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#Herald has come to grips with the realities of #Israel_Gaza today and even manages to report the #SNP_Conference and #SNP_independence_stance relatively objectively.
That is, #Herald with the exception of #Tom_Gordon who gets everything wrong, in sombre gray-highlighted pieces.
#Tom_Gordon #Herald
"the fall-out from the Patrick Grady affair, a scandal that was bad enough for the SNP to begin with, but which had been made immeasurably worse by the party’s dismal response to it, including Mr Blackford’s own reaction."
#Tom_Gordon #Douglas_Ross
"On crudest, transactional level, what’s in this for him and his party? Unless he’s hoping for a cosy number in the Lords, history tells us Ross’s loyalty will not be reciprocated.
On the contrary, his support for PM will lower his standing in Scotland."
#Tom_Gordon
"It’s not as if #Nicola_Sturgeon hid her #Indyref2 plan from people when they voted #SNP.
"She has a perfect right to try to advance it.
"Whether she should is another matter.
"The #UK_Government also has a countervailing mandate to #block_indyref2 it can cite."
#Tom_Gordon
"It is, of course, an absurd request.
Would Mr [Ian] Murray rather have civil servants down tools and refuse to work on policies not to their taste?
"Should unelected officials be allowed to frustrate, or sabotage the programme of an elected Government?"
#Tom_Gordon
"[FM] said she'll set legislative timetable for [#indyref2] in “the coming weeks” despite admitting (sic) we are “in the throes of a global pandemic that is still unpredictable”.
"despite admitting" blows any pretence of objectivity in your report that follows, Tom
Thanks, #Tom_Gordon!
I now see this in a new light. You're right in your facts but wrong in your conclusions.
It's exactly the kind of boundary-pushing act of defiance by SNP we need. Expected to fail legally, it highlights #Union_choke_hold on Scotland
https://t.co/7CFj6E3msK
#Alison_Rowat offers the most incisive, structured analysis in the #Herald today, with #Tom_Gordon coming a fair way behind. As for Neil Mackay and the rest, the less I say the better ...
#Tom_Gordon
"Residency's always been essential standard applied in elections and referendums - so it should remain.
"If blood and birthright are allowed to trump bricks and mortar then all manner of people could be excluded on basis of their alleged impurity."
#Tom_Gordon
"..suggesting the vote in #Indyref2 be extended to Scots now living elsewhere in the UK, a handy 800,000-strong bloc more inclined to vote No than Yes.
"To my mind, this group have already voted - with their feet."
#Tom_Gordon
"Mr Salmond has been pretending his new party can have a symbiotic relationship with his old one.
"But any party that poaches parliamentarians, personnel, money and members from another is clearly not a partner, but a rival."
#Tom_Gordon
"If [AS] manages that [persuading just 1 in 7 SNP supporters to switch their list votes to Alba] by giving them a blast of bracing old time religion - it's entirely possible - then SNP fears several MSPs and MPs will jump ship and boost Alba’s numbers still further"
#Tom_Gordon
"His [#Salmond's] evasive non-answers yesterday about whether #Russia was behind the #Salisbury_poisoning - wholly unrelated to his well-paid gig with Kremlin TV, you understand - will have done nothing to improve his ratings."
#Tom_Gordon is, first and last, a political analyst - and today he's bang on form on Alba, which means Alba supporters will hate it. Just about every paragraph is quotable - gets to the heart of the matter ...
https://t.co/0hldJgZzJz
#Tom_Gordon #Herald
"Mr Salmond’s anger may therefore be the rage of Caliban seeing his reflection in the mirror, the sound of a fragile ego being punctured and deflating with an agonised shriek."
#Herald
Today you can read #Kevin_McKenna's anti-Nicola, anti-SNP rant, or #Struan_Stephenson's anti-Nicola, anti-SNP rant - or #Brian_Taylor or #Tom_Gordon's measured, considered analyses.
https://t.co/fYqUesahBZ
#Tom_Gordon #Herald
Donald Dewar "A referendum that purported to pave the way for something that was #ultra_vires is itself
#ultra_vires”.
Nevertheless, the argument resurfaced among legal academics after the SNP won its 2011 majority.
"#SNP has said Boris Johnson’s campaign trip to Scotland today, is evidence of a “Prime Minister in panic”.
If we believe #Tom_Gordon today, and #Nicola (who seems to agree with him) Boris has little to fear - we're in #Hotel_California - checked in 1707, can never check out ...
#Tom_Gordon
"there's next to no reason Boris would grant an independence referendum.
Life as PM is nasty, brutish and short enough as it is without Indyref2 as a headstone.
He'll play for time, shuffle, shrug, hope something shows up, try to skulk away from the march of history"
A measure of the poverty of unionist arguments is the fact that #Herald can find nobody better than Mark Smith and Andy McIver to put the Union case.
Independence has little to fear from this duo.
(For real expert political analysis, look to #Iain_Macwhirter and #Tom_Gordon)
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