Wings Over Scotland

A wonderful , apposite image , thanks Chris!

Stumped.

They’re a bunch of damp squibs right enough Chris.

The NuGreens should change their name to the Browns coz pretty much everything they touch turns to shite.

Wasting millions on DRS when we already have pretty decent recycling facilities.
They could have just run an informative nationwide campaign that motivated more folk to properly use the existing waste systems we have in place.
My local recycling centre which was great for years has due to funding cuts started to close for a couple of days a week and shorter hours on the open days.
They’ve also removed bottle bank, waste paper & books container, and altered the other waste collection receptacles too.
These changes have added up to the site being much busier when it is open (I’ve queued for 20 minutes the last two times I visited) and it’s clear from looking in the skips that folk are now so frustrated with waiting and the site being so busy making parking at correct unloading point difficult, that they just lob everything into the general waste skip so way more waste is going unprocessed.

The local authority used to have to pay for all the unprocessed general waste going to landfill, but I don’t know if that is still the case as the new energy generation from waste incinerators are coming online and they will benefit with improved calorific value fuelstock if wood, plastics, and other combustibles are left in the general waste they receive.
Be interesting to look closely at the various payments and subsidies around the management of our waste…
The potential energy contained in waste has an inherent value, and if there was proper management of our waste processes that could help fund the running of the recycling centres.

Where/when did they find the bottle?

Dan,

I would recycle all the Scottish political parties in Holyrood and hopefully when completed the final exit point Would be returned to Westminster.

Just how impecunious are the SNP finances?
Membership subs. are down and the headline figure may be inflated by dodgy revenue streams wee Peter had to keep off the books. Agent Foote can’t afford to play fast-and-loose with tactics such as auctioning off Parliamentary selection procedures now that the Polis are on the case.
Donations have dried up.
The all important £1.3m pa in Short money the Party receives from the British State is about to take a serious hit.
If the imminent election has the SNP reduced to c. 30% of the vote and 20 MPs, the Short money should drop to around £430k. I don’t buy predictions that have the Party dropping to single digit seats (for a variety of reasons I won’t elucidate here).
In addition, Jackson’s Entry apparently extract a tithe from MPs. That would see a further £250k reduction in revenue.
The second element of the Short money calculation (£43 / 200 votes) is dubious. This GE will almost certainly see historically unprecedented low turnout. Therefore, Short money should reduce. In practice, the algorithm will be reconfigured to avoid punishing the mainstream parties. Having the populace disengage with the democratic process is advantageous to the Permanent State, and they’ve never been known to be parsimonious with other peoples money.
Short money is the bait for the dependency trap.

TO THE PURE all things are pure, or a bit of what you fancy.

link to archive.ph

Suppose it relieved the tedium of Lewisian life.

What’s Gaelic for «catfishing» ?

Catfishing in Scotland might be called Sturgeoning which brings us back to Military Intelligence 5/6, which casts a good line in the sport.

Brilliant Chris.

I really hope it all blows up in their faces as the piccy depicts, they deserve to be removed from office.

Meanwhile Sarah Saylers has an excellent article that MUST be read by all.

A snippet.

“Suppose that Scotland’s right to self-determination depended on breaking the hold of a similarly solid and even more well-established wall of expert opinion? But not merely a wall of credible opinion, an impregnable fortress of propaganda-as-truth from which the message goes out that Scotland is the beneficiary of a fair and honourable Union, in a partnership we agreed to. This is the narrative of the union as voluntary partnership – ‘the Official Narrative’.

The strength of the Official Narrative is twofold. First, is its apparent foundation on historical and legal ‘fact’. Second, its building blocks are enormous – parliamentary statutes, official commentaries, legal opinions, court rulings, articles by historians and jurists and, most of all, the unquestioning public acceptance of the Official Narrative.

There is one weakness in the edifice, however; the entire foundation, the historical and legal fact that supports it, is a fiction. Most importantly, it is a fiction that disguises a crime, something classed in international law as ‘the wrongful act of a state’. And this is not merely a wrongful act committed 300 years ago but a crime that is being committed at this very moment and whose exposure has the potential to demolish the foundations of the UK state. ”

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

The Sun rises and the birds sing and the world keeps on spinning – and Chris Cairns sums the whole of the SNP’s campaign in a single image.

I doubt Swinney and his capering gang of compromised clowns care the SNP is to be sacrificed on the cheap plastic altar of what passes for democracy in Scotland.

The SNP’s mission is complete and there’s nothing left for it to do but twiddle its thumbs while it waits for the day of its execution on the guillotine of the polling stations.

The SNP leadership has served its master well and is now to be pensioned off – put out to pleasant pasture and safely penned in some quiet corner of some quiet English field.

There was someone on my telly the other day asking if anyone else noticed the woeful decline in politicians with any sense over the last decade or so. Not just here but throughout Europe & especially the US – each seeing who could go off the cliff first & take all the other lamas with them. Not a single one shouting ‘Stop! Hang on a minute guys. Let’s think longer intae the future than just five minutes’ They’re like programmed drones set to self destruct.

The Greens have wasted copious amounts of money on taking a good policy & just jumping straight to the end part & ignored completely all the incremental stages needed beforehand that makes things work at the end & all the LGBTQ+++ bullshit too that the vast majority reject. & Fishing & court battles & Juryless trials & self ID. SNP was no different under Sturgeon & she made damn sure we all went along for the ride with the Bute House Bull.

If only she’d charged a quid for all those useless book reviews & selfies over the yrs. SNP would be quids in.

Republicofscotland.

The old English parliaments act The bill of rights converted the personal shared crown of Scotland and England to a line of succession to the Crown of England,
That the monarch of England took the Scottish Oath in England ? is up for debate as the only witnesses to it were England politicians and Scottish political unionists who wanted to join with England,

Any lie can be made and recorded upon that basis,
She certainly never took the Scottish Oath during her actual coronation in Westminster Abbey in 1702.
And never came to Scotland to coronated.Queen of Scots, she was to busy with the wars of England,

But if Scottish unionist in the parliament of Scotland that went to England say they witnessed it, it must be true, aye,

@James Che said:

“the agreement to have the same succession to the monarchy line blew up when they dissolved the agreement with the Scottish parliament.by putting the Scotlands Agreement under Dissolution”

I am not sure that I follow your reasoning for this bit James.

How is it that the agreement to have the same succession to the monarchy line was disrupted by the Dissolution of the Scotts parliament?
They would argue that the agreement remained, irrespective, or do you mean just that effectively the agreement now had ‘lost’ one of its parties and thus was now between ‘someone’ and ‘no-one’?

Christine Graham summed it up during indyref.

The Scottish ppl are sovereign & no one could dissolve that cause they’d hee-haw authority to do so.

Which brings us right back round to the franchise stupidity on who can dissolve Scots Sovereignty.

Every eejit fresh aff the bus tae Scotland, apparently.

Umm a pope is elected LOL Unlike monarchs.

Scots had popular Sovereignty. They chose & instructed the monarch. Not the other way around & that’s why the Union was never compatible cause the English & its monarch believe in divine right.

To get over this they coined the phrase ‘here by consent’ even though we’ve never actually been asked in a vote.

dasBlimp

Then why do you still have one?

All that embarrassing pomp & ceremony with grown men dressed up like eejits. It sure still draws all the crowds with their wee plastic flags & sandwiches shit scared they’ll not get a good view so voluntarily make themselves homeless fir 72 hours to see the back of someone’s napper. LMAO!

Aye, nobody wants them eh? Mention a republic & yer a terrorist…

I know this is a hotly contested view, but I am with those who say a Unionist victory in both the GE and Holyrood 2026 could be the best outcome for the independence movement in the longer term. Not only will it clear out the pension grifters and careerist chancers, but the impending sycophancy of Unionists proclaiming the final defeat of the independence movement will be so nauseating, it might just jolt enough people into action.

If it doesn’t however, then we would have to question whether Scotland really deserves to be independent, or whether it deserves all it gets from a future Unionist return to power.

Good comments today, people, as for the cartoon, there’s something about the Kate character’s posture that is bang on… I can’t put my finger on it but it’s impressive how Chris has picked up on that.

Vivian, I agree with almost all you said above as usual, but I’m not sure the turnout will be as historically low as you suggest. I sense that people everywhere are sick to death of the Tories and now that they know the SNP offer nothing I expect many will hold noses and vote Labour.

As it stands right now, it’s probably a reasonably safe bet that the SNP will be reduced to about 15 to 20 seats. That’s what the polls suggest. But with around 4 weeks to go, there’s plenty of time for disasters. That is to say, there’s plenty of time for more of Nicola’s chickens to come home to roost. And I think more will.

Re: Alf Baird
1 June, 2024 at 1:46 pm

Sadly, I’m old enough to remember when Scottish senior civil servants were a) Scottish, b) ruthlessly contemptuous of their Whitehall colleagues and Ministers, and c) (in retrospect, the most important) Agile, able to DO THINGS, without turning everything into a bin fire of consultation documents.

And they could still do two hour lunches.

Redacted @ 2:24 pm

“Sadly, I’m old enough to remember when Scottish senior civil servants were a) Scottish”

Aye, in the 1960s/70s there was still a Scottish establishment, albeit heavily Anglicised, that retained at least some knowledge of Scots and our culture and desire to see the nation do some things well, or as best they could, despite real decision making still remaining outwith the country.

Today we have a very different ‘cultural division of labour’ across all sectors and hence an imposed cultural hegemony with little understanding of Scots or our culture. Which perhaps helps explain why most government policies usually end in crises for us; they are neither made by us nor are they intended for our benefit.

Drunk, loutish, racist, uncouth….the English as seen via the London Daily Mail.
Things can only get worse.

Willie John

I couldn’t get your link to work.

I have also been having problems with archive.ph links recently but it worked this time

Talks over multi-million pound Scots ferry-building revolution

link to archive.ph

Why didn’t Alf archive the link?

Does he think we subscribe to the Herald?

O/T: 2 new independent candidates:

David Henry in Edinburgh West standing as an I4I. David was one of the Good Guys in the attempt to reform SNP from within. He went to school in Edinburgh West so is a true local rep. Current MP is the “charming” Christine Jardine LibDem.

Peter Ashby in Dundee Central, for ISP. There’s an Alba candidate standing there too.

Ruby Tuesday @ 9:02 pm

“Does he think we subscribe to the Herald?”

Neither do I subscribe to any rotten colonial rag. The headline is all that’s worth reading anyway, and some of the 65+ comments of course:

link to heraldscotland.com

“SNP Ministers have been accused of “negligence” after it emerged Holyrood would hand back £450million to the European Union after failing to spend the cash on key economic and anti-poverty projects…

Scotland will likely return 28 per cent of the cash allocated from Brussels’ structural and investment funding over the past six years.”

WHAT THE FUCK?!!!

Make Poverty History.

The Child Payment. 100,000 children out of poverty.

They are full of fucking shite.

£450 million to be send back to their beloved EU. These people are the scum of the earth. Tear up the SNP leaflets.

Do they want us to start a protest to have Sturgeon arrested?

#Arrest Sturgeon

#Sturgeon lied

DNACPR for the SNP.

Opinium, Westminster voting intention, Scottish sub-sample, field work 29 – 31 May, population 138 (change from 2019).
Con 19% seats 5 (-1)
Lab 39% seats 38 (+37)
LibDem 3% seats 2 (=)
SNP 32% seats 12 (-36)

For avoidance of doubt, I put very little faith in full scale polls (let alone sub-samples). Yes, the polling companies attempt to include likelihood to vote in their headline figures but I stand by my contention that 4th July will see unprecedented low turnout. In these circumstances the confidence rating in their figures must deteriorate as we enter uncharted territory. In calculating projected results, the companies must ultimately place a respondents answer into a binary format, either they will vote or they won’t. I suspect a great many of us are entirely underwhelmed by the prospect of voting and fall into a third, unquantifiable category of mibbes aye mibbes naw.

It’s good that Hatuey reminds us what this election is really all about – the other ‘C’ word – Covid.

The greatest catastrophe to strike us (and the rest of the developed world) since WW2. Conveniently ignored by just about everybody as if it never happened. Fascinating to observe the complete lack of interest in what happened in poorer countries with no NHS, no vaccines, no masks, no social distancing, no government hand-outs to keep you in your wee flat for 2 years. Do people think they all died?

After WW1, we as a society all agreed we would never sacrifice the younger generation to protect the older again. Yet when Covid came along, that’s exactly what we did.

All those young people whose prospects, education, and social development was irreparably harmed. Forced to take experimental medications for an illness that presented a negligible risk to them, so that the older owners of the wealth and assets could wring out another few years of exploitation.

Leaving the majority of us poorer and many of us stricken with untreated “conventional” illnesses.

The election is our opportunity to kick the incumbents in the teeth for what they did to us in the name of Covid – the Tories and the SNP/Greens – and that’s what the majority of apathetic, apolitical voters will be doing. They see how the long shadow of Covid continues to blight their lives. They dimly see too how unnecessary it all was. A criminal over-reaction by a loud, mostly geriatric, cohort of risk-averse fearties. Cowering behind their curtains while hundreds of thousands of others just got on with delivering and providing their electricity, gas, water, petrol, diesel, food, drink, etc. etc.

One final observation. Those whose memories constantly hark back to 1707 really should be able to recall how enthusiastic most of them were on here for the Covid over-reaction. These chickens are now coming home to roost.

Much of the “emergency” legislation remains on the statutes too. Any party pledging to repeal it?

Hatey @ 0934 – Well said.

The catastrophic damage done to society by politicians and their calamitous response to the Coof MUST be punished severely.

We will never forget, nor will we forgive.

THE SNP under Sturgeon was totally vision deficient, probably by design. Independence was not in sight, infrastructure strategies did not prepare for it, there was no shadow sovereign government in waiting behind the tartan façade of devolution: the lack of preparation eloquently condemns the players, playing for whom?

Subversion, the art of sowing dissent and confusion through misinformation and black propaganda is as old as human political consciousness. The absurdist Greens are an engine custom made for such mind games.

I fail to understand why the visible result of such activity in Scotland’s governance is not treated with the seriousness it merits.
An unwillingness to do so might itself smack of subversion or colonialism of the mind.
It’s all in the «intelligence».

Refer PO Box 3255, London SW1P 1AE for further briefing ; available in Russian and Chinese, and officialese Cymraeg.

Regnum defende……for England you moles!

Vivian O’Blivian

Care to rethink your post?

59% think the case is not stronger. That’s just simple logic.

Actually as only 35% think the case is stronger, I would add the 6% to the first total. Simple logic again.

There’s not three distinct categories, just as it’s not possible to be a wee bit pregnant.

Independent or not Independent is a binary.

Something the EUphiles have never grasped, but you should know better.

Hundreds and possibly thousands of Scots would be alive today if the NHS had performed CPR on them, which they normally would, but someone made it policy to let them die.

That’s official.

After reading Sarah Salyers excellent article yesterday, I think our way out of this union which was never a union in the first place as she points out, lies in that direction, the crux of the matter is that not enough Scots know that the United Kingdom doesn’t actually legally exist, its held together with lies deception, and bits of paper, that when scrutinised don’t hold up.

I say when this is widely shown to the public that the Treaty of Union never actually existed, and ergo their was no union to begin with, then its just a case of untangling ourselves from England in a manner of speaking, any politician who claims that we need to seek any sort of approval from Westminster to go our separate way from England is lying, infact we don’t even need a vote to, you don’t need a vote to leave something that never was, and any politician who say we do is also lying.

dasBlimp
Ignored
says:
1 June, 2024 at 12:40 pm

I can only agree, Geri. We have to go way back to Saxon times for when there was a real English monarch.

I take it you are an English nationalist looking for your Independence?

Breeks @ 11:16 am

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

“Spread the word throughout the land.”

Aye Breeks, Sara Salyers paper is without doubt one of the most important documents ever produced since the UK Union hoax on Scotland’s constitutional plight. It should be published and spread as widely as possible, something even the Rev might hopefully consider here on WoS.

The paper forms a central part within the ‘New Thinking’ proposed by Peter Bell and which through dialogue an oppressed people have to understand and be part of if they are to strive for liberation:

link to peterabell.scot

Rev, wouldn’t you like to set the cat amongst the pigeons by standing in this election? I was thinking Bathgate constituency but there is an ISP candidate there already. Take your pick amongst the SNP sitting MPs seats – find the most stupid/loathsome [a difficult task] and stand there.

Meanwhile Crowdfund appeals for Sally Hughes, ISP, Colette Walker and Eva Comrie are still going – the ISP and Colette look very short of their small target and obviously the sooner people donate the better. I expect David Henry i4i will be opening a crowdfunder soon.

After reading Sarah Salyers excellent article yesterday, I think our way out of this union which was never a union in the first place as she points out, lies in that direction…

I wholeheartedly agree, however, we Scots should also brace ourselves for a seismic change in attitudes the moment Scotland gets serious about pursuing this Constitutional route to Independence.

If you think the Vow was evidence of the UK Establishment in a panic, just wait until Scotland’s people get serious, and more knowledgeable about the Claim of Right and all that it entails. Even the BBC won’t save them.

By the time the penny drops, and Westminster is bending over backwards and moving Heaven and Earth to give us another UK style Referendum (which they control of course), it will all be too little, too late.

We must not however be tempted or seduced by their hollow promises and corrupt UK democracy. Let their rotten Vow be our greatest weapon. – Well, second or third greatest behind our Sovereign Constitution, International Law, and we mustn’t forget SALVO.

They will realise that “now is not the time”, actually WAS in fact the time, when the Union could been amicably dissolved through democratic channels. But no. They tried being clever-dicks when they should have been sincere.

Very soon, the matter will have been taken out of their hands…. I hope.

Breeks at 11:16 am

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

Whilst agreeing entirely with the article’s salient points, there exists an elephant in the room; namely that whilst the state which today goes by the name of The UK of GB & NI may well have been created and maintained fraudulently, the people who form the Community of the Realm of the Kingdom of Scotland were asked in 2014 if they wished to remain a part of that state and, whether or not they were aware of its dubious foundations/origins, they voted to remain.

Therefore whilst the Community of the Realm of the Kingdom of Scotland was not consulted as to the Union as was proposed in 1706/7, they certainly were consulted as to the Union as it existed in 2014.

Ruby Tuesday
1 June, 2024 at 9:05 pm
“Aren’t these arrogant English fuckers who come on here ‘for a laugh’ irritating”.

Hi Ruby, I always look for your great and very funny posts, so nice to get a namecheck!

Robert

“they certainly were consulted as to the Union as it existed in 2014.”

Aye, if you squint hard enough lol

But our vote was open to everyone & could be argued it was an illegitimate result. Not everyone taking part was a Scot.

“The UK of GB & NI may well have been created and maintained fraudulently, the people who form the Community of the Realm of the Kingdom of Scotland were asked in 2014 if they wished to remain a part of that state and, whether or not they were aware of its dubious foundations/origins, they voted to remain.”

RobertKnight.

Please explain to me how you can vote to remain in sometime that didn’t exist in the first place? Basically the 2014 indyref was a fraudulent vote for we are not part of any union so how can you leave something that you are not part of.

As for Great Britain knowing that there’s no such thing as the British crown, the above can only be referring to the land mass of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England.

As for your point of people voting for something that doesn’t exist, well, the same applies for not voting for something that didn’t exist in the first place. To further back this point up the people didn’t get a chance to vote for the non existent union in 1707, so it follows there’s no need for a vote to stay or leave something that never existed in the first place.

We are being conned, we’ve been conned for over 300 years into believing that Scotland is in a union with England when its not, Sarah Saylers and Salvo have enlightened us, they have done the hard work, the research that shows there was no union, her article on Yours for Scotland is incredibly important and it MUST spread far and wide, Scots (whether they like it or not) need to know that they’ve been lied to for centuries.

Its a turning point for us we can now tell everyone we meet that the union is a lie and if needs be direct them straight the link below.

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

Breeks@ 104pm.

The problem is that self-serving troughing Scottish MPs and MSPs will do their utmost to shove this under the carpet, they don’t want to see an end to the union, oh maybe one or to do, but the rest are making a good living out of this racket, and they won’t want to upset the apple cart.

I wonder how many of our MPs/MSPs know that the union is an utter lie but have stayed quiet to keep earning a good crust?

I fully expect the English establishment its media and the treacherous House Jocks to up their propaganda and lies that the union does exist when it doesn’t, and if all else fails to promise Scottish politicians the Earth (A Vow type shite promise) to not act in the best interests of the people of Scotland which must be, to out this 300+ years lie that the union is real.

We need to remember that England really needs Scotland not the other way around, so all the nasty stops will be pulled out to keep fooling Scots into believing that the union exists when in reality it doesn’t.

Also Breeks ask yourself how much in wealth has England stolen from Scotland in the last three-centuries, and if the likes of the World court asked them to pay compensation back to Scotland for the years of plundering our assets would they?

Westminster will and its security services (remember they are not Scotland’s security services they are used against us to keep the status quo intact) will do everything in their powers to stop Scots acting on the truth, the truth that the union doesn’t exist.

The House Jocks/Fifth Column parties at Holyrood must be overcome somehow, they are a hurdle to acting on this info.

Grangemouth needs funding to stay open for business.

SNP have the £450 million EU grant. We could spend it on that?

Kate Forbes finance secretary and Sturgeon need to explain why they’ve done this to us?

Why the hell don’t they want Scots to be happy?

…. whether or not they were aware of its dubious foundations/origins, they voted to remain.

Inappropriate franchise not withstanding, democracy doesn’t make something unlawful comply with the law.

I do think there are bumps in the road for a Constitutional route to Independence, some fairly significant bumps too, but the 2014 vote isn’t one of them.

If our democratic choice was inviolable in 2014, then so it should have been in 2016. (and actually, it should have been). As ever, it turns out Westminster holds both ends of the string.

I think ending the Treaty of Union is easy. It’s mostly done anyway, and just waiting for the coup de grace, but the tricky bit is what happens next.

There are similarities with Brexit… and dissimilarities.

With Brexit, there was a deciding vote right at the beginning, but also a codified leaving protocol with rules to be adhered to, 3+ years of negotiations, and while it wasn’t taken up, an opportunity for the UK to change it’s mind before the final Exit.

The protocols existed, but only just, and a helluva lot of detail had to be made up on the spot as expediency required.

Scotland declaring the Treaty breached and at an end, would be like an instant, cold-turkey end of the United Kingdom, with all the shock of the hardest Brexit imaginable.

But like that Brexit process, with the Brexiteers insisting Brexit means Brexit, Scotland could declare its firm and irrevocable intention to declare the Treaty breached and at an end, but extend say an 18 month period of grace before hand, to determine an orderly transition. – Just like Brexit.

A bit like a mini Article 51, we could declare it unilaterally, and subsequently deliver on it, or revoke it, as per our sovereign prerogative.

Thus, done correctly, (so FFS don’t let the SNP goons anywhere near the negotiating table), Scotland could declare an intention to end the Treaty of Union, but lock in an 18 month hiatus, specifically to enable Westminster to talk us out of it, and /or make appropriate transition arrangements for it to happen. And finally, for the stragglers who’re not quite sure, give the Scottish Nation a ratification Plebiscite right at the death… If you must.

That hiatus might almost ressemble 2013 – 2014 again, two years of the same “informed debate”, (don’t laugh), but with the default parameters quite different. As in, the United Kingdom ends on such and such a date, and you Unionists have an opportunity to make your case and win the argument that this breached Treaty, holed below the waterline, hasn’t actually been breached at all.

Pay close attention. It doesn’t ask whether there should or shouldn’t be a Treaty of Union. That question provides a lifeline for the Union to survive. The crosshairs must be squarely on the 1707 Treaty being breached. That is irremediable.

There is another option mind… The 1707 Union might be dead in the water, but the two year Hiatus could, perhaps, facilitate a “New” Treaty of Union to be agreed as a modern and proper Bilateral Treaty. A “new” Union, but one unrecogniseable from the old. Never say never.

It could be an extraordinarily busy two years of multilateral and bilateral negotiations, but with a weakened Westmnster under all the strain and pressure, and a much stronger and hopefully more constitutionally savvy Scotland in the driving seat.

Do I want that last option? No. But it would be on the table in one form or another. I don’t want another Union, but your Devo-Max types might be more gullible, and you can bet the UK Establishment would go to work on them.

But whatever, the 1707 Union must die. It’s untenable.

But don’t close he door to some kind of new “Token Union”, which would not constrain an Independent Scotland like the 1707 straightjacket. But the survival of a much, much looser United Kingdom might be a small price to pay for an orderly and constructive transition. I don’t think it would last, but it might sweeten the deal.

Now I’m probably the most ardent Independentist I know, but we need to make it work. All the momentum and trajectory that I see confirms Scotland and England are moving in opposite directions, and I just don’t see that turning around or healing any time soon. It’s gonna get worse.

Offer the English people our friendship, let them elect whatever unfathomable government they will, but explain to them that the Treaty of Union is an increasingly toxic barrier to that friendship ever flourishing. Truly? I think a good number of them will wholeheartedly agree, and with those people to the fore, a truly amicable divorce is right there to be signed.

Northcode 2:32

That’s some power you have there.

I’m sure I’m with the majority in hoping you only ever use it to do good.

It would also be wrong for you to monetise it, but I’m wondering if a wee favour is out of order.

I’m planning an overseas holiday in July and expect to use my passport issued by the non-existent UK. Don’t let the dupes at my destination know that the UK is non-existent. It will cause me no end of ball ache.

Maybe not wish Scotland Independent before August 4th either? That’s a Saturday so ideal for celebrating, plus it gives me enough time to get back here to join in.

Thanks in advance 🙂

Kate Forbes – returning half a billion pounds to the EU instead of giving it to the people of Scotland.

You sicken me Kate. She’s a fraud like Nicola. I’m glad she’ll not be First Minister.

She’s a disgrace. She’s actually worse. She’s turned Scotland into a free port for 25 years. She doesn’t want Scots to be happy. She wants us to be replaced by cheap migrant labour and the scourge of the third world.

Everywhere you look. Nigerians everywhere. Fleeing the child abducting Boko Haram terrorist organisation in their war torn country. And yet they’re flooding into Scotland. It’s unbelievable. They are destroying Scotland. They hate our country!

God may forgive the pious presbyterian Kate Forbes for giving back £450 million… But the people of Scotland won’t.

Matthew 7:6, which says: “Do not give what is holy to the DOGS, or throw your pearls to PIGS, or they may trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.”

Use your vote. Vote them out on July the 4th for Scotland’s Independence Day.

Independence from the SNP.

But which Bard? sir Henry Neville?

link to shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org

Three questions David Cobby

1. Is that your very first post?

2. Are you a cyclist?
(If so further questions regarding your socks & shorts to follow)

3. Have you come here for a laugh or to laugh?

Cheers!

@ Geri 10.14am . I think someone is impersonating geno John MOAN, I couldn’t believe the miserable forced tax paying whinger would EVER defend ANYTHING within Scotland

The targets this time are the undeserving, moaning, ungrateful,highly dependent, tax paying AULD bastards, which to my chagrin I admit to being an auld bastard, BUT unlike geno John the whinger MOAN I don’t fucking moan constantly about paying taxes, those TAXES that went to subsidise the enforced lockdown, which his pals in the tory party SPLURGED and SPAFFED billions on pish PPE supplied by their mates, and the further BILLIONS SPAFFED on failed detection protocols

Yea verily it is the fault of all the old bastards and bozo was right let the plague decimate the elderly, we can always import more young people to wipe the likes of geno John MOAN’S arse

More, much more absolutely filf frae the Bard.

Thank you Sam. These are great and there are loads of them!
I will be able to do lots of Shakespearian bile & filth.

I noticed some filf on Stu’s Twitter. (kinda Shakespearian)

He wrote

But I know what my readers really want: big cocks.

Maybe’s he’s right but honestly I find them pretty irritating first thing in the morning.

Onto Sir Henry now.

I’m going to copy them on to the ‘Country Matters’ thread so that all filf is in one place.

Porrige? I suppose there is an explanation for that in the same was as there is for beaver.

A comment by Saffron Robe over on Yours For Scotland, and Sarah Saylers says it might be possible.

“We know that in Scotland the people are sovereign. Therefore the power of sovereignty lies with the people and not with the Crown or parliament. Why then do we not, under the auspices of an organisation like Salvo or Liberation Scotland, draw up a legal document under Scots law withdrawing Scotland from the Treaty of Union? Since the Declaration of Arbroath stipulates that a quorum of one hundred Scots is enough to express our sovereign rights, then all we need are the signatures of a hundred sovereign Scots (i.e. anyone who has a birth certificate that states Scotland as their place of birth and who currently resides here) to enact our withdrawal from the Treaty of Union. This document can then be disseminated internationally informing the international community that we have withdrawn from the Union and have hre-established our independence, and it can also be sent to Westminster and Holyrood informing them that they have been summarily dismissed and no longer have any say or control over Scotland and our internal affairs. I can’t see how this could be disputed in any way since it is perfectly legal under Scots law and in no way contravenes international law. “

“and in no way contravenes international law “

link to e-ir.info

There wiz once a bored man called David Cobby
Who chose tae partake in a new online hobby
He posted on Wings
Tae highlight shit things
But inadvertently wiz jist adding mare jobbie

#McGonagallLives

Put Scotland First and help Stephen Flynn win Aberdeen South for the Scottish National Party

£1740 raised out of his target of £2000.

Swinney, your friendly funeral director overseeing the death of the SNP,

RE the £450 million- Swinney said today that the Times had taken a snapshot of an EU
enquiry that will take some years to compete and it is expected to take another 12-18 months to complete.

They have a this stage in the process identified some of the areas that money was spent and as time goes on they will find other prefects and sums that were delivered.

Judge them at its conclusion.

You can’t trust any Scottish related headlines in Westminster’s propaganda rags.

@Ebok 8:38pm
Your thinking is similar to mine. Catching up with the rest of us, The Sunday Times outlined 5 scenarios for the number of SNP MPs on July 5th. I am with scenario five. Got to be below 12 MPs or less. The activists, members and revenue stream has been severely reduced and diminished. Their campaign launch was very poor. An example Stephen Flynn raised £5520 in 2019 as a new entrant MP. The Westminster SNP leader has a very low probability of returning his target of 43 MPs. Nearly zero. I wonder if he will resign after the election? That’s saying he gets re-elected himself. Very tight in Aberdeen South. If Swinney U turns on new Oil and Gas licences. He could get Flynn back in. All to play for.

What can I say without sounding terrible, how can I say anything that would not sounding awful, and trite saying “see I told you so”‘
The treaty of union has always been a hoax, a fallacious union, and I have saying it on various related subjects surrounding the Treaty for the past Three years,

I am pleased that Salvo are saying the same as I have been all these years, the difference being is that Salvo are Stating these issues much more eloquently than I.

Perhaps if I mention the Bank of England is a private Corporation and has been since prior to the treaty of union,

That The shared national debt is meant to be with England not with a private Corporation,
I have looked and researched the fallacious treaty of union articles and can find no such agreement that states, “Scotland Will share a national debt with a private Corporation”.

@das blimp 6:55
I feel your pain bud. The Normans eh !
Your pride in your northern Germany heritage is great too. Have spent years visiting and living over there and so looking forward to going in a few days too.
Not taking the piss either. The ruling Angle Saxons were hammered by the Normans.
As the Saxons and Angles from Germany did with the ancient British * as far as they could. Always wondered if the Angle Saxons from Germany were expelled, chased out. Much like the students from Oxford all those centuries ago . Chased out for unsavoury behaviour then moving to Cambridge and establishing a most successful and royal preferred institution.

*used the term British as the term for this island dwellers centuries before the aforementioned invaders.

Dasblimp,

Your conception of Scots hating English is something akin to propaganda,
I was speaking to one of those wanting Scottish independence a recently as Three days ago, a shop keeper to be exact,
Not Scottish but english.and there seems to be many of them that moved here to Scotland to be part of that independence when it happens,
Many people from Yorkshire, Liverpool, Wales asked if Scotlands borders could include them.
Many English people are just as fed up with Westminster, the only difference between the two is that Scots opposed Westminsters rule from the beginning of Westminsters parliaments rule,

But lets look at this from a different perspective,
You want Mercia to become independent, and I have no particular disagreement with you, but what if some Scots did not agree with you and thought they should be entitled to vote on the issue under the umbrella of Great- britain to say no.

It is a misunderstood situation as both sets of people want to vote on their independence from Westminster,
We have the same goals in different parts of Britain, and as you pointed out we should be supporting each other not setting against each other,

I suppose things would change dramatically for Scots people when Scotland gained its independence, but as a result of Scotland becoming independent, it would also create a new paradigm for people in England, or a quickening for those that are also fed up of the parliament in England,
Because all of Britain would alter for the first time in over three centuries.

dasBlimp
Ignored
says:
2 June, 2024 at 6:55 pm

This is why Scottish indepedence interests me and why I am a supporter of it. But nobody here believes that. They can’t compute how an Englishman can support Scottish independence. Their hatred of all things English runs too deep.

You are full of hot air you stirrer!

I don’t know about anybody else but I don’t believe any of your pish.

You have never once told me what you mean by all things English.

Does all things English include the colony called Scotland?

….But nobody here believes that. They can’t compute how an Englishman can support Scottish independence. Their hatred of all things English runs too deep.

What doesn’t compute is your alleged support for Scottish Independence married to a profoundly naive and bass interpretation of what it actually means.

Forgive the sweeping generalisation, it’s a typically English thing to put England at the centre of Scottish Independence. Get over yourselves. It’s not about you.

That’s why your presence here confuses people. You’re like gatecrashers at a wedding. You help yourselves at the bar, butt into conversations which don’t actually relate to you, (ok that happens in life), but you seem driven to demonstrate how little you grasp about the nature of Scottish Independence. “Look! Look! Look! Look how little I know.”…You seem to think we’re all blessed to share in your blinkered and narrow minded upbringing. What a fkg yawn.

I don’t hate English folk. Hell, I was arguing for pre-Brexit Scotland to be a conduit for English / EU trade so that England had a trade lifeline and a fighting chance of making a success of their Brexit misadventure. Brexit is not the right thing to do, but hey, it’s your decision England, and I’ll do what I can to help and make it work. But don’t drag us into your shitstorm. Have a little respect. – Clearly that was too much to ask.

Help you with your Brexit please note. Scotland’s Brexit was a grotesque subjugation of Scotland’s sovereign Constitution and democracy. It should never have happened, but when it did, it should properly have been the final breach which brought down the curtain on this scandalous, farcical and asymmetric “Union”.

Nobody believes you? Ah, diddums. There’s that Me! Me! Me! again…. It’s all about poor little you.

Maybe people here know you better than you know yourself. People can read you like a book an election pamphlet. You’ve nothing to say.

Hey Breeks: thanks for crawling out of your fartsack to reply to me but … I never mentioned Brexit.

To you and the others: At least have the balls to admit you are an anti-English bigot.

dasBlimp, I assume you are big fan of Æthelflæd, Myrcna hlædige then?

I’m not sure ‘fan’ is the right word but I am interested. Next read is The Anglo Saxons: A history of the beginnings of England by Marc Morris.

Check out this laughable attempt by CNN to rationalize Sunak’s decision to call an election he knows he is certain to lose…

link to archive.is

“More specifically, why has the PM called an election that is almost certain to lose? For months, polls have placed Sunak’s Conservative Party way behind the opposition Labour Party and, as things stand, Labour leader Keir Starmer is set to not only win power but have a massive parliamentary majority.

The answer to that question is simple: it’s very unlikely there will be a better time.”

Ohhhh well that makes perfect sense then. “There is no better time to call an election than the time when you are certainty to get wiped out in a landslide loss…” righty-ho, makes perfect sense, it is so obvious now that CNN have explained it.

FFS, and people actually believe this shite.

A Labour secret groups is well funded by the private sector, there’s no difference between Labour and the Tories, apart from the colour of their rosettes.

“A SECRETIVE and influential Labour group has received a record-breaking amount of political donations in 2024.

Labour Together – a think tank that helped Keir Starmer into power and purge the party of Jeremy Corbyn and the left wing – has been given nearly £2 million from (mostly) wealthy corporate donors so far this year.

According to an analysis of Electoral Commission data, the group has received a total of £1.92m – representing 56.5% of all political donations to regulated donees, as in those not made directly to parties.

The record-breaking start to the year for the think tank can be linked to its largest donor – billionaire hedge fund manager Martin Taylor – who gave more than £1.3m in the past two months alone.

His two single donations of £825,000 and £500,000 in March and April respectively are the largest recorded in Electoral Commission data for regulated donees since their online public records began in 2013.

It comes as Keir Starmer’s Labour have made huge efforts to court big business, including removing the cap on bankers’ bonuses.

The second biggest donor to Labour Together in the past year is South African-born businessman Gary Lubner (below), who leads Belron – the world’s largest vehicle-glass repair and replacement company. He donated more than £600,000 since January 2023.”

The second biggest donor is pro-Z–z-io monster and that’s why Starmer backed the water and energy to be cut-off in G–aazz–a.

Mac

It’s been that way for a long time since they took martial law. Their population has almost halved, their land sold to disaster capitalists & fck all remains but rubble. Yanks don’t give fck, they openly celebrate in their congress, it’s not *their* men. Z is no longer legitimate either as his term has expired. It’s like the yanks are doing a spot of cleansing & U ppl can no longer vote to end this insanity of their own extinction & all for absolutely fck all benefit to them. They’re now openly saying they’d never qualify for NATO or the EU. It was a big fat lie & always was. They’d hee-haw military power as they sponged weapons off everyone else.

Europe has also been instructed to mobilise & enforce conscription & their economy deliberately crashed & they’re willingly obliging, including the UK WTF?! LOL They’ve lost their tiny minds. It’s like some cult has pressed the self destruct button & the lamas are all heading for the cliff..

With 50% of Scotland now supporting independence – far higher among the young people (cannon fodder), it would be a very dangerous move for the UK government to try and enforce military conscription in Scotland. Forcing people who don’t believe in Britain to die for someone else’s King and country? Bad bad move. This ain’t 1914 folks. Just saying.

Ebok @ 08:38
Your analysis is interesting, but it rests on an assumption of a “normal” turnout. I contest we’ll see an apocalypse of apathy.
The SNP will benefit from a reflexive loyalty among voters the same way Labour profited pre 2015.
Yes, the SNP activist base is vestigial but it exists. The same cannot be said for Labour. Who’s going to chap doors for Likud?
The SNP has the payroll to fall back on (£1.3m pa in Short money, constituency office workers, managers, researchers etc.). Yes, we know that in reality they’re the indolent relatives of MPs, MSP’s & Cooncilors paid for no-show jobs, but they exist. Yes, they didn’t get their lazy arses in gear to canvas at Rutherglen & Hamilton West, but this time it’s their livelihoods at risk.

I don’t have any balls but the bigger problem is I do not know what is meant by the term English.

I see ‘Southernbystander’ has cycled all the way from Pocklington to join us this morning.

Oh gawd I don’t know ‘cyclist from Pocklington’s pronouns.

Oh fuck it according to the prison guard Rhona Hotchkiss it’s fine to misgender perfectly legal so I’m going with he/him.

He/him from Yorkshire in the South did try to define what is meant by English previously but QFMD it sounded like just more pish.

‘Yorkie Biker Boy’ you are excused this time around. Sit doon or alternatively ‘on yer bike son’

Mornin’ Geri & Northcode

Re you tube links.

We’ve been here before Geri remember?

Northcode I presume you are doing your youtube links on an iphone.

iphone software very up to date Wings software isn’t.

iphone youtube links need some adjustment before uploading to Wings but never mind that I can be your linkmaker. Just post the title of your YouTube video and I’ll sort it out on my ancient imac. Link guaranteed within 24 hours.

HTH

I can type HTH and really mean it normally as you know HTH doesn’t mean what it says.

Ah yes the Welsh. Another bunch of wasters that revel in the state of victimhood.

Not long back from a trip along the West coast and Islands. What really stood out for me was the lack of litter compared to Glasgow, it stood out when you saw it because people were clearly trying to keep their areas clean. People were friendly, hellos when passing and stopped to talk to some. Also conspicuously absent were beggars particularly professional imported ones. For the first time though I noticed the settl-ers from England which others here have previously mentioned.

Within three seconds of turning into my street on return the grown adult male New Scots corner boys were visible. An around the clock presence on street corners to demonstrate ownership but, hey, it is their culture and to judge this through a lens of white privilege is racist.

Alurker,

Thank you for you’re reply, and everyone else who often replies to some of my comments,
It is a difficult time for myself personally, during family illnesses and a mountain of extreme red tape from government to catch up and respond to everyone, and hope everyone understands that I have not ignored them, but comprehend that I have very little time on my hands to respond as I used to.
So when I do have a moment I am playing Catch up with topics with a sell by date on them, often moved on,

One thing remains constant, I believe that the four main Countries that make up the faux Great-Britain should be independent,
One set of grand parents were Scottish, my parents married in Scotland, I live in Scotland, I did most of my Schooling in Scotland, my Children were born in Scotland and my grandchild wes born in Scotland, Scotland has provided me with my home and my background and even though my fathers work took him across the border to England when and where I was born, and returned two years later,

I owe Scotland my deep felt gratitude and loyalties for their three generational kindnesses to my family,
And will always support a independent nation of Scotland first and foremost,

Why Do I tell you this?

Because my family geneology have background history of Scots, Welsh, Irish and English, therefore I have personally witnessed and experienced all aspects of Britain through family and events,
This has given me great insight to how the other three nations Scotland, Wales and Ireland have been biasly treated by the Westminster government in England, and I emphasise (government),
For the people are all the same, with a few exceptions, I am married a quiet and gentle giant Scotsman,
But there are many other Scots that married people from other Countries including England, and there equally many English married to Scottish men and Women.

And I take offence when I hear ” those few exceptions” people spout the “divide propaganda” that all Scots Hate the English people….that is pure mouthy ignorance on their part and they would fit in perfectly well with the MSM and politicians in Westminster parliament who seek to divide the ordinary people,
As everyone of those nations is suffering under Westminster parliament governance,

And that is no badge of pride to be worn on your lapel or in your heart,

Scotland is Right to want to leave that undemocratic batshit crazy hellhole and iWestminsters fallacious 1707 treaty of union,
It has been a long political fight for Scotland covering many centuries Centuries
I hope to see this happen in my lifetime,

But I also hope that Wales and Ireland will do the same, that would really put the cat amongst the pigeons for all the globalist and their ideology policies infiltrating the governments.
And England would automatically become independent,

The lesson to be learned is the following,
that England supporting Scottish independence also helps them, Wales and Ireland,
Because the fallacious hoax treaty union is what binds all the for nations in servitude to Westminster parliament and the infiltration of global ideology,

That’s the one, Ruby. Brilliant. Thank you.

dasBlimp 11:54 am

“Ah yes the Welsh. Another bunch of wasters that revel in the state of victimhood.”

They’ve plenty of reasons to eh? Here’s a novel idea. Dump all yer shite in yer own country. Yer super prisons & nuclear waste mud & learn the art of cooperation with the home nations instead of self appointed overlords walking all over others culture, language, education, media with the one nation pish.

Sheen gives a full run down of all the shit Wales has put up with & not a single thing was related to the EU but everything to do with the toxic English government in Westminster. Even the secretary of state isn’t Welsh but some Tory no one voted for. Same for Scotland. Used like a local tip & it’s parliamentarians are treated no better.

Away & fck off & join a Union with France..

Andrew O’Hagan, Scots writer with Irish name, writes..

“But my first experience of the English left me with the beginnings of a theory – that whereas the Scots and Irish were a people, a definite community, innately together and full of songs and speeches about ourselves, the English were something else: a riot of individualism with no real sense of common purpose and no collective volition as a tribe.”

the summer of hate continues; it’s now kicking off in ma-JORCA (hard J) NB “tourist” = Anglo

the outraged anglo will be on the beach, filling in the postal vote for Reform UK whinging about “we pay their wages”

link to thescottishsun.co.uk

– his reasons for favouring Farage/Tice (- “theyre the real tories loike”) is because of their commitment to “tackling net migration”, which he will utter without the merest flicker of self awareness.

and those Kanaks are really going for it; it is not calming down. Some notable imagery – a burning porsche dealership – that tells us much; there is great wealth in new caledonia, due to the mining, but little of it gets to the kanaks.

“democracy” can be a very rigged game, and I don’t just mean ballot stuffing/postal votes; the kanaks don’t think the s3ttlers should even have a vote and that they are being cheated in the very setup – I wonder what the class breakdown is of the 2 peoples? I suspect the kanaks are at the bottom of the tree, and this is the heart of it.

de Gaulle once gave a speech where he talked of the conditions necessary for democracy to have a chance of working; in short, not too great a disparity in wealth, information or power, otherwise “the rich will buy it” / “the better informed will con everyone” and the powerful will simply ignore the law, either with the best lawyers or physical force.

You also need a basic shared identity, more between us than divides us, so, e.g. civic nationalism with 2 groups, one vegetarian, one cannibal can never work. Brainwashing folks with propaganda about “diversity” and multiculturalism only takes you so far; people can be distracted from the true relations, just as long as life is good for most of them, but neoliberalism squeezes everyone, it seeks to own all, control all, and set up a rentier economy – it intends to grind everyone down and when that happens people start to notice – who is in, who is out – what groups are doing well, who is being shafted; when there is an ethno racial or religious angle to this, it can be explosive. The middle class will naturally be doing fine while everyone else is being shat on – and if they are mostly “foreigners” we then get the class war overlaid on the ethno-racial. Spicy! It’s a “2 for 1” (- note to posh people : these are “deals” you get in the scumbag food halls for scumbags)

The kanaks seem to be solving their own franchise problem by causing so much of a mess the french will simply leave; surprisingly, very few people have died, so it seems more damage to property/ attack the symbols of the regime, right now, but africa/india have shown us what can be done with a mob armed with machetes. Even without murder, trashing the place could work – “no, you cannot come here and have a nice life at our expense … we won’t let you”.

– old toga boy, Aristotle :

“Heterogeneity of stocks may lead to faction – at any rate until they have had time to assimilate. A city cannot be constituted from any chance collection of people, or in any chance period of time. Most of the cities which have admitted s3ttlers, either at the time of their foundation or later, have been troubled by faction.”

people on wings tie themselves in knots discussing the franchise (taking very old, stale, bait), sculpting arcane rules which are fair and just, but we all know any restriction will be resisted forcefully (long term residence, birthright, combinations) – but no english, no franchise problem, is one solution

– the rwanda plan, interesting; fly all the human waste you don’t want back to a real shithole – and I believe in equal rights for all natural born englishmen; “england for the english” – and fucking well keep them there, make it a quarantine zone.

O’Hagan a’gain

“There was, and is, an English arrogance which resides in the view that they are naturally dominant within the British Isles. This notion was virulent in 18th-century Britain, when the Scots and the Irish were lampooned in the journals and pictorials of the day. The British Museum holds a great and hot-making archive of English caricatures that show the Scots and the Irish as drunken, hopeless, arse-kissing louts. Dr Johnson baited his friend James Boswell along similar lines, and the Scots got their own back in ways briskly intellectual and industrial. Yet the resentment lasted. My grandparents would bristle at the idea of any supposed English superiority – I remember reading a line of Milton’s, “Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live”, finding it intolerable and wondering whether or not reading it aloud would give my granny a heart attack.”