AT a time when our democracy is under attack by the Tories and nearly 150,000 people are dead of Covid-19, when the Tories are throwing wild parties at No 10 Downing Street while people are stopped from attending on their dying loved ones in hospitals, when asylum seekers are drowning to try and get here and the Tories are trying to destroy the human rights charter, when all this is happening around the UK that would give the Scots the impetus they need to seek independence, what is it that Alex Salmond considers the most important thing Scots are currently facing? The RENAMING of a f***ing pub (‘The Black Bitch’ pub: Alex Salmond hits out at plans to change name, thenational.scot, Dec 7)!!! Anyone still think Alba are the party with their finger on the pulse?
Stuart Young
via thenational.scot
PAINT a wee black dog under the pub’s name so everyone is perfectly clear that it’s a dog being referred to and leave local history intact. Job done.
Calum Hunter
via thenational.scot
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