Wings Over Scotland

. . . when even the Heil thinks something’s a bad idea . . .

Danny Alexander’s last trolling of Scotland before he gets in his P45 in May.

…can someone remind me, who funds the UK Government?

I’m sure there’s room for a few “Caused by” ones too.

“It’s only right that we recognise the contribution of the UK taxpayer..” says Desparate Dan. Except that’s not what the sign says, is it Danny boy?

This is black ops. They’re baiting the guy (or girl) with the itchy trigger finger. I’ve said this before and I will continue to say it, they have nothing but contempt for us. They hate us. The real shame is that it’s being perpetrated by our own.

I really really struggle to understand why people put up with all of the above. Despite the media bias, all of the above have been reported ( eventually ) yet hundreds of thousands of people don’t seem to care or understand.

Well, this could be an own goal, hopefully.

Is it popcorn time again? 😉

Big sumphy Danny, get yurr jaickit. Roll on 7th May, 2015.

“Send in your own favourites, readers.”

I’m no doubt a complete ignoramus, but how do we do that? Can’t see anything on your site about how to transmit images. Ta.

The sticker should read:

Funded by the UK taxpayer.

The UK Government does not have any money… except that which it collects from the UK taxpayer (including Scotland) and borrowed money from the BofE, also paid for by the UK taxpayer.

Or are the Tory bullshitters telling us lies.

The Government are just managers of that money to shift it about and to fill their trough in the process.

Funded by UK Government using wealth obtained by plundering Scotland.

Funded by the UK Government
link to youtube.com

The butchers apron is becoming harder to avoid it is already on food and appliances

How about some ‘rejected by Scottish voters’ stickers for our current MPs departing in May?

To make a Saltire simply borrow an apron from a friendly butcher and paint over the red lines with white gloss.

Some ideas to spoof the delusory funded by UK Government logo:

1) Rendition Flights – a world holiday map of rendition., including Britain as a stop off point
2) Food banks – the famous. Danny Alexander looking chuffed standing beside food donations – sorry this is an obvious one
3) UK arms trade – Britain just loves arming countries with appalling human rights records.

Margaret Thatcher’s funeral?

You know, the woman who said the following in Perth in 1983:

“Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that ‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.”

Her entire privatisation programme was funded by Scottish oil, and she repaid the favour by dismantling Scottish (and Welsh and English) industry.

…and who funds the feckin UK government?

How GREAT BRITAIN protects and supports its colonies. This all started under Harold Wilson and his Labour government.

– To make way for the base some 2,000 native Chagossians were forcibly removed from the island by the British government between 1968 and 1973. The islanders have since sued unsuccessfully for the right to return home. The Times 13/08/2014

The poor people were transported into concentration camp conditions and are still there in Mauritius.

Stoker. Liked the link to ‘archive’ but I’m sure you noticed that the Highland Clearances are not mentioned, this was ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the worse kind.

Auld Rock

Could we add;

The deaths of millions of people throughout the world, since the creation of the “glorious” union, including the murders of thousands of innocent UK citizens.
Illegal wars, resulting in the deaths of many thousands of innocent Iraqi and Afghan civilians.
Massacres throughout the world.
Ethnic cleansing.
Torture flights.
Concentration camps.
Internment camps.

Syrian nerve gas …. Funded by the UK Government…

I suggested on another thread that we should combat this with stickers “funded by Scottish oil” (with the saltire of course)spread wherever appropriate, throughout the uk. I’ll get ma coat!

And this one was just begging for it:

link to scottcreighton.co.uk

I wonder if the wee weans at Westminster have been *ahem* “stung” by this article in the Sunday Express on 3rd February. 😉

link to archive.today

The first image makes me feel sick and sums up why we have to escape from this rotten political union!

Very appropriate might be a nuclear detonation ie mushroom cloud, Funded by UK Government.

@ Alan McHarg 11.01 you,ll be suprized how far your suggestion travels, get yer coat aff.

Fun Dead by UK Government!

To all those who advocate “Paid for by Scottish oil” stickers, it would only be right to also print an equivalent number of stickers saying “Paid for by Scottish whisky exports” or possibly “Paid for by Scottish electricity”.

If you remove Scotland’s massive net exports from the British accounts, you will see that the UK is basically Greece minus the sunshine, islands and ancient heritage.

If you took Scotland out of the UK, the rBritish currency would bomb, while an independent Scottish currency would appreciate by an equivalent amount, making it stronger than the Swissie, the old DM, probably even the Norwegian krona.

Anyway, how can anything be *funded* by the UK government? They are just the holders of the collected taxes. You could as well say “funded by the Inland Revenue employees” and slap a butcher’s apron on it.

My contribution: Jim Murphy’s wasted decade spent as a “student”, which did not actually end with an actual degree! And please remind me of his position on student fees again???

Ian Brotherhood says:

1 March, 2015 at 11:01 pm

Liz and Phil on holiday in 1955, slaughtering wildlife, as one does

bfh–you can be sure Tiger was drugged a few days earlier for Phils lucky shot

This is unnecessary in England, so looks like obvious propaganda in Scotland.

But to what extent?
Scottish spending is mainly devolved..

Perhaps the Scottish Government SHOULD counter this if it goes ahead.

Similar Scottish Government Saltires at the new South Glasgow Hospital?

Over the new Queensferry Crossing, and up a dualled A9 ?

If they want a battle of the flags, I would be tempted to say ‘Bring it On’

Alan McHarg

Put your coat away. Good idea.

Will this nonsensical, offensive idea last longer than ‘Yes for Labour’ or not?
Anyway, there are still a few ‘Reclaimers’ from the 2001 Foot and Mouth rubbish still active – we were pretty adept at removing misleading, illegal and stupid signs telling us to geroffmoiland. That nasty episode lead very rapidly to the Land Reform Act so maybe this latest stupidly will lead to great things.

They will scar our land with their mark of occupation. Symbols of 300 years of subservience & humiliation. They are spraying their territory, signaling that they are the owners and the masters.

The SNP is plain wrong, this isn’t a “gimmick”. It is a vindictive act calibrated to insult and demean. The Imperium is going to demonstrate its dominance by pissing on Scotland with signage. How cosmically dumb is that?

Could they Keystone-cops balls this up more? Absolutely they could. I have enormous confidence in their infinite capacity for stupidity.

During the referendum campaign they fear-bombed us, bullied us, belittled us, lied to us, defamed us worldwide. Therein they sowed the wind, and come May 7 2015, they will reap the whirlwind.

Sure, it will take even a while yet before they receive their comeuppance, but we should welcome that pause, savour it; for YES is a dish best served cold.

Its pretty obvious what the subliminal message is. Look we funded this and that. You couldn’t survive without the union..blah…blah.Look at what we do for you.

I suspect this comes down to one thing. They are genuinely expecting another referendum in a couple of years. I suspect its to do with the Euro referendum creating the break up of the union. The campaign for the unionists has started already.

Ha ha, brilliant!

Local newspapers says latest polls for East Ren have Murphy 33% and @kirstenoswald 31%. Game on. #GE15 #voteSNP

Posted this earlier, but it didn’t show.

Scary close-up of Phil The Greek.

‘Funded by UK Government’ :

link to teamnetworks.net

We all know about politicians like former Trotskyite Darling flipping his way to a property empire. But what is it about unionist politicians and their DENIAL that they are funded by the “UK government”?

It is not just Malcolm Rifkind, who bizarrely claimed that he was “self-employed” when he was recently discovered to be open to bribes and corruption. Our own beloved self-proclaimed “son of the Manse”, the revolting Broon, went to Dubai and announced to one and all that he was “self-employed”.

Unbelievably, it was a BBC (!) journalist out there who showed that even BBC employees have more integrity than Broon and forced him to admit that he was still milking the system for all it was worth (and not showing up for work at the same time).

Still, bet the revolting creature Broon, like all unionist politicians, has a lot to say about “benefit scroungers”…. I don’t know whether we can also say that the lonely death of David Clapson was “financed” by the UK government… “planned” or “engineered” or “caused” would seem to be more accurate words.

Sorry for going O/T here but the Independent seems to have a wee bit of news concerning the BBC tax that no one bothers to pay these days. 😉

link to archive.today

@Taranaich I agree.

It’s not like we don’t already have the Union jack everywhere already.

Flying over Edinburgh castle to boxes of mushrooms in Tescos.

But the Scottish Government are too nicey-nice at times.

We are getting union jacks on our driving licenses, but Nicola puts the kibosh on a national anthem..

The Scottish Government should use this as an opportunity to play them at their own game.

Use the exact same argument: “It’s important to recognise the contribution of the Scottish taxpayer”

And if anyone had a case, it is them.

How many people still don’t know what Holyrood pays for?

There is still a lot of confusion over the NHS because of the similar name.

‘NHS Scotland’ sounds like a sub-branch of the UK NHS

If there was a poll on who funded the new South Glasgow hospital, I wonder how many people assume the UK Government paid towards it?

@Christian Wright

Well said sir.

It is indeed a mongrel lifting its leg on a despised but necessary territory. In short, they are sticking two fingers up at us.

But 55% of us voted to enjoy this treatment.

Didn’t we, you people on here who hate the BBC but have ineffable faith in the Electoral Commission?

O/T Looks like a Grand Red/Blue Tory pact is on the agenda.
From Labour List

link to archive.today

@Almannysbunnet at 10:57

I did a tweet yesterday afternoon on the underfunded thing.

(Hope this link works ok, I’m new to commenting on here)

link to twitter.com

REV–read this an weep

link to scotsman.com

Feeling so guilty
When I first heard about the signs
Thought here we go…
Let’s all start fighting about what flag goes where,as has been tried and tested in the (not too distant)past.

Should have known better.
The yes supporters responded brilliantly with the one thing the Establishment can’t handle.
Our humour ….and everyone gets it…

So proud of the response ..

UncleBob says: 1 March, 2015 at 10:28 pm:

“Should read “Funded by US” I mean us not the U.S.”

You know something, UncleBob? Your post brings to mind a fact that most folks know but don’t really realise the implications.

Just as the London Establishment blithely ramble on as if they run not just the UK but constantly talk about such as, “The British Government”, when they mean the UK Government then the United States of America, do exactly the same.

They talk of their country as America as if they alone are America. Yet America runs from pole to pole and includes many other countries. They also, as you just did, Speak of The US as if they alone are the United States. Even the USA is wrong for, and here’s the bit many don’t quite realise, their next door neighbours live in a country that is properly called, “The United States of Mexico”.

I may well be wrong but to me both the Unionists of the UK and the Unionists of the USA are very arrogant people. No slight intended to the normal folks in both countries both of whom I’ve always found to be the salt of the Earth. What a pity the arrogant ones make such trouble for the rest of us.

Oops!

Who’s a TERRIFIED wee laddie then … Danny? 😀

link to archive.today

Err…tigers aren’t generally found in Africa. (puzzled smiley)

What did I just watch – tourist footage of the Bucketham Palace and…?

I think this whole shambles of a policy is going to badly backfire. I think it will turn NO voters away from “ukok”, because they are the ones shelling out money and then seeing Westminster carry on as if this is all done solely out of the goodness of Dave and Gideon’s hearts (of stone).

So will the royal palaces also be plastered in “funded by uk gubmint” signs? The queen’s meals? Will her tupperware also be stamped with butcher’s aprons? What about the bombs dropped on Syrian children, Afghans, Iraqis?

And as sick and stomach-churning as it may seem, we cannot hide the fact that the rape of children was also “funded by the uk government” in the cases of known BBC employees, members of parliament…. and should such signs also hang over the graves of slaughtered Irish people?

For me, the butcher’s apron will forever be linked to the images of jubilant unionists giving the Nazi salute in George Square. It would be better for this ill-thought-out policy to be quietly dropped… and for “the uk government” to turn its attention to more pressing problems, such as the stinking corruption that pervades its ranks.*

* To my mind, this problem can never be solved, because it is absolutely inherent to the Westminster system; basically corruption and Westminster are like siamese twins which cannot exist without the other… better break up this stinking, fetrid union and start again…

@Big Jock says:

Its pretty obvious what the subliminal message is. Look we funded this and that. You couldn’t survive without the union..

That’s it exactly.

And I suspect there is far more to this than rural broadband cabinets and ‘infrastructure’

Where will it end?
Union Jacks on every electricity pylon feeding into the national grid?

@CameronB Brodie 12:20pm
That it is undeniably devastating and tragic for all the families and the relatives of those involved cannot be disputed. We are left with the supposed disconnect between their helplessness and those related to the larger family of people directly involved. I fear how the resulting tragedies, brought about by our own government, must inspire the desire of those ‘indirectly’ affected to take action. As a parent who has experienced an over whelming love for my child, I cannot begin to understand the grief of those who have lost theirs.

War is terror. To claim otherwise is a lie. To have such a philosophy as ‘war on terror’ is to emphatically,deliberately and hypocritically to miss the point.

Terror is imported to the UK because the UK exports terror.

It is all wrong, stop exporting terror and imports of terror will fall – is that not the economic law of the free market?

“Funded by the UK government”

link to contentwithpictures.com

people i cannot emphasise enough the importance of the bomb that gordon brown has just chucked over his shoulder on the way out the door.

even the slightest hint of the uk nationalising aspects of brent crude production will have sphincters clenching from houston to hong kong.

@ CameronB Brodie see whit happens when the GPS signals lost

ronnie anderson
lol, though it took a second or two. 😉

this night hawks gone tae bed catch you,s laters

@ronnie anderson

Depleted fields.

Yes, but “depleted fields” will quickly become “unviable fields.”

And who decides what fields are “unviable”?

Well, if they expect the oil price to stay low, or even fall, then a lot of those fields are unviable.

And these could be the opinions of “real experts”, you know?

So the UK could take part ownership of lots of those fields.

But hey, if the oil price happens to go up at some point, or the field later turns out not to be as “unviable” as everyone thought, well grand…

The UK is now left to deal with that burden of profit.

I have had a few tonight, but this to me seems like we are being totally robbed.

Don’t worry about the oil price karmanaut it is already on its way back up again. That fall from $115 down to $46 didn’t last long. 😉

link to thisismoney.co.uk

You can keep an eye on the live oil price here.

link to livecharts.co.uk

@karmanaut. yes, exactly that.

RascalRachael
I wish things were that simple, though I don’t completely disagree with the process you describe.

The trouble with blow-back is you just have no idea what form it will take. Though the USA has been keen on helping Wahabism spread around the world since the 1950’s, I think the fuse was lit on our current problems, in the mid 1970s. President Ford trades tolerance of Saudi Arabia’s export of Wahabist extremist in 1975 (?), to ensure oil is traded in dollars. Then the CIA launched Operation Cyclone u8nder Carter, in 1979.

link to en.wikipedia.org

link to telegraph.co.uk

molly

when i’m not ill i’m an energy analyst for small renewable projects, but i have a bit of knowledge of the wider energy industry.

effectively annexation yeah. it would work just as karmanaut described.

(same as with our renewables and the OFGEM connection charges, in fact same as the scottish coal industry, although that was before my time.)

As you say’ “not the sharpest bulb in the packet!” Their slogan isn’t even correct English! Surely it should read either, “Funded by THE British Government” or ” Funded by British Government ……propaganda, stupidity, avarice, etc., etc.,” Pick your own favourite noun. I’m sure you see what I mean.

– apologies i’m having trouble posting.

– nationalisation. my instinct is that brown/msm are using the word to scare the shit out of the oil markets. that’s the life-blood of the planet, and that’s then a lot of global political pressure on the oil companies.

– the oil companies’ people get to decide which fields are viable at any given moment.

– no need for any nationalisation. use a public-private partnership (or whatever the bloody things are called these days) with the existing owner of the field. can be any mix of assets and liabilities, doesn’t matter.

– once the partnership is there, that means westminster have partial control of the field, and it’s then up to the *partnership* whether that field produces oil or not.

– as was pointed out there *could* be all sorts of sweetheart deals going on behind the scenes, but not just here in scotland or the uk. suddenly you’ve got global politics and global deals to worry about.

– whether it makes money for the partnership is almost irrelevant. the uk is much bigger than scotland. in bad times the ruk’d take a hit but in good times they’d make money *and* westminster would have holyrood by the short and curlies.

– if you doubt they’d do it, go and ask any anyone in iraq.

Distrusted and despised the world over for death and destruction. The Westminster crooks.

Danny Alexander the guy who destroyed the Scottish Oil sector and cost Scotland £16Billion.

Great stuff. I need to be taught how to post graphics on here??? Anyone?

Gordon Brown stinks.

Donald, to post links on here just highlight the URL web address of your graphics, the www. part, (when you have it on display on your computer) then right click your mouse or laptop pad then select ‘copy’
when you want to post it here, make sure your cursor is active inside the comments box (double click) then simply right click again and select ‘paste’ It should show up.

Good luck.

donald anderson
Copying and pasting the web address of the relevant page, should do the trick. Or am I missing something? (puzzled smiley 🙂 )

Gordon Brown Gray Train’s idea is that we share with the multi £Billion pound oil companies, i.e. tax payers will subsidise
them for a wee while until they make the same levels of enormous profits as before.

In return these companies may give a few £Million to Gordon’s
own “Charity” so that he can increase the £10,000 per week he takes out as “Expenses”?

Scots pay more per head than any other country in the UK.
Every project that you see in Scotland has been paid in full by Scots, and the same will apply to our money being spent in England on their train links etc.

Regarding Dipity Dug’s latest Clanger, she might have been at school in 20006 when a Red Tory/Labour Government signed of Glasgow’s Squinty Bridge. One of the support hangers snapped on the new bridge. The blame was faulty Chinese alloys?

Yes Kaz, your own group of gangsters who closed our steel plants
and avoid our printing presses have been leading the way in importing our basic materials from China.

Did Fud Smurphy ever get a metal plate put in his head?
Could be another faulty batch from Asia? lol

You just know that this is going to end badly for the UK Government. Every sign that says ‘Funded by the UK Government’ will trashed or overwritten with some sort of ‘truth’.

I’ve heard some folk say that the idea will split Scots right down the middle, and thus leave us with a divided nation (divide and conquer …the British way …surprise, surprise). Well, the only folk that may get upset about it will be the Orangemen …and there’s really not a lot they can do about it. After all …are they going to man every sign, flag, post when one of these daft signs go up?

…No, neither do I…

So no full fiscal autonomy. Just a stinking VOW. Westminster secrecy and lies

Elected to protect NHS/Education. ConDems have cut both. £3Billion a year from Education, since 2011. £3Billion. Accumulative. £3Billion + £3Billion + £3Billion + £3Billion = now £12Billion less. Pro rata affect Scotland -£1+Billion.

NHS has been cut £2Billion a year since 2011. Accumulating affect £2Billion + £2Billion + £2Billion + £2Billion = £8Billion. Pro rata affect on Scottish funding. Total £2Billion. Not increased with inflation+ 2%.

The Condems are committed to cut from education NHS/Education £5Billion a year with no increase for inflation. By 2020 the NHS will be £30Billion short.

The Condems have cut taxes from 2010 £600Billion raised to 2012 £490Billion raised. It looks like tax revenues have fallen again to £466Billion (D. Alexander) – not enough for public service provision.

SIR Mark Thatcher

says it all.

I am away to lie down

The Daily Record is falsely using the slogan “Scotland’s Champion”. Will it feel obliged to stick the Union flag alongside this slogan?
I’m not happy that Lidl is joining the DR in some promotion, probably because a German-owned company is not knowledgable about Scottish politics and the falling sales of the DR. Well it’s Aldi for me now!

“For too long constitutional debate has been Scottish centric.”

Written by, Mr David if it’s not true write as if it is, Torrance in a column claiming the British state is NOT broken.

Which does he work for, MI6 or MI5?

O/T

The National launches its website.

http://www.thenational.scot

Comments restricted to specific articles and FB users at the moment.

R-type Grunt says @10.24
“The real shame is that it’s being perpetrated by our own.”

OUR own?
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Colin Macartney says @ 10.25
“all of the above have been reported ( eventually ) yet hundreds of thousands of people don’t seem to care or understand.”

That information isnt put out for the l.I.V’s benefit its for ours so they can get a kick out of hearing the squealing

link to youtube.com

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Christian Wright says @ 11.24
first of all great post and I agree wholeheartedly
“They are spraying their territory”

What?
Like this you mean?
link to youtube.com
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Big Jock says @ 11.40
“I suspect this comes down to one thing. They are genuinely expecting another referendum in a couple of years. I suspect its to do with the Euro referendum creating the break up of the union. The campaign for the unionists has started already.”

I take it they’re campaigning for a YES vote this time? 🙂
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BrianW says @ 11.40
“Just a wee reminder from our Better Together uKok partners at P.Q eh. Maybe we should have it plastered on the side of their shiny glass box on the Clyde.”

They would just clean anything off we put on their windows and get us arrested but whats to stop us projecting a message ala Alison Jackson on the building from the other side of the river from a car or van say?
the driver could just bugger off before the cops got there
link to youtube.com
Eh, how fast can a pantechnicon go?
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Edulis says @12.03am
“Wasn’t Thatcher’s speech in Perth also the one which had the line, “We English are a very generous people”.

I cant see even her being as crass to have made THAT speech in Perth, she wouldn’t have got out alive!

The actual quote was
“We English, who are a marvelous people, are really very generous to Scotland.” and it was made to The Times.
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I would like to hear an opinion from anyone who has legal knowledge about the new proposal to fund the BBC out of a local tax which means everyone tv watcher or not is going to pay for the BBC, can that be legal?

Surely it would breach peoples human rights to be forced to pay for what is essentially entertainment,

any legal eagles out there?

The f***ing UK government need to remember they are funded by US. And they cost us a bloody fortune. They are also employed by us, are all the overpaid wasters pumping out propaganda at places like the Scotland Office. Time to sack the whole damn, useless lot of them.

I wonder if they will put signs up on the M25 (only one example)” Built with Scottish Oil!”
Because it was, as with very many infrastructure project in London. Starting from the first gush of oil, while Scotland got nothing. Fraudsters.

Look at HS2 and where we will be charged a cost against Scottish taxes, while having no benefit! Similar the Crossrail project, London drains improvements etc etc etc.

I guess there will be sod all about the cost to Scottish tax payers. This is a big blunder by our imperialist masters, a boomerang idiocy.

A hardly thought through propaganda car crash. Inventive Scots have very very many opportunities to show what actually has happened under Westminster rule in Scotland, and boy, are we gonna have fun spotlighting them.
We have 300 years of mismanagement to display, courtesy of our masters. Hell mend them.

Sorry for continuing the OT. This is my last post on the subject. 😉

link to joshualandis.com