The Scottish Government have just launched yet another nanny-state “healthy eating” intervention, and to be honest, readers, the cheap-shot open goals just queued up.
Our first instinct was to do a simple picture gallery of some of the insatiable pie-hounds squeezing their expenses-fed backsides onto the groaning, creaking benches and chairs of the Holyrood and Westminster parliaments, such as Kirsten “Elbows” Oswald (pictured above, slumped back under the sheer weight of her neck) – so known to other MPs because you get between her and a buffet at grave peril to your ribcage.
(And no, we’re not telling you which ones told us that.)
We’re reluctant to even mention the farcical, embarrassing goings-on in the House Of Commons last night, but the very short version is that the SNP somehow contrived to save Keir Starmer from an embarrassing mass rebellion of Labour MPs.
And in so far as anyone cared about them at all, the people of Gaza were the losers.
If there’s ever been a (branch office of a) political party that could somehow manage to blow it in Scotland against the burning trainwreck in a ditch full of sewage that is the SNP right now, it’s definitely Anas Sarwar’s hapless Scottish Labour.
Honestly, this stuff is comedy gold. But in a winner-takes-all dumb-off with Humza Yousaf’s SNP, it’s way too close to call.
As Twitter followers will have noticed, we’ve been busy this week with an extensive remodelling of Wings HQ, which involved the main computer being out of commission for several days while the office was basically torn down and rebuilt from scratch. (It seemed a good time to do it, given that there’s nothing remotely of interest happening in Scottish politics.)
Unfortunately the lack of activity on the site caused the comments on the last post to degenerate into the most wretched playground shrieking match, so let’s see if we can’t distract the children and talk about something else for a bit.
Particularly alert observers will have noted that Kezia Dugdale, the most spectacularly inept and unsuccessful Scottish political leader in history, this week demitted her role as Director of the John Smith Centre, which she was handed as an incentive to quit Scottish Labour after dragging it to 14% in the opinion polls.
We make no apology for returning once again to the depressing subject of the Scottish Government’s proposed new law to ban “conversion practices”, because it provides such an illuminating microcosm of how far a once competent and widely-respected administration has fallen since 2015.
Emma Roddick, who is piloting the bill towards the statute books in much the same way that Mohamed Atta piloted American Airlines Flight 11 towards the World Trade Centre, is a 26-year-old who by her own admission suffers from a serious and debilitating mental illness that any sane country would regard as an insurmountable bar to political office.
To the surprise of most of those watching, including ourselves, the Court Of Session delivered its judgement immediately at the end of today’s hearing, after only the most cursory of conflabs between the three august panel members.
The short version is that the Scottish Government lost, and must now comply with Wings reader Benjamin Harrop‘s FOI request regarding evidence that was supplied to independent adviser James Hamilton during his inquiry into the unlawful investigation of false allegations against Alex Salmond.
Chas on A Long Hard Think: “DaveLooney Many thanks for your response. Who do you speak for? Could it be Fanny, Mummi or Ceaser. Or is…” Sep 13, 18:26
Hatey McHateface on A Long Hard Think: “I speak English, TURABDIN, and I am better than the rest. Like most Scots, I’ve little time for the inferior…” Sep 13, 18:23
twathater on A Long Hard Think: “I notice now that the yoonionist parties have come to the realisation that their unwavering support for Is ra hel…” Sep 13, 18:21
Hatey McHateface on A Long Hard Think: “Very happy to accept that you are, Confused. We’re in Scotland, world leader in accepting self-identification in all its forms.…” Sep 13, 18:15
DaveL on A Long Hard Think: “…they’re both on Hatey’s ‘Love/Hate’ scale but at opposite ends?” Sep 13, 17:51
DaveL on A Long Hard Think: “@ Chas You speak for no one but yourself and all we hear is whines whinges and moans. Get back…” Sep 13, 17:46
Captain Caveman on A Long Hard Think: “QUACK QUACK OOPS. Ah, but you’ve been such a lovely contestant, Fatso. Bus fare home. 🙂” Sep 13, 17:44
James on A Long Hard Think: “Is the answer….”Captain Caveman”?” Sep 13, 17:41
Chas on A Long Hard Think: “Will you ever realise that over 90% of Scots have no interest in your repetive shite. I suspect that the…” Sep 13, 16:51
Aidan on A Long Hard Think: “I think you’d have to get a job to join a trade union James . .” Sep 13, 16:15
Mark Beggan on A Long Hard Think: “What did Hitler and Elvis have in common?” Sep 13, 16:14
Mark Beggan on A Long Hard Think: “What has Hitler and Alf Baird got in common? Hitler had no people in his paintings and Alf Baird has…” Sep 13, 16:07
Captain Caveman on A Long Hard Think: “Here’s another: CLUE: “Morbidly obese, unemployed troll with a sub-80 IQ”. F _ T S O” Sep 13, 16:01
James on A Long Hard Think: “Can we have the real “Northcode” back, please? Anyway, whoever you are; here’s today’s crossword clue for you. It’s quite…” Sep 13, 15:40
agentx on A Long Hard Think: “The numerous Sturgeon items were originally listed by the Police/ COPFS but were removed from the criminal charges list when…” Sep 13, 15:39
James on A Long Hard Think: “Wait, what? “Communist unions”?? Which ones are they and where do I sign up!? Or do you mean the ultra…” Sep 13, 15:31
Mark Beggan on A Long Hard Think: “To think, out of all the very clever people on here no one thought to point to the most obvious.…” Sep 13, 14:16
Captain Caveman on A Long Hard Think: ““That we are treated similarly to a colony is, I think, indisputable” “indisputable”? I beg to differ. As Northcode rightly…” Sep 13, 14:04
Ex President Xiden on A Long Hard Think: “If it is the case that Sturgeon has not surrendered these items voluntarily then the police must petition the court…” Sep 13, 13:54
Confused on A Long Hard Think: ““we never got it as bad as the darkies”? – alas, Scots and Anglos are the same shade of pink…” Sep 13, 13:51
Mark Beggan on A Long Hard Think: “And to think Scotland got taken to the cleaners for the price of a campervan and a few pens. How…” Sep 13, 13:51
lothianlad on A Long Hard Think: “Police Scotland are corrupt. Establishment lackies!” Sep 13, 13:37
Captain Caveman on A Long Hard Think: “That’s because it isn’t.” Sep 13, 13:31
Lorncal on A Long Hard Think: “Northcode: spot on. That we are treated similarly to a colony is, I think, indisputable, but that we ARE a…” Sep 13, 13:28
TURABDIN on A Long Hard Think: “IT IS A FACT that Scots/Scotland have become rather accustomed to the grave insult of being the mere appendage. >300…” Sep 13, 13:24
agentx on A Long Hard Think: ““Key Dimensions of Memmi’s “Geographic Violence” Forced Spatial Segregation (The Ghetto vs. The Bourgeoisie): Drawing heavily from his own upbringing…” Sep 13, 13:17
Alf Baird on A Long Hard Think: ““I’m questioning the fit between Scotland’s constitutional position and the postcolonial contexts described by Fanon, Memmi, Said, and other theorists”…” Sep 13, 12:41
