WTF is happening in the UK?

[Woody]

Must be something about the pub name

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... e-18469860

[Boac]

UP - I suggest it might be wise to reserve the Brexit plaidit fot BoJo until 01/21?

[Undried Plum]

Yes. Many a slip 'twixt ....

[om15]

Another update from the alternative channel

[Boac]

Sorry, om, but Mahyar is a waste of space. He is allowing his hatred of a nation (Scotland) to influence his content. Hatred is a dangerous tool as we have seen from certain groups. This guy is from Iran, although born in the UK. He is promoting his business too - T-shirts, etc. (Not coffee mugs, yet ). I see nothing in the 'guidance' from Scotland to justify the comments. What Sturgeon said is reasonable. Don't go to the Virus hot-pots and if you came from there we would prefer you not to come to Scotland. I would say the same for my part of Southern England, given the choice - wouldn't you? Don't you in Dorset?

If excitable nationalists choose to interpret this differently that is life.

[barkingmad]

boac sez “Don’t go to the virus hot-pots...”. I have to presume, me being a resident north of Potters Bar, that this refers to the Lancashire HotPot, a local favourite dish as well as being a second wave of whatever the guvvment classifies as a Covid-1984 “case”.

Your admiration for Wee Krankie, bordering on affection, (!) fails to convince the rest of us as to what a wonderful leader she is and how her passion to become the first queen, or should that be Queen of Jockistan, has blinded you to her obvious failings when not on her hind legs pretending to dictate any different lockdown policy to the faithful north of the Border.

The gates of Traquair Castle await her riding back through when Jockistan finds it’s ultimate destiny on the world stage, though a few gallons of WD40 will be needed to free the gates up for that press opportunity.

“This guy is from Iran, although born in the UK...” is as racist a comment as ever I have clocked in these pages and I’m surprised at you committing such a statement to print.

And for someone so keen to question the sources and authors and political affiliations of the various videos and podcasts posted on O-N, to state that he is Iranian but born in the UK demonstrates that perhaps the ABV% of this evening’s G&Ts might well have exceeded normal tolerances?

Some homework follows;

[om15]

I didn't see any evidence at all of a "hatred of Scotland", merely observations about Sturgeon, they are two totally different things despite what the SNP are desperately trying to have us believe.
Douglas Murray made this point in the quote on the other thread, it is strange how the liberal left are falling over themselves to applaud and excuse Sturgeon, she is a threat to the Scots and to the defense of the UK, she should be challenged on every thing she says and does. Unless you feel that her objectives are laudable that is.

[Boac]

"This guy is from Iran, although born in the UK.." - apart from being totally 180 out (don't drink, Mothers' Ruin, btw) is far from 'racist' but an attempt to describe a person. How would you describe his 'life history'? Would you classify 'Iran-born, British bred' as racist? Answer on your postage stamp please.

As far as an 'affection' for the Wee Krankie, far from it, but I do find myself favourably comparing her style of running a country and delivering 'briefings' with blabbing Bojo's. How do you see the comparison?

[Undried Plum]

It's pretty damning indictment of Krankie that she's less awful than BoJo and Chump and Kim Jong Un, though she is.

[Pontius Navigator]

He is a Tory too.

[Boac]

"she's less awful than BoJo and Chump and Kim Jong Un" - be grateful for small (Wee) mercies.

[om15]

favourably comparing her style of running a country

Can you give one example of how she "runs" Scotland that is better than the way in which the UK is governed, education is worse, the finances in Scotland are in the red, petty rules are infringing liberties in the areas of alcohol and drink driving limits and personal taxation is higher.
Or is it because she hates Tories and therefore these facts don't matter.

[Boac]

The quote should be "comparing her style of running a country and delivering 'briefings' with blabbing Bojo's." Don't pick and choose.

[om15]

I see, you can't give an example, but don't worry, nor can anybody else.

[Boac]

Well, you could try comparing the way the daily briefings were being given between her and the Monty Python team in London? Anybody else will tell you.

[Undried Plum]

For the first time in almost a decade, Scottish school exam results have improved rather than degraded.

Surprise surprise: this is the first time the kids haven't actually had to sit the exams they are now said to have passed. Their teachers simply imagined the exam results instead.

It's characteristically SNumPty way of fiddling the figures.

[Undried Plum]

The BBC Scotland sycophants continue to give Krankie her daily party political broadcast.

Goebbels would admire her style and success.

[om15]

Goebbels maxim was "accuse others of what you are guilty of", this is stridently endorsed by Sturgeon, pick a group (or race) of people and relentlessly accuse them of being responsible for your ills, sound familiar?

[Pontius Navigator]

The BBC Scotland sycophants continue to give Krankie her daily party political broadcast.

Goebbels would admire her style and success.

Would that it was only BBC Jockistan, BBC Londistan broadcast it here too. Given that English rules are confusing, it is exacerbated but broadcasting foreign rules too.

[Undried Plum]

Another of Goebbels's mottos which is slavishly adhered to by der Partei is that if you tell a lie often enough it's no longer a lie.