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Who’s Fooling Whom? – politicalbetting.com
Who’s Fooling Whom? – politicalbetting.com
Don’t worry. This is not about trans rights or what a woman is. It is about Scottish governance, the process of Scottish legislation and the consequences of relying on small parties for votes. Above all, it’s about whether Ms Sturgeon is a straight politician as she likes to claim, whether she is being economical with the truth, whether she has misled Holyrood. Like pretty much all politics these days, it’s about integrity.
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What's the reverse of an enticing hook?
Just kidding.
I think there are well reiterated concerns about governance and the process of legislation all our legislatures, as the piece notes, since politics does not look kindly on making serious changes or taking time, especially if the business is seen as totemic fro some reason.
But whilst it might all seem a bit legalese, it really does not seem on for a government, any government, to argue different interpretations in different contexts. It is true that 'this is not a priority matter' is an argument sometimes used to seek to derail popular moves (opponents argued it when gay marriage was legalised), but it all seems an unnecessary bit of aggravation for a dominant and likely to remain so political force.
Zitself?
I have to say I disagree. It can't be about what doesn't exist. It's about lack of integrity.
Sturgeon is a particularly egregious example, but we have Shapps, Braverman, Patel, Johnson, all of whom seem to be pathologically incapable of telling the truth.
I won't say they would never have survived in an earlier era. Disraeli, Pitt, Lloyd George, Asquith, Churchill all deliberately misled Parliament. All of them made it to be Prime Minister. But it does seem as though lying has become normalised.
On the substance of the article, perhaps the Greens simply can't advance their real agenda - which seems to involve going back to the Stone Age - so are suing this as a distraction to conceal the fact they are not in fact achieving anything worthwhile?
Why would this be such a totemic issues for the Scottish Greens? Where else have they flexed their muscles on policy?
She is after all a woman, and a somewhat feminist one at that.
Few in Iran, even among the protesters, are fond of the British. It also gives further ammunition to the clerics and the politicians to paint the protests as foreign inspired and fundamentally anti-Iranian.
Still, if I were an England footballer, I’d probably do it. Bonus points for humiliating Qatar and FIFA.
Also stupid, as that would go some way to making up for the gaping holes left in the economic projections for an independent Scotland by the collapsing oil industry.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/musk-considers-further-twitter-layoffs-in-sales-on-monday-1.1848816
At this rate it is going to be him and George Hotz.
The bungs have all been paid and siphoned off; the tournament is already a brilliant success.
Alex Scott once again has proved that she's a first rate presenter. Enjoyed how she completely laid into Qatar and FIFA at the beginning. I was worried that presenters would hold back but they aren't, they are using their positions to raise all the right subjects.
This issue is new, in that there is an issue of the rights of 2 “protected” groups. This shouldn’t be a surprise. Much of government in a socially democratic liberal democracy is about arbitrating when rights of groups meet.
However, having to choose, like this, is unfamiliar to many of a progressive bent. How can a progressive measure be less than an alloyed good? An obvious truth?
What a farce
"Ecuador fans are chanting "Queremos Cerveza" at the World Cup in Qatar.
Translation: "We want beer.""
https://twitter.com/2022_QatarWC/status/1594382828179173376?s=20&t=-6296l9wXBtSw2JXtL1Ggg
Is the stadium really half-full ? No wonder the hosts are getting a bit irritable these days.
So they lost a councillor who had done a lot of quiet good.
It's irrelevant to politics and it brings out the worst in the hard right wingers and trans exclusionary radical feminists.
Let people get on with their lives and stop f-ing obsessing about an irrelevant topic in the grand scheme.
And plenty of people really DO care about this, even if you sneer
You are right it is a minor issue in the grand scheme of things but it is very clearly a live issue in modern politics. So talking about it less? Sure. But not at all because it is 'obsessing'? That's hardly fair.
What other issues of fringe importance are being made into law, or proposed to be made into law, should people not talk about because we should let people 'get on with their lives'?
I do agree with you that this issue takes up a lot more time than it deserves, that's a fair criticism. But we cannot simulataneously say it is irrelevant, but also see that political capital, time and energy is being spent on it, for reasons of what they claim to be of great importance.
you happy about Katie Dolatowski?
But while they are not setting their sights on bigger issues, it isn't irrelevant to political observers.
He was probably my favourite ever pianist. So, I thought I'd share him singing with The Band on The Last Waltz
RIP Mac Rebennack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8MmDr838E8
Moreover, it is "not even a trivial issue in the grand scheme". It is an attempt to redefine, in law, how individual humans identify by sex. It is momentous and fundamental. It is arguably MORE important than, say, inflation, which is a grim economic fact but will likely be transient, and we have seen it before
This new attempt to change the definitions of gender and sex is unprecedented, and could alter human society in ways we cannot imagine. It needs plenty of vigorous debate
Football will improve.
The BBC did the stats on that match, it had the equal-lowest number of shots in a World Cup since records began. So it was officially the joint-worst World Cup match ever
If you do not like it then so be it
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I find it difficult to believe that anyone could seriously look in to it and come away with the view that it is a 'minor' or 'irrelevant' issue.
They could get a tattoo saying OneLove?
PB discusses a lot of stuff. The only people who have the right to say what is and isn’t discussed is OGH and the mods.
It was at the Jazz Cafe in Camden and Jose Feliciano, who was playing the next two nights there, turned up near the end and did a couple of songs with him
Toussaint on Jools Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lY8kmocAjE
That's for a start and non negotiable. Trampling over hard won sex based rights for women to please a few blokes who want to wear dresses but not have sex change surgery is ridiculous. Treating gender stereotypes as equivalent to being the wrong sex is scientifically unsound and frankly, stupid. Yet that's what Scotland has opened the door to.
@WhisperingOracle , as a resident Scotsnat, I am truly scared about the influence that Stonewall have on the Scottish Government, both the SNP and the Greens. The Greens are a malign influence on Scottish politics. If anyone wonders where their priorities lie, they are the party that Andy Wightman, who is Scotland’s foremost land reform campaigner, felt was no longer able to remain as a Green MSP due to disagreement over female rights.
Last week, a woman wearing a scarf in the suffragette colours was denied entry to the Holyrood chamber as it was deemed political - by a woman wearing a rainbow lanyard.
As a Scottish Nationalist, I despair. If there is an independence referendum next year, it will be lost, and lost for a real generation, if not for a lifetime, due to the SNP allowing a small cabal taking over the party and denying party democracy.
If you have a good case, you are happy to argue it. You don't quickly mumble "well this is what I want changed and it's too trivial for you to care so don't ever talk about it, you'll only encourage bigots"
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It’s easy to protest about something when most people will cheer you on, it takes real guts to do it when people will object.
I can absolutely first hand bloody promise you that prowess at traditional team sports is not positively correlated with male heterosexuality.