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Panto season 159

Posted on December 27, 2020 by

(Yeah, we lost track of the days and forgot yesterday was Saturday, shut up.)

An internal matter 213

Posted on December 26, 2020 by

WIDER YES MOVEMENT: Hey, why don’t some of you SNP guys come along to this event and have a friendly chat about how we can all achieve our common goal?

THE SNP: Get back in your box and mind your business, oiks.

Next year’s going to be bumpy, folks.

A game of Blankety Blank 261

Posted on December 23, 2020 by

With precisely the grim level of cynicism we’ve now come to expect as standard, the Scottish Government has released a key document relating to the Salmond inquiry two days before Christmas, hoping it’ll be buried in the ongoing coronavirus-and-Brexit-related implosion of the UK.

The document, which contains legal advice relating to the judicial review brought by Salmond regarding the Scottish Government’s investigations into false allegations of misconduct against him, is extremely heavily redacted. But a few interesting passages remain, so let’s have some fun.

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Back in the days 400

Posted on December 21, 2020 by

There was a time, readers, when we’d have bothered ourselves to dig out the whole series of headlines and links for this.

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Sick and tired 256

Posted on December 20, 2020 by

Oh just shut up you useless waste of space.

He DOESN’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK. You can bleat at him for a thousand years and he won’t listen. You gave him his election and he has a majority and England has chosen its fate and there’s not a damn thing we can do to stop them dragging us down with them because you’ve wasted the last four years whining about it instead of doing the thing we elected you to do, which is put us in charge of our own future forever.

Now either get off your worthless coward’s arse and do the only thing that’s actually in your power – a plebiscitary election – instead of grandstanding around the world stage achieving absolutely sod-all except getting your face in the press again, or get out of our damn way and let someone who can do the job take over.

(PS that also includes the job of handling the pandemic, which you’re making a pig’s arse of too, but gosh, doesn’t everyone love how telegenically you’re presenting the thousands of needless deaths? New Zealand has had just TWENTY-FIVE with near enough the same population, because their leader had the courage to make the tough calls you failed to because the Selfie Queen can’t bear to be unpopular.)

And no, we haven’t been drinking. Not a drop. We’ve just had enough.

Time to grasp the thistle 360

Posted on December 19, 2020 by

Kafka Chameleons 353

Posted on December 17, 2020 by

As it happened, it was fortuitous that this story intervened and stopped us writing the story we meant to run yesterday, because now we’ve got a two-for-the-price-of-one on the increasingly farcical insanity running riot in the offices of the Scottish Government.

Alert readers will have noticed the above piece from today’s Times, revealing that the Scottish Government just can’t seem to stop breaking the rules (and squandering huge vats of taxpayers’ money in the process) when it comes to Alex Salmond.

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How to abuse children in plain sight 213

Posted on December 16, 2020 by

We woke up this morning intending to write about something else, readers, and then we saw perhaps the most horrifying thing we’ve ever seen in the two years since we first started taking an interest in transgender ideology.

It’s only tangentially related to this site’s purpose, but the truth is that as human beings we cannot stand by and watch this happening without at least trying to use whatever platform we have to raise awareness of it.

(The black bars on images in this article were added by us.)

Last week the High Court in England ruled that children under the age of 16 were not medically competent to consent to treatment with so-called “puberty blocker” drugs of the type that were used to “chemically castrate” the computing pioneer Alan Turing for being homosexual (a crime in the UK in the 1950s), which is believed to have led to his suicide by cyanide poisoning at the age of 41.

The most common such drug nowadays is Lupron, used as a treatment/alternative punishment on rapists and paedophiles to reduce their offending by destroying their sexual function. It has not been tested for use on “transgender” children and nobody knows how much permanent harm it could do them (although the likely answer is “a lot”), which is why the High Court ruled against it last week.

But apparently that doesn’t matter.

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The Glorious Failures 240

Posted on December 13, 2020 by

Twitter yesterday was full of SNP MPs crowing about having been elected exactly one year ago, something achieved on the back of a pledge to “STOP BREXIT” and put Scotland’s future in its own hands. But curiously, none of the pics any of them posted with their tweets depicted the party’s main campaign slogan.

Which, y’know, is pretty understandable.

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An offer refused 186

Posted on December 12, 2020 by

Non-trivial pursuits 89

Posted on December 11, 2020 by

It’s weird. Less than 24 hours ago, we were being firmly told that a vote in the Scottish Parliament was an insignificant, indeed “meaningless”, choice between two words that meant exactly the same thing and were “interchangeable”.

So when the Parliament decided last night, by an overwhelming 113-9 margin, which of the two words it wanted to use, you’d imagine that that’d be no big deal and everyone would shrug it off in a casual, indifferent sort of way, right?

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Scotland’s Disgraces 229

Posted on December 10, 2020 by

The list below is a much, much shorter one than we were expecting to run. In the end, just nine MSPs voted today against Johann Lamont’s amendment on forensic medical examinations, with one abstention. The amendment passed by a margin of 104 votes after SNP MSPs voted in favour, with only the Greens and Lib Dems opposed.

Every last one of them is a disgusting coward who doesn’t care about the feelings of rape victims and we’re ashamed to share a nationality with them.

We note in passing that all but one are male, and that the list includes all (excepting Alison Johnstone, currently absent from Parliament recovering from an operation) of the Scottish Greens, the party which has – by choice – the lowest proportion of women in the Parliament. The Lib Dems, of course, are second lowest, in every sense.

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    • James Cheyne on Strike One: “The NHS is a public Body and cannot overrule Private Rights of the subjects Scotland and neither can judges, Civil…Dec 12, 10:26
    • desimond on Strike One: “Is this outside the remit of our Justice Minister?Dec 12, 10:22
    • PC Foster on Strike One: “Let em talk- they will fade into the background when they realise you are not paying attention.Dec 12, 10:13
    • James Cheyne on Strike One: “It also fails to relate any mention/wording of supreme judgements being capable of overruling it outside the subjects of Scotland,…Dec 12, 10:12
    • PC Foster on Strike One: “But the Scottish judges are knobled- so that’s not going to be of any use!!Dec 12, 10:09
    • James Cheyne on Strike One: “Corrections to judgement? First of all the right to private rights and private family life which has been amended or…Dec 12, 09:46
    • Weary on Strike One: “I was at the Vic A@E the night before the Christmas Eve encounter. (I was held overnight and discharged Christmas…Dec 12, 09:40
    • PC Foster on Strike One: “The SG are now using money that was earmarked to support the health of the good people of Fife to…Dec 12, 09:39
    • Northcode on Strike One: “Hooray! It looks like I didn’t write my last comment out loud after all! Either that or it has been…Dec 12, 09:33
    • PC Foster on Strike One: “The Scottish Government and the Unions are in cahoots about this and have conspired with the Scottish Judicial system to…Dec 12, 09:25
    • Marie on Strike One: “I have no trust in the lawDec 12, 09:15
    • Northcode on Strike One: “Oops! Sorry, folks. I didn’t realise I’d written my last comment out loud. It’s the voices you see – the…Dec 12, 09:12
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    • The Flying Iron of Doom on The ginger stepchild: “I am reminded of that Green party wifie Rachel Millward, she being the one who declared that she wanted Wales…Dec 12, 08:38
    • Geoff Anderson on Strike One: “A good question https://x.com/blablafishcakes/status/1998747889703477313?s=20Dec 12, 08:37
    • Hatey McHateface on The ginger stepchild: “Looks like you’ll have another 5 years of saying it then. Just think how good your cut-and-paste technique will be…Dec 12, 07:40
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    • Angus on Strike One: “The judge who made this judgement has zero integrity and credibility and must be sacked.Dec 12, 05:41
    • Peter McAvoy on The ginger stepchild: “It looks like the SNP support for Independence is Not Proven and will soon disappear like the legal safeguard they…Dec 12, 02:09
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    • KITTYBEE on Spoiler Alert: “Well this judge holds the Supreme Court in Contempt. He has to go!!Dec 12, 00:00
    • Sarah Walker on The Valley Of The Dolls: “Brilliant work: thank you. Interesting that paragraph 879 implies Upton has a protected belief that he’s a woman. Gender critical…Dec 11, 23:42
    • PC Foster on Strike One: “Twathater- you could not be more right. lets ensure that Sandie Peggie can take this all the way up to…Dec 11, 23:16
    • robertkknight on The ginger stepchild: “Frankly my dear, not a shit will be given either way. The SNP are charlatans in tartan suits selling snake…Dec 11, 22:19
    • BLMac on Strike One: “This sort of judgement is reminiscent of what happened in Queensland a few decades ago. As it turned out the…Dec 11, 22:13
    • Tommo on Strike One: “This is truly an amazing piece of forensic dissection (by the Editor and a few others) of a piece of…Dec 11, 22:05
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