The Jim Murphy Fan Club
Labour MP and nuclear weapon enthusiast Jim Murphy is out and about this week, flitting bat-like across Scotland as part of his “100 Corners” tour where he stands on a box and tells wide-eyed Ordinary Members Of The Public ™ about the splendour of the union. Some of Jim’s pals have been proudly tweeting shots of the packed crowds.
But our eagle-eyed viewers couldn’t help spotting something.
There was no mention in the tweets of where the shots above were taken, although the bottom one would logically seem to be somewhere in the Stirling area. But a sizeable proportion of the modest gathering in the second one appears to have also been present at the first.
The blonde woman with the strappy, stripy top (1) is pretty much beyond dispute, as is the dark-haired young chap in the candy-checked shirt (2). We’d put a fair bit of money that the older gent in sunglasses and a blue striped shirt (3) is the same in both – in the bottom shot he’s Labour MSP Richard Simpson, standing next to Labour MP Anne McGuire – and a super-alert reader also noticed the distinctive low-slung pink and black rucksack on the wee chap at (4) poking out from behind a bloke in a suit.
[EDIT 4.54pm: And what also looks like two instances of the young man with short dark hair, shades, a grey t-shirt and brown trousers at (5), although he’s almost out of shot in the second pic and we again can’t be certain.]
Of course, that one could just be a coincidence. Perhaps they all are. Or maybe Jim Murphy just has a gaggle of dedicated groupies following him around Scotland for reasons entirely unconnected to the independence referendum.
What we’re definitely sure of is that they’re NOT the same few Labour activists being shipped around to pad out photos and create a false impression of grassroots support, because that’s the sort of thing Scottish Labour would simply never do.
Well spotted! (although I think no 3 may be two different people?).
Not sure about three, might be the same guy, might not be.
But I don’t doubt four. There is no way two men in Scotland would have a rucksack with pink bits on it.
I love all those bubble heids. Where’s Wally?
Hillarious.
They might at least have changed their shirts!
Fantastic.
And they can’t even muster a full bus-load?
Nr 3 doubtful, although same hair look in person far right in 2nd shot.
I thought Nr 4 was a girl judging by that candy striped golf visor!
Tomorrows headline will be “Cybernat highlights faces shocker”
Reminds me of the children’s comics, the ones for wee tots, where there’s a scene containing twelve screwdrivers or hats or whatever and you have to find them.
There isn’t seats on the bus though, it’s padded cells.
found another! (whats my prize??) Uber cool guy in shades on extreme left of second picture stands proudly nearest wall, left hand side of first picture.
Guy with dark hair, sunglasses, greyish/bluish t-shirt, light brown / khaki trousers right next to the wall at left of top photo and possibly holding is hand up to his face just at the very left / partially off shot in the second photo.
be nice….The Scottish Gene pool is very small and of course Primark is very popular!
Im sure your right Peter but why don’t we ask our resident style guru, Paula?
Wheres Wally?
The guy smack in the middle of the 2nd of 3 (with jacket on) is the same guy over sarwars right shoulder in the 3rd picture (but he has cunningly taken his jacket off). Good game.
re no. 3 its the guy next to the left of where the number has been placed I think
The guy sitting down isnae the same guy with his back to us standing up is he?
BTW…Murphy is standing on a ginger bottle crate….this man has been on plenty of Arms Deal Hospitality gigs, he must be affronted!
Astroturfing to perfection.
Nothing wrong with a family day out though….
Nice day for it.
Clothes dummies on trolleys Home Alone style worked with string, has more cred than this farce. Looks like someone has fainted with the tedium in the left side of the first one. Murphy’s £100+ billion “nuclear bombs give you world stage clout” bullshit does that to normal unpolished people.
This political machine is the one that the MSM is fighting tooth and nail to support and preserve. The Lib Dems and Tories no longer have much of an organisation left in Scotland. Propping up SLAB has become the name of the game, even Poor Old Cochers is doing it, and he is almost as right wing as you can get. No wonder growing numbers of SLAB voters and figures are supporting the Yes campaign.
The guy standing on the crate, speaking to the ‘crowd’, looks like the same guy in both pictures.
Perhaps they all Friends of Israel as well as Murphy.
In my opinion 3 in the upper picture is the guy immediately to the right of Murphy in the lower shot. Bear in mind the different lighting conditions.
Similarly, 3 in the lower shot is the chap to the left of the guy marked 3 in the upper shot.
How will these proud Scots be able to sleep at night if there is a no vote. It beggars belief.
I wonder why they shell out for the bus? Could probably fit that lot in the back of a second-hand Transit van…
Maybe he can claim more expenses for the bus though…
Spot the Bawheid.
Brilliant Stu,
Saw one last week and had a wee chuckle this one caught me out. Spat my tea everywhere …… again.
Was out watching the Baton relay for the games and watched with admiration a few local folk handing out bags with YES badges and stickers and the amount of people wanting them surprised me. i live in a strong labour area but almost everyone wanted a badge etc.
i knew there were plenty of us out there but to see it for real is incredibly uplifting. hundreds of them .
Hope to catch Murphy’s road show myself . I have a few comments to throw him that can’t be put here as they are bad…
Desperate bunch o’ chancers……. no bloody thanks
Busted, Busted, Busted, oh dear Jim Murphy has been playing silly buggers with his crowd control, is it his popularity or just his aftershave.
Perhaps himself and Anas Sarwar could get together with their buses and swab crowds, I wonder who gets first pick ?
I mean the crowd not Murphy or Sarwar, I’m not that inhuman.
It’s possible that the outstretched legs that can be seen in the upper photo belong to the guy sitting in the wheelchair in the lower photo, but there isn’t enough in either shot to be sure.
Are they giving away free irn bru?
Love the way the “grass roots” are spreading the message!
Jim Murphy is happy with the retention of nuclear weapons next to Scotland’s largest, while many people suffer from austerity spending cuts in the UK. How shameless can you get?
The boy holding the No sign with Anas appears in all 3 pictures( wearing a red jacket in 2/3), are they sleeping on this tour bus?
city.
link to cheapestfancydress.co.uk
They’ll all be wearing disguises now their cunning stunt’s been exposed.
Entire Scottish Labour paying membership on that bus!
I wasn’t at the Barrhead Gala Day myself but talking to two of the “Yes” people manning the “Yes” stall there confirms that Murphy was nearly on his tod for much of the time that he was there.
He has given himself a load of future trouble in the constituency. If he is re-elected as MP in May 2015 without taking the “Yes” pledge, then I’m a monkey’s uncle. I’ll not forgive him for trying to make “cybernat” a dirty word, the silly little man. If he read the actual cybernat site more often:-
link to cybernats.com
he might discover a little more about defence and other matters that he speaks in Westminster about.
Tom
If you walk down any high street you will hear some guy shouting out about the Second Coming or the wonder of religion. His fantastical claims are just as viable as anything jim Murphy was touting Im sure.
As for Anas on Tour, i hope the young Pakistan Entrepreneur community werent missing him too much.
BTW…Murphy, Anas, least their out there, JoLA, less visible than a pair of sheer knickers
There’s at least two more in each picture who are the same person. And if we could have seen everyone, I’d wager there are a few more on top of that.
In summary then, Jim Murphy is bussing around the same people to different places to give the impression that at least a dozen members of the public are interested in listening to what he has to say.
Well, that’s surely a flat out lie. I cannot possibly imagine who, except from his missus and perhaps his kids & the guy who approves his expense cheques, could be remotely interested in a die hard member of the Labour party making the case for spending >100 billion quid on a new nuclear weapon system.
This must be the cheapest option Jim Murphy could afford from Rent-A-Crowd.
A van would have been more appropriate means of transport.
It does highlight a truth – Better Together is not a grass roots campaign.
Well at least his constituents will know where he is. I do not see Westminster in any of the photos.
Jim Murphy as a student President leader destroyed the Scottish Union of Students, on the grounds that the English National Union of Students was more left wing. We still have a separate education system and no student fees or grants cuts, etc. a nasty little anti Scottish group, now defunct and its old leaders are lecturers producing videos and articles for the English media attacking socialists, peaceniks and nationalists. He was also in the Irish Freedom Movement, another suspect nasty wee group. A short course in America and he came back an openly Right Wing Labour careerist.
To me he sounds like an advert for a funeral parlour.
Number 3 isn’t the same guy. But… in top pic the guy with the brown trousers and sunglasses to the left of number 3 is at the extreme left in the bottom pic (only half shown). Pal of women number 1 with her head in the read no sign in the top pic is standing to number 1s right in the bottom pic (in front of the guy in black).
I must admit I find Murphy smug, condescending and totally insincere.
The type of person I would sprint across the road to avoid.
As far as I’m aware he’s never had a real job in his life.
And he’s careering around the country pontificating to everybody else.
A thoroughly dislikable individual to the nth degree.
On Jim Murphy
MR JIM MURPHY AND THE NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS
Session: 1995-96
Date tabled: 12.06.1996
Primary sponsor: Livingstone, Ken
Sponsors:
That this House condemns the intolerant and dictatorial behaviour of the President of the National Union of Students, Mr Jim Murphy, who has unconstitutionally suspended NUS Vice President, Clive Lewis, because he took part, in a personal capacity, in an open debate at Queen Mary and Westfield College on the issues raised by the Campaign for Free Education; further notes that along with President Elect, Douglas Trainer, both men have warned NUS Executive member, Rose Woods, that if she attends the Scottish launch of the Campaign for Free Education she too will be suspended from the NUS Executive; reminds Mr Murphy and Mr Trainer that freedom of speech is a right in the United Kingdom, that they have no power to overturn the results of elections that went against their preferred candidates and that, whilst these methods are a common practice in dictatorships around the world, they are not acceptable behaviour from someone such as Mr Murphy who is putting himself forward as suitable for election to the House of Commons.
http://www.parliament.uk/…/991
And o/t One again Derek Bateman tells it how it is in the BBC over Kezia Dugdalegate
link to derekbateman.co.uk
In Revolutionary boy student days he condemned Tommy Sheridan as a reformist.
His Labour Party is neither; socialist, reformist, or even liberal. It is just an election machine providing a gravy train for skinny skum.
This is a classic case of astro-turfing.
Ahh, the ‘Dark Arts’. This, there regular hate column in The Telegraph, BBC on tap, Messrs McTernan and Crosby poll fiddling and smearing fecal matter over the campaign via Alistair Darling et al and assorted fears and smears via an assortment of HMG’s pet journalists and GCHQs pet trolls (now claiming that their actions are legal because its happening out with the UK). Will the public notice?
Looks like someone has fainted with the tedium in the left side of the first one
ROFLMFAO
Sorry if it has already been mentioned but is that not a castley looking thing in the top right hand corner of the first pic?
That’s Raploch and Braehead, Stirling.
fainted with the tedium
Sorry, but this one needs repeating as I am still pissing myself.
The women with the short died blond hair standing in front of the man with black jacket nearest to us is the same women in the second picture in front of the man in black t-shirt who is holding a bottle of juice. The hair is the same, what are the chances of 2 women having exactly the same hair in 2 of Jim’s talks?
If there is such a creature as a Labour activist in existence then they ought to be ashamed of themselves. Join LFI before your potential goes up in smoke.
As for Mr Murphy, get the greasy silver spoon oot o yer mooth as it’s disgusting.
I’m really not a fan of Jim Murphy.*
* Does that make me a virus, Death Eating, Cybernat?
Thankfully it’s the same Jim Murphy every time, which means there’s only one of him.
Or is it? The plot thickens…
There’s a woman with a blonde streak in her hair standing to the left of No.1 in top pic and to her right in bottom pic obscured by the big guy in black – the two women are obviously together.
This is like ‘Spot the Naw’ – spot the nawheids?
O/T and apologies if posted before
Angus Roxburgh in New Statesman on lack of Scottish Six
link to newstatesman.com
Looks like nobodies buying – how disheartening it must be to have to bring your own audience.
@Gillie
“This is a classic case of astro-turfing.”
It doesn’t even qualify as astro-turf. More like that cheap plastic grass they use in the butcher’s window display!
niall
I’m impressed, you can see Raploch on street view
but cant find the second one in Braehead
Drove past the Raploch one earlier. Around 15-20 folk there I would guess.
The bottom photo is outside the Post Office in Springfield Road, Braehead, Stirling and the building on the left is the North Parish church.
niall
Found Braehead
Like this game..lol
Yip, second pic is def Braehead in Stirling, Springfield Road to be exact just next to North Parish Church.
Jesus, just spent twenty minutes of my life peering at NaySayers…
Spotted two sun hats the same though
All of 2.2 miles between the two locations, man that’s travelling
There is at least 2. One on show while the other is getting its batteries recharged and software updated.
Might have made the day a bit more fun if they’d all swapped clothes on the bus.
Jamie Arriere
The stripy lady and her pal are in both. It’s quite obviously the same hair on stripy lady’s friend.
It’s all staged. The numbered faces travel round the area with him, activists are contacted and encouraged to turn up. There will always be the odd member of the public who happens to be passing or just nosey as to what’s going on. It’s a stunt for media purposes, nothing more.
Reminds me of those ‘Find The Lady’ card sharks I encountered up Brick Lane in London. Everyone in the crowd was part of the deception and the poor unsuspecting victim wanders in to see various folk win. As soon as they play they lose their lot. Lol.
@Jim Marshall, Muttley79, Donald Anderson and Sinky
Putting all your info together, the picture which is painted is of a deeply manipulative and deceitful individual who has used organisational structures all his life to achieve status and wealth.
The two political positions I most despise are Imperialism/Unionism and Zionism and I look forward to a time when an Independent Scotland is represented at the United Nations and puts its wholehearted support behind the right to self determination of the Palestinian people.
A reminder of the kind of people we’re up against, by G.A. Ponsonby, in NNS:
link to newsnetscotland.com
Thanks Steve, looks like blonde-streak lady is number 6!
Your choice.
Yes v No
Lies v Truth
Rich v Poor
Holyrood v Westmister
Democracy v Dictatorship
Expansion v Austerity
An opportunity to rid us of the parasite, the greedy and the troughers.
You Choose with an X in the box?
Brotyboy 5.24
Murphy is clever though. He increased his majority in Eastwood at the last general election. Eastwood formerly the second safest Tory seat in Scotland. This proves how far right he is.
I wonder if they’re actors paid to pad out the photo’s or maybe BT have scoured the phone book for rent a crowd, this types of crowd massing happens regularly in the USA, either way it definitely has the look of a false flag type gathering.
It would appear that politics have changed forever we the public view them now with great contempt. We do not need to put up with their false promises and lies
Voting yes is our best policy.
The man with the just visible black socks next to the woman with the 2 week old perm, by the lamppost, with the sticker on top of the silver paint, recently pee’d on by the wee black dug now in the arms of the young lad with the hoodie who’s uncle used to own the shop in the second picture, in 1976, is just like the old boy that I used to know who said Jim Murphy used to live next door to him and attended this event the other day, or would have done if it hadn’t been so sunny because he was out of Calamine lotion
Jeez.
Both photos look like they were taken in Stirling. The first looks to be on Drip Road outside the Raploch Community Campus and the second is on Springfield Road outside the post office and North Parish church.
Further investigation may find some of these people to be blood relations to party members possibly to MSPs themselves. Its worth checking.
As long as they only have one vote each…
Anas Sarwar is claiming a grand total of 150 people travelling around on the Red bus but his photos show a max of about a dozen at any given time. Photos inside the bus show it to be mostly empty.
The man takes bare faced lying to whole new levels.
Murphy’s Wikipedia entry is not entirely complimentary:
“In 2011, The Daily Telegraph published documents,[23] compiled by a senior US official at the US Embassy in London and published by WikiLeaks, it was revealed that throughout 2009, Jim Murphy was in charge of organising a coalition of Unionist parties whose aim was to “block an independence referendum” in Scotland. The documents state:[24] Throughout 2009, UK Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy played a leadership role in organizing the opposition parties, hoping to move Scotland toward implementation of the Calman recommendations as an alternative to an independence referendum, according to Murphy’s advisors, Labour party insiders, and opposition party leaders. First Minister Salmond’s response to independence critics (such as Murphy) has been to accelerate the implementation of the Calman recommendations as soon as possible – “to call the bluff.”
Let me guess, they are all ordinary housewives, husbands and grandparents? Please don’t mention that they are Skelotors parents in law and siblings, that would be abusive.
the thin guy standing on the crate who looks like jim murphy is in both pics too.
If this wasn’t so serious, it would be funny.
Well no: it’s funny anyway, but also rather sad. There’s Jim with his ‘NX THANKS’ devotees; and Anas and Co tumbling from their ‘VOTEXNO’ play bus. Are its supporters really fully aware of the extent to which Scottish Labour is being taken for a ride by the Tories and the Westminster establishment (which of course includes Jim and Anas themselves)?
It seems not, as yet.
Stoops 5.42
” As long as they only have one vote each.”
Would not be sure about that.
link to news.bbc.co.uk
At least the seating arrangements have improved from sitting on pavement in Photo 1 to Luxury Padded Black Plastic and Utility Fold Away with Secret Beer Pocket in Photo 2.
Only 98 meet’n greets to go for Mr Murphy and the Murphettes.
Anybody notice the same bus seems to be turning up in Anas’s photo-ops too?
I’m just wondering if Jim Murphy always uses the same Irn Bru crate?
Talking about their stage props is infinitely more interesting than anything these two neoliberals have to say about anything.
Can’t blame folks for taking a free tour of Scotland on a beautiful sunny day. They’ll be handing out free ice creams and ice lolli’s next, LOL.
Auld Rock
JHC Rev, kin you no finnish wan fight on the abuse front
without starting anither ( Jim Murphy’s GROUPIES )
mair like Jim,s GUPPIES. O ah hiv a jist gone n done it,
a venerial abuse of Slim Jim & his Guppies. Aye is a small
world in a Goldfish Bowl.
Jim gets landed with Irn Bru crate, but Anas gets the big shiny new bus. What’s all that about?
Watch out for them this weekend:
Jim
This week – and every week – until September the 18th, hundreds of Labour activists will take to the streets across Scotland to share the message that Scotland can have the best of both worlds – a strong Scottish Parliament with more devolved powers along with the strength and security of the United Kingdom.
This referendum will be won by you speaking to your friends, families and neighbours about how we’re stronger together within the United Kingdom
That’s why we’re asking you to join us this weekend at one of our local campaigning events.
We have events across Scotland including doorknocking, leaflet delivery and street stalls – you can find the event closest to you and play your part here.
From Monday 23rd we will be running telephone banks contacting key voters in the referendum. If you can spare an hour or so please sign up here or come into either the Glasgow or Edinburgh offices between 4pm and 8pm Monday to Friday.
The next three months will decide the future of Scotland, and if you believe that Scotland’s future is in leading the UK rather than leaving it, then we need your help!
We’ll see you on the doorstep.
Scottish Labour
I would have to travel from Sauchie to Falkirk, so much for hundreds of activists!
Is the third photo Dunoon? The battle bus rolled in with Arswar yesterday – 4pm Castle Gardens we were told – and we had just gathered up a few YES posters in the YES shop to go down to have a chat at about 3.50 when the bus rolled past us making its way out of town.
Apparently it stopped ,a few folk clambered off for a photo and then they got on again and drove away.
I’m told there is a photo in tomorrow’s Dunoon paper. Could be interesting.
Dunoon, Dunoon,
Is a bonnie wee toon.
Don’t vote Yes the noo
Or Murph will shut it doon.
Meanwhile ‘Real Labour’?? Leader Bernie Winters look-a-like Milliband is proposing cutting young people’s broo money.
Well they need the dough for more nukes, don’t they Skeletor? you disgusting hypocrite.
Who is going to report Jim’s stalkers to Polite Scotland
Think I will make an appearance at one of his soap box appearances and get a real debate going
Audit Scotland calling for Johann lamont to opilogize for her
comments at FMs questions.Im sure, sure Josie that she will
forthcoming & contrite.
is the guy with the camera
the same guy in all the photos
Let’s pretend we’re Better Together all alone
And tell your MPs way down there they’ll have to go.
OK, that’s a couple of dozen No voters with Labour allegiance I reckon?
Do anyone think they’ll get many more Labour folks to vote No?
OT I really let the side down today, guys (: – I eat a Tunnocks snowball.
Number 3 is not the same guy, different colour of trousers!
But he could be the guy sitting down on the slabs that you can see the legs of.
Also, no. 1’s friend is in the second photo, just over the top right shoulder of the chap with the black tee shirt on.
Very SAD
An hears me thinkin the Evening Times stopped playing
Spot The Baw Heid years ago.
galamcennalath
Sin bin for you.
If that eejit is traveling the country with rent a crowd the only person he’s fooling is himself as I said before, eejit
Jim Murphy is on Twitter openly threatening to visit Raploch.
@ Dave McEwan Hill,
Scroll down through the pictures.
link to twitter.com
Reminds me of the Joe Cocker lyrics
No, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Someone may have said this already. Maybe he is copying his hero John Major who was in town earlier this week.
Can anyone find a list of places and dates for Murphy’s 100 corners?
I looked when I first heard about it just in case he came anywhere near but there is nothing to be found.
What a group of sterling observers we are.
@ Dave,
more here, looks like the Stadium in one of the shots.
link to twitter.com
@galamcennalath.
Do you not know that Lees make better snowballs?
10 in a packet for a pound in Asda.
Reminds me of the Joe Cocker lyrics
Now, Nana! You should know better. Lennon and McCartney!
Cocker used a line of the lyrics for his album title.
Jim Murphy reminds me of the Rev Jolly, but without the wit!
Ok, I know, I know, a bolt through the neck and he would be a dead wringer for well, lurch! Even the voice…………
Proud CyNat said: What a group of sterling observers we are.
Ed Balls said he’d rather die than share sterling.
I know Grouse Beater…no doubt what I’m about to say will cause uproar so I’ll say it quietly…I never did like the beatles.
Its when he simpers “now don’t you worry, ofcourse there’ll be a Labour government next year ” cheeky smirk, boakin.
I believe man number 3 is actually region MSP Richard Simpson. There are also a few local labour councillors there including the labour council leader Johanna Boyd and a lady who looks very like Anne McGuire MP.
We caught BetterTogether fake canvassing in Govanhill last month! And their Shawlands event was a strange closed door hush hush event, they didnt want us streaming it! (we did anyway). They are a bunch of liars!
I also see they are charging £20 for tickets to hear Alistair Carmichael speak! Thats pretty low. And desperate too!
@donald anderson
So, Murphy was formerly in the Irish Freedom Movement? Clearly a kindred spirit of George Galloway : vociferous supporters of self-determination for peoples around the globe….errrr, except their own.
My prediction: England 1 Uruguay 2
Englishmen refuse to accept Rooney, like the UK, is a dud these days.
Okay, here goes nuthin’ … pressing the Submit icon… gulp!
ha ha he he ho ho i think i just pissed myself.
poor show Labour you shower of plonkers
ha ha ha he he ho ho aww man im going to be laughing at this all night now
They are just fooling themselves and now talking to themselves. A vote for SLab is a vote for food banks and Trident! Wake up Scotland!!
Gosh those moves are good. Now that Frederick Ashton’s dead can we ask who was the choreographer?
The best description I can think of for the Smurf is The Lugubrious Mr Murphy.
It’s jist a posh, ae wird, wey tae say, Lang Dreep
“The Gang’s all here”
By the Dropkick Murphys…
If he comes near Aberdeen, Im going to heckle him. “My question to future Lord Murphy of Castle Grey Skull is, what’s it like knowing that you’re a war criminal, Gordon Brown’s a war criminal, the whole of the Labour party are war criminals with the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi people on your hands?”
I think it’s quite sad – no pathetic.
If you were going to fake crowd scenes you would have a full bus and a large “wardrobe” of hats/ jackets/ etc. various hairstyles. Various groupings to change structure.
This is the best they can do? They could not even organise local party members to turn out for 20 minutes for a quick speech and photo?
I’ve never seen a BT activist yet?
Apparently you need a camera with BBC written on it and an event close to Pacific Quay.
It does cheer you up though when you witness the hordes we have to face over the next few months. At this rate we will know them all by name so it may become a social event.
Indymeanies, moany jolo, catch a no vote, by the clone, indymeanies, moany Jolo. Murphy, Darling and Broon Cannae let auld Scotland doon, indymeanies,moany Jolo.
Seems there has been ‘owls of protest from the other UK political parties about Labour’s latest promises. The YES campaign has cried (F),OWL, and claimed they don’t give a hoot.
link to telegraph.co.uk
My wife’s a Murphy she wishes to make it known. NOT in her name.
Or “Hey Jim, Jim, Jimmy, James,latest reports say teamGB national debt is actually £4.5 trillion, so why should the people of Scotland or England ever trust you again with our nations public finances?”
galamcennalath says
“OT I really let the side down today, guys (: – I eat a Tunnocks snowball.”
Send him to the cooler
link to youtube.com
Maybe when you get out you’ll understand I like Baxters soup, others like Mackies Ice Cream but we held out for the cause,
take him away,
I cant even look at you.
Ronny- thanks for making my day. You’re a funny man!
Bottom photo in Stirling: Number three is Richard Simpson MSP, the lady to hus left is Anne McGuire MP. Number four is local Labour Councillor Danny Gibson – the guy who tried to ban the Saltire from Stirling Council HQ which led to a Scotland-wide condemnation of his stunt and him withdrawing the motion under pressure from Better Together.
I did wonder about the students/young people up on carlton hill the other day(holding up the’no more powers for scotland’letters)
Are these people paid at least minimum wage? we need to know,or name and shame Better/UKOK/no thanks.
Les Wilson says
“Ok, I know, I know, a bolt through the neck and he would be a dead wringer for well, lurch! Even the voice…………”
you rang?
link to youtube.com
What’s Jim’s empty crate tour of Scotland called anyway – One Man His Sheeple?
Not exactly Gladstone’s famous Midlothian campaign.
Well, we seem to have established that it’s mostly all the same people in both shots. Well done us. Not sure where that gets us really, mind you. Indyref trivia.
Who’s the guy in the pin strip suit and pretty blouse hiding in the hills.
O/T
Do we want the bbc in an indy Scotland???
link to theguardian.com
“I’m really not a fan of Jim Murphy.*
* Does that make me a virus, Death Eating, Cybernat?”
YES
Well you did ask.
I am convinced that most if not all BT politicians read Wings. And I like to imagine the loathing and dread with which they do in case they are caught out in such an embarrassing way as this. Are they not ashamed of the constant humiliation? What must their friends and family think of them or don’t they care?
Alternatively they are just blinkered and genuinely believe they are in the right which I find equally as dismaying.
Murphy
Nesferatu
link to google.co.uk
Jon d @5.37PM
Pity you missed the blonde hair on the guy with the greasy hairs jacket, it was obvious he’s been having an affair with the woman with the bottle blonde hair,
not so hot Sherlock.
Since they’re hard pressed to get enough people to “set up” a decent photo I can understand if they used party workers, but could they not invest in a wee trip to Primark so these good folk could at least look different.
Remember when the pro Russian forces in Crimea staged their little bit of trickery they at least bought that big fat ugly wife half as dozen headscarves.
This lot have to make do with the lost property box from last years conference.
But what of the good folk that are not in it two or three times Are they real? are they the bus driver, The conductor ,are they really mannekins from Primark? Or some poor fool who was passing who thinks hey I’ve got my fifteen minutes of fame.
Where oh where are these pillars of investigative journalism who could ferret out an untruth and write 5000 words about the wrongdoing in half an hour.
Please dont say back row second from the left I had already thought of that!
BBC Scotchland evening news story on how Scotland were utter amaturish in the 1950’s against Uruguay in the World Cup and lost 7:0.
…not a mention of the 1986 meeting, where we put on a great performance and the game went down in history for the cheating antics of Uruguay.
Give it to the BBC, they do propaganda and brain washing well.
Sorry folks wrong clip
link to youtube.com
Stop it – no, keep going ROFL
@ bigpolmont, hear hud on big yin you leave Primark oota this
thats the poorman Genes supplier.
Stirling castle top left?
which after consulting googly street view puts number one at or near rapploch community centre ,, drip road. I may be wrong.
Jim Bo says:
“I am convinced that most if not all BT politicians read Wings.”
Of course they do, from which other source could they read the “news” or gauge the pulse of the nation?
Hi Blair, Hi Joanne. By the way that was a pretty poor show at FMQ today, will you ever learn?
You will when your on the buroo.
“Only 98 meet’n greets to go for Mr Murphy and the Murphettes.”
OOHH ha ha ha ha
that one slipped in under the radar
now who do we have that would accurately represent mr Murphy and the murphettes hmmm?
I think I just smurfed in my mouth.
link to youtube.com
Talking of full bus loads – still a few seats on the Wings over Angus charabanc heading for Auld Reekie on the 4th of July – go to Off topic and claim a seat (£15)
Hilarious! And thats in blazing sunshine as well, id imagine even his handful of loyal groupies won’t be so loyal once it starts pishin wi rain.
Oh dear, Uruguay have scored.
What a shame.
@ John king do you want tae cause a diplomatic incident
compairing Murph with the Smurfs the Belgian High Commission
will be making a complaint next.
Is that thingy with men showing their knees and chasing balls still going on?
ah yes here , although it appears to be a different part of the building that google street view dosnie reach.
link to google.co.uk
Jim Bo says
I am convinced that most if not all BT politicians read Wings
Yes, kinda like the rabbit watching the headlights coming towards it, or
link to youtube.com
Jim Murphy loyal friend of Israel. What about the 700 children that Israel detain each year?
Thank god some state broadcasters have still got some independence left. Here is the ABC (Australia’s national broadcaster) documentary on the treatment of these 700 per year children:
link to craigmurray.org.uk
Why does the BBC never produce such a documentary as it is supposed to be so unbiased? The Westminster controlled BBC’s silence is deafening.
Murphy/Blair shame on you.
Nobody said it was ever going to be easy. People like you that regularly read Wings are the most committed. You will have up days and down days as I’m sure you’ve both noticed and felt.
Jim Murphy’s 100 towns in a 100 days is pure fantasy and spin to get mentioned on the radio, TV and in the papers.
Reality, unfortunately for Jim and his ilk is that the great big web of spin is unravelling before their eyes. If you’ve ever felt on a downer, just imagine how they feel.
We are winning, so keep positive folk. Take the message to your neighbour or even better a stranger every chance you get.
I spoke to two retired chaps today both “DEFINATE” No’s. The irony is one was lifelong labour the other a tory and they couldn’t agree on anything. We had a good chat, both now have an Aye Right card. For sure they labour voter was considering his position. I’ll get the tory again, next week maybe.
Clootie says
“It does cheer you up though when you witness the hordes we have to face over the next few months. At this rate we will know them all by name so it may become a social event.”
Mibbie we could arrange for them to have their own personal polling booth’s with their names on them?
Mike
Are you sure Anas Sarwar says there is a hundred and fifty people travelling on the bus? maybe he is thinking about the total number over the hundred days
jeezo, england have 3 centre forwards playing and still look like they coulndt score in a china shop.
I was brought up reading Enid Blyton and the Famous Five.
Simply scrumptious.
You forgot the lashings of pop.
@Juteman
You must have read The Secret Seven first?
“I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.”
Didn’t come from foodbanks then. There were no foodbanks then. Why now?
“jeezo, england have 3 centre forwards playing and still look like they coulndt score in a china shop.”
Sorry, I’m still trying to work this out, am I missing something?
john king – I’m glad you asked that. (weepuzzledfacedthingy)
“Didn’t come from foodbanks then. There were no foodbanks then. Why now?”
For much the same reason as there was no rickets then either
link to news.yahoo.com
things must be desperate if murphy has to go round the country scaring us peasants so he can keep his expenses account. im sure he would rather be lunching at his gentlemens club in westminster.
Bloated ginger faced freak tells the truth for the first time ever.
BBC could be shared with independent Scotland, says Treasury secretary
Danny Alexander concedes Scotland could continue using the BBC and national lottery even if it votes for independence.
So says the guardian in a shock horror report by Severin bigot.
@john king
That’ll be why the tory government is bringing back free school milk then. Thatcher snatched it. Greedy bastard.
link to goodtoknow.co.uk
link to labourlist.org
Have you had a look.on his blog about this tour…? Not sure that link will survive but my Mrs went along to see our Jim… local MP n awe that… anyhoo… she replied to his post pointing out his exaggerated numbers… I still think it’s the terrorising old folk tour…
//labourlist.org/2014/06/me-a-microphone-and-whoever-turns-up/
Armies of ringers and a MSM full of shills. Has it come to this? Sorry, but there won’t be a prize for the first correct answer.
P.S. I just heard a rather loud roar (sitting in Edinburgh with open window). Has England just scored?
When did the National Lottery belong to the Bbc ah thought
it was Camalot that owned it,Bbc only have a contract to
broadcast the draw, there again so does that Hinternetty
thingy show the numbers drawn.Oh Dannyboy stop playin wie
yer toy it warps yer brain W****r.
@Retro_Rabbit
The comments on that link are great, labour supporters letting him know what they really think. Doesn’t seem to have much support does Jim even from his own. Tough.
Oh! Dear! England trailing by a goal in the 92 minute of the game. What a shame.
Uruguayan supporter wie ah see you jimmy hat on PMSL.
Good Evening Scotland,
I am a new reader of this brilliant and informative site on what is happening regarding Independence, I am a scot living and working in England for many years. I went home to Inverness to see my mum and sister as I do every year and am very angry with the bias that I have been reading that the governments vessels have been spouting. I see nothing fair and without prejudice in anything I have read.It would serve them better to help it along with good grace even my colleagues say to me we would vote yes as well if they could. I read all the newspapers at work and there is hardly any articles in them that would inform me. Its very bad form and by the way I have asked for a copy of the white paper so that I can inform them here on what the plan is for an Independent State of Scotland.
Please keep up the good work all of you.
Ronnie,
if it was the same guy, he had a Scotland strip on and was waving the Saltire.
Priceless.
Unbeatable winning combination of Suárez and Gerrardo for Uruguay.
“Uruguayan supporter wie ah see you jimmy hat on PMSL.”
and a saltire.
Grouse Beater said at 7:16 pm
My prediction: England 1 Uruguay 2
Score: England 1 Uruguay 2.
England 1 Suarez 2
England lost to Uruguay. OK but don’ t rub it in.
To gloat is not worthy of us., and not relevant. As Alec said England will be our best friend next year.
Post-mortem time …
@ Grouse Beater, you called it! Sad though. If Wayne was just a bit lucky…
if italy beat costa rica and uruguay and england beat costa rica, england can qualify.
Far more skill evident in the Uruguayian team, bravura, but Rooney got a tap-in to add to his curriculum vitae.
I think England just suffered their ‘Gascoigne moment’. Karma perhaps? His Holiness the Dalai Lama says ‘Yes!’, but not out loud in case it’s mis-translated!
Glenn Hoddle – Suarez was very quiet…apart from his 2 goals.
Very grateful to the footie. Was able to cycle round an almost deserted village putting up loads of posters advertising the indy debate on Monday evening. Harassed only by the bloody Culicoides impunctatans.
if italy beat costa rica and uruguay and england beat costa rica, england can qualify.
This sounds like a Scotland approach to qualification. Just missing actual scores on top.. ‘if italy beat costa rica 3-0 and ..at least 2-0 then..
Man I have England and Ivory Coast in the office sweepstakes.
Need a decent Y/N poll to cheer me up.
@ willie fae kilwinning, ah feel like busting into a song
WEE Are Not Alown
Bugger , I shall have nightmares thanks to you – Nosferatu was always the creepiest ,Chrissie Lee was a dish even with fangs!
Stu that bloke in the suit with the bald spot is in both Jim Murphy pictures as well.
@Luigi says:
I love all those bubble heids. Where’s Wally?
Just as long as nobody says “Where’s Lally?”
“Need a decent Y/N poll to cheer me up”
are you expecting one?
Just caught up with the comments (spotted your score update Conan). Which tv pundit do you reckon will try to introduce the concept of ‘gloating Scots’. Did anyone see the ITV presenter infer that Neil Lennon was one, a few days back?
Harassed only by the bloody Culicoides impunctatans.
I seem to be immune to them,
Maybe its the beer, hic?
Im confused, we are constantly told that you need to be a big country to be successful, yet Uruguay’s population is only 3.3 million, hmmm…
” Did anyone see the ITV presenter infer that Neil Lennon was one, a few days back?”
I am personally sick to death of the, “anyone but England”chant,
I wish to god those people would get over it,
personally I was hoping for England to win (just don’t tell them)
Its a complete Scots team and Scots pundit free world cup from BBC/STV England this year but there is one Scottish fan down there.
link to twitter.com
“Im confused, we are constantly told that you need to be a big country to be successful, yet Uruguay’s population is only 3.3 million, hmmm…”
Aha but you see they have oil.
OH?
@Morag Graham Kerr,noo Morag yer taxin ma brain & you know how fragile that is Culicoides impunctatans is that Latin
fur Midgies.
The atmosphere in the ITV studio at full time is a very good indicator of what it promises to be like in the BBC Scotland studio on the 19th of September, cannae bloody wait!
4’s a definite. That pink rucksack!
Not sure about 5, though; one of them seems to have a lot more hair than the other
Scotland supporter going crazy when Suarez got the winner has just made my summer.
Has anyone got it on youtube yet.
Got to be worth a barrow load of YES votes.
Oh wait no, I’m dumb. Looking at the wrong guy. 5’s a definite too!
Oh what fun. The BT/UKOK/NoFanks (phew) crowd giving us a little game – “Spot the Same person In Every Photograph”. How thoughtful!
Ronnie, don’t mention the Candyman.
@Suzanne
This is so easy, just picture the tory/libdem cabinet, the BT group and the Krankies.
Then laugh hahaha.
O/T – i.e. Nothing to do with Skeletor or football, but a Braveheart anniversary update:-
The special Braveheart showing at the Dominion Cinema in Edinburgh on the evening of 24th June (20th anniversary of Braveheart, 700th anniversary of Bannockburn) is invitation-only, as far as I am aware.
It has been organised by 20th Century Fox, and should see the largest gathering of cast members in the 20 years since the movie was filmed.
A this exciting time in Scottish history, there should be extensive MSM coverage (I can’t believe I just wrote that!).
There will be a ‘tartan-carpet’ start, a showing of the documentary “The Journey Home” (paying tribute to Braveheart and its relevance today), a Q&A session with cast members, and the movie screening.
Links:-
link to archive.today
link to dailyrecord.co.uk
link to tinyurl.com
@ Morag Graham Kerr, (Candyman) noo who sung that hummmm lol
The Candyman song is about a drug dealer.
@caz-m
must have slipped it in his wife’s handbag
Souls in torment. What did these people do in a previous life so terrible that they are condemned forever to listen to Murphy speeches? Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate.
Murphy. Labour’s cure for insomnia.
i dont know Vronsky but what ever it was it must have been real bad lol
Abandon hope all ye.
Are the 3 Sarwar pictures all in Ayr? The top one could be Heathfield Retail Park, the middle one any one of a number of streets, and the third one the seafront looking out to Kintyre. (I could be totally wrong; I haven’t managed to find a matching image of the last one.)
Before joining the Jim Murphy fan club, please read this : link to i.imgur.com
(Especially the bizarre bit about him falling down a pothole.)
Dunno if this is relevant, but the Anas bus photo op looks to be at Heathfield Retail Park, Ayr (top) and quite likely Ayr beach (bottom).
You know, I’m far more interested in the Scotsman’s non-apology than any of this, but nobody’s talking about it.
John McTernan defending the UK system of government full of privilege and attacking the proposed “bogus Scottish constitution”.
link to scotsman.com
crazycat….snap
if italy beat costa rica and uruguay and england beat costa rica, england can qualify.
England can only qualify, under that scenario, if they have a better goal difference than Costa Rica and Uruguay.
@MochaChoca says:
Dunno if this is relevant, but the Anas bus photo op looks to be at Heathfield Retail Park, Ayr (top) and quite likely Ayr beach (bottom).
Maybe the only safe places for the Labour bus to visit are Tory-ish places.
Says it all.
O/T
Hope everyone is going along to protest at BBC next Sunday at Pacific Quay at 2pm. Only 150 or so of us last time. Really need a couple of thousand at least as there is a big area to fill else it looks a bit feeble. 3k would be more like it. Please get all your pals invited along.
Fireproofjim says:
“England lost to Uruguay. OK but don’ t rub it in.”
For those of us old enough to have been baptised in the fountains of Trafalga Square on the ‘away’ years, and are sentient enough to have assimilated the constant referral to 1966, that’s an awfy big ask.
The national conciousness has changed, for the better re the auld enemy since devolution, but this is different.
GIRUY. With bells on.
“Fireproofjim says:
“England lost to Uruguay. OK but don’ t rub it in.”
For those of us old enough to have been baptised in the fountains of Trafalga Square on the ‘away’ years, and are sentient enough to have assimilated the constant referral to 1966, that’s an awfy big ask.
The national conciousness has changed, for the better re the auld enemy since devolution, but this is different.
GIRUY. With bells on.”
I know. Hee. Hee.
Twenty14
Do you think the BBC, ITV and Sky news will show the racist, anti-English Scot who was in the crowd.
I do hope so.
We need to find out who this crazy Scot is.
I think they will finally get the message, that we don’t support England in World Cup tournaments.
We support Scotland and anybody who is playing against England.
Brilliant!
Talking of REAL crowds, don’t forget the protest at BBC Glasgow Sunday 29th June at 2pm. Then we will see what a REAL grassroots crowd looks like. Wonder if the BBC will actually broadcast it this time, or their neighbours, STV? Let’s see if any of the MSM report it. As far as I know, only RUSSIAN TV broadcast it last time.
Evening Wingers,
About to watch ScotNight. I assume the Rev is still watching 11 grown men chasing a pigs bladder around an overpriced lawn?
Anne Lawrie,
I’ve been posting about it on BBC Scotland’s Facebook page, but for some reason they keep deleting my posts. One would almost think that they don’t want us there.
The point I made earlier on was not anti-English… BBC Scotland clearly ran a ‘put down Scotland’ piece, mildly related to current affairs, in that Uruguay were involved in both cases.
What the BBC did tonight, in full belief that England were going to be victorious, was to degrade Scotland in advance of the coming English Glory.
It didn’t quite work out like that, but regardless of any healthy rivalry and due gloating on the Scotgish side… the BBC will now endevour to portray that very gloating as ‘Evil’, ‘Nasty’, unwanted anti-Englishness, which is vile and disgusting…
…but in the name of healthy sporting rivalry… get it right round my English mates and collegues (who would say the same to me had the boot been on the other foot)…. HaHahaHaha.
…hell, it’s getting really bad guys, when we start to feel that we have to be all apologetic, because there are those who jump on faux outrage at innocuous and innocent teasing and healthy rivalry.
…so in the name of being a Tartan Army soldier… get it right f¥€&!/\ up em!!!
Defo
GIRUY indeed. Can get a bit tiring being PC.
There’s a good chance of a more conciliatory attitude when we finally get our country back.
In the meantime ‘come on the Uruguayanees’!
@caz-m
The Germans (who always win the penalty shoot out) have a word “schadenfreude ” which means taking delight in another’s unhappiness. The English fans are hurting. We don’t need to express sch mean sentiments such as “anyone but England”.
The English are not our problem. Westminster is.
I know we wouldn’t want to capitalise on anyone elses misery, but events in Iraq are having quite an impact on oil price.
OBR doom and gloom revenue forecasts are based on their Dec’13 predication that oil prices would slump from $108.9 per barrel last year to an average of $103.7 this year and $98.8 next year (despite prices holding pretty steady for at $109-$111 over the last 3-4 years)
The price at the moment is $115.
@ MocaChoca
Aye, snap – glad you agree. The style of the buildings in the middle one is right too, could be somewhere between Main Street and the shore, for instance.
Defo
I know where you are coming from, but does the performance of the England team and the hopes of their supporters, really have anything to do with the real ‘auld enemy’. Westminster and it’s not so silent partner Whitehall?
I support any footballer who isn’t a total cheat or stroker. Regardless of nationality. You are, of course, your own man. Pardon the assumptions.
The story of Red Eds plan to grind the young unemployed into the dust needs bigging up Rev.
Played nicely, that statement of future Labour policy could get a good few voters on board, & motivated to turn out on the 18th.
Could it be that the Blue & Red Tories are playing a sort of political ‘top trumps’ on who can fuck the vulnerable over most and get away with it.
When we leave, Osbourne will have them back on treadmills, running furiously on a £4T road to nowhere, to try & meet impossible CO2 emissions targets.
“More Pimms Rupert ?”
Red, White & Blue Lab-Con
Fireproofjim
“The English are not our problem. Westminster is”.
I knew someone like you would stick there wee PC nose in.
Away and take a good fuck to yursel pal.
It’s tongue and cheek banter.
C’mon Costa Rica! ABE.
And I don’t drink.
After a Yes vote, should all those in the No campaign who lied about Scotland be forgiven?
I think not.
A Truth Commission must be set up. And my preference is for it to be headed by Rev. Stuart Campbell.
Every liar must be reprimanded, named and shamed.
gerry parker at 6.47
Yes. That is the stadium in Dunoon in the background. I can see one Dunoon resident in the photo. The rest will have been on the bus
For all my English pals, at this difficult time…
The Streets, ‘Dry Your Eyes’ –
link to youtube.com
caz-m,
“Do you think the BBC, ITV and Sky news will show the racist, anti-English Scot who was in the crowd.
I do hope so.
We need to find out who this crazy Scot is.”
What are the chances that this Scot was planted by UKIP TV or their subordinates in the No campaign?
My view is 100%.
@caz-m
Do you always respond so crudely to a perfectly civil comment?
Nice to see john McLeprosyface indulging his drink addled brain cell once more.
“Mawkishly titled Independence Day!” What does every country on the planet call it if not Independence Day? The man needs to be eradicated. Maybe Australia will help?
Spot on with the gender Cameron.
TBH, I’ve evolved past footie really. An over commercialised, Bread & circus’ diversion I was born in 66, and as I implied I do not see the anti Englishness of old in people here nowadays.
Apart from this
and even then, it’s milder. Tongue in cheek. Almost.
Re. Jim Murphy. Would you identify him as a March violet?
All hell seems to have broke loose. Take it easy guys and gals. We are and will win. I make that my promise to you.
Footy? Who cares?
Defo
@ Fireproofjim, 50 years of truly ghastly BBC teamGEnglandB football/we’ll win everything because football’s coming home coverage, and you even have to ask.
@caz_m you supply the two straws I’ll buy us a can of Irn Bru
fur the 29th Pacific Quay demonstration.
Fireproofjim
Are you an England fan by any chance?
I hope you complain to the English press as quickly as you have done on here, when you see the vile comments you get in their newspapers.
Are you really surprised that Scots are happy when England get beat.
Shock horror, Scots delighted at English football team’s defeat.
Lighten up.
A squatter has taken over 10 Downing Street;
link to twitter.com
Ronnie Anderson
Sorry about the wee rant there Ladies and gentleman.
I’ll take you up on that drink Ronnie.
Rock says:
“After a Yes vote, should all those in the No campaign who lied about Scotland be forgiven?”
I bloody hope not, I’ve spent days doing the logistics for the camps, and agonised over the re-education programme format. Furer Eck just asked me yesterday when the draft version would be ready !
It’s hell, what with the numbers were talking about, I think we might need to ‘outsource’ the hardened cases abroad. One of the Stans, Kazak or something , does a cut price, one way deal I hear though.
OK rev, I give up. Which one is Jim Murphy, and which one is the wooden box ?
Brian’ I’m with you 100% . The BBC coverage of the record defeat to uruguay marks a new low ( one a day.), the almost gloating glee was utterly embarrassing. Aye run Scotland down again , shower of bastirds.
How do these people sleep?
Caz-m
I am no English supporter. I travelled to Wembley in 1967 when Jim Baxter and Denis Law demolished the “world champions” and have been at dozens of Hampden games.
I have been an SNP voter all my life and I don’t find it necessary to send obscenities to a complete stranger who expresses a slightly different opinion to my own.
However let it go. The goal is more important than a little difference over football.
How do these people sleep? On big piles of licence fee money, with lots of beautiful ladies like Jacky Bird. The head of BBC Vote No Scotland trousers 200 grand a year plus expenses, not bad for running a crappy propaganda machine and few hundred bettertogether liggers.
Maybe they are all on community service and are there to clear up the bullshxt after Murphy has gone.
@ Fireproofjim. yes but it runs much deeper than this though. ProudScotbuts like Gordon Brown and the Flipper have pumped billions into most English sport and not just the London Olympics either. Whatabout all their vast football academies for example? This England team tonight was no better than Uruguay, a nation of 3.3 million and it must be seriously worrying our spendthrift friends in the south.
Never mind England, Wimbledon next week with a Scot on target to win the men’s singles, again.
Thanks Haud on the Noo… I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who saw that disgrace.
The propaganda really has more than surpassed Orwellian predictions now.
Cheers.
Fireproofjim
“Let it go”,
Considering it was you who butted into someone else’s comment that had FA to do with you in the first place. Nice one.
You might have been at Wembley in 1967, but by your reaction to my comments, you must have been supporting England.
Marcia
It does look like Dave is the ‘meet-er’ and the Chinese guy the ‘greet-er’.
Further to my earlier comment re. China’s purposefully restricted development, I think this article has some resonance with our current predicament.
link to theorwellprize.co.uk
Heedtracker… you hit the nail on the head.
A small nation of 3.3 million, have the self belief and pride to stand on the world stage and proudly say “we are here… we are equal to anyone else”…
…If ever that is a lesson.
Caz-m
Why so aggressive? We have the same aims. I thought that comment was open to all but if you feel I “butted in” then that was not my intention, and I am sorry.
However I am a lifelong Scotland supporter in both football and politics. Now let us call it a day. OK?
Have Frank Skinner and/or David Baddiel been Tweeting much this evening?
Just wondering…
Brian McHugh
“A small nation of 3.3 million”
And Uruguay are double World Cup winners.
We keep getting told that Scotland is too wee to go far in an International Tournaments. With the right investment, Scotland could start to compete against these larger nations.
Anyway, I thought butting in was my perogative, or John K’s.
One of the lessons I picked up from the Pele soccer school broadcast in the early ’70s, was the importance of keeping your eye on the ball.
The early ’70s were Ace, as there was also a Johan Cruyff soccer school on tv. I was also very young and there was no internet, so I didn’t know how badly Scotland was getting screwed. I would imagine the MSM were less obviously supportive of imperialism, and subjects of the realm were less easily dehumanised in polite society. Oh, wait. Alf Garnet. Bummer.
“Driver, pull over, wiv got a live yin!”
Doddery auld mannie wanderin doon the street in Saltcoats or somewherr nearby when a bid reid bus, chockfu o cairpits wi blacked oot windaes pulls in and a door swishes oot.
The bricht sunlicht sklenters doon aff the gless an intil his een.
“Scuse me” he goes, near blinnert “You a library?”
A heid poaps oot, smiles baith weys an sais:
“Dae ah look like a f***in library?”
Auld guy, unfazed, kinda deef, goes:
“Ah dinna ken, ah hivna ma glessis”
“You’ll no be the mobile oapticians wull ye?”
A nod and a wink an a stepdoon aff a bus:
“Yer right, wir nae the opticians, we’re the guid guys”
A protective airm goes in.
“Now, ye widna be needin a wee haun wi yer votin slip for the refarendum wid ye?”
Auld boy, sniffin a guff staips back an manages tae zoom in on the twa BIG wurds alang the side, stammers oot a:
“No __ Thannks”
Camera clicks
“Whit is it yer protestin aboot?”
Door shmoozes shut, engine purrs, pulls awa. High fives.
“That’s anither yin in the bag”
HEIDLINES – HEIDLINES!!
GAWP AW ABOOT IT!
in the papers naebdy reads…
AULD MANNIE SAIS “NO THANKS” TAE INEPENDENCE!
NO THANKS TAE AWTHIN SCOTTISH!
NO THANKS TAE ALLICSAMMIND!
jub dun ;*©
Calm Down Calm Down Calm Down.
Keep Calm and Carry On.
YES Scotland obliged to come out with strong statements.
To hobble the MSM and to comfort our YES rightwing.
BBC Scotland didn’t run with Tory MSP Alex Johnstone faux cybernat outrage today. Reading Glasgow Herald’s political editor Magnus Gardham story, its a non story. BT Unionist trying to control airwaves by criticizing and censorship.
Sticks and stones. Words don’t physically injured or physically hurt. In a true democracy, which both my parents actually fought for in WW2, freedom of speech is paramount.
I’m centre left centre right centre, depending on weather.
We all want same outcome, Scotland’s Independence.
After Independence Day I don’t know who I’ll vote for, but I know it will be a Scottish Party not a UK Party.
ps. Bill Bailey has come out for YES, as Billy Bragg did.
Derek Bateman saying Labour MSP Kezia Dugdale dropped already from BBC Radio Scotland’s Ken MacDonald’s Headlines Sunday morning show, before she begun! Tune in to see who takes over. BBC Surprise Surprise.
derekbateman.co.uk
Horseboy
Couldn’t figure out which was the most appropriate thread to post on?
@heedtracker
“Never mind England, Wimbledon next week with a Scot on target to win the men’s singles, again.”
Except he’ll only be “Scottish” if he loses. If he wins, he’ll be “British”.
Either occurrence will no doubt provoke some degree of gloating from the BBC. Hence why I don’t mind having a little jab at their football team losing a match. All is fair in love and war as they say
“@heedtracker
“Never mind England, Wimbledon next week with a Scot on target to win the men’s singles, again.”
Except he’ll only be “Scottish” if he loses. If he wins, he’ll be “British”.
Either occurrence will no doubt provoke some degree of gloating from the BBC. Hence why I don’t mind having a little jab at their football team losing a match. All is fair in love and war as they say ;)”
Will Andy complain of St Gorge and Butcher’s Apron flags?
Just as well it’s not Wimbledon.
To be serious, I hate those hats, which I think are a sad reflection of how Scottish culture is diminished. If I were to try and encapsulate the ‘Scottish Cringe’, it would probably be one of these demeaning comic props.
Great to see the troops are out though.
link to pbs.twimg.com
A 503 then a duplicate post message. Ach well, just to be safe.
Just as well it’s not Wimbledon.
To be serious, I hate those hats, which I think are a sad reflection of how Scottish culture is diminished. If I were to try and encapsulate the ‘Scottish Cringe’, it would probably be one of these demeaning comic props.
Great to see the troops are out though.
link to pbs.twimg.com
Again, I’m sorry if this has been raised but near 3 hunner comments are hard to get through. Surely someone can do a wee calc on the length of the shadows! If they are meant to be from the same day then you could easily gauge the time difference.
The wall behind Murphy is Six foot?
The building facade in the second is maybe ten?
Figure out the shadow lengths.
Thing is Cameron, the lad is in Brazil!! He’ll be wanting to use every trick in the book to look as “Scottish” as he can. And he will be dining out on it for his whole holiday.
Lad wears a see you Jimmy hat. Never expected to be on telly. He wore it to get in wi the Brazilian lassies!!
steve stewart
I agree with what you say and think the guy is a total star. I was probably expressing distaste at situate we have a chance to end in September. For ever, hopefully, though that will be up to future generations.
situation
In case the Unionist mainstream news media start girning about the Scot at the Uruguay game and calling him an anti-English racist (etc etc etc blah blah blah), these seem to be his bona fide credentials –
link to twitter.com
I think Alasdair Gray covers a few of the issues posted hear recently, amongst this sheathing rat’s nest of “blood and soil”, anti-English hatred.
link to theguardian.com
here
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Bruce J. Katz is a Vice President at the Brookings Institution, a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, and advises federal, state, and local leaders on shifting demographic and market trends as well as on policies that are critical to metropolitan prosperity (e.g., innovation, human capital, infrastructure, housing) and new forms of metropolitan governance. After Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, Katz co-led the housing and urban transition team and served as a senior advisor to Shaun Donovan, the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, for the first 100 days of the Obama administration.
Anyway, I wonder how far he thinks Scottish governance should be “pushed down the system”. Also, just think of what “clustering” is likely to come about as a response to HS2. How will Scotland’s economy compete against a ‘technology bubble’ that we are helping fund?
link to independent.co.uk
link to pps.org
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Here’s something to consider. You’ll have forgotten about it by bedtime.
link to independent.co.uk
link to independent.co.uk
Do we really want to privatise public welfare? I suppose we have nationalised private risk.
link to independent.co.uk
It says that schools must promote British values of respect for the law, democracy, equality and tolerance of different faiths and religious and other beliefs.
Oi, no laughing in the cheap seats.
Programming may vary due to regional differences.
link to theguardian.com
Are they more PR company employees or just getting a wee hol on the house. Is Murphy no supposed to be in the House supporting Trident against the electorate’s wishes or telling fellow MP’s to FO at the ‘room tax vote’. Supported by Labour/Unionists. Murphy awaiting the seat at the HoL. What a crew.
Love the new game, Rev. Spot the difference …or rather …Spot the similarities!
Maybe we should dig out other photos and begin comparing them. Any other MP’s doing roadshows.
As to the footie. Ach, I’ll give England their due, they’ve tried at this one. Don’t blame the players …it’s bloomin Andy Townsend and Adrian Chiles that are doing my nut! Felt sorry for Gus Poyet last night. He had to act all sombre and sober in front of the media last night even though he must have been grinning like a Cheshire cat deep inside!
Will they get out of the group. Doubtful. Italy will win tonight, but it’s not England beating Costa Rica that is the main game. England can win that 10 nil if they want. It’s the Italy ‘B Squad’ v Uruguay. A draw there will suit both teams down to a tee. Yep …they think it’s all over …it sure is now…
Thos photographs of Murphy are rather sad. Anybody who takes his opinions to the public and stands on a soapbox to espouse them must really believe in what he is saying. What a pity he stands firmly against historic change.
Ooops …I see Lord Reid has landed himself in hot water. Breaking the rules and now reported to the Electoral Commission. Over at the Herald. (Tried to save the link in the Archive but getting a error)
link to heraldscotland.com
link to tinyurl.com
“We just hope he doesn’t work in England, as he is probably out of a job now.”
Murphy’s Groupies
Spot them all. Spot the ball with a difference.
What were the six policies the SNP gov wanted Devolved to Scotland?
Heedtracker: Uruguay, a nation of 3.3 million
Or as the commentator said, “Only 3.3 million, not even as big as London.”
Why does Murphy/Reid bother? It just looks bad. It’s embarrassing.
Out down the sound when watching the BBC/TV. Heard it all before? Or switch over, or switch off.
OT
So, Uruguay, population 3.3 millions beat England, population 56 millions in the World Cup and effectively knock them out the tournament.
So how Uruguay is not too wee, too stupid and too poor to be an independent country?
As for John Reid; arrogance personified.
Hope he gets his erse skelped by the Electoral Commission but, I think he will just get a tellin aff.
Whit aboot Brian “Scotland is British” Wilson?
Sure I saw a few Nob orders “ordinary” folk at the No Thanks Lally Rally the other week as well. Takes crowd funding to astronomic-turfing levels.
ZWar
Just like the Japanese, Westminster is starving people to death to build a ghost libe to nowhere HS2. £70Billion to gain Westminster Politicans and their associates £millions/billions in public monies and subsidies.
The second picture, where Jim Murphy is outside shop, is Braehead. However, its one of the quieter areas of Stirling. The shop is beside some sheltered houses and the houses across the road are mainly working households.
Springfield road isn’t a through road, its sits at the back of a housing estate, and the only reason to go down there is to go to the shop/post office. Really, its a very quiet area!
Out of all the places he could of gone in Stirling, why there? Why not outside the shopping center or near train/bus station? Or near Tescos? Or Bridge of Allan main street, which is about the same distance away?
An obscure choice.
CameronB Brodie
Excellent points again Cameron, but I particularly liked your heads-up on what is happening in the South East of England, HS2 and all that.
They are trying to turn the SE of England into a separate technically advanced super-state. They want all the main airport links going through the SE, they want HS2 running from the Midlands into London, etc.
It is obvious that they are not interested in the rest of the UK. Most of Scotland’s taxes are being ploughed into turning London into one of the wealthiest cities in the world. So we are actually paying for Scotland to be at a disadvantage.
Jim ‘Murphy’ – I wonder if that is his real name?
link to aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk
Murphy, son of Thatcher, CIA, MI5, etc, etc.
Maybe the tide has turned.
link to aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk
niall
I think you have just answered your own question
Its because it IS a quiet area, that they went there
Murphy and his merry band of fans, don’t want to be bothered with the hoi polloi in a busy area, such as busy shopping area or a main street, or bus or rail termini
The idea is to grab a few snaps in a couple of quiet areas (these only being a couple of miles apart) and make out he is doing something and ‘connecting’ with the people.
Its an old Labour ploy, a kind of extension of the publicised events, but its only an invited audience, so its safe for them (think that was actually borrowed from the Soviet era , showing the happy crowd gathering in the harvest kind of thing)
Edward,
I get the Raploch photo shoot, its always busy around there. But the other p!ace is just out the way. If he was trying to get the ‘working mans’ attention why not the shopping center across from the Borestone bar? Or near Lidl, St. Ninians?
Completely agree Niall
If you want to have an effective ‘hustings’ type campaign to take to the people, then you have to go where most of the people are
Maybe didn’t want stoned
3 effs Murphy, poet is priest.
Couldn’t Stewart Hosiie tak a wee mosey?
The Jim Murphy Fan Club has the same sort of ring to it as the My Little Pony Abattoir, first mentioned, I think, by the late Rik Mayall.
Anyway, kudos to the fans for their resilience and pain threshold but nil points for lack of ambition.
link to archive.today
Pissy old vote no Guardian staggers in from the boozer after watching England/Uruguay and takes a swing at Scotland. Lovely people, Severin etc.
Bugger (the Panda)
If you have a look at Newsnet Scotland’s latest article on their dealings with the Electoral Commission concerning the CBI, I wouldn’t hold out a lot of hope that much will come of reporting John Reid.
Ok, am I an “Alert Reader”, as per my shiny new badge, or is paranoia setting in?
Just found this on the BBC website:
link to bbc.co.uk
Strikes me that the organ of the state is at it again.
I posted these on the Guardian and I’m pleased to say they are still there. Tee hee.
20 June 2014 6:55am
As Gordon Brown has recently called for the harmonisation of Scots and English education systems, I think it is only fair to relate this article to the indyref debate. Sorry.
It says that schools must promote British values of respect for the law, democracy, equality and tolerance of different faiths and religious and other beliefs.
How does this square with the conduct of HMG Better Together, the BBC, STV, the Chamber of Commerce, the Electoral Commission, Vote No Borders and the MSM? Please feel free to add any you think I may have left out.
Signed
A digitally enable untermensch (a.k.a. a cybernat).
20 June 2014 7:02am
Edit: A digitally enabled blood and soil untermensch (a.k.a. a cybernat)
This oxymoron is only possible due to Scotland being located in it’s own unique parallel universe.
Jim Thompson
I think this is the source.
link to equalitytrust.org.uk
The guy with white shirt and tie in bottom 3 pictures has same smug look on his face and same passport in back pocket
Not only is Uruguay not too wee, it’s president is not corrupt
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Dammit @Cameron – you are now awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster to go with your badge
or, maybe, we simply need another tier of them starting with “Even More Alert Reader” 
@JohnKing
Back in the ’80s in Southern NZ I was on my motorbike with a mate on the back heading from Palmerston back to Dunedin late one evening. We came down off the Kilmog hill and a hare ran in from the right obviously intending to cross the road. He kept pace with us for a good 2-300m. I was doing at least 110km/hr (approx 70mph). The hare didn’t seem to be straining. He eventually peeled off to the right out of my headlight range.
From the BBC Scotland website, Jim Murphy, this time in Barrhead, with a familiar face looking on. Scroll down for photo.
link to bbc.co.uk
@CameronB Brodie 12.08
Thanks for the link to the Orwell article. It is scarily like our current situation.
Re the Scottish fan at the Uraguay game in Brazil, he’s wearing the new “away” strip so isn’t he part of the new ‘Battenburg Army’?
Oops, Uruguay!
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But it did cheer me up this morning.
link to bbc.co.uk
Caroline said: Not only is Uruguay not too wee, it’s president is not corrupt
A timely reminder of alternatives. Jose Mujica He puts Westminster to shame, and our banksters who demand we pay them salaries and bonuses that make a Saudi prince envious.
Humza Yousaf, Minister for External Affairs gave lady heading up BBC R4 Today a really hard time this morning. You might say that by end of interview around 8.45 that she was speechless.
Maybe someone with greater tech ability might find a link to the interview. Well worth a listen. Greatly impressed by his handling of intended ambush.
Jim Thomson
Tom Lehrer – It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier
link to youtube.com
heedtracker picks up on dumbass anti-Scotland book: Pissy old vote no Guardian takes a swing at Scotland.
His ’50 people who screwed up Scotland’ malarky does not include Thatcher or the Labour party – the prat.
Geez…BT are such a bunch of ______
link to dailyrecord.co.uk
It’s definitely changed days in Scotland, when we have to tip toe round any mention of an England defeat.
It’s the only time you look forward to watching their news bulletins.
C’mon, admit it, it does put an extra wee spring in your step, does it not. (Big Smiley Face)
@gavin lessells 10:18
the iPlayer link is link to bbc.co.uk and start listening 2:32:00
(would have posted a while ago but the infernal phone rang …)
Caz-m, That will teach them for complaining we never support them, here we are supporting them and they get oor luck.
Nice to see that the crowdfunders as opposed to the crowd finders have helped with another victory and the Wee Ginger Dug has sold his house.
Apologises if someone has already mentioned it. Haven’t finished the comments.
Murphy has no chance of landing a job as the pied piper.
Surprising, really, that none of these photos feature officers of the law, drafted in to control the seething masses of adoring followers.
To Jim Murphy:
This is what a fan club really looks like. Scotland welcomed into family of nations by cheerful Uruguay supporters.
link to dailyrecord.co.uk
caz-m
Sorry, not really. I’m not wanting to make anything off this, especially after your nice comment earlier. It doesn’t really do anything for or to me, even though one of my grannie was English. Please don’t think I’m knocking you, I’m just not sure if I would want to rap dance in a minefield.
Helena Brown
“Caz-m, That will teach them for complaining we never support them, here we are supporting them and they get oor luck”.
Brilliant Helena.
We are just not born to support England. It’s not natural.
grannies
tap dance
It’s certainly odd. For our indyref meeting in the village on Monday evening, we had 1000 flyers and 50 posters printed. A group of six of us leafleted the entire village on Sunday afternoon. On Monday another activist spent 4 hours leafleting all down the main A701 road where it runs close to the village, and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I did more outlying hamlets and groups of houses. Ran out of leaflets somewhere in Dolphinton on Wednesday evening.
I haven’t managed to place all the posters (50 was too many) but five outlying villages/hamlets have had one or (usually) more put up, and the main village itself is festooned with the things (the more so since I snuck round last night while everyone was watching the footie).
I’ve placed a display ad in the local paper, out today, and I just emailed the Session Clerks of the three local churches asking for the meeting to be included in the church intimations on Sunday.
And we’ve been tweeting it and I imagine someone has put it on the Facebook page.
I’m whacked.
If there’s anyone in the village or about a 4-mile radius who doesn’t know about the meeting, they’re comatose. I don’t know how big an attendance we’ll get, but if it’s poor it won’t be for want of trying.
What the hell do Murphy’s team think they’re accomplishing with this big clandestine red bus tour?
The lady standing with stripey strappy top is also in the second photo, almost totally obscured by the black tshirt guy. The hair is too recognisable.
The brown trousers must be significant.
We have received two of the Better Together booklets several weeks apart. That sounds like good organization right enough.
Jim Murphy is a look a like for the guy who invented the atomic bomb. It’s obvious that his interest in keeping nuclear weapons in Scotland is deep seated.
I think you’re right Wendy – the hair colour is quite distinctive.
I’ve lost count how many that is now. And I disagree with Stu about 3 – I think his two 3s are two different guys who also have matches in the opposite photos. I suspect the seated guy towards the right of the second photo may own the pair of outstretched legs to the left of the first photo, though that’s a guess.
It’s trivial, but it’s clear they are taking their own travelling support with maybe a handful of other people showing up at each (unpublicised) stop. What on earth is the point of all this, and is it worth an MP’s time?
Where is Wally?
Good game of spot the fake, or spot the balls going on.
Well spotted but no surprise. The no voter is extremely shy of photographs, save for the few paid hands. I notice much the same duplication on the facebook sites too. Shares seem to be much the same epic tom foolery. Facebook figures also do not reflect true no voter traffic.
Alfred Hitchcock could not do a better job with his films replicating numerous scary birds in multiple locations at the same time. It is an admirable trick to be able to fool some of the people some of the time. The internet and sharp eyed readers are onto them though. It makes better reading, looking for the next body swerving curveball smoke and mirror fooling jape!
I always find it odd how Jim Murphy manages to get around so much and yet he never seems to be anywhere near his own constituency in East Renfrewshire.
Top Stirling pic is in Drip Road Raploch bottom pic is Springfield Road Post Office Braehead.
not convinced, theres too many of them, some must be cardboard cut outs
Just thinking, I wonder how long before ‘better together’ pose for a pic with their new ‘no thanks’ slogan. I can just imagine it now, MR Darling, Lamont et al, standing wearing ‘no thanks’ badges and a banner above them saying ‘no thanks’.
Then someone puts that on a poster with the following written below:
‘We Think the Same’
‘Vote Yes’
Or at least something similar, I think their new slogan is absolute gold.
Someone has donated me 50 white lettering on blue badges with “YES please” on it. He offered them to the Yes Campaign but they were not interested.
Meanwhile, here in Dumbarton there has been next to nothing in the way of meetings or walkabouts from the BT mob. Ditto the Vale of Leven. Maybe we don’t count.
I’m sure I spotted my great aunt Euphemia (Effie) in that throng of supporters !
I could be wrong tho..Maybe it was Jimmy himself! He has an aspect of Dickensian austerity.
we met Jim on his “tour” in Oban he seemed to enjoy himself was it Irn Bru or Coke??
A certain egocentric delusional arrogance would suggest the latter!
His coterie of lackeys included the fragrant Jackie Baillie his dung heap shield amongst
other acolytes.
Unforgettable and unvotable……Finished