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    • Chas on Spot The Problem: “Does anyone else find it amazing that in the past 300 odd years no historian, scholar, or politician has realised…Aug 27, 17:12
    • Northcode on Spot The Problem: ““…In practice, the First Minister would likely remove the Lord Advocate themselves rather than risk the embarrassment of such a…Aug 27, 17:06
    • Mark Beggan on Spot The Problem: “There’s more than one way to skin a cat! What goes around comes around! Just don’t blame someone else for…Aug 27, 17:03
    • Rob on Spot The Problem: “Since it is now abundantly clear they is no “official route to getting this into court, when does the judicial…Aug 27, 16:58
    • Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “Marking your own jotters is De Rigeur these days, it’s one of the central pillars of Big State Socialism.Aug 27, 16:54
    • Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “Grrr, colonisers. There was me thinking that Two Tier Britain was entirely a creation of the Fabians based on favouring…Aug 27, 16:51
    • am firinn on Spot The Problem: “That’s not entirely true. Private prosecution used to be relatively common in Scotland before the growth of police forces in…Aug 27, 16:49
    • Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Perhaps you’re unaware of it, Jessie, but by putting that “battered” in there, you’re encouraging, or at least trivialising, sexual…Aug 27, 16:46
    • Northcode on Spot The Problem: ““…Holyrood could never remove the Lord Advocate, but somehow the U.K. Parliament could?” Your reading comprehension appears to be somewhat…Aug 27, 16:44
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Rev Stu… Can you encourage David Davis to raise this in the HoC that a bent FM and a bent…Aug 27, 16:43
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““Maybe David Davies should mention it in parliament” Maybe the Scots who care should take to the streets. And not…Aug 27, 16:32
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “You can mark your own homework? Damn! If only I’d known when I was at school. Still, I recon a…Aug 27, 16:31
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““most people outside of Scotland think the Scottish government is actually a Scottish government” FFS, James, the Scottish government levies…Aug 27, 16:24
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “So if devolution had never happened, Alf, Scotland’s status as a colony could never have been confirmed. Crivens! And you…Aug 27, 16:13
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “Oh give it a fucking rest, Northy. This has already been done to death. The Scottish Parliament can remove the…Aug 27, 16:03
    • Aidan on Spot The Problem: “So what you’re saying is that because it’s politically explosive Holyrood could never remove the Lord Advocate, but somehow the…Aug 27, 16:00
    • Andrea on Spot The Problem: “Reverend, is there going to be yet another letter from yourself or is this the end of the line? Maybe…Aug 27, 15:52
    • panda paws on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““…raised which is funded by the U.K. taxpayer” Nope. The UK taxpayer can’t pay its own bills, far less subsidise…Aug 27, 15:46
    • James Che on Spot The Problem: “The referral to the Supreme court is under the Crown of England under the The UK parliament which Scotland holds…Aug 27, 15:20
    • Alf Baird on Spot The Problem: ““The crown applies only to England under the Westminsters parliament acts” This should seem obvious, James, but is taking time…Aug 27, 15:17
    • Northcode on Spot The Problem: ““In the structure you have described “Westminster” plays no role at all.” Apart from the fact that the structure was…Aug 27, 15:11
    • James Che on Spot The Problem: “Tommo, Well done for checking out Scots laws, seeing as the money spoke of is mainly Scots finances that were…Aug 27, 15:10
    • Alf Baird on Spot The Problem: ““There a name for that” Prof Elkins refers to Anglo-imperial rule over annexed territories as ‘legalized lawlessness’. Westminster and its…Aug 27, 15:06
    • James Che on Spot The Problem: “Aidan, Scotland has never throughout history made a treaty of union with the Great Britain parliament or with the parliament…Aug 27, 14:59
    • James Che on Spot The Problem: “North code. Scotland has never entered into a treaty of union with the Great Britain parliament at any time in…Aug 27, 14:35
    • Tommo on Spot The Problem: “The offences of ‘misfeasance/misconduct in public office’ do not, as I understand it, exist under Scots law; however ‘Scots law…Aug 27, 14:32
    • James Che on Spot The Problem: “Stu, This is the complicated position you are having to deal with when it crown to the crown offices and…Aug 27, 14:19
    • willie on Spot The Problem: “So let me get this right. The COPFS commits murder but the system is if it decides to do nothing…Aug 27, 14:19
    • Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “If you believe any of that, you must be incredibly naive. Fabians have infiltrated every strata of the state apparatus…Aug 27, 14:18
    • agentx on Spot The Problem: “additional information: ” The appeal announced today by the information commissioner relates to a judgment made by the Court of…Aug 27, 14:15
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