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17 hours ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:

Ordinarily I’d hear you loud and clear Oaky and I’d go as far as saying I’d begrudgingly agree with you. However, I struggle to get past the fact that the 2014 No vote was founded on at worst barefaced lies or at best false promises. Not just wee white lies either. Big whopping game changers. How can that vote be held up to scrutiny when so many (particularly swithering voters who need guidance) were so shamelessly misled. 
Realistically, even if one was called tomorrow it would be unlikely to be anytime soon. Let’s call it 2024. 10 years seems like a nice round number to me. 

2024 is on the low end of what I think we should be looking at but that might actually be something I could support personally.

Apart from anything else it gives the Brexit and covid situations a chance to settle down. I think we could all do with a break from major upheaval for a couple of years.

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Furlough scheme extended till September, jeezo, what a cost.

I hope when it’s time for us all to contribute to paying it back, people’s accept this is an acceptable necessity.

Covid-19 isn’t free, it comes with huge personal cost to families & loved ones and of course sadly all that have died linked to Covid-19.

I will have no complaint when we are presented with our share of the bill.
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1 minute ago, Scott-Leeds said:


I hope when it’s time for us all to contribute to paying it back, people’s accept this is an acceptable necessity.

Covid-19 isn’t free, it comes with huge personal cost to families & loved ones and of course sadly all that have died linked to Covid-19.

I will have no complaint when we are presented with our share of the bill.

Most sensible people will be the same, however I could name a few on here who will slip straight into the blame game and name calling. :wink:

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Incidentally, will Scotlands first minister be keeping her job ?

I’ve genuinely not followed this story.

So just wondering is her job at risk of this enquiry ?
If it was a boxing match the ref would have warned Fraser and Baillie.... for not landing a punch. At the end the Chairperson had to stop her deputy from embarrassing herself any further. [emoji1787]
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12 minutes ago, Cookie Monster said:

If it was a boxing match the ref would have warned Fraser and Baillie.... for not landing a punch. At the end the Chairperson had to stop her deputy from embarrassing herself any further. emoji1787.png

Not quite the whole story.

Wee Nicky had plenty of uncomfortable moments, looked very uneasy at times when pressed. 

Saying that, as I've said, 8 hours, not entirely fair IMO, to put one person under scrutiny for that period of time. 

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1 hour ago, faraway saint said:

Not quite the whole story.

Wee Nicky had plenty of uncomfortable moments, looked very uneasy at times when pressed. 

Saying that, as I've said, 8 hours, not entirely fair IMO, to put one person under scrutiny for that period of time. 

Overall I thought she was magnificent. Full of admiration for her. 

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6 minutes ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:

Overall I thought she was magnificent. Full of admiration for her. 

You're a captive audience TBH but, the short clips I've seen she was mixed, not easy conditions. 

Hey, it's part of the job, I've said for a while I hope this isn't the end, although that all depends on the next few days/weeks.

PS I should add Salmond, IMO, came across as very assured overall in the few clips I watched.

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9 hours ago, Scott-Leeds said:

Incidentally, will Scotlands first minister be keeping her job ?

I’ve genuinely not followed this story.

So just wondering is her job at risk of this enquiry ?

she could / should end up in jail............ mind you so should a hell of a lot more too

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Incidentally, will Scotlands first minister be keeping her job ?

I’ve genuinely not followed this story.

So just wondering is her job at risk of this enquiry ?
Here's a summary of the current state of play by Another Angry Voice

[emoji838] Priti Patel sacked for breaching the ministerial code by holding treasonous secret meetings with foreign state officials, aimed at siphoning off the UK aid budget into their illegally occupied territories.

Tories: Let's bring her back into government, and put her in charge of the Home Office, that'll be good for a laugh.

[emoji838] Tory Housing Minister Robert Jenrick breaches the ministerial code (and the law) by colluding with a property developer diddle £40 million off one of Britain's most deprived local councils.

Tories: This is all a fuss over nothing. £40 million is mere pocket change to people like us. He can stay in his job.

[emoji838] Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson unlawfully suspends parliament to evade democratic scrutiny of his shambolic Brexit bodge job, then bare-faced lies to the entire nation that he's not creating a regulatory border between Northern Ireland and mainland Britain, when that's precisely what he did do.

Tories: This is all above board, and Boris is doing a fantastic job

[emoji838] Priti Patel is found to have breached the ministerial code again, this time by savagely bullying her subordinates to such an extent that one of them was reduced to contemplating suicide, and another highly respected civil servant quit his job claiming constructive dismissal.

Tories: We must "form a square" around Priti. She will not be held to account over this.

[emoji838] Tory government ministers repeatedly and egregiously breach the ministerial code by briefing major policy announcements to their chums in the corporate media, instead of announcing them in parliament, as stipulated in section 9.1 ("the most important
announcements of Government policy should be made in
the first instance, in Parliament").

Tories: Why on earth would we announce things in parliament, where opposition politicians could potentially hold us to account, when we're guaranteed the easiest possible ride whenever we leak the plans to friendly hacks in the right-wing propaganda rags?

[emoji838] Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock uses the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to launch an absolute orgy of corruption, handing out £billions in untendered contracts to his spivvy mates, tax-dodgers, scammers, empty shell companies with no employees and no experience of medical procurement, and even his former pub landlord. Furthermore he's found to have acted unlawfully by keeping the details of these ridiculously dodgy untendered contracts secret.

Tories: This is so unfair, all the corruption and lawlessness we engaged in was necessary because our policy of deliberately allowing the virus to spread in the crucial early stages created absolute pandemonium!

🟠 SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is accused of breaching the ministerial code over her handling of the false accusations against former SNP leader Alex Salmond.

Tories: This is an absolute disgrace, Sturgeon must resign!

I've seen reports that the SNP picked up another 7,000 new members yesterday on the back of this farce, so, to answer your question, there's not a chance she'll lose her job.
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14 minutes ago, salmonbuddie said:

Here's a summary of the current state of play by Another Angry Voice

emoji838.png Priti Patel sacked for breaching the ministerial code by holding treasonous secret meetings with foreign state officials, aimed at siphoning off the UK aid budget into their illegally occupied territories.

Tories: Let's bring her back into government, and put her in charge of the Home Office, that'll be good for a laugh.

emoji838.png Tory Housing Minister Robert Jenrick breaches the ministerial code (and the law) by colluding with a property developer diddle £40 million off one of Britain's most deprived local councils.

Tories: This is all a fuss over nothing. £40 million is mere pocket change to people like us. He can stay in his job.

emoji838.png Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson unlawfully suspends parliament to evade democratic scrutiny of his shambolic Brexit bodge job, then bare-faced lies to the entire nation that he's not creating a regulatory border between Northern Ireland and mainland Britain, when that's precisely what he did do.

Tories: This is all above board, and Boris is doing a fantastic job

emoji838.png Priti Patel is found to have breached the ministerial code again, this time by savagely bullying her subordinates to such an extent that one of them was reduced to contemplating suicide, and another highly respected civil servant quit his job claiming constructive dismissal.

Tories: We must "form a square" around Priti. She will not be held to account over this.

emoji838.png Tory government ministers repeatedly and egregiously breach the ministerial code by briefing major policy announcements to their chums in the corporate media, instead of announcing them in parliament, as stipulated in section 9.1 ("the most important
announcements of Government policy should be made in
the first instance, in Parliament").

Tories: Why on earth would we announce things in parliament, where opposition politicians could potentially hold us to account, when we're guaranteed the easiest possible ride whenever we leak the plans to friendly hacks in the right-wing propaganda rags?

emoji838.png Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock uses the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to launch an absolute orgy of corruption, handing out £billions in untendered contracts to his spivvy mates, tax-dodgers, scammers, empty shell companies with no employees and no experience of medical procurement, and even his former pub landlord. Furthermore he's found to have acted unlawfully by keeping the details of these ridiculously dodgy untendered contracts secret.

Tories: This is so unfair, all the corruption and lawlessness we engaged in was necessary because our policy of deliberately allowing the virus to spread in the crucial early stages created absolute pandemonium!

🟠 SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is accused of breaching the ministerial code over her handling of the false accusations against former SNP leader Alex Salmond.

Tories: This is an absolute disgrace, Sturgeon must resign!

I've seen reports that the SNP picked up another 7,000 new members yesterday on the back of this farce, so, to answer your question, there's not a chance she'll lose her job.

I really admire your (or is it off the internet?)  long angry whataboutery comparison of the things done by different folk in different organisations.  They ARE naughty!

 

Now... closer to home... any chance that you (or anyBuddie else?) can apply such analytical rigour to addressing my genuine question from yesterday morning, below?

McLeish was, after all, one of Sturgeon's predecessors in that job.. For me he was there one minute, gone the next?

 (I really dunno wot McLeish did that was comparitively naughty)

On 3/3/2021 at 8:16 AM, antrin said:


I vaguely recall Henry McLeish resigning when he was leader - for some obscurereason.  So such a tragedy wouldn't be unusual in Scottish politics.  Genuine question - had his 'crimes' been as heinous as Sturgeon's are being portrayed?

 

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 I really admire your (or is it off the internet?)  long angry whataboutery comparison of the things done by different folk in different organisations.  They ARE naughty!

Now... closer to home... any chance that you (or anyBuddie else?) can apply such analytical rigour to addressing my genuine question from yesterday morning, below?
McLeish was, after all, one of Sturgeon's predecessors in that job.. For me he was there one minute, gone the next?
 (I really dunno wot McLeish did that was comparitively naughty)



Of course it's off the Internet, didn't you read the credit at the beginning? It's from an English socialist who understands and is supportive of what Scotland is trying to do. As are many other English people barring the odd exception.

To answer your question (and again it's unashamedly off the Internet and took me around 30s to find), "McLeish resigned as First Minister in November 2001, amid a scandal involving allegations he sub let part of his tax subsidised Westminster constituency office without it having been registered in the register of interests kept in the Parliamentary office. The press called the affair Officegate."

So not relevant to the FM's case whereas those I quoted are direct comparisons.



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4 minutes ago, salmonbuddie said:




 

 


Of course it's off the Internet, didn't you read the credit at the beginning? 

er... I actually thought you were asserting how angry you were to differentiate yourself from all the other utterly rational and calm snp supporters.  :)

You didn't mention internet, nor any other sources for the words that followed, so I gave you credit.

To answer your question (and again it's unashamedly off the Internet and took me around 30s to find), "McLeish resigned as First Minister in November 2001, amid a scandal involving allegations he sub let part of his tax subsidised Westminster constituency office without it having been registered in the register of interests kept in the Parliamentary office. The press called the affair Officegate."

So not relevant to the FM's case whereas those I quoted are direct comparisons.  Of people NOT in the same job and in different organisations, unlike McLeish...?

 

Ta. 

So only relevant to the Sturgeon case in that he resigned due to allegations of apparently minor form-filling misdemeanours? Is that right?  Was he ever shown to be guilty or did he just resign as he believed that to be the honourable thing to do?

I'll look for Officegate on the internet, but if you'd offered a link...?


 

 

 

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Difficult to reply coherently (insert comment here) on the phone when you comment in my quoted post like that but I'll try.

"Of people NOT in the same job and in different organisations, unlike McLeish...?

Ta."

Of people who are UK government ministers just like the FM, the UK that Scotland is still (for now) a part of so answerable to. Or do you mean that different standards should apply in the two governments?

 
" So only relevant to the Sturgeon case in that he resigned due to allegations of apparently minor form-filling misdemeanours? Is that right?  Was he ever shown to be guilty or did he just resign as he believed that to be the honourable thing to do?
I'll look for Officegate on the internet, but if you'd offered a link...?"

I have no idea if he was guilty or not but he obviously felt he needed to go, fair play to him for that. The FM has clearly and lucidly explained that she is not guilty of any misdemeanour - 8 hours - so doesn't feel any need to resign. Nor do the reported 7,000 new members or the existing members. And May's election will show whether or not the majority verdict is the same (spoiler - it will be).

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38 minutes ago, salmonbuddie said:

Difficult to reply coherently (insert comment here) on the phone when you comment in my quoted post like that but I'll try.

"Of people NOT in the same job and in different organisations, unlike McLeish...?

Ta."

Of people who are UK government ministers just like the FM, the UK that Scotland is still (for now) a part of so answerable to. Or do you mean that different standards should apply in the two governments?

 

I was wondering - I still am - as to why there should be such unrelenting whataboutery, comparing Sturgeon's situation with that of the Tory denigrates in London, not Scotland (and this matter is a determinedly Scottish affair!), whereas I suspected there is a perfectly good - no, better - example nearer to home.

And having read a little more about it, it seems that the holier-than-thou SNP were more than complicit in hounding McLeish (and his wife) so that he did the honourable thing and left office as his personal life was becoming bigger than the job, itself.

I've always disliked Salmond (no relation, I hope?) but considered Sturgeon to be a very able politician and probably more trustworthy than usual.  (A bit like I kinda thought McLeish was.)

SNP demanded high standards and now don't want to uphold them, it appears to me - a humble outsider.  :)

 

 

I admire your unwavering belief in the "reported" 10 million new members that this debacle has generated...   :rolleyes:

 

 

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Sturgeon did absolutely fine yesterday and frankly this should be closed down right now as she has no case to answer. This is a creepy man (Salmond) pulling the usual creepy man shite by trying to deflect the blame for his self-confessed creepy behaviour onto someone else by playing the victim card. He should be hunted for the utter c**t that he is.

Those who think Salmond performed better might want to consider that he made no attempt whatsoever to apologise to the victims of what he himself described as his inappropriate behaviour whereas Sturgeon made a point of doing exactly that.

The bigger picture is that Salmond made it all about him. Sturgeon showed plenty of empathy and humility about her own failings.

That will have gone down very well with the electorate and is why she is the only game in town when it comes to running our country. There isn't another politician at Holyrood fit to lick her boots right now.

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6 minutes ago, antrin said:

I was wondering - I still am - as to why there should be such unrelenting whataboutery, comparing Sturgeon's situation with that of the Tory denigrates in London, not Scotland (and this matter is a determinedly Scottish affair!), whereas I suspected there is a perfectly good - no, better - example nearer to home.

And having read a little more about it, it seems that the holier-than-thou SNP were more than complicit in hounding McLeish (and his wife) so that he did the honourable thing and left office as his personal life was becoming bigger than the job, itself.

I've always disliked Salmond (no relation, I hope?) but considered Sturgeon to be a very able politician and probably more trustworthy than usual.  (A bit like I kinda thought McLeish was.)

SNP demanded high standards and now don't want to uphold them, it appears to me - a humble outsider.  :)

 

 

I admire your unwavering belief in the "reported" 10 million new members that this debacle has generated...   :rolleyes:

 

 

In light of the following post by Oxter, @oaksoft I now realise that McLeish was his own worst enemy. 

He was never empathetic and humble enough for his own good.  He had to go.

 

You can't accuse salmonbuddie of indulging in whataboutery and then do the very same thing yourself.

What has McLeish and the actions of the SNP from 20 years ago got to do with the current situation? Are you going to bring up the Tartan Tories "scandal" next?? :lol: 

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