Eddie Mullen 🏴 🇮🇪
"You don’t have to have Higher maths... to work out that even if every Westminster seat was won by a nationalist, their influence would be minimal. The Commons arithmetic ensures they can be outvoted on everything and anything."
"If the allegedly independence-supporting troops have been made to look utterly irrelevant – and they surely have – what, precisely, is the point of them?"
Ruth Wishart
Colin Dunn
@MadeyeTheCarnaptious Spot on.
Mrs Cloudy
@Henrysbridge @MadeyeTheCarnaptious ha. PC has just sent a representative to the Lords. She's excited to be there.
Paul H 🏴🇪🇺
That would be interesting - if SNP and PC MPs refused to take their seats at WM. It could send a powerful message, especially if such MPs formed a "balance of power" in a no-majority HoC.
The one thing to be careful of is "cutting off your nose to spite your face" though
Mrs Cloudy
@MadeyeTheCarnaptious @Henrysbridge No idea, but I was very disappointed to hear her being interviewed about it. She seems to have done some heavy grade mind contortions to persuade herself it was a good decision.
Mrs Cloudy
@MadeyeTheCarnaptious @Henrysbridge Nope. She's throwing herself into her new role. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-02-10/welsh-peer-becomes-youngest-ever-member-of-house-of-lords
Mrs Cloudy
@Henrysbridge @MadeyeTheCarnaptious I think I heard it on one of last weekends BBC Scotland morning programs. Can't remember which one. Sorry. Main emphasis was on her youth and her liking for DM boots. Absolutely tragic.
Paul H 🏴🇪🇺
@CloudyMrs @MadeyeTheCarnaptious
I haven't seen that - probably some serious DoubleThink.
Mrs Cloudy
@Henrysbridge @MadeyeTheCarnaptious how much moderation have they done recently?
Paul H 🏴🇪🇺
@CloudyMrs @MadeyeTheCarnaptious
True. The former leader of PC (Dafydd Wigley) is also there.
I don't approve of the way the HoL is constituted, though I feel a second house is important to "moderate" the HoC.
Here's an article about this:
https://nation.cymru/news/plaid-cymru-row-over-house-of-lords-nominations/
There seems to be an extra dimension causing controversy here in the voting by PC members for this nomination.
Better to follow the SNP example, I think, though I can understand the desire for PC to have representation.
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