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Ironically, I was always very impressed with Salmond as well, he seemed to be on a different level, wit and intelligence wise to his English colleagues. It all
by mellosouls 4y ago
Ironically, I was always very impressed with Salmond as well, he seemed to be on a different level, wit and intelligence wise to his English colleagues. It all obviously got a bit grimy with him and Sturgeon at the end, so I didn't mention it.
There has also been the recent trans policy heat (not to say she is on the wrong side, I have no idea) and the finance debacle that Private Eye has been tracking.
So yes, they are hardly pure, but just seem generally more professional and trustworthy.
- bbg2401 4y agoWith regards to Scottish politics and its politicians, I suspect you are allowing yourself to bathe in the rays of your own ignorance.
- mellosouls 4y agoHa, well I did have the misfortune the other day to stumble on to a piece in The National and was depressed at the blatant anti-Englishness, especially in the toxic comments, which would have been condemned as racism with any other target or in any other mainstream publication.
- inglor_cz 4y agoAs an occassional reader of Scottish discussions as well, the double standards are striking. Compared to those discussions and their anti-English tenor, "the unmentionable" Tommy Robinson was a positively mild and mellow-tempered critic of Islam. I get why Ukrainians hate Russians; but there is nowhere near as much real blood between the English and the Scots. There shouldn't be that much hate, unless deliberately stoked.
- LemmyInThePub 4y ago[dead]