August 28, 2023
Labour MSP Jackie Baillie managed the unthinkable by turning the case of English serial killer nurse Lucy Letby into an 'SNP bad' story. “There are parallels between the Lucy Letby case and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow," she wrote. No, I have no idea either.
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August 21, 2023
Former Labour branch manager Kezia Dugdale admitted she ‘couldn’t argue with the same strength for the Union that I did in 2014’. The news was reported in the English press but in Scotland the response was total silence. Meanwhile Keir Starmer's Scottish visit received wall to wall coverage.
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August 14, 2023
Home Secretary Suella Braverman's plan to reduce the cost of asylum accommodation includes housing 500 asylum seekers in the 222-cabin Bibby Stockholm, berthed at Portland in Dorset. This week 39 people were removed from the barge after Legionnaires' Disease was detected in its water system.
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August 7, 2023
Protesting Rishi Sunak's pledge to ‘max out’ UK oil and gas reserves, Greenpeace activists scaled the walls of his Yorkshire mansion and draped black fabric over it.
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July 31, 2023
Labour peer Lord Foulkes said the UK "was never meant to be a Union of equal partners. That is a myth that has been put around by the SNP." You'd have to ask George what he meant by the latter statement. As to the former, we already knew this but it's unusual to hear unionists admit it. Tory MSP Murdo Fraser was asked what he made of the comments and, well, he didn't try to contradict Foulkes.
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July 24, 2023
There were three English byelections this week. Labour, Conservative and LibDem took one each. At the North Yorkshire count, the Labour victor, 25-year-old Keir Mather, was photobombed beautifully by the Monster Raving Loony candidate who had a ventriloquist dummy mouth the words to his acceptance speech. Additionally, Count Binface stood in Boris Johnson's former seat, Uxbridge and South Ruislip.
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July 17, 2023
It was reported that King Charles banned his brother Prince Andrew from staying at Balmoral Castle for his usual two-week summer break. Charles suggested he stay at the four-bedroom Frogmore Cottage nearby, which was the former home of Prince Harry and Meghan.
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July 10, 2023
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick ordered the removal of cartoon character murals from an asylum centre for children because he considered them too welcoming.
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July 3, 2023
Nigel Farage reported that he had been blacklisted by UK banks. He blamed it on "serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system" and suggested he would consider leaving Britain. Most of us just laughed.
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June 26, 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made a speech in front of a group of unimpressed Ikea employees. Can't remember what he said. It's not important.
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