It seems any legislation which is encountering resistance is going to be shelved until after the election...
How many weeks has Holyrood left to sit in this session? 4? 5?
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We need a Scottish Parliament election thread
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25th of March as things stand but they granted themselves the power to delay that six months?
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Five weeks then.
Let's hope they at least pass STL Control Areas legislation before the session comes to an end.
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Of course:
"Nicola Sturgeon said the Holyrood election should go ahead “if at all possible” so Scots can give a verdict on her leadership in the pandemic."
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-says-holyrood-election-23523757
Stuff getting schools & businesses open, an election with as little campaigning & scrutiny as possible is what really matters
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STL withdrawn with intention to re-lay next session if elected.
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Locals won’t be happy...
http://edinburgholdtowncc.org.uk/response-to-the-scottish-government-stl-consultati/
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This is unlikely to get many people ‘back’ to Lab for Holyrood -
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If Labour choose Ms Lennon as leader they might survive. She at least sounds human. Mr Sarwar sounds like what he is. A millionaire hereditary nationalist politician.
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“A millionaire hereditary nationalist politician.“
Hard to deny that!
We’ll find out soon how much of an advantage that is in the leadership election.
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To be clear I also have a very low opinion of Fergus Ewing and the Kinnock boy. And Nicholas Soames. And the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Battenberg tribe.
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@IWRATS, I may have misinterpreted the news articles, but my understanding was that legislation for Licensing STLs has been postponed, but that legislation for STL Control Areas was still going ahead?
From The Glasgow Herald:
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The Government will continue with legislation allowing councils to establish short-term let control areas. This legislation will allow local authorities to implement short-term let control areas to address pressures created by whole property short-term lets, ensuring that homes are used to best effect in their areas.
Ministers will be able to veto any use of the power by councils.
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@crowriver
Oh. My mistake then?
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“To be clear I also have a very low opinion of ... “
Ah, so it’s the hereditary bit that bothers you most?
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Nobody can help who their parents are, but inheriting their constituency and a pile of their money and then behaving like you are quite the thrusting young thing is not cool.
Also it would be nice if people who have a deep emotional connection to the UK of GB[&NI] could just own that and accept that they are to some extent British nationalists.
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“accept that they are to some extent British nationalists“
I expect that most, mostly, accept that. BUT they think ‘British nationalism is ok (it’s the natural order), it’s that Scottish nationalism that is dangerous’...
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"Also it would be nice if people who have a deep emotional connection to the UK of GB[&NI] could just own that and accept that they are to some extent British nationalists."
Can you be a Scottish nationalist, and a British nationalist?
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Can you be a Scottish nationalist, and a British nationalist?
Don't see why not.
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It would appear that Mr Salmond's submission to the Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints is going to be published.
Ms Evans, Ms Sturgeon, Mr Murrell and [REDACTED] have already read it and have had a couple of weeks to line up the smoke bombs and flash bangs. We shall see.
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The submission, which has been widely reported in the media, includes claims by Salmond that his successor, Nicola Sturgeon, breached the Ministerial Code of Conduct by misleading Parliament.
That's about the tamest part of it.
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By the numbers, at least one of the SNP members of the committee must have changed their vote from last time for it to be referred to the Corporate Body to make the difficult decision (not really) for them. I predict they'll receive an invite to an audience with the First Minister without tea or biccies. Or maybe just the Chief Whip.
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@Murun
Once the testimony is published the first minister will need all the friends she can muster?
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People I know who know people who think they know, say she hasn’t got much to be worried about.
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@unhurt @Arellcat - sorry to hear. Sure others appreciate your concerns too. We need diverse voices on forum and not just Indy vs Status Quo. or Salmond vs Sturgeon.
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It seems quite clear she has been lying for whatever odd reason. That means breach of ministerial code, means vote of confidence, means resignation.
Even if there's some way to wiggle out of that the core allegation by Mr Salmond will cause their party to enter a new phase of the civil war.
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We live in a world of pervasive and mundane evil, where people casually exploit power gradients.
These power and weight differences, systemic bias and perceived invulnerability allow people to behave appallingly.
High profile[1] "not guilty" verdicts, victim-blaming judges and derisory sentencing reinforce the status quo.
Dwelling on such is likely to make those vulnerable to these offences feel uncomfortable.
Do I speak of road traffic or sexual offences?
I'd like to say that I've been conscious of this throughout, but in reality others' contributions have brought this into focus.
It may be that debate could continue sensitively, but in real life I would change the subject if folk became uncomfortable.
Robert
[1] Emphasis on profile, not on the justice of the verdict, which is immaterial to the point.
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I think this is relevant here even if the direct effect is minimal.
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The clearout of former Vote Leave staffers in Boris Johnson’s inner circle has continued with the departure of Oliver Lewis, a key aide who was appointed to head the No 10 unit devoted to keeping the union together just over a fortnight ago.
Lewis, who was head of research at the Vote Leave campaign under Dominic Cummings, acted as the de facto deputy to David Frost when he negotiated the UK’s Brexit deal.
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Trying to find a hypothesis that isn't contradicted by observable behaviours and documented facts I come up with:
1) There is a tacit agreement between British and Scottish nationalist parties that a minority SNP government suits both.
2) The SNP get to run a centre-right devolved government.
3) No progress to independence is possible.
4) British nationalist parties get salaries and expenses but are responsible for nothing and need have no policies.
5) The SNP will talk about independence once or twice a year for the fan base but actually act in ways that make independence less likely.
6) The London regime will meanwhile set about altering Scotland in a myriad of unwelcome covert and overt ways in order to prevent the 2026 election having any effect on anything.Posted 3 years ago # -
Cannot find fault with this;
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How many wings does theSNP have., it is more about intersectionality these days innit?
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