danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Was unaware of his career path. Seems a strange thing for Sasaferrato to focus on.
Alex Salmond accused (and then cleared) of sexual misconduct.
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
he's been going through a strange patch recently, sas
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
He is a political appointment, after the previous political appointment was forced to resign for hypocrisy.
He's not a virologist, he's not an epidemiologist, he's a dentist.
They were calling him 'professor' for a while, until it sank in that an honorary 'professorship' at Dundee, in dentistry wasn't exactly inspiring confidence in the nation.
The utter disgrace (one of the SNP's many) is that Prof Hugh Pennington was ignored, because he is anti-independence. A world authority side-lined by Sturgeon through spite. That gives you measure of the SNP dross.
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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Oh Jesus.
any comment on that fake image you posted?
andysays
Love and solidarity
Does this have anything to do with the subject of the thread, ie the case against Alec Salmond and the fall-out/repercussions, or are you just in "throw any old shit at the SNP and hope some of it sticks" mode again?
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
The SNP are shit. 100% turd. What would throwing shit at shit achieve?
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
There is a lot more to the Pennington story than just that - and it all goes back to when Westminster formed the Food Standards Agency on the basis of the James Report and installed John Krebs as its first Chairman.
Pennington believed the agency should have been founded on his work into food hygiene (see the Pennington Reports 1997-2009) and he, not Krebs was entitled to be its first chairman.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Was it? Oh well.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Should it have been?
caught posting obvious lies. oh well.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
It certainly contributed significantly to the climate that resulted in the founding of the FSA - However Philip James was your solid government yes-man, whilst Pennington, despite his erudition had a rep for being a bit of a gnarly, loose-cannon.
I'd reckon that might have been why the politicians decided to keep him at arms length.
andysays
Love and solidarity
I don't know, TBH, what are you actually hoping to achieve?
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
The SNP mouthpiece killer b is on ignore.
OK, fuck that is bad, exclude the best man because he won't always agree with you.
OK, fuck that is bad, exclude the best man because he won't always agree with you.
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U wot?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I’m not sure what thread all this garbled incontinence belongs on, but it isn’t this one.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
More or less - But Pennington hasn't exactly covered himself in glory in the years since. He's taken every opportunity to stick the knife-in, including some very ill-advised digs right at the start of this pandemic.
Right or wrong, it doesn't make for a good indicator of him being the best guy for the job.
Although personally, I'd take a few drams with Hugh over a cup of tea with Phil.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
a pile of shit. or a big mess if your aim's off. try it and see.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I see Stuart Campbell is taking things well.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Anyway, it's nice to see that a resident of Bath is still taking interest in the affairs of a foreign country.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
You know KB! Your membership of the LP and living in England is just part of your long term plans bring about the complete victory of the SNP
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
andysays
Love and solidarity
Looks like he's gone straight from "ethics in games journalism" to "ethics in pro-Independence blogging", the fucking loon.
(apologies if we've had that joke before, I can't always keep track)
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
The only way is ethics.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
what a weird turn this took over the last couple of pages.
NS looks like she'll battle on, tarnished. My suspicion is that she'll quietly go in about a year, once the virus is a bit better controlled / liveable with.
If the SNP had sense Murrell would go much sooner. His incompetence has led to much of the toxicity. For his part, Salmond will quietly become an irrelevance over time. The once-quite-popular-leader who retired under a cloud and became so toxic that no one really wanted much to do with him any more. He is frenziedly bitter and I suspect will still be smoking away like a dormant volcano for a few years to come, muttering about SNP corruption to an ever dwindling audience. What's been fascinating about this whole sordid episode is staunch loony-right Unionist bigots like Andrew Neil being all over the media as though all his haemorrhoids had burst at once, lavishing Salmond's alleged "statesmanlike" qualities with oleaginous praise. See also Alex Massie, Iain Martin, & co.
Unfortunately this is what happens when you have a hegemonic party of government buttressed by a well oiled and well funded electoral machine. The opposition are absolutely terrible in Scotland; the main party, already as popular as tertiary syphilis north of the border, led by a football linesman who isn't even a member of parliament in Holyrood; a neo-Blairite Party led by a shameless, lightweight hypocrite; and, if we have to consider what's left of the Liberal Democrats at all, the hapless burst-capilliaried tumshie that leads them would struggle to cut through in a local council parks maintenance committee. An absolute laughing-stock.
This is not healthy, and I say that as a supporter of independence. I am not an SNP supporter however and have lived in areas where the SNP are hegemonic locally; they don't like it when independent speakers give their own take on the subject in public meetings. They are the kind of mediocre, low-calibre, low-wattage intelligences that can easily be found in Labour or Tory groupings where they are dominant. There's nothing much to admire.
What has happened, in the absence of a viable and credible political opposition, is that it has grown within the party itself, and as a result it is currently a querulous binfire. Dissent around the handling of gender / trans issues, around the tactics and strategy for IndyRef2, around more long running disputes such as NATO, has been allowed to fester- such that opposition platforms exist within the party of government rather than without.
But at the moment if your view is that Scotland would be better governing itself- and I am still of that view- there's no-one else to vote for. Sure, you could vote Green, if you're a middle class, young urban voter obsessed with gender issues and environmental lifestyleism- they don't really seem interested in appealing beyond that narrow demographic. The there's the amateurish rump of the SSP led by shouty Colin, who everyone's largely forgotten about. Slim pickings. But, we have to remember that independence in Scotland is about all of us, not just political leaderships and personalities.
The current problems can't stop a historical trajectory.
NS looks like she'll battle on, tarnished. My suspicion is that she'll quietly go in about a year, once the virus is a bit better controlled / liveable with.
If the SNP had sense Murrell would go much sooner. His incompetence has led to much of the toxicity. For his part, Salmond will quietly become an irrelevance over time. The once-quite-popular-leader who retired under a cloud and became so toxic that no one really wanted much to do with him any more. He is frenziedly bitter and I suspect will still be smoking away like a dormant volcano for a few years to come, muttering about SNP corruption to an ever dwindling audience. What's been fascinating about this whole sordid episode is staunch loony-right Unionist bigots like Andrew Neil being all over the media as though all his haemorrhoids had burst at once, lavishing Salmond's alleged "statesmanlike" qualities with oleaginous praise. See also Alex Massie, Iain Martin, & co.
Unfortunately this is what happens when you have a hegemonic party of government buttressed by a well oiled and well funded electoral machine. The opposition are absolutely terrible in Scotland; the main party, already as popular as tertiary syphilis north of the border, led by a football linesman who isn't even a member of parliament in Holyrood; a neo-Blairite Party led by a shameless, lightweight hypocrite; and, if we have to consider what's left of the Liberal Democrats at all, the hapless burst-capilliaried tumshie that leads them would struggle to cut through in a local council parks maintenance committee. An absolute laughing-stock.
This is not healthy, and I say that as a supporter of independence. I am not an SNP supporter however and have lived in areas where the SNP are hegemonic locally; they don't like it when independent speakers give their own take on the subject in public meetings. They are the kind of mediocre, low-calibre, low-wattage intelligences that can easily be found in Labour or Tory groupings where they are dominant. There's nothing much to admire.
What has happened, in the absence of a viable and credible political opposition, is that it has grown within the party itself, and as a result it is currently a querulous binfire. Dissent around the handling of gender / trans issues, around the tactics and strategy for IndyRef2, around more long running disputes such as NATO, has been allowed to fester- such that opposition platforms exist within the party of government rather than without.
But at the moment if your view is that Scotland would be better governing itself- and I am still of that view- there's no-one else to vote for. Sure, you could vote Green, if you're a middle class, young urban voter obsessed with gender issues and environmental lifestyleism- they don't really seem interested in appealing beyond that narrow demographic. The there's the amateurish rump of the SSP led by shouty Colin, who everyone's largely forgotten about. Slim pickings. But, we have to remember that independence in Scotland is about all of us, not just political leaderships and personalities.
The current problems can't stop a historical trajectory.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
They're not a mouthpiece you liar
You got caught out, don't even have the decency to apologise and now block them?? are you the oldest petulant child going??
Your vitriol displays that you, and the other cap doffing shitty unionists, are losing, LOSING
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
They're not a mouthpiece you liar
You got caught out, don't even have the decency to apologise and now block them?? are you the oldest petulant child going??
Your vitriol displays that you, and the other cap doffing shitty unionists, are losing, LOSING
Join him.
I am not going to be abused by an irrelevant wankstain such as you.
Try and get your tongue out of Sturgeon's arse, if you can.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
So dig your heels in is it? What a big honourable man you are
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