And no, we don’t even mean the FOUR spelling mistakes in this 42-word tweet.
We mean the bit that we’ve highlighted above in blue. Because what Scottish Labour’s lowest-watt bulb was gloating about earlier today was that Lord Bracadale concluded there’d been no gap created in the law by the Kelly-driven abolition of the OBFA.
And that’s… well, that’s not quite what Lord Bracadale said.
Last week we revealed that English voters would happily see Scotland and Northern Ireland leave the UK if it was the price of securing Brexit. But one of the odder things was that those figures included a sizeable number of Remain voters, who don’t want Brexit to happen at all.
We were a little perplexed, so we did a follow-up question asking those people if they’d elaborate a bit and got some interesting replies. One person, for example, answered “The Scottish people are very arrogant and although they want to be separate from the rest of the UK they are happy to take money from England”. Charming.
But there was also another stream of opinion on the subject, and it was revealed in the responses to another question in the original poll.
So everyone’s fighting about Gaelic again. Provoked by a minor story about a Gaelic dictionary MSM and alt-media pundits are flying at each other with daggers over a language spoken by almost nobody on Earth and on which the government spends a few measly and irrelevant pennies, trying to turn it into a proxy war over politics and the constitution and fascism and genocide and goodness knows what else.
We’ve covered the political nonsense around the issue numerous times on this site, and we’re not about to do so again here. This, as befits the Soapbox section, is a purely personal view, which will doubtless attract more furious shrieking from the sort of people who long ago lost the ability to listen to a counterpoint – or indeed tolerate the mere concept of one – let alone consider it or debate it without abuse.
But hey ho. After a while you just learn to tune that stuff out, so let’s go.
We could all do with some cheering up at the moment, so it’s with great pleasure that we can announce fantastic news for Scotland – the ancient plague of sectarianism has finally been defeated once and for all!
At least, we assume it MUST have been, because this week the Scottish Parliament is set to give its final assent – thanks to Labour, the Tories, the Liberal Democrats and the all-important Scottish Greens – to abolishing the Offensive Behaviour (Football) Act, against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the Scottish population.
And as we can plainly observe from events yesterday, they would only be doing that if sectarianism was no longer a problem and it was safe to send out an encouraging message to the bigots that their worldview is now acceptable in Scotland again.
Alf Baird on Faces In Sand: “Yes James, and when “leaving the Union” which never existed, we are no longer dealing with the annexing power nor…” Oct 21, 09:15
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “Enough of that Mary. This is Wings BTL. Do you honestly think anybody cares? To be fair though, we’re much…” Oct 21, 09:12
James Che on Faces In Sand: “MaryB , I have been watching the Covid enquiry going through the Congress in America with Fauci suddenly turning backward…” Oct 21, 08:59
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““Perhaps we should refocus on these” Perhaps you have lost sight of the purpose of a place like this one!…” Oct 21, 08:45
James Che on Faces In Sand: “It is surprising how much sh@t is fed to Scots, and we are expected to believe it. Reading Stu’s previous…” Oct 21, 08:40
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “You must be qualified to rule on whether ignorance truly is bliss then. TBQH, you don’t come across as particularly…” Oct 21, 08:33
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““Do you not have trouble sleeping at night?” You’re the one posting at 1:11 am, Geri. Got to say, your…” Oct 21, 08:27
Aidan on Faces In Sand: “I think MI5 has rather more serious issues on its caseload then turning off the internet at a tiny gathering…” Oct 21, 08:14
Captain Caveman on Faces In Sand: ““Scotland did not have colonies.” Wrong. Plainly and factually wrong. Examples have been provided. Northy, you’re still hiding behind an…” Oct 21, 08:03
Spartan 117 on Faces In Sand: “Amazed that anyone bothers with the Telly Tax anymore. I binned it years ago, having given up on terrestrial TV…” Oct 21, 07:55
Willie on Faces In Sand: “And for those Scots licence payers complsining about.thei BBC Scotland being cut here’s a headline from BBC Pidgin news piece…” Oct 21, 05:11
Willie on Faces In Sand: “And meanwhile you have to laugh the laugh of the luckless sucker BBC licence payers. Here we have in Scotland…” Oct 21, 04:52
Geri on Faces In Sand: ““Ah, c’moan noo, Geri. Surely you mean “shagging & eating”? Doing if the other way around seems quite infeasible.” Shagging,…” Oct 21, 01:11
Geri on Faces In Sand: “Nonzi – I like it! The Nonzis are off to Saudi to get their arse kicked. Imagine having the front…” Oct 21, 00:06
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““Nonces & Nazis everywhere” Of course, Geri. Look out behind you! Crivens, Geri, that ane might be a Nazi AND…” Oct 20, 22:52
Geri on Faces In Sand: “The West is dripping with nonces. Why else would they give them immunity from prosecution & give them a wee…” Oct 20, 22:01
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “How do you know what size mine is? Or how effective a weapon it is? “Why else would blighty &…” Oct 20, 21:00
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““eating & shagging weans in their spare time” That’s what Indy’s been missing since the female hating medievalists cut of…” Oct 20, 20:53
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “@Lorncal In “No Country For Old Men” the author writes that back in the fifties of the last century, the…” Oct 20, 20:49
Geri on Faces In Sand: “They’re well & truly kicking yer arse eh? That’s what you call gubbed. It’s delicious that it’s on all three…” Oct 20, 20:36
Geri on Faces In Sand: “Those shite stirring bastards are in every single country, fae the Balkans tae the Middle East, noising up the locals,…” Oct 20, 20:21
Lorncal on Faces In Sand: “Northcode: you are right up to a point. We would have had Darien had it been successful and we would…” Oct 20, 20:05
Lorncal on Faces In Sand: “H McH: yes, I agree that the circumstances were a bit different in the past, but even in the relatively…” Oct 20, 19:53
Northcode on Faces In Sand: “Sam, none of my comments referred to slavery — my point was about co-opted elites, imperial agency, and national sovereignty.” Oct 20, 19:28
MaryB on Faces In Sand: “Watching the Covid enquiry report on C4 news. I’m reminded that Nicola behaved similarly to England and the care homes…” Oct 20, 19:13
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““Neither would it have been abolished” Let me just fix that for you, sam: “Neither would it have been made…” Oct 20, 18:44
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “Well known that the LNM supports the SNP. Her pic is all over some of the merchandise. So yes, as…” Oct 20, 18:31
sam on Faces In Sand: “The Scottish people, outside the elite, participated in slavery as sailors,dockworkers and plantation overseers. Doctors worked on plantations. Many in…” Oct 20, 18:14
Aidan on Faces In Sand: ““Rev, David Henry suggests at 3.28 hours in the Sunday 18th October youtube of the SSRG conference that MI5 blocked…” Oct 20, 18:03
