Charlie Endell Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Your mixing him up with Foulkes.Ouch ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Just watched a bit of the swearing in ceremony. To be honest I hope this is the last of the 'the Jocks are in town' pish and our band of MPs get down to some serious business. There's been MPs taking the oath in Welsh, Cornish and even Ulster Scots, so it's not a Scottish thing. Probably more MPs took a Welsh oath than a Gaelic one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redstevie007 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 There's been MPs taking the oath in Welsh, Cornish and even Ulster Scots, so it's not a Scottish thing. Probably more MPs took a Welsh oath than a Gaelic one. Ach, I just think it makes them look a bit like a 'wee team' getting to a cup final and just being happy to be there. It'll be hard enough to make their collective voice heard without portraying themselves as happy tourists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckielugger Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Mhairi seems an ideal girl in every way to me. Loves her footie, loves her politics, is the new darling of the SNP, shoved it right up Douglas Alexander AND rubbed it in at the count, an active socialist, and actually pretty hot !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flora MaDonald Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Ouch ! iPad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redstevie007 Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 and actually pretty hot !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Ach, I just think it makes them look a bit like a 'wee team' getting to a cup final and just being happy to be there. It'll be hard enough to make their collective voice heard without portraying themselves as happy tourists. It's like pre-season friendlies at the moment, so it's a bit silly season. Parliament doesn't start until next week so there's nothing much they can really get started on. They deliberately set the date of the Queens Speech to be a late as possible as they thought there was going to be a hung parliament and to give time to get a government in place. I think there is a serious side to some of this though, I don't take it a being happy tourists, more that they won't be taking any shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 and actually pretty hot !! You've taken that too far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antidote Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 How do the english MPs take their oath? One even did it like this. Imagine the outrage if it was an SNP member.https://archive.is/yvEaA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Your mixing him up with Foulkes. He didn't say Skinner stank of his own pish, maybe they just sat on the same bench. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auchinyell Sox Change Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Mhairi seems an ideal girl in every way to me. Loves her footie, loves her politics, is the new darling of the SNP, shoved it right up Douglas Alexander AND rubbed it in at the count, an active socialist, and actually pretty hot !! Ease off the buckie..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 iPad.Ah believe ye! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Ah believe ye! Your on you're own with that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flora MaDonald Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Higher English - A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Endell Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Your on you're own with that one.I'm usually on my own with everything . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pool Q Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Freshers Week. Hopefully serious business starts next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flora MaDonald Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 It's been top-class; selfies, musical chairs with auld Skinner, piece in chips on the balcony, wrong canteens, Gaidhlig oaths..... Get it up the lot o them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 So just catching up on all of this... The "Seatgate" thing - it seems that Dennis Skinner ended up sitting in his ordinary seat. So the thing is a complete non story except for giving a chance for people to call the majority of Scots MPs as jackboot thugs and nationalist socialists? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 If you watch footage of yesterdays proceedings, watch for that inbred looking, aristocratic tit Rory Stewart as he asks if he can say his oath in Gaelic. The house clerk says yes but sensibly enquires if he speaks Gaelic at all. Naturally he answers no. What a . He was behind that cringeworthy "Hands Across The Border" pish. You can watch todays full proceedings as at least half of the new SNP members take their oath (in English, Scots and Gaelic) along with those of the other parties here: http://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/bc085cdc-ec99-4795-b2c2-bd8fee57e2e9 Still find it difficult to believe, but there is the evidence, the new MPs for Glasgow, Motherwell & Wishaw, Ayrshire... Labour no more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Still find it difficult to believe, but there is the evidence, the new MPs for Glasgow, Motherwell & Wishaw, Ayrshire... Labour no more And Kircaldy and Cowdenbeath, East Renfrewshire, Rutherlglen and Hamilton West, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, not to mention the whole of Labourdeenshire ! If someone had told me a year ago that these places would return an SNP MP, I'd have told them it's just a dream, a very beautiful dream but just a dream nonetheless. It's still sinking in. Incredible. And in other news Faither of the House Sir Gerald Kaufman has been having a go at us (or really, a case of sour grapes) ......... http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/21/sir-gerald-kaufman-labour-snp-mps-goons-commons-behaviour The longest-serving MP in the House of Commons, Labour’s Sir Gerald Kaufman, has condemned the parliamentary conduct of Scottish National party MPs as infantile, describing them as “goons”.The SNP’s 50 new members angered traditionalists before the election of the Speaker on Monday when some attempted to turf the veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner out of the seat he has always claimed when Labour have been in opposition throughout his 45 years as an MP. Kaufman, who has the honorary title of father of the house, said: “I think that their conduct is infantile. I don’t know what they’re trying to prove. It’s all very well for them to try to sit in a block, but to move one of the longest-serving members of parliament out of a seat that he’s occupied for decades, it’s stupid.” SNP MPs, who now hold 56 seats in the Commons, have also been reprimanded by parliamentary staff for taking selfies, which breaks the Palace of Westminster’s strict no-photography rules, and for applauding in the Commons chamber. “On the date of the convening of parliament and on the date of the swearing in, some of them actually sat on the opposition front bench,” said Kaufman. “They’re goons and if they go on like this instead of using their undoubted mandate from the Scottish people to be serious about issues on behalf of Scotland – which is what they’ve been elected to do – if they’re going to play these infantile games, they will devalue themselves.” Kaufman, 84, has been MP for Manchester Gorton since 1983 and, before that, was MP for Manchester Ardwick from 1970. He will have been a member of parliament for 45 years in June and was made father of the house, an honorary title given to the longest-serving MP, after the retirement of Peter Tapsell, 85, who was the MP for Louth and Horncastle since 1966. The baby of the house, the title given to the youngest member, is Mhairi Black, the SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, who overturned the 24,000-strong majority of former Labour shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander. The Labour party lost 40 of its 41 Scottish MPs in this month’s general election, ending its 50-year reign as Scotland’s largest party. The defeat resulted in the resignation of the leader of the Scottish Labour party, Jim Murphy, on Saturday. Asked what the Labour party needed to do to win back support north of the border, Kaufman said: “I’m not Scottish and therefore I don’t understand Scotland in the way that I hope I understand England. It’s clear that what happened in Scotland was a cataclysm. Some of our best Labour MPs, some for whom I have the highest regard and a number of whom are my personal friends, just vanished in the onslaught.” He added: “I can’t tell Scottish people and I can’t tell Scottish Labour what to do, but just as the UK Labour party is going to have to take a long, hard look at itself and is going to have to assess what it needs to do in order to be in accord with the people of this country of the United Kingdom, the Scottish Labour party is going to have to be a part of that. “Because, although we had a very bad result in England and Wales, it was nowhere near as bad as what our friends in Scotland underwent.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted May 23, 2015 Author Share Posted May 23, 2015 (edited) back to actual business... "SNP takes over TWO major Westminster committees – AND gets debate on Trident" (Uppercase courtesy of the EXPRESS) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-32843295 http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/21/snp-trident-debate-debate-on-trident-safety Edited May 23, 2015 by exile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jockodile Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Whats the deal with Bbc question time. Libdems nearly always had a rep on as third party and 1mp Farage seems ever present. Can we get Snp rep on every couple of weeks irrespective of location? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted May 23, 2015 Author Share Posted May 23, 2015 (edited) Whats the deal with Bbc question time. Libdems nearly always had a rep on as third party and 1mp Farage seems ever present. Can we get Snp rep on every couple of weeks irrespective of location? My guess is they'll insist the format is 'regional'. Otherwise, they'd have to have the DUP on as often as the Lib Dems, and if they do that, the the other NI parties would demand a right to appear against the DUP, and the whole thing would be unworkable. I expect they'll think the fact they occasionally have SNP people on when hosted in England will be enough to say the SNP are punching above their weight. An alternative could be to have the programme come from Scotland more often, allowing SNP more airtime than they'd have by population / vote share alone, but to pacify the rUK, in each Scottish edition, the issues discussed would still be largely UK relevant, ad SNP would still be safely outnumbered by unionists. Edited May 23, 2015 by exile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 My guess is they'll insist the format is 'regional'. Otherwise, they'd have to have the DUP on as often as the Lib Dems, and if they do that, the the other NI parties would demand a right to appear against the DUP, and the whole thing would be unworkable. I expect they'll think the fact they occasionally have SNP people on when hosted in England will be enough to say the SNP are punching above their weight. An alternative could be to have the programme come from Scotland more often, allowing SNP more airtime than they'd have by population / vote share alone, but to pacify the rUK, in each Scottish edition, the issues discussed would still be largely UK relevant, ad SNP would still be safely outnumbered by unionists. Alternatively, they could just dump the Lib Dems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jockodile Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 maybe in the Scotland ones the tories/labour/lib dems alternate given their minor party status Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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