As the six-year fight for justice for Alex Salmond continues, we thought you might like to see this clip from this morning’s Mike Graham Show, interviewing Paul McManus, the businessman and drummer in Glasgow rock band Gun who’s stepped up to fund the Salmond family’s case against the Scottish Government despite disagreeing with much of what Alex stood for politically.
The Sunday National’s front page today elicited a sigh of “So what?” from most.
We’ve already GOT a “pro-indy” majority at Holyrood and have done for the last 10 years, for all it’s been worth. But to be fair there was a paragraph in the article that at least raised a quizzical eyebrow.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
My first ever real experience of politics was playing Dictator.
Originally written by Don Priestley for the Sinclair ZX81 in 1982, it was a simple text-based game which subsequently came to other formats including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Elan Enterprise and the ZX Spectrum, which is where I encountered it.
It’s almost – almost – worth voting SNP in May because of this:
Because it would be at least momentarily absolutely hilarious watching Swinney try to explain why his “100% guaranteed” second indyref didn’t happen if the SNP actually did get a majority on 30% of the vote (which is narrowly feasible on current polling).
Lorna Campbell on The Longest Road: “Alf: it might be colonialism to an extent, but it doesn’t explain the actions of leaders all over the world…” Feb 16, 20:00
MaggieC on The Longest Road: “Well done to Paul and all involved in going ahead in the fight for justice for Alex. X “ So…” Feb 16, 19:55
David Holden on The Longest Road: “A short post would be thank you Paul and I don’t care what your motives are if it helps the…” Feb 16, 19:55
Hatey McHateface on The Longest Road: “The SNP office holders are individually responsible for discrepancies in the accounts, at least. Alert readers are aware that some…” Feb 16, 19:44
Hatey McHateface on The Longest Road: “Why don’t you then, Northy? As the alert readers have sussed, if you claim ADHD it’ll likely get you off…” Feb 16, 19:40
Tartan Tory on The Longest Road: ““There is two sorts of nationalism in Scotland at the moment” Enlightened, engaged and erudite. Willing to play a longer…” Feb 16, 19:39
Hatey McHateface on The Longest Road: “An interesting take by Robin McAlpine on the linkage between Mandelson and the people running Scotland at/for HR: https://robinmcalpine.org/is-peter-mandelson-running-scotland/ The…” Feb 16, 19:35
Confused on The Longest Road: “but what if shirley manson picks up nicola sturgeons legal bills? – checkmate or Rod Stewart becomes Chief Justice? BAAAAAAAAAABY…” Feb 16, 19:30
Northcode on The Longest Road: “Whit a couple o gawsie leukin birkies – like a pair o wee geeglin piglets… twa o the cutest colonialists…” Feb 16, 19:17
DaveL on The Longest Road: “F.S. There’s always one eh, but already there’s two. Bobo bunny and Effijy moaning and suspicious. Take a look and…” Feb 16, 18:23
Wally Jumblatt on The Longest Road: “someone asked “what’s in it for him”? Where do some people get their bitterness and suspicions from? If that’s how…” Feb 16, 18:18
100%Yes on The Longest Road: “The SNP isn’t fighting on any fronts that the problem, its the Scottish government and tax payers money. If we…” Feb 16, 18:14
100%Yes on The Longest Road: “He’s delusional with regards to the Labour party and Britain and to be honest I’ve never heard of him or…” Feb 16, 18:10
agentx on The Longest Road: “https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl59xj74rlo” Feb 16, 17:58
Arthur Martin on The Longest Road: “I’m delighted at this announcement. Great to see the SNP fighting on so many fronts and experiencing a taste of…” Feb 16, 17:43
Alf Baird on The Longest Road: “Well, they are certainly “a major problem” but I would argue the root ’cause’ is colonialism which makes them (and…” Feb 16, 17:38
Effijy on The Longest Road: “Interesting! Is this really an honourable quest for justice with his own funds, Where did those funds come from as…” Feb 16, 17:30
agentx on The Longest Road: “@ Bobo bunny. Did you even listen to the interview? I found him very straightforward with what he said and…” Feb 16, 17:29
GM on The Longest Road: “I certainly hope so. We will see.” Feb 16, 17:26
Sven on The Longest Road: ““The axe is broken, another we have yet to find”. Thankyou for that link, Fearghas, it moved my spirit.” Feb 16, 17:23
Doreen A Milne on The Longest Road: “Paul seems to be a decent bloke and I admire his commitment, financial and moral, to seeking justice and the…” Feb 16, 17:13
100%Yes on The Longest Road: “Either way Alf, we do have a major problem and its the SNP and Sturgeon who are the cause of…” Feb 16, 16:53
Bobo bunny on The Longest Road: “So what’s in it for him? By the time the case comes to court, the referendum will be over. Why…” Feb 16, 16:52
Scot Finlayson on The Longest Road: “No fan of British nationalists esp winging British labour types, but in this case , “The enemy of my enemy…” Feb 16, 16:43
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Longest Road: “There is a poem online. It is essentially about The Bruce. But it can be dusted off in honour of…” Feb 16, 16:11
Alf Baird on The Longest Road: ““There is two sorts of nationalism in Scotland at the moment” What you refer to is more the co-option of…” Feb 16, 15:57
Den on The Longest Road: “The case has a better chance of success if the SNP are nowhere near government after May, I’d love for…” Feb 16, 15:06
Hatey McHateface on The Modern Politician: ““I predict in 20 years time” it will be about one generation along (20 + 12) from the last effort…” Feb 16, 14:45
