Seems about as mild as you can get.

Maybe she felt physically threatened e.g he grabbed her arm (her wording is odd if this is what happened). Violence is different when the aggressor lacks the ability to win a fight with the hit. I wouldn't fear for my life if Layla Moran hit me but she might reasonably vice versa. If she regularly beats/abuses men or if her ex-boyfriend's defences were below what we'd expect that's inexcusable but we need to hear more.

It is. The parents are homophobes. Tories won't stand against them because they want to appease Christian homophobes and Magic Grandpa won't stand against them because Muslims rank above gays on the "Idiot Woke Left" oppression rankings. Both parties are pathetic - they should make some sort of joint declaration that they will give not an inch to homophobes and that parents will face serious sanction for withdrawing kids from school.

I see the same thing with Charedi families - they average like nine children so each family is probably more likely than not to have a LGBT child? These kids grow up thinking they're ill and/or perverted for having perfectly natural desires, which is child abuse. Bigotry isn't a right.

That's kinda what I was getting at. If she felt threatened I'd expect her to try to get away or defuse the situation somehow. The only way hitting someone in that context makes sense is if you expect to do them some harm before they get the chance to do it to you, and a slap clearly isn't doing it.

She was charged with domestic abuse and spent the weekend in police custody.

We can probably assume with a high degree of confidence that those are facts, as if she lied about those aspects, someone could easily contradict her story and further damage her credibility.

Everything else is probably highly subjective and open to interpretation.

We don't know if she was telling the truth or making an excuse but if she's telling the truth it's not remotely the same ffs.

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Totally agree. You can be as dumb and bigoted as you like at home but we are going to teach your children that it's ok to be gay. Deal with it.

The number of children living in absolute poverty across the UK has increased by 200,000 in a year, to a total of 3.7 million.

New government data shows that while the rate of absolute child poverty had been gradually falling since 2012, it is now rising again.

It will come as an embarrassment for ministers, who last year responded to a rise in relative poverty by highlighting that absolute poverty rates – their preferred measure – had fallen.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8843381.html

I don't know the statistics but the number of homeless in London appears to be massive at the moment.

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/g...tents-16025354

I have no doubt the numbers are larger in London, even by proportion of population but dam, I've never seen so many homeless in our city over the last 3 years as I ever have.

Food banks are also up, I read somewhere and there has been a spike in violence after Universal Credit was implemented in our city. Imo.

Luckly the Local housing associations in and around the west of Scotland are providing decent advice on debt and allowing extra times for payment's for most all Universal Credit Residents. If that stops were really gonna feel it.

Seems like it but I'd say the Maybot could very well do a Cersei & burn everything to the ground.

TIG are now officially a party: Change UK. Interim leader Heidi Allen.

The Cu(c)k party? lol

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn sparked a backlash on Twitter over his criticism of the SNP.

Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of a vote of no confidence in James Callaghan’s Labour government, which led to an election Margaret Thatcher won.

Corbyn tweeted a video blaming the SNP for Thatcher coming into power, with the caption: “Forty years ago today, @theSNP did this.”

He was met with fury from Scottish Twitter users, with many accusing him of focusing on the wrong target as Brexit draws near.


First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was among those who hit back over his attack.

READ MORE: Twitter reacts to Jeremy Corbyn's attack on SNP

She tweeted: “Dear @jeremycorbyn – instead of talking about things that happened when I was eight years old, how about showing some leadership today? You could start by asking yourself why the polls show you still trailing behind the most incompetent Tory government in our lifetimes.”

The most recent Scottish election opinion poll, carried out by Panelbase, had Labour on 19% – behind the Tories (27%) and SNP (41%)

The video shared by Corbyn included a clip of the Ravenscraig Towers being demolished.

SNP MSP Clare Adamson responded to Corbyn: “Those Ravenscraig Towers coming down are the reason I joined @theSNP. Wee reminder @NicolaSturgeon &

@FergusEwingMSP saved steel in my constituency in 2016 & I was proud to be part of the steel task force.”

Then PM Callaghan lost his

no-confidence motion by 311 votes to 310. All 11 SNP MPs voted in favour of Thatcher’s motion to oust him.

Reasons for his party’s unpopularity, which resulted in the Tory election victory, included a betrayal of Scotland over devolution.

The Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury, George Cunningham, introduced a turn-out rule that meant a majority vote for devolution was rejected. Callaghan refused calls to grant devolution.

@Huster.. The Bolded is just 1 reason I would never trust Labour.

Lol talk about being incapable of picking the right battles.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ervative-party

If anyone is wondering why Sturgeon has been stringing pro indy voters along for so long without pulling the trigger and requesting another independence referendum then yesterday probably gave us an explanation for that. Ex Westminster SNP leader Angus Robertson recently set up his own, Sturgeon endorsed, polling company and yesterday it announced some results. While giving out some cherry picked results from the poll the full results were quickly pulled from the site and that's probably to do with the result on the main question:

"On a scale of 0 - 10 where 0 means 'I completely support Scotland becoming independent' and 10 means 'I completely support Scotland staying part of the UK

0 scored 27%

10 scored 40%

Overall if we consider 0-4 as pro indy, 6-10 being pro union and 5 being neutray we get the following:

Pro indy - 35%
Neutral - 5%
Pro union - 58%

Also of note is that of those who are strongest pro indy 3% voted No in 2014 whereas of those who are strongest pro union 17% voted Yes in 2014.

Lady Warsi says she fears Michael Gove becoming PM

Gove with the blue circles of doom.

Easily the dumbest person in Parliament.

wow that a tough call. Grayling, Truss, Fox, Ian and Duncan Smith, Francois. To name but 6. plenty of other contenders.

Truss' apparent lack of self-awareness by thinking she has a chance of being the next PM probably puts her on top.

Just the sort of tough talker we need