David

I guess to avoid the Tory thread becoming bogged down with non-Tory cunt talk a new general politics thread is in order since the last one was closed. I've seen it mentioned a few times elsewhere, but this Scottish SNP leadership storyline really is picking up steam, with the latest declaration coming from Ash Regan who claims that a vote for independence-backing parties at the next general election "is the same as a referendum". Basically, she believes that "we run each and every election, that would be general elections and Scottish elections, as a test of public opinion - a trigger point if you like" for Scottish independence. Personally, I think we're seeing the beginning of the end of the SNP as we know it. I know much focus has been on the GRR bill, but there truly is some questionable shit going on elsewhere that isn't really being given a lot of scrutiny in my opinion. That would include Sturgeon's husband, Peter Murrell's £107,000 loan to the SNP which led to multiple compliance issues. Parties are supposed to declare all loans of £7,500 or more within a 30 day window of the quarter in which they are paid, but the SNP failed to declare Murrell’s loan for a year. The SNP also hid Murrell's name in the accounts, saying the interest-free loan came from an unnamed “executive management”. Murrell has been running the SNP for 20 years! The party's treasurer quit, claiming he was not given enough information about finances to do his job, while three other members of the SNP's finance and audit committee also resigned. There's also the issue of the police investigation into an alleged £600,000 fraud case that saw some higher-ups in the SNP interviewed a few days before Sturgeon resigned. Sturgeon's husband, who is the SNP CEO, was the only person who had "complete oversight and control over all aspects of accounts, how any money was spent and, ultimately, all key decisions" apparently. And get this...he also has almost complete control over who replaces his wife at the top of the party. There has been demands for independent adjudicators to be brought in to oversee the leadership election process. So yeah, it definitely looks like Sturgeon was getting out of dodge before the ship finally sinks.

I had a quick look over the past five pages or so, and tried to use the shit search function but couldn't find a previous thread like this, so here we go. If anyone wants to be "that guy" and post a link to a thread already going that I've blatantly missed like a total loser then by all means. So, we've got a metal thread that seems fairly popular, and a hip-hop one as well, so why not electronic music in all its forms? I'm one of those lucky people who can pop on my headphones and listen to tunes during work, and I'm basically looking for some recommendations. I'm more into the chill, concentration, lyric-less type tunes when I'm working, and I've pretty much listened through all of the playlists offered on Apple Music that fit the bill of study, mindfulness, come down, relaxing and so on. Anyone got anything that I can pop on my phone and give a listen to? Oh, and feel free to kick start the convo in any way you see fit. Chuck in what you're listening to on your commute at the moment and so on.

New thread as Neil closed the last one. I know megathreads suck, but we need a general news thread for MMA surely, as not every discussion is worthy of an individual thread. Maybe one every year? Keep it fresh? Let's try that. Anyway, as I said in the last thread, I actually have to give Dana and the UFC credit for the support they're offering T-Ferg. I had a feeling that they'd just distance themselves and leave him be, but that they've seemingly come out and offered support can only be a good thing.