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- on Holiday Relief: “SOLARIS SCOTLAND House perpetually raining inside with denizens oblivious. SOLÀRAS ALBA Sìor-uisge am broinn an taighe gun fhor aig luchd-còmhnaidh…” Jun 22, 20:03
- on Holiday Relief: “@Andy Ellis; “Of course they are.” (that England’s MPs are entitled to overrule Scotland’s MPs.) The utter tosh is all…” Jun 22, 20:00
- on Holiday Relief: “@ Andy Your post started out reasonable, then drops into the usual tired old pish. GO AND FUCK YOURSELF with…” Jun 22, 19:19
- on Holiday Relief: “Fit happened tae Northcode’s promised sabbath sermon, tae be written entirely in Scots? Ah wis looking forwards tae that. Noo…” Jun 22, 18:34
- on Holiday Relief: “Perhaps when Scotland could still fairly claim to have the best educational system in the world, more Scots could read…” Jun 22, 18:30
- on Holiday Relief: “Sarah no matter what route or what action anyone suggested to forward independence for Scotland the fake independence supporter Franchise…” Jun 22, 18:24
- on Holiday Relief: “For those interested. UN Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24). You have to listen to the Speaker form UK. https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1w/k1wban22mz” Jun 22, 17:45
- on Holiday Relief: ““13.Professor Michael Keating, Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change at Edinburgh University, told us [Commons Select Committee] that there…” Jun 22, 17:37
- on Holiday Relief: “@Dan I have no doubt that the usual suspects in here are deaf to any reasonable argument, so I have…” Jun 22, 17:37
- on Holiday Relief: “There is a certain irony and political lesson to be learned from a situation when for years someone tells everyone…” Jun 22, 17:13
- on Holiday Relief: “So with 4,283,300 on the electoral roll as of Dec. 2024, all you need is another 2,141,074 to reach 50%…” Jun 22, 17:00
- on Holiday Relief: “Update, for accuracy. 579 people have heard about the Manifesto for Independence and signed to show they like a clear…” Jun 22, 15:06
- on Holiday Relief: “Naw James, it’s just that most ordinary, mainstream independence supporters are gainfully employed at other times and unlike you aren’t…” Jun 22, 13:34
- on Holiday Relief: “Yup, 576 people signing a petition. That’s me convinced. Good grief. No wonder the movement is stuck up a cul-de-sac.” Jun 22, 13:26
- on Holiday Relief: “@xaracen 9.54pm The point, Hatey, is the one that I made perfectly clearly, but which you and others relentlessly overlook…” Jun 22, 13:05
- on Holiday Relief: “Englands Westminster parliamentary political parties, nor the version of those parties sent into Scotland and or employed under Westminster statues…” Jun 22, 12:45
- on Holiday Relief: “Thoughts on a wet Scottish Sunday. Zen and the Art of Scottish Independence .” Jun 22, 12:27
- on Holiday Relief: “Since the treaty of union is such an important historical/political document. Probably the most important document ever written within these…” Jun 22, 12:14
- on Holiday Relief: “There is a lot of fun to be had with the politicians immature but domineering contradictory thinking.” Jun 22, 12:11
- on Holiday Relief: “Vellum trumps parchment for long-term preservation of the Ancient Guff. See what I did there with “trump”?
” Jun 22, 12:03 - on Holiday Relief: ““Sign the bloody petition!” Says Peter A Bell in his article today. He walked the Bannockburn march yesterday and listened…” Jun 22, 12:00
- on Holiday Relief: “I admire your confidence that historians of the future will see 2025 as the end of the SUF period and…” Jun 22, 11:59
- on Holiday Relief: “Old parchment treaties like that beween Scotland and England in their entire form as original today in the present time…” Jun 22, 11:43
- on Holiday Relief: “That’s a dangerous spill on the floor there, James. You better erect a “CAUTION WEET FLAIR” sign. Can’t have some…” Jun 22, 11:32
- on Holiday Relief: “And some historians will argue that Patrick Harvie belongs in this category.” Jun 22, 11:23
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I was going to say the MoD could secure Faslane using, jets from their aircraft carriers, but they neither have carriers nor suitable jets to proceed in that direction, I wonder if the supposed deal to use French Carriers is still valid.
Either way we have the Waverley steam ship..a formidable, leviathan.
Was he off on a recruiting drive Just in case
Sorry Rev. I know you like us to wait till after 5 or so posts before going off topic, but your readers need to visit Tris’s site and read the article by Foxy, magnificent stuff, and should be compulsory reading for everyone, not least the MPs themselves.
link to munguinsrepublic.blogspot.com
I think the lion has the right idea. Beat them to the punch and annex MOD HQ.
So, apologies, and back on topic, lovely cartoon again Chris, gaun yersel’ Hamish, I’ll get yer back…
Dinna be sniping at oor Hamish wih yer big guns at thon top table wih the big boys, eh!
Oh oh… here come the bendy Wendy cavalry.
Wait…wait…wait…
@ Stuart Black – Great link and definitely worth a read. I am sure Rev Stu will forgive you.
Hamish might be at the wrong address, The MoD could sell off that building before he gets there according to this Torygraph story.
And in an unrelated find, it’s deja vu all over again in this piece from the Spectator’s archives: link to archive.spectator.co.uk
The time might have come to remobilise the Glesca Eskimo Regiment!
Another link to a piece by Robbie Dinwoddie in today’s ‘Herald’ which will generate ‘recall’ for the oldies and certainly should be prescribed reading for the younger generation
link to heraldscotland.com
ianbeag, I would like to know exactly what kind of pressure was brought on the BBC. BTW anybody who is to young to remember the name of Helen Liddell should look it up, she was a real peace of work.
(John Smith, as Privy Council minister, was in overdrive, co-opting Helen Liddell as secretary of the Scottish Labour to use her influence as a recent BBC staffer), says it all really.
Helen Liddell… what nightmares are made of.
Hail Alba
Robert Kerr
…but enjoyed seeing her walk into the Gents’ toilet after her then boss, Robert Maxwell.
It’s Helen Lidl, actually.
Not to be confused with her sister, Ellen Aldi.
@Seanair-
‘…but enjoyed seeing her walk into the Gents’ toilet after her then boss, Robert Maxwell.’
Aye. We are all eternally grateful that she wasn’t following him when he was on that yacht.
I served Helen Lidl once, at a massive New Labour fundraiser in a prestigious Glasgow hotel in the late winter of 96/7. (With baby potatos, french beans, and deep-fried asparagus tips. She went down a treat.)
If only…at least then her existence would’ve generated some pleasure.
Helen Lidl
She got herself a big hoose in Tighnabruaich when she was in her prime . The locals called it Maxwell House
Ah, the lady transported to Oz -‘For Services Rendered’, I’d bet Julia Gillard is absolutely delighted that she took her advice and brought John McTernan to Oz! Nasty is, as nasty does!
Lamont = Liddell reincarnated sans wallies.
La Liddell was also known as ‘Stalin’s Granny’
O/T came across this,
link to guardian.co.uk
This’ll definitely put the wind up bitter together.
Great Hamish ‘toon. I’m still wondering what kind of mascot the No campaign will come up with to compete with Wings’ Hamish, NNS’ Duggy Dug and Yes Scotland’s Yessie.
If that Hellen Liddel was at Strathclyde, she spent most of her time in the Lounge, just beyond the beer bar necking at tonguing her “beau”.
She was also very skelly.