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    • Andy Wiltshire on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Off topic (perhaps) – which is worse, an Englishman, or a unionist Scot?Jun 4, 11:06
    • Onlooker on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “As for this psychotic science fiction drivel (allow me to gratefully tuck my forelock that it’s being developed in Scotland!),…Jun 4, 10:53
    • Hatey McHateface on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “It maybe just looks that way to you. There’s a few things the average citizens, both north and south of…Jun 4, 10:52
    • Onlooker on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Farage was hounded into a pub in Edinburgh years ago. Think he’ll have forgotten? He has no love for Scotland.…Jun 4, 10:50
    • James on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Don’t argue with “Aidan”. “Aidan” knows EVERYTHING.Jun 4, 10:08
    • robertkknight on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Sure, there’d be impacts on public services. However, in the absence of any means of achieving Indy through a democratic…Jun 4, 09:33
    • Northcode on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “It’s like I said, Wullie…kissin’! It just don’t last.Jun 4, 09:22
    • sam on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Of course he’s lying. Once, the SNP used the Conservative party in power as the bogey. Now it is Reform.…Jun 4, 09:18
    • Wullie on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Never has a people been so despised and hated by their political representatives and civic institutions as the ScotsJun 4, 09:14
    • Northcode on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Kissin’ don’t last, cookery do. Chains they don’t last, people do. When the ‘union’ be dead, the Scots they last…Jun 4, 08:35
    • Robert Hughes on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “So are we back to * certain * words being proscribed , leading to post not appearing ? That posturing…Jun 4, 08:14
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: ““…no great mischief if they fall. How can you better employ a secret enemy…”Jun 4, 08:13
    • Hatey McHateface on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Were they press ganged? Were they volunteers? Were they living in community relationships that made resistance to peer pressure nigh…Jun 4, 07:38
    • Hatey McHateface on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Not a bad post. You need to re-think a couple of points though: “Non payment of road fund tax, (non…Jun 4, 07:11
    • Shetto Al on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Realistically, the SNP leadership are never going to voluntarily put their Holyrood gravybus at risk.Jun 4, 06:13
    • robertkknight on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Willie says… “So you can’t have independence of you elect a majority of Westminster independence MPs And you can’t have…Jun 4, 00:48
    • Rev. Stuart Campbell on Tell Them You’re Frightened: “It’s troubling that some indy supporters think the SNP still have any interest in independence, but here we are.Jun 4, 00:13
    • willie on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “So you can’t have independence of you elect a majority of Westminster independence MPs And you can’t have independence if…Jun 3, 23:34
    • JockMcT on Here And There: “Farage, like Trump, is an opportunist and a disrupter. He might actually be good for our Independence cause in the…Jun 3, 23:32
    • JockMcT on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Voting SNP seems increasingly crazy in any scenario. What other options do we have? Should we all be voting Reform…Jun 3, 23:26
    • Hatey McHateface on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “Aye, Bob, what we need is a comedian. They make fantastically effective, smart, charismatic and popular political leaders. Instead, in…Jun 3, 23:00
    • Confused on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “the funny thing is – when there is an election in a foreign land and there is no exit poll,…Jun 3, 22:54
    • Hatey McHateface on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: ““bulk shipping raw water” It keeps a lot better in transit if it’s cooked first.Jun 3, 22:45
    • Hatey McHateface on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: ““cholorinated chicken” Ah yes. The foodstuff that killed and injured precisely 0% of the millions of Brits that (before President…Jun 3, 22:41
    • robertkknight on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “The spiv, like his Yank equivalent, is just a fricking gameshow host. One says “you’re fired”. The other, having persuaded…Jun 3, 22:31
    • John Foerster on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “With all due respect for the interesting thought experiment: it rests on a single poll of n=704 (after weighing). Despite…Jun 3, 22:09
    • agent x on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: ““whilst Scotland has a relative abundance of fresh water compared to an increasing number of parts of the world that…Jun 3, 22:08
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: “To me the single most cataclysmic consequence of the 1707 Union with England was the handing over of our manhood…Jun 3, 22:01
    • Mia on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: ““Turkeys voting for Christmas” That is precisely how this proposal comes across to me. I am so angry about this,…Jun 3, 21:55
    • Hatey McHateface on And No Great Mischief Should They Fall: ““the plundering of Scotland becomes more blatant by the second” A second is a geological aeon. It’s all milliseconds and…Jun 3, 21:40
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