I loathe the Scottish Government

[Dineasair]

I loathe the Scottish Government. I want to see the SNP/Green Party coalition roast in hell! They can take any MSP who voted for the Gender Reform Bill or the Hate Crime Laws with them. Is it now a hate crime for a Scottish Woman to say that?

Quite!

What on earth is the justification for getting a pension well before retirement?

Most of them have continued collecting a MSP salary & if not being a former FM seems to bring financial opportunities their way regardless.

I'm genuinely shocked.
What a bloody grift!

Would love to be able to use it. But it's not getting used because it's locked up, not because people can't be bothered. The Scottish Greens cannae be trusted to organise a piss up in a Brewery, Lorna Slater in particular is incompetent and the Scottish Government have spaffed away millions of pounds because it just had to be different from the scheme in England -

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/desperate-lorna-slater-attempts-rewrite-32472098

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66050610.amp

https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,lack-of-trust-in-business-was-fundamental-failing-of-drs-labour-msp-says#:~:text=The%20Scottish%20Government's%20deposit%20return,a%20Labour%20MSP%20has%20claimed.

So all the DRS units which were built in preparation for the implementation which will now never happen are now just mouldering away.

The current "government" is a sympton of a bigger problem: attitudes of tribalism, bigotry, intolerance and parochialism which are rife in Glasgow and spreading across rest of Scotland.

YES in 2014 targeted those on the margins of society with the simplistic message that all their problems were caused by "Westminster".They are now the core SNP vote.

@TobyEsterhase I agree. In a similar way the Govt in Westminster targeted those who felt that they were not 'being listened to' & told them it was all the fault of Europe. Look where that got us. Neither party give a damn about those 'on the margins' they just want votes & power (like all policians really)

The govt in Westminster campaigned AGAINST Brexit. I voted for Brexit because I believed the benefits of getting rid of an unnecessary layer of government outweighed the short term difficulties of leaving the single market. I work for a business where 70% of our sales go to France and Brexit has not caused any significant issues.

Oh, I wonder why it works so well in the Nordic countries and Germany etc? Although a lot in Germany is actually re-use rather than recycling - fizzy drinks bottles etc go back to the original manufacturer for refill. Just like they used in the UK up until the mid-70s or so (and milk men still do).

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This isn't true apparently.

From here https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/1/notes/division/5/29/21?view=plain#:~:text=Under%20the%20First%20Minister%20and,the%20post%20or%20their%20age.
maybe I'm misreading it?

Oh FUCK RIGHT OFF!!

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/12623237/john-swinney-backlash-gender-reform-plans/?utmmedium=Social&utmmcampaign=scottishsuntwitter&utmsource=Twitter#Echobox=1714975961

Because in the Scandinavian countries they have a common system. Scotland is part of the UK. The UK is an island and supplies from various parts of the UK get sold in Scotland so we need a common UK-wide DRS system here. The Scottish government didn’t want that. They wanted their own scoattishy system instead, hence it failed.

There is no end to the crap show that is the SNP govt. Swinney thinking about bringing back self ID, seriously?!

Swinney is a total waste of space. Sturgeon's yes-man during the pandemic who never had an original thought in his life.

Let’s wait and see - he was quite careful with his words there, with lots of waffle about dialogue but underpinning that with ‘the law is the law’. I suspect he’s placating the nutters but let’s wait and see if he’s prepared to pursue this issue with Regan and Forbes holding his feet to the fire.

Otoh, he’s an incompetent as the rest of them - curriculum for mediocrity, anyone?

He needs the greens to vote him in as FM so may just be waffling to not set them off again against the SNP.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Aye and what he means is that he will bring back the GRR and allow self ID the minute Labour get into power in England, because he knows that they won’t block it.

listening to his speech...
is he 'listening' to those who don't think women have penises?

Nope!

Sturgeon's yes-man during the pandemic who never had an original thought in his life

I don't imagine much to have changed.

More of the same old SNP pish till Stephen Flynn gets himself a Holyrood seat next time and goes for the job. He’s a Machiavellian one to watch, sounds like his “advice” did old Humza up like a kipper 🤣

Hmm, in Germany and the US different states have different systems and they seem to make it work.

You can’t compare countries anyway. The whole tax set up, healthcare, pensions, council funding etc etc are totally different.

Aye awright Lorna...😁

Maybe the difference is also that in these places they are willing to talk and make things more joined up rather than trying to do something different for the sake of it?

Hmm, in Germany and the US different states have different systems and they seem to make it work.
Not true for Germany, it's a federal system.

The SNP are blinded by hatred (hatred for the English, let's be honest). Their focus is not on Scotland but on separation. It isn't just an obsession with independence. It's an obsession with identity – with making Scotland as distinct and separate from the rest of the UK as they can. A government's priority should be to govern efficiently. The SNP's priority is to disentangle Scotland from the UK. In other words, to remove all traces of 'Britishness', no matter what the cost.

You see it in all areas of government. The creation of 'Police Scotland', for example, had nothing to do with efficiency. A reasonably efficient police service was replaced with a more expensive and less efficient one in the name of ideology. They wanted a distinct and separate force, with Gaelic on the side of every police car (paid for by the taxpayer, of course). The same thing has happened in all areas of government, and the result has been decline – worse housing, worse education, worse transportation, a worse health service, etc.