A Yank in Scotland

Former Scottish Secretary blocked return scheme to give SNP 'black eye', court hears

A UK Government minister blocked a Scottish deposit return scheme (DRS) in order to give the SNP a 'black eye', a court has been told

I'm interested to hear what you think of Desmond's statement. Is it 100% deflection or is there some truth and was Rodgers maybe allowing whatever frustrations he had to interfere with his job performance (and his honesty in interviews)?

Yeah, that's what I meant with my "boys will be boys" excuse being sort of culturally engrained. It takes all that other stuff and tells boys/men that things aren't their fault, they're just this way, and it's really insidious the way that attitude seeps into a male consciousness/psyche.

...difference means a higher likelihood of being targeted in your youth, your adulthood, or both. That theory lends itself to the phenomenon you've seen: Damaged men who at their core may be good hearted, but they haven't worked out how to put that core into practice, so they do damage of their own.

I feel like part of full accountability is being able to pretty openly talk about mistakes you made. And yes, I have reached out and apologised, the more obvious bit, and yet one which seems to elude so many men.

I think to grow up in the US and be leftist it's likely you're "different" and that...

"Nuclear accidents are deadly and cleanup and disposal are fraught with problems". Fossil fuels directly contribute to several dozen times more mortality and morbidity via both the process of obtaining them, and their environmental impact when used.

...I'd done something hurtful and wrong and what a horrible person that made me. The denial of that was that shield, that defense mechanism. And it took a fuck ton of work and reflection to realise these two elements were playing off each other in me well into my adulthood and I needed to change.

I definitely think it's nurture, not nature. "Boys will be boys" implicitly is telling us that boys/men do shit just because of who they are and they ought to be held harmless for it. Add that to in my case, childhood bullying which dropped my self-worth through the floor and the pain of thinking...

Michelle Mone has just bought a £10m home in Florida, even though she has yet to repay a penny of the £122m PPE Medpro owes the taxpayer. Good job she hasn't committed housing benefit fraud, because she might have been prosecuted then.

As a man who formerly just did not have it in myself to take accountability for anything I did wrong (a defence mechanism, sure, but a really destructive one), I feel this really deeply. I'm sorry this has been what you've had to contend with for so long.

Wes Streeting: "What we have seen on our streets.. is a return of 1970s, 1980s style racism that I thought we had left in the history books"

You're right. But shamefully you & the Labour govt aren't a bulwark against it. Instead you've opened the door & emboldened the racists.

What a surprise 🙄

😂 Nice one. Yeah trust me I have great frustration about things on both sides of the Atlantic. Yes, he's a "Republican" and now he's trying to get the actual Republican candidate to drop out of the race. I just never want to hear "vote blue no matter who" from Democrats ever again. Carl Beijer:

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Cuomo is a bog standard, average Democrat politician. Happy to help.

Will that be the same remote Highland village that they want to stash their nuclear waste in? The same one they suggested relocating their "illegal" migrants to? Is Scotland just one big #dumping ground for every inconvenient English issue? Is this another of their supposed "union dividends"?

From @gingerweegie.bsky.social's link at bsky.app/profile/ging... – 4.0% to 17.7% personal income tax rates (bracketed).

So in a word... no.

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My second spouse visa (you have to do two, 30 months apart) cost about double the already inflated rate the first one cost under the Tories due to Labour increases. Nearly $5,000 USD.

Apparently even that additional burden on our family wasn't enough.

Frozen fish on ice with headline text ‘GUTTED – How Westminster slashed funding to Scotland’s fishing industry.

Scotland’s fishing industry makes up more than half of the UK’s total catch.

Yet Labour’s new funding plan gives us less than 8% of the support.

They’re gutting our industry to boost England’s - just like they have with others.

I don't know, Gerry, but we Jambos are extremely grateful (for now)

SNP: "The only legal way to remove Prince Andrew’s remaining titles is through an Act of Parliament.

"Last month the SNP lodged a similar motion to pressure Keir Starmer’s government into removing the peerage of Peter Mandelson – another establishment figure linked to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal."

🇬🇧 Starmer takes Scots for absolute mugs

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THIS.

Lmao talk about so little self-awareness it's somehow in the negative numbers with that comment 😆

Well, it's been more than three years now. I guess that debate on the future of the monarchy we were told would have to wait until the queen died isn't happening.

It's so embarrassing. And I just let her (?) know in no uncertain terms she's as much the reason I left the US as MAGA are.

As an American by birth, you are as much the exact reason I left as MAGA

“If we’d won they might have made me take the job. I couldn’t take that risk”

I don't want hear about Prince Andrew giving up his titles.

I want to hear about him losing his freedom.

We have the laws to prosecute people for serious sexual offences committed in other countries.

Why don't we use them?