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As if this wasn’t unfortunate enough for the poor girl, the table she was allocated was that of Kevin Stewart, the new MSP for Aberdeen Central, who defeated her father at the election.
Local heroes
Whollyrude was fair tickled by a recent twitter contest giving a Scottish flavour to classic films. Some of our favourites below, courtesy of #scottishfilms:
The Eck’s Men
From the extreme left (so to speak): Whollyrude enjoyed this fantasy film review, care of www.
bobsmithart.com at Scottish Review
Alex Neil Codename: Bruiser Special powers: Able to fight his way to become an Eck’s-Man despite once being the sworn enemy of Professor Eck.
Stewart Stevenson Codename: Storm Special powers: Able to cause havoc with the weather, close roads and bring all traffic to a standstill.
John Swinney Codename: Skinny Special powers: Able to slip through small financial loopholes and escape the tightest of budget squeezes.
Nicola Sturgeon Codename: Nippy Sweetie Special powers: Able to terrorise with her direct ‘no nonsense’ approach.
Alex EckSaviour Salmond Codename: Professor Eck Special powers: Able by sheer willpower to defeat his enemies by rendering them Gray and lifeless.
Mike Russell Codename: Rustle Special powers: Able to move ‘at a hundred miles an hour’ so it has been said.
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Kenny MacAskill Codename: Kill Special powers: Able to lock people up (in fact, he has even been locked up himself), he can frighten judges, call a spade a spade and is capable of hugely controversial decisions on compassionate grounds.
Neverending Stovie Te men who stare at oats S*T*R*A*M*A*S*H Crocodile Dumfries Buckfast at Tiffany’s Legally Ginger Robert the Bruce Almighty Te Pished Man Always Rings Twice TROON: Legacy Aye, Robot.
Quote
“The education system in this
part of Scotland is effectively the state-sponsored conditioning of these sectarian attitudes”
Conservative Justice Spokesman, John Lamont MSP, 23 June, Scottish Parliament
Dave Lee Travis for being DJ of choice for Aung San Suu Kyi
Telling it like it is
A teacher in London, currently marking politics exams, came across this gem on a question about whether Britain’s political system is “becoming more presidential” and shared it with Whollyrude: “Te president of France lives in a palace, the president of the USA lives in the great White House and the PM of the UK lives in two townhouses knocked into one. It doesn’t shout power.”
Served up on a plate
Te Marcliffe Hotel in Aberdeen hosted a celebration lunch for the SNP at the weekend where North East activists and MSPs were in attendance. On the waiting staff for the event was Sophie Macdonald, the daughter of Labour list MSP, Lewis Macdonald.
Labour MP Ian Davidson for calling the SNP neo-fascists
Special delivery
We hear that when SNP MP Angus MacNeil recently delivered the Coastguard Petition to No.10 Scottish Secretary Michael Moore was just leaving. MacNeil cheekily asked him if they would have to deliver it twice...
Got your number!
Whollyrude hears an anecdote from a parly researcher who struck up a conversation with new Deputy Presiding Officer and Tory MSP John Scott at a do in the Members’ Restaurant. When he told the MSP for Ayr his gran who lives in Prestwick voted for him and always has done, he was so pleased he asked for her name and contact details and proceeded to write them on the back of his hand. We’re sure he just wanted to add said
SPOTTED A smiley Stewart Stevenson at
Haymarket station…Lord George Foulkes wearing a sporty waterproof jacket over his suit at Waverley … New Friends of the Earth Scotland chief executive Stan Blackley walking past Holyrood towers… Actor Nigel Planer at Waverley Station… Labour MSPs Patricia Ferguson, Johann Lamont and Ken Macintosh walking up Jeffrey Street, rolly suitcases in tow… Children’s Commissioner Tam Baillie coming out of Edinburgh University’s Moray House…Annabel Goldie enjoying lunch in La Garrigue… SNP researcher of Come Dine With Me fame Toni Giugliano walking in the rain sporting a bright yellow SNP umbrella…Edinburgh council leader Jenny Dawe walking up Market Street with her hood up in the rain…Former Labour MSP Alan Wilson walking through Waverley Station…former Labour leader of Edinburgh City Council Lesley Hinds having lunch in Wedgwood on the Royal Mile…
gran to his database of identified support, though when he woke up the next morning with a random woman’s name and phone number printed on his hand, he may have panicked for a moment…
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