#Stewart Hosie

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Stewart Hosie

#Stewart Hosie

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Stewart Hosie

#suitdaddy #suiteddaddy #suit and tie #suited daddy #silverfox #daddy #men in suits #suit daddy #suitedman #british man #british men #suited men #suited grandpa #suited man #buisness suit #scottish national party #member of parliament #house of commons #Stewart Hosie #Suitfetish

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Three speeches and contrasting values

That the people of Scotland have the right to choose is beyond question. What I hoped to hear from Stewart Hosie was something about how it is proposed to enable us to exercise this right.

A couple of headlines in today’s Sunday National looked promising as I cast around seeking inspiration for an article. With a column in which Stewart Hosie, the SNP’s campaign director for the forthcoming UK General Election, outlines his plans and a report previewing Humza Yousaf’s address to the STUC congress in Dundee on Tuesday, it should be possible to gain a clear idea of the party’s…

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#Humza Yousaf #SNP #Stewart Hosie #UK general election

[uncleasad]

Sunday night status update

As Rod Stewart was fond of saying, “It’s late September and I really should be back at school…”

Here at Uncle Asad in Fandomland, that means it’s time for the annual “some night status update” checking in on all the unpublished words and works. (OK, the 2022 update was in May, dunno why, that was…18 months ago, and you expect me to remember? 😂 Oh! It was because of the announcement of the cancellation of Legacies, which felt to me a little bit like a non-event in the wake of Kaylee’s departure the previous fall/winter.)

Back in 2021, nearing the end of my summer writing hiatus, I tallied up all the words in my unpublished, in-progress fics—7 works and nearly 107K words then; in 2022, it was 10 works and nearly 135K words.

Sad to say that although I’ve published 8 new stories since then, all 10 of the in-progress works are still unfinished (8 with no new words), and I’ve added 6 more in-progress stories, too!

The list, with word-counts and estimates of percent complete:

Josie returns to a derelict and overgrown Salvatore School after 10 years away (aka After Ten Long Years) (25,213 words in 5 distinct sections, +60 words, ~75% complete)

Hope meets the Saltzmans in the post-Civil War upper midwest (aka Old West Hosie) (11,340 words, ~25% complete)

Alternate realities bleed over into the lives of Hope and Josie (21,040 words, ~50% complete)

Part 3 of The Model and the Painter (1,265 words)

Hope investigates the disappearance of crime boss Josie (2,778 words, 1+ chapters complete)

Crime heiress Hope meets an enchanting woman who may be her moll (aka runaway Josie) (36,053 words, ~25% complete)

Newly-divorced Hope takes a job teaching art at Whitmore College (aka divorcée Hope) (14,376 words, 8+ chapters complete)

Hope, Josie, Lizzie, and others struggle with their lot in life in the brutal Geminid Empire (aka Hosie dystopia) (16,313 words, ~10% complete???)

A sequel to the surprisingly-popular You Couldn’t Even Bother To Check On Me? (3,140 words)

No-Humanity Hope goes on a rampage across North America, hunting her enemies and extracting revenge (aka Dark Hope on a rampage) (4,708 words, +358 words, ~60% complete)

In the olden days, Alaric sells Josie (aka Selling Josie) (608 words, ~10% complete???)

Ten years after leaving Mystic Falls to try to save Hope, Josie is summoned home by a mysterious letter from her father (aka Stepmother Alyssa Chang) (11,328 words plus an 831-word excerpt scene; ~60% complete)

A disaster of a fic I shouldn’t write and which may never see the light of day (aka The best ones always break my heart twice) (16,260 words, ~75% complete)

Hope Mikaelson is sitting at the bar when Josie Saltzman walks in (aka Josie walks into a bar) (2,211 words, ~50% complete)

Something something Hosie Santa Claus (aka Hosie Santa Claus) (962 words, ~10% complete???)

An intersection of the lives of Hope and Josie just before the fire (aka Hosie half-shot) (1,239 words, ~50% complete)

That’s now almost 170K words of unfinished stories! 😳🤯 (Across 16 works; 32,608 words in 6 new in-progress fics.)

I did finish/publish more works than I added new unfinished ones since the last check-in, however; thank goodness for small favors, however minuscule! 😂

I don’t have a great strategy for whittling this down; as many of you may have noticed, I’ve been in a bit of a slump since spring—and I haven’t written a word since July 1 😢 I feel like, aside from the late summer writing sabbatical of 2021, the summer writing decline usually happens to some degree, and with the coming of fall and winter, I have more time, but that may all be wishful thinking. Still, fingers crossed. At some point, though, I’ll find an hour or so to finish writing the Hosie half-shot and go from there….

Thanks to everyone who’s stuck with me this long and read my fics along the way, and I’m sorry I don’t have a more upbeat outlook right now.

#Hosie #Hosie fanfic #Hosie fanfiction #Hosie fics #status #After Ten Long Years #Old West Hosie #Runaway Josie #Divorcee Hope #Hosie Dystopia #Dark Hope x Dark Josie #Dark Hope on a rampage #Selling Josie #Stepmother Alyssa Chang #The best ones always break my heart twice #Josie walks into a bar #Hosie Santa Claus #Hosie half-shot

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Another SNP Ex-MP Goes Down

Some might say ‘ ‘Whit - ANOTHER SNP turns out tae be a crook?!? This is too far!’, some may say ‘Is this a record, the number of top SNatsis that end up in custody/under investigation/under arrest or forced out!?!’..?  I say - no. - its no record and its not far enough.

Demagogues Swindlers Cheats Hypocrites Liars Crooks Abusers Bigots - and Rapists?

Fact is the SNP is cobbled together from some of the (if not quite ALL of the) worst elements - the bottom dregs of Scotland.  Lumbering pro-IRA morons who can barely conceal their support for the murder of British servicemen - even if they are Scots soldiers; low level swindlers, opportunist con-merchants who stalk the elderly and the vulnerable to bilk them from their homes and savings; wanton lawyers, milking their public status while Deacon Brodie’ing their clients money behind the scenes; grab-ass perverts, under the cover of high office stalking, harassing and demeaning women - all as preludes to their ‘Droit du seigneur’ dominion over their victims; expense padding £ junkies, living high on the public purse, using First Class as their daily travel out of the impoverished areas they claim to represent; menacing bullies - online and in person - who not only run with the mob, they incite it; practiced liars, pretending to be one person to one audience while in fact being a completely different person (a MUCH more viscous, untruthful and unprincipled person) in reality; Unprofessional ‘professionals’, like doctors who will concoct complete fabrications about patients, treatments or hospitals, just to further a political agenda; the tricksters who set up charities, either to con the public or milk the state, either way the money never goes where it was supposed to;  the deranged who will physically attack that with which they disagree - be it a building, a monument, a flag, private property or even a private person - but always under cover of darkness, of course; race-baiters, experts at the dog-whistle who expend their breath on Goebbels-esque twists of the English language to call anyone who stands apart from them, stands up to them or stands in their way “traitor”; the phony moralizers, proclaiming a ‘new, clean’ politics - a new moral order’ all from their three-in-the-sack-teenager sex romp or from the cozy bedroom of their journalist-tryst shared with fellow SNatsi adulterers; the hyper-hypocrites who rail against tax avoiders while they perfect their own tax avoidance, or rail against sales of weapons, while raking in weapon-sales dividends; or the bigots who set themselves upon a high place to offer judgment upon others, while the banners of their own bigotry literally hang upon the wall behind them throughout; etc. etc....  

You know who they are: you know each and every one of them.  You see them daily on your television, in your newspaper and your social media feed.  You have become used to their double-talking, duplicity.  To their say one thing - do something entirely different.  From the long litany of ‘New Fund’ announcements, heralding all sorts of new benefits (that NEVER materialize) to the endless declarations of ‘my TOP priority’ by top liars - who instead spend their time in meditation on their all-consuming transcendental obsession.

You know them - and your know their calumnies - yet you have grown tolernt of them.  Just because politicians elsewhere also lie, because ‘lying politician’ is a cliché - none of that means we Scots have to put up with being governed like a backwater ex-Soviet satellite, in the hands of a strongman regime with ugly crooked henchmen.

Remember - we used to be envied in the UK and elsewhere - for our education, our caring civil society, our health care, our culture, our traditions... Now all of those have been tainted or wrecked - and all by the SNatsis.  A SNatsi party that is willing to see Scotland in ashes - so long as they get to rule the rubble.

So I say NO - not enough of these cheap-mafioso are yet in jail or under investigation or out of office.  Let them have NO MORE of Scotland to ruin.  No.  lets have more of them in jail...!

No, more...

#Natalie McGarry #crook #SNP #swindler #funds #criminal #guilty SNatsi #sexist #bully #prosecution #Alex Salmond #John Mason #Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh #Phil Boswell #Ian Blackford #Stewart Hosie #Angus MacNeil #Nicola Sturgeon #Michelle Thompson #Philippa Whitford #Pete Wishart

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#date: 20170110 #stewart hosie

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Rules: tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better 

I was tagged by @rumblescum (tysm heart you)

Top 3 ships: 

ok we’re gonna do all-time as best as i can judge and then current vibes!! i’m bad at ranking tho

all-time (the straights prevail i’m sorry):

gleggie (glenn/maggie twd)

jim/pam (the office)

percabeth (pjo)

vibing:

hosie (hope/josie legacies)

eleanor/chidi (tgp)

clace (clary/jace shadowhunters)

Lipstick or Chapstick:

definitely chapstick unfortunately because a majority of the times I’ve tried to put on lipstick it looks bad because it’s a) not my shade b) gets smudged and messy and I look like I had an incident with the kool-aid man. but the one time I wore black lipstick it looked alright! but chapstick is good for you too

Last Song:

the other side - conan gray that’s just what being a yearning gay will do to you

Last Movie: 

charlie’s angels (2020)

ok it was a good movie and i’ll be honest my interest in it was entirely shaped by the fact that I was obsessed with the first two when I was like 4 onward for the rest of my life and I’m convinced it shaped my gayness forever. and wamen. it wasn’t a bad movie, but it wasn’t Good landing it in the perfectly enjoyable area of Okay. it tried to be funny alot and that was ok but I feel like the overall like Issues and big bads and Point of the movie got kinda muddled and made it feel weird. but the ladies were good and i liked the relationships and kristen stewart and my girl naomi scott. 

Reading:

the last book I read and actually finished was book three of the TatBILB series, always and forever lara jean which was so good. I’ve been in the middle of the first book for like two months and that’s on adhd. if u liked the first movie or like romance with typical relationship drama w/ teenagers you should read them!! they really were good

tagging @adhdsoras, @quincessquincess, @burnishflames, @makomoriz, @piscesungf, @calypsopond, @vampireroommate, @babeynezuko, @juno-60 no pressure as always, ily

#tag game

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Writing About Brexit: The Russia Report

Julian Lewis: how Boris Johnson lost another MP

This was first posted on Facebook on 15th September 2020, with support from my Ko-Fi network.

As of about 8 this evening, Boris Johnson has a 79-seat majority in the House of Commons.

This is not because a Tory MP has died or voted against the government.

This is, ultimately, because of the Russia Report.

To recap: the Intelligence and Security Committee of the UK Parliament was responsible for…

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#Admiral Lord West #Brexit for Coffee #Chris Grayling #Diana Johnson #John Hayes #Julian Lewis #Kevan Jones #Mark Pritchard #originally posted on Facebook #Russia report #Russian interference in EU referendum #Stewart Hosie #Theresa Villiers

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PADDY MACNEIL’S WIFE DIVORCES HIM AFTER HEARING HE HAD AFFAIR WITH SERENA COW-DY, AND STEWART HOSIE’S WIFE ENDS THEIR MARRIAGE WHEN SHE LEARNS HOSIE HAD AFFAIR WITH COWDY. SEEMS COWDY (IRISH NATIONALIST) AND HOSIE ARE NOW MARRIED. MACNEIL IS NOW A DUAL BRITISH AND IRISH CITIZEN. 

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Dark money is the ‘real problem’ in British politics, claims SNP MP

Dark money is the ‘real problem’ in British politics, claims SNP MP

Stewart Hosie says UK government’s elections bill suppresses voters, while failing to address the influence of anonymous donations Source: OpenDemocracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/dark-money-is-the-real-problem-in-british-politics-claims-snp-mp/

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Russia report: The government left us completely exposed to Kremlin interference

By Ian Dunt

You'll hear a lot over the next few days about there not being a smoking gun in the Russia report. In fact, it's much worse than that. The discovery of a smoking gun suggests someone was tasked with looking for it. Our situation is more grave. No-one was. Even that most basic of activities - the most elementary attempt to defend British democracy - was ignored.

The intelligence committee report is full of redactions, but the central message on interference in British politics is quite clear. "Since 2014, Russia has carried out malicious cyber activity in order to assert itself aggressively in a number of spheres," it says. This "poses an immediate and urgent threat to our national security". The UK is "clearly a target for Russia's disinformation campaigns and political influence operations".

The attacks take the form of large-scale disinformation campaigns - state-owned traditional media like RT, bot and troll farms, hack-and-leak, and real life interference, such as Kremlin soft-loans to the National Front in France in exchange for support of its annexation of Crimea. There are several aims: spreading specific pro-Kremlin narratives, creating a broader sense of people not knowing who or what to believe, and "poisoning of the political narrative in the West by fomenting political extremism and 'wedge issues'." In other words, it works to exacerbate social, cultural and political division in target countries.

The first operation of this sort on British soil, it seems, was the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. This tallies with Russian use of disinformation after the MH-17 incident over Ukraine in the same year.

In the US, Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election led to an intelligence community assessment within two months of the vote, with an unclassified summary made public. In the UK, the government did nothing.

That then left it completely open during the Brexit campaign in 2016. The committee noted that there was evidence of the use of traditional media and bot and troll Russian interference work in favour of Leave during the referendum. But when it inquired about this, it received just six lines of text from MI5, most of which referred to academic studies.

"The written evidence provided to us appeared to suggest that [the government] had not seen or sought evidence of successful interference in UK democratic processes or any activity that has had a material impact on an election, for example influencing results," the committee found. "We have not been provided with any post-referendum assessment of Russian attempts at interference." Committee member Stewart Hosie went further. The government did not know about Russian interference in the Brexit referendum "because they did not want to know".

The security services were wary of getting involved in British democratic processes. That attitude, the committee found, was foolhardy. This is about protecting the democratic process, not interfering in it. But what was telling was that the government did nothing to protect against this problem before it emerged nor made any effort to find out what happened in the wake of it.

In fact, quite the opposite. This report was completed a year-and-a-half ago. It has sat gathering dust. Why? We thought for a while it was because it contained details of Russian donations to the Tory party. That appears to be wrong - the report doesn't go into that issue. Instead it seems to have been the result of Dominic Cummings, the prime minister's senior adviser, trying to kill it because it would have given a platform to Dominic Grieve, the former chair of the intelligence committee - the battle of the Dominics.

Cummings led the Vote Leave Brexit campaign, which is now installed as the organisational mechanism of British government. Grieve was a prominent Remainer. Brexit loyalty didn't just stop the government looking into what happened. It led it to try to stop people reporting that it wasn't looking into what happened.

In the build up to today's publication, the government went out of its way to try to limit the impact of the report by releasing material which took the focus away from Brexit. Confirmation of publication came last week after No.10 failed in an attempt to rig the chairmanship of the intelligence committee. As soon as it came, foreign secretary Dominic Raab confirmed for the first time that Russia interfered in British democracy - through the "online amplification" of leaked documents in the 2019 election. That related to then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's use of leaked documents about UK-US trade deals and the effect on the NHS.

This was telling for two reasons. First, he sought to portray it as a Labour issue, rather than one which operates in British politics in general. Second, unless the timing was completely coincidental - which not even the most generous commentator could credibly claim - he was clearly acting to reduce the impact of the report. In other words, the government was using Russian interference in British politics for its own domestic political agenda.

Briefings to journalists overnight seemed to follow a similar pattern. "Kremlin 'tried to meddle in Scottish independence vote' - but did not target Brexit," the Telegraph splashed yesterday - a finding which does not tally at all with what is contained in the report.

This is a complete failure of basic patriotic and democratic responsibility. The Russian attempt to undermine the UK is based on exacerbating 'wedge' divisions in the domestic political debate. To our considerable shame, we have ended up with a government which operates by doing precisely the same thing. Vote Leave won the referendum by inciting and sustaining cultural division. It operates in government in precisely the same way. Instead of acting on the committee's demand that more be done to assess Russian interference and prevent it, the government tried to delay the report. Instead of taking its recommendations on board, it tried to use the issue of Russian interference as a weapon against the SNP, Labour and Remainers.

We don't know what an inquiry into Russian interference in the Brexit referendum would find, but there is good reason to assume that it would have two chief conclusions. The first is that it did interfere. This is in line with its well-documented tactics and priorities. The second is that it is impossible to know whether that interference swung the result. And yet even a report of that type would help give people confidence. It would show that the government cared about and was trying to protect British democratic processes. It would offer some degree of reassurance about the validity of the results.

Instead we are left with complete absence - an utter failure of governmental duty. And that corresponds to Russia's broader long-term aim: of creating a world in which no-one knows what is true, in which nothing can be completely trusted. They couldn't ask for a more useful British government than the one they have now.

#russia #brexit

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Johnson could face no-confidence vote next week to halt no-deal Brexit

Johnson could face no-confidence vote next week to halt no-deal Brexit

SNP’s Stewart Hosie says opposition must unite and that Corbyn must get first chance to be PM

The prime minister, Boris Johnson, could be removed as early as next week under plans being drawn up by opposition party leaders. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

There could be a vote of no confidence in the government next week in order to remove Boris Johnson as prime minister…

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SNP MP torn apart in brutal Japan Brexit deal slap down: 'Scottish Whiskey is protected!'

#Whisky #JapaneseWhisky [Daily Express]SNP MP Stewart Hosie was torn apart by International Trade Secretary Liz Truss who lambasted the MP for labelling £50billion a “small gain”.

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