When you’ve been watching Scotland playing football for 50 years of your life, you become accustomed to disappointment. You expect disappointment. Anything better than disappointment becomes a bonus.
We’re still trying not to pay attention to the election because it’s so tedious and awful and pointless, but this is worth putting on the record because it’s in The National and otherwise nobody’s going to read it.
Because, for startlingly obvious reasons, even the SNP hasn’t had the brass neck to do a general fundraiser for this election, with the police’s inquiries still going on into the whereabouts of the cash from their last big appeals.
But in fact the party has managed to wring over £100,000 from the most gullible of its remaining supporters in the days since the election was announced. It’s just been a bit more subtle about it.
Normally in cases like these, there’s an instant and concerted attempt to rubbish the judgement, both from amateurs and activist lawyers like Robin Moira “Barry” White, Jolyon Maugham, and the anonymous “Pissed Off Lawyer” tweeting as @legaltweetz. They’ll issue spurious “analyses” dismissing the findings with jargon terms like “obiter”, and either question their correctness or attempt to minimise their significance.
For some reason that didn’t happen this time. The hyper-antagonist online trans army has very conspicuously failed to rush to the defence of ERCC CEO Mridul Wadhwa, perhaps because Judge Ian McFatridge’s conclusions were so relentlessly, brutally and comprehensively excoriating of Wadhwa’s appalling behaviour that no amount of spin or disingenuity could disguise it.
But then, on white charger and with papoose, enter a hero.
Mridul Wadhwa, a man with whom Wings readers have been familiar for some years, was found by the tribunal judge to have been “the invisible hand behind everything that had taken place” as Roz Adams, a conscientious, caring and highly professional woman with a long history in the sector, was systematically and methodically hounded out of her job for holding, privately and sensitively, the belief that biological sex is real.
Mark Beggan on Step One: “You’ve obviously never heard of Risperidone.” Jul 13, 14:47
Hatey McHateface on Step One: “Please, Mark, “colonial overlady”. She’s the one with the titties. You’re as mixed up as the gender weirdos screwing things…” Jul 13, 14:01
Hatey McHateface on Step One: “Is Monday racism day then, Alf? When’s fascism day due? I have to concede that it must be extraordinarily hard…” Jul 13, 13:57
Chas on Step One: “Andy-I genuinely believe that 50%+ of all Scots want Independence. I include myself in that figure. However I would NOT…” Jul 13, 13:38
Hatey McHateface on Step One: “Thanks, Lorncal. I believe the SNP and the Greens have to be destroyed as a political force in Scotland. Whatever…” Jul 13, 13:37
sam on Step One: “FoI request revealed McCrone report in 2005. Bampot.” Jul 13, 13:33
Insider on Step One: “Chas @ 1pm Good post ! I was just thinking…any moment now “Dan the dafty” will be along with his…” Jul 13, 13:30
Mark Beggan on Step One: “In the tentative steps of emancipation from the colonial overlord (mamas titty) a nation learns the first of many lessons.…” Jul 13, 13:28
Alf Baird on Step One: ““What exactly, is an indigenous scot?” The ‘indigenous Scots’ weel ken oorsels. The dilemma for the colonizer and associated pathology…” Jul 13, 13:27
Mark Beggan on Step One: “Liberation Scotland Update. The game is a bogey. Get a life. Unless you would like to give us some ££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££money.” Jul 13, 13:17
Hatey McHateface on Step One: “A little internet research reveals that really “dangerous” stuff is hidden for a lot longer than 30 years. A little…” Jul 13, 13:06
Lorncal on Step One: “H McH: that is an excellent point. We are often told that independence is around or just over the 50%…” Jul 13, 13:04
Chas on Step One: “Dan has yet again produced some ‘statistics’. Honestly you are getting as bad as the esteemed Professor and Cheyne at…” Jul 13, 13:00
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Step One: “More on McCRONE REPORT (Despite its title, this 2013 YouTube below actually covers a variety of subjects, with the McCrone…” Jul 13, 12:57
Cynicus on Step One: “Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says: 12 July, 2026 at 11:10 pm ‘However, the fearless exemplary journalism of Rev Stuart Campbell through all…” Jul 13, 12:56
Mark Beggan on Step One: “What do you call a Pict in a suit? The accused!” Jul 13, 12:53
Hatey McHateface on Step One: “Hope that’s clear, Rob. Northy reckons that the millions of colonising Scots scattered across the Americas, the Antipodes, Europe, England,…” Jul 13, 12:52
Andy Ellis on Step One: “@Chas 11.34am I’m sure the Rev did some polling which indicated that there had been a fair bit of switching…” Jul 13, 12:47
Hatey McHateface on Step One: “We’d prefer ye tae pit the suit oan, Northy. Nae cant wants tae clock yer blue-pented, Pictish erse.” Jul 13, 12:44
Hatey McHateface on Step One: ““the huge negative impact on the UK and Scottish economies by being wrenched out of the EU” Yet credible economists…” Jul 13, 12:41
Captain Caveman on Step One: ““Here’s stuff previously posted for the pathetic gurners of pish like “Scotland is too wee and too poor”, or stating…” Jul 13, 12:23
TURABDIN on Step One: “there is a notion that if you are a good guy, do everything by the book, do not resiort to…” Jul 13, 12:21
Northcode on Step One: “Is that a genuine question? Though not… but I’ll give you an answer, anyway. An “indigenous Scot” is someone who…” Jul 13, 12:20
Captain Caveman on Step One: ““If you were honest (faint hope) you’d admit that we’d all – unionist and nationalist – be better off today…” Jul 13, 12:19
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Step One: “« We have catch’d Scotland and will bind her fast. » (Speaker of the English parliament in 1707, after the…” Jul 13, 12:09
Dan on Step One: “Here’s stuff previously posted for the pathetic gurners of pish like “Scotland is too wee and too poor”, or stating…” Jul 13, 12:07
Northcode on Step One: “What price freedom? Here’s what I think… Freedom costs whatever a people are willing to pay… identity costs even more.…” Jul 13, 12:04
Andy Ellis on Step One: “@Cap’n Caveman Well one of us is moon howling bud but it sure ain’t me. There is no reasonable defence…” Jul 13, 12:00
Rob on Step One: “What exactly, is an indigenous scot?” Jul 13, 11:52
Southernbystander on Step One: “Not sure what you refer to when you say Farage is being attacked, though certainly he is seen by some…” Jul 13, 11:52
