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    • Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Every day a School Day. Turns out it has been really quite easy to stop boats, even humongous ones, all…Jan 7, 19:34
    • Northcode on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “I woke up this morning with the dim Scottish sunset… shining in. Then I found my nation in a brown…Jan 7, 19:24
    • sarah on Off-topic: “I share your worries about the state of the world. The USA is terrifying and so is UK, France, and…Jan 7, 19:10
    • Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “What the heck, I’ll bite. In each constituency, the Indy aspiring voters need to vote for whichever party (doesn’t matter…Jan 7, 19:09
    • Tinto Chiel on Off-topic: “Amen to all that. “It makes you worry for your grandchildren and great grandchildren what a world we leave them.”…Jan 7, 18:59
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “A trip down memory lane… Gordon Dangerfield: Law, Culture and Politics (17 Oct 2020) « STURGEON: “JE RECUSE” » «…Jan 7, 18:43
    • Young Lochinvar on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “H McH About a week ago I started the “getting blood out of a stone” process of asking a genuine…Jan 7, 17:06
    • James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “The SNP are doing the job it was meant to do, with the support and assistance of those other political…Jan 7, 16:47
    • James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Scot Finlayson, Pretty accurate analyses, I believe the Civil Servants are being challenge for parading in the trans marches while…Jan 7, 15:52
    • James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Alf Baird. The devolved parliament under Westminster along with the treaty of union is like one of those big Scams,…Jan 7, 15:42
    • Marie Clark on Off-topic: “No luck Tinto trying to get a reply from BDTT. I sincerely hope that he is well enough but perhaps…Jan 7, 15:26
    • Scot Finlayson on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “The transcult staffers rule the roost at Holyrood, every vote,policy,grant,committee decision and color of toilet paper will be vetted by…Jan 7, 15:22
    • James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “That pretendy Scottish parliament is showing the true purpose for what it was set up to do when the time…Jan 7, 15:16
    • Alf Baird on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: ““a shameful day” in a shameful chamber. ‘Shameful’ primarily because we ken the UK ‘union’ is a charade, it disna…Jan 7, 14:48
    • 100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Am not, and never will again. Let the party die.Jan 7, 14:43
    • Effijy on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “He will for the umpteenth time ask the big bully not to be a big bully and if he doesn’t…Jan 7, 14:35
    • Antoine Roquentin on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “The SNP doesn’t want independence,if you, or anyone else, honestly wants independence why would you vote SNP? Administrative fecklessness and…Jan 7, 14:27
    • Aidan on Failure To Learn: ““But not many people in the wider public get to hear about these” Well whose fault is that?Jan 7, 14:00
    • 100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “A vote for the SNP is a wasted vote because after the election the SNP will not use the vote…Jan 7, 13:47
    • 100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Cynicus, How can Swinney ask for a section 30 order after the election when his plan is to get a…Jan 7, 13:33
    • sarah on Failure To Learn: “@ Independent: “The Scottish Independence Party”. There is the Independence for Scotland Party. And they are co-operating with other 2014…Jan 7, 13:31
    • 100Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Like wings is saying, the percentages isn’t for the SNP. So why put out a plan for Independence and tell…Jan 7, 13:28
    • Campbell Clansman on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Swinney answering a question he wasn’t asked? The great political comedy “Yes, Prime Minister” had Jim Hacker telling Bernard Wooley:…Jan 7, 13:20
    • James Cheyne on Failure To Learn: “The fighting bravery of the Scots was never entirely subdued physically by England though, it took bribes of Scottish elites,…Jan 7, 13:14
    • Captain Caveman on And every day was exactly the same: “Very true Hatey, out the frying pan and into the proverbial fire 🙂 Well, at least we can all agree…Jan 7, 13:05
    • 100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Two things will happen after the election in May 1 the SNP will not get a majority and 2 the…Jan 7, 13:00
    • Cynicus on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Not hilarious but duplicitous. Swinney answered a question he wasn’t asked. The ONLY guarantee he can give in the event…Jan 7, 12:57
    • Campbell Clansman on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “The SNP and Greens live up to the words of Thomas Sowell: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid…Jan 7, 12:51
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Failure To Learn: “The above YouTube brings immediately to mind the statistics of catastrophic Scottish losses in WW1 provided by Sir Tom Devine…Jan 7, 12:50
    • 100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “We have extremely poor interviewers in Scotland, he’s ask the question only for swinney to take over the conversation. The…Jan 7, 12:49
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