28 Apr 2021
The leaders of six opposition parties in the House of Commons are accusing Boris Johnson of “a consistent failure to be honest” – a charge the Prime Minister denies.
Who gets to decide whether someone in power is guilty of lying? And what penalties are in place for those who are found to have deliberately misled parliament or the public?
Code breaking?
In a joint letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons, the leaders of the Greens, SNP, Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru, SDLP and Alliance parties in Westminster refer to two codes of conduct that UK politicians are supposed to follow: the Nolan principles and the Ministerial Code. Both stress the importance of being truthful.
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The electoral success achieved by Alex Salmond has not been repeated.
The SNP lost its majority in Holyrood and has been forced to work with the Green Party to push through their agenda.
The more centrist politics of Alex Salmond have been replaced with a harder left leaning woke agenda which has paid no heed to building a financially strong Scotland - which you might think a basic requirement for a party hoping to sever the nation s ties with the rest of Britain and her economy.
Never was Nicola Sturgeon s artful manipulation of a political situation so nakedly obvious as when she moved to harness the vote to remain in the EU.
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WHEN people trust a political leader with their lives, the more banal matters of day-to-day government tend to look after themselves. Right now, many thousands of vulnerable Scots are trusting Nicola Sturgeon with their lives and their long-term health. Those of us who dwell in Scotland’s self-obsessed media bubble are disdainful of anything that speaks of raw human need in the midst of politics. We find it difficult to grasp the concept of people arranging their days around the First Minister’s daily coronavirus updates. Look no further than this to understand why each of the main Unionist parties has become so distressed about Nicola Sturgeon’s daily press briefings. They accuse her of turning these into party political opportunities and are irked that the BBC permits it. That ordinary people, especially those who are elderly or who are shielding with relatives who are vulnerable, view these briefings as a lifeline seems not to matter to Labour and the Conservatives.