English law blocks Scottish independence
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Once upon a time there was a "politician" called Nicola Sturgeon who thought it was ok to put men in womens' prisons...the end!!
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moon
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You're a liar, maggot- a misogynistic, populist numpty.
The Windsor Framework disadvantages Scotland in comparison to Northern Ireland, maggot. A boost for the saltire and another nail in the coffin of the empire.
moon
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Tory plant, maggot.
serendipity
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Stupid cunt says what?
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McMoonshi'ite is one seriously fucked up fool. It is truly exquisite watching one of his pet projects totally disintegrating.
And so the Nicola Sturgeon years end with neither a bang or a whimper but with one pitiful desk-clearing after another. Peter Murrell, Sturgeon’s husband and the chief executive of the SNP, has announced his resignation. It comes after Murray Foote, the party’s chief spin doctor, walked on Friday. He had been rubbishing media reports that the party’s membership rolls had shrunk by 30,000 since 2021.
Then, Ash Regan, a candidate in the leadership contest to replace Sturgeon, questioned the integrity of that process and demanded the membership numbers be made public. Backed into a corner, SNP HQ released the figures, which showed a drop in members of 32,000 over the last two years. In his resignation statement, Foote said he had been ‘acting in good faith’ in issuing ‘agreed party responses’ to journalists on behalf of HQ, but it had ‘subsequently become apparent that there are serious issues with those responses’. In drawing an ethical line where he has, Foote may be the only figure to come out of this episode with his reputation intact.
Foote’s departure was preceded by the announcement that Liz Lloyd would be leaving government. Lloyd is Sturgeon’s long-time right-hand woman and previously served as the First Minister’s chief of staff. However, there was disquiet when it was reported earlier this week that, despite being a Scottish government special adviser, she was advising the leadership campaign of Humza Yousaf, widely seen as Sturgeon’s favoured replacement. Lloyd said yesterday that it had ‘always been my intention’ to exit the Scottish government when Sturgeon does.
‘It takes decades to build a political party but days to destroy one,’ Alex Salmond tweeted yesterday. The fall of Sturgeon, and perhaps with her the New SNP that she fashioned, has indeed been precipitous. We can trace it back to a number of events. There was the unanimous Supreme Court ruling that Holyrood could not legislate for a referendum without Westminster’s permission.
There was pushing the unpopular and hardline Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Bill through the Scottish parliament, with the concerns of women’s rights campaigners and SNP MSPs brushed aside. Then, when the Bill was blocked by Westminster for fear it could change how UK law operates, there was fresh anger: all that political capital expended for nothing. There was ongoing disquiet about the party’s financial arrangements, including a police investigation into how £667,000 of supporters’ donations, raised for a ring-fenced independence fighting fund, was ultimately spent.
Then there was the sheer emptiness of the Sturgeon policy cupboard. In eight years as First Minister, she pledged but failed to close the educational attainment gap, introduced but failed to meet ‘legally binding’ NHS targets, oversaw the worst drugs death figures in Europe, and commissioned two ferries now five years overdue and three times over budget. The impression was growing inside her party that she had allowed her coalition with the Scottish Greens to compromise the SNP’s governing agenda, with critics citing the GRR Bill, a chaos-ridden deposit return scheme and the breaking of a pledge to dual the A9, a fatal car crash hotspot that runs through several SNP-held constituencies.
Since announcing her resignation, Sturgeon has had to watch as contenders to replace her trash her legacy. Yousaf now stands as the final, desperate hope of the regime. If they can drag him across the finish line in this race, he can be expected to continue Sturgeon’s approach of kicking independence into the long grass while reorienting the party around elite priorities, closed-door policy-making, and the whole panoply of progressive identity politics. This is the New SNP, and while it has coincided with big electoral wins for the party, it hasn’t brought independence an inch closer and has clearly cost it a significant number of members.
The New SNP project is now in danger. If Yousaf’s main rival Kate Forbes wins the leadership contest, Sturgeon will be politely but firmly retired and the party refocused on voters’ priorities, competent governance, and building a credible case for independence. If Forbes wins, there will be a lot more desk-clearing to come.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-new-snp-project-is-now-in-danger/
McMoonshi'ite is one seriously fucked up fool. It is truly exquisite watching one of his pet projects totally disintegrating.
And so the Nicola Sturgeon years end with neither a bang or a whimper but with one pitiful desk-clearing after another. Peter Murrell, Sturgeon’s husband and the chief executive of the SNP, has announced his resignation. It comes after Murray Foote, the party’s chief spin doctor, walked on Friday. He had been rubbishing media reports that the party’s membership rolls had shrunk by 30,000 since 2021.
Then, Ash Regan, a candidate in the leadership contest to replace Sturgeon, questioned the integrity of that process and demanded the membership numbers be made public. Backed into a corner, SNP HQ released the figures, which showed a drop in members of 32,000 over the last two years. In his resignation statement, Foote said he had been ‘acting in good faith’ in issuing ‘agreed party responses’ to journalists on behalf of HQ, but it had ‘subsequently become apparent that there are serious issues with those responses’. In drawing an ethical line where he has, Foote may be the only figure to come out of this episode with his reputation intact.
Foote’s departure was preceded by the announcement that Liz Lloyd would be leaving government. Lloyd is Sturgeon’s long-time right-hand woman and previously served as the First Minister’s chief of staff. However, there was disquiet when it was reported earlier this week that, despite being a Scottish government special adviser, she was advising the leadership campaign of Humza Yousaf, widely seen as Sturgeon’s favoured replacement. Lloyd said yesterday that it had ‘always been my intention’ to exit the Scottish government when Sturgeon does.
‘It takes decades to build a political party but days to destroy one,’ Alex Salmond tweeted yesterday. The fall of Sturgeon, and perhaps with her the New SNP that she fashioned, has indeed been precipitous. We can trace it back to a number of events. There was the unanimous Supreme Court ruling that Holyrood could not legislate for a referendum without Westminster’s permission.
There was pushing the unpopular and hardline Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Bill through the Scottish parliament, with the concerns of women’s rights campaigners and SNP MSPs brushed aside. Then, when the Bill was blocked by Westminster for fear it could change how UK law operates, there was fresh anger: all that political capital expended for nothing. There was ongoing disquiet about the party’s financial arrangements, including a police investigation into how £667,000 of supporters’ donations, raised for a ring-fenced independence fighting fund, was ultimately spent.
Then there was the sheer emptiness of the Sturgeon policy cupboard. In eight years as First Minister, she pledged but failed to close the educational attainment gap, introduced but failed to meet ‘legally binding’ NHS targets, oversaw the worst drugs death figures in Europe, and commissioned two ferries now five years overdue and three times over budget. The impression was growing inside her party that she had allowed her coalition with the Scottish Greens to compromise the SNP’s governing agenda, with critics citing the GRR Bill, a chaos-ridden deposit return scheme and the breaking of a pledge to dual the A9, a fatal car crash hotspot that runs through several SNP-held constituencies.
Since announcing her resignation, Sturgeon has had to watch as contenders to replace her trash her legacy. Yousaf now stands as the final, desperate hope of the regime. If they can drag him across the finish line in this race, he can be expected to continue Sturgeon’s approach of kicking independence into the long grass while reorienting the party around elite priorities, closed-door policy-making, and the whole panoply of progressive identity politics. This is the New SNP, and while it has coincided with big electoral wins for the party, it hasn’t brought independence an inch closer and has clearly cost it a significant number of members.
The New SNP project is now in danger. If Yousaf’s main rival Kate Forbes wins the leadership contest, Sturgeon will be politely but firmly retired and the party refocused on voters’ priorities, competent governance, and building a credible case for independence. If Forbes wins, there will be a lot more desk-clearing to come.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-new-snp-project-is-now-in-danger/
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NiftyNiblick
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Even though the food largely sucks, I've found the UK a pleasant place to visit.
The West End theater and the London shopping alone make it fairly cool as long as you don't waste any time sightseeing castles.
Harrods is a cool store. I also like the room temperate pints on tap, and I'm not a big beer drinker.
I like how much deeper underground the subway is, and how the voice says "mind the gap" when you get on and off.
Apparently, however, they're almost as fucked up as we are, their NHS being their saving grace.
The West End theater and the London shopping alone make it fairly cool as long as you don't waste any time sightseeing castles.
Harrods is a cool store. I also like the room temperate pints on tap, and I'm not a big beer drinker.
I like how much deeper underground the subway is, and how the voice says "mind the gap" when you get on and off.
Apparently, however, they're almost as fucked up as we are, their NHS being their saving grace.
moon
Satire for Sanity
The SNP will likely still limp home, maggot- as the Scots have observed the total destruction of the Tory party across the border and still have a majority for independence. The main parties in the UK, the Tories, the Labour party and the SNP are all now without decent leadership. You are a fool to launch yourself on yet another of your Titanic prediction rants. What will emerge from the wreckage of UK politics is, as yet, impossible to determine.
Your lot are pinning their survival on shipping thousands of lost souls to fucking Rwanda. They deserve the political death which awaits them
Haw, haw.............................haw.
By the way- " there were no parties and no no Covid rules were broken "
Haw, haw....................................haw.
serendipity
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You truly are an imbecile, there's no majority for independence ffs!!
moon
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Of course there is, you cretinous wee numpty. That's why the SNP won election after election. Scots want rid of English assholes.
serendipity
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Of course there is, you cretinous wee numpty. That's why the SNP won election after election. Scots want rid of English assholes.
You live in a world of your own making, reality will bite you on the arse soon enough. Last time I checked those in favour were around 38%, it may we'll be less now.
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Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
This explains a lot
In 1978 for example, about a third of people in the UK had no natural teeth.
serendipity
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There is absolutely no reason for the European Court to be involved.
Rwanda plan: Is the European Court backing down?
European judges may be preparing to withdraw their opposition to the takeoff of migrant flights from the UK to Rwanda
The Government held discussions with chiefs at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg about the process, known as Rule 39, that allowed judges to halt a deportation flight to the African country last year.
Ms Braverman spent the two-day visit touring long-term migrant accommodation and learning about the education and employment support that would be available to migrants.
She said: “I would call it a blessing. I’ve met refugees from several countries here who are enormously grateful for the sanctuary that Rwanda has provided – education opportunities, security, a home and opportunity in the future."
“Coming to Rwanda, being resettled to Rwanda will provide these vulnerable people with a prosperous future.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1748343/Suella-braverman-rwanda-eu-judges-migrant-flights
There is absolutely no reason for the European Court to be involved.
Rwanda plan: Is the European Court backing down?
European judges may be preparing to withdraw their opposition to the takeoff of migrant flights from the UK to Rwanda
The Government held discussions with chiefs at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg about the process, known as Rule 39, that allowed judges to halt a deportation flight to the African country last year.
Ms Braverman spent the two-day visit touring long-term migrant accommodation and learning about the education and employment support that would be available to migrants.
She said: “I would call it a blessing. I’ve met refugees from several countries here who are enormously grateful for the sanctuary that Rwanda has provided – education opportunities, security, a home and opportunity in the future."
“Coming to Rwanda, being resettled to Rwanda will provide these vulnerable people with a prosperous future.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1748343/Suella-braverman-rwanda-eu-judges-migrant-flights
moon
Satire for Sanity
Again, maggot- as you are really too thick to appreciate the results of elections- the Scottish Nationalist Party has WON successive elections on a ticket of independence from the scurrilous fuckers whose stench pervades Westminster.
serendipity
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Again, maggot- as you are really too thick to appreciate the results of elections- the Scottish Nationalist Party has WON successive elections on a ticket of independence from the scurrilous fuckers whose stench pervades Westminster.
You're a sad bastard, McMoonshi'ite. Reality is never allowed to enter your world!!
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moon
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Your politics are absurd, maggot , destructive, imperialist and suicidal . Just a short while ago you were singing the praises of Trump- who is a potential felon, and Bozo Johnson- who this week goes on trial accused of deceiving his own parliament and allowing thousands of Brits to die in Covid isolation while he and his cabal jollied in Westminster. You are a bitter old loser, whose self-serving aspirations turn to dust time after time. You've entombed yourself in hatred and deceit. Stfu and fuck off.