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Kate Forbes moves to SNP leadership favourite – politicalbetting.com
Kate Forbes moves to SNP leadership favourite – politicalbetting.com
This was her Tweeting and video announcing her move.
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"If I had believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market, and passionately committed to going into it. I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel. And of denationalising it and renationalising it. On capital punishment, I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolishionist. I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac; but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving schizophrenic."
have you seen the state of Scotlands finances ? And she's been in charge of them.
Kate Peron
So SKS is a Tory
Forbes is a Tory
Karl Marx is a Tory
etc.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-targets-netherlands-north-sea-infrastructure-says-dutch-intelligence-2023-02-20/
Since it was after the cold war, they had opened the files up, so we could all look.
I especially remember the estimates for Troll B - a Russian 65cm torpedo was predicated to barely dent one of the legs in a contact explosion. For the conventional model. The nuclear version would destroy one leg, and smash up the topsides and render it all radioactive - but the other legs would probably survive!
And this is basically proved by PBs most headbanger Tories hailing Forbes as the next Margaret Thatcher, and playing down her illiberal values as no problem at all.
Maybe we'll have an interesting Scottish Parliament election to get our teeth into this spring?
Wouldn't that be exciting?
Personally, I like it....
Non observant Catholic, Celtic supporting non SNP member pal: I’d vote for Forbes because she’s a ride.
There is a very fundamental difference between the pro-business "Salmondite" approach and Toryism. Salmond and I assume Forbes are pro-business because they want to enrich the nation. Today's Tory party is pro-business because it wants to enrich its spiv donors and patrons.
https://twitter.com/Faytuks/status/1627655159051350017
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/roald-dahl-censorship-row-matilda-sensitivity-rishi-sunak-gobblefunk-b1061640.html
Also: that assumes SGs don't block the election of a new FM (as they well could given the numbers).
The SNP's opportunity is a new leader who is able to draw support from across the political spectrum. They aren't left or right wing so that is achievable. Sturgeon tested to breaking point how far you can push non-issues over actual issues, so the new leader will have to be focused on jobs and services.
So the threat from Forbes is that she is competent. Talk about Scotland freed of its shackles and doing all the things people want, rather than the Sturgeon approach of Scotland is shackled so we can't do anything and its Westminster's fault.
They'd want to telegraph the reason for that, in advance.
Roman dildo discovered after experts re-examine 2000-year-old wooden phallus found near Hadrian's Wall
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1627650968253870080?t=6D2FNHBKYMUTT9uWv6xLOw&s=19
https://news.sky.com/story/roman-dildo-discovered-after-experts-re-examine-2000-year-old-wooden-phallus-found-near-hadrians-wall-12815732
Edit. Alistair has stuck the whole thing up before me.
… “We gave Biden security guarantees for a visit to Kyiv although we could have threatened him”.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1627628298065903617
Totally believable.
If Forbes wins, will they still be any point in Alba continuing?
Seems to be quite a bit going round atm.
Feeling fine other than a bit tired/under the weather.
Other 2 are right wing Socialist haters
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-61623669.amp
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/4068929/kate-forbes-calls-for-cut-in-fuel-duty-to-save-scottish-families-from-being-plunged-into-poverty/
Do these Tory brexiteers not realise that the Brexit 'dream' is in danger of dying if they don't accept some sort of compromise? We're likely to have a Labour government in less than two years. So what do they think is going to happen. Starmer will do a deal similar to Sunak or even take the UK back into the customs union.
Perhaps they feel the Brexit dream has already died. They just want to fight the EU as they have nothing left to lose.
I know absolutely nothing about any of them. Will watch with interest, but having seen the last Tory contests, presumably the debate risks feeling quite divisive
It stopped raining briefly, but it was January.
If they backslide on the Protocol then it will encourage backsliding on the bonfire bill which imperils their ability to increase the maximum working week and cut health and safety.
Is is a daily run off like the Tory system, with the last two going to the membership?
But as you say, they bought the rights to the work, and are entitled to make fools of themselves.
That’s even sillier than those figures who appear across the media claiming they’ve been ‘silenced’.
If even a single SNP MP had abstained, Thatcher would have lost the vote. They knew what they were doing.
The 40% rule in the Scottish devolution referendum earlier that month was certainly a huge error. I hope there's never another rule of that kind in any future referendum.
A PM getting involved in how books are written feels quite off to me, like something one would expect in a very religious or authoritarian state.
Has he not got enough on his plate on more important things anyway?
Forbes 1.89
Yousaf 3.05
Regan 6.2
Any views? Anyone betting on this?
I'm tempted to back Regan. I have a cheeky £1 on Cherry at 100.
I think in this case, Sunak’s opinion is just irrelevant pandering to a particular audience, but no reason he can’t do that.
I took CHB’s comment as his opinion on what Sunak ought to do, which is also fair enough.
Strategically 11 years of Thatcher after Labour fcking about with the devolution bill was probably the best thing ever for indy, though I'm not crediting Gordon Wilson with any foresight. There'll never be a Feeble Fifty let alone a Feeble Forty again.
https://twitter.com/_KateForbes/status/1627624249069371392?s=20
Fair play to everyone involved in that operation, impressive that they were prepared to do things so differently to the very tight and paranoid movement of the President that usually happens.