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Good Speech From Nicola Sturgeon !

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mikey4444 | 17:14 Sat 12th Nov 2016 | News
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'Many of Trump's comments deeply abhorrent'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37956407

Good for her....calling a spade a spade. Not a hint of hypocrisy, when is more than you can say for most Tory politicians.
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Decent speech fairly expressed.
17:18 Sat 12th Nov 2016
calling a spade a spade

That's racist!
Decent speech fairly expressed.
//What happens when a perfectly innocuous phrase takes on a more sinister meaning over time?

Case in point, the expression "to call a spade a spade." For almost half a millennium, the phrase has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century that the phrase began to acquire a negative, racial overtone.

Historians trace the origins of the expression to the Greek phrase "to call a fig a fig and a trough a trough." Exactly who was the first author of "to call a trough a trough" is lost to history. Some attribute it to Aristophanes, while others attribute it to the playwright Menander.//
Oh Mikey.......... Wait till the " hate all things Scottish brigade " see this. :-)
annea are they the same brigade that hate anything that isn't white and from England?
As black as the Ace of Spades. Bet you can't say that in this day and age, innocent though it was.
I can and do.
Islay, who would they be?
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Good point Mamy, which is why I ignored Jacks comments

( made tongue in cheek I am sure Jack ! )
I'm sure it was TIC, a jest rather than comment on the link I imagine.
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Jack...."Black as the Ace of Spades" has nothing to do with race or black people, and its perfectly OK to use the phrase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_of_spades
is there a precedent of an elected head of state being banned by another country's government?
Yeah like I am going to name them - good try Naomi!
mikey...I have asked before and i ask again,"How do you know that the answer given just 4 mins after your OP, that ir is the Best Answer?
FGS...give the thread time to develop OR after 4 mins you have made up your mind.
Best Answers on the whole are ridiculous, but you are insulting other posters.
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Mush....I am not advocating banning the racist Ogre Trump from Britain, just not a being such bosom bodies with him.

Keep him at arms length should be the order of the day, especially if you are a woman !
Sqad is spot on , a thread of this nature has no need of a best answer and I'm positive that mine isn't one.

"Hate all things Scottish brigade"
Can't be me then, Mrs B is half Scottish, Father traces directly to MacDonalds of Glencoe.
Best answer can be changed.
ummm...that is hardly my point.
Should Scotland ever become independent and she finds herself meeting Trump on the international stage, I wonder if she’ll think diplomacy is necessary then? Watch that space.

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