The Scottish Politics thread

[Crimson Dynamo]

A lot is going to happen until the next election so I thought an on going thread

This letter appeared in Scottish left-leaning papers today

The start of a Labour charm offensive to get SNP voters

https://twitter.com/AnasSarwar/status/1640633900065013761?s=20

[arista]

Good idea LT

[Oliver_W]

If Labour can make some headway in Scotland, they'll have more chance of forming a government. May as well lay the foundations as the SNP goes to the dogs.

[bots]

If Labour can make some headway in Scotland, they'll have more chance of forming a government. May as well lay the foundations as the SNP goes to the dogs.

it's not dogs, it's furry, 4 legged friends

[Crimson Dynamo]

it's not dogs, it's furry, 4 legged friends

:fist: stop denying trans dogs exist

"decapitate BOTS"

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/ruth_wishart/status/1640768002843967491?s=20

[Crimson Dynamo]

Had this person say been injured by Police in a demo they would be falling over themselves calling "him" a Trans Man

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1640414756916871175?s=20

[Cherie]

https://twitter.com/ruth_wishart/status/1640768002843967491?s=20


mind boggling, he clearly did not want her in his cabinet....that bit sounds a bit odd sorry

[user104658]

He has literally picked up Wee Nic's torch without changing course even slightly, it's bizarre, how can he possibly imagine that public opinion has had a significant shift in a matter of weeks?

[Cherie]

He has literally picked up Wee Nic's torch without changing course even slightly, it's bizarre, how can he possibly imagine that public opinion has had a significant shift in a matter of weeks?

I think he believes that because of his colour and religion that he wont be subject to the same fate as Nicola, and he could be right, why else would he think pushing through a legislation that toppled Nic would be a good idea

[Gusto Brunt]

What am I missing when people say Sturgeon is a great politician?:shrug:

That she is a great orator. :hehe:

I see all kinds of people praising her 'skills'. I just don't see it. All I see is a very bland politician. Nothing special about her at all.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I think he believes that because of his colour and religion that he wont be subject to the same fate as Nicola, and he could be right, why else would he think pushing through a legislation that toppled Nic would be a good idea

The guy worked in a call centre prior to getting into politics and has been constantly fast-tracked due to his skin colour.

He said yesterday he is a socialist and will focus more on the "Wellbeing" economy rather than the actual economy

:umm2:

[arista]

Alec Salmon MP

Is Live on the Panel

Politics Live BBC2HD

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsY0gDqXoAAS1lO?format=jpg&name=medium

[Cherie]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsY0gDqXoAAS1lO?format=jpg&name=medium

Tim Farron must look at this and wonder where it all went wring

[Crimson Dynamo]

AN independence campaign group of genuine nutters has branded the language
used by Nicola Sturgeon in her resignation letter to the King as “deeply
disturbing”.

In her letter, the former first minister signed off by saying: “I have the honour
to be, Sir, Your Majesty's humble and obedient servant."

Sturgeon also wrote it had been “my pleasure to serve Your Majesty, Her
Majesty the Queen and the people of Scotland”.

All Under One Banner (AUOB) took to social media to condemn the language in
the letter and said it should be a “heads up” to self-declared republican and
incoming first minister Humza Yousaf, who was selected by the Scottish
Parliament on Tuesday afternoon.

https://twitter.com/STVNews/status/1640656119650562048?s=20
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23418523.nicola-sturgeons-letter-king-called-campaigners/

[arista]

[Fury as new SNP leader Humza Yousaf
appoints a taxpayer-funded
'Minister for Independence'
as party descends into civil war]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03/30/10/69284009-11919449-image-a-1_1680169841964.jpg
[Humza Yousaf (pictured with new deputy Shona Robison)
- who will take his first FMQs at Holyrood
today - has completely overhauled
Nicola Sturgeon's Cabinet,
with only two ministers retaining
their former roles]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11919449/Humza-Yousaf-appoints-taxpayer-funded-Minister-Independence.html

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/03/30/10/69284103-11919449-image-a-5_1680169882482.jpg

Kate - join another party,

[Crimson Dynamo]

Even the Commies coming for self ID nonsense

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1641392110036197376?s=20

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/73E8/production/_129227692_ftcroppedpink_1front_20230331_100-nc.png.webp

[user104658]

Even the Commies coming for self ID nonsense

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1641392110036197376?s=20

"Unfortunately, discussion around the GRR bill has now become so acrimonious and toxic as to obstruct meaningful and respectful debate"

Not me unknowingly campaigning for the CPB on TiBB for months :worry:

[user104658]

In all seriousness though I agree with their stance - they're not taking a particular side on what the outcome of a debate around the GRR should be ... they're lamenting the fact that the SNP have taken a "no debate" stance and sent away academics, professionals and organisations (not just Twitter rabble) with real concerns, with a dismissive wave of the hand. It just generates more distrust and anger.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Humza Yousless instead of appointing a Transport secretary he has appointed a junior transport minister who cannot drive. He has also appointed a minster of independence on £100k a year.

A Cabinet minister – such as Neil Gray – will get £116,759, as Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing, Economy, Fair Work and Energy and what that is i have no clue.

[user104658]

"Independence minister" is a ludicrous appointment tbh.

To be fair though I imagine most Transport stuff related to public transport rather than roads, so "not being able to drive" is potentially a plus. Better to have a minister for public transport who actually uses public transport.

My wife had to take her car in for MOT today and get a bus home ... I think it's going to take her a while to get over the trauma.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Sturgeon AGAIN denies she is a Lesbian

https://images.ctfassets.net/pjshm78m9jt4/256106_header/5936d328423dd45daeae057467220668/importedImage256106_header


Ms Sturgeon yesterday said scurrilous social media gossip had prompted her
to want more anonymity.

In particular, she shot down online claims that she was the proud owner of
an expensive global property portfolio, as well as being a 'secret lesbian'.

In one account often repeated on the internet, users say she engaged in an
extra-marital relationship with a female French diplomat.

Some of the rumours allege the pair bought tennis legend Judy Murray's old
house in Bridge of Allan to use as a secret love nest.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11928779/Nicola-Sturgeon-claims-rumours-personal-life-reason-resigned.html

[user104658]

She's no longer in office so why would her private life be any of anyone else's business?

The "secret property portfolio" sure.

[Crimson Dynamo]

She's no longer in office so why would her private life be any of anyone else's business?

The "secret property portfolio" sure.

she is the current MSP for Glasgow Southside

[user104658]

she is the current MSP for Glasgow Southside

I meant as first minister but tbh either way the question stands; in what way is her sexuality anyone else's business?

[Crimson Dynamo]

I meant as first minister but tbh either way the question stands; in what way is her sexuality anyone else's business?

it isnt i think its the affair aspect of it, however if she was a lesbian it would be pretty crazy to pretend she wasnt and get married to a man etc

[Cherie]

She is possibly bi not sure why she would hide that though

[bots]

i think it's very relevant given her stance on gender reform.

[Crimson Dynamo]

typical SNP extremist

SNP politician had innocent woman investigated for hate crime over bikini wax
mix-up
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2023/04/03/TELEMMGLPICT000331097798_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqMdYdPu_ 9-tJRUiuuV6k4MvEeTFgPXoiyxxl0vFVRUd4.jpeg?imwidth=60 0
nasty


A nationalist MSP caused an innocent woman to be investigated for a hate crime after she wrongly claimed opponents
of Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-ID laws had booked her a “malicious” bikini wax.

Karen Adam, who represents Banffshire and Buchan Coast for the SNP, complained in December that she had been a
victim of abuse and intimidation after she received an unsolicited confirmation for an intimate salon appointment.

She publicly blamed critics of self-ID laws for making a booking “focused on my genitals” at the same time that a
crunch Holyrood debate on the controversial gender laws was due to take place.

However, the Telegraph understands that it took a police probe to find out that the incident was the result of an
innocent mix-up at the Edinburgh salon.

A woman with a very similar name to Ms Adam had tried to make a genuine appointment and the MSP got the
confirmation email, in what police sources confirmed was an “administrative error”.

Critics of Ms Adam said her reaction to receiving the email, which she also wrote about at length in a national
newspaper column, exposed her “absurd persecution complex” and raised doubts over whether she was clever enough
to be an MSP.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/03/snp-politician-karen-adam-hate-crime-gender-laws/

[Mystic Mock]

Sturgeon AGAIN denies she is a Lesbian

https://images.ctfassets.net/pjshm78m9jt4/256106_header/5936d328423dd45daeae057467220668/importedImage256106_header


Ms Sturgeon yesterday said scurrilous social media gossip had prompted her
to want more anonymity.

In particular, she shot down online claims that she was the proud owner of
an expensive global property portfolio, as well as being a 'secret lesbian'.

In one account often repeated on the internet, users say she engaged in an
extra-marital relationship with a female French diplomat.

Some of the rumours allege the pair bought tennis legend Judy Murray's old
house in Bridge of Allan to use as a secret love nest.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11928779/Nicola-Sturgeon-claims-rumours-personal-life-reason-resigned.html

Why does it matter what her sexuality is?:laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Conservative strategists plan to hand Labour a free run at reclaiming its former
urban strongholds while they target rural constituencies

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2023/04/03/TELEMMGLPICT000330745669_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqRo0U4xU-30oDveS4pXV-Vv4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.jpeg?imwidth=500

Humza Yousaf faces a Unionist pincer movement at the next general election,
under Scottish Tory plans to relentlessly target rural voters while handing
Labour a free run at reclaiming its former urban strongholds.

“We think it’s wrong to say that only Labour will benefit from the turmoil in
the SNP,” a Tory source said. “We’re going to hammer the point that we are
the only party that understands rural Scotland and will defend it.

“Seats changing hands between the SNP and Labour in the central belt
doesn’t really concern as, as neither will back a Tory prime minister.

“We’re not going to bust a gut in places we have no chance. Our resources
will be targeted at seats we know we can win.”

A series of Scottish Government policies backed by the Greens, such as new
marine protection areas which will effectively ban fishing, are set to be
relentlessly attacked by the Tories.

Rachael Hamilton, rural affairs spokesman for the Scottish Tories, said: “The
fact that the rural affairs brief was used as a political ploy to force Kate
Forbes to the backbenches tells you all that you need to know about Humza
Yousaf’s interest in rural Scotland.

Encourage unionists to vote Labour
There were reports on Monday that the Tories would encourage Unionist
voters to back Labour in some constituencies in a bid to “end nationalist
dominance”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/03/humza-yousaf-unionists-snp-general-election/

[arista]

Former SNP Chief Executive
Peter Murrell has been arrested
in connection with investigation into funding
and finances of the SNP.

SkyNewsHD Live

[Crimson Dynamo]

Former SNP Chief Executive
Peter Murrell has been arrested
in connection with investigation into funding
and finances of the SNP.

SkyNewsHD Live

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2023/04/05/TELEMMGLPICT000246284701_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq3sT1aW1 9vw4OGrHOGWZBZqNYJg-fn7RynlA0ah_j2k4.jpeg?imwidth=600

[bots]

the cards are all falling down now

[Crimson Dynamo]

the cards are all falling down now

phew just as well wee Nic resigned

that was fortunate!

[bots]

she will have known this was coming down the track for a while

[bots]

it's no small incident ......

There is currently police activity at the couple's home in Glasgow and at SNP headquarters in Edinburgh.

There are 10 uniformed officers stationed outside the former first minister's home, alongside one police vehicle and an incident tent in the front garden.

The curtains and blinds remained drawn and there was no sign of anyone in the property.

Meanwhile, two police officers were posted outside SNP HQ and there were other officers inside.

At least six marked police vehicles were parked outside the building.

An SNP spokesperson said: "Clearly it would not be appropriate to comment on any live police investigation but the SNP have been cooperating fully with this investigation and will continue to do so.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65187823

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2023/04/05/TELEMMGLPICT000331253045_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2Cxn JWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI.jpeg?imwidth= 600

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/murdo_fraser/status/1643546176451387392?s=20

[GoldHeart]

Why can't SNP get a good leader for once .

It's disgusting about the rapist walking free !.

[arista]

Yes Fiddling the Funds
to stay afloat.

He should not Lie about the money
or Lie about the real numbers of the SNP members


Ref: LBC /Times Radio/ SkyNewsHD

[Beso]

Bunch of mugs. Both the snp and its voters.

[Gusto Brunt]

Looks like the cops are doing a Trump on Sturgeon's husband. :D :p

[Oliver_W]

https://twitter.com/murdo_fraser/status/1643546176451387392?s=20

How's that work? Sturgeon isn't married to Yusef ...

[bots]

How's that work? Sturgeon isn't married to Yusef ...

yusef, the corruption continuity candidate is what it would have been

[Crimson Dynamo]

Id imagine thought. If i resign now that will give me enough time to manipulate in Humza Useless before the sh1t hits the fan

all calculated

[Cherie]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2023/04/05/TELEMMGLPICT000331253045_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2Cxn JWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI.jpeg?imwidth= 600

Looks like a murder scene, is wee Nic under the patio

[Cherie]

I mean just wow

[Crimson Dynamo]

Questioning Humza Yousaf’s competence is ‘racist’, says SNP MSP

https://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-ughh.gif

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2023/04/04/TELEMMGLPICT000331186604_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq5yQLQqe H37t50SCyM4-zeGcv5yZLmao6LolmWYJrXns.jpeg?imwidth=500

People who question the competence of Scotland’s new First Minister by
calling him “useless” are racists, an SNP MSP has claimed.

Karen Adam, who loudly backed Humza Yousaf’s successful bid to succeed
Nicola Sturgeon, said that he was already being targeted with “racist tropes”
that were “utterly disgusting”.

However, in her column in the pro-independence newspaper The National, MZ
Adam claimed that the new First Minister had been unfairly criticised since
he announced his leadership bid because of the colour of his skin.

Ms Adam went on to call on “white allies” to “call out” the attacks on Mr
Yousaf, claiming she feared the “misogyny Nicola endured” had “now flipped
to racism towards Humza”.

Opponents insisted that attacks on Mr Yousaf, who was born in Glasgow to
immigrants from Pakistan and Kenya, were based on his performance in
government roles. (YA THINK?)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/04/snp-mp-karen-adam-humza-yousaf-competence-racist/

[user104658]

"He's a useless sand******!!" said Boab, Junkie, 35 from Coatbridge

"That's racist!"

"Pfft what's racist about the word useless?"

[Crimson Dynamo]

"He's a useless sand******!!" said Boab, Junkie, 35 from Coatbridge

"That's racist!"

"Pfft what's racist about the word useless?"

there are no junkies that have ever made it to 35 in Coatbridge

[Cherie]

Nic was seen leaving the house 20 minutes before the police arrived lol

[Crimson Dynamo]

The police are digging up Sturgeons garden. And this woman had the audacity to go on Loose Women laughing it up?

[bots]

you can bet she will be arranging a divorce as we speak

[arista]

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-ccabb284-9f0a-4eba-ae46-41abd4f2adcc.png

[arista]

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-45a0e46b-6750-4508-8bff-2fa59fb6c6c0.jpeg

[arista]

Scottish Journalist Live on GBnewsHD
long newspaper review, this morning

Had Amy Cameron, saying
it's predicted Labour to gain 10 MPs.

The SNP have 45 MP's at this time
Conservatives have 6 MP's
LibDem 4
Alba have 2

Labour have 1
Independent have 1.

https://members.parliament.uk/region/country/scotland

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/05/11/69473711-11941197-According_to_a_new_Redfield_Wilton_Strategies_poll _conducted_at_-a-13_1680692070584.jpg

[Beso]

This is hilarious.

[Crimson Dynamo]

SNP voters 'duped' into backing Humza Yousaf

First Minister election would have ended differently if people had known Peter
Murrell's arrest was imminent, argue Kate Forbes' backers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/05/humza-yousaf-legitimacy-under-attack-duped-backing-snp/

https://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/_media/img/IC4KL6TC0H5RB5WMSU3B.jpg

[Beso]

I bet that sentence handed down to the rapist was planned as a distraction from this.

[bots]

it seems rather convenient that this happened a week after the snp leader election

[Crimson Dynamo]

The arrest comes just weeks before Sir Iain Livingstone, the chief constable of
Police Scotland, is set to retire. Livingstone announced his decision to retire
just eight days after Ms Sturgeon’s resignation


:think:

[arista]

Nicola will now not attend the Climate Change Event
today, as Police are still
outside her property.

He has been released, no charge yet.

[Crimson Dynamo]

From DT comments on the timing of all of this:

"Anyone who does not realise that the whole process has been carefully
coordinated between the Murrells and Police Scotland, must have had their eyes
closed and their fingers in their ears - and I think Yousaf may be one of those
people! The "missing" £600k has been being investigated for the best part of
two years - arrests of senior SNP officials have been on the cards for months -
then it all happens immediately after the surprise resignations of the party
leader, the Chief Exec and the Chief Constable, but giving just enough time for
the Murrells' best pal Yousef to be appointed the new leader. Too many
coincidences"

[bots]

The firm that audits the SNP's finances has resigned, the BBC has learned.

Accountants Johnston Carmichael, which has worked with the party for more than a decade, said the decision was taken after a review of its client portfolio.

By law, the party has until 7 July to present their accounts to the Electoral Commission or face possible sanctions.

It comes after police investigating the party's finances searched the home of former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell - Nicola Sturgeon's husband.

He was arrested on Wednesday and later released without charge.

A spokesperson for the SNP said they were in the process of finding a replacement firm.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65212357

:skull:

[Crimson Dynamo]

SIR – It is worth casting one’s mind back to April 2021, during the pandemic,
when Nicola Sturgeon, as first minister of Scotland, said: “I do think there is a
need for real, proper investigation and real and proper scrutiny around the
swirling of allegations around [Boris] Johnson and the Tory party … It is
genuinely a real stench of sleaze and it is in the public interest that these things
are properly addressed and properly answered.”

Just two years later, these words are more applicable to the SNP (report, April
6).

Richard Allison
Edinburgh

[arista]

"The firm that audits the SNP's finances has resigned"


Yes,
Burn all those dodgy papers
you buggers

[arista]

[The leader of the Scottish Conservatives says
supporters should vote for Labour
at the next election to oust the SNP,
prompting fury among
London-based Tories - that's on the
front of The Sunday Telegraph.]

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-b9c148f0-c9b7-41d9-965d-c3ec8123a528.jpeg

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/09/02/69627517-0-image-m-15_1681005208437.jpg
[Police probing SNP fraud claims have seized
a £110,000 luxury motorhome from
ex-chief executive Peter Murrell's mother's house.
Officers confiscated the state-of-the-art
vehicle from outside 92-year-old
Margaret Murrell's home on
Wednesday morning - 50 miles from the house
in Glasgow where Mr Murrell
lives with his wife Nicola]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11952887/Fraud-police-probing-missing-funds-SNP-seize-motorhome-Nicola-Sturgeons-laws-drive.html


Yes lots of money
spend it wide,
you dirty SNP criminals,

[Cherie]

My God at least we knew Bojo was a liar but he wasn’t a thief and the way she portrayed herself as whiter than white

[bots]

it's a house of cards, the SNP is going to crash and burn

[arista]

Scottish Conservative Leader
Now Live on GBnewsHD


The Only Politics Show on TV today
Guest Presenter Christopher Hope

9:30AM - 11 AM.

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/PortalPictures/april-2023/0904-MATT-PORTAL-WEB-P1.png?imwidth=320

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/AgentP22/status/1644953368828280834?s=20

[Cherie]

https://twitter.com/AgentP22/status/1644953368828280834?s=20

she is as guilty as him where did she think the money came from for the 110,000 motor home stashed at his 94 year olds Moms house, I doubt she was touring in it

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://api.brusselstimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Scotlands-independence-lobby-wants-post-Brexit-referendum.jpg

A furious Nicola Sturgeon ordered the SNP’s ruling body to stop asking
questions about the party’s finances shortly after police started investigating
them, it has been alleged.

Insiders said the then first minister tried to quash questions from the party’s
national executive committee (NEC) about £600,000 that had been raised
from supporters to fight a new independence referendum campaign.

Ms Sturgeon was said to have told the recorded meeting in August 2021, a
month after police launched an investigation: “We don’t need to talk about
the finances. The finances are absolutely fine.”

The Sunday Mail reported that a “raging” Ms Sturgeon warned the NEC
members that raising the issue “was undermining the party” and made clear
“it shouldn’t be discussed”.

Sources also alleged that Peter Murrell, her husband and the SNP’s former
chief executive, was behind the shortened timetable for the party leadership
contest to succeed her.

Although the party has insisted that Lorna Finn, the national secretary, was
in charge of the process, insiders said that Mr Murrell was in “complete
control”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/09/snp-nicola-sturgeon-police-peter-murrell-finances-funds/

[bots]

the SNP are heading for wipe out. Most of us think it should have happened years ago, but what goes round comes around

[arista]

The SNP Auditors
resigned 6months ago.

Yousaf claims he did not know


6 Months no checking the numbers



SkyNews Live

[Cherie]

The stench is getting worse :laugh:

[bots]

its pretty obvious that wee nicky was a part of this and was trying to cover it up for months until it all came crashing down

[Crimson Dynamo]

Still Peter Murrell isnt suspended by the SNP

Had it been anyone else they would have been by now

[Crimson Dynamo]

Trans paedophile praises Nicola Sturgeon’s gender reforms

Katie Dolatowski, who preyed on girls in supermarket toilets, said former FM
was ‘great’ and echoed SNP defences of the controversial bill

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2023/04/11/TELEMMGLPICT000331802563_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqT9UsYpw IZ13hLjh3givJlE8FchWZRD3tSYOiRwPjWDo.jpeg?imwidth= 570

The attacker, who despite being born a boy called Lennon has spent time in
Cornton Vale women’s jail where the rapist Isla Bryson was also initially sent,
expressed dismay when Ms Sturgeon announced her shock resignation in
February.

Under a new identity of Alyanna McKenna, which Dolatowski has been
referred to as in court documents, the 22-year-old wrote: “Nicola was a great
First Minister, it's a shame that people are trying to make out as some evil
person.”

Two days after the former First Minister announced her resignation, Dolatowski tweeted “I will miss Nicola Sturgeon.
It’s a shame she’s leaving”.


The offender also parroted a series of SNP politicians’ defences of the
controversial gender Bill, which was blocked by the UK Government.

Under the alias, Dolatowski also defended the Scottish Prison Service over
the Bryson scandal and backed Humza Yousaf to replace Ms Sturgeon,
branding Kate Forbes a “fake feminist”.

‘I know I’m not a threat to anyone’

Dolatowski also posted online about the issue of trans people using
bathrooms. She wrote on April 1: “I know trans women aren’t a threat if I
use the bathroom.”

Dolatowski said on March 27 “I know I’m not a threat to anyone” and told
those who did not feel safe: “Don’t use public bathrooms.”

In 2018 Dolatowski sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in a Kirkcaldy
supermarket toilet and filmed a 12-year-old girl on the toilet at a separate
supermarket.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/11/katie-dolatowski-trans-paedophile-nicola-sturgeon-gender/

[Crimson Dynamo]

Now it's been revealed that the motorhome was bought as a campaign battle bus for the 2021 spring elections but never used and has sat there for 2 years. What a shower of shambles and lies.

[Cherie]

Now it's been revealed that the motorhome was bought as a campaign battle bus for the 2021 spring elections but never used and has sat there for 2 years. What a shower of shambles and lies.

:joker: so they were going to sleep in it as well

[Cherie]

Trans paedophile praises Nicola Sturgeon’s gender reforms

Katie Dolatowski, who preyed on girls in supermarket toilets, said former FM
was ‘great’ and echoed SNP defences of the controversial bill

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2023/04/11/TELEMMGLPICT000331802563_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqT9UsYpw IZ13hLjh3givJlE8FchWZRD3tSYOiRwPjWDo.jpeg?imwidth= 570

The attacker, who despite being born a boy called Lennon has spent time in
Cornton Vale women’s jail where the rapist Isla Bryson was also initially sent,
expressed dismay when Ms Sturgeon announced her shock resignation in
February.

Under a new identity of Alyanna McKenna, which Dolatowski has been
referred to as in court documents, the 22-year-old wrote: “Nicola was a great
First Minister, it's a shame that people are trying to make out as some evil
person.”

Two days after the former First Minister announced her resignation, Dolatowski tweeted “I will miss Nicola Sturgeon.
It’s a shame she’s leaving”.


The offender also parroted a series of SNP politicians’ defences of the
controversial gender Bill, which was blocked by the UK Government.

Under the alias, Dolatowski also defended the Scottish Prison Service over
the Bryson scandal and backed Humza Yousaf to replace Ms Sturgeon,
branding Kate Forbes a “fake feminist”.

‘I know I’m not a threat to anyone’

Dolatowski also posted online about the issue of trans people using
bathrooms. She wrote on April 1: “I know trans women aren’t a threat if I
use the bathroom.”

Dolatowski said on March 27 “I know I’m not a threat to anyone” and told
those who did not feel safe: “Don’t use public bathrooms.”

In 2018 Dolatowski sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in a Kirkcaldy
supermarket toilet and filmed a 12-year-old girl on the toilet at a separate
supermarket.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/11/katie-dolatowski-trans-paedophile-nicola-sturgeon-gender/


I swear these people just think they need to say things and people will believe them

‘I know I’m not a threat to anyone’

Dolatowski also posted online about the issue of trans people using
bathrooms. She wrote on April 1: “I know trans women aren’t a threat if I
use the bathroom.”

Dolatowski said on March 27 “I know I’m not a threat to anyone” and told
those who did not feel safe: “Don’t use public bathrooms.”

In 2018 Dolatowski sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in a Kirkcaldy
supermarket toilet and filmed a 12-year-old girl on the toilet at a separate
supermarket.


not a threat to anyone aye

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/Douglas4Moray/status/1646485209917931521?s=20

[bots]

Scotland's first minister has said he only discovered the SNP had bought a luxury motorhome after he became party leader.

Humza Yousaf said he was shown a police warrant to seize items from the party, which included the vehicle.

The motorhome was seized from outside a property in Dunfermline last week.

Party sources are reported to have said it was intended to be used as a "campaign battle bus" ahead of the last Holyrood election in 2021.

They told the Daily Record that it would have acted as a "mobile campaign room" if Covid restrictions prevented other forms of mixing, but was never used.

Mr Yousaf was asked during a visit to a Glasgow nursery school when he first learned that the party had bought the Niesmann + Bischoff vehicle, which can retail for more than £100,000.

He replied: "Shortly after I became leader of the party".

The first minister said: "The police of course give us a warrant for items that they are looking to take in their possession.

"I can't go into the detail of that but of course the police have done the responsible thing and I as leader have seen the warrant in terms of the items that they've confiscated, including the motorhome that you referenced."

The Mail on Sunday reported at the weekend that the vehicle had been parked outside the home of Peter Murrell's 92-year-old mother since January 2021. Mr Murrell is married to Nicola Sturgeon, and was until recently the SNP's chief executive.

It was said to have been taken away on the same day that officers searched Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell's home in Glasgow, and the SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh. Mr Murrell was arrested before later being released without charge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65264713

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Pretty convenient, he knew nothing about anything :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Look at the long eye blinks a sure sign of lying. He is riddled with lies in this interview and this absolute immature clown is First Minister. wtaf

tItkrFoM5ak

[user104658]

Look at the long eye blinks a sure sign of lying.

https://i.imgur.com/Fk57NI7.jpg

:joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

And laughing at your own posts

now what can we deduce here??

:skull:

[user104658]

And laughing at your own posts

now what can we deduce here??

:skull:

I was laughing at your post :umm2:. I'm not you, LT.

OR ARE WE?

[Cherie]

Look at the long eye blinks a sure sign of lying. He is riddled with lies in this interview and this absolute immature clown is First Minister. wtaf

tItkrFoM5ak

sleaze.....

[Cherie]

I was laughing at your post :umm2:. I'm not you, LT.

OR ARE WE?

you think a motor home is a battle bus :joker:

[bots]

any business would lease a bus for the period it was required, they would never buy it in advance in case it may be used at some point in the future :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

I was laughing at your post :umm2:. I'm not you, LT.

OR ARE WE?

you posted a pic and laughed at it

busted bro

[bots]

:skull:

iXFGjl1qr1U

[user104658]

you posted a pic and laughed at it

busted bro

No I posted saying "Why is LT acting like pop-psychologist Judy James :joker:" because it was funny that you were doing it, except I used an image instead of typing the first part.

Now it's just gotten silly.

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/17DAC/production/_129380779_telegraph-nc.png.webp

[bots]

SNP treasurer Colin Beattie has been arrested by police investigating the party's finances.

[Crimson Dynamo]

SNP treasurer Colin Beattie has been arrested by police investigating the party's finances.

https://news.sky.com/story/man-71-arrested-by-police-investigating-snp-finances-12859902

you can listen to the story using AI assistance via the link!

[bots]

who in their right mind would give cash to the SNP now

[arista]

SNP treasurer Colin Beattie has been arrested by police investigating the party's finances.


Yes, he Will know which garden
has the £600,000 buried in.........................

[arista]

SNP Yousaf is on all 3 News Channels
Giving his first speech as leader

[Crimson Dynamo]

SNP Yousaf is on all 3 News Channels
Giving his first speech as leader

Whatever this fool says has been totally undermined by the state of his party

[user104658]

I don't think he'll last long at this point, he's too closely linked to those now under scrutiny.

[arista]

I don't think he'll last long at this point, he's too closely linked to those now under scrutiny.


SNP had a emergency meeting
after the arrest this morning.


Yousaf is avoiding questions
he can speak about it, under legal terms

SkyNewsHD Live

[arista]

BBCnewsHD

staying with Holyrood Live

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/512/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2023/4/18/9846cf78-a3c3-4ec3-afc0-db2b2ee49eca.jpg

Meghan Gallacher from the Scottish Conservatives immediately focuses on the "scandal"
engulfing the SNP.

She says: "The SNP is in total meltdown."

The MSP accuses Yousaf of "not doing the right thing" by refusing to suspend his "former
mentors" while the investigation is ongoing.

She accuses Yousaf of being a "continuity first minister" being led by "the extremist
Greens" and she asks if anyone believes he will close the attainment gap.

She welcomes the delay to the Deposit Return Scheme and she asks if the SNP remains
in debt to Peter Murrell and when it intends to repay that loan.

[bots]

they are not going to get anything done because every question in their parliament will be about their finances

[Crimson Dynamo]

they are not going to get anything done because every question in their parliament will be about their finances

yep :laugh:

Scottish Conservative deputy leader Meghan Gallacher told Humza Yousaf to tackle the "scandal" in his party and accused the first minister of "tinkering around with Nicola Sturgeon's failing policy agenda"

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar accused Yousaf of "not running a functioning government"

Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the government is in "total paralysis"

[Cherie]

Nicola is now the only one who has not been arrested :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

her resigning with the "iv no fuel left in the tank" is possibly the biggest ever lie in Scottish Politics

what a collasal deciet

utterly shameful

[bots]

her resigning with the "iv no fuel left in the tank" is possibly the biggest ever lie in Scottish Politics

what a collasal deciet

utterly shameful

are you surprised though? i'm not

[Crimson Dynamo]

are you surprised though? i'm not

an appalling left-wing liar

[arista]

1648626138472755204

[Crimson Dynamo]

On the day that Humza Yousaf delivered his first major speech to the Scottish Parliament
as first minister, the most memorable comment attributed to him was that he does “not
believe” that the SNP is operating in a criminal way. There’s a phrase for the party’s next
election campaign.

:umm2:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/19/im-starting-to-think-this-is-the-end-for-the-snp/

[Oliver_W]

major speech
Major Speech!
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExN2EwYzJlY2Q0ZGM4MjRjZjZmMjFmZGU 3NTI5YTU2MWM0NWU4NjFjMSZjdD1n/rHR8qP1mC5V3G/giphy.gif

[bots]

The SNP "will be in trouble" unless the leadership takes "decisive action" on its internal affairs, former leadership candidate Kate Forbes has warned.

Speaking to the BBC, Ms Forbes said people were watching the SNP "with astonishment" and party finance claims were "mind-blowing".

She said there was "time to sort it out" but "continuity won't cut it".

The SNP has ordered a review of how the party is managed following recent controversy over its finances.

[arista]

SNP Treasurer Colin Beattie

Has Stepped down,
yes go and hide,

[Cherie]

I don't understand why they are all being released without charge.....:suspect:

[bots]

I don't understand why they are all being released without charge.....:suspect:

just pending further investigation. They will be waiting for one of them to break and then the whole thing collapses

[arista]

I don't understand why they are all being released without charge.....:suspect:


I think, they knew of arrests on the way
and all made sure they had a legal answer.


I mean some money spent on that
Battle Buss (Luxury MotorHome)
of course it was parked at his mums.

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/Douglas4Moray/status/1649042474210320387?s=20

[Beso]

Sturgeon in 6 years https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230420/82026173cc692b3a6a1e1ccdf9295437.jpg

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

[bots]

its a pity there are no local or main elections any time soon in Scotland

[Crimson Dynamo]

TRANS MOB AT IT AGAIN

https://twitter.com/ForWomenScot/status/1651567387492204547?s=20

[Crimson Dynamo]

TRANS MOB AT IT AGAIN

https://twitter.com/ForWomenScot/status/1651567387492204547?s=20

https://twitter.com/SexMattersOrg/status/1651635012175896590?s=20

[user104658]

TRANS MOB AT IT AGAIN

https://twitter.com/ForWomenScot/status/1651567387492204547?s=20

Trans lives are not up for DEBATE Yousaf you TERF!!!

[Cherie]

Police are thought to be investigating what happened to funds left to the SNP in supporters' wills, as the probe into the party's finances deepens.

Officers from Police Scotland are looking into £400,000 worth of bequests from recent years, including some which the Electoral Commission (EC) were informed of.

Specialist investigators are looking into exactly how the money left to Scotland's governing party was spent.

It comes after claims of financial mismanagement within the SNP dating back over the last five years.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/snp-crisis-deepens-police-probe-whereabouts-of-400-000-left-in-supporters-wills/ar-AA1aAcmO?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=91f5f25cd41742a891f3053f93cd4e3a&ei=15

[bots]

which of the main culprits will squeal first, because the first one to spill the beans will get off lighter

[Cherie]

We are up to £1million siphoned off now, I am sure that is the tip of the iceberg

Stealing money from dead people who left it in good faith is bottom of the barrel stuff

[arista]

We are up to £1million siphoned off now, I am sure that is the tip of the iceberg

Stealing money from dead people who left it in good faith is bottom of the barrel stuff


Bunch of Criminals

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A249/production/_129654514_canva-2023-05-10t104949.942.jpg.webp

If it wasn’t for bad luck, Humza Yousaf would have no luck. After hobbling over
the line in a brutal SNP leadership election, his tenure was instantly plunged
into chaos by a police probe into the party’s finances.

Now a nightmare poll suggests he is unpopular with both SNP voters and the
general public, and that the party is losing support among those in favour of
independence. Before Sturgeon quit, three-quarters of independence
supporters planned to vote SNP, a figure which is now below two-thirds.
Yousaf’s net favourability (29 per cent) is the same as Rishi Sunak’s, while his
net unfavourability (41 per cent) is just two points behind that of Scottish
Tory leader Douglas Ross.

The poll was commissioned by Scottish public affairs consultancy True North.
Rather awkwardly, True North is headed up by Fergus Mutch, Sturgeon’s
former chief spin doctor, and Geoff Aberdein, who was chief of staff to Alex
Salmond. Appearing today on the Holyrood Sources podcast of which
Aberdein is co-host, Professor Sir John Curtice gave a bracing assessment of
Yousaf’s polling performance:

"The SNP is losing the support of people who believe in
independence. The truth is that we are looking at a situation where a political
institution is in trouble, even though the cause for which it’s in favour isn’t in
trouble… Whatever was Nicola Sturgeon’s intention in resigning as leader she
has created a sequence of events whereby support for the SNP has gone
down."

Sir John Added

"In electing Humza Yousaf the SNP have created political
difficulties for themselves. For good or ill Mr Yousaf is not popular not just
within the wider Scottish public but the supporters. Only 45 per cent of 2019
SNP voters say they think favourably of him and this echoed what the opinion
polls were saying during the course of the leadership contest itself."


If Kate Forbes is working to bring down Humza Yousaf, she’s not doing half as
good a job as Humza Yousaf himself.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-scotland-going-off-humza-yousaf-already/

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/Douglas4Moray/status/1656626262171955204?s=20

[arista]

LT,
is that right you are stuck with him(Yousaf)
Until UK Oct-Nov General Election

[Crimson Dynamo]

LT,
is that right you are stuck with him(Yousaf)
Until UK Oct-Nov General Election

The next election is due to be held on Thursday 7 May, 2026. So if he lasts till then this is the next time we can get rid of him forever.

[arista]

The next election is due to be held on Thursday 7 May, 2026. So if he lasts till then this is the next time we can get rid of him forever.


No Change next year
in the General Election? Oct-Nov 2024


Labour must get more seats in Scotland
to take UK power

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/BBD5/production/_130058084_post.jpg.webp

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/EB19/production/_130058106_herald.jpg.webp

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6DB5/production/_130058082_national.jpg.webp

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15815/production/_130058088_sos.jpg.webp

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/00B9/production/_130058100_sun.jpg.webp

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/4ED9/production/_130058102_sundaymail.png.webp

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/00B9/production/_130058100_sun.jpg.webp

https://scontent.fgla3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/1925353_986827648000783_2481099843504050131_n.jpg? _nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=ba80b0&_nc_aid=0&_nc_ohc=Kz0qb1Bg0hAAX_6Us-R&_nc_ht=scontent.fgla3-1.fna&oh=00_AfAVRLZVgXPA1byB8f0E42ZMqllgq5tmrFtyv69zXfiX MA&oe=64ACEF31

[arista]

Humza is on BBC1HD Laura.


But it was recorded some days ago
Not Live

[Crimson Dynamo]

Nicola Sturgeon arrested amid SNP finances investigation

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2023/06/11/TELEMMGLPICT000337875232_16864905934670_trans_NvBQ zQNjv4BqcCUlY4ecowelYv5R9cM4V0_DGE7IxQQy6D-WbGOM9zo.jpeg?imwidth=600

Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in the investigation into the SNP’s finances, Police Scotland have said.

This is a breaking story. More to follow.

[arista]

Lock Her Up

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/06/11/14/72007911-0-image-m-9_1686491084925.jpg


The Money that Vanished?


SNP Bloody Corrupt
SB

[Crimson Dynamo]

Mr Yousaf defended getting advice from Sturgeon, saying she had been “arguably one
of the best politicians and most impressive politicians Europe has seen over the last
couple of decades”.

[arista]

Mr Yousaf defended getting advice from Sturgeon, saying she had been “arguably one
of the best politicians and most impressive politicians Europe has seen over the last
couple of decades”.


Yes just this morning on BBC1HD Laura
it was recorded yesterday in Scotland, BBC.

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyWKblhX0AIPt8q?format=jpg&name=900x900

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1667890885399379971/a1YPuNZD?format=jpg&name=900x900

[arista]

https://twitter.com/mouldyscone/status/1667901734855876608

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyWSDfDWcAELjfE?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/R1130_/status/1667891193387130882?s=20

[arista]

https://twitter.com/unyieldingalex/status/1667916574815035393

[bots]

:joker:

[Oliver_W]

Is that why she was so desperate to push the gender rubbish- so she could share a cell with a her husband?

[user104658]

Politically it's largely irrevelant; the SNP has already self-combusted.

[arista]

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-1b0e2c02-c5d5-4b1b-9d52-1a10cc575b95.png

[arista]

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-fcaa41db-cdb0-402d-b4c2-0cee89057838.png

[arista]

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-ef410354-269b-4404-91a1-fe45e78a1e8b.png

[arista]

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/lc-images-sky/lcimg-34457cd3-264d-4de1-be22-5169ece6828d.png

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/Iain_L/status/1669361868677296128?s=20

[arista]

Yes Scottish Greens
Breaking the Covid-19 Law.

That should go front Page

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/murdo_fraser/status/1669836052406628352?s=20

[arista]

The one cocky Scottish Labour MP is on Ridge,
He today is going on all channels
Live link from Glasgow.

He is happy to take away the Drilling of oil jobs
but Not for many years

[bots]

Nicola Sturgeon has said she is certain she has done nothing wrong after appearing in public for the first time since her arrest last Sunday.

Scotland's former first minister told journalists she intended to be back in the Scottish Parliament this week.

Ms Sturgeon was questioned for more than seven hours as part of a police investigation into the SNP's finances.

She temporarily moved out of her Glasgow home after being released without charge.


-----------------------------------------

The opposition parties are going to love her return :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Nicola Sturgeon has said she is certain she has done nothing wrong

https://media.tenor.com/9HQUxn9ZC_UAAAAM/the-brady-bunch-marcia-brady.gif

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/murdo_fraser/status/1671160827892883459?s=20

[Cherie]

https://twitter.com/murdo_fraser/status/1671160827892883459?s=20

bloody hell :laugh: bus passing, throw him under it

[bots]

bloody hell :laugh: bus passing, throw him under it

cough cough ... battle bus :laugh:

[arista]

Humza

was just Live
he got down from the Stage
to talk to a Angry Lady

She was shouting too much.


SkyNewsHD then would not go back to him,

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzYXTVuXoAEVtMn?format=jpg&name=900x900

Security Remove Angry Women

[arista]

No Live feed for his speech

Not even on Twitter

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/scotfax/status/1672550058372284417?s=20

[Oliver_W]

Nicola Sturgeon has said she is certain she has done nothing wrong

Well she would say that, wouldn't she.

These politicians, they don't see stealing from the public purse as being "wrong", so of course that rodent thinks she's in the right.

[Cherie]

cough cough ... battle bus :laugh:

:laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1672604597968416769?s=20

[arista]

https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1672888525652467713

[arista]

https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1672889631589670913

[Cherie]

https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1672889631589670913

if its so open and transparent where has the 666,000 gone Humza

[arista]

if its so open and transparent where has the 666,000 gone Humza


He claims that was before him.
Like he has no connection with that Stolen Cash./

[bots]

The SNP's new auditors have flagged up an issue with its accounts, the party has revealed.

Its treasurer said the SNP was still on track to file the necessary paperwork with the Electoral Commission on time.

But he said one "qualification" has been made by the auditors because of missing documents.

The accounts will note that the original records for some cash and cheques had not been retained for the current and prior financial years.

The records relate to membership, donations and raffle income.

The auditors will state in the accounts: "We have been unable to satisfy ourselves by alternative means regarding the completeness of income in respect of the above limitation in scope.

"Consequently we are unable to determine whether any adjustment to income is necessary in the current or prior year and the potential impact on opening reserves accordingly."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66065164

[arista]

[current or prior year and the potential impact on opening reserves accordingly]

Stinking Corruption.

[Deanatlas]

A letter appeared in the Scottish left wing newspapers today, suggesting that a Labor petition offensive aimed at wooing SNP voters has begun. This means that the Labor Party is desperately trying to catch the eye of individuals who have traditionally supported the Scottish National Party (SNP). The development of this continuous thread suggests that there may be important political developments and strategies ahead of the next election. gold whatsapp (http://goldwa.dev)

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/AgentP22/status/1675471470133223425?s=20

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/AgentP22/status/1675946115051450381?s=20

[arista]

Protest In Scotland
against the King.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0Q7PtkXgAAmg7A?format=jpg&name=900x900

From this Tweet
https://twitter.com/RepublicStaff/status/1676530108964667393

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/07/05/16/72884017-0-image-m-3_1688572705297.jpg

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0V-0tsWwAIg58L?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/STVNews/status/1676939547370815489?s=20

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/BBCScotlandNews/status/1677263492414418947?s=20

[user104658]

Drug possession for personal use effectively already is legal. Obviously possession of "dealer amounts" shouldn't be legal.

[Cherie]

https://twitter.com/BBCScotlandNews/status/1677263492414418947?s=20

Isn't it the drug death capital of the world (Glasgow) :facepalm:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Isn't it the drug death capital of the world (Glasgow) :facepalm:

Does Scotland have a drug crisis?


Scottish mortality rates to drug misuse and related deaths are the highest in
Europe, and higher then the United States. This rate is 3.5 times higher than
England and Wales.

[user104658]

Isn't it the drug death capital of the world (Glasgow) :facepalm:

Criminalising the users only exacerbates the issues (this is proven), the focus needs to be on the dealers (as in the high-profit, high-level drug trade, not the local corner dealer who are ten a penny) and also on the socioeconomic factors contributing to "junkie culture".

Arresting or charging a heroin addict for heroin possession is a complete waste of time and resources. It achieves literally nothing.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Criminalising the users only exacerbates the issues (this is proven), the focus needs to be on the dealers (as in the high-profit, high-level drug trade, not the local corner dealer who are ten a penny) and also on the socioeconomic factors contributing to "junkie culture".

Arresting or charging a heroin addict for heroin possession is a complete waste of time and resources. It achieves literally nothing.

hopefully the police know who the junkies are and dont arrest them - im pretty sure that goes on

[user104658]

hopefully the police know who the junkies are and dont arrest them - im pretty sure that goes on

It does and that's what I meant on the other page - possession already basically is decriminalised. Police aren't going to arrest someone carrying a "little bit" of any class A drug that's clearly for them to use themselves. If they're carrying a sack of it and obviously intending to supply/sell then yes.

Even then though I still say the resources should be going towards tackling it properly at the top level - the big distributors in the cities, the van-loads being ferried out to other towns. Or better yet... the boats before it even gets into the country, because it's not being grown in a Glasgow high-rise.

And again of course, happy kids from happy homes don't end up on smack. So there's that.

[Crimson Dynamo]

It does and that's what I meant on the other page - possession already basically is decriminalised. Police aren't going to arrest someone carrying a "little bit" of any class A drug that's clearly for them to use themselves. If they're carrying a sack of it and obviously intending to supply/sell then yes.

Even then though I still say the resources should be going towards tackling it properly at the top level - the big distributors in the cities, the van-loads being ferried out to other towns. Or better yet... the boats before it even gets into the country, because it's not being grown in a Glasgow high-rise.

And again of course, happy kids from happy homes don't end up on smack. So there's that.

we cant stop boats of humans coming over from France in broad daylight!

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/murdo_fraser/status/1677224379522985984?s=20

[user104658]

The tweet is disingenuous with current events in looking at these as "pro and anti UK votes" ... it currently can't be taken as that at all. I for example still broadly and ideologically support Scottish independence. I can't currently in good conscience vote SNP.

[Cherie]

Nicola Sturgeon has been slammed for expensing a gratuitous farewell tour after she announced her intention to resign as First Minister of Scotland.

Following her surprise announcement, which came just weeks before it emerged the Scottish police fraud squad was investigating the SNP, Ms Sturgeon embarked on a goodbye tour of TV studios, including Loose Women.

It has now emerged Ms Sturgeon billed the taxpayer both for a business class flight and a hotel room costing more than £500 per night.

The luxury trip was booked despite rules saying ministers must make "cost-effective travel arrangements" and must be "consistent with ministers' commitment to reduce emissions".

That same night, one of Ms Sturgeon's ministers also paid a visit to London but managed to find accommodation for less than a fifth the price of his boss's £515 room.

Scottish Tory MSP Annie Wells said taxpayers will find the revelations "utterly galling".

She said: "The former First Minister should have set an example and kept costs of her trip - which included another visit to appear on Loose Women - to a minimum.

"The fact that she also thought it appropriate to take a short and costly business class flight to London also flies in the face of her repeatedly asking the Scottish public to do their bit to tackle the climate emergency while in high office."

The Taxpayers' Alliance's Jonathan Eida said: "Brits who are having to scrimp and save will not look kindly this flight of fancy".

The Express

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1681734824610897922?s=20

[arista]

Yes, that is a Great deal of Good tree's
going to waste

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/BBCScotlandNews/status/1686809480741199872?s=20

[arista]

[Robin Harper quits Scottish Greens as party has 'lost the plot']

Yes,
LT does not look Good for SNP/Green coalition

[Cherie]

Has wee Nic and her dodgy hubby been charged yet?


Its all gone oooh so quiet

[Crimson Dynamo]

cant even tell the basics of truth

this is what is fundamentally wrong - he knows and she knows what she is saying is simply untrue

hag

https://twitter.com/alimacno/status/1686837948308676608?s=20

[arista]

Angus MacNeil: SNP MP announces expulsion
from party after chief whip row

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7EBB/production/_123834423_043157639.jpg.webp


[MP Angus MacNeil has announced
he has been expelled from the SNP after
he was suspended from its
Westminster group last month.

The Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles) MP
had been suspended after reportedly clashing
with party chief whip Brendan O'Hara.
The SNP conduct committee met on
Thursday after he refused to rejoin
the group at the end of his suspension.

The BBC has approached the
SNP for comment on Mr MacNeil's
announcement.]

[arista]

This is back in 2017 Feb

https://scontent-man2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/16601826_10208701472835232_1702124063900695902_o.j pg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=WAH_BfqZ3ygAX-1k7rg&_nc_ht=scontent-man2-1.xx&oh=00_AfDWrrHDtehGBnWF5TdH2EkwwDN6NE0gpLVOdZcbLLAw lg&oe=6507FB47

[arista]

[Now Survation Polling says this:

SNP – 37%
Scottish Labour – 35%
Conservatives – 17%
LibDems – 6%]

https://order-order.com/2023/08/23/labour-and-snp-neck-and-neck-in-scotland-according-to-survation/

[Crimson Dynamo]

[Now Survation Polling says this:

SNP – 37%
Scottish Labour – 35%
Conservatives – 17%
LibDems – 6%]

https://order-order.com/2023/08/23/labour-and-snp-neck-and-neck-in-scotland-according-to-survation/

The poll results come just over a month before what’s seen as a crucial by-
election in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, on the outskirts of Glasgow. But as
one veteran nationalist said: “Folks sense that the skids are under the SNP.”

Labour is pouring activists into the battle, with almost 200 taking part
recently in a mass canvass. Starmer has visited twice, sharing a platform
with Anas Sarwar, his Scottish leader, and a series of shadow cabinet
members will be campaigning there shortly. Former senior party strategist
and spin maestro Peter, now Lord, Mandelson, has also made the trip north.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/23/the-snp-is-facing-electoral-armageddon/

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://twitter.com/ScotTories/status/1695096971176862001?s=20

[Crimson Dynamo]

1704071462422827343?s=20

[Cherie]

Any news on the missing 600k

[Crimson Dynamo]

Any news on the missing 600k

nope

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

just a nasty piece of work

1709893860170609082?s=20

[bots]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

1712380462591529438

:hehe:

[bots]

:hehe:

I never thought i would see the day when east kilbride had a tory mp :laugh:

[joeysteele]

Well she best now get prepared for life as to NOT being an MP at the next election.
Bizarre move.

[Livia]

SNP... Conservatives... Labour. They're all bloody useless.

[OnTheRight]

The Union we shall maintain.

[The Slim Reaper]

1712380462591529438

Imagine boarding the titanic after it hit the iceberg.

[bots]

it's one of the most bizarre switches

[arista]

SNP leader
at his conference

Talking to Victoria

He wants a New Policy
Referendum,
After a General Election?

[Humza Yousaf will attempt to “draw a line”
under the SNP’s independence policy at
this weekend’s party conference after a
failure to address concerns over the
cost of living crisis was blamed for its defeat
in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West byelection.

The conference opens on Sunday with a crucial debate
on Yousaf’s proposals to seek a mandate
at the next general election to open
independence negotiations with Westminster,
which has already attracted widespread
criticism from senior party figures.]


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/13/humza-yousaf-says-he-aims-to-revitalise-reeling-snp-at-party-conference

[Crimson Dynamo]

SNP leader
at his conference

Talking to Victoria

He wants a New Policy
Referendum,
After a General Election?

[Humza Yousaf will attempt to “draw a line”
under the SNP’s independence policy at
this weekend’s party conference after a
failure to address concerns over the
cost of living crisis was blamed for its defeat
in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West byelection.

The conference opens on Sunday with a crucial debate
on Yousaf’s proposals to seek a mandate
at the next general election to open
independence negotiations with Westminster,
which has already attracted widespread
criticism from senior party figures.]


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/13/humza-yousaf-says-he-aims-to-revitalise-reeling-snp-at-party-conference

Im amazed he wasnt at one of the despicable "pro-terrorism" marches

becuase that is where his heart really lies

[Crimson Dynamo]

Speakers scheduled to appear at a pro-Palestinian event at the SNP conference
blamed Israel for Hamas terrorism and described last weekend’s attacks as a
“dream coming true”.

The party’s leadership was urged to block the appearance of the two guests on
an “expert panel” for a fringe event, organised by the SNP Friends of Palestine
group, over the “deeply inflammatory” remarks.

:facepalm:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/13/snp-conference-speaker-hamas-attacks-dream-coming-true/

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F71VxcNXAAATZkv?format=jpg&name=900x900

[arista]

BBC2HD Live is doing a Conference Special

For the SNP.


Because of the Israel War
it is not Simulcast.


So One
channel for the SNP speech in around 10 mins


The Scottish Reporter up in
Scotland just it is a low-key event.

[Oliver_W]

SNP rejects using next election as 'de facto' referendum on independence

The SNP will not use the next general election as a de facto independence referendum, in a shift away from the strategy employed by Nicola Sturgeon.

Humza Yousaf, the SNP's current leader and the first minister of Scotland, backed the switch away from his predecessor's position.

He said using the next general election as a de facto referendum for independence is the "wrong approach" to take.

https://news.sky.com/story/snp-rejects-using-next-election-as-de-facto-referendum-on-independence-12984943#:~:text=The%20decision%20to%20not%20use,t he%20SNP%20under%20Nicola%20Sturgeon.&text=The%20SNP%20will%20not%20use,strategy%20emplo yed%20by%20Nicola%20Sturgeon.

:joker:

So when they had the semblance of credibility, the elections were a de-facto referendum. Not they haven't, they aren't.

Coincidence, I'm sure.

[arista]

The Leader of the SNP
now live on BBC2HD

And the News Channels

[arista]

Orkney Islands Council
demands £500Million
to stay in the UK.

James Stockan
the council Leader wants a Ambassador
up there...................


Can Bog Off.



Debated on 1st show Ch5HD AM
Paper Review.


Today's Telegraph

[arista]

https://twitter.com/Savanta_UK/status/1714297615276245067

[Z]

I struggle to name anything tangible that the SNP have delivered in recent years, I think it's time they go. I don't know who I'd vote to replace them but they've just settled into this fairly meaningless centre ground where Nicola Sturgeon's main accomplishment and purpose was to deliver zippy zingers about Westminster politicians, which was entertaining but she could do that on a late night comedy panel show. Humza Yousaf... has inherited the leadership and there's no platform to speak of. I'd be stunned if they are re-elected.

[arista]

Yes Z

Humza Useless

[arista]

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1718037423278444908

[arista]

[Former SNP leadership candidate
Ash Regan defects to Alba party]

[Alba said her decision came after
increasing disillusionment with the SNP's leadership
and its "wavering commitment" to
Scottish independence.
Ms Regan, 49, was elected as SNP MSP
for Edinburgh Eastern
at the last election and becomes
the Alba party's first representative
at Holyrood.]

[She came third in the SNP leadership contest
won by Humza Yousaf in March.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67248844

[Crimson Dynamo]

1718964825638760555?s=20

[user104658]

:joker:

So when they had the semblance of credibility, the elections were a de-facto referendum. Not they haven't, they aren't.

Coincidence, I'm sure.

I think you can assume that anyone who votes SNP is vaguely pro-independence... however, the inverse isn't true - you can't assume that everyone who is pro-independence will vote SNP. And for various reasons (not in any way related to the independence debate) the number of pro-indy Scots who can stomach voting SNP is reducing.

This stance from them... just proves that they know it.

I'm still more or less pro-indy (although I think it now matters less than it did - we missed the boat timings wise) however I find it very difficult to mark the SNP box these days.

[bots]

What they really need to do is move independence away from politics to gain traction, but of course, that's just not possible

[user104658]

What they really need to do is move independence away from politics to gain traction, but of course, that's just not possible

At least away from party-politics, but as you say it's impossible. It's too tied up with espatblished politics, class, royalty, sectarianism... all sorts of complex things outside of all it should be about (economic viability/prosperity).

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

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[bots]

1720158486699339854
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