Making the news today....

[GarethM]

So what is she then, other than a bought and paid for screaming shill ?.

 

Good, bad, dumb, adulthood throws off the shackles of the parents in the longer term.

[Mick Dempsey]

34 minutes ago, GarethM said:

So what is she then, other than a bought and paid for screaming shill ?.

 

 

A person who has had and continues to have considerable influence on global attitudes and thinking.

 

[GarethM]

Hopefully that barbwire your sitting on is starting to dig in so you can actually make a choice.

[Mick Dempsey]

About what?

[waterbuoy]

It would appear that democracy and transparency are a thing of the past here in Scotland:

 

SNP leadership contest: Media excluded from hustings events

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

---

The BBC, STV, ITN and Sky join together to challenge the SNP's decision to prevent media access.

 

[scbk]

2 minutes ago, waterbuoy said:

It would appear that democracy and transparency are a thing of the past here in Scotland:

 

SNP leadership contest: Media excluded from hustings events

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

---

The BBC, STV, ITN and Sky join together to challenge the SNP's decision to prevent media access.

 

Does it matter though? It's like a choice between the 3 monkeys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the vote is to be made by snp members so we don't get a say anyway, no point in the media being there

[waterbuoy]

But each of the hustings is only able to accommodate a few hundred people.  By the time they have put the relevant spin onto whatever happens the wider SNP membership won't have a clue what or who they are voting for.

[Macpherson]

1 minute ago, waterbuoy said:

But each of the hustings is only able to accommodate a few hundred people.  By the time they have put the relevant spin onto whatever happens the wider SNP membership won't have a clue what or who they are voting for.

 

Is that not the idea😂

[waterbuoy]

I guess so, which is why I made the original comment!

 

Whilst I am not a SNP fan myself, (exactly the opposite TBH), many of my neighbours are and they are far from happy with current developments.

[scbk]

32 minutes ago, waterbuoy said:

 the wider SNP membership won't have a clue what or who they are voting for.

There's people that vote for the snp who don't even realise that the snp are in charge!