Nicola Sturgeon told Scotland’s press this morning that despite her weariness, she could have managed a few more months or even a year as First Minister, which would at least have got her halfway to keeping her promise to serve a full term if she was elected in 2021.
Which just makes her timing all the harder to explain.
We did so because we’d just been told – by a completely random source – that Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney would both resign today, and Brown would be the interim leader while a replacement was elected. We’d never spoken to this person before, but the manner in which they said it made us take it more seriously than all the “someone told me” rumours we get told and ignore every other day.
As yet only the first part has been confirmed, but you have to admit that our source is looking pretty darn hot right now.
There are terms beloved of politics activists and commonly used on social media which are a baffling mystery to the general public. We’ve spoken several times of the word “gaslighting”, which is understandably used as shorthand for quite a complex thing that’s difficult to describe concisely, but nevertheless acts as a barrier to understanding for anyone not overly political.
Below are two news reports from the Scottish Sun this week:
Both of the people arrested were male-bodied individuals who identify as women. As far as we’re aware, neither of them has a Gender Recognition Certificate. They are both the same sex, biologically and legally, and both describe themselves as female.
Yet in giving statements about their respective arrests, Police Scotland called one of them a man and one of them a woman. And we’re having no luck finding out why.
But isn’t that the Scottish Greens co-leader in that picture, in the bunnet, between his colleague Ross Greer and Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Alex Cole-Hamilton, all enthusiastically clapping Douglas just a few weeks ago?
The title of this article might sound a bit like the name of a band making their debut at Glastonbury this year, but in fact it’s something infinitely more serious.
News broke late last night that the person we must presumably now refer to as an “individual” who had been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a missing Galashiels schoolgirl (happily found safe and well and back home with her parents) had in fact been charged with an as-yet-unspecified crime.
But the alleged crime wasn’t the only thing going unspecified.
People across Scotland breathed a sigh of relief this morning when missing Galashiels 11-year-old Kaitlyn Easson was found safe and well after a multi-service search.
The police have arrested[EDIT: and now charged] a 53-year-old man in connection with her disappearance, named by the Daily Record as Andrew Miller, a local butcher. This was one of two names that numerous sources had been passing to Wings since the man was detained, but the two names only referred to one person.
After Wings’ investigation into the disturbing world of “furries” earlier this week, the mainstream press picked up on the quite extraordinary decision by SNP MSP Christina McKelvie to endorse a “counter-protest” being organised by the costume fetishists against a women’s-rights event in Glasgow tomorrow.
Because it appears the SNP are more and more openly throwing their weight behind both extreme sexual kink (and worse) and the intimidation of women.
On January 22nd the violent, abusive transgender activist Jack Douglas, who now uses the name Beth and the Twitter username “pickle_bee” (slang for “somebody who likes dick”), threatened that feminist campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen’s imminent “Standing For Women” event in Glasgow was going to be disrupted by the “furry” community, who happen to be hosting a gathering at the Crowne Plaza that same weekend.
“Why? What possible grudge could furries have against women?”, a friend giggled, as I related this news to her. But to answer that we have to know who these people are.
Last week he was prominent in a protest outside Queen Elizabeth House against the UK government’s S35 intervention over the Gender Recognition Reform Bill. He spoke alongside MSPs including Patrick Harvie, Karen Adam, Ross Greer, Paul Sweeney and Alex Cole-Hamilton, who lavished fulsome and effusive praise on him, going so far as to say that it was for Douglas personally that MSPs had pushed the bill through.
The final result of our Twitter poll from yesterday was pretty conclusive.
(It was also by a distance the biggest response we can ever remember getting for one – normally our Twitter polls get around 3,000 votes.)
But of course Twitter polls aren’t scientific – they’re self-selecting and they draw from a biased sample, in this case people who follow Wings and are more likely to agree with us on most things. So we need a bit more data for a better picture.
Yoon Scum on A Poor Example: “Should Scotland leave the union so we can have completely unlimited immigration? As the biggest driver behind the Reform vote…” May 10, 14:12
Yoon Scum on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “I’m glad to hear that you think we have brilliant apprentices Why aren’t as many interested WELL They can study…” May 10, 13:02
Captain Caveman on A Poor Example: “O/T @RevStu Just read your post over at BEEX, almost choked on my Bran Flakes! Bravo. Haven’t laughed like that…” May 10, 12:47
Dan on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “yoon scum says: at 5:40 am “your post pisses me off and annoys me” Well that’s a result! But most…” May 10, 12:35
Confused on A Poor Example: “relationship advice? this is un-islamic nonsense; I have 30 clerics opinions which tells me Humza can do what he likes,…” May 10, 12:34
Andrea on A Poor Example: “This is what I would have thought. As to discrimination to other men, I can discriminate, say, according to educational…” May 10, 12:26
Cuilean on A Poor Example: “Back to the Humzas original video pitch. The three responses are toe-curlingly sexist, as is the whole scenario depicted. To…” May 10, 12:11
Dave G on A Poor Example: “Many people with skin in the trans game don’t want to understand the ruling and think if they ignore it…” May 10, 11:58
Bilbo on A Poor Example: “It does feel that the only concrete outcome of the ruling has been safeguarding free speech and high profile activities…” May 10, 11:55
agent x on A Poor Example: “https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25146182.humza-yousaf-writes-india-pakistan-leaders-urge-restraint/ 7th May Former first minister Humza Yousaf and former Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar have written to the leaders of…” May 10, 11:46
Owen Mullions on A Poor Example: “Can a concerned neighbour please check on James Kelly on SGP as he seems to have suffered a complete mental…” May 10, 11:04
James Cheyne on A Poor Example: “And I wonder what would happen if 98-% of Scotland refused to vote at local and main elections. And the…” May 10, 10:36
Neil McKenzie on A Poor Example: “Kin hell, 3 answers to st Yer baws” May 10, 10:30
Vivian O’Blivion on A Poor Example: “Five, Westminster voting intention polls conducted with field work exclusively in May. Average results as follows: RefUK 29.8%, Lab 22%…” May 10, 10:21
A2 on A Poor Example: “nah, you just need to make sure it is.” May 10, 10:15
SilentMajority on A Poor Example: “There will no doubt be blatant attempts to ignore or circumvent the law. Hopefully those who have previously been pressured…” May 10, 10:15
aLurker on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “Hi Stuart MacKay. This seems like an opportunity to ask you how does that ranking actually work? i.e. how do…” May 10, 10:11
James Cheyne on A Poor Example: “Turning the page by broadening the topic, not changing it. The trans topic of corse was not invented in Scotland,…” May 10, 09:02
Bilbo on A Poor Example: “Of course there has been action with highly visible things like women’s sport but it’s becoming plain to see that…” May 10, 08:17
Owen Mullions on A Poor Example: “Has anyone seen Humza’s latest revelation on X where he claims India and Pakistan have been in touch with him…” May 10, 08:02
yoon scum on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “your post pisses me off and annoys me Why? I work with apprentices in a Scottish firm and they are…” May 10, 05:40
Jim Thomson on A Poor Example: “Expect faux queues at the GN ones. Which means there will be no TW or TM working, so that the…” May 10, 00:07
Dan on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “Aye, an aquaintence works in the technical design side of planning and implementing the new HVDC transmission lines from Scotland…” May 9, 21:11
Hatey McHateface on A Poor Example: “How can the law and judiciary of Scotland and the UK be held in even more contempt? Max contempt was…” May 9, 21:01
joolz on A Poor Example: “Anyone can have a meeting for anyone as long as you don’t misrepresent it. If she had publicised the event…” May 9, 20:47
Vivian O’Blivion on A Poor Example: “Another double digit lead for RefUK and another breach of the 30% barrier. BMG Research, Westminster voting intention, field work…” May 9, 20:13
Yoon Scum on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “can the stupid English worshipper ask After Scotland leaves the union What forms of power generation will be allowed?” May 9, 19:27
agent x on A Poor Example: “Scottish trans activists are in “denial” about the Supreme Court decision that confirmed the term ‘woman’ in the Equality Act…” May 9, 19:24
Aidan on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “@Anthem – the wind farms in England are efficient which is why one of the largest offshore wind farms anywhere…” May 9, 19:21
