daviebee
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3 minutes ago, Orraloon said:
At the risk of sounding like a "SNP HQ drone" it might come down to the fine print and how it is interpreted.
"Referendum Appeal
By 31 December 2021, a total of £740,822 had been raised through the independence related appeals. These donations are also included in – and have been reconciled with – the total amount for donations included in Party accounts from 2017 to 2021. Up until 31 December 2021 a total of £253,335 of expenditure had been applied against this income. The balance remains “earmarked” for independence related campaigning. Of course, the SNP is the party of independence and, as such, every action we take – directly or indirectly – is in support of winning independence. However, we continue to take a very strict approach to ensuring that this income supports expenditure directly related to the campaign for independence. We will ensure that an amount equivalent to the sums raised from these appeals will go directly to our work to secure a referendum and win independence."
"Ringfenced" was the term I believe. My understanding, not that I donated as it was obvious that Sturgeon was a total charlatan, was that the money was to be used in a referendum campaign which I thought would mean leaflets, promotional materials, billboards, all that sort of stuff, and that it'd be available immediately for that purpose. Then we found it was "woven through the accounts"! However you interpret it, they've been defrauding people. Why else would they return money when folk demanded it? Surely they could've just said, "Well as we're the party of independence, etc, etc..."
Fkin crooks. I loathe and despise the Tories with every fibre of my being, but at least they don't pretend to be anything other than a shower of spivs and utter bstrds.
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52 minutes ago, aaid said:
I’m not sure what crime they’ve broken even if it is the case they’ve spent the money. I’m pretty sure if they wanted to they could allocate the entirety of their spend to “working towards a referendum” or whatever.
Seriously??? Fkin hell, you come across as an SNP HQ drone at the best of times but that must take the fkin biscuit! 😂
Taking money exclusively to be used on one thing and for no other purpose and then spending it on something else entirely = fraud. No matter how you're told to dress it up.
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So we'll do as a back-up option in case he isn't good enough for his own country? This Anderson character can fck right off.
Beats me how any Scotland fan would want a pr*ck like that near our team.
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No Greg Taylor? Suppose Hickey can cover both flanks in an emergency. Still, he's been one of Celtic's best performers this season.
Seriously light up front as well. Worryingly so.
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2 hours ago, thesaint said:
The only embarrassing comments are from those apologists for this fanny who has taken the right c..t out of us.Will be ashamed when this guy runs out at Hampden and gives it the old applauding the fans shit.Be even more ashamed when some stupid articles clap back.
Aye and no doubt there'll be plenty of throbbers giving it the "You're no' English any more" crap. Angus Gunn can GTF. I'd stick Angus Young in goals before this fkin tit and he's aboot 5 foot fck all.
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15 hours ago, aaid said:
Ha ha ha. The last general election was in 2019 COVID started in the UK in 2020
You’ll be waving your walking stick at people in fifty years time shouting at people at how Nicola Sturgeon did Alac Salmond in.
And you'll be waving yours shouting, "Just one more mandate..." 🙄
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43 minutes ago, wanderer said:
McGeady would have been a great asset in the Euro 2008 campaign when he was arguably at his peak
I wouldn't have swapped Faddy for him. Not sure how else he could've fitted into that side. Certainly not into the starting 11 anyway.
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Probably sees he's got fk all chance of getting near our side. Oh well, McGeady and McCarthy didn't exactly turn out to be disastrous losses either despite all the early hype.
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On 2/28/2023 at 1:53 PM, aaid said:
Yip, that “who else will they vote for” arrogant attitude really worked for Labour in the north of England in 2019.
'kin hell, some folk just don't do irony! 😂
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21 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:
There are another 2 scenarios i have been thinking about similar to Labour and Corbyn
The first is that Humza wins - The majority of MSP/MPs and the party establishment are happy but a large part of the SNP membership is scunnered leading to apathy
The second is that Forbes wins - The minority but vocal woo woo section of the party is unhappy and there is a rebellion through resignation by (mostly) MSPs
Sounds like a good reason to vote for Forbes. If her winning gets shot of the Monster Raving Greeny Party too then that's an added bonus.
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5 minutes ago, Dave78 said:
I'm coming to the same view.
I feel annoyed by Sturgeon. She moved the SNP onto a progressive-left agenda, and away from the centrism of Salmond..... fine... but at least see it through.
Instead, she's quit and left the SNP (and wider Yes movement) in a fucking mess.
I keep wondering, why now? It's just a few weeks ago that she was saying she had plenty left in the tank. Even though that was before she made a complete and utter arse of herself over that rapist, I can't help wondering if something else is on the way. Why not do it after their special conference, why the sudden rush?
There's talk about these leaked emails containing some dynamite. Quite interesting as well that her chief arse-kisser Mhairi Hunter has been telling folk to ignore everything they'll be reading over the next few weeks. "Nothing to see here, move on..."
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Apparently wee Kate's in bother now for saying she believes that a trans woman is a biological male, i.e. understanding basic biology.
It might be pretty entertaining if she gets the gig. I wonder where all these numpties will flounce off to and if anyone will make videos pleading with them to stay?
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19 minutes ago, AlfieMoon said:
For me personally, I look firstly that she is entitled to those views. If we are a tolerant society, she is stating her beliefs in an honest way. She is not projecting a demonisation of people, but instead stating her beliefs to which she is true.
It was certainly a bit unusual hearing a politician give a straight answer to a straight question. Made a nice change. Not like certain others blustering about whether a rapist was a man or a woman or anything like that.
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1 hour ago, Clyde1998 said:
Fair enough; I concede she's not someone I have much knowledge of. There's been very little in the media about her (largely due to it realistically being a contest between Yousaf and Forbes anyway), so I'll have to do a bit more digging about her.
Is she a Truss-like character then?
She's pledged to work with the other indy parties and the wider Yes movement. That doesn't sit well with the "only through the SNP shall ye be saved" mob. She sounds like a breath of fresh air to me.
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1 minute ago, aaid said:
We do, but context here is important. Take Ajax tanks as an example. The budget is currently £5.5 million, they’re years over schedule and suggestions are they’ll never be deployed. Can you imagine if this was the Scottish government, it would be the first item on the news every night.
Ferries are portrayed as the SG being unable to deliver *any* project when, not only is that not the case, they are also much more successful than the UKG.
Hinckley Point C, there’s another one, 10 years over schedule.I don't doubt any of that, but the answer is to be good at what you're doing yourself first and sadly the SG aren't any more. Stuff like the above just looks like whataboutery otherwise.
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2 hours ago, aaid said:
HS2, Crossrail, Aircraft carriers, Ajax tanks, 40 “new” hospitals, etc, etc.
We need a wee bit more than, "Well the English are sh*te anaw..."
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1 hour ago, scotlad said:
Isn't it just? My first thought was she'd fallen in the river, maybe after trying to rescue her dog, but apparently the wee dog was dry when it was found.
Also, if she had fallen in, it's about 10 miles from where she was until the river meets the sea - there would have been ample opportunities for her to be washed up on a river bank, even if she wasn't alive.
A real head-scratcher.
If she's anything like me during a conference call she was probably on mute counting the minutes until the end!
Abduction is a possibility but I've not heard that there were any signs of a struggle.
I wonder if they've taken the dug back there, let it off the lead and observed what it does? That top rescue guy said last time he recovered a dog-walking drowning victim his pet was on the bank howling at the river. He also said if she'd fell in at that bit she would've just stood back up! So she put her phone down, fell in without leaving any sliding marks on the grass, was immediately incapacitated in 2 feet of water, then got dragged the 10 miles out to sea by a slow-moving current round all these bends, when a top rescue expert says he normally finds the bodies no more than 2 or 3 feet from where they fell in as they just sink and lie there?
Some weird theories going round online, but 99 times out of 100 when someone disappears and there's a stretch of water nearby, then that's where they are so you can't really blame the police for concentrating on that.
Quite a few "this is only getting this amount of attention cos she's white and middle-class" comments out there as well. I think it's more to do with how utterly baffling this is. The lassie's just vanished into thin air and every theory can be countered with, "Aye, but then why..."
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1 hour ago, aaid said:
So you’re suggesting if you don’t press charges at the time then you’ve either no right to pursue it at a future point, you’re not allowed to change your mind, or you’re acting under bad faith. If you continue to work in the same position afterwards, then you obviously wanted it to happen or you weren’t really that bothered?
So it WAS the one that accepted his apology, continued working closely with him for years and then decided it was an issue after all when the call came out that he had to be neutralised.
Thanks for clearing that up. 👍
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2 hours ago, aaid said:
Why is it shocking? I don’t think it was ever suggested that Salmond was roaming the streets targeting random women but rather that the complainants were all people who were close to him, either as career civil servants or as people working for the SNP. It therefore shouldn’t be a surprise that people -who were in that position in 2007, 2008 or even 2014 - hadn’t progressed in their careers and were in positions of power and/or influence either within the civil service or within the SNP.
As for you comment about it all being “made up nonsense” that’s clearly not true - and in fact he apologised the day after for one of the incidents, the so-called sleepy cuddle.
Even if all you said is true - it’s not true - do you really think that Salmond is in anyway shape or form beneficial to independence. I see he is on the front cover of the DailyTelegraph today having a go at Sturgeon. The Daily Telegraph.
Was that the one where the woman accepted his apology, continued working closely with him for years and then decided it was an issue after all when the call came out that he had to be neutralised?
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1 hour ago, stocky said:
He's a twin is he no🤔
Making it even more intriguing.
is his brother shite and not getting picked?
or have we got the shite one and the other is sticking with them?
He's the one that got picked by England last year. Both appear to be highly rated with both in the Man City academy. Maybe for once the SFA are on the ball here?
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Has Darren Fletcher's son seen the light?
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I find it hard to believe that he'd swap shirts with Alan Ball. I remember reading a story about how, even years later, Ball was still bitter about the '67 game and could barely bring himself to mention Baxter's name.
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4 hours ago, vanderark14 said:
The big win is Antony Stewart is gone to MK Dons, my only conclusion to this is he has a mate at MK Dons who put in a good word because MK Dons sure as fuck haven't scouted him
Getting shot of him must be the equivalent of actually signing Paolo Maldini. Absolutely dreadful "defender". Empty space in the backline would be more effective.
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I thought Goodwin would be a goner on Tuesday morning, but fck me if he survives this he must have some pretty good incriminating photographs.
SNP leadership election
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It IS good news and it's not a setback. The independence cause might need to take a step back but it's going to take a hell of a lot more steps forward now that stinking, festering cabal at the heart of the SNP is being reamed out.
I'd like to see all the careerists, expense-collectors and trough-slurpers cleared out as well and have them replaced with folk that'll actually fight for independence. The sooner the likes of Black, Nicholson, Blackford, Blackman, Law, Wishart and the rest GTF the better.
Does anybody seriously believe - even the most deluded disciple of the Church of St Nikla - that employing that bstrd Murray Foote was a good idea or in any way, shape or form acceptable? The architect of The Vow FFS! The man who probably did more than any other person to fck us over in 2014 and Sturgeon employed the bstrd!
Let the blood-letting continue! I really hope this Smitty character is the real deal.