Should Scotland be an independent country?

It’s a total non-story. You have to wonder about the certain level of intelligence of people posting stuff like this.

Honestly dont think anything will happen to that pair, they are absolute teflon. Couldn't run a piss up in a brewery never mind a indy country.

Working class’ Scotland understands perfectly. It’s opportunistic politicians who choose not to understand that I was referring to - and I have clearly touched some raw nerves!

Never ever assume.

.... that the 600k is woven through the accounts?

I dont know anything about this story, but hey, those straws won't clutch at themselves so go get 'em champ.

I'll go and stare at the magpies for a while

My mum (who has been mapping the family tree) just sent me this:

Your great, great grandfather, John Grant lived in Edinburgh. In the 1871 Census his family was living at 16 Parkside Street, St Cuthberts, Edinburgh. John was a joiners apprentice and his father, James, a coal agent.

In 1861 the family was in Muirpark Cottage, Humbie, Haddingtonshire (East Lothian), Scotland. John was only 5. His father was then a County Police Constable.

Which, if I were to be an American, would make me eligible for a kilt, bagpipes etc etc.

And the bike and the laptop..

myself and any other person i've asked about this are pretty fine with anyone (with lineage or not) wearing a kilt, so long as they a) don't make up shite about their ancestors having fought in x battle or lived in y castle etc and b)wear it properly

There is no proper way to wear a kilt.. a Victorian invention.

I'm watching TV wearing nothing but wode.

Timberlands, football top and an unhealthy pallor surely?

My great grandmother was a Campbeltown Mitchell.

I shall be using this information to claim my American Scottish passport.

changes name to McDammit

MacDaingead

aye there is and it's nothing to do with the victorians

everyone except grey polo shirt is wearing is properly

this guy is not wearing it properly

not proper

proper

also proper

see? simple, really.

Not to be a pedant ol' boy but Parkside Street is in the St Leonards part of the city, right along side what was the first every railway station in the city. (One building remains and the "Innocent Railway" that connected to it, is now a very handy cycle path"

The map is from 1888 to 1913 apparently and No. 16 (Where the grey pin is on the google image) is to the far right of the old map image. The street remains much like it was back then but is now surrounded by lots of newer builds where the station and railways would have been.

I love all this shit.

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Scotland's Watergate rumbles on.. I wonder why senior civil servants felt it was appropriate to mislead a parliamentary committee..

The finally released text messages here..

https://archive2021.parliament.scot/HarassmentComplaintsCommittee/General%20documents/Selected_texts_from_s24_response_from_COPFS(1).pdf

Analysis here..

https://gordondangerfield.com/2021/08/12/liz-lloyds-interference-in-the-salmond-investigation-what-it-means-for-the-bigger-picture/

I wonder why senior civil servants felt it was appropriate to mislead a parliamentary committee

The commonly accepted reason is that after 14 years the SNP and the civil servants are far too close. I don't say this as an anti-SNP comment, it's a very long time for a party to be in power and that's what tends to happen.

Anecdotally I've got friends who are senior Scottish civil servants and can confirm this is true.

Snoop got it right?

Snoop always gets it right.

Except when he was Snoop Lion. That was some bullshit.

my American Scottish passport.

(Insert joke about how it’s ‘Scottish American’)

I lived on Parkside Street for a couple of years, know those streets well. #NotRelatedToDammit