Wings Over Scotland

Thanks for continuing this series Rev.

Amazing that interesting points of view and reasoned opinion are only available on non ‘mainstream’ media.

Plus, can just about see my folks house in no9..oof.

A true cross section of the people of Scotland. Every one with genuine and honestly help opinions. Very diverse but all with one thing in common. Each and every one of them has seen through the British Unionist smokescreens and arrived at the real truth

Wow, thanks, just magnificent. This explains so many things about Scotland, in a few short minutes, things which embrace Scotland’s internationalism, but also the ever growing threat to Scotland’s growing democracy, from the UKGov and their pals, in who knows which parts of the world.

Succinct, to the point, intelligent and inspiring. Very moving too.

Will share as wide as poss. My only thought, is that the human rights act will be scrapped in the short term, not the long term. The tories and their bedfellows, the red tories, are known for pushing through any policy and chnages in law they want, pretty damn quick, if not in fact in total secrecy. 🙁

One of the best (and funniest) comments that I have read or heard on this site….

“They didn´t call me an English Bastard”

Aye there it is right there!

Thanks for that Sophie.

Well done Sofie , very well put indeed.

“Welcome in t the body o the kirk”

Pity the text/subs were inaccurate?

Apologies for going O/T so soon.

I watched the leaders debate tonight (last night) and was absolutely disgusted. Smith’s daughter ruling the roost with Jackie Bird as her backup. The backroom filled with anti-SNP journalists including Daisley as far as I could make out.

A nurse who seemed to be a plant and a math teacher (another plant?) who raised the question of literacy and numeracy in Scotland and then complained that standards for teachers qualifying from university had fallen. Did that include her? I switched off then.

I’ve continued to pay my TV license because I wanted to see what was going on with the ‘enemy’. Keep track of what was going on. Well it’s over and out for me now. That’s it. I can’t stand it anymore. I’ll be cancelling my license as from today and I hope MANY others will follow suit.

Sophie I guess you’ll be reading so thanks for your thoughts and I’m pleased to see you have cove over to the good guys side 🙂

Together we will do this, your wee video will make a difference too, so welcome aboard.

Thank you Sophie. Securing our human rights is the most important issue facing Scotland, IMHO. Without the security of individual freedoms and liberality, achieving an inclusive, cohesive and sustainable society is impossible. Human rights are experienced locally but are a global common that we all share responsibility in protecting globally, while we go about our lives at the local level. Our choices in life really matter.

The only route that appears open to Scots seeking access to their inalienable human rights, is independence. The British state has proven it is inflexible to change and indifferent to the rule-of-law, certainly when it comes to Scottish sovereignty.

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Our shared principles and commitments

10. The new Agenda is guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, including full respect for international law. It is grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties, the Millennium Declaration and the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document. It is informed by other instruments such as the Declaration on the Right to Development.

link to sustainabledevelopment.un.org

“The right to development is an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development, in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realized.” (Article 1.1, Declaration on the Right to Development)

“The human right to development also implies the full realization of the right of peoples to self-determination, which includes, subject to the relevant provisions of both International Covenants on Human Rights, the exercise of their inalienable right to full sovereignty over all their natural wealth and resources.” (Article 1.2)

link to un.org

Toward a liberal socialist cosmopolitan nationalism

Abstract

I explicate and defend a form of liberal socialist nationalism. It is also a nationalism which is cosmopolitan. Explication and explanation are crucially in order here, for it is not unreasonable to believe that ‘cosmopolitan nationalism’ and ‘liberal socialist nationalism’ and even ‘liberal nationalism’ are oxymoronic. Against that I argue that there is a straightforward understanding of these concepts and their relations to each other that does not have inconsistencies or even paradoxes. Liberal socialism properly understood goes well with cosmopolitanism (both moral and institutional), and there are plausible and attractive forms of both liberalism and socialism that go together. Moreover, the only candidate for a nationalism that would survive careful reflective inquiry is a liberal nationalism: a nationalism which is neither ethnic nor civic. It is widely believed, however, that even a liberal nationalism is incompatible with cosmopolitanism. I contend in a series of arguments that in contexts where nationalism is rightly on the agenda the form that it should take is that of a liberal nationalism, and it is further argued that to be viable, nationalism requires cosmopolitanism.

link to tandfonline.com

Thanks Sophie, you have expressed exactly how I feel in a clear and intelligent manners.

Sophie, you are a lovely person who explains their thinking so clearly. Thank you for this = )

I agree that independence for Scotland could be a good thing for the people of England too, a good example of how their country could be run differently.

Thank you too, Phantom Power Films 🙂

Excellently put, Sophie.

I’ve lived, studied and worked in Scotland for many (many!) years, since I was 19, and never have I had any abuse about being English.

Sun article archive link:
link to archive.is

Sophie’s story was so open and honest compared to a lying nurse from Edinburgh planted in a TV debate.

Off to make a donation to Phantom Power

Sarah Smith was her usual useless Unionist self. Dreadful commentator.

So good and positive to read stories such as these which Phanto Films have highlighte in their excellent series.

Because, after all, we badly need new blood, if we are to build the new, Independent Scotland.

For most of the 310 years of this cursed Union, our brightest and best have chosen to leave Scotland; be they graduates taking the High Road to England and beyond, or those displaced by the Highland and Lowland Clearances who reckoned a risky, lengthy sea voyage to the Americas, South Africa or Australia and New Zealand was prefereable to putting-up with the increasingly Anglophile Establishment at home.

Then there were those who reckoned a Scottish apprenticeship and training would be better thought of outwith Scotland. As a result of these years of emigration, those of us who have stayed, well, were we not perhaps the ones who lacked drive and ambition?

We were the solid majority, who, increasingly turned to Labour as a means of off-setting the greedy and uncaring Establishment. Only for us to be sold down the river for an ermine collar and £300 per day in “The Best Club In London”.

Now, we are coming to our senses and turning away from Labour; only for the Establishment, via its wholly-owned subsidiary, the media and the BBC, to continue to lie to us, steal from us and cheat.

But, end game is coming – hopefully sooner, but, some day, we will be free.

If only we had an independent media able to chase, harry and challenge Labour, the Scottish Tories and the Lib-Dems, to clearly demonstrate the lies of yon nurse from Edinburgh, we would be free a damned sight sooner.

These films are a fantastic catalogue of change and enlightenment of views regarding former No voters YES movement must ensure the makers continuance.

As an aside, here’s a Spooky thought. Consider a Tory increase in Scots MPs for one minute. Now go out and work harder against it!

Can you spot hidden political messages in songs ?

Try Nat King Cole’s lyrics

“There May be trouble ahead”

Or is that “ThereSA May be trouble ahead”

Now that’s weird, No ?

Fantastic Video.

Very well put by Sophie.

Lets not let these Yoons ruin our country any more.

These clips always take me back to the count in 2014. Although the content of each is different the common theme is “the Scotland we could have had”.

In the early hours of the 19th. as it became obvious we would remain held fast by London. At that point my thoughts were of those generations to come and their lost opportunities. I did not realise just how far the UK would lurch to the right at that time which now makes the loss even greater.

In England the embers of socialism are being nurtured to attempt a counter to rabid right wing policies. However in Scotland Labour voters are increasingly switching to support the Tory Party.
It is very sad that their hatred of a political rival blinds them to their actions.
They have a simple choice a) A party which enjoys the support of around 70percent of their old colleagues OR, b) A Tory Party which opposes every value they hold ( even the Blairites)

If the SNP dont take the BBC to task over this Leaders Debate HELL MEND THEM . TM /Ruth Davidson/ Kezia Dugdale gave them advance notice they would use the GE debate as a means to focus on Holyrood. When O when will the SNP turn they’re focus on the BIAS MEDIA in Interviews & any future debates .

To all those who are making complaints to the BBC on that farce of a debate , you are well aware those complaints will fall on deaf ears, but good on you’s for making the effort , but without a Formal Complaint from the SNP the BBC will continue to show Blatant Bias in any future Interviews & Debates .

These films are brilliant, and they might yet become vitally important, but on YouTube, (and they may be hosted elsewhere in all fairness), but the viewer tallies seem to settle between 10k to 15k.

Phantom Power Films are producing some excellent on-message material, but 10,000 people is half the population in a single small town.

What we need it much more concerted co-ordination between our Scottish Government, our YES remnants, our film makers, our bloggers, our superb in-house cartoonist, our intelligentsia, our money streams, our EU Crusaders and our Advertising channels. Last of all, a big and loud call to arms for our Constitutional Lawyers.

My instincts tell me YES remains strong, but after 2014 the clans dispersed if you’ll forgive the expression. We fractured and went back to our day job. We hid the claymores in the thatch and the YES flags under the floor boards.

And all of that is ok. It’s ok. ScotRef is the main event, and the point in our future where all the threads must come together. I totally get that, and yet….

That “Leadership Debate”, or should I say debates, have been prime examples of the farcical and criminal dearth of meaningful political discourse that we have come to expect. We should NOT be ok about this. In the UK context, the debate is a circus sideshow because the governing Party and official opposition are allowed to decline from comment, and in Scotland, General Election topical issues are secondary issues to the discussion of knitting patterns under devolved control.

For Gods sake people, SEE THESE WARNING SIGNS. It IS going to matter that our disparate YES assembles just like 2014, gets the YES banners flourishing, and the doors being chapped, but that is going happen I am sure. There will be the trickle that grows into a burn, and burn into a river, and hopefully by the day of ScotRef we have an ocean of YES winning the day.

Here comes the “but”.

I am greatly heartened that cynicism about the BBC and its shameless propaganda is infinitely more discriminating and alert to distortion than it was in 2014. Like the % support for YES at the start of the 2014 campaign, this time around, our starting point from which build is much higher, just as our cynicism is much sharper. All good. Let’s hope it’s enough, but here’s the but I mentioned…

We may be better prepared to criticise and counter media propaganda to a population that is increasingly disposed to listen, but we are still pitifully under prepared and ill equipped to take the initiative and launch our own media offensive. WE NEED ACCESS TO BROADCASTING.

Limited access, temporary access, part time access, weekend access, single channel access, foreign Press access, even Pirate access to broadcasting…

Come on SNP, this General Election is a dummy run Tory stunt which cannot touch our ScotREF mandate nor remove or even alleviate the imminent approach of Brexit. It is a pointless diversion and a distraction, but it need not be so. Use it. USE IT AS A MEANS TO SECURE A MANDATE TO DEMAND AT LEAST SOME DEVOLUTION OF BROADCASTING.

We slate Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party for going easy on the Tories. GET IN ABOUT THEM! Get them squirming to obstruct Scotland’s capacity to express free political opinion.

Just imagine the power it would give us if even with a half hour of broadcast news per day unfettered by UKOK propagandists. I know they won’t give in to us, they cannot afford to give in, but we should make that “victory” so very, very, costly for them to “win”.

O/T

So it turns out QT bbc Yoon plant clairethenurse is quite the bon vivant.

By the look of her social media output ‘clairethealkie’ would be a more appropriate appellation.

A loudmouth lying hypocritical Yoon.Who would’ve thought?

Slightly surprised she hasn’t selfied imbibing in an Orange Lodge bar.

Maybe that would be too cheap and low class for our selfless salt of the earth kid on Florence Nightingale.

BritNat Yoons.What are they like?

Although the nurse who seems to have attracted a lot of attention in the Sun she is still being quoted on BBC website. No mention of the extravagant lifestyle reported in the newspaper on the BBC though.

“Don’t play the man, play the ba'” – Rev Stuart Campbell.

Hearken unto the wise words of our Moderator people.

Sure, Clair Austin was stupid; she clearly didn’t think things through, or she would have had her Facebook deleted. She is going to cop an awful lot of flak for her lies and deceit.

But, poor duped, deluded and used Claire is not the person we should b targetting here. Our wrath should be directed at Sarah Smith, at her BBC bosses and at the increasingly-desperate MSM, who have so-distorted the debate this GE.

Fair enough, have a go at the SNP at Holyrood elections, when they are the defending champions. That is the time to attack them.

This is a General Election, the Tory Party is the defending champion – it is they who ought to be being attacked. But, no, their friends in the BBC and the MSM are helping them divert attention away from the mess they are making of things, to try to attack the SNP.

The real enemies of Scotland are not the likes of “useful idiots” such as Claire Austin, but Kezia Dugdale, Willie Rennie and the decision-makers at Pacific Quay, at the Record, the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph, the Times and the Guardian, the Herald and the Scotsman, who are bolstering Unionism by colluding in the attacks on devolved issues, when this election ought to be about Westminster issues.

NS What about the rape clause SM we don’t have time to get into that plenty of time to let the BBC plant to go on about her having to use food banks if its true as she said she is reasonably well off she should not need food banks and someone should follow this up as that nurse is taking food away from someone who really needs it.
This in the Sun says a lot.

link to archive.is

Ref Dr Jim,

Of course I’m making that up.

Well I’m not making this up Strong and Stable Treeza has just fell off the perch!! While trying to u turn and balance at the same time.

Tory cabinet rewriting the Manifesto all ready Jeezo

@ Breeks

Like, totally man!

I have a feeling though the the Euro press will be having some fun in the very near future.

The SNP need to turn the political guns at the BBC.

I’ve heard it argued that they have to stay calm and collected in case they are seen to be playing the victim and are complainers etc.

The cat though, is well and truly out of the bag with regards to the Beeb. Even the Yoons know and admit how biased they are.

Take every opportunity to put the BBC on the back foot I say.

The Media are the real threat and it’s them we need to start fighting against.

I’d gladly pay a subscription for some decent, unbiased, mass access programming.

I don’t think I’d be alone in that.

Well said, Sophie.

OT: don’t pay the bbc tax; let britnats pay for britnat propaganda.

May is losing on SKY TV the noo.Actually the media are giving her a hard time for once! She’s crumbling and i can safely say this will now be a shambles of an election as predicted

‘Strong and Stable’

She’s just had an absolute howler.

There might be hope yet 🙂

Mon the Corbyn! (down south anyway)

Can only see Tories and Labour combining to form a national government after this general election to see the UK through the Brexit mess. No single party gets the blame then.

ronnie anderson
IMHO, it’s the Public Purposes in the BBC’s charter that is their weak spot. I’m pretty sure that any half-competent legal mind would have little difficulty proving institutional bias. The BBC is charter bound to protect British unity, so are essentially a nominated institutional opponent of Scotland’s self-determination (by royal appointment no less).

ronnie anderson
I’m not suggesting your approach is wrong but all my lawyer would have to do is prove the BBC actually does uphold it’s charter. I think the BBC might even help establish this position themselves.

It is the BBC’s charter that is exclusionary and racist, ergo the BBC in Scotland can not be anything other than bias against Scots wishing to access their inalienable human rights. i.e. the freedom to choose self-determination.

The BBC’s charter is an institutional vehicle which articulates the normative tradition that Britain is one nation. This is fundamentally the ethos of 19th century “One Nation” Tories and contemporary British nationalism. The BBC’s charter leaves no space for the respect of those who identify with a different perspective. Without a respect for difference, tolerance and love whither. That’s post-modern critical social theory, that is.

One way we could establish if ideologies of exclusion and racism are articulated through the BBC’s charter, is by commissioning an academically rigorous “critical discourse analysis” of the text. It would be a good idea to get a “multi-modal critical discourse analysis done”, as well, of general BBC output in Scotland.

link to semioticon.com