Seeing the Labour candidate for Rutherglen & Hamilton West on BBC Scotland’s Debate Night tonight, I was reminded:
S5 Modern Studies pupil, Tommy, seeing the above, in September 2024, asks newly returned and miserable Mr Shanks, after losing his Rutherglen seat in the 4 July Westminster General Election, can I do:
Question 19
International organisations have had both success and failure in tackling international conflicts and issues.
Describe, in detail, two successes or failures of an international organisation in tackling the international conflict or issue you have studied. In your answer you must state the world conflict or issue you have studied.
on how the UN and the International Court of Justice failed to stop the genocide in Gaza?
Shanks – nobody’s really interested in that Tommy.
Tommy – Genocide, not interesting? You spent a lot of time talking to us about the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. Didn’t Sir Keir Starmer say, at the time, it was genocide in Bosnia? You used to work for him didn’t you?
Shanks – Gaza wasn’t genocide. I’ve got friends in Israel who know people whose second cousins had their house damaged by a Hamas rocket. The IDF only killed Hamas terrorists.
Tommy – Is that why you didn’t join 100 other MPs in signing that open letter asking the UK Government to respect the IJC?
Shanks – How do you know that?
Tommy – It’s still online Mr Shanks.
Shanks – Do those Russians in Hungary 1956, if you want to pass.
Tommy – But, Mr Shanks, that was 68 years ago! This is Modern Studies!
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
30% turnout. That’s what happens when people do not vote.
Cinema shuts because people do not go.
Scotland population 5million, since 1900 and before. Only increased since Devolution 2000 to 5.4million.
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Talking of Deniers………
I see DRoss has done a U turn and is now going to stand in the GE….only problem is he will not be standing in his current constituency but instead be standing in David Duguid’s constituency seat , as he, Duguid, has not been selected as Tory candidate due to health reasons apparently.
Duguid’s seat is being expanded to include parts of Moray and renamed Aberdeenshire North and Moray East.
DRoss was supposed to be standing down from Westminster at this election to concentrate on his job as an MSP ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election campaign (as in what he said)….however as he sees that , Holyrood job, as a part time job that offers no possibility for him or his party ever being the next Scottish government in that parliament….then he thinks that as less effort and time is required from him at Holyrood then no need to sacrifice a potential far more lucrative income via WM…….and with Alister Jack not standing in the next GE then DRoss, if elected, could potentially be chosen by the Tories as their next Shadow Scottish (INO) Secretary (another part time job)…….thus he, DRoss, will probably then stand down as the part time Tory leader at Holyrood (where his only job there is to constantly carp #SNPBAD from the side lines)………….
DRoss did say in 2020 that he would step down as an MP at the next general election (2024) Shortly after becoming the Scottish (INO) Conservative leader……but then what Tory ever keeps a promise…..and they do rely very much on the public having very short memories….or they rely upon their Tory media not reminding the public of their former political pledges that they made as politicians………aka LIES.
I guess DRoss thinks he has not done enough, as yet, to be elevated to the HOL’s yet…..so assumes he needs to do more in order to climb all the way up the greasy pole to the gravy train known as the HOL’s………..
Scotland’s parliament was one that the Tories did not want…..yet they assume tis not hypocritical of them to stand in that parliament in elections to try to be elected as MSP’s in it………where very few of them win constituency seats as MSP’s , including DRoss…..but via our system some of their Tory serial losers like Annie Wells & Murdo Fraser always get a (List) seat…..someone on here suggested that it should really be a case of them having a limited amount of opportunities to be elected via the List seats and thus gaining a List seat…………not democratic to provide the same chancers time and time again with a (safe List seat) place at Holyrood , as in those MSP’s that the voters reject to represent them as their constituency MSP…………..that includes for every party……but then that would likely negatively impact more the Tories, Labour & Lib Dems….so they would not want that system to be adopted.
DRoss is not a man of his word……..just an opportunist who puts himself first, then his party, then the fake state the UK and then also his preferred parliament in the UK as in WM…..so who in the media in Scotland will call him out on his latest U Turn……
Dross always a lightweight as a politician and whose Hokey Cokey style as in his ever changing mind hardly inspires confidence in voters…………apart from the more staunch ones that is………(who would vote for a Monkey with a blue rosette type of voters)…..LOL
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