HTG

Happy St George's Day day a shower of absolute arseholes. https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1782759376240955533

These c***s are reducing what currently passes for a country to a pariah state. https://twitter.com/UNHCRUK/status/1782669760741683353

Normal people.

Tango tears

That's the spirit. Woke Belgium getting it up these c***s. https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-police-shut-down-nigel-farage-viktor-orban-right-wing-jamboree/

This is a cracking read. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1779295265045811211

Has introduced "spastic" as a line of insult. If he keeps this up he'll be at the front of the queue if any west end theatre producer fancies reprising Love Thy Neighbour. Absolute arsehole of a boy.

As expected - still early days ...

J K is having a rare old swing at this stuff - what an absolute fucking moron. https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1776000537076375909

The view of the Scottish electorate has continued to be to return a govt in favour of independence. Your conjecture about the next election carries absolutely zero substance - unlike the elections of 2015, 2017 and 2019 plus the elections to the Scottish parliament in the same period. You maybe missed the SNP taking the matter of pushing for another referendum to the Supreme Court - not sure how that aligns to "shat it". Northern Ireland - a much more contentious landscape - has the term generation defined in the GFA. We're already well past that definition in Scotland so your inference that the people of Scotland should get back in their box is laughable - except in a country where there is no legal means of delivering on a mandate repeatedly given by the people of that country.

He'll be on a poster by this time next week.

On paper it actually looks easier to secure a united Ireland than an indy Scotland because of the construct of the GF agreement. The GF agreement cost in excess of 3000 lives right enough.

I get all of that but there appears to be no legal route to independence other than via approval from Westminster. It's clear to me that irrespective of the views of the Scottish electorate, that approval will never be given again. It was only given the first time because there was an assumption that there was simply no appetite. If you recall the reaction of Cameron and the Queen at the outcome of 2014, it's evident that those in charge got a proper fright. Someone is going to have to explain what the alternative is to England saying "no". Because that's what this amounts to. In a normal functioning democracy, a party winning election after election using the same rules that have applied across the UK throughout modern times would/should be enabled to call for and secure agreement to a referendum. The democratic deficit which Scotland is suffering is an absolute disgrace in the 21st century.

Sigh ...

Indy is dead as long as Scotland waits to be "given" independence. No matter what popular demand might look like, no UK PM will ever grant another referendum on the subject. Scotland will need to take its independence. As far as I can see, nobody is terribly keen on that approach if it's deemed to break international law - not that breaking international law seems to bother the UK govt. It would potentially scupper access to trading blocks though.