Empty hands and empty heads
Now, readers, we won’t pretend to you that our expectations were high.
But you may nevertheless wish to steel yourselves before you hear the “offer”.
You have to wait a while for it if you read the article. The first 800 words are all padding and waffle: Westminster is bad, Nigel Farage is bad, Labour are bad, the Tories are bad, Brexit is bad, yada yada yada. All of which, we’re sure, will come as shocking revelations to the few remaining readers of The National.
But unable to stall any longer, she eventually delivers her pledge.
We must assume that by “the original anti-establishment group” she means the SNP, a party which has been in uninterrupted government in Scotland for almost 18 years and which current polling suggests will remain in power until at least 2031, taking that number up to 24 years.
Most of the “young people” Adam is calling upon to “rebel” in some unspecified way have never known any other Scottish Government than the SNP. It’s a bit like telling Chinese kids to rebel by joining the Communist Party, and to “break the cycle [and] flip the script” by voting to keep everything the same way it’s been their whole lives.
Extra-amusingly, Adam claims that independence is “the way to stop asking for permission”, speaking as a representative of a party whose sole strategy for achieving independence is to repeatedly and unsuccessfully ask Westminster for permission, interrupted only by unsuccessfully asking the Supreme Court for permission.
Adam, pictured below sexually harassing a male employee in a manner that would unquestionably result in sacking and probably arrest and prosecution if the sexes of the people in the picture were reversed, tells people to “flood the system” (with what, exactly?) and “stop letting snake oil merchants dominate the feed”, yet she herself ran away from social media years ago because she couldn’t handle people challenging her support for online abusers (including the man in the picture) and sex offenders.
But on the evidence of this article nobody’s missing out on very much as a result, unless they have a keen algorithmic interest in AI-generated clichéd student rhetoric.
Her entire manifesto and strategy for “rebellion” appear to amount to “Let’s be louder [and] raise the volume”, without specifying what people are meant to raise the volume OF, and to “use, channel, shape and share your anger” without any clue as to where it should be channelled, what it should be shaped into and who it should be shared with.
Presumably, though, she means only people who already agree with you, since before leaving Twitter Adam had blocked pretty much anyone who questioned her in any way, and tried to have opposing voices kicked off the platform.
Which is an odd way to “invite people in”. (Assuming anyone actually wants to be invited into a room where some ranting loony is punching all the ceilings out. It sounds quite dangerous, frankly.)
(She does now have an account on paedophile-friendly echo-chamber Bluesky, where she’s made just 30 posts in five months, most of which channel and shape her angry anti-establishment rebellion into the form of slideshows of her getting her photo taken.)
We hope you can forgive the lack of activity on Wings in recent weeks, readers. The independence movement and Scottish politics in general are both hopelessly moribund and, unlike Karen Adam, we don’t believe in making noise when we have nothing to say, just so that it’ll look vaguely like we’re doing something. Voters don’t enjoy having meaningless slogans bellowed at them by vacuous honking foghorns and it rarely achieves anything productive. Indeed, the reverse is usually true.
We’ll be here if and when anything happens. Until such times, enjoy the sunshine.
But never mind. Help yersel tae ane o Geri’s “thins”. I recommend the cheesy…
“the original anti-establishment group”
To be fair to the unfortunately named Karen, many of the regular posters on here are still behaving as if supporting Indy is a terrifyingly risky, rebellious, anti-establishment act of heroic resistance that could see them spending 10 years breaking stones in a gulag.
What with their ludicrous “nom de guerres” that one of the regulars was posting about just this morning.
nom de guerre: noun
an assumed name under which a person engages in combat.
I’m using my hands as a megaphone. I’m off to the garden where I will plot the overthrow of the Seagulls.
“…stop letting snake oil merchants dominate…”
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That phrase leapt off the page at me, too.
For one hopeful moment I thought it was directed against that charlatan, Flynn.
In Karen Adam’s defence I suppose it takes one to know one.
Karen Adam has a cliché for all seasons.
Swinney’s summit to (scupper the electoral prospects of Reform UK) “protect Scottish values threatened by the rise of populism”, is to be funded from the public purse.
All Governments get a degree of discretion as to how they spend their revenue, but if electioneering FOR your party is verboten, why isn’t electioneering AGAINST your opponents similarly illegal?
Across Europe we see the Permanent State apply its resources in highly questionable ways. In Germany, the Permanent State seeks to exclude Alternative für Deutschland on the right and Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei on the left from the democratic process. And don’t get me started on Romania.
Never mind. Swinney’s legendary sure footedness will likely see his efforts backfire. You can’t attack RefUK as being a threat to the establishment, it’s their core pitch to the punters. Has the British establishment learned nothing from the rise of MAGA? Apparently not.
Shades of Sturgeon “saving Britain from Brexit”? Perhaps. The SNP are a British establishment party.
She is just another SNP MSP walking disaster. The talent pool in the SNP is at an all time low. This is sturgeons legacy in action!
Correct. And people like Karen Allan have no insight into the fact that THEY are part of the problem!!! Unbelievable arrogance!!!!
Well it’s a lovely offer, obviously if I were a young person tempted by the far right, criticising Farage and Brexit would be a sure way to win me over so 10/10 for comms strategy there.
You’re right about nothing going on re independence, but the violence-enthusiasts, sex offenders, weirdos and degenerates occupying some officer positions and the 3rd sector in Scotland must be delivering some form of hellish nightmare you can write about?
“far right” is a middle class dogwhistle that means “working class” and gives the own-fart-sniffers the moral certitude to punch down, as they like to do. “far right” is such a low bar these days anyone sane is essentially a “nazi”.
And the demonisation of young boys for an entire generation by an army of classroom dykes spouting feminism and going on about patriarchy, has led to e.g. andrew tate, the manosphere, MGTOW, and now this tv show, adolescence.
– “I’m 14, I just want to pass my exams and get a girlfriend, I am not to blame for slavery and the holocaust”
Karen Adam seems to be yet another creation of the SNP cunt-cloning machine, I mix up all their names, dunno who they are. Functionally useless, slogan friendly, seat warmer.
100% correct.
As a straight white male who works in the oil industry
I really can’t see very much being offered to me by the SNP
Considering the WHITE WHITE WHITE Speech and the SNP desire to destroy the North Sea oil industry
then
I’m perfectly happy to wear the “FAR RIGHT” hat
If the SNP didn’t despise people like me
they might attract my vote
YS
You forgot to round your post off with:
“Think I’ll go and eat worms”..
After indy will you be 100% happy with Scotland having zero border controls?
And anyone who comes into the country is given full voting rights as well as all benefits they could want
if YES
Then you are a good person
if NO
Then you are FAR RIGHT
YS, you are President Trump and I claim my free pair of Foster Grants.
reform are riding high because people see in them what they want to see; the reality does not match up
if reform/farage can’t say “p4ki rape gangs”, who will tell the truth ?
link to archive.ph
– is farage a muslim?
– why does reform talk a good pagger, then shite it, on the main thing the english care about (or shy away from), the basis of their electoral success; what happens when john bull(shitbeef) works out “reform ARE just like the rest of them”
the purpose of reform is not to stop the predicted 10million coming in before 2030 (ONS figures, nothing to do with people on dinghies), legally, but to use it as an excuse to destroy anything which still actually works, which raises this country above shitehole status
I think there is a bit of an in-joke regarding party names
– “reform” means “destroy”
– the “labour” party has done nothing but shit on the workers since at least blair and even earlier (the fabians?)
– the “conservatives” conserve nothing, nothing good anyway, maybe to hold onto the bad
– liberal democrats; are they liberal? are they democratic?
we need more honesty in politics; howsabout a
“mutilate your kids genitals, allow the paedos a free run at the 5 year olds, sell us all into indentured servitude with blackrock capital, perpetual war for issy … ” – Party
but they would only call this the Unicorns and Rainbows Happy Freedom Peace and Love Party (- is that not the Greens?)
then the SNP aka : the Anti Scottish Unionist Grifter Party
If you think that the SNP wouldn’t grasp indy with both hands if they thought going UDI would work
then you’re an idiot
WHY?
How much could they steal and how many freedoms could they remove WITHOUT Westminster watching over them ?
They would happily leave the union
But you wouldn’t be rich
the SNP would
and if you think you would be free
Excuse me while I die laughing
For a useful treatise on Political Philosophy, it really ought to be mandatory that all wannabee politicos at least read ‘The Rebel’ by Albert Camus before they open their mouths. That way, they’d keep their misuse of language to a minimum and not insult the electorate. But these are the days. These are the days.
To be fair to her she must have seen how absurd lies in Indy Ref 1, Brexit and 14 years of Tory lies all won the day.
Why not call whimpering behind the Westminster line not be called reactionary, revolutionary even.
Straws will be clutched when you are hanging off a Cliff.
“The original anti-establishment group”
Aye, until you kicked all the real anti-establishment people out the party, tried to jail them and started calling them all “too impatient”, “hotheads”, “the trash” etc.
Karen Adam is typical of the NuSNP. She probably got onto the candidate shortlist because of a disability. The type of disability didn’t have to be declared on the application form so it could be anything.
Not bright enough or educated enough to understand the modern political world, and remunerated way beyond anything they could ever earn given their qualifications, this generation of MSP’s and MP’s do as they’re told. It’s a disaster for intelligent politics and for the prospects of independence in a devolutionist party. Perhaps that was intentional by whoever devised the candidate selection system (Angus R?).
Rev, how did you get your Wee Blue Book out for distribution?
Why I ask is that we need a central organiser – last time there was Yes Scotland but I don’t think they helped with getting the WBB out, did they?
In which case, can you be the central organiser and get the 2026 election treated as the same kind of important event as the referendum? Get all the people/groups who helped the WBB plus all other groups – I4I, ISP, Alba, SSP, SSRG, RSS, NSP, Independence Forum, National Yes Registry – and make it happen so that the 2026 Holyrood election returns a group of MSPs who really reflect the desire for independence.
I think you can do it. I hope you will.
On Wednesday the 23rd of April I4I, ISP, ALBA, NSP and the SNP are meeting “around the table” to discus and do exactly that.
The event One Year On And One Year To Go is organised by Yes Brechin – tickets are available on Eventbrite-
link to eventbrite.co.uk..*_ga*Njg4NTc3OTY5LjE3NDM0MTc2OTM.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTc0MzQxNzY5My4xLjAuMTc0MzQxNzY5My4wLjAuMA
This will be livestreamed by Independence Live.
Northern Hotel, Brechin starting at 7.
The WBB distribution was handled by ayeMail an organisation set up the a guy called Lindsey Bruce. They also handled Wings rewards and crowdfunded Yes packs contain flags badges and stickers for Yes groups.They played a huge part in Indyref 1.
Correct.
@ KT Lorimer, David Holden and Rev.
Thanks for the information on the Brechin event and Lindsay Bruce’s Ayemail – I bought stuff over the years from Ayemail, it was a cracking resource and clearly very well organised.
The Brechin event sounds to be a good start at what is needed. I do wonder however what form the SNP representation will take – John Swinney and other high heid yins? It needs to be people who are in a position to make the SNP co-operate in a united approach to the 2026 election.
Rev, it isn’t enough to be right – as you often are. The message needs to be spread and a lot of people engaged in getting a campaign going. This next 12 months is vital. You know so many valuable people and have worked with them so well. Can you contribute your thoughts to the Brechin event?
They will need to have at least one candidate from one of the other independence parties in each constituency, otherwise those who cannot stomach the SNP are disenfranchised, effectively.
I’m liking ‘vacuous honking foghorns’
To think all those years ago when I listened to the radio and didn’t know what VHF stood for
I’m no spring chicken, but, boy am I f*****g angry, raging. It’s women like Ms Adam who make me want to puke. Sell-outs. These so-called feminists don’t even know what a woman is – or, rather, they do, but prefer the male variety. Second wave feminism was about pushing the boundaries and limitations placed upon female people, not encouraging male people to take everything away from us. It was about true liberation, not kow-towing to incels and PDfiles, autogynephiles and fetishists and encouraging youngsters to destroy their bodies.
I once thought that having female people in positions of power might change things for the better for majority of our sex, but the opposite has happened, and too many stupid, simpering, slavering, useless women are in positions of power and who are about as effective as chocolate fireguards.
Likewise, independence meant doing everything in your power to achieve it, whether you were male or female, not dilly-dally and shilly-shally, create diversions and derail until every opportunity was lost. Go to hell, Karen Adam. You and the rest of your disgusting cabal have sold us out, independistas and females, for a mess of pottage.
No independence for Scots and no liberty for females. Frauds to a man and woman. The rebellion I want to see is the SNP driven into the dust. Did I forget the working-class? Yes, you have betrayed them, too, with your middle-class jargon and gender ordure, and your betrayal of them by failing to not only not deliver independence, but not even to try. You have, though, managed to deliver a totalitarian state.
“not kow-towing to incels and PDfiles, autogynephiles and fetishists and encouraging youngsters to destroy their bodies”
Of course, there’s another aspect to the many-headed hydra that is the driving of women and girls into the status of second-class citizens.
It’s preparing the ground for the spread of the religion that holds women’s second-class status to be self-evident. And it’s cementing the support of those numerous believers who already can affect the government we get at WM.
Think I’m exaggerating? Check out Jess Phillips’ speech in the HoC yesterday. A master class in the political art of choosing a good day to bury bad news.
And no, this Labour two-tier justice government will not be holding any further meaningful investigations into the ongoing racially motivated abuse and rape of vulnerable, under-age, indigenous British girls.
Hi Hatey: I think what we are actually witnessing is the convergence of several different ‘woke’ threads. Witless people will cheer and say it is all about diversity, inclusion and equity when it was actually coming straight out of academia as a social experiment on just how far you can push stupid people before they realize they’ve been had.
This stuff began in academia, gravitated to alert CEOs of the big global industries and, finally, was promoted by a huge global law firm to enable the take-over of the state. The hard left fell for it big time and it has enabled the right to make dollars, dollars, dollars. The internet helped a great deal. Although perversion is scarcely in the keeping of the hard left, with the right just as steeped in it, it has been the hard left that handed the dollars to the right on a plate by pushing the perversion and deviancy.
It has been the coming together of perversion, p**n-led deviancy and instant gratification, especially in the sex stakes that has created the ‘trans’ industry, and industry it is. Women and children are the natural (and real) victims of this stuff, and all the better that stupid, ignorant and simpering women lead the charge under the guise of equality.
The same has happened with independence: we are told that the so-called party of independence is fighting a rear guard action against Westminster imperialism, but, all the time, Holyrood and the SNP have been playing a double game. That there are moles in the SNP goes without saying, just as they are threaded throughout the parties, but this ‘trans’ stuff almost negated their contributions all by itself. ‘White privilege’ did the rest. This is what modern ‘woke’ is: an amalgam of different, pretendy ‘victimhoods’ vying with each other for supremacy.
In such conditions, the only success that can be garnered is that of the establishment of a totalitarian state. It may already be too late to save ‘Scottishness’, or ‘Irishness’ or ‘Englishness’ or ‘Europeanness’. They are all sublimated to playing second fiddle to ‘transness’ and I cannot see an independent Scotland being able to shake off its malign and destructive influence unless it is tackled and defeated before we enter independence, n to after. Totalitarianism and certain religious observance go hand-in-hand.
I absolutely agree that, whether it is extreme Islam or ‘trans’ ideology, the end result for women and children will be exactly the same because the underlying base is entirely masculine-orientated and utterly misogynistic. The only choice will be whether you want to have your body destroyed or your mind, or, conceivably, both, with no choice. The men in frocks will prevail either way because extreme Islam would rather artificial women and girls than homosexuals.
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You’ll lose your CIA sh1tstirring stipend for talking like that McCarthyismface-bot..
She’ll have used chat GPT to write her article.
It’s good to know wings produces top class journalism before AI was even born. You can write quality like no one else. And that’s why I subscribe.
Let the truth free about the SNP, the destroyers of Scottish Independence.
Ah, Karen Adam. I like to look at who is trying to sell me swampland whenever I hear a new name in politics. She’s not a new name, but the idea of researching who is lecturing you is always a good one, anyway. As for the…eccentris Ms. Adam, from her Wiki page:
“She had her first child as a teenager and married the child’s father, but later divorced him due to spousal abuse. After the divorce, she became a Mormon for 20 years, but left the church after divorcing her second husband and father of the rest of her children, who was having an affair.”
Tragically endures domestic violence, then joins a cult for 20 years. Not moved far from the old cult designation destination with being in the modern SNP, eh? So anyway, moving on…
It would have been quicker just to say she is a full on Roaster..
Care in the community has so very much to answer for..
Rev, was hoping for some excoriating urine extraction in your blessed style of the defection of leading Scottish tory Jamie Greene to the party of Sir Ed Davey. Seems to have just realised they’re a refuge for right wing homophobes!!! Alas, maybe just too easy a target.
It’s just a sub-sample.
Westminster voting intention, More In Common, field work 4 – 7 April, sample population 124
Con 15%, Lab 21%, LibDem 14%, RefUK 24%, SNP 23%, Green 3%
Has nothing to offer just like her namesake Sweet Fanny.
So… “Rebellion”, according to the SNP, means bowing and scraping to the EU?
Jamie Greene should stay in bed. Every day he wakes the Tories get further to the right.
I wonder how many ‘young people’ read The National.
Used to be an ok paper.
Greg Moodie, grown ups writing articles, heck even a bit of a laugh from big Eck!
Now?
A complete (bad) woke-joke..
Surprised it’s still financially viable and in circulation..
How many young people read newspapers? The only people who appear to read it now are either ‘trans’ apologists or SNP headbangers. The National is now wholly devoted to these two types and any dissent is stamped on immediately on the say-so of these two types. Hail the totalitarian state and the ‘trans’/SNP takeover of The National.
When will these people realise that they wrecked politics and society when they allowed the trans lobby to hijack and dictate the agenda.And abandon and demean the native population for disagreeing with them.
To use an Americanism, this ‘Real Rebellion’ talked about by Adam is as much cringe as the Democrats ‘Choose a fighter’ ThickTok clip:
link to x.com
It would be interesting to know the financial state of both the Herald and the National – even more interesting to know the circulation figures , anyone??
ABC reports the average circulation of an edition of The National was c.3,500 in 2022. Of which less than 700 was from paid subscriptions. That’s no surprise given the continual focus on the most irrelevant of stories (e.g. various politicians being told to calm down in the Holyrood chamber), acting as a mouth piece for the SNP leadership, and a lack of any serious analysis or journalism on any subject. It would seem right for a takeover by serious voices.
The 2024 figure for The National was about 2.5K per day. Down 14 per cent on 2023.
Yeah its as you say rev, words, words, meaningless words, all empty, no passion, no direction, no initiatives, nothing. I now realise i will never live to see independence while this current crop of SNP weevils are in charge of our destiny. Scotland has indeed become a non country just a backwater exclusively controlled by England and raped of its resources and its industries dismantled. Its car industries, shipbuilding, steel, manufacturing bases, all gone and the disgrace of Grangemouth to be added. By switching on the television you see in stark reality that there is only one country on this island, England. 99% of programing is English culture, history, humour, politics, sport…….. If there is a news item about something affecting the lives and prosperity of people in the UK the reporters visit English factories, pubs, hospitals, football stadiums for public comment. Scotland doesn`t exist. In fact the 10 million people that make up rUK don`t exist.
Scotland doesn`t even have its own television channel able to give a Scottish perspective on international events with programs of Scottish humour, history, culture etc. Its all English by design.
We are saturated by English sport yet despite being part of this inclusive UK i have never seen Scottish football been shown in England. And the recent men`s world curling championship win by Scotland was all but buried by the media but we know that had it been England there would have been wall to wall coverage 24/7.
When you think of Norway, Finland, Denmark ,New Zealand you think of countries and are respected as such by England but such respect is never shown to Scotland. And over the years all this has been allowed to happen by Scottish politicians and by the Scottish people themselves.
I have two questions
Question 1
Why is it that when all true Scots have cancelled their TV license that true Scots have a far better idea about what is on the idiot box then I do?
Question 2
After indy
Who is going to pay for scottish sports to be “free” on the idiot box?
as FREE isn’t free
it means someone else is paying for it
FFS!
How she has the audacity to write any of that shite beggars belief.
The ppl of Scotland have repeatedly voted for independence – putting arses on seats in TWO parliaments – but those snake oil merchants not only squandered numerous mandates but fcked off with the donations tin too!
I’ve an offer of my own for Karen – FUCK OFF!
Don’t dare think you’re in any position to give advice to young ppl & their vote. Sturgeons SNP squandered the hopes & dreams of an entire nation & ignored the ballot box, ya fcking whakadoo!
“I’ve an offer of my own for Karen – FUCK OFF!”
Aren’t you a wee bit late (and a muckle bit unoriginal) with that one, Geri?
I thought the received wisdom on here was that the likes of Karen told all of us (but especially the likes of you) tae FUCK OFF lang syne.
Didn’t you get (or understand) the memo?
Seeing that scotland has voted for indy in two separate referendums (which I forgot about)
And scottish politicians have failed to act on these two clear votes
THEN
can I ask
Why do you think indy will make scottish politicians listen to scottish voters?