"Councillor Scott Douglas,has Let himself down badly there"
Really, what was his high point?
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"20mph limit to go ahead across Edinburgh"
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Is that Councillor Scott Douglas? Did he use this photo during election? And still amassed the necessary 1000? Votes to be elected? Please see also Councillor Gloyer. Please see also my comments on the photo @unhurt posted of a weasel. In other better news Villeneuve Wines have a Cote du Rhone Domaine de la Vielle Ferme de l'Eoune 2015 that is quite drinkable, if you just been paid
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good stuff gembo, get stuck in
this side i am hesitant to mix the grape with the grain
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Bax San, I recommend Golden Rum, e.g Havana Club Seven Year old ( though if you get into the genre there are others that are better from Nicaragua for example but the best I ever had in Diggers one Xmas where the very drunk barman was asked the following question - There isn't a full measure left in that bottle after my quarter Gill had come out, what you gonna do? Drunk Barman answers, give it to you for your Xmas. was a Havana Club 15 year old, £140 A bottle. The reason for suggesting is you can drink grape and then switch to this rum without too big a hangover.
Armagnac I also feel not too harsh if mixed with claret on Burns Night. For example, no hangover to blame for my bad behaviour in Soderberg this morning at what we still call PY despite name change.
I stick mostly to modest quenchers as Dickens would say these days.
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Stickman, have you forwarded the details to Lesley to ensure that she has them to hand when this weasel back to the burrow from whence he came?
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Cllr Scott Douglas' register of interests reveal that he is paid as Head of Broadcast + Online Media, Scottish Conservative MSP Group, The Scottish Parliament.
So he must be skilled in the black arts of fake news. Hence his misleading and trollsome question no doubt. This is part of a Trumpian style attempt to paint blatant falsehood as the truth. Hey, if it worked for the Bath Conservatives, it can work for him, right? Why invent a new falsehood when you can simply recycle old ones to muddy the waters a bit?
I note from the register he also owns 14% of the family business which Companies House reveals is engaged in property rentals and running a caravan park in Loanhead.
Not so much trailer trash then but the son of the Laird of the trailer trash.
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@acsimpson - She's been sent the details.
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Thanks Frenchy, not easy to do from my phone.
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Crowriver, caravan park you say. I wonder if he is aware of this report from
BristolScarborough: Caravan park owner on drug chargesPosted 6 years ago # -
Worth forwarding this article by a proper scientist to someone who is going to be debating captain conservative at some point?
https://medium.com/@lewisspurgin/20mph-zones-are-not-causing-more-deaths-37d41e30e297
Basically the study by Bath and Somerset council was intensely flawed and badly designed. Quell surprise.
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@ARobComp: esteemed Conservative Transport spokesperson Nick Cook is denying the validity of that article you link to. Apparently statistical analysis doesn't count if it's from a "lobby group"
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Watch Cllr Douglas get his a*se handed to him at 1hr 54 mins in:
https://edinburgh.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/319902
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Excellent!
Thanks for rooting through that so we didn't have to!
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We now have 20mph speed limits on most of our city roads, so are they still necessary?
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A friend who has a small car and is a conservative driver has required coil springs replaced three times in the past five years.
Strong evidence, I think, that they are, indeed, necessary. I wonder if the author's definition of "conservative" is the same as mine.
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Coil springs can break for any reason. E.g. because they get stone chips on the paint & then go rusty, weakening them. Nothing to do with how many bumps you’ve been over
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Maybe when *all* drivers obey *every* rule of the road, we can get rid of the bumps
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to be fair, i recently lived near a village which had, at the time, a 30mph limit and a mix of built and natural speed restrictions (bends, narrow parts, a chicane at the entrance to the village meaning those entering didn't have right of way.)
they'd also decided in install speed bumps, and the only way to go over those safely was at 5mph--bit of a shocker to anyone on their first visit.
i have a hard time believing that was the best choice for traffic management.
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I wish they would get rid of them, I also wish people could be trusted to behave themselves with out them or other forms of traffic handholding so until then I guess they're the least bad option.
There are streets where the height of the speed bump is total overkill, Hutchison for example, any vehicle capable of achiving 20mph would be destroyed by attempting such a feat, only thing I'd go nearly so fast on that estate is a mtb, road bike has to brake nearly as far as a car.
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