Thistle do nicely for the SNP – politicalbetting.com
Thistle do nicely for the SNP – politicalbetting.com
Latest Scottish political favourability ratings (11-18 March 2026)Swinney: -17Badenoch: -39Sarwar: -40Farage: -52Starmer: -59Cole-Hamilton: -11 (61% DK)Davey: -12 (40%)Mackay: -13 (73%)Polanski: -15 (45%)Findlay: -17 (57%)Greer: -17 (61%)Offord: -19 (70%)yougov.com/en-gb/articl…
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Honestly anyone supporting this war and Trump is utterly braindead. Put aside political opinions there’s right and wrong and this is just objectively wrong.
First on topic
Albeit the (no longer) Green Party is the "smart" option for them.
Sorry - a very important one.
I have just had a letter from the DVLA stating that my driving license has been revoked - after 40 years.
Events were.
1 - Received a letter saying they had left some information off it and I needed to return the license.
2 - I did so - a few days late, as I was not here for the 3 weeks they allowed for reply. I returned it. Of course I have proof of posting.
3 - They wrote to me 10 days later with "your license has been revoked".
(Obviously it is a 3 year medical license.)
Has anyone dealt with something like this? How do I deal with it?
Do I need to jump straight to a solicitor? I know tales of the DVLA.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diz1-online-confidential-medical-information
“Why are you so obsessed with nuclear weapons? Things are hardly tip top but you’re not doing your blood pressure any favours by predicting or advocating Armageddon every single day. Chill.”
I’m just checking in to the Kempinski, Antalya, Türkiye, one of the nicer hotels on the Turkish Med, on a Lava-Lover Magazine assignment to check out unexpected delights and antiquities. I am exceptionally chilled
https://www.kempinski.com/en/hotel-the-dome
I’m also deeply intrigued in the drama, like all of us
Are you being naughty again?
It has the appearance of an attempt to sabotage the ceasefire.
Cole-Hamilton: -11 (61% DK)
Davey: -12 (40%)
Mackay: -13 (73%)
Polanski: -15 (45%)
Swinney: -17
Findlay: -17 (57%)
Greer: -17 (61%)
Offord: -19 (70%)
Badenoch: -39
Sarwar: -40
Farage: -52
Starmer: -59
Good luck.
It is not a medical reason for revocation - that's the whole problem, it's a paperwork fuck-up. I received my new licence and they asked for it back because they had not put some information on it.
Top quote:
"We have not received a response to the letter we sent you on XYZ asking you to return the driving license which was issued to you with incorrect or incomplete details.
As you have not done so, your driving license will be revoked (cancelled) from ABC and you should not drive. Please return your driving license in the enclosed envelope provided."
I did return my licence in the envelope provided - fully 10 days before they issued this letter.
(There's no reason to get into appeals - that will take ages. And if I get into "Reapplications" that will probably lose grandfathered in towing rights.)
Fortunately that's never going to be put to the test :-)
Eventually they rang and apologised and said my licence is in the post with my declaration about my pacemaker and driving with glasses which had been previously declared
I did phone them several times and was put through to medical so I would be inclined to phone DVLA medical [0300 790 6806 - 8am to 7pm weekdays and 8.00am to 2.00pm Saturdays] asking for the reason
I would then contact your doctor or optician to provide information to resolve the issue
I do not see the need for a lawyer at present
A US official said Wednesday that a 10-point ceasefire plan published by Iran is not the same set of conditions that were agreed to by the White House for pausing the war.
“The document being reported by media outlets is not the working framework,” the senior official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/08/iran-war-ceasefire-live-updates-trump-deadline-middle-east-crisis-latest-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with:block-69d678318f08b62ea5cacbc2#block-69d678318f08b62ea5cacbc2
My son had an issue having advised DVLA he was autistic when he passed his test (at the first time of asking) DVLA sent him a licence to be renewed every year. We got on to Alun Cairns who was our MP at the time and one of his minions had a hotline to the DVLA, such is their incompetence I suspect most MPs have a minion with a hotline to the DVLA. My son had a licence valid until he was seventy by return.
All said and done I never voted for Cairns, but I thank him for that intervention.
"The end of the American empire
Donald Trump’s war in Iran presages the destruction of US authority, not its renewal
By John Gray"
https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2026/04/the-end-of-the-american-empire
Work colleagues have specifically enjoined me from calling it a holiday given what happened last time.
Interestingly the online database still lists my license in full.
https://www.viewdrivingrecord.service.gov.uk/view_driving_licence/
I'm nervous because I have seen the DVLA issue letters in error, and then go in full bore to defend them rather than admit to making a mistake. And I have seen people have to retake their driving test in such circumstances.
However it is expected to be sunny from tomorrow arvo so the timing isn’t so bad. And I’ve been told the ancient sites are amazing (I’ve never been here before)
My hotel is all inclusive. Literally whatever you want. I may just drown in champagne.
I'll try that.
Obviously my MP does not have a published constituency phone number and the one in London is on the machine !
Email time.
Perhaps the right of centre parties with not even a palsied finger on the levers of power could adopt that line, they’ve tried everything else.
I will crank out an email to Agent Anderson tonight.
We-ll see - he has always been OK at routine constituency business, having been a popular councillor. We shall see.
He sounds unhinged.
https://x.com/LingoVerbatim/status/2041880348829585814
I'm guessing it is their not processing my slightly (10 days) late reply before they sent out the "License Revoked" letter 10 days after that.
It's buggered up my afternoon, though. I've had to cancel an important errand.
"The president has threatened to destroy an entire civilisation ... is that a bigger upside risk, or downside risk ?"
https://x.com/KFILE/status/2041881696971219340
When you're in a hole, stop digging.
Iranian air defenses are reportedly shooting at drones in the Tehran area.
State news agency Mehr accuses the US/Israel of violating the ceasefire.
He's also lying, because sending in a rescue party of hundreds certainly puts American servicemen at more risk.
In this case he probably had some form of “don’t bring the BBC into disrepute” clause in his contract and did something that the BBC considered brought them into disrepute. If not then he breached some other clause. He’s entitled to bring a claim if he thinks otherwise.
It would be an insane world if you could only get fired if you’re conduct is criminal.
Airstrikes reported in Tehran. (Mehr)
Iranian media says the ceasefire has been violated.
https://www.war.gov/Multimedia/Videos/
As for Scotland, it may be that the SNP are incompetent, I couldn't really say, but if no one else is able to persuade the Scottish people of that I wouldn't say those people 'missed out' on the opportunity.
The skill to get elected may indeed be separate from the skill to govern, technically, but if you do lack the former it doesn't really speak that well of the latter either, given how much persuading the public remains a part of governing.
Iranian military sources are accusing the UAE of attacking Iranian oil depots in Lavan Island today Mirage 2000 jets were reportedly spotted carrying out the strikes the UAE airforce the only Gulf states that fields this type of aircraft.
Was he not buried at: Rouen Cathedral in Normandy, the Château de Châlus-Chabrol in the Limousin region, and at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou, near Saumur (in various pieces)?
So not only has Dementia Don TACO'd out without getting regime change, but he has not even got the Strait open either?
What a frigging loser.
25th now. Except Vance is just as bad.
Trump plus Carney has completely transformed the Liberal position in such a short time, the Conservatives don't seem to know what to do after blowing a massive lead as a result. Frankly, they seem to be in denial and focusing on how Carney doesn't deserve such good fortune.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-pm-carney-verge-majority-after-opposition-member-joins-ruling-liberals-2026-04-08/
Scottish voters are volatile for Westminster, but to the extent they are for Holyrood it seems to be in how split the vote is, without it really affecting the chances of the SNP winning.
Who would have thought that would happen?
Labour dredging up a 2013 Sun article as if that’s what matters.
We’re living through a moment where the PM is complicit in genocide, backing a US President threatening destruction of civilisation.
Every attack like this just exposes how hollow Labour’s politics is.
https://nitter.poast.org/ZackPolanski/status/2041605736464105727#m
I think his popularity can be sustained regardless, but pretending he wasn't a dumb weirdo about it is not going to stop people bringing it up.
He’s an isolationist. America first. That’s just fine by me. We must learn to stand alone - that’s clear, and it’s better for Europe overall, in the end. It’s also better than DJT taking the world to the brink of WW3
Do the 25th. Get Vance in. ASAFFFFFP!
He should be in an easier position because part of Corbyn's appeal was that he had been unchanging in his views for decades, steadfast and correct, so disavowing or clarifying past statements/views would undermine that. Whereas Zack is still youthful and new on the scene, he could probably laugh it off as a momentary youthful lapse (notwithstanding he was not a youth).
But getting angry about it, to use one of his supporters' favourite words, makes him look rattled by it.
Sure, it is petty and probably not going to move the dial much, but it will come up time and time again, because it is funny and allows us to mock a leading politician for being stupid, and we always like that.