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?

It’s so weird seeing this. Literally every public service has a saltire or the word Scotland emblazoned on it. Feels really parochial and a bit petty. Even the fabric on train seats!

what else I’ve noticed is the nannying - as soon as you cross the border into Scotland on the motorway there are relentless safety messages ‘don’t take drugs and drive’ ‘don’t drive tired’ ‘drive safely’ ‘observe speed limit’ ‘- whilst you do see this in England they aren’t quite so frequent - or so patronising frankly. Feels a bit OTT.

Spot on.

Ironically, as a "yes" voter 10 years ago, wild horses on acid could not convince me to ever support the snp or the severing of ties with the UK again.

I was stupid and trusted those who have proved categorically to be unworthy of that trust.

Thankfully many other people were less gullible, and if it includes you - thank you.

@CocoapuffPuff I think the Brexit shit show has shown everyone that we can't trust all the "everything will be so much better if we make this (really significant irreversible) change."

People want the benefits demonstrated to them in a tangible way first all before they are prepared to vote for something irreversible. The "Take control" and "it can't be as bad as the Tories" rhetoric is not good enough

Broken trust. Story of our lives, really.

To add to this - I was, and still am, annoyed by the appropriation of the saltire by the SNP/pro-Indy lot. The whole rhetoric was "We love Scotland more than ANYONE else, and if you don't want independence, you don't love Scotland at all, so we get the saltire". The concept that we were voting against independence because we love Scotland and want the best for the country and the people was completely beyond their comprehension. We were portrayed as being disloyal to the country we live in and love, and that still infuriates me.

I think that’s guaranteed, they never learn, feckin eejits n gobshites 🤬

Me too. My eldest is 21 - I saw an old photo of him when he was about 4 or 5 (so 2007/8 ish) and he was wearing a t-shirt saying Scotland and with an image of a saltire.

There is NO WAY I would wear something like that now, or put a child in it.

An ACTUAL MSP vs a properly qualified professional.

I suppose we should be thankful than Emma Harper ditched the fake Scoats dialect for this at least. For ref, this is the woman who doesn’t foresee currency issues in an independent Scotland with a different currency because she “was able to use plastic without a problem, on holiday in Mexico”

I shit you not.

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So it’s in the run up to the next Scottish election in 2026, what do you want to hear from the opposition parties? Me:

Binning all GRA / hate crime legislation once and for all.

Charges to be brought against whoever decided to award the ferries contract to Ferguson Marine.

A promise to only spend money on devolved issues. No overseas spending, no pretend embassies, no independence studies / ministers etc.

Address violence in schools. My kids are scared to go to school due to constant unrest. The disruptive kids need to be removed.

An aligned DRS with rUK. Let’s all get recycling!

What else?

Happy with all that, I'll add;

Return the voting age to 18 with a requirement that you must be at least 25 before holding public office. Have junior assemblies to allow young people appropriate influence.

Sort out university entrance and allow those who are willing to borrow the money for fees the ability to apply without being restricted to "free" places. This also opens up the allocated free places to those who need them most.

Devolve council matters back to local councils who know what they need most.

Have a 2nd chamber

Concentrate on pulling education up for all instead of closing a gap by reducing the achievements at the top.

Have more cross chamber working.

Listen to experts.

Oh lord no second chamber! Lady Sturgeon?
just another ££££ opportunity for the retired MSPs
I see the benefit of a second chamber in principle…but we have demonstrated a complete inability to govern ….i don’t trust Scotland to do it properly

tax the same as rUk

Reverse the ban on wood burners in rural areas

Well we could completely scrap devolution and just use the system we already have? 😁We need something but that doesn't mean to say it needs to replicate the Lords as such.

No more sticking plasters:
Sort out the drugs deaths by tackling the root of the problem - poverty and lack of opportunity.
Lift families permanently out of poverty instead of an extra tenner a week by providing quality education and training leading to quality, secure jobs

I agree with most of this, but I’m a bit sceptical about the “experts” after the lockdown experience and the self id fiasco. The so called “ experts” weren’t so expert after all.

We need a second chamber, we saw that after the way the idiot laws were bulldozed through, we need a proper system of checks and balances.

Totally agree

Yeah true. I mean proper experts rather than their own paid/cherry picked experts. Hugh Pennington wouldn't have bought all that shit but he wasn't snp so... 🤷

Also, independence could almost have worked while we were still in the EU if Scotland had been accepted into the EU quickly and the rest of the UK had stayed in. No trade difficulties. Now it would be a nightmare as it would require a border.

True

But in the same way that bojo said a hard border wouldn’t be needed (100% lie) their gullible, bovine-headed idiot voters would believe this when the SNP say it too.

There's surely no way we could avoid a hard border unless they tried to use the Windsor Framework rules - but it's a different political situation.

Totally agree!