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Calm down, lads

Posted on September 20, 2025 by

Don’t you know there’s no oil left there anyway?

(Apologies for our impromptu week off, we’ve been very busy with other stuff and there was nothing happening in Scottish politics anyway. See you on Monday.)

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  1. Graeme Hampton says:

    Don’t worry about the week off. I can’t remember you having your seaside break this year. I suspect the removal of Not proven has set up a time bomb but its probably a long fuse.

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    • Nae Need! says:

      The removal of Not Proven might very well have a SHORT fuse (when is this new legislation to be enforced?), but how, by which method, and by whom, will we be informed of the RESULTS of this change to Scots Law?

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  2. Mark Beggan says:

    Drill Baby Drill
    Speak Freely Speak.

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  3. Mark Beggan says:

    To be perfectly honest I know more about the complexities of deep sea drilling in the North sea than I do about the inside of a womans changing room.

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  4. Effijy says:

    I wouldn’t believe the date on the Telegraph.
    You must remember at Indy Ref 1 all of the Westminster parties vowed that Scotlands oil was running out and that it had no value.

    What is all the fuss about?

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    • Dave Hansell says:

      “What is all the fuss about?”

      Precisely.

      While everybody is looking over there……..

      …….they are not looking over here….

      link to taxresearch.org.uk

      …at the fact that the marionette effectively just sold the entire country, including Scotland, to US venture capitalist vultures.

      Far better to get what are considered to be the hoi polloi deplorables getting their knickers in a twist about ‘net zero’ and other such distractions.

      Particularly when the country lost a whole lot more than £10 billion in lost energy taxes since Osbourne’s 2015 budget, which cut tax rates and increased tax breaks for oil and gas companies to such an extent that HM Revenue & Customs forecast:

      • An average of $538 million in foregone revenue a year.

      • Which is equivalent to two thirds of the value of the total government revenue from all oil and gas production from 2016 onwards (Office for Budget Responsibility, 2015).

      In the longer term, government revenues (as a result of the changes in that 2015 budget) from oil and gas production are forecast:

      • To fall below 0.05% of GDP .

      • And close to zero from 2025 onwards.

      Which represents a far more significant drop in Government revenues from oil and gas from a high of $16 billion in 2011/12, but which dropped steadily $7 billion in 2013/14 and to $4 billion in 2014/15.

      The point being that when the media is pointing you in the direction of something with this Official Narrative, it is because they don’t want you looking at something else.

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      • Nae Need! says:

        “…at the fact that the marionette effectively just sold the entire country, including Scotland, to US venture capitalist vultures.”

        Indeed.

        Blackrock’s Fink now WEF something or other, canny mind his precise title, sorry.

  5. sarah says:

    I saw on your twitter that you have been busy dealing with the person who was featured in your The Incredible Sulk so I reckon that is a good enough reason for abandoning faithful Wingers for a week.

    Best of luck dealing with that individual. One lives in hope. [I won’t say anything about football issues…]

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  6. 100%Yes says:

    Liberation Scotland and Salvo@ the UN, I hope you enjoyed your week off.

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  7. Nae Need! says:

    IF I have surmised correctly:
    Stu, good luck with the stuff you have been dealing with.
    Sounds like a lot of painstaking WORK.
    I’ve a fair to middling idea what, and whom, it may be to do with.
    I feel I can say with some confidence, that we are ALL rooting for you.

    ____________________________________________________________

    Net Zero (Nihilistic Globalism in action) is the willful destruction of every Western country/economy that adheres to it.
    Another reason I hate the Net Zero ‘religion’ so much is that it trashes the environment more than fossil fuels.
    Whatever happened to environmentalists, btw?
    Have environmentalists been smeared and sacrificed on the same altar as patriots?
    Safeguarding has become a ‘bad’ word too.

    Jesus wept – all these so called progressive ideologies are taking us back to the dark ages.

    Except it’s darker than the dark ages because we have experienced LIGHT.

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  8. Skip_NC says:

    Good to see you back. I was beginning to wonder that you’d wandered off to do some YouTube videos to try to raise money and had forgotten to tell us.

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  9. Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:

    (Following nod from Geri)

    Youtube of Professor Robert Black KC’s presentation at United Nations Geneva on behalf of Liberation.scot is available here –

    You may need to Block and Click, or, Copy and Paste this link –

    youtu.be/PGvHUWYNyGM?si=7QeR11KrMb-puH-L

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  10. McDuff says:

    Of course the SNPee should be using this kind of mmaterial to inform the great Scottish public how they have been lied to and severely screwed by Westminster. But of course they will never do something that might encourage independence. It’s left to the rev as usual.
    Enjoy your break Stu.

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  11. Hatey McHateface says:

    The MSM is reporting an explosion of diseased Orcs fighting on the eastern front.

    They are throwing sufferers from HIV and hepatitis into the meat grinder. Presumably in the hope that if they can’t kill our fighting friends with their weapons, they may manage to bleed on them and take them out that way.

    Unfortunately for the sufferers, they have to wear red armbands to signal the risk they pose to their own comrades. But that identifies them to our fighting friends too! Making it less likely they will be granted the luxury of being allowed to surrender and more likely they will be killed on sight.

    Nice people, the Orcs. It seems to be something in their genes that makes them that way.

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  12. Hatey McHateface says:

    Nobody got anything to say about the protests in Glasgow against the illegal crims and grifters?

    Further south, over 1000 crims drifted across The Channel yesterday. Roughly assuming that the population ratio between England and Scotland is 10 to 1, that means we can expect around another 100 New Scots hassling young lassies near you soon.

    Bit it’s not all bad news. On the day 1000+ drifted in, Starmer returned 2 or 3. But as that was under the “one out, one in” rule, 2 or 3 replacements will be along imminently.

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  13. David Holden says:

    I was wondering how the troll/trolls were going to deflect from the oil story and did not have long to wait. Quoting Donald Trump and the usual talk about the bother on the black sea and trying to get everyone worried about the boat people in the South of England shows a real lack of imagination. But then again they are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Epic fail. Must try harder. F-.

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      What’s the “oil story” then?

      The story that exercises me is the SNP/Green government in Hollyrood voting to establish Nutt Zero in Scotland 5 years in advance of the target set in WM for the UK.

      It it takes WM to overrule the lunacy our own home-grown, proudly Scottish eejits inflict on us, then bring it on.

      If that causes you problems, then campaign and fight for a better class of Scottish politician at both HR and WM.

      Start whenever you like.

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  14. willie says:

    Ach Rev, its not just all of the lost tax which at £10 billion is a lot for the UK, but an enormous amount for Scotland.

    (Mnnn? if Scotland is 7.9% of the UK does that mean poor wee broken subsidy dependent Scotland, were it independent, would in relative terms be the equivalent to a loss of around a £126 billion. But aside of putting a UK loss of £10 billion in scale another way of looking at it would be that £10bn is nearly £2,000 for every man woman and child in Scotland )

    But hey hoe, the SNP don’t want oil and gas from the North Sea. They want the North Sea shut down too. Not for them all the well paid oil and gas jobs, support jobs. Better the day when Aberdeen can become a fishing port again.

    Mind you if there’s to be no gas or oil we can all look forwards to a fishing industry run on solar panels, commuters on bicycle, ambulances pulled by dray horses, and goods and service shifted by sledge pullers.

    Ah but a least we’ve got wind. The parliaments full of it and when the wind blows we can send it down to England.

    Glass beads, and bit of fuel poverty will keep us hardy.

    Tip, tip, or am I simply confused. Our Great British golden era lies before us.

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    • Nae Need! says:

      I’m laughing at your humour but It’s a serious, and very not funny, situation.

      Fishing industry run on solar panels? :=)
      Ambulances run by dray horses?

      Oh, we can laugh at such crazy ideas, buy they’re not that far away from becoming reality.

      We are fucked.

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      • The Flying Iron of Doom says:

        I’m not sure that the use of bicycles will really take off, Willie. No, I foresee the cold and impecunious masses getting from A to B by using a sort of wind-powered e-scooter which folk will disparagingly refer to as a “Humza hurlie”. It is possible that these vehicles will be manufactured in Burkina Faso, however I’m getting mixed messages from the snow globe which I’ve been using in lieu of a crystal ball. Sorry about that 🙂

        Anyway, I expect this vehicle to achieve a top speed of about 30MPH on windy days with speeds of around 2.5MPH being attainable on calm days through the use of an integrated lithium battery. These batteries will unfortunately sport a tendency to fail in a rather dramatic manner, therefore those dray horsies are going to be kept rather busy what the frequent occurrence of burnt bawbags and flame-grilled fannies. But hey – if it propels us towards our goal of Net Zero® then it’ll all be worth it, right?

        Oh man. Indeed, we are screwed… 🙄

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        “Humza hurlie”

        That takes me back. I mind my granda fondly reminiscing about his hurlie. Between the wars, it was his job to scour the surrounding countryside for scrap wood he could load into his hurlie to take home for kindling.

        Any Burka Fatso wind-powered e-scooters we get in Scotland will be shagged. As each one rolls of the production line, a fit, angry, 20 YO, male Burkan Fatso will jump on it and start steadily pedaling in the direction of Scotland, intent on claiming asylum and a harem of under-age brides when he gets here.

        If he can get some of them preggers, they will all be fast-tracked to the top of the housing queue, where he and his brood will be awarded a “Humza Housie”, fondly named by the progressive, welcoming, generous, caring, indigenous people of Scotland in celebration of their most inclusive, relate-able, loved and dearly missed FM so far.

  15. George Ferguson says:

    @Hatey McHateface 6:36pm
    Glasgow has a long history of welcoming refugees.Nelson Mandela and all that. On the the face of it is an admirable quality. Now with so many Council Housing Emergencies being declared, including Glasgow. things are not looking so bright. I never thought Glasgow represented main stream Scottish opinion. Most of them have no empathy for the Highlands and Islands and other parts of Scotland. The second City of the British Empire coming back to haunt them.

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      Some good points there, George.

      But these people aren’t refugees. The law on seeking refuge is clear – it must be sought in the first safe country the refugee reaches. Given all the safe countries the migrants have traversed to reach Calais, we can call them what they are – criminals and grifters, intent on ripping us off, one way or another.

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    • Red says:

      Every single “refugee” needs to be deported from our country. There’s nothing admirable about grooming gangs or the politicians who import them at our expense in every possible way.

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  16. George Ferguson says:

    @Hatey McHateface 7:24pm
    When you have a Prime Minister who is a human rights barrister anything is allowed. Chicken nuggets my favourite. But in Scotland we are heading for another SNP /Green coalition and that is a bigger problem. A 5 Billion deficit with no ideas of how to solve it.They are simply incapable of adult Government.

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  17. Hatey McHateface says:

    An interesting article on the role of the Orcs and the Covid Spreaders in the supply of deadly narcotics to the west:

    link to unherd.com

    It’s affecting Estonia right now, but it will be on our Scottish streets soon enough.

    President Trump has the right idea. If the state has credible intel, expedite the traffickers and dealers on ahead to explain themselves to The Big Man upstairs.

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  18. Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:

    KATHLEEN STOCK (UNHERD, 19 Sept 2025)

    ‘TODDLER LOGIC IS POISONING POLITICS: Welcome to the puerility spiral‘

    « I first heard about Kirk’s awful murder in Berlin, where I was at the SEGM conference on clinical approaches to gender distress in young people. A local transactivist group, bent on disruption, had put up an Instagram account to help “know your enemy”, and my face was the first one posted. As I am aware from long experience, there’s a particularly queasy aesthetic to transactivist protest, and it, too, is astonishingly juvenile: malice, grandiosity, and self-pity rendered in babyish pastel colours. People dress up as clowns and skip about, ponderously performing “trans joy”; they drown out opposing voices with screaming or loud music, as if their very existence is threatened by dissent; they lie down dramatically on the road and pretend to die. In between, there are board-game nights, soft toys, and onesies. »

    link to unherd.com

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  19. Colin Dawson says:

    Most of the best paid jobs in oil and gas are in London and the Southeast so it would be a bigger hit for them than for Scotland.

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  20. Red says:

    From Stirling to the sea,
    Let’s make Scotland Abdul free <3

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  21. Red says:

    Why has the so-called Scottish National Party blocked an inquiry into the grooming gang scandal after all the rapes they have committed against vulnerable Scottish children?

    Is the SNP the child rape party now?

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  22. David G says:

    I’m eagerly waiting for the rundown on the third gelding in the trans troika promised in “Down On The Beaches” (Sept. 5). That’s still coming, right?

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  23. W says:

    link to dailymail.co.uk

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  24. Hatey McHateface says:

    Any news on gurning girl-child Greta and her flotilla of employment-free, middle-class yacht owners?

    She seems to have dropped off the MSM lately.

    I’m worried our fighting friends in the Middle East might do something sneaky and underhand.

    Such as escorting the flotilla in broad daylight onto the beaches, IDF uniforms everywhere and Stars Of David flying from every masthead.

    Undoubtedly after an episode like that one, the ham assholes would welcome Greta into a comfortable, deep hole in the ground, where with big, blunt rusty knives, they would present her with an intensive, hands-on course in traditional ham asshole hospitality to western women and girls.

    But hopefully it won’t come to that!

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    • Dunc says:

      Apparently there’s been a bit of a mutiny and Gollum’s sister has been removed from the leadership.

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  25. Mark Beggan says:

    The Left are in that cold sticky sweat stage as fear of exposure looms. The truth that haunts their daily thoughts. The tide they dread rising with an overwhelming populist revulsion of their actions and beliefs.
    True the masses are slow to move. But as in 2014 they know the outcome and they also know what the opposite direction of this wave means.

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      Latest UK figures for NEETs (Not in Employment, Education or Training) aged 15-24 is near 950,000.

      There’s about 2.8 million long-term “sick” in the UK.

      Altogether, there’s a touch over 9 million employment-age adults (over 20% of the working-age population) not doing anything that generates tax revenue. That’s a lot of dealers, cash economy grifters, ham asshole supporting permanent protestors and shop lifters, even if the vast majority just sit at home all day, posting on sites like this one.

      In Scotland, the comparable figure is 818,000, so applying the rough rule-of-thumb 1:10 population ratio, we’re not significantly different.

      I won’t start counting the end-of-life useless eaters – the retired and forever unemployable. If we ever return to herding cattle on lion-infested plains, they may have a role as sacrificial bait – otherwise, they’re just fiscal dead weight.

      We’re never going to carry all this by importing illiterate, low-IQ, medievalist sub-Saharans. It’s time ordinary, decent people started facing some unpalatable truths.

      Cheap, fossil-fueled energy, redevelopment of manufacturing industries and jobs, hacking off at the roots of the woke “human rights” industry, expelling the illegal crims and grifters. These are the first steps to turning things around.

      If Scotland wants to pursue these policies as an independent country, then great, I’m confident a majority of sane, rational Scots will climb on board.

      Otherwise, if Scotland actively chooses to have this “forced” on us from Westminster-based Reform, then let it be so.

      It’s existential. Either it happens, and soon, or we go under.

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      • Mark Beggan says:

        Firstly the Indy group are no longer a cause here. That’s long gone. So what are they? They are part of the problem.

        Secondly What is the Left Wing?
        A patchwork of groups, each with their own selfish agenda. Terrorist supporters, trans rights, benefit cheats, aging lesbians, Muslim extremists, Marxists, rich students and Nationalists.

        Thirdly I still count with my fingers so don’t throw stats at me mate.

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        Please, everyone read that post.
        I suspect many just scroll on past the barrage of his posts but unless this particular post is a failed attempt at humour then read this fully to understand this posters beliefs and state of mind.

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        “read this fully to understand this posters beliefs and state of mind”

        If that’s a dig at me, let me also say that if there are any parts requiring clarification, just ask. I will be happy to help.

        When the cradle-to-grave welfare state was founded, there were something like 5 workers whose taxes paid for one unwaged benefits claimant. In the UK, France and other western democracies, that ratio is now down to something like 2 to 1 and is continuing to get worse.

        Demographics is indeed destiny. This ever increasingly crushing burden on the workers might just be sustainable if the workers and the supported were the same people. But with the policy of importing immigrants to do the jobs, increasingly they’re not.

        Low waged, hard-working immigrants are being crushed by punitive taxation to support non-working whiteys. Whiteys who in many cases hate the immigrants. Whilst with many immigrants, the feeling is reciprocated.

        Please don’t try to tell us you believe this is a sustainable situation!

        I know, I know. This is an Indy site, so Scotland’s oil was always going to do the heavy lifting that would support an ever improving standard of living for people who can’t or won’t support themselves. And now it’s the wind, forever blowing free wealth into all of our bank accounts.

        Except it isn’t. And it never will.

  26. Effijy says:

    Guys, this isn’t the site for racism.
    I’m in regular contact with the NHS and if all the “Abdul’s “ left I’d be dead just like the NHS.
    The world needs to stop making the filthy rich stinking rich and use some of the money to secure a future for many refugees in their own homeland.
    In the worst countries ran by guns and gangsters the whole of Europe needs to take their share of migrants.
    You cannot tell all of them to stay forever in the first country that they come to.
    No country could sustain those numbers.
    Every year the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
    For 60 consecutive years the gap between rich and poor has grown.
    No sign of that stopping so the poor are going to be driven into the ground.

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    • Mark Beggan says:

      I was going to say that is very Christian of you for taking total strangers into your home and introducing them to your family and friends but it is not. It is irresponsible and dangerous to your family and friends And is purely founded on an ideological belief system you clearly struggle to understand.

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    • Marie says:

      Correct. Would love to be a fly on the wall as Dr Abdul outlines Mr Hate-filled’s potentially life saving surgery or malignancy defeating treatment plan. The hugs and tears of gratitude from Hate filled. I’ll fetch the box of tissues to wipe away the tears!!!!!!

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Marie.

        I sometimes think about all the clinics, hospitals, schools, inoculation programmes, surgeries, etc. the colonising Victorian-era Scots established and staffed for decades in the hot, steamy, fly-infested, pagan, medieval, pox-filled shitholes of the third world.

        Yet they were all told to sling their hooks. The numbers who ever got a genuine thanks from the locals were far outnumbered by the numbers who were chased out at gunpoint.

        Of course, in your world, brown on white must always see you rooting for brown. It’s some kind of warped self-hate you can never acknowledge, even to yourself. That’s assuming you are white.

        It’s that kind of warp-think that finds many cheering on the end of the white colonialism era, and now cheering on the ongoing brown colonialism era, even though they, being white, are now the colonised.

    • Hatey McHateface says:

      Perhaps you should read my recent post about the millions of indigenous Brits doing SFA as a “lifestyle choice”. There’s enough of them to fill all the immigrant-taken jobs in the NHS and SNHS several times over.

      Perhaps you should put your concern for the “refugees” and their homelands to good use by gently suggesting to the “refugees” you encounter enriching themselves in our SNHS, that they return to their homelands and devote their energies and talents to sorting out their own country’s messes.

      So they won’t get so well paid for doing it? Tough. Back in school, I was taught the word for when a bunch of people go to a foreign country to enrich themselves. It’s called colonialism. I was taught too, that it’s a bad thing.

      It doesn’t magically become a good thing when the colonisers are brown and the colonised are white.

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      • Marie says:

        It was a bad thing because it came with violence, deaths and theft of land minerals and other resources. Did you actually go to school? Those countries were not pox-filled shitholes – they were opportunities for countries to enrich themselves at the expense of those they subjugated. The most egregious example is the USA. The USA is not the greatest country the world has ever seen – as baby Donnie claims – the USA is a political entity that was established after the near annihilation of the native population of that land mass.

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        @ Marie says: 21 September, 2025 at 3:58 pm

        “it came with violence, deaths and theft of land minerals and other resources”

        And the ongoing neo-colonialism on our streets doesn’t? My, Marie, what a sheltered life you live.

        “The most egregious example is the USA”

        And here we go. Virtuously signal your anti-USA credentials.

        Leaving out Canada, Brazil and probably another 20 modern American countries I could list off the top of my head if I thought you warranted my being arsed to do so, we also need to note that “land mass” was home to the Mayan, Aztec and Incan civilisations.

        All of which were exterminated with not a Yankee within 1000 miles.

        Did I actually go to school? You’ve got some brass neck.

    • Red says:

      I agree — this is not a site for racism, it’s the site for people who want Scotland to still exist when our children and grandchildren grow up.

      Don’t care about the NHS excuse — for every doctor and nurse we import we get dozens of their relatives and pals. And then dozens of their relatives and pals. And on it goes. Those people all need health care and houses and school places too. We can’t keep up with this. The NHS is not a good enough health service to be worth killing our country for.

      If we listen to you, in 25 years the Scottish nation will be extirpated, her people disposessed and outnumbered by the sort who rage at “white people” in the Scottish Parliament. At least we’ll no be racists eh? A nation that died from embarrassment at sticking up for itself. Crivvens!

      And we still won’t get an inquiry into the massive Glasgow grooming gang scandals — SHHHHHH! We don’t talk about the grooming gangs because we’re FEART of being called racists.

      Our “fair share” as you put it of migrants is Zero because we want Scotland to live. You can call me whatever you like but I don’t care because I am for Scotland and the Scots and WORDS will never change that.

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  27. TURABDIN says:

    THE CRITERIA FOR STATEHOOD as defined by the Montevideo Convention include having a permanent population, a well defined territory, a stable government in control of that territory and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. These criteria establish the basic requirements for an entity to be recognized as a state in international law.

    The government of the British state intends to recognize an entity which does not fulfill any of the Montevideo criteria.
    Scotland certainly does….but then!

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      Seriously TURABDIN?

      The Montevideo Convention makes no mention of any necessity for an aspirational independent state to have a majority within its permanent population in favour of independent statehood?

      If it doesn’t, it seems like a quite remarkable oversight.

      But if it doesn’t, so we can dispense with it, I’m gonna start agitating for the 20+ nations, colonised states, tribes and ethnic groups currently under the control of Orc Central to become independent.

      Who cares what the people in these places think, eh?

      Regarding the place you are actually writing about, it’s not so easy to recognise it as one would hope. Any pic of a pile of rubble could easily be miss-identified as being part of it, or even its capital city 🙂

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      • TURABDIN says:

        INCLUDE is the operative word.
        A desire to be recognized as such is assumed, whether by a majority or not.
        What constitutes a majority in a democracy is a vexatious matter given that many states governments rarely exercise the function by right of majority in the strict sense ie >50%

  28. Mark Beggan says:

    The biggest problem Scotland has is the popular belief that socialism can work ‘if we just had the chance’. Whereas the rest of the world knows, after paying the price, that it can never work.

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  29. Northcode says:

    Theis dey, bein the Lord’s dey, a sall be maistly preachin oot the Gospels o’ Mathew and o’ Luke tae the faithfu in ma wee parish seatit hereaboots in the hert o’ Pictavia an speking a message aboot God’s mercy an tellin’ hou salvation fae wickitness sall be gied tae thaim wha hiv repentit thair sins.

    Aye, that’s richt, we Picts quittit oor pagan weys centuries past an embraissit the Christian wird o’ oor Lord God – no lyk thaim heathen Inglis wha wirship mamon and ither fause gods in thair rapacite fir money and pleisurs o’ the flesch.

    Fir it be wyse o’ folk tae mind thaise wirds takken fae the guid beuk lest thay be condammt in eterne tae the sulfuris firie o’ Hell:

    “You cannot serve both God and mammon.”

    Or as Alf Baird often and rightly tells us in the context of colonialism:

    “Ye canna serve twa maisters”

    There you have it: The Picts, colonialism, hellfire and brimstane and the word of God all in the one comment and written in the Scots leid tae.

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      “we Picts quittit oor pagan weys centuries past an embraissit the Christian wird o’ oor Lord God”

      Odd!

      I have it on the most excellent of authority (the Declaration of Arbroath, no less) that you Picts were extinguished from the face of the Earth.

      Ironically, by the followers of the “Christian wird o’ oor Lord God”.

      Us Scots, who genocided you lot, even boasted about it to the Holy Father in Rome, presumably in a bid to ingratiate ourselves with him.

      I hope his descendant doesn’t get cross at finding out that one or two of you escaped the cull. I don’t think he does fatwas, but who knows where all this ecumenical drive could be leading, eh?

      Mind how you go, NC, and dinna be spikking Pict in front of strangers. There might be a contract oot on yer Picty heid!

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    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:

      « The current consensus view amongst those familiar with the toponymic and textual evidence for Scotland is that Pictish may have resembled Brittonic in many respects, though perhaps being less influenced by Latin. […] Nevertheless, I would still argue that even the term Pictish relies on minimal evidence, and that most of the supposedly distinguishing features cannot be demonstrated to be restricted to Pictland alone. Such features, including both phonetic features and lexical items, occur also to the south. There is much evidence for late co-evolution with Brittonic. […] My current thinking leans towards the view that much of Pictland partook in the ‘Neo-Brittonic revolution’, or at least very significant aspects of it. That is, in the post-Roman centuries, areas to the north of not only Hadrian’s Wall but also the Antonine Wall evolved linguistically on much the same path as areas to the south. »

      (Rhys, Guto (2015) Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic. PhD thesis.)

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      • Young Lochinvar says:

        Correct in my opinion.

        Nobody reported problems talking with the Picts or their predecessor tribes in antiquity until St Columba went evangelising the “northern” Picts.
        They couldn’t understand his Ulster based Scots/ Gaelic and required the services of a translator from Brythonic speaking Strat Clut (Strathclyde) who the Picts could understand perfectly well.

        Too much academic confusion is thrown at the Picts language solely on account of their symbolic carvings instead of the Roman alphabet of the Phoenicians then Greeks; a bit like Egyptian hyroglyphs..

      • Northcode says:

        Linguistic experts have confirmed that the Pictish language was not an outlandish non-Indo-European gibberish but a variant of the P-Celtic or Brittonic group of languages represented today by Welsh, Cornish and Breton.

        Extract from The Picts by Dr Tim Clarkson

        However, Scots, as defined by the online DSL, is what we Picts prefer to speak nowadays.

      • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:

        Hi, Young Lochinvar, thanks for endorsement. I do recommend downloading Guto Rhys’s readable PhD thesis mentioned above. At least for perusing and reference. It gives a comprehensive survey of the history and current status of Pictish studies. Direct download of PDF here:

        link to theses.gla.ac.uk

        Hi, Northcode, thank you for admitting that Pictish is unrelated to “Scots”. That was all that was needed.

      • Northcode says:

        You’re welcome, Fearghas .

        I would add that I find many of your posts interesting and always read them. You also seem to have a talent for finding links to useful information.

      • Northcode says:

        Another thing, Fearghas

        I believe that in the heat of a moment I was having I accused you of being anti-Scots.

        I don’t believe you are and I fully retract that accusation and apologise for making it in the first place.

      • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:

        No problem, Northcode. Duck’s back… ?. Thanks for lively discussion. All the best to you.

  30. Mark Beggan says:

    Is it a joke of history or twist of fate that All Under One Banner has a completely different meaning in Scotland today.

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  31. Confused says:

    I support the end of drilling in the North Sea as the english are thieving bastards who already had too much – 55 billion barrels so far and evil cow Thatcher pumped it like crazy then claimed her “economic boom” was down to city deregulation …

    this is good, more for us later on
    link to archive.ph

    this is even better
    link to archive.ph

    what is more – our territorial waters are not just the north sea, but at least double the size of it, a vast arc going west of orkney/shetland and onto rockall and down towards ireland; these waters are almost untouched. It is a treasure chest, waiting. Not just hydrocarbons, but also, perhaps, exotic metals on the seabed. Oil and gas wells, subsea mining via drones and windfarms – we can have the fucking lot. And we setup the industry to build all that is necessary, in the western isles and highlands. And with that wealth get the infrastructure we need.

    – the funny thing about all this is how – “ideological lunacy” manages to over-ride simple greed; this “net zero” (what does that mean?) has come on down to us, from on high, and WE MUST OBEY, no matter what. What it amounts to is – in the west – ripping out perfectly good infrastructure and replacing it all, at great cost, thus creating an artificial demand in the markets. For no good reason, whatever you think of environmental concerns or pollution, for the worst culprits – USA, China, India, the Pentagon on its own – will continue unchecked. Africa is set to undergo a population boom, and I don’t think they give a shit about burning coal.

    Politicians, doing illogical crap and not listening to the people – why, it’s almost like there is a conspiracy going on; enter “blackrock” which is like something out of a story, and yet – real. Larry Fink is now taking over at Davos. Fink was said to be, and proud – “the architect of woke capitalism”. The guy running Germany is an old BlackRock alumnus and when they won the election, first thing Starmer did was invite BR round for a chat. Oh yeah and they already own our ports and airports and have some nice offices in Edinburgh, west end. Blackrock, in bloomberg, were moaning to the US gov that consumers were not adopting green tech fast enough, and that what was needed was govt stimulus to make it go quicker … i.e. “spend 1 trillion on green tech” (which we are invested in). That’s a trillion, a cool trillion … a trillion here, a trillion there – ach you know the joke.

    – the reason why you will “own nothing and be happy” is because BlackRock will own it, and if you are -not- happy, then your ID and credit will be revoked and you won’t be able to buy food or connect to the internet. Then the assisted dying mobile van will turn up, to persuade you to do the right thing and stop being a bother.

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    • Geri says:

      I’d support closing it too. Open them again once the English piss off.

      Scotland didn’t give an inch of her territory to the English yet they think they own the place.

      I used to wonder why so called “jihadis” set fire to them until I heard an interesting discussion with Prof Marandi – it’s cause they aren’t being drilled for that regions benefit but for invasion, foreigners & greed so they’re worthless to them. *Burn it* Sounds good to me until the colonisers piss off.

      Mark Carney supposedly gave the game away in an interview where he allegedly said the net zero crap was the brain fart of the IMF to issue extortionate loans+ high interest rates for infrastructure. Mainly targeting poor countries & saddling them with debts they’d no hope of ever paying off – & to issue penalties to others who wouldn’t comply. Just more white Suprematist colonising shit to keep countries dependent. That sounds about right cause you hear no end of complaints from (mainly) African nations about this con at the UN cause they were feck all contributers to wasting the planet.

      BlackRock could boast they didn’t care who won the USA election cause either side works for them. Blackstone is another snapping up houses everywhere.

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        @ Geri says: 22 September, 2025 at 1:54 am

        “*Burn it* Sounds good to me until the colonisers piss off”

        I’ve taken the trouble to track down Lucy Connolly’s tweet – the one that got her banged up for 2 years and 7 months:

        “Set fire to all the f—ing hotels full of the b——s for all I care”

        Eerie, aren’t they, the similarities? Just replace “hotels” with “oil rigs”

        I’m very much afraid Northcode will be reporting you to the site moderators, while Young Lochinvar will be calling his local plod to dob you in.

        Meantime, when the mood takes me, while you still remain at large, I will mix up calling you Barbie with the occasional Lucy.

        I hope that by the time you’ve been sentenced, the risk of you being locked in for 23 hours at a stretch with an 18 stone incel calling himself Loretta has passed 🙂

        Aw wait. Is it bad to post deliberate lies on here?

  32. Iain More says:

    If the oil was offshore Engerland then the Toxic Milli-bland wouldn’t be destroying that whole industry. However I wouldn’t give the Thieving Sassanachs the steam off my shits.

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      Relax, Iain, you can continue to enjoy all the shit steam you can handle.

      Check out this article:

      link to unherd.com

      Looks like we have Farage/Reform to thank for much of this.

      So 3 and a half years still to go before Scotland can start to feel the full benefits of a return to government by reality dwellers.

      Of course, we have the local pantomime next May to endure first. But luckily, their ability to totally feck Scotland over is limited by the existing constitutional framework.

      Just as well. Otherwise the price of black houses would be through the roof. Nae peat though – they want us to think of the plight of them in India and China and virtuously choose to freeze.

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        I forgot to add this quote from the article:

        “a sophisticated computer model developed by Professor Gordon Hughes, suggests that the subsidies, levies and other hidden costs embedded in Miliband’s proposals will see not a reduction but an 80% increase in the cost of electricity by his 2030 target date”

        One in the eye for the eejits forever wanging oan on here about Scotland’s “cheap as chips” wind power “bonanza”.

        Not that it will stop them. But the silent lurkers deserve to know the truth.

    • Geri says:

      While we’re all on the cusp of WW3 over energy security, while China says it’ll buy from whoever’s selling in whatever currency – even Smackaroonies, while R is diverting pipelines of cheap oil to their mates & while the EU is begging for 100 year deals no matter the cost, even tho they cheered at Nordstream going KaBOOM & fcked up a cheap lifetime contract along with all the lucrative land revenues collected from the EU countries those pipelines ran through..

      There’s some English twat fae Westminster bumping his gums about Scotland. A country he doesn’t represent & about oil that isn’t even in his territory, regarding nature he can’t control.

      Remember folks, these mad eejits are working on ways of how to turn off the sun LMAO!

      FFS get us out of there..

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Door’s over there, Barbs.

        If you can’t fathom it out, get somebody to interpret the sign for you. It will be either “Push” or “Pull”.

        “diverting pipelines of cheap oil to their mates”

        Big, juicy, impossible to hide and impossible to defend targets. Make a most satisfying KABOOM when the cheap-as-chips drone strikes.

        Much more fun even than Nordstream, and that was ace.

        Let the Orcs, the ones that still have their legs, walk to Kiev if they can.

      • James says:

        Prick.



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