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An unduly restrictive view of salvation 88

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Rev. Stuart Campbell

Earlier today we heard from the SNP’s depute leader Keith Brown that the party now accepts there will never be another UK-sanctioned independence referendum.

And this afternoon in the chamber the SNP also voted against the only alternative.

Alba MSP Ash Regan laid down the above motion, which supports what as far as we knew was still the SNP’s official policy in the absence of another Section 30, in so far as they even know what their policy is.

Today that motion was voted down by 125 votes to 1.

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Category comment, scottish politics, surrender

Objection Sustained 41

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Rev. Stuart Campbell

This must be some kind of mistake.

Because we’re sure you’ve spent the last decade telling us that just couldn’t happen.

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Category analysis, comment, history, idiots, scottish politics, surrender

A Brief History Of Hope 168

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Chris Cairns

Tags: cartoons Chris Cairns
Category comment, scottish politics

The Tartan Messiah 42

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Rev. Stuart Campbell

Well, Shauny‘s knocked it out of the park.

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Category comment, culture, scottish politics, video

After the swarm 72

Posted on September 11, 2024 by Alex Salmond

On 15 October 2012, I signed the Edinburgh Agreement with David Cameron to secure the independence referendum of September 2014.

On the same day Peter Kellner of the polling company YouGov wrote one of his condescending commentaries from London dissing any hope for the Yes campaign.

“However, from Salmond’s point of view, it is about the only thing going for him. Indeed, were he to be given a truth drug, he might well curse the fact that the SNP won last year’s Scottish elections outright, and thus found himself in a position to keep his promise.

He would surely have been much happier remaining the leader of a minority government, unable to get his independence legislation through Holyrood. Then he could have railed against the Scottish satraps of the Britain-wide parties for silencing the voice of the Scottish people.

Instead, by winning an outright majority, he has shot his own fox. Rather than shed crocodile tears for his inability to call a referendum, he must now put the issue to the test.

As a shrewd and intelligent man – indeed, one of the shrewdest and most intelligent in British politics – he must know that his mission is impossible, that in two years time his country will vote to remain part of the United Kingdom, and that far from being achieved, independence will be deferred for at least a generation.

All YouGov’s evidence from the past four years is that independence is a minority passion north of the border. Even as the SNP was surging to victory last year, Scots told us by two-to-one that they wanted to remain within the UK.

The SNP won because most Scots thought it had governed their country well, because they liked Salmond, and because they thought the Scottish Labour Party was useless – not because they wanted to sever links with London.”

Kellner’s view was almost universal, and not just among the London pack of journos and politicians. Most, if not all, of the Scottish media agreed with him.

However, by September 2014 things looked very different.

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Tags: Alex Salmond
Category comment, history, scottish politics

Honest John 90

Posted on September 07, 2024 by Chris Cairns

Tags: cartoons Chris Cairns
Category comment, scottish politics

The Last Legs 67

Posted on September 06, 2024 by Mia Hughes

In the 1990s, Dr. Robert Smith, a surgeon at Falkirk Royal Infirmary, performed a pair of amputations on two men. Neither of the men involved had anything physically wrong with them, but both were suffering from apotemnophilia – a rare psychiatric condition involving the desire to have healthy limbs amputated.

Sufferers, counterintuitively, claim not to feel “whole” with four limbs and obsess over having their unwanted body parts chopped off. Smith argued the surgeries were life-saving, claiming the patients would commit suicide otherwise.

Apotemnophiles, like autogynephiles, insist that there is no erotic element, but it was later discovered that one of the men Smith operated on ran an amputee fetish website.

Upon investigation, the hospital deemed the procedures unethical. Smith was banned from mutilating healthy bodies (although he was found not to have breached any of the hospital’s rules at the time and not sanctioned), and the dubious experiment ended.

But let’s imagine for a moment an alternate reality.

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Tags: Mia Hughes
Category comment, conversion, disturbing, scottish politics, transcult, world

All The Rainbows In The Sky 125

Posted on September 02, 2024 by Rev. Stuart Campbell

There may, readers, be a connection between this:

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and this:

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But the key fact about the SNP is the same either way.

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Category comment, corruption, music, scottish politics, transcult, video

The Scissor Sisters 56

Posted on August 31, 2024 by Chris Cairns

Tags: cartoons Chris Cairns
Category comment, scottish politics, uk politics

The Solution 22

Posted on August 30, 2024 by Rev. Stuart Campbell

All one can hope is that this was an unfortunate slip of the tongue.

Otherwise, folks, you’ll just have to buck your ideas up.

Tags: and finally
Category comment, idiots, scottish politics, wtf

Into the far away 183

Posted on August 27, 2024 by Rev. Stuart Campbell

Poor old Tommy Sheppard’s got a contract, so he has to keep talking. And this week he said something that, if anyone really thought the constitution was still a current live political issue, would have attracted a lot more attention than it did.

Because even the SNP are now saying another indyref is – at best – a decade away.

Wings Over Scotland

Archive for the ‘comment’

An unduly restrictive view of salvation 88

Objection Sustained 41

A Brief History Of Hope 168

The Tartan Messiah 42

After the swarm 72

Honest John 90

The Last Legs 67

All The Rainbows In The Sky 125

The Scissor Sisters 56

The Solution 22

Into the far away 183

Going For Broke 157

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