We seem to always be told by the “popular” press how bad everything in Scotland is. But it isn’t…
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There is hope yet. Never mind what Old Rachel from Accounts says.
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This is the reality. A sensible country that wasn’t owned by its neighbour, got the same opportunities we got, but didn’t want to pretend that it was important and didn’t have incompetent government eg, Margaret Thatcher, making its capital a corrupt money machine, but in fact had a prudent government that invested carefully and accepted that, despite its fortune, it didn’t want to be America’s deputy…
Nigel, you numbskull, if BBC’s Question Time is that bad why are you the person with the 6th most appearances on this discredited programme. You have appeared 38 times since 2002, an average of 1.5 times a year, despite only being elected to parliament last year.
Those who have appeared more, were senior politicians like Kenneth Clarke, Shirley Williams, Menzies Campbell, Harriet Harman and Charlie Kennedy. All of them over a far longer period of time.
And, as Colin the Dachshund points out, if you want to be the prime minister of England, you really should learn the English language.
In UK English, “licence” is the noun (the official document or permit), while “license” is the verb (the action of granting permission).
And, just for additional information, this is similar to the “practice” (noun) versus “practise” (verb) rule.
Methinks you may have been spending too much time around a certain American criminal.
I guess, when you’re as dumb as Trump you need to get your tacky decorating ideas from somewhere
Not to mention your female companions!
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Ah, that explains a lot, your Noble Reformness, what with you being Jack Boots’ best buddy
Because sod the environment, you greedy money grubbing grifter… and of course it had the added advantage of backfooting the Scottish government, which, of course, you being a fascist Reformer and them consisting largely decent humans, you loathe.
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Sleepy Joe? Dozy Don!
Should warn you, this video contains close ups of an orange blob sleeping. It may cause nightmares or sleeplessness…or heaven only knows what else.Have a bucket handy.
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I have to admit that killing people who you think just might be smuggling drugs and then pardoning the biggest ever drug dealer, is weird even for Bone Spurs
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One of these days ranting in temper may cause damage to Dozy Don…
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Rachel from accounts, as Dave calls her, has said that no matter the result of our next election, Scotland will not be allowed to have a referendum on its future.
But that’s a very different story from the one that Sir Starmer was telling 5 years ago.
Of course, he said all that before he went out of his way to help English companies with problems while disregarding Scottish companies in similar situations.
It was before he decided that, despite us not needing them, he wanted Scotland to have nuclear reactors to create power for England. This goes against our government’s policy, given our abundance of hygro, wave, wind and solar power generation.
And it was before he retained the majority of the fishing fund for his country, England, despite a vast amount of the fishing done in this fetid union is done in our country, Scotland. I think we got 8% of the payment, although Scottish vessels accounted for 70% of the tonnage and 63% of the value of all landings by UK vessels in 2023. Provisional data for 2024, the latest figures, shows a similar trend.
Now we know that this Labour government, and its chargehand in Scotland, tell lies as a matter of course…After all we’ve “read their lips”! But just for once, we’d like to know, because this is so important to so many of us.
I can’t honestly say that I think it’s a great idea for Starmer to visit us… but I’m not about to discourage him. I think he may find that he is as popular here as David Cameron was during the referendum campaign… or indeed Theresa May was when she became prime minister and was obliged to hold her meetings in a shed in a wood somewhere.
I hope she didn’t have to run through a field to get there…
Erm, I don’t want to be a grammar pedant, Theresa, but should it not have been “…when my friends and I…” rather than “me and my friends“?
Now you can safely say that the naughtiest thing you ever did was get your subject and object pronouns mixed up on television and on Munguin’s Republic.
I’ve seen a few interviews with Peter Ettedgui . As well as saying that Hitler was right, Farage used to sing “Gas ’em all” (the lyrics of which I briefly saw on a Bluesky post this afternoon, and they are utterly repugnant) and he’d make hissing sounds like gas escaping, presumably into a gas chamber. Sounds Trumpian to me.
The longer video points out that these insults were daily, over a long period of time, so not a little phase, and that there was no escaping from them as pupils were seated in alphabetical order… which meant they were at adjoining desks…E and F.
What on earth was the teacher doing?
Dulwich College had christian and jewish assemblies and sometimes Farage and his mates would wait outside the jewish assembly to insult the pupils as they came out.
Of course anyone who wasn’t white English ‘christian’ was a target, not just jews. He seemed to loathe everyone.
One big question for the college is, why on earth was this allowed to happen when parents were paying massive fees (see below) to send their children there and this was being ignored?
(Currently day pupil fees are £10,164 per term for Years 3-8 and £10,206 per term for Years 9-13. Weekly boarding fees are £20,020 per term, and full boarding fees are £21,422 per term. Presumably they will have risen around the rate of inflation.)
I can only imagine that there may well be some parents reconsidering where to send their kids now…
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Late addition: Nigel Farage has been slated for a ‘repulsive’ and ‘deeply racist’ attack on Glasgow schoolchildren as part of his Scottish campaign after he claimed those who don’t principally speak English are ‘culture smashing’ the city, reports The National. Never mind that we had English forced on us…
Apparently there are around a million Brits living in Spain. I wonder if they all speak Spanish as a first language. And I wonder if, on the rare occasions when Farage turned up to his job in the EU parliament, what language he spoke in the local bistros and bars.
I always think it’s amusing how it doesn’t occur to some Brits that most people in the world, apart from them, speak at least two languages.
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Silly related story. I have a friend with whom I worked for a few years, both of us teaching French. I was introduced to him on his first day by another colleague was actually WAS French. We fell into the habit of always speaking in French to each other and that has lasted.
One day a few years ago, he phoned me while I was standing in a queue in the post office, just in front of two women. As I was talking to him I heard one of them say, “Them f’ing Polaks; wish they’d learn tae speak English”.
I excused myself from my pal, and turned to them and in my poshest “English” accent, I pointed out that I was in fact speaking French, which, as I was sure they would know, was a Romance European language, whilst Polish was, as I was also sure they would know, a West Slavic language, and really quite different.
I smiled politely and went back to my conversation with my pal, saying just I thought of them, the polite version of which would read ‘Mon dieu, ces deux sont vraiment imbéciles.
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