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Pretty funny the Greens are starting proceedings to dump the SNP. Then SNP jump first. You can't dump me i dumped you.

Yeah there seems to be a lot of claims, I went to the published report to look at sources as folk complaining about it, but it seemed very vague in the actual report. Then I just gave up I have a massive amount of reading to do for my own studies. No need to get myself involved in this too.

They love taking credit for anything even if it's total nonsense. A few politicians on here. I love how she still patted herself on the back for being right though

Politicians eh?

Yeah but the argument isn't polling numbers. The argument is getting a referendum with regards to circumstances. Indepenence support has been pretty much static with the+-3% error for ages. There is no avenue for a second referendum regardless who is in charge. It's politically expedient for people who aren't in power to pretend there is to try and get into power.

It's various councillors asking for a vote I think. As stated the membership will decide. We just need Kate Forbes in as FM now so the fantasy counterfactual crowd will see very little change in circumstances.

Be interesting to see what actually happened.

Still 2 years away for Scottish elections? Not to be negative but it seems things are taking a turn for the worse globally in general. Be interesting to see the landscape in 2 years.

She's not very well informed about science in general

Think a lot of problems can be traced back to the gist of this.

Cross-over with the hate-crime bill protestors

Just checked the thread

I haven't played wordle in ages however, that was my go to first word a lot of the times.

I never watch Question time now, however I like this picture. I love when they bring someone on to try and dog-pile them and then end's up with i'm not stuck in here with yous, yous are stuck in here with me.

Centrica are a huge company so a lot of it get's moved around for various reasons as well, probably for tax purposes.

Yes and that's where I found out about British Gas profits. I had watched it 45 mins before i saw your post so thought would take a guess

Been watching Jonathon Pie?

Did you watch the video cause that is pretty much what he did say, is the video doctored? in the context of a Russian attack 'You didn't pay? You're delinquent?'... 'No I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever they want. You gotta pay.'" Them being Russia here is headline "Trump says he would 'encourage' Russia to attack Nato allies who do not pay their bills"

It's cause they don't actually believe in anything or have an over-arching vision. They just want to "win" and then do hundreds of simulations on voting outcomes against different policies. You then have them flopping about all over the place. A souless political machine ran by focus groups and strategists.

On the pension thing it really depends on what the percentage increase is going forward and how the personal allowance. Worse case scenario, i.e. personal allowance doesn't increase and we take the highest possible percentage increase. Assuming tax rates are the same. Rough estimates. They pay £3 a week in tax in 2026. If we take the mean of increases then we're into the 2030's before we reach that threshold. If the personal allowance threshold changes then that pushes everything further into the future.

The whole covid inquiry has been weird. I saw the social media follow thing yesterday or Tuesday night very bizarre.

Since it is topical

A fair point. I was counting back centuries. Most of the current proxy-aggressions are last few decades cause Iran got turned into a theocracy. (by UK and US over oil) Also looks like 3 US troops killed in Jordan and Iran getting the blame.