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Dic Penderyn
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Sturgeon,i think,is a polished media performer,but has benefitted from an easy ride.Andrew Marr took her to task the other day,and she wilted-it looks like any honey-moon period is over for her,with the Tories starting to move to protect the Union.Scotland is home to appalling poverty,terrible problems with drug deaths,and its education system is not performing well.On top of this sits the SNP,solely concerned with independence.You can blame New Labour for much of that-the decline of the Scottish left,historically a massive force,left a vacuum that the SNP has filled,and so far the desire for change or progress has been diverted to the dead-end of the independence debate.Money talks,and the Tories,with the pork barrel politics we started to see in yesterday's budget,will,I think,make in-roads north of the border.Starmer's approach towards Scottish Labour will not achieve much success,imo.
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Dicky Betts
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Who does Starmer play for. Is he capped, forward or back?
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Dic Penderyn
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No idea,but wigged not capped,constantly moves between the two,and his colour is purple(more blue than red).
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ap sior
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This. The right is now choking the left. The BBC is not holding the Government to account. Hancock given an easy ride, Patel NOT appearing on media, I was disappointed that Rutnam accepted a pay off. Shame he didn't have his day in Court. Patel an BJ would have had to answer under oath. And I mean answer not spout bullpoo. Even the Speaker now no longer holds BJ to account when he doesn't answer a question put to him.
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Jones2004
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Poverty can mainly be lessened by raising the minimum wage, using the fiscal power of the state to invest, and raising benefits- all of which are under Westminster control. I believe the SNP have asked for drug policy to be devolved but the Tories refuse. Although the SNP do need to accept blame for education the money for it is ultimately dependent (unless they cut other areas even more) on how much the Scottish Government is allowed to spend (which is again controlled by Westminster). Hard to see how those three things can be used as proof of SNP failings.
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SA14
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I wish there was a Labour government. Everything would be perfect in the world.
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Dic Penderyn
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Poverty may well be lessened by the means you state,but the SNP is incapable of any constructive approach with any government in Westminster:political expediency in the quest for another referendum prevents that.Meanwhile 250,000 Scottish children live in poverty.Sturgeon felt the need to apologise to the Scottish public re.the massive increase in drug deaths,and is health not devolved?The SNP's centrist approach is,in any case,facing growing criticism in Scotland-they need no critics or apologists outside their borders.Political discourse in Scotland has for too long revolved around a protracted argument about a flag,to the massive detriment of the Scottish people.
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Dai Guevara
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Most Labour leaders are knighted after they betray their working class supporters. Starmer had already achieved this and the thinking must have been that his leadership would have reassured the billionaire media, and that their coverage wouldn't then be so nasty and negative because they could be confident of retaining the status-quo and their fortunes. End result -they leave him alone but if he was stupid enough to think that they would start backing policies that help most Labour voters at the expense of their rich friends then he really isn't as bright as some think he is.
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I see that the UK and scottish govt rightly pushed up over 150,000 learning disabled people in the covid vaccine queue in England to 6th in line due to their multiple health issues and the increased risk of death according to recent scientific data. However Ive not heard the WAG's stance on this?
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dr_martinov
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The Government has acted unlawfully and also Johnson has stood up and lied about this in the HoC.
So tell me, how is this acceptable?
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ap sior
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Scottish Tories are asking Sturgeon to resign for lying to Parliament. Wonder what their stance will be on this one.
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GPR - Rochester
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Sturgeon is a pretty impressive operator but this Salmond enquiry may be one hurdle too far. She has made a pretty powerful enemy who is hell bent on revenge. Boris will be secretly dancing a highland jig around No 10 as this internal SNP power struggle continues to take centre stage from Independence.
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GPR - Rochester
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As for Kier Starmer he is a rather grey politician and lacks the vote winning charisma which, love him or loathe him, Boris possesses by the bucket load. In no way shape or form can Boris ever be described as a safe pair of hands but he wins elections and that keeps his enemies, of which there are many, within his party onside for now.
Politics and the pursuit of power is and always has been a dirty and corrupt world infested by individuals whose real aim is self inflation. The poor & needy of our society are far too often seen as hindrances to that pursuit of power. When they are seen as the real route to power then attitudes may change.
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Dic Penderyn
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Politicians rarely resign these days:they tend to say "sorry"instead.
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dr_martinov
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Sarkozy also jailed for bribing a judge. It's quite bad times all round.
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You're right, of course, but don't you think that Boris would be in a far more difficult position by now (disastrous handling of COVID being just his latest 'triumph') if the BBC and more newspapers were on his case? He gets an absurdly easy ride from the Tories who run these organisations.
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