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No idea what that bit about his sister is about, but are you suggesting that approaching Souter is a move deliberately designed to harm the SNP and/or the wider indy movement? Humza's just a bystander - he reacts to events, he doesn't actually make things happen. He's only where he is because he's an appalling choice who was shoehorned in. Anyone who actually voted for him as leader needs to have a word with themselves. I'd say Souter is toxic due to his section 28 stance. Electoral suicide to be seen to have anything to do with him. Maybe that's the idea.

Going to see One Life this evening. My daughter had suggested that Mrs Alibi and I should go to see Wonka but doesn't interest me in the slightest.

It's a pity the SNP don't have a proper leader who could come out fighting and reverse the trend. I honestly can't understand anyone who believes in independence deciding to vote for a Labour party that opposes indy, supports brexit, proposes policies that are pretty much Tory and a couple of dozen other points that should make them unelectable in Scotland. With talk of a spring UK general election, a decent leader would be campaigning already, but Yousaf just remains mute and in denial. Oh, and it's pretty clear now why operation branchform is being spun out. Is anyone on here who wants indy proposing to vote Labour either in a UK election or a Scottish election? If so, why? What's your logic? I will never, ever vote for any unionist party. And I'm becoming more and more convinced that the current shitshow is being orchestrated.

I think if they try that, they are asking for a significant degree of civil unrest. Bear in mind that we had to have a specific vote to get our parliament; removing it without a specific vote to test our agreement would pretty much be an act of war.

The big problem is mainly with the concept of self-ID. Sturgeon insisted that "transwomen are women" when that is just not true, right down to chromosome level as Robert Winston pointed out. If you base a policy on a lie, people are going to object. And you end up with the illogical mobius strip where everyone is Schroedinger's human. Any politician worth their salt should have had nothing to do with self ID, but so many were desperate to be seen as wokey, not realising they were lauding the emperor's new clothes. and now the SNP are holding the baby despite Labour also backing it, and the LibDems too. Stupidity, malice or naivety? You decide.

Policies that lose votes by the barrowload should be avoided. The GRR stuff is extremely unpopular with the general public, in particular the self-ID bit which is an affront to scientific fact. A sensible path could have been worked out but instead Nicola Sturgeon bullied her way through - and then fled the scene when she talked herself into a position where she couldn't say if a man was a man or a woman. I wish someone would ask her if the damage she caused to the indy movement was worth it. We need a Ctrl Alt Delete and build back stronger.

I have thought that for some time. The US don't want Trident to be removed. I believe they are heavily involved in the attempts to prevent indy. They have long interfered in other countries to suit their own aims (and I'd include the current Gaza situation in that - there are substantial quantities of gas, and possibly oil, off the coast of Gaza and I believe that's probably the real reason that Israel is trying to destroy Gaza completely). The US would think nothing of interfering in Scotland to suit their world view.

That sounds awfy like Stuart Mcdonald, or maybe that other guy with whom he was photographed in army clothing, smiling happily.

Probably because he fucks pigs...

Neither of them are an embarrassment to Scotland - they themselves would insist that they are an embarrassment to Britain.

Spot on. We need a decent leader who will prioritise indy. Yousaf certainly isn't that.

Sure, we all want to be ruled by a cabal of pink or blue fascist crooks in London, rather than by Scots. People need to look at the reason why this budget is happening. There is a concerted attempt to impoverish Scotland and its population,to portray it as an economic basket case, while at the same time they are putting in place the infrastructure to steal our resources and ship them south, and to make it as difficult as possible for Scotland to flourish. TV & radio pumping out endless stories to demoralise Scots or try to instill a sense of Britishness. All the while, the SNP leadership have become supine, scared to make a fuss, bowing and scraping to the fucking monarchy and to the British establishment. I'm certain there has been infiltration and/or some people being compromised. Maybe the Salmond case will flush out some of the political corruption. I notice UKaye this morning was in full "SNP bad" mode, with her first caller being a Labour apparatchik with a prepared attack of unverified shite. We are at war, a war of independence, and so many people don't even realise what is going on. I have no idea where we go from here. We need to find leaders who will actually lead, not the bland anodyne nonentities we have at the moment. The UK political parties and their leaders have no compunction in accepting genocide in Gaza; let's not pretend they would exhibit higher moral standards when it comes to Scotland. they will fight dirty; in fact they are right now.

That new song by Cher is pretty good. Not quite Maria Scary good but catchy.

Just say you'd forgotten to buy something so went back later in the day to get it.

I'm sure an SNP spokesperson (pronouns he/she/it) will be along soon to rubbish that view and stress that they have full confidence in the UK "supreme court".

That was the thing that struck me right away. However bear in mind that lots of other companies or individuals also supplied unusable PPE - going down that route might spread the contagion to other folk who are hoping to walk away with their loot without any concern about their crimes being exposed to the wider public. Mone seems to have links to Michael Gove - both nominally Scottish, so "no great mischief if they fall" as the saying goes. I think Kuensberg knows exactly which questions not to ask. Remember Medpro are already being sued by the UK government, but why are the many others who supplied defective PPE not also being sued? There's a bigger story here...

There was a lot of comment in 2014 along the lines of "We must offer to take on our share of the national debt even though legally we don't have to". Why? We weren't responsible for running up the massive debt. We've had so many of our resources stolen from us, getting rid of the debt is the least we deserve.

Can't argue with the optics of that. However an indy Scotland would, if done properly, raise taxes from exploitation of our resources rather than all monies heading south. Things that need to be done at the moment are due to being in the union. If they would only explain that in simple terms, people might be more accepting and also might see the need for indy, but they won't do it because they're too fucking thick or don't actually want indy - you decide. Any tax rises need to be accompanied by a statement along the lines of "We are having to do this because currently our finances are controlled by another country. Indy would mean we could avoid these extra taxes as Scotland freed would be a wealthier country." or words to that effect. Not holding my breath.

I find it hard to believe that support for Labour in Scotland is showing a resurgence. Apart from all the stuff listed up the page a short distance, Labour are now strongly Brexity, and very anti-indy - Lisa Nandy wants indy supporters beaten up by the polis, or so she says. Labour would never countenance Scotland having the same arrangement as NI because we don't really do bombing stuff. Starmer is strongly pro-Israel and is happy with Gaza being obliterated with tens of thousands killed. His policies are pretty much Tory with a few minor cosmetic changes - Labour is the Morris to the Tories' Wolseley for anyone who remembers 60s badge engineering. Labour will not be good for Scotland. What a pity we no longer have an actual Scottish party that will stand up for Scotland in a meaningful way, but all we get are daft policies and woke wankers putting their pronouns in their signatures, things that drive away support.

Yes, but Salmond didn't raise this case - which apparently has today been decided. The SG lost and have to comply with whatever they were asked to comply with. See Wings for a brief resumé.

There is a severe shortage of tinned anchovies. Due to El Nino affecting the shoals off Peru apparently.

Don't think this latest case is driven by Salmond. Not directly anyway.

My membership expired recently and I haven't renewed so far. IMHO no government should be attempting to do this. It's on a par with the lying alphabet women (I assume they are women but hard to be sure given the secrecy) being given lifetime anonymity. My thoughts are "what are they trying to hide?". I very much hope they don't manage to prevent the release of the information, although no doubt someone higher up the UK establishment food chain will decide.

Agreed about the need for policy changes, but the SNP need to start campaigning now. Labour are there for the taking with their policies. No matter how Sarwar tries to differentiate "Scottish" Labour, in a UK general election he can't be allowed to get away with that. He is by definition pro-brexit, anti Scottish democracy whether he wants to be or not cos that's what London Labour dictates. Any half decent SNP leader would be ramming that home daily, but Yousaf seems more interested in making ultimately pointless gestures about Middle East politics - virtue signalling like his old boss. Trouble is he's not really a leader.

Yes, the timing is clearly to avoid the case going beyond the time limit. May well get settled out of court anyway although how embarrassing would that be for Sturgeon? I can see why Salmond is not willing to let it go.