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Scottish Parliament

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About Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Scotland. It is located in the Holyrood area of Edinburgh, and is frequently referred to by the metonym Holyrood. It is a democratically elected body and its role is to scrutinise the Scottish Government and legislate on devolved matters that are not reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

On the show โ€” 4 mentions total

You still need to know the phone numbers for the House of Commons, the Welsh Assembly, and the Scottish Parliament. Weirdly, in the five telephone numbers that you need to know, 999 is not there.

from 195: No Such Thing As A Hummingbird With A Greggs Steak Bake, 2017-12-08 at 00:21:49 ยท read transcript

Other times Scottish Parliament came up

  1. It didn't come back. Sorry, another bloody eagle. I'm not questioning his veracity, but I, when I worked in the Scottish Parliament, used to have a couple of constituents who were incessantly complaining their sheep for being carried off by sea eagles. I would love them in the same box as your Kazakhstan builder, which is a box of people who have hallucinations of eagles carrying things away. Listen, there was a story in Scotland in 2019, and this might be the one that you're talking about, Anna, where sea eagles were blamed for stealing lambs.

    No Such Thing As A Reverse-Waterslide, 2021-06-18 ยท listen

  2. I'm not questioning his veracity but I, when I worked in the Scottish Parliament, used to have a couple of constituents who were incessantly complaining their sheep were being carried off by sea eagles and I would lump them in the same box as your Kazakhstani builder, which is a box of people who.

    378: No Such Thing As A Reverse-Waterslide, 2021-06-18 ยท listen

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