Allan Faulds

Monkey's paw curls as I wish the English engaged more with the Scottish experience, only have myself to blame for this one

(That said it's very easy to find SNP supporters who basically say all the same stuff about the media that the last Starmtroopers standing do, and indeed have been saying it since May 2007 and have nursed that grievance even through the SNP's most stunning successes, Scotland not immune to seething)

And I say that very much not as some swivel eyed conspiracist, but just the fact that almost the whole media is (as it is absolutely entitled to be) Pro-Union and as such is obviously and reasonably not exactly keen on the Party of Independence. I believe the kids would call this a "skill issue".

I am once again, as a resident of the exotic and distant land known as "Scotland", reminding the very many "it's all the media's fault!" reply guys here that we are almost certainly about to enter a third decade of SNP governance up here despite near-universal media scepticism and/or hostility.

This is another thing for your "things I had to ask my husband about": SMTV Live

My last thought on Starmer vs Sarwar for today is that it may look if you squint very hard like the Scottish Party standing up to the Westminster Party, but if Starmer is still PM at the end of this week it looks a lot more like the Scottish Party being hefty dinghied by the Westminster Party.

Going to the shop for a big empire biscuit after tonight's performance, mydietisruined.fairygodmother.shrek2.gif

To add insult to today's injury, some Tufton Street bawbags somehow decided to invite BBS to attend one of their nonsense, climate denialist events; great reminder of how utterly divorced from reality the Tories are now that one of their MPs is going alongside Reform.

Right Starmer get your fuckin resignation on give me something after that miserable performance

Yeah yeah they could still get bronze but that would be as ashes after the overall run

Flop day for Scotland all things considered.

Curling

Absolute complete and utter disaster. 8 out of 9 round robin wins. Lose the one to a team that doesn't even make the semis. Make the most incredible cockups and throw away a medal at the semis.

Fuckin hate sport, why does anyone enjoy sport, this is shite, absolutely wallowing in misery now

Issuing a correction on a previous statement of mine, curling is not in fact so good, my day has been ruined

This is Anas Sarwar's fault, he gave Scotland too much joy today

In fairness to my "an Independent Scotland would get to claim all the glory of our curlers" take, the flipside is that we would have to take all responsibility for the fact we are the world champions at shitein our fuckin breeks after an amazing streak

Why are we like this as a sporting nation

Jesus fuck this is absolutely miserable

JEN THAT WAS A STUNNER

Stressed oot ma nut man

JEN THAT WAS ROTTEN

AW BRUCE THAT WAS ROTTEN

Okay everyone shut up nothing matters for the next two hours except my new besties Bruce and Jen

Genuinely though when Douglas Ross did this, almost the whole Conservative MSP group started posting regretful support for his position. Why did Sarwar seemingly jump without having at least, say, a dozen of his MSPs primed to do similar?

This has been the funniest day in Scottish politics this year, in 25 minutes time I get to do my post-work cycle fully in daylight because I started an hour early to finish an hour early, so I could watch the curling, honestly, banging Monday, one of the best

Anas Sarwar has lost the mandate of Heaven

Anyway is it good that in the short period after your press conference it feels like your target has gone from top panel to bottom panel?

Douglas Alexander is both a cabinet member and *co-chair of the Scottish Labour election campaign*.

How do you run a campaign when your leader and the co-chair of your campaign disagree on whether the Labour PM should resign? How is that sustainable?

Apparently Baillie's powers of nuclear briefings don't work if the target is south of the Tweed

I think the curling is fine actually, the more time passes since the Sarwar presser