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[57vintage]

I’ve little interest in SNP machinations but anybody I know who’s dealt with Flynn as a constituent MP can’t speak highly enough of him. He’s helped a few friends and family out.

Mate went to his surgery, Flynn passed his issue to staff who got in touch with council/police/social etc and it was sorted in few weeks.
He only met Flynn that once. Jump forward 9 months later and he’s stood on Union Street (nae doobt outside The Grill) when Flynn passes, stops, addresses him by name, introduces his family to him and checks everything is still ok.

Aye ok maybe recall and name retention is just a politicians skill but nae many of them would have bothered.

So, doing his job, then?

He’s well-paid so to do.

He’s an arrogant jute pr?*ck.

[TheDeeDon]

So, doing his job, then?

He’s well-paid so to do.

He’s an arrogant jute pr?*ck.

You never dealt with Anne Begg then?

Now that was hard work. She was the type of Labour MP who f*cked over the good people of Torry for years.

I can't comment on Flynn, as haven't stayed in Torry for years and only know of him from what I see on TV.

He seems far from the worst, leaving his fitba team aside.

Each to their own though.

[57vintage]

You never dealt with Anne Begg then?

Now that was hard work. She was the type of Labour MP who f*cked over the good people of Torry for years.

I can't comment on Flynn, as haven't stayed in Torry for years and only know of him from what I see on TV.

He seems far from the worst, leaving his fitba team aside.

Each to their own though.

Ms Begg was never my MP, (it was Malcom Savidge with whom I had a public spat at a hustings meeting when he denied that Prescott had ever undertaken to re-nationalise the railways) although she did visit my workplace once as she was formerly a teacher in the building which had been re-purposed. She came across as Blairite lobby fodder.

The question that remains unanswered, and by fùck, I’ve posed it often enough, is, “If a UK PM were to say tomorrow, “OK. Have independence - which of the SNP stalwarts would you send in to negotiate it?”

Angus Robertson and his self-declared towering intellect? Energy Minister Gillian Martin, currently back-pedalling although she’s forgotten her bike, as the environment we’re doing our bit to save is thoroughly wrecked by the proliferation of grid improvement gubbins from 200m+ pylons, intrusive and combustion-prone BESS paraphernalia which rather than being utilised to ‘store surplus energy to feed into the grid’ will only be deployed thus when the unit price is sufficient for the capitalist savages to add to their profits etc. The ex-social worker Robison, whose brains are matched by her articulacy? Swinney himself who is desperate to get the fùck out of the sotter he’s inherited and helped create? Joanna Cher….oh hang on… Michael Matheson, on Zoom(er) via iPad from the beach? Graeme ‘Groundhog’ Dey, who has been invisible from his job in sorting out the FE lecturers’ long struggle for fair reward and who’ll retire before he’s found out further by 2026 and count his parachute payment? Flynn, whose sub-Salmond cock-of-the-midden act and façade of certainty will be as easily removed by hard-nosed opponents as his hair and the Jutes from the Premiership? John Mason’s probably got as much chance of success as any of the on-message, intellect-free cronies as any.

Ever felt you’ve been cheated? “Gullible” doesn’t appear in any major dictionary, apparently.

https://youtu.be/GfPo2V7GDTk?si=vgZtdjTmPSZDn0cX

[TheDeeDon]

Ms Begg was never my MP, (it was Malcom Savidge with whom I had a public spat at a hustings meeting when he denied that Prescott had ever undertaken to re-nationalise the railways) although she did visit my workplace once as she was formerly a teacher in the building which had been re-purposed. She came across as Blairite lobby fodder.

The question that remains unanswered, and by fùck, I’ve posed it often enough, is, “If a UK PM were to say tomorrow, “OK. Have independence - which of the SNP stalwarts would you send in to negotiate it?”

Angus Robertson and his self-declared towering intellect? Energy Minister Gillian Martin, currently back-pedalling although she’s forgotten her bike, as the environment we’re doing our bit to save is thoroughly wrecked by the proliferation of grid improvement gubbins from 200m+ pylons, intrusive and combustion-prone BESS paraphernalia which rather than being utilised to ‘store surplus energy to feed into the grid’ will only be deployed thus when the unit price is sufficient for the capitalist savages to add to their profits etc. The ex-social worker Robison, whose brains are matched by her articulacy? Swinney himself who is desperate to get the fùck out of the sotter he’s inherited and helped create? Joanna Cher….oh hang on… Michael Matheson, on Zoom(er) via iPad from the beach? Graeme ‘Groundhog’ Dey, who has been invisible from his job in sorting out the FE lecturers’ long struggle for fair reward and who’ll retire before he’s found out further by 2026 and count his parachute payment? Flynn, whose sub-Salmond cock-of-the-midden act and façade of certainty will be as easily removed by hard-nosed opponents as his hair and the Jutes from the Premiership? John Mason’s probably got as much chance of success as any of the on-message, intellect-free cronies as any.

Ever felt you’ve been cheated? “Gullible” doesn’t appear in any major dictionary, apparently.

https://youtu.be/GfPo2V7GDTk?si=vgZtdjTmPSZDn0cX

I wouldn't trust any one person with the negotiation process.

You would need a Salmond type person as the figurehead of the negotiations with a very good team supporting him made up of non politicians.

Remember too that Westminster hasn't exactly got much going for it either in the intellectual stakes

[Mason89]

Ms Begg was never my MP, (it was Malcom Savidge with whom I had a public spat at a hustings meeting when he denied that Prescott had ever undertaken to re-nationalise the railways) although she did visit my workplace once as she was formerly a teacher in the building which had been re-purposed. She came across as Blairite lobby fodder.

The question that remains unanswered, and by fùck, I’ve posed it often enough, is, “If a UK PM were to say tomorrow, “OK. Have independence - which of the SNP stalwarts would you send in to negotiate it?”

Angus Robertson and his self-declared towering intellect? Energy Minister Gillian Martin, currently back-pedalling although she’s forgotten her bike, as the environment we’re doing our bit to save is thoroughly wrecked by the proliferation of grid improvement gubbins from 200m+ pylons, intrusive and combustion-prone BESS paraphernalia which rather than being utilised to ‘store surplus energy to feed into the grid’ will only be deployed thus when the unit price is sufficient for the capitalist savages to add to their profits etc. The ex-social worker Robison, whose brains are matched by her articulacy? Swinney himself who is desperate to get the fùck out of the sotter he’s inherited and helped create? Joanna Cher….oh hang on… Michael Matheson, on Zoom(er) via iPad from the beach? Graeme ‘Groundhog’ Dey, who has been invisible from his job in sorting out the FE lecturers’ long struggle for fair reward and who’ll retire before he’s found out further by 2026 and count his parachute payment? Flynn, whose sub-Salmond cock-of-the-midden act and façade of certainty will be as easily removed by hard-nosed opponents as his hair and the Jutes from the Premiership? John Mason’s probably got as much chance of success as any of the on-message, intellect-free cronies as any.

Ever felt you’ve been cheated? “Gullible” doesn’t appear in any major dictionary, apparently.

https://youtu.be/GfPo2V7GDTk?si=vgZtdjTmPSZDn0cX

I’ll do it if they ask nicely. There are some non negotiables though