sophia

I heard this morning that there is to be another cull with Bill Whiteford and Isabel Fraser amongst those that are shortly going. There's not all that much that they are leaving behind and for anyone that values the service that they bring, that must be a cause for regret.

That Farage got traction in England is a source of puzzlement to me. I felt a swell of pride when he, well rather his message, was run out of Edinburgh and I joined the hand wringing afterwards. It says a lot about us that we immediately felt for the supposed victim. Further south and aside from a milkshake or two, the zeitgeist has been grabbed and England has embraced or perhaps it is in a grip. It wasn't a mistake, oh no, they verified their collective will almost a year ago. I thought that we might be better together in 2014 but now that this relative deficit thing has been exposed for the fraud that it is, I amongst many others see the financials and see Farage and the path is as obvious as it is positive.

You got divorced whilst you were in jail?

res ipsa loquitur

That may be true but I put it to you that you know hee haw about seaside donkeys

There was a good piece on The Nine last night with Prof J Curtice and Good Morning Scotland has a wee debate slot with Blair Jenkins and (I think) Pamela Nash. All fairly balanced and Pamela Nash, if indeed it was she, was flailing about with words, lots of obfuscating words whilst Jenkins was keeping a lid on his delight.

"I knock on doors day in day out and the consistent message I hear on the doorsteps is that we don't want another devisive referendum which will tear families and communities apart. The message I'm hearing on the doorsteps is that we want the snp to get on with the day job and improve health and education. Just today we hear that Scotland has slipped down the international league tables in numeracy and literacy" © every no mark lib dem candidate and some more besides. "despite it being obviously transparent, "on the doorsteps" is quite clever because the interviewer has nowhere much to go in terms of questioning the veracity of the line.

Consi was calamitous and by rights should have a needless penalty against him.

Whoever* succeeds Nicola must persist with her daily covid briefing trolling of Tom Gordon. You can just feel his resentment at being near to or at the bottom of the list of journalists for their chance at the request a headline slot. *It'll be the cockroaches or Keith Richards

The recent poll which put YES at only 53%, would have some excitedly anticipating a downward trend and I'm most perturbed that their vainglorious musings will be required to be postponed cancelled.

I'm sorry but Johnston is not adamant at all, all he is presently annunciating is a more elaborate version of "now is not the time". A consistent series of majority yes polls followed by a majority for independence next spring will make it inconceivable that whoever the prime minister is at the time would resist a democratic mandate.

With a maximum term we will presumably see the next general election in September 2024 at the latest. With the predicted landslide yes vote taking place in early summer 2022, that would leave the negotiators acting on behalf of Scotland with quite the leveraging position. To use the two years as a target to conclude a deal and therefore not take part in the general election has got to be attractive for whoever might be the incumbent prime minister at that time.

I'd love to share the contents of the revelatory and quite shocking content but I'm afraid to say that I cannot summon the energy to engage with any poster that I judge to have ill intent as part of their modus operandi and even less so if they are careless and indulgent enough to declare that this is indeed the case.

It is ditch, ditchwater. Maybe in chez Lex you may be correct but for the rest of us it is ditchwater. Also, no goals against is a good start.

Would you have any remarks on the risk assessment processes that demarc on and off field responsibilities?

I think you'll find that was J Savile

Loves spending time with his family making sandcastles and the like. I'm very surprised that there isn't a campaign to shame him into standing in Moray.

If only we had a special place for all the coronavirus experts to banter in a not at all turgid fashion

Indeed, sounds positively pathological. Imagine wanting that ill will on on huge swathes of a civilian populace. I've heard such things so many times ... "sink some boats, that'll teach them, they'll soon stop coming".

Public service advice I couldn't help but notice from Govan footage on the sabbath just past an ill fitting covid mitigating mask... There was a Ross County official in the stand, I didn't recognize him but he did rather remind me of a Sontaran, who was wearing his mask below his nasal orifices thus presenting his duty of care to others as substantially compromised. One would hate to see such sloppy attention to detail result in a situation whereby colleagues are rendered unavailable and valuable points potentially lost.

Ask Jason to speak to people

bore off you bore. It was clearly badinage.

I'm quite content with my lot but I do sympathise that you feel that your life is ruined.

The only "very strong" reaction I've come across are those of Beattie's well informed text contributors and the denizens of the coronavirus thread on this very website. The grown ups realise the seriousness of the situation, unlike one contributor today on the BBC who called Nicola Sturgeon "Scotland's Hitler". That's the level of inclusiveness the BBC are inviting.