‘Smirking, patronising tone’ ‘waffling’ ‘distaste for the great unwashed’ FM Swinney slammed over his booze ban

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2. Our stadium being smashed up last weekend is all the more reason to drink away from the stadiums.

   Now on to another issue wee Barry the sevco manager is demanding a job at ibrox for SOURNESS,his bestie Knob Malcolm won’t be best pleased at being overlooked,I dare say he can give him first dibs on a patch at the stadium to sit his ice cream van outside.

3. The SNP hate drink full stop! Its a ‘wee free’ mentality that see’s them charging on average £5 more per bottle of spirits compared to England. I view it as a tax on enjoying yourself.Total double atandards at every turn. Mind you they might overturn in a late attempt to cling on to power!

   1. I’ve been at them and at them about the drink policy (minimum pricing) but to no avail…

      I’ll still of course as a Nationalist vote for them until someone like Sinn Fein Scotland appears on the scene…

      I don’t know much much about Swinney but he has the personality of that telegraph pole out in ma back garden – None !

      Nicola cleared of wrongdoing – The Sevco liquidators cleared of wrongdoing –

      Whose next to be cleared – The Parkhead Seat Destroyers… Sir Valcay Cerny OBE – Oh fuck, silly silly me, they’ve now been even charged yet !!!

4. They approach this from the wrong angle and always have. Instead of proposing an overnight change in the law and the instantaneous return of the “whisky olympics” at CP and iBrox with the attendant 1970s style mayhem they should begin with a pilot scheme, in League Two, to examine whether the fans of Forfar and East Fife can be trusted to behave themselves with a plastic beaker of lager. If you feel there is sufficient justification don’t do it at any particular fixture that might be higher risk – local derby, promotion or relegation playoff, Ne’er Day etc – but when it inevitably concludes successfully, you extend it to to League One and then the Championship and eventually the Premiership. Anyone who has been to Newcastle or Sunderland, the nearest major stadiums in Engerlund (or any others for that matter) will find it impossible not to notice the huge bars they have inside the stadiums which do a brisk trade but do not lead to Al Capone style behaviour or regular live re-enactments of The Football Factory (incidentally anyone at a loose end and thinking of going to see ‘Marching Powder’ at the cinema, don’t. Just don’t.). If “safe standing” can be successfully trialled through pilot schemes there is no reason this can’t be, but in a nanny state where the incumbent devolved administration is extremely proud of its minimum alcohol unit pricing policy that has us paying the highest prices in the UK the barriers are less logistical than they are ideological….. except for one small issue: it’s legal at rugby matches!! Just about the only good thing Kenny MacAskill* did was change the law for egg-chasing enthusiasts at Murrayfield and Scotstoun and that is the starting point – one rule for the plebs and another one for the chattering classes has a name in legalese, and that name is ‘discrimination’. This is a battle waiting to be won.

   *the former Justice Secretary was perhaps better versed in such matters than we give him credit for – he had ‘previous’ himself having been huckled at Wembley for being drunk and disorderly at the Euro 2000 playoff match in 1999 (the one at which Don Hutchison scored the winner).

5. This man is responsible for many of the biggest disasters in Scottish government inc. The Edinburgh Train fiasco, Curriculum for Excellence, Named Person and many many more.

   I laughed, then cried when they announced he would take over from Sturgeon as he was “a safe pair of hands.”

   He seems to be ta nice guy who isn’t very bright but obsessed with politics. We all know one.

6. That’s the thing with the Politicians (whatever party), they find legislation easier than education, and as a result we have discrimination. Tell them they are arseholes when they come to your door, and tell them why. I draw up a list every election and question them before telling them I’d rather vote to have pins stuck in my eyes.

   1. Would you mind printing your list so we all could use it? Sounds a great idea.

7. SCOTTISH SINN FEIN IS THE ANSWER !!!!!

8. Cannot for the life of me understand anyone supporting alcohol in stadiums in Scotland.
   Don’t even need to go into the reasons whu.

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