Will Boris Johnson survive Partygate part 1? The Rwanda asylum deal. Throwing red meat to the right? Great Bernera . For want of a signature is the buy out lost?
Show Notes
As we recorded Boris Johnson was about to appear in Parliament before jetting off to India. He was there to "apologise", but maintain that he did not realise that his birthday gathering was against the rules, claiming that he did not mislead the House. We examine the implications of what Lord Peter Hennessy has described as the "shredding of the ministerial code" by Johnson who has made his office" an adventure playground for one man's narcissistic vanity".
We ask whether it was a matter of coincidence or a classic "dead cat" that Priti Patel announced the appalling asylum deal with Rwanda in the middle of the Partygate revelations.
Andy McIver, writing in The Herald, floated the idea of the middle way of Home Rule out of the constitutional impasse over independence. How credible is this given our previous experience with Vows, and its dependence on a Labour government at Westminster?
Finally Lesley forensically takes apart the cumbersome crofting community right-to-buy legislation, and the seeming indifference of the Holyrood Land Team towards the struggle of the crofters of Great Bernera to buy out their absentee landlord.
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Scottish politics dissected from a left, pro-independence stance. Each week, award-winning broadcaster and journalist, Lesley Riddoch chews over the week’s news with co-host Fraser Thompson. If you like intelligent, quirky chat about Scottish society and culture, and Scottish, UK and international politics analysed from a Scottish perspective; this podcast is for you.