Chaos in Scotland.

[Ibbie]

I predict a riot.....Krankie has lost the plot.

[G-CPTN]

Will they be able to sell non-alcohol beer?

[ian16th]

Will they want to?

[CharlieOneSix]

I predict a riot.....Krankie has lost the plot.

I am no SNP supporter but I can't agree with that. She was on her feet for 20 minutes delivering the new 'plot' and there wasn't a single um or err, not a cough, nor a break for a glass of water. Compare that with bumbling Boris. It's a targeted plan which personally I don't think goes quite far enough. I had expected a ban on any contact between members of different households in a hospitality setting. Mrs C16 is pleased - she can continue with her Friday coffee with a mate at the local garden centre cafe.

[AtomKraft]

Charlie.
Yes. She's a good communicator.
So what?
The only thing that's been keeping the bug down in Scotland is the fact that it's much less densely populated- plus maybe a lot less immigrants.

She's not so clever.

[FD2]

Amidst all the whining about the boozers being shut and loss of personal freedoms etc, blah, blah, blah, are there any here who advocate just letting the general public do what they like and see the results? Most of us can manage a week or two without alcohol I'd have thought? As a high percentage of us on this website are well into the danger zone (age, possibly immune system compromised and dare I say weight ) I guess they would support any measures to stop a dose of it coming their way, whichever country they live in. If not then volunteer to have some virus injected to save time!

Immigrants only cause cases if they bring it back from elsewhere, just like the whiteys from essential summer hols in Spain and France etc., they are not intrinsically plague ridden just because they are immigrants and there is plenty of scope to spread the virus around in the high density areas of the Central Belt and Tayside/Aberdeen. A 70 year old friend in Edinburgh caught it from a GP friend early on and says he wouldn't wish it on his worst enemy, but now fears he will have lost immunity in the following 8 months so is taking the same precautions as everyone else.

Here in New Zealand there are plenty on the right who disagree with Jacinda Ardern and her policies but what most Kiwis admire her for is her clear and concise communication skills - there were very few grey areas in the Covid strategy unlike Boris and his waffling confusions, broken promises or missed deadlines. I can't stand Stu'geon and her continual moaning but at least you know what she's planning. She does seem to have had a strange loss of memory over some of the Salmond interactions though.

[FD2]

It will be interesting to see how the Scots react to the latest restrictions, compared to those down south.

[4mastacker]

I predict a riot.....Krankie has lost the plot.

Maybe not. Whilst pubs and bars have to close, takeaway food can still be sold - so folks will still be able to their deep-fried Mars bars/pizzas, in addition they can still get a 'kerry-oot" at the supermarket.

[Undried Plum]

It will be interesting to see how the Scots react to the latest restrictions

Slam on the brakes!

[FD2]

What are you doing John? Priceless!!

[barkingmad]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/poli ... y-22812959

This one could run & run? Oh, hang on a minute, it’s been running for some time now!

Still, Wee Krankie is a brilliant orator and leader of the Westmonster pack so she’ll be all right, nowt to worry about.

[AtomKraft]

Poor bugger, but thanks for making millions laugh 'til they cry.

[FD2]

Good on you Ruth but I suspect Krankie will worm her way out of it.

[barkingmad]

Another note from the Branch Covidians slipped under my door today;

'First Minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday announced new restrictions in Scotland – a new lockdown in all but name. Christopher Snowdon is not impressed in the Spectator.

So now we know the threshold at which Nicola Sturgeon pulls the trigger. If the number of daily hospital admissions for Covid-19 exceeds a tenth of the number recorded at the April peak, she will lay waste to the hospitality industry. From Friday, all pubs and licensed restaurants in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Forth Valley, Lothian and Ayrshire and Arran – where two-thirds of Scots live – will be forced to shut their doors for at least 16 days. So too will snooker clubs, casinos, bowling alleys and bingo halls.

In the rest of Scotland, pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve food and soft drinks – but not alcohol – until 6pm. Cafés which don’t have an alcohol licence can also stay open until 6pm. Hotel restaurants will be permitted to open beyond 6pm but only for residents and, again, only without alcohol.
Repressive stuff, and with a whiff of prohibition and temperance. And it’s only October.

The pub industry is keen to point out that only 5% of Covid infections take place in the hospitality sector, and there is certainly a sense of the trade being made a scapegoat. But Sturgeon had little else left to ban. Scots were already forbidden from mixing at home with people from outside their household. The rule of six applied outside, albeit with an exemption for children aged under 12. The whole UK had – and has – a 10pm ‘curfew’.

Sturgeon is insistent that the new regulations do not amount to a second lockdown, but with only shops and schools left open, it seems awfully close to one – and there are still six months of cold weather to go. Given the prominence in the Scottish media of ‘Zero Covid’ idealists and anti-alcohol academics, Scots shouldn’t get their hopes up about the ‘circuit breaker’ ending on October 25th.
Scotland has only had around one Covid death each day this week, Snowdon points out. “However else you might describe this strategy, it is not learning to live with the virus,” he says.'

One other point: If the SNP had got its way in 2014 and Scotland was now an independent country, Nic Sturge-un would not be able to lay waste to the Scottish economy in this way. It is only because almost all taxes are collected (and money borrowed) nationally – and the Scots are bailed out by the English each year – that she can get away with it.

With the Salmond issue rising out of the foetid swamp, on top of perceived Covid (mis)management, I wonder how well the F M is sleeping these days?

And how long before the acronym S N P is changed to the Scots Nazi Party by some less than sympathetic wag?

[barkingmad]

Now the spectre of the Salmond leaping has just resurfaced with some very embarrassing news oozing out from Jockistan;

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/187 ... lief-fmqs/

I really hope the headline picture to this article does not depict Wee Krankie describing the dimensions of the Salmond’s equipment, otherwise there will be more enquiries to be made regarding their working practices?!

[barkingmad]

Is there any chance this story will run longer than the famous London West End play, “The Mousetrap”?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/poli ... p-22826684

Cee U Next Tuesday and so on...

Wee Krankie’s popularity must be by now resembling a snowflake in Hell as she wrecks the only decent form of social relaxation available to Jockistan inmates, apart from unbridled raunchy sex, which has always been frowned upon by the ‘Wee Frees’ snd their ilk!

[barkingmad]

Soon after a chief Plod in England admits he doesn’t know the current English 3-level Covid-1984 restriction regime, the Wee Reichsfuhrer of Jockistan introduces a 5-level restriction regime.
Either chief Plod in England is stupid, or Wee Krankie attributes more intelligence and comprehension to her devoted peasants than might be wise?
Especially if calls for actions such as this influence her diktats;

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/poli ... n-22887151

then Saturday nights in Glasgie might become interesting?!

[Boac]

How sensible she is. Bonking Boris will inevitably follow with further 'Tiers'.

[barkingmad]

How sensible she is. Bonking Boris will inevitably follow with further 'Tiers'.

“How sensible she is”!?!? It is reported this morning that she has said that Santa May operate this Christmas as he is an “essential worker”!

What planet am I on???

[Boac]

Obviously a childrens' planet?