Ding Ding Ding! Round 5 Salmond and Sturgeon

[Blurberoo]

New thread...

It is relevant as it helps me to judge if people are honest straight forward individuals.

Particularly important if they wish me to vote for them.

Their being married is relevant with regard to transparency in government.

@WouldBeGood

It is relevant as it helps me to judge if people are honest straight forward individuals.

Particularly important if they wish me to vote for them.

You need to know about the state of somebody's marriage before you vote for them? I'll be honest that I find that a bit bizarre. Each to their own I suppose.

Very normal in the USA though. Probably quite normal here too but less explicit.

Ok, I have morals 🤷🏻‍♀️

And I don’t like being duped.

Or having my concerns dismissed as conspiratorial tosh, or deliberately misunderstood.

It would be a real shame if this thread gets pulled because it descends into a bunfight.

I do wonder why NS waited till she was 40 before marrying PM. Might have been better all round to have kept it casual and then there would have been no glaring conflicts.

Really interesting contrast with Ruth and even Boris.

I'm sorry I'm not deliberately misunderstanding. I genuinely fail to see how the state of their marriage is anything to do with you and how you wanting to know about them means you have morals. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@forfucksakenett

I'm sorry I'm not deliberately misunderstanding. I genuinely fail to see how the state of their marriage is anything to do with you and how you wanting to know about them means you have morals. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's not about the state of their marriage! It's about whether they are misrepresenting themselves for political purposes, in which case that has a bearing one how one assesses them politically.

I’ll leave them to it @Blurberoo

Descends into a bun fight? A bun fight a fair few have relished
It’s not a descent it’s been in plain sight all the time

Does it really have no impact on your assessment of Boris Johnson that Carrie Symonds had to call the police on him? It does on mine (which was very negative in any case). And it would if similar was confirmed about any other leader.

I should correct that - she didn't call the police, it was a neighbour.

Belief in or the pursuit of salacious gossip doesn’t equate to I have morals🤷‍♀️
It just equates to being judgemental and hiding it under faux morality

@OhBuggerandArse

Does it really have no impact on your assessment of Boris Johnson that Carrie Symonds had to call the police on him? It does on mine (which was very negative in any case). And it would if similar was confirmed about any other leader.

Yes of course. That was widely reported in the media. Domestic abuse is illegal. I'm not aware that NS and PM are in an abusive relationship? Is that the rumour?

Reading between the lines on this thread that is far from the rumour and instead the suggestion is that it's a sexless marriage of convenience type thing. That's not in any way the same. Many marriages would fall into that category and that would be a wholly private matter.

Grubby.

Unless of course I've got the wrong end of the stick and there is some illegality in the rumoured SI / Interdict?

It's hardly judgemental to identify the degree of trust one can have in a person as a relevant issue in a context where a political leader is asking us to trust them with our votes and with the government of our country.

I am kind of impressed though @WouldBeGood that you've the balls to admit out loud that someone else's marriage is your concern. I'm nosey myself but that's next level

Someone's going to have to give me a clue ... what about her marriage makes her untrustworthy?

@forfucksakenett

Someone's going to have to give me a clue ... what about her marriage makes her untrustworthy?

Lying about it.

Faux morality ?

Well, given the SNP has sold itself on a platform of being ‘better’, sanctimonious sound bites, the treatment of Joanna Cherry by NS and her team doesn’t even meet the threshold of basic decency.
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@forfucksakenett re. the rumour(s), read further between the lines.

@Blurberoo

It would be a real shame if this thread gets pulled because it descends into a bunfight.

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@MuffinsandBrownies

Faux morality ?

Well, given the SNP has sold itself on a platform of being ‘better’, sanctimonious sound bites, the treatment of Joanna Cherry by NS and her team doesn’t even meet the threshold of basic decency.
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Joanna Cherry has tweeted that she is taking time off due to ill health.

I saw that about Joanna Cherry. I hope she’s ok. I have really appreciated her speaking out on Brexit and for women

@TheShadowyFeminist have you turned up to explain why the people are the problem. Given your everyone else is a problem post⬇️

I saw this on twitter & I think this sums up where we currently are:
Postcards of Wisdom - Death of a free society by a political party in epitome: 'The People Are The Problem

Oh I see,the people are the problem
Would that be the people who vote SNP
The people who gave 55% approval rating
The people who are not consumed by conspiracy theories and dark muttering
So it’s people,it’s not you. Aye, ok then

It really doesn’t play out well, being so blinkered. So resolute and inflexible in your opinion. So disparaging of others