@roseveniceallan As a Trade Union activist, she really ought to be aware of the responsibilities for providing single-sex spaces for their employees placed upon UK employers by the 1992 Workplace Regs, in place 18 years before the 2010 equality laws. Too busy playing handmaid to men's demands.
@TelferPaula@theSNP Thrashed the Brit Parties? ๐๐๐ And have you forgotten how the thrashing went in the 2024 General Election? ๐๐๐ Give your heads a serious wobble.
@ScotExpress Swinney, Flynn and all their SNP cronies are mostly "livid" that the SNP's cack-handed attempts at deflection and covering up the Murrell scandal threatens to derail their lucrative Holyrood gravy train ๐
@TakingdaP The math doesn't lie. These figures are not in any credible sense a "pro idea majority ". Gaming D'Hondt for a seat count and then adding in the Green weirdos does not equate to popular support for dragging Scotland out of the UK. Now beat it.
What we're not buying is any separatist spin that well under half of a low 52% turnout is any sort of mandate for dragging the majority of Scots out of the UK against our will. Turnout - down. SNP vote share - down. SNP seats - down. SNP majority - nope. So jog on ๐
@TakingdaP@markspj Clearly you're the one in need of a lot of education. Scotland benefits from the UK Treasury's pooling and sharing. It's how most mature democracies allocate resources across competing priorities. Scotland has its black hole because the SNP are consistently shit at finance ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
@TakingdaP@markspj The actual point here is that you're actually just too dim to be worth further time. Ad hominem abuse about "going senile" is no substitute for actual hard facts or actual coherent arguments. Go away ๐
@ScotNational Swinney doesn't want another Referendum anyway. He just wants an excuse for another five years of grievo-chimpery and concocting fights with Westminster to deflect from how crap he and his SNP cronies are at the day job.
@ScotNational All we need to know is that Westminster will point to the 7 May 2026 election results and the fact that the SNP only have the support of 1 in 5 Scottish voters, and will politely tell Swinney to get stuffed.
@Gillian_Mackay1@Ross_Greer No, there is no such mandate. There was however a Referendum in 2014 to settle the matter for at least a generation. Have the Separatists ever respected that settled will of the Scottish people? That clear majority on an 85% turnout? No, of course you haven't.
@forfarfred Too late for weasel words now, pal. We know what Swinney said. He gambled and he lost. Swinney doesn't want another Referendum anyway. He just wants another five years of grievo-chimpery and concocting fights with Westminster to deflect from how crap the SNP are at the day job.
@thomasjohngavin Seriously? This is 2026. No-one sensible is minded to revisit 1707 or challenge the legality of a merger which has operated pretty successfully for 319 years now ๐
@mac_donald4 But of course you're correct not to conflate a single-issue Referendum with a periodic election to decide which Party should control a devolved administration. Because the latter is about devolved stuff - like cost of living, NHS waiting lists, ferry services, etc.
@mac_donald4 Why would anyone fear the result of another Referendum after Swinney, who campaigned on an overall SNP majority for another Referendum, fell 7 MSPs short, lost 10% of the SNP vote share and 6 SNP seats on a turnout 10% down and has the support of only 1 in 5 Scots voters ? ๐
@forfarfred But they still fell 7 MSPs short of the overall majority for which Swinney campaigned as the winning line for another Referendum. And looking at it rationally, the support of a mere 1 in 5 of Scottish voters is not in any sane sense a mandate for major constitutional change.
@TakingdaP ๐คฆโโ๏ธ Yet again for the blown mind of thinking - THE SNP DID NOT ON 7 MAY 2026 GET THE MAJORITY FOR WHICH SWINNEY CAMPAIGNED FOR ANOTHER REFERENDUM. THEY FELL 7 MSPs SHORT OF THE REQUIRED NUMBER.
@TakingdaP@markspj FFS ๐คฆโโ๏ธ Do any of you bother to look at the SNP Government's own published figures? Or the Scottish Fiscal Commission's projections of a ยฃ5bn black hole in our finances? Or even have an Arithmetic O Level? Financially Scotland does very well out of the UK Treasury. And Barnett.