The other thing that strikes me - I will say this again - is SKS blending his partisan wishes with corporate parliamentary business. At Holyrood, the Parliament is much more clearly demarcated from t… (View Post)

In that case why did (a) Mr Hoyle do what SKS wanted, against his own clerk's advice, and (b) why was the discussion private? (View Post)

"most stringent rules in history" Positively Churchillian. Winston would be surprised. But isn't it supposedly *illegal* immigration that potential Reform voters are worked up about, f… (View Post)

Because historically more objective not to use the term (unless one is quoting from a Hanoverian verbatim). Like using Rising rather than Rebellion. Plus we could have had a KCXIII on the throne toda… (View Post)

I wouldn't call them English parties so much as British Unionist - if presently poorly represented in terms of Scottish MPs. But you're right, it is the problem that the Speaker has created… (View Post)