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There’s a photo doing the rounds of him behind the bar, a few years ago, wearing a Liverpool shirt.

Please don’t try and recast the election as something that it wasn’t. There wasn’t a “Kate and Ash” option on the ballot paper.

That would be Wayne that owns the Turf Hotel next to the ground. He’s a Liverpool fan. I’m not going to pretend that the owners haven’t been anything but good for the club but you’re only seeing a very one-sided view of the story with the documentary - which is understandable. The actual club and the people there are fine but I’m glad they got promoted as the whole soap opera surrounding Wrexham was very tiresome, particularly the fans, not so much the 3-4000 that were going before the new owners came in but those who came after.

Dozens of times - how many times has it happened?

Neil Oliver next?

Rangers play Aberdeen tomorrow, lets see if both sets of fans can behave themselves.

It sounds like shite. Remember Hampden_Loon has a long track record of “hearing things” that never happen.

I was indeed, it was certainly a bit of a surreal experience. From speaking to people after the game the club had about a week’s notice that the owners would be there but were asked to keep it quiet. The club couldn’t speak highly enough of the film crew who they described as very professional. The two owners were great as well apparently, very low key and no attitude. I have to admit I was a bit non-plus see about it. It was a real “Welcome to the National League” for them including having a man sent off and losing 2-1 - we actually have a decent record against Wrexham - to chants of “Ryan Reynolds, You bought the wrong club” and “Maidenhead are on a bender, Ryan Reynolds is a sex offender” from a bunch of 16 year olds. That evening though was summed up to me by the fact that after the game, the Wrexham contingent went to Cliveden House Hotel, where they were staying. That’s an old stately home that has been owned by various people over the years, most notably the Astors and features very heavily in the Profumo affair. It’s now an exclusive 5 star hotel. After the game we went into the clubhouse, had a couple of pints and then went to get the train up the branch line. Got onto the platform and bumped into to our owner - who despite being seriously loaded himself is one of the most down to earth guys you could meet - is standing there with a can of Fosters and he’s all “whay hey hey, we fucking beat them”

Christina McKelvie is backing Grant Costello. Patrick Grady must have some backing within the party - oh that’s right, he doesn’t as he failed vetting for re-election.

I suspect that the kid’s life isn’t going to be worth living.

There’s a number of contributing factors, some of what you mention, but I think the biggest one, the one that is causing the deaths is that users are taking a specific cocktail of drugs that are particularly deadly and which aren’t so popular in the rest of the UK. Street Valium I think it’s called

Not exactly. It is SG policy to trial SCRs. The actual SCR will be run by Homeless Health Services in Glasgow, which I assume is a specialist NHS facility, they already support addicts who are supplied heroin under prescription to safely inject it. It will be on their existing premises in the Calton. What is illegal are taking a controlled substance and allowing premises at which you work or own to be used for taking a controlled substance both of which are covered by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The decision not to prosecute, is particularly to provide protection for the nurses - and the NHS - without who you cannot have the safe protection room. The Scotland Act isn’t relevant here.

The position of Lord Advocate encompasses two different and distinct roles, one is essentially as the government's lawyer. it was in this role that she engaged with the supreme court over the referendum and also last week with the GRR bill. This role is by its definition political in that the LA will attend cabinet and if required parliament. If you ever do the parliament tour, they will tell you that that there are 131 seats in the chamber, for 129 MSPs, the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General (the LA's deputy). The other role is the chief prosecutor of Scotland, effectively the head of COPFS. This role is independent of government and is why when there are criminal cases with political ramifications - eg Alex Salmond - the LA and SG will recuse themselves. It's in this role that she has stated that it's not in the public interest to prosecute people using SCRs. Drug misuse and assisting drug misuse are still illegal but won't be prosecuted in Scotland. To try and override that power of the Lord Advocate would be to try and override the power an office has had not only since before devolution but since before the union, it dates to the 15th century. I think that constitutional wrecking that might be a stretch for even Alister Jack. The answer to your referendum question is pretty simple - it's not a matter of criminal law.

Because of the way it’s been done - the Lord Advocate taking a public interest approach on not prosecuting - there isn’t anything they can do about it. That’s why Alister Jack made a big point that he wouldn’t be intervening - he couldn’t do even if he wanted to.

They don’t need to, they’re the puppet masters pulling the strings.

In which case he should have resigned the whip when the deal was struck, but then maybe he needed to SNP to sweep the report into his bullying under the carpet then. Out of interest where did you hear that from?

If you are a member of the party of government and you vote against the government in a vote of no confidence then there are going to be consequences. You are at a minimum going to be suspended, if you are a minister then you are going to lose your job. Thats going to be the case in any parliament anywhere in the world. This was a Tory vote of no confidence in the Scottish Government. And let’s not forget this shambles. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/8957118/snp-fergus-ewing-bullying-probe-holyrood/

It will guarantee energy security has to be the biggest porky pie going as the oil will all be exported.

Let the world burn. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-66933346

If you want to blame someone for bringing MSPs into the debate, blame Alibi, not me. Its an internet forum, no-one gets to define which way a thread goes.

AFAIK, there hasn’t been a vote in Westminster on GRR so no MPs have voted for or against it - except for Douglas Ross that is. And you seem to think it’s the SNP that’s obsessed with GRR, you never stop going on about it.

You think two - your pal Alibi thinks that half the MPs are against GRR, what is it?

Ash Regan Fergus Ewing John Mason Kenneth Gibson Michelle Thomson Ruth Maguire Stephanie Callaghan All voted in against the bill Annabelle Ewing and Jim Fairlie abstained Last time I checked they all held the SNP whip, no-one has been excommunicated. So again what are you going on about?

There’s plenty of MPs and MSPs who have expressed gender critical views yet none have been excommunicated. So what are you talking about?

Ally Bongo sees conspiracies everywhere he looks.