So, having made a statement on Monday morning which asserted that she wouldn’t make any further statements, then making another statement on Monday afternoon, Nicola Sturgeon and her solicitor issued a third statement in 36 hours last night.
And while we acknowledge that this is a very high bar to clear, it contained one of the most troubling and blatant lies she’s ever told.
There will be no trial, no cross-examination, no explanation. The people of Scotland, the members and supporters of the SNP, the wider Yes movement, none of us will ever know what really happened. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
Despite what you or we might think, in the eyes of the Scottish Football Association this ISN’T a pitch invasion. This is simply what a football match in progress looks like.
Because according to the absolutely extraordinary statement they’ve released this evening, that was game time. The clock was still running, nothing was being added to account for the fact that there were thousands of thugs rampaging across the field, and the game was still happening in that moment, until it was ended four seconds later.
Anyone seeking to make a compelling argument for the proposition that Scotland’s politicians and lawmakers are simply too farcically incompetent to ever be trusted with running an independent country had a gift-wrapped Godsend delivered to them last week by the idiot student children of Edinburgh.
But we can’t really put the blame on the colourfully-haired, keffiyeh-clad cretin kiddies of the capital for that, because it’s their elders and betters who opened the door.
Alert readers will have noticed something of a minor furore in recent days around a boneheaded Scottish Greens candidate (as if there were any other kind) calling for the complete abolition of prisons.
So far Kate Nevens – who on the latest polling has a very reasonable chance of being elected on the list – has resisted calls to step down, which is probably for the best as, incredibly, her replacement would be even worse.
With the implosion of Your Party concentrating the nutter vote firmly in Green hands, the next term of the Scottish Parliament is set to feature the worst array of MSPs in Holyrood’s history, with almost everyone in the SNP with any sort of ability or experience resigning to be replaced by hyper-obedient young party drones, while the opposition are mostly putting forward the same old faces who’ve been such utter failures for the last 20 years.
It’s a grim prospect, but we do have a solution to propose.
The turnout at the “independence march and rally” yesterday was so abysmally poor that it seems almost unfair to pick on any of the scores of SNP elected representatives who didn’t bother to show up.
But dear old Cosy Feet Pete Wishart had the most chef’s-kiss excuse of all.
The reason he didn’t fancy getting his wee Billy Whizz quiff blown about a chilly Calton Hill was that he had important business “taking on the far right” – who were of course nowhere to be seen – with “half a million” (50,000) of his British besties, a convenient short Tube ride away from his London residence, at a pretty openly anti-Semitic protest called, with a double layer of delicious comedic value… UK Together.
If events in Edinburgh today are anything to go by – when a march and rally announced with great fanfare seven months ago, backed by both the “independence” parties in the Scottish Parliament and featuring the First Minister as main speaker, attracted perhaps 1,500 people at the most to Calton Hill on a bright and sunny day – the independence movement faces an imminent final apocalypse.
So here’s how to prepare yourself for when the SNP win a landslide with 35%, Keir Starmer says “So what?” and then a deathly silence descends for another five years.
Even Kelly Given and Iona Fyfe didn’t show up for this one. That’s how bad it is.
The last faint hope of any remotely positive or at least interesting outcome of May’s election just left the building.
It wasn’t MUCH of a hope, and it’s absolutely no surprise in the wake of the comically shambolic, belief-defyingly inept farce that has been the birth of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s fringe-of-the fringe party, but all the same its extinguishing means the next two months will be even more of a waste of time than they looked like being.
Frankly, readers, we may as well not bother having an election at all.
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Hatey McHateface on These Words Are My Own: “@Aidan It means that an Independent Scotland would do as I say. What you say too, of course. And what…” Jul 20, 13:14
Hatey McHateface on Progressing To Oblivion: “What’s that you say, Sooty? Why no words of congratulation to Spain from Dave, for a superb game of positive…” Jul 20, 13:08
DaveL on Progressing To Oblivion: “F.SâŚhatey posting complaints about whatâs not been posted about and managing to denigrate regular posters too! What a winner! Whoâd…” Jul 20, 12:19
Aidan on These Words Are My Own: “â In an independent Scotland: â sovereignty would lie with the people, not with Parliament â the Claim of Right…” Jul 20, 12:13
Northcode on These Words Are My Own: “Itâs true that Holyrood wouldnât simply inherit Westminster-style parliamentary privilege after independence. But independence also wouldnât force Scotland into a…” Jul 20, 12:04
sam on Progressing To Oblivion: “Mark Diffley worked for Better Together before working for Progress Scotland. He is an experienced pollster. There was criticism of…” Jul 20, 11:41
wullie on Progressing To Oblivion: “politicians institutions political parties. In Scotland think grooming gangs. As far as I can see that is all they are.…” Jul 20, 11:15
Alf Baird on These Words Are My Own: ““itâs the worrying lack of passion and resolution on behalf of enough Scots to not take âNoâ from Westminster as…” Jul 20, 11:12
agentx on Progressing To Oblivion: “AI Overview Angus Robertson’s wife, Jennifer Dempsie, does not hold a job within the SNP. She is a founding partner…” Jul 20, 10:58
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Southernbystander on These Words Are My Own: “One interesting thing – Davis was able to say this because the House of Commons is not answerable to the…” Jul 20, 09:44
Captain Caveman on Progressing To Oblivion: “Yup, cheating dirty bastards. Fuck off.” Jul 20, 09:17
Hatey McHateface on Progressing To Oblivion: “Surely everything is down to far too many Scots repeatedly voting for the SNP and the Greens? Way I see…” Jul 20, 09:08
100%Yes on Progressing To Oblivion: “Today the new English PM will stand outside downing Street and state the north seas will be drained dry (Scotland)…” Jul 20, 08:32
Hatey McHateface on Progressing To Oblivion: “Sticking with my medical analogy, Alf, you’re the doctor telling the patient that the only cure for illness is to…” Jul 20, 08:32
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Hatey McHateface on Progressing To Oblivion: “Not one post even acknowledging the superb win by Spain last night? Football 1 – 0 Cheating It’s enough to…” Jul 20, 08:18
100%Yes on Progressing To Oblivion: “I keep saying because no one else will!!! Wings points out the problems regarding the SNP, which is essential. But…” Jul 20, 08:11
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Captain Caveman on Progressing To Oblivion: “⌠Anyone else get the feeling we could be looking at Murrell as the tip of a very large âMade…” Jul 20, 07:52
Angus on Progressing To Oblivion: “Does Robertson’s wife still have a lucrative job within the SNP?” Jul 20, 05:36
twathater on Progressing To Oblivion: “What a misnomer PROGRESS SCOTLAND is , it should probably be renamed as NAE PROGRESS SCOTLAND or bloated Angus’s personal…” Jul 20, 02:15
David McLeod on Progressing To Oblivion: “I have never understood why the (UK) Companies Act requirements for annual accounts were watered down to permit these “micro-accounts”.…” Jul 19, 23:22
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