September 16, 2017
Former chancellor and now editor of the Evening Standard George Osborne was criticised for telling colleagues he would not rest until Theresa May, who sacked him after taking over from David Cameron, was "chopped up in bags in my freezer".
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September 9, 2017
Never one for hyperbole, seer of seers Lord Robertson's latest bizarre pronouncement on the issue of independence was that it would have had "cataclysmic" repercussions and that terrorist groups such as Isis "would have had a field day".
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September 2, 2017
After two years as Labour's Scottish branch manager, Kezia Dugdale unexpectedly announced her resignation. Speculation continues as to who will be her likely successor. Meanwhile, the new Queensferry crossing, funded by the Scottish government, is hailed in the press as a triumph of 'British' engineering. If it falls down, it will be Scottish again.
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August 26, 2017
Two suspended Tory councillors with some unsavoury views found themselves reinstated, with branch manager Ruth Davidson promising they would be undergoing 'Diversity Training'. Meanwhile, Tory MP Douglas Ross had to apologise after saying his number one priority as PM would be to bring in "tougher enforcement against gypsy travellers".
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August 19, 2017
Liberal Democrat MPs Jo Swinson and Christine Jardine were both facing accusations of overspending on their election campaigns, which is a criminal offence. Their defence appears to have been that many items were bought but never used - in Swinson's case, 93,000 items including 26,000 newsletters.
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August 12, 2017
It was a week in which we had a vivid picture of how how the Scottish press operate. Firstly, a factually wayward article about late trains that appeared to have been a Scottish Labour press release made front page news in several papers, later resulting in corrections all round. Then a piece about how Alex Salmond never read books had to be withdrawn from the Times after its source, a student newspaper, disowned the quote.
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August 5, 2017
Having insisted that Britain would take back control of its fisheries, Environment secretary and glove puppet Michael Gove is now saying EU fishing boats can still operate in UK waters after Brexit. There is a sense that these people don't know what they are doing.
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July 29, 2017
In the week that Wings Over Scotland announced a defamation action against Kezia Dugdale, Labour's Scottish branch manager was all over the news and social media. We decided that the court case was not something we should comment on and instead focused on the story that some Yes voters were apparently shifting to Labour.
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July 23, 2017
Downing Street cancels Nicola Sturgeon's right to demand meetings with Theresa May, stating that she should instead meet with Scottish Secretary David Mundell as he is "at the same level as her".
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July 15, 2017
Theresa May admits to shedding a tear at the election night exit poll, Tory MP Anne Marie Morris is suspended for using the phrase 'n****r in a woodpile', Philip Hammond makes a sexist remark at a cabinet meeting, and Labour's Owen Smith attends 12th of July Loyalist parades in Belfast.
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