So, having made a statement on Monday morning which asserted that she wouldn’t make any further statements, then making another statement on Monday afternoon, Nicola Sturgeon and her solicitor issued a third statement in 36 hours last night.
And while we acknowledge that this is a very high bar to clear, it contained one of the most troubling and blatant lies she’s ever told.
And as the Nicola Sturgeon Loyal, led by her most faithful of lieutenants, set out to try to take control of the post-conviction narrative, let’s take a look at just what a boatload of bare-faced bullshit the above is.
There will be no trial, no cross-examination, no explanation. The people of Scotland, the members and supporters of the SNP, the wider Yes movement, none of us will ever know what really happened. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
It’s nearly over, readers. Just one more week of this to endure.
The most miserable Holyrood election campaign of all time will end next Thursday with an election which will deliver Scotland’s most miserable devolved government of all time. Only the exact form, colour and shape of the misery remains to be determined.
So as the SNP promise through forked tongues to cut the cost of living with a pledge they know full well they have no chance of being able to actually implement, while using the powers they DO have to INCREASE the cost of everything that makes life WORTH living, let’s look at exactly what flavour of dog vomit we can expect to be choking down along with our state-approved organic broccoli and fat-free gruel for the next half-decade.
If events in Edinburgh today are anything to go by – when a march and rally announced with great fanfare seven months ago, backed by both the “independence” parties in the Scottish Parliament and featuring the First Minister as main speaker, attracted perhaps 1,500 people at the most to Calton Hill on a bright and sunny day – the independence movement faces an imminent final apocalypse.
So here’s how to prepare yourself for when the SNP win a landslide with 35%, Keir Starmer says “So what?” and then a deathly silence descends for another five years.
Even Kelly Given and Iona Fyfe didn’t show up for this one. That’s how bad it is.
As the six-year fight for justice for Alex Salmond continues, we thought you might like to see this clip from this morning’s Mike Graham Show, interviewing Paul McManus, the businessman and drummer in Glasgow rock band Gun who’s stepped up to fund the Salmond family’s case against the Scottish Government despite disagreeing with much of what Alex stood for politically.
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
The first and most important thing to note about yesterday’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie tribunal is that it’s a very big victory. The tribunal found that Sandie Peggie was gravely and heinously harassed by her employer through no fault of her own, and she’ll be entitled to substantial compensation as a result.
It also ruled, repeatedly and unequivocally, that Dr “Beth” Upton (who’s referred to in the judgment as “the second respondent”) is a man.
The motion completely ignored both the findings of the Cass Review and the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland, but not a single MSP spoke in opposition to it. (Jenni Minto, the Minister For Public Health And Women’s Health, actually broke down in tears at the end because she wasn’t managing to get children’s futures permanently destroyed with sufficient urgency, mainly because the UK Parliament took legislation out of Holyrood’s hands to protect them.)
Nicky T Naquetti on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “It’s not 1707 any more, hen. I swear… whatever the story might be, it could be, say – aliens landing…” Aug 18, 10:27
Alf Baird on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: ““And for the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates Roddy Dunlop KC he has just been told he and his…” Aug 18, 10:25
Northcode on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “Yes, it was Queen Elizabeth’s former chaplain, Gavin Ashenden, who accused the King of “deserting Christians” and failing to uphold…” Aug 18, 10:19
Captain Caveman on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: ““First they’ll have to stir themselves from the indifferent, apathy they’re comfortable in. Then they’ll have to wean themselves off…” Aug 18, 10:01
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: ““it is going to get worse, much worse as the common citizen increasingly comes to both hate and fear the…” Aug 18, 09:47
Robert on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “Could an excuse be incompetence? One person, with good intent, collects “ringfenced” money, pays it into the SNP bank account…” Aug 18, 09:41
gm on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “I would vote to close it. No doubt about that. it is doing the Scots harm now and ‘the purpose…” Aug 18, 09:40
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “When the troughers at the wee, pretendy parliament voted themselves medals of congratulation back in July 1999, many Scots (and…” Aug 18, 09:35
willie on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “Frankly this latest refusal by Police Scotland to pursue criminal established criminal activity reinforces how institutionally rotten and corrupt our…” Aug 18, 09:32
Chas on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “I see that Che has been discharged from the loony bin again. It won’t be long before it is readmitted.…” Aug 18, 09:32
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “You over complicate things, James. No government can bind its successors. No group of people will consent indefinitely to be…” Aug 18, 09:28
James Che on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “The Crown of England has gone AWOL in multiple faiths that does not defend its one faith above all others,…” Aug 18, 09:26
Frank Gillougley on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “With reference to above Police Scotland? letter, concluding the subject of uses for the redundant Scottish Parliament building, compare and…” Aug 18, 09:22
Mark Beggan on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “Just off the phone to Andy Burnham. Told him I was the president of the Peoples Republic of Judea. He…” Aug 18, 09:14
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “Phew! It would be deadly serious if there was no going back.” Aug 18, 09:11
James Che on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “The implications for the Crown of one faith, and Crown offices, judges, police and thir authorities dwindles daily in Scotland.” Aug 18, 09:09
James Che on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “Which reminds those Sovereign people in Scotland, that Charles king of England can hardly claim inheritance of the Crown of…” Aug 18, 09:01
Mark Beggan on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “The one thing the ‘elite’ fear above all else is to appear stupid. The lengths they will go to to…” Aug 18, 08:55
James Che on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “So if king Charles of England is not protecting the faith he swore to uphold it is no wonder parliamentarians…” Aug 18, 08:44
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “Don’t you have a job to do, Alf? I notice you like to post about how only you know enough…” Aug 18, 08:29
James Che on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “See people down south are requesting that Charles abdicates, as he is not following the faith he swore oath to.” Aug 18, 08:23
Alf Baird on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: ““Or has Memmi redefined beauty in terms of colonialism too?” Absolutely, the UN decolonization process is built on and derives…” Aug 18, 08:03
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: ““Jason Arday has become Britain’s George Floyd” https://unherd.com/newsroom/jason-arday-has-become-britains-george-floyd/ Now was I right, or was I right?” Aug 18, 07:45
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “What should we commit if we’re no good with numbers? Talking of which, the linked article makes it clear enough…” Aug 18, 07:39
Nicky T Naquetti on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “COULD THE COLLAPSE OF THE SNPS STATE-OWNED BANK HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO MISSING FUNDS? See: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16058985/Bank-launched-SNP-set-lose-110m-taxpayer-cash.html CONSIDER: Could Penfold and/or…” Aug 18, 06:38
John McNab on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “James “Che” (good grief) – you need to learn the difference between ‘waiver’ which is a noun, there being no…” Aug 18, 06:20
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “Corrupt nation. “Every nation gets the government it deserves” (Joseph de Maistre)”” Aug 17, 22:44
Joan Savage on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “Adroitly put, Alf. Nail hit soundly on head, to the discomfiture of colonists and their apologists.” Aug 17, 22:37
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of Do-As-You-Please: “I note, Alf, that even you are happy to make a difference between “theory” and “proven theory” when it suits…” Aug 17, 22:36
