news & politics:discussion

[Neil]

Otherwise zwhats the points of selfid if it doesn't apply to anything.

[LJS]

 

 

10 minutes ago, Neil said:

The law makes the selfid the gender to apply for all situations.

these people disagree with you

 

Amnesty International

Back Off Scotland

Close the Gap

Crew

Engender

Glasgow Women's Library

Human Rights Consortium

JustRight Scotland

National Union of Students Scotland

One Parent Families Scotland

Rape Crisis Scotland

Scottish Trades Union Congress

Scottish Refugee Council

Scottish Women’s Aid

Scottish Women’s Convention

Scottish Women’s Rights Centre

Young Women’s Movement

Zero Tolerance

https://www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk/news/news/a-statement-from-scottish-civil-society-organisations-on-the-uk-governments-intervention-o/

[LJS]

4 hours ago, steviewevie said:

SNP need to forget independence

Yeah, and the Greens need to forget the environment.

You do realise that's why they exist.

You are maybe confused because the Labour party are fine with abandoning their principles and you think that sets some sort of precedent.

[Neil]

31 minutes ago, LJS said:

 

 

these people disagree with you

 

Amnesty International

Back Off Scotland

Close the Gap

Crew

Engender

Glasgow Women's Library

Human Rights Consortium

JustRight Scotland

National Union of Students Scotland

One Parent Families Scotland

Rape Crisis Scotland

Scottish Trades Union Congress

Scottish Refugee Council

Scottish Women’s Aid

Scottish Women’s Convention

Scottish Women’s Rights Centre

Young Women’s Movement

Zero Tolerance

https://www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk/news/news/a-statement-from-scottish-civil-society-organisations-on-the-uk-governments-intervention-o/

So they've campaigned for self I'd so it can be ignored and be meaningless.

[steviewevie]

5 hours ago, LJS said:

Yeah, and the Greens need to forget the environment.

You do realise that's why they exist.

You are maybe confused because the Labour party are fine with abandoning their principles and you think that sets some sort of precedent.

you forgot to include the "for now" bit, but ok, de-priortise it...there is not much of a route to independence at moment...and SNP are at risk of losing power in Scotland unless Yousaf can turn things around, improve public services in Scotland and at least make SNP look united,

Edited March 29, 2023 by steviewevie

[steviewevie]

Plan is to stick those horrid illegals (or asylum seekers to me and you and ECHR) on big boats, get them out of the hotels...not sure how workable, I expect will make life even more unpleasant for these people,  but they'll like it in the red wall and that's all that matters.

Maybe, just maybe they need to fast track these asylum requests to get the backlog down...especially for those coming from certain countries...Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Eritrea etc

[Guest]

47 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Plan is to stick those horrid illegals (or asylum seekers to me and you and ECHR) on big boats, get them out of the hotels...not sure how workable, I expect will make life even more unpleasant for these people,  but they'll like it in the red wall and that's all that matters.

Maybe, just maybe they need to fast track these asylum requests to get the backlog down...especially for those coming from certain countries...Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Eritrea etc

I saw somewhere that Sunak is concerned that Braverman is pushing these amendments in secret with the right of the party. I think she’s trying to her us to the position of leaving the ECHR. 

[fraybentos1]

13 hours ago, LJS said:

whilst Yousef got 53.7% in an actual election from average Jocks

...and Labour came second with 32.7% .

What's you point?

My point is that using the nonsense lie of Yousaf being a socialist and him being FM means that Scotland is so much more left wing than england is a dumb argument cause A) he isn't socialist and B) England voted in large numbers for an actual socialist not long ago (more so than up here!)

[fraybentos1]

12 hours ago, Ozanne said:

There's another thread for Scottish politics, why don't you guys have that argument in there?

That's an indy thread, this is the politics thread. This is as correct a place for it as any. Also, stop trying to police the thread again, you've been told before to wind ur neck in

[Neil]

looks like Jez's ego will have him standing against the labour party - doing the tories work for them.

[lost]

22 minutes ago, Neil said:

looks like Jez's ego will have him standing against the labour party 

Which I believe is against party rules and will result in him being kicked out of the party on top of not being able to run as an MP.

Who knows though as he's done it before. He campaigned for the Communist party of Britain when Blair was in charge and he wasn't excluded then:

 

[Neil]

2 minutes ago, lost said:

Which I believe is against party rules and will result in him being kicked out of the party on top of not being able to run as an MP.

he's already kicked out as his membership is suspended.

[steviewevie]

13 minutes ago, lost said:

Which I believe is against party rules and will result in him being kicked out of the party on top of not being able to run as an MP.

Who knows though as he's done it before. He campaigned for the Communist party of Britain when Blair was in charge and he wasn't excluded then:

 

Not really campaigning for them is it?

[lost]

2 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Not really campaigning for them is it?

Aside from the "I would like to join the communist party" section I guess not 🤭

[steviewevie]

6 minutes ago, lost said:

Aside from the "I would like to join the communist party" section I guess not 🤭

Yeah,apart from that bit..

[steviewevie]

Still not officially campaigning for them, he's speaking at an event organised by them.

[steviewevie]

As he did for other groups... Hamas, Hezbollah, IRA etc

Edited March 29, 2023 by steviewevie

[steviewevie]

 

[Guest]

Oh dear. 

[Kurosagi]

7 hours ago, lost said:

Which I believe is against party rules and will result in him being kicked out of the party on top of not being able to run as an MP.

Who knows though as he's done it before. He campaigned for the Communist party of Britain when Blair was in charge and he wasn't excluded then:

 

Bloody love Dick Guaghan, brilliant folk guitarist. Attilla would have been good too - cracking gig 🙂

[steviewevie]

Green Day tomorrow...woohoo!

(no, not them).

[steviewevie]

40 minutes ago, Kurosagi said:

Bloody love Dick Guaghan, brilliant folk guitarist. Attilla would have been good too - cracking gig 🙂

commies have the best fun

[Neil]

On 3/28/2023 at 4:31 PM, Neil said:

More volunteering tomorrow this time it's to help define the treatment regimes for stroke care using my experience to say what they could do better, I've got a few ideas that I think would help improve outcomes.

this was good, and i got a bit of praise for my other volunteering at what's called a stroke cafe, where people like me pass on our experiences to new stroke patients, and apparently what i said last week, has inspired a couple of people, and this was said to a roomful of medics & academics today who all work with stroke.

9good to know i'm making a positive difference. 🙂 

i just about avoided being filmed for bbc local news today, when points west visited the stroke support group i normally attend on Wednesdays but i dipped out today to avoid the rain. they filmed it cos Bristol after stroke is celebrating 40 years this year, and i get to attend the birthday party  at Ashton gate tomorrow.

 

[Neil]

2 minutes ago, Neil said:

i just about avoided being filmed for bbc local news today, when points west visited the stroke support group i normally attend on Wednesdays but i dipped out today to avoid the rain. they filmed it cos Bristol after stroke is celebrating 40 years this year, and i get to attend the birthday party  at Ashton gate tomorrow.

 

most of today's filming was about eddie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-65087958

 this guy @(the link below) is  the man driving bristol's cutting-edge stroke treatment, i was chatting with him today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-60223905

[steviewevie]

Apparently we've joined something called CPTPP, and that makes it even more unlikely we'll ever rejoin the EU.

Always wanted to live on an island in the pacific.