Ruth Davidson
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Seen people say she done well in the better together debate. Where does it leave the Scottish conservatives and might more people vote for them if she's the leader and could be first minister?
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I have also seen people say she done (sic) well too - namely you on the 19th of this month, ironically in the "...honest debate" thread.:o
This is the kind of thing which might explain the Tories' apparent popularity on DS while performing poorly in the polls last night. It's sad really.
What will be interesting is that it looks like the three main parties in Scotland are going to have female leaders. That should provide quite a contrast to the boys club in London.
They won't though. I mean lets just get real.
By the same logic, the Conservatives are unable to accept the will of the Scottish people and just disappear.
The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party were on the side of the will of the Scottish people in the referendum. Why would they disappear?
So when are the SNP and other nationalists going to vanish?
Over a quarter of a million Scottish people voted for them at the last Holyrood elections...are you seriously suggesting such a substantial chunk of the population be denied the opportunity to vote for the party of their choice or be represented by someone reflects their own political views?
That's if they get the powers and Cameron and the Tories renege on their promises
it is not Devo Max. That is not on the agenda and it is not what the three political parties promised
The point I was making was the logical fallacy in wallster's post. Both are still important and relevant and the Conservatives in Scotland are needed as opposition to the Green /SNP coalition in 2016
An SNP/Green coalition is a distinct possibility but their oil policy would be quite interesting to read.
"repaid her"???? In what way?
On Friday morning...instead of saying
"We are glad the people of Scotland voted no and I shall now be working with all parties across the whole of the UK to give greater devolution to Scotland as soon as possible"
and leaving it at that...he specifically linked the timetable for further Scottish devolution related to an English constitutional matter he knew would be both controversial, difficult and possibly impossible to implement. That matter has existed for years...it could have waited another day or two
The result of which was to immediately switch attention away from the matter in hand as far as ALL the Scottish people were concerned, as far as the media were concerned and handed Salmon & Co an immediate stick to beat him with. And of course they were going to pick on the worst possible interpretation.
Either that or it was a deliberate and thinly veiled attempt to finally say "well I don't give a flying fig about any part of the UK doesn't vote Tory...I only care about the whole of the UK because I wouldn't get a seat at the G20 as the Prime Minister of Chipping Norton"
And all this after Ruth & Co worked their butts off to keep Scotland in the Union and probably keep him in his job.
Who said the 45% were irrelevant exactly?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-29569585
Oops.
The one consistent thing about this is that the Police have gone after Senior Conservatives time after time and it nearly always transpires that its the police who have done wrong. Namely "Plebgate"...
We need a police that is not controlled by left wingers. This whole story seems to be one of Left Wing politicians in cahoots with anti-conservative policemen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2739790/Scotland-Yard-releases-new-Plebgate-CCTV-footage-details-conspiracy-officers-topple-Tory-government.html
what absolute nonsense. From the moment Davidson made that comment on TV the talk was of her breaking election law and how the police would be dragged into it. A visit from the police was just a matter of time and would've have happened to any politician from any party daft enough to announce on air they'd flouted electoral law. The police I'm sure are not aware of the finer points of electoral law and are only involved because someone has filed a complaint but you paint it as a police conspiracy!
Plebgate was one man's word against another. With Davidson several million TV viewers heard her condemn herself out of her own mouth.
Well, they still have more support than the various socialist parties and the Greens. Should they just disappear Too?
What is your threshold of support before a party needs to disappear?
Smudges Dad was making this post to highlight the logical flaw in Wallster's earlier post. Why are people finding that so hard to understand?
We should be told who made the complaint. It would be interesting.