Yesterday was quite an eventful day, so it’s moderately possible you may have missed the alarming news that some shady Mafia-backed hedge fund or such has apparently funded these irresponsible and morally-suspect chancers (last seen shilling on air for literally Vladimir Putin and BBC Scotland, in that order) to produce an all-new series of scurrilous and dubious fact-grubbing for some inexplicable reason.
We have alerted the appropriate authorities. For safety, remain in your homes.
Judge Dredd: Origins was published in 2007, although in fact the basic story of how Bad Bob Booth became the last President of the USA and what he did next was established right back at the 1970s beginnings of Dredd’s parent comic 2000AD.
We actually have a theory that it’s all the Lib Dems’ fault.
Following our news report at the weekend that Kezia Dugdale had gone to the USA to help Hillary Clinton, a concerned reader etc etc with inevitable results etc.
We thought we might leave this here so that Scottish journalists could print it out and stick it on their monitors as a memory aid. It’s something they keep unaccountably forgetting for some reason.
You never know, it might just cheer them up a bit.
Obviously, actually including the exact phrases “within 45 minutes” and “weapons of mass destruction” might have been a little bit too near the knuckle, but the message comes across just the same: “Here we go again.”
This week, as the UK’s new Conservative government brought forward a bill to impose tax on renewable energy projects, just seven Labour MPs turned up to oppose it.
You know these guys that you used to see wandering round the city centre with a sandwich board telling us “THE END IS NIGH”? It seems they were right.
For the last month or so, the Unionist parties have briefly enjoyed the opportunity to taunt the SNP in the Commons over Full Fiscal Autonomy, challenging the party to bring forward proposals and accusing it of being afraid of the policy it campaigned and won on in the election. The Nats called the bluff, and today got the unsurprising result.
The reason given by Secretary of State David Mundell – who declined to appear on today’s edition of “Good Morning Scotland” to defend or explain the decision – was that FFA “would cost every family in Scotland £5,000”.
And we thought that figure had a rather familiar ring to it.
Last week we listened to a Radio Scotland phone-in debate on Trident, hosted very deftly by John Beattie, who managed to steer callers away from political points and keep the discussion on the merits or otherwise of the weapons system itself.
Sadly that didn’t dissuade the usual coterie of nutters/local councillors phoning in insisting that (a) North Korea would invade/blast Scotland off the face of the Earth the moment we let our guard down, and (b) Helensburgh would immediately revert to the Stone Age at the loss of jobs were the few hundred Trident sailors who spend about a week every year in the town to be reassigned to other posts in the navy.
We didn’t have time to ring in ourselves, but we did manage to think of a much better idea that solved both of those problems without lumbering Scotland with a gigantic nuclear white elephant, and one that would also free up an awful lot of valuable police time and resources that are currently spent arresting a bunch of hippies.
With the “biggest party forms the government” lie now sunk and rusting slowly on the seabed (weighed down even further by polls suggesting that Labour actually will be the largest party even if they lose all of Scotland to the SNP), and four weeks of campaigning left to fill, Scottish Labour have had to grab a hammer, smash the glass on the “EMERGENCY – IN CASE OF DESPERATION” box and clutch desperately at whatever they found inside.
The abject answer is “Project Fear 2 – This Time It’s Full Fiscal Autonomy”.
It’s worth reminding yourself before you watch this clip from BBC News this morning that the gentleman at the lectern isn’t some rabid Daily Mail columnist, but is in fact the Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Fallon.
The “SPACE MONSTERS!” rationale for foreign policy. Who saw that one coming?
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““no historian, scholar, or politician has realised that the union we entered into is in fact illegal” Too busy stuffing…” Aug 27, 17:58
James Che on Spot The Problem: “Alf, You are correct in your analysis the Crown belongs to England under the acts passed by Westminster parliaments Of…” Aug 27, 17:56
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “Good spot, am firinn. Would it be fair to say that even English parish councils are usually bundled in with…” Aug 27, 17:52
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““physical assaults” Bob? Are you saying some big, bad, English barsturts roughed you up? Did they run away afterwords, or…” Aug 27, 17:43
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “@ Northcode says: 27 August, 2026 at 5:06 pm “Neither Scotland’s parliament nor a First Minister can sack a Lord…” Aug 27, 17:38
robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Don’t hold your breath… Agent Sturgeon has friends in high places.” Aug 27, 17:29
am firinn on Spot The Problem: “Crikey. Even English parish councils – with whom the then Scottish Executive was tellingly compared – can levy taxes.” Aug 27, 17:27
James Che on Spot The Problem: “Hatey, The Scottish government levies taxes in Scotland, as indeed HMRC do in Scotland from England, Except in Scotland having…” Aug 27, 17:25
robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Absolutely! Like all these people who don’t take responsibility for the decades of coercive behaviour, gas lighting, financial abuse and…” Aug 27, 17:24
Hatey Mchateface on Spot The Problem: “I get you, Northy. Even of HR did something you approved of, it would be for the wrong reasons, so…” Aug 27, 17:15
Jim Thomson on Spot The Problem: “This story just appeared on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgy7lmlvldo” Aug 27, 17:15
Chas on Spot The Problem: “Does anyone else find it amazing that in the past 300 odd years no historian, scholar, or politician has realised…” Aug 27, 17:12
Northcode on Spot The Problem: ““…In practice, the First Minister would likely remove the Lord Advocate themselves rather than risk the embarrassment of such a…” Aug 27, 17:06
Mark Beggan on Spot The Problem: “There’s more than one way to skin a cat! What goes around comes around! Just don’t blame someone else for…” Aug 27, 17:03
Rob on Spot The Problem: “Since it is now abundantly clear they is no “official route to getting this into court, when does the judicial…” Aug 27, 16:58
Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “Marking your own jotters is De Rigeur these days, it’s one of the central pillars of Big State Socialism.” Aug 27, 16:54
Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “Grrr, colonisers. There was me thinking that Two Tier Britain was entirely a creation of the Fabians based on favouring…” Aug 27, 16:51
am firinn on Spot The Problem: “That’s not entirely true. Private prosecution used to be relatively common in Scotland before the growth of police forces in…” Aug 27, 16:49
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Perhaps you’re unaware of it, Jessie, but by putting that “battered” in there, you’re encouraging, or at least trivialising, sexual…” Aug 27, 16:46
Northcode on Spot The Problem: ““…Holyrood could never remove the Lord Advocate, but somehow the U.K. Parliament could?” Your reading comprehension appears to be somewhat…” Aug 27, 16:44
robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Rev Stu… Can you encourage David Davis to raise this in the HoC that a bent FM and a bent…” Aug 27, 16:43
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““Maybe David Davies should mention it in parliament” Maybe the Scots who care should take to the streets. And not…” Aug 27, 16:32
robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “You can mark your own homework? Damn! If only I’d known when I was at school. Still, I recon a…” Aug 27, 16:31
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““most people outside of Scotland think the Scottish government is actually a Scottish government” FFS, James, the Scottish government levies…” Aug 27, 16:24
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “So if devolution had never happened, Alf, Scotland’s status as a colony could never have been confirmed. Crivens! And you…” Aug 27, 16:13
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “Oh give it a fucking rest, Northy. This has already been done to death. The Scottish Parliament can remove the…” Aug 27, 16:03
Aidan on Spot The Problem: “So what you’re saying is that because it’s politically explosive Holyrood could never remove the Lord Advocate, but somehow the…” Aug 27, 16:00
Andrea on Spot The Problem: “Reverend, is there going to be yet another letter from yourself or is this the end of the line? Maybe…” Aug 27, 15:52
panda paws on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““…raised which is funded by the U.K. taxpayer” Nope. The UK taxpayer can’t pay its own bills, far less subsidise…” Aug 27, 15:46
James Che on Spot The Problem: “The referral to the Supreme court is under the Crown of England under the The UK parliament which Scotland holds…” Aug 27, 15:20
