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18 minutes ago, Jedi2 said:
You can spin the Humza whatever way you like...he also has previous with his 'line one, page one in our manifesto..do you want Scotland to be an Independent nation'.
The GE tactic is still to push a win of any kind (even by 1 seat) as a 'clear' mandate to say 'The people of Scotland have spoken and backed Independence. Therefore we will now negotiate the terms of that with the UK govt'. That is how it is being sold to the public
Whether in those circumstances 'the terms' became another Ref, or, read another way from his own comments, that there is then a mandate to draw up a Withdrawal agreement doesn't really matter.
The fact remains that he enters the election on the basis that (any) SNP win is a trigger for Scotland to then be an Independent country.
Question is...are they in good shape now for that to become a reality this year?
Question is...
Are you going to do the honourable thing and retract or persist and lose any shred of credibility that you may or may not have had?
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14 minutes ago, DrewDon said:
That Gillian Mackay interview.
Indeed and especially as she is flat out wrong. Self indulgent twitter and bubble debate has seen to them.
Patrick went rogue and every interested grown up sucked air as he ended his career and his party's influence.
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2 hours ago, GTG_03 said:
Can't remember who it was now but there was a journalist who had just finished his questions to sturgeon and not realising his mic on the video call was still live, waa boasting and laughing with colleagues about how he'd really given it to her(with his questions, before someone inserts Kenneth).
Journalistic standards in Scotland are terrible across the board tbh
I went looking for footage of that quite extraordinarily bad behaviour that gave the game away but couldn't find it. I do though recall Tom Gordon with his pomposity tazer turned up to max asking what he obviously thought were daily smart questions. His idiocy far outweighed his pertinency
11 minutes ago, Jedi2 said:So, @lichtgilphead a 'withdrawal agreement' being drawn up with a 'majority' of seats 'isnt' UDI...rather think it is, maybe need to stfu as well.
It would do you great credit if you would extend yourself to the foothills of credibility
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On its independence in 1960 Tanzania had a grand total of 3 medical doctors and 2 engineers. The Congo had 3 native university graduates on its independence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001y8gg
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7 minutes ago, sparky88 said:
I don't know much about this, as not a teacher and left school in 2005. Is disruption worse with phones than it was was before them?
I'm told that there's been a marked improvement in attainment, especially in English and in spelling in particular.
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7 hours ago, Florentine_Pogen said:
"Please buy my hoose. Here's a photo of Bedroom 2."
Looks like he didn't bother to change the lamp shade when he moved in
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Tom English and his semi final report...
That was down the Rangers end and they let him have it. Not fury, but a lot of angst. A plaintive cry of the masses.
Silva didn't score, though. In collapsing to the floor, Silva looked like an octopus falling out of a tree. Somewhere out there, Peter van Vossen was celebrating. No longer the holder of the greatest missed sitter award.
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1 hour ago, philpy said:
The hall for the wife's party tonight, and this is in the kitchen. We won't be going back their.
Their loose is your gain
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1 minute ago, Comrie said:
Literally, Anthony Gordon won a penalty for Newcastle against West Ham for that. Our game is absolutely fucked.
I saw that one, it was baffling.
Rangers got a goal disallowed in Europe recently for a similar misdemeanor by Morelos.
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1 hour ago, alta-pete said:
I have seen this phraseology used regularly but it seems rather clunky and full of subliminal meaning:
“The former first minister emerged from the home near Glasgow she shares with Peter Murrell”
Why isn’t it her home? Their home? The marital home? But it’s described as the ‘home she shares? Surely all spouses share their home with their significant other?
The BBC have used it for the duration of this farrago and it has puzzled me on each hearing.
The obvious reading is that they are no longer biblical in their relationship but if that were to be so, why would such a powerful woman be hinging about in such an environment?
People have to know.
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On 17/04/2024 at 21:22, scottsdad said:
The tories supported it first time around, but not now as they a) haven't seen any benefits and b)are concerned that MUP exacerbates harms to the hardcore alcoholics (missing meals etc).
I am no fan of the tories but here they are the only ones asking questions rather than just voting through this pointless measure.
Never a good look with that or indeed being associated with the company that are positively engaging with you and your misunderstanding of the policy.
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Just now, Venti said:
Lolnardo Silva
The worst penalty I've ever seen and the good news keeps rolling in
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11 minutes ago, scottsdad said:
Voted through.
Listened to the minister on the radio and she was awful.
"Does this policy actually work?"
" i met nursing students who were graduating last week, very excited to start work"
I also listened to the interview and I thought she did well in expressing that the policy is part of a strategy that is supported by a wide range of objective experts.
The only significant opposition is coming from the loud mouth and simplistic tories.
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44 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
Had the pleasure of meeting him at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth and VERY funny.
Not a good trait for a boxer
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On 13/04/2024 at 17:30, DukDukGoose said:
Arguing over nothing at the minute.
Aye it was better in the good old days
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59 minutes ago, Afc69 said:
Cosgrove trotting out the Billy Dodds transfer fee AGAIN. Only a buffoon thinks the fee was £800k when St Johnstone only paid £500k for him, then went doon
You'd think he is obsessed about it
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20 hours ago, PTR said:
It is near unlistenable now. The constant strive for 'debate' is excruciating.
Aye, this is a new thing right enough
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2 hours ago, Juanjo Nostalgia said:
You actually live on another planet! The only goal is staying up.
What a curious response to the imagining of a vaguely positive outcome to this season and of course, you are completely wrong.
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4 hours ago, Liam899 said:
Kerr doing a decent job?
No, no he hasn't.
To describe the job that he's done as decent would be doing him a disservice and underestimating the important role that he's played in his time with ict. He's been a very astute signing by our management team.
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3 minutes ago, scottsdad said:So...nothing original to say? Just reworked old tropes you read on Twitter from someone even more clueless than you?
Standard Sophia.
Just my experience of shysters but if it's a raw nerve I apologise
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11 hours ago, scottsdad said:
PFI/PPP isn't privatisation.
It is a form of contract where a private consortium will design, build and manage a building (school or hospital). The government pays no big capital costs up front but rather pays a fixed cost over, say, 25 years.
Labour coming into power in the 90s saw that they needed a huge building programme, as the tories had run everything down. The capital cost to build everything that was needed was high, so they went down the PFI route. Hey presto, loads of shiny new buildings.
The problems with PFI contracts arrived about 10 years later. They had signed so many, that by the late 2000s the taxpayer was paying huge sums to these contracts. Other issues came up also: there are various PFI types (BOO, BOOT, etc) and folk signing a contract in, say, 1999 weren't too fussed about what would happen 25 years later. So when the PFI contracts end, some buildings become government property, but others stay with private companies meaning new negotiations, or buying a now-oldish building.
Also, there isn't much flexibility in them. A PFI school in Newcastle closed in 2010 or thereabouts due to lack of pupils, but the council must keep paying for the upkeep of an empty school. If changes to the building are needed (as will often happen) then this is hugely difficult and expensive.
In the UK we no longer use PFI but these are still very common for infrastructure projects (civil engineering and power plants) across the world.
Facilities management is a scam of an industry serving idiot entities who have no appreciation of risk, whose middle managers have no incentive to do anything other than dole out contracts to chancer companies that have diversified from old rope.
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2 hours ago, PB1994 said:
Big Dunc Ferguson producing the goods when it really matters. What a man.
I agree and whilst some have been shrilling and wanting him ejected, that was typically premature.
I've been endeavouring towards the objective with Duncan and I can accept that those brought up with the redolent cry of get it up the park might be fooled by the immediacy of that tactic but I rather think football has moved on and despite the frustration of this season, at least we have a philosophical sporting base to build upon.
Yet again the vocal and dreary doomsters are proved better at being performative than predicting and fifth is a finishing position that is eminently achievable.
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49 minutes ago, Sonam said:
Is there any way to watch this match?
Currently sick, bored, it should have been on BBC Alba FFS!
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