RuamRudy

A few gross generalisations there, Transam. Megan's been about a bit? Has she also had an adulterous affair with a married man while she, too, was married, as is the case with her future step-mother in law?

Do you not think that allegations of ministers behaving inappropriately or abusing their positions should be investigated?

Or the right to relieve the suffering of one incapable of making the choice themselves.

The perfect post to illustrate the saying, 'if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail'.

Such a difficult subject to even consider. I can't imagine the heart rending pain that parents in such circumstances must endure. I hope counseling is offered through the process and long after.

Banning words seems very Draconian, but while foreign words can enrich a language (Draconian, for example), the invasive creep of a foreign language, like Japanese knotweed, can have a stifling effect on a culture. For official communications, where there is no Italian word for a circumstance then use the English word, but if an Italian word exists then it should be used. That people might prefer to use the English equivalent suggests, to me, that not enough is being done to promote the indigenous language. Maybe this will help promote it. In the same week that the Welsh government announced that Bannau Brycheiniog would, once again, assume it's correct name, its a good week for language.

No, it's not the long term that matters. Maybe show a little humility and acknowledge that there are many people suffering real hardship today; there are many good businesses going broke or already have gone broke because some people believed the lies of a Russian financed snake oil salesman who peddled jingoism. Talk about the future when you have a plan. At the moment all you have are blinkers.

You literally just dismissed forecasts as little more than guesses. Your optimism that something will spring from nothing will be cold comfort to people up and down the UK who are experiencing the negative effects of brexit.

So where are the facts? The only current tangibles are economic pain and burdensome bureaucracy.

What we can all agree with, I am sure, is that the economic impact of brexit at this point in time is negative for most and devastating for more than a few. We can also all agree, I am sure, that there is currently no clear path to the sunny uplands. Some remain positive that something good will emerge from the dung heap while the majority are not convinced.

Might it be that, as he approaches 88, he is displaying signs of dementia?

Because, after centuries of Western imperialism, war and thievery, their countries have been left as ungovernable hellholes. So most likely they will try again.

Clearly it is a UK problem if the stupidity of brexit means that a large number of would-be French tourists can no longer come to the UK. And only 2 nights? As they say in my country, many a mickle makes a muckle.

You don't see the difference in approach, or you don't want to?

Possibly you are correct - maybe the wheels are off the SNP charabanc but, as I said elsewhere, if one is predisposed to supporting independence, the union is not looking any less rancid than usual. It doesn't follow that turning from the SNP would drive people into the arms of either Tory or labour.

I would imagine that the Tories will continue to be mostly immune from any official scrutiny.

But just imagine how UK business might be performing if it wasn't handicapped by brexit. It's recovery is despite brexit, not be of it.

The police are so in the pocket of the SNP that they turned up mob handed with a forensics tent in the garden. If only the MET were as discrete and low key with Johnson when they sent him a questionnaire about whether he had been partying while he messed up his COVID response.

Why? Independence is not the SNP; the SNP is not independence. In the same period, the UK government has done nothing to make the UK look anything other than the corrupt, toxic drain on my country.

Yes - but the essence is in the fact that it's 'completely deserved'. As most people, including myself, know incredibly little about Murrell so it's impossible to say whether it's deserved.

I wouldn't know - I am not in the SNP.

I am not disputing that brexit is ongoing or that Sunak is pm - both are demonstrable facts. For example, the UK government was ecstatic this week at the signing of an Asian trade deal that will improve our economy by a whopping 0.08%. A few more of those and we will be in fine fettle. However it's the relative merits of both brexit and Sunak that are debatable.

Seeing as your are all over the place, I think you have made a wise choice.

In 2014 the europhile credentials of the SNP were clear - an independent Scotland would seek admission to the EU subject to a referendum. It was Better Together that stated that the only way to remain in the EU was to remain in the UK. I think you are misreading my posts. What I am saying is not that Westminster is responsible for SNP failures (although Westminster does set funding) but the argument that the SNP is a failure only works in context - and that context is Westminster, which has presided over a massive decline in living standards in England. The SNP may be bad - but the alternative, which repeated posters try to portray as being superior, is demonstrably worse.

Not exactly great news for our exporters struggling to make up for the loss of a common EU market.