Oh Nicola! We’re not as green as we’re cabbage looking! ???????

And my stepfather’s concerns about how his country is an embarrassing shambles under the SNP. When he talks with his cousins in Wester Ross he despairs these days.

Casdon

How did I know just by reading the title that you had started this post Urmstongran? Call it intuition.

Why so interested in another countries govenment? It's simply another destraction suggested by those far-right sources UG reads.

I'd call it boring and predictable.

Is that the stepfather who left his country and went to live somewhere else 60 years ago?

And only sold his family house there last year! Been paying dues to Inverness council for all those 60 years. Plus all utilities. I think he’s quite entitled to an opinion don’t you?

So he isn't living there and hasn't for 60 years?

No, not really. I wonder if he knows my auntie in Inverness? She's lived there nearly 80 years. Or our friend who was a GP there. Or my cousin the pharmacist. Oh no. He won't know them. Because he doesn't live there, does he?

Actually I take that back.

Of course he's entitled to an opinion.

He's not entitled to have it listened to or acted on though.

Oh ! I didn’t realise the oft mentioned stepfather didn’t live in Scotland !!! That takes the oatcake.

Perhaps he should join GN, cut out the middle woman and participate in the discussion, the himself.

£600k is a drop in the Atlantic compared to the Russian money “donated” to the Tories- maybe Nicola should get some oligarch mates.

Like others, I knew by the thread title who the OP was …...again!

Why the OP feels the need to constantly point out what is wrong in a country where she or her stepfather do not live I find very strange, especially as there is so many wrongdoings happening in her own country.

I was recently admitted to an NHS hospital in Glasgow. A private, ensuite room and the treatment I received was first class. I have no complaints.

Yes, we have problems in our country but we are not ignorant of or incapable of realising such wrongs. A wasted energy OP when you really should be concentrating on the many wrongs in your own country which affect the whole of the UK, or are you deflecting from the disastrous effect your dear leader is having on all of us. Or, is it a case of such anger against the Scots for wanting to remain in the EU? Either way, it is not really any of your business how another country wishes to run their affairs.

Kalu, excellent post!

We have threads discussing Ukraine, USA, The French Elections in fact many Countries are discussed on the News & Politics Forums by members of GN who do not live in these Countries or in some cases never visited them.

Why is it that Scotland and in particular Ms.Sturgeon and SNP are off limits ?

If he hasn't lived there for 60 years, owning a property should not give him a right to try and influence how those who owe allegiance to that country live their lives. Presumably he is now a citizen of another country.

Sixty years is a lifetime. I assume he could not have have been called upon to fight and defend Scotland. No, he can have an opinion - no one can stop him. An "opinion" is worth nothing when that is all it is. However, he is not entitled to use it to try and influence those whose country it is - wherever they came from - who have shown loyalty to Scotland. No one, including Grannies on GN are obliged to take anything he says, via any conduit, into account.

Scotland is not off-limits GrannyGravy. However, we do not discuss Ukraine, the USA, or France as if we have ownership or agency over those countries.

Kalu I find it interesting is all. You may note I recently started a thread on the French GE too! And others in the past as GG13 has said. Why not?

GrannyGravy13

We have threads discussing Ukraine, USA, The French Elections in fact many Countries are discussed on the News & Politics Forums by members of GN who do not live in these Countries or in some cases never visited them.

Why is it that Scotland and in particular Ms.Sturgeon and SNP are off limits ?

They're not off limits.

Not at all. A sensible discussion about the ferry situation would be great. Maybe a discussion about the sea bed sell off. Or maybe the status of the renewables industry.

But like for all the other countries, if someone comes on and rants about the leaders of other countries, and just does a number on that person and the country they lead based only on prejudice, and belittles the people of that country, they are going to get tellt

Maybe because those other countries are not part of our Union DaisyAnne? Big difference.

Ug your concern for countries other than England is admirable. I hope the state of Scotland as you see it doesn't keep you awake at night. With all due respect, your stepfather's opinion is his own. There is no need for you to adopt it as, correct me if I am wrong, you have no experience of living here at all. Have faith that we can sort things out for ourselves as you can see from the posts that there are arguments from both sides of the political divide. Meanwhile, I hope that you and your stepfather get the candidate of your choice in the upcoming local elections.

DaisyAnne

Scotland is not off-limits GrannyGravy. However, we do not discuss Ukraine, the USA, or France as if we have ownership or agency over those countries.

They are not and have never been part of the UK. I think that makes a difference. The difference, even.

soz x posts, urms

I ❤️ Scotland. And I have never belittled it’s residents.

GrannyGravy13

We have threads discussing Ukraine, USA, The French Elections in fact many Countries are discussed on the News & Politics Forums by members of GN who do not live in these Countries or in some cases never visited them.

Why is it that Scotland and in particular Ms.Sturgeon and SNP are off limits ?

I think the posters who live in France feel exactly the same about people who don’t live there telling them how bad it is under Macron to be fair GG13. The pointed attacks about other countries usually come from the same few posters.

No probs Baggs! Great minds think alike. ?

I don't comment on Welsh politics or on Mr Drakeford. I have no insight into that country or how its Assembly operates. If Mr Drakeford is not a good FM, that's got nothing to do with me. (I seriously don't know if he is)

They might be in the Union but the rest of us don't "own" them and we don't get a say.