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    • Grace Green on According As We Need Them: “Great idea, Northcode. And as we abbreviated unionists to yoons, I suggest we call the colonialists “colons”.Jul 16, 11:53
    • sarah on According As We Need Them: “Tapaleibh!Jul 16, 11:52
    • James Cheyne on According As We Need Them: “Sam, What you say is true to a certain extent, What was not mentioned or explained to Scotland is that…Jul 16, 11:37
    • sam on According As We Need Them: “Alf, Here is a link to a paper on the use of the term, “Social Murder” and part of the…Jul 16, 11:32
    • Sven on According As We Need Them: “James Cheyne @ 10.06. Speaking personally, James, I voted against joining what was then termed “The Common Market” back in…Jul 16, 11:29
    • Aidan on According As We Need Them: “Food for thought – no it isn’tJul 16, 11:13
    • Andrew scott on According As We Need Them: “O/t Nurse Peggie cleared by nhs fife Now the sparks will fly -hopefully upton, gray and the board are SACKEDJul 16, 10:39
    • Oneliner on According As We Need Them: “Yep 16,000 is a good number considering MI5 isn’t a political partyJul 16, 10:38
    • James Cheyne on According As We Need Them: “I think most of Scots in more recent times recognise that the EU is one of the biggest perponents of…Jul 16, 10:06
    • Northcode on According As We Need Them: “I’m reconsidering my use of the term ‘unionist’ to describe… well, to describe unionists. I’m reconsidering my use of the…Jul 16, 10:00
    • James Cheyne on According As We Need Them: “Food for thought, Scotland is registered as a Country in the UN surprisingly just like England, by England although treated…Jul 16, 09:56
    • sam on According As We Need Them: “It is certainly possible for people to take an entirely different view from that of Aiden regarding the ICCPR and…Jul 16, 09:42
    • sam on According As We Need Them: “There is nothing at all in the links you gave to refute or undermine the research done by Professors Walsh…Jul 16, 09:04
    • Aidan on According As We Need Them: “Not to defend Angus Robertson, but the 20,000 people signing the Liberation petition doesn’t compare all that favourable to the…Jul 16, 08:50
    • Sven on According As We Need Them: “Aidan @ 06.54 “People were dying in anticipation of cuts.” Gosh, how that one made me giggle this morning, thankyou,…Jul 16, 08:40
    • Oneliner on According As We Need Them: “Angus Robertson, while an MP, sat on the House Of Commons Defence Committee. Quite a position for one from a…Jul 16, 08:05
    • Aidan on According As We Need Them: “Sure – see Leah Gunn Barrett’s substack: https://dearscotland.substack.com/p/the-scottish-government-surrenders Secondly, Article 25 is the part you want to look at. https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-civil-and-political-rightsJul 16, 08:03
    • Aidan on According As We Need Them: “https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(22)00130-2/fulltext https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/mortality-rates-among-men-and-women-impact-of-austerity/ This is where is comes fromJul 16, 08:00
    • sam on According As We Need Them: “Any evidence for this assertion of yours regarding a backdoor route to circumvent the Supreme Court judgement? Would you also…Jul 16, 07:50
    • Northcode on According As We Need Them: “Thank you, Sarah. TH said this about your contributions to this place: “Your information is enlightening and relevant…” I agree.Jul 16, 07:41
    • sam on According As We Need Them: “I have no idea what you are talking about. Do you have a reference or link to the “paper” in…Jul 16, 07:30
    • Alf Baird on According As We Need Them: ““I don’t know how Angus Robertson can reasonably claime ICCPR is not needed in Scotland.” Aye Sam, Angus Robertson an…Jul 16, 07:10
    • Aidan on According As We Need Them: “We’ve been around the houses with this one before. Despite being published in the Lancet, it’s a pretty dubious paper.…Jul 16, 06:58
    • Aidan on According As We Need Them: “Re the last paragraph, Ewan Kennedy is flat out wrong. The petitioner does believe that implementing the ICPPR provides a…Jul 16, 06:44
    • sam on According As We Need Them: “One of the Rights under the ICCPR is the right to life which is a protection against arbitrary deprivation of…Jul 16, 06:33
    • twathater on According As We Need Them: “TBQH Sarah I would disregard ANYTHING that Bastard Tax MOAN and his wee Scotland Hating sidekicks like Aydun Corporal Batshit…Jul 16, 01:58
    • sarah on According As We Need Them: “@ Northcode: “mirkie watter”. I like it, Northcode. Your knowledge of poetic forms puts me to shame.Jul 15, 22:58
    • sam on According As We Need Them: “https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52524-europeans-would-welcome-an-independent-scotland-into-the-eu “That Scotland may vote in a second independence referendum to leave the UK cannot be discounted, and Scottish nationalists…Jul 15, 21:43
    • sam on According As We Need Them: “The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a United Nations treaty that the UK has ratified (meaning…Jul 15, 21:38
    • Northcode on According As We Need Them: “Thanks, James. Here’s another: mirkie watter Rever stanes smuithed roond; shaped by watter no thair ain; drouned in silence, worn…Jul 15, 19:17
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