Good Speech From Nicola Sturgeon !

[mikey4444]

'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.

[Jackdaw33]

calling a spade a spade

That's racist!

[Mamyalynne]

Decent speech fairly expressed.

[Mamyalynne]

//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.//

[anneasquith]

Oh Mikey.......... Wait till the " hate all things Scottish brigade " see this. :-)

[Islay]

annea are they the same brigade that hate anything that isn't white and from England?

[Jackdaw33]

As black as the Ace of Spades. Bet you can't say that in this day and age, innocent though it was.

[Mamyalynne]

I can and do.

[naomi24]

Islay, who would they be?

[mikey4444]

Good point Mamy, which is why I ignored Jacks comments

( made tongue in cheek I am sure Jack ! )

[Mamyalynne]

I'm sure it was TIC, a jest rather than comment on the link I imagine.

[mikey4444]

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

[mushroom25]

is there a precedent of an elected head of state being banned by another country's government?

[Islay]

Yeah like I am going to name them - good try Naomi!

[Sqad]

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.

[mikey4444]

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 !

[Mamyalynne]

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.

[Baldric]

"Hate all things Scottish brigade"
Can't be me then, Mrs B is half Scottish, Father traces directly to MacDonalds of Glencoe.

[ummmm]

Best answer can be changed.

[Sqad]

ummm...that is hardly my point.

[naomi24]

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.