As the six-year fight for justice for Alex Salmond continues, we thought you might like to see this clip from this morning’s Mike Graham Show, interviewing Paul McManus, the businessman and drummer in Glasgow rock band Gun who’s stepped up to fund the Salmond family’s case against the Scottish Government despite disagreeing with much of what Alex stood for politically.
The Sunday National’s front page today elicited a sigh of “So what?” from most.
We’ve already GOT a “pro-indy” majority at Holyrood and have done for the last 10 years, for all it’s been worth. But to be fair there was a paragraph in the article that at least raised a quizzical eyebrow.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
My first ever real experience of politics was playing Dictator.
Originally written by Don Priestley for the Sinclair ZX81 in 1982, it was a simple text-based game which subsequently came to other formats including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Elan Enterprise and the ZX Spectrum, which is where I encountered it.
It’s almost – almost – worth voting SNP in May because of this:
Because it would be at least momentarily absolutely hilarious watching Swinney try to explain why his “100% guaranteed” second indyref didn’t happen if the SNP actually did get a majority on 30% of the vote (which is narrowly feasible on current polling).
Captain Caveman on Pick Your Poison: “At least 50 more than I thought he’d get tbh.” May 8, 17:56
Bilbo on Pick Your Poison: “Firstly, nobody on this forum said that SNP wasn’t going to win the most seats. Secondly, your comment about SNP…” May 8, 17:53
GM on Pick Your Poison: “Grim.Quite a few absolute fuckwits held their seats too. That bam up in Buchan. FFS, the unionists are clearly fake…” May 8, 17:49
Dan on Pick Your Poison: “Time to look out that Airplane clip! Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit… www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm8fYf53SMg” May 8, 17:47
Geri on Pick Your Poison: “At least we’re not alone on the stupid. Labour guy on telly says it’s Starmer the voters don’t like. Nah,…” May 8, 17:44
Izzie on Pick Your Poison: “Well it looks like we (SNP) have won. But Im not hete to gloat all ypu doom merchants. I am…” May 8, 17:43
agentx on Pick Your Poison: “SNP lost 4 constituency seat so far – how important will the SNP 1 +2 vote be?” May 8, 17:34
Frank Gillougley on Pick Your Poison: “Time mibbes to roll out my favourite MacDiarmid quote and park it on a Scottish lawn. ‘All is dead here,…” May 8, 17:17
agentx on Pick Your Poison: “It’s going to be interesting how the list vote works out.” May 8, 17:14
Northcode on Pick Your Poison: “Lorna Slater is the last straw in a long series of last straws. I have abandoned the Scots… they are…” May 8, 17:06
Confused on Pick Your Poison: “It looks like the revolutionary forces of the Student-Grant-Millie-Tant-Faction have won it for Lorna Slater. Along with the Waitrose-Liberals and…” May 8, 16:53
Socrates MacSporran on Pick Your Poison: “Elegant use of the stiletto there by Ms Cherry – discussing why Angus Robertson got his erse handed to him…” May 8, 16:31
100%Yes on Pick Your Poison: “Reform has saved the SNP from defeat, so John Swinney hasn’t won the election and we now know they will…” May 8, 16:30
Insider on Pick Your Poison: “Shockingly bad result for Craig Murray ! Only 150 votes !” May 8, 16:15
Confused on Pick Your Poison: “fucking liz lloyd holding forth on the telly doing the punditry – I would put my foot through the screen…” May 8, 16:13
agentx on Pick Your Poison: “Lorna Bloody Slater won constituency seat!” May 8, 16:07
Bobbyp on Pick Your Poison: “‘Until the scots wake up and start demanding their liberation from imperial english oppression’ Sadly never going to happen, the…” May 8, 15:48
robertkknight on Pick Your Poison: “I’d suggest any criteria be based upon that which would be used to confer Scottish Citizenship upon an individual. For…” May 8, 15:40
Bobbyp on Pick Your Poison: “‘Until the scots wake up and start demanding their liberation from imperial english oppression’ Sadly never going to happen, the…” May 8, 15:32
Iain mhor on Pick Your Poison: “A lot of wailing about ‘illegals’, or asylum seekers having the right to vote, but very little made of Non-Dom…” May 8, 15:29
Northcode on Pick Your Poison: “It’s way too early to say for sure, but it’s already looking like the main winners in Scotland’s Piss-Take-Parliament Democracy…” May 8, 15:17
Northcode on Pick Your Poison: “I repeat; “Colonialist comments aren’t even interesting or entertaining… they’re just thoroughly stupid.”” May 8, 15:14
100%Yes on Pick Your Poison: “ATLS not doing very well.” May 8, 15:09
Chas on Pick Your Poison: “If there is one thing you are clearly an expert in it is stupidity. You demonstrate it umpteen times every…” May 8, 15:00
sarah on Pick Your Poison: “7.00 p.m. tonight, per Election Maps UK, but I think the Rev said it might be Saturday.” May 8, 14:28
sam on Pick Your Poison: “Alf, Which of these is likely to support the Scottish petition? https://www.un.org/dppa/decolonization/en/c24/members” May 8, 14:19
Northcode on Pick Your Poison: “What really, really, really pisses me off more than anything else in all of God’s creation is stupidity, followed closely…” May 8, 14:12
lothianlad on Pick Your Poison: “Anyone know roughly when the full results will be known?” May 8, 14:07
Northcode on Pick Your Poison: ““I didn’t Northcode…” What a fucking idiot!” May 8, 14:07
Geri on Pick Your Poison: “Aye, yer right, Sven. They’d only turn up, eat all the doughnuts & then declare everything was just fine &…” May 8, 13:52
