For the record, we thought you should see what the Scottish Parliament considers to be the appropriate treatment of an “Urgent Question”.
For a little over eight minutes, the Lord Advocate was allowed to ignore and avoid a series of questions put to him regarding the abjectly corrupt Crown Office’s recent interference with the work of the Fabiani inquiry by redacting evidence which in no way identified anyone as a complainer in the trial of Alex Salmond.
By the committee’s rules, if it’s not on the committee website then it doesn’t exist, and the redacted parts are – belatedly – no longer on the website. (As far as we can make out the unredacted version was finally removed around midnight last night.)
Farcically, she also denied even knowing that this question from James Matthews of Sky News was about Geoff Aberdein, who is the subject of all the redacted sections, which are all about the meeting Matthews was asking her about.
The First Minister is a liar and has all but given up on even the most token pretence otherwise. She is a disgrace to Scotland.
If we can somehow find the time amid the relentless blizzard of current Scottish political activity, we’re going to put together a list of all the legitimate and important questions that Alex Salmond’s lawyers have asked the Fabiani inquiry which haven’t even had the courtesy of a reply, let alone a satisfactory one.
We fully anticipate that the contents of the letter below, sent today, will be on that list.
It really can’t be overstated what extraordinary tweets these are.
That’s the editor of the conservative, ultra-establishment Spectator openly linking to a document that the Crown Office – the agent of the Queen herself – has threatened to prosecute the Scottish Parliament for publishing, and which has officially been deleted but is for some reason actually still available on the Parliament’s website.
The Spectator is giving the Queen the finger. And that’s not even the mad bit.
The Scottish Government and Nicola Sturgeon have tonight embarked on a last-ditch desperate throw of the dice to undermine and sabotage the already-compromised and endlessly-obstructed Fabiani inquiry in its impossible quest for the truth.
Having previously deployed her paid mouthpiece Rape Crisis Scotland last week, the First Minister – who’s spent the last six months insisting that she’d save her comments for her appearance at the inquiry – suddenly popped up on BBC and STV (but not, curiously, Sky News) to issue a challenge full of gunfighter bravado to her predecessor.
The highlighted part was not in the draft, and it amounts to an explicit and absolutely terrifying redesignation of basic human biology as a hate crime.
It’s difficult to know where to even start on the absolutely extraordinary reaction to our post about yesterday’s meeting of the SNP National Executive Committee. Our traffic exploded to levels not seen since 2014, racking up tens of thousands of pageviews an hour, and social media was aflame with argument into the small hours of the morning.
A whole raft of issues arose from our exclusive revelations, but the one we want to talk about now is the one that was buried at the bottom of what a panicked SNP hastily and laughably produced as the “minutes” of the meeting, and we didn’t even notice it until a couple of hours after the original post.
On the very fabric of the Scottish Parliament – specifically its Canongate Wall, across the road from a building curiously called “Watergate” – are inscribed 26 quotes, carved into stone hewn from every corner of the country, about the sort of Scotland that the building and those working inside it are supposed to stand for and aspire to.
One of them, from the celebrated author Sir Walter Scott, reads thus:
It’s a phrase that’s hard to interpret as anything but a paean to stern accountability. Should our representatives, it says, fail to live up to the standards that we expect and demand of them, they should be pelted with stones.
Now, we must assume – for this is the 21st century, and public stoning is a barbaric act limited to but a few of the UK’s allies – that said stones were intended by the architects to be understood as metaphorical ones, presumably in the form of harsh criticism.
It’s alarming, then, that so many of the people currently trying to get elected to that Parliament apparently instead believe that any criticism of them should be a crime.
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “You could just have posted “Some big, English bastards did it and then ran away”, Jay. Then you might have…” Jun 21, 08:20
Captain Caveman on A Fishy Tale: “No Hatey, I don’t believe that poot is about to launch a full ground offensive against Western Europe, even up…” Jun 21, 08:01
Captain Caveman on The End Of Law: “This perpetual blaming others and “it’s not a left wing thing” schtick (when quite plainly is most assuredly is, as…” Jun 21, 07:56
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “You don’t understand how this “sovereignty” thing works. The more we don’t use it, the more powerful it becomes. The…” Jun 21, 07:40
Captain Caveman on The End Of Law: “Ah, I note that I’m still living rent-free in your echo-skulled head I see, [capital “J”] Jay. It’s very commodious,…” Jun 21, 07:38
robertkknight on The End Of Law: “Posted upstream, but I’ll state again… Almost two-thirds of transgender prisoners have committed sex crimes. Compare that to the the…” Jun 21, 07:31
Angus on The End Of Law: ““Because our wee country has been stolen by arrogant gangsters and there appears to be nothing we can do about…” Jun 21, 01:10
Jay on The End Of Law: “Casper, the SNP are the rats on the ship. Alf Baird has been explaining the underpinnings of the rotten situation…” Jun 21, 00:40
Jay on The End Of Law: “Lorncal, can you add a link for seeing the 1960’s video, please?” Jun 21, 00:25
agentx on The End Of Law: “It looks like Murrell appearing for sentencing in tight pink leggings isn’t going to work now!” Jun 21, 00:19
Jay on The End Of Law: “049/26 from L. Pollock shows that she has no intention to comply with the findings of Lady Ross, an insolent…” Jun 20, 23:37
Lorncal on The End Of Law: “That was how the narrative was changed by Stonewall. Previously, these men – the autogynephiles and fetishists – who were…” Jun 20, 23:05
Phil on The End Of Law: “It’s the only way forward. https://capx.co/is-it-time-to-abolish-holyrood” Jun 20, 23:03
Lorncal on The End Of Law: “gm/Dave G: that is why it now has to be brought under the auspices of the criminal law. ALL biological…” Jun 20, 22:48
Lorncal on The End Of Law: “The judge left a loophole through which the ‘trans’ lobby will slither: that certain ‘trans’ identified men who are especially…” Jun 20, 22:42
willie on A Fishy Tale: “Ah, and supported by Brendan O’Hara a man who publicly declared that Nicola Sturgeon was the greatest ever Scots Woman…” Jun 20, 21:27
Red on The End Of Law: “The far-left position that trans individuals — particularly those who are biologically male — pose no statistical or situational risk…” Jun 20, 20:54
gm on The End Of Law: “Cheers Dave. I was thinking along the lines of a complaint being made against the SPS by relatives of a…” Jun 20, 20:53
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The End Of Law: “Worth a watch. Episode on trans issues from online channel of veteran club-bouncer, street-violence survival advisor, and mainstream defence sector…” Jun 20, 20:34
Dave G on The End Of Law: “Failing to comply with Lady Ross’s ruling is potentially contempt of a civil court but it is not a criminal…” Jun 20, 20:30
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: ““trigger some kind of intervention from the Westminster Parliament to shut the entire Scottish Parliament altogether” If you can access…” Jun 20, 20:27
gm on The End Of Law: “Someone complains to the police and they report to the Crown office who don’t do anything. Is there anything else?” Jun 20, 20:21
A2 on The End Of Law: “however they could face dicipline for saying otherwise and without a union that will support them they all (have to)…” Jun 20, 20:20
gm on The End Of Law: “If the SPS, any organisation, refuses or fails to comply with the law. What mechanism exists to make them comply?” Jun 20, 20:20
Red on The End Of Law: “Linda Pollock – who should be stacking shelves in a supermarket based on her CV – is paid over £125,000,…” Jun 20, 20:13
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “Wasn’t it psychology earlier, Alf, around half past four? I’m sure it was psychology earlier, because I just went back…” Jun 20, 20:03
Hatey McHateface on A Fishy Tale: “Wear your tea towel with pride, Marie. Learn some Arabic chants too. Fat lot of good any of it will…” Jun 20, 19:54
Hatey McHateface on A Fishy Tale: “@Captain Caveman The warming melts the ice. The melted ice ends up in the sea. The sea level rises. It’s…” Jun 20, 19:48
Hatey McHateface on A Fishy Tale: “A perfectly valid viewpoint, CC. Perhaps you believe that poot will happily stop at the borders of his former colony,…” Jun 20, 19:39
Alasdair Roy on A Fishy Tale: “The carnal tendencies of SNP Westminster MPs had slipped my mind until Confused mentioned the current and fragrant spouse of…” Jun 20, 19:27
