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Tory MP Crispin Blunt has been arrested on suspicion of rape and possession of controlled substances. He’s been released pending further investigations. Funnily enough I’m not seeing wall to wall tv coverage or a tent in anyone’s front garden. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67233090

Funnily enough I was at Altered Image at 229 last night with the drummer’s wife - and other friends as well before you get any ideas. 40th anniversary one-off for Bite, absolutely brilliant.

Mental health problems, lone wolf, thoughts and prayers.

I was talking about in comparison to McBurnie who is neither.

Did you think it was free?

McClair was a good player at two very good clubs.

He’s just been trotting out the same nonsense on Politics Live.

Barnett is actually a higher rate than a per capita share of population.

Barnett consequentials work this way. Lets say a project in England costs £1billion over 10 years and is subject to Barnett in Scotland, then over that 10 year period Scotland will get £117 million - 2019 numbers - added to that budget over that 10 year period. The Scottish Government decides what it wants to spend that money on. The UK Treasury to fund that £1billion project needs to raise £1.117 billion, usually through borrowing and needs to pay that debt back over time. So we get additional money, decide what we spend it on, and then have to pay back the money that was borrowed to give to us.

HS2 may well be a complete fiasco but Scotland is not paying for it. https://fullfact.org/online/hs2-scotland/

I suspect he’ll be advocating for others to do it.

Civil disobedience tends to be the realm of the young. I expect Alba will be focussed on writing strongly worded letters to the newspapers.

None of these guys are “top finishers”. They fall into two categories, flat track bullies - Boyd, Rhodes, McCormack - or guys with poorer than average scoring records - Ferguson (1 in 3.6), Fletcher (1 in 4). A third category, ex Hibs Neds - Griffiths, O’Connor, Riordan.

I absolutely loved McCoist as a player, my favourite ever player, but I think Johnston is the last exceptional striker that we’ve had. A striker that if he were playing you’d expect to score.

I don’t see where you get this view of Alba as a radical hard right party. Their economic view is pretty much left wing or at least those who seem to be driving their economic policies are, ie, George Kerevan. They differ from the Greens as they don’t tend to care much about the environment and their model seems to be about central rather than local control. They remind me a lot of sections of 1980s Labour complete with the small ‘c’ conservatism.

Never made any difference to renumeration anyway, it just shifted the balance from bonus onto salary.

Lesbian Nana at it again. She’s out of control, look at her response compared to the other officers. She shouldn’t be a police officer.

Thought it was going to be this one - was a world record at the time.

That was what Wings was saying in the article you posted as your view on “how to”.

But Ally Bongo thinks its simply a case of declare UDI and ask for international recognition.

This tweet shows that when comparing the turnout to a poll carried out in the constituency on voting intention, that turnout across the board is down. It’s not just a case of the Tory vote stayed at home and the Labour vote turned out. A great deal of traditional Tory voters must have voted Labour. https://x.com/damiansurvation/status/1715329517575651836?s=61&t=MHJIOYAKuUpVTHulpYS2rQ

https://x.com/owenjones84/status/1715034905636114532?s=61&t=MHJIOYAKuUpVTHulpYS2rQ

Which is of course a completely different story.

So what you’re saying is that the reaction to Rutherglen and Hamilton West was overcooked by the media?

There’s literally no minority, no vulnerable person you’d throw under the bus is there?