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"And the truth is, parliament is failing us
"Faith in MPs is in decline: crises abound, and yet too many are incompetent, badly behaved and have the wrong priorities" #Martin_Kettle
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UK Parliament's failing Scotland - but #TheHERALD is silent on that.
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"Lazy and fraudulent: we saw the true #Johnson at the Covid inquiry – and why his like must never have power again"
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"The #Covid_19_enquiry is showing an institutional failure in a system of government, and above all in the #UK_state, that did not work well enough when faced with a life and death national situation in early 2020"
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Let's get the hell out of UK, Scots!
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"Forbes is talented but she is also relatively untested. She also comes from a #much_less_liberal progressive background than either Sturgeon or Salmond
"Her views on #abortion and #gender_recognition are not Sturgeon’s."
They're not mine either, SNP.
#Guardian
"Is the United Kingdom a little more secure tonight with Sturgeon’s going than it was when she was in the ascendancy? Many will think that the answer is yes. But many have been wrong about this very subject before."
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I believe #Martin_Kettle is peceptive in recognising that Scotland represents a real, present threat to the Union that he and his paper, #TheGuardian, support.
Rather than play the emotional child - "Why don't they like us?" - YES critics should accept we #are in a #confronation
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"History remind us that nationalist minds remain focused. Irish nationalism was not deflected by the world wars. Scottish nationalism, which is now the most potent separatist movement in Europe, is no different."
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PM Cabinet cabinet "composed mainly of sycophants/second-order ministers, a centralised No10 operation that overrides departments, undermines their ethos; with senior civil servants often chosen for their deference to PM rather than for readiness to argue a case."
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"A century ago this spring, Britain partitioned the island into two. The result was a violent civil war in the south and decades of sectarian rule in the north, ending in the 30-year Troubles. Ireland and sometimes the UK lived with the often lethal consequences"
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"The system bypasses parliament. It presidentialises the prime minister. It allows the government to tighten its control over the agenda still further. And that’s a bad thing, especially with a prime minister who isn’t up to the job."
Allegra, re-think this fast!
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[Thatcher's] "1975 speech
“If governments do not respect the law it is little wonder that some individuals come to think they can bypass it too.”
Welcome to #Johnson’s and #Cummings’ world, in which the government actively seeks #disorder and #law_breaking."
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"Every day, ministers and scientists confirmed the public’s discipline about sticking to the rules. The nation’s sacrifices, some of them heartbreaking, were repeatedly extolled. What aspect of that message would #Cummings himself not have understood ..."
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"The poison in #Cummings’s journey to Durham is the taint of hypocrisy it injects into the public bloodstream at precisely the time when public confidence in the handling of the crisis is already beginning to fray. One rule for him, another for us."
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"it is harder than ever to know what 'one nation' Conservatism now means.
Which nation?
And what United Kingdom?
The loosening of the UK’s bonds is a process. The context is constantly evolving."
If you think #Martin_Kettle and the #Guardian are on indy's side (they're Left Brits), reflect on this and its context -
"Even when Scotland has been run for 13 years by a party whose entire purpose is to break up the UK, we are still often met with a shrug of the shoulders."
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"He [#Boris]will also have to make Britain work for Scotland.
That may be far from his mind right now.
"If this happens, Scotland’s Life of Brian question – what has the UK ever done for us? –might start to get a surprising answer."
It won't surprise an Indy Scot!
#Martin_Kettle
"Time's is on PM’s side, not [FM’s].
The longer this standoff continues the harder it could get for SNP, in office for 13 year, to persuade voters that independence is the uniquely effective answer to Scotland’s problems in the NHS, schools and transport"
Spot on
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"Both sides are digging in for a long battle of attrition rather than a quick, decisive contest. Sturgeon knows she has little chance of moving Johnson’s position without a significant change in the political weather – and maybe not even then."
Nicola?
#Martin_Kettle #Guardian
"One of the consequences of ignoring a subject [#Scottish_independence] for too long is that once people are forced to engage, they [#English_politicians] can adopt and speak up for stances that don’t withstand scrutiny."
In other words, talk bollox ...
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"There are radical ways of heading off the disintegration of the United_Kingdom, including the #federalist_new_Act_of_Union proposed by #Lord_Lisvane and extolled by one of the prime minister’s former colleagues in the Daily Telegraph this week."
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