So… his job is to get a legally binding referendum (something which doesn’t actually exist), but he knows that if we’re likely to win it we’re less likely to get it, so… we need to look like we’re going to lose one if it happens?
So presumably with support for the SNP already plummeting through the floor, the next phase of his grand strategy will be to drive support for independence down too? We suppose that’s a more rational explanation of the party’s actions in recent years than anything else we can think of, right enough.
Or of course, it might be that the guy’s just a complete gibbering idiot. You tell us.
Did you all get together and arrange this as a massive prank while we were out at the shops? Because if so, well done, you got us, but it’s time to own up.
Look, we know. But there’s no news. Check out the state of it.
“KEYBOARD PLAYER ALLEGEDLY GOT FAT-SHAMED AT SOME UNSPECIFIED POINT IN TIME BY FOURTH-DIVISION BAND WHO LAST HAD A TOP 40 SINGLE IN 2006“ and “CYCLIST GOES TO TOILET”. Front pages.
(The keyboard player now works for SNP pie-disposal unit Anne McLaughlin, ironically, which seems to be the closest relationship the story has with current affairs. But hey, kudos to the Record for beating all the other papers to that “exclusive”.)
We remain alert. If anything remotely worthwhile happens, we’ll be on it.
He popped up on Talk TV last night, explaining how a middle-aged man twerking at a number of very young children – some of whom seemed visibly distressed – during a recent Pride march was fine because maybe the children had asked him to (which they manifestly hadn’t), and anyway it was their parents’ fault that it happened.
And, y’know, readers can make their own judgements about that.
Hannah Graf MBE (below, right, receiving the decoration from Prince William in 2019 for his “work updating LGBTQ policy in the British Army”) is a very strange fella.
Alert readers may recall our last foray into Freedom Of Information requests, when a couple of weeks ago we belatedly received a peculiarly evasive response from Police Scotland with regard to a meeting in February between the then-Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable and the justice secretary Keith Brown.
We duly followed it up with an FOI to the Scottish Government for Keith Brown’s official diary on that day – just about the most mundane, run-of-the-mill request possible. We expected nothing remarkable, just a short list of meetings, fully corroborating what we were told by Police Scotland.
Young Lochinvar on The Marshalling Plan: “Well said Sarah. As I have said here several times though; why does this site ignore such initiatives? Why?!” Feb 4, 22:10
100%Yes on The Marshalling Plan: “The PM has no intention of standing down and why does he need too. These politicians aren’t the same as…” Feb 4, 21:12
DaveL on The Marshalling Plan: “Why would he be apoplectic? It’s par for the course and nothing unusual. Colonialism, it’s invasive and everywhere. You obviously…” Feb 4, 21:03
sarah on The Marshalling Plan: “Great news that Alliance to Liberate Scotland is now registered with the Electoral Commission. This gives a real pro-independence option…” Feb 4, 20:58
Southernbystander on The Marshalling Plan: “Maybe they like the colour?” Feb 4, 20:52
James Barr Gardner on The Marshalling Plan: “Birds o’ a feather flock the gither……..” Feb 4, 20:38
Willie on The Marshalling Plan: “Anybody like to put odds on how long before the Prime Minister stands down. Like a rat in a trap…” Feb 4, 20:32
Rev. Stuart Campbell on The Marshalling Plan: ““I dont think the constituency vote is first past the post” The constituency vote is DEFINITELY First Past The Post.” Feb 4, 20:03
Chas on The Marshalling Plan: “Did you notice that the curlers are British? That colonialism gets everywhere! Baird will be apoplectic.” Feb 4, 19:52
Nae Need! on The Marshalling Plan: “Apparently there’s pressure on McSweeney to take the rap for Mandy’s appointment. But, without McSweeney where is 2Tier?” Feb 4, 19:02
Cynicus on The Marshalling Plan: “@ agentx “Speaking to ITV Border on Wednesday, Scotland’s first minister……” ========= Swinney was also on STV an hour later…” Feb 4, 18:57
The Flying Iron of Doom on The Marshalling Plan: “Ah, so Reform won’t be coming up with the goods either? That’s going to annoy a few folk, but what…” Feb 4, 18:44
Nae Need! on The Marshalling Plan: “The conversation has moved since I was last here, and so has my thinking (or what passes fir thinking in…” Feb 4, 18:40
agentx on The Marshalling Plan: “Don’t forget the curlers are in action in the Winter Olympics – live on iPlayer now.” Feb 4, 18:08
Cynicus on The Marshalling Plan: “A Farage fanboy opines. I have no idea what he means and don’t really care.” Feb 4, 18:08
Aidan on The Marshalling Plan: “‘No judges’ – so how do you think the law might be administered in that context?” Feb 4, 18:08
Hatey McHateface on The Marshalling Plan: “If Reform do what they say, reform our politics, then they will have succeeded in working themselves out of a…” Feb 4, 17:21
agentx on The Marshalling Plan: “John Swinney has ordered an investigation into his government’s dealings with Peter Mandelson to see if the “interests of Scotland…” Feb 4, 17:21
Cynicus on The Marshalling Plan: “BigJay says: 4 February, 2026 at 3:32 pm . “…….lots of people are saying at the moment that they’ll vote…” Feb 4, 17:02
Hatey McHateface on The Marshalling Plan: “Whooda thunk it, eh? The academic in his ivory tower, poring over his books, references and arcane theories reaches exactly…” Feb 4, 17:00
Chas on The Marshalling Plan: “Unbelievably you make more sense when you write about the 300 year old pish. How do individuals get appointed to…” Feb 4, 16:35
James Cheyne on The Marshalling Plan: “Hatey, Never a truer word spoken, Perhaps they should all be fully transitioned, a new disguised terminology for ( medically…” Feb 4, 16:07
Alf Baird on The Marshalling Plan: ““The only hope of getting rid of the SNP” and ensure you vote for independence is to vote for THE…” Feb 4, 15:52
James Cheyne on The Marshalling Plan: “It is with valid reasoning of the above alone that Scotland should have a Sovereign peoples parliament in Scotland, run…” Feb 4, 15:37
BigJay on The Marshalling Plan: “It’s 92 days (including today) to the Holyrood election on the 7th of May. Candidates have to be registered 23…” Feb 4, 15:32
James Cheyne on The Marshalling Plan: “Willie, The present labour prime minister does not have a clean track record on past judgements or a present one…” Feb 4, 15:18
Cynicus on The Marshalling Plan: “factchecker “ The only hope of getting rid of the SNP is to vote for a party that already has…” Feb 4, 15:00
James Cheyne on The Marshalling Plan: “Willie, The case for Andrew is still as yet incomplete, I am sure there is more to come out, and…” Feb 4, 14:56
