To be irritated that John Swinney is going to spend next week banging on about Gaza?

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Why fix your own shit schools, prisons, councils and health service when you can fly the Palestinian flag at Holyrood for free I guess.

Attention-seeking wee wanker.

Banging on? Some of us care that the leader of our country speaks out against a genocide.

God forbid people should care about a literal genocide.

Why don't you care about the people suffering and dying in your own country?

Why do you think the flag of a region dominated by terrorists who have murdered Scottish people should fly outside the Scottish parliament?

Those things aren’t mutually exclusive … you can be concerned about Palestine, and want to fix things back home.

If only they spent as much time focusing on problems at home that they could actually solve, instead of problems there.

Yeah thousands of people being deliberately starved and bombed in what the UN has classed as genocide. Really irritating.

People are supposed to keep quiet about this

are you referring to the English Flag? The English occupied, terrorised and murdered thousands of Scots over the years

Yes they are mutually exclusive because this is the return to parliament. It should be about the problems he is actually responsible for fixing. Instead it's about the latest international fashion.

You're soooo kind to totally care though.

How many people have died in Scotland waiting for an ambulance to turn up?

Can he only do one thing at once ? Most people have an ability to multitask …

God knows. Wouldn’t it be a pleasant change if the elected officials paid to represent us and lead our country actually put their best efforts into that?

Hahahaha ok 🤣

Tell it to northern Ireland I'm sure they will feel really sad for the poor colonised Scots

The English did the same to large parts of Ireland…except they were murdering them well onto the 20th Century

Why is it always Gaza and never Yemen or Sudan?

They’re fools to themselves. Never mind.

Are the U.K. arming those countries like they are Israel?

”thicko” = does not agree with me

Thank you for your reasoned debate.

Yes. That's the whole point. Do you think our arms manufacturers only sell to Israel?

That’s the history of the world, sadly.

We can’t go back, only forwards.

I agree OP. He is tone deaf to what the people in Scotland think and need plus he (and Humza) think they're the big guns. His voice alone drives me nuts.

Bless you OP aren't you just lovely!

Ok, you don’t care about people outside our country.

Presumably you do care about the security of our country. The current situation in Gaza is barbaric. It is also massively destabilising to the Middle East. This fuels the risks of further fighting elsewhere and also breeds further terrorism. Ultimately, that could result in extremists attacking your country.

No, John Swinney can’t personally influence anything and, like all politicians, will have an eye on the political capital. But the more people who protest, the louder the opposition gets. This pressures others to try to end the violence.

The world generally becomes more peaceful and less dangerous overall. This makes our country safer.