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Another blow for Sturgeon

Posted on December 22, 2015 by

As SNP forecasting incompetence sees Forth Road Bridge re-open two weeks ahead of schedule, throwing holiday travel plans into chaos for thousands.

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Anne Bruce

Shock! Horror!

Well, that doesn’t I’m not voting SNP x 2 in May now 🙂

Jim Mitchell

They do it deliberately!

Anne Bruce

Correction:

“That does it”

Dan Huil

That’s the bbc’s Christmas ruined. Ha ha ha.

heedtracker

SNP polls boost, FRB opening! Merry Xmas from Scotland, to the great British meeja:D

Holebender

Is there no end to the SNP Government’s incompetence?

Oh wait… the other thing… competence.

Free Scotland

Think of all that lost revenue for the rail companies and petrol stations. Newspaper headlines and auto-cue scripts will have to be re-written. We’re doomed, I tell you, doomed.

galamcennalath

Dastardly Nats!

Yet again they show competence and efficiency.

They only do it to make the Yoons look bad in comparison, you know!

Kenzie

Cue large helpings of humble pie all round. Or, maybe not. 🙂

jimnarlene

Spantastic!

All the best everyone for 2016 and beyond.

Brian Powell

I feel justified in repeating on this thread:

In other shocking news the Forth road Bridge will open tomorrow, Wednesday, from 6am for all vehicles except HGVs.

Well done all the guys working day and night in this weather to get it in back in operation 2 weeks before scheduled.

Since LabConsLibs tried to lay all the blame on the SNP SG then only fair to say well done SNP SG for taking bold decisive action to get it working again.

Bob Mack

Many thanks to the brave men and women who dangled on harnesses and scaffolding below the bridge whilst welding this new structure.
Remarkable skill and courage.

As for that damned SNP,I am going to vote for them so their incompetence can be exposed for many years to come.

SNP X 2.

Karmanaut

You just know that Scottish Labour will now be on their knees, praying for something to go wrong with the new bridge.

Auld Rock

Let’s not forget to thank all the Engineers who have worked round the clock to get traffic rolling again. A job that could have avoided if SLAB hadn’t cancelled the building of the new bridge back in ’97 and then again doing nothing during their 8yrs in coalition with the Fib/Dems.

Auld Rock

nodrog

No doubt there will now be an excessive amount of pollution now from the MSM,BBC and the Unionists. You just cannot please everybody.

Arabs for Independence

Can’t the Scottish Government get anything right?

SNP X 2

Ravelin

Well that’s just the last straw! My SNP membership card is getting cut up and I’ll be applying to join Scottish Labour in the New Year. Can’t continue to be a member of a party that is this competent.

Macart

AND THEY DID IT DELIBERATELY! 😀

Kudos to the engineers and workmen who braved our recent weather to get this done.

Cracking effort.

Hamish100

This is ridiculous news. The Lothians and Fife are also to get a brand new bridge despite Labour. The Tories and labour were gearing up to keep complaining. The Labour Chief Whip Kelly had a point of order all ready.

What will the Unionists now complain about now. The fact that Scotland no l get votes for them!

When the new bridge opens I would love to see Dugdale and the others invited to the opening ceremony and made to walk over the new bridge. Their false grins would be fantastic to see.

Capella

Surely an inquiry is now inescapable, however much Sturgeon, Mackay and Swinney dither.
Christmas is coming after all! Hope you’re enjoying your “break” everyone, including Stu (I knew it wouldn’t last).

gordoz

Too Early to Celebrate; James cook has been recalled to report on latest Whitehall leak for BBC

I think we are all jumping the gun here ! Too early to pat Scot Gov on the back.

There’s a rumour going round the BBC of an email regarding comments heard at recent meeting in London where the most dangerous woman in Britain clearly states that she herself had caused the crack in the Forth Road bridge.

They are still trying to translate ‘Pure Glesga’ into the queens english. But they’ll make the words fir somehow.

So no smoke without fire as they BUM say

Clapper57

Quite shocked by this news….my brother was working on it and told me that since it has been shut …. …………….every night……….. ……without fail…….Jackie Baillie has been seen ‘Break’ dancing on bridge….

Hence no HGV’s allowed yet…Thanks Jackie….feckin Thanks.

Morgatron

Drat and double drat. How dare they resolve another problem so quickly. Thank god for the beeb and their impartial , reasoned reporting. I for one will just have to vote SNP X 2 in May. Thanks BBC , bet its sticking right in yer craw.

Peter McCulloch

Give Jackie Baillie time she’ll come up with some sort of criticism to attack the Scottish Government over the early completion of repairs to the Forth Road Bridge.

Rob

Yes, well done the danglers of welding torches and assorted hangers-on.

I’m still kinda new here; best ‘find’ of the year WOS. Season’s best everyone, especially the Rev. Keep up the good work.

Hoss Mackintosh

Yeee Haaw!

I knew they would open it early but not That Early!!!

Derek Mackay and the Bridge Engineers and crews deserve our thanks.

Great – no detours for me and family at the New Year.

katherine hamilton

Well done the engineering teams. Sterling work in difficult and dangerous conditions. Up the Welders!

Proud Cybernat

“…officials have confirmed…”

Funny how in just about every report the Idiot Press and the State Sponsored Broadcaster published about the bridge closing, the words “Transport Minister, Derek McKay” or “SNP” or “Scottish Governemnt” were highly prominent in the articles.

Now when the bridge is repaired and well ahead of schedule, it’s just “…officials…” I suppose “SNP GOOOOD” doesn’t quite have the same appeal to our corrupt media.

That’s just one small example of how they operate people. It is insidious, cowardly and corrupt media.

Peter Clive

Utter shambles

Tony Little

Thanks to the several hundred engineers and others who have been working non-stop to resolve this problem. Good to know they will all be able to enjoy a more restful Christmas with their families.

Good news for the Scottish Government and what a smack in the face for the anti, anti anti brigade. I know it’s Christmas, but frankly, Hell mend them!

sydthesnake

quite shocking, “ONLY 2 WEEKS EARLY” will probably be the BBC/MSM header

definitely SNP X 2 for me, I need more of this incompetence,

“MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR” to all Wingers

Syd

David

They’ve only done this to often critiism in my opinion.

Donald MacKenzie

It’s not incompetence. It’s not corruption. It’s not greed.

It’s just BAD. Bad, bad, bad. Naughty SNP. Bad SNP.

frogesque

Damn, just damn that SNP!

It’s getting so boring, I’ll have to vote for them twice in May now!

(Not that there was any doubt lol)

Wee song for Kez, sombody may love you!

link to youtube.com

thomaspotter2014

The merriest of Christmases to all you lucky lucky people.

And a major THANKYOU to Rev. Stu and all the wonderful wingers and peeps who will make Scotland free very soon.

I’m gonna be voting SNP 24/7 till I can’t vote no more.

Also wishing all a super duper New Year.

So glad we’re all still here.

Onwards and upwards to Independence.

David MacGille-Mhuire

By Goad
Can these vile splittist SNP separatists get nothing wrong?

The knuntz.

Am aff tae tell ma JaBa Mammy oan the fcukers:(

Dan Huil

Meanwhile, the latest figures for Westminster government borrowing are even worse than expected – Scotland’s media blames SNP!

Dr Jim

The SNPs Secret Plan for Scotland

Damn them! with their building things and fixing things and

running the country, this is not how politicians are supposed to behave we’ll never get used to this

Bring back Labour, they would have painted it and called it done without all this efficiency stuff that SNP keep doing

Now cars will be travelling over the bridge spoiling the natural beauty of Scotland and polluting the sky leading to the dumbing down of schoolchildren which is what the mind controlling SNPs long term plan is

Oooh BTW Thanks for the help with the Ginger Cordial quest folks I have been successful in procuring the very item

The Power of Wings to save Christmas
A lot less Grumpy Grandad of Bishopbriggs wishing everyone loads of Yules and Noels and a Feliz Navidad from me and mine

Greg Drysdale

“LYING SNP HID REAL REOPENING DATE TO INDUCE FAVOUR” 😀 PMSL!

mogabee

That’s utterly abysmal news, MSM are gutted…(some more than others)

But never fret, the SNP bad will be returning after Hogmanay!

Merry Christmas to all… 😀

Quentin Quale

BBC – but how can we take the shine off this story?
R2 newsreader – ‘The Forth Bridge in the South-east of Scotland will open tomorrow’.
Unbelievable, but just heard it at 11am.

bobajock

Hmm, thanks SNP, but really, thanks to the engineers – not an easy one was this, as a metallurgist I was more aware then most of the problem.

tom anderson

well done to the government that cares .

msean

Great effort by the workers,they deserve a bonus for that.

Fran

Not good enough SNP, no HGVs allowed will be the onionist cries, doesn’t matter if its 2wks ahead of schedule.

BUM will always find a rain cloud in a clear blue sky.

gus1940

Great news – if Jackie Turd is doing Reporting SNPbad tonight it will be interesting to see her beaming smiles over this good news.

I know it would be too much to hope for but wouldn’t it be great to have Jackie Bailie, Murdo Fraser and wee Willie interviewed as to how they view the news.

Can I suggest that, once the repairs are finished and the bridge reopened to HGVs,
Nicola and Derek McKay host a drinks reception at Bute House or Holyrood for all the engineers and others involved in the work completed nearly 2 weeks ahead of schedule in spite of terrible weather conditions

K1

Tom Gordon tweets the breaking news about the FRB re opening, from Rev’s twitter feed:

comment image:small

Wanker.

Stuart

Of course, had the maintenance budget not been cut by 65% in the first place….

This would never have happened.

But hey lets not mention that!

Much…

Maybe now the SNP will have learned a lesson as a result!

There’s a first time for everything.

Dave Beveridge

“Heartless SNP bstrds sack loyal bridge workers 3 days before Christmas. Has Scrooge Sturgeon no shame?”

Luigi

Credit to our amazing engineers, and a feather in Derek McKay’s cap.

GIRUY, unionist whingers!

Proud Cybernat

I wonder though – if the FRB has been repaired, when will HGV traffic be allowed to go over it? Are there additional repairs still on-going to strengthen it further so allow the HGV traffic?

Of course, these are question the Corrupt Scottish Media (CSM) will be demanding answers to. You can bet your life on it. Anything to continue the SNP Bad meme and to take the gloss off this great effort by the engineers.

Wills

has anyone seen the STV news feed on FB ???????
It is absolutely hilarious. The SNP bad mob are foaming at the mouth.
I think I’ll pull up a chair and enjoy the show.

Bob Mack

@Stuart,

Merry Christmas.

Robert Peffers

There can be only one thing to say in regard to this news item :-

SNP GOOOOD!

Hae a guid ain Wingers.

Luigi

It’s not actual problems that make or break senior politicians, it’s how effectively (or ineffectively, as in the case of Labour) that they deal with big problems that makes all the difference in the eyes of Joe Public.

Oh Dear. Another black Christmas for the union whingers. My heart bleeds. 🙂

Iain

That’s great news, shame all the unionist trolls and the union have got severe metal fatigue and will soon fragment!

Luigi

All we need now is a transparent, public enquiry early next year, showing up the real (Labour) culprits in this entire FRB/replacement fiasco.

mealer

Thanks and congratulations to everyone involved.

Marcia

Iain @ 12.10,

I think you mean mental fatigue for the trolls.

Robert Kerr

@K1

Tom Gordon really has a serious problem.

Therapy needed.

The Rough Bounds.

Flippin’ SNP Government. They never stick to a plan. Opening that bridge to car traffic a fortnight early is just the height of nonsense. Why oh why can’t they just do the right thing and screw everything up like used to happen in the good old days when Labour was in charge?

I wonder if Jackie Burd will give her oily smile when she points out that this is yet another example of the SNP breaking a promise.

dakk

Ye see I told that new Queensferry bridge was a total waste a money.

Effin vanity project 🙂

Cadogan Enright

disgraceful – what will the Scottish government do next? Maybe build a second bridge? What a waste of money.

TELL ME – has anyone seen ANY headlines either on STV or BBC Scotland about the Scottish NHS outperforming the English, NI and Welsh NHS’s this winter and the only on to be on or nearly on target?

If not – would this be an easy post for the Rev?

link to bbc.co.uk Pretty relevant I would have thought given the negative headlines and FoI requests all year long to the Scottish NHS from BBC Scotland

Andrew Fernie

It’s good to see the Forth Road Bridge Engineers are familiar with a certain Chief Engineer’s rules for under-promising and over-delivering:

“Kirk: Mr. Scott. Have you always multiplied your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Scotty: Certainly, sir. How else can I keep my reputation as a miracle worker?”

mealer

Does anyone remember a comedy sketch where a Rangers fan is sitting in his bedroom listening on the radio to Henrik Larsen running rings round everyone?

Tony Little

Stuart

Wrong and wrong. Of course, had the maintenance budget not been cut by 65% in the first place….

The convener of the FETA (a LibDem Councillor) has stated quite clearly that the funding WAS there if the repairs had been deemed necessary – FETA did NOT think they were the priority.

He went on to say thyat ANY government faced with the decision at that time woudl ALSO have deferred the repairs, as they were NOT a priority. Sometime sh1t happens. Nop one’s fault, just what is.

Perhaps in the spirit of the season you could try to be objective?

Well done to all the engineers and others who have managed to resolve this problem as speedily as they have.

Macart

@Luigi 12.12

Aye, they should always be careful what wish for at this time of year right enough. The meeja and their chain tuggers were awfy loud on their demands. Problem with that is sometimes you get exactly what you wish for, just not necessarily on your terms or timetable. 😉

Cadogan Enright

@Luigi

better write to the Scottish Government, as the only point they seem not to be investigating is WHY the second bridge took so long to build

Liz White

Read the article and not one quote from liebour spokespersons….not one. Maybe they were out doing their Christmas shopping.

Les Wilson

Well done SNP and all the workers involved. Hope they all have a happy Xmas.
Same to all wingers, who really help this site to be the what it has become, a beacon among the dross.

Just a wee thought, is it not an occassion for a new Hitlers bunker spoof. I can just imagine it with the BBC and Slab participents at this time.

Steven Stewart

Coming soon to a headline near you:

The SNP lied about FRB fix time.

They said that it would take a month in order to look good when the work was completed 2 weeks early.

Quinie frae Angus

@Rob, 11.25 am

Hi Rob, welcome the good ship Wings. It’s a mine of information – and not just for the Rev’s excellent journalism.

The commenters are also a fine and motley collection of knowledgeable folk, all combining together to unpeel the myriad layers of obfuscation, corruption, lies and spin.

Occasionally we have our little spats and disagreements, but 99% of the time it’s just an incredibly enlightening sharing of information, insight, and laughs.

Merry Christmas to you and all the Wingers.

ArtyHetty

Looking forwards to the front pages tomorrow! Well done the engineers, amazing job done.

O/T
I went to buy my National at a well known store yesterday and the self checkout (hate them with a vengeance but was a bit quicker than the big queue) did not ‘recognise’ the National, so the guys had to use another 60p paper to put in into the till if you see what I mean, and that was the fcg Daily Heil!

So it falsely appears on their sales that the DH sells more and the National sells less, will try again today.

Having said that it’s getting harder to get hold of the N, suddenly seems to be more popular around my way.

Tam Jardine

Surely the attack angle will now morph into Minister Derek Mackay deliberately pushed out the date of the expected reopening in order to open ahead of schedule. Simply another SNP tactic to make them APPEAR to be efficient. Surely there ate questions to be answered, documents released, bla bla bla.

Nothing would surprise me now.

BigMac

BBC News on Radio. Listened to it despite a personal ban on doing so.
The Forth Bridge will be open to all vehicles except HGV’s, it will be another six weeks before the bridge will be ready for them. Notice they managed to put in the but. The BBC cannae announce good news in Scotland without putting in a ‘but’.

rongorongo

O/T – but interesting Telegraph article on the decision by Ofcom to back the claim that the cash-for-access claims made about Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind – in contradiction to an earlier exoneration by Kathryn Hudson, the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner.

Janet

Shocking that the reopening date was so wrong. Had Derek Mackay mis-spoken?

I’m definitely going to vote SLAB from now on!

Christian Schmidt

Note this wasn’t a big job (otherwise it would have taken many months). I remember the initial estimate was very rushed, and as is Transport Scotland’s modus operandi, quite conservative.

The only thing that I find intriguing is that they must have know for weeks that it is likely that they reopen about this time, but decided to keep quiet and surprise us…

peekay

“SNP puts bridge workers on dole 3 days before Christmas”

donald anderson

Is it safe for Jackie Baillie tae cross noo?

Les Wilson

Did not take the CorpMedia long to bring out supposed negative eh.
They ain’t ever, going to praise anything good in Scotland.

I wonder hoe the BBC are going to spin with the help of E Bradford that the SNHS is the best performing across the UK this year at this winter period. They will, they will, they will……

Robert Peffers

May I point out that the absence of HGVs, over the bridge, during the Winter Celebrations period, is in fact very good news for over 90% of bridge users.

The usual congestion in normal working days is mainly down to HGVs obstruction. It may even affect users of the main northern non-duel carriageway roads where the traffic flow is badly impeded by HGVs.

It will hardly affect business users. A few extra miles is of little consequence to, for example, an HGV hauling freight from South Britain to somewhere in the Highlands and Islands, (which should in fact best be delivered by rail).

Not to mention thay many of them already heavily overcharge for deliveries to the Highlands and Islands. Some even not delivering to the more northern areas at all.

SNP Goood!

Cadogan Enright

@ ArtyHetty 12.26

this means that all stores in this company will be the same as ‘PLU’s are always downloaded from a central source

pass the shops details onto the National here customerservices@thenational.scot or call 0141 302 7300

especially if they are part of a chain of shops

Lollysmum

It’s no good Rev-I’m going to have to stop your emails going to my phone. Was browsing the laptops in Curry’s this morning, thinking of treating myself for Christmas when this email came in. My reaction-I roared with laughter & then realised I was getting strange looks from people around me.

Someone even told me to shush-they made a mistake there 🙂
Smiled sweetly & said ‘Happy Christmas to you you old scrooge’ & walked away laughing even more.

Didn’t get a laptop but enjoyed the non-shopping visit. They must have thought I was crackers.

Well done the FRB workers getting it finished in time for the Christmas break. I bet your families will be pleased.

Well done too to the SNP govt for getting it all sorted with the minimum of disruption to bridge users. Times like this when you realise just what a competent govt looks like.

Shame some people can’t handle competence because it makes them look bad but hey its Christmas & unionists are allowed to use the bridge too 🙂

Happy Christmas to the Rev & all wingers wherever you may be. Peace & love to one & all. Enjoy the break Rev you deserve it.

Proud Cybernat

Scottish broadcast and print media – we view you with nothing but contempt. You, more than anyone else, are a blight on Scotland, forever talking us down, forever holding us back.

SNP x 2 SE2016

Andrew McLean

You know the enemy is within when good news stories like this are twisted and corrupted by sad little bigoted nonentities into SNP bad!

But may I wish you wingers all a Happy Christmas, or seasons greetings whatever your faith or none. And may whatever God you bow to look favourably on you and yours.

To the union, that bitter little effrontery to my Nation I hope your demise is swift and timely!

Rev you shine light into the darkness, you truly are a Scotsman, and is there no higher honour that that!

gordoz

Best post by a mile !!! – Cheers Rev

“You’re right. The bridge would have been closed for much longer. Now fuck off. Trolls belong under bridges, not talking pish about them ” 🙂

Was getting well tired of that wee ‘Mundellite’ prick Stuart and his several yoonie whining post.

Good riddance.

scott

I wonder if the Sunday Post rag will have a big spread and quotes from all the moaners and congratulate the Bridge Engineers for getting the bridge open before Xmas,I bet they will complain that HGV have to wait.
Jackie Baillie better stay off the bridge as there is a weight limit

Robert Peffers

@Quinie frae Angus says: 22 December, 2015 at 12:25 pm:

“Occasionally we have our little spats and disagreements, but 99% of the time it’s just an incredibly enlightening sharing of information, insight, and laughs”.

As I pointed out already, Quinie frae Angus, My old hoolet like school Dominie used to say that if you just asked politely for information from someone you would most likely get it but if you disagreed with the informant they would bust a gut to convince you they were right.

Disagreement and argument lead to healthy debate. It would be a very dull blog if we actually all agreed with each other on everything.

orri

I suspect that the 65% cut was to the annual income with the removal of tolls. They were expected to dip in to the reserves they’d built up over the years from said tolls. The ones that, it’s insisted, were meant to go to maintaining the bridge. Read recently that even with that cut in funding they still managed to underspend by £2 million.

uno mas

ALL TOGETHER NOW….

“Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells jingle all the way..

Oh what fun it is to cross the bridge on Years Day -:)

Taranaich

More likely it’ll be something along the lines of “pressure from the Other Party forces SNP to get work done in timely fashion.”

Because if there’s one thing we know about The Other Party, it’s their timeliness in building things…

Robert Peffers

@donald anderson says: 22 December, 2015 at 12:39 pm:

” … Is it safe for Jackie Baillie tae cross noo?”

Oh! Jings!, Donald. Jackie Baillie is nae doot, “Heavy”, bit, “Goods”? Naw!

The Man in the Jar

I understand that the FM will be hosting the annual xmas party for the press at Bute House (see Bateman). Wouldn’t it be wonderful if She also invited the team of engineers that repaired the bridge along as a thank you. After all how could the press complain about meeting the heroes of the hour.

I can imagine that the conversation would be somewhat “lively” (Visions of some hairy arsed welder pinning some of our press corp`s finest against a wall). 🙂

Suzanne

This is what a competent government looks like. And big thanks to Derek and to the fantastic engineers who worked so hard to get the bridge open before Christmas. A huge thanks, in fact, and lots of appreciation and admiration.

Just heard on the radio that they are putting the early completion date down to the good weather. Must say, for that we should be grateful. Hanging from a bridge is no place to be in severe weather conditions.

Cue the mealy-mouthed aspersions from the opposition. Go on, spoil yourselves. Crack a smile and a bit of praise. 🙂

galamcennalath

When did the BBC last run a ‘the SNP/SG did well there’ story?

Can’t remember? Me neither.

Craig P

Does this mean there will be no bonus to the repair team for working over Christmas Day and Ne’erday? No doubt the corporate media can find a Scrooge nats angle to it.

Graham MacLure

OT
Next headlines?

“SNP incompetence loses North Britain a White Christmas”

ArtyHetty

Cadogan Enright@12.52

Will do that CE. Good idea. Thanks.

ArtyHetty

Cadogan, yes it was a major chain shop where the self serve machines (tills) did not ‘recognise’ the National.

HandandShrimp

We will now have Onionists saying that the work was rushed, botched and used sellotape.

And in the meantime they will be on bended knee praying for a disaster….and possibly doing strange things with pigs to ingratiate themselves with their deities of the dark. 😉

Robert Peffers

@Suzanne says: 22 December, 2015 at 1:13 pm:

” … Just heard on the radio that they are putting the early completion date down to the good weather.”

Good Weather? Whaur aboot!

We have had, here in Fife, squally winds and very heavy rains almost unbroken during the entire Bridge crisis.

I worked with some of the UK’s top welders on the old Nuclear powered HMS Dreadnought that had steel design structural problems on the outer hull from the outset.

So thus open to weather during the remedial work. The worst was without doubt wet and windy weather.

Welding creates heat and often requires pre-heating and post-heating to prevent fractures caused by localised expansion and contraction caused by heat or cold.

So let’s not have this, “due to good weather”, guff. The only, “Good”, thing about our present Winter Weather is the average temperature is higher than normal and welding creates its own heat and often needs extra venting for welders in more enclosed areas.

We were often working in extreme heat conditions. Provided with extra fluids and cooler air and I still ended up in the sick bay on occasions with overheating problems.

“Due to good weather”, Pish!

Capella

As for the 10% of traffic which is of the HGV kind, I agree with Robert that they would be better on the railways – as they used to be when we had freight rail. (pre Beeching)

The Swiss got fed up of giant EU HGVs churning up their roads on transit between Germany and Italy, so decided to build a rail route which the HGVs must use and pay the fees for it.
link to en.wikipedia.org

They have a CHF 30bn fund for transport infrastructure.

Of course, Switzerland doesn’t have a coast! If they did there would no doubt be a healthy trade in water transport, just as there is on the lakes, but for the fact that our ports have been privatised and are too expensive to use.

See comments on Bella article:
link to bellacaledonia.org.uk

K1

Arthetty is it Tesco’s?

If it is we have to ask how a till can’t register a bar code, I assume when any new produce comes on line in a big store, the tills can handle the new bar code?

Why can’t The National be recognised by tills in Scotland’s shops?

Does The National have a Saltire barcode that the Unionist shops can’t compute?

Grizzle McPuss

All I can add is the words of Tricia Marwick to all SLab & assorted trolls who may be tuning in…

“Sit doon!!”

Training Day

It’s no fun when the Unionist media deliver beyond your wildest expectations of how they can malign this news.

Tom Gordon really is an absolute erse.

gordoz

That engineer John Carson (Fave of Media); will be along any minute ti praise the speed of the repairs – just wait and see 🙂

Jack Murphy

The BBC in Scotland Online,reports on the Forth Road Bridge with the following addendum:

“How has the closure of the Forth Bridge affected you?
Will you be travelling on the bridge once it reopens on Wednesday? Let us know about your experiences.”

Contact numbers etc. are provided.

Loveme2times

I await the “so called BBC” to run some sort of SNPBAD story about this in the near future, did anyone else notice that at the end of the story on the “so called BBC” website they are asking:

How has the closure of the Forth Bridge affected you? Will you be travelling on the bridge once it reopens on Wednesday? Let us know about your experiences. Email ?haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories.

Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:
?WhatsApp: +44 7525 900971
?Send pictures/video to ?yourpics@bbc.co.uk
?Upload your pictures / video here
?Tweet: @BBC_HaveYourSay
?Send an SMS or MMS to 61124 or +44 7624 800 100

Or use the form below

bookie from hell

Iain Martin

Will the SNP ever get round to fixing Scotland?

link to capx.co

Proud Cybernat

Check the Bar Code on ‘The National’. If someone has ran a pen through it (added an extra line or otherwise defaced it) then the checkout scanner won’t be able to recognise it. Could be some bitter Unionist ‘at it’.

Of course, the same applies to any newspaper (if you catch my drift).

Neil Ralley

All so that members of the House of Lords, leading members of the london Establishment and their house guests can get to their estates in time for the Holidays.

K1

Hmmm Proud Cybernat…

***takes pen oot…for shopping list***

Bob Mack

No doubt that perennial Slab Unionist Dr Scott Arthur will contact the BBC with his own horror story,even if he never used the bridge in the first place.

Charles McGregor

“How has the closure of the Forth Bridge affected you?”

The silver lining during the closure was that I now see clearly that Scottish Labour and the BBC are psychotically anti-SNP and I will as a consequence be voting SNP rather than Labour for Holyrood. 🙄

liz

The guardian has this story and unbelievably some CiF comments are claiming the bridge has been opened early due to political pressure and is still unsafe.

This is mainly from’ I am an engineer and a yes voter but……….’

link to archive.is

jimnarlene

@bookie from hell

Wow, that article is exemplary zoomery.

arthur thomson

Well done the engineers and a proper Scottish Government. Hard work and competence might catch on yet.

We are clearly working against warped minds in the unionist camp. Any normal person would understand by now that normal people are seeing through their bizarre smearing of everything good that is happening in Scotland. It is mystifying but then so is any notion that Scotland does anything other than wither and die in the union.

But ‘For as long as one hundred of us remain alive ………’ And to that end we will repair and build our bridges to a better, independent future.

Free Scotland

BBC: How has the closure of the Forth Bridge affected you?

Me: It was a very sensible measure which was taken for the safety of road users. As such, it may well have saved my life.

BBC: Will you be travelling on the bridge once it reopens on Wednesday?

Me: Yes, I intend to cycle back and forth over the bridge for the whole day with a huge placard strapped to my back with the words THANK YOU SNP – EAT YOUR HEART OUT BBC painted on it.

BBC: Do you have any other comments, preferably of a non-controversial nature?

Me: Yes. Vote SNP X2 in May – you know it makes sense.

Proud Cybernat

“We’re Doomed” BBC2 9pm tonight. (The making of Dad’s Army).

“The Songs & Shows of Word War I”, tonight, 10pm, Radio 2.

Oh how the sabernats will be having UKOK orgasms tonight. (Just watch it doesn’t slip and cause you an injury).

BBC war hungry gits.

starlaw

Just travelled from Dunfermline to Livingston on the 51 bus Journey was quicker by ten minutes than going over the bridge. Daughter drives to work in Glenrothes she has enjoyed the drive and quaint place names like Rumbling bridge.
Well done to the engineers and the scaffolders for the effort put in to this repair.

ronnie anderson

O/T
I would like to share this little special offer with You,s,on visiting Gartnavel Hosp today W H Smiths are selling 20 Luggage Labels at £1.99 (reduced) from £2.04 FFS ,remember folks dont show your Boarding Pass at their tills if your going for a wee break over Christmas/New Year.

Socrates MacSporran

Mnageress of Scotmid store in village tells me the problem with the National and tills is, the rise in price from 50p to 60p has not yet been changed on the main computer.

Once that is fixed, no problem.

Proud Cybernat

BBC News (Radio 2).

“50% of Scotland’s electricity needs now met from renewables. Target to 100% is by the end of the decade is a year ahead of schedule. Could be impacted by Westminster removing renewable subsidy.”

The Scottish (SNP) Government just keep on keeping on. Incredible what they have achieved since their time in office and especially so given that they have had both hands tied behind their backs and had their neighbour pickpocket their wallet.

Give the Yoons BOTH SNP barrels SE2016

K1

Aye Socrates, which takes approximately 2 minutes to fix, think of all the produce 2 for 1 offers et al and they manage them on a daily basis…nae excuse fur it imv. And it’s not just Scotmid it’s Tescos too…are all the shops unable to update their computers co ordinating their inability to adjust a price change?

John Moss

It’s this kind of efficiency and competent behaviour that has me thinking that the BBC are right to be suspicious of the SNP. They’re just trying to make everyone else look bad by being so good.

Davy

“Ho Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha He He He”, just working on Nicolas reply to Kezia, Ruthie & Willie at the next First Minsters question time.

Well to all the teams working on the Forth Road Bridge, you have done Scotland proud. MERRY XMAS.

robert graham

well thats it ,yet another bloody political move ,they just do these things when they know fine well the wee parly is in recess, kezia well ,there just acting like they are ,well governing its just not fair , not at all fair ,it’s bloody well competent , that’s what it is competent , we need an inquiry

bugsbunny

Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP this year have not been naughty, but very nice. So Nicola, expect something extra special in your stocking this year. I hope Alex, I mean Santa doesn’t get stuck sliding down the lum at Bute Street like he did two years ago, ho, ho, ho.

I hope you’ve all wrote your letters to Santa and shoved them up your lum. Apparently as well as Scotland, that’s what the weans/bairns in Scandinavia believe as well. That once burnt, the smoke goes up the lum and all the way to the North Pole.

I wonder if they believe that elsewhere, or did believe that elsewhere in the “Celtic Isles?”

Stephen.

Rob James

A pat on the back to all concerned in getting the bridge reopened.

Best comment of the year award goes to Stu himself- “Trolls belong under bridges. Not talking pish about them”.

Ian Brotherhood

So, the countdown to the half-millionth WOS comment begins…

Anyone care to guess when it will be reached, and what the latest news will be about?

I’m plumping for Saturday lunchtime, and the ‘news’ will be…er, let’s see…it’ll be Jackie Baillie and/or Willie Rennie swearing blind that they’ve been told about a ‘secret’ Scot Gov memo which proves that the FRB was always expected to be open to ‘normal’ traffic commuter traffic before Christmas, and demanding an inquiry as to why we’ve all been so horribly misled.

Paula Rose

The worse thing is the SNP are being competent on purpose!

Capella

@ rongorongo 12.28
Just read the Telegraph article you linked to on the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, Kathryn Hudson, finding nothing wrong with Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind offering access for cash:
link to archive.is

“Kathryn Hudson, the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner – appointed by MPs to police their affairs – exonerated Mr Straw and Sir Malcolm and criticised the conduct of the media in investigating their affairs.
Channel 4 was so incensed by the criticism that it referred the investigation to Ofcom “

OFCOM, also headed by an Establishment insider, Sharon White “a breath of fresh air” says The Guardian link to archive.is, vindicated the Ch4 investigation.

Now what?
And what can we expect from Ms Hudson’s inquiry into Alistair Carmichael?

Breeks

Whenever I think about damage to the Forth Road Bridge, for some reason I always recall the near miss when Ark Royal’s steering failed, and she needed towed by a tug so she didn’t collide with the bridge. Now that would have been a story…
As I recall, I heard the tug captain wanted to claim salvage rights on Ark Royal for averting a catastrophe, but perhaps that was tongue in cheek.. Pretty funny all the same.

Capella

@ Paula Rose
No, I think they’ve moved to “unconscious competence” having traversed the unknown unknowns to the known knowns, expertly explained by Donald Rumsfeld.
link to youtube.com

Almannysbunnet

Shameful if the SNP try to take the credit for this! If it hadn’t been for slabour highlighting the problem this would never have come to light never mind been fixed. They got lucky with the weather which brings up the more serious problem, Global warming. We now have irrefutable proof that global warming has been engineered by the SNP to make Scotland warmer. The warm front wasn’t supposed to come through until May in a pathetic attempt to sway the voters but they had to bring it forward in a panic move to allow the bridge to be fixed. This is what happens when you have a one party state. Haaarumph!

Fireproofjim

Re National.
My local Tesco’s computer has no problem with the new price. Also always sells out by 3 pm. Excellent but should get more in.
Great news on FRB and well done the engineers. It must have been very difficult in le last couple of windy weeks.

Bzzzz

Why not Tuesday? #snpbad

Kenny

I can’t believe there is not an “SNP bad” story to be found here! After all, everybody knows the SNP provides good government purely out of spite and to be “popular”.

It’s easy when we Jocks are such benefit subsidies and so Westminster will heave a sigh of relief when we are gone… oh, wait, let’s not go there…. anyway it was probably someone “furrin” who fixed the bridge anyway, as everyone knows (particularly that daughter of the Scottish Englightenment, JoLa) that we Scots are not genetically preprogrammed to govern ourselves or to do anything that remotely involves engineering, science or invention.*

* Yes, Wee Willie Rennie, you can chip in here, like Tiny Tim: “Aye, an’ we’re too wee, too poor and too stupid anyway! And God bless the UKOK!”

peter

Wonder if Dr Scott will still go over the Kincardine Bridge just to spite us when he visits his family in Kirkcaldy? and maybe he can put wee Stuart in the boot beside all the rest of his crackers!

John

Now now people , lets not get carried away here .Gary Robinson will be right in there tomorrow morning on Good Morning Scotland demanding that Derek McKay comes into the studio to explain why the bridge is opening so soon . Then we will have Jackie Baillie on to say what a mismanagement this was by the SNP and she wants an enquiry into the fiasco

seanair

gordoz
Tend to think that Carson can’t give any praise to anyone sorting a bridge since his favoured tunnel was never built. The second bridge must be really hurting him. The BBC keep him in the cupboard for occasions like now, but he’s yesterday’s man.

gordoz

@seanair – Agreed

Just like a dig.

yesindyref2

Oh dear, I daresay Dugdale, Davidson and Rennie will be calling for an enquiry about how the dreadful Scottish Government could allow their quango contracting out to a contractor to finish the job early and therefore under budget.

The only problem being for those incredibly common over 150 tonnes abnormal loads requireing special permission and 5 days notice to police, bridge and other authorities that happen regularly once every 1 or 2 years that might be forced to take another route in 2017 or so. Oh, the FRC should be open then, ah well, never mind.

Mosstrooper

This bridge thing is all well and good but what is plan B?

Another bridge do you say, being built as I write and on time and below budget? Well fluck me, OK, SNP x 2 it is…. but I’m not happy with all this good news.

Iain More

I did enjoy having a peek at Disreporting Jackie who could barely contain her disgust at this news. The face of a skelpit arse as my mither would keep saying.

Have they strapped up Bradford in a strecht jacket?

Kenny

Eleanor Bradford has just tweeted that Jackie Bird was rushed to the Death Star Hospital this afternoon! Apparently all day she’s been “spitting blood”…

yesindyref2

“Bridge to reopen to all vehicles bar HGVs and abnormal loads from 6am tomorrow (Weds)
Installation of steel splint to repair the cracked member is complete
Detailed load testing of the bridge is complete
HGVs account for 32 per cent of the weight the bridge normally carries despite making up approx 9 per cent of overall traffic
Splints continue to be installed at other seven truss end links as a precautionary measure – this work can be safely completed with the bridge open
Full inspection of FRB is 90% complete with no material defects detected – remaining inspection will continue until early January and can be safely completed with the bridge open “

Full details:

link to forthroadbridge.org

Thepnr

Great to hear that the bridge will open again tomorrow morning. Admittedly only to 91% of traffic, the HGV’s will have to wait until mid February.

This is what all the bleating will be about tomorrow, we can ignore it. It is obvious that the tests conducted in the last day or two with HGV’s revealed that the risk of allowing then to use the bridge now was just too high. It may have resulted in a much longer closure for 91% of users.

The intent obviously was to fully open the bridge including to HGV’s, conducting the stress tests prove this, restricting their access but allowing the much lighter vehicles and they are the majority of users was the right thing to do.

As far as finishing two weeks earlier than originally forecast is concerned, all users of the bridge should be happy as it will reduce congestion on the detour routes also, even for the HGV’s.

I can easily imaging the outcry if it was two weeks late. Making predictions such as these, especially in December when the weather will be a major factor could go either way. Managing the expectations of the public is a big part of that. I’m not even thinking of politics at all when saying that.

Just common sense.

gus1940

Jackie Turd has just been on trailing tonight’s Reporting SNPbad.

Apparently there are lots of people unhappy about the FRB situation and we shall be hearing from them at 6.30.

Quelle surprise.

The bastards just can’t help their pre-programmed selves.

Now that the FRB is re-opening and all has gone quiet on the alleged scandals surrounding our 3 MPs the BT lot must be frantically scrabbling around trying to conjure up their next doomed attempt at a smear.

Capella

And for the anoraks, 3 min video of Swiss trucks-on-trains RAlpin.
link to youtube.com

galamcennalath

OT

“Salmond has headed a surprise SNP-led delegation to Tehran aimed at “building a partnership” to further economic and cultural links between Iran and Scotland.”

“…. political opponents to suggest Mr Salmond is beginning the process of trying to create a distinctive Scottish foreign policy, separate from the UK Government’s.”

… well, we have a barrow load of evidence that the so called UK Gov will not look after the interests of Scotland neither at home nor abroad. So, Yes, let’s get on with building partnerships and trading links for ourselves,

Would SLab have the balls or gumption to get on with it? Nae chance.

Look and learn, SLab, this is what we expect of our politicians!

link to archive.is

yesindyref2

@Thepnr
This was interesting from that report:

“Since completion of the interim repair, the member in question has been thoroughly load tested, monitored, and results gathered through the use of strain gauges. These sophisticated devices have been installed for the first time on the bridge and provide live and accurate data on strains, stresses and rotations within this area of the bridge.”

Definitely an improvement, presumably there’s a cost involved. Ooops, that’s give the SNP Bad crowd some ammo …

Helena Brown

Blooming hell there I was getting the shotgun out so I could charge all the cars a £1 toll for using the bridge over the Carnock Burn, I mean we may need to repair that as well. Those SNP folk, well 2 votes for them in May I suppose.

Sassenach

Capella @ 3-42

“And what can we expect from Ms Hudson’s inquiry into Alistair Carmichael?”

Hopefully, now having been severely criticised by Ofcom, for accepting that the two MPs were ‘innocent’, she may not be quite so quick to whitewash Carbuncle. I live in hope!!

Mind you, after her trashing by Ofcom, she may want to spend more time with her family, I suppose.

archie (not Erchie)

You guys n gaals warm my heart with your pithy comments.
@ lollysmum – I did the same, hooted with laughter, which didn’t go down too well in a dour Canadian supermarket. Christmas in Calgary, still waiting for + temperatures. Great Christmas to all wingers, lurkers and to Rob for his first? Post.

velofello

Well done the design and construction repair team delivering in difficult circumstances. And well done the SNP for acting with logic, and dealing calmly with a difficult media.Difficult media? Should that read as a dysfunctional media?

Thepnr

@yesindyref2

Strain gauges are surprisingly cheap, there are no more than a piece of foil with some very thin copper wire running through it.

Very cheap to install also as they are literally just glued on to the item you want to measure the strain in. They have their limitations though as you can’t measure the actual strain and hence the stress, you can only measure the change in stress.

This would be fine for the new steelwork on the bridge if the gauges were fitted to the piece before putting them under any load, assumed stress would be zero in that case.

Easy to do nowadays, so makes sense to fit them to the repairs which I’m assuming will be expected to carry all the load where they are fitted and not sharing load with the original connections.

Overall the cost for peace of mind would have been very small, and even if not, it’s a price well worth paying for the information and additional safety this monitoring system will bring to the engineers.

robertknight

Damn these pesky Nats.

Now, about Sturgeon’s abject failure to deliver a white Christmas…

Calum McKay

Poor wee Jackie and Sally’ s faces will be fizzng and tripping with disgust at this dreadful news,

Can they sour it with a bad NHS or Police story, sadly not as the problems with Sottish police or NHS pale into insignificance compared with elsewhere in uk.

Coupled with latest polling for May 2016, a bad news day for the bbc in Scotland!

Free Scotland

BBC journalists are already wittering on about the inconvenience to HGV truckers. They don’t seem capable of speaking positively about anything: it’s as if they’ve been given a chip and told what to think.

Iain More

Sassenach says:
22 December, 2015 at 5:51 pm

Capella @ 3-42

“And what can we expect from Ms Hudson’s inquiry into Alistair Carmichael?”

Hopefully, now having been severely criticised by Ofcom, for accepting that the two MPs were ‘innocent’, she may not be quite so quick to whitewash Carbuncle. I live in hope!!

Mind you, after her trashing by Ofcom, she may want to spend more time with her family, I suppose.”

I think the expression you are looking is now called “Gardening Leave” in the Brit Nat Press or maybe only Fitba managers get the heave in that manner. I expect some kind of peerage will be offered to her quite soon. Maybe I am just being cynical.

yesindyref2

Sad to see some of the anti-SNP brigade are still frothing at the mouth, I thought there wasn’t a current rabies outbreak? Anyway, I found this by chance and it’s interesting:

link to transportscotland.gov.uk

Web archive show it to have been published on or before 9th May 2015.

Lesley-Anne

What are they playing at? 😉

Don’t the S.N.P. know everyone has made alternative plans to get across the river Forth and then they go and do THIS??? 🙂

What are Labour going to do now? 😉

I mean all their boxes of Christmas crackers have been dispatched. They will now have to recall all the boxes so that all the Forth bridge jokes can be removed and replaced with … erm … hold that thought! 😛

Don’t the S.N.P. know that this early opening of the bridge will make Labour branch office just look like a crowd of numpties who have no idea as to what is going on in the real world? 😀

Oh wait a minute THAT is normal for the branch office isn’t it? 😀

garles

Kenny says:
22 December, 2015 at 5:08 pm

Eleanor Bradford has just tweeted that Jackie Bird was rushed to the Death Star Hospital this afternoon! Apparently all day she’s been “spitting blood”…

Priceles!!!!!!!!

Andy-B

How dare they open the bridge ahead of schedule, that’s not very Labour like, is it now.

Robert Peffers

@HandandShrimp says: 22 December, 2015 at 1:46 pm:

” … We will now have Onionists saying that the work was rushed, botched and used sellotape.”

Naw! Handand shrimp, A’boady kens they yaised, “Scotch”, Tape. Whit Else wad thay yaise?

yesindyref2

@Thepnr
Thanks for that. I did wonder myself, as it didn’t seem they’d be that expensive in themselves, but perhaps there’s more cost in the data transmission and evaluation to the control room? Capacity, that sort of thing? Mind you, wireless internet / transmission – used I think for weather stations.

msean

Re that delegation,good to see something being done for future trade in Scotland without waiting on tories,and good to see all that experience as a First Minister isn’t going to waste. Some think we should wait on the uk government,if we did,we would wait forever.

Cadogan Enright

Watching RT on the IPad last night and they had an exposê of mad Thatcherite Liam Fox – they had his words said on His behalf by a reader with a strong Glasgow accent.

Haven’t seen anything more funny since the BBC used a clipped Home Counties accent to speak the words of Gerry Adams after the UK government banned the MP from being heard on TV

Scot Finlayson

Nicola and Derek Mackay should be first across the Bridge in an open car,so us citizens can go along and show our appreciation to our amazing,competent SNP Government.

Brian Doonthetoon

Jackie Bird wound up ‘Reporting Scotland’ tonight in a rather “oh well, we tried” tone of voice, as she said,

“And the Forth road Bridge will reopen to all vehicles except heavy trucks at 6am tomorrow morning” – her voice then took on a more poignant quality as she continued,

“Almost a fortnight earlier than expected”, with a downward inflection to finish the sentence. Ah, bless her cotton socks…

BTW: here is the quoted burd as a ‘pop singer’, back in the day…
link to retrodundee.blogspot.co.uk

thomaspotter2014

Forth Road Bridge to open on Wednesday…..

Causes fear and loathing in the Better Together camp??? LOLOLOL

———————————————————————————————————————

Wee bit O/T folks but I gotta get this off my chest before the New Year comes in–

A few weeks ago I put the National Newspaper in with a rant about The Sunday Herald going all unionist in it’s direction.

I must have been rippin wi the para at the time but that don’t mean they’re not out to get me.

So now I gotta say that the new improved version is and already was far too good for the Indy crew to lose and put my hand up for being too severe with my put down.

I still get the National everyday and am grateful for all the goodness therein.

Fess up over and I’m feeling less troubled already.

The National-Scotland’s National Paper.

heedtracker

Lord Darling ?@A_LordDarling 7 hrs7 hours ago
Been informed that around 75% of the brave, proud workers who fixed the Forth Road bridge are Labour voters. SNP – not working for Scotland.

We should now have moments respectful silence and give thanks to the brave and victorious Forth Bridge protest by Lord Darling of SLabour at the Trough.

None of this FRB tragedy would have happened if Lord Darling was still in charge of his Scotland region. Special mention of thanks to the board of Morgan Stanley, who so selflessly sacrificed, albeit it temporarily, Lord Darling’s seat at the board for such a valiant protest. Frankly.

Lord Darling’s well deserved expenses refunded in brown envelopes, unmarked bills, nothing under a monkey.

desimond

“Derek Mackay and the Bridge Engineers”

‘Cracking first album…big hopes for the follow up’…says Kezia

Cadogan Enright

@Kenny says:22 December, 2015 at 5:08 pm
Eleanor Bradford has just tweeted that Jackie Bird was rushed to the Death Star Hospital this afternoon! Apparently all day she’s been “spitting blood”…

Not at all, she was just anxious to get down there to be the first on BBC Scotland or STV to headline the outstanding performance of Scotland’s NHS compared to rest of UK.

She will spend an hour on Reporting Scotland gushing over this and the bridge link to bbc.co.uk

Thepnr

@thomaspotter2014

Getting things off your chest is the right thing to do. Well said you 🙂

Thepnr

@Brian Doonthetoon

That wasn’t as painful listening to the Bird back then as it is now!

David Hynds

Bridge Watch!! – Renting oxy acetylene cutting gear has been high on SLab expense claims this month :/ – BEWARE :O

Now's the Hour

Has anyone seen Wee Wullie since the news broke? Given that he’s the BBC’s go-to guy for an instant comment, and that Fife is his patch, I’d have thought he’d be only too glad to come on and publicly thank all the engineers and workmen for their hard work and the Transport Minister for his handling of the situation.

No?

SNP x2

Iain More

Just had a mate from Inverkeithing off the phone cursing the SNP for everything under the sun as it will cost him arm and a leg and deny him a long lay in tomorrow morning. His wife has heard the bridge is open to cars and she wants to do some shopping for her Xmas wants in Edinbra and his last remaining excuse for not driving her has gone.

SNP BAD!

Robert Peffers

@velofello says: 22 December, 2015 at 5:59 pm:

” … well done the SNP for acting with logic, and dealing calmly with a difficult media.”

Thing is, velofollo, The SNP, both as a party and as a government, have never known and other situation than a difficult and antagonistic media.

They have thus had a great deal of practice in such dealings.

Skooshcase

Sung to the tune of a sectarian ditty from those of a Unionist persuation back in the day:

‘Two trolls gone, and WOS lives on, doo-da, doo-da!’

Good work, Rev Stu! The place is sparkling like new again!

Robert Peffers

@garles says: 22 December, 2015 at 6:56 pm:

” … Eleanor Bradford has just tweeted that Jackie Bird was rushed to the Death Star Hospital this afternoon! Apparently all day she’s been “spitting blood”…”

Hold the front page – It has just been revealed that the spitting blood story is incorrect. It seems it was a BBC attempt to hide the real story.

– apparently the lady had only revealed to the BBC that she had gone into Labour.

Gary45%

Santa blames SNP for getting his timings all to cock.
I thouct ah wis goin tae huv tae travul roond the centrul belt tae get tae the kingdom oan christmus eve.
Noo the bridge is open whit am ah tae dae?
Jaba and Dipity call for a public enquiry into the distress to Santa and all his elves (who were promised overtime due to the bridge being shut.

“That Nicla Sturgin isnae getting any pressies fae me,” says Fluffy the elf.
Wullie Rennie “who is he???????”

Drsteinberg

FFS Nicola. My wife went down to Edinburgh today on the Xmas pressie run and the bridge opens tomorrow? That is far too late for her! She’s livid and rightly so. I’m ashamed of you 😉
Happy Xmas all!

Robert Peffers

@Gary45% says: 22 December, 2015 at 8:22 pm:

” … Wullie Rennie “who is he???????””

A wee nyaff, henceforth to be known as Wullie Nocome-Backagin.

onelessday

It was obvious the burd had to report bad news she was dressed in black.

Saltire

Stuart, who continually refers to a maintenance budget cut being the root cause of the truss end link crack, I’d be interested to hear how you arrived at that conclusion. I’m a chartered engineer with 26 years experience and looking at the truss structure (there’s a clue) I’ m surprised to see the defect in that location rather than the other end of that member. It would perhaps be more predictable at that location in a moment frame don’t you think?

It will be interesting to see the metallurgical analysis when the end link is eventually removed to give an indication of the failure mode. In your opinion what would be the likely cause of the failure, low cycle fatigue, a pre-existing crack which propagated over time? I’d be interested in the maintenance regime you’d recommend other than condition monitoring and inspection which judging by the papers published on the forthroadbridge.org website appears to be in place.

schrodingers cat

Staurt says:
Of course, had the maintenance budget not been cut by 65% in the first place

#bridgetrolls4bridgetolls

Skooshcase

From yesterday’s Guardian editorial:

“Yet events in the past month contain some intimations of nationalist political mortality. The closure of the Forth Road Bridge until at least the new year because of structural cracks is the kind of embarrassment that can happen to any government. But it has happened on the SNP’s watch, not on anyone else’s. The closure is high-profile, bad for the Scottish economy, cannot be blamed on the Tories, and inconveniences a lot of people.

What is more, having at first insisted the fault was unforeseeable, it soon became clear that the SNP government had slashed a repair programme in 2010 that would have replaced the cracked section that caused the closure. Holyrood is to mount an inquiry. But the transport minister Derek Mackay is not out of the woods, and if the closure overruns, his position will be at risk and the SNP’s reputation will have been damaged.”

Lies, misinformation and Unionist shit. But what now, ‘left-leaning Guardian hypocrites? What of the news of the Forth Road Bridge mostly re-opening just one day after your failed fucking smear-attempt, huh?

Oh, what’s this you have your ‘Scotland Editor’, Severin Carrell writing in an article this very day about the bridge’s re-opening? Okay, what’s he got to say…

“Funding cuts led to the delay five years ago of upgrades that would have replaced the affected part, Scottish Labour has alleged. Derek Mackay, the Scottish transport minister, has furiously denied the claims, insisting the split was very recent and unforeseen.”

Ah! “Scottish Labour has alleged”.. um.. something about whining pish or other… so put that into the article fer chissake! Can’t have the SNP gaining any credit for this whatsoever!

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! The hopelessly fucked up and clueless Guardian and its hacks making complete arseholes of themselves… yet again with regards to all things Scottish. So GIRFUYAFAIWG!

Thepnr

@Skooshcase

I think that just about sums up the media roll in all of this.

They will lie if it suits their agenda, then they will lie again on being found out and exposed.

Severin Carrell is not the worst, though bad eneogh, mainly he’s just typical of the BUMs. Well the 58% of Scots who will be voting SNP in the constituency vote come May don’t appear to be listening.

The Guardian sells less than 9000 copies a day in Scotland according to the most recent survey by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. His wittering is therefore irrelevant.

Bill McLean

No wonder the British press was recently described as the worst in the developed world I think the phrase was. Whatever it was, it was damning and don’t we damn well know it. It’s progaganda pure and simple – and not very good at that!

frogesque

@Scot Finlayson 7.14.

Have you SEEN the weather forecast fer ra morraa? Lol.

Bloody freezing here in Fife and blowin a hoolie at the minute! Open top my earse!

Giving Goose

Re Robert Peffers

Regarding the Burd;
I think you’ll find that Labour have been getting into her for years!

smithie

Lets no get ahead o oorsells here. With the benefit o hindsight should we no be planning building FRB 3? jist incase?

broonpot

I heard a rumour the dastardly SNP made the engineers use Scottish girders to fix the bridge which will result in a bru shortage for Hogmanay.

Clydebuilt

Remember the previous bridge enginee Cauldfield saying it could take till April……. Just keeping my fingeres crossed that the Engineers have got their sums right, and there are no mistakes in fabricating the repair…….

Engineers 1 Unionist Parties and Media 0

Clydebuilt

Should’ve been Colford

smithie

Have we heard yet where the steel to repair it came from?
Wullie Rennie could still strike a point, Pfft

Tackety Beets

Brian DTT @ 7.20

That link is a nugget !

Her Wkipedia has no mention of it.

FRB will be closed due to high winds ramorra ! Shurely Shum Mishtake.

Scot Finlayson

@frogesque

How are things in Fife after being cut of from civilisation for a month,has law and order broken down and have you started eating the cats and dogs yet?

just joshing,my ancestors were from Pittenweem.

velofello

It is no longer that the trouble is with the BBC, and its distorted reported. The trouble is now with the BBC. We are laughing at them.

Brian Doonthetoon

Hi Tackety Beets.

I think she was at college in Dundee at the time – but don’t quote me!

heedtracker

Severin Carrell is not the worst,

Its a huge UKOK line up/freak show though. Its not his real name either, its Rupert, but rancid Graun thought, Rupert hammer of the Scots, wasn’t hard enough.

That ghastly Nic Robinson’s leads the UKOK propaganda attack pack and we all have to pay his wages too. yay!

Hope Nick comes up to kick some SNP arse again next May. Actually that awful creep that said visiting Cleveland made him embarrassed to be Scottish last week, is he a Heil dude, but then there’s all the sniveling creeps in the hootsman, the neo fascist Voice of the North P&J’s got more than its fair share, christ once you start…these are all meant to be serious newspapers too!

Almannysbunnet

A true stress test will be if Jackie Baillie gave Ruthie tank commander a coalie bag across the bridge, or is that just me being fatuous?

Thepnr

@heedtracker

Rupert not Severin? Is he trying to hide something?

Please tell me it’s not so.

Almannysbunnet

It’s heartening to see that we are not the only one’s getting their eyes opened to corporate media bias. This from the Huff n Puff post today,
John Cleese has branded the Daily Telegraph a Tory propaganda sheet, after it was fined £30,000 for breaking marketing rules by emailing readers urging them to vote Conservative. He then tweeted,
If you wanted to get an informed,balanced and accurate picture of the UK,you’d have to buy a proper newspaper

If you could find one……..

smithie

Almannysbunnet says:
22 December, 2015 at 10:22 pm

A true stress test will be if Jackie Baillie gave Ruthie tank commander a coalie bag across the bridge, or is that just me being fatuous?
What’s a coalie bag?, never heard that one

Free Scotland

@Almannysbunnet at 10:22

Yes, but it’s not your fault. Jackie Baillie and Ruthie Tank Commander are the source of your FATuous thoughts.

Free Scotland

@smithie

Almannysbunnet was just being polite. He didn’t want to say piggy-back in case one of these two sumo babes took offence.

Almannysbunnet

smithie says:
22 December, 2015 at 10:34 pm
“what’s a coalie bag”

In the “old days” we used to have coalie bag fights in the school playground. You carry someone on your back charge around knocking each other down. More dangerous was the “cocksie coosie” fight (not sure of the spelling) when you carried someone on your shoulders and did the same thing. Health and safety wouldn’t allow it now 🙂

frogesque

@ smithie

Coalie bag – otherwise known as a piggy back.

OK, I had to look it up lol

nodrog

Is it possible Jacky has not figured out yet that they were possibly lied to and the SNP always new the bridge would be ready two weeks early? No doubt that will be tomorrow’s claim.

Ian Brotherhood

@Almannysbunnet –

‘Coalie bag’?!

I haven’t heard that expression for, er, forty years?

You don’t happen to hail from the south side of Glasgow, or have people from there? Gorbals?

I’ve no idea where it comes from, but it was common weans’ language in the late sixties and seventies for sure, in Govanhill, Battlefield, in the Victoria Road bits close to both at any rate.

🙂

Almannysbunnet

@Ian Brotherhood says:
22 December, 2015 at 10:50 pm

You don’t happen to hail from the south side of Glasgow, or have people from there? Gorbals?

Nah, Aybrrrdeen born and bread. Just an old prefab loon.

Gary45%

smithie@10.22
A coalie bag is a coalie bag.
Some people would call it a piggy back.
I think the term came from the old coal men who used to carry the coal on their backs in large sacks.( We still get them up in the northern territories)
Hence Coalie Bag

heedtracker

Rupert not Severin? Is he trying to hide something?

Please tell me it’s not so.

Tis the truth. Rupert Carrell, hammer of the Scots! Inside gen, first thing you have to about cybernats, we’re everywhere.

Also, very bitter BBC vote SLab Scotland thing on FRB 10.30 tv news tonight, text book BBC attack propaganda ending, with “and tonight, the bridge stands empty” with classic horror movie shot of empty bridge. They really don’t want to give up that BBC Scotland lifestyle of the rich and famous.

If polls do hold next May, that whole UKOK outfit in Pacific Quay cant possibly stay in place.

Bob Mack

We called it a Co cerry.

Kenny

I am from the south side also and can confirm what is said about “coalie bag”. I thought everyone used it!

Socrates MacSporran

Coalie Bag

To us in Ayrshire, that and a piggy-back were known as a “Cuddy-back”; same thing, different dialect.

stephen

@Almanneysbunnet says
I never heard John Cleese criticise the pro -union lies and propaganda coming from the msm and BBC ,during the referendum.An “informed,balanced and accurate picture of the UK”was never on the agenda of the Better together/project fear campaign ,which John Cleese was part of .

bugsbunny

Is Willie Rennie so called, because just like his surname, he is small, white and fizzing looking for a pain that might not exist, turns the stomach and is usually thrown out past their use by date? Oh, and they both leave a nasty taste in your mouth.

smithie

Thanks folks, got it lol makes perfect sense.

thomaspotter2014

Well here in Broxburn the coalie bag was called the cally coad(also not sure of correct spelling).or what it actually meant.

A wee while ago I went to check oot the BITTER TOGETHER love bombers and cunts who threatened to leave if Scotland voted YES.

Had to gie up the list wiz that fucking long.

No hearing much fae the bastards noo right enough.

Tick Tock.

Ian Brotherhood

Thinking on it now, we understood ‘coalie-bag’, but we used ‘coal-carry’.

If you’d been out for a long walk with the wee brothers and sisters during the summer holidays and they were tiring on the way home, they might say ‘can I get a coal-carry?’.

K1

North end of Glasgow, wis a coalbag…aw pronouced as one word…same as chesterdrawers 🙂 (took me till I wis 18 tae break that into chest of drawers)

Bill Hume

In Falkirk it was called a ‘cully coad’…..no idea why.

On the subject of the Forth Road Bridge….
Designed and built by engineers
Maintained by engineers.
Fault found by engineers.
Closed by engineers.
Fatalities prevented by engineers.
Investigated by engineers.
Repaired by engineers.
Yes, I’m an engineer (retired).

Seriously though….let’s not credit the Scottish government with this one……it was engineers wot’ done it.

That said, consider what might have happened WITHOUT an SNP administration.

K1

Aye and coalcarry too..Ian

K1

And by ‘break that into’ I mean, before I realised it was three separate words…eek! 😉

ronnie anderson

@ Ian Brotherhood And here in deepest darkest Nth Lanarkshire it was called a carrycoad.

smithie

Lol, shows to go you that Fife is a region all to its self

Lanarkist

Interesting cultural references discussion.

I liked Ian’s expression “wean speak”.

Piggy back or Cully Bucky!

Must have grown up in a cultural wash tide, a bit like Chinese whispers!

Language and childhood like Nationhood evolve and merge almost imperceptibly sometimes.

Looks like it’s political equivalent is now underway!

Fab Festive Frolics to one and all!

Bill Hume

Skooshcase………GIRFUYAFAIWG?????
OK I got the GIRFUY…….AFAIWG beats me.
Enlightenment anyone?

Brian Doonthetoon

‘Cuddy-back’ in Dundee.

K1

I knew cuddy back too…cause I stayed in Dundee all through ma teenage years Brian, particularly Lochee 🙂 (I’ve seen ye mention the place, always brings back memories…good yins)

bugsbunny

I wonder what wee Willie Rennie, Ruth Davidson and Kezia Dugdale will have to make up now that the bridge is open for service? Maybe the weans not getting what they wanted from Santa, folks running out of Food and Drink, the Fairy Lights going on the blink again? What can they possibly make up next?

Stephen.

smithie

Ah, now i am with you, cuddy back, eg,give you a “backie” on bike, Them were the days,looking forward to puberty,nuff said lol. Merry Xmas folks

CmonIndy

AFAIWG I assume to be ‘as far as I would get’?

Cherry

I’m from Garrowhill/Baillieston and we called it coalcarry.
My Mum was from Govan but told everyone it was Drumoyne,think it sounded posher! She said piggy back.

I now live in Blantyre and it’s “coalcarry” here too,and hubby came from East Kilbride and he says coalcarry.

East Kilbride was the “overflow” from Glasgow housing when they were ripping the heart out the city building high towerblocks. So kids brought their street language to the sleepy hamlet EK. 😉

dramfineday

Closing line of the opening sentence……ha,ha ha. Had a good chortle at that Stuart. Like many others here, my first reaction to the news was that the unionist types would be choking on their porridge. I hope they enjoyed it.

Stuart’s swift retort to Stuart was also enjoyable ?

Here in the pretendy capital “collie buckie” is the term my old in-law uses to describe his adventures as Tom Mix on his brothers back. In God’s own country, Stranraer schemies like me referred to it as a “cuddy back”.

Finally, well done all the guys that helped get the bridge repair delivered. May you all a peaceful and restful Christmas.

TJenny

AFAIWG = as far as it will go. 🙂

Naina Tal

Nawbags in the pub saying the SNP deliberately said it would take longer so they could look great when it was opened afore Christmas. Tell’t them it wis an SNP crack and the SNP sorted it so whit were they moaning aboot? End of conversation. They’re jist…….Nawbags. ‘cksake!
Cullycoad

Molly

Bugs bunny you didn’t have long to wait – apparently SNP have reduced the number of folk dancing since 2007!

Unlike the Tories who’ve reduced the number of folk able to eat

Paula Rose

O/T just a wee heads up – Wings night out in Aberdeen on the 30th of January – details in the social club xx

Skooshcase