April 25, 2022
As the parties hit the campaign trail for May's local council election, Labour and Conservative were polling closely together. One poll suggested Labour had the edge on 23% of the vote, against 18% for the Tories, and 44% for the SNP. In other words, even combined they wouldn't beat the SNP.
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April 18, 2022
As it was announced that both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were amongst those given £50 spot fines for partygate breaches of lockdown rules, the UK government, under the guiding hand of Home Secretary Priti Patel, launched a scheme to process asylum seekers by sending them off to Rwanda. Meanwhile the tories' Scottish branch manager Douglas Ross, who had called for Johnson's resignation then withdrew it, squirmed when asked if he would support him into the next general election.
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April 11, 2022
Serial loon George Galloway, whose Twitter profile contained a link to Russian state-funded TV show @RT_sputnik, was furious to find Twitter tagged his account with a "Russian state-affiliated media" badge and threatened to sue. See also: 'Dundee Fruitcake'.
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April 3, 2022
Andrew Neil fell for a rather lame April Fool on Twitter, trolling the French president with an image of three warships, two supposedly British and one French, with the French one significantly smaller. Also on April 1st, the energy price cap rose meaning average household gas and electricity bills were set to rise by 54%. Some reported prices trebling.
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March 27, 2022
Chancellor Rishi Sunak - a millionaire married to a billionaire - found himself presiding over the worst cost of living crisis in 70 years. Following his horribly received spring budget he staged a couple of ill-advised PR photo ops. He was photographed filling up a Kia at a Sainsbury's petrol pump (the car turned out to belong to a Sainsbury's employee), and in a grocery store he didn't appear to know how contactless payments work. Also when quizzed about the price of bread he said he has "a whole range of breads" in his house.
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March 21, 2022
P&O Ferries, emboldened by the lack of workers' rights post-brexit and the government's failure to support a 'fire and rehire' bill that would have outlawed such practices, sacked 800 British workers via a pre-recorded video and replaced them with cheaper agency workers. The message included the line, "Your final day of employment is today.” Meanwhile at the Scottish Conservative conference Stephen Kerr MSP had an embarrassing dental malfunction.
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March 14, 2022
Having called for Boris Johnson's resignation, Douglas Ross then withdrew it in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. MSP Murdo Fraser said he fully supported the letter of no confidence, then said withdrawing it was "the right move".
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March 7, 2022
Just ahead of Scottish Labour's spring conference it was reported that Henry Dunbar, the former Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland, would be standing for the party in local elections.
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February 28, 2022
These were comments made in the days immediately prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. George Galloway: "Y'all said Russia was about to invade Ukraine. I told you it wasn't. You were wrong. I was right. Again." Nigel Farage: "Putin doesn't want to invade Ukraine, he's trying to frighten the west." Boris Johnson: "The old concepts of fighting big tank battles on European land mass are over."
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February 21, 2022
As England began to lift pretty much all covid restrictions, Boris Johnson was set to announce a “living safely with Covid” plan, which was expected to have major repercussions for public health across the country.
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