Wings Over Scotland

“Where we lost the majority of our seats”
Definition of majority; More than half of a total number or amount; the larger part of something.
Reality still being avoided.

It breaks your heart in two right enough.

Perfect choice.

Someone’s been watching Eva Comrie videos to work on his speech presentation . Shame the substance is sadly lacking

“I feel so bad, I’ve got a worried mind … ”

they will take our lives butt they will never take our dilators!!

angie constance at the end there, looking like a woman who has a fur coat made out of labrador puppies

who’s the fox in the first video (twirls moustache like terry thomas), my, how I would like to insert my love truncheon into the weeping sepsis front gash of that demure young filly

There but for the Grace of God go I.

Fuck! Sturgeon has let herself go a bit eh?

Constance there, interpreting for the deaf, “keep yer heid doon & look busy. Don’t make eye contact with the thing or you’ll get that podium roond yer napper”.

God, take me now.

From the heady days of the Glasgow Hydro to this, surely to fuck, the diehards must see the writing on the wall or online blogs, the dying embers of once a genuine civic movement to the dying embers of failure to accept the truth.

I remember the Hydro event where people were queuing up for hours and the SEC campus was jumping full of party members and activists. Yes, I was worried at the time about the cult of personality around Sturgeon, but there was every right to be optimistic.

Now, all of that is gone. Talk of how to make Scotland better for everyone and how to make peoples lives better so that nobody lives in poverty is replaced by men in wigs ranting aggressively.

It’s an absolutely crushing and completely self-imposed defeat by the SNP to have pandered to some of the worst in society at the expense of the rest of us.

As for independence, it’s over as a political option for now. Nobody undecided or firmly no will vote for it if what they get is the SNP inflicting more lunacy upon people. Plus as their line now is to mirror Labour’s cuts, there’s hardly the economic situation there was a decade ago where austerity was biting, but things hadn’t declined as they have now thanks to things like Brexit, and a disastrous run of Tory PMs.

It doesn’t matter how many marches there’s going to be, until people’s lives have improved & the SNP are either broken up and replaced, or the party undergoes a cleansing akin to what Kinnock did with Labour in the 80s, then independence is over for now.

And all because Sturgeon put her ego and her mates first.

Tldr: it’s over.

Ay, but there’s still joy to gained by twisting the sword of truth in traitrous entrails.

Scotland is an independent country.

As my wee memammy used to say, “It would bring tears to a glass eye, so it would.”
Whether of laughter or despair as you survey that initial clip is, of course, up to the viewer.

Scotland is a song, and like any song it must be sung together!

Jawohl, Herr Sturmbannfuhrer!

Erm … we need more sopranos. Get me the shears and 5 volunteers who want their transition fast-tracked to now …

Interestingly, despite his appearance, Roy Orbison wasn’t blind. Similarly, despite their name, it turns out the SNP weren’t an independence party.

Sad that it’s reached this decline. I feel sorry for all who worked and volunteered in vane with this party over the last 10 years.
Only hope now is Alba, ISP and any arising independence party to take a bulk of Holyrood seats both on the list and ftp.
All those who voted Labour need to think again and put HR26 votes to true independistas m

Pass out the Cyanide capsules. Remember bite into it. Don’t swallow.

top of the evenin to you, geri

the whole thing gives me a royston vasey vibe

link to youtube.com

– remember the days when this was the “outrageous comedy of the grotesque”

tell me when we hit rock bottom

Ian McCubben @9.23pm

Yes but what about those of us like me who have voted for the SNP, even as a wee party, for over 4 decades (and others more) in the simple and binding belief in Scotlands inalienable right to self determination again as an independent state, trashed on the back of control freaks, sweetie snatchers and cross dressers!

What a state of affairs..

The only slight consolation is that the winning team-ticks will eff off to Labour or who ever is todays top dog, burrow in their sucking the life out of it to ply their deviant ideologies..

Never let them back in and start from scratch again; as big Eck said the dream will never die and the dream is NOT a fast forward button to some androgynous distopian Eloi based degenerate self serving narcissist quasi so called society..

Tomorrow belongs to me. That’s the song the transgender wants to sing.

If guys want to put on a dress and pretend they are a woman, well there is no law against that.
However the majority don’t have to buy and accept their delusion.
I don’t know anybody who is trans and never met one even in passing but I do know that if I met someone like him I would not be able to keep a straight face nor remain silent if he started talking lik this

Mission accomplished for these bastards.

Must be horrible, knowing that the great majority of the country of your birth detest the sight of you, for the rest of your life?
Swinney’s such a cowardly, untalented worm of a man; he’ll be remembered as such.

The snpeee is a Deviant loving party

Apologies. A Dr. Who ad hominem coming in…

Don’t you think Nicola Sturgeon looks tired?

Recognising the signs of
sociopathy;

. Not understanding the
difference between right and
wrong.

. Not respecting the feelings
and emotions of others.

. Being callous.

. Constant lying or deception.

. Arrogance.

. Violating the rights of
others through dishonest
actions.

Remind you of anyone?

John C

” or the party undergoes a cleansing akin to what Kinnock did with Labour in the 80s ”

Hmmmm , that ” cleansing ” started a straight line that led from the abject failure of Kinnock to win for Labour against the Major Grey Man – war criminal Blair’s complicity in the death of Imillion + Iraqis – the PFI aberrations – Labour’s abandonment of it’s * natural * constituency & embrace of Neoliberal Globalism to the apotheosis of snide in the contemptible personage of Deep State asset Starmer .

The SNP is beyond cleansing , John ; it’s like one of those perennial weeds , eg Ground Elder , which if even a tiny bit remains in the ground after weeding will continue to grow/spread. The way to deal with them is by blow-torch .

Coincidentally , before seeing that video of a mentally disturbed individual addressing what must be the most cowardly , self-deceiving Party Membership extant I watched a video of a school teacher in Ireland being arrested and forcibly shoved into a police van for refusing to comply with * Transgender * Ideology his employers were dictating he MUST .

That’s where ” Be Kind ” has brought us . State imposition of an insane set of ideas and judicial punishment for failure to comply .

Anyone holding-up Ireland as somewhere Scotland should aspire to emulate should seriously reconsider that thought .

Until this cancerous ideology , it’s advocates, promoters , apologists are surgically excised from our body politic there is not the slightest chance Independence will be realised ; and in the ( extremely unlikely ) event that it was , the horrors of what’s happening in Ireland would become our reality too .

Granted , that may still be the case even without Independence

Well said Robert Hughes!

Gender ideology is a very serious matter not something to be dismissed as ‘bullshit’/’gender pish’ or something to make stupid sexist jokes about.

All the focus is on the SNP and the fact that every other political party in the UK is supportive of ‘gender ideology’ is forgotten.

This is no longer an issue for women to solve this involves everyone.

Robert Hughes
says:

Until this cancerous ideology , it’s advocates, promoters , apologists are surgically excised from our body politic there is not the slightest chance Independence will be realised ; and in the ( extremely unlikely ) event that it was , the horrors of what’s happening in Ireland would become our reality too .

Granted , that may still be the case even without Independence

Every single political party in the UK is supportive of ‘gender ideology’ so yeah if we remain in the Union the chances of this ‘cancerous ideology’ being removed are zero.

In the event of us becoming independent where would these political parties supportive of the eradication of ‘gender ideology’ come from?

I have been repeating the same thing for about five years now which is

Repeal the GRA 2004 and make ‘women face’ a hate crime.

Only when I hear Alex Salmond, Joanna Cherry, Neale Hanvey etc uttering these words will a believe Scotland has a snowballs chance in hell of singing together in harmony.

Scotland’s song is ‘out of tune’!

Stu,

Thank you for reporting on what some of us could not go to see,

I think,
I could not watch it all, was there a clicking of heels and raising hands to the sky,?
Wow,

Thats a “wow” not in a manner of praise because it reminded me of someone long ago that suffered one of those manic Bi-polar spectrums.

SNP are well and truly dead won’t even pray for them or wish that they rest in peace, as I well and truly hope everyone of them that brought us to this point get their comeuppance. On a good note Roy Orbison brilliant

IF & it is a big IF, there were any decent sensible members left in the SNP that were at that conference, then surely it has to be their last. I know if I had been there, I would have walked as soon as the man in drag was given a platform.. I have absolutely nothing against people who have actually gone through the medical procedure of transitioning. But you can not just stick a wig on your head, a frock on your body, lipstick on your every manly mooch. And expect to be taken seriously by seriously honest people in the hall..

Those members still living in hope, surely must now leave that party, I was 53yrs a supporter of SNP 12 yrs a member.. I also remember how boring a man Swiney was, & how nasty he was in trying to ensure MARGO could never win her seat, by sticking her 5th on the list.. Imagine anyone, trying to get rid of MARGO from their party.. Of course the reason was, She was a true believer in Independence, HE was always a devolutionist.

Then along came Sturgeon and between the two of them they did the dirty to Alex knowing full well it was the only way to keep him out of ever coming back.. Anyone who can pay to ever listen to Swiney or all the other thick as shit people he has in his cabinet and on back benches. seriously should spend that money on THERAPY so they can recognise the difference between an INDEPENDENTISTA & a British Unionist, who is happy to see their country held in chains..

Alex Salmond came so close to awaking Scotland for independence,
I can see why the establishment made sure to replace him asp with all the people that wander through you nightmares to make sure that Scotland never has a vehicle for us to vote and never to get that close to success again,

Because they never expected the original SNP to break through the rigged voting system, so it had to be destroyed from within to save the union.

I am still a very tired lady this morning with just a few hours sleep behind me, but even I am awake enough to see the purpose of replacing Alex Salmond with unelectable SNP.

The one thing that the union minded people want to ensure, is that there will be no ready vehicle to use should another Alex Salmond rise again in the future.

Job done,
None of us would vote for the installed people, whom wander through all our nightmares

James Che

Bang on the money.

It’s a USA directive sent out to all it’s puppets to implement or else they’ll be sanctioned.

The howling TRA clip typifies why the Roy Orbison song ” It’s Over ” is so appropriate.

That howling thing is the flagship of what the SNP has become with so much else secondary. And make no mistake this scum bag colonial party have spent big bucks promoting this howling nonsense across the country. In our NHS, our Police, our Schools a fortune has been spent on introducing policies, procedures, amending buildings for joint peeing together, its been total madness, whilst public service collapses.

But the SNP still don’t get it. Whack a mole is the electorates game now. And whack a mole they will at Hollyrood 26. If these scumbags, many of whom got ejected from Westminster think they are going to saunter into Hollyrood then they have another thing coming.

It’s Over – and thank God that it is. Eradication is the only thing that will kill this cancer that is the SNP.

The SNP displaying the fact that they simply do not understand why so many have abandoned them and their cabal of weirdos.

instead of asking the members who have blindly remained (the majority from the NicolaCanDoNoWrong corner a sensible approach would have been to ask those that left, why they left.

Then again the words “Sensible” and “SNP” do not belong in the same sentence.

Dickie tea,

Oh I don’t know, I think the nuSNP understand their Corporation objectives reasonably well,

Willie @ 10:11 am

“Eradication is the only thing that will kill this cancer that is the SNP.”

Yes Willie, becoming part of the neocolonial racket, introducing oppressive laws and enforcing alien ideologies whilst ignoring the ’cause’ is the SNP’s undoing. As Memmi wrote: “Colonialism is a disease” and “like a cancer wants only to spread”.

Colonialism as ‘punishment’ is also “a type of fascism” which as we see has “undermined civilizations, destroyed countries, ruined nationalities, extirpated “the root of diversity””(Cesaire).

If Scotlands old parliament made a treaty of union with the old parliament of England, Did that treaty end when the parliament of Scotland was dissolved? And supposedly the parliament of England was dissolved?

If Scotlands old parliament made a treaty of union with the old parliament of England to create the One Styled parliament of Great- Britain, that treaty in 1800 ended, whilst the old parliament of Scotland was under dissolution since 1707.
How is or was Scotland parliament able to negotiate in the treaty of union with Ireland to create the new parliament of Great- and Ireland in 1801 if it no longer existed?

This trans person, why do they think they are second class citizens?

Because they need to be victims. It’s built into transgenderism from its very roots in the late 90s in an attempt to gain traction as well as sympathy. After all, who’d criticise poor wee victims?

Except these people aren’t victims as a whole. Transgenderism is home now to abusive men (and the odd woman) who have seen a way to get society to bend to their will, as after all, nobody wants a return to the bad old days of the 80s and 90s. Except the homophobia LGB people suffered then had been going on for centuries, and people were killed for what they are. Trans people co-opted that for themselves (just as they’ve taken women’s forms) and weaponised it.

So now we’re at the stage where an aggressive and probably very mentally ill man stands at the SNP conference demanding the ability to override medical professionals and invade womens spaces no questions asked. It’s an abusers charter.So yes, Trans people have all the same rights all of us have but they want special privileges nobody else has.

If society allows them to carry on like this we’re going to end up in a place where not just more women and girls end up as victims, not to mention feminine young boys groomed to think they’re women by abusive men, but the backlash to this is going to be a way for the far right to recruit people which sadly, is already happening in small numbers.

It’s also depressing to see supposedly liberal men and women stand back and let people like the nutter at the SNP conference speak as they think it’s ‘progressive’ even though it’s clear it isn’t.

I too , was reminded of Hitlers screeching speeches. I always wondered why anyone thought it was great oration.

If the SNP are serious about repairing the damage they have done they need to start by emailing the tens of thousand of members of have left the party. They need to speak to them and listen.

If they don’t, they are finished.

I will never vote for them until they acknowledge that damaging Alex Salmond, Craig Murray, and WOS, was a mistake that never should have happened and deal with those who instigated it.

Typical of the current SNP – to blame everyone, and everything, for the coming austerity – as the SNP announces £500 million in spending cuts.

If only the grifting b*stards that run the SNP – hadn’t sold us out on indy – we could’ve steered a better course through the cuts – by tailoring our own budgets, to our ain needs – instead of waiting to see how much of oor ain stolen monies – we’ll get back from the foreign government (Westminster) – in the foreign country of England.

“SCOTLAND’s Finance Secretary Shona Robison has announced the Scottish Government will be making £500 million of spending cuts over the next year in a bid to fill a budget black hole.
After warning the UK is facing a “whole new era of austerity”, Robison made a statement to MSPs at Holyrood this afternoon laying out in detail the severe fiscal challenges the Scottish Government is grappling with.

She said: “Prolonged Westminster austerity, the economic damage of Brexit, a global pandemic, the war in U, and the cost of living crisis have all placed enormous and growing pressure on the public finances.”

link to archive.is

Of course it won’t provide energy for homes- or cut bills for Scots – the stolen energy will head South be used there – however it will be subsidised by the UK taxpayer – to help out the greedy already very wealthy energy firms, which will in turn grease a few palms along the way, and donate large sums of money to political parties – that aided and abetted the theft – a theft that will continue as long as Scots allow it to – whilst oor ain government the SNP does nothing about the theft – because they too are part of the problem.

“LABOUR’S much-vaunted GB Energy will be headquartered in Aberdeen, reports say.
BBC Scotland reported on Tuesday afternoon that the new publicly owned company, which will not provide energy to people’s homes, was to be based in the Scottish city.”

link to archive.is

This is why I keep popping in. Funniest thing I’ve seen in yonks. A Scotsman wearing a wig! what’s next? A Scotsman wearing a skirt? LOLZ

Laugh I nearly paid my TV Licence.

The man in the wig was funny and I think probably mentally unstable.

Then there’s the view of the empty hall.

They don’t get it or do they.

A heavily infiltrated party the SNP needs to be put out of its misery.

I suspect the Holyrood elections in 2026 will see an effective end to the failed and apparently corrupt party.

Please tell me that the creature in the wig is a joke
Snp could not really give any time to this nutter
PULLLEASE

@ Alf Baird says:3 September, 2024 at 11:42 am

Colonialism as ‘punishment’ is also “a type of fascism” which as we see has “undermined civilizations, destroyed countries, ruined nationalities, extirpated “the root of diversity”

Sure, Alf, and that’s why Wings BTL is never done criticising, colonialist, imperialist R, and cheering on U as it fights desperately to avoid being destroyed, ruined and extirpated.

Whoops, I may have cracked a rib there.

Cue usual pathetic suspects with bleats of Nazis, biolabs, zonalism, blah de bladdy blah.

Geri

It’s “Ros”, not “RoS”. Pay attention to how the boy fae scooby chooses to humiliate my country by denying her a capital ‘S’.

And if your usual unevidenced, plucked out of the air claim is true, then as a Scottish taxpayer I’m happy to help out U. Maybe there might be some kudos for Scotland in being seen to be sympathetic to another victim of the aggressive, colonialist oppression you’re forever gurnin about.

“That’ll be the £500 million deducted by that other grifter, Bojo, for U.”

Geri.

And then some – Sturgeon sent £67 million from Scotland alone the folk of Europe including the UK – there standards of living are set to drop dramatically – as their leaders appease the USA’s ambitions of trying to defeat R, at their/our expense – both Scholz (Germany) and Macron (France) – are/have impinged upon democracy to try and keep themselves in power – to keep the war against R alive – and to keep on backing the m-onsters committing g-en-oci-de in Pa-le-st-ine

The boy fae scooby trying to explain away the first “g-en-oci-de” in the entire history of the world that stops every day to vaccinate the kids of the so called victims.

And what’s this, a capital ‘P’? Respect paid to them, their non-existent country’s name gets capitalised, but no respect for Scotland. We’re a real country too, or at least we used to be, before the SNP took us down. We’re still not a shithole of tunnel-dwelling rapists, kidnappers, torturers and murderers of helpless captives.

Naw, to the boy fae scooby, we’re just “scotland”, the home of House Jocks and Shitty Scots, because we won’t support his deranged agenda.

@Geri & the Piss Takers

As me late, dear, departed maw used to say, you’re a tonic.

But still, the 64 thousand dollar question remains unanswered:

WTAF is wrong with you?

Ruby: spot on. Repeal of the GRA 2004.

John c: also spot on.

Twathater: I believe that there are people in positions of power who do actually support this stuff. They are into it themselves. PIE got plenty of support in parliament from those who were into it. Sex and sadism go hand in-hand for some. Others are plain evil and disruptive, and they get their kicks from trying to destroy sociaetal structures. Never before, except, perhaps, in Ancient Rome, has there been a time when sadists, psychopths, narcissists and varied mentally-ill people been so prevalent and openly, aggressively in your face. Some very wealthy people have a finger in this particular PIE, while others are into woman-hating and woman face. The may have different types of sexualties, but they are the same under the skin – exploiters driven by lust. That they all seem to deny the sexual aspect of their conversion to womanliness or the pursuit of those unable to consent, but they lie.

I would love to say that this is totally down to Westminster and Whitehall, but, sorry, much of it is entirely home-grown. We, too, have our share of perverts and deviants. As Ruby says quite correctly, independence per se will not get rid of this stuff. I, too, have been saying that for years now. We would only bring it with us into an independent Scotland.

Highly intelligent experts-in-their-fields , eg John Mearsheimer , Jeffrey Sachs , Col Doug MacGregor , have all stated R has not now nor ever has had any desire/intention of taking-over U let alone any other country .

The absurd fantasy of an intention to recreate the Soviet Union is the type of cretinous propaganda only a cretin would believe and only a nasty little propagandist would attempt to pass-off as reality .

Everything myself and others predicted would happen in this totally avoidable catastrophe has happened .

Another country in ruins as a result of making the fatal mistake of thinking the US War Machine gave an iota of fuck about it other than how it could be manipulated to serve the interest of the vastly profitable Forever War

“The boy fae scooby trying to explain away the first “g-en-oci-de””

Also there’s no S in Mongolia.

“Neither R nor U are signatories to the Rome Statute, the 1998 agreement that established the court. U’s parliament ratified the statute last month, but included a clause stating that it would not recognize the court’s jurisdiction over cases involving U nationals.”

Thoughts for today and other things,

The gender benders are the wokes nemesis.

Shona ‘pig in knickers’ Robison, ditched by Noddy Hosie the arse wipe and didn’t quite get over it, has today put the final nail in her career. She can always fall back on her Mickey Mouse degree. Only joking. Would you allow this swine anywhere near your family.

Bet the Useless stain on humanity will retire before the election. Claiming racism as his reason. Too many white folk in a white mans nation. Just isn’t fair.

The back door of the Scottish parliament needs slammed shut, preferably in the faces of the green disease.

Even the Ya Ya media admits, in their ignorance and arrogance that Wee cranky is an idiot. It must be hard to admit that you worshipped a sociopath for over a decade.

Me thinks the next Scottish government, whoever they are, are going to reap the seeds sown by the idiot and her he/she/it disciples. Just try and convince the Scots now. Looking forward to this one. A change in government ain’t gonna change a damm thing. The damage maybe irreversible.

Scotland would win an independence referendum.

England has been heading towards Fascism since Blair, Cameron, Mayhem, Bojo, Truss, Sunak & now Starmer…each & every single one more unhinged & draconian than their predecessor & each & every one hailing in more powers they don’t see the need to bring to parliament but will just rubber stamp in a “Here’s one I made earlier” & a compliant media asleep at the wheel.

That’s why the want alternative media censored or shut down cause it’s been left to them to uncover their shady deeds.

Also, little England is toast. Piss poor, a Billy no mates at home & abroad, austerity & fake anti semitism on the fcking brain & their only answer to everything.

It won’t ever recover for its role meddling in U either. From attacks on civilians to trying to start another Chernobyl disaster. Not to mention the shit in Iran. It’ll be banished off the world stage for good when the UN is forced to either clean up it’s act or be completely replaced.

Just cause the SNP has been infiltrated doesn’t mean Indy is dead. The entire UK is shit & all the shit stems from Engurlud. A one party state as Sir Kid Starver demonstrates perfectly.

Geri
Ignored
says:

Just cause the SNP has been infiltrated doesn’t mean Indy is dead. The entire UK is shit & all the shit stems from Engurlud. A one party state as Sir Kid Starver demonstrates perfectly

It’s England today yesterday it was America!

Might be time to face up to what’s happening in Scotland.

As it stands Scotland is way ahead of England vis a vis the very destructive ‘gender ideology’ ‘denial of freedom of speech’ and ‘hate crime legislation’.

Scotland has prepared the route for Starmer and his ‘one party state’

Indy is dead it was been destroyed just like trust in politicians, the NHS and the police.

Time to focus on Scotland.

Didn’t Thatcher think she could make Scotland a testing ground for the poll tax but thanks to Tommy Sheridan and a wide awake Scottish electorate didn’t get away with it.

It looks as if the SNP have made Scotland a testing ground for gender reform, hate crime legislation & denial of freedom of speech.

This has been very helpful for Starmer.

It looks as if the result of this particular test is you can get away with anything in Scotland.

Scotland is ready for fascism. Totally docile and accepting of everything no matter how insane.

George Ferguson @ 07.31.

Seems as if the D’Hondt closed list system may possibly be fulfilling the original design of messrs Dewar and Blair if these projections are anywhere near accurate come 2026.
The closed list affording patronage and control within the major players and the divisive combination of “checks & balances” brought in by the proportioning of the vote achieving the desired result of an expensive talking shop.

link to electionpolling.co.uk

@Sven 8:36am
Indeed about our electoral system. The above link is for wingers to monitor themselves. The latest weighted poll was before the pre-budget statement in Holyrood yesterday. It is amazing to me that Reform are polling at 9% without any significant Scottish specific policies. Does reveal though what the public think of incumbents at Holyrood.

Things just get worse, scotgov has fully accepted the Cass recommendations … and is ALLOWING GPs to dish out wrong sex hormones on request, while puberty blockers will also be allowed if required. Fkn barstewards! The NHS is on its knees financially, menopausal women can’t access HRT and SNP does THIS. I hate them will all my might along with transvestites and transsexuals. Perverts the lot of them. Rant over!

D’Hondt is not inherently skewed towards delivering sinecured places for the apparatchiks of the mainstream parties. Rather than blame D’Hondt for the anaemic state of representative democracy, we should consider less dramatic but nonetheless insidious, means of technical control put in place by agents of the Permanent State.

Remember, the high point in true, proportional representation at Holyrood was 2003 with eight MSPs outwith the five establishment parties..
You don’t have to support the political platforms put forward by non-establishment individuals or parties to support the general principle that a multitude of voices enhances debate. By design, we are left with slightly different flavours of our managerial class endorsed, bland menu.
The fall of the Scottish Socialist Party was the result of various factors, but their political posters at election time were a feature of our streets. The ability of the SSP to harness the enthusiasm of their support and promote their message through poster campaigns will have played a significant part in their returning six MSPs in 2003. By the 2007 election, Margo MacDonald would be the only independent voice at Holyrood. As of the 2016 election, Holyrood was reduced to the five establishment parties
This display of “populism” was intolerable to our managerial class. By the 2016 election, 32 out of 36 Scottish councils has established by-laws prohibiting election posters on council owned street furniture.
The four “hold-out” councils continue to allow election posters on street furniture, proving that any perceived “littering” issue can be managed rather than resorting to prohibition. It’s no coincidence that all four councils are rural and are substantially populated by independent councillors, free from the admonishments of any party head office.
This is the enabling mechanism that has engineered a “career path” for middle class humanities graduates (something with Politics in the title) to monopolise salaried positions at Holyrood.
If we are looking for a locus directing this planned degradation of true, vibrant democracy, we need look no further than the John Smith Centre. Behind disingenuous platitudes about “trust” and “diversification” this front for Thames House, uses internships focused on minority identity groups deemed deserving of promotion beyond any actual, proportional distribution they have in society (LGBTQ+ and BAME, but never Working Class), to mentor and network individuals into a career path that runs from office worker to researcher to SPAD to elected representative.

TURABDIN @ 10:23 am

“The issue with the SNP is that when it had power it failed to use it to advance the constitutional demise of the British state.”

Exactly that. The SNP inaction reflects the fact the dominant party ideology is neoliberal, not nationalist. Nationalists in colonial countries only have one purpose – to liberate the people. The SNP neoliberals opted instead to become part of the colonial racket, further enslaving the people.

Which explains why the independence movement are now dumping them and their mankit colonial government.

BBC, labour and. Conservative all going “hell for leather” on a single message. All cuts are the responsibility of the SNP mismanagement.

Guess the polis will go for mismanagement of anp funds

With regard to ideological capture I had an interesting informal conversation about a year ago with someone who advises the likes of Creative Scotland on which sections of the demographic are deserving of funding and which are not. They told me that my being sidelined for funding after over a decade of applications was because I am now vocal about the monopolisation of funding amongst certain groups. So I did not get any money over the last decade and a half of applications because over the last couple I have been vocal about where it is repeatedly going, makes sense. When I brought up the subject of Govanhill and the image of it which is being portrayed within the creative sector in comparison to my own lived experience they told me that I am having unprovoked attacks carried out against me in the area because incomers can sense that I am hostile towards them so are carrying out pre emptive attacks against me in self defence before I can attack them. That these attacks are being made without a word passing or even eye contact between us made no difference to this persons opinion.

This person did not originate from Scotland or even England, Ireland or Wales but was advising on who and where Scotlands money went in its creative sectors.

Remember when Branchform first started and the accusations that the SNP had been infiltrated by MI5/6? Then the subsequent complaints that Branchform was hurting the General Election campaign. Well guess what – what’s hurting the SNP most of all is that it’s been infiltrated by these Trans idiots and their ideology. These people have been looking for a “home” and found it in the SNP. The SNP in turn were desperate for the adulation and high membership so didn’t see it coming. Their voice is now hugely influential and with falling numbers they darent kick them out. Look they have a right to follow their chosen lifestyle but the rest of us don’t want to hear about and we don’t want it to be treated like some mainstream problem facing us all.