Wings Over Scotland

This toon tyoifies the lunacy of the Scottish Greens.

Truly it would not surprise me if the Greens wanted to dig up half of the A9 to u dual it for environmental reasons. They are that daft.

Hair shirt cave dwelling for us all if they have their way.

But one exception would have to be west end wine bar soirees for our captains if greenery. Of that there can be no compromise. That and a bit of collegiate How’s your father, wink wink with Joe Fitz Patrick and Patrick Fitz Joe

A typical Friday afternoon in the classroom.

Everyone of us who has ‘skipped’ stones into the sea should be made to go back and collect them up.
It will help lower the sea level.

Or ….
We could kill more whales

Big Bird for FM!

It could nt get any worse with pinky and perky green machine.

JohnIm at 8.27am:
‘Big Bird for FM!’

You could be onto something, JohnIm. Having no idea who Big Bird was, I just had to consult the fount of all knowledge, Wikipedia.

Apparently, a 2012 US presidential candidate “used Big Bird as an example of spending cuts he would make to reduce the federal budget deficit”.

Muppets guest starring at leadership programmes – it’s a no brainer.

Dumb and Dumber peddling us all the way back to the cave. The average standard of MSP and MPs are truly shocking.

Agree with what you say Ruairidh and the answer to your question is, nope.

The environmental movement was nobbled with woke poisoners well before the independence movement was. Seems to be their template.

It doesn’t matter what madcap plans the degenerate Greens come up with the current SNP will keep them onside to have the numbers to push policies through the chamber.

Mark Beggan.

Do you mean when Wade wasn’t slaughtering Jacobites (Scots) at the behest of King George I.

Incidentally Wade’s road inspector and fellow Irishman Major William Caulfeild also built roads in Scotland.

Also as EVERY Scots should know.

Wade received mention in an unofficial verse sung as part of God Save the King:

Lord, grant that Marshal Wade
May, by thy mighty aid,
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush
And, like a torrent, rush
Rebellious Scots to crush.
God save the King.

The reaction of Humza is inaccurate.

It would more likely be “Way to go Lorna! But remember if it works I thought of it first.”

More concerning than the toon’s.greens, who’re just overgrown kids enjoying themselves really, is what Lord Foulks might have done to Humza (and on whose orders) – best hope is a serious night on the town to apologise but Foulksies boss, Sarwar?, might imagine things differently once he sees the tweet.

*WORTH A REPEAT* Mac says on 16 December 2023 at 9:50 am:

“The damage they are doing to Scotland is immense and on going.”

WEF Agenda 30 writ large

Red @ 11:17 am

“The brutal fact is you are part of an endangered species (the Scots) and you are the carbon they want to reduce.”

Yes, a colonised people are always “in the process of perishing” (Fanon). So long as colonialism is allowed to continue, a people and their culture are withering away (Cesaire). UK/Scottish Government policies appear designed to hasten this process.

The colonizer knows that once ‘a people’ are made into a minority in their own land their prospects for independence are diminished. Imperial job done!

Which also helps explain the hidden census data, and the irregular local government election franchise used for any Scottish referendum and ‘national’ elections in Scotland which inflates the ‘No’ vote.

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

Green muppets who’s who, continued :

Lorna Slater
link to ifunny.co

Maggie Chapman
link to twitter.com

Patrick Harvie and Ross Greer
link to twitter.com

Maurice Strong – real author of Agenda21?
link to azquotes.com

Alf Baird –

But you know our sense of timing,
We always wait too long.

meanwhile …
link to youtube.com

@Republicofscotland

That’s the very chap.

Scots also massacred Jacobites.

Glasgow and Paisley sent troops to fight for the King
against the Poncy French git and his mates. Who later left his mates and their families
to their fate.

@Alf Baird

You continually claim to have diagnosed the problem (“colonialism”), yet you never bother to prescribe the cure, other than in vague, undefined terms, such as “decolonisation” and “independence”.

Suppose I were to outline a few cures:

1. All people of insufficient racial indigenous purity to be removed from positions of responsibility, authority and influence, regardless of merit.

2. All positions of responsibility, authority and influence to be re staffed with indigenes, regardless of merit.

3. All inwards migration to Scotland to be stopped. That includes migration from England, the EU and further afield, so rules out EU or EFTA membership, and rules out the return of second generation or older descendants of Scottish emigrants.

4. All voting rights to be withdrawn from those of insufficient indigenous racial purity.

5. Whilst stopping short of ethnic cleansing, the effective barring of Non-Scots from good jobs would effectively encourage many of working age to migrate. The loss of voting rights would provide a certain encouragement too to non-Scots who don’t work.

What do you think, is the above taking it too far, or not going far enough?

I think I have provided a good description of the decolonisation process in many places, so is this what you are advocating for iScotland?

Anton Decadent @ 12:57
With regard to the John Smith Centre, the Chair, Catherine Smith includes on her site biography, working “… on conflict resolution and democracy building in the NGO sector, working particularly in the countries of the former Soviet Union.” This is an amendment to a previous entry which referred to a specific employer, namely, NGO LINKS, which she described as being “London based”. This is curious as NGO LINKS operated out of the University of Arizona. NGO LINKS was funded by the US Government’s National Science Foundation. Why would an agency ostensibly focused on scientific research within the territorial boundaries of the US fund political work in countries formerly in the Soviet Union (specifically Georgia)? Perhaps the National Endowment for Democracy has lost its utility as a front for the CIA?
In this, Catherine shares the same employment history as ex SNP MP Stephen Gethins. On loosing his comfortable, Westminster sinecure in the crash GE of 2019, Gethins was taken on with indecent haste by the spook ridden School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews.

Vivian O’Blivion –

He worked in the NGO Sector specialising in peace-building, arms control and democracy in the Caucasus and the Balkans regions. He worked with NGO Links in Tbilisi focusing on the conflicts surrounding the breakaway entities in the South Caucasus such as South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. He also worked for Saferworld on arms control, peace-building and democratisation in the former Soviet Union and Balkans.[2]

Gethins can see in the dark because he glows so bright.

Vivian Gethens gets about.

link to wikispooks.com

Some Scottish politicians are utterly compromised and serve the interests of London/Washington and Tel Aviv. This includes keeping Scotland in the union.

“Aw naw, genocide. It’s everywhere”

John Main.

And if the Genocide Convention isn’t triggered one could say that the Rule of International Law is over.

If Israel’s genocidal politicians along with Genocide Joe- (Biden), and the UK’s Rishi Sunak and multiple EU politicians are NOT held to account in aiding and abetting the genocide of the oppressed Palestinian people, if they don’t face consequences for their part in facilitating the genocide then why would any nation/people look the ICC or the ICJ or UN to aid them in their time of great need.

In my opinion the West and its World Court, the ICJ and other bodies are on trial here and the world is watching, what they do with regards to this blatant genocide of the oppressed Palestinians will surely damage the credibility of these bodies for a long time to come.

“Yesterday I attended a session called by Palestine at the United Nations in Geneva. Over 120 states attended. While the formal session consisted of statements of national position with few surprises, I was able to discuss with a large number of delegates in the corridors why the Genocide Convention has not been activated triggering a reference to the International Court of Justice.

The answer is now clear to me. It is not that people are worried that a claim of genocide will not be successful at the International Court of Justice. It is that everybody is quite sure it will succeed. There is no respectable argument that this is not a genocide in the terms outlined above.

The problem is that once the ICJ has determined that this is a genocide, it follows that not only are Netanyahu and hundreds of senior Israeli officials and military personally liable, but it is absolutely plain that “Genocide Joe” Biden, Sunak and members of their administrations are also criminally liable for complicity, having provided military support for the genocide.

The International Criminal Court cannot ignore a judgment of genocide from the International Court of Justice and will have no choice but to issue arrest warrants.

A genocide is the worst of crimes. Just how appalling this one is has been shown to the world like never before, through the power of social media.

But to the global 1% whose interests rule the world, no number of dead Palestinians makes any real difference to their interests. On the other hand, the ramifications for the international system of wealth concentration, if western political elites start to be held accountable for their crimes, are uncertain and therefore carry more risk. This is particularly the concern of ruling classes of both Western and Arab states.

It may sound astonishing, but to the world’s diplomats the enormity of a genocide appears less troubling than the enormity of doing something about it.”

link to craigmurray.org.uk

People who will soon become a hated minority in their own country worrying about “genocide” of ethnic groups who have much higher birth rates than we do.

?_?

Why does the A9 not self identify as a dual carriageway or even a motorway and save millions which could be used to grow almonds so saving the planet from the farting cows. Humza this is a joke so stand down. Good lad.

I suspect the reality of the A9 is that it does not need to be a motorway based on the traffic numbers.

There a couple of junction like Brewer and Dalwhinie that would benefit from work, bridges, underpasses etc but not motorway!!!

Dealing with the bampots driving at 90 mph plus would ve a good start.

John Main @ 1:24 pm

“You continually claim to have diagnosed the problem (“colonialism”), yet you never bother to prescribe the cure, other than in vague, undefined terms, such as “decolonisation” and “independence”.”

According to postcolonial theory (Fanon, Memmi etc) where colonialism is permitted to continue this leads to: a) a greater risk of conflict and; b) a colonised people perishing.

Which leads to the realisation that the only remedy for colonialism is liberation, which may be achieved as follows:

link to grousebeater.wordpress.com

Three Israeli hostages carrying a white flag shot by IDR.
Thought they were John Main’s ‘pallys’ I suppose
link to npr.org

Old man concealing two rifles in his underwear.
link to twitter.com

Another journalist drone bombed. Death toll >90
link to msn.com

It is not just the completion of dualling of the Perth-Inverness A9 which is at issue, of course. Also suspended to please the Greens was the plan to dual the A96, the very busy and dangerous artery connecting Inverness and Aberdeen.

Ach, with Grangemouth refinery closing I guess that might just be the impetus stalwart of all things green, Fruitella, needs to switch from oil central heating to a more Eco-sustainable source of heat energy. It’s one thing using fossil fuels produced locally to keep yer arse warm, but surely a step too far to continue burning imported fuel with the extra carbon footprint that entails.

John Main @4.24pm.

Now lets see, take your word that its not a genocide, or that of diplomats who say it is a genocide a no brainer I think.

“The answer is now clear to me. It is not that people are worried that a claim of genocide will not be successful at the International Court of Justice. It is that everybody is quite sure it will succeed. There is no respectable argument that this is not a genocide in the terms outlined above.”

link to craigmurray.org.uk

The once persecuted have become the long term persecutors, the latter and their aiders and abettors MUST stand trial.

I wish John Main would do some research.
It’s like trying to educate a goldfish.

link to blogs.timesofisrael.com

An Israeli government document suggesting the mass relocation of Gaza’s 2.3 million people to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is fuelling concerns about the possible e***ic clean*ing of Palestinians.

link to cbc.ca

“An Israeli think-tank, the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zion**t Strategy, released a paper inferring the situation presented “a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in co-ordination with the Egyptian government.”

“At the moment, these conditions exist, and it is unclear when such an opportunity will arise again, if at all,” reads a Hebrew-English translation published by the website Mondoweiss.

Israeli officials and other political figures have openly expressed similar sentiments, according to an article from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.”

ScotsRenewables @ 7.05

I think there is definitely a genocide going on in Gaza.

My post was in response to John Main endlessly denying such, and spreading the worst, unchecked, Zionist propaganda.

I link to Zionist sites like The Times of Israel because it emphasise how corrupt his arguments are.

He is gradually having to moderate his position as events bring shame to his apartheid belief system.
Who knows, he may even stop slagging the Geneva Convention.

@ Fearghas at 5.31 re the Aberdeen – Inverness road needs dualling.

Just what I thought – there’s been another fatal crash today on the A96.

John Main says: at 12:44 pm

“Even if the entire A9 gets dualled, the uncomfortable and awkward fact remains that dual carriageways are merely sops for third world countries that can’t afford motorways.”

“They remain inherently more dangerous than motorways too, due to their lack of proper on/off ramps and lanes, and not having a hard shoulder.”
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Oh dear Johnny, you’re back to your bullshit again..!

I didn’t know Germany was a third world country with no money.. 🙁

There are literally thousands of kilometers of dual carriageways here because it’s the first step of improving the traffic flow from standard Bundesstrassen (Main federal roads – A roads in UK).

They are no more dangerous than other roads, in fact Motorways and dualed roadways are in the statistics less accident prone because the traffic is more directed with less distractions from crossing or mingling from sidearms. Some have hard shoulders, some don’t but the effect is the same.

As a britnat you should stop reading the crap from the Mail, Sun or Telegraph, etc., just because the sh**hole of England can’t get its act together doesn’t mean Scotland can’t learn from other countries to improve its infrastructure.

John Main you’re a yoon fanny..

Sam

Looks like someone has plans to tie US aid to acceptance of refugees into Egypt, Turkey, Iraq and Yemen.

link to israelhayom.com

Who would like to make a guess as to the date Nicola became compromised and started promoting plants and taking on failed policies.

It started at some point. Take a guess

I’ll guess.

2015 Robertson changes conference rules.
2017 Sturgeon meets with Mayhem in a hotel.

Shug says:
16 December, 2023 at 4:36 pm

‘I suspect the reality of the A9 is that it does not need to be a motorway based on the traffic numbers.’

OH DO FUCK OFF! SERIOUSLY!… And Actually… when you’ve finished fucking, pick yourself up and fuck off again.

That’s from someone who lives in Perth and has to factor in Weekend traffic, as they filter North (and then South for Mondays) on the only ‘main route’ north in the counrty.

Fuck me, wasn’t I surprised on the few times on holiday ‘darn sarth’ 1/ to Sherwood/Robinhood Country and 2/ to the Lake District…. duel carriageway as a matter of course… all over the place.

And lets not even talk about 3 lane carraigeways. Oh no.

Just enough. Fucking lies, fed up of it.

@ Shug 11.36pm I’m sorry Shug I don’t agree with you telling Stu he has to include re talking up Scotland, on a few interactions with John Robertson I found him to be as much of a snp and sturgeon apologist as paypal paul and munguins new republic , robertson and munguin rightfully highlight the lies and duplicity of the MSM and broadcasters BUT it is done with the protection of the snp and sturgeon/useless at the forefront, when you point out their hypocrisy they just double down that WM is worse , as if that excuses the incompetence and corruption of the sturgeon/useless cabal of morons
Their attitude consists of vote for the shitey snp because the other parties are more shitier

Ach, it’s not just the A9 that needs dualled, the bit when you’re heading north and turn left fae Ballinluig to ‘Feldy, and onto Kenmore will need done for aw they millionaires to get to their luxury hooses in the Taymouth Castle development.
Some of those developer contributions from the Taymouth Castle project to support local infrastructure could be used.
Of course those millionaire NuScots may just fly in with helichoppers so won’t require decent roads, but Perth and Kinross Cooncil could just slap a ULEZ extending to an altitude of a couple of thousand feet on the entire region and extricate some extra dosh that way. Totes legit too as alert engineers will note that helicopters dinnae use AdBlue and DPFs on their exhausts.

From AlJazeera

“Netanyahu?
Then-Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced the Israeli prime minister’s indictment on November 21, 2019. The investigations were listed as cases 1000, 2000 and 4000.

Case 1000 alleges that Netanyahu, 74, and his wife, Sara, 65, have received lavish presents from prominent Israeli Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire businessman and Israeli citizen James Packer in return for political favours. This case charges the Israeli PM with fraud and breach of trust. Fraud and breach of trust carry a prison sentence of up to three years while bribery charges carry a sentence of up to 10 years in jail and/or a fine. Milchan testified that he provided gifts to Netanyahu in June 2020.

Case 2000 accuses Netanyahu of negotiating with Israel’s leading daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, for favourable coverage in exchange for legislation that would slow the growth of a rival newspaper. This case also charges him with fraud and breach of trust.

Case 4000 indicts Netanyahu for granting regulatory favours to Israel’s leading telecommunications company, Bezeq Telecom Israel, in return for positive coverage of him and his wife on a news website controlled by Bezeq’s former chairman, Besides fraud and breach of trust, Netanyahu has been charged with bribery in this case.
Netanyahu, who is the first sitting Israeli prime minister to face court as a defendant, has denied any charges and claimed that the indictments were part of a politically charged witch-hunt against him by his rivals to remove him from office.”

From Ducksoap.

Tories used Covid-19 as an opportunity to enrich themselves, their families and their business associates via awards of PPE contracts. Multiples of billions of pounds of public money were handed to racketeers’ made-up businesses for alleged supply of equipment and services to assist with tackling the pandemic. Most of the equipment and services was not supplied or else was unusable. Prices paid for it had huge mark-ups. Recipients of the contracts raked in massive profits. It was the biggest scam in the history of UK.
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On[e] of the beneficiaries was Michelle Mone, a Tory peer in House Of Lords. PPE Medpro Limited was incorporated on 12th May 2020 and was awarded the contract on 24th June 2020. Directors Voirrey Coole and Anthony Page are also directors at Knox House Trust that gives fiduciary advice to companies and individuals with emphasis on large scale tax avoidance. Knox House Trust is registered in tax haven Isle Of Man and is part of Knox Group of companies founded by its chair Doug Barrowman, husband of Mone. The company address for PPE Medpro Limited is the same address as that of Michelle Mone Interiors Limited of which Mone is a director.
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The equipment supplied by PPE Medpro was deficient and the company is being sued by the government. Mone and Barrowman denied any involvement with PPE MedPro and maintained that criminal deception for several years before being forced to admit it is their business.
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Today, Sunday 17th December 2023, BBC’s servant journalist Laura Kuenssberg gave Mone and Barrowman a platform on TV to lie and deceive. She gave them an opportunity to cast themselves as “scapegoats.” She allowed them to claim they were just running a business and allowed them to “regret” lying about owning PPE MedPro.
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George Ferguson 8:30

I’m guessing road fatalities continue to fall due to the happy congruence of a number of factors.

The deterioration of road surfaces means travelling faster results in expensive vehicle damage that ultimately cools the enthusiasm of most boy racers.

The eradication of road markings and the obscuring of roadside signs (and sight lines) by vegetation, makes driving on unfamiliar roads much more difficult, hence speeds fall.

On many rural roads, the bloating of traffic as enormous SUVs become the norm (a trend amplified by vehicle electrification) has reduced the overtaking opportunities available, and hence reduced speeds.

It’s the widespread pot holing that mostly exercises me. Most daytime journeys involve a constant weave around the obstacles – not doing that rapidly breaks springs. In the wet and/or dark, the obstacles can’t be seen to be weaved around, and hence speeds have to come right down.

Last but not least, drive too close behind a truck that is merrily ploughing through the potholes, and consequently throwing showers of gravel in its wake, and your windscreen will become a casualty too.

TURABDIN says:
17 December, 2023 at 10:47 am

Face it guys, if you want independence you will almost certainly need a leadership, and constituency, prepared to fight for it, as the majority of free peoples have had to.
At the moment the Scottish lion seems all gum and blunt claws and «everything worn out under the kilt».
This needs more than a «viagra» quick fix.
A recension of the methodology and strategy? Who has the balls?

What about the Scottish lionesses?

All very macho BTL here on Wings.

Scottish lionesses those without the balls are very busy at the moment trying to keep men out of our spaces.

In 2021, Scotland had the ninth lowest rate of people killed in road accidents out of a list of 40 comparable countries.

In Scotland, 26 people were killed for every million people in the population. This figure was higher than for the United Kingdom as a whole, where 24 people were killed for every million people in the
population.

The list of countries with comparable road casualty figures includes most European
countries and selected developed countries
Worldwide.

Of the countries compared,Norway had the lowest number of road deaths per million population (15),whereas the USA had the
highest (129).

“…John Main you’re a yoon fanny..”

LOL

Altogether now; “And so say all of us!”

I find it amazing how angry people get about Gaelic signs.

FYI In Brittany signs are in both French & Breton.

I believe the same thing happens in Wales.

As yet I don’t know how people react to the Breton & Welsh signs.

I did however find this:

link to itv.com

archived version doesn’t show video but here it is:

link to archive.is

@Breeks says:17 December, 2023 at 12:13 pm

Use the excess clean electricity to synthesis synthetic kerosene, gasoline, propane and diesel, etc. and we won’t even have to adapt the vehicles, other Internal Combustion Engines, or heating/cooking systems we already have. Neither will we have to adapt our existing storage, transportation or distribution infrastructures. We can keep our current aircraft too, not to mention our classic cars and bikes.

And no “perhaps be used” about it. Adjust the carbs, or remap the engine management systems, and it’s done.

For hydrogen, all of these things will have to be modified to a greater or lesser degree. Some of them will have to be junked and started over.

Nobody is suggesting a return to hydrogen in manned dirigibles for obvious reasons.

Soz, but you kinda lost me about 4 paragraphs before the end. Given the current trajectories of the BRICS, EU and Western Nations, I am far more concerned that all of them might see iScotland as a disposable, sparsely populated battleground on which they can vie for world dominance with acceptable (to them) collateral casualties.

But we can agree to differ on that, shelve the visionary idealism, and maybes learn to walk before we try to run.

Now, about these ferries …

fruitella the hun says: at 11:27 am

“Roads use an oil by-product product, increase oil demand and generally support the car-based “growth economy” so beloved of those who don’t mind the destruction of nature required to make it all work (for a while).”

Well that’s as handy as fuck then seeing as “greens” like you are still using oil central heating…
How many litres of kerosene do you get through a year?
I only use about 5 litres of petrol per annum to cut enough locally sourced firewood with my chainsaw to keep my woodburning stove going. And that is the only source of heat I choose to use seeing as the price of leccy produced by hydro and wind is extortionate.
I could actually produce the small amount of leccy I use cheaper than the energy corporates sell it for by running a diesel / veg oil generator which operates at about 40% efficiency. Plus I could easily make an acoustic chamber to house the generator to make it quieter than the fucking air source heatpumps which you may have read I measured the noise levels of last week with one at 49db which is nearly ten times the legal noise limit of 42db, and the other was 59db which is almost 100 times the legal limit. Environmental Services at local Council have now been contacted about this so evidence is lodged with them that the roll out of this greenwashing shite is hugely flawed.

Effijy

“Happy to kill their own”

Dinna be daft. It’s a war, shit happens.

If the surrender was organised like the temporary truces were, and overseen/monitored by the UN, there’s every chance nobody would get shot.

But you by all means continue to push for your idea – which as far as I can see consists of more of the same indefinitely.

Like most of the rest on here, you have only one absolute: ideological purity. So no solution to anything can ever be entertained if it will compromise that. And the wreckage of Scots Indy is all around us to evidence just where pursuit of that absolute has got you and your fellow travellers.

UN forces with shoot to kill orders! Just listen to yourself FFS!

If there was a United Nations worth anything they have to go in there and keep these two apart just like in Bosnia. A UN forces has to be prepared to kill anyone attempting to kill.

A UN Force without the US or UK. The US voted against a UN Ceasefire Resolution, and the UK abstained. When they don’t have the courage or integrity to back a ceasefire, would you want them in a Peacekeeping role? Pretty sure neither the Muslim world nor the Ruskies wouldn’t wear it.

Furthermore, their undeniable complicity with Genocide, literally, by the UN’s explicit definition of Genocide, now means if Israel is ever to be prosecuted for Genocide, then the US and UK can be prosecuted for their own complicity in Genocide. Who polices the police when the permanent members on the global police security committee are absolutely rotten to the core?

We may be witnessing the death throes of the UN.

The League of Nations wound up after failing to prevent WW2. Dare I suggest the UN’s coat is on a similarly shoogily peg, but what the hell is there to replace the UN?

With the EU compromised and in trouble, the UN with blood on it’s hands, and the “Western Allies” undertaking Terrorist attacks, repeatedly now refusing to prioritise ceasefires and talks, shaping up to be on the side with European far Right Nazis and Nuclear powered genocidal maniacs, it would seem PEACE is now a four letter word, and if war is on the way to us, I really, really dislike the “side” we’re apparently doomed to be on.

As David Mitchell once quipped, playing an SS Officer, “Are we the baddies in this?”

Well, if you’re talking about the gun-running UK, then Abso-fking-lutely.

We Scots are running out of time to do the World a favour and bring down the curtain on the United Kingdom. Carpe Diem Scotland, or you’ll have nobody to blame when we’re bogged to the neck in the shite and lunacy that’s heading in our direction.

Two cyclepaths and a dead-end.

If we put up signs along the A9 saying things like ‘too wee’, ‘ too poor’, ‘too stupid’, could we call it a JohnMain road?

John Main says: at 10:40 am
@GM 8:32

“Yeah, yeah, you’re so dedicated to Scotland’s future you fecked off abroad. Let me guess – you plan to come back when your desperate need for free medical care exceeds your current desperate need to amass more personal wealth.”
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That’s very kind of you to remind us all about the plight of the many, many thousands of English who “emigrated” to France and Spain to enjoy the cheap sunshine and the other colonies of “little England” G&T, beer swilling fugitives. No need to learn the language, English reigns supreme and thanks to the EU and its health agreements could still get their treatments, no problem.

Then the thickos voted YES to Brexit… 🙁

The consequences shell-shocked them cos they’d just f***ed up the very basis of their existence abroad. There’s lots of houses an’ flats going cheap now.. 🙂

When I retire, I think Inverness will get the pleasure of my company and investments. (BTW, it’s twinned with Augsburg, Bavaria.)
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“But don’t take it up with me. Take it up with those “daft” first world countries building “unnecessary” motorways.”
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Maybe “daft” English/WM should build-back their motorways/dualed roads and build more high-speed train links like in the EU instead…!?

Oops, sorry, almost forgot, the sh**hole of England can’t do complicated things like that

Johnlm says:
17 December, 2023 at 2:57 pm

John Main is a cheese eating surrender monkey for Scotland and Palestine.
But not for 404.

Anyone enlighten me as to what 404 is/means please?

I do not see how surrender will affect the situation of the estimated 1.8 million Palestinian people now refugees in the places where they once lived.

Over half of Gaza’s homes – 305,000 residential units have been destroyed or damaged
339 educational facilities damaged
26 out of 35 hospitals not functioning
102 ambulances damaged
197 places of worship damaged

From The Conversation.

“There is a modern term for what’s happening in Gaza. Domicide refers to the deliberate destruction of home, or the killing of the city or home. It comes from the Latin word domus which means home and cide, which is deliberate killing.

But, home here doesn’t only mean the physical, tangible built environment of people’s homes and properties, it also refers to people’s sense of belonging and identity. We are seeing in many conflicts and wars across the world that alongside the destruction of architecture, people’s sense of dignity and belonging is also being targeted…

…Israeli-British historian Avi Shlaim, an emeritus fellow at the University of Oxford, who was born in Baghdad, and is considered one of Israel’s critical “new historians”, called Israel’s actions “state-sponsored terrorism”. Raz Segal, an Israeli historian, wrote: “Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed.” Others argue vehemently against any moral equivalence with the Hamas attacks.”

Getting chilly again so the village ASHP orchestra is beginning to fire up again for this evening and night’s performance of an unjoyous cacophony of droning resonances. Need to fire up my sound system, turn it up to eleven and blast out Rage Against the Machine…

404 is the country YouCrane

Johnlm – got it, cheers.

Dan

Not sure whether you don’t understand one of my main points or just flat out discount it. I’ll try a refresh. Individuals can only effect peaceful change – or prevent it – by being very wealthy or by collective action through a functioning democracy. If this site is about anything it is about that ‘function democracy” bit. We don’t seem to have one in the UK although we could in theory,

Big Oil (and big pharma…etc.) put huge resources into preventing us responding collectively to the needs of the less-well-off and the natural environment (we depend on – but everybody knows that by now, surely?). If you think that a few concerned educated environmentally-minded people can change that by limiting their already pared-down consumption then you carry on berating them for not going full hairshirt. Perhaps you could share your thoughts on the mechanics of building alliances? I mean, you must have learned, by now, that “everybody around me are idiots” doesn’t work very well. You’re far from the worst offender on that score posting here, and I’m catching the habit too.

My partner had a kerosene system put in the house she did up seventeen years ago as back-up for the Morso she installed (off eBay). I stay there now. I never put an oil system in my house – replaced the old coal stove with an Aarow woodstove boiler. It’s an ok rural solution for the interim, till insulation and renewable leccy become available at a sensible price.

But by all means use me as your example of everything that’s wrong with “greens” even though I regularly point out that the people the SGP are a Stonewall/Democratic Left Scotland alliance that are as politically distant from the ecologically minded as the socialist/tory industrial yehaw pumpers on here. It will give me that inspiration scrapping brings. And before you say, I’m not hopeful of an alliance for independence either. I think the oil issue (or not) eclipses everything else for now.

John Main,

It’s not war!

It’s one of the most militarised nations on earth with the best secret service there is built for the purpose of taking the whole of Palestine.
One Israeli official some time back share a map of the future Israeli land mass and a part of Jordan is to become theirs.

Israel, the US, EU and U.K. with hundreds of £Billions worth of weapons again DIY rockets made from water pipes and fertiliser.

We have seen the indiscriminate killing by Israel no questions asked and no prisoners taken.

If every Palestinian is but against the border with Egypt with all homes, jobs, schools, hospitals and general infrastructure destroyed what happens to these millions of people?

If Hamas hide their weapons and look like ever innocent Palestinian will every man be killed.

An Israeli Minister let the cat out the bag by saying the Palestinians have 3 choices.
1, Fight Israel and die.
2, Leave Palestine forever.
3, Live in a terrible prison and have no human rights.

It’s a long thought out plan to steal all of the land in the region.

@ Fruitella

I know we have a bit of robust argy bargy on occasion but I think we are still fairly well aligned in overall outlook, and it’s just the frustration of us not being able to progress towards more sensible and sustainable ways of existing that causes friction.
It shows how broken our democracy and political system is that we have have to endure such utterly flawed and unwanted policies being rolled out at all levels of governance.

I’d hope some of my input on here might motivate or nudge folk towards trying to see or do things in alternative ways to the effectively imposed system. But I admit I am disappointment that so little discussion of worth is generated on various matters raised, and that lack of input from others makes me wonder why I even bother. If folk won’t add their knowledge and experience so we can all better hone our comprehension on matters then it is no wonder we end up with such crap disjointed policies being foisted onto us.
I’d hope that the prospect of Scotland returning to self-governance would be a huge stimulus for folk to engage and thrash out ideas and develop initiatives that would improve our lot, because if we don’t do this and come up with credible stuff then it makes convincing folk that self-governance is the answer all the harder.

I see the deep thinkers at the SNP are going to stand a candidate in the outer Hebrides to help make sure Angus loses his seat and ensure a Labour victory sending Torcuil Crichton to Westminster. Way to go boys and girls another yoon to replace a stalwart Indy man. Any doubts about the party that Humza pretends to lead are removed so get in the bin SNP.

Breeks: “…so we have “future-proof” services in the ground BEFORE the rewilding takes place…”

Rewilding is not my prime concern. Resettling the rural areas is. People with the chance to build their own dwellings – makeshift for sure, bugger the codes – will have a chance at a debt-free existence enhanced by a wee plot to provide most of their vegetable needs, For those suited, this would be real indepencence. They will also provide Scotland with a reservoir or competent, resourceful and collaborative people – features not too evident at the moment, for many reasons. And I don’t think there is anything wrong with the “raw material”, it’s because of the current culture which we all play a part in.

” I’ve also lent my support to Alf Baird’s suggestion of adapting ScapaFlow into a huge supertanker facility…”

I read that post of Alf’s with dismay. It relies on the arctic ice melting, which will likely be accompanied by desertification of close southern latitudes and the upheaval that will cause. Persisting with a “climate change as infrstructure engineering” plan looks like imperial exploitation to me. Anyway, why would we need current levels of global trade if we develop a more self-sufficient, and therefore more secure, economy?

Knocking fifteen minutes off normal time between Perth and Inverness doesn’t seem worth the cost. Maybe people in such a hurry could buy dispensation from the 60 average limit. I do think bikers should get that anyway. And let the Tesco trucks do 60.

James Jones says: at 5:06 pm

“Since the pharmaceutical business is dedicated to addressing the needs of the less well off in terms of health and disease (while making money, naturally, or the enterprise wouldn’t last long and patients would suffer) I’m intrigued to know how and why you think it does what you imagine.”

Interesting take, it could also be viewed that big pharma works alongside other big corporates in a symbiotic and parasitic modus.
Supermarkets and fast food chains sell crap food that makes folk ill and kerching, in steps big pharma with all the remedies for the induced ills.
I mean 12 teaspoons of sugar and god knows what other chemical shit in an “energy” drink is bound to have no adverse effects on a human, no siree, totes fine. Diabetes and obesity and melted brains were going to happen even if people ate fruit and oats…

I’ve mentioned before that I cured my basal cell skin cancer with one vitamin C tablet, crushed up into dust and a teaspoon of water added then the solution applied topically to the cancer and it cleared it out within 2 weeks. My oncologist was somewhat miffed I had made it disappear as he had planned to cut the skin off half my nose and replace that with a skin graft off my leg which would have left me significantly scarred. My alternative method meant there was no considerable cost to health service of surgery, and I have no scarring.
It also seems to be the case that I have just resolved with the input from another winger, about 3 years of being well out of kilter that the health service and big pharma drugs has been unable to diagnose and cure.
Had symptoms along the lines of feeling constantly under load and chronic fatigue / post infection syndrome, with aching and weak muscles and joints, gastro / digestive issues similar to intolerance with restricted nutrient uptake, head aches and brain fog, and most concerning were cardiac problems with a sometimes resting pulse rate of 120 when it’s normally 60. Compounded by added hassle of tick bite going to Lyme disease…
I took one single dose 3 weeks ago of something I won’t state on here, and as of today I’ve now completed 5 mountainbike rides with significant exertion and none of the previous symptoms have plagued me since the dose.

@Sam 3:54

Seriously? You don’t see how stopping the war will make any difference?

Wow.

Daisy walker
Thanks so much for the fuck off. It is so lovely to see you confirm the level of thought achieved by the A9 dual campaign.

Even when there have been road works on the A9 the delays gave been minimal. The main junctions are the issue and in particular when people are speeding.

The road should gave been upgraded when oil was discovered and access north was critical but the people voted unionist and gave the oil revenue to London and the people of perthshire were particularly to blame being strongly unionist.

So my message to the people of Perthshire is suck it up. You voted for it.

Dan your ideas are workable and have merit, unfortunately not everyone has the capability (physically , financially , theoretically or time) to carry out lots of these processes.
It is the same with the green transport initiative, where all these pseudo progressive ministers in government DEMAND that the people stop using their cars, WHAT have they ever done to make it easier to use public transport, as a former shift worker on 6am-2pm 2pm-10pm 10pm-0600 there was no option but to use your car and as far as I’m aware it is still the same situation
As the saying goes failing to prepare means you are preparing to fail , for decades if not centuries politicians have had no foresight and have been at the bidding of big business who direct the route of travel, the ytube links that Confused put up about the tunnels shows what can be achieved if you have politicians who have the desire and intelligence to make things better, what we in Scotland and the ruk have are duplicitous CLOWNS of ALL parties who neither share a brain or a spine

We in Scotland are a small nation with vast resources and very intelligent people, if we were independent those resources would or could be used for the benefit of that small nation and that small nation ONLY

Hey Breeks

Completely unacceptable, isn’t it, that any wild creature should have even a tiny sporting chance against the murderous bastards with the shotguns and the hunting rifles.

Far, far preferable for the creatures to be crammed and enclosed, within field or windowless shed, so that the murderous bastards with the electric prods and stunners can get every single fecking one.

RoS at 5:27 once again, with no recognition of irony, posting on here his claims to know UK government “secrets”.

But it’s his assertion that Cyprus is at risk of “terrorist attacks” that can’t go unchallenged.

Do tell us who these international terrorists are, RoS.

Daily Record:

“A mobile phone which could contain vital WhatsApps and messages about Holyrood’s covid response has been lost by the Scottish Government.

Officials said they could not locate the device of civil servant Andrew Slorance after his widow handed it to them last summer.”

This is disgrace. She’s the only politician in the UK not handing over the whatsapp messages.

No one knew what they were doing at the beginning of covid. I accept that.

It’s obvious that the Government was wrong to clear the hospitals of patients without testing those going into care homes. They did it in a panic.

Fortunately. Intensive care beds were never overwhelmed in Scotland. And Louisa Jordan field hospital was never required.

Patients were categorised onto pathways at the beginning of covid 19. Green. Amber. And Red for escalation if they deteriorated. And the doctors had to play god. Who would be given access to the escalation treatments. And who would be given palliative drugs.

I suspect this will all come out.

Why is sturgeon not handing over her messages?

What is wrong with her?

Has she ignored the advice of doctors and nurses?

I think she’s made a big mistake. She panicked. She wanted the hospital beds clear. For an incoming wave that never materialised because of the lockdown restrictions she implemented.

I can accept that. If she hands over the messages. If not. Then, kick her doors in again. Her and Jean Freeman and the Dentists doors should be kicked in and ransacked. Government computers and laptops, don’t just go missing.

This is pointing to a deliberate destruction of evidence and conspiracy to conceal the truth.

Even Matt Handcock and Boris Johnson handed over the whatsapp messages. It’s astonishing that she hasn’t!

Breeks

The resettlement should take place on arable land/areas, i.e. largely devoid of wildlife, good for carrots and tatties, and you will know that’s not the west highlands, by and large! An opportunity for the north-east that doesn’t wreck the environment WDO (we depend on). I’ve posted the numbers previously – John Main was the only person who challenged (read?) it.

And if my seventy years have taught me anything it’s that revolutionary processes fail so It would need the consent/compliance/cooperation of current landowners, not their defenestration.

I’m a full-on nature conservationist, I assure you. You should see our garden…

I think Sturgeon gave the order to clear the hospitals.

She jumped the gun.

She anticipated the hospitals being overwhelmed. In both Scotland and England and looking like the Chinese field hospitals.

And she didn’t want her NHS out of space. But by doing so. She ignored the concerns of doctors and nurses who may well have already had their first covid patients as it was public frenzy that it arrived. It spread within the staff who didn’t have masks. And into other patients. Only for it to be released into nursing homes.

This was months before they Brought in guidance that a patient must be 10 days clear of covid 19 with a lateral flow. Because remember the PCR tests at car park sites? Remember. Well.

I’d accept if Nicola was honest about her decision making. But I won’t accept the cover up of this. And I would hold her accountable accordingly and unforgivingly knowing that she is trying to conceal her decision making.

In what is now becoming a corporate homicide case.

Dan says: at 6:47 pm

@ shug

“It’s more than just the main junctions on the A9 that are the issue. So many of the small ones are where the issues occur because there are no slip roads to join, or bridges to cross both lanes of traffic. Plus the lack of continuity of junction design, even with the recent upgrading also means incidents will continue to occur.
But fuck it, diversity inclusion means a hyperactive kid with an etchasketch can design a main trunk road these days so yay and woke points for that.”
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If diversity inclusion means what you write then road building in Scotland is fkd. Road design incl. junctions to and from is the bread an’ butter of road planing. Cutting corners on any road or motorway is tantamount to complicity to murder.

John Main

Not my assertion, though I agree with this concerned MP.

“The information came to light after a parliamentary question from Kenny MacAskill, Alba MP for East Lothian.

He told Declassified: “It’s a British ‘sovereign base’ but it’s in Cyprus, which is both a sovereign nation and ostensibly an ally. This lack of any formal mechanism for exchange of information about UK and US activity on the island is not only insulting to Cypriots and Cyprus, but potentially endangers them.”

MacAskill, a former Scottish justice secretary, added: “They surely should have a right to know what operations are being flown from their island. Yet these UK and US military actions are undertaken without any need to consult the Cypriots. Even though it could make them a target for terrorism.””

link to declassifieduk.org

There is zero indication that Israel wants a surrender, ceasefire – temporary or otherwise.

There are many indications of what it does want.The destruction of Gaza and its people.

The Henry Kissinger of Wings needs to think again

Strong words from the Pontiff himself, he has moved on from calling for humanitarian corridors to calling out Israeli terrorism.

“Pope Francis has condemned Israel for using “terrorism” tactics during its aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip.

The pontiff deplored the recent killing by the Israeli military of two Christian women who had taken refuge in a church complex at his weekly address at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday.

“I continue to receive very grave and painful news from Gaza,” said the Pope.

“Unarmed civilians are the objects of bombings and shootings. And this happened even inside the Holy Family parish complex, where there are no terrorists, but families, children, people who are sick or disabled, nuns,” he said.

“Some would say ‘It is war. It is terrorism.’ Yes, it is war. It is terrorism,” he said.

Francis referred to a statement about an incident on Saturday by the Latin Patriarchate of al-Quds, the Catholic authority in the holy city.

The Patriarchate said an Israeli military sniper killed the two women, whom the pope named Nahida Khalil Anton and her daughter Samar, as they walked to a convent of nuns in the compound of the Holy Family Parish.

Seven other people were shot and wounded as they tried to protect others.”

Well its taken this Scottish Tory Lord decades to realise what we in Scotland have been saying for years that Westminster is broken.

The only surprise for me is that its the ultra-unionist Lord Michael Forsyth that’s saying it.

“Former Scotland Secretary and Margaret Thatcher ally Michael Forsyth has said Westminster’s “presidential” style of government is weakening democracy.

link to holyrood.com

The Conservative peer, who served in both the Thatcher and Major governments, said special advisors are dictating to Cabinet ministers and raised concerns about the churn of appointments which has seen six chancellors and six home secretaries since 2016.

He said: “We’ve moved from a system where the prime minister is first among equals in the Cabinet to a sort of presidential system where the prime minister is surrounded by special advisors who then boss around cabinet ministers.

He said: “The House of Commons now, I think, is broken.”

More from AlJazeera

““The humanitarian situation has become very desperate, not only for the residents of Rafah city but also for the one million displaced Palestinians here who are becoming hungry, thirsty and traumatised as the war pounds on,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah.

Mahmoud said the amount of aid being allowed inside the strip is not enough and has forced the Palestinians into a “survival mode”.

“People are without anything – without a home, without access to food, without water and without medical supplies,” he said.”

Sam @8.31, (Apols, Rev, for OT but others started it) quoting Al Jazeera (!) refers to: Gaza’s only Catholic church. I wonder why there is only one Catholic church left in Gaza when the whole region which the Romans sarcastically called “Palestine” after the Philistines, the sworn enemies of the Jews, had a Christian and Jewish majority before the Muslim conquest and their colonial suppression of the majority population. What could have happened?

Ted

Ah c’mon now Ted, don’t be asking awkward questions.

Look up how Christians are treated in Israel, not the fundamentalists who funnel money into that gangster state, they are not the ones being spat at in the streets.

On the subject of gangsters I have a book about Meyer Lansky who was the head of a Jewish organised crime gang in the US and who had more people murdered than Al Capone but it is better not to talk about things like that as there are consequences. He was in contact with Golda Meyer and would arrange for shipments meant to be leaving US ports for the Palestinians to be instead delivered to the Israelis. For some reason none of that is mentioned on Wiki.