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| Independence Day 2: Resturgeonce |
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44 | 21.36% |
| ScotPol - Unclustering this gently caress |
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19 | 9.22% |
| Trainspotting 2: Independence is my heroin |
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9 | 4.37% |
| Indyref II: Boris hosed a Dead Country |
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14 | 6.80% |
| ScotPol: Wings over Bullshit |
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8 | 3.88% |
| Independence 2: Cameron Lied, UK Died |
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24 | 11.65% |
| Scotpol IV: I Vow To Flee My Country |
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14 | 6.80% |
| ScotPol - A twice in a generation thread |
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17 | 8.25% |
| ScotPol - Where Everything's hosed Up and the Referendums Don't Matter |
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15 | 7.28% |
| ScotPol Thread: Dependence Referendum Incoming |
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2 | 0.97% |
| Indyref II: The Scottish Insturgeoncy |
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10 | 4.85% |
| ScotPol Thread: Act of European Union |
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5 | 2.43% |
| ScotPol - Like Game of Thrones only we wish we would all die |
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25 | 12.14% |
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forkboy84 posted:See, that's not believable, nobody likes the Accies. A trustworthy saying. Jedit posted:It never was. Partly because you don't support their team, but mainly because nobody supports Partick Thistle so they know you're lying. My boss is a genuine Thistle fan. Team morale is not high.
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Dec 12, 2017 14:58
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One of the great things about Ross County making it to the premier is that I've mostly stopped being asked who my "big team" are. Though answering Stirling Albion to that always seemed to cause delightful frustration in those asking. In any case, it seems suitably left field enough to be able to slag both ugly sisters with relative impunity.
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Dec 12, 2017 19:28
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An outbreak of socialism http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-42339146 quote:Scotland's finance secretary is expected to confirm income tax rises for middle and higher earners when he unveils his draft budget for next year.
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Dec 14, 2017 11:57
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The nitty-gritty. https://twitter.com/BBCDouglasF/status/941314957945253888 So it's a slight tax cut for the lowest incomes and a slight rise for those on medium and high incomes.
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Dec 14, 2017 15:38
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Leggsy posted:The nitty-gritty. Doesn't look too bad, nothing earth shattering in there. Be interested to see what they intend to spend the money on.
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Dec 14, 2017 16:13
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Well, it's something I guess. Would have been fine with the lower rates staying the same but gently caress, this almost counts as radical by SNP standards, low as they are. Shame they continue to fail to do owt about council tax being a regressive piece of shite though.
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Dec 14, 2017 16:29
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Aramoro posted:Doesn't look too bad, nothing earth shattering in there. Be interested to see what they intend to spend the money on. £40 per person?
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Dec 14, 2017 16:31
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Leggsy posted:The nitty-gritty. This is great news, and very glad to see the SNP (or any ScotGov) using finance powers in progressive ways. Small changes, sure, but the right direction and diverging from Westminster sets up some potentially interesting contrasts further down the road. Sadly in terms of progressive governance it's still somewhat undermined by the continued and relentless starving of local government, which always seems to be ignored or only glancingly mentioned in coverage: quote:The budget announcement included:
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Dec 14, 2017 23:59
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Leggsy posted:The nitty-gritty. Is the intermediate rate new or going from 20 to 21p?
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Dec 17, 2017 18:42
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There's two new bands in scotland Uk rates 0% 20% 40% 45% Scottish rates 0% 19% 20% 21% 41% 46%
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Dec 18, 2017 17:39
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Wherein Merryn Somerset Webb asks us to consider the plight of the needy at Christmas. "Say you are dual-earning family both on about £150,000 with a few kids. Nicola Sturgeon just stole your skiing holiday" https://archive.is/RYYyd
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Dec 18, 2017 22:18
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Coohoolin posted:Wherein Merryn Somerset Webb asks us to consider the plight of the needy at Christmas. Wonder where you got this archive.is link from...
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Dec 18, 2017 23:19
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Coohoolin posted:"Say you are dual-earning family both on about £150,000 with a few kids. Nicola Sturgeon just stole your skiing holiday" 
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Dec 19, 2017 00:36
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Coohoolin posted:Wherein Merryn Somerset Webb asks us to consider the plight of the needy at Christmas. So take your skiing holidays in Aviemore you middle class parasites.
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Dec 19, 2017 00:44
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forkboy84 posted:So take your skiing holidays in Aviemore you middle class parasites. I think £300,000 / year household earnings is doing a bit better than middle class I checked, and based on 2015 figures for the UK £112,000 puts you in the 98th percentile of wages £162,000 puts you in the 99th percentile jre fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Dec 19, 2017 |
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Dec 19, 2017 00:57
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Pretty sure I know who people earning £150,000 who would cry about losing another £1k in taxes were voting for already.
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Dec 19, 2017 01:19
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Pretty sure I know who people earning £150,000 who would cry about losing another £1k in taxes were voting for already. Yeah, the SNP already lost any 1%er votes they had when they failed to secure independence and Salmond's planned corporation tax breaks vanished. A tax adjustment isn't going to hurt them now. Somerset Webb is wrong on one point, however: it'll only steal their second skiing holiday.
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Dec 19, 2017 09:23
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You can get a cheap skiing holiday in Bosnia jfyi.
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Dec 19, 2017 09:26
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It’s a slippery slope argument.
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Dec 19, 2017 10:27
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Dec 19, 2017 11:25
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I'm going to have to pay about thirty quid more a year. That's like one fewer pint a month!
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Dec 19, 2017 11:45
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The Scottish Sargon, Stu Campbell has outdone himself with this blatant transphobic hit piece. Guess his declining readership must be getting to him. Stick around for the horrid push-polling "evidence" if you can stomach his smug dross.
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Jan 4, 2018 03:28
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HappyCamperGL posted:I'm going to have to pay about thirty quid more a year. That's like one fewer pint a month! £2.50 a pint?!
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Jan 4, 2018 09:51
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Leggsy posted:The Scottish Sargon, Stu Campbell has outdone himself with this blatant transphobic hit piece. Starting reading the comments, don't read the comments 
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Jan 4, 2018 10:06
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jre posted:Starting reading the comments, don't read the comments Good advice for everywhere on the internet, but when it's Wanks Outside Scotland the article can safely be included as part of the comments.
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Jan 4, 2018 12:57
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I guess the UK government delaying its gender recognition changes after the daily flood of moral panic from the press means we've got to have ourselves a moral panic on Scotland as well. Maybe a bit more difficult given that the organisations running the supposedly-under-threat women's spaces in Scotland have come out in favour of the change but I'm sure they've just been forced to say this by the all-powerful trans lobby. Luckily the SNP has never ever announced a good policy and then walked it back on the fear it might change something for somebody somewhere so all should still be good. For those wanting to feel like they're doing something to counteract whatever Stu thinks he's doing, the consultation is still open until the start of March. There's a nice website here explaining succinctly what the issues are, but for some reason they don't mention the 100% inevitable result of the legislation where all women's toilets everywhere are abolished so they're probably hiding something I guess.
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Jan 4, 2018 20:15
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Such honest arguing, going to the weird 13 year olds on tumblr to conflate trans rights with deliberately hyperbolic and cherry picked negative representations of social issues.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:04
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Did you know that some trans women have been caught using rude language to refer to their genitals on the internet? Truly these are the end times.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:10
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Coohoolin posted:Such honest arguing, going to the weird 13 year olds on tumblr to conflate trans rights with deliberately hyperbolic and cherry picked negative representations of social issues. Wake up: this is what he’s always done about every issue.
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Jan 5, 2018 02:24
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Tumblr is shite. But so is Stu. That's my hot take on the issue.
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Jan 5, 2018 14:19
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Extreme0 posted:Tumblr is shite. Tumblr is largely harmless while Stu has still got a large following among Nats, which seems immune to his frequent nasty and bigoted outbursts.
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Jan 5, 2018 14:27
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forkboy84 posted:Tumblr is largely harmless while Stu has still got a large following among Nats, which seems immune to his frequent nasty and bigoted outbursts. They both make me cringe.
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Jan 5, 2018 14:57
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Extreme0 posted:They both make me cringe. Tumblr is a place where teens try to work out their identities in a supportive space. They go on a lot of weird detours in that journey but it's a fundamental good for queer kids. Unfortunately transphobic people love to cherry pick the weird things confused pubescents say to hold as an example of all queer kind.
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Jan 8, 2018 01:06
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Many Scottish nationalists are very excited at the idea of another referendum this year. It’s going to be fascinating to see it play out if that is the case - I can’t see Westminster going along with it. Will Sturgeon do a Puigedemont?
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Jan 8, 2018 01:22
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I think mainly you're excited at the prospect of scottish nationalists being excited. You should really seek a different form of entertainment one of these days.
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Jan 8, 2018 02:08
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Angepain posted:I think mainly you're excited at the prospect of scottish nationalists being excited. You should really seek a different form of entertainment one of these days. Why?
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Jan 8, 2018 08:16
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Pissflaps posted:Why? It's not healthy.
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Jan 8, 2018 23:14
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Pissflaps posted:Many Scottish nationalists are very excited at the idea of another referendum this year. It’s going to be fascinating to see it play out if that is the case - I can’t see Westminster going along with it. Seek help, friend.
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Jan 8, 2018 23:18
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Alertrelic posted:Seek help, friend. It's a Vichy-ous circle?
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I liked the story on the news tonight about the former Scottish Tory treasurer who got banned from holding a directorship because he tried to hide assets after bankruptcy has been running businesses through proxies. And living lavishly. And the people who should be enforcing it have gently caress all in the way of money to actively check up on if the convicted fraudsters are committing fraud again. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-42597623 Can't post the article as on a phone but you should read it.
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