British Politics

Rayner bought some headphones for £200. That's a real misuse of public funds.

 

Looks like reports of the death of the SNP and Wee Nicola may have been somewhat premature!

 

Brilliant!

The Tories and British MSM go all out to batter the SNP into submission and fùck up their Scottish elections chances!

The Scottish people's response, over 5000 sign up to SNP membership in 24 hours!

You got to love us Jocks when it comes to saying fùck you Tory cùnts!

 

The indy juggernaut is building pace guise. It's looking increasingly unstoppable. McHaggis bashers no longer fall for the establishment shìthousery.

Choccy Al Ba!

 

It's a bit of a miss match( see what I did there) Ruth the **** seldom lays a glove on Tricky Nicki.

 

I see. So Wee Nicky would win in a mud wrestling match?

 

Well I don't know about that Lord Ruth is a Tory and well versed in the art of mud. Slinging or otherwise.

 

Not yer average Tory though tbf. Hates Boris allegedly, although they probably all do that.

 

Didne mind him when he was giving her a gravy train seat in the Lords though eh.

 

Here ye go Archie. The transcript of Sturgeon's reply to Davidson in todays FMQs. Judge for yourself.


First Minister Nicola Sturgeon:
In response to RD...
"I answered questions for 8 hours on this yesterday. I answered every question that was put to me. Presiding Officer, I intend to rest on that to allow both the Committee, and the inquiry on the Ministerial Code, to conclude their work.
In the meantime, I'm going to get on with the job I suspect most people watching at home right now want me to get on with, which is leading this country through and out of a pandemic and I'll leave Ruth Davidson and the Conservatives to play the political games they seem to prioritise over everything else.
I agree that Ruth Davidson has not forgotten the women at the heart of this, because I don't think Ruth Davidson ever remembered the women at the heart of this.
Ruth Davidson says that she's not playing political games.
I beg to differ.
I think we saw the true colours of the Conservatives yesterday.
First of all, on Tuesday night, they said this. I don't know if Ruth Davidson approved this comment or not but the Conservatives said, in terms, that it did not matter what I said before a Parliamentary Committee yesterday because they had already made up their minds.
It's not about due process. It's political desperation on the part of the Conservatives.
But, Presiding Officer, I think we also had a glimpse of some of the values at play with the Conservatives yesterday.
Because, during that committee session, one of the Tory members on it seemed to be suggesting that I should've intervened in the process to effectively sweep the allegations against Mr Salmond under the carpet.
And then the other Conservative member asks me to apologise for the inappropriate behaviour of a man.
So there we have the Tories, I think, demonstrating without any help from me, that they are indeed playing political games.
While they do that, I say again - 8 hours of evidence to a committee. It's time to allow the committee, and the independent inquiry into the Ministerial Code, to do their job.
And in the meantime, I'm going to get on with my job, of leading this country through Covid and out of lockdown
If I can try to strike a note of consensus, because I do believe in the importance of this democratic institution.
By the time I sit down after this session of First Minister's Questions today, I will have been subjected, rightly and properly, to 10 hours of Parliamentary scrutiny over the course of this week. That's me doing my job in discharging my responsibilities.
But can I gently point out to Ruth Davidson that this democratic institution that she extols the virtues of is the same democratic institution that she is about to depart to take up a seat in the unelected House of Lords.
I think people across this country are becoming heartily sick of the soon-to-be Baroness Davidson lecturing anybody else on democracy.
Ruth Davidson has just shown her true colours, and the Conservatives' true colours, all over again.
She stands up here and says scrutiny, and democracy, and due process is really important.
Just as on Tuesday night, the Conservatives pre-judge my evidence to the Parliamentary inquiry, she's just pre-judged the outcome of the independent inquiry into the Ministerial Code.
The people of Scotland have been voting no confidence in the Conservatives since the 1950s.
I will, in a few weeks, subject myself to the ultimate scrutiny - the scrutiny and the verdict of the people of Scotland. The verdict that matters most.
And as I do so, Ruth Davidson will be slinking off to the House of Lords."
#FMQs

 

Stick massive taxes on landlords might raise a few quid and do us all a favour re property prices. Couldn’t see the point in temporarily scrapping stamp duty to keep the property price bubble going up.

 

Great idea. Then they can stick up their extortionate rents up even more and housing benefits and/or evictions will follow suit.

 

As someone on the front line we’ve had to make all manner of changes to satisfy sending parcels to the EU despite the fact we’ve been sending out to USA, China, Japan, Australia, Russia and pretty much every country in the world without any problems for years. They are being deliberately awkward and using oirland as a pawn in their punishment game. This latest bollox is about stopping groceries being delivered to Tesco’s ffs.

 

I don’t see it playing out that way.

 

Derp

 

The EU is a dictatorship and they have been caught with their pants down spunking all over it's member states.

The DERPU effectively.

 

That's bollox of the highest order. Tubs de Pfeffel signed up to a deal that he apparently either did not read, or more likely, did not understand. Now he regrets having agreed to something that has brought unforeseen consequences. It's no use blaming the EU for something we signed up to freely. Blame those nincompoops who signed the deal.

 

Really! So think Landlords will take the hit?

I have some magic beans here you might like to purchase!

 

Yes make renting out less attractive through hiking up taxes in a big way. Of course you can rid the market of landlords, as an example consider a landlord renting out a property at £1k/month and paying 0% tax, which they manage to do by claiming so much on expenses. Tax them at 90%. They'd have to put the rent up to £10k/month to make the same income which is not feasible. A small £100 profit on a property that needs repairs every once in a while: not worth it.