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Binfire Of The Vanities

Posted on May 04, 2026 by

For a nation that prides itself on hating the Tories, this is very odd.

And if you don’t see how, let us illustrate.

If you simply combined the Tory and Reform votes from the latest poll, the election would be on a knife-edge, with the right-wing alliance just three points behind the SNP on the constituency vote and six points AHEAD on the list. On that basis it would likely win the election as the biggest party, though it would need Labour and Lib Dem backing to form a government.

(It would be genuinely unpredictable and interesting to see who could win the vote to be First Minister in this scenario.)

This is the Devolved Elections projection, showing Reform edging it by a single seat over the SNP, with a comfortable Unionist majority of 21, compared to the 11-seat “pro-indy” majority projected by More In Common on the actual poll numbers:

The map would look like this, with the right-wing alliance sweeping the traditional strong Tory areas of the Borders and the north-east and encroaching towards the middle, with the Lib Dems taking a huge chunk of the Highlands and Islands and the SNP reduced to the Central Belt, with Labour clinging to their existing pockets.

Considering that a right-wing party (the Unionist Party, forerunner of the modern Scottish Conservatives) last won a general election in Scotland in 1955, that’s an extraordinary stat. If Tory voters switched en masse to Reform on Thursday, according to this poll there would be an earthquake of utterly transformative impact on Scottish politics which would make the SNP’s 2007 victory, and 2011 majority, seem like a field mouse farting by comparison.

(If you count the SNP, Labour and Greens as all representing various degrees of “the left”, with the Lib Dems on the soft right it’s close, about 53-45 in favour of the left.)

And there’s another thing. More In Common didn’t ask about independence, but a poll for the Sunday Times at the weekend put support at Yes 55 No 45. Yet just 37% of people voting in the election are going to vote for ostensibly pro-independence parties.

That means that one out of every three independence supporters is refusing to vote SNP or Green in order to try to achieve it, and more than two out of every five are refusing to vote SNP. Just 57% of indy supporters say they’ll vote SNP on Thursday, and another 10% will vote Green.

(We suspect that once turnout is factored in those numbers will fall further.)

It really is quite hard to overstate how surreal all this is. On just over 30% of the vote, the SNP look set to either win an absolute majority or come close to it, while a combined Tory/Reform vote of over 32% will get them less than a quarter of the seats in the chamber.

Despite John Swinney offering a “100% guarantee” of a second referendum if he gets that majority, barely more than half of indy supporters look like they’ll bother to go out and vote for his party to get it. Meanwhile Tory voters will pass up a no-brainer chance to kick the SNP out and definitively end any threat of independence for the foreseeable future, despite being by far the party most obsessed with the constitution.

(Labour voters at least have the excuse that their party is still clutching at the comically absurd notion that they can win the election themselves, and the Lib Dems just want to carve out a few more seats, but Tories know full well that they’re looking at an epic humiliation AND a thumping SNP win unless they unexpectedly decide to throw their lot in with Malcolm Offord’s motley crew at the last minute.)

This, then, is an election in which both indy supporters and Unionists seem to be locked on a suicidally self-destructive course, each doing their best to throw it. The SNP is urging Yessers to waste their second vote and maximise the number of Unionist MSPs, while the Unionist parties are so engrossed in fighting among and within themselves that they’re going to get 61% of the vote yet still find themselves sitting irrelevantly in an indy-majority Parliament for another five years.

(Neither side much cares, they’ll get the gravy either way.)

As for the voters, nobody expects even half of them to turn out at all, so scunnered are they at the rotten catalogue of options being presented to them.

Our wee country’s gotten itself in a right old pickle, folks.

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  1. Tommy says:

    The reason why so many “indy” supporters refuse to vote SNP is, I suspect, because they are not so much “indy” as “want the best for my country”. I myself would tend to see “indy” as the best for my country…. but that is in theory and if it means voting NuSNP, then I will rather vote Reform for gas/oil drilling and “aspiration” (the latter in light of the recent Malcom/Beaker spat). I will also vote Reform as most likely to defeat NuSNP (constituency) and Green (list) where I reside.

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    • Jamie says:

      So many, is actually 4 to 5 % of indy supporters tend to vote reform.

      The truth is, without independence, a vote for the snp or reform is nothing more than gesture politics because the things that they both want to change are not devolved.

      Only the Alliance to Liberated Scotland recognise this, that Independence Now is the priority and only route to real change.

      Reform or Snp, does not matter, Scotland will get what England says. Talk of any change under the Snp or reform is delusional.

      Even to say vote reform to stick it up the snp. Sure, there will be brief schadenfreude but ultimately nothing will change.

      Only all hands supporting those who want real change now will eventually lead to independence. Independence will be achieved by voting for it. Reform and the snp are a barrier to independence.

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        “actually 4 to 5 % of indy supporters tend to vote reform”

        Surely, it’s 4.539 % so why don’t you quote the correct figure?

        Any views on what uptick in support Reform could gain in Scotland if they all took to wearing tea towels and marching the streets, chanting in Arabic?

        I bet you’d be there like a rat up a drainpipe.

    • Jamie says:

      Hatey, your trolling is really low effort and lame.

      I was trolling people and got bored of trolling online before it was even called trolling and became a trend of the brain dead like you that sucked out what little fun that used to be had by it.

      If you are going to try and troll me, at least put some effort into it instead of this flat earth level of trolling pish.

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        “at least put some effort into it”

        You’re flying the flag of a country whose leaders have pursued policies that have ended with its destitute and traumatised citizens squatting in piles of rubble for as far as the eye can see.

        I assume that you fly that flag on here because you would like our Scottish leaders to make common cause with theirs.

        I have no desire to end my days squatting in piles of Scottish rubble. That means the kind of leaders you would like for us Scots have to be kept well away from any positions of power or influence.

        Clear?

    • Jamie says:

      If you have so much pity for the people of the flag on my profile, why don’t you go and live there?

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        You talking to me?

        Jeezo, and you were the one complaining about “flat earth level of trolling pish”!

        But seeing as how you ask. My “pity for the people of the flag on your profile” extends no further than observing that the best possible help for them would be to wipe the murderous ham ass scum, that have been keeping them hostage at gunpoint for several decades, off the face of the earth.

        Then perhaps they could emerge into the twenty first century as a normal country with normal aspirations. No longer being in thrall to medievalist nutjobs intent on wiping their neighbouring countries off the map.

        The same argument goes for the poor, long suffering people of Ir@n too. Mercilessly crushed by a leadership that decades ago reduced them to the status of expendable collateral, or worthless trash to be gunned down in their tens of thousands if they ever dare show a defiant face.

        No, I won’t be going to live in that shithole either. Particularly as the policies of its leadership are raising the distinct possibility that it too will soon be mounds of rubble.

      • Jamie says:

        Hatey, I was trying to talk to you but I realise now you are either German or English, and I can’t understand that Germanic gibberish you are writing.

        I thought we won the war? The bloody good it did, we still seem to be talking German.

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        HMcH @ 10.19

        C’mon Hatey “old boy”, just between us- no one else would know.

        How much did your (ahem) Is Rye Ale “sponsors” via Conservative friends of (heavily funded) Is Rye Ale pay for that little piece?

        By the line or by the word?

        Well?

        C’mon don’t be shy, poster Garrivelli Princip here (Scotchland Office if you need reminding which I doubt) is watching and taking notes after all..

        What happens in WOS doesn’t necessarily stay in WOS!!

        C’mon, what’s the going rate? A paid for visit or a kibbutz down payment for a forthcoming development on the wrong side of the Golan heights?

        Naughty Hatey!
        You know what the slit Jimmie’s God thinks about Sodomites after all..
        Booom!!

        Oi vey!!

        Pillar of salt y’all?

  2. ALANM says:

    The basic error contained in this analysis is that tory and reform votes are interchangeable when the truth is much more nuanced. A sizeable minority on the left, right and centre of politics don’t want to see their country gift wrapped and presented to whoever happens to bowl up on our shores. These people have nowhere else to go other than reform.

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    • Rev. Stuart Campbell says:

      Tory and Reform voters both think that, though.

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  3. Mr Boyce N Franks says:

    I went to the recent indy march in Edinburgh and questioned the SNP at their stand. I said that their two votes to the SNP is good for the SNP but not for Scotland and did they know and understand that. They said they did. I asked, are you still going to promote two votes SNP knowing this? They said yes. I said, even though its bad for the independence movement and Scotland? They said, yes again. I spoke to the SNP after speaking to Salvo. This is absolute truth. The SNP are putting their party before country and happy to do so.

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    • GM says:

      Bang on MR B. ..and in putting party first the activists hand money and status to the SNP elite and its favoured parasites. We have been badly let down in Scotland over the years by the political class and wider Elite networks in Scotland. Self interest rules. It used to be, not that long ago, that a vote for the SNP was a vote for country before party or in other words a vote to break that cycle of self interest that ruled our country (or amanaged it on behalf of England/ Westminster if you prefer). Sturgeon and Swinney and the wider SNP elite swapped independence for membership of a 300 yr old club and have become wealthy as a result. They are now respected in elite circles now but have lost face with the ordinary people who see through them – I don’t think they give a damn about that. They might even see it as a right of passage to be despised by the general population.

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    • sarah says:

      Well, at least they were honest – unlike the leadership.

      But it is hugely worrying. It is a bit like that in my district. They local SNP activists know there is only a very slim chance of a list seat but are still advocating SNP 1&2.

      I think that I and my husband are the only people here talking about the Alliance, trying to spread the word.

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  4. Alf Baird says:

    “For a country that prides itself on hating the Tories, this is very odd.”

    Aye, by the mid-1990’s Scots had made Scotland into a Tory-free zone sufficient for a wee pretendy parliament to be ‘granted’, giving us natives a wee sniff of ‘democracy’.

    Since then, however, we have seen a million or more folk move in from England, and at least half a million Scots leave.

    Which means that, today, between one and two million people in Scotland may not consider themselves ‘Scottish’ at all. This is in addition to ‘assimilated’ Scots who prefer to view themselves as ‘British’.

    Ultimately, national identity, i.e. I am ‘Scottish’ or ‘British’ is how the ‘national’ vote splits.

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    • agentx says:

      “National identity

      The percentage of people who said Scottish was their only national identity increased since the previous census (from 62.4% to 65.5%). The percentage who said their only national identity was British also increased (from 8.4% to 13.9%). The percentage who said they felt Scottish and British decreased (from 18.3% to 8.2%).”
      ———————————————————–

      2022 census figures
      link to scotlandscensus.gov.uk

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      • Alf Baird says:

        That implies there are some 35% of voters with a non Scottish-only identity, which is significant. In addition, as the Scottish/British identifying group tend to be more oriented towards social groups ABC1 their propensity to vote may be expected to be greater than for the ‘Scottish-only’ identifying group, hence they could account for as much as 50% of the vote, or more.

  5. Captain Caveman says:

    People have had enough of the Left and all that it entails.

    Who can blame them? The Scots are hardly immune, no more than anyone else is.

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    • James says:

      What people? Sun readers?

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      • Captain Caveman says:

        Ah! What’s that Fatso, you looking down on the hardworking working classes again like McDonalds workers? Déjà vu!

        Brass neck pal.

      • Aidan says:

        Well at least if they’re Sun readers they can read so that’s Sun 1 James 0

      • James says:

        You clowns are hilarious. Not.

    • Rev. Stuart Campbell says:

      The (notional) left is going to win the election, though.

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      • Captain Caveman says:

        I agree Stu, you’re right, they are. (Nothing “notional” left about the SNP in my view though, as evidenced through policy)

        As you note in your piece, though, there is a substantial populist groundswell swing to the right even in Scotland, in terms of votes likely to be cast at least. We can hope that ordinary rank and file folks have seen quite enough of the “modern” Left and all the crazy stuff. Breaking point reached?

      • Geri says:

        “Breaking point reached?”

        No.

        Because you are a fool if you think Reform will fix immigration or gender woo for that matter.

        This is a directive. That’s why it’s in EVERY WESTERN PARLIAMENT without public consent or parliamentary scrutiny.

        SNP is a political party sitting in a branch office. Do you really think they have that much sway on a global scale? Fucking behave & give yer snow globe a wobble.

        Corporations & Colonisers like immigration. It’s cheap labour. They don’t complain much for fear of being deported & they’re also not that fussed about the natives concerns.

        They also can’t stop asylum seekers. When you deliberately destroy their country from functioning & blow shit up for fun – you’ve to take yer share of the inevitable fallout. They get to choose their destination too despite them claiming they should just stop off in the first country they enter. It doesn’t work like that. Thems the rules of the big boys club that the UK signed up to.

        Is Reform going to leave those clubs?
        Are they suddenly going to tell Corporations they don’t want their business?
        Are they going to tell World Bank & IMF they’ve to fck off with their bat shit policies tied directly to loans & investment?

        Good luck, sunshine!

        This bullshit wasn’t the brainchild of the left. We’ve just had Tories in charge for 14 years. Did they do anything at all to stop this? No. Especially the gender woo. They actively encouraged it through schools, institutions, police & the health service etc.

        So if the so called party of “law & order” couldn’t fix it – what makes you think Reform will?

  6. Nicky T Naquetti says:

    Slightly off-topic – but if you haven’t seen the amazing campaign advert by that Sarwar guy for Labour, you’re really missing out on something special.
    “HEE-YEEUCH!” is the cry, before the bagpipes start skirling over a ditty about “Hills and country roads”.
    I am sure it would appeal to the Rabbie Burns-meets-Dudley D Watkins types that congregate here.

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    • Bilbo says:

      I’ve had the misfortune to have to sit through it many a time on YouTube until I figured out how to block it.

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  7. Young Lochinvar says:

    D’Hondt is a complete farce..

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  8. Alex Thorburn says:

    In 2021 it took just 27,541 votes to elect each of the 8 Green MSPs on the Regional (List) Vote, but it took 547,187 votes to elect each of the 2 SNP MSPs on the Regional List.

    That illustrates the futility of the SNP policy of SNP 1 and SNP 2! That decision resulted in dozens of unionist MSPs who should not have been elected to Holyrood. It also resulted in having to rely on the Greens to govern and I’ll say no more about that!

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  9. Mark Beggan says:

    There’s many reasons for not voting and one of these could be what is happening outside Scotland. The geopolitical situation has changed. The Black Gold monolopy is under new management. OPEC is yesterday’s story. America is armed to the teeth. National interest is replacing Globalization. The Net Zero has failed. The big financial crunch is in the post. It’s on its way. Then there’s the out of control immigration. There’s more danger on the horizon that is completely out of the control if a Scottish government.

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    • Young Lochinvar says:

      Beggars

      Aye very good bumpkin..

      It’s being so cheerie that keeps ye going eh Adolf..

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  10. Iain More says:

    An advert for an English NAZI Party.

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    • 100%Yes says:

      Reform will look after England its the SNP who ruined Scotland.

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    • Rev. Stuart Campbell says:

      Oh do shush.

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    • BroughtyBoy says:

      Jeezo, you’ve really learnt nothing from last 10 years Iain have you?

      Shrieking “Nazi !” at folk you disagree with gives you a smug sense of moral superiority but absolutely nowt else!

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      • Young Lochinvar says:

        BB

        “Nowt”..

        Nowt?

        Nowt??

        Hmmmm..

        Eeee bah goom!

        Anyway, have you stopped to actually listen to so much of the hard right rhetoric masquerading as “opinion” and understand?

        I don’t think you have and I don’t think there is anything smug or superior in calling it out.
        Or are people not allowed to say?

        Eh?

        Not what I served and fought for, I’ll tell you that for nothing..

        See much service did you in warburtons land?

        Thought not, so very very few of you right wing keyboard warriors ever have (or dared)..

        Eff off back to merry ol’ England and sort yer own sh1tehole out before you come preaching your drivel to us.

        Have a nice day by the way..

      • Captain Caveman says:

        @BroughtyBoy

        Don’t worry about YL, he’s just having one of his daily (nightly) meltdowns at the prospect of someone disagreeing with him. He’s a fragile little twerp, best ignored (appreciate that’s hard, given his copious output). Maybe he thinks Nigel Farage is coming to steal his mobility scooter lol.

        The Left’s propensity to shriek “Nazi!”, “Far Right!” etc. at small-c Conservatives (and even Centrists), reveals them as the unhinged fanatics that they are. The concepts of dissent and debate are beyond their tender sensibilities and microns-thick skin.

        As Stu notes in his piece, the populist tide appears to be turning even in Scotland. Hopefully some rollback and a reset of sorts will be forthcoming during the next few years.

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        Fat Slag Wilma Flintstone @ 9.52

        Hit a raw nerve did I there thunderthighs?

        Anyway, get off this site and get some work done ya work shy malingering shyster..

      • Captain Caveman says:

        😀

        “W.w..why I’m SO ANGRY, I could THROW THE PHONE DOWN!!!!!!1111!!!”

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Careful, CC!

        YL might swear a solemn vow, a mighty oath even, to post a half-decent response on here.

        Oh but wait 🙂

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        Fat Slag Wilma Flintstone

        I would have thought “crushing a grape” was more your thing..

  11. Ross says:

    The combined snp labour vote on the same basis plus Greens dwarves the point you’re making

    Plus some pro indy people will vote reform, its a protest as much as anything

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    • Rev. Stuart Campbell says:

      Did you read past the first paragraph? FFS.

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  12. 100%Yes says:

    The SNP has treated Scotland, its people and women with complete and utter contempt. Sturgeon was still banging on about how the trans are so hard done by and if that was true the SNP could have secured Independence and done the right thing for trans, but they didn’t and to be honest the SNP used the trans to put people of Independence, the only thing its done is put people of the SNP.

    Throughout this hole election Swinney and the SNP have been lying there hides of and just expecting people to be brain dead.

    Lets be honest who wouldn’t want to see the back of the SNP, if this was the final result of the Scottish election I’d be happy with that.

    I know people on here are going to say oh my god we’re going to lose our parliament if reform wins. Ask your self this if the parliament can’t be used to deliver Independence then what fucking good is it.

    Two things I’d like to happen 1 SNP chuck out on their ear and 2 that fake Independence paper folds.

    The SNP only looks after the SNP.

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  13. 100%Yes says:

    I’ve no doubt Kelly’s eye will have a reason to debunk what’s being said.

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  14. 100%Yes says:

    If the SNP and MFI hadn’t rigged humza to be leader of the SNP and Forbes had won and she did allow Alex back into the party where would we be now with Forbes, Salmond and Cherry, Starmer would be shiting himself.

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  15. Dunter says:

    I’ve completed polls for both YouGov and Survation in the past week, both on voting intentions (Yes/HR intentions)/leaders’ performance/current issues. Some of the questions in the YouGov one related to what would attract my vote back to Labour, and I do wonder if the party is behind the poll.

    I’m actually considering voting for a venal and dislikeable Tory on my constituency vote in order to keep out a spectacularly unsuitable SNP candidate (NE Scotland), though I may settle for “none of the above” in a spoiled vote. Regional vote will go to non-SNP pro-Indy, likely ISP. As a previous SNP activist and branch officer, I’m completely disillusioned by the post-Salmond midwits.

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    • Cynicus says:

      Hold your nose and LEND your vote to the party most likely to beat the SNP.

      #No Votes SNP

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  16. George Ferguson says:

    I don’t see a vote against the SNP as a right wing vote. Based on their record. Still a 20% volatility in the polls means it’s unpredictable. But in my limited circle I see an anti SNP vote. And that’s amongst a pro Indy vote. Lot’s of people are not declaring their true voting intentions. For fear of Nursie as the saying goes.

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    • Alf Baird says:

      “I don’t see a vote against the SNP as a right wing vote.”

      I see it as an anti-woke vote, with around a third of independence supporters having had enough of the SNP’s ‘mystifying’ laws on gender and inadequate lawmaking more generally, supporting England-as-UK in its warmongering, plus taking the movement up a blind alley.

      A pro-indy, anti-woke vote won’t go to the Greens who are even further down the woke rabbit hole, which raises questions as to where it will go, if it turns up.

      On the List there is at least the option to vote Alliance to Liberate Scotland and send a few authentic nationalists into Holyrood to stir things up among the colonial administrators.

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      • George Ferguson says:

        @Alf Baird
        I am well past the stage of voting for Alliance Scotland. Don’t you think I have done the numbers? A usurper party that has no policies. Check notes one policy. Led by a Perjury candidate. OK go ahead and see how you get on.

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        Agreed Alf. That’s the gut change that’s needed.

        George, sorry brother but small as it’ll start, or if something else grows out of it, this is what enormously disenfranchised independence supporters desperately need.

        Fancy unionists touting “hold yer nose and vote for us”!?!

        Seriously?

        Want the SNP in its degenerate current state gone; keep voting an independence alternative.

        I believe that is what keeps the SNP machine awake at night, not Reform which is just the latest dog whistle right wing iteration of a whole troop of nasty little Englunder/ BritGnat forebears.

        Saw the Scotchland Tories tv ad tonight; “Vote for us to stop another independence referendum”..

        Other than “it’s divisive” then why?

        No reasons given.

        Says it all really..

        The current parties, all of them, need to be gone, they are second hand Westminster born hand-me-down failures.

        Bring back real politics, here, for us.

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        @Alf

        Are you telling us that with under a week to go to the election, Fanon and Memmi have run out of ideas?

        What about the Jonesy boyo? Surely he must have something?

    • Cynicus says:

      George Ferguson says:
      4 May, 2026 at 8:04 pm

      “I don’t see a vote against the SNP as a right wing vote. “

      ==========

      Spot on.

      That is the correct mindset for this election : do not vote FOR any party but AGAINST one- the SNP.

      You may have to hold your nose and put “X” against someone where, in normal times, you would sooner cut your hand off.

      #No Votes SNP

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      • Young Lochinvar says:

        C @ 12.29

        Not voting SNP?

        Fine.

        Tactically voting for Unionists?

        Enjoy drinking the fruits of your self inflicted damnation..

      • twathater says:

        @ YL , Cynicus , George Ferguson, I cannot understand the logic of voting for parties who have proven inumerable times that they despise Scotland and Scots , Cynicus & George I presume you are auld like myself and have lived through endless tory and liebour governments and the lies and corruption they visited on Scots, WHY would you deliberately vote for parties that have PROVEN endless times that they have no interest in making your or our lives better

        To any sane person that is effectively SELF HARM which is the same for anyone voting for the PAEDO party the Scum Nonce Party, George you maintain you have integrity and will not vote for a perjurer what do you think all these parties with their LYING promises and corruption adds up to

        I have argued with Roddy McLeod and Alan Petrie about immigration for which I was called a racist, I vehemently believe in DIRECT DEMOCRACY where we hold politicians to account , we have to start somewhere and fight for integrity and honesty in our politicians, voting for ATLS or ISP could be that CHANCE, voting for the same old LYING, CORRUPT arseholes of Labour, Tories,Lib Dumbs or even Reform is NO CHANGE IT IS THE STATUS QUO

      • Cynicus says:

        Young Lochinvar says:
        5 May, 2026 at 1:19 am
        “C @ 12.29
        Not voting SNP?
        Fine.

        Tactically voting for Unionists? “
        =============
        You are not paying attention!

        There is a world of difference between tactically voting for anybody and strategically voting against the SNP.

        Vote FOR Fergus Ewing, if you are fortunate enough to be in his constituency.

        If not then vote FOR someone of like standing if you are lucky.

        But do not lose sight of the strategy: to rid Scotland of the corrupt conspiracy of devoUnionists that tried to jail Alex Salmond; remains bent on appeasing the most loathsome elements of the Trans lobby; is indifferent to the damage this does to Scotswomen, children and the vulnerable.

        If you understand that, explain to me why flooding Holyrood with such gravy-slurping scumbags is better than a ragbag of openly unionist ferrets fighting in a sack.

        *********
        The Cynicus Strategy for Dummies:

        1. FOR means one thing
        2. AGAINST means the opposite.
        #No Votes SNP

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        C @ 12.04

        Well if that makes you feel better.

        I’m sure if the Tories gain the seat in question the media will explain it’s a protest vote and not a sign that the Tories are on the up again in Scotchland..

        Aye right..

  17. Bilbo says:

    As always, the only poll that matters in the one on election day.

    There is a far too many reasons not to vote SNP and that includes those who indy minded. IMHO, one that should be important in peoples mind that the forthcoming Holyrood election is not a vote for independence but one of the actual policies that the SNP is proposing and a verdict on their time governing in Holyrood over the last five years.

    The SNP doesn’t have a credible plan to get independence in the next 5 years. Even if they did, with the SNP as it currently is and with a total non-entity of Swinney leading the campaign, does anyone actually think there would be any chance of winning independence?

    If you are voting for SNP next week then what are you voting for? There is no denying that they have done good for Scotland in the last 5 years but it is overshadowed by the far too many to mention failures that have overshadowed it.

    Besides, the SNP has been in power for nearly 20 years and they feel stale. They don’t exactly inspire and have nothing really of substance to offer.

    That doesn’t mean though that they will be the biggest party when voting is over next week. There is no simply credible alternative that most ordinary people to vote for to govern the devolved administration.

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  18. Ian says:

    It’s all down to the SNP. With a competent party the support for independence would be higher. So for many the answer to the question – Q. Do you support independence? A. In theory yes, but not with the SNP. So that’s a No.

    Or put another way – Q. Would you trust the SNP to manage the change to and early years of an actual independent nation – A. No.

    Quick quiz question – Who said Scotland will not be “dragged out of the UK against our will”.

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    • Young Lochinvar says:

      I

      So you are apparently quite happy for us to be sh8gged by one lot but not the other?

      Kind of overlooks the premise that a constitution is written forbidding subjugation to any foreign power, and then once that little nugget is solved getting on with – whatever party they are in – running the country for our benefit, not someone else’s!

      Heck, what are you even doing on this site!?

      This is basic..

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  19. Angus says:

    Scotland will never achieve independence “democratically” as long as politicians are in charge.

    The SNP, still viewed as the independence party by gullible voters, is doing its best to avoid any possibility of getting a majority to avoid independence.

    Even if it did get a majority, there is no chance in hell of getting the UK government to approve a “democratic” referendum.

    55% support for independence translates into 0% support “democratically” as there is no means of making practical use of that support.

    “So the most likely upshot of outcome (3) is – may God have mercy on all of our souls – another election, and honest to God if that happens we’re closing down Wings forever and going to live in a cave.”

    The only hope seems to be the Rev. Stuart Campbell going to live in a cave for a while and emerging as the Messiah to bring independence to Scotland.

    If anyone has a better practical idea for gaining independence, please share.

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    • Young Lochinvar says:

      A

      Civil disobedience I’m afraid is the only answer when the democratic process is so obviously blocked.

      Whether people have the balls for it nowadays is the unfortunate question..

      Instead we have generations coming up seemingly neurotically prepared to wait for Engerlund/ UK Ltd to sink below the waves before even trying to find a lifeboat.

      Sad really.

      Well done India by the way.

      Just sayin’..

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Civil disobedience, eh, YL?

        Is that a promise, or just a solemn vow?

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        HMcH @ 7.41

        No it’s called a point of view.

        Talking of solemn vows, did you write that post cock’n hand Proud Boy?
        You’ll go blind “old boy”..

      • Angus says:

        “Whether people have the balls for it nowadays is the unfortunate question..”

        YL, that is indeed the question and we know the answer – the vast majority has been completely neutered by a totally intolerant draconian state masquerading as a “democracy”.

        What would the Scots of old think of today’s sissies?

        What would the founders of the SNP think of the total betrayers of today?

        The only person who had the balls was Alex Salmond, and look what the powers that be did to him.

        My interpretation of “civil disobedience” is people waking up and stopping being slaves to consumerism, which will make them see the injustice in society.

        The SNP duped ordinary independence supporters and stole £600,000 from them, but the rotten to the core state has no intention of ever bringing the real thieves to justice. If they convict someone, it will certainly not be the real thieves.

        Realistically, I can’t see Scotland ever becoming truly independent now.

        Outside reality, one can hope for a miracle or a messiah.

  20. Confused says:

    in every other place with Dhondt there emerges 2 sets of parties and people vote tactically; the shiteness of the system is shown by how it produces “democracy” via a lot of backroom dealing and political stodge, which tends to favour the status quo and bribes to special interest groups

    re: perjury – we can see that a trial is political in that it creates special rules for itself, present nowhere else; with Salmond the complaints procedure was amended and applied retrospectively (only he has been affected), then with the 14 counts of bullshit, they “invoked moorov” which is meant to make you think that 14 “nothings” actually mean “something” because we have 14 of them. Thank God for juries and the ability of women to spot other womens lies, or he would have gone to the clink. Another unique aspect was – having won, his accusers got protection, lifelong anonymity, when they should have been tried for perjury, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Having been exonerated, the media as one mounted a smear campaign.

    As for Tommy S – TS is the only guy in legal history to WIN his libel and get done for perjury for winning it; it was bizarre – it also turned out later on that his accusers were themselves perjurers.

    Our police are incompetent, and our judges are corrupt; corrupted by anglo saxon justice – they saw what was coming down, and to preserve a little of their own “sovereignty”, i.e. separate legal systems, they became, literally, enemy agents. Their sellout nature was demonstrated with the creation of the supreme court – a clear breach of the treaty and an infringement of their separate system … they said nothing, they know their status is protected as long as they obey.

    Scotland, when you examine it, is a land of mysteries – lockerbie, dunblane, fettesgate, the ice cream wars – but there may be darker currents …

    – it finally comes out now, too late

    link to bbc.co.uk

    not only did he bum the lads, but he stole their money as well (a good analogy for Scotland)

    and throughout his life he was untouchable (likely because he was supplying lads to judges and kept the polaroids – that is the dignity of our “justice”)

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    • twathater says:

      @ Confused, there was also the case of the highly respected (hahaha) QC who it is alleged was involved in incest against his own daughter and who allowed other similar high ranking members of the legal profession to sexually abuse the the young girl, if I remember properly their was a programme on bbc about him , which was extremely unusual as they are usually involved in covering up the deviances and perversions of politicians , members of the legal profession and Scotland’s hierarchy

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      Of course, Confused, it’s always possible that while you are sitting up late on what to many Scots is a holiday, fretting and posting about who’s bumming who, most Scots don’t care.

      And aren’t much interested.

      And are wary of those who obsessively are.

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      • Geri says:

        Actually, we do care.

        SNP may find themselves out of office because of it. They’ve spent the last five years pushing it, trying to normalise it, trying to make it a fun family activity by getting the weans involved in knowing all about it by strangers in class rooms, encouraging weans to keep secrets & even trying to bring in laws forbidding Parents from even talking about it in the comfort of their own home to their OWN children through threat of prosecution.

        Being bat shit totalitarian to make everyone comply.

        No one likes nonces & their pretendy wee clubs & youth groups they skulk around in at taxpayers expense.
        All these pretendy NGO charities who splinter into other charities so they can receive double, triple government funding for the same fucking cause is also beyond ridiculous now. Especially from BRANCH OFFICE POCKET MONEY during a cost of living crisis.

        One in particular seems to receive government & legal protection no matter what scandals they get up to.

        Remember folks, this is the same government that clutched their pearls & tried to jail an innocent man for pulling a curl FFS.

        That is the hill they chose to die on. This shite. Not indyref that they actually had public support & mandates for – but for one they didn’t.

        We all know by now that this is a directive from Western think tank policy makers & forced by banks onto Western countries through their parliaments with ZERO public consent or vote. *No debate*

        SNP could have told them to GTF, put it to public assemblies, sought public consent, held a DEMOCRATIC vote, attempted something to at least bring the public onboard. They didn’t. Because they knew it would never pass the first round of the slightest bit of scrutiny.

        Proving to everyone they’re not leadership material & they’re not even attempting to be of Independent mind. They’re moronic group think drones that threw away everything for this bullshit & that was deliberate.

        Some ppl claim they need time in opposition. I doubt it. They need completely removed from Holyrood entirely. Sturgeon killed the SNP deliberately. It’s not the same party anymore so it’s even beyond fixing. I believe that once they’re voted out they’ll stay out. ALL of them. Even the supposed *Christians* who abandoned Ash Regan when the chips were down & those who knew deep down this shit was wrong & would finish them but scurried away to hide instead. Now it’s crunch time.

        I hope they’re taken to the cleaners on Thursday & once they’re off their perch they fuck off & go sit with Labour into political obscurity.

        I know those two parties have been deliberately captured & any sign of socialist leanings have been purged from the membership so they can’t even reinvent themselves. Capitalists don’t like socialism – it gets in the way of shafting the working class. It’s happened in the US too – everybody has just morphed into one big pile of shite that sings from the same hymn sheet with fuckwits put into positions they haven’t the brains for.

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        “Actually, we do care”

        The royal “we” again, or is Geri self-identifying as the Scottish electorate now?

        Cos if it’s the latter, why no “Nae Bumming” party on the ballot?

        Hey, I could be wrong. In the secrecy of the polling booth on Thursday, I’ll double check for a “Nae Bumming” candidate and be prepared to mark my X accordingly.

        But somehow, unless I follow Geri’s lead and write that on my ballot paper myself, I don’t think it will be there.

        Because, as I wrote earlier, with the possible exceptions of the many Geris, Confused and YL, I honestly don’t think many sane, rational Scots waste time “fretting and posting about who’s bumming who”.

      • James says:

        Hmmmm…..the “Site Prick” is now obsessed with “bumming”.

        Interesting segue. Who knew?

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Taking some time out from his tour of the fishing ports of the Moray Firth, James the Walrus graces us with his blubbery presence.

        Fair play to him. I have been critical in the past of the brevity of his one-handed posts, the other dominant hand being engaged in that disreputable pastime the Holy Bible warns us all of.

        But have you seen those flippers? Imagine texting and spanking with them?

        You’re doing just great, James. Let me throw you a fish.

        Oh and BTW. Pointing out the obsessions of regulars such as Confused and YL about bumming is a quite reasonable thing to do. Very reasonable, even.

        After all, the likes of you don’t. You want that all hushed up – anything to avoid tarnishing your fragile Indy cause.

        Myself, when I read Indy’s self-identifying “finest” revealing their true pre-occupations, whether it’s bumming, shilling for poot, or antisemitism, I think the best sanitiser is the harsh glare of publicity.

        That’s tough for you, James, but go cry me a river, or walrus up.

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        James @ 12.33

        Aye, auld Hatey gets upset if you don’t refer to his sodomite sins that he considers mere peccadilloes..

        Just shows, you can take the lad out of Edi Uni but you can’t take Edi Uni (literally) out the lad.
        Fraternity password: Yup? Yip!
        (Apparently)..

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Here ye gang, YL.

        Today’s one (1) reply from me, in which I validate your pathetic, pointless, dishonourable, existence.

        In summary, the sad highlight of your miserable, monochrome, unhappy, day.

        Enjoy!

        Then get the heid doon. You’ll need to be refreshed for when you start to cry online for help again in the wee, small hours.

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        HMcH @ 5.06

        Is that it?

        Lordy, you’re losing it “old boy”, remand coming up again is it?

        As long as you weren’t crying when you typed eh as you don’t sound like a happy little Hatey..

        PS: You seem to be on “oath overload” today, have the proud boys caught up with you for your “spank the monkey” regular oath breaking?

        Don’t think you’ll even get away from them in remand BTW!

        🙂

    • Alf Baird says:

      Yes, at least two of our brave liberators standing for the Alliance to Liberate Scotland Party have been persecuted and prosecuted by this colonial justice system. They know better than most how rotten the colonial system is.

      Meanwhile the ‘legalized lawlessness’ (Elkins) of colonial rule continues to protects the real criminals. That can only change with independence.

      National liberation is about freeing the people from such an oppressive colonial system of governance.

      As Albert Memmi wrote: “The native seldom looks for justice in the colonial framework.”

      link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Elkins, eh, Alf? Another name to conjure with. No doubt already familiar to thon loon who churns out the LOTR derivatives.

        “at least two of our brave liberators standing for the Alliance to Liberate Scotland Party have been persecuted and prosecuted by this colonial justice system”

        I guess the true believers won’t need any kind of detail or any links to these alleged miscarriages of justice.

        I guess those who aren’t already true believers can GTF as usual.

        I’ve said it before, and I’ll no doubt be saying it for all of the next 5 years. If you are serious about converting Scots to the Indy cause, you really do need to up your game.

        Because, as we are all about to witness on Thursday, your current game plan is just delivering one crushing defeat after another.

      • Alf Baird says:

        “converting Scots to the Indy cause” merely requires better understanding of our colonial condition, which is all explained here in documents submitted to the United Nations:

        link to jpti.ch

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        “merely requires better understanding of our colonial condition”

        Sigh.

        I guess the most depressing part of that statement is that the writer truly believes it.

        Oh well.

        The next 5 years of the status quo will simply fly by.

        Roll on May 2031.

  21. Bilbo says:

    George Ferguson says: 4 May, 2026 at 10:19 pm

    I am well past the stage of voting for Alliance Scotland. Don’t you think I have done the numbers? A usurper party that has no policies. Check notes one policy.

    The leaflet I received from AtLS was quite specific.

    It mentioned that it was only standing in the Regional vote and was only expecting to get a limited amount of seats. It also said that the candidate has only one policy but expressed the candidates views in which he will be expected to vote on throughout the next term of Holyrood if he gets elected.

    Yes, it is a bit of a novel idea to be different from every other party which the electorate is only tribally voting for the party and not the policies they are wanting to get elected on.

    It also has to be noted that every party, including the SNP are elected on a manifesto but don’t fully implement the policies in their manifesto. It also has to be noted that they implement policies that wasn’t in their manifesto and nobody would vote for them if they did include these policies in their manifesto at election time.

    Whether AtLS’s strategy will work remains to be seen but surely it is better than the tired old politics that we’re used to and is not working?

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  22. Hatey McHateface says:

    Fa’s Northy?

    Looks like he’s decamped tae Unherd:

    link to unherd.com

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  23. James Che says:

    The problem between voting for Colonial parties and colonial parties including the SNP, is that Scotland will continue to be a Colony.

    Begging for permission to be independent of the Anglo Irish parliament in England, which Scotland is not legally attached too.
    England Whom at the moment have no borders, changing the face of England natives, Ireland natives, Wales and Scotland native people on a large and fast scale.
    And it is the same Colonial political parties when this first started as that is being offered up in Scotlands elections this year. Scotlands elections, thats a laugh.
    Swapping peter for paul. Colonialism without a treaty,

    Anyone in Scotland placing a vote to continue this no border policy of England needn’t think they are safe in Scotland, Ireland or Wales.because we all keep placing a tick beside the Colonial parties as a tacit agreement and acceptance to be ruled by this their, no border policy.

    Going down with England faster than a sinking ship,
    The point is there is ( no fighting) as the fear mongering poster implied, because at this point in time it is legally up to us wether we want to continue being a Colonised country taking in the overspill of Englands no borders policy for all the other nations on this isle.

    The powers need to be separated from the politicians and returned to the people.

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  24. Sweden has just approved that to obtain citizenship, the following must be required:

    – 8 years of residence
    – Stable income
    – NOT having received social benefits
    – Swedish language exam
    – Exam on Swedish values and society.

    the loony left policies are pushing every nation further to the right,
    and the leftists have the nerve to ask “why”,
    look in the mirror you fricken crazy ghouls.

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  25. James Che says:

    Party before Country and people has to be made void,
    And the vote sharing system has to end, because this is why Scotland never gets what it votes for,

    To vote ourselves into acceptance of being run as a Colony in Scotland by tacit agreement of system ticking a box is utter madness not only for indigenous Scots but for all people in Scotland, that tried fleeing England for a better life in Scotland…will be short lived.
    To accept Westminsters system of policies on farming, fishing, the catering trade, green policies, taxation and no borders between france and England,is the utter madness of going down with captain on a ship that is being and has been deliberately holed.

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  26. Andy Wiltshire says:

    How much of a thing will tactical voting be? In particular anti-Reform, anti-SNP, and maybe anti-Green.

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    • Cynicus says:

      Great Question

      The only one of your answers that matters is anti-SNP.

      These devoUnionists are a stronger bulwark of continuing Westminster rule than any obertly unionist party.

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  27. Northcode says:

    I had a dream last night.

    And in my dream God came to me and without sound said unto me these words:

    “Northcode… heed my voice.

    When fifteen score and eighteen years are completed I will visit you and your people and I will fulfil to you my promise and bring you back to this place and free you from the influence of idolatrous *Babylon and its avarice.

    For I know the plans I have for you, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give your fowk a future and a hope.

    Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

    You will seek me and find me and I will restore your fortunes and gather your people from all the nations and all the places where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to the place from which I sent them.”

    Oh, He also gave unto me these wise words. Wise words that I now share with you all here in this place:

    “Northcode, He said… again.

    Tell your people, the Pictavians, that to cast a vote, or even to spoil a ballot, in Thursday’s Babylonian ‘election’ is pointless and is a sin in My eyes. For to deal with Satan is indeed sinful and a corruption of all that is good.

    But if your people, the Pictavians not the Scotti for I am not a big fan of the Scotti, choose to deal with the devil and participate in his evil trickery then they must protect themselves by only voting for the ATLS and adorning their persons with a crucifix when entering that vile labyrinth of Satan, the Babylonian polling place… only then might they assuage my wrath.

    There you have it, folks… straight from the mind of God; vote ATLS or don’t vote at all.

    NOTES:
    *In the bible Babylon symbolises chaos, sin, and defiance against God.

    The New Testament (Revelations 17-18) portrays Babylon as “the great prostitute”, or England as I prefer to call it, representing ultimate corruption, moral decay, and the final judgment of God against human rebellion. Babylon emphasises lessons about pride, idolatry, and the consequences of opposing the Scots God.

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      “I had a dream last night”

      We can but idly speculate on just how much better your post could have been if you’d sat up the entire night, wide-eyed and frothy-mouthed, keening to yourself and flailing at your keyboard.

      Try it tonight. Please, Northy.

      Big election Thursday.

      Just. One. More. Push. For. Indy.

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      • James says:

        looks like it’s newspaper stand business has folded….

      • Geri says:

        Looks like someone has increased the twats pay per post from a penny to a whole 5p.

        He’s flooded the side bar with his usual incoherent balderdash.

        Who let him back out of his cage FFS?

      • James says:

        Aye, Geri; You would think there’s a colonial election soon or something…..

        They’e piling in like pedos with sweeties at a school gate, looking for the unwary…..

      • Insider says:

        Fatso @ 12:38

        “looks like it’s newspaper stand business has folded….”

        Jeezus ! How old are you, Fatso ?

        Newspaper stands ?????

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        “piling in like pedos with sweeties at a school gate”

        Man, 2 days to go!

        You can almost smell the desperation from the Usual Suspects as the prospect of another 5 years of the Same Old Same Old looms.

        We could all make BTL far more interesting by running a sweepstake on which ones of the greetin, gurnin, lyin, fartin oxygen thieves aren’t gonna last to fuck up the campaign for Indy at HR in May 2031.

  28. James Che says:

    The Anglo – Irish parliaments ( westminster ) legislation for a pretend devolved Scottish parliament for the first time in over three hundred years called the “Scotland Act” factually explains to us there was no Scottish parliament in the Great Britain parliament for over three hundred years.

    Nor in the united kingdom of the 1800 Anglo – Irish parliament for hundreds of years to represent the people of Scotland. Because the Scottish parliament was dissolved from the ‘union’ by both England and Scotland,
    So why is Scotland going into elections that are not Scottish elections to vote themselves into Colonisation. And continued colonial management by the Colonial political parties, under the Anglo Irish parliament rules and system. That has not included Scotlands parliament, its Country or its people for over three hundred years?

    The unionist political error and mistake was thinking that if you dissolved the Scottish parliament from the great britain parliament they had subsumed Scotlands old parliament, however is reality they had set Scotland free from all obligations to the 1707 agreement as these ceased when the only other parliament besides Englands parliament was dissolved.by both Countries may I add in 1707.

    This month we pretend to go to Scottish elections for a Scottish pretend parliament we have not had in GB parliament for over three hundred years to maintain colonial political parties hold over Scotland as a tacit agreement to continue Scotland under the title of Colony.

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  29. James Che says:

    North code.

    Fun to read.

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    • Sven says:

      James Che @ 10.19.

      Although not, perhaps, quite so amusing to a Christian, James. I await with interest Northy’s spoof on the Koran, however I believe he has too much common sense to indulge himself on that area of peoples’ faiths.

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      • Northcode says:

        Fuck off, Sven you’re a Scotti prick and joyless cunt.

        I’m a Christian and Scotland is a Christian country what the fuck has the Koran got to do with it?

        Fuck all is the answer to that question… you are a right fucking stirrer, Sven… fuck off.

        Idiot.

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        I too await with interest Northy’s spoof on the Koran.

        I always immensely enjoy the bravery and daring of those online posters who risk all they hold dear in order to tear Christianity a new one.

        Like you, Sven, I’m always flummoxed how it is that the religion of peace always gets a free ride from these same paragons of fearless derring do.

        I’m totally at a loss to account for it.

        Perhaps the writings of Fanon, Memmi, the Jonesy boyo and new kid on the block – Elkins – could shed some light on the on again, off again bravery of Scotland’s self-identifying bonniest freedom fechters.

      • Northcode says:

        By the way, I’ve read several versions of the Bible, each of them a few times over, and an English translation of the Quran, twice… have you?

        I have never insulted the Christian faith, I have only ever made fun of folk who deserve to be made fun of using passages from the Bible, the ghost of a deid meenister o the Church who possesses me now and then, and the inspirational ‘voice of God’.

        Even God Himself, who is by nature a playful, omnipotent, infinitely intelligent being, and creator of all things, finds my biblical excursions into the realms of fantasy amusing… He telt me so Himself – in a dream.

        If folk take offence at my rhetorical magnificence that’s their problem for being joyless cunts… not mine.

        God bless ye wan and aw, amen.

        Score: 0% most likely written by God Himself:

        The writing has the strong personal voice of a diety, idiomatic phrasing, and localised dialect, which feels natural rather than templated.

        There is varied syntax and rhetorical play, including asides, direct address, and humorous exaggeration.

        The passage contains emotional colour and informal emphasis that are hard to fake convincingly.

        The phrasing is coherent and stylistically consistent throughout.

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        How odd.

        Northy seems to have an AI that produces output in English – the lying language of the coloniser.

        Switch the damn thing off, Northy. Don’t risk going out and voting Tory on Thursday.

        Claiming somebody told you to do it in a dream just won’t cut it.

      • Geri says:

        Yet, Shiteface,

        It isn’t the religion of peace invading other countries spreading tyranny, hunger, petulance, famine & death now is it? That seems to be your side. Well no, it isn’t.

        Fck knows what that is but it certainly can’t be described as even remotely Christian, yet you, a supposed Christian cheers from the sidelines like a deranged seal in full support of the body count. The more the merrier to Baal.

        “Perhaps the writings of Fanon, Memmi, the Jonesy boyo and new kid on the block – Elkins – could shed some light on the on again”

        They do. It’s called Colonialism & those cowards like to hide behind a religion to do it because it gives them the protections of the law where they can prosecute anyone daring to object. Colonisers do love to bastardise a religion too & have been known to fund & arm the fanatical fringes to carry out their dirty deeds as well as spread fear: ISIS, Al Qaeda, Taliban – in fact, they’ve just installed a new fanatic head chopper into what was a secular country before they arrived. They like doing that. They did the same with Iraq too. It’s a pattern. Divide & Conquer & sectarianism is their weapon of choice.

        These religions co existed in peace until the colonisers rode into town to help spread expansion, death, destruction & perpetual wars.

        If you have a problem tho you could always man up & kick off yer human rights crusade starting with the GCC countries. Isn’t it funny how the Colonisers don’t much care about human rights there. That’ll be because they’ve already submitted & given their bank accounts over to the Colonisers to handle on their behalf. They can chop up as many people as they like, including journalists.

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        “It isn’t the religion of peace invading other countries spreading tyranny, hunger, petulance, famine & death”

        Aw naw, spitting dummies oot the pram noo!

        Is their nae end tae their infamy?

        Call fer a march tae end world petulance, Geri. I’ll be there, never doot.

        Wild horses couldnae keep me awa.

  30. Northcode says:

    The election on Thursday is a pantomime in which I don’t usually participate having accepted a long time ago that power devolved is power retained and that devolution is yet another English curse on the Scots.

    This panto election season brings a new act to the tired auld, same auld, auld shite show of charlatans in the form of the single-ticket ‘kick the English out of Scotland’ ATLS.

    I see a glimmer of hope that the ATLS might fuck-up Holyrood’s usual mad and moronic mockery of democracy in Scotland if it manages to get a haunfu of MSPs a part in Westminster’s comedy of errors, let’s-play-a-sick-joke-on-the Scots, psycho-panto Caledonian piss-take.

    Vote ATLS… at the very least a couple of its MSPs in Hollyrood might make England’s ‘Scottish Piss-Take-Parliament Pantomime Show’ a tad mair interestin.

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    • Alf Baird says:

      Correct Northcode, every one Tommy, Craig and Eva seeking oor leeberation is easily worth a dozen or mair daeless SNP clones.

      The colonizer kens this fine, which explains the total mainstream media blackout and censorship of Alliance to Liberate Scotland Party candidates.

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        “mainstream media blackout and censorship”

        OFFS, Alf!

        What century are you inhabiting?

        What you write of means NOTHING in today’s communication landscape.

        SFA.

        Go figure.

      • Northcode says:

        “Mainstream Media vs. Alternative Media”

        The distinction between mainstream and alternative media lies in their content, audience, and financial structure.

        Mainstream media, such as major newspapers, TV networks, and radio stations, is often seen as the primary sources of news and information, trusted by the majority.

        The BBC, for instance, is a broadcasting outfit financed and operated by the English state. It is a propaganda and entertainment (entertainment programmes often filled to overflowing with pro-English propaganda) operation.

        The BBC is sold to the public as being representative of the ‘British’ people, but in reality only represents England.

        Most, but not all, Scots have realised that the BBC is not to be trusted as it serves only England whilst pretending to serve the other peoples of the British Isles.

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        @Northy

        I think you’re overlooking the black, Scottish boy who appeared in several episodes of Porridge.

        Educate yourself, Dude!

        BTW. What’s with your sudden conversion to posting in English? Big election due, and you need to conceal the fact that you plus one or two others want to enforce mandatory Scots literacy on the Scottish employment market?

        Actively discriminate in favour of the language of a Scottish minority? Disadvantage the Scottish linguistic majority with your lunatic policies?

        Civil wars have been and will be fought over less contentious ideas.

        Bad, leeing dug, Northy. Nae biscuit!

    • Hatey McHateface says:

      We need a Pict Party.

      That would unite us Scots behind a single aim.

      Completing the extermination of the Picts as we promised in the Declaration of Arbroath.

      There’s far too many broken promises in modern-day Scotland. We Scots don’t keep our word. We spit on our most solemn of oaths, of loyalty, fealty, service and dedication.

      Heck, some of us even boast about our lack of personal honour.

      We’ll never be a nation again until we learn to mean what we say.

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      • Alf Baird says:

        “We’ll never be a nation again until we learn to mean what we say”

        Indeed so, Hatey.

        And, on the very meaning of independence, Scots hiv tae feegure oot that independence and decolonization is not a question of Left or Right, or capitalism versus socialism, rather, it is about:

        “the complete and total overthrow of a racist, colonialist system of oppression that would open the way to imagine a whole new world” (Aime Cesaire).

  31. Sven says:

    North ode @ 11.39.

    “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”
    Exodus 20:7.

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    • James says:

      Quoting your imaginary friend again? Bless.

      Reply
      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Careful how you flap your flippers, James.

        But I guess you never heard of Onan, outside of your library of mags and vids.

    • Northcode says:

      For fuck’s sake, Sven, that pish is from the Old Testament which even God tells me (in a dream) wis only a first attempt draft version and that the New Testament is the one Christians should take seriously.

      You know nothing of God, infidel.

      Reply
      • Alf Baird says:

        “You know nothing of God”

        Indeed, and arguably the missionary aspect of colonialism never needed to know much about God, and still doesn’t, its main function being to keep the natives pacified:

        link to barrheadboy.com

      • Northcode says:

        “Scotland’s colonial ‘condition’ and role of the Kirk”

        This is letter to The Moderator of The Church of Scotland written by Alf Baird.”

        I think I might have praised your letter in a previous post, but there’re no harm in praising it again.

        It’s a braw letter and well worth the read for those who haven’t yet had the opportunity to do so.

        I’m in total agreement with you, Alf. The CoS should be defending Scotland and the Scots… not siding with their oppressor.

      • Alf Baird says:

        Aye Northcode, aw the tricks and deceits o colonialism are in full sway here in the auld colony.

        Oor supposed national kirk should have lang syne been calling for an end to colonial exploitation of Scots, instead it led the non-crowning charade wi anither English imperial monarch at St Giles, the assimilated native clergy effectively giving colonialism its ‘blessing’, much like thon co-opted SNP colonial administrators.

  32. Mark Beggan says:

    This election for me is not about voting for this or that.
    It’s about standing on the right side of history.
    Shalom.

    Reply
    • Young Lochinvar says:

      Beggars

      Aye very good bumpkin.

      Didn’t work out very well for you first time round Adolf -“old boy” eh?

      Reply
  33. lothianlad says:

    Another brilliant analysis Stu! Unlike the pretendy indy supporter called… goes pop.
    The SNP are under direct orders to stiffle Independence until it becomes pointless to the peoples priorities.
    Be under no illusions – The SNP leadership is working FOR the UK.

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  34. Cynicus says:

    “ Be under no illusions – The SNP leadership is working FOR the UK.”
    ==========
    Absolutely.

    Any YOON with half a brain would back the Sturgeon legacy party- the surest buttress of continuing Westminster rule.

    Whoops- shouldn’t have said that!

    #No Votes

    Reply
  35. Northcode says:

    All the posturing and analysing and guesswork (tho we already all know the only winner will be England) surrounding Thursday’s faux competition tae pick yit anither o Scotland’s pointless piss-take-parliaments might be entertaining for those who enjoy such uniquely Scottish fiction, but the reality underpinning all of that barely tolerable make-believe is that Scotland is a colonised, illegally annexed, non-self-governing territory, and is most certainly NOT a democracy.

    In fact, that these peculiar and unnatural elections are allowed at all in Scotland is an insult to the Scots.

    The Scots as a people are at real risk of disappearing from the world unless they confront the rather unsettling reality that currently binds them in servitude to a foreign power.

    A vote for the Alliance to Liberate Scotland (ATLS) is the ONLY vote worth casting on Thursday.

    A vote for the Alliance to Liberate Scotland is the ONLY political action that can be taken right now by indigenous Scots that won’t lead to a wasted ballot.

    And a vote for the Alliance to Liberate Scotland is the ONLY vote that might take the Scots a step closer to their liberation from foreign oppression.

    Make no mistake… a vote for the Alliance to Liberate Scotland IS a vote for independence.

    Vote ATLS… because throwing away your vote in support of anything else is, ultimately, a vote to extinguish the Scots as a people.

    So, don’t be a turkey…

    Make this vote your all-time best,

    Vote for Scotland…

    Vote ATLS.

    (Yeah, I know, but it was the best I could come up with aff the tap o ma heid… I might try for a better slogan later, we’ll see.)

    Reply
    • Hatey McHateface says:

      “a vote to extinguish the Scots as a people”

      I thought you’d be in favour of that, Northy.

      Surely, as a Pict, it’s existential for you. You must extinguish the Scots, before they extinguish you.

      Reply
      • Alf Baird says:

        Scotti/Gaels assimilation of Picts, followed by English assimilation of Scots:

        assimilation aye fails when peoples remain, even ‘the dregs of a rusted culture’ (Fanon) enough to breath life anew.

        Hence a peoples ain culture and language is the first thing a liberated fowk grasp!

        link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

      • Northcode says:

        “assimilation aye fails when peoples remain, even ‘the dregs of a rusted culture’ (Fanon) enough to breath life anew.”

        I like this sentiment, Alf.

        It engenners a speerit o howp e’en whin a fowk’s futur micht leuk its bleckest yit.

  36. agentx says:

    “The SNP was formed in 1934 through the merger of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party, with the Duke of Montrose and Cunninghame Graham as its first joint presidents. Alexander MacEwen was its first chairman.

    The SNP’s first parliamentary success at the Motherwell by-election in 1945, but Robert McIntyre MP lost the seat at the general election three months later.

    The party has had continuous parliamentary representation in Westminster since Winnie Ewing won the 1967 Hamilton by-election.
    ———————————————————

    It took a long time for the SNP to establish itself but we are to believe that the Alliance to Liberate Scotland Party is to make an immediate impact – despite not registering on any poll that I have seen.

    Reply
    • Hatey McHateface says:

      “we are to believe that the Alliance to Liberate Scotland Party is to make an immediate impact”

      FFS, x.

      Why won’t you just BELIEVE???

      We only have 2 more days to stop the Scots as a people from being extinguished.

      JUST BELIEVE!!!

      Reply
      • Young Lochinvar says:

        HMcH @ 5.28

        No. Nobody is saying that, well except you and yer fellow spoilers on here but you don’t count (they don’t let you vote in Remand do they)..

        It’ll start small like they all do, it seems to be universally accepted.

        Except Reform though mind you which has proven a ready home for Conservatives, proto fascists, EDL, BNP, a Bouillabaisse of football Ultras, Brit Gnats, Alf Garnett types and the frothing little Englander mindset types.
        Oh, and you and Fat Wilma of course..

        As the Goodies used to say; “Get it right!!” before getting thumbed by an oversized boxing glove..

      • Captain Caveman says:

        Aww bless YL, you STILL having a meltdown?! 😀

        It’s GREAT living rent free in your head. I’ve been enjoying a pleasant afternoon in our Anglesey holiday home. 🙂

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        Fat Slag Wilma Flintstone @ 6.08

        Hahahaha!

        Bet the Welsh just love you rocking up Colonist style with your thunder-thighs causing tectonic Earth tremors..

        How does it go?

        “Get orf moi land maaaaaaaate!!”

        Twat..

      • James says:

        You and Adrian?

      • Captain Caveman says:

        On the contrary YL. The Welsh are a lovely, friendly and most welcoming people (as indeed are the Scots, present company excepted, natch). Anglesey is a most beautiful island, endless coastal path walks, glorious sea air, untold great pubs and bistros and fresh fish aplenty. Even did a bit of sea fishing for mackerel and pollock last summer with my grandson.

        It’s great to just jump in the Rangey and get going, there in an hour and a half, chilled Moët in the fridge and then admiring that great vista of the sea filling the field of view from the lounge’s French windows, Naim hifi playing chilled jazz in the background. Highly recommended. 🙂

      • Aidan says:

        No James – I have spent the last few days up in Svalbard. Nice to jump off my final plane of the day to see the wailing and nashing of teeth is in full swing as usual.

        I assume you’re banned from your local pub?

        @CC – sounds idyllic, I’ve never actually been to Angelsey in my adult life.
        I did do the difficult scramble up Crib Goch last year, that was a suitable hair raising experience.

      • James says:

        The pair of them are sharing a caravan in Margate….

        One bedroom.

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Here you go, James, have a fish.

        Three days since it was landed. Been in the sun quite a bit.

        Still doesn’t stink as bad as you.

        Good catch!

        Now put that away. And then keep both flippers where we can see them.

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        Fat Slag Wilma Flintstone @ 7.20

        Whit?

        Are you for real?

        Honestly!

        Business not going so well so you’re now trying online lifestyle influencer?

        Well Wilma don’t give up the day job..

        Looking at your lifestyle advert; yes great- no arguments about fishing with your grandson (if actually true) if it wasn’t for your disgusting trolling of others, well me and anglers in general, for fishing and somewhere damn better and for finer catches than you are aiming for.
        Strike one.

        The Welsh like you.
        Hmmmm..
        Really?
        Haven’t they got wise to your lifestyle boasting style of “Oi am conseederably richer than yow!”
        Clearly they are just being hospitable to you blow-ins for the sake of business knowing you’ll feck off soon with wallet a bit lighter.
        Then have a good laugh about you afterwards 🙂
        Strike two.

        You holiday “regularly” your post suggests anywhere other than Reform fixated Engerlund..
        Remember that’s the crowd who you must be about the only candidate they have ever ever knocked-back before putting in place.
        Hmmm..
        Something fishy there.
        See strike one and strike seven (no/one really likes jazz, just pretends)
        Strike three.

        You call others, well me again including old people, an auld glimmer yet you have 2 generations below you..
        Hmmm..
        Do you really remember the nonsense you spout one day from the next?
        Nope.
        Seems not.
        You’re a fake.
        Strike four.

        You come from Swindon and listen to jazz.
        Hahaha ?
        Yeah ok..
        Strike five.

        You’re a holiday home owner in a presumably rural area.

        For one who (self professedly toiled away hour in hour out in the “hard” market of making thin metal ducts for a salutary two weeks before being shown the door, then going to Swindon British rail drawing offices (what drawings exactly do they actually do anymore other than archiving the work of those who came before) to sleep the night shift away and now championing the right of McDonalds workers here..

        Chr1st on a bike!

        What about McDonalds workers in Anglesey priced out of accommodation by part time blow-ins like you?

        Hmmm..

        Another empty soundbite..
        Strike six.

        You listen to jazz while on holiday..
        Wank3r
        Nothing else to be said on that one.
        Strike seven.

        Listen, this isn’t a dating site.

        No-one really gives a flying feck about your lifestyle delusions of grandeur and accompanying p1sh of putting down others even if you do the very same yourself.

        Crazy!

        Heck you don’t have the saving grace of being consistent.
        You’re a fake.

        Away and p1ss aff up yer ane a8se where you clearly dwell troll/ bot..

        Real adults are discussing Scottish – particularly independence/ politics, not playing “social media catfish” like you..

        Posted at midnight, deal with it milk monitors.

      • Captain Caveman says:

        Oh. My. Word…. Who knew that my whole life was a lie, I’m a failed “lifestyle influencer” and I couldn’t possibly enjoy Jazz because (wait for it) I was born in SWINDON! 😀

        YL, there’s really nothing further that I could add to your latest truly demented “wee small hours” Opus Magnus, so I won’t. I’m actually starting to feel sorry for you.

        Let’s just leave it right there, as a self explanatory testament to you. Have a great day. 🙂

      • James says:

        Went sea fishing. For English jobbies.

    • twathater says:

      Oh boy the yoonies are out in force today backed up by the resident 77th brigade fuckwit , keep going hatey you might eventually come up with something to compete with Geri’s ongoing blooteration of yir comments

      But but but we’re no worried about ATLS or ISP they’re no even registering on mainstream media, maybe that is because all the PRESSTITUTES have been told to ignore them
      Still you yoonies stink of sweaty panic

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        You got it in one, Twat H.

        Scotland will be Independent by this time next week.

        Dinna forget tae stay sober enough for just lang enough to come on here and say “told you so”.

        I’m guessing you’ll be looking forwards to coining it in on the benefits in your twilight years.

        Still though, you’ll have also had the confidence of your convictions and laid off some humongous bets at the odds currently on offer at the bookies.

        Man, I sure hope you won’t go all posh and superior on us with your astonishing new wealth. Dinna forget your auld pals on Wings BTL noo.

        Aye, Twat H. Geri has blootered all comers the day. Petulance put doons in a class all of her ain.

        Or did you nae notice? Be honest, noo!

      • Geri says:

        Shiteface,

        Indy is already in the bag. It has been since September 19th 2014.

        “Scottish” Tories put a neverending *pinned* poll on their twitter account at the time. Vote for us to save the Union, or some such pish…

        It was pinned for ages. Those polls are never accurate but the comments ARE & there were THOUSANDS of them.

        *People who voted NO recalled how they instantly regretted it. It felt wrong the instant they done it. They’d be YES next time.
        *People who voted NO by post also instantly regretted it. They voted way too early.
        *People were fucking furious at Cameron’s acceptance speech – “Thanks, mugs. Yer now back of the queue behind EVEL & we don’t love you”.
        *People were furious that there was no Devo Max. ‘Near federalism’
        *Smith Commission – Whit?! Fucking road signs?! Is that it?! Are yea taking the piss?
        *People were gutted Alex stepped down. He really was the best thing that happened to Holyrood & to a better Scotland.
        *People were furious the way the English were treating the prospect of 59 Scottish MPs in *their* very English parliament. Hoards of uncouth Scots were coming. Especially Alex Salmond who was heading back there much to Soubrys horror.

        GE2015 the whole map was YELLOW. Funny that eh? After such a comfortable NO. Not dodgy as..no Siree!

        Then the 120+ amendments to the Scotland Bill
        every.single.one.of.them.was.voted.down.

        The twats in Westminster conducted a poll of their own. The (fucking) State of the Union. They refused to release the results. It was “a matter of national security”. In other words, they didn’t like the response. Give the Scots cricket on telly they said – that’ll make them forget all about Indy & feel ‘included’..Zzzz.

        Then Brexshit.
        Then Mayhem.
        Then Blow hard.
        Then Truss.
        Then Sunak.
        Then Starmer.

        Now Frog face…

        Indy won’t be next week but it is coming. They know it will be a YES – that’s why they’ve refused to hold one but they can’t continue it much longer without looking really fucking stupid internationally. Off fighting wars for “democracy” whilst not allowing it at home isn’t a good look. It’s always been over 50% YES & they know that too & that’d only be the starting point before any campaign even got underway.

        Young people aren’t stupid either. There’s absolutely no benefit for them remaining in the Union. Their outlook is bleak & will only get a lot worse. They’ll own nothing & eat shit.

        So mock all you like, chump. The vehicle may be knackered but people’s attitudes towards this Union haven’t. There’ll be another party along soon because in twelve years I’ve never met a Yes to No. I have met plenty Yessers tho who stopped voting for SNP altogether from 2017 onwards when Sturgeon shat it over Brexshit & tried to reverse her own mandate. So don’t count poor SNP election results as any type of measure either.

        The SNP isn’t the Yes movement. Independence is for everyone. Many Labour voters would vote Indy, Tories & Lie Dumbs too & those who don’t vote at all cause it’s all shite on offer..

        One poll showed that the Green membership weren’t that fussed on indy tho. There’s a shocker, not. But something Indy support should be aware of come Thursday.

  37. agentx says:

    I see Swinney has been using a great big SNP battle coach for campaigning. It makes you wonder why a Motorhome would ever be used as a battle bus?

    Reply
    • Hatey McHateface says:

      Please don’t tell us it’s an electric one made in China.

      Then again, how could it be a diesel one when it’s Swinney’s government that intends to drive us to Nutt Zero ahead of the rest of the UK, and has, as a result, shut down our last refinery at Grangemouth?

      Could it be, irony of ironies, a bus from Scotland’s last bus manufacturer – the one that has just announced it’s going out of business?

      Man, Swinney would have looked less stupid touting for votes on a tandem.

      Reply
      • Mark Beggan says:

        Made in China with coal,oil and child slave labour.

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        Beggars

        You forgot to mention snails and puppy dogs tails.

        Whereas of course the ones made in the west are made from sugar and spice and all things nice?

  38. Young Lochinvar says:

    Let’s start a poll.

    Who looks more like Max Hermann, the father of the vampires in the classic Lost Boys film?

    Option 1. Russell Findlay, Scotch Conservative & Unionist Member

    Option 2. Malcolm Offord, of Reform and Offord properties conglomerate unlimited.

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  39. Ali says:

    If Indy preference is at 55% that was done with Swinney in charge. I’m not waking up to gloating unionists saying Indy is over, so it’s Green or SNP. If Indy is your #1 priority, and you vote against that because of gender wars or immigration, then congrats to the MM – job done.

    Reply
    • Bilbo says:

      Convince me that the SNP and the Greens are going to deliver independence in the next Holyrood term and I’ll vote for them on Thursday.

      You can’t, can you?

      Reply
      • Hatey McHateface says:

        But. But.

        The Union is a hoax! A never was! A myth!

        Scotland is already independent!

        Haven’t you learned anything in your time reading on here?

      • 100%Yes says:

        I see Ali hasn’t returned your call. I’ll answer for him, their not and never will the SNP & Greens have failed but will they admit it naw.

      • Bibo says:

        @ 100%Yes

        Ali won’t be back.

        You can tell he is totally indoctrinated and lacking in critical thinking if he thinks indy preference being at 55% is solely due to Swinney. The devil could be in charge of Holyrood and indy preference will still be at the same level.

        Given that he mentioned gender wars and immigration, there is no doubt he is young SNP, probably only strategy he can think of for winning an independence referendum is to wait until the old people die.

        It is beyond his comprehension that people become more conservative in outlook as they grow older so that argument will never work regardless of demographic changes.

        No point in arguing as you’ll be talking to a brick wall. The Ali’s of the world will soon grow tired of indy and move onto the next big political movement that becomes popular.

    • Mark Beggan says:

      Indy is finished before the vote begins.
      Gloating is for fools.

      Reply
  40. Sven says:

    Mark Beggan @ 19.18

    “Indy is finished before the vote begins.”

    To be is to do, Mark.
    The practise is the realisation, not a means to it.
    “James Che” is correct, each one is free and independent when he/she realises it. At that time it is achieved. When sufficient Scots (plus one self proclaimed Pict) believe and live that we are independent.

    Reply
    • Hatey McHateface says:

      “each one is free and independent when he/she realises it”

      Let me start a wee list:

      1) Destroy your UK passport. Refuse to present it when traveling abroad.
      2) Destroy your UK driving license. Refuse to present it for any purpose.
      3) Write on all HMRC letters received – “Independent – return to sender”.
      4) Occupy your employer’s office premises until you are paid gross – no UK taxes deducted.
      5) In shops, refuse to pay the VAT component of all purchases.
      6) In public, obey only those laws arising from Scots Law.
      7) Re 6 above, resist arrest with full force unless breaking Scots Law.

      I’m sure there must be more. But these are enough for me to believe and live for now.

      I did have another:

      8) Spurn all UK benefits and pensions.

      But I felt that was possibly taking things too far.

      Reply
      • Doug says:

        James Connolly joined the British army. Michael Collins [and other republicans] worked for the GPO in London. Sir Roger Casement, Companion in the British Order of St Michael and St George! no less. It can be done.

      • Mark Beggan says:

        They aint gettin off that easy. They still have to pay their share of the slave reparations and give back the Falklands.

    • Mark Beggan says:

      Socrates said; To do is to be.
      Plato said; To be is to do
      and.
      Frank Sinatra said; Do Be Do Be Do Be!
      This Realization thing? Does it involve dancing around grave yards naked at midnight?

      Reply
      • Sven says:

        Mark Beggan @ 21.11.

        Well, definitely not with me, Mark (for which small grace I’m sure you are duly grateful).
        And, I wouldn’t advise “Dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight” either.

  41. agentx says:

    I predict that SNP and Reform UK Ltd will not perform as well as the polls predict.

    Reply
  42. Doug says:

    As long as Swinney remains leader of the SNP there will be no progress on independence. Vote [or don’t vote] accordingly.

    His replacement? Surely there must be one SNP politician who actually wants Scotland to regain its independence and is willing to put everything on the line to achieve it.

    Reply
    • Cynicus says:

      “Surely there must be one SNP politician who actually wants Scotland to regain its independence and is willing to put everything on the line to achieve it“
      ========

      There WAS one. His name was Alex Salmond and he took us to within touching distance of independence.

      Then the SNP destroyed him.

      #No Votes SNP

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      • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:

        The Italian political philosopher GIORGIO AGAMBEN (1942-) addresses the contentious issue of the State’s exercise of emergency powers, whether over society at large or over an individual. Agamben designates the latter hapless human as being “homo sacer” — difficult to translate, but denoting a person reduced to a Kafkaesque existence as “outlaw”, indeed as “outwith the protection of law”, and who as such can be attacked with impunity.

        Agamben observes that a Head of State (“Sovereign”) who declares such a state of emergency suspending normal laws, thereby intriguingly places themself also above and outwith the law, in a sense which ironically echoes the status of the State-targeted individual. Both despot and victim now move beyond the reach of law.

        Nasrullah Mambrol (2018) writes:

        “Agamben invokes the old German term ‘ban’ to describe this situation. He who is banned by the law is not simply set outside the law, but is ‘abandoned’ by it, that is, exposed and threatened on the threshold in which life and law, outside and inside, become indistinguishable. It is literally not possible to say whether the one who has been banned is outside or inside the juridical order.”

  43. Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:

    RÓISÍN MURPHY: ‘FRIENDSHIPS COLLAPSED OVER PUBERTY BLOCKER CRITICISM’

    (Republic of Ireland)

    Singer Róisín Murphy has spoken out for the first time about how her world grew “very dark” after being cancelled for criticising puberty blockers.

    Speaking at the launch of ‘The New Boycott Crisis’ report, which highlights how gender-critical artists have been viewed as “ipso facto transphobic”, Murphy explained how the “noisy minority” perpetuates cancel culture.

    In 2023, she called puberty blockers “absolutely desolate”, posting on social media that “mixed-up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that’s just true” and “don’t call me a terf, please don’t keep using that word against women”. Since then, prescribing puberty-blocking drugs to children has been banned in Ireland.

    ‘HYPOCRISY’

    The 52-year-old stated: “Being cancelled is hard.” She explained: “Everyone and anyone who is ever going to disappoint you does so all at once. Networks of interwoven friendship and career that took years to grow collapse overnight.

    “All the hypocrisy, frailty and hidden disloyalty gets exposed at once. It’s bewildering and it’s a bitter pill.”

    Murphy added: “Meanwhile, a noisy minority, often very confused young people caught in cycles of pornography and niche online communities, have made themselves the social media enforcers.

    “Small groups with multiple accounts can trigger the cancellation of events and whole careers.”

    ‘FIRE AND BRIMSTONE’

    During the social media backlash over her 2023 comments, Radio 6 Music decided not to broadcast five hours of her content as part of its 6 Music Artist Collection.

    But although the row caused two of her concerts to be cancelled, with her record company pulling publicity, her ‘Hit Parade’ album became her first UK top ten.

    (The Christian Institute, 5 May 2026)

    link to christian.org.uk

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  44. Mark Beggan says:

    So it’s the Beast cage for Linden. Only took ten years for justice to be served.

    Reply
  45. Confused says:

    the trouble with -cunts- being the devils own, is they never seem to go away; a bit of decent weather, most folks will “take the day off”, but when you work for beelzebub, every day is a work day. In fact, its worse than this – for reasons, elections, worldwide turmoil – they all seem to be “on one” right now, giving it large; the forces of light thus need to pushback, arriving at dawn, from the east …

    FARAGE wants to deregulate, to create a booming economy …

    deregulation has preceded all major financial crashes …

    the rules brought in after 2008 were, in fact, sidestepped by a lot of people creating their own “private stock markets” which are UNREGULATED – and so what is the fear right now … contagion … the private markets leak into the public ones, and serious people are -really- worried all this dodgy private debt will spillover, like an overfilled septic tank

    link to archive.ph

    – this is the double whammy lurking in the background during a time when a blackmailed madman is destroying world trade, sending energy prices sky high, all because the mossad have the polaroids on him

    This is what gets me about all the little englander gammon necked fuckwits who say Oor Nige – ‘eell sort it all aht – make britain (england!) “great” again, send the nig nogs back to bongo bongo land, get the cuntry werrking … nah ..

    none of the above; Farage does not even hide it, just read his speeches, he tells you what the plan is – more LEGAL migrants, a haven for tax dodgers and funny money, a feeding frenzy for bankers and a thatcherite slave plantation for the rest of you

    – I would laff and say : serves the english right, but … we’re kinda siamese twinned to the fuckwitts and as they go down we do too, and likely they will drown us first

    remember when Farage crashes the economy worse than anyone in history, you will be on the hook to pay for it all via “austerity” – which means : public services will be gutted

    BUT SOUTHERN HOUSE PRICES WILL SOAR (until they fall beneath the waves)

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  46. Confused says:

    while its established TONY BLAIR is a cunt, a spawn of satan, who drove the nail into the coffin of labour, who expunged any notion of “labour” being about “the workers”

    – then there was the fucking iraq war … for a man who will be dead quite soon (hopefully) you would think he wants some kind of a “legacy”, er a “strong leader who did the hard decisions needed blah blah” … then he goes and says : FUCK U CUNTZ

    link to archive.ph

    – now he wants all the droogs to work another 5 years

    he was a mossad stooge from way back, an agent of a foreign fucking power, which is I think, still treason, and his “tennis partner” lord levy gave him instructions, and after politics he works for the qatari royal family, he is a fucking crook, a toom tabard, and rolling in it, but still wants folks post 70 clocking in.

    a little snippet you might not know : post PM, blair wanted to be PRESIDENT OF EUROPE – but the euros said nein-non, and he was ragin’

    I reckon within a few years at 65 we all get to “spin the wheel of fortune” with prizes on the wheel including “full state pension” or “pension credit” but also including “work till you drop”. “we’re taking your house to pay for social care” and, of course, “assisted dying”

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    • Geri says:

      “he was a mossad stooge from way back, an agent of a foreign fucking power, which is I think, still treason,”

      The first thing he did on gaining power was to amend the laws on treason so no elected member of parliament could be prosecuted for working on behalf of a foreign power/ not acting in Britain’s best interests.

      & They’ve all raked it in since. Parasites.

      As far as I’m aware, those great patriotic aresholes known as the toxic Tories, have never reversed it, they enjoy feeding at the trough too & they do love those lovely all expenses paid jollies.

      I think Mayhem did try to warn ppl when she sacked Priti Patel for going on an unauthorised trip but that quickly amounted to nothing. Obviously she was told to get back in her box & to shut it.

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  47. Confused says:

    link to youtube.com

    that is funny, but this next is hilarious, metal-guru polishes his brassneck and puts it on display

    link to archive.ph

    – he should fucking KNOW what an insolvent company is; NB most rangers fans who are old enough blame him and him alone for what happened to 1872 Rangers, for Craig Whyte was just a “patsy”. The rangers revolution of that era was founded on “soft loans”, i.e. you have a benefactor and he “loans” you money, but he is like your favourite uncle and he is NEVER going to ask you for the money back. Even then the financial juicing wasn’t enough for Celtic brought in an actual businessman, Fergus McCann, to run the club (saved it and laid the foundations for all after, the current “regime” I would not rate) – so the old gers had to start finding ways to juice the wages … someone came up with a scheme so players are no longer employees – the team buys “football services” from some network of companies owned by a charity, of which the players are directors (something like that) – and it’s all just a massive scam, but you know what – the fucking taxman is a dog, and he never lets go.

    Having MURRAY lecture anyone on business – he would be as well advising Usain Bolt on running technique.

    – there must be a guid Scots word for “chutzpah” (unbelievable brass-neck)

    For a current example of “soft loan” consider the 90B euros from the EU to the borderlands (which orban blocked and which eventually cost him power) – this is NEVER GETTING PAID BACK, for it is ending up in a lot of foreign bank accounts, I doubt it will buy one drone for the mugs on the frontline. A payoff to the zlnsky gangster clan.

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      I kind of skimmed your steaming piles, Confused, but glad I stuck it out to the end.

      Great news about the 90B Euros.

      And that presents a most pertinent point. Into the 5th year of the war now, and “Scotland’s Finest Indy Supporters”, as represented by yourself and the rest of the Usual Suspects, are still firmly on the side of the imperialist, colonialist aggressor.

      And still dead set on the destruction of the independent nation, culture and people.

      For that reason, and for that reason alone, you are all doomed to another 5 years of wailing, weeping and gnashing of teeth on here. 5 more years of moon howling, denial, purity spirals, antisemitism, conspiracy lunacy, “it wisnae us” pish and “they’re all agin us” shite.

      Who says karma doesn’t exist, eh?

      Karma is bigly beautiful, and has the likes of you firmly in her sights, and I’m gonna enjoy the next 5 years immensely.

      “mugs on the frontline”

      Your unconcealed contempt for real freedom fighters from behind your keyboard damns you beyond redemption.

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    • Geri says:

      Yes, that 90 billion is already earmarked to Zs inner friends & one who has a factory. €1 billions to the factory, €89 billion to the Nazi clan. The one that hooked it to Issy to avoid corruption charges wants his cut too & Zs wife is building her 4th luxury mansion.

      They’re also raking it in with the white ticket bullshit. Stump up 37k or it’s intae the back of the van & ontae the front line.

      But, you know, at least they’re not making their womenfolk wear headscarves – so that’s something I guess.

      He’s still Unelected too, right?

      It must be torture being a Britnat. So much hypocrisy overload whilst their illustrious leaders work for foreign interests. It’s a racket.

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  48. Confused says:

    it’s rude to mock someone for their looks, even if unfortunate

    link to archive.ph

    sometimes you wish the sons of satan, enemies of the entire human race, economic parasites who spent 20 centuries trying to destroy the west i.e. “christendom” – would just take the fucking day off, but evil never sleeps

    link to xymphora.blogspot.com

    and just to be fair-minded, this other lot of arseholes –

    link to archive.ph

    harum, scarum and yet – a bit weak on the details – “sickening” abuse :

    “No foreigners in our public office”

    – I would consider that to be axiomatic for any country with an ounce of self respect; and certainly no english person should hold an important public position in Scotland – throw them out, one way ticket to Carlisle – they do not work for us, they only have allegiance to a hostile alien occupying power. Maybe the idea will catch on and lowe – who is out faraging the farage – will seek to deport “nigerian agents” back to their homelands – Kemi, of Badenoch, I can see her fair features playing Catriona, in Kidnapped (the hollywood remake)

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    • Mark Beggan says:

      I take when you come to visit people hide the spoons.

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      • Young Lochinvar says:

        Beggars

        Aye very good bumpkin..

        An issue that grips you?
        Talking from experience Adolf?

        To hear a Unionist bleating about stealing others property!

        Classic, you just couldn’t make it up 🙂

    • Geri says:

      No foreigners..

      I’d agree with that too. They’ve been nothing but bad news at Holyrood. I’d also extend that to include top positions in Universities.

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  49. KOF says:

    By wilful cooperation, or just plain ignorance, all those who serve political parties serve the plans of Satan. It does not matter who one votes for, all are the same. They all hate us and want us dead in our sins. They ALL hate Jesus. “What about the Family Party?”, I hear some say. “They’re a Christian political party!” No, no they’re not. They are as much fools as anyone else. They do not believe in the word of God, for if they did they’d remember these verses.

    Psalm 118:8 It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

    Jerimiah 17:5 “Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.”

    They’d also remember what Jesus himself said in Matthew 16:28 “Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

    Also remember what is said in the Book of Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

    Either one thinks there are 2000 year old Apostles and Roman legionaire walking this Earth, or one is saying that Jesus lied. Jesus does not lie. He came back already, the Millenial Reign has happened and we are now living in Satan’s Littl Season.

    Revelation 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

    Revelation 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

    Are we not all deceived in this world?

    On a final note, where does the origin of the word “vote” come from? It comes from the Latin word “Votum”. Look it up for yourself.

    If you profess to believe in Jesus, then believe in him, believe what he says and trust in him. If you don’t beleive in him, then repent (Which just means to change one’s mind) and do beleive in him. Jesus is your only hope and always was.

    1 Timothy 2:5 – 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

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    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:

      It was in a German PoW camp during WW2 that Dutch naval officer HANS ROOKMAAKER read the Bible and got converted. It was there also that he first read the work of highly esteemed philosopher and fellow Dutchman HERMAN DOOYEWEERD, who deeply influenced his thinking and consequently his academic career after the war.

      Dooyeweerd wrote:

      “God’s common grace reveals itself not only in the upholding of His creation ordinances but also in the individual gifts and talents given by God to specific people. Great statesmen, thinkers, artists, inventors, etc. can be of relative blessing to humankind in temporal life, even if the direction of their lives is ruled by the spirit of apostasy. In this too one sees how blessing is mixed with curse, light with darkness.” (Herman Dooyeweerd, ‘Roots of Western Culture’)

      Hans Rookmaaker became Professor of History of Art at the Free University of Amsterdam, where Dooyeweerd was Professor of Philosophy of Law. Rookmaaker wrote extensively on Art, being perhaps most well-known for his seminal book ‘Modern Art and the Death of a Culture’. He was also an authority on Blues music.

      I had the privilege of chauffeuring Hans Rookmaaker around a deeply snowy Scotland on a university art lecture tour in the early 1970s, though I was too young and introvert to ask the questions I would love to ply him with now. Sadly he died unexpectedly in 1977, aged only 55.

      One thing I vividly remember Hans Rookmaaker saying is that if Christians opt out of involvement within society, then they can hardly complain if their children or grandchildren end up in concentration camps…

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      • KOF says:

        Colossian 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

        Proverbs 3:5 Pro 3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 

      • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:

        With respect, you must ponder deeper. It is not philosophy as such which we are warned to be wary of, but philosophy which is rooted in humanism. Dooyeweerd writes of his own philosophy thus:

        « Our philosophy makes bold to accept the “stumbling block of the cross of Christ” as the corner stone of epistemology (cf. 1 Corinthians 1-23). And thus it also accepts the cross of scandal, neglect and dogmatic rejection. In the limitation and weakness of the flesh, we grasp the absolute truth in our knowledge of God derived from His revelation, in prayer and worship. »

        See more at length here:

        link to mouseglass.blogspot.com

      • KOF says:

        With respect, this is Satan’s Little Season and you are a fool for listening to men. Belieive in Jesus and trust in God.

        Psalm 118:8 It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man

  50. Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:

    REPORT: ‘SCHOOLS STILL HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY GENDER IDEOLOGY’

    (England & Wales)

    Child safety and wellbeing continues to be compromised in schools by transgender ideology, a new study has revealed.

    An investigation by Policy Exchange found that some secondary schools are still “heavily influenced by gender ideology” and failing gender-confused children and their peers.

    The think tank’s report ‘Still Asleep at the Wheel’ is based on 173 responses to Freedom of Information requests sent to a random selection of secondary schools. It is a follow-up to a similar investigation carried out by Policy Exchange in 2023.

    EVIDENCE

    While noting an improvement between the two studies, researchers reported that, of schools that responded, only 43 per cent reliably inform parents “when a child discloses feelings of gender distress” — up from 28 per cent in 2023.

    They also observed that 30 per cent of schools still had no single-sex toilets, and that 27 per cent made no-provision for single-sex changing rooms — although these figures are improvements from 2023, when 60 per cent of schools had no single-sex toilets, and 49 per cent lacked adequate changing facilities.

    Information received from schools indicated that almost a quarter continue to “require other children to adopt a transitioning child’s new name and pronouns”.  Again, however, this is scaled back significantly on the 69 per cent of schools reporting a similar policy in 2023.

    WELFARE FAILINGS

    In her foreword to the report, former Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Falkner of Margravine noted that, “despite some improvements, too many schools continue to implement policies that place ideology over evidence”.

    She added: “This is simply not acceptable in a system responsible for the welfare of children.”

    The authors of the report, Policy Exchange Director of Research Iain Mansfield and Spectator Commissioning Editor Lara Brown, called on the Government to publish the equality watchdog’s finalised Code of Practice on single-sex spaces.

    Its absence, they argued, “has prolonged uncertainty in how schools interpret their legal obligations. Its publication is essential to restoring coherence”.

    They also recommended that ‘Keeping children safe in education’ draft guidance should be amended, reinstating an explicit “watchful waiting approach” to social transition in school and requiring “explicit parental consent for any substantive intervention”.

    (The Christian Institute, 6 May 2026)

    link to christian.org.uk

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