General News Chat

[TheDeeDon]

I see the SNP membership is down 30% that's what happens when you f*ck with Women's rights.

I'm amazed they have 72k members.
I'll never understand why anyone would want to be a member of a political party.

[Donanddusted]

I'm amazed they have 72k members.
I'll never understand why anyone would want to be a member of a political party.

Indeed.

Exhibit A:

[stewarty27]

Hmmm. It's pure speculation but I wonder if those that have left the SNP are more likely to have voted for Ash Regan/Kate Forbes leaving more Humza Yousaf voters as part of the remaining 72,000

That's a good shout cause and effect coming into play. The Murrells are desperate to get Humza elected.. He knows where the bodies are buried.

[WhenTattieFlooredChas]

That's a good shout cause and effect coming into play. The Murrells are desperate to get Humza elected.. He knows where the bodies are buried.

😴

[stewarty27]

I'm amazed they have 72k members.
I'll never understand why anyone would want to be a member of a political party.

I think being a member of the SNP is an entirely different thing to being a member of any other party. People join because ultimately they want Independence rather than supporting the dogmatic ideologies of other parties. People oin the Tories because they are greedy selfish people. Labour used to be a working class party ..

[WhenTattieFlooredChas]

That's a good shout cause and effect coming into play. The Murrells are desperate to get Humza elected.. He knows where the bodies are buried.

And why do you insist on calling them The Murrells? It's like you think you're a bit smart because you know her married name. Like people who hear "Englandshire" said once, then constantly come out with it thinking its some sort of hilarious put down.

[WhenTattieFlooredChas]

Or are you f***ing with women's rights, as if it is her duty to take her husbands name

[57vintage]

I think being a member of the SNP is an entirely different thing to being a member of any other party. People join because ultimately they want Independence rather than supporting the dogmatic ideologies of other parties. People oin the Tories because they are greedy selfish people. Labour used to be a working class party ..

So independence is excused from being a ‘dogmatic ideology’?

Crikey, who knew?

I’m fed up of going to the bottom of our stairs and to the end of our street.

[stewarty27]

So independence is excused from being a ‘dogmatic ideology’?

Crikey, who knew?

I’m fed up of going to the bottom of our stairs and to the end of our street.

You ken what I mean Independence is also a highly emotional thing, For some folk it Transends politics. And yes for some it is dogmatic. But there's defo a passion there you don't get wi the Libdems et'al. Now you be careful at the end of your street might be bogie men.

[InversneckieDob]

So independence is excused from being a ‘dogmatic ideology’?

Crikey, who knew?

I’m fed up of going to the bottom of our stairs and to the end of our street.

In all seriousness, that's an interesting point.
I'd never really thought of independence as an "ideology" as such.
I'd always though of it as an infrastructural realignment with the aim of getting out from an ideology that has become the norm.
If the UK had competing ideologies that got voted upon periodically.....I could maybe live with that.
But it doesn't.
It has the default system of government that has to be adhered to.

[stewarty27]

In all seriousness, that's an interesting point.
I'd never really thought of independence as an "ideology" as such.
I'd always though of it as an infrastructural realignment with the aim of getting out from an ideology that has become the norm.
If the UK had competing ideologies that got voted upon periodically.....I could maybe live with that.
But it doesn't.
It has the default system of government that has to be adhered to.

Was Gandhi a dogmatic ideologist or William Wallace. Nelson Mandela or James Connelly. The link is freedom fighters. Could be argued the "concept" of the SNP fits that bill
Tho I ken fine well the reality of the modern day SNP couldn't be further away from freedom fighters too many have taken the Kind Shilling and played their oppressors game. Anyone for Pete Wishart ? He was shyte in Runrig inaw !

[57vintage]

Was Gandhi a dogmatic ideologist or William Wallace. Nelson Mandela or James Connelly. The link is freedom fighters. Could be argued the "concept" of the SNP fits that bill
Tho I ken fine well the reality of the modern day SNP couldn't be further away from freedom fighters too many have taken the Kind Shilling and played their oppressors game. Anyone for Pete Wishart ? He was shyte in Runrig inaw !

Billy Connolly summed up Runrig best by describing their sound as “like Calum Kennedy falling off a cliff”. Like many musical acts I find myself thinking “I can almost see the appeal, but it’s not pressing my musical buttons”. I’ll desist from listing others who fall into that category as I need neither the arguments nor the grief.

[stewarty27]

In other news A wee seafood shack in Stoney has been knocked backed cuz of fears screaming children could run out into traffic after being “scared by lobsters”' Heres some Neil Young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXQw3-VukXY

[stewarty27]

Billy Connolly summed up Runrig best by describing their sound as “like Calum Kennedy falling off a cliff”. Like many musical acts I find myself thinking “I can almost see the appeal, but it’s not pressing my musical buttons”. I’ll desist from listing others who fall into that category as I need neither the arguments nor the grief.

I like them ..feck you Connelly

[InversneckieDob]

In other news A wee seafood shack in Stoney has been knocked backed cuz of fears screaming children could run out into traffic after being “scared by lobsters”' Heres some Neil Young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXQw3-VukXY

Another example of The Nanny State.
It's political correctness gone mad I tells ya.