March 23, 2024
Scotland's new Hate Crime Bill comes into effect on April 1st. The Herald reported that Police Scotland would be targetting actors, comedians and performers as part of a clampdown. This caused such a stir that Police Scotland were forced to issue a statement saying that there had been "inaccurate media reporting and commentary" and denying that any such measures would be taken.
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March 16, 2024
Communities secretary Michael Gove announced that UK ministers and officials were to be banned from contact with groups labelled 'extremist'. The definition of 'extremist' was woolly but it was said that officials should consider whether a group maintains “public confidence in government” before working with it. Supporters of Scottish independence raised an eyebrow. In a separate story, a businessman who donated £15million to the conservatives made racist and misogynistic comments about Diane Abbott.
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March 9, 2024
Douglas Ross was questioning Humza Yousaf at First Minister's Questions when Angus Robertson called him a "manchild". In response, Ross threw what could only be described as a temper tantrum, living up to his new moniker.
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March 2, 2024
Serial political opportunist George Galloway cleaned up in the Rochdale byelection after Labour abandoned its candidate for suggesting Israel had deliberately relaxed security after warnings of Hamas attacks, which the party interpreted as antisemitic. “Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza,” said Galloway.
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February 24, 2024
"We need to rebuild public trust in politics, and be seen to do so," said Keir Starmer, just before he allegedly threatened the supposedly impartial Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to break parliamentary protocol and put forward Labour's Gaza ceasefire motion, a watered-down version of the SNP's which refused to acknowledge Israel's 'collective punishment' of Palestinians. Labour's lame defence was that MPs are facing threats from the public over the issue.
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February 19, 2024
The headline read: 'Sarwar - I will stand up to Starmer for Scotland'. It's an unusual election pitch that asks you to vote for someone so he can stand up to his own party leader. Ahead of the Scottish Labour conference, Anas Sarwar was asked if he would challenge Keir Starmer on decisions he disagreed with. “The simple answer to that is yes,” he replied.
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February 12, 2024
The day before a judge's damning verdict against the Mirror Group over phone hacking, Piers Morgan announced that he was stepping down from his Talk TV show, 'Piers Morgan Uncensored', to go "full digital globally" on Youtube.
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February 5, 2024
When it was revealed that the UK Covid-19 Inquiry's official Twitter account followed just one other account, @DownWithTheSNP, its agenda became somewhat clearer. Nicola Sturgeon was crucified for deleting her covid Whatsapp messages, but when Scottish Secretary Alister Jack admitted to doing the same, the response was muted. Jack said, "Scotland office's role is to be the defender, the safeguarder of devolution", but also said the UK Government is legislating to centralise response to future emergencies without input from devolved administrations.
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January 29, 2024
The so-called Scottish media outdid themselves this week in SNP/Scotland bad. STV bleated that the First Minister's house repairs cost taxpayer £855,000, omitting the fact that this was National Trust-owned Bute House. The BBC wholeheartedly backed Labour and Tory calls for the National Clinical Director Jason Leitch to be sacked, after Whatsapp messages revealed he described a female Labour MSP as a "new girl" and said a Tory MSP had been "harrumphing like a child". (England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said Scotland had "blazed a trail" with its health policies.) And Humza Yousaf used expletive language to describe former Labour MSP Neil Findlay. Entirely understandable if you ask me.
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January 22, 2024
Tory meathead Lee Anderson, who resigned as party deputy chairman in protest against the Rwanda bill, ended up not voting against it because he said Labour MPs laughed at him.
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