July 5, 2020
Scottish Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser demanded that the First Minister's daily Covid-19 briefings stop, claiming they were party political broadcasts. Meanwhile, the rather more shambolic Westminster briefings had stopped, with Downing Street promsing they would return in the autumn fronted by an experienced broadcaster.
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June 28, 2020
The six Scottish Conservative MPs were among 331 Westminster politicians who voted against a motion that would have led to weekly testing of NHS workers and care staff. One of those politicians was Jeremy Hunt, who had just written a newspaper column calling for that very thing. Meanwhile, Keir Starmer doubled down on his Scottish branch's opposition to a second independence referendum.
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June 21, 2020
Boris Johnson wanted the aircraft that he and senior members of the royal family use to be "rebranded" red, white and blue in order to “better represent” the country when the aircraft travels internationally. The paint job would cost the taxpayer around £900,000.
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June 13, 2020
As part of the 'Black Lives Matter' protests, statues around the world were toppled or defaced. In London, police clashed with far-right, anti-BLM demonstrators who said they were out to protect a statue of Winston Churchill.
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June 7, 2020
Lord Digby Jones - a *Labour* peer - proposed building a new £100m Royal Yacht Britannia to ‘boost morale’ in the UK. Meanwhile back on planet earth, there was a growing sense that Westminster policy was being made up on the fly and that the whole edifice of society could start to crumble at any time.
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May 31, 2020
More than a week after the Prime Minister's top adviser was found to have breached the government's own lockdown rules, and despite no let-up in calls for his resignation, Dominic Cummings was still in the job.
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May 24, 2020
Prince Charles appealed to furloughed workers to pick fruit; Dominic Cummings travelled 260 miles during lockdown while suffering with covid-19; BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg defended his actions; Ruth Davidson continued to crave attention. A bumper week for buffoonery.
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May 17, 2020
Conservatives, fearing that their leader was struggling in the virtual parliament without the usual braying support behind him, called for the early return to parliament of all MPs. In this strip, the PM buckles under the simplest question, while Corky, self-appointed adviser to Keir Starmer, sneakily makes his way up the green benches.
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May 10, 2020
The Westminster government discarded its "stay at home" slogan, replacing it with "stay alert", to much amusement. Scotland did not follow suit. Meanwhile, Queen guitarist Brian May was hospitalised after tearing muscles in his buttocks whilst gardening.
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May 4, 2020
Priti Patel gets her numbers wrong, David Mundell and Jackson Carlaw don't believe there is a border between Scotland and England, Murdo Fraser thinks Scotland voted for Brexit, and Piers Morgan talks sense. Confuddling times indeed.
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