It is now 'CRYSTAL CLEAR' why #May appeared to overuse this phrase when speaking - it was to check NOT the IQ but the EQ of the audience!
One assumes all parties present are adults since this is a pre-requisite to be a politician!
"Angry… but it’s a strange situation where the First Minister is effectively arguing that reporters and politicians are stupid for taking what she says at face value, and even more stupid if they ask for clarification later."
Seems 'crystal clear' to me!!
All would be 'crystal clear' if audience really listened and asked pertinent questions on content of conferences when given chance to do so, instead of playing infantile party politics or chasing tomorrow's headlines!
LIFE is deadly serious NOT a continuous political campaign!
I will say this once, and only once, so listen very carefully...
Attendees of conferences/meetings/Parliamentary Sessions, have a responsibility to listen to what is said and to clarify their understanding if necessary - and wherever possible!
"A reporter should strive for accuracy. He should check and re-check his facts till he is satisfied that he has them accurate. In this respect he should not take any chance as accuracy is directly proportional to the credibility of a reporter and his newspaper."
"The Scottish Conservatives were heavily critical of the First Minister following the briefing, stating her “hostile performance treats the public like fools”."
Do #ToxicTories ☠️ take the public for fools - across all FOUR nations within UK?
"Party health spokesperson Annie Wells said: “Question after question at Tuesday’s Covid briefing got the full Nicola Sturgeon condescending eyeroll treatment."
When 💩 hits fan in England, #ToxicTories ☠️ go into overdrive to divert attention ➡️ Scotland 🏴!!!
Boring! 🥱
“In a Trump-style meltdown for the ages, the First Minister claimed she was communicating at a more intelligent, higher level than the rest of us."
Sorry if that's how @AnnieWellsMSP understood @ScotGovFM comments BUT clearly they went sailing over YOUR head!
Sad, but TRUE!
@AnnieWellsMSP Your party colleagues just need to keep taking the "Ketchup" aka "magic sauce" as advocated by your illustrious or more accurately, infamous leader, notorious for LIES & CRONYISM - #LiarJohnson - ought to have you levelled up in no time at all!
“This kind of hostile performance treats the public like fools."
If the cap fits - WEAR IT!!
“Her defence for missing a key vaccine target seems to be that nobody understands Nicola except Nicola."
Scots understand @ScotGovFM just fine and trust @scotgov to govern in Scotland's national interest.
“People hoping for answers to serious questions instead got a truly bizarre rant. She talked down to us mere mortals because we had the audacity to believe she had meant what she said in the Scottish Parliament.”"
Yet, #ToxicTories ☠️ fool public into 'tactical voting' for them!
"But it is worth noting that these are the same media groups that put Boris Johnson in power – via the Sun, Daily Mail and Telegraph – by helping to persuade 52 per cent of those who voted in the EU membership referendum to favour Leave."
"It is not so much a plan as a pretence, where the (UK) government is abdicating responsibility for protecting its high-risk citizens by “advising” them to remove themselves from everyday life."
State discrimination against "high-risk citizens"?!?
"Levelling up"!!! 🤣🤣🤣
"The impact is already clear enough: research by the charity Scope ahead of the rule changes found only 2% of disabled people said they felt safe."
"Ministers have essentially invented unofficial shielding, asking millions of people to isolate themselves, but to do so this time without even minimal support from the state. There are now no concrete or consistent protections at work for clinically vulnerable employees."
"Johnson’s rank unfitness for office is evident in his lack of a domestic policy agenda: his “levelling up” speech last week was devoid of substance on how his government might seek to reverse the impact of a decade of spending cuts on the least affluent parts of the country,..."
"...together with the unequal impact Brexit is forecast to have in the coming years. It is evident in the way Brexit has played out so far: the ideological drive for a hard Brexit with no consideration of the consequences for the stability of Northern Ireland ..."
"...or the damage done by threatening close allies with breaking international law. It is evident in the way the government tries to stoke divisive culture wars over whether footballers should take a stand against racism in order to distract from its own incompetence."
WHEN did it become legally acceptable for a Government to put political ideology before the lives of the population that expect it to act in their interests?
"Article 2 of the Human Rights Act protects your right to life."
"This means that nobody, including the Government, can try to end your life."
"It also means the Government should take appropriate measures to safeguard life by making laws to protect you and, in some circumstances, by taking steps to protect you if your life is at risk."
"The Conservative Party may have changed their arguments over the course of history, but their anti-worker, pro-greed ideology remains precisely the same as it has always been."
"Whilst the Labour Party was founded in 1900 by ordinary people to support the interests of ordinary people, the Tories have always been the party of the super-rich, and they’re not likely to change their ways any time soon."
"Whilst almost every British citizen will have some disagreements with policies of each major party, the fact remains that if you decide to hand vote to Tories – and you’re not one of the privileged super-rich few – you’ve been brainwashed into voting against your own interests."