All the lights are coming on now
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December 25, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Have a good one, readers.
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Merry Christmas Stuart.
Cheers Rev, keep up the good work. In the face of adversity, i.e. the MSM and the other Yoons, we need you to keep our spirits up and the truth in view.
The Raveonettes?
Gets my vote every time!
Merry Christmas, Rev and all the gang!
Rev Stu,
I wish you the best of everything you wish yourself.
Dreams do come true, you know!
& a Happy Hogmanay to you too!
xx
Hi Rev Stu.
A Merry Christmas to you and the rats! Thanks for all the work you’ve put in for Scotland, in the last few years. It is WELL appreciated.
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Yummy Yule Rev and all of you xx
[…] All the lights are coming on now […]
Stu come home. What on earth are you doing in Bath (I’m being far too nosy now no doubt)? Love the place but it’s not HOME. Your home. You’re missing it / us.
Time to come home Stu x Home to the land of hugs x
Merry Christmas Stu & wingers (Hi Paula) xx
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all reading this.
Brian your video just sums it all up. What a nightmare. Sums up the grave fight that we have on our hands. Let’s pray that an Independent Scotland can bring about peace on earth. I’ve got great faith that it / we can do so.
Best wishes for Christmas, Stu
What a nice surprise! Merry Xmas Stu and everyone. Hope Santa is good to you.
Wishing Stu and all the Wingers a peaceful and loving day. Have fun folks.
“Oh Come All Ye Faithful” is a Jacobite carol written by a Jacobite who was at Louvain University, circa 1715, 1719 rebellions. I am told there is a Jacobite code within the carol.
Have a good festive season and the best of lick to Stu and all the posters. Remember. Santa Osbourne only gives nice presents to rich kids and hee haw to the poor.
Merry Christmas to all wingers. Hope santa has been generous to you all.
I am at work in the north sea. Boo Hoo.
Merry Christmas Stu and all wings readers!
Happy Christmas everybody!
Have a Cool Yule Wingers
Merry Christmas to you and yours Stu.
I hear the unionists have opened a bar in Glasgow as a rival to the Yes Bar.
It’s called Bar Humbug!
All the very best to everyone who participates here on Wings. We’ll all hope that 2016 takes us nearer our goal, which will then provide the platform for the creation of a fairer and more equal society.
Aye, Merry Christmas from a p*ssing it doon Nairobi. Still warm right enough 🙂
Keep up the exemplary work Stu, only 132 sleeps til 5th May
Have a good one stu!
Happy Christmas everyone.
Merry Christmas to one and all.The lights are,indeed,coming on now.A special Hi!! to the many unionists who come on here for a look.Have a good one!
Compliments of the season
Merry Xmas to Stu and all Wingers.
May this site remain the sanctuary of sanity!
Merry Christmas to you and yours Stu. Have a good one. X
Merry ones all round, and speedy recoveries!
Happy Christmas to you Rev and all the wingers-may it be a good one & thanks for what you do for the cause.
May your bells jingle merrily and may Santa be good to you all. x
Merry Xmas Stu.
Merry Christmas everyone. However you choose to celebrate.
Merry Christmas Stu and all the wingers from a rainy co Kildare.
Wish I was home. It has now been 20 years since I had a Christmas at home.
We will all get a really good belated present in May.
Merry Christmas, Stu and everyone on WOS – Unionists included (even though it’s hard to be merry knowing you’ve shafted your country). You’ll get a second chance to do the right thing soon.
All the best Stu and all wingers.
The days are getting longer now, the Unions days are numbered and they know it.
Orkney 4 fundraiser has cracked £200k!
A very Merry Christmas to Stu, the team and all ‘wingers’
Grahamlive
“Merry Christmas everyone. However you choose to celebrate.”
What?
even if it’s like this?
link to tinyurl.com
Uh oh better go, the cheifs coming and I aint done the sprouts yet! BYE…….
Merry Christmas to every Winger, especially to those hurting, sad, lonely or depressed. It can be a poignant and dark time of year for so many reasons. Know that you have friends here – many of whom are wrestling witb their own sorrows. Let’s ensure the New Year brings good changes for everyone, whether personal or political. Goes without saying that people homeless, fleeing war and trauma are especially thought about.
Special heartfelt thanks and greetings to Rev Stu. You have done so much to educate and awaken people to the duplicitous methods tbe Establishment and CorpMedia use to prevent basic common sense for Scotland’s people being understood. Your hard work and forensic determination in the face of what we are up against is appreciated more than you can ever know.
As someone else said on another thread, Scotland’s historical heroes have taken many forms over the centuries. Tbis site and its readers are collectively making a deliciously spiky contribution to the restoration of our country’s independence. And the fact the Pouters and the haughty journo class think we are “acolytes” of a Wings blinkered cult just makes it all the sillier, funnier and more attractive, lolz!!!
Please enjoy your well-deserved rest, Stu. Merry Christmas to you and every Winger – including of course, the lurkers AND the No voters who also read this site. Keep reading! Peace x
Ah knew it wiz to good tae be true Rev Stu taking ah holiday Baaahaha.
Merry Christmas Stu & the Wee Ratlets.
Merry Christmas to All WINGERS & LURKERS & Lets hope for a Christmas Number 1 for the NHS Nurses Song,Hunt & the Trusts will be pleased, saves his Tory Gov & English NHS Trusts spending money.
@Quinie
Thank you, those first few lines are something I really did need to see today.
Merry Christmas to…well everyone that’s already been mentioned in the comments and anyone else who wants it.
Merry Christmas to you, and all wingers everywhere. And thanks for providing reading material worth reading.
Merry Christmas Stu and all Wingers. I don’t post often but would be lost without my daily Wings fix:-) Thanks for all you do to fight the cause of Independence. It’s comin’ yet…
Found this wee video of snowy Scotland. Enjoy!
Sheila x
link to m.youtube.com
Happy And Peaceful Christmas to you Stu and All Wingers. Sun is just rising here on the ‘Auld Rock’. Just remember folks add a drop of water, LOL.
Merry Christmas.
Auld Rock
The lights are coming on now……. And with a great big searchlight that is Wings Over Scotland illuminating all those dark shadows cast by the corporate media. Love and seasons greetings and many thanks for all your inspiration and hard work to Rev Stu and the wingers!
Merry Christmas everybody!!!!!
The lights are on and Rev Stu and all the wingers and lurkers are in.
Have a good one all you people.
It’s coming for a’ that.
Ever wondered why it’s called “Secret Santa”? here’s why
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I’ve got a couple of guys on the job though
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Merry Xmas everyone!
The Dream will NEVER die!
Have a great Xmas, one and all!
Rest up and rejoin the fight later.
Have asked Santa for SNPX2 !!
Whit a rare wee song, Rev. To each and every wan o’ yuose, hope yie hiv a hoot.
Have a lovely time to Rev and all Wingers.
@Quinie
It is a hard time for many, emotionally, and some feel the pressure to be happy, or envy others their good fortune.
I’ve seen some really moaning posts on Facebook. I just think about those in Syria, and the war torn countries, trying to survive.
Closer to home, those in Cumbria will not really be celebrating, as there is more rain on the way.
Peace and light to all.
Uplifting
link to youtube.com
happy christmas to all and to the rev and WOS – a light in the darkness.
thank you all for keeping me going.
Well done Stu and the team for great research exposing the media lies. Have a great Christmas!
A merry Christmas to one and all.
Merry Christmas to the Rev, and all his helpers, alert readers, Chris Cairns and Wingers everywhere. Thanks for all you do!
All of what everybody else has said with festive bells on
@jdman@9.08
Whaur did you get that picture of Bird, Bradford and Baillie?
Merry Xmas to you john, Irene and family and all the Wingers.
PS Was the Rev at Bath Abbey this morning on EBC 🙂
All the best to one and all on this Christmas day.
A special hand of friendship is extended to all refugees who are in Scotland for their very first Christmas. May they all find the peace in their hearts we at wings strive for. God bless you all.
Ho! Ho! Ho! May Trouble neglect you. The angels protect you. and Heaven accept you. Happy Christmas Wingers.
A very merry Christmas to all and especially to everyone having to work today.
Just 18 short months or so ago I was still ‘undecided’. The past is a foreign country indeed. Seems almost inconceivable to me now.
We had 41 Labour MP’s including the likes of Curran, Brown and Davidson and even 11 Libdems. 53 of our 59 were Unionists.
Indyref ‘failed’, growing from 20 odd percent to 45. Murphy hugged Goldie. The Queen purred. Cameron waited one whole hour before sticking the knife in. Contemptable.
In the lead up to May, the polls were astonishing. When the results began to trickle in, the swingometers couldnt cope. Swings of over 30%. 56 Indy MP’s. Morningside the last bastion of Labour in Scotland. Carmichael providing the death ratlle to what Clegg started in 2010 for the lamentable Libdems.
Scotland was just 4200 or so votes from total unionist wipe out. Carmichael & Murray slithering in on the back of very questionable campaigns.
We knew the press werent in it for the good of the people, but the exposure of the BBC as a rabid enemy of Scottish democracy has been very enlightening.
Scotland has changed immeasurably and irreversibly in a short time.
For me, the single biggest and best contribution to the process has been this website. A very simple idea, remarkably well done. RevStu, I’m certain I don’t just speak for myself when I offer my warmest wishes to you in this season of goodwill. Keep up the good work just doesnt seem adequate. Your importance cannot be emphasised enough. Stay strong.
But it would all be for nowt without the readers and contributors. From the likes of Peffers, Lollysmum, Fiona & Macart, through the more colourful like Lesley-Anne and the ever intriguing Ken500, and the hundreds of others from Gaelic to expats, to the angry and the patient ones, Scotland would be far worse off without you all.
A final mention to those who sadly haven’t yet awoken to our situation. All we are asking for is greater democracy. Its nothing to fear. Its a lovely lovely place to be. Come and join in whenever you like, you are more than welcome.
We might not be there yet, but we’re a heck of a long way further along the path. Thank you to all for being part of it.
Best wishes to all sides this festive season.
“Gawd bless us, everyone”
“Shut it, Tim, that chimney’s no gonnae clean itsel”
Another cracking year of pishmonger ‘sleighing’, Stu. 🙂
Merry Christmas to all.
Merry Christmas to everyone Wings over Scotland. Cant wait for next year! The great pretenders wont hold on to Scotland much longer.
Blair McDougall ?@blairmcdougall 1h1 hour ago
Pretended to the kids that yesterday was Xmas Day. Makes actual Xmas morning before all the running around later much easier. Can recommend.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas Wings and Stu.
Merry Christmas lurking Yoons 🙂
Merry Christmas Stuart and thanks for being ‘the light that shines in the darkness’.
The darkness has not yet overcome us 🙂
Enjoy your turkey and plumb duff today.
Merry Christmas Wingers and Stu from a windy St Martin FWI
Merry Christmas to all Wings readers and commenters.
Also to the entire Wings team especially ‘alert readers’.
Have a nice one all of you.
happy Christmas Stuart and to all Wingers! Have a cool Yule and a few bottles of something interesting. Our day will come and it won’t be long.
Hail Alba Wingers. REspect
Frazerio
Well put.
More political battles ahead against the establishment. Reminds me of a wee baby growing up against Roman rule and political corruption.
Peaceful Christmas.
Christmas 1914 WW1 the ordinary troops of the Bosch and the Allied Powers stopped fighting in an informal truce.
The establishment were afraid these truces might escalate into actual peace so they issued this order,
“informal truces with the enemy were to cease and any officer or [non-commissioned officer] found to having initiated one would be tried by Court Martial.”
A Happy and safe Christmas to `All` soldiers who are still being dragged into wars by the Establishment in all its guises.
Seasons greetings to Rev Stu and all the wingers.
And best wishes to all of those who are having a shit Christmas. (I have had a few myself) It can be a rotten time if you dont fit into the stereotypical family christmas that is rammed down our collective throats for weeks on end. Endless adverts showing generations of happy families tucking into a ridiculously enormous turkey with all the trimmings and kids with the latest “must have” toy.
So lets spare a thought for those to who won’t be sharing in the joy of Christmas. It can be a very sad and lonely time for some. And lets keep on working towards helping the less fortunate because our “imperial masters” dont give a shit.
And finally a message for the poor deluded unionists whose main ambition in life is to be reigned over by an auld wifey in a Magic Hat. Away and take a flying fuck to yourselves!
Merry Christmas everyone X
Happy Christmas to all the wingers
Happy Christmas to all the youn’s
Our day is coming, sooner than you think.
Happy Xmas to Stu and all Wings readers.
Season’s best to one and all
your comments informative, laced with guffaw
so raise yer glass and let’s ching-ching
for another year of the brilliant Wings
Merry Mxas to my “extended” family on Wings.
PS ,
Sorry aboot the transposhition, hic.
Jeez – I thought you said you were going away tae have a break and jingle yer bells Stu! Anyway, this Xmas fairy sends Xmas love and mumsyhugs to everyone 🙂 XXX better go and check my sprouts – only need to boil them for another couple of hours! Xxx
All the best Rev 🙂
Oh, that’ll do it. 🙂
Merry Christmas to wingers and lurkers and a big thank you to our host. There may be a glass or two raised this afternoon. 🙂
Merry Christmas to you Stuart, and thanks for what you do all year. Wishing everyone a happy holiday and a grand new year.
Happy Xmas Rev. All Wingers and Lurkers.
Enjoy the festive season for Hope springs Eternal.
Merry Xmas to everyone at wings and thank you all for making this such a great place.
@frazerio great post,I could not agree more.
Just had a look a the TV schedules. Over the six major stations Scotland does not exist at all. There is not even news where we are. There is nothing Scottish even on STV.
This is not anti Scottish. It is just that we do not exist anymore.
Or so they imagine.
Happy xmas to everyone on wings and roll on 2016 as we take a step further in our quest for independence.
We will have to get the finger out though whilst we still have an industrial base to build on Westminster is intent in destroying every means we have .
Merry Christmas Stu ad all wingers!
In the spirit of Christmas I’ll just leave a few *ahem* items here just to really p*** everyone off! 😀
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
And just in case you thought I was getting too soppy: 😉
link to youtube.com
Dave MacEwan Hill
There is an excellent Cartoon which is an affectionate look at Scotland by Pixar/Disney.
Brave on BBC2 on now.
Hands up who watched the Queen at 3.00pm? Me neither. lol. I was in the Throne room doing what the Queen and her hangers on talk..
Stephen.
Nadolig Llawen i bawb ar WINGS!… o Gymru
(A Merry Christmas to all at WINGS)… from Wales.
Keep up the unbelievably fantastic and essential work to free ALBA!
Sod her nibs blubbering garbage!
Here is the REAL Christmas message!
link to youtube.com
Well Leslie Anne, If Tommy Sheridan is the Alternative Queens speech, then I have found the Alternative Christmas Day Dr Who.
Enjoy.
link to youtube.com
Stephen.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Hi Lesley-Anne – thanks for the Tommy Sheridan link!
Shared on FB…
8=)
PS: did a post for you a few days ago, which spent around 11 hours in moderation before appearing so you probably missed it. You can see it here:-
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Season’s greetings to all the Yeses,
To the Unionist media get it right up yiz!
Fireproofjim at 3.19
Not in the schedules in my TV guide it isn’t. Anyway,is that all? I’m sure those watching RTE,for instance, are watching a TV schedule that reflects their own communities’ Christmasses.
C’mon guys. I’m getting bored. Can we organise an invasion of the GPO in Edinburgh (if there is such a thing).
A Cantie Yule tae yin and a’ !
A wee poem frae yon Interweb thingy …
Twas a cauld, cauld nicht i’ the back o’ the year;
The snaw lay deep, and the starns shone clear;
And Mary kent that her time was near,
As she cam to Bethlehem.
When Joseph saw the toon sae thrang,
Quo’ he: ‘I houp I be na wrang,
But I’m thinkin’ we’ll find a place ere lang;’
But there wasna nae room for them.
She quo’, quo’ she: ‘O Joseph loon,
Rale tired am I, and wad fain lie doon.
Is there no a bed in the hail o’ the toon?
For farrer I canna gae.’
At the ale-hoose door she keekit ben,
But there was sic a steer o’ fremmyt men,
She thocht till hirsel’: ‘I dinna ken
What me and my man can dae.’
And syne she spak: ‘We’ll hae to lie
I’ the byre this nicht amang the kye
And the cattle beas’, for a body maun try
To thole what needs maun be,’
And there amang the strae and the corn,
While the owsen mooed, her bairnie was born.
O, wasna that a maist joyous morn
For sinners like you and me?
For the bairn that was born that nicht i’ the sta’
Cam doon frae Heaven to tak awa’
Oor fecklessness, and bring us a’
Safe hame in the hender-en’.
Lord, at this Yule-tide send us licht,
Hae mercy on us and herd us richt.
For the sake o’ the bairnie born that nicht,
O, mak us better men!
… by Alexander Gray
Merry Christmas to you and the better half REV and to the team.
To all Wingers , hope you have had a great day.
We are all aware that the Santa Claus of legend represents St Nicholas, a bishop of ancient times, with a recorded charitable impulse
Rather more puzzled about the Good Fairy that always adorns Christmas trees but I had that recently explained
Apparently Santa had a very tiring night one year going round with the Good Fairy delivering presents all over the place and they didn’t get finished till after three.
After seeing to the feeding of the reindeers they made their way to Santa’s cabin for a noggin or too. As they closed the door they found a wee Christmas tree they had missed behind it. This was for wee Senga in Dunoon.
“Shit” said Santa. “Look, Good Fairy, I’m knackered. Maybe you could deliver that wee Christmas tree for me?”
“That’ll be f**king right” replied the Good fairy (who was from Govan). You know where you can stick your Christmas tree.”
Which is why to this day every Christmas tree has a fairy at the top of it
Have a lovely Christmas all.
Christmas off…and having a lovely one. Thinking off all my colleagues working in the NHS.
Wishing everyone a really fantastic 2016.
Thank you Rev. For all you do. You changed things for me a couple of years ago. Now? Well, I don’t buy a paper and you have ‘converted’ a few chums via the website. Hoping things change in the next couple of years – I am forever optimistic.
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Best seasonal wishes Rev Stu and all the Wingers. Proud to stand by your collective sides!!
What Fragerio says at 11:31 pm: “Orra best folks- our tide is on the flood”
Does anyone know how Handclapping is getting on?
Haven’t seen him for a while
Pilot shits in aircraft engine due to snp and Transport Scotland failings!
link to forargyll.com
Merry Christmas Stuart and to all the Wingers!
Hope you all had a great day!
Dave McEwan Hill
Can we organise an invasion of the GPO in Edinburgh (if there is such a thing).
I can barely move so storming the GPO seems unlikely anytime soon. Let’s plan to do it when the troops are in better shape.
Happy Christmas to all on Wings. Quinie said it well earlier- my thoughts go out to those who are alone or in pain or afraid.
Thanks for everything Stu and all those who contribute.
Onwards to victory!
..do they still do the Queens speech?
And if so..what is the message from God to the people? Oh, holy one?
Keep up the defence spending, naturally..
..and fight for any other industry that benefits me and my chums..
.. who have taken centuries to drag civilisation to this point, this endless war.
Don’t often post but read every day. So just wanted to join in and thank the Rev Stu for all his invaluable hard work and wish him and everyone who read this site a very merry Christmas. Hail Alba.
OMG How awful are these Christmas jumpers?
Surely the SNP should have been able to do something about these jumpers!
Christmas jumpers should be banned!
Hi Hamish100.
Re: the plane and sloppy (drink induced?) typing, we have a new word to drop into conversation…
“appanet,y because of a warning light”
“appanet,y” – one of the few words in the English language that contains a comma. Wonder how it can be used and in what context?
8=)
I was lucky today, had the day with my family. To all those Wingers who were not so fortunate, my thoughts are with you and with everyone across this hard world who is feeling sadness at this time. Together we will strive to make it a better world for all of us.
Thank you for leaving the door open for us to communicate today Stu.
Nope, didn’t catch Bettys haverings, I was busy….doing nothing.
I’d no sooner tune in, than volunteer to be tasered.
Obama sent good wishes to the people of Libya. The people of Libya responded by thanking him for destroying their country.
@TamJardine
Find a suitable target ad I will happily join in.
While it is still (just) Christmas Day I would like to wish Rev Stu and all Wingers a happy Christmas and all the best for 2016.
All I want for next Christmas is an independent Scotland.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Stuart, and to all the contributors to Wings, both above and below the line.
@ Ruby
I agree, My other half bought 1 for me and expected me to wear it. Which I did but with demonstration! Ba Humbug hat lives on 😀
Free by 2018,
Merry xmass and happy new year to one and all, even if you voted no, you’ll know better next time?
Didn’t catch Betty’s speech today, but caught Nan’s (Catherine Tate) on Alan Carr’s show this evening.
“We had an election this year, poor Ed Milliband lost because he made a mess of eating a bacon sandwich, while David Cameron won by actually ******** a pig”.
Ouch! 🙂
Yes…
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So glad to be part of this – thank you everyone xx
Happy Boxing Day.
Isn’t it a shame that after all these centuries of Boxing Day being the day for collecting for the poor, or those in Service, and after all these years of supposed emancipation, that Boxing Day is needed as much as ever?
Yes Paula Rose so glad to be part of this too: The Wings Family. Like any other family we agree, disagree, debate and then march together, onwards, hand in hand to the same tune.
@Brian Doonthetoon says: 25 December, 2015 at 10:10 pm:
” … “appanet,y” – one of the few words in the English language that contains a comma. Wonder how it can be used and in what context?”
appanet,y the usage is restricted to when the drivers of flying machines on Highland routes are caught short pre-landings at some burgh or other.
Arrrgh!
Great Start to the day — NOT!
I attempted to post this YouTube link for all swithering Unionist supporters but forgot to remove the bit at the start : –
So here we go again –
link to youtube.com
On the subject of the Queen’s sodding speech, some of us auld folk remember when “That Wummin” turned up at three in the afternoon, when they deemed the peasants would be full of good year, as if. Well now with the onset of digital TV you can watch it nearly all day. Hubby turned on Sky News a couple of times,it quietens the dug who was wound up like a bairn all day, and it was scheduled to be on around every half hour for I do not know how long. Would sooner put my eyes out than watch Madge and listen to the whine.
Thats several times Bugger the Panda has asked about ( Handclapping’s ) whereabouts ,has onybody got a Email or Phone contact for him.
Whit Idjit in media invented headlines like “Festive Flood”
when by no stretch of anybody’s imagination or definition is a flood Fecking Festive
And why when I switch on my radio in Scotland to the BBC Scotland station news do I hear about Floods in Lancashire and Bush Fires in Australia as the main News items of the day
This Boxing Day in Scotland, Nothing happened, there was and is no news, just a bad lonely wannabe Glasgow Comedian who I tried to give a listen to just because, and then nearly killed myself tripping over the coffee table to get to the remote to remove him from my life (That may have been because I got Kevin Bridges DVD for Christmas right enough) so everything else is a poor comparison
The only thing I’ve read this morning pertaining to Scotland was our old friend (Am I or Aren’t I) Kevin (cannae make my mind up) McKenna in an amazing Homage Hatred piece on Nicola Sturgeon who he admits is the single most successful Politician ever in the history of this world and probably others as well
So he hates her
For that reason and that reason alone, and of course in old doddering Kevin’s mind he must have thought when he wrote todays offering of Shite in a Basket that this was, and is “Real Journalism” and not the crap like what that there Daily Record prints with that Wizard of Wisecracking mirth Davie Clegg (The bug with no Brain)
I bet you could live practically anywhere else in the world and get more news about where you live than in Scotland
I mean, they have local newspapers and radio stations in every tiny little town and Hamlet all over America and other places as well run by guys who are only known in that town and complete amateurs seem to be allowed Licences to do it, but in Scotland there seems to be problems with that like the folks from News Shaft and others trying to get something off the ground, but are held back because of the need for huge amounts of money, and all they want to do is bring us some news and a bit of entertainment which suits us,
The folk who Fecking live here
Merry Xmas Rev and many thanks for your outstanding work in `15 which has kept me feeling sane.
@ Dr Jim Yes BBC total excuse for an entertainment prog. Yon wanna be comic would have lasted about five minutes in a working mans social club. The Beebs canned laughter was just as bad. What Neep selects these acts.
Rather twisted logic in the Herald …..
link to archive.is
” “SNP bad” is contributing to an infantilized political culture … The tendency to thwack all criticism back in the direction it came from has been distilled, pithily but unappealingly, into “SNP bad”. ”
Err, in most cases the reason why ‘SNP bad’ is used as a retort is because the so called ‘criticism’ usually has little basis in reality or fact. The Yoons are so determined to spew out continual negativity about the SNP/SP they appear to suspend genuine critical thought.
Put simply, when the Yoons talk pish, an oft repeated ‘SNP bad’ in reply seems an ideal and appropriate way to respond. How can anyone enter debate when there is no substance to an argument?
The omni-presence of ‘SNP bad’ is not a refusal to respond to fair and due criticism, it is a put down of infantile and unsubstantiated negativity! This, most Scots fully understand!
There is of course the ‘cry wolf’ phenonimem. The Yoons have now made genuine political opposition to the SG difficult, because any valid points get lost among the baseless chatter.
@galamcennalath
Yes hahaha, read that this morning and nearly choked on my porridge!
SNP Baaaad! is the fault of the SNP. FFS the man is clearly deranged. Things just keep getting better, I’m luving it 🙂
Thepnr says:
“SNP Baaaad! is the fault of the SNP.”
… it’s the same logic as blaming the SNP for the poor quality of opposition to them.
Anyone know how our well-known Winger Boorach is getting on?
Would like to hear from him again, hope he’s doing OK.
A few months ago he was starting chemotherapy for cancer and his mobile home from home was getting overhauled via a crowdfunder.
BTW, it’s blue skies here and bout 14 degrees warm. 🙂
@Graf Midgehunter
Hi GM, Boorach has been back on twitter @Innesmhor for a while and says he is doing fine. Don’t know what happened about the van crowdfunder. His twitter avatar is still the old bus. link to twitter.com
Stu, thanks for what has become the most important website in the UK. And please take care. You are our window on Scottish politics. 2016 will be another battle.
I am otherwise surrounded by MSM “Matrix”. I no longer let these people into my mind.
X-Sticks Many thanks for the info. 🙂
@Dr Jim says: 26 December, 2015 at 10:18 am:
” … This Boxing Day in Scotland, Nothing happened, there was and is no news, just a bad lonely wannabe Glasgow Comedian who I tried to give a listen to just because, and then nearly killed myself tripping over the coffee table to get to the remote to remove him from my life.”
No, Dr Jim, it had nothing to do with your Chrissy Pressy, I reacted much the same – except I nearly landed myself returned to the back brace and neck collar after tripping over the wee Papillon bitch.
I ended up re-playing, “Grand Theft Auto IV”, from scratch on the Xbox 360. I’d finished that game some years ago, but it was the only game I had far enough back in time that I didn’t remember all the moves and the outcomes of the different choices made.
Trouble was that, after I began, I started to remember everything.