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2 hours ago, oneteaminglasgow said:

 

 

If you don’t want people talking about the Tories, probably best not to invoke a direct comparison with the Tories.

For what it’s worth, I can barely get a signal on the Glasgow-Edinburgh line, so can fully believe that phone service on a train to Skye isn’t always reliable. 

You can talk about what you want. I can also comment on whataboutery.

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Watching this is a real eye-opener.

It's not just meat products but vegetable products as well.


https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dirty-secrets-of-american-food


Meanwhile this was happening at the same time in the Commons.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/12/mps-reject-calls-by-campaigners-to-enshrine-food-safety-in-uk-law

These scumbags want us to go down the same cut the corners route of the US food industry.

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2 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

Everyone knows all the real SNP skulduggery is at Local Authority level.

It is in Inverness. Not necessarily skulduggery but bot chips implanted to go with Gordon Lamb House directives whenever there's a conflict with local interests.

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2 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

Watching this is a real eye-opener.

It's not just meat products but vegetable products as well.


https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dirty-secrets-of-american-food


Meanwhile this was happening at the same time in the Commons.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/12/mps-reject-calls-by-campaigners-to-enshrine-food-safety-in-uk-law

These scumbags want us to go down the same cut the corners route of the US food industry.

They have zero chance of getting a trade deal through Congress outside the EU unless they have leeway to make concessions on American agri-food imports, whoever wins the US election. Pork barrel politics isn't just a metaphor. 

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They have zero chance of getting a trade deal through Congress outside the EU unless they have leeway to make concessions on American agri-food imports, whoever wins the US election. Pork barrel politics isn't just a metaphor. 
A trade deal which is more about flag-waving bullshit then any real benefit to the UK economy - a 0.16% boost to growth at the expense of safe food.

It's fucking nonsense.
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2 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

A trade deal which is more about flag-waving bullshit then any real benefit to the UK economy - a 0.16% boost to growth at the expense of safe food.

It's fucking nonsense.

Of course it is, but that's what the British public signed up to when they voted Leave, without reading the small print. Our leverage is hugely diminished outside the EU.

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6 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:
7 hours ago, Stormzy said:
Some brilliant political maneuvering here. Treating the general public with such disdain you stop even trying to cleverly deceive them, just some straight up "dog ate my homework" type beat. 
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-phone-signal-cutting-out-due-train-travel-reason-behind-delayed-withdrawal-whip-margaret-ferrier-3000862

Tell me how long it took to remove the whip from the rapey Tory MP?

Sorry having trouble reading your post in English, could you re-post in ‘en Francois’?

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This is genuinely a fucking scandal.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dominic-cummings-council-tax-durham-property-planning-permission-b1016505.html

Dominic Cummings and his family are liable for council tax on two properties built at his family’s farm in the northeast of England, but backdated charges that reportedly could have amounted to tens of thousands of pounds will not apply. 

Officials have concluded that charges for the buildings, on the outskirts of Durham,  should start from this month rather than from when both properties were built, without planning permission.

The Northern Echo, which first reported the story, said council tax would be paid on Mr Cummings’ band A cottage, and his sister’s band C family home from 4 October. The paper claimed the amount written off could total up to £50,000.

The Valuation Office Agency refused to comment on individual cases when approached by The Independent.

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1 hour ago, Granny Danger said:

This is genuinely a fucking scandal.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dominic-cummings-council-tax-durham-property-planning-permission-b1016505.html

Dominic Cummings and his family are liable for council tax on two properties built at his family’s farm in the northeast of England, but backdated charges that reportedly could have amounted to tens of thousands of pounds will not apply. 

Officials have concluded that charges for the buildings, on the outskirts of Durham,  should start from this month rather than from when both properties were built, without planning permission.

The Northern Echo, which first reported the story, said council tax would be paid on Mr Cummings’ band A cottage, and his sister’s band C family home from 4 October. The paper claimed the amount written off could total up to £50,000.

The Valuation Office Agency refused to comment on individual cases when approached by The Independent.

They're not even bothering to hide it these days. Britain is basically Mugabe's Zimbabwe with shite weather and less dead farmers. 

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Ponsonby on STV trying to get Ferrier to quit is quite hilarious. Trying to say that it is for sure she is going to face a by-election.

She hasn't been convicted of a crime (and certainly not one that will have a sentence of over a year) and no other MP who has broken lockdown rules has been suspended from parliament, and not for the required large number of days that would be required for the recall process to begin.

edit: it would be bad for democracy if the SNP were able to force out an MP for a minor infraction as it would be another tool that parties could use to hold over rebel mps. Vote with us or we reveal your minor offence to the Speaker and get you chucked out of parliament.

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1 minute ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said:

Ponsonby on STV trying to get Ferrier to quit is quite hilarious. Trying to say that it is for sure she is going to face a by-election.

She hasn't been convicted of a crime (and certainly not one that will have a sentence of over a year) and no other MP who has broken lockdown rules has been suspended from parliament, and not for the required large number of days that would be required for the recall process to begin.

I'd imagine her parliamentary colleagues and staff will expect her knowingly putting them in danger to be treated far more seriously than fiddling expenses. Ten days suspension and there's an recall vote requiring 10% of her constituents to approve. She hasn't got the blind loyalty in Rutherglen that the freeloading shyster Ian Paisley Jr had in  North Antrim.

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