The entire Scottish media has today leapt like starving dogs at a tin of Chappie on a new “study” by right-wing flag-crazed imperialist nutjobs T***e I*****s, which claims to prove that an independent Scotland would have a BLACK HOLE!!! of infinity squillion pounds and all the crops would wither in the fields and stamps would be £5000 each and we’d be invaded by space monsters and all the usual stuff you’d expect.
(In all seriousness for a moment, it genuinely tries to flog the “fiscal transfer” myth and the “Scotland would have to join the Euro” myth and a bunch of other Better Together Greatest Hits that were utterly debunked old hat half a decade ago, and in order to make its economic case work it basically pretends that Brexit isn’t happening.)
But at the bottom of its article the New Statesman offers to link its readers to the full extent of the author’s professional economic expertise and well-argued case, and in fairness if you click the link they do exactly that.
Credit where due, it’s an uncanny likeness of the gloomy wee fella.
Labour MP Stella Creasy, explaining to Sarah Smith on today’s Sunday Politics why she backs a so-called “People’s Vote” on Brexit because voters should have the right to change their mind about a referendum if circumstances change.
The Daily Record’s politics lead story today is a slightly underwhelming poll that shows 41% of Scots believe the Tories are carrying out a power grab against the Scottish Parliament, against 34% who think they aren’t (and 25% who have no idea).
Which seems a good time to round up the last results of our own most recent poll, and some slightly disturbing revelations about the Scottish public’s grasp of devolution.
Especially your later stuff. You are the obvious natural successor to those other great leaders, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush – the perfect combination of dodgy and thick. You’ve got it all.
Since the first day of your tangeroid slithering into Barack’s old gaff, you’ve gone from strength to strength. I thought building a thousand mile wall to stop people escaping would be your greatest triumph. But putting kids in cages? Genius.
Most of Scottish Twitter has been enjoying itself greatly for the last few hours after England’s exit from the World Cup, but scattered in amongst the amusing memes has been a fair amount of angst about victors Croatia – a nation of 4 million people – being in the final when Scotland once again failed to qualify.
And while we’ll more than happily listen to any amount of criticism of the unbelievably incompetent, hapless clowns who’ve been in charge of the SFA/SPL/SPFL for the last several decades, that judgement is a bit harsh on the players and coaches and the nation as a whole. Because there really hasn’t been much in it.
Scotland’s qualification for World Cup 2018 hinged and ultimately faltered on a split second and a single badly-chosen pass in stoppage time.
GM on Safety First: “Welcome. Anything to report since you have been away?” Jul 27, 21:35
Hatey McHateface on Safety First: “Yes NN!, I have considered the matter. For a start, my considerations lead me to believe it’s not a “fact”…” Jul 27, 21:26
MaryB on Safety First: “Sarah, Northcode etc I find that inde-car ie Gordon Ross, also known as Partick Driver, is the best place to…” Jul 27, 21:06
Captain Caveman on Everybody’s Normal Nowadays: “@Xaracen ‘… I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.’ Oh, I bet you are. Imagine my surprise.” Jul 27, 21:05
Nae Need! on Safety First: “Well, I enjoy Confused’s posts, sometimes simply cos they annoy YOU so much, but mostly cos they’re excellent. None of…” Jul 27, 20:56
Southernbystander on Safety First: “@Young Lochinvar. English students pay the same as they would in England yes. I suspect overseas students from China, India…” Jul 27, 20:49
Andy Ellis on Safety First: “Folk are of course free to support the referral to the UN using the process and procedure which is in…” Jul 27, 20:39
Xaracen on Everybody’s Normal Nowadays: “@Captain Caveman; I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.” Jul 27, 20:38
DaveL on Safety First: “So how much do they pay?” Jul 27, 20:38
Stuart on Safety First: “Mr Ellis, how dare you mention the obvious solution! Not when those pushing this farce at the UN can keep…” Jul 27, 20:26
Nae Need! on Safety First: “Laughing out loud here 🙂 There’s an awful lot to unpack, Confused, when it comes to a witty come back…” Jul 27, 20:23
Nae Need! on Safety First: “No, Agent X, it’s not a laugh, and we’re not treating it as a laugh either. Like wot Willie says,…” Jul 27, 20:14
Andrew scott on Safety First: “O/t FFS Engerlannd win the footiie” Jul 27, 20:04
Nae Need! on Safety First: “Asides from your entirely unnecessary jibes/aspersions on my character, of which there were too many lolz, Mr Hatey, I do…” Jul 27, 20:01
Nae Need! on Safety First: “Yes. Of concern to me to.” Jul 27, 19:49
Nae Need! on Safety First: “Hatey, Ever considered the fact that those outwith those two categories of behaviour might actually be fewer than you think?…” Jul 27, 19:46
Hatey McHateface on Safety First: “Ah, c’moan noo, Andy. 1000 to 1 says absolutely delusional. With a healthy side order of “give me Indy, but…” Jul 27, 19:42
Hatey McHateface on Safety First: “Commiserations on your hyperactive imagination. Perhaps your only recourse is to spend your conscious hours seeking rapid paralytic unconsciousness through…” Jul 27, 19:38
Northcode on Safety First: “I also meant to add a link to this report dated 28th May 2025 submitted to the UN by Justice…” Jul 27, 19:36
Nae Need! on Safety First: “Och, Willie, I’m loving your thinking. ” reflecting the deep meaningful thought that pervades our Scottish Government.” They’re astounding and…” Jul 27, 19:36
Andy Ellis on Safety First: “So as many of us already thought, this process is of doubtful utility and could take some undetermined amount of…” Jul 27, 19:31
Hatey McHateface on Safety First: “Tch, NC. Line the weans up bareback on a garron, eldest at the front, wee-ist at the back. Don’t even…” Jul 27, 19:19
Nae Need! on Safety First: “Interesting. I always imagined the fat distribution in pepperoni was more akin to a sliced penis, but hey, I’m not…” Jul 27, 19:17
Hatey McHateface on Safety First: “Then again, could be somebody self-id-ing as disabled to get freebees and priority access to everything going. Absolute scum if…” Jul 27, 19:14
Hatey McHateface on Everybody’s Normal Nowadays: “@Xaracen says: “Don’t tell them, Pike!” What we need now is somebody to translate that into Scots. And/or Brithonic too.” Jul 27, 19:09
Northcode on Safety First: “I meant to add a link to this report dated 16th July 2025 submitted to the UN by Justice pour…” Jul 27, 19:07
Young Lochinvar on Safety First: “Presumably they would be paying much the same if they just opted to go a University in their home countries,…” Jul 27, 19:04
Southernbystander on Safety First: “This is correct and always has been since England introduced fees for universities in England (and Wales I think). When…” Jul 27, 19:04
Nae Need! on Safety First: “I know exactly what you mean, Willie. I went to school with someone called Annette Curtain . . . can…” Jul 27, 18:49
agent x on Safety First: “Advance Notice about Upcoming Submission of the Petition for Recognition of Scotland as a Non-Self-Governing Territory Under the UN Decolonization…” Jul 27, 18:39
