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Is anyone else watching the debate in the HOC live now?

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Sausagenbacon · 17/01/2023 14:29

Gripping stuff. Unfortunately I've missed the 1st 30 minutes, and I'm hoping I can catch up.

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oldwomanwhoruns · 17/01/2023 15:56

Quoting Sit Walter Scott.
Plonker.

AutumnCrow · 17/01/2023 15:55

It's 'symbolic thistles' now

NecessaryScene · 17/01/2023 15:55

IDK, Sausage. I thought they weren't supposed to use dehumanising insults. I do get the impression the SNP MPs are tolerated and indulged and seen as not very competent.

Which is actually a kind of echo of the way trans activists tend to get coddled. I wonder what that tells us. It's kind of an alignment of low-quality individuals who expect to get their way using grievance politics?

ArabellaScott · 17/01/2023 15:54

We all know pricks like this. Know-it-all arrogant arses in love with the sound of their own voice. It's really transparent and a very unconvincing performance.

I actually don't care about what the SNP say on this. It was the other MPs I wanted to hear, that was worthwhile. Switching off now.

AutumnCrow · 17/01/2023 15:54

Ooh he didn't like Chris Bryant's (surprisingly) grown up intervention. Flynn was expecting outright genuflection.

Boiledbeetle · 17/01/2023 15:53

I m watching Flynn and want to shake him

ArabellaScott · 17/01/2023 15:53

Actually, I think most of the other MPs have fucked off and left the SNP to strut around making cheap jibes at an empty house.

littlbrowndog · 17/01/2023 15:52

Seems he is very corse with his old fashioned insults.

ArabellaScott · 17/01/2023 15:52

I am embarrassed by these idiots. This is not how you debate. This is like kids in a playground crowing and calling the grown ups names. They do NOT represent me, they are an embarrasment to Scotland.

ArabellaScott · 17/01/2023 15:51

'he wishes to chunter from a sedentary position' - Flynn again. Fucksake.

NecessaryScene · 17/01/2023 15:49

You can't refer to your colleagues as 'rabid gammon'. You just can't.

I know! It should at least be 'my honourable friend the rabid gammon'. Is the speaker asleep?

AutumnCrow · 17/01/2023 15:49

@SinnerBoy I'm afraid I have to regard the Guardian as a 'hostile witness' on these proceedings and this story.

AutumnCrow · 17/01/2023 15:47

Lindsay Hoyle's still in the Chair I think. He's not usually a fan of insults. Maybe he wants it in Hansard i.e. not withdrawn. He is a canny old operator.

SinnerBoy · 17/01/2023 15:46

Here's some information about the Section 35:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/17/scotland-gender-recognition-bill-what-is-a-section-35-order

MorvenOfMalvern · 17/01/2023 15:44

ArabellaScott · 17/01/2023 15:36

Yep. BBC or parliament tv

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-64294059

Thank you. Am trying to find on iPlayer - am incompetent!

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Sausagenbacon · 17/01/2023 15:43

Bardell can't understand why she didn't need a certificate to come out as a lesbian. Can she really be that thick?

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Cazziebo · 17/01/2023 15:42

I am so disappointed in Philippa Whitford - I thought she would see sense. (Although most of the Scottish MPs are disappointing). Glad to hear some common sense from other areas of the UK.

Alister Jack is impressive

littlbrowndog · 17/01/2023 15:41

But bad thing is they represent us Scottish people. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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Sausagenbacon · 17/01/2023 15:41

has Kemi said anything?

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Sausagenbacon · 17/01/2023 15:40

IDK, Sausage. I thought they weren't supposed to use dehumanising insults. I do get the impression the SNP MPs are tolerated and indulged and seen as not very competent.
yes

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littlbrowndog · 17/01/2023 15:40

xalo · 17/01/2023 15:39

Stephen Flynn is very creepy isn't he? Sinister, arrogant and super ambitious.

Yep he is

7Worfs · 17/01/2023 15:40

ArabellaScott · 17/01/2023 15:34

Holy fuck. Flynn just gestured at MPs and called them 'rabid gammon to my right hand side'

Wow. How is that allowed?
Discussion level: randos on Twitter.
Embarrassing.

xalo · 17/01/2023 15:39

Stephen Flynn is very creepy isn't he? Sinister, arrogant and super ambitious.

ArabellaScott · 17/01/2023 15:39

IDK, Sausage. I thought they weren't supposed to use dehumanising insults. I do get the impression the SNP MPs are tolerated and indulged and seen as not very competent.

littlbrowndog · 17/01/2023 15:38

Another one 🤷‍♀️🤣