Something rather extraordinary happened yesterday, dearest readers. Very briefly, we absolutely genuinely thought someone in a position of some influence in the SNP had taken a meaningful step towards being serious about independence.
We are not being sarcastic. Look: here it is. (Transcript at bottom of article.)
Dave Doogan is the SNP’s leader at Westminster. And let’s be clear: that is EXACTLY what the SNP’s stance ought to be. Its only purpose is supposed to be the securing of Scottish independence, and no peaceful democratic means of achieving that ought to be off the table. We couldn’t believe what we were hearing, like it was a dream.
The SNP was not formed with the purpose of denying England/the UK the government it voted for, it was formed to completely sever the governance of Scotland and England from each other as a matter of permanent principle, nothing to do with the prevailing political climate at any given point.
If England wants Nigel Farage as Prime Minister, that’s England’s business. The point of independence is that Scotland doesn’t have to get him too. No more, no less.
So obviously, the hapless Doogan’s brave and bright new dawn was brutally slapped down within a matter of hours.
Now, readers, it’s not much of a secret that anyone who’s still supporting the SNP in the hopes that they’ll deliver Scottish independence is – and let’s put this as gently and kindly as possible – a bit thick.
From a membership high of 125,000 in the run-up to the 2021 Holyrood election, fully 60% have now wised up and left, and the 40% still left paying annual subscriptions to a party that’s stolen their money TWICE and spent it on pepper pots are pretty much by definition the dumbest of dum-dums.
But it looks like even they’re just about beginning to get it now.
Five more years and they might have just about woken up.
We’ve had another email from the Crown Office. Stand by for a surprise!
Well, that seems fair enough: other than the fact that almost £700,000 in “ringfenced” fundraiser money is (still) visibly missing, and the fact that the First Minister of the country and the leader of the party the money was entrusted to has publicly admitted it was misappropriated, there’s insufficient evidence that anything untoward happened to it. Panic over, everyone. Nothing to see here. Carry on with your day.
Great news, everyone – Scottish Labour has finally worked out how to talk to the people of Scotland. This video featuring the party’s MP Melanie Ward just appeared on the Scotland Office’s LinkedIn page, and it explains the complexities of the interlinked Scottish and UK economies in terms that the UK government hopes all of you awful thick Jocko plebs might be able to understand. Enjoy.
And tomorrow morning, do remember to eat your cereal, won’t you?
The contempt for the Scottish public being openly shown by public servants paid from the public purse to answer to the public has at this point reached such endemic levels that we’re not sure an acceptable level of trust can ever be salvaged.
The reply above is not just evasive, not even just pathetic, it’s insulting – not just to us, but to every citizen of Scotland.
Not done with celebrating defeat in an imaginary UDI yesterday, The National has gone with another big polling-based front cover today, and the party’s woke young stormtrooper drones are beside themselves with malignant glee.
The National runs headlines like this quite often.
The sort-of newspaper doesn’t actually have a sports section – it just publishes The Herald’s – but if it did you have to wonder what it would look like.
It’s sometimes tempting to believe that transactivists, and in particular the extra-loud attention-seeking type, are simply mad and/or stupid. But that’s not always the case, because this sounds like some actually pretty cunning work.
Ever-alert Wings readers will be aware that for the past three and a half years or so I’ve been the target of a campaign by disgraced former policeman Lynsay Watson, who over that period has relentlessly attempted to get me arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned for knowing – and saying – that human beings can’t change sex.
(As we’ll learn during this article, I am far from unique in that experience.)
Watson has made numerous ludicrous, vexatious complaints to various police forces about me – a particularly memorable one being when he reported me last September for “perverting the course of justice” because I’d tweeted a link to a fundraiser for someone being persecuted by another transactivist – as well as trying to extort tens of thousands of pounds from me with threats.
Yesterday, though, he finally found some police officers gullible enough to listen.
Peter McAvoy on The Shortest Day: “Early last month the USA celebrated the 250th anniversary of independence I don’t recall on any documentaries,books magazines or online…” Aug 30, 02:19
Saffron Robe on The Shortest Day: “That’s a very good point, James. Why should we vote to leave something we never voted for in the first…” Aug 30, 01:26
robertkknight on The Shortest Day: “Once upon a time, the raison d’être of the SNP was to restore Scottish Independence. In my day, this resulted…” Aug 30, 01:04
James on The Slowest Dawning: “Ah, but wha needs Fannny when we’ve got twa redundant “Pricks” like youse?” Aug 30, 00:37
Young Lochinvar on The Shortest Day: “S117 Alf is right. A lot of us felt very angry with the “my heart said.. but my head said”…” Aug 29, 22:38
Effijy on The Shortest Day: “Reform are right wing fascists who like Trump are there to make the rich richer and using corruption at the…” Aug 29, 22:14
sarah on The Shortest Day: “As someone said here the other day “even Homer nods”! Geoff is a founder of the SSRG, I believe, and…” Aug 29, 22:05
Spartan 117 on The Shortest Day: “A good post Dan and, regarding your closing sentence, you’ve only got to read anything on the internet to see…” Aug 29, 21:55
Spartan 117 on The Shortest Day: “A good post and, regarding your closing sentence, you’ve only got to read anything on the internet to see that…” Aug 29, 21:53
Aidan on The Shortest Day: “I bet you’re popular in the village cracking on like that. But just so you know, I have a V8…” Aug 29, 21:35
Spartan 117 on The Shortest Day: ““Yoon”… To quote your favourite reply, “LOL”. There’s nothing “Yoon” about me. Last time round, I paid attention to the…” Aug 29, 21:35
Alf Baird on The Shortest Day: ““I voted “No” in 2014” You and others like you deprived us Scots our freedom. English Tory rule that appealing,…” Aug 29, 20:55
James on The Shortest Day: “The SNP troughers want gravy, now. As you know [and as has been explained numerous times by this sites author]…” Aug 29, 20:06
James on The Shortest Day: “Fish Face is the Chief Clown as you well know.” Aug 29, 20:01
Shug on The Shortest Day: “I wonder why nobe of them ecer have the balls to twll HO the f…. Off I stand by my…” Aug 29, 19:56
James on The Shortest Day: “That right, aye? Aye, nae rigged postal votes, nae peculiar toon cooncil type franchise, nae ootside political or media interference.…” Aug 29, 19:48
panda paws on The Shortest Day: ““John Swinney’s already upped the stakes by standing in front of a Glasgow crowd in his shortbread-tin outfit and lustily…” Aug 29, 19:12
Spartan 117 on The Shortest Day: “Errrrmmm, we had an independence vote in 2014 which resulted in independence being rejected. Voter turnout was very high (85%)…” Aug 29, 18:47
Dan on The Shortest Day: ““It was outside our price range, but we decided to do the right thing, sacrifice somewhere else and move to…” Aug 29, 18:45
James on The Slowest Dawning: “Aww…how sweet. Now, any Scot knows that one London registered Unionist party is much the same as another, but call…” Aug 29, 18:15
James Che on The Shortest Day: “The Scottish people themselves never voted to join a union, so why do a % of Scots need to vote…” Aug 29, 18:12
Dan on The Shortest Day: “Aye, TH, pretty much my thoughts too. Now if for example Dave Doogan had used his parliamentary privileged position to…” Aug 29, 18:09
Spartan 117 on The Shortest Day: “It’s literally written in the article and directly quoted… If people of your comprehension skills have a vote, is it…” Aug 29, 18:05
factchecker on The Shortest Day: “I often agree with Robert, but not here: “It (the SNP)has no desire for Independence, for to achieve such would…” Aug 29, 18:03
Spartan 117 on The Shortest Day: “What’s really shocking is anyone being in any way surprised at any of this. Post-Alex the SNP were always more…” Aug 29, 18:02
James Che on The Shortest Day: “Scotland declaring independence, UDI from a voluntary union, just leave and end the voluntary bit. Only Englands parliament is doing…” Aug 29, 17:59
James Che on The Shortest Day: “The independence door has been ajar for years, the SNP are just to Scared an feared to go near it…” Aug 29, 17:40
James Che on The Shortest Day: “How lame can the Snp become when they pretend to demand Scotlands democratic right to remove Scotland from a voluntary…” Aug 29, 17:18