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Neighbouring Borough Council has just seen 8 Tory councillors resign from the party in the space of a couple of days, changing their standing to Independent meaning that the Tories lose the council to NOC. No reason yet given but perhaps it's simply the Tories becoming more and more of a ...

Sandstorm wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 12:45 pm
Hal Jordan wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 12:39 pm They're bitching about maybe having to put solar panels on roofs now.
Stupid to moan about it because the developer just passes that extra cost onto the buyer.

Aye, that's what I expect too. And probably make a bit of extra profit in doing so as well.

This is slowly eating away at my soul.

Feels like something more than that.

They sure love hatin their government and burning them witches. Maybe someone purporting to do both, telling fables of greatness just hits that G(ullible) spot.

With Trump there's clearly some sort of weird charisma that he and a few other populists ...

Mass panic and loss of the heid coming?

Hmmm... quite difficult to accept the overwhelmed comment when he done nothing. How can something be overwhelming if you just ignore it?

Also the "it's unfair to expect perfect leaders" comment can just fuck off.

Of course leaders aren't perfect, but they get paid a hell of a lot for the higher ...

My mistake, I've looked up the post and at that point in the season Finn was overall joint top points scorer and second top goal kicker in the Top 14.

He finished that season in second in both categories https://all.rugby/tournament/top-14-2023/

Watching rugby must be a real exercise in ...

I'm afraid the only truly Scottish way forward next weekend is a heroic win away in Paris, only to still finish 4th and hand an average to good England team the title.

The lengthy battering of the Welsh line which was eventually held, up highlights the problems we have which also include the lack of leadership. We have hardly any big ball carriers capable of breaking these defences but we have arguable the worlds most potent back line sitting waiting to scythe ...

Is now the appropriate time to start shitting myself about losing to Wales?

:lol:

Maureen Dowd nails the futility of stroking an uber-fragile ego like Trump's...

Everyone is so obsequious around Trump that he now gets huffy at the least pushback. He can make any claim, no matter how outrageous — that Ukraine started the war with Russia, that Zelensky is a “dictator ...

I don’t understand how these billionaires who support Trump will still be rich when the US economy shrinks and millions of people lose their jobs. The stock market will drop and so will the value of their stock profiles. What am I missing?

Shock doctrine/disaster capitalism - chaos is an ...

I'm no expert but I thought he was easily the best prop on show without any help from the ref.
He was more than equal to Porter and his scrummaging shenanigans when they played earlier in the month.
According to penalties and free kick stats England have gone from the worst performing scrum ...

Exactly this, I watched him most of the game and they just couldn't handle his range of passing and he was actually much more involved than normal.

In the last couple of minutes after IrnDhu's try, Finn was looking so comfortable I thought for sure we were going to get another try and win ...

I saw their round up of media takes on this and they had Finn as a huge loser in the Lions race with scores of 4/10, 5/10.

Finn missed his kicks, but I thought apart from that it was a masterclass from him and certainly made Smith to look like the new boy he is.

Russell's width and pace ...

Ireland by 52
Scotland by 2
Italy by 3

I'm nervous about this weekend, but this should be a very close and very compelling match.

Thinking about Scotland against Italy. I really think Italy are a much better team and I'll be surprise if they don't take a scalp this tournament. On the whole it's unrealistic to expect us to just dominate ...

Immigration must be pretty damn close to the top of this list of peoples concerns, if not the top.

The problem is that it's almost impossible to debate the topic. People on the anti side of the argument can stray into the "well, they're just a bit different to us" side of things, while people on ...

Yep, he is bizarre - must be isolated where he lives as immigration and all things related has been by far the biggest single voter concern in the last decade ,

It’s notable it is *often* Scottish posters leading the way on migration talking points, Scotland has not had any meaningful ...

Yr Alban wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 5:09 pm Finn and Darcy both out for the England game, apparently. Which gives us the chance to get our excuses in early.

Only seen this on ruck.co.uk so far, so hoping it's click-baity crap.

Can’t quite work out why people are getting so worked up about this - not exactly POM’s number 1 fan but he’s clearly doing a bit and it’s reasonably funny

It’s only the Irish that get worked up. Every year like clockwork the Irish media concoct some weird narrative around Scotland saying ...

Ireland basically has to do two things to win comfortably:

1) Score early
2) Wrestle back control quickly when we have our wee moment of momentum, ideally with a try

Then we'd crumble mentally. I feel out mental aspect has got better, except vs Ireland and SA. When we play those two teams ghosts ...

Italy by 17
France by 12
Scotland by 4 (backing Finn to have a blinder following his bit of a shocker yesterday)

Gumboot wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:59 pm
Enzedder wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 7:21 pmCongrats C T who got both of this mornings scores spot on

Whatever I predict for next weeks games, go for the opposite.

That was a very nervous Murrayfield for a time there, and one of the most worrying 5 tries to 1 game I've been to.

But I am feeling positive. Great for Jones to show he is excellent in his own right. Our defence only conceeded an intercept try.

I imagine Finn having a bit of a shocker this week ...

France by 35
Scotland by 12
Ireland by 5

What's our thinking for this weekend?

A solid win showing we have made progress (or of course that Italy have taken a step back)? One of those squeaky bum wins we seem to love so much? Or of course a loss? I'm not ruling out any of these.

I am ruling out us getting pumped, perhaps rather foolishly.

I've reached a couple of conclusions in my approach to this 6 nations:

1) I don't buy the now or never, because broadly speaking I think this group of players will have this 6 nations, 2026 6 nations, 2027 6 nations and the world cup.
2) Success for me this year is being in with a shot to win the ...

Getting a little bored of there always being an excuse (no matter how legit of an excuse).

Time for the team to find their big boy pants and find a way.

How is home quarters/semis decided? Just trying to figure out why the group stages have got pish.

Currently making my way to The Stoop for tonight's game.

Was at Gloucester vs Quins a few weeks ago, got to say Quins were really quite rank. Almost as bad as Scotland in the Dan Parks era.

Quins can do better than that, and Glasgow are still Scottish. Even so should be a BP win for the weegies.

This is pish banter.

It’s possible the worst I have seen, which is quite staggering !

I’m almost embarrassed for him (I’m assuming it’s a him because woman don’t tend to make such fools of themselves)

I’ve ignored him (you can click on his name and mark him as a ‘foe’) and that means ...

Both doing fairly terribly to be fair.

From a Labour perspective I imagine they've baked in a drop in the polls, they are definitely trying to get bad stuff out the way early. Perhaps they were not expecting as much of a drop though? In theory this should be their low, but they need some positives ...

Gumboot wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 7:00 pm Has Trump claimed credit for the Gaza ceasefire deal yet?

He has indeed.

Perfectly understandable given he's a narcissist through and through. Crazy thing is a lot of people will believe him.

Scotland squad for the 2025 Guinness Six Nations (caps in brackets):

Forwards (22)

Ewan Ashman – Edinburgh Rugby (22)
Josh Bayliss – Bath Rugby (10)
Jamie Bhatti – Glasgow Warriors (35)
Gregor Brown – Glasgow Warriors (4)
Dave Cherry – Edinburgh Rugby (11)
Luke Crosbie – Edinburgh Rugby (12 ...

Just got a ticket for the Calcutta Cup game!

Nice.

I really hope we can get another win there.

I saw us win there as a young lad in 1983, standing on a milk crate surrounded by extremely pissed Glaswegians (my dads old club). I think this might be the last chance for me to see it again ...

World’s smallest violin but a £40 something k salary does not go miles with rents and the cost of living as they are. It certainly doesn’t give a young professional the life they probably expected to have

Found myself reading this and being dismissive. Originally thought "Well I'm on c45k and ...

Slick wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2024 3:21 pm Quite apart from the offload, Huw Jones spotted that gap as he was jogging back into position and called it to Jordan. Absolutely world class rugby player

Gets a little over-shadowed by Tuipulotu by pundits, but when I talk to non-Jocks he's the one they talk about.

So Australia beat England, slaughtered Wales and were edged out against Ireland. We were the only team to beat them comfortably.

This gives me a bit of hope for the 6N, as we play Ireland at home. But we’ve been here before…

I switched off the game as soon as the final whistle went, can't ...

Politicians don't have answers to difficult ageing population and labour supply problems so opening the border to foreign labour is a salve. The problem is they get old and bring dependants and it just snowballs the problem.

This.

The people who donate and wield economic power like ...

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