sturgeon's delition of messages.

"When the first hand evidence that might have cast light on life and death decisions has been destroyed, we are in the realms of autocracy."

Well quite. We have been saying that here for a long time. The media are still just waking up to Sturgeon's govt. For some reason the UK media gave her an pass. They didn't even have the excuse of the SCottish media that the SNP and cyber loons would make their life difficult for criticising Saint Nicola.

Edited by irc on Saturday 20th January 10:04

alangla

5,236 posts

189 months

Saturday 20th January
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irc said:
And again in The Times - The editorial discusses Sturgeon's delition of messages.

"When the first hand evidence that might have cast light on life and death decisions has been destroyed, we are in the realms of autocracy."

Well quite. We have been saying that here for a long time. The media are still just waking up to Sturgeon's govt. For some reason the UK media gave her an pass. They didn't even have the excuse of the SCottish media that the SNP and cyber loons would make their life difficult for criticising Saint Nicola.

Edited by irc on Saturday 20th January 10:04
I’m not sure they are. Contrast the front page of the national rags https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-680385... with the Scottish ones https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0q8ye26pvo

The Telegraph is the only national one giving any coverage at all and you won’t find anything on the BBC website outside the Scottish section. There’s still more interest in Boris’s birthday cake than in what this has shown. If you were to substitute Sturgeon, Swinney and Leitch for Jonson, Hancock and Whitty, then the outcry would make the post office drama reaction seem like nothing but because it’s Scotland no-one is bothered.

Sadly I suspect this won’t result in the outcome that we all know it should.

matchmaker

8,661 posts

208 months

Saturday 20th January
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Klippie said:
At the covid enquiry they should hook them all up to an electric shock machine linked to a polygraph...this might zap some truths out them.

As case in point - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc-Fe3c45g4&ab...
It's a whitewash. I had an elderly aunt who died of Covid. She was in a nursing home because of dementia with Lewy Bodies - that's a type of dementia with the added complication of similar symptoms to Parkinsons, poor balance, etc. As I had Power of Attorney the nursing home kept me well imformed of how she was. When she had a fall - not uncommon - the home would phone me to let me know. They did their absolute best to keep her in the home so as not to risk her being exposed to Covid.

Unfortunately, she had a bad fall and the home phoned me to advise me that the doctor advised an MRI scan. She was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. Within a week she was dead of Covid.

Following a couple of letters I was phoned by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to give my account of events. Unfortunately, this did not toe the party line. I had no criticism whatsover of the nursing home, but a lot to say about Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, none of it good.

Unsurprisingly, I have never heard from them again!