The Great Hollowing
The wild thing about this poll isn’t the headline that six months after winning a massive landslide majority, Keir Starmer now trails Nigel Farage – leader of a party with five MPs to Starmer’s 411 – as the electorate’s choice for best Prime Minister.
It’s the little grey numbers sitting quietly at the bottom.
Because what they tell us is this:
– 50% of people who voted Labour don’t want the Labour leader to be PM.
– 68% of people who voted Tory don’t want the Tory leader to be PM.
– 70% of people who voted Lib Dem don’t want the Lib Dem leader to be PM.
And we really need to stop and take a moment to think about just how batshit crazy that is, because it’s definitely not a sign of a healthy, functioning democracy. Although of course we already knew we weren’t in one of those, because the most popular party in Britain – by an absolute country mile, with more votes than the next two put together – is “None of you useless tossers”.
The people of the UK basically don’t want ANYONE in charge. They don’t want to vote for any of its political parties and even when they do they don’t want that party’s leader in Downing Street. They’d probably prefer it if we made the winner of Love Island PM.
(And Scotland, which loves to think itself an exception, is no different.)
(Farage, incidentally, topped the YouGov poll in Scotland too.)
We know from history where these sorts of numbers end up. Mass disillusionment and contempt for the political establishment leads to “radical” solutions. (Imagine you were a US citizen and fell into a coma just 10 years ago, in the middle of Barack Obama’s second term, and woke up in the hospital this morning and switched the TV on to this.)
Yet still nobody will listen. Labour have foisted a bunch of ministers on the country who were categorically rejected by voters twice, in 2010 and 2015, but somehow slithered back into power a decade later on the grounds that the alternative had become even worse. “You thought Rachel Reeves and Ed Miliband were awful before? Well, tough, because that’s all you’re getting.”
Meanwhile in Scotland, the SNP booted John Swinney out after a disastrous stint as leader more than TWENTY years ago, but for similar reasons he’s somehow back leading not only the party but the country, a couple of years after he himself said he was past his sell-by date and needed to make way for fresh talent and new ideas, and proclaiming his intention to hang on for another half-decade.
And just like Labour, their idea of inspiring the electorate with a hot new generation is to offer them all the failures that the voters told to sling their hook last time again.
Things can’t go on like this, because you’re really not going to like where it ends up. More of the same just won’t do.
And if you think that retreating to a stinky, threadbare old comfort blanket and voting to keep everything exactly the same as it is now is the way to achieve change, then you are very much part of the problem.
In fact, you – and all the other mudskulled droolwits like you – are the whole problem.
I think people want *someone* in charge of the country, just not any of the options. Shauny Boy?
Yes! Some could identify with his Union Jacket, others with his pet unicorn, and the illogical ones, with both!
An actual joke candidate is probably the best option
link to bbc.co.uk
I still maintain that the Monster Raving Loony party is the sanest party out there
james kelly is a thin-skinned whining hysteric (with an obsession with you)
– the kind of person who could cause a fight in an empty room and if alba booted him, it was probably the right thing to do
at least he found his way home
Kelly’s site is an unreadable mess of self-pity and self-righteousness. His obsession with Stu, who he laughingly calls HIS stalker, seems to dominate his every waking moment. Any attempt to point this out in the comments section is quickly consigned to the deletion bin à la Wee Ginger Dug. In fact, it’s becoming difficult to distinguish between the two.
It would be of a great benefit if he moved to America and stayed there.
Petty, petty, petty is the defining characteristic of Mr James Kelly.
He also cannot take even the slightest comment against him even when constructively made.
His blog is best avoided. That way he’ll either go away or grow up.
Alba were warned he wasn’t to be trusted from day one.
He should NEVER have been accepted as a member given his agenda.
Scotland’s Cause has not advanced one iota as a result of electing SNP politicians at all levels of government nor being a member of that party.
The supposedly SNP MPs, MSPs, Councilors and would-be pro-Independence bloggers are clearly on the make and on the take.
They are all part of the Independence Industry.
There are four council by-elections in Scotland this week: two Labour-held, one SNP, one LibDem.
Prediction: the Pro Indy parties (SNP sort of, Alba, et al.) won’t get 40% of the vote in the four.
Prediction: Alba (the pro-Indy microbe party) doesn’t average 2% in these four.
Well if it’s so confusing and majority are switched off to politics, what and where now for direction in these colonial states.
It’s only working for the corrporately corrupt elite.
I am a bit sceptical about the rise again of SNP from disaffected Alba supporters.
But nothing is going on in Scottish politics…
And nothing can be done until “justice” for Alex is delivered…
The reason Scotland is in this continuing predicament is because it’s being constrained by far too many egocentric individuals who refuse to work with each other because they stupidly hold the opinions that no other individuals have any worth as they are perceived as not conforming to the virtually unachievable ultra high standards put in place by others.
Heads up: A nation can only piss with the urethrae it has.
Sex Pistols – Problems…
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I posted this on Barrheadboy yesterday and silence, yet everyone talks about unanimity
I agree overwhelmingly with every word spoken today and over the past years by you and your guests , it is only common sense that unanimity and cohesion by activists , politicians and political parties will lead to independence
Unfortunately the party formed to gain our independence exists no more, it has been taken over by self serving devolutionists who are quite content to remain shackled to the ruk because their continued financial rewards are guaranteed by WM and they don’t want the stress of having to govern a phoenix risen from the ashes of the uk and they don’t have the ability to do so or the brains needed to do so
I have posted recently and previously the ONLY way we will get them to listen and act is by threatening the status quo and their comfy financial position , people pay attention when their livelihood is threatened by removal
People are frightened and panicked when we talk of NOT voting for the snp because that means one of the unionist parties will take over Holyrood and implement WM policies which we know is taking place already under starmer and sarwar , but the snp clones believe that snp will constrain the unionists in some way and stop the abuse but the snp still feel that either a collaboration with labour will still enable their troughing to continue or certain ones will still be elected through the list seats , but either way the only ones who will lose is independence supporters
I believe the snp need obliterated totally but that doesn’t help just now and would take a long time to happen if at all
I know that recently you arranged for a council of indy supporting bodies to take place which showed some possible promise , but even so it appeared that some were not in agreement with the urgency of our situation and were content with the snp progress or were not prepared to rock the boat
TBQH I believe the ones with that attitude won’t change and irrespective of proof of betrayal they will still hold their line
We ALL know that the snp will continue with their fakery UNLESS confronted with it head to head , my proposal is for the same members of that council who were AWARE of the urgency of our situation and who were vociferous and supportive of further means of action to actually DEMAND a meeting with John Swinney to inform him that if he doesn’t accept and propose immediately to work in unison with the independence movement towards a plebiscitery Scottish election then the council of the independence movement will actively work against the election of snp msp’s
I obviously don’t know who attended your previous meeting so I am unaware of the groups or individuals who were lukewarm or against any opposition to the current snp but the status quo is only going to result in more MISERY and ABUSE for Scots and Scotland
Depleted turnout will result in unionist win with snp troughers still on the gravy train but unable or unwilling to forward independence
snp good votes but unable to form govt , same result as above but more troughers benefitting from the gravy train , and still unable or unwilling to forward independence
Unionist parties take control of HR irrespective of snp vote , = REMOVAL of FREE prescriptions, child care payment, SNHS dentistry, SNHS eye tests and glasses, social care , bedroom tax, and anything else of benefit to Scots citizens, BUT we will still have snp troughers supping gleefully on the gravy train and unable or unwilling to do anything to forward independence
IF we are to do anything to SAVE the independence movement and SCOTLAND it means publicly DEMANDING A FACE TO FACE confrontation with John Swinney of ALL the bloggers, YES groups , I4I members ,ISP
Aye, the next Scottish Parliament election will be a clusterfuck for various reasons, but this situation at Holyrood was effectively a baked in characteristic when it was created. I stated this situation a good while back, also pointing out that there just isn’t enough time to sort out a proper manageable plan and get all the pro-indy electorate onboard.
I still say the next Westminster election is the most realistic option for a plebiscite seeing as another referendum ain’t going to be granted unless it is a stitched up process.
But not seeing an answer to this query because a GE plebiscite could also be a clusterfuck if folk won’t all unify for that cause.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Politics has become the cult of personality.
I think Swinneys tactic is to move away from this and the controversy that the cult of personality attracts.
Dull as dishwater and hide all the contentious stuff away back behind a “no-one can disagree” with soundbites policy like eroding child poverty.
Problem is, how do we know the contentious stuff isn’t just progressing quietly in the background and that THE policy the party is supposed to be about is either not talked about meaningfully or mentioned in such bland “says nothing” statements as there’s an election hoving into sight on the horizon that there’s nothing to judge him by meaningfully when nothing comes to pass.
2014 here really got people engaged.
The years since have just bit by bit turned off people to the extent of disenfranchisement.
After the 2016 Scottish elections & the Brexit vote I could not possibly see any way we could avoid another referendum. I then could not see how we wouldn’t then vote Yes. Westminster was a hamstrung shambles. For whatever reason, complete ineptitude, being totally compromised by the security forces or a one eyed gender inflected hatred of her predecessor, Sturgeon spectacularly succeeded in saving the union and punting the biggest issue in Scottish politics into the long grass.
It stuns me that supposed pro indy people still gush over her (Macdermid, Cumming (A, not D)).
It stuns me when people still display faith in the SNP. I really cannot fathom, why anyone who is pro-indy thinks that the SNP are in any way shape or form, a viable political vehicle that could achieve indy. Why anyone cant see ‘both votes SNP’ as a complete dereliction of duty to the pro indy cause. They are not a pro-indy party. AT ALL. They are a pro SNP party. And still folk seem to see some hope in people like Kate Forbes. Like she’s ever shown a single atom of pro-indy fight.
The latest by Scot Goes Pop falls into this category. I’m sick of retrieving my jaw from the floor. He just cannot be serious?
In what was a sea of indy flames, there is maybe now only one strong light left burning. You are as important now as you have ever been Rev, keep shining your torch!!!
Whilst Swinney might be “old” SNP the party he has found himself in charge of now is run by psychopathic opportunists and politicos from the Labour gene pool.
Bit hard on Trump, don’t you think?
Well, neoliberalism can’t surely persist into a 6th decade. Can it?
Belgium not only survived for a year and a half without a government they actually thriced during that time
But they didn’t have the UK civil service running the show.
Meanwhile, in Scotland, what government? – last I recall was when Alex was FM. We’ve certainly not thrived, except negatively.
Absolutely right. He worked very effectively with the Tories and provided real government.
Can I go with “none of the above”.
p.s. Why no representative from The Greens as PM 😉
I see in today’s National, that John Swinney has stopped the new SNP policy papers. I understand that they were pretty dull though anyway.
In 2014, or thereabouts, I read about seven policy papers published by Alex Salmond’s government. They were inspiring and forward looking, but I can’t find them now online anywhere. Anyone else on here remember them?
Has the National moved on from Gaza yet?
Are they aware it isn’t in Scotland?
Ultra Nrn Ireland Unionist McKay says Independence is off the table for the foreseeable because of….Trump
I disagree
I think Trump would be happy to do a deal
We should watch Greenland see how that goes.
Plus Trump hates Starmer
What better revenge than having Starmer the one to go down in history as “loosing Scotland”
That was David Camerons fear
Yes, a Scotsman just liberated America from woke-imperialism. We should ask him to do the same for us, although I expect President Trump is ahead of the game on that score.
Not gonna lie, Trump on stage with the Village People put a smile on my face.
Agree.
There’s the circus.
Provided he also provides the bread, he’s doing as well as the majority of Political ‘leaders’ throughout history.
And if he knows what a woman is, he’s doing better than the majority of Political ‘leaders’ TODAY.
Which shows HOW low the bar is!
The pace of change happening in every part of the world is simply too quick for most Politicians/Governments. Most Government Ministers are clueless about almost everything, and it shows. By the time they have appointed ‘Consultants’ to advise them, or have set up the inevitable inquiry, all costing a fortune, events have simply moved on leaving Ministers in their wake and the shambles simply carries on until the next disaster is revealed. Sadly a lot of them are hidden from the public.
It is time that anyone standing for election has to have some life experience or qualifications. Looking at Scotland-working in a call centre did not really qualify Useless for being our First Minister. Sturgeon’s brief sojourn as a failed solicitor was of no help to anybody. What experience of the real world does John the redactor Swinney have? Other political parties are probably no better.
Would anybody really trust their doctor who had no qualifications or a plumber who had no experience? Practical realism has gone out of the window.
What an almighty mess we are in. I suspect it will get worse if it ever gets better.
I think Sophie Molly & James Kelly are one & the same person.
Similar hairlines.
I think if the mainstream media bsically ignored the politicians and what rubbish they spout until an election is due, we would all be happier.
Since they don’t even seem to have proper debates in Holyrood or Westminster chambers any more, there is nothing to report.
When an Act is being debated, report the proceedings honestly otherwise it is all unpalatable fluff.
That’s not the way it should be, but I can barely think of a single politician who understands the big picture of Anything.
None of them know how to get houses built, get jobs created, get criminals punished, get kids educated, spend tax revenues wisely, so I say strip their platforms off them until they show they are competent.
We really are screwed, just thinking of all the opportunities we’ve had since brexit vote
Brexit is an economic disaster created to stop the elite loosing overseas tax havens due to a new EU law.
If you mean opportunities for independence then 2015 GE was a major mistake by the SNP. They could have created a massive constitutional crisis and got our independence.
It’s cause oligarchy is choosing the inept, incompetent & corrupt fuds to be in charge. It’s only THEIR interests that are to be served. Not the dumb plebs who vote.
BTW Obama was no saint. He instigated much of the shit that’s playing out today. Including Scotland remaining chained to this warmongering shit show at Westminster that can’t afford a decent standard of living but have plenty of money to blow shit up in other countries at a cost of $billions to maintain a foreign country’s hegemony.
Next up, according to Aristotle LOL, full on fascism cause once the oligarchs fck up they send in a dictator & we see that already playing out in Europe where elections are just to be cancelled altogether or hobbled together by a chosen few already bought & sold. The wealthy are in charge & puppets doing their bidding don’t need much in the way of brains or care what the plebs think. Any that thinks they’ll be defiant can be flogged across all public platforms until such times as a replacement is found.
Who is actually surprised by Kid Starver? He was a backstabbing bullshit artist to even get the gig of Labour leader in the first place. Farage will be no different. Colonisers thrive on chaos & conflict & they’ve imported strife to cause civil unrest & clamp downs. Alternative media will be switched off too.
When too many people realise an obvious truth, the party is well-and-truly over. Too many people in their own way have now realised that elected politicians have no real power whatsoever and have become little more than the face-saving ciphers of international-finance. The toothpaste is truly out of the tube and people know that it can’t put back in again by voting for any of the political Parties on offer excepting Reform, which will become the receptacle of bitter disillusionment for many.
If people are really stupid/gullible enough to vote for frog face’s ‘Reform’ party they deserve everything they get.
Sadly the rest of us will also suffer.
Holyrood is a colonial administration. All play the Union fiddle.
Those little grey bits make forecasting the 2026 Scottish Parliamentary Elections difficult but Holyrood invited a sea change in direction some time ago. (10 years ago). Essentially that’s what is happening in the US. Our FM has the charisma of a Funeral Director and Starmer wouldn’t even cut it as a Funeral Director (With apologies to Funeral Directors) . The sea change started the minute Trump fairly won the US Election. Look at the consequences of his day one Executive Orders trailed during the Election campaign. An example, removal of DEI leglisation from the military has meant recruitment for the first time in years has reached its target for the coming two years. I don’t agree with all of Trumps policies but some of them are good. French and Raven (1966) outlined the basis of leadership. I can’t see any of these attributes in Holyrood. An MSP with around 5000 votes is trying to prevent a leader with 77 million votes not to visit Scotland. Time to put on the big boy pants which we haven’t done since 2014.
Agreed. None of our Scottish politicians seems to have charisma or in many cases intelligence. Me, me, me is all they seem to understand.
We need a strong charismatic leader who understands our Scots laws, our ancient constitution and rams it down the unions throat.
The UK is a fictional country and a fraudulent state.
Reform are a Little Englander party. The fact that so many in the U.K. see Farage as a future PM may actually turn out to be the catalyst for constitutional and societal change that leads to Scottish independence.
As for Trump he is just a grifter. He doesn’t want to put $dollars into American pockets he wants to empty them for his own benefit.
Do keep up Callum. Reform UK are not an English party.
Afterthought: Strikes me that a Reform government might (granted, it’s a big might) be a viable route to discussing a route to independence if that’s what you want.
The Uniparty (And I include SNP in that Blob) has done nothing to aid your aspirations to date.
It’s a small chance, but it strikes me that a good case, well made, with good faith on both sides could progress the nationalist cause.
Personally not something I’d really want to see as I’m a believer in the Union but could be worth a go.
Or are you going to do what you’ve always done and expect a different result? 🙂
Oh, and wipe the TDS from your mouth, it’s a bit passe…
Reform is an English political party. They’re not registered in Scotland.
& Do keep up, we don’t require their permission just as they didn’t from the EU. I don’t remember them having a plan.
So come election time, what to do what to do…
Constituency Vote: The Bucket of Sand.
Regional Vote: The Bucket of Sand.
Democracy in motion. That’s that sorted.
The quality of the people reflects the attractiveness (or lack thereof) of the job, both in Westminster and Holyrood. It’s a badly paid, potentially insecure job. You constantly risk being monstered in the media and have people shouting at you or attacking you in the street. Unlike say the 70’s and 80’s, your colleagues will include private school student politicians who think it’s all one big joke and only really want to get on the today programme. It’s therefore very difficult to get anything done or even to get anyone to pay attention to serious issues.
US President (2025):
“We will forge a society that is colour blind and merit based…
I will immediately sign an executive order, to bring back freedom of speech to America…
It will be the policy of the American government that there are only two genders – male and female”
National Post (2024): Scotland goes from ‘lassie’ and ‘laddie’ to 24 official genders:
“The Scottish National Party has come under fire for releasing a list of 24 genders that people can choose from…
This comes just months after its leader, John Swinney, went on record saying that he believed there were only two genders…”:
link to nationalpost.com
link to archive.ph
Scottish Government’s gender list (Note: not the complete list:)
Agreed. Especially your first 3 sentences although my favourite US Government policy decision of the day. There are only 2 genders, male and female.
There are only 2 genders –
Long live rational man, George…
#BananaScotland2025
There are multiple genders, but there are two SEXES. Sex is a biological fact. Gender is just an arbitrary invention.
There are multiple genders, but there are two SEXES. Sex is a biological fact. Gender is just an arbitrary invention.
J.K. Rowling
@jk_rowling:
“A noisy part of the left still refuses to step outside their sex-is-a-social-construct bubble and acknowledge that their embrace of gender identity ideology has been a calamity. They were warned the right was capitalising on their betrayal of women and girls. They didn’t listen.”:
link to x.com
We have reached the stage where politicians have stopped even pretending to represent their constituents, which should be their basic function. Instead they do as their party bosses tell them and they in turn obey the diktats of the Establishment (insert the various and extensive UK power groupings here, starting with The City, The Royal Family, the security services, the arms industry, etc, ad nauseam).
We now enter dangerous times, where fewer and fewer people vote because they have nothing to vote for yet politicians pretend the very low levels of popular engagement still give them legitimacy and authority. That way lies increasing social unrest and authoritarian crackdown from “government”.
I can only hope (perhaps in vain) that woke-infused Globalism and all its corrruption and perversity is on the slide (a process perhaps accelerating now by developing events across the Atlantic), has reached its peak and that people-based politics and the ordinary concerns of nations will gradually re-engage with the electorate in Scotland and in the rest of Europe.
As things stand, our main political parties are hopelessly compromised and corrupt and simply don’t deserve our votes.
Whole heartedly agree.
Well said.
If by magic and let’s be honest it would be magic. If the French benefits were to be removed and these benefits scroungers had to actually pay for something out of their own MSPs, MPs wage packets, watch every one of them scamper back down the Shitwhole from which they appeared.
It’s the above reason that 1 Scotland isn’t Independent and 2 The Rag (National) exist, not for Indyref2 but to secure the SNP reign under Union Crack flag. We’ve been conned and conned big time.
I really don’t believe the goal is to destroy the Indy anymore its more about destroying the SNP and let’s be honest unless you’re a moron like our FM, if the SNP had a dedicated Independence minded leadership the UKG would be shiting its self and if the SNP is weak and penniless and the leadership is useless its more likely to turn the public away which why the SNP leadership has been putting policies forward that no right-minded person would ever vote for, it’s all been done by design from London and with the full backing of the redcoats in the SNP.
I joined the Alba party on day 1 and I wanted the destruction of the SNP I still do the only trouble is I was banking on the Alba party being a force and it’s not and never will be thanks to Nicola Sturgeon and her attacks on Salmond.
I said this many times on here the Independence doesn’t have a single voice and until it does the SNP and the other Unionist parties will take no notice of Scotland.
Honestly, I hear people say OH that individual must be blind, NAW his/her head is firmly up their arse it’s that simple. No one can spend this amount of time since 2014 and believe the SNP is the only route to Indy with the people running it or the membership who support it. It’s the same people who keep leading us up the hill and then run us down again and these are the ones making the Money out of Indyref2 so why would they want the Union to end.
I’m going to tell everyone on here who we should nominate to run the Indy movement Leah Gunn Barrett, she intelligent and determined and most importantly trustworthy, she the only person who is actively doing something positive and not just talking about it in order to make a bit more money for the pension pot.
The SNP has proven since 2014 that it can’t delivery 1 single thing and it never will.
Agreed.
Leah is excellent as is the Salvo Liberation campaign
I think that we are heading towards crushing recession
massive unemployment
people starving in the street
a total collapse of the welfare state
Which will mean people in scotland will vote to end the union as they will be utterly desperate
Which will solve none of those issues but the Nets will get a flag to wave so they won’t care
You’ve got the right moniker, at least.
You’re in charge of the Union. Just look at the shit mess you’ve made of it. Typical yoon, it’s always someone else’s fault.
It will solve all of our problems ditching the failed neighbour & britnats.
How many failed PMs are we up to now?
yeah as Brexit worked so well
Which was exactly the same message
leave a union and everything will be wonderful
More Scots voted to leave the ‘UK’ than voted to leave the EU. Go figure, brains.
The EU won’t steal our resources or force the largest stockpile of nuclear warheads in Europe to be sited 30 miles from our largest city.
(I’m for EFTA btw).
4th raters have always secured English support before shouting their spite up here..
always mentioning the english
you do know that’s why I think you’re driven by anglophobia
It’s not anglophobia, it’s anglo-government phobia.
The English vote in English arseholes. You may wish to have a word & the union maybe wouldn’t be in the shite it’s in.
You lot have had over 300 yrs to try at least to make a good impression FFS!
Instead you lot vote for racists & bigots. One proudly republishing a poem about verminous Scots. Just as that fat bloke called Indians a beastly race – so you may wanna pipe down trying to play the victim card…
I see that Trump has just created DOGE through an executive order and it has already had lawsuits made it against. This is an example of the checks and balances that is in place of the Republic system that is the American system of governments.
Lets hope Trumps executive order concerning gender is able to get through without being watered down or stuck in the courts for a long period.
The White House (2025):
“Section 1. Purpose. The United States noticed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020 due to the organization’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.”:
link to whitehouse.gov
World Economic Forum and UN Sign Strategic Partnership Framework (2019):
“…signed in a meeting held at United Nations headquarters between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and World Economic Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda…”:
link to archive.ph
WHO: Improving LGBTIQ+ health and well-being:
“WHO’s support to countries is founded on the fundamental human rights principle that all persons should have access to health services without discrimination. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda…”:
link to archive.ph
World Economic Forum: Agenda Contributor:
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO):
link to archive.ph
Well that was an interesting day. Sir Keir Starmer is addressing the Nation at 08 30 am. Relaunch of the Labour Government mark 5. Give it up son of a toolmaker helpfully promoted by the BBC.
Can Trump stand in the Scottish elections?
Scotland has more than its fair share of arsehole politicians.
We neither want nor need any more, thanks.
Agreed Robert. Unfortunately Orange tanned Scottish so-called politicians will be de-riguer shortly. They must think of their futures.
BBC (2025): Elon Musk’s gesture at Trump rally draws scrutiny:
“Several users on X, the social medial platform he owns, have likened the gesture to a Nazi salute.”:
link to bbc.co.uk
link to archive.ph
Time (2021): How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members:
“…made no secret of his neo-Nazi politics. Within the global network of far-right extremists, he served as a point of contact to the Azov movement, the Ukrainian militant group that has trained and inspired white supremacists from around the world,”:
link to time.com
link to archive.ph
BBC (2025): Far-right group exposed in undercover BBC investigation:
“A far-right organisation should be banned and some members investigated by police, the BBC has been told…
Former Counter-Extremism Commissioner Dame Sara Khan believes the UK government should urgently change the law to make groups like Patriotic Alternative illegal.
Barrister Ramya Nagesh watched some of the footage and said: “There’s more than enough evidence for the police to investigate and refer to the Crown Prosecution Service.”,,,”:
link to bbc.co.uk
link to archive.ph
#UKGovAzov #BBCAzov #CPSAzov
BBC (2025): Starmer says ‘terrorism has changed’ and that UK faces ‘new threat’:
“He says the threat comes from “extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms””:
link to archive.ph
UN: Conventional Terrorist Weapons:
“Terrorists use both explosive bombings and incendiary bombings (e.g. Molotov cocktails)…
Bombs and Other Explosives:
IEDs have a main charge, which is attached to a fuse. The fuse is attached to a trigger. In some types of IEDs, these three components are almost integrated into a single whole. The trigger is the part which activates the fuse. The fuse ignites the charge, causing the explosion. The explosion consists of a violent pulse of blast and shock waves…
Examples of IEDs: Molotov Cocktail“:
link to unodc.org
@BBC:
“Where to throw a Molotov cocktail. Guide for U***inian volunteers K**v shows weak spots in R***ian armour, viewing hatches and air inlets.”:
link to archive.ph
Crown Prosecution Service: Legal Guidance:
Violent crime, Terrorism: Explosives:
“The court in R v Bouch [1982] 3 WLR 673 confirmed that a petrol bomb (a bottle containing petrol with a wick) was an explosive substance.”:
link to cps.gov.uk
What is corrupt CPS rogue doing about violent BBC extremist and its social media guide (directions) – for volunteers ?
NOTHING #Consequences
The UK is not a democracy. It is a “parliamentary democracy”. In other words, it does not matter what the people vote for; the only thing that matters is what those sitting in parliament vote for.
The problem with this is that those sitting in parliament can be easily bribed, lobbied or whipped by their own parties to vote for something which could just be the precise opposite of what the people voted the party for.
We have seen this, not only among the traditional arms of the political state (tories, labours and libdems). We have already seen the SNP also betraying us time and time again for the last 10 years, both, in terms of how pursuing independence has been abandoned and our democratic mandates for a referendum deliberately frustrated, and also the way women have been sidelined with the gender nonsense. At no point the people of Scotland asked for that.
Actually, the abuse is so huge that now ruling elites, not satisfied with having already absolute control over the useful idiots that pass for “MPs”, have now proceeded to completely obliterate the internal democratic structures of political parties to completely usurp control of the membership over the leadership. In other words, we now have a double hollow: hollow parliament and hollow political parties. So what it is exactly that we are electing? Are we even electing anything at all?
Observation of political and parliamentary structures for the last 10 years show us that we are just asked to cast our votes to legitimise a wholly undemocratic system that uses our elected MPs as a tool to pass laws against the interests of the people at large.
This is mirrored in the political parties. Take the SNP for example. The membership can no longer elect or evict the leadership. When was the membership of the SNP asked if they wanted Swinney as leader? And worse, it can no longer decide what policies that leadership pursues. In other words, the membership is only there to provide cash for that leadership to dispense as they see fit, and to legitimise the choices of that leadership (often against the choices of the membership itself) as “party policy”. The membership is only there to give the illusion that the entity they are part of is a political party rather than other entity’s infiltrated tool to restrain the membership interest from within.
So control of that infiltrated leadership can only come from outside, for example by withdrawing our vote.
We do no longer have a government, a parliament or even political parties. What we have is a bunch of useful idiots controlled by, either narcissistic arseholes, aristocrats, corporations or elements of other countries’ deep state.
So what are the conclusions for this?
First, that the people of Scotland will never achieve what they want by relying on “Scotland’s” MPs, or heaven forbid, MSPs.
Second, that by continuing to preserve the current structures and the current “(fake)democratic” process we are simply shooting ourselves in the foot. We are going nowhere and will never go anywhere. Therefore we either bring the whole rotten system down, or we bypass it.
The following quotes were extracted from the written evidence submitted by Baroness Helena Kennedy and Mr Aarif Abraham to the
House of Lords Constitution Committee for the
“Inquiry into the Future Governance of the UK” This evidence was written on 08/05/2021 and published in the House of Lords website on 19/05/2021.
For those who constantly demand quotes from somebody of authority to back one’s argument, how about this:
Baroness Helena Kennedy was at the time a Member of the House of Lords and Barrister at International Bar Association and Doughty Street Chambers; Mr Aarif Abraham was at the time a Barrister and Acting Director at Garden Court North Chambers and Accountability Unit.
Their whole submission is most interesting, but I have selected these three quotes because they are related to the matter at discussion, which is general discontent with the system and the lack of democracy.
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“Britain’s dominant political party can change the constitution with great ease if it so wishes, and they often do to cement party advantage. But we are, arguably, witnessing unconstrained change, at a frenetic pace, that challenges the constitutional
underpinnings of the Union. The contestation over the judiciary and human rights provides an instructive example.”
“There is a clear need for something other than the status quo to address constitutional issues in Britain outside the day-to-day of parliamentary politics. The classic British fudge, muddling through with partisan, ad hoc, changes to its constitution are not sustainable”
“The underlying constitutional issues have precipitated many crises and have caused: attacks on judges by the media and the executive; unilateral calls for secession; and a political culture which is becoming increasingly divisive due to elite-led narratives.”
“The executive, whether current or past, has failed to understand the significance of fundamental unwritten rules and practices and the consequences of abandoning them for short-term political gain. With a
rise of nationalism, different political parties, have precipitated centrifugal and centripetal forces which wrestle with secession from the Union, or, on the contrary, further centralisation”
“In Britain, it is evident that piecemeal and partisan constitutional changes and the use of modes of decision making that are outside the accepted rules and norms (through binary referenda or non-adherence to conventions, codes, and practices) has had a corrosive effect on the institutions of parliamentary democracy”
“Parliamentary democracy is predicated on representative institutions rather than mechanisms of direct democracy. It is evident that there is a need for inclusive, participatory and deliberative processes to reform aspects of the British constitution so that
a fairer settlement can be achieved to address disparities in: wealth and regional equality;
the equality of the four nations; the application of human rights and the international norms
thereof; and the representation of the people in Parliament. ”
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The evidence from which those quotes was extracted was submitted in May 2021. It is almost four years on and, has anything at all changed since then?
That will be a strong no. If anything it has become worse an democracy is even more deteriorated. Things will continue to be as bad if not worse 20 years from now because, the more the elites get away with, the more they will want to get away with.
If we want change it will have to be us who effect change. A decrease in turnout until it becomes ridiculous might just be the easiest tool we currently have on hand until a proper independence party standing on a mandate to restore Scotland’s parliament and revoking the treaty.
If we do not vote, we cannot be accused of supporting this flawed wholly undemocratic system. A system which abuses our votes to legitimise the work behind the scenes by lobbyists, infiltrated MI5 candidates as party leaders, aristocrats, tax dodgers or foreign countries’ deep state apparatus deployed to the UK to force UK politics in a direction that favours the interests of those foreign deep states.
Absolutely. I suggest a 3rd hollow: many of our politicians are themselves hollowed out people. They do not lead authentic lifes. You can see it in their eyes. Empty.
A tour de force.
“If you do not play you cannot loose.” Marla Daniels, The Wire (S1, Ep2).
My theories on the identity of the “other entities” that control the theatre that passes for democracy are known. There are precious few oligarchs in the UK. Radcliffe and Dyson try to interfere from time to time, but both are resident overseas for tax purposes. The Hinduja brothers are more concerned with their interests in India. Same applies to N. R. Narayana Murthy (father in law to Rishi Sunak).
That leaves Thames House and Vauxhall Cross. We are by a process of elimination, living in a Spookocracy.
I’d put it as; the UK is not a popular democracy, it is only a parliamentary democracy, and a bogus one at that.
That this is clearly so is demonstrated by the fact that all of the decisions of legislative power in WM are determined by seat majorities alone, and never determined by the voters which elected the MPs sitting in those seats. There is no formal obligation on MPs to actually represent and implement the mandates their voters give them, nor on parties or their governments to follow through on their published mandates.
Worse, those seat majorities exert WM’s alleged parliamentary sovereignty, which pretends that WM’s authority is supreme over the entire UK. That stance has no formal provenance at all, given the still extant sovereignty of Scotland and its Treaty-guaranteed constitution.
Even worse, England’s seats are deemed to take precedence over Scotland’s seats simply because they vastly outnumber them, and can and frequently do outvote them in a flat vote scenario. But, absent any formal constitutional agreement between the two kingdoms for such an arrangement, and given Scotland’s own sovereignty, England’s seats can have no legitimate authority at all over Scotland, and therefore can have none over Scotland’s seats. Since that formal agreement doesn’t exist, ‘simply outvoting’ the Scottish seats is also bogus, the flat vote scenario being patently inappropriate for the Union’s two sovereignties.
WM’s seat majorities are essentially divorced not only from their electorates, but also from the two sovereign kingdoms its seats are formally required to represent. Thus WM’s claims to both democracy and sovereignty are unsubstantiated and thoroughly unconstitutional.
The Power companies are the Governments weapon to keep the plebs in line.
Sturgeon is a little girl who has gone and got herself into a whole adult world of trouble. What has the little girl gone and done.