Don’t come around here no more
With crushing predictability, the Scotsman today ran a “vile cybernats” story based around last week’s big thing, the fake-grassroots “Vote No Borders” campaign group. Weaker even than the usual efforts, this one simply reported the group’s claims at face value, not bothering with so much as a single example of the alleged abusive posts.
“A campaign group launched last week in support of a No vote in the referendum says it has suffered a “virulent and nasty attack” from Nationalists since going public.
The Vote No Borders campaign has been forced to block comments from being left on its website, as a result of the onslaught.”
But while tidying up some tabs tonight, we happened to notice that we still had a VNB page open, with the first day’s comments intact. Just how bad were they?
Here’s the “outpouring” of “abuse” and “extremist” “venom” that “forced” the group to completely close down the comment facility (rather than, say, deleting any offensive ones and getting on with their lives).
We apologise to any sensitive readers.
My God the abuse, I had to avert my eyes..
*gasp* the unmitigated horror!… quick.. someone fetch my smelling salts…. ;p
Old story.Laughable reaction. Dying paper. Nuff said?
The only thing vile about this is that women on their main page video saying she’s voting no because the partition between India & Pakistan caused “grief, killings, taking over of land.”
I think helpfully pointing out the quotes of her and others on the site, which is what I did on Twitter on their first day, was a good service and not vile at all.
It seems like we should give all the unionists a free dictionary so they can finally look up the definition of the word ‘abuse’. Seems like they were never taught what it meant in school.
I think the most damning thing I think to say about the NOBs is that I pretty much stopped thinking about them after the first day.
O.K. I admit it it was me, ALL me.
I’m the one who managed to shut down the comments on this site. How did Ido it you might ask. Well it was simple really, I asked them what sort of grass they were using for their grass roots campaign…obviously! 😛
Well it was either that or my suggestion that as there was no information forthcoming about the type of grass being used in their grass roots campaign they should consider renaming their campaign a tree roots campaign. 😉
Had a look at the donation total and now stands at 185k from start of 150k. Are we to believe that 35k has been generated when we know there is no grassroot support and little content and activity on the site? I suspect large donations are been passed off as crowdsourced. I’m watching breaking bad just now and they use this approach for laundering money.
What is wholly unreasonable is the level of venom directed at our young musicians
At least they weren’t monstered!
Christ, the torygraph has this story too. See the press coverage you can get when you have tory pals in high places?
I have tweeted a link to this page to that creep, Ben Riley-Smith, he has no integrity as a journalist whatsoever.
Well done saving this page, Rev, allowing me to send it to Mr Riley-Smith, so he could GIRUH.
Get in there CameronB!
That’ll larn ’em, to mess with The Krusher!
Mind you, I should fess up to being one of the vile Cybernats – I posted many dodgy videos, this amongst them:
‘Aye aye aye aye aye aye aye aye aye aye, I should’ve known better…’
link to youtube.com
@ Lesley-Anne XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
O/T what the f*ck has Torrance done to his hair!
@ Lesley- Anne, are you coming in the Ferry love?
(sorry – to)
An observant friend pointed out that the number of people who ‘like’ VNB (currently 910) was jumping by larger amounts then staying almost static for a while. This would be indicative of someone artificially boosting it, rather than natural steady growth. Could be interesting to watch.
It’s a jam jar- it catches gnatz.
Paula Rose says:
@ Lesley- Anne, are you coming in the Ferry love?
I’d love to but unfortunately I live down here in South West NOB land. 😛
I see my comment is there predicting it would be closed to comments by Monday. I was wrong it only lasted to Friday pm.
It was an ‘aunt Sally’, light relief to YESSERS to pop over there and post a BfS article or a YES live streaming debate or McCrone report.
Vote no Borders:
“The truth you can’t handle the truth”!
(no prizes for film quote reference) 🙂
@ Lesley-Anne, that is a great shame – where in the SW?
I think you will find that http://www.votenoborder.co.uk does allow comments and keeps them up 🙂
Oh my, the horror,
Matron! the smelling salts. MATRON!…..
Never mind he’s fainted clean away. Poor sod, the NOBS have done for him.
Better Together St Kilda says:
@ Lesley-Anne, that is a great shame – where in the SW?
Down Gretna way, nice and handy for when the First Minister hops over the non existent border to Carlisle to put the minds of businesses in Carlisle at ease. 🙂
@Patrician
Aye right 😉
The rudest thing I could think of about nob.orders.com was that mega rich founder up there in the blazer came across as a right merchant banker in his youtube thing and then it turned he actually IS a merchant banker. A happy coincidence and grass roots my hairy Scots airse.
lies lies lies is that all youv got Better Together?
If memory serves, singing-up to post comments on VNB involved submitting one’s e-mail address.
Most of the Wingers I spotted on that inaugural thread were using their real names. Don’t know about anyone else, but I haven’t had any contact from VNB complaining about my comments or links.
Mind you, if anyone did direct ‘abuse’ at their young musicians (which didn’t appear, presumably thanks to prompt moderation) VNB will be able to pass those details to the Police – I’m sure we would all encourage them to do so. Then the culprits can face the full rigour of the law, and the rest of us can have our good names restored!
Amen to that!
I feel … dirty!
@ Patrician – darling, have they stopped trying to get rid of the Borders? I rather like that part of Scotland.
Patrician says:
I think you will find that http://www.votenoborder.co.uk does allow comments and keeps them up 🙂
Just don’t go asking them any questions. They seem to have adopted the same approach to questions as that other grand bastion of supplying answers, a.k.a. Better together, where if you ask a question you get banned! 😛
As one of the contributors below the line there I can only apologise if anything I wrote offended anyone of a sensitive disposition.
Well done for keeping the evidence.
@Paula Rose, did you follow the link?
I don’t know if I can handle all this reasonableness, I mean what is the world coming to if you can’t trust us Cybernats to live down to Britnat expectations. I’m delighted, sorry I meant to type deeply disappointed, honest.
@ Ian Brotherhood – young musicians? Where dear?
An excellent capture Stuart. (as always!:))
David Cunninghams’ comments were prescient …
“I wish you luck but I suspect that this site will be a learning curve for your supporters to go to a YES vote in a few days.
Comments will be restricted through moderation by Monday next week because NO has no case worth articulating as you will see”
David, if you’re reading this I’d like next weeks lottery numbers please. 🙂
Ian you could also sign up via Facebook and as I did via Twitter, hence good Arb set to asking a few *ahem* questions.
I’ve got it, no NOT that this, I know what they mean by claiming they were abused etc…there were some really terrible people putting up actual QUESTIONS… OOH HORROR on the website. 😛
‘Ian Brotherhood
Your link above goes to Paperback Writer rather than Jim Diamond. It’s a great song and very apt to the situation. Can you post the correct link?
@Thepnr –
FACE-PALM!!!
This should be it…
“Aye aye aye aye aye aye aye aye aye…” etc –
link to youtube.com
Just seen this from Sunday Herald.
Sales over 32,000 … Very high for a bank holiday. Production problems affected supply, for which apologies … Bigger print run this week
If they keep going like this I’m thinking other *ahem* nationals are in for a big shock. 😛
I hope it’s not too soon to go off topic,
a couple of things, earlier someone posted up about todays announcement regarding polling cards going out mid August
link to bbc.co.uk
and the dates originally reported of 2/9/14 as last day for registration.
That date is still there
link to aboutmyvote.co.uk
Anyone know what’s going on because they surely can’t both be right?
Second thing, Mark Coburn’s epic bike ride from Rome to home is now a third of the way through, and his appeal for funds for local Yes groups is needing a boost.
I’ve met Mark a few times, he’s a great campaigner and deserves all the support he can get with this project
link to indiegogo.com
Do what you can folks,
over and out;)
O/T Rev – I am down in your part of the world on Friday – Royal Gloucestershire – yup – land of Bonnie Prince Charlie ( the other one) , landrovers, pig roasts, hunting shootin’ and fishing etc at the Badminton Horse Trials – complete with Yes badge, Car sticker and tattoo – who says cultural determinants are simple ! If on the faint chance you are there I would like to buy you a huge pint of Scrumpy !!
Such startling and vicious cybernattery. If I had a monocle I wager it would have popped right out!
I notice the poster called David Cunningham was very close to the mark with his prediction, if not right on the money. I’m not sure if he has a gift and can see the future, or if Better Together and Chums are just that predicta-
Oh, wait, it’s the last one, my mistake.
Sales over 32,000 … Very high for a bank holiday. Production problems affected supply, for which apologies … Bigger print run this week
The Sunday Herald have to live up to these figures and produce the kind of journalism we see on here. An exposé of the BBC news blackout we saw today would be nice.
I think that now they have bitten the bullet James the Sunday Herald will indeed keep the pressure up on everyone and everything that fails to behave in a neutral way towards Scottish independence. 🙂
Stu. It appears that the Cybernat Nation has unintentionally… and through the medium of intellectual debate and the seeking of truth, accidentally and by chance, bayonetted the wounded ‘No Borders’ grossruts Tory millionaire funded campaign (which btw, has a couple of bars of a song/dirge yet to be heard in full as its’ Piece de resistaunche). I think we should maybe say we are sorry for being the buble(y) busters… Tory party poopers… or something? …Maybe? …Eh?
It was quite sweet and naive at first when everyone could just post on their facebook wall. Which I promptly did.
I just can’t believe they still try to push this as a grassroots organisation, when it’s pretty clear it’s the work of Acanchi.
As for abuse. Have they tried taking a look at the comments to referendum related articles on … the Daily Mail’s site? BBC’s? The above is not abuse.
No comments seem to be allowed at all on VNB now. Disappointing – some of them were quite funny. A guy has sent a poem in though. “Dear oh dear…” would be the most appropriate response. Looks like he’s used the “Now I wonder what rhymes with that” technique.
I archived the comments on the NOB “Music” page when there were 14 of them : link to archive.today
I see no evil. Just great hilarity.
Because I commented of some or all of the NOB pages, I then got emails confirming subsequent comments, right up until the comments facility was pulled.
For some unfathomable reason I decided not to delete these emails, so I still have them.
I have around 100 of these emails, pretty well all with taking-the-piss comments like the ones in the archived NOB “Music” link above.
The NOB comments pages were wiped and commenting was discontinued on Friday evening (2nd May), when there were up to 190 comments on the main page. So the emails I have, plus the “Music” page archive, represents a record of roughly 50% of what they received before they pulled the plug on comments.
The most remarkable thing is the incredibly small number of supportive comments, given that it is supposed to be a grass-roots campaign. Anybody would be forgiven for thinking it was a complete fake (i.e. astroturf).
There was a series of comments concerned that ‘no borders’ were campaigning literally for the eradication of the Borders region and the suggestion that it was intended to split it in two, attaching half to Lothian and half to Dumfries and Galloway. The commentator defending the Borders region insisted that the two halves were surely ‘better together’ !
Brought a smile to my face anyway.
Seeing will be believing with regards to the Sunday Herald really getting into what the media , especially the BBC have been trying to get away with up until now.
If we started to see some of Derek Bateman’s or even Newsnet’s style of deconstructing the way journalism is being carried out in Scotland at the moment I’d be amazed.
That would be akin to treason from the perspective of the elite, and I feel maybe a bridge too far, at this stage, for the SH.
@Dave Beveridge –
Aha!
A competition. Who can write a poem which encapsulates the best reasons for staying in the UK!
It’s a winner!
(Excuse me while I find my fez, smoking jacket and cigarette-holder…)
Omg Brewer mentions Newsnet Scotland article saying pensions are safe..
Its awe Cameron Bs fault awe that abuse withoot his usual
flair,he never left them a wee ditty,his playlist must hiv
been broked.
@Ian Brotherhood
Well I can do one for VNB easy enough:
Up sprang a new Tory site
To put all these cybernats right
It lasted a day
Before fading away
No wonder, it really was sh*te.
Liquid Lenny says:
Omg Brewer mentions Newsnet Scotland article saying pensions are safe..
Just a pity that no one at the BBC has the guts to actually mention or even discuss this subject in ANY news programme…COWARDS!
Scottish Questions on now. They might as well call it Better Together Questions. I would suggest that all pro independence MP’s just boycott this – no democracy to be seen here.
@tartanpigsy
I agree about Mark Coburn,s epic bike ride! He needs a lot more funding! Come on!
Nice to see my contribution there. I made a point, as I always do, to be polite and reasonable. After all I have friends who are No-ists and I won’t browbeat them any more than I expect them to browbeat me. But we have the debate and a laugh, mostly.
I think there are some who don’t like to see, as the above page illustrates, an overwhelming and reasonable counter-argument being made.
Democracy is about the right to say No. Even the right to say No to No. Right?
@Liquid Lenny
“Omg Brewer mentions Newsnet Scotland article saying pensions are safe.”
You would like to think that not every Scottish journalist working for BBC in Scotland has a heart of stone and that some of them have an opinion more akin to ours.
Just can’t express it though, they have to be “onside” or out of a job. 40% of Scots at least support Independence, I think it unlikely that this figure differs much for those that work in the BBC.
String pullers are to blame, those that support indy are trapped with nowhere to go. How many of you would speak out? Not an easy thing to do, the NUJ could apply pressure and aught to but I doubt it will.
Remember who we are fighting.
Re cybernatting the the Nob orders Facebook page, I admit it, I’m Spartacus.
Just caught up with a couple of the last posts and what really hit home after speaking to a ‘No but now maybe’earlier.
After the usual whataboutery, I asked them if they’d attended any of the debates? Did they know people have set up Indy radio stations, there are POD casts,websites, there are films being made, plays being written, windies for Indys, the Postie cycling Rome to Home and numerous other groups , all set up by ordinary people and of course they said they’d never heard about any of these things.
Then you contrast what our press is printing. Torcuil Crichton you should be embarrassed for taking money for that and The Daily Record embarrassed for printing it. I understand some people don’t want Independence for lots of reasons but surely even they deserve better than this ? This level of contempt would scare me far more than Independence.
Three cheers for the Queen,
She’s the best there’s ever been!
Though some say she’s Liz the Second,
She’ll always be ‘First’ in my book!
Three cheers for British pensions!
The BBC gives them few mentions,
Clive Dunn said ‘don’t panic! don’t panic!’
But the Scots get all manic.
Three cheers for Strictly and Doctor Who!
And Britain’s Got Talent!
And that guy Starkey!
What a malarkey!
Let’s all stay together,
That’s the way it was meant to be,
United and happy forever,
UKOK, and BT!
Hip-hip – hooray!
Hip-hip – hooray!
Hip-hip – HOOOO-RAAAAAY!!
@Lesley-Anne.
In Gretna? I don’t feel so lonely now, trapped here in No Man’s Land! 🙂
David Smith says:
@Lesley-Anne.
In Gretna? I don’t feel so lonely now, trapped here in No Man’s Land! 🙂
I’m not in Gretna but close by, and what’s more I’m not alone there are quite a few of us YESSERS around these parts. 😛
Sorry to see the comments gone. I commented twice, once with the reasons why Scotland isn’t sleepwalking into independence, then later (after seeing the comments from their supporters) to ask if VNB was actually a spoof site. I used my full name and email and never got a reply. Maybe the Nobs’ definition of abuse is when someone explains something rationally to them. Maybe they were embarrassed by the sheer craziness of their supporters’ views. Maybe VNB doesn’t exist and they had nobody to reply to queries.
@ ian – did they not teach you scanning etc when you were at school?
OT, Had Labours “EU” election card through the door today.
Its basically a propoganda leaflet for the referendum and nothing to do with the euro elections.
In fact im sure it only mentions Europe twice in the whole thing, and thats on the back page.
Are they using money that will be allocated officially for the eu elections to get referendum campaign material out? Possibly in order bypass spending limits or other rules from the electoral commission? Surely something not right there? Also says its from “Scottish Labour”
If anyone is in any doubt that Labour, Tory and Lib Dem all sing from the same hymnsheet a couple of minutes of SQ should clear that one up. Another thing, The SNP does Westminster the courtesy of not getting involved in legislation not affecting Scotland. Why are so many non Scottish MP’S allowed the platform of SQ to do us down. Westminster Democracy my arse.
@ Greannach – VNB exists! Please darling!
link to tinyurl.com
OT -one for the anoraks! The Public Admin Select Committee filleting Sir Nicholas MacPherson, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, on why he published his advice on the Currency Union. Fascinating insight into the convoluted loyalties of a top civil servant. Essentially, Sir Nick is loyal to the UK and Scotland isn’t in it. WW2 analogy given!
The truth our kryptonite against Projectfear
@Paula Rose –
Unbelievable as it may seem, I am, for the most part, self-taught.
@Ian Brotherhood says:
If memory serves, singing-up to post comments on VNB involved submitting one’s e-mail address.
if anyone did direct ‘abuse’ at their young musicians VNB will be able to pass those details to the Police
See the example of an email from NOB website comments system below (proving that they will have the email addresses of commenters, and so could report real abuse to the Police):-
From: Vote No Borders [mailto: Team@votenoborders.co.uk]
Sent: 02 May 2014 16:34
To: Calgacus MacAndrews
Subject: New comment on Have your Say
Calgacus —
Steve Dickson just commented on Have your Say :
I wonder how long it will take this site to have a “wee accident” and lose all it’s data and it to be “restored” with all the positive Yes stories removed!!! I actually think this is a cleverly worked Yes campaign site. Let’s look at the evidence. 1) set up a alleged No campaign site 2) get all yer pals in the medja to promote it 3) totally lose control of it It’s either a Yes site or a No site owned by complete and utter incompetents. Ah the latter sounds reasonable too!!!!!
Respond here: link to votenoborders.co.uk
This email was sent to calgacus.macandrews@xxxxx.xxx. To stop receiving updates on this page, unfollow here.
Vote No Borders Campaign • United Kingdom
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Here’s my poem, please bear with me, this took a lot of work and spoilt draft copies, but i think i’ve nailed it now. The poem is entitled:
‘The benefits of Union’
” ”
Hope you enjoyed it.
@Ian Brotherhood
Great poem – hip hip hooray – encapsulates the entire debate!
I can see you’ve done this write a poem thing before rab, you’re a real star. 😛
@Calgacus –
Nice one.
On that same evening I tried to stop receiving updates because the Inbox was getting clogged, but it was impossible. I resigned myself to having to manually empty the Inbox, but VNB didn’t, apparently, get that many messages (and most were probably from ‘us’) – even the following day, maybe 25, 30 had to be deleted, and then – hey presto! – no more from them, and not a jot since.
They’ve made a real arse of themselves. Whoever staked all that ‘serious’ dosh on them must be well hacked-off.
A joke outfit altogether, deserving nothing but ridicule.
In contrast to the delicate wallflowers of the Better Together campaign who collapse at the slightest exposure to cybernats (ie voters who disagree with them in public), a disabled person who has been sanctioned by the vile human rights abusers at the DWP left a suicide note on Prime Minister Cameron’s Facebook. Cameron’s internet followers left comments goading the disabled person into killing themselves.
The online disabled activist community in Britain are buzzing about this tonight. I wonder if that interest will be enough for the unionist press to report this example of the anti-social internet behaviour of their own followers and supporters?
Reference –
Unwell person incited to commit suicide – on David Cameron’s Facebook page
link to samedifference1.com
I must say, I like the fact that the Referendum is capable of bestowing two contradictory meanings for the same words, abusive when applied to BT or Nob Orders criticisms but banter when applied to Yes or First Minister.
Grassroots, discussion, questions, facts, references, criticism, statistics, incontrovertible truths!
Some quite unexpected side effects to seeking sovereignty through peaceful democratic means.
Lanarkist honey – are you going to the jolly in the ferry?
Dan Snow on BBC4 tonight continuing his series on India & the British Empire gave a number of insights into the mind set of the English Establishment.
Let us be quite clear about this though – in the minds of those who retain the spirit of the Empire, the people of Scotland are not a consideration. They merely occupy very valuable property which is important to the business.
Hi Paula, yes, will try and get along for a few shandies if I behave between now and Friday!
What time does the event start?
@joe kane –
I don’t doubt that you are a well motivated person.
Don’t you realise that David Cameron is the Prime Minister?
He’s a busy man! He doesn’t get the chance to check his FB page that often. I’m quite sure he will respond to this shocking story as soon as he hears about it.
NOBs musicians: give them a break guys, they probably haven’t thought through their referendum response properly and the song they were asked (paid?) to perform was shite, wouldn’t even make it as BTs Eurovision entry – only part of the White Paper that made my blood run cold that we would go in for the Eurovision Contest – but they are not too bad musically in spite of the trite nonsense they had to perform.
rab_the_doubter at 11:28:
Listened to about two minutes of this in the a.m. before switching off. Just can’t stand ‘our’ representatives taking it in turns to run Scotland down. Posted earlier in another thread but it disappeared: will the EBC still give air time to this disgusting spectacle after May 30 or will they allow a 30 minute right of reply from the YES campaign?
Ah that’s sad, it doesn’t show my highly abusive post simply wishing them, as an Independentist, good luck on their new venture.
Labour Euro material – anti-Indy …
Tory Euro stuff arrived in my part of Dundee earlier today. Cheap and nasty paper quality. They list their priorities 1 to 6 or whatever, #1 is No to Independence. Their #1 Euro election priority.
And the 2017 EU In-Out referendum is in there.
Alas they didn’t have a quote or endorsement from Joanne Piercy, the BT not-politician concerned working mother with a pound fixation. Disappointing. The pic of Davd Cameron is just what we want coming through our letter boxes though. (huh?)
So anyway, there’s a snap for Labour and Tories on anti-Indy being a big Euro elections priority. Send us to Brussels and we’ll er … have Barosso say no Belgian waffles in an i-Scotland.
Red Tories, Blue Tories, Orangey-Yellow Tories, Purple Tories … . It’s like one of those puzzles where you’ve got 6 pictures that look the same and you’ve got to pick out the nano-differences. Not easy.
joe kane says
Unwell person incited to commit suicide – on David Cameron’s Facebook page
I have just read your link to this Joe.
The more I read about all of this – in “all of this ” I mean the contempt that the few have regard for the many the more I realise that most of the “United Kingdom” the greatest thing since sliced mince, has been a con game perpetrated upon “we the people”.
How do you give the clarion call to freedom to the people when they only have the “media” telling them what is and what is not. The saying “who you going to believe? Your own two lying eyes or me? is so prevalent that I despair that the truth is not getting out there.
I have always believed in “following the money” in any discussion and therefore must conclude that the attacks by our “ane folk” must have money or priviledge involved. But will thirty pieces of silver be enough to salve their souls?
How do you get what is discussed here out to the non-engaged public? Those that read, see and hear the news through the media filter?
I didn’t realise till now that myself and my family live now in what could crudely be called a fascist state or at least in a watered down version of 1984 and Brave New World.
@daddyo
The only way is on the doorsteps, in the cafe, in the train, in the bus. Steel yourself to talk to strangers. Carry Aye Rights in your pocket. Wear your badge. Never duck a conversation…
We win, one at a time. Yes has always said that. It’s up to us. The ‘campaign’ is not going to win this for us. Only we can win it, as individuals.
Croompenstein sayd:
7 May, 2014 at 10:30 pm
What is wholly unreasonable is the level of venom directed at our young musicians
At least they weren’t monstered!
That came later, after the watershed. 🙂
TBH, I missed the last page of comments, but I didn’t spot any abuse. Perhaps not a lot of support, but plenty of related and background information posted. Perhaps that was what burst them like a balloon?
What’s happened to Derek Bateman’s site? I’ve tried several times today to get in – nothing doing, now we seem to have Bob the Builder fixing a crack in a wall.
Bloody cybernats!
So their idea of abuse is to be categorically out argued in a public forum?
And the Scotsman ran with that as an article?
Oh Jeez. 😀
You guys have to see this.
link to weegingerdug.wordpress.com
Enjoy. 🙂
OT – latest post on Mungiun’s Republic re the NHS after a no vote. Please watch, weep and distribute very far and very wide. What an understated and powerful speech. This will really make you think.
link is
link to munguinsrepublic.blogspot.ca
Those young impressionable girls in that group might have read those posts, have you people no shame?
Lesley Anne says
“O.K. I admit it it was me, ALL me.
I’m the one who managed to shut down the comments on this site.”
Weeelll I suppose I did say I could see a few Dandelions poking though their nice green (artificial) sward,
But that was only after you lot said stuff so don’t blame me,
I still think those big boys who ran away have got a lot to answer for,
Better together for St Kilda says
£It’s a jam jar- it catches gnatz.”
Pretty much what I said to them on their comments page (in the nicest possible way of course)
Call me Dave says
“The truth you can’t handle the truth”!”
A few good men,
Now what do I win 🙂
Heedtracker
” A happy coincidence and grass roots my hairy Scots airse.”
Oh for pity’s sake,
Wont someone think of the porridge
PLEEEAASSSE someone just think of the porridge
Ian Brotherhood says
“Mind you, if anyone did direct ‘abuse’ at their young musicians (which didn’t appear, presumably thanks to prompt moderation) VNB will be able to pass those details to the Police – I’m sure we would all encourage them to do so. Then the culprits can face the full rigour of the law, and the rest of us can have our good names restored!”
I wont be holding my—-,
wait I just have to answer the door 🙂
Calgacus MacAndrews says
“For some unfathomable reason I decided not to delete these emails, so I still have them.”
Oh!
funny you should say that, so have I. 🙂
CameronB says
“What is wholly unreasonable is the level of venom directed at our young musicians
At least they weren’t monstered!”
What/ like this you mean
link to youtube.com
Ian Brotherhood says
“(Excuse me while I find my fez, smoking jacket and cigarette-holder…)”
A glass of Port,
You’ll need a glass of Port
Lesley Anne says
“Just a pity that no one at the BBC has the guts to actually mention or even discuss this subject in ANY news programme…COWARDS!”
Maybe it “didn’t add to the sum of human knowledge”?
Rab the Doubter says
“Re cybernatting the the Nob orders Facebook page, I admit it, I’m Spartacus.”
we’ve done that one
we’ve done that one
we’ve done that one
we’ve done that one,
we’ve done that one
ala crowd response
Anyway everyone knows I am Spartacus.
Ian Brotherhood says
“Three cheers for the Queen,”
I said a glass of Port I didn’t say neck a whole bottle.
was that comment too political? 🙂
Rab the doubter says
“If anyone is in any doubt that Labour, Tory and Lib Dem all sing from the same hymnsheet a couple of minutes of SQ should clear that one up”
I saw it yesterday,
How Angus Robertson keeps his temper is beyond me, I was disgusted at the procession of nonentities queuing up to do down their own country especially the fool who said Scotland needs nuclear power, I take it he’s not aware the Hydro scheme near Oban which has enough expansion capacity to power the whole of Scotland and then some?
Rab the doubter says
“‘The benefits of Union’
” ”
Hope you enjoyed it.”
We have Im sure everyone will agree,
found our new national BARD
DOUBT NO LONGER RAB 🙂
Very strange that The Herald is running as one of the main stories again, the one about pinnochio the dinosaur. Two days running on the main web page, yet a huuuge story on pensions, appeared for a couple of hours then almost vanished from prominence.
So what I am saying is, who is going to bet on this coming up on FMQ’s via the stairheid lament.
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john king 02/05/2014
I trust the Scottish Electoral Commission will be taking steps to ask the Vote no Borders campaign about their involvement in the referendum campaign and have them explain how without any discernible fund raising campaign they would appear to have amassed over £400,000
john king
Well, I commented on it, but in no way attacked the two young ladies, nor any person. Instead, the comments I left were of the presentation of the website itself in the sense that the ‘answers’ that it was giving, were not necessarily correct.
If this was a considered vile and abusive comment, then god help them if they should ever come out of the woodwork and decide to debate openly with the public. After all, the chances are that every 2nd person they meet, will be a Nationalist! (we are at parity – 50-50)
I’ve still got all comments in email.
Just heard Naughtie spewing more lies about Vote no borders.
Right after an item about abuse against the Weirs (not given real credence) there was an item on this “grass-roots” organization.
Does that man have any moral standards at all?
O/T – It is Thursday, it is FMQs day and therefore there must be a BBC led scare/bad news story that Ms Lamont and Ms Davidson can use to attack the FM. Right on cue enter the BBC with the headline news of longer A&E waiting times.
I wonder what Ms Lamont and Davidson will ask about today?
Herald and Hootsmon going big on the Weirs and smear campaign and an unnamed MSP. Wonder who that would be?
Another one bites the dust. Fools and their money.
UIKP are obsessed with Borders.
Still NO mention of pensions on BBC Scotland.
Plenty of other scare stories though.
A&E Depts. in near collapse,
Scotland would be a basket case in currency union,
Also an un-elected room full of troughers in London told us it’s OK to start Fracking.
And many many more stories like thank folk, just stay tuned to your local fun lovin BBC Scotland.
Saw the thing about fracking in the green and pleasant land, are they still trying to start fracking near Falkirk, I seem to recall someone posted about this?
And here was me thinking this “NOB orders” site was somewhere people could buy DILDOS from.
caz-m – OOer!
@Arabs for Independence
Yesterday quiet news day, no scare stories about YES but good news on pensions – at least some honesty at last ?
(Did anyone else notice the absolute crap and filler on both state broadcaster newslines, Mandolins – seriously ????)
Now, let me see what is it about today ?
Audit Scotland > NHS A&E issues > Q BBC > Q Eleanor Bradford > Q Scare story > Q J Lamont MSP or J Baillie MSP > FM Questions day.
Ahhh normal service resumes.
James Naughtie on GMS has highlighted the Scotsman article and one in the Telegraph about this “terrible” abuse. Managed of course to give a good plug to VNB. Is BBC Scotland short of a few marbles in this campaign?
VILE!!! argh!
I think that Vote Nob Orders will regret this decision as the comments are the only reason worth visiting Project Fear sites like the ‘Scots’man.
Ref. the VNB name change, GMS at 07.20 this morning, comment I think by Gary Robertson??? where he said that there was no way he could read out some of the comments left on the VNB site because they were way too, too terrible for that time in the morning.
Sorry it was Naughtie not Robertson
Ban this sort of thing.
Such abuse, my head is spinning, think of the children.
Hypocracy alive and well at Glasgow Princes Trust Youth event.
See insightful piece (not), from Lord Haughey (Labour funder) about poor souls Michelle ‘Moan’ and Bill Munro (Barrhead travel) and the hard time they’ve had about being against a YES vote.
With abuse like this being directed at them, I really don’t know how the loyal defenders of the union manage to keep going.
I mean people actually posting the truth??? In today’s society?!!! *gasp* *shock* *horror* *faints*
Ahh, it’s nice to be back. I’ve missed this! 😀
re VNB, it’s ‘Calmanballs’ redux, right?
Let’s see one of these ‘abusive’ comments.
Just one?
Onzebill,
Ahh, truth would be a bit of a shock coming from the BBC.
Perhaps we should lobby for just one example, not too vile, to be published.
I can’t remember anything even vaguely offensive.
Well, actually, the suggestion that we should believe that Nob was a grassroots campaign. That is pretty offensive.
Maybe SH would like to run a feature exposing the roots of this grassroots campaign as it being made news again this week? Second headline to the pensions are OK.
Having ‘come out’ they should be spoilt for choice on stories to write.
Perhaps everybody with saved comments should forward them to SH.
I, foolishly, deleted mine.
With Patten retiring [due to ill health]Sir Richard Lambert who is a former head of the cbi is in the running for the top job.
Does’nt that fill you with confidence for great change!
Does anyone happen to know how many Accident/Emergency Units there are across Scotland?
A&E departments never close, so the 104,000 number being bandied about this morning has to be divided by 365, and that gives 284 per day…that’s 12 per hour.
How many units? And how many of those waiting are people who’ve stubbed their toe or have a skelf in their thumb?
@Barontorc.
I can see the site OK, but it has been stuck at 5 comments on his last article for the past 2 days, showing “Blog token not found” in the comments panel.
Ian Brotherhood
Last time I was at A&E,with a broken arm,there was a young woman with a grazed knee and another with a ripped nail.Now I know they sting like buggery but A&E FFS.
OT but for anyone not seen this.
link to toscotlandwithlove.co.uk
Nearly wept at the reason for their pleas…with pity.
P.S. Don’t click their twitter link,it doesn’t work..much like their arguments.
O/T I suspect that all the folks on this site are already committed as far as the MEP elections go, but even if that is the case, I still recommend a look at “the reasons to vote alternative” piece.
link to anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk
There are some interesting comments and snippets of information (some require following links).
I don’t know why they deleted all of the comments. My alter-ego posted some pro-Union comments, and there were a couple of others who sounded like genuine No-ers that posted too. Or perhaps they were just being being ironic as well…
O/T : Sanjeev Kohli (serious question)
Is he still meant to be a comedian; or is he doing something different nowadays ?
(Not a patch on his brother without a script if he is)
@goldenayr
Just seen the site – boak !
Even the Weirs comments have been twisted and associated with VNB ‘persecution’ across MSM this morning.
This is what we can expect from now until September, probably worse.
Newspapers can behave as they like, sadly. The best we can hope for is a few ‘jump ship’ and swim across to the Yes side. Perhaps the Sun, perhaps the Herald, certainly none of the London derivatives.
However, the BBC is completely different. They have a statutary obligation to be impartial and balanced. They should be challenged every time they show clear bias.
Here’s something else you might enjoy.
http://www.4-traders.com/NO-BORDER-144704/news/NO-BORDER–group-Unionists-get-your-act-together-18376559/
O/T
Can there be anything more wasteful than being able to speak ‘Gaelic’ and being totally against Scottish Independence.
Sorry just can’t let the Torcuil Crichton thing go; what a waste of space the guy is.
@goldenayr / VNB numpty
“I’m just a local boy from Greenock who got a free education from the state, who went up to London by mistake, and has been trying to come back ever since.”
I he’s a clever millionair – ‘who went up to London’, from Greenock ? or was it Greenwich ?
What a balloon!
link to unpo.org
The United Nations on Self-determination:
“All peoples have the right to self-determination.
By virtue of that right
they freely determine their political status
and freely pursue their economic, social
and cultural development. ”
Except for Scotland.
Aye right.
@Ian Brotherhood 9:07
link to isdscotland.org
There appears to be 12 NHS Boards in Scotland operating 31 A&E (ED) departments and 66 minor injury units (MIU).
@Ian Brotherhood
The stats:
link to isdscotland.org
Hold steady folks.
This torrent of vilification is entirely designed to provoke a violent response which would then be twisted and used against us.
Yes, it’s hard, but stand firm. The eyes of the world will be on us soon enough and they will ultimately be exposed for the criminals they are.
Play the long game and wave our movement’s good intentions high and clear so the world will see the Unionists’ inevitable ‘false flag’ acts of violence for what they are also.
They cannot suppress the truth forever and when it finally breaks out it is game over for their centuries old game of treachery.
gordoz –
I see what you mean. If Malcolm Offord was just a local laddie from Greenock, surely he went ‘down’ to London, unless his sense of geography leaves a bit to be desired.
I’m just a local boy from Greenock who got a free education from my fellow Scots, who went down to London by mistake, and has been trying to come back ever since.
If you really want to do something you will achieve it. That he is not back further shews his mendacity
@garyjc at 3.36am
Just watched that inspiring talk by that lady surgeon.
Excellent. Last sentance she spoke, “We have the power in our hands, to roll up our sleeves, spend the next decade and build the Scotland we want”.
Very emotional statement.
@goldenayr
Ah, I understand now. Its a grass-roots organization for the very rich, who want to be anonymous.
Oh whoopee!
Perhaps Mr Offord is upset because the Weirs have not joined.
Just out of curiosity, just how much has he donated to local good causes in his home town of Greenock? He says he is desperate to get back, so he must take a keen interest in the place.
gordoz
Knew you guys would spot that one immediately.
Kinda shows where his loyalties and heart lie I thought.
“up to London” Sheesh.
Can’t stand that expression, Goldenayr.
It’s all downhill in so many ways in my opinion.
@Hugh Wallace –
Thanks for that.
284 people waiting more than four hours every day…divide that by 31 and we get, erm, tap tap tap, scratch heid, tap, tap, tap…9.16 per unit…
Let’s round that up to 10.
So, at worst, ten people per day per A&E unit in Scotland wait more than four hours. Can we even guess how many folk turn up in each and every one of those A&E departments for next to no reason?
Is that more newsworthy than the peace of mind of almost a million pensioners who are being denied basic information crucial to their mental/physical health?
It was always known as “Up” toLondon in the Post office.
i.e. Caledonian day Up, the Up special etc.
just sayin’
Derek Bayeman’s site seems to be working OK for me now.
Regarding the Yesnobs, what a bunch of big girl’s blouses.
I had an email published in the Dundee Courier just over a week ago. It was a tongue in cheek thing about the No voters and anybody with an ounce of sense would have realised it was really meant to understood like that.
But there the humour ended; I received Hate Mail. I have kept it in case the police might want to see it some time.
Then there was a letter in the Courier about my letter and it entirely misrepresented what I had said in mine. So much for balance.
Nasty Cybernats? The No camp doesn’t realise just how much we are restraining ourselves. When we go for their jugulars they will know it.
Zany comedy relief is to be found in the Letters in today’s Herald dominated by a collection of scribes – oblivious obviously to today’s front page and page 6 (everyday) – who appear to observe that the daily Herald is balanced and neutral on the referendum.
They are all cancelling their subscriptions to the Sunday Herald. What a blow.
Ian Macwhirter provides some sanity in an excellent article
Apart from posting non-judgmental comments to introduce additional information, I tried my best to use the words of existing pro-union comments. I even quoted Joanna Lamont about Scots genetics. I quite got into the roll and think I managed to fool a poster from here, until I took it just that little bit too far. 🙂
@ Dave MacEwan Hill 11.07
The pro-Yes editorial in the Sunday Herald reappeared verbatim on Ian Macwhirter’s own website. I could be adding 2 + 2 and getting 5, but that looks like a statement that he wrote it. If so, he has jumped decisively off the fence.
Thanks Ian Brotherhood and daddyo.
It never eases to amaze me the synthetic outrage manufactured by the mainstream news media at the YES and SNP supporters, activists and politicians.
Even Amnesty International Scotland got in on the act recently based simply on unionist spin. Yet in the case of AI Scotland I have never seen them criticise anyone for praising Ian Duncan Smith and Esther McVey at the DWP. Both are responsible for thousands of deaths of disabled people, driving others to suicide and even trying to starve to death children already in poverty (for that is effectively the consequences of their ever abusive Orwellian-Kafkaesque DWP sanctions policies).
It would be an interesting exercise to compare the numbers of victims of Putin’s LGBT human rights abuses, with the numbers of victims of the UK Government’s human rights abuses being spearheaded by Ian Deaths-Head Smith and Fester McVile. Maybe Amnesty International Scotland might want to indulge us and help us get the DWP to confess how many sick and disabled patients have died as a result of their neoliberal disability denial ideology out-sourced to Atos on a risk-free contract?
“Ian Death’s Head Smith.”
I’m having that!
I fear the NOBs “grass roots campaign” suffered the indignity of encountering a real grass roots campaign. They suddenly discovered that they didn’t like grass roots after all.
I never posted there because I quickly came to the conclusion that they were irrelevant. They are not a grass roots campaign and they never will be. They are a marketing exercise, nothing more. The comments I did see on my couple of visits were indeed poking fun at their lack of real support and there was a fair number of piss takes and some surreal “unionist” comments most of which were funny and subversive but hardly abusive.
I cant comment on the face book page,ive been blocked for replying to a comment saying the YES comments were abusive,
My answer was ‘I think all these comments have been fine!
That was it ,apart from a joke that my Brother lived St Boswells(he does)and was concerned by there campaign to get rid of the ‘Borders’.
But its ok to call Salmond a fat,nazi c….t as long as your a NO supporter.Check out the facebook…
They are a means to be able spend another £150,000 in the restricted campaigning period. That is all they are for.
Maybe playing in to their game but, feck off nob orders.
I love the trolling from “Harry Giles” (mixing votenoborders with the anarchist noborders)
Also the Nob orders problem is a good example why companies should use dashes in their URLs. eg; http://www.no-boarders.org
Here is some dreadfully thought out URLs if you want a laugh:
link to boredpanda.com
Lol I just realised I mispelt “borders”
I have a lot of the comments from the Vote No Borders site which I thought I had posted here this morning but my post may have been too long and it may not have posted. Would Wings like a look at them?
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