The_Kincardine

It isn't the hard-core, "Eat grass than labour under the yoke of the Basturt English" types you need to worry about. It's the 'soft middle' swing voters that matter. Estimates vary but it's somewhere between 30-40% of the voters and many of them absolutely would vote for non-Nat parties because, in the minds of many, the "SNP IS independence" and why would they think otherwise? They've been teased for years by Sturgeon that IR2 is coming 'next year' and we can rid Scotland of the stench of Tory corruption. Now many see that IR2 is in a cryo-chamber and that HR is a stinky midden. So Sturgeon et al have damaged the message as well as showing themselves as deeply flawed messengers. I welcome ScotNat 5088 being 'demoted' from HR and starting afresh at local council level. Swigging Buckie on an open top bus as they parade to the Civic Centre to celebrate winning the Motherwell West council ward in a by-election?

Not half as depressing as - after all the lies, cheating, cover-ups, half-truths, deception, incompetence, troughing, sleaze and mendacity - you recommending people to vote SNP. Aside from all their shenanigans, they've put Indy on life support yet you still encourage others to vote for them.

Humza doesn't want Nippy suspended 'for what her husband did' thus 1. missing the point and 2. chucking Petey under the motorhome. This is the sort of nonsense we were all expecting.

Eh? Nothing whinging about saying the terms 'union flag' and 'union jack' are interchangeable! If there's a grumpy one here it certainly isn't me!

8 for Mon. YP's video games and YP's cartoon.

No one does - the terms are interchangeable - and don't give us 'a jack when it's on a ship' tripe.

The Scotland Act - as confirmed by the Supreme Court late last year.

Aye, the 'hoopettes' patter is past its sell-by date. We went out for lunch after our game so only caught the last 20 mins of the City game so it's hard to judge how the sides compared. Both, though, are more physical than we are. This is going to be a problem for us. Hope your hopes come true, though!

Great achievement, yes. Cheryl McCulloch was on comms duty for Alba and she's obviously proud AF at what Thistle have done but it has taken its toll on a small and part-time squad through injuries and suspensions. They looked like a team running on empty. We played some tidy stuff and we also had a fair sprinkling of youth - with Watson and McLeary stating and some of the teen-teens coming on later. 0-5 but could have been many more. A combo of good goalkeeping and a few howlers from us kept it respectable. Your 'beloved Hoopettes' beating City makes the last 7 games interesting. Given we play City 2x and Celtic 1x and there's one more Celtic vs City game it's still there to be won - assuming all three teams beat the 4th to 6th placers:

So the only argument is who is or isn't 'beyond the pale' and he used the expression perfectly well. Agreed? The major carriers of the 'Yes' message are a gang of troughers, shysters and chancers so, of course, the message is tainted by this. The 'unconvinced middle' will be influenced by this. As for the economic argument, well one hasn't been made beyond the 'look at our resources' unquantified stuff. In particular, no one has tried to deal with: 1. The withdrawal of the Barnett Bonus, accounting for about 1/4 of government spending in Scotland. 2. The effect on Scottish trade by being outwith both the EU and UK single markets for an (as of now) unquantifiable period. 3. The fiscal and human resource cost of setting up all of the 'levers' needed for a new state. The benchmark here is Social Security Scotland which will have taken 10 years from announcement to final implementation at a cost close to £1Bn. The general approach to the economic case is, "Just trust us" and that approach is now holed below the waterline.

Bollocks. "The party's never been in a stronger financial position than it's in right now". Straight from Chief Mammy's mouth to the NEC in March. And she would never lie...

Forget the results. What about the views? BTW wasn't Clarence a cross-eyed lion rather than a zebra?

Bit of an odd game but quite entertaining for an EoS dead runner. 5-2 is pretty fair on chances and possession. Our defence is abysmal, though.

Sit down, roaster. You've nothing to offer but ignorance.

^^^Another obsessive wee NatWit who loves to post about posters.

Just a simple moniker like, "The vacuous Jupe". Something we all agree on.

"Succulent Lamb and Minty" is the crisp flavour we didn't know we needed.

Lucky for me, too.

"I haven't voted Tory in local or national elections since Boris became party leader." That includes the Amersham and Chesham by-election which returned the fragrant Sarah Green (LibDem) to the commons. Do keep up, SloMo.

I've said, umpteen times on here, that I've not voted for the Conservative party for years. Indeed, here's a post I made in June of 2021 which pretty-much writes the script that the neds, boors and Shinners of Nationalism have acted out over recent weeks: I take no pleasure* in assessing the ignorance and short-sightedness of P&B's DWTGs. *every pleasure

Went to the dentist earlier followed by a trip to Tesco and saw a couple of small shelves of tat they're trying to punt. Certainly not, "Aisles of shite, union flags, the lot". It was barely noticeable. Mind you, were I head of merchandising for MacTesco I'd be looking to sell a discounted UF-printed apron at the butcher's counter. Just for max seethe. A trick missed, I think.

marinara, Shirley?

You have to be constitutionally tin-eared to think that a court holding a government to account is, to quote you, "shambolic". That you cite the equally constitutionally tin-eared Conservative party to support you just confirms this.

Your spelling and punctuation are shit, btw, but you're absolutely right. Everyone loves a storyteller and warms to little anecdotes. Human interest does interest we humans. My 20 yo - aside from finishing her Honours dissertation - has a presentation for a 12-month paid internship next month. I was telling her exactly that. "Make it memorable, make it personal and weave in a couple of anecdotes'. She's still a sceptic but, on this point, I'm right! Love the pic of yer own wee yin, btw. She's a wee smasher. It was a bit of an attempt (and rightly so) at an integrated curriculum. We had The Stranger (although I'm pretty certain it was called The Outsider when we read it) and The Plague as Higher English set texts and L'Étranger as a Higher French text. Can't speak for what you did in your Basturd English A-Levels, though. And clearly, it did me no good as I got the quiz Q wrong.

Guess-heavy 7 for Friday. Bit of a shock over the Camus question. If they re-mark my Higher English paper I may be downgraded to a B.