General News Chat

[Donanddusted]

Is there some sort of agreement between the parties that Brexit must not be mentioned in this campaign?
Are they both scared of losing the Gammon vote?

Remember how we couldn't stay in the EU without the union?
Remember the "vow" by Broon and his MSM?

Why would you put trust back in parties that the Scottish electorate have little influence over when it comes to policies?

[mondo_notion]

Farmers vote Tory. It's what they do.

'the agri brigade' piece in the last private eye points out how badly farmers (in England and Wales) are doing since brexit. Mostly down to voting away their EU acreage subsidies.

Scotland has committed to keeping these direct payments making farmers north of the border a bit better off. Whether that is enough to turn them away from their traditional tory vote, I dunno.

[dons8321]

Is there some sort of agreement between the parties that Brexit must not be mentioned in this campaign?
Are they both scared of losing the Gammon vote?

And no mention of the pandemic...Rish£ at one point in the first debate bigged himself up about the furlough scheme so why didn't Starmer immediately ask "And how many deaths were caused by eat-out-to-help-out"?

[TheDeeDon]

Douglas Ross to resign as Tory leader in Scotland after the election.

Will also resign as an MSP if we wins his new seat.

Who do the Tories have up here to take over as a leader? Must be time for the even more loathsome Murdo Fraser to take the baton. Now there is a guy who make Ross look normal.

[swaddon2]

Nigel Farage keeps getting pelted with things while on the campaign trail.

I think it's terrible. What a waste of milkshakes and other food, especially in a cost of living crisis.

[Mason89]

Nigel Farage keeps getting pelted with things while on the campaign trail.

I think it's terrible. What a waste of milkshakes and other food, especially in a cost of living crisis.

I saw it suggested that National Service should be brought back, to improve their aim

[TheDeeDon]

I like how it's always lefties that attack Farage.

He's oblivious to the fact it's not just us lefties that detest him.

It would be good if people realised that throwing stuff at him gives him the publicity he craves and refrained from doing it.

[57vintage]

Just about the best opinion piece I’ve seen on identikit wishy-fúcking-washy canny safe bland wallpaper paste party politics in a decade.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/polit...er-snp-labour/

Fućking dissembling wânkers all. Unworthy of my vote.

[57vintage]

It didn’t have a bloody paywall when I opened it yesterday.

Here….

https://archive.ph/AT1ea

Spoil papers early and often.

[Donanddusted]

"If my SNP candidate proves to me that they have some contrition over the party’s endless failures in government"

They have so many, don't they?
Did the MSM point them all out?

Change the system then.
There's a way to do it.