But yeah, Allan, it *was* actually pretty rude of you to make Stew's involvement a condition of you taking part if you hadn't even bothered to check with him whether he was willing to do it. Hopefully you can think of a suitable replacement, but for heaven's sake: this time, ASK FIRST!
Or to put it another way: hey Stoo, Stoo...who's the REAL moderator?
As if they hadn’t had been in contact with Bath and Barrhead. Cowards.
ReplyDeleteDebate what?
ReplyDeleteWould James and Allan be giving their own views or officially representing their respective organisation's views?
Someone who has a reputation for a lack of moderation is not a good choice for a moderator.
Also, it should be someone with no prior antagonism with either party.
No disrespect to anyone. Even if he had wanted to do it ( he doesn't), that should rule Stuart Campbell out.
Regardless of whether it's a reserved or devolved matter, Scotland's Lord advocate sitting as a Scottish government minister needs to stop. How it was ever agreed in the first place raises serious questions.
ReplyDeleteJohn Swinney will be fighting the HR campaign against a backdrop of party and government corruption and it would be a smart decision to pledge to split the two roles.
Swinney cannot do what you suggest. It’s a matter for U K govt. Previous attempt by SNP to have the change made was thwarted by unionist parties. They see it as another stick to beat the SNP with.This is all news to you? Really?
DeleteAye no wonder you keep posting ( hiding) as anonymous 8.54am. People complain about Britnats lying and misleading but here we have the troll doing the same. The Scotgov have never asked for the situation to be changed. The troll refers to political parties. It’s not parties who would be involved in changing the situation it’s Scotgov and UK gov and it needs the Scotgov to take the initiative and request a change. But they don’t and haven’t. Wonder why?
Delete8.54 Well said and absolutely spot on!!!
Delete8.54 So the SNP are helpless in their bid to no longer have the Lord Advocate in their pocket?
DeleteIdiot for Scotland talking crap again. Joanna Cherry an Snp Mp at the time raised the matter re legislating to split the role of Lord Advocate, in HOC years ok. The Unionists would not support it. The double role of the Lord Advocate was created in the Scotland Act .An Act brought in by the Labour UK Govt in the late 1990s. How the double role was created had feck all to do with the Snp.Now away back and crawl into your troll cave IFS.
DeleteCampbell has a brass neck talking about "furious vendettas against the entire non-SNP indy movement". His own furious vendetta is against the SNP part of the movement, which is three quarters of the movement at a minimum, probably more. He's quite open about that vendetta and says he wants to "destroy" the SNP.
ReplyDeletePot calling the kettle black.
Excellent point. Unanswerable, in fact.
DeleteThis is the guy that got beat by Kezia Dugdale!
DeleteYouGov Westminster voting intention, field work 9 - 10 March, sample population 2,246.
ReplyDeleteUK headlines; RefUK 4% lead (+2% WoW), RefUK stay on 23%, but Tories & Lab slightly recover. Tories, Lab & Greens now effectively, statistically tied, SNP fall to a rounded down 2%.
Scottish sub-sample (195)
Con 13%, Lab 19%, LibDem 9%, SNP 27%, RefUK 16%, Green 13%.
Tiny Welsh sub-sample (108)
Con 10%, Lab 8%, LibDem 9%, Plaid 33%, RefUK 25%, Green 14%.
It will be interesting to hear the crowd reaction when Swinney addresses the Edinburgh rally
ReplyDeleteI think he'll be pleased and relieved with absolute silence.
Should be encouraging unless the perma-outraged brigade are there verging on a nervous breakdown.
Deleteat 10.44 AM - well everyone is expecting the anti-Swinney/SNP mob to have planned something spiteful, cynical and negative given that they are so self-obsessed and full of their own importance.
DeleteExplain.
DeleteFrom the crowd: PULL YER FINGER OUT, JOHN! FFS!
Delete10.44 What are you trying to stir up? Nonsense Labour bot statement!!!
DeleteWorkers of the world unite.
ReplyDeleteOne demographic where the message was received and acted upon was the middle class, humanities graduate nebula who exclusively inhabit the public sector.
When Alex Cole-Hamilton said that Scotland … “can never and should never exist in the global world in which we find ourselves.”, he wasn’t speaking primarily as a newcomer from England, he was representing his multi-national, peripatetic class. Cole-Hamilton isn’t even a “newcomer”, he arrived in St Andrews aged 8, in tow of his academic father. The fact that he has lived, and been educated exclusively in Scotland ever since while absorbing zero in terms of Scottish culture, ethic, or accent is the telling thing. In St Andrew’s, that is entirely feasible.
The LibDems are a party that cleverly, and successfully exploit a ghetto status to generate elected representatives. Little pockets in middle class suburbs, usually close to centres of academia.
Cole-Hamilton himself has never had a “proper” job. He moved from tertiary education to the “third sector”, and from there to a life as a professional politician.
Cole-Hamilton’s demographic isn’t tied by racial, national, or linguistic commonalities, it’s truly multi-national, and multi-cultural.
Cole-Hamilton isn’t especially against Scottish self determination, he would happily hand over British sovereignty to a European central government. Crucially, that institution would be undemocratic, and populated by middle class humanity graduates like Cole-Hamilton. He says it himself in the second half of that infamous quote which is often omitted.
He might get abuse from Liberate Scotland.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know how to resign membership from the ALBA party? I tried online but the website keeps crashing.
ReplyDeleteLOL. It's like Hotel California. Even when the party ceases to exist, they still won't let you leave.
DeleteThe serious answer is just cancel your direct debit. That's the main thing, and you don't need to go through the Alba website to do it.
In fairness to skunks, the outcast sub-genus skunkus stinkii scrotus would turn their noses up at Mandelson.
ReplyDeleteThe Big Ginger Dug says:- “ devolution has run out of road. “ Yet he supports the devolutionist SNP leadership.
ReplyDeleteOne idiot there is saying that it is the MOD who decides if aircraft are allowed to land at Prestwick. It is a civilian airport, and it is the operators or owners or both who decide.
DeleteIn times of war (defence of the realm) or national emergency it can be requisitioned by the military as happened during World War 2 to Prestwick. War has not been declared and the UK is not in a state of War.
Ifs supports …. Who actually?
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