The SNP

[happyhammerhead]

Love that the director of the GB Ultras race is Mr. Drinkwater.

Nominative Determinism?

[perrykneeham]

She's a bloody GP too. See, once upon a time, that would be her career over too. Dishonesty. How could you trust her to do the right thing?

[perrykneeham]

Looks like Forbesy has either dodged a bullet or played a blinder in respect of the leadership.

Humza is utterly fcuked. I suspect that was known long before he "won" the leadership.

[flatandy]

Either that or Yusuf is deliberately getting all this stuff out just after taking over in order to flush any backstabbers and potential turncoats thrown into political oblivion.

[perrykneeham]

Colin Beattie "steps away" i.e. puts himself outside the disciplinary process and any obligation to answer to the SNP for his actions which, in turn, will mean that the SNP won't "be able" to answer questions raised in the Scottish Assembly.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65327953

No doubt assurances have been demanded and given.

[mids]

It's slightly worrying that things are looking so very bleak for the SNP so quickly. We want death by a thousand cuts, not a quick decapitation. Kate Forbes is decent and competent and we don't want her leading the SNP.

[mids]

Anyway, the SNP: Nazis. I suppose that's why they're so keen on the EU.

www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/may/09/highereducation.humanities

[perrykneeham]

"A report by MI5, who carried out an investigation into the Scottish nationalists, described its individual members as "mischievous and potentially dangerous" although it dismissed the organisation itself as being of little consequence."

Yep, that's the SNP.

[perrykneeham]

Drip, drip, drip .....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65339736

[mids]

Glaury. Very glaury.

[perrykneeham]

Here's fun. I was talking to someone at the weekend who knew someone who had personally been present in a hotel in Scotland when la Krankie had a stand-up row with another women. The tone and content of the argument left little doubt that it was a lovers' tiff.

Good luck to her. Glad she's been getting some. There's nowt wrong.with that, but the pretence, in this day and age?

I expect the reasonable, fair-minded, adults of the Tory party will no doubt have had several LGBTQ+ PMs way before the bigoted Left managed to get another non-standard white public schoolboy in no.10. I see they've already banished their best hope, such as she was, for unspeakably bovine racism. Diane "nick-nick" Abbot.

[mids]

The pretence could be a (not unreasonable) perception of the grim prejudice that exists across much of Scottish society and the Nationalism voters. They're not all Edinburgh lawyers and senior social workers.

[flatandy]

I like that Baloo’s anecdote is “a friend of a friend who overheard…”

It’s enough remove to be untestable.

That said, as Mids notes, if she is gay she probably does have to stay in the closet given that the Kate Forbes wing of the SNP remains so strong.

[flatandy]

Also, I feel like I must reiterate, nationalism is sh*t. So is Scotland. And parties are generally rubbish too.

[perrykneeham]

Apr 24, 2023 11:17:32 GMT flatandy said:

I like that Baloo’s anecdote is “a friend of a friend who overheard…”

It’s enough remove to be untestable.

That said, as Mids notes, if she is gay she probably does have to stay in the closet given that the Kate Forbes wing of the SNP remains so strong.

Witnessed and overheard. I was surprised that had the spat been quite that public it wasn't more widely reported, the tabloids being what they are.

[mids]

"But the former party leader said the police investigation into the party's finances did not influence her decision to stand down as first minister.

Ms Sturgeon said she "could not have anticipated" what happened in the weeks since she resigned."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65391131

[perrykneeham]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65451979

[mids]

Those winter nights must fly by...

"The show was part of an In Conversation With series of events with interview guests including film director Ken Loach, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham."

[perrykneeham]

Happy Union Day!

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/comment/happy-union-day-scots-mark-29859354?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=discover&utm_campaign=CCwqGQgwKhAIACoHCAowi76vCzCYyccDMNeptwEwsMfVAQ&utm_content=bullets

[ootlg]

Fair's fair. What woman wouldn't be a lesbian in Scotland?