Wings Over Scotland

Gotta love Wee Dim Jim?

There’s stupid and then there’s James Kelly Stupid.
Good job his brief isn’t linked to anything maths related….

LABOURS finance spokesman that is all you need to know.

If only I had the intelligence of James Kelly and the charisma of Alex Cole Hamilton, I would be a farce to be reckoned with!

Ken500 says:
19 February, 2019 at 6:06 pm
Goodness. A journalist questions a unionist.””

Well spotted.

For fucks sake. Seriously, that is taking the piss.

We all laugh and joke about his ability, but this confirms he is stealing an income from the taxpayer.

He should be damned well ashamed of himself. Fucking pathetic.

Back to normality – Ra Sellik-Minded top of the league.

Fairliered “the intelligence of James Kelly and the charisma of Alex Cole Hamilton,” is that not a description of Wee Willie Rennie? Definitely a farce to be reckoned with.

Bugger Le Panda Apologies for the pedantry, but, the Sellik-minded, such as the current league leader operate out of biscuit tins, rather than boxes.

Murdo WATP Fraser and friends are on OPM (Other People’s Money).

Rev ah think their wide tae your scoreboard their vining tae outdo wan n ither in record quick time lol.

Believe it or not he is actually a Chartered accountant:

He has a background in computing and finance, is a chartered accountant, and worked as a business analyst in East Kilbride prior to his election in 2007.

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@Jezza

He printed them himself with his John Bull printing kit.

With reference to my post on the immediately previous item, Kelly is up there with the rest, determined not to be left behind.

My goodness, it’s going to be a close run competition.

Gamblers out there, what do you reckon the odds are?

Surely James Kelly should carry a handicap in this contest? He is not doing it deliberately.
Willie Rennie has a natural flair for the moronic intervention.If only he could see the smirking coupon of his predecessor, Tavish Scott, sitting behind him, as he poses his “killer ” questions

@Mcdenster “Gotta love Wee Dim Jim?”

You gotta love Tom Gordon – I think he really really just doesn’t love politicians.

Bugger Le Panda

Do you think he is tellin porkies Panda???

Would anybody honestly use James Kelly as an accountant???

OT
Another from Gordon’s twitter:

“Just did that. Short money is calculated on the results of a General Election. It is given to political parties. Groups formed after the general election aren’t entitled to Short money, even if they register as a new party.”

which is exactly what I thought. I’d say it possibly (probably) also relates to Ian Blackford’s 3rd party PMQ slot.

Kelly is also the standard bearer for sectarianism in Scotland.

He fought the Scottish Government all the way to get that football Bill reversed.

Mis reporting Scotland giving McConnell the credit for starting the ball rolling on the Aberdeen by pass.
Did he not give up on it once it went to court?

Stu,

We need a graphic and a league table – based on 3points for getting to the top and a single point for each subsequent week remaining on top. Season could be same as football to account for summer recess.

In the SPL Celtic are not going to be caught, but in league with Cole-Hamilton, Kelly, Greene and ‘How do emails work, Findlay’ it’s a guaranteed helicopter Saturday.

geeo @6:48

We must be overdue an annie wells’ism’..!

A person so dim, she cannot even think of something stupid to say…!

Quote of the year so far.

Absolute classic, nearly fell off my chair laughing

Sit down Mr Kelly, sit down Mr Kelly, Mr Kelly sit down!

Escort Mr Kelly from the chamber, Mr Kelly will be excluded from the rest of the day’s business

Why can Mr Kelly not just be permanently excluded from everybody’s business

He could go back to his pigeons, wear his old clothes and bunnet and be happy on his allotment, or Alex Rowley’s allotment, anywhere but Holyrood

The following is copied from a past thread on WoS. This quoted post was posted at 8.33pm, on 16 May, 2016; nearly three years ago.

re James Kelly being a Chartered Accountant – he isn’t. He has a certificate from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountancy, a lesser qualification from a less prestigious body than the Institute of Chartered Accountants, which alone can award the qualification of Chartered Accountant. However, he seems quite happy to pass himself off as one – his Wiki description has specifically stated that he is a chartered accountant for years, and he has made no effort to correct it.

All that time ago, and he STILL has not corrected his false qualification claim. As they might say in his Rutherglen fiefdom: “What a walloper.”

“However the House of Commons has confirmed that short money is not available “to a new political party, if it was established in the middle of parliament”. “

Maybe they sniff out a general election in the hope of gaining 3rd party and toppling Corbyn as labour leader…

All these unionist doup lickers are so desperate to inflict harm on Scotland’s good governance for their british masters that they don’t even pause to consider their own inanity.

The appalling calibre of unionist politicians tells you all you need to know about unionism and the union.

Since James Kelly’s wife is called Alexa, I pondered on the kind of funny situations that might cause in his household, assuming he has the computer nous to install Alexa that is.

I asked our Alexa ‘Who is James Kelly’ she replied a former Australian rules footballer… ouch.

Fairliered @ 18:05,

Oh my, that one wins Dorothy Parker Award of the week, I reckon. =grin=

On the other hand. Nicola is proving as sharp as a tack. In this uneasy quiet before the storm, what is she doing but using her time productively by visiting people of influence and garnering credit for Scotland. No wonder the dog-in-manger BritNats don’t like it.

Oh dear, what a pity for the party-pooper party.

CLTR-ALT-DELETE

He’s a total windy licker

me @ 20:55,

Oh, and I forgot to add (if it hasn’t been mentioned already and I’ve somehow missed it), “Nicole” – as the announcer pronounced it – was on France 24 news in person this evening. A full interview will be screened this coming Saturday. Those not paying the BBC Tax will presumably be able to view it on their website.

@ jezza upthread – to say he is a Chartered Accountant with a background in computing and finance probably just means he uses spreadsheets.

Labour have a proud tradition in asking silly questions. Who can forget Ian Grey’s immortal “Where is the money for an oil fund coming from?” sadly removed from Youtube.

But there is still his Bak to Skool contribution:
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Scott Finlayson a dollar a word hack, I wish , magazine i do work for only pays 9 pence per word.

Does he do his own taxes? Eek!

@ Jezza says: 19 February, 2019 at 6:28 pm:

” … Believe it or not he is actually a Chartered accountant:”

I’m not so sure about that, Jezza. He claims to be a Chartered Accountant – has anyone checked that he is?

Just found this wee snippet on Google:-

” … If you need to confirm someone is a CA, you can search for them by name on our Find a CA service. All members listed in this directory are current members of ICAS, and entitled to call themselves Chartered Accountants”.

The page showed these initials as blue underlined links but the page went off on its own as I was about to copy the links.

Get Jackie Burd to ask him on tomorrows reporting Scotland.

James Kelly, are you really a Chartered Accountant???

Course a um Jackie!!!

@Socrates MacSporran says: 19 February, 2019 at 8:01 pm:

” … re James Kelly being a Chartered Accountant – he isn’t. He has a certificate from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountancy, a lesser qualification from a less prestigious body than the Institute of Chartered Accountants, which alone can award the qualification of Chartered Accountant.”

Yes, Socrates. That is why I replied to Jezza. The links I was attempting to copy when the page vanished was because the Chartered Accountants take a dim view of imposters. I believe the take legal action. However I’m having keyboard problems on my machine just now and typing anything is a problem.

Scott Finlayson, dont tar me with that brush please 🙂 im a photographer who has to caption my photos with a wee story !! Although the magazine I do most of my work for is trying to put the emphasis on words as they are a lot cheaper than photos so their about to get the bums rush 🙂

Breaking now….another Labour MP resigns from the party

Another labour resignation. Not a labour fan but some of the accusations – FFS.
And of course the new party won’t declare donor.

Jason smoothpiece ..8.09

People in Scotland don’t vote for the Labour or Tory or Lib Dem MP,s they vote for the cause, they would vote for a monkey if it were contesting elections for the British nationalist cause let’s face it nearly all of those representing labour Tory and Lib Dem in Scotland are incompetents

Snap!

Caley Thistle win on penalties: Good game. 🙂

O/T
latest brexit proposal ……

link to prospectmagazine.co.uk

I think BBC Brian Taylor must be in with a shout, he seems to think that 61 votes for the tax changes against 52 against only passed because the 6 Greens abstained. Maybe he consulted with James Kelly when preparing his report.

Either that or he thinks the public are too stupid to do a bit of arithmetic.

cctxt

re your O/T post…. I find myself almost considering this as a solution but inevitably come back to:

Never trust a Tory

Unfortunately T May has been so duplicitous to date that she is totally untrustworthy, remember she leads a government that has been found in Contempt of Parliament.

I think the sensible thing is actually mentioned, and mentioned as a simple Act – revoke Article 50.

jfngw

I read that Brian Taylor report and found it quite mystifying in terms of trying to understand exactly what happened this afternoon.

Bit too smug for me.

Oh yeah, missed the important thing as always. He was going to vote NO because of that lack of policitians, and “Scotland’s not ready”. He changed his mind.

Scottie Dog

if you sniff a GE you stay in your party and change it from the inside. A 3rd party will only split the vote and make it easier for the Tories to win UNLESS our Nigel gets his act together and resurrects UKIP which would split the Tory vote.

The only way the new rebels stand a chance is if they become a cross-party group of rebels – a new centrist party – but isn’t that taking the wind out of the sails of J.K Rowling and Blair – unless….. he plans to ride to the rescue.

If they want to topple Corbyn they stand a better chance doing that from inside the party.
I.M.H.O.

Alba46@7.41pm

Glad you liked it.

There will be better around the corner soon i expect !

Oops…forgot about the filter. MR 46 from now on.

Kelly never fails to make an arse of himself when he opens his mouth. To his credit he does so at the most important times in front of everyone. An utter star!

@meg merrilees

Chances on The War Criminal being invited to be new leader of the 8 (or whatever number it is in future) ?

All over the internet tonight Yoons be angry, not because they’re losing, because they’ve lost

He could play the parts of dumb and dumber. James will think that’s three roles.

With them (up to this point in time) having 8 members of this new TIG – Tony Is Great party what are they going to call themselves?

Since there’s 8 iy’s got to be the Kelly Dozen!

With them (up to this point in time) having 8 members of this new TIG – Tony Is Great party what are they going to call themselves?

Since there’s 8 it’s got to be the Kelly Dozen!

@RJS
It’s a good question but more pushy. I tended in Indy Ref 1 always just to ask straight questions, you can see a wee opening maybe afterwards then and put in something a bit more.

For me it needs campaigners and openers, much more of the former, but more than there were of the second. I’m the second, do my stuff, then others can move in after me 🙂

The other thing is sometimes you see campaigners talking and the person or persons afterwards shaking their heads. That’s the time to drift over and ask a slightly opposite loaded question like “What did you thnk of that?”. “Rubbish”. “Well, a lot of people are very enthusiastic and can be a bit pushy, it’s just because they believe so much in what they say I guess”. Can re-open minds.

Ah well, won’t be long now.

@ Legerwood at 10:20pm ….. “You can’t turn pigs ears into silk purses.”

That’s for sure Legerwood. It does make you wonder mind you how many people have been / are being put off of Independence not so much by the SNP but by people like James Kelly. You don’t have to be a political anorak to question if he’s the full shilling or not. You just have to be an ordinary Joe Soap unfortunate enough to see / hear him in the passing for a few minutes on the television.

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@ Robert (P) at 10:33pm …. “Three UK parties out on their bahookies come Independence.”

Yes they’ll be defunct Robert, but the essence of the question is who exactly will fill their shoes? Will they reregister as Scottish parties with the same numpties standing for re-election? If so and they manage to get through we’ll be left with the same old lying, lazy ignoramuses. If they disappear into the blue is there anyone else worth their salt out there suitable enough to form another Labour, Tory and Libdem party? Many of these politicians were formerly Councillors, as an example, and the current crop of Councillors come across as being the dregs of humanity too, such as the OO cabal.

If the UK post brexit is so attractive to other coubtries ans industries why are they leaving? PM, how many new companies are aetting up? Oops none.

@ Meg and RJS …… “Breach of the Treaty of Union.”

Isn’t it possible that Nicola Sturgeon (et al) is also waiting to see what they do and then make her move on that? Remember Mundell and Davidson threatened to resign, as we thought (some of us on here), due to this very issue?

Petra @ 23:51,

Yes it is. I truly hope so, anyway.

Breeks will be so pleased! =laugh=

Meanwhile, Nicola has been assidously making friends with those who matter…

Isn’t this Westminster fiasco right up our street, lol? The MSM have been doing their utmost to suppress information, in particular from the Scots. People who aren’t politically minded don’t have a clue about MANY of the issues that we are aware of on here, but the in your face T May performance, companies leaving / shutting down and the latest implosion of the Labour Party must have them all really thinking now. And there will no doubt be worse to come before the end of this month alone. Tickety, tockety.

Petra @ 11.32
‘re Robert Peffers @ 10.33
I suspect that, for a time,the current Unionist Parties will stay in place and be the conduit for the “Reunification/Confirmation Vote” campaign that will surely follow the Yes vote.
This is why I think we need to stay on the ball after the Yes vote…
My solution would be… To sell our Constitution to Scotland..
And as a part of that sale,I’d propose.

That Holyrood can sign Scotland up to any International TREATY it thinks is advantageous to Scotland.
But EACH and EVERY TREATY is subject to a 25/30 year Sunset Clause ..NO exceptions..

Every 25yrs the Treaty MUST be put to the people’s of Scotland for ratification.. The TREATY is automatically and immediately Dissolved if Holyrood fail to do so for ANY reason..
This way no Scot born into any union/treaty agreements would be stuck with it… after a few years as a voter… They will have the Constitutional right to reject it

This would be reasonable to the international community because we (Scotland) have form with trying to get away from old Treaties the Ancestors signed us up to.
But what it also does is.

Make sure that no group of Politicians in Holyrood can ever again sign Scotland up to a Treaty for 300 odd year’s!
We can’t bind future generations of Scots,but we can give them the means,as best we can to protect their Sovereignty!

Holyrood can then sign up to things like the EU and NATO in the full knowledge that Scottish Sovereignty is protected at the point of signing.

This constitutional protection of Scotland’s Sovereignty going forward would,also make any reunification campaign pointless as it couldn’t last any more than 25/30 year’s ever!!

yesindyref2 – my, that was a grand speech from oor Nicola. Wonder if she got a standing ovation?

“ Liza @1230” , I like your proposals to protect Scottish sovereignty, and to prevent “our politicians signing Scotland up to 300 odd year treaties “

Artyhetty @ 1.04
RE. Ledgerwood & Petra
I’m with you on that,I’ve long thought the term useful idiots was particularly apt for the dross that the Unionist parties continually put forward in Holyrood.
There’s far too many of them to be accidental,or happenstance,it has to be deliberate!

Petra @ 1.24
Thanks for that I’ll certainly look in on it to see what he’s sayin… I understand he has done a lot of work on it…
But here the rub…
We(the people) need a platform,I don’t yet know who and I don’t know how.. But we cannot leave our Constitution to “Civic Scotland” because,to coin and mutilate a phrase..
It will be of them.
By them.
And for them…
… So We need an “US”..
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North Chiel @ 1.18
Thank you… And can I ask,if, you are ever in a position to promote our Constitution forbidding our Politicians in Holyrood from signing Scotland up to Treaties that have no Sunset Clause that you do so…

IMHO it just makes sense,we’d never, ever, have the need for a Farage and his poison..
We can relax in the knowledge that our Constitution can get us out of any Union that no longer works for Scotland!

Lizg re the constitution Gordon Ross indycar has been actively speaking about a new constitution being put together by Dr Mark McNaught and being looked at by Mjke Russel next week , they are also speaking about a new blockchain voting system being put forward by an Australian company Horizon something .

I strongly agree that there should be citizen representation on these things and according to Gordon Ross that is the reason for blockchain to enable people to have a say , apparently the draft constitution was put up on faceboak for comments but not being a member I didn’t see it though I would have liked to

J.K. Howling wae laughter hahaha, whit a puddin’.

Mornin’ geeo, did you call out a groovy round and down on the corner tune earlier on there… don’t mind if aye do bro: 🙂

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(23,234,335 present personal viewings)

Dedication furra leg up:

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Believe in iAye.

Further to me @ 3.16
And in no way aimed at twathater..
Imagine that Scotland wrote it’s Constitution in the late 40s.
At that point in time it would have been reasonable to say that.. Every house in Scotland is entitled to 1 bag of coal a week….
From that day till this,like it or not,regardless of cost or logistics… Lest they be sued, right here right now you are getting a bag of coal every week!!!

How stupid would that be.. So, ergo,we can’t put thing’s like that in Scotland’s Constitution

Exactly, a new bagful of Yes energy every week and more Liz mwah!

In Scotland’s New Constitution aye would like to propose FREE upper-body massage booths throughout our cities and towns…

Just like the set up they have in them nail and scary eyebrow bars, at a ratio based on outlet density, like for like compare with Greggs on the corner of Freedom Square ’19.

And if ye need further lower body massage, you can go downstairs… but there’s an additional charge. 😉

1/99…

North chiel @ 3.42
I suppose ye could… But I’d like a phrase much more grand and pompous for it!
Because it would be symbolic of Scotland being unable to be conned again … Even so, as long as it’s in the Constitution,I’ll leave it to better minds than mine to call it what they will 🙂
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Cactus @ 3.42
Whit can ah say Cactus…
While we’ve aw been slumming it…
Our Constitution his tae be better than that…
The Westend basements at least….??

Here’s what could happen doonstairs in the dung…:

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“Fly fishing” by J.K. Fartley

From one previous master back to the future:
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Compare and contrastus.

LOVE it!

Good Morning Excellent Indy Live Radio ~

Aye hereby claim listener X of 100 right NOW!

Whom will claim 2,3,4… of the Indy Live Radio one hundred?

Gauntlet doon, Lemmy see ye.
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link to indylive.radio

Agg-ag-ag-ag-ag-ag-agg-agg.

“It’s almost half past noon timesckives Olive”:
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It’s good to laugh! 🙂 😉 🙂 😉 😉

(visions of GCHQ computers working flat out using different translating algorithms, let’s try into French then German and back to Englsih. Italian to Dutch to French to English. Try Polish, anyone got a Scots to Gaelic? …)

I’m off to my pit.

Links

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Once you’ve watched that , watch Mr Russell compare Tomkins to a character from the new @Stan_And_Ollie movie… “Like in those slap-stick movies, Mr Tomkins runs straight into a wall..” to much laughter in the chamber.
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Joanna says
Today I demanded to know why, when the Solicitor General refuses to give a “running commentary” to MPs on the #backstop discussions with #EU, the Attorney General is happy to give a speech about it outside
video
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Brexit: tales of Honda
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Brexit causing ‘palpable decline’ in UK influence at the UN
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Forced into illegality
This should have been Ella’s year. 2019 was going to be when the 24-year-old finally got her life back on track. She’d stop being ‘undocumented’ and living in dread of immigration enforcement.
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White helmet fakery
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Nana

Do Twitter videos only work if you are signed up to Twitter???

Because when I go into one of your Titter links all I see is a picture,,,no video.

Thanks

@Nana

Mike Russell didn’t miss and the wall in either vid.

The Tories dropped everyone into this mincer and NO amount of whitewashing or misdirection can ever alter that FACT. TBF, Labour haven’t helped much and the LIbdems paved the way for the Tories some time ago.

How and ever, when people wonder how they’re going to pay their bills, keep a roof over their head or even eat? It was Conservative idiocy, their ignorance, their arrogance and their greed that placed them in such a position. THIS is what happens when you give away your right to hold a government of your choice to account and hand it to another who will vote in a government of their choice.

Just to be crystal clear? Better Togetherness was a slogan for these people. It was a serving suggestion and self evidently not a statement of fact or intent.

Just sayin’.

Morning Macart,
I love how Mike Russell calmly tells Tompkins the actual truth of the situation we find ourselves and who is to blame. My goodness Tompkins doesn’t like it, he looks like a wee boy being scolded for being naughty.

As Mike Russell says “he gets up and walks right into the wall”

Nicolas Watts says

I reported last night on Newsnight: strong rumours that Sarah Woolaston, Anna Soubry and Heidi Allen would defect to the Independent Group this morning. Looking like it may happen shortly before PMQs
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I see the Tories now believe they can remove your citizenship if you are not quite ethnically pure enough, they just need to claim you are a threat to society.

With all the deaths this current UK government is claimed to be responsible for, just in the UK, the current Home Secretary should really be a bit afraid of his continued status. They have a death toll that ISIS can only dream of. Along with their, just following orders, DWP employees.

Mike Russel was icing a talk on Brexit in St Andrews Last night. A SNP member of Cupar branch attended and posted his take of the meeting on the branch FB page.

This is his take : –

QUOTE

Went over to ST Salvator’s yesterday to hear Mike Russell’s talk on Brexit, hosted by St Andrews University for Independence, I think it is the most honest talk I have heard by any Scottish politician. It was short for the man had a train to catch, heading out on another meeting, with his counterparts, about, well whodunit you know Brexit.
As far as the negotiation between the Scottish and Westminster governments goes, it is all a waste of time, window dressing so May can stand up in the Commons as say we are listening and in conversation with the devolved parliaments, but as Russell put it, it is difficult to negotiate with someone who knows what they don’t want but not what they want, and still don’t. More so when the people you are dealing with do not have the authority to change anything (lackeys). If there are any Yessers out there who believe Nicola Sturgeon is about to call IndiRef2 anytime soon, forget it. You may have been promised a vote if Scotland was taken out of Europe against our will, but.
Russell said they were not about to go down the Catalonia road, it would have to be an agreement between the Scottish Parliament and Westminster. That is not going to happen whilst May is PM you all know her thoughts on that. You had your wee day in the sun in 2014 you lost we won, just content yourself at the back of the bus, May said she will be stepping down before the next general election, and who knows a new Leader of the Tory party in Westminster (for it looks as if Labour is heading for the wilderness) may have a more open attitude to a second independence referendum but again that could be years away, unless she calls a snap election, which seems unlikely, then again so many things that seems unlikely have happed of late. The other reason no Westminster government will grant us the opportunity of a second independence referendum, there is no pressure on them to do so, and secondly, they are not sure of winning, it was too close for comfort for them last time around.
Russell went on to say that after Brexit the Scottish government would, as far as they were able, keep Scottish laws and directives in line with the EU, (presumably to make any reapplying for membership if and when Scotland ever became independent) now that does not sound to me like a referendum anytime soon. He did say, that other countries had gained their independence without a referendum, the people simply asked for it. Under the present system where the SNP are happy to play Westminster’s game, it is hard to see a situation that would make it possible for the Scottish people to have that say. They can vote in pro-independent parties to Holyrood, but Holyrood is a paper tiger when it comes to constitutional matters. The people could vote for a one hundred per cent Westminster representation of MPs, that has gone well so far, ignored, bullied, name calling, sidelined. Seems the only alternative is a populous uprising from the grassroots, is that likely – answers on a piece of paper to ……to.

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