June 24, 2018
Several points this week: Douglas Ross MP said "if Scotland decides to leave the UK and they decide to be part of the EU..." *THEY*. Ross Thomson MP called for a return to the "great legacy of Thatcher". Miles Briggs MSP seemed confused about the relative levels of NHS spending north and south of the border. And Labour councillor Alex Gallagher accused a journalist who wrote a complimentary piece about the SNP of not being a "true Scot". All good stuff.
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June 17, 2018
A week that lifted the lid on Westminster's openly sneering and imperious attitude towards Scotland.
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June 9, 2018
Various tales of Tory buffoonery combined in this strip. Boris Johnson called for more "guts" in Brexit talks and mused about how the Donald might handle them. David Davis threatened to resign. Again. Murdo Fraser and Ross Thomson continued to be divots.
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June 2, 2018
Self-important Scottish branch manager of the Conservatives continues to have no ideological commitments other no second referendum and vote for Ruth Davidson. Meanwhile James Kelly MSP interpreted the words of Lord Bracadale on the OBFA scrapping - "there is a gap in the law" - as "there is no gap in the law".
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May 26, 2018
The unionist response to the SNP's Sustainable Growth Commission bordered on hysteria but there were also unmistakable signs of our old friend the Scottish Cringe. Kenny Farquharson from the Times noted that the £4100 boost for every Scot that the commission outlined would be "Scottish pounds" and that this was "bad news" - implying that a Scottish pound would never fare as well as post-brexit rUK sterling.
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May 20, 2018
The main role of the Scottish Secretary is to "promote and protect the devolution settlement". When Holyrood voted to refuse consent on Westminster's Brexit Bill, David Mundell could give no guarantee that his Westminster bosses would not simply overrule the vote.
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May 13, 2018
“I felt the SNP and Nicola – when she was at the peak of her popularity – could have done more in England to convince people to stay in the EU," said Labour's former Scottish branch manager, Kezia Dugdale. Meanwhile, the jesting of William Rennie continued in Holyrood.
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May 6, 2018
While the opposition and the useless Scottish press continued to obsess over baby boxes (The Sun actually set one alight - shock result: cardboard burns) David Mundell's Scotland Office had a sneaky change of name. It's now called UK Government Scotland just to be sure we know who's in charge.
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April 29, 2018
The government's proposed amendment to the Scotland Act was described as a "rapist's theory of consent" by a prominent QC. In effect it means a) yes is consent b) no is consent c) silence is content. Sensibly, Holyrood rejected it.
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April 22, 2018
Flushed with the news of having made Time magazine's 100 Most Influential list, Balloon Davidson kicked off FMQs by saying "the party she is is charge of" had no links to Cambridge Analytica.
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