Scottish Politics Thread

[Electromagnetic]

He’s trying to change it single handily though by ensuring family members get their noses well into the trough

SNP hopeful says independent Scotland could ‘create money’ and avoid tax

A PROMINENT SNP Holyrood hopeful has been accused of peddling “fantasy economics” after arguing an independent Scotland could “literally…

www.heraldscotland.com

Humza Yousaf's wife seeks SNP nomination to take on Scottish Lib Dem leader

Nadia El-Nakla is a long-standing campaigner and party activist

www.google.co.uk

there is also another relative who he’s backing to stand (the name escapes me) who said doesn’t know why he wants to be an MSP but it sounded like a good idea.......

Cronyism... Nothing new to the SNP
Sleaze, cronyism and the SNP: the New Politics is charmingly familiar | The Spectator

 

[NSP]

Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’​

Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the justice secretary has said.

Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’

Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the justice secretary has said.Journalists and theatre directors should also face the courts

www.thetimes.co.uk

Serisouly... In the home?.....

I can see that falling foul of a determined HRA98 claim.

 

[NSP]

He's a toxic, nasty piece of work that man.

All hail the Scottish Nazi Party.

Sorry; heil.

 

[NSP]

Scottish miners convicted during strike to be pardoned

The Scottish government will introduce new legislation to facilitate a collective pardon for miners in the 1980s strike.

www.bbc.co.uk

Were there many coal mines in Scotland, then...?

 

[tiger stacker]

Were there many coal mines in Scotland, then...?

At one time there was……as were iron gold silver too…..
The sad thing is private industry being nationalised didn't always work in Scotland

 

[offog]

Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’​

Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the justice secretary has said.

Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’

Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the justice secretary has said.Journalists and theatre directors should also face the courts

www.thetimes.co.uk

Serisouly... In the home?.....

Does that mean that I can't say anything about the brussels at Xmas.

 

[hackle]

Were there many coal mines in Scotland, then...?

225 collieries in Scotland at the time of nationalisation in 1947, mostly in the central belt, although there was one up in Sutherland which was never nationalised and only closed finally in the 1970s.

 

[BuggerAll]

At one time there was……as were iron gold silver too…..
The sad thing is private industry being nationalised didn't always work in Scotland

Did it work anywhere?

 

[HCL]

Also when he was having his race rant in the wee hoose about all the top jobs going to people that are "WHITE"

Where the **** did he get that tartan from?

 

[Harryc]

Where the **** did he get that tartan from?

the barras

 

[Fang_Farrier]

225 collieries in Scotland at the time of nationalisation in 1947, mostly in the central belt, although there was one up in Sutherland which was never nationalised and only closed finally in the 1970s.

Brora.
A most interesting map in the heritage centre showing that the shafts are all the way under the village out to the sea.
Originally mined for producing salt and then for the brick works.

 

[HCL]

the barras

He's no MacNeil, ffs. Guess appropriation only goes one way. Like that unfunny comedian. Though I'm no fair there, some sikhs have reg'ed tartans,but at least we know they stay true to their salt.

 

[NSP]

225 collieries in Scotland at the time of nationalisation in 1947, mostly in the central belt, although there was one up in Sutherland which was never nationalised and only closed finally in the 1970s.

So they all closed long before [gulp] Thatcher...?

 

[Fang_Farrier]

So they all closed long before [gulp] Thatcher...?

Coal Mining Records | National Records of Scotland

National Records of Scotland

www.nrscotland.gov.uk

 

[giatttt]

So they all closed long before [gulp] Thatcher...?

Longannet only closed in 2002


Open cast continued until 2020

Still blame the milk snatcher, it's still working for the SNP

 

[tiger stacker]

Did it work anywhere?

Well it worked for political parties

 

[johnboyzzz]

 

[homeworker]

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Do you reckon that his hate speech laws may be a step too far?

 

[JuniorBod]

Do you reckon that his hate speech laws may be a step too far?

Nah, got burning books to go yet....

Not even mentioning burning people that don't agree....

That comes later, allegedly....

JB

 

[johnboyzzz]

Do you reckon that his hate speech laws may be a step too far?

Nah doesn't go far enough, they should install cameras and microphones in every house and it shouldn't be 7 years in jail it should be 45



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