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Re: Tory MP mistakes Edinburgh Castle for Winterfell
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2019, 08:45:58 PM »
 Numpty.
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Re: Tory MP mistakes Edinburgh Castle for Winterfell
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2019, 08:51:33 PM »
As a Scottish Tory MP he's one of an endangered species: good.

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Re: Tory MP mistakes Edinburgh Castle for Winterfell
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2019, 10:32:04 PM »
As a Scottish Tory MP he's one of an endangered species: good.
   
   



Maybe we should revive an old custom - sort of.
Have the Tory Branch office, with not-the-leader Carlaw in the middle, stand at the base of Castle Rock and we can shout "Gardyloo" whilst chucking the appropriate traditional accompaniment at them.
Last one to miss has to join them.
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Re: Tory MP mistakes Edinburgh Castle for Winterfell
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2019, 10:21:46 AM »
Why is this even a thing? It's a Scottish castle in Scotland that's been run by Scottish organisations since, well, at least since 1991.
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Re: Tory MP mistakes Edinburgh Castle for Winterfell
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2019, 11:46:09 AM »
Why is this even a thing? It's a Scottish castle in Scotland that's been run by Scottish organisations since, well, at least since 1991.

Because there's a class of people - and in my experience there's a higher proportion of them amongst Tories and Tory supporters - for whom everything is a resource to be exploited and they are the people entitled to do the exploiting. To them, Scotland is one of those things that's 'owned' (and, to them, that's no different to, say, Essex, but obviously to the Scots it is) and should be their's to exploit.

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Re: Tory MP mistakes Edinburgh Castle for Winterfell
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2019, 01:28:23 PM »
Because there's a class of people - and in my experience there's a higher proportion of them amongst Tories and Tory supporters - for whom everything is a resource to be exploited and they are the people entitled to do the exploiting. To them, Scotland is one of those things that's 'owned' (and, to them, that's no different to, say, Essex, but obviously to the Scots it is) and should be their's to exploit.

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A bit like this?
Whilst Scotland has led the UK in renewable energy, Johnson  doesn't want Scotland's government newar next year's 'green' summit - in Glasgow.......
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17935380.boris-johnson-wants-union-flag-not-nicola-sturgeon-climate-summit/
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: Tory MP mistakes Edinburgh Castle for Winterfell
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2019, 01:47:38 PM »
   




A bit like this?
Whilst Scotland has led the UK in renewable energy, Johnson  doesn't want Scotland's government newar next year's 'green' summit - in Glasgow.......
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17935380.boris-johnson-wants-union-flag-not-nicola-sturgeon-climate-summit/
And I see his delieberate (sic) mistake in the name of the SNP, and in equating the Scottish govt to simply being the SNP.