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    Recall there was talk about free trade between Commonwealth nations couple years back. 50+ countries. Seems a decent idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Recall there was talk about free trade between Commonwealth nations couple years back. 50+ countries. Seems a decent idea.
    I agree but we chose to shit on our Commonwealth partners in favour of joining the EU. Or the EEC at the time. That was what got up my nose back in the 70's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    So hey, if we are a burden and a parasite and you would love to see us crash and burn then why not change your attitude and support our inevitable doom.
    Your blind hatred of the English and the accompanying chip on your shoulder is not shared by the majority of Scots. The Referendum proved it.

    Similarly, most English people don't hate the Scots.

    There is, however, a gobby minority of both. As the saying goes, empty vessels make most noise.

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    I don’t have a hatred for the English, I have a hatred for the Union.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    I don’t have a hatred for the English, I have a hatred for the Union.
    Yeah, no sign of a massive chip on your shoulder there.



    So hey, if we are a burden and a parasite and you would love to see us crash and burn then why not change your attitude and support our inevitable doom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    I don’t have a hatred for the English, I have a hatred for the Union.
    Well you'd better get your SNP quackers in a row.

    Quite frankly, and most already knew this, Jimmy and her shower of shite who've been running their monopoly north of the wall are a cosy little cabal of career politicians and civil servants all dropping their car keys in the bowl for the last decade.

    I am a bit pissed off quite frankly, the last year or two the woad skirt wearers were sounding like they may deliver us a result and force a reffy, but no. After years of in-house co-mingling the truth is finally coming out and the Social Nationalists Party are getting a proper airing.

    This ladies is not looking good for cutting the Scottish anchor that's been weighing on the south of the Island, nor being able to rid ourselves of Blackford, a man only surpassed in his droning repetitious and pewter dullness by our own Sausages.

    Salmond v Sturgeon is not just a battle of personalities

    As the SNP row intensifies, fault lines are emerging across Scotland’s independence movement


    There can’t be many occasions when a committee session of the Scottish parliament has garnered Netflix-style viewing figures. Today it wasn’t just the political classes who were transfixed by the testimony given by the former first minister Alex Salmond.


    The committee was examining how and why the Scottish government erred in its investigation into allegations of sexual harassment involving Salmond – which cost the Scottish taxpayer substantially north of £500,000 when the process was judged to be “unlawful, unfair, and tainted by apparent bias”. (Subsequently, a criminal case was brought involving some 14 charges, on all of which Salmond was acquitted.)


    Despite the months of bitter in-fighting, the end game of this psychodrama has only reached half time. Nicola Sturgeon, the current first minister, will take the same chair under the same oath next week. She will do so after her one-time mentor has charged her with breaking the ministerial code, charged the government’s permanent secretary, Leslie Evans, with breaking the civil service code, and implied that the lord advocate, James Wolffe – the government’s legal adviser – allowed the Crown Office to redact sections of Salmond’s evidence merely to protect the Sturgeon and her government.


    Two threads ran damagingly through Salmond’s testimony. The first was his constant assertion that he was being prevented from providing evidence to back up his assertions by improper use of contempt of court laws, and second was his insistence that the leadership of Scotland’s key institutions was not fit for purpose.


    He called for the lord advocate to “consider his position” and repeatedly accused the permanent secretary of improperly abusing her powers. But he stopped short of demanding that Sturgeon resign if found to have breached the ministerial code.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/26/salmond-sturgeon-snp-scotland-independence

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    Well, this is a disastrous turn of events but presumably the scum north of the wall will sweep this under the carpet like a lot of other cosy SNP / Scottish Civil Service deals over the past 10 years. Considering the bitch considers herself Joan of Arcs second coming, i wonder if the scales will fall from the thick Jocks eyes now. Still apparently Nicola is sticking with the "he made up all this conspiracy theory" lies line.

    Alex Salmond harassment inquiry ‘concludes Nicola Sturgeon misled Scottish parliament’


    First minister gave ‘inaccurate’ account of meeting with predecessor, report expected to say

    A Holyrood committee has concluded that Nicola Sturgeon misled an investigation into the handling of sexual misconduct claims against her predecessor, according to reports.


    MSPs on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints Committee voted 5-4 that the first minister gave an “inaccurate” account of a meeting with her predecessor during the live investigation, a source told the PA news agency.


    This would amount to misleading the Scottish parliament.


    The decision is likely to increase pressure on Ms Sturgeon to stand down before May’s election, although it is unclear whether the act was deemed a resignation-worthy offence.


    A Scottish parliament spokeswoman said the committee, which heard lengthy evidence from Ms Sturgeon two weeks ago, was still considering its report. It is expected to be published in the coming days.


    James Matthews, Sky News’s Scotland bureau chief, said the committee said she had given “an inaccurate account of what happened and she has misled the committee on this matter”.


    Mr Salmond was awarded more than £500,000 in 2019 after the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest civil court, ruled that the way the complaints were handled by the Scottish government was unlawful.


    The Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints was set up after this ruling.


    Conservative MP David Davis used parliamentary privilege in the House of Commons this week to read out messages that he suggested showed a “concerted effort by senior members of the SNP to encourage complaints” against the former first minister.

    more here

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nicola-sturgeon-inquiry-salmond-holyrood-b1819304.html

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    We already know she's a lying fucker, it's just that her followers are like trumpanzees and can't see they're being had over.

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    Yep with the so called enquirey by the bloke she appointed in her back pocket - the whole thing stinks.


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    Quote Originally Posted by strigils View Post
    the so called enquirey by the bloke she appointed in her back pocket
    There should be a call for him to resign as well.

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    This could get interesting, up until now Jimmy has been a single party independence trick....

    Former SNP leader Alex Salmond launches new political party


    Former SNP leader Alex Salmond has announced the creation of a new pro-independence party which will stand in the Scottish Parliament election.

    He said the Alba Party expected to field at least four candidates across every region of the country. His statement came at the end of a dramatic week at Holyrood. On Wednesday, Mr Salmond said he would take fresh legal action over the conduct of the Scottish government's top civil servant.

    A report by MSPs on Tuesday described the government's handling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond as "seriously flawed".

    The previous day, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was cleared of breaching the ministerial code over her involvement in the Alex Salmond saga.

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    Oh dear the Krankie Karen will have a fucking fit.


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    i am going to look forward to this immensely.

    The Guardian view of Alex Salmond: the politics of revenge


    The return of Alex Salmond to frontline politics is a symbol of decay, not renewal, in Scottish politics. His decision to launch a new political party to contest upcoming elections for the Holyrood parliament will not highlight a new shared idea of an independent country that nationalists could unite behind.


    It will instead provide the stage for Mr Salmond’s revenge on his successor as Scottish National party leader, Nicola Sturgeon. For two years Scottish politics has been consumed by this rivalry. The scorched-earth politics of Scottish nationalism has been brutal. The shabby way in which serious matters pertaining to allegations of sexual harassment leading to acquittal in a court case have become part of hyper-partisan politics revealed the depths to which politicians were capable of sinking.


    Ms Sturgeon is an effective communicator, a trait that has won her deserved praise during the pandemic. She has faced no effective opposition and ought to easily win May’s election. Her aim is to secure a mandate so large Boris Johnson could not ignore nationalist demands. Mr Salmond’s entry into the race changes the dynamics. Although he and Ms Sturgeon were once both in the gradualist wing of the independence movement, Mr Salmond has adopted a more fundamentalist cast.


    What Mr Salmond is likely to focus on in his campaign as leader of the Alba party, if his political shift is any guide, will be the questions that Ms Sturgeon does not have an immediate answer for. When would an independence referendum be held? What sort of question should Scottish voters face? What if Mr Johnson rejects the demand for a section 30 order to allow another independence poll? Should Scotland go it alone with a Catalonia-style poll to demonstrate it’s time to break up Britain? If Mr Salmond wants to be seen as a man in a hurry – impatient for a second referendum in contrast to Ms Sturgeon’s more cautious approach – he is likely to have his responses ready.


    The Holyrood elections work on a proportional basis. Voters pick a constituency member and then vote for a party regionally. Mr Salmond’s new party is aiming to pick up seats in the list vote in the Scottish elections, which is meant to make the representation in Holyrood more proportionate. In 2016 the SNP won 59 seats in the constituency section with 46.5% of the vote, but its 963,000 votes in the list section, about 40% of the list vote, only garnered four seats. Mr Salmond will be hoping to lure voters here and from the Greens, who are also pro-independence.


    A good showing for Mr Salmond would be bad news for Ms Sturgeon. Scottish independence is a high-stakes gamble. The status quo is not without risks from Brexit and an uncertain recovery from the pandemic. A lack of respect for integrity is creeping into Scottish politics. Voters will not be pleased if they find politicians in charg

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/26/the-guardian-view-of-alex-salmond-the-politics-of-revenge

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    The rampage continues. Whingey McFlounce is on another drunk rampage today.

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    There's that noise again, doesn't matter which thread i open, its there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strigils View Post
    There's that noise again, doesn't matter which thread i open, its there.
    Stop posting you loser. Go outside get a fucking life. 70+ drunk shit posts a day on TD is not healthy. Go walk your micro-penis just shut the fuck up for ten minutes you Whingey bitch.

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    ^Did those hairs you picked out of your teeth come from your palms Timmy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    The rampage continues. Whingey McFlounce is on another drunk rampage today.
    Are you seriously having a go at another poster for drunk posting?

    You raging pisshead.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Recall there was talk about free trade between Commonwealth nations couple years back. 50+ countries. Seems a decent idea.
    Surely the formation of the UK was the first attempt at forming a common market over 200 years ago?

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    Six SNP politicians join Alex Salmond’s new Alba Party in space of 48 hours

    Six SNP politicians join Alex Salmond'''s Alba Party in space of 48 hours



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    Trouble is this isn't helping the Scots get back in the EU where they belong. I would be most happy to settle up with Scotland and let the feckless alkis rejoin the sinking ship but i fear this latest development is going to delay matters.
    Last edited by strigils; 29-03-2021 at 02:07 AM.

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    Now this sounds promising

    Westminster would not block IndyRef2 if Holyrood in favour, says Sturgeon


    SNP leader says government accepts it cannot stop referendum if there is majority for independence in Scottish elections

    The UK government accepts that if there is a majority for independence in May’s Holyrood elections it cannot continue to stand in the way of a second independence referendum, Nicola Sturgeon has suggested.

    Speaking to members of the Scottish Parliamentary Journalists’ Association, the SNP leader and first minister said: “I strongly suspect, based on some of what I hear that is under discussion in the depths of the Tory party and Whitehall at the moment, that they know an independence referendum is coming.”

    Boris Johnson has consistently said he will refuse any request for the transfer of powers necessary to hold a second referendum to Holyrood, regardless of whether the SNP wins an overall majority or forms a government with the pro-independence Greens on 6 May.

    Sturgeon added: “That’s why a lot of the talk coming out of those quarters right now is about how they would start to think about rigging the question or rigging the franchises, if there’s a majority for an independence referendum.”

    Asked what her position would be if Johnson refused the requisite powers again, she said: “We would take the legislation through Holyrood and if Boris Johnson wanted to stop that he would presumably have to try to legally challenge that, in which case we would vigorously defend our position. But that would be an absurd position for a prime minister to get himself into in the face of a democratic majority.”

    Sturgeon has already ruled out any post-election arrangement with Alex Salmond’s newly-formed Alba party, which he claims could help secure a pro-independence “super-majority” by picking up votes on the regional lists from SNP supporters.

    Describing the term as “daft rhetoric”, Sturgeon said: “Can we knock on the head this idea for some requirement for a ‘super-majority’. What is needed is a simple majority of MSPs who back a referendum.”


    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/09/westminster-would-not-block-indyref2-if-holyrood-in-favour-says-sturgeon

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    Quote Originally Posted by strigils View Post
    Now this sounds promising

    Westminster would not block IndyRef2 if Holyrood in favour, says Sturgeon
    Of course they would.

    Stupid krankie karen.

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    If she says it enough times....

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    Narrow Focus - lovely excuse something Anthony might come out with when he's doing his Trump squirm like last night.

    https://www.channel4.com/news/scotti...ending-for-nhs

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