Not sure how they can sue the Government and expect to win. As at the end of the day Parliament is the highest court.
Labour are crowing about their landslide victory in Rotherglen and Hamilton West but the turnout was low and they actually won big because of tactical voting as Conservative voters wanted to bloody the SNP’s nose while SNP voters stayed home. Will the result be replicated across Scotland in a General Election? That would wipe out Humza Yousaf’s Party at Westminster. When Tony Blair brought about devolution, he knew what his Party was doing. In Wales, the Nationalist vote for Plaid Cymru was never going to challenge Labour, so people in Wales have been subjected to failure in perpetuity. In Scotland, Labour initially held sway but the Nationalists built their way up to a borderline majority, although currently the SNP need to be propped up by the hard Left Greens. If the SNP vote collapses at the next Holyrood election then Scotland will be back to Labour failure. Perhaps the SNP should get rid of Yousaf now that he has been on the cover of Time magazine.
It's a bit mean calling pie(noguts) link to a report of over 1,000 pages 'long boring bits', especially when like pie(noguts) they clearly haven't read it. Why do the dopey ****s keep doing it to themselves.
It is difficult to see what grounds the tobacco industry can have for litigation given that all the government proposes to do is change the minimum age. As the law is virtually unenforced as the police pick and choose what laws to enforce these days, this is just a hollow soundbite that Labour are annoyed they did not think of first.
Yeah mate all those Tories voting Labour obviously. By-elections almost always have low turnouts and the sort of old gits who still somehow vote Tory are more likely than other groups to bother. 1200 votes out of over 30,000 in an electorate of about 80,000 doesn’t bode well. They’ll be on less than Garry Cooke who managed six votes soon.
The rush to EVs has resulted in a series lack of joined up thinking. The huge batteries that EVs have make the cars a lot heavier. They will all make vans a lot heavier. Can anyone remember word of any study being conducted that has determined how many bridges are going to need reinforcing to handle all this extra weight? And what about those old multi-storey car parks? As yet there has been no word on when the National Grid is going to be massively upgraded to get all this free electricity from the North Sea wind turbines to the parts of the country where people live; and who is going to pay for it. When the wind does not blow there is supposedly going to be no oil and gas so the lights go out. As it is the wind turbine operators get paid to not put free electricity into the Grid when supply exceeds demand because there is no effective way to store the free electricity (yet).
There have been studies into individual car parks, and most of the older ones have shown serious issues associated with the increased weight of EV's.
Supposedly your average EV will go five or six hundred miles between charges. If you let the battery run flat enough that you need to stop at motorway services then you should have planned your journey better and you are going to get fleeced by the tax man – the VAT at the motorway services will be 20 per cent. VAT on domestic energy bills is only 5 per cent. Of course you might be forced to charge your EV somewhere miles from home because the alternative, if you live in an old terraced house street for example, will be to dangle a power cable out the window across the pavement to your car. There is an old boy living a couple of streets from me that has a Mercedes EV and he parks in his allotted parking space and runs the cable out from his ground floor flat through the communal building door to the car, so nobody needs the security pin code to access the building while he is charging. I bet his neighbours are ecstatic.
The bulk won't come close to achieving that distance on a motorway in winter. Wait until the ambulance chasers have someone trip over the wire. They're also liable to be in breach of electrical safety regs too.
I think Lieutenant Commander Bill Boaks is the record holder with 5 votes in Glasgow Hillhead in 1982.
Wow name calling from the only self proclaimed adult in the room and yet he wants to be taken seriously. Again showing what a gift he is
There is an unspoken reality about this by-election that Labour think people are too stupid to spot. During the campaign, Labour sent half the Shadow Cabinet, various famous Labour Lords and other people up to knock on doors to get the Labour vote out. That will not happen at the next General Election, so Mr Shanks will probably be handing the seat back to the incompetent SNP. The only way that Labour is going to win big in Scotland is if the borderline independence voters wake up to the total pointlessness of the SNP at Westminster and decide to go back to the incompetent Labour Party for which they used to vote. Scotland will still be run by the SNP MSPs at Holyrood but the United Kingdom that they want to leave will be run by Labour not the Conservatives.
Gutless carries on his fantasy about self proclamations I'm alleged to have made (despite never having done so) yet avoids adding some of his own considered detail to tory link he's relied on so much. Probably the wisest thing the ****wit has ever done.
