Full Scottish - 23/06/2019 -
This week on the Full Scottish, Rachel McCormack is joined by novelist, Sara Sheridan and Maureen McGonigle from Scottish Women in Sport.
And then there were two. After successive rounds of voting, by the end of the week, the tory leadership hopefuls were reduced down to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt as the two who would go forward to the party membership for the final say on who would be the next UK Prime Minister. Don’t you just love democracy in the UK?
Following the opinion poll from earlier this week, which showed that tory voters would rather see Scotland and Northern Ireland leave the UK or even the destruction of the tory party, rather than have Brexit stopped. This is about to be tested especially following the revelations of the police being called to a “domestic” at Boris’s home. Will he be damaged by this or like all the other flaws in the man’s character, will the determined tory Brexiteers vote for him and the no-deal Brexit, which is starting to look like the outcome to the Brexit fiasco.
As always, the implications for Scotland don’t even merit an afterthought in the Brexit process. How should Scotland respond to Boris Johnson taking us out of Europe in a no-deal Brexit?
Tensions between the US and Iran are still high, as Trump called off an air raid after the planes were in the air, when he realised that 150 dead in retaliation for Iran shooting down an unmanned drone might be a disproportionate response. The war of words continues as news comes in of a US cyber-attack on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s weapon systems. The concern is that before the consequences are thought through, the US and Iran drag the whole region into war.
As the Scottish Women’s Football team arrive home, with their heads held high, we are asking “Where are the Women?” Women in other sports, women in politics, women in board-rooms and women in History. Our panel will discuss this in the depth it deserves.
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