It goes to appeal as expected. Off to the Inner House.
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We need a Scottish Parliament election thread
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Pursuer lacks standing (!)
Ordinary voters have no business bringing this to court. Eat yer cereal.
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@LaidBack
Nah, it's OK. Just that further argument to demonstrate standing is required.
And the outcome is useful whatever it is.
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Westminster is trolling the SNP.
Cherry has been appointed as Vice-Chair of Westminster
Human Rights Committee. With her legal background she should be very useful.Revolting-Rees-Mogg gave a gracious speech, lamenting losing her from the SNP front bench and applauding her courage for standing up for freedom of speech.
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@Rosie
That will be a gesture of solidarity from the chair Harriet Harman who was instrumental in the Equalities Act 2010 that the leadership of the SNP find objectionable and which Ms Cherry champions. They're both left-leaning feminists, loads in common.
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@IWRATS - I'm assuming that Cherry would be a good person for the job, solidarity or not.
Anyway, I hope it will annoy the Chief FeMinist of Scotland.
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With friends like these
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A NEW independence party which was dogged by paperwork problems has finally been registered to stand at May’s Holyrood election.
Action for Independence, which is backed by convicted perjurer Tommy Sheridan, was forced to change its name after falling foul of watchdogs.
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Wonderful, dear old Tommy. That'll get things moving.
Though they might succeed in the same way ukip did, only way to beat them is to out do them. (looking at your Cameron, May, Johnston)
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Just noticed that the Crown Office of all people have just jigsaw-identified one of the people who accused Mr Salmond of sexual assault by selectively redacting Mr Salmond's evidence to the Hamilton enquiry.
Pretty weird given that they put Craig Murray on trial for the same thing.
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Love that Tommy is now known as Former Perjuror Tommy Sheridan
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Former?
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“Pretty weird given that”
Conspiracy or (more) incompetence?
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@ stickman, he is not currently on trial is he? Future perjuror could get me in bother so I am sticking with Former. Reformed perjuror I am doubting though.
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“Reformed perjuror I am doubting though.“
That might be actionable...
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In those crazy, crazy days after the indyref, a high point was the conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf handing over a "dossier" of names of people who thought their ballot papers were dodgy to Tommy Sheridan. The thought of an American woman who had made her name as a supposedly feminist scholar on the same stage as Tommy Sheridan did boggle my mind, which had already gone into over-boggle by that time.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/mv54ea/conspiracy-theorists-gathered-in-glasgow-on-sunday-810
Wolf went on to write a history of punishment in 19th century England, which the publishers had to withdraw as she had made a fundamental error of stating that guys who had supposedly been executed in fact had been pardoned.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/mv54ea/conspiracy-theorists-gathered-in-glasgow-on-sunday-810
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@Rosie: ... Wolf’s book has now been published in paperback. The error about “Death Recorded” has been corrected, but it is still full of egregious errors which should have been spotted with an afternoon’s research. This excellent thread explains why Wolf’s book is so bad: https://twitter.com/fernriddell/status/1357798400226451458?s=21
Wolf is also a 5G/Covid conspiracy theorist and attempts to get involved in science/medical matters that she clearly doesn’t understand.
She also didn’t understand how exit polls in the UK work, or that it is in a single time zone, and tried to say that the government was trying to steal the last GE because the exit poll was published at 10pm across all media when the polls closed.
That she receives any kind of serious attention is baffling.
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@stickman Good Hairdo or indeed a very bad hairdo can get you far in the world I guess?
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@gembo - I do hate to say this, but I would say Wolf's considerable good looks did help her career. I haven't read Beauty Myth.
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@Stickman - oh thanks for that. I feel for Dr Fern Riddell's fury.
I do recall Wolf's Facebook conspiracy theories being shared post indyref and the Lawyers for Yes taking her to task. I also heard Matthew Sweet challenging her findings on Radio 3. It's astonishing she is still published for obviously making the facts fit a theory, but I suppose the theory is one that offers aid and comfort to a chunk of the population.
Re her comments on UK politics - you have to be fairly bold/extremely well informed to make statements on the politics of a country not your own. Commentators can make the most basic of errors about a foreign political system.
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Completely unrelated -
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Even more so -
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I think they need to think again.
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@srD yes I imagine we should send them homewards to do that?
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We should definitely encourage this.
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Any sense of anything greater than ambivalence felt towards the royal family is I think historical I would go as far as to say those days are gone now and in the past they shall remain
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Meanwhile
Whatever anyone thinks of all those involved, and whatever ’truths’ emerge, this can’t have no impact on voting/outcome.
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A year later, with two inquiries into the Scottish government’s handling of the initial claims of sexual harassment that led to Salmond’s trial reaching their conclusion, that sense of multiple realities remains. Here is a Holyrood committee charged with scrutinising the Scottish government’s botched handling of the complaints, continually frustrated by that government’s delayed and incomplete evidence. Here is the SNP, after a decade in power, on course to win a landslide majority in May’s election.
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Probaby a naive question on my part, but if (for the sake of argument) Salmond really was fitted up by his political rivals in the party, why? He's a pensioner, with no elected position and no position in the party. No doubt he still has influence, and many people in the party may find him an irritant, but is that really a strong enough motive to devise a complicated and high-risk plot to disgrace him? It seems wildly disproportionate.
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@Colonies_Chris
That, I think, is the core question. Something very odd has happened and the question is what.
The ultimate aim may simply have been to provoke the meltdown we are seeing. It depends who instigated the whole thing.
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