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    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “Goalposts shifted again. So the Scottish Government could dismiss the Lord Advocate. But the Scottish Government would just appoint a…Aug 27, 19:53
    • Northcode on Spot The Problem: “The Lord Advocate is also a government minister and serves as the principal legal adviser to the Scottish Government and…Aug 27, 19:37
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “That’s a wonderful gift you have there, Bob. Stamp your foot, wrinkle your nose, and you can transport yourself backwards…Aug 27, 19:29
    • Red on Spot The Problem: “If you didn’t laugh you’d cry Hayley 🙂Aug 27, 19:22
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““the colonizer hates theory’ (Memmi), which means the colonizer hates the truth” “Theory and truth are not the same thing”…Aug 27, 19:17
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “OK, Northy, so now you’re saying: 1. The LA is part of (an appointee of) the Scottish Government. 2. A…Aug 27, 19:02
    • Andrea on Spot The Problem: “@Hatey, I am not an indy supporter 😉Aug 27, 18:59
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Adults you say, Hatey? Look in a mirror… You’ll not find one there!Aug 27, 18:55
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““she achieved nothing in government except to make things worse” Ah, c’moan noo, Red. How can you have forgotten the…Aug 27, 18:50
    • James on Spot The Problem: “You’re on speed, right?Aug 27, 18:47
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “You need to grow up, Bob. The adults have forgiven far worse people for far worse things far more recently.…Aug 27, 18:37
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Spartan… Back to the here and now, and irrespective of the useful idiots with Scottish accents, of which there are…Aug 27, 18:33
    • Red on Spot The Problem: “You’ve got to ask yourself, why is Nicola Sturgeon being protected like this? She’s not clever, she’s not charismatic, she…Aug 27, 18:29
    • Alf Baird on Spot The Problem: ““And we would have been forever denied my favourite, the “cheese” quote.” Dinna forget Fanon’s prediction that a national party…Aug 27, 18:29
    • Northcode on Spot The Problem: ““It’s not the only option.” Legally, it is the only option. The Scotland Act 1998 provides for a single legal…Aug 27, 18:26
    • Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “A good analogy, except for the unavoidable fact that it’s our own fellow Scots who are entirely at fault here,…Aug 27, 18:13
    • agentx on Spot The Problem: ““James Che says: 27 August, 2026 at 3:20 pm The referral to the Supreme court is under the Crown of…Aug 27, 18:10
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Aha…site prick arrives, right on cue. Read up on a 1000 years of history genius and even you’ll run out…Aug 27, 18:08
    • Jim Thomson on Spot The Problem: “At my age, I wouldn’t dare.Aug 27, 18:03
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““no historian, scholar, or politician has realised that the union we entered into is in fact illegal” Too busy stuffing…Aug 27, 17:58
    • James Che on Spot The Problem: “Alf, You are correct in your analysis the Crown belongs to England under the acts passed by Westminster parliaments Of…Aug 27, 17:56
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “Good spot, am firinn. Would it be fair to say that even English parish councils are usually bundled in with…Aug 27, 17:52
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““physical assaults” Bob? Are you saying some big, bad, English barsturts roughed you up? Did they run away afterwords, or…Aug 27, 17:43
    • Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “@ Northcode says: 27 August, 2026 at 5:06 pm “Neither Scotland’s parliament nor a First Minister can sack a Lord…Aug 27, 17:38
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Don’t hold your breath… Agent Sturgeon has friends in high places.Aug 27, 17:29
    • am firinn on Spot The Problem: “Crikey. Even English parish councils – with whom the then Scottish Executive was tellingly compared – can levy taxes.Aug 27, 17:27
    • James Che on Spot The Problem: “Hatey, The Scottish government levies taxes in Scotland, as indeed HMRC do in Scotland from England, Except in Scotland having…Aug 27, 17:25
    • robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Absolutely! Like all these people who don’t take responsibility for the decades of coercive behaviour, gas lighting, financial abuse and…Aug 27, 17:24
    • Hatey Mchateface on Spot The Problem: “I get you, Northy. Even of HR did something you approved of, it would be for the wrong reasons, so…Aug 27, 17:15
    • Jim Thomson on Spot The Problem: “This story just appeared on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgy7lmlvldoAug 27, 17:15
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