Put your hands on your hearts, readers, and tell us that in the event of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin leading the USA and Russia a year or so from now, you can’t see this actually literally happening. [EDIT: The fight, not nuclear apocalypse. Obviously.]
Look us straight in the eye and tell us there’s a 0% chance.
A revealing moment from a meeting of the UK parliament’s Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee last Tuesday, featuring the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean.
Normally when the BBC’s Andrew Neil asks a politician to put a figure on one of their policy proposals the interviewee should be wary, because a trap is about to be sprung.
Joan McAlpine, SNP MSP for the South of Scotland, extensively documented at the weekend the obstructiveness of Labour councillors in Dumfries and Galloway, who in an attempt to score some SNP BAD points were refusing to inform their constituents about the Scottish Government’s £1500-per-household flood relief grants to help people cope after recent storms.
The councillors eventually backed down and informed hard-pressed householders and businesses of the help available, but today the issue was debated on the floor of the Holyrood chamber, and when Labour once again tried to make the issue party political, the Deputy First Minister ran out of patience.
We had a lot of requests for the footage, so there it is.
Comrades! Be upstanding and bow your heads to your superior, The Right Honourable The Lord Darling of Ruilanish, revolutionary socialist of Her Majesty:
David on Governing For Beginners: “I’m afraid this post, at least, is not drivel. What the state funds, the state controls. We are all headed…” Jan 13, 06:58
DaveL on Governing For Beginners: “That’s pathetic! Calm down, throw something out your pram instead.” Jan 13, 02:25
Cynicus on Governing For Beginners: ““ Get some vitamin D into you Rev..” ========= An ye can tak the boay oot o video gemmes, aiblins…” Jan 12, 23:28
sam on Governing For Beginners: “Glubb Pasha an aw. Hi, Northy. Cheer up. The dancers from the Bolshy ballet will soon be in town. Serge…” Jan 12, 21:56
Scot Finlayson on Governing For Beginners: “This year will see the 100,000th killing, by assisted death, in Canada since the regime voted for it in 2016.…” Jan 12, 21:43
Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: “As of 2025, concerning debt to GDP ratios, four EU countries were in a worse state than the UK. Looking…” Jan 12, 21:28
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Looky here, Professor Baird. DaveL wants to discuss classic poetry written in the Scots leid. This is gonna be great!” Jan 12, 21:14
Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: ““You’ll know all about assisted death at the sharp end” Er, naw, Mastermind Dave. If I was at the assisted…” Jan 12, 21:02
DaveL on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: ““Walking the walk is a different matter.” Aye for sure it’s hard yards when you’re goose stepping everywhere.” Jan 12, 20:39
DaveL on Governing For Beginners: “You’ll know all about assisted death at the sharp end being a Bandera fanboy. It just occurred to me that…” Jan 12, 20:32
100%Yes on Governing For Beginners: “Calls for an “immediate” general election are set to be debated by MPs after more than 1 million people signed…” Jan 12, 20:09
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Aye, Alf, weel spattit. The extra word wrecked the scansion, and that would have sore aggrieved Grieve. My prediction about…” Jan 12, 20:01
Northcode on Governing For Beginners: “Sir John Glubb says this about the citizens at the heart of once great empires that are in their death…” Jan 12, 19:54
100%Yes on Governing For Beginners: “You can’t even make the SNP membership see sense on Independence never mind anything else. The SNP and its membership…” Jan 12, 19:48
Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: “Want to bet I’m smart enough to attach a reply to the post I’m replying to? Another £20 says I…” Jan 12, 19:47
Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: ““check out “THE FATE OF EMPIRES” by Sir John Glubb” Ooo Northy, fit are ye like, eh? Quoting an Inglis…” Jan 12, 19:38
agentx on Governing For Beginners: “I still have my ZX Spectrum with added full size keyboard, 64K expansion pack and printer. I will have to…” Jan 12, 19:33
Alf Baird on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Aye, weel spattit, Hatey. Ye shoud mebbe get a wee jobby as a colonial watchdug? Ye hiv tae handit tae…” Jan 12, 19:33
Laughable on Governing For Beginners: “Want to bet £20 you can spell ‘swallow,’ as in donkey spunk? I bet you can.” Jan 12, 19:32
Northcode on Governing For Beginners: “Aye, the end of empires is always a bit messy and the sheets on their death beds very often need…” Jan 12, 19:05
Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: “Want to bet I can spell callow? £20 says I can.” Jan 12, 18:23
Laughable on Governing For Beginners: “The usual wretched, calow, shallow right-wing drivel from you.” Jan 12, 17:41
Hatey McHateface on Governing For Beginners: “Could be the explanation is a lot simpler. When so many people are now dependent on sucking at the swollen…” Jan 12, 17:32
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “I dunno what edition you’re looking at, Alf. But there’s no “(lose)” in the last line you quote in mine.…” Jan 12, 17:10
Patsy Millar on Governing For Beginners: “I’d never seen that film and am now in a somewhat traumatised state. I knew Tony Blair was evil and…” Jan 12, 16:32
sarah on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Good points, James! More and more I see what Cunningham Grahame meant when he said that the problem for regaining…” Jan 12, 16:30
James Cheyne on Governing For Beginners: “Does or will fear of dying prevent you dying, If that was the decision you allowed someone else to make,…” Jan 12, 16:29
sarah on Governing For Beginners: “Thank you, Rev – another clear explanation and description of the current state of our existence. Direct democracy would improve…” Jan 12, 16:26
Alf Baird on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “MacDiarmid was certainly conscious of the reality of colonialism, identity and loss of nationality for Scots under English domination, as…” Jan 12, 16:24
