The dour parsimonious Scotch, Wetherspoons, and drinking at 9am

[Orang Utan]

1. they made it illegal for letting agents to charge tenants' fees:
http://wayback.archive-it.org/3011/...s/2012/11/illegal-charges-on-tenants22112012#

 

[Pickman's model]

blair : scottish
brown : scottish
not sure they're good ads for your proposal

 

[SaskiaJayne]

Nicola Sturgeon is very nice. She should be Prime Minister.

 

[danny la rouge]

blair : scottish
brown : scottish
not sure they're good ads for your proposal

They are Scottish people. The proposal is for Scotland to rule the UK, not Scottish people.

 

[Orang Utan]

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[weepiper]

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[Orang Utan]

 

[Belushi]

Jacobite!

 

[blairsh]

They're above us tbf.

 

[Pickman's model]

They are Scottish people. The proposal is for Scotland to rule the UK, not Scottish people.

might as well let rockall rule the uk

 

[danny la rouge]

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2. Scotland has good ice cream shops.

 

[Pickman's model]

3. police batons will taste better under scottish rule, having been specially dipped in buckfast

 

[Johnny Vodka]

There's nothing progressive about the SNP.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gen...tish-party-leaders-admit-trying-cannabis.html

 

[Orang Utan]

There's nothing progressive about the SNP.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gen...tish-party-leaders-admit-trying-cannabis.html

eh?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

eh?

They're worse than Hitler.

 

[Orang Utan]

They're worse than Hitler.

how does having once smoked weed make you any less or more progressive than the next person?

 

[toblerone3]

SNP and the Greens holding the balance of power in Westminster after the election would be the best semi-possible scenario.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

how does having once smoked weed make you any less or more progressive than the next person?

Anti-legalisation, spouting the same old shit as the next political party, keeping to the safe ground. Come to glasgow and try staying out clubbing now after 3am. Us Scottish put up with a lot of crap from our leaders. Even laws which look progressive are actually centred around banning stuff and curtailing people's freedom.

 

[maomao]

how does having once smoked weed make you any less or more progressive than the next person?

I think he just googled 'cannabis' and 'SNP' assuming it would state the SNP's official anti legalisation policy whereas the actual article says nothing of the sort.

 

[FiFi]

SNP and the Greens holding the balance of power in Westminster after the election would be the best semi-possible scenario.

I like the sound of that.
Now, how can I, in a south-coast Tory/Lib-Dem marginal, help it to happen?

 

[The Boy]

There's nothing progressive about the SNP.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gen...tish-party-leaders-admit-trying-cannabis.html

What's the SNP got to do with it?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

What's the SNP got to do with it?

They're our leaders, no? And I get the impression many English peeps now look at the SNP and think "wouldn't it be great to have them in charge of us?"

 

[Celyn]

blair : scottish
brown : scottish
not sure they're good ads for your proposal

I don't think they count as "wonderful" or "progressive".

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Furthermore it's hard to see a country so bogged down in sectarianism as particularly progressive. Or am I just being negative?

 

[Celyn]

Anti-legalisation, spouting the same old shit as the next political party, keeping to the safe ground. Come to glasgow and try staying out clubbing now after 3am. Us Scottish put up with a lot of crap from our leaders. Even laws which look progressive are actually centred around banning stuff and curtailing people's freedom.

Sorry to hear about your clubbing disappointments. I probably won't cast my vote on the issue of nightclubs and their opening hours though. Come to think of it, isn't that sort of thing dealt with by the Council licensing board, which, in the case of Glasgow, is definitely Labour?

 

[weepiper]

Yeah the SNP are terrible bastards

 

[Orang Utan]

i never claimed they should rule. fuck em.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Sorry to hear about your clubbing disappointments. I probably won't cast my vote on the issue of nightclubs and their opening hours though. Come to think of it, isn't that sort of thing dealt with by the Council licensing board, which, in the case of Glasgow, is definitely Labour?

I don't really go clubbing any more, but I'm struggling to think of why anyone would hold Scotland as an example of a particularly progressive country on any front. I wouldn't vote Labour either.

 

[Celyn]

I don't really go clubbing any more, but I'm struggling to think of why anyone would hold Scotland as an example of a particularly progressive country on any front. I wouldn't vote Labour either.

You seemed to think clubbing >= 3 a.m. was a Very Important Thing in your earlier post.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

You seemed to think clubbing >= 3 a.m. was a Very Important Thing in your earlier post.

I know OU likes his nightlife. But I do think 3am licenses are backwards. Go to London and you can party till 7am. Go to Glasgow and everything shuts at 3am.