:scotchland: The Adventures of the SNP

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One of the reasons you’ve seen less of me around these parts is because I watch a lot of YouTube now.

This does however have its advantages.

For instance I don’t know a lot more about Scottish politics.

The big issues for the SNP are

The fiasco with the ferries to the Scottish islands. Instead of just buying some ferries the SNP attempted to use the ship works in Glasgow.

This sounds great theory has failed in practice. Yes the people of Glasgow got jobs but the people of the Scottish islands still don’t have a reliable ferry service.

The A9. Massively important road single carriageway nearly all of the way and accident hotspot and something that Scottish government has pledged to dual carriageway.

The Deposit Return Scheme. The plan to put a 20 pence levy on every recyclable bottle or can which you can redeem by taking the bottle or can back to the shop.

I, as an Englishman and drinkarf, support this policy. All my shit is earning nothing in the blue bin.

I can drive up to Edinburgh instead and live like a king. An English King.

This particular policy is perhaps an example of why coalition governments don’t work particularly of the smaller party has the whip hand and disproportionate power.

The catalyst for the sorry state the SNP find themselves in now was the rubber meeting the road of reality on their gender reforms. Sturgeon was pulled apart by the contradictions and couldn’t provide resolutions to those conflicts.

All the while, there was a police investigation rumbling on but it was this issue which really showed her faults.

We are several months away from that event. Alex Salmond says that the SNP are floundering but support for independence is still high.

I think he’s off the mark. I reckon the Scots might be a wee bit tired of hearing it’s all the fault of Westminster when considering their day to day lives, and that is where Alba and every other nationalist party will get to.

The problem with taking that line is that a majority of people will join the long established “if you can’t beat them join them” club.

The SNP has given them every reason to so.

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The Krankie has just been nicked

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Carlsberg don’t do weekends.
But if they did…

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Sunday

The say of arrest.

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Latest is released without charge!
What the fuckity fuck is going on up there?
Are the police going to arrest the whole population one by one until someone coughs “you got me bang to rights gov - I pinched the £600,000, gave £100,000 to some bloke to buy a camper van, and spent the rest”.

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Hasn’t been charged yet

But they have been able to question her under caution

Building their case - someone will go down

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This…

Is a shit show.

Okay okay not just the SNP here. The ever hapless Lorna Slater of the Greens is being hapless again.

But just look at the response of the independence government coalition.

Whatever problems the House of Commons mught have, Holyrood is looking like someone’s low budget and warped interpretation of it.

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Fucking hell.
What a load of bollocks - this is a really good reason for cancelling this devolved parliament ASAP.
Is the Welsh one better than this?

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Probably not and the NI one is worse because they cant even agree to have a forum

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I can’t give unqualified support to this YouTube channel.

The creator is a rabid regurgitation of Daily Mail dogma and I once commented on a video where he’d called Keir Starmer a socialist.

I told him he needed to reconsider broadcasting his political opinions if he thought that was true.

Nevertheless, this is a good account of the collapse of the DRS.

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Looks like the biomass generators have been working overtime up north

Its treasurer said the SNP was still on track to file the necessary paperwork with the Electoral Commission on time.

But he said one “qualification” has been made by the auditors because of missing documents.

The accounts will note that the original records for some cash and cheques had not been retained for the current and prior financial years.

The records relate to membership, donations and raffle income.

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It’s quite funny. The SNP are unwittingly burying independence for a generation, perhaps forever.

Sure, theyll alwayz please their Ebglish hating or imported revolutionaries with the rhetoric, but they’ve always been factored in.

The current plan is ever-shifting but ridiculous in all its forms. It is either winning more seats than any ither party or more votes than any others party.

Not a majority. Mot the settled will of the Scottish people. Just what they think they might be able to achieve.

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Margaret Ferrer, the MP that travelled to London during lockdown with a covid has been ousted as an MP after a recall petition

Apparently only the fourth MP to lose their job that way - unbelievably

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Would love to see that rule relaxed a bit so it’s easier to recall shit MPs.

We might actually get MPs that fancy doing a job.

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Rumors abound that 2 SNP politicians had an affair including breaching lock down rules.

Which will be awkward given how much stink they created about Mancock

Even more so when one of them might have a very senior position in the party

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This is trending on twitter #HumzaBinShaggin