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And bloody Sonny & Cher are still playing on the radio.
An absolute belter Chris.
Plus ca change…
But, but, we’re in the World Cup!
C’moan noo, none of the rest of it matters compared with that.
Wot World Cup? Unless Co-hosts Canada & Mexico can step in at short notice, and replace the venues lost when America is expelled by FIFA for launching an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation, the World Cup ‘ll be kiboshed.
That’s the way it works, right?
Sad but true
I am not ashamed to say I laughed out loud in the meadows on seeing this, great stuff.
A welcome return for Chris’ works: particularly apposite this morning given events in Venezuela, as apparently nothing much has changed since the Americans overthrew Noriega in Panama 36 years ago….!
You having a laugh, Andy?
If you want to find a place where “apparently nothing much has changed”, waste 10 minutes of your life reading the BTL posts from the usual suspects!
…waste 10 minutes of your life reading the BTL posts from the usual suspects!
Or the twilight zone as I prefer to call it. 🙂
We can’t afford for people to get the impression that the monomaniacal obsessions of the fringe crank usual suspects in here are in any way representative though Hatey, whether of the independence movement or of Scots more generally.
“Where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light” as a wise man once said.
Get a room you two!
YOU are amongst the most prodigious creators of spoiler (going nowhere) BS AI reliant rubbish on this site..
Marriage made in hell you two with your pompous presumed airs of superiority and zero initiative on how matters can or could be improved!
Site infestation the pair of you love birds with AE now overhauling H McH on the Shingles list top ten site spoilers and Unionists infestation BTB (Below the Bridge) comments front..
Near 1 AM, Scotland lies dark and silent, blanketed deep in snow, and Lochinvar’s musings turn, for unfathomable reasons, to the love that dare not speak its name.
Odd.
Who was the boy that used to post about every accusation being an admission? I’m sure I’ll recall eventually.
H McH @ 9.32
Well, obviously, that would be you.
Have lost count of how many contributors here have caught on and highlighted you “projecting” yourself continuously.
Nice one, YL.
My 6 YO grandson could never have thought of your “It wisnae me, it wis you” reply.
My 9 YO granddaughter however, she would consider your reply too childish for words.
Take the win over the 6 YO and quit while you’re still ahead.
“….apparently nothing much has changed since the Americans overthrew Noriega in Panama 36 years ago…“
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TWO things have.
First, Maduro failed to “do a Noriega” and seek sanctuary with the Papal Nuncio. He was, of course driven out of the Salvadorean Nunciature by blasting not of explosives, but loudspeakers.
Enter the second change: we have an American Pope. Would Trump have tried a noise assault on the Caracas nunciature and risk(Sotto voce) condemnation- in American English- by Pope Leo?
Too true.
So let’s change things. Confront the Stopping Nationhood Party wherever and whenever we can, tell them what they are have done wrong, and invite them – nicely – to co-operate with the independence groups/parties/people.
Well, we have to try.
And also, of course, follow the Rev and talk non-stop about the voting system so people get to understand that SNP1 and 2 just doesn’t work.
“…and invite them – nicely – to co-operate…”
Ach! Dae wi hiv tae be nice aboot it… kin we no gie thaim a guid kickin’ an invite thaim tae bugger aff insteid?
Thon fat cat is a lazy big bastirt by the way… still in its beid at theis time o dey fir God’s sake!
Thon’s anither yin that needs its erse kicked… kicked oot o beid onyway.
Happy New Year to you too, Chris! Good to see Hamish is still with us.
Don’t agree that the SNP is least worst.
The SNP are an ipso facto anti independence masquerading as an independence party. At least with the unionist parties you see them for what they are.
The SNP are therefore an insidious block on progress to independence. They are most certainly not the least worst option if independence be the measure and the polls now to a large extent very much reflect that.
The reality of course is that the SNP need to be destroyed and replaced. And not replaced by by any of the unionist parties or the crypto fascist English Reform party.
But good toon Chris and many will understand exactly what the impact of being the least worst option actually is when it draws independence votes to a non independence false flag party like the SNP.
Willie,
Cheers for typing that, it saved me from doing it 😉
Upon reflection, I think Chris is making a careful point about The Scotsman newspaper (all MSM perhaps?) continuing to bolster a convenient lie. The lie being, as you state, that they’re the least worst option, when they’re not.
Chris, good to see you back with a cracking ‘Toon, and Hamish in his scratcher waking up to a clock whose ‘time’ will not change for an entire year – I’m sure that message is not lost on any of us.
“Crying freedom in the night… “ (Van Morrison)
Chris cairns,
Happy new year to you,
Excellent Cartoon,
AS IT WAS IN IRAQ, so it shall be in Venezuela……«Pax Americana»,
is that the distant rumble of San Andreas and Yellowstone?
May your wishes be granted in 2026,
Am I the only one who sees the USA’s military onslaught into Venezeula as being a mirror image of Ukraine.
This huge military operation is not about drug running. Rather it is about geo politics and sending a message to Russia and China and the rest of the what we might n9w call the East.
NATO and the West did everything to expand Westward right up to the Russian border and ultimately Russia went in. A good old insurrection on your enemies door step is tried and tested strategy – which is why in the 70s and 80s the CIA and the USA military tooled up the Taliban et al against the USSR.
Above my pay grade but the USA going in to Venezeula most certainly has the smell of USA stepping in to stop the East’s growing economic and political influence.
But for many, it will be simply to stop bad criminal drug running. Its the nice simple donkey logic that drives the notion that the British Empire brought civility, democracy and nothing but kindness to its great full colonies.
What is clear for us, if we want indy, WE NEED TO ABIDE BY THE NORMS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW and the rules based order community. Our strategy should now be :
– assassinate the PM at Chequers with a drone swarm under the pretence of a parley (Novgorod)
and/or
– capture Starmer and his family and hold them to ransom until we are free (Maduro)
additionally with
– committing acts of piracy on the high seas – money maker! (US Navy and oil tankers) – and it is how england got rich
or
– just get issy to recognise us cf. Somaliland (a bogus fake madeup non country which nevertheless is useful geopolitically)
everyone else is doing it, why don’t we?
We should also crowdfund to get a contract with Palantir for them to draw us up “kill lists” of our opponents.
And while they are all in one spot –
link to archive.ph
– a few well placed hypersonics immediately solves the problems of “capitalism”
Some, uneducated, people might call this assassination, kidnapping, coup de tatting, piracy on the high seas, but we have a crack team of oxbridge/ivy league types to do the paperwork and write it up nice … its kosher all right.
What is clear surely is that the post WW2 world order (such as it was) is now irredeemably lost. MAGA has served to shatter the old order and the UK, Europeans, Canadians, Japanese, Taiwanese, Australians and New Zealanders face some stark choices: either we accept being the bitches of Trump and his ideological successors, or we look to our own devices.
To that end, we must exclude the USA from our security architecture as they are patently now an unreliable ally. We must buy US military equipment last and promote indigenous and pan-European co-operation: the same goes for other hi-tech areas, banking systems and a sovereign European cloud and satellite communications / surveillance capability.
The French and British should co-operate to extend their nuclear guarantee to all EU & EEA members and to Canada.
Either we move at pace to become one pole of the new multi-polar world order, or we resign ourselves to choosing which of the other poles of the new world order we become clients of.
Some sound sentiments, Andy, but the major problem with excluding the USA from our security architecture is that their kit is still the best.
But you already know that, as evidenced by the ability of our eastern European friends to keep the Orcs at bay for near 4 years.
Our friends in the Middle East produce some great tech too. As evidenced by their ability (helped by the Yanks) to keep the misogynistic medievalists at bay for several decades.
Of course, this is all anathema to a certain strand of the Indy “family” who failed to grow up in the seventies and eighties and don’t know how to now.
We’re veering very close to one of the BTL red lines by even having this discussion. So I’ll simply add that Indy won’t be going anywhere while The War rages.
And, of course, Scotland’s greatest living half-Scot has just opened a Third Front.
Imagine what he could do if he was all-Scot!
Not really: US kit is oftentimes amongst the best, but is routinely outperformed by systems developed elsewhere. The US oftentimes simply capitalises on its huge advantage of scale of production which makes unit costs much cheaper. Over complex equipment can also be a disadvantage, particularly when weapons systems are designed to perform in a host of different environments, which may not be needed.
The European defence procurement market is more than large enough to keep European R&D and manufacturing going, particularly if we adopt a “buy American last” policy, which we should do as a matter of urgency.
The size and spending power of European economies and armed forces is more than capable of going toe to toe with any adversary. We just need to make it so.
Again, some good points, Andy.
But you’re neglecting the time factor.
We’ve wasted near 4 years wishing the problem would go away. In that time, military technologies have changed unbelievably for those countries involved. And so also have their economies.
We in the west have not yet even reached agreement on what we should do next. Let alone put our economies on a war footing, ditched the environmental guff, and turned on the mass production processes. And what would we mass produce? Most of what we have on the drawing boards is obsolete after 4 years of the kind of technical advances that only ever come about when existence is at stake.
We no longer have the time to develop the tech we will need. So it has to be bought. And we’re not gonna be buying from the Orcs or the Covid Spreaders, or the robots of NK.
I mean, I know we’re daft! But even that daftness has a limit.
@ Hatey 6.24pm
I agree WRT 4 wasted years, but many weapons systems in development are on pretty long lead times. You’re just plain wrong about the abilities of the Europeans to develop systems. Our friends in the east fought the Orcs to a standstill with SFA: the Europeans would wipe the floor with them and burn the Kremlin to the ground.
Wish I shared your optimism, Andy.
The Baltic is full of sanctioned oil tankers. One sub could put six of them on the sea floor in a night. The rest of them would run for port and never be seen again.
Meantime, the Orcs are ripping up European subsea infrastructure while the Europeans wring their hands.
And all of what we have offshore Scotland has been surveyed and mapped by the Orcs while we make protesting bleats. The ship responsible should have been put on the bottom the very first day it got anywhere close to our critical infrastructure.
@ Hatey 7.25pm
I wouldn’t say I’m optimistic Hatey. In fact I doubt very much the Europeans will “do the right thing”: it’s far more likely that they’ll bumble along hoping that Trumpism will be replaced and things will go back to the way they were before.
I think that both misguided and dangerous: even if the Democrats do get back in, the USA has proven itself to be an unreliable ally and a malign force in international relations.
I feel we’re in an analogous situation to the 1930’s, but I fear our political leaders won’t have the courage to make the right decisions. For what it’s worth, I’ve long believed that the Europeans should unhitch themselves from the US security guarantee and forge their own destinies.
Given the lack of progress in the Scottish independence movement, I’m more likely to support a party advocating for that. I see the recent polls have a majority in the UK now recognising that brexit was a mistake and that we should be establishing closer relations.
Here you go, Confused:
“it’s kosher”
International Law is the toilet paper of the powerful.
Trump’s next target? Iran…..an American funded fundamentalist protestant Iran is projected…..the psychotic Trump for shah…..?
America is biting off a large chunk of the planet, do hope it chokes.
America is THE major drug user and world wide porn supplier…all homegrown problems.
The indigenous peoples of «America» kick the colonists out….
In another universe, maybe, the same universe where Scotland never took the English bait.
“The indigenous peoples of «America» kick the colonists out….”
And many millions of them return to Scotland, the land their ancestors set out from, dreaming of rapine, booty and genocide.
A very small but implacably evil part of me would love to live to see the wonderful day Auld Scotia’s home-grown colonisers return, tails between their legs, to enforce all their North American values on the remnant Scots whose ancestors missed the boats!
Never really thought about it before but what a great objective to Make Iran Protestant Again.
I mean Trump was only recently bombing the Bejesus out of bits of Nigeria. Said there were bad eggs killing Catholics and one can but only think what a wonderful and benevolent objective.
But yes, Make Iran Protestant Again. Fabulous idea.
@Hatey McHateface
Effectively you’re talking ex pats….romantic notions of the homeland which never match the «romantic notion». Met the type, prepared to vomit.
America is full of them, hyphenated yanks who wouldn’t last 10 secs in their idealized version of the old country.
Trump inter alia enjoys their infantile blather.
Bush & toadying mate, listened to them re Iraq, the Yanki-Iranian pistachio farmers, as an exemplar of the species, of California have the ear of Trump….rather sad, US history in foreign matters is classically amateur.
They have the self righteous conceit of those founding fathers. Pure in everything but intention. WASPs to the letter. We are the redeemed!
Now they have their version of so-called AI….the battle begins.
Poor Scotland, not alone, hasn’t a clue,
Nope, TURABDIN, I’m not talking expats.
I’m talking of the descendants of the original thieving, raping and genociding Scottish colonists.
And, yes, I’ve met the type too. The first hint of a Scottish accent and they can’t wait to tell you how their great, great, great grandfather hailed from Mull or wherever.
And of how they plan to take a visit back “home” some day, no doubt to marvel at the primitiveness and lack of backbone of their great, great, great grandcousins.
And with respect, TURABDIN, you can’t have had a similar experience, because America wasn’t colonised by millions of Iranians several hundred years ago. There was an Iranian diaspora, sure, but not until quite recently.
And by the time the Iranians got there, there was precious little thieving, raping and genociding left to do. The Scots, Irish, English, Welsh and Spanish, with some help from the Germans, Swedes, French, Italians and Africans, had killed off the bulk of the original inhabitants, and forced the few survivors onto the reservations.
THE FORM EX PAT, is better understood as new americans. My limited experience of the breed through family connexions does indicate a liking for Trump and his MAGA policies .
After Nigeria, Venezuela, where next? Cuba, Greenland, Colombia,Iran…..
Driven by puritan founding fathers zeal and Teddy Roosevelt like imperialism 2026 could be the year of the great conflagration.
I shall not be making long term plans.
I think we all know that this year won’t result in anything meaningful and it certainly won’t result in Independence unless the SNP goes bust it’ll here comes 2031 and groundhog all over again with the same newspaper and blogger telling us all the shit.
If anyone pays particular attention to Holyrood and the MSP’s in Holyrood, they fight at if they dislike each other and in the chamber that couldn’t be further from the truth. On the outside of the chamber, they’ll like the best friends.
If the projections are correct and reform is going to be the next biggest party this is what these other parties fear the most. Simply because Reform has no love affair with these other parties, like the SNP does and here is where I believe after May’s election the SNP true colours will be shown not by the party’s who have been occupying the parliament since it was opened but by reform because its in reform interest to do it.
Yes, Swinney does want to stop reform but not for the reason he’s making out if he did, he would have put a proper offer of Independence on the table and he hasn’t, he’s worried that reform is going to show us all how bad the SNP really is.
For me I’d like to see the hollowing happen over the next few years:-
1 SNP goes bust
2 The National prints its last article and goes back to being what it knows best a unionist paper
3 The soft Indy scroungers no longer have the National or the SNP and just fuck off
4 A true Independence party emerges from the fall of the SNP with a proper Independence plan
5 Labour calls a general election on or before 2028
6 The new Independence party put its plan on Independence to the people for the Westminster election
7 Reform wins the UK election and Scotland seeks negotiations with the new UKG to remove its self or declare UDI
The above is what I’d like to happen some who I don’t believe it will unless we can rid nation of the SNP.
An interesting wish list!
1 SNP goes bust:
We can but hope (and hopefully help it on its way down). However it’s unlikely all the gravy slurpers and clueless devolutionists are just going to disappear. They’ll doubtless reform as the Continuation SNP or Real SNP, even in reduced numbers. The question then is how the rest of the movement (“real” nationalists) deals with the pathetic rum that is left. I say we stake it through its black, principle free heart to make sure its properly dead.
2 The National prints its last article and goes back to being what it knows best a unionist paper
Who cares? It’s a devolutionist comic. Nobody but dyed in the wool Nicophants takes it remotely seriously.
3 The soft Indy scroungers no longer have the National or the SNP and just fuck off
See 1 above. Even if the devolutionist SNP collapses and most of its support is hived off to other parties, I’d lay money on there being a hard core who will be irreconcilable and continue with the “true faith”. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it if the SNP suffered the same fate as the IPP in Ireland in 1918….but I hae ma doots!
4 A true Independence party emerges from the fall of the SNP with a proper Independence plan
Preach brother. Although didn’t that (and doesn’t it) already exist in the form of Alba, ISP, Liberate Scotland, Sovereignty and others? None of them have reached escape velocity electorally, so we have to ask what has to be done differently for it to work, what are the timescales for it happening and who is going to lead it?
5 Labour calls a general election on or before 2028
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas. There’s zero incentive for Labour to call an early election because they know full well many of them will lose their seats. Even if they ditch Starmer beforehand in a vain attempt to increase their chances of fending off Reform, they’re going to hang on fro grim death.
6 The new Independence party put its plan on Independence to the people for the Westminster election
The existing pro-independence parties could already do this. They could do it for #HR2026 elections if the SNP would only grow a pair. As that appears unlikely, the focus then has to be on #WM2029 election, assuming we have managed to stake the SNP through the heart before then.
Again…I hae ma doots the lumpen Scottish electorate will react that quickly. They’ll doubtless continue to vote SNP, then suddenly realise after a Reform victory at Westminster that they done wrong again.
7 Reform wins the UK election and Scotland seeks negotiations with the new UKG to remove its self or declare UDI
The only way that works is if there is evidence of a clear majority endorsing a party/movement (or a combination of co-operating parties) which had pre advertised that they had a mandate for independence. Unless there’s a sea change in the SNP position before #WM2029 how is that going to be demonstrated?
The most direct route to indy would be for such a co-operative platform to be put in place now (as indeed it could have been at any point in the past few years) so that every single General Election to Holyrood or Westminster is automatically viewed as plebiscitary.
There is only one party in Scotland saying democracy doesn’t belong to Scotland or its people it belongs to the British state and the PM and that’s the SNP. Even today Swinney says “2026 is a year of opportunity for Scottish independence, says John Swinney” he’s lying and the paper who posting his lies knows it as well.
As long as the SNP exist Scotland will fail and will continue to fall under the rule of England, to suggest to vote for SNP 1 and Alba 2 which I know your not is crazy.
I thought the WM was 2028 but it is 2029, the most important this during that time is the death of the SNP, believe in Scotland, the National and we STOP listening to the Soft Indy scroungers they are just full of misinformation.
Thanks, Andy Ellis
Advisers to president Trump said they needed a distraction to try to get his relationship with Epstein off the news cycle and boy did he deliver. You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off springs to mind.
Whoops! You do realise your post will still be traceable and trackable long after you’re deid?
I guess you have no plans to attend the 2026 World Cup.
The heads of Countries and generals all playing a TV game of “Yes Minister,”
Out smarting and out flanking each other,
At the expense of real people and nations,
Aye, James, if only a benign, enlightened world government would equitably share out the world’s resources among all of the world’s people. Allowing too, for the extra 2 billion people expected to be born this century.
Here’s what you should do. For 2026, you should devote your efforts to calculating just what fraction of your current wealth and what fraction of your current income you will be left with after everything is divvied up.
After you have done that, you might just decide that if governments are indeed working to outsmart and outflank each other, you will personally be best suited by choosing a government that’s bloody good at it.
2nd Jan 5.56pm Andy Ellis says:
“Departing from accepted norms and custom and practice in the many other self determination examples since WW2 would jeopardise any realistic prospect of international recognition.”
And then above at 5.05pm says:
“What is clear surely is that the post WW2 world order (such as it was) is now irredeemably lost.”
You can’t have it all ways so which is it? Feel free to consult with every man and their dogs.
@ Dave L
Imperfect as it is, I’m rather attached to a rules based world order Dave. If you honestly think we’re all going to be better off and more secure with the multipolar “every man for themselves” alternative envisaged by Trump et al, I’m not sure what to tell you?
Perhaps you think Scottish independence is more likely to happen if the current international system is fractured. Who knows….you may even be right.
The nativist bigots advocating the disenfranchisement of several hundred thousand Scots may well make some headway with the half-Scottish madman in the White House: if there is now nothing stopping any country simply waltzing in to one of its neighbours, and announcing they are in charge, perhaps we don’t need to bother with pesky things like elections or referendums at all.
I’d sooner see the EU and the “coalition of the willing” partners distance itself from the USA and other authoritarian powers. Whether our leaderships are up for it I have my doubts. I suspect, much like the Scottish independence movement, they lack the political balls or support to do so. That really just leaves us hoping and praying that the orange man-baby in power in Washington doesn’t blow the world up or decide that Farage needs to be PM.
To paraphrase Churchill, the current system is the worst possible way to run things….apart from all the alternatives that have been tried from time to time.
“I’d sooner see the EU and the “coalition of the willing” partners distance itself from the USA and other authoritarian powers”
Sure.
But they can only do that by becoming more authoritarian themselves.
Re-arm, develop effective militaries, carry the fabled “big stick”. That needs re-juggling of economic priorities – taking an axe to benefits and entitlements, in other words.
Deal effectively with the “enemy within”, by deporting the hordes of medieval, unemployable crims and grifters, now counted in their millions.
“Whether our leaderships are up for it I have my doubts. I suspect, much like the Scottish independence movement, they lack the political balls or support to do so”
You can’t have it both ways, Andy. poot and xi have the balls – they get the support simply by exterminating the ranks of the non-supporters.
It’s been great. Here in the west we’ve had a wonderful time, right from about the 1960’s onwards, under the big, beautiful Pax Americana. We have never really had to take anything seriously, which is why our governments will spend much of 2026 agonising over what a woman is and can you tax people into working harder. But now these days are numbered, if not already over.
All Trump is doing is erratically aping, for 4 brief years, poot and xi’s often-declared and decades-long, iron-clad determinations to seize parts of the world that don’t belong to them, crushing anybody that stands in their road.
I understand why you, as a progressive, will not be able to come to terms with the new world order.
But I was never a progressive, so I’m not too fussed.
The very best governments in world history have always been benign dictatorships. We can see that the dictatorships are now making the running as we enter into the second quarter of the 21st century. The best we can hope for in Scotland is that the dictatorship we get will be a benign one.
I know you sincerely believe the stuff you come out with, and unlike the usual suspect in here at least you’re not a sweary, moronic nativist bigot, but….just because you believe it sincerely doesn’t make it so.
I don’t see Europe’s future as being or requiring more authoritarianism. We have all the tools at our disposal already, we just lack the will and the necessary leadership. I’m hoping the way events are unfolding that leadership may emerge. Europe already has a strong base, it just needs to co-operate more effectively. Nobody would be able to face them down when they finally “get real”.
This in particular is just galactically wrong:
The very best governments in world history have always been benign dictatorships.
The best governments in world history are, by a wide margin, the social democratic governments in Scandinavia. Europe can, if it is serious, become one of the superpower poles of a new world order. If it fails to do so, we will become the client of whichever of the other poles is most effective in exerting its power and resources to dominate us.
That won’t necessarily require them to invade, just to reduce us to industrial, economic and political helotry. Harold Wilson warned of the dangers to us becoming helots to the US Spartans in the 1960’s: I’ve no desire to see us reduced to that status for any power.
The Canadians and Greenlanders should in my view be particularly worried: the actions of the Trump administration toward them will be the canary in the coal mine. The action in Venezuela will also give comfort to Xi and his mates that Taiwan is fair game, so democrats in Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand ought to be thinking hard about the choices they make in the near future.
“The best governments in world history are, by a wide margin, the social democratic governments in Scandinavia.”
As has already been pointed out to you, Andy, it is easy to be “the best” (in comparison to other peer States) when you’ve been endowed with a population density that’s ten or twenty times lower than the entire UK (not just Scotland). A large part of the the UK’s problems (and indeed Europe’s) stem from the drag of a vast cohort of people who, one way or another, contribute nothing to the pot and merely take from it. If this cohort were to be vastly lower – in concert with being blessed with vast natural resources (especially in the case of Norway) – such countries would also look amazing too, almost irrespective of (and in the case of Scandinavian countries, largely in spite of) their political systems.
The oil rich Gulf States offer a fantastic GDP per capita, incredibly low crime rates etc – the same metrics you’re presumably deploying – but I don’t hear you and your ilk clambering for theocratic, absolute monarchies? Obviously, they too are in an envious position where they could hardly go wrong – unlike the mess the UK has gotten itself into.
“… at least you’re not a sweary, moronic nativist bigot…”
If anely wi coud pit theis narrative tae a vote in theis place an conseeder the naitur hent here fae the witteryngs o wha it caws oot tae… wid sic a view gaither a hantle o backins?
Wid the maist fect o fowk wha wanner aboot theis place conseeder ther micht be muckle in the wey o truth ahint it?
We can only guess at the answer… lacking, as we do, the democratic mechanism to pursue the truth of it.
Some very good points there, CC.
Worth adding too that many of the Scandi countries, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, are also buckling under their progressive, arms-wide-open welcoming of the hordes of medievalist, impossible to assimilate, grifters and criminals.
With Denmark leading the way in showing how, if people wake up to the dangers in time, it is possible to crack down on the worst excesses BEFORE society irretrievably breaks down.
Compare and contrast with Scotland, where the progressive forces are still doubling down on their plans to get us a million or so extra followers of the religion of peace.
So you think the only thing that’s relevant is population density?
Denmark: 366 people per sq. mile
Sweden: 67 per sq. mile
Norway: 40 per sq. mile
Finland: 19 per sq. mile
Netherlands: 1400 per sq. mile
Belgium: 1006 per sq. mile
Luxembourg: 684 per sq. mile
Scotland: 184 per sq. mile
The oil rich oligarchies are rich because they are oligarchies and only function due to a vast influx of non-citizens who do all the work but have no rights.
Denmark has little in the way of resources like Norway, neither do Sweden or Finland. Having large expanses of sparsely inhabited frozen wilderness hasn’t held Sweden or Finland back.
Your sub-Faragist “it’s all the fault of coffee coloured immigrants” schtick won’t wash I’m afraid. It hasn’t exactly held those countries back.
“Having large expanses of sparsely inhabited frozen wilderness hasn’t held Sweden or Finland back.”
Unlike Scotland, however, these two independent countries have developed massive forest products and paper/pulp industries, which requires much of the land to be covered in trees. This trade also fills up large roro ferries every day heading for Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, UK and further afield.
Scotland is prevented from developing such a large forest products sector due to its Anglo feudal legacy which prioritises and protects private ownership of large highland estates owned by external interests for e.g. deer, shooting estates etc.
Previous research showed that Scotland could easily have an even larger forest products industry than Finland (the latter worth maybe £10 billion per annum) because of the faster growing climate here. That would be a bigger earner than whisky at some £6 billion.
Allowing speculative private land ownership mostly via foreign interests is another clear example of colonial domination holding back national economic development in Scotland.
@ Alf Baird says:4 January, 2026 at 1:38 pm
That’s a new angle, Alf.
Wasn’t Scotland once virtually covered with trees? How odd that the rewilding boys don’t want to replicate that.
And how odd to suggest that the howls of outrage that always accompany the plans to re-introduce beavers, wolves, lynx, etc. wouldn’t occur times ten if somebody seriously suggested covering vast areas of Scotland with coniferous mono-culture.
Still, no need to fall out over this. Enormous swathes of Scotland, including many of our most densely populated urban areas, and a lot of our productive farmland, will soon be under water anyway. That’s if the global warming boys have it right.
Unless your trees are very quick growing (GM?), they’ll never see maturity.
Andy Ellis said;
“at least you’re not a sweary, moronic nativist bigot”
Oh, get the fuck over yourself, you arrogant dishonest prick!
There is nothing in the least bit bigoted about ANY native wanting to defend his nation from unwarranted, unlawful, and abusive domination by an arrogant foreign colonialist neighbouring power, Mr. Ellis, so you can take your worthless bigoted moronic pish and shove it up the orifice you pulled it from!
@ Xaracen
QED
Xaracen expressing his inner James there.
Such lack of magnanimity and uncivil rudeness from someone forever telling us Indy is just around the corner.
Chill, Xaracen. Be patient. You’ll get your day to crow real soon now.
@Andy Ellis;
Way to go to miss the point, prick.
Your attribution of bigotry to Scotland’s people in the context of defending their legitimate authority and territory from overweening English abuse is thoroughly dishonest. This has been pointed out to you before, and you couldn’t care less, making you a bona fide prick.
Swearing is a rhetorical amplifier, as you would know if you paid any attention to Northcode, but in your case, it was also fully deserved as a derisive insulting label. If you were expecting a respectful response, you should have been far more careful with your language.
You fabricated a malicious lie for entirely dishonest purposes and yet you think you are entitled to a polite response? Go fuck yourself, prick, you got what you deserved!
You are the bigot here, prick.
@ Xaracen 8.08 pm
Wind yer neck in ya bigoted piece of work. I didn’t say ALL Scots were bigots. The epithet belongs to those who hold regressive, ethno-nationalist, nativist and bigoted views like the disenfranchisement of several hundred thousand of their countrymen and women. If you subscribe to such views then I have no hesitation in using it to describe your despicable world view.
I don’t expect any better from intellectual dregs like yourself and any other verbally challenged know nothings in here. The swearing and inability to address any substantive points or arguments is all of a piece with the usual suspects in here.
Thankfully some of the worst offenders have either given up and no longer post, or been excluded by Rev Stu.
Thankfully you and the other roasters who share your regressive views represent a very small cadre of bigots in a much wider movement that sees your views as about as palatable as those of Trump, Farage and similar far right zoomers.
“There is nothing in the least bit bigoted about ANY native wanting to defend his nation from unwarranted, unlawful, and abusive domination by an arrogant foreign colonialist neighbouring power, Mr. Ellis”
Xaracen makes an important point.
Postcolonial theory tells us that a colonized people are subject to ‘hateful racism’ (Cesaire). An oppressed people have imposed on them a form of ‘aggressive nationalism’ (i.e. imperialism) which aims to force another culture/language and values on them, and impose a new identity; this requires the colonizer to obliterate native culture and language (Fanon). So long as colonialism is allowed to continue the oppressed people and nation are ‘in the process of perishing’ (Memmi).
To remedy this the oppressed group are forced to adopt a stance referred to as ‘defensive nationalism’ (Fanon). Here they must protect their own people and culture from the aggressive form of nationalism being forced on them by another culture/people. The native is thus forced to become a nationalist to defend his own culture/people and national identity.
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
“Oh, get the fuck over yourself, you arrogant dishonest prick!”
A tame exclamatory, Xaracen… you used the temperate obscenity “fuck” as an intensifier to highlight your perception of your ‘opponent’s’ vanity and then followed up with an uncontroversial description – “arrogant and dishonest prick”… where “prick” is used here as a mildly pejorative term.
The Oxford Dictionary of English defines the word “prick” when used pejoratively as meaning “a stupid or contemptible man”.
While Merriam Webster offers up the definition of “a spiteful or contemptible man often having some authority” for the term.
Therefore, you might have stated your exclamatory in this way:
“Oh, get the fuck over yourself, you arrogant, dishonest and contemptibly spiteful stupid man who might have some little authority… possibly.”
Personally, I prefer the way you did it.
Quite attached to the ‘rules based world order’ you say. That shows how attached you are to western hegemony/ideology because you know as well as I do it doesn’t exist. It’s simply in the heads of western governments and through them the populations to justify anything that suits the west at any given time.
As for any voting franchise I’d knock out anyone of voting age who has been resident in Scotland for less than five years, as well as anyone who claims residency just because they own a holiday home here. I’d also knock out rest of UK students and military personnel who are mere visitors but like the others mentioned had 2014 voting rights.
On the ‘coalition of the willing’ they’d be better named ‘the coalition of clowns’. Nobody that matters is taking any notice of them despite their endless bawling and wailing for attention. They do nothing more than proclaim their self importance with ideas that they stand no chance of realising.
I think it was Sarah posted that the term ‘elite’ is not the word that should be describe them and that scum would be a better choice. I fully agree but would add the prefix ‘high flying low life…’, that does fine for me.
Churchill? He didn’t win the war he just lead one of the allied powers that eventually prevailed. He should, along with his father be better known for crimes against humanity. Between them they were directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands probably millions through starvation by design.
I don’t really care what you think about that, I’ve said my piece but maybe you’d care to comment on Stepan Bandera on Hateys behalf since you’re a fanboy of the current crop of worshippers and Hatey can’t get past juvenile nonsense.
life…
2026 already shaping up as interesting.
Both Xaracen and Northy now melding with James. Hail, Jorthacen! Possessor of the True, Sovereign Prick! Tightly held in one hand at all times – natch.
Professor Alf Baird coming down in the world too, at least if the company he keeps is any guide.
@Andy Ellis
“So you think the only thing that’s relevant is population density?
Um, no, not at all? You?
Do point out where I said it was “the ONLY thing that’s relevant”. I’ll wait.
FYI, it’s *one* of things that is relevant, obviously, but hardly the only one. No one was claiming it was, so that’ll be your very own little straw man, then. (For someone who likes to kick up a big stink about “bad faith actors” and the standards of debate around here, yours doesn’t half suck balls).
Actually, if you ask Google to summarise the top 20 highest GDP per capita countries around the world, this is what it comes up with:
1 Monaco (City State/micro tax haven)
2 Liechtenstein (City State/micro tax haven)
3 Luxembourg (City State/micro tax haven)
4 Bermuda (Micro tax haven)
5 Ireland (Small population and low pop density)
6 Switzerland (Small population, massive banking sector)
7 Iceland (Tiny population)
8 Singapore (City State/micro tax haven)
9 Cayman Islands (Micro tax haven)
10 Norway (Oil state, small population, tiny pop density)
11 United States (Macro mixed economy, large population, low pop density
12 Isle of Man (Micro tax haven)
13 Denmark (Small population, much lower pop density than uk)
14 Netherlands (Small population, high pop density)
15 Macao SAR (City State/micro tax haven)
16 Qatar (Oil state)
17 Faroe Islands (Micro tax haven)
18 Australia (Small population, low pop density)
19 Sweden (Small population, v low pop density)
20 Austria (Small population, low pop density)
The following is specifically noted by Google:
‘… Small State Advantage: Many of the highest rankings are held by small nations or territories that serve as global financial hubs or possess significant natural resources, such as Luxembourg, Ireland, and Qatar.
Major Economies: The United States remains the only large-scale global economy ($30 trillion+ total GDP) to feature in the top tier of per capita rankings.’
Ignoring the tiny tax havens and city states like Luxembourg on your little list (like, really…?), even the most casual, competent analysis indicates that a clear correlation exists between low population density and high GDP per capita – and also low population per se (ergo the “small State advantage” cited by Google in their notes), as well as any abundance of natural resources such as oil, of course. In actuality, it is these that are the true drivers of affluence – not your (illusory) claims of supposed left wing governance efficacy.
Of course, you’ve been asked before to cite examples of successful, affluent, large scale, highly populated nation states with left wing governance – which you’ve signally failed to do (not least because they don’t actually exist, as we both know; your one-dimensional ideological zealotry notwithstanding).
As Google notes, the only significantly sized Top 20 economy on a GDP per capita basis is the USA, which I seriously doubt ticks your left wing boxes! But of course, this is itself instructive; it’s almost as though free enterprise and the “American Dream” works… who knew?
“Your sub-Faragist “it’s all the fault of coffee coloured immigrants” schtick won’t wash I’m afraid. It hasn’t exactly held those countries back.”
Pfft. These comments are completely out of order, matey, and are neither justified nor remotely called for. What was it that I said that supposedly merited such a response? You been on the sauce or something pal?
I am not a racist and I very much resent your implied slur. Ironically enough, you, on the other hand, see fit to make very bitter, crass generalisations about the entire English people (despite, apparently, having lived and worked in England for years, notwithstanding) – something about their needing to know “they aren’t special” or some such wasn’t it the other day? Charming.
I have no problem with “coffee coloured” immigrants as you put it – nor indeed any immigrants of any hue. I’d just prefer it if they were able to pay their way (and for their dependents). You obviously think this is somehow despicable, but I’ll remind you (again) that this is a commonly held and perfectly reasonable viewpoint.
As for “sub-Faragist” remark, don’t blame me for your own intellectual limitations. If you’re too thick to be able to see the quite clear general correlation between population density and per capita affluence, bloody Luxembourg not withstanding (LOL), that’s your problem, not mine (or anyone else’s, for that matter).
I defended you the other day when some poster here brought your family members into his beef with you. I still stand by that defence.
I also spoke up for you in terms of your bringing some quality into the standard of discussion – that I do regret. You’re just a tiresome pub bore who’d swallowed a dictionary or two.
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Chris, thankyou for a good start to the day. Brilliant, thought provoking ‘toon.
Next…
Dear Stuart, I just read your stalker’s latest update. He has dropped his mobile phone onto the concrete and needs a new phone. Jimmy is hinting that you (“Stewy”) buy him a new phone because you have raised over a £1,000,000 pounds on your crowdfunder and he (Jimmy Kelly) is stuck at £891 on his tiny weener crowdfunder.
Jimmy’s creepy obsession with Stuart Campbell via the sleep-inducing Scot-Goes-Phut Youtube fixation is only netting him a few pounds from Youtube. People really are NOT buying the shyte that wee Kelly is trying to sell.
I don’t have a crystal ball, but James G. Kelly seems to be hinting that some mug buy him a new phone.
Might it be an idea if we launched a crowdfunder… FOKAGAPJYLR for short (Fuck Off Kelly And Get A Proper Job Ya Lazy Roaster).
I’d be happy to donate £100 to Kelly if he honestly used the money for what he says… to either focus on opinion poll waffling, OR if he (Kelly) buys a one-way ticket to Venezuela and gives us all peace from his weird obsession with Wings Over Scotland.
By the way, I decoded the signal of Kelly’s boxers hingin oot tae dry in yon boakin Youtube videos he is punting to avoid getting a proper job. The international Naval Flag Signalling of Jimmy Kelly’s underwear clothes-pegged to his curtain rail says: “Please send free money. Jimmy needs another holiday.”
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Some good ideas there.
Here’s some more. Why don’t we crowd fund publication of the seminal works of Fanny, Mummi, Jonesey, Caesar, etc. in Spanish and air drop them over Venezuela? After all, now the Venezuelans have been colonised for real, they’re gonna need them far more than we do.
And we could also air drop some of our BTL “experts” too. They could wander the Venezuelan jungle, preaching from the gospels of Fanny, Mummi, Jonesey, Caesar, etc. just like the lapsed priests in a Graham Greene novel.
Hey! We could nominate which of our BTL “experts” we would most like to drop! With a parachute, natch. Let’s keep it real 🙂
Postcolonial theorists also warned colonized peoples against ‘American domination’, especially after WWII and the collapse of European powers former empires.
Scots have experienced such domination as Anglo-American corporations quickly took control of our oil. Then Iraq. Libya. Now Venezuela.
Cesaire, more than half a century ago, warned all colonized peoples, many then going through the decolonization process, that:
“American high finance considers that the time has come to raid every colony in the world. I know that some of you – disgusted with Europe…are turning in no great numbers – toward America and getting used to looking upon that country as a possible liberator. What a godsend! you think. The bulldozers! The massive investments of capital! The roads! The ports! But American racism! So what? European racism in the colonies has inured us to it. And there we are, ready to run the great Yankee risk. So, once again, be careful! American domination – the only domination from which one never recovers. I mean from which one never recovers unscarred.”
Anglo-American domination has already left Scotland deeply scarred, and a couple of $trillion out of pocket. And more colonial plunder set to follow with a renewable energy ‘bonanza’ already selt aff:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
@ Alf 11.42 am
Can you point me towards a successful, thriving, democratic society or regime which has been established according to the Thoughts of Mammy, Fanntoosh & Ceasar ‘tho?
Surely if their teachings are of such value there must be some shining example of a state governed according to the principles of the post-colonial theory trifecta?
“Anglo-American corporations quickly took control of our oil”
Zat a fact, Alf?
I always believed there was never a barrel of oil, nor a therm of gas, that came out of the North Sea without it being licensed, metered, regulated, monitored and taxed by authorised and closely watched agents of the UK government, and latterly the Scottish government.
And thus it remains to this very day, when WM policy, aided and abetted by HR policy, is sabotaging, limiting and ultimately destroying the North Sea.
But hey ho, Alf. You’ve got your book to sell. And if there’s no chapter in it about the Covid Spreaders’ new 21st century colonialism, ripping African countries apart right now under their “belt and road” initiative, then you’ve just got to pretend that isn’t happening.
Just as you have to pretend that virtually every manufactured item any Scot ever buys hasn’t got “Made In PRC” written on it somewhere. Economic domination and colonialism? Naw! Just ignore that and fixate on the Yanks.
Haha – the “renewable energy bonanza”. None of that eye-wateringly expensive junk is going to live to see the second week once The War really kicks off. But by all means, if your book ignores that unpalatable fact, you best ignore it too.
@ Andy Ellis says: 4 January, 2026 at 12:40 pm
“Can you point me towards a successful, thriving, democratic society or regime which has been established according to the Thoughts of Mammy, Fanntoosh & Ceasar ‘tho?”
Like it 🙂
Also worth pondering just why any True Sovereign Scot would be so keen on absorbing and following the alien, foreign values and points of view of obvious non-Scots such as Mammy, Fanntoosh & Ceasar.
And Jonesey – you forgot him.
I’ll tell you what they know about penting their erses blue, donning a kilt and a tam-o-shanter, and running barefoot through the heather screaming “Claymore!”
SFA.
“Zat a fact, Alf?”
Aye it is:
“Publicly listed Anglo-American oil majors such as Exxon Mobil, BP, and Shell, which have historically led the development of the North Sea, …..”
link to common-wealth.org
So, Alf, you’ve morphed from “quickly took control of our oil” at 11:42 AM to “historically led the development of the North Sea” at 1:23 PM.
Michty! Fit could it all mean?
““Can you point me towards a successful, thriving, democratic society or regime which has been established according to the Thoughts of Mammy, Fanntoosh & Ceasar ‘tho?””
Postcolonial theorists emphases tends to be on the political, economic and psychological realities and oppressions of colonialism. Democracy is another matter, a challenge also for UK and its FPTP system, unelected parliament etc.
However there are few if any examples of former colonies seeking to return ‘under the wing’ of cultural domination and economic exploitation by former imperial powers.
Some notable economic successes of former colonies now independent states include Oman, Dubai/UAE, Singapore, Malta and Malaysia. Going back a few decades earlier we might add Norway, Ireland etc.
Indeed, the “Anglo-American oil majors” were handed Scotland’s oil on a plate; ‘the colonized are bystanders’ in their own land, ‘out of the game’ (Memmi). Rather like Venezuela since yesterday!
Occidental was another, plus there were numerous US corps dominating and earning through the supply chain – Brown & Root, Halliburton, McDermott etc.
Scotland, like Norway and many ex colonies, would have created its own national oil company were it independent.
@ Alf
Some notable economic successes of former colonies now independent states include Oman, Dubai/UAE, Singapore, Malta and Malaysia. Going back a few decades earlier we might add Norway, Ireland etc.
Oman, UAE and Singapore aren’t democracies in any meaningful sense tho’, and neither is Malaysia. Null point there. Malta was once desperate to be part of the UK and send MPs to Westminster: it was only when the British nationalists said no that they opted for independence. At least they’re part of the EU now, so they have that going for them.
As to whether Ireland and Norway have followed the precepts of your post colonial fantasy football squad, ah hae ma doots!
“Oman, UAE and Singapore aren’t democracies …”
The matter of economic success of ex colonies was the main issue, not how democratic they may or may not be; tho I did note that the notion of democracy at Westminster is itself questionable.
“Malta was once desperate to be part of the UK and send MPs to Westminster”
Wrong again, Malta was offered 1 or 2 seats at Westminster to stay under UK rule but sensibly declined that offer in favour of full independence.
@Alf – the UAE has a GDP per capita similar to Scotland and achieves this significantly through its zero-tax regime for wealthy expats which then in turn limits its ability to fund good public services. GDP per capita in Oman is about 40% that of Scotland, and Malta about 80%.
Singapore is a city state and cities tend to have higher productivity than more rural areas due to the impact of agglomeration. However, if we compare GBP per capita in Singapore and in Edinburgh they are around the same.
Looks like Scotland is also delivering the economic success that you describe!
“Looks like Scotland is also delivering the economic success that you describe!”
The main point here is that former colonies such as Dubai, Singapore, Malta etc etc have been able to develop their economies IN THEIR OWN INTEREST since independence by investing in infrastructure and re-orientating their trade away from former domination by England-as-UK. Port investment in particular has been critically important. Singapore today handles more trade than all UK ports combined, Dubai is a regional trade hub, and Malta handles similar trade to the UK’s largest container port, Felixstowe.
Scotland by contrast exhibits many of the features of a less developed colonial nation, i.e. outdated and inadequate key infrastructure, an ever worsening international trade position, and zero growth.
All our key infrastructure/utilities was sold by Westminster to private equity/banks etc who do not invest in new infras, all they do is extract profits. Ports and airports and utilities etc in former colonies now independent tend to be mostly state owned, albeit managed by expert operators.
In addition, Scottish trade is still dominated by one nation – England, with exports sucked out at low cost (oil and gas, renewables etc, mostly to serve the ‘mother country’) and imports brought in also primarily from England at high monopoly cost.
Scotland is also subject to the highest electricity prices in the world which ensures, added to its inadequate infrastructure, that our economy cannot be competitive and hence will not achieve any economic or trade growth.
Independence and decolonization, plus investment in critical infrastructure and international trade facilitation, is the only economic solution for Scotland, as proven globally; failing which the nation under colonial control and plunder will continue its inevitable decline spiral.
THE AMBASSADORS of the American rogue state ought to tarred and feathered and hung from the nearest tree…..i believe that is not unknown in American culture.
Those who allow these MAGA colonialist events to pass with a shrug ought to be similarly treated.
A long life mr president, in exquisite agony.
Venezuelans are rejoicing at the dictator’s fall.
The Alt-Left is sulking (as usual).
Guid dey tae aw youse hae wander aboot theis place. The Lord haes blissit us Picts wi anither glorius dey the dey here in Pictavia.
Aye, an if yer a Scottis a guid dey tae ye anaw.
Tho it’s a bauch an dullskit place hereaboots the dey fir thaim no intrestit in weirlike thingies, is it no?
“Guid dey” to you too, Northy.
I thought I would reply to your post, as nae ither cant bothered. It really does break my heart to see your pleas for affirmation go unanswered.
I resolved that in 2026 I would force myself to be sterner and just scroll on by your pathetic efforts to ingratiate yourself with the gallery. But it’s like those TV ads for kicked curs, abducted bear cubs, stranded porpoises and abandoned kittens – I just can’t look the other way.
May your green shoots continue to shoot today and every day, if that is indeed what they do (you never did explain).
Quite a few labourite policies coming through,
Were all going to follow MR Starmer and the coalition of willing charge.
But one wonders how they will succeed when they are unable to protect little britain’s borders from invasion,
And one wonders why the Cohort of the willing are all on the same page in failing to Stop the invasion of Britain after all there are many Countries that are at peace prior to reaching Britains Shores,
Just saying how notable it is to every Brit that, the ranks of military and navy are unable to stop little rubber vessels with feet dangle in the sea, never mind big industrial invasion of war under our last and present leaders,
They Can’t even manage to send all of them back home.
A laugh a minute that we pretend we are tough, mighty and unstoppable as a willing-war-cohorts can take on any other nations.
The prove of that pudding is what you do and how tough you are protecting your own nations borders first from invasion.
Prior to crossing other nations borders,
As far as One can tell the present leaders of England and Scotland prefer young foreign boys with no morals,
Morning North Code,,
Seeing as we are OT already, I thought no one would mind if I added another name to the list of hierachy that swan around in associated perversion of wanton morals.
Besides the jimmy Savelle, and Epstein files
Simon Bowes-Lyon was in prison in 2020, served part of sentence, got tagged and was placed on the sex offenders list for rape.
@ALF BAIRD
American popular entertainment is a guide to the native mindset. Their movies are paranoid. References to AI, mega rich techbros, American interests figure in the likes of the Matrix & Mission Impossible i.e the entity.
The promoted AI is thoroughly anglo american containing «values» redolent of colonial re education. It is thoroughly made in the US of A «white» and all the rest. Rebarbative in so many ways, though you can get around that if you’re patient.
Unfortunately, this stuff on phones and devices will be consumed as is.
Have a good year!
Let a True Sovereign Scot who has never worn a baseball cap, ordered a burger, or uttered the word “movie”, cast the first stone.
I’ll wait.
Haha – probably as long as I’ll wait for a True Sovereign Scot to understand where the “cast the first stone” meme comes from.
What a joy it would be if Michael Rennie were to show up and command Gort tae gie the world’s mad an glaikit leaders a guid smack across thair bare erses on international telly and scare the warmongering crazy oot thaim aw.
Come on Klaatu.
Come on Gort.
Get yer arses tae Earth and stert kickin some… eh, arses.
“The Day The Earth Stood Still” 1951 movie screenplay was written by Edmund H.
NorthcodeNorth, and was based on the 1940 science fiction short story “Farewell to the Master” by Harry Bates.And a braw wee movie it is tae – much better than Keanu’s weak and ineffective 2008 version.
Unlike most American movies where the Earth is confronted with humongously more advanced alien intelligences who are, ridiculously, defeated by America’s wee spud guns… they don’t stand a chance in Hell of defeating Gort.
“I’ll tell you what they [the Scots] know about penting their erses blue, donning a kilt and a tam-o-shanter, and running barefoot through the heather screaming ‘Claymore!’ “
Time for a reminder:
First – as always – in braw Scots:
Ther scarce be a wird pit doun here fae colonialists (unyonists if preferryd… baith be alike) that’s onythin’ ither than abuise, threit, lie, errure, afftak, diveesion, diversioun, distractioun, logicale fallace, or hatesome antiScot rethorik.
In English:
There’s barely a comment posted here by colonialists (unionists if preferred… same thing) that is anything other than insult, threat, lies, error, mockery, division, diversion, distraction, logical fallacy, or hateful anti-Scots rhetoric.
It might just be me… but the anti-Scots sentiments expressed on here seem more racism than rhethorik so far this year.
I think I’ll hae tae ‘beef-up’ my warning.
I’ve made a New Year’s resolution not to respond to anti-Scots racists in this place.
Being an indigenous Scot my sense of injustice is much sharper than that of your average colonialist and that being the case I must make a correction to one of posts.
I misunderstood the context of a post made by another poster – so poorly written was it – in this place and in doing so inadvertently changed the meaning of their comment.
They wrote: “I’ll tell you what they know about penting their erses blue, donning a kilt and a tam-o-shanter, and running barefoot through the heather screaming ‘Claymore!’ “
I added the qualifier “[the Scots]” after “I’ll tell you what they…” when I should have added “[Mammy, Fanntoosh & Ceasar]”.
I apologise for my error.
This change more accurately reflects the intended meaning of its poster… although that change hardly minimises the racism the comment clearly displays against the Scots – which was the point I was making with my original comment.
My point remains unchanged.
“I’ve made a New Year’s resolution not to respond to anti-Scots racists in this place”
And yet responding to people you’ve defamed as being anti-Scottish racists is all you’ve done this year as far as I can see . .
If you’ve been penting yer erse blue, donning a kilt and a tam-o-shanter, and running barefoot through the heather screaming ‘Claymore!’ today, yer point will likely be shriveled to near invisibility, Northy.
It’s a New Year (well not really, Auld Scotia’s New Year was March 25th until King James VI changed it, but why stretch a, ahem, point, when we’re all just playing at being True Scots) so let me give you some kindly advice.
Get yersel yet another ID, but make it a laydee, and you will be able to play the sexist as well as the wacist card.
G’oan, Northy, you know you want to.
Wow, Northy, by adding your qualifier in square brackets you’ve inverted the meaning of my original text.
And by failing to link your post to my original, you’ve contrived to conceal your lie and shoehorn in a cut-and-paste copy of your 2024/25 obsession too.
Remarkably feart behaviour for somebody celebrating the green shoots of whatever it is you were claiming.
It’s Baltic oot there. Why don’t you pent your erse blue, don a kilt and a tam-o-shanter, and run barefoot through the heather screaming ‘Claymore!’?
You’ll feel so much better and so much happier with yourself if you do something honest and true.
@ Aidan 3.29 pm
It is earnestly to be hoped the Rev manages to re-jig the site to enable an X-style block function. It’d be great not to have to wade through the tsunami of post-colonial bullshit posted by Alf and the treaty of union ramblings of James Che.
Here’s to hoping, particularly since almost all of the posts by the aforementioned say substantially the same thing!
Andy Ellis:
“Thankfully some of the worst offenders have either given up and no longer post, or been excluded by Rev Stu.”
GÀIDHLIG GHALÀGTAGA AGUS RANNAN SÀI-FÀI EILE!
link to gobha-uisge.blogspot.com
Holy Christ Almighty!
The absolutely dire patter of the colonists and colonialists oan here should be made a crime agin humanity and its producers prosecuted in the Hague.
A’ve heard weans wha hae a funnier an mair mature sense o humour than whit is displayed on here by them colonialists (Scots and English alike).
I don’t know why they come tae this place.
Maybe they’re just masochists and enjoy gettin’ thair ‘arguments’ kicked up the erse by the mair intelligent indigenous Scots.
Still, on the bright side thair rubbish colonial patter gives Alf Baird a chance to show awbody juist hou coloniZed Scotland really is.
Keep up the guid work, Alf!
Ye hae mair support oan here than folk micht think.
“Maybe they’re just masochists”
Postcolonial theory might tend to suggest the oppressors need to control (and also to punish) the oppressed group reveals a more worrying tendency, in that:
“The pleasure in complete domination over another person… is the very essence of the sadistic drive.” (Fromm)
and;
“One of the characteristics of the oppressor consciousness and its necrophilic view of the world is thus sadism.” (Freire)
Which psychology in a colonial environment might also help explain many dubious cases (and in some instances outcomes) in for example actions brought against Salmond, Murray, Peggie etc.
C’moan, Alf.
Dae masochism next.
Cite specific examples from real Wings BTL posts!
But do apply full academic rigour. Provide evidence that at least one masochist has read, from end to end, the posts you cite.
“Dae masochism next”
Kipling, brought up initially in India and then sent to private school in England, imagined British society in general, and colonial administration in particular, in terms of sadomasochistic “magical groups.”
Kucich defined sadomasochistic magical groups as a “narcissistically omnipotent bullying group that recognizes itself both as the legitimately despotic center of social order and as its permanently alienated victim”.
“Kipling’s affection for the sadomasochistic schoolboy clique culture in his Stalky & Co. stories is grounded in a particular middle-class, “professional” mistrust of both superiors and subordinates.”
“This middle-class sadomasochistic professionalism, consolidated in the insular bullying of British boys’ schools, reemerges in Kipling’s representations of mid-level colonial administrators in his Indian stories.”
So there you have it, the ongoing oppression of native Scots is largely a consequence of privately schooled Anglicised sadomasochistic administrators within the colonial framework.
[Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class
John Kucich]
“So there you have it, the ongoing oppression of native Scots is largely a consequence of privately schooled Anglicised sadomasochistic administrators within the colonial framework.”
A brilliant answer, Alf… a perfectly perfect and unassailably erudite riposte.
The english really have a thing about torture, and getting into peoples buttholes and testicles, I think it is something to do with the public schools and that culture of sexual sadism (along with the grand tour, tangiers, le vice anglais, the marsh arabs)
link to youtube.com
A few years back an undercover reporter sneaked into one of those big arms fairs (invitees only) and found BAE Systems selling electroshock batons – the modern torturers weapon of choice; can deliver 100000 volts onto your body, especially your arse, fanny or mouth; delivered in the mouth, the convulsions make folks break their teeth. Up the arse? I dunno, maybe the best orgasm you ever had before your prostate got fried down to the size of a raisin.
– the royals probably pay for this kind of action in the top mayfair knocking shops and dungeons, like fergie’s dad, a frequent flyer.
I will say, you get your moneys worth at the private schools, down at “hogwarts”
Hagrid says : YOU’RE A -CATAMITE- HARRY !
link to archive.ph
– “arsehole like a welly top” before the age of 9. Sets you up for a good career in the civil service, or the navy, also trains you up for going through the masonic levels.
Yeah, right. What can be asserted without evidence can be similarly dismissed Northierthanthou!
There’s vanishingly little evidence that most Scots accept the “Scotland as colony” snake oil, still less support it.
More to the point, if it WAS that popular and resonated so strongly with ordinary Scots, we’d surely know about it because a party that supported the concept, or it’s cadres waving the collected works of Mammy, Fantoosh and Caesar, would be riding high in the polls, wouldn’t they?
Fact is, most reasonable folk think it’s a gash idea.
Careful with that kind of logic, Andy.
Somebody might apply it to the oft-repeated claim that Scotland is robbed of £150 billion each and every year.
Just think. Justify that claim with credibility, proof and a plausible plan for Indy, and not only would Indy be riding high in the polls. Scots would be storming the polling stations now, demanding an immediate vote to get their hands on their share of the loot by next week.
Yet, tumbleweed.
It’s almost as if most of us believe it’s snake oil.
“What can be asserted without evidence can be similarly dismissed Northierthanthou!.”
I am really liking thon Northierthanthou moniker… I might use it.
Hou an iver, that aside… of course assertions can be dismissed out of hand.
For those not fully clued-up on how Logic works ALL assertions are made without supporting evidence… that’s why they are called assertions.
It’s only when those assertions are set out as propositions that evidence of their veracity is required if a valid argument based on a premise, or premises, is to be made.
To assert is merely to assert – or to put it another way “this is what I think, please believe me I’m telling the truth… honest”.
But a proposition sets a higher standard for proof of its veracity and requires a more robust argument before folk are likely to be persuaded.
Alf Baird proposes Scotland is a colony and supplies a great deal of evidence to support his proposition in the form of multiple premises backed by multiple reliable sources.
The colonialists merely assert what they in their ignorance suppose is a valid counter-argument without any evidence to support their wild anti-Scottish claims that the Scots are better off as an oppressed people than as a free and independent sovereign people.
This is why folk instinctively side with Professor Baird’s argument and hae a wee chuckle up thair sleeves at the colonialist’s “Better Together” ‘argument’.
I am really liking thon Northierthanthou moniker… I might use it.
A wholly unsuprising lack of originality on your part. It’ll come as a surprise to nobody given the rest of your inputs.
Alf Baird proposes Scotland is a colony and supplies a great deal of evidence to support his proposition in the form of multiple premises backed by multiple reliable sources.
No, he really doesn’t. His”evidence” is misapplied and doesn’t support the proposition, nor is it backed up by multiple sources, nor are they inherently reliable. He re-hashes and misapplies a lot of secondary material and leaps to unwarranted conclusions which are not widely shared or accepted and have very little academic hinterland or support.
This is why folk instinctively side with Professor Baird’s argument and hae a wee chuckle up thair sleeves at the colonialist’s “Better Together” ‘argument’.
No, they really don’t. “Some” folk might, but the support of the nutter fringe isn’t much or a recommendation, nor will it bring us a scintilla closer to independence. Indeed the nativist and “Scotland as colony” propositions will considerably lengthen the time taken to achieve our goal, as they will become mired in years of dispute and argument about whether they are valid.
“A wholly unsuprising lack of originality on your part.”
This assertion has been noted and immediately dismissed due to its lack of supporting evidence.
An observation: When folk are losing an argument their counter attacks become more and more verbose.
When folk are winning an argument their responses become more and more curt.
Note the curtness of my response (a single sentence) set dow above this observation.
Wow!
Assertions, propositions, veracity, premises. Check out the big vocabulary on Brad, sorry, Northy.
But tell us true, Northy, as you weave your dense, logical web with your special linguistic terms. Are these all Scots words?
Or are you constructing your argument entirely out of English, the lying language of the coloniser?
“Note the curtness of my response (a single sentence) set dow above this observation”
I’m seeing what you’re about, Northy.
You’re even truncating the words. Masterful.
But surely your opponent-crushing technique works even better in Scots? Then it will be obvious to all the readers here, not just the colonialists.
It’s sad Alex Salmond passed away without ever seeing the error of his ways in continuing to encourage support for the anti-independence, colonial administrator SNP and his beloved “Think very carefully” imperial English Crown.
When some history comes forth from records that is not liked, even though written in the pen of England, ” We must ban the Scots” in Scotland from have a voice.
The cry of unionist and now globalist,
But here it must be noted that if Scots agree with Englands politics there is no such cry, nor does the cry arise if it is a topic they can answer,
This means the Old Cry to Ban the Scots in Scotland of their opinions is been often repeated through out the Centuries, by those that cannot cope with Scottish higher intelligence. When Scots Use England old words back at them, as was written down in records against their own arguments,
Ban the Scots ban the Scots ban the Scots, we do not like them using own our arguments, written words or behaviour back at us,
Take away their language ban it, take away their culture take away their freedom of speech, ban it, ban it ban all of them,
Deary me, deary deary me,
North Code,
But when there is evidence they cannot dispute, then it must be banned in Scotland.
Fancy asking a gentleman with the surname of Campbell to ban the voices of Scotland,
Unless the suckie up gentleman thinks he owns Mr Campbell lock stock and barrel and Mr Campbell’s Site,
Now there’s a thought for the Squeamish.
North Code,
Alf Baird,
I think it is very nice and thoughtful of Colonial mindset posters to help us prove our point, don’t you,
I never call or cry to get them to be Banned, they often help us in their attitude, and forthright manner and be-littling mannerisms that show up for others to read.
Because when you give someone enough rope…
“…when you give someone enough rope…”
It isnae rope ther needin, James, it’s mair ‘bullets’… fir ther nivver feenisht shootin’ thersels in thair ain feet; an wha are we tae stap thaim, eh?
Scotland’s a free country efter aw – well… it wid be if it wisnae a colony
Yes James, the “hateful racism” of colonialism (Cesaire) inevitably shows through whenever the colonizer, always with great relish, endeavours to point out “the endless deficiencies of the colonized” (Memmi).
“the coloniser, always with great relish, endeavours to point out “the endless deficiencies of the colonised””
Every now and then, Alf, it’s necessary to just simply tell you straight that you’re writing nonsense.
No Scot, telling another Scot that on the subject of Scotland’s “colonisation” he disagrees, that he doesn’t see Scotland as a “colony” in other words, can just be written off as a “coloniser”.
“No Scot, telling another Scot that on the subject of Scotland’s “colonisation” he disagrees, that he doesn’t see Scotland as a “colony” in other words, can just be written off as a “coloniser”.”
Well, here we have to remember that postcolonial theory also regards colonialism as “a disease of the mind”. In this environment the assimilated native “rejects the values of the colonized as belonging to a decayed world from which they eventually hope to escape”.
What happens, as we have seen in Scotland, is that the “assimilated place themselves in a considerably superior position” even to the average colonizer. According to Memmi, the more assimilated native group:
“…push a colonial mentality to excess (and) display proud disdain for the colonized”. They defend their privileges “with fear and harshness; and when colonization is imperilled , they provide it with its most dynamic defenders, its shock troops, and sometimes its instigators”.
We all know of Scots who exhibit such characteristics, the representatives of ‘Scottish’ Tory and Liberal parties and their more avid supporters are examples; royalists, unionists, Scots who seek and “crave dependency”, and a ‘British’ identity, the ‘proud Scots, but’ brigade.
Of course the more assimilated native described above denies colonialism exists, because that is part of their ‘condition’!
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Cheers, Alf.
I’ll respond in detail later, but right now I’m off to defend my privileges “with fear and harshness”.
While I’m busy placing myself “in a considerably superior position even to the average colonizer” (just like Oor Northy or even Confused, who never tire of telling us how inferior the English are), could you perhaps post about the “proud Scots but” brigade who never tire of pining for rule from the EU in Brussels?
Thanking you in advance for your attention.
BTW, if you can find a suitably apt quote from Jonesy I’ll be particularly grateful, but no biggie if not.
Paranoia is a peculiar illness.
Including this present post I have posted 10 times on different topics
Compared to Andy Ellis’s 14 times mainly posting on war activities, and ranting against Scots that do not agree with him,
I make it 11, James.
Could I be paranoid? Or maybe just colonised?
You patently don’t know what paranoia even is James. The block function I mentioned wouldn’t stop you posting your superabundance of bullshit, it would just mean that those of us tired of your wall to wall spamming of this site would be able to switch it off and concentrate on people who actually had two brain cells to rub together.
Your reading skills appear to need as much attention as your grasp on reality.
Hard to wade through the comments at the moment as life is too short. Dr Ellis seems to be trying to remake the blog in his own image which begs the question why not start a blog of his own? The world waits.
And yet here you are for some strange reason giving us the benefit of your dazzling insight. I doubt my inputs in general amount to more than some of the other usual suspects. Most are in response to others…..so, you know there is that.
I’d much prefer Alf Baird and James Che to spare us their scatter gun inputs for example, whether via their own blogs or just anywhere else.
Alternatively, it’d be great as mentioned above if we could just block posters whose inputs we found uninteresting or annoying: try suggesting it to Rev Stu – he’s famously keen on being told how to run his blog.
Or, you know….you could just do one. I’m happy to scroll past your hot takes.
Your comment 3:39 on 4th Jan. finds fault with Alf Baird’s comment (shortly preceding) by referring to the issue of democracy. Alf actually had made reference to that issue and did not appear to have suggested that economic success is directly related to democracy.
Your response to Alf seems not to undermine his point. What is the relevance football teams? There have been signs that you are a highly educated person so you should know better than to resort to nugatory metaphor.
Perhaps, somewhere, you have stated whether you favour Independence for Scotland. If you are a supporter, the general impression which you create is to the contrary.
If Rev Stu is minded to clear out some Commenters then you would be high on my list of suggestions but Alf well worth keeping.
Andy Ellis: your name omitted by Jay at 10:20pm, 4th Jan 2026
(chortle) … Ellis has a substack …
but it’s not going well
link to substack.com
the world is just waiting for his brand of one paced 3rd rate sophistry reheats, the copy of a copy of press releases from the RIAA and foreign affairs
@ David Holden , OMG you have hit on a very touchy subject David , the Franchise Fanny actually had a blog of his own but had to give it up as he was lonely , he was the only one that read it , it appears that he was so boring ,self opinionated and despised by normal people that nobody would even comment on his ramblings
He always likes to make out that he played an important part in the 2014 referendum, perhaps that’s why we lost it
I suppose we should be grateful that he has moved to Edinburgh with his engerlish wife ,daughter and engerlish in laws to escape the hordes , but unfortunately his political beliefs of progressiveness and civic action actually created and added to the problem , The Fanny is hoping to create the same situation in Scotland by hailing everyone from anywhere as NEW SCOTS , my advice would be David to try and move somewhere that the Franchise Fanny and his family don’t like
The greatest living half-Scot, President Donald J. Trump, continues to expand the American language:
Trump said under Maduro, Venezuela hosted “foreign adversaries in our region and acquiring menacing offensive weapons that could threaten U.S. interests and lives, and they use those weapons last night.”
“All of these actions were in gross violation of the core principles of American foreign policy, dating back more than two centuries, and not anymore,” Trump said. “All the way back, it dated to the Monroe Doctrine. And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we’ve superseded it by a lot, by a real lot. They now call it the Don-roe Doctrine.”
I wonder what the Don-roe Doctrine says about Scotland. I bet it’s something interesting.
[Incidentally, I’m not believing President Trump pronounced that hyphen. I’m betting he calls it the Donroe Doctrine. So that’s what everybody else will eventually call it too.]
Hi Hatey, you’ve still not informed us about your man Stepan Bandera. I noticed they had a torchlit parade in his honour in Austria the other day (a birthday bash, did you send a card?) which is hardly surprising considering its most favourite son.
Go on Hatey, tell us about Stepan.
“still not informed us about your man”
Oh but I have. Several times, at least twice in considerable detail.
You’ll have missed the posts though. Daylight hours – normal people’s awake time.
“hardly surprising considering its most favourite son”
I might agree, but first I’d have to comprehend what that means. But no, don’t tell us, we’ll have much greater fun guessing.
Unless … are you perchance writing in Scots?
KAFKA: THE TRIAL (Chapter 1 ARREST)
« Somebody must have made a false accusation against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. The cook employed by his landlady Frau Grubach who brought him his breakfast every morning at about eight o’clock did not come this time. That had never happened before.
« K. waited for a while and with his head on the pillow looked at the old lady living opposite who was observing him with a curiosity quite unusual for her, but then, feeling both annoyed and hungry, he rang the bell.
« Instantly there was a knock at the door and a man he had never before seen in the house came in. He was slim but solidly built, he wore a close-fitting black suit which was provided, in the manner of travelling outfits, with various pleats, pockets, buckles, buttons and a belt, and which consequently seemed eminently practical, though one could not be quite sure what its purpose was.
« ‘Who are you?’ asked K., starting to sit up in bed. But the man ignored the question, as if his appearance were to be accepted without query, and merely said: ‘You rang?’ »
KAFKA: AN TRIAIL (Caibidil 1 GABHÁIL)
« Ní foláir nó bhí duine éigin ag insint bréag faoi Josef K mar, cé nach raibh aon rud as an tslí déanta aige, gabhadh é maidin amháin. Ba nós leis an gcócaire a d’oibrigh dá bhean tí Frau Grubach a bhricfeasta a thabhairt dó timpeall a hocht a chlog, ach níor tháinig sí an lá áirithe seo. Níor tharla a leithéid riamh cheana.
« D’fhan K ar feadh tamaill, ach óna philiúr fuair sé amharc ar an tseanbhean a raibh cónaí uirthi sa tigh thall: thug sé faoi deara go raibh sí ag breathnú go fiosrach air ar shlí nár ghnách léi. Ansin agus é pas beag trí chéile, agus ocras air leis, bhain sé an cloigín.
« Díreach ansin, buaileadh cnag ar an doras, agus bhuail fear nach bhfaca sé riamh isteach sa seomra. Fear caol láidir a bhí ann agus é feistithe i gculaith dhubh luiteach, cosúil le cóta taistil, a raibh crios agus an-chuid pléataí, pócaí, búclaí is chapán mar chuid di. Dhealraigh sí a bheith an-phraiticiúil, cé nach bhféadfaí a rá cén fheidhm a bhí léi mar chulaith.
« ‘Cé thú féin?’ a d’fhiafraigh K, ag éirí aniar sa leaba. Ach níor thug an fear aon aird ar a cheist, faoi mar a bheadh sé ag glacadh leis go mba chóir an freagra a bheith ar eolas aige cheana, agus dúirt sé go simplí, ‘Ar bhain tú an cloigín?’ »
(Leagan Gaeilge le Risteárd Mac Annraoi, 2017)
PREDICTION FOR 2026.
Major conflicts with the USA.
USA seizes Greenland & threatens to occupy Canada.
South & Central American republics rally against US imperialism.
The possible end of the US as internal ethnic and regional factionalism grows. República of California proclaimed.
Russia annexes Ukrain, China seizes Taiwan,
Starmer says «we are not involved»
Swinney says «let us pray»
Has anybody got a copy of that map of Greenland in US colours? The one that seemingly has “SOON” printed on it?
I want to see if I could produce a similar map of Scotland. Or perhaps those parts of Scotland (the Highlands, Western Isles, Orkney, Shetland) that have had it up to here with the SNP eejits and their witless enablers in the no-hope Scottish Central Belt heartlands.
After all, the parts of Scotland with real resources (lebensraum, oil & gas, fishing, renewables, military potential) are exactly the parts that Scotland’s greatest half-son, President Donald J Trump, might want.
He defo wouldn’t want the rest.
If I produce the map and send it to him he might get ideas. Seemingly the Greenlanders are outraged about their map, but I don’t think the Scots in the Highlands, Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland will be of the same view.
Not after 15 years or so of SNP idiocy and malfeasance.
Besides, isn’t Scotland pining for foreign rule from Brussels? Why not sidestep those losers and select the winners in Washington instead? They’ve got all the stuff we like – baseball caps, burgers, pick-ups and movies, just for starters.
Belgian box office blockbusters? French SUVs? Dutch footwear? Don’t make me laugh.
A fascinating and informative article about the current stushie over Greenland. It has all the themes about post-colonialism that are ignorantly batted back and forth on here:
link to unherd.com
Lucky for Scotland we don’t have the real resources that Greenland has and aren’t a few hundred miles further north.
Otherwise, just like the Greenlanders now, we’d be clinging to the skirts of the familiar colonising, imperial power in WM while intoning “orange man BBBAAAADDDDD”.
I think it might be wise to leave this blog to the current range of know alls who infest it add nauseam with sneers directed at anyone who presumes to support Scottish independence no matter how well presented.
Even left for a couple of days talking to themselves might have an interesting effect.
P.S Cracking cartoon Chris and lovely to see you back – golfing season finished has it?
Grit and determination,
Against all the odds of of having been raised in a area of Scotland that still endorsed colonialism punishment in the education of Scottish children with whippings of leather straps and canes, english teacher removing my lunch sandwhiches from my satchel most days and throwing them in the bin,
Constantly having to deal with this bigotry, this be-littlleing, the sarcasmism wit of being or speaking Scottish,
should we dare Scots be spoken in the classroom or playground,
whilst being partial deaf, I have survived that colonial education and had to educate myself through perserverence.
The one thing my colonial education did not do, is find favour towards the Coloniser. However in later life through learning from Wings over Scotland and comments from Alf Baird and many others is how Colonialism works and is meted out to re- educate the mind set of the young and old alike.
One comes to the slow realisation that how you were as a child was not necessarily evil, it just did not conform with the aim of banning or eradicating Scottish language, Scottish culture, Scottish dress or music,
To be ones self, to live as a local, to live with your feet on the land where you grew up, is as natural as breathing. Or should be,
It was considered a sin to live like this.
Today on here, those traits of the unionist and the colonial mindset continue to show themselves as red alert beacons in repeated patterns on how to treat Scottish people. The Scottish nation.
To cause and create the indigenous Scots as lesser humans, that hold no equality of human rights compared to the colonialist,
It is with these old memories still to the fore that I hold the determination and grit that other generations of Scots Children should not have to undergo this treatment in their Country, because even today being indigenous or native to Scotland is still seen and neatly put down as being moonhowlers or knuckle draggers, and all the other innuendos.
Making children ashamed of being who they are naturally , in their home environment.
Time has not changed or re-educated the Colonial mindset, its oppression or suppression of Scottish people,
And like yester- years there are Scots that copy the behaviour of the Colonist to find favour and finance,
James refers to “colonialism punishment in the education of Scottish children with whippings of leather straps and canes”.
To the best of my knowledge, the ‘strap’ was a uniquely Scottish form of punishment. The cane was never used in Scottish state schools.
“the ‘strap’ was a uniquely Scottish form of punishment.”
That may be so. However, in a colonial society there exists what has been termed “two cultural and psychical realms” (Memmi): one which includes the colonizer plus elements of the culturally assimilated colonized (e.g. privileged elites, middle class professionals etc) who tend to adopt colonizer values, and; on the other hand there is the native colonized people/culture.
As noted btl above, and based on previous psycho-analysis research into how colonial societies function, the forms of punishment and ongoing oppression of native Scots in their own land may be as ‘a consequence of privately schooled Anglicised sadomasochistic administrators within the colonial framework’.
before chavez, the US used to steal venezuela’s oil – it paid 1 cent on the dollar in royalties; they got it for free. When Chavez came in he raised the duty to 16 cents on the dollar (not 96, or 66 or 26, 16).
Sounds reasonable, but the rockefeller family decided they didn’t like their “pockets being picked” and so set their droogs, the US military and CIA, on him; I think they eventually got him, they induced cancer, probably via a radioactive element planted close to him (maybe in a table lamp, by his house cleaner, then removed later on).
– what just happened … there are rumours that the background was a big deal with the chinese to sell a lot more oil for yuan (= DEATH OF THE PETRODOLLAR = DEATH OF EMPIRE) – but let’s put aside these conspiracy theories that the US does geopolitical things for oil and not out of purest moral virtue … let’s just say it WAS about THEDRUGZ
oddly, most of the coke consumed by americans comes from colombia, which is a US client state and has not been targeted.
oddly, when the taliban took over the first time, they eliminated heroin production by over 90%; when the yanks took over, supply was restored and bumper harvests were achieved
oddly, during the period known as “the war on drugs”, the quality of drugs in america increased, while the price decreased; such things normally happen through investment in technology and logistics supply chains …
was “the war on drugs” actually “the war FOR drugs”? Drugs are only a problem, sometimes.
And so is this the problem : venezuela is not producing ENOUGH drugs for sale in the US, and the CIA is NOT GETTING its normal cut?
– sounds fanciful CIA = cocaine import agency, but if you are peddling guns one way, then having drugs come the other way, as payment, seems sensible; the old mafia don John Gotti said the mafia was not in the drugs business … “as they couldn’t compete with the CIA” (and they thought he was joking). If you think about it, the world’s best logistics network is the US air force, bases all around the world which never get raided; why would you not? The CIA also had its own “airline”, air america; hollywood even made a film about it.
Also, from a financial viewpoint, the drugs trade while immensely profitable if you are dealing, even if you are not, produces a lot of very hot money which needs to be “managed” back into the financial system; you wouldn’t want drugs money causing inflation. It’s technical, but because the US puts too many dollars into circulation, it has to carefully control how those dollars come back to it. Read Hudson. Point is, you have to deal with it, even if you hate drugs and want them illegal.
Drugs money, when laundered, produces a lot of “negative interest” i.e. really low cost financing for front businesses, which do actual service to the community. Running a taxi business, want a commercial loan from a bank?? You won’t be in business long. You are living in a narco state, kept alive by the flow of drug money, places like Florida, or Lanarkshire.
During the 2008 market crash, drugs money was the only thing providing liquidity to the markets.
HSBC bank was setup in Hong Kong to launder the profits of the opium trade, back in the day when China was British (by God!) – “its alright when we do it”; hypocrisy again, the disease of great powers
… and so what are we really talking about, are drugs good or bad, whose and where and how, what are we talking about, and if it “just depends”, depends on what … “bad people” says trump … yeah, all those parties on epstein island, all those photos and no one appears to be doing lines in any of them … I believe that but whatever just dont do drugz kids, its bad mkay except if trumpster offers you some panama red at mar a lago
link to youtube.com
smart play though is if you are going to do it, do it entirely legal like the sackler family, peddling oxycontin; hurray for the free market and the supreme court deciding political contributions were “free speech”
link to cms.zerohedge.com
I love the renewables, but oil will remain with us for this century. Aside : “UK” oil seems tiny, but there is supposedly 15B barrels still there if you want it (and that is still only half of our waters, nor does it cover this incredible antarctic claim, which is 511B barrels of oil and gas)
Nowt aboot the Jews, Confused?
I trust “normal service” will be resumed soon.
Factchecker,
You’re a ignorant numpty due to your facts being incorrect,
The leather strap was used in Scotland, but by those educated as teachers that believed in a union, in English lessons, history lessons and in geograpy lessons,
History lessons were about the union, and English wars of success over the world and Colonies of the British empire.
Your knowledge is inadequate, and not up to holding the title factchecker.
A true fact checker would never include in the conversation with personal opinions, such references ” To the best of my Knowledge”
Which seems to be limited.
James, I admit my knowledge of Scottish education is limited. It has lasted at first hand only 42 years, including a study of the history of Scottish education at university level.
Though a limited experience, I suspect that is considerably in excess of yours.
Particularly in view of the inaccuracies and irrelevancies that you produce.
I never mentioned History lessons, so your comments in that area are simply not relevant (as well as inaccurate – but that’s another issue).
Your claim that the strap was used “by those educated as teachers that believed in a union, in English lessons, history lessons and in geograpy (sic) lessons,” is simply untrue. It was used by most teachers in Scottish schools, irrespective of political belief. It was an integral part of the disciplinary process until the mid-1980s, and one that was (for good or bad) distinctively Scottish.
Factchecker,
Scots have made great discoveries through out history, this has not prevented them being used in England or the rest of the world.
The leather strap was used in the same way.
I believe I’m getting the hang of this.
The tawse was discovered (invented?) in Scotland.
The colonising English stole it from us, and then used it against us.
Howzatt?
Hatey, thanks for the explanation – I was finding the logic hard to follow. And the tawse was obviously a GOOD THING, because it is one of our ‘great discoveries’…
Do you know how much oil is actually in England and Irelands UK, as I have never viewed any statistics on the amount of barrels they have or have left in reserves?
There’s actually a near unlimited amount of oil.
It’s just that they can’t get the barrels.
The Hollyrood Deposit Return scheme could have sorted that, but Westmonster put a stop to it. Leaving the SNP/Greens no alternative to shutting down the North Sea early.
Howzatt?