Also possibly worth noting that we had as many Labour first ministers in 8 years as we’ve had SNP ones in 17 years.
I mean, they’re not wrong, but you really can’t downplay a VNoC. Put simply it’s the representative chamber demonstrating that the government doesn’t have their mandate to rule. It’s absolutely front-page news and it absolutely is a political crisis (for the government, their opponents will of course call it an opportunity). The fact that an FM will resign rather than face that prospect demonstrates the point.
Contrasted and compared with the various downfalls of Truss, Johnson, May, and Cameron, this feels about the right level of coverage.
Oh, ok. Nothing to see here then.
How is this linked to PR?
It suits the narrative of the Scottish Loyalist Coalition (🔵🔴🟡) and their media hacks!
Spinning all that ‘once in a generation ‘ pap while actually doing their utmost to undermine the SNP and the Scottish Government. 🧐🧐🧐
I think its more the incoming 2nd FM on the spin that hasnt faced an election combined with how if Forbes runs and wins she will cause the party to eat itself is what paints the picture of crisis.
It doesn’t really make much difference at all to support for independence (John Curtis mentioned this the other day) but it might make Scottish Politics interesting again for a few weeks, especially if Dougie chucks his hat in the ring.
(Just to see the look of disappointment on his wee face.)
What could be a bit of a laugh is if one of the Greens give it a go, and win. 😄
[edit] Damn! I forgot Dougie probably won’t get a chance to humiliate himself, as the vote of no confidence in the Scottish Government is unlikely to succeed with Humza standing down.
Derek still thinks the emperor is wearing clothes.
Everyone across the board has been quite happy to put the boot into the UK government and parties when they were in “crisis.” You don’t get this level of devotion to defending a government even from the gammoniest of Britnats.
ScotNats are so delusional they’re genuinely trying to now spin the claim that nobody reported on the political crises of Boris/Truss.
It’s like these people live in an alternate reality or something.
We don’t think the Scot’s are in crises. We’re too busy dealing with “Rwanda” rishi. In fact if you could offer us some help we’d take it haha!
All of this can be true…..
A vote of no confidence, and a former FM being investigated by the police. Westminster being more of a shambles doesn’t mean this isn’t.
Who were the 6 PMs? Cameron (from 2010), May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak. Clegg was more than 8 years ago. The next one hasn’t happened yet. Who did I miss?
Oh, and the “crisis” is that we have 2 simultaneous votes of no confidence (one now defaulted, fair enough) immediately following an unexpected dissolving of the agreement forming a majority government. And because this is the most recent story. The *new* one.
Yep. And the 5 PM’s before that started off in 1979 with Maggie Thatcher. Crazy to think of what has changed since Indy Ref 1.
yeah cause no one reported on lizz truss or boris resigning right? but suddenly not as fun when it’s happening to your guys tho is it? don’t dish out what you can’t handle lmao
There’s only been 5 PMs (Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak), but there’s been 7 chancellors (Osbourne, Hammond, Javid, Sunak, Zahawi, Kwarteng, Hunt).
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Technically we didn’t even have a vote.
Also possibly worth noting that we had as many Labour first ministers in 8 years as we’ve had SNP ones in 17 years.
I mean, they’re not wrong, but you really can’t downplay a VNoC. Put simply it’s the representative chamber demonstrating that the government doesn’t have their mandate to rule. It’s absolutely front-page news and it absolutely is a political crisis (for the government, their opponents will of course call it an opportunity). The fact that an FM will resign rather than face that prospect demonstrates the point.
Contrasted and compared with the various downfalls of Truss, Johnson, May, and Cameron, this feels about the right level of coverage.
Oh, ok. Nothing to see here then.
How is this linked to PR?
It suits the narrative of the Scottish Loyalist Coalition (🔵🔴🟡) and their media hacks!
Spinning all that ‘once in a generation ‘ pap while actually doing their utmost to undermine the SNP and the Scottish Government. 🧐🧐🧐
I think its more the incoming 2nd FM on the spin that hasnt faced an election combined with how if Forbes runs and wins she will cause the party to eat itself is what paints the picture of crisis.
It doesn’t really make much difference at all to support for independence (John Curtis mentioned this the other day) but it might make Scottish Politics interesting again for a few weeks, especially if Dougie chucks his hat in the ring.
(Just to see the look of disappointment on his wee face.)
What could be a bit of a laugh is if one of the Greens give it a go, and win. 😄
[edit] Damn! I forgot Dougie probably won’t get a chance to humiliate himself, as the vote of no confidence in the Scottish Government is unlikely to succeed with Humza standing down.
Derek still thinks the emperor is wearing clothes.
Everyone across the board has been quite happy to put the boot into the UK government and parties when they were in “crisis.” You don’t get this level of devotion to defending a government even from the gammoniest of Britnats.
ScotNats are so delusional they’re genuinely trying to now spin the claim that nobody reported on the political crises of Boris/Truss.
It’s like these people live in an alternate reality or something.
We don’t think the Scot’s are in crises. We’re too busy dealing with “Rwanda” rishi. In fact if you could offer us some help we’d take it haha!
All of this can be true…..
A vote of no confidence, and a former FM being investigated by the police. Westminster being more of a shambles doesn’t mean this isn’t.
Who were the 6 PMs? Cameron (from 2010), May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak. Clegg was more than 8 years ago. The next one hasn’t happened yet. Who did I miss?
Oh, and the “crisis” is that we have 2 simultaneous votes of no confidence (one now defaulted, fair enough) immediately following an unexpected dissolving of the agreement forming a majority government. And because this is the most recent story. The *new* one.
Yep. And the 5 PM’s before that started off in 1979 with Maggie Thatcher. Crazy to think of what has changed since Indy Ref 1.
yeah cause no one reported on lizz truss or boris resigning right? but suddenly not as fun when it’s happening to your guys tho is it? don’t dish out what you can’t handle lmao
There’s only been 5 PMs (Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak), but there’s been 7 chancellors (Osbourne, Hammond, Javid, Sunak, Zahawi, Kwarteng, Hunt).