StirlingEgg

Great in The Cassandra Crossing 😏

Do you think Johnson and his ilk genuinely mean that kind of stuff or are they doing it to appeal to a certain kind of moron they know will lap it up? I'm never sure...

Went to the ruin of the Old Village of Lawers today on Loch Tay. Had been inhabited and thriving (mostly) for hundreds of years until last folk left in 1920s. The cemetery had some relatively recent inscriptions on the gravestones along with the ancient ones. Walked by a friendly English lady walking her dog on the way back up the hill. She asked if we were on holiday and after we replied yes she said "oh we're sorry about the weather". Who's "we"? Are you speaking on behalf of Scotland or Mother Nature or what? We only live in Stirling for goodness sake 🙄😂

I didn't fancy going up the 1400 odd steps if there's a problem 😬 Would like to go back and do the walk up to the dam.

I'd recommend it 👍Good for the wee man too. We're staying near Killin but he likes the train so we drove to Crianlarich then they got the train to Falls of Cruachan just over the road. I took the car so we could drive back as next train from Oban was a good bit later. Also got to go on weed killer spraying train at Crianlarich so a grand day out 😊

Visited the Cruachan Power Station today, not quite the great outdoors but deep inside a mountain and under a Loch! Anyone else been? It's fascinating and a bit eerie (like a James Bond villain's hidden plot). It can store excess power from wind and react to spikes in demand in just 28 seconds...

Yes it's pretty dispiriting in hindsight when it's obvious the point he was making. A huge opportunity and we don't get them often given our UK leash. They seem to be able to turn a lot of fairly innocuous stuff against us and it manages to gain traction eg the porridge nonsense.

Maybe it's the perception of too much continuity that's putting folk off. Even though they are very different leaders; Salmond and Sturgeon were close then Yousaf takes over as her preferred candidate. I liked listening to what Salmond had to say and found his passion quite infectious but hardly anyone else I knew liked him or how he came across. He or Alba are sadly not the key missing piece in the puzzle. I think the complacency element mentioned above is pretty relevant. We don't realise how much we have compared to UK govt policy and need to get on top of the "they're all the same" narrative. They were a bit bolder on Have I Got News For You the other night re highlighting Tory govt disgrace but that stuff should be highlighted at every opportunity in parliament and on the front pages, not a light entertainment show. Sunak's father-in-law's firm getting a lucrative NHS contract and the water companies just being a bullshit investment vehicle - how are these situations even legal? There was a discussion in the Scottish Parliament about availability of dental treatment and the Rutherglen Labour guy (can't mind his name) put something forward to remind folk that Labour had introduced the successful Childsmile programme. This was nearly 20 years ago! That's all Labour have - moans about SNP taking credit for stuff. No-one cares about taking credit, it's about keeping/removing/introducing based on Scotland’s needs. It doesn’t seem obvious enough those needs could be best addressed via independence.

Chomp!

Roger that.

I've pondered that a few times, the possibility that they would eventually demand to go their own way with that ironically leading to our independence. They'd ensure they were wired up to our resources first though then say it was an act of war when we'd ask for it back or some kind of payment...

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" 🙄

That's a bit grim for SNP but not grim enough for Tories. Be good to see back of Shapps. Wouldn't like to have someone in the armed forces and he's instrumental in their untimely demise...

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Probably 3750 of them are from folk saying the police don't have the time or resources to deal with the new law! Then the other 50 are folk on the wind-up.

😁 What's that phrase he always comes away with again?... "Different class"

Thank you @scotlad and for the analogy too, I might go and read up on the Dutch coach's report! To continue the analogy, are the SFA under the thumb of the English FA though? At least they had/have it in their own hands to progress. I read the link further on up the thread and got even more overwhelmed in the comments...it seems I can vote for the British State or...the British State 😳

I don’t understand the logic or reasoning behind "only if the SNP get a thumping" or "they need to be annihilated to have a clearout". It baffles me as much as "Christ died for our sins" though that's a very different discussion! There is no lesson that can be learned where some independence phoenix will be allowed to rise. The UK govt, British State and right wing press would ensure that independence and possibly even the Scottish parliament would be stamped down or very much diminished. I ended up on some 2014 thread on here last night where there was a post referendum quote from Alan Little about all the doom threatened by the No side. It's inarguably turned out worse that those threats by remaining in the Union. We should be highlighting that and the prospect of more damaging Tories returning after Labour.

If there is a new leader and they decide the main focus or unifying goal is independence only, then the press/yoons will have a ball asking about all the 'poor governance' and 'getting on with the day job' stuff. When they do try and do something devolved then it gets whipped up into a 'lunatic fringe' policy with various misrepresentation so it's impossible to make an informed judgement. Repeat to fade...😐

Those coats always remind me of boiler cladding

Exactly right. The Scottish Parliament is basically just a mitigation forum. I don't believe that Labour can or will mitigate any better in terms of taking the edge off the damage done by the UK govt (economy, foreign policy, budgets/spending affecting our 'grant', most taxation, lobbying/corruption etc) The only time you see a UK politician up here is for a business opportunity. I'm on the fence about a lot of the more contentious policies that get kicked about but that is the way of (some of) the modern world at the moment; it's not something being dreamt up by the SNP or Greens so no point behaving like it is.

Not even for a quick slide down the flumes!