Even more revelations about the SNP today

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paddyann54

As I predicted when you were all condemning Alex Salmond .this will all go away .
There is a very simple reasone for the motorhome...it was even printed in the Daily Record which is by no means a supporter of the SNP.
The auditor who did the books which were passed/cleared by WM has posted that they were all in order.The "loan" was not uncommon and of no significance.
THIS is a deliberate attempt to bring down the SNP and destroy the chance of Independence .
It wont work because the cause has always been roots based ..much bigger than any one person .So you can all stop rubbing your hands in glee.Your own government has done horrendous things with PUBLIC money and nobody is screaming about that ...I wonder why?
As a supporter who does donate to the party I have no issue with the motorhome ,bought as a safe space on the camaign trail during the covid restrictions ...and not used or indeed of any other expenditure used in the pursuit of Independence .ITS our money to spend and was never "ringfenced " for a campaign to my knowledge.Is it normal for donations to political parties to be ringfenced...maybe we should ask Boris ?

Well said Paddyann!

It seems some people are determined to hold Scotland captive in the 'Union' against their will and will do anything they can to do so. And yes.... all the fraud and theft that has gone on in the Tory government... to the tune of millions of ££'s.

No individual in the SNP stole money, it was used in a different way within the party.

Millions of people own motorhomes!!

It seems some people are determined to hold Scotland captive in the 'Union' against their will

Would those people be the Scottish people who voted to stay in the Union and voted against independence?

Millions of people own motorhomes!!
Yes, they do.
Exactly how eco-friendly is this one? Does it fit in with SNP/Green Party policies?
Some are more environmentally friendly than others.

Who?

If people want to address a significant minority of their fellow country men as "dumb", then there's nothing gratuitous about how I describe them in response.

Your point about “nearly half” still escapes me.
Really?

I couldn’t care less what you deleted. If it constituted more gratuitous insults such as that levelled at Aveline, perhaps discretion was the better part of keyboard valour.
Your point about “nearly half” still escapes me.
As a child I remember the saying “a miss is as good as a mile”.

No independence supporters think that. None at all. Where on earth did you get that idea?

Well, the mad extremists maybe who want to declare UDI.

And if you think that's touchy, you should see what I deleted before I pressed "Post"

Thanks for the lesson Foxygloves

FFS - touchy or what?
It needed saying as some Independence supporters seem to think a large minority would suffice

Thanks for the lesson Foxygloves.

Yes, I don't think we should have a referendum just now. For a few years, probably. I thought that in 2014.

We should concentrate on getting Scotland to being obviously a functional nation that can exist independently, so that independence becomes a little step over a burnie, the most obvious thing in the world to happen. There's no point in focusing on the inveterate Unionists for whom the Union is next to nirvana and for whom their fellow compatriots are dumb; their intransigence, we'll just have to live with that.

The rest of us, we'll be moving on.

Nearly half of the population of Scotland want to be an independent nation. They want to run their own affairs and not have anything dictated to them

The critical word is nearly

If you hold a referendum and agree to be bound by the majority decision, “nearly half” won’t cut it.

This is a bit different though, isn't it?

Nearly half of the population of Scotland want to be an independent nation. They want to run their own affairs and not have anything dictated to them from "Down South". We have people like Frost saying its time to roll back devolution and Alister Jack trying to undermine Scotland's international relationships.

I have never denigrated Leavers IQ; I have never said Tories are all millionaires or that they read the DM. I have said I will never forgive them, that they wanted something that doesn't exist and were led up the garden path. All true. You find the post where I denigrate their IQ or intelligence, and I'll own it.

If I had decided to partake in the dirty game, I might now say that it would seem that at least one Leaver has decided to ascribe sentiments to me that the DM (or whatever; the Spectator?) tells them must be true.

Who is it who's dumb, again?

volver3

Hang on a minute.

Somebody implies that 45%+ of the Scottish people are dumb and I'm the one getting the flak?

It's a funny old world...

Oh come on all is fair in love and politics.

You must have read the oft repeated posts regarding those who vote to leave the EU denigrating their IQ.

How gullible and stupid they were, how if anyone is still voting Conservative that must either be millionaires or believe everything they read in the cursed Daily Mail.

It s politics, this is a N & P thread it’s a dirty game always has been always will…

Hang on a minute.

Somebody implies that 45%+ of the Scottish people are dumb and I'm the one getting the flak?

It's a funny old world...

Anniebach

Sadly bullies don’t know they are bullying

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As someone who up to now has always voted Conservative insults directed to me on my voting choice and the party I voted for are like water off of a ducks back.

Those who vote for other parties do seem to be somewhat touchy & sensitive of any remarks against parties other than Conservative.

Sadly bullies don’t know they are bullying

Pot kettles anyone?

Oh don't worry Anniebach, I don't feel bullied. Certainly not by people who think its acceptable to call others who don't agree with them, silly childish names.

But Raab appears to think he could denigrate and make fun of others in his team, that they were somehow not worth bothering about. The parallels with this are startling.

Sarcasm isn’t bullying !

Anyone who thinks it's acceptable to call others dumb should think of applying to Raab for a job. They'd fit right in with his management style.

I'm OK about you getting my comment 'Freedumb' deleted Volver. It was just my exasperation at people who somehow think we'd be better off outside a union which has held for centuries and from whom Scotland benefits greatly. As ever, united we stand, divided we fall.

Because they are investigating it Anniebach. Because that is what police do to see if there is a case to answer. And so far, none of us know if there is.

There you go M0nica is that sensible and useful enough?

Why are the police involved ?

paddyann54

As I predicted when you were all condemning Alex Salmond .this will all go away .
There is a very simple reasone for the motorhome...it was even printed in the Daily Record which is by no means a supporter of the SNP.
The auditor who did the books which were passed/cleared by WM has posted that they were all in order.The "loan" was not uncommon and of no significance.
THIS is a deliberate attempt to bring down the SNP and destroy the chance of Independence .
It wont work because the cause has always been roots based ..much bigger than any one person .So you can all stop rubbing your hands in glee.Your own government has done horrendous things with PUBLIC money and nobody is screaming about that ...I wonder why?
As a supporter who does donate to the party I have no issue with the motorhome ,bought as a safe space on the camaign trail during the covid restrictions ...and not used or indeed of any other expenditure used in the pursuit of Independence .ITS our money to spend and was never "ringfenced " for a campaign to my knowledge.Is it normal for donations to political parties to be ringfenced...maybe we should ask Boris ?

Well said Paddyann!

It seems some people are determined to hold Scotland captive in the 'Union' against their will and will do anything they can to do so. And yes.... all the fraud and theft that has gone on in the Tory government... to the tune of millions of ££'s.

No individual in the SNP stole money, it was used in a different way within the party.

Millions of people own motorhomes!!

Also - I've just reported the "dumb" post. Its unacceptable.

M0nica

This slanging match is unedifying and excludes so many particpants who might have something sensible and useful on the topic the OP brought up for discussion.

It is doing nothing for the reputations of any of the participants.

There is nothing that any of us can say on the topic that the OP brought up that is either sensible or useful. The question posed was inflammatory and biased. None of us can say anything because nothing has been laid bare and comments about wrongdoing are just nasty suppositions that come from an inbuilt antipathy to uppity (Scottish) women.

Others may not think so, but they don’t have to live here with the constant finger pointing, sniggering and now implications that people who support independence are dumb.

This case is under police investigation, and whatever anybody thinks of themselves none of us have the knowledge to comment anything about it. Including me. But I’m not about to sit here and have my government slagged off by people who know nothing about it. Or worse still, those who have made assumptions and think it’s the truth.

There's none left that care about the ordinary working hard public. No-one to represent the ordinary people

I need to be careful not to out myself here, but having worked alongside, but not for, Scottish SNP and SNP-Green governments on a number of economic and community development programmes, including welfare cuts mitigation (I put a much longer list, but it was too outing), I can categorically state that you are wrong.

They care, whether or not one agrees with the policies they enact to demonstrate that.