I'm fairly sure Patel thinks the borders should have been closed after her parents arrived.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I'm fairly sure Patel thinks the borders should have been closed after her parents arrived.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
She probably thinks they shouldn't have been allowed in, just herQuote:
Originally Posted by Future17
"I'm not on magic mushrooms", oh we believe you Douglas :greengrin
https://twitter.com/totovste/status/...087198720?s=20
A video of some ragde getting his knickers in a twist about other radges' comments on the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Grieves
Does he not know that's sooo 2018?
Proper politicians now understand that getting into squabbles with faceless Twitter folk isn’t a great look. But Douglas Ross is not a proper politician. So not really sure what point I’m trying to make really :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr Grieves
I survived about 40 seconds of that. If politicians could just not behave like automatons for five minutes I might actually start to listen to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Grieves
The leader of the Conservative party in the Welsh Senned has resigned, after some people were outraged that he and some colleagues had drunk some wine with a meal in the parliament building.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ng-alcohol-ban
The outrage seemed to be around the fact that it was only a few days after the pubs had closed, but there's no evidence that any of them broke any Covid regulations.
That all sounds like a fuss over nothing, surely?
What's the objective opinion on how Ross has been doing? He just seems to be a void to me.
Douglas or Jack? 🤔😉Quote:
Originally Posted by Diclonius
Ross out!Quote:
Originally Posted by Diclonius
Bottler, can't even stand up for Scotland in the big issues
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Probably doing paleantology stuff like he always did. That's who you mean, yeah?Quote:
Originally Posted by Diclonius
That will fly right over the heads of quite a few I suspect 😏Quote:
Originally Posted by Glory Lurker
That tan was Jimmy CalderwoodesqueQuote:
Originally Posted by StevieC
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With "Friends" like you, who needs enemies?Quote:
Originally Posted by Glory Lurker
He's keeping a seat warm until the torys find a full on unionist with a bit of a charisma willing to take up the baton.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diclonius
In the meantime Scottish torys will play musical chairs.
Hes got them 2nd in the country. Jack could only dream of ‘doing a Douglas’:greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Callum_62
No friends of mine 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by StevieC
I was expecting ‘pivot!’Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
I think he is "ON A BREAK".
http://ismympaprick.co.uk/
Have fun
:top marksQuote:
Originally Posted by Glory Lurker
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Originally Posted by Diclonius
I think he's looking down the back of the couch to find his principles.
I honestly think Jackson Carlaw was making more impression on the public.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diclonius
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A wee bit of cod-Burns...
Oh big curly length o *****
Yer wee haw-maws I'd love tae skite
And pit them tae a greater height -
Aboon yer heid!
Then stuff them past yer Adam's Apple
And lodge them in yer dung-glazed thrapple
Until yer deid.
c.Twitter
He's coming! He's coming!
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/polit...box=1611822975
For any Tories and Unionists looking in, particularly those who keep telling us supporting Independence is about 'self interest', this is how proper self interest works. First you dish out huge contracts to your (already very wealthy) mates and then use tax payers to prevent anyone from trying to expose what you are doing and what you are all about. This from the Good Law Project
Correspondence with Government has revealed they expect to spend a staggering £1 million defending our judicial review of their decisions to award contracts criticised by the NAO. This is a sum unprecedented in our lawyers’ experience of judicial review proceedings. We can’t but wonder whether they are trying to scare us off – using the bottomless public purse to avoid accountability to the public.
Government also says, remarkably, that finding out whether they acted lawfully in channelling hundreds of millions or billions to their VIP associates, is not in the public interest.
We had until recently been working on the understanding that we had raised enough money for our challenges to Government’s awards of hundreds of millions of pounds of PPE contracts to Pestfix, Ayanda, and Clandeboye.
We were shocked to learn that – having failed to provide the evidence we’ve been asking for since July – Government is threatening a vast disclosure exercise going well beyond what would normally be undertaken in a judicial review. And not just that they have hired an expensive international commercial law firm. They expect to have a team of 30-40 working for up to 3 months on an exercise that has not been requested by us, or by the Court.
In the experience of our legal team, costs incurred by Government in judicial review proceedings rarely exceed £100,000. Here Government says it has already spent over £325,000, and estimates their total costs will amount to £1 million – a staggering sum for a judicial review.
Government knows full well that we cannot take existential risk on bringing a single case. So we wrote to Government asking it to agree and order ‘capping’ both our costs and the taxpayers’ costs in these public interest proceedings.
We were shocked this week to receive their response contending that the litigation is not in the public interest, and refusing our proposed reciprocal cap: “In particular our client does not agree that the proceedings are ‘public interest proceedings'”. These are cases involving on Government’s own admission hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on unusable facemasks on companies that went through the VIP lane.
Not in the public interest? What are they on!
The point is all the more remarkable given that a barrister employed by the Government Legal Department in her witness statement of 30 November stated that: “We acknowledge that there is considerable public interest in Covid related procurement, particularly of PPE.”
We have now applied to the court for a Cost Cap. In line with our transparency principles I am publishing my Witness Statement. But if we don’t get one, unless a white knight or white knights emerge, the simple fact is we will have to abandon the litigation. We are not in a position to bear a £1 million risk.
Thank you, Jolyon Maugham QC
Director of Good Law Project
https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1354836643262255105
Doctor Rachel Clarke, telling it how it is. Thought it should go in here instead of the coronavirus thread due to it being about Tories(Prime Minister) Lying.
No words really.
He's not been lying really, just being himself, but this is Marina Hyde's note to Desmond Swayne for his recent antics:
"you’re a Windsor-knotted, contrast-collared conspiracy frotter with a grasp of science inferior to even Gwyneth Paltrow’s and sideburns that read like a come-and-get-me-plea to the sex offenders’ register"
Up there with frankie boyles one of gove :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee