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Biplane posted:Counterpoint: england fuckin sucks balls Agreed and its mostly Englands fault that Scotland is in such disrepair. Westminster either doesn't think about Scotland or when it does it thinks about them with contempt. From that point its only smart to leave. Otoh I'm worried about rhe SNP cause they do seem to be a similarly corrupt and unserious government just with much better messaging. Sturgeon has blatantly had zero control over the covid response, she pretty much just comes out the same day and says whatever bojo said but cogently as if it's her own plan. Imo this would be a really good time to admit the SNP can't control anything and is basically a LARP government and it endangers Scottish lives. That she hasn't shows that like in the UK the kayfabe of pretending to govern is more important than lives.
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i think the symbolic victory of independence passing and UK saying no is good enoujgh for my funniness appettite
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its even funnier if ireland reunites but scotland isnt allowed to
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bird. posted:its even funnier if Northumbria breaks away but scotland isnt allowed to
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Communist Thoughts posted:Agreed and its mostly Englands fault that Scotland is in such disrepair. But is this a case that Sturgeon had zero control because she was incompetent, or because she constituionally didn't have the power to carry out a substantively different prevention strategy? (genuine question)
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multijoe posted:But is this a case that Sturgeon had zero control because she was incompetent, or because she constituionally didn't have the power to carry out a substantively different prevention strategy? (genuine question) I don't think she's incompetent so I think it has to be the latter. However they are meant to have control over the Scottish NHS but I guess that's also a fib. Accounting for population size Scotland has done as bad or worse than England in some places. Which you would expect since its way more neglected. You don't hear this in Scotland at all though and Nicolas support has gone up the whole time.
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it does make sense, in a way sturgeon's very good at channeling the whole common-sense leadership aura, and this way she gets to have the spin several ways - she both gets to present as the Competent and Qualified mirror to johnson, she gets to look In Charge and powerful and she gets to piggyback off the tory media machine as they run cover for the government
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I'm that way the media reality distortion field is even stronger for the SNP than the tories If bojo has hosed up then by the same metric so has sturgeon. But whereas you will hear in England of bojo being a failure, even if ofc he's not gonna resign for it, you don't in Scotland apart from in the very minimally influential anti SNP rags But she keeps going and giving briefings outlining her measures (huh weird bojo announces the same measures 2 hours later) and why theyr safe as if she had planned to still be being ravaged by the disease a year later. It's so odd that I'm wondering if her advisors aren't telling her the bad stuff, early on the Scots government was ignoring a lot of deaths and during that period she was saying stuff like "I can't tell you how much better I feel telling you there's no deaths today (when there were a couple dozen)" So I wonder if she started to crack for a bit and they had to soften stuff for her, she does seem to be more human than a Westminster politician who loves death.
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Still mad at BoJo for not dying of Covid.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Still mad at BoJo for not dying of Covid. Him and Trump both should have.
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If Scotland leaves and rejoins the eu then maybe they'll get to set the language standard for eu communications and really rub it in some faces
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Swaegsthetics posted:If Scotland leaves and rejoins the eu then maybe they'll get to set the language standard for eu communications and really rub it in some faces lol what explain this further this sounds funny
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mrmcd posted:Him and Trump both should have. Trump actually would have if they hadn't given him the ambrosia too, it's bullshit
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gently caress around and find out, Nick
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bird. posted:lol what explain this further this sounds funny imagine some English eel exporter trying to read pages and pages of regs and forms but it's been crammed full of dialectal variants from Scottish English preferably as confusing as possible
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Swaegsthetics posted:imagine some English eel exporter trying to read pages and pages of regs and forms but it's been crammed full of dialectal variants from Scottish English preferably as confusing as possible lmao 20 years down the road they teach scottish english as the primary form of english in colleges in or adjacent to the EU
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the word oval office has replaced all nouns and you just need to figure it out
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well on the surface of the issue I think I support the idea of teachers getting a mild pay rise but the language here makes me very uncomfortable
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bitmap posted:well on the surface of the issue I think I support the idea of teachers getting a mild pay rise but the language here makes me very uncomfortable I'm pretty sure LBC regards the lib dems as "far left" tbh. It's content is specifically tailored to gammons and daily mail readers (but I repeat myself).
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Swaegsthetics posted:imagine some English eel exporter trying to read pages and pages of regs and forms but it's been crammed full of dialectal variants from Scottish English preferably as confusing as possible will they have been “translated” by that American?
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Kerbtree posted:will they have been “translated” by that American? that is pretty funny
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Swaegsthetics posted:imagine some English eel exporter trying to read pages and pages of regs and forms but it's been crammed full of dialectal variants from Scottish English preferably as confusing as possible
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Samovar posted:What was this? This is why you take screenshots people, it was LBC telling everyone that teachers are hard-line leftists and shouldn't be allowed to go on strike for meagre increase in pay
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and lo they took down the tweet the loving cowards
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Hard-left unionists are plotting together to force MPs to give them a pay rise, as teachers are told to prepare for strikes if their 'demands' are not met. @NickFerrariLBC asks: should teachers be allowed to strike? pic.twitter.com/0Sjcf6GCk0 — LBC (@LBC) February 15, 2021
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Samovar posted:What was this? 
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Boris getting his nips out for the lads https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1361296764393906178?s=19
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frankenfreak posted:Very very disrespectful. all of those tweets now lost!
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Lmao that this guy has the power of life and death over millions
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Swaegsthetics posted:imagine some English eel exporter trying to read pages and pages of regs and forms but it's been crammed full of dialectal variants from Scottish English preferably as confusing as possible When i first arrived here from England it took me 2 years to figure out why the local barbers was called The Nut Hoose
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Jose posted:Boris getting his nips out for the lads you could cut glass with those bad boys. drat, boris.
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mrmcd posted:Him and Trump both should have. them and bolsanaro living through it proves that it doesn't kill evil people
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Dravs posted:Isn't this the area of sea that has something like 1,000,000 tons of unexploded munitions from WW2 sitting in it? And the trench is so deep a tunnel under it would feel more like a roller coaster? In 1995, phosphorus bombs washed up on Scottish coasts, coinciding with the laying of the Scotland-Northern Ireland pipeline (SNIP), a 24-inch (610-millimetre) gas interconnector constructed by British Gas. In the prior five years, antitank grenades had been washing up on Northern Irish and Isle of Man shore
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V. Illych L. posted:plenty of functional countries are about the size of scotland, though i suspect that you're right in that there's a hint of the brexiteer delusion regarding the likely outcome of a separation If Northern Ireland separates from the UK and rejoins the EU, suddenly the EU has massive motivations to secure Scotland and build infrastructure there. I mean, other than the motivation of "gently caress the English" which is already the most unifying sentiment across the various EU factions. GIUK gap turns into the GIS gap and all those resources are the EU's. And Norway's, sure, but Norway's fine with cooperation on building and maintaining power plants.
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