Hertsscot
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Got three of our starting eleven out with ACL injuries. These type of injuries seem to be worryingly common in the woman's game for some reason. Typical though that we end up with injuries to players from Real Madrid, AC Milan and Man City!
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2 hours ago, Malcolm said:
interested in people views on this….if there was a referendum and 51% voted yes, should that be enough for independence?
if Scotland became independent, should there be another vote say 10 years later and if that was 51% in favour of the union should we reintegrate (assuming other actions would have us)?
interested as while that all sounds fine on paper there are clearly transaction costs involved.
You're assuming rUK would want us back. Can you think of any former colonies that the UK would want back?
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O.J. Simpson dead. Didn't realise the court case was the best part of 30 years ago. Time flies!
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Hottest day of the year so far? Registering a scorching 19 degrees in the car.
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Don't know if this belongs to this thread or the news thread. Boris 'Please let me PM again' Johnson slating Sunak's proposed smoking ban:
'We are, on the whole, in favour of freedom and it is that single Anglo-Saxon idea of freedom that I think unites conservatives, or should unite conservatives.'
Just an insight into the mindset of our once PM, and no doubt shared by many around him. 'Anglo-Saxon idea of freedom', arrogant and laughable!
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7 minutes ago, vanderark14 said:
I have no doubt there is gloating going on, Ramy likes to think thats what everyone is doing when they discuss this topic but its not the case.
You're right, it is a big story. I don't know enough about the links between the Boys Club and the Football Club to have an informed opinion but there have been sexual predators preying on boys at several clubs. Hopefully we're all a bit better informed nowadays and more aware but no body should be complacent.
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23 hours ago, vanderark14 said:
I actually did think about not posting it but then I thought why not? Its news about a scottish club, its not a banned topic and I couldn't care less what you think
Some of us don't have agendas when posting, some of us can discuss topic without throwing the toys out of the pram every day
Fair point. What is sad is the gloating from other fans. The suffering caused by the sexual abuse of children is too important to be trivialised and sadly perpetrators of such abuse are not restricted to certain football clubs, religions or political parties.
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Wragg has now resigned as a Tory MP but hasn't resigned as an MP and Sunak can no longer sack him. And the mainstream papers will be silent.
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6 hours ago, Malcolm said:
It’s now a week since Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act became law and 8,000 hate complaints have been logged with the police —about one a minute. Police union bosses described the law as ‘a disaster’ and claimed officers are already ‘swamped under a deluge of complaints’. Senior officers also warned that police will be forced to make cuts to frontline crimefighting to deal with the deluge and face a big overtime bill which the Scottish taxpayer will need to pick up — or the police will cut back elsewhere.
Am I normal? I haven't needed to complain about any hate crime but it seems it's all some people do. And then they complain that the police haven't got enough time to deal with crime. I also haven't felt the need to ask the police if they have a record of any accusations against me. Maybe I'm just odd.
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15 minutes ago, scotlad said:
The annoying thing about the deal with the Greens is that it was unnecessary. Sturgeon virtually had a majority - she was only one seat short. She could have got things through parliament nine times out of ten and if negotiations were ever necessary on certain issues the SNP has ample experience in that field, as they'd run minority administrations previously.
I don't really like the Greens (have they actually done any good for the environment?) but I do wonder even without the coalition how much of this legislation would have been on the table as much of it has received support from all parties (including the Tories, though they often forget that fact!). The Greens seem very naive and quite arrogant in dismissing genuine concerns, though SNP haven't been much better.
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6 hours ago, scotlad said:
Patrick Grady had his career ruined for a lot less. Unlike Wragg he didn't divulge other MP's phone numbers to anyone (as you said in earlier post, a breach of GDPR) and he didn't, as far as we know, send pictures of his tadger to anyone.
I think there are some differences between the two. Wragg's actions were consensual (not sure that's the word I'm looking for!) whereas the argument was that Grady's advances (stroking someone on the back of the neck) were unwelcome and an abuse of his position.
However everything else you say is spot on. SNP were accused of protecting a 'sex pest' for weeks on end by the media and Unionist politicians, Wragg has probably broken GDPR (any other job you'd get away with disclosing personal phone numbers to strangers?) and threatening national security in the process. Yet there's barely a peep from the media, let alone calls for his resignation. Complete double standards.
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https://theferret.scot/ineos-claims-grangemouth-grant-despite-closure/
Can't stand Radcliffe, Scottish Government should do better but so should the UK Government that has just lent him millions to subsidise the Brexiteers new plant in Belgium.
Oh, and I hope Man United get relegated!
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3 hours ago, Orraloon said:
557. If Scotland votes No, will there be another referendum on independence at a later date?
The Edinburgh Agreement states that a referendum must be held by the end of 2014. There is no arrangement in place for another referendum on independence.
It is the view of the current Scottish Government that a referendum is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. This means that only a majority vote for Yes in 2014 would give certainty that Scotland will be independent."
Thanks for that. I was living in England at the time and the only time I heard it was from AS and I thought it was just rhetorical.
I'm not sure this has much legal force though. If it did I would have expected a much more precise legal definition (as in the Good Friday Agreement?). I would also have expected to have heard a lot more about it from Unionists immediately after the result. I don't recall any mention of this until more recently, probably when the Union lovers realised that we hadn't gone away.
Also I fail to see how legally you can impose anything indefinitely for the future when it comes to politics. Circumstances changes, parties gain and lose power, Governments change and Parliaments cannot be bound by the decisions of previous governments.
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5 minutes ago, dandydunn said:
Go for it then, how is this?
Unfortunately we can look at too many players and see too many cheating. Unfortunately too many of us turn a blind eye to it when it's our own team.
On the bottle incident though Ramy is right. I hope they find out who the moron was, that the police take appropriate action and that Rangers ban him for life.
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23 minutes ago, TDYER63 said:
If enough people in Scotland want a referendum there is nothing unionists can do to stop it. Polls close to 60% regularly would be enough to force it.
I do wonder what future historians, say 100 years time, will make of Scotland's willingness to be held in a union that so obviously isn't working. Yes, you had all that oil and gas but you let your Southern neighbour take it and squander it , producing one of the most unequal societies in Europe in the process. No doubt those historians looking back will analyse the strategic mistakes of independence leaders but they'll still shake their heads at the lack of demand from ordinary Scots.
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46 minutes ago, Fairbairn said:
Just wait till tomorrow…..
I'm sure it will be the normal quiet uneventful match.
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Some interesting penalty decisions today. A couple given for dubious handballs in the box and yet Mitov wipes out a Hibs player and nothing is given.
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8 minutes ago, TDYER63 said:
I have mentioned before on here my husband reads the Daily Mail. He gets really defensive about it which in itself says everything , so I don’t usually talk about , he knows how I feel about it.
But last week, after weeks and weeks of anti SNP headlines I said to him ‘ have you ever, once, in all the years you have read that paper read anything at all positive about the Scottish Government?
He said ‘no’. So I said ‘ do you think in the last 20 years the Scottish government has done absolutely nothing good ?
He said ‘no’.
So I said ‘ so why would you give your money to a media outlet who spouts lies , hides facts, and manipulates people ?
He couldn’t answer. He is not a stupid person, far from it, but so many people are influenced by what they read, its truly frightening and is understandable why its a struggle to win people over.You mentioned complacency in your earlier post, that's also true. Many voters up here take good stuff for granted, and fail to acknowledge how the SNP have provided some sort of buffer from the Tories. I had some dental treatment the other week and it would have cost more than double in England! Thames Water is broke and one possibility will be to renationalise it (no doubt Scots taxpayers will pay their 'fair share'), then there's e coli in the Thames, strikes on the trains, strikes by junior doctors and the largest teaching union looks like it will be balloting for strike action, record amount of student debt etc. but the media gives the impression that everything in Scotland is automatically crappier than down south.
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57 minutes ago, TDYER63 said:
The polls are as depressing as fuck for anyone seriously wanting independence. I think this recent one is overdone but its still going to be hellish unless something changes in the SNP.
Scotland is held back by complacency and lack of confidence. I believe that is the biggest obstacle to overcome. So many countries have become independent and thrive, we all know this. The issues the Scottish people are worried about have not been an issue for these countries, because they are not actually issues at all. They are only issues if you choose them to be.
Under FPTP things could be either very good for the SNP or very bad. Under FPTP small percentage swings in constituencies could lead to a disproportionately large loss or gain of seats. That's a challenge for the SNP but also an incentive as well.
I totally agree how lacking in confidence Scots appear to be. Since moving up here I've not noticed that my neighbours are any more stupid than the ones we had down south, yet many of them believe that they are somehow uniquely incapable of running their own affairs. I can only attribute it to years of brainwashing by the media.
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I don't think I missed any but the story about William Wragg didn't appear to be in the headlines if any single paper this morning. Just shows the bias if the media, if it had been an SNP MP they'd be howling for a resignation.
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Another Brexit benefit and advantage of being part of this wonderful Union:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24232835.grahams-family-dairy-chief-slams-brexit-label-plan/
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5 hours ago, StirlingEgg said:
He sounds incredibly naive and pathetic in that article. All the quotes sound like something from a teen magazine. Why do folk still send intimate pictures? It's well documented that once that kind of material is online at all then you're on to plums, so to speak 😋 I love how IDS immediately jumps to the conclusion that it "must be a foreign state" 🙄
Jeremy Hunt now saying how 'courageous' Wragg has been! Stupid is another word, criminal is another because I'm pretty sure that under GDPR you can't just give out the personal numbers of your work colleagues without their permission.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68731683
William Wragg. Surely that's another by- election on the cards. Any other job there wouldn't be any hesitation about sacking him for giving out colleagues personal data
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4 hours ago, Alibi said:
I don't recall any of them asking directly - and getting a proper answer to the question - "If this is a voluntary union, what is the procedure for leaving it". And the answer is not acceptable if it includes any English veto over Scotland doing just that.
And we all know that if England wanted to leave the UK, they just would. They wouldn't need or ask anyone's permission.
Injury Watch
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It didn't help last time out v N. Ireland that he was getting pelters from some of our support. Yes, he was at fault for their goal but it was clear as day that the guy is severely lacking in confidence due to what's happened at Everton. Getting booked by your own fans seriously can't help.