SNP + Tories vote for dog tail-docking

[evilC]

Animal cruelty enthusiasts get the right to exercise more animal cruelty, courtesy of the Scottish Tories and SNP.

Shame on you, SNP.

[Lang Spoon]

Madness. Only for certain breeds of "working dogs" apparently. But not sheepdugs like collies, more the hunting and shooting Canine Collaborators. They've fucking lost the Deeside/Perthshire old base to the Tories, probably forever, this reeks of pathetic triangulating to save the seats in Holyrood for the likes of Swinney.

I knew they would fall like SLab fell, just didn't think it would be so quick.

[Lang Spoon]

Like the fox hunting pledge in the Tory manifesto apparently having a real effect on turning folk away from Evil, this could really bite the SNP in future. Pure coincidence that the Env Minister (also against any further reintroduction of extinct animals to the deer plagued artificial wet desert of the Highlands) has a Perthshire seat. Pure coincidence land reform has stalled as they placate a class who I dearly wish had some Irish style rebel justice visited on them during the clearances.

[Etienne]

The SNP are also trying to cut Aviation Duty (as are the DUP as part of their blood bargain with the Tories) which is regressive economically as well as environmentally backwards.

[Lang Spoon]

And they cite that horrrible bastard O'Leary threatening to pull routes unless the tax goes as evidence. That man is genuinely evil and a total fucking spoofer. APD at zero will have barely any impact on passenger numbers, and he'd probably just raise his prices accordingly. Apparently it will be revenue neutral (show your working Nats), and any increase in carbon footprint will be "offset elsewhere". Policy vacuum.