[Youngian]

One Tory has found a source of amusement this week. And it is funny

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's not very good, is he?

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is before Yousaf's time but not very good.

Auditors don't often qualify accounts, but it doesn't imply anything more than carelessness in itself.

[Youngian]

This is before Yousaf's time but not very good.

That’s what his imam says about Tea for the Tillerman but what does he know?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Is Joanna Cherry trying to be the SNP Rosie Duffield?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

If you believe Jones has ADHD I have a bridge you might like to buy...

[Samanfur]

Is Joanna Cherry trying to be the SNP Rosie Duffield?

There's no "trying" about it. All she's been doing recently is getting more publicity for it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

If you believe Jones has ADHD I have a bridge you might like to buy...

He's saying he's been diagnosed with it, isn't he?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

So have a lot of people who don't have it.

Is he saying where the diagnosis came from? Usually it's a TikTok.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I would assume a medical professional had diagnosed it, as I would when anyone else said the same thing.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

You'd be wrong.

I speak from many years of experience...

[Watchman]

Mhairi Black is now the 6th SNP MP to be standing down at the next GE, is this an indication of the SNP “putting a lot of eggs” in one basket?

[Samanfur]

Mhairi Black said that she'd be standing down at the next election some time ago (having been in two minds about the last one). This is her finally putting it in writing.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Would make some sense to have more of their big names in Holyrood, I suppose. You also get two bites as a constituency and list candidate, I think, even though she'd hold her Westminster seat.

[Abernathy]

But she added that her youth was the reason she could “see everything that is wrong so starkly”.

And, asked whether the job “ate up her adolescence”, she denied having missed the opportunity to “go and get pissed”.

“I managed to fit that in every now and then,” she added.

You can take the girl out of Paisley . . .

[Tubby Isaacs]

Can she take Pete Wishart with her?

Q: The UK government represents English interests, while also trying to abritrate between the four nations of the UK. That is not fair, is it?

The Government represents a coalition of lots of people in England, some in Scotland and some in Wales. Lots of us in England don't have our interests represented by it.

[kreuzberger]

I rather like Mhairi Black. Her maiden speech was a belter, and she has never left us in any doubt that she is a real mensch.

If she retires entirely from public life, this will be Scotland's greatest loss in many a moon.

[Samanfur]

She said in her statement that she'll still be campaigning for independence, but as an activist, rather than an MP.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sounds a bit like the Tony Benn "more time on politics". That was a funny line, but there's a difference between speaking at campaign events and overseeing policies and budgets. I would think Mhairi will be back in Holyrood sooner or later. Unlike Tony Benn, she won't be 75 when she stands down.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This looks, well, politically brave, whatever the merits of it. The sort of voters who swung to Labour in East Kilbride in the council by election may not be particularly keen.

Portugal's record is pretty good, but not as good as it was, although there have been cuts to the drugs budget since the Euro crisis. And it's Portugal more than the UK that's the outlier, I think. It would save lives but it isn't cheap.