Wings Over Scotland

Launch the Scottish Lifeboat.

Come March 29th, they will all be doing it. “it wasn’t me”, “I wasn’t there”, “I resigned from cabinet twenty minutes before 11pm”, “I disagreed throughout, whilst in cabinet”, and so on.

With every passing day, the absurd excuses from folk trying to make it look like ‘it wisnae us’, grows longer and longer. They should indeed call themselves ‘the wets’.

Absolute cracker Chris. Deserves a Billboard.

Starlaw at 0735am,

I’ve always thought that an indyref could be won easily, with enough of Chris Cairns cartoons on billboards. A picture paints a thousand words and all that…

Many, including myself, have no time for the lying propagandist BBC in Scotland. Luckily we now have a national newspaper fighting our corner. They are and have been tackling the BBC liars hard, almost all this week. If you don’t currently buy ‘The National, or want to give it a go, can I urge people to buy a copy.

At last we have a major media source tackling the liars at Pacific Quay, so we should buy the National if possible.

link to twitter.com

Fergus Green – great – launch it when its ready. SNP civil war off the front pages in favour of the real war which will soon be in full swing with labours abstaining coming back to haunt them and the tories rich tax wars tripping them up. If labour thinks anti-antisemitism is a problem wait till momentum mps take over, it will be Armageddon for labour.

But worry not the Scottish lifeboat is coming along nicely.

Think that’s Brexit covered…

The Libdems may be irrelevant but they are not harmless.

The “fragrant” Jo Swinson had a problem with John Nicholson because he is a genuinely nice guy so the Libdems made up this distorted “odious” description of him and spewed it out on every door step. They now believe their own lies.

The Libdems are masters at this propaganda and those of us in Edinburgh West are only too aware of their deceit .Where do they get their money? More leaflats than other parties combined!

Great toon as usual, Chris.

I too wish a few choice ones could be on billboards, I’d happily chip in.

The billboards by Led by Donkeys, are doing well down south, the most recent one was huge, awaiting May for her arrival in Brussels.

Meanwhile:
The United Kingdom will deploy its new aircraft carrier, loaded with two squadrons of F-35 aircraft into the politically-fraught South China Sea.
British Defense Minister Gavin Williamson confirmed in a speech Monday morning that the Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth will sail into waters that are the subject of dispute between China and other nations.
At an address given to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London, Williamson said Britain was the second largest investor in the region and it must display “hard power” and “lethality” to help protect interests.
That’s that sorted.

Famous15 at 9.04

The Libdems are no more than tools for the UK establishment and are herded in and out of the tool box as required.
Because of that useful connection we got 13 LibDem leaflets posted to our address during the 2017 election though they apparently have no funds and no identified membership or organisation in the A&B constituency.

Whenever the electorate get fed up with the major unionist parties the gullible can be safely herded into the fake LibDem corral until things get back to normal.

How would the government of Israel react to a UK PM who supported the Palestinians? Corbyn has to be destroyed.A majority of those “rebel” MPs belong to the Friends of Israel organisation.

The National is doing a fabulous job on the BBC.

Muscleguy @ 8.44 am

Did you never watch Braveheart – that bit where Wallace has to continually urge the Scottish ranks to: “Hold, hold, hold”?

Had the Tories not absolutely fucked-up Brexit, a deal would have been concluded by September, or October last year. At that point, knowing what the leaving terms were, the deal should have gone to be ratified by the 27 other nations and the HoC.

The minute that deal was through the HoC, Nicola would have said: “This deal is mince, it harms Scotland, we are going for Independence,” and, whether Westminster liked it or not, the Indyref 2 campaign would have been under way. In fact, we might well have already voted and known the outcome.

But, the Maybot, unable to get her own side to back her, has simply kicked the can down the road, and is now, rapidly, running out of road.

Nicola cannot fire the starting pistol on Indyref2 until she knows what the deal or no deal for leaving is. Supposed she had already done so, and, on realising the reality of losing all that Scottish wealth, the Tories had changed their mind, cancelled Brexit, or given the minimum Nicola wants – a Customs Union and free movement. Well Indyref2 was a lost cause.

Nicola CANNOT act until she knows what we in the Independence movement will be taking-on. And that will be a last-minute call.

She may only have a matter of days, perhaps even hours, to fire the starting pistol, before the dirty tricks begin, up to and including proroguing Holyrood.

The Tories will stop at nothing to keep us as their last colony. This fight will be dirty, but, it is one we have to win.

I am as exasperate at anyone as to how things have turned out, but, we have to Keep the Faith.

The best thing about Chris’s cartoons is that, in the middle of this black chaos, they make me laugh. I love this one.

Strength to strength CC.
Considering a cruise for the next holiday by any chance ?
Fluffy ting vv funny.

I wonder if the copywriters who “created” the SNP civil war could have foretold that the very party they were trying to bolster in Scottish Labour, would soon have their very own realdivisions so publicly aired.

If any Labour members need ammunition for the struggle, I have a jar of Marmite and some Italian breadsticks going cheap. Lethal.

Brilliant

However if that cartoon was stuck on a billboard what percentage of the population would get it? Depressingly with the current media it might be a low number. March 29th and the few weeks after are going to be a real surprise to too many people.

I think the First Minister has been vindicated by being “ca canny”.

Those WoS bloggers encouraged by the tory /labour news media to have a reverenda, now, now , now have been proven wrong.

Labour is self harming daily, the tories are in open war. Lib dems and the independents support Westminster politics including the unelected House of Lords.

The Scottish Public watch on aghast as we are told to shut up an accept Brexit.

Mundel is going to resign for the 10th? time – with even the BBC TV ignoring him when the “Independents” moved from the tory benches.

Yip the First Minister has got it right. We just have to be ready to move fast and hard.

The BBC/STV and the rag paper hacks in Scotland are finding it harder and harder to polish the Lab/Tory unionist turd,

so they are attempting to polish up posh Jo with a bit of publicity brasso to see if they can get her to shine for the unionist cause,

her every cough,belch and noxious fart will be promoted as politically profound judgements.

Why do we need another referendum? Scotland has already voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU. The government needs to follow the vote of the sovereign people of Scotland.

To those who say we didn’t vote for independence by voting remain, well all votes have consequences. In 2014 nobody voted to have our MP’s made second class at WM, have our devolved powers repatriated to WM, or even have a EU vote in the first place (only one MP from Scotland voted for it).

On another subject, I see Steve Clarke fears sectarianism will never be eradicated from Scottish football. Of course it won’t it is the equivalent of the newspapers click-bait. When the fair being served up is so sparse in quality you need to some insentive to attract the punter.

fngw says:
23 February, 2019 at 10:28 am
Why do we need another referendum? Scotland has already voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU. The government needs to follow the vote of the sovereign people of Scotland………….

I understand you comment – to a point. We can’t ask for a 2nd vote brexit style and not for Scottish Independence. In my day (ancient) a Majority of snp MP’s would have been enough.

A Scottish Independence vote is necessary. We just have to win. Conditions are better now than in 2014.

Nice one Chris.

Meanwhile the Queen, and the Estated gentry in Scotland are up in arms over paying their fair share in taxes in Scotland.

link to thenational.scot

Strike quickly for me can be this year. Dont want folk to just passively accept a brexit decision. At the moment we have brexit or brexit. The media are trying to imply May’s brexit is somehow “ok”. It aint.

The BBC’s propaganda show Debate Night in Scotland first line up. No Billy Mitchell yet.

John Swinney SNP.

Monica Lennon Labour.

Apologies for thecabove missing names, here they are.

Murdo Fraser Conservative.

Poet Jenny Lindsay.

Entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter

Had the misfortune to listen to a bunch of English folk on the radio this morning laugh and joke that Scottish people are ugly and the like. Will be putting a complaint into ofcom and never listening again to absolute radio

Superb cartoon, again.

Republicofscotland says:

The BBC’s propaganda show Debate Night in Scotland first line up.

Any political debate or paper review etc should have a 50% pro Indy panel and audiience to reflect the reality of Scotland. Going ahead with representation less that half is blatant bias and propaganda.

That line up contains two BritNats and one Indy politician. Two of each would have been a better start. As for the others, Hunter has been very critical of an IndyRef2. Jenny Lindsay, I don’t know.

So that seems BritNat majority either 3:2 at best, possibly 4:1 on the only game in town, the constitutional crisis.

‘Don’t! I can’t laugh and swim at the same time’. Lol

QT with the BBC

Organised on the same basis as everything else that’s British
90% English & 10% Scottish representation with a British official in charge

What’s everybody complaining about, that’s the way things are done fairly in Britain, you can’t treat Scotland differently can you, I mean Scotland’s not separate or anything you had a vote and you voted to be a territory of the Great Kingdom of Eng Brit eh UK there got it in the end

They are going to form a new ship at some point..

Had a laugh watching the lib dem conference and wullie rennie on the bbc.

Everytime time Swinson’s name is mentioned bbc cut immediately to a close up of her.

The tories version of Davidson. Tories in sheeps clothing.

Neatly done Chris. 🙂

Just seen this on twatter.

link to twitter.com

Raises a simple question based on a simple an empirically provable fact. Mind you, just the premise of the pamphlet alone is good for a few laughs.

‘The SNP is using Brexit to break up the UK’.

I mean FFS! Seriously? Whatever folk may think of the SNP, they didn’t instigate this epic shit show. They didn’t endanger international treaties, peace accords or devolution settlements. Westminster government did ALL of that. Westminster government is also currently threatening to rewrite the constitutional settlement on these islands. The SNP didn’t do that either.

According to SiU, independence isn’t the answer. I tend to disagree with that statement, but then I would.

How and ever, back to that very, very, simple question. Why should we, or the electorate in general, trust a word SiU has to say?

The UK we’re looking at today bears absolutely zero resemblance to the UK going forward folks were promised in the run up to the 2014 vote. And I do mean ZERO.

Either:-

a. HMG and the Better Together campaign were less than capable of delivering on their vision and completely unaware of their lack of ability (being nice)

OR

b. They were being….(struggling here)… less than honest with Scotland’s population.

An explanation for folks would be good.

In their own time then. We’re waiting.

There’s a new radio series starting tomorrow on BBC R4 at 1.30 looking at the British Isles and the first programme is considering the differences/history etc between England and Scotland.

I can’t remember the exact words but the final sentence of the Trailer refers to …’ this place which is nothing like England’. How’s that for bias! A balanced trailer would say something like ‘these two worlds so clearly different’ or ‘these separate cultures’ NOT…. ‘…this place which is nothing like England..’

Typical London centric BBC propaganda. Sadly won’t be able to hear it as I shall be out and about and don’t have access to I-player.

BBC – “ The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has urged disillusioned Conservative and Labour politicians to “come and talk to me”.
They couldn’t get a word in for his gibberish excitement!

** SMALL SHED FOR SALE **

CONTACT: W. Rennie. –

No longer required due to lack of credibility & policys.

Guaranteed conference size (libdem-ukip-Dup)only.

Price : “following libdem standards – will want lots £££ for next to nought.

Congratulations to Councillor Ashley Graczyk for valuing social ethics over identity.

@Scottish Tories for Yes
See, there is a big difference between being a Conservative and being a Tory.

Tories want to punch you in the face
Liberal Democrats say you should complain but stay
Labour say you should complain even more but stay

SNP say let’s not stay to be punched in the face

Unionist parties say leaving’s not the answer to being punched in the face

What’s the answer then? *Bullied Together*

Dan @1.09

That’s come from nowhere and is a bit unnerving.
If genuine, it breaks the deadlock argument for her deal/no deal proposition and is effectively an extension of Article 50 plus, except we will have left?

If we leave with no deal, then am I right in thinking that the Withdrawal Bill will not apply – hence the WM power grab would not be applied? OR

The first topics they want to consider are fishing and money ( where most of their votes could be lost) but does that mean they are assuming the powers over fishing? i.e. the power grab will happen regardless.

If we leave with no deal, in what is seeming to be a ‘managed no deal’ have we actually left?

Do we still have ECJ /human rights cover, will Holyrood still have powers or have these been already legislated out at 29th March 23.00 hours.

Perfidious Albion about to pull a rabbit out of the hat?

All a bit disconcerting – hope Nicola is across this one.

interested to read other’s views.

Willie Rennie offering advice to disenchanted Labour and Tory MPs? Now there is a thought. This way to the political event horizon perhaps?

🙂

Auld highlander, the beeb are only broadcasting, not directing, you can blame our old friends for that,

Who is in charge of the security at the Lib con if it is Police Scotland I hope Rennie will not welsh on paying up,have they ever settled the last bill the owned

Meg merrilees @ 14:17,

As I understand it, Meg, there is no coupling between the kind of exit and the extensive powers the UK will assume on exit. We will be just as vulnerable – if not even more so – than with May’s “deal”.

The biggest diff will be for Ireland, with no-deal there will be no backstop and therefore the potential for serious amounts of trouble over the border, which at its most benigh would take the form of a (re-)unification poll. (Which might make us look like silly ditherers, but that’s another story!)

What the article was considering was not a “managed” Brexit, at least in the first instance. It was a very novel take (for me anyway), the notion that the EU could calmly let the UK take the hit of a full-on no-deal exit, and cause it to humbled enough by the dire consequences to come back to the negotiating table with a more realistic and less arrogant approach.

The million-dollar question in that case is whether Dis-May is willing to go along with that scenario just to get us out on timetable as promised and perhaps be more free to scrap previous red lines therafter. If so, it’s a perilous course indeed. The humiliation and other fallout could produce very unexpected consequences, and not only over Ireland. It isn’t even clear which government the UK might have, if present Tory/Labour fragmentation escalates, as it well might.

However, by then we might have made our own moves anyway. I don’t believe that this putative course of events, were it come to pass, would hinder that at all.

This current reasonable wish for Brexit “clarity” has its limits. There may be a point in ongoing turmoil where it will be advantageous to impose our own clarity as an attractive way out of the megaguddle.

I commend this to my fellow Nicolasceptics.
link to scotsman.com
There’s never been a more golden opportunity to quit this failing Union. England is at war with itself.
If we delay further, we and the quest for independence might well fail with it and an expectant generation will have been betrayed.

OFF-TOPIC – ABOUT SPORT

A very good game in Paris, with a disappointing outcome for Scotland, and a few talking points, ver-runs slightly. Lots of talking points to go over.

But, no, Auntie BBC decides, we have to be dragged immediately away from Paris to Cardiff – so that we don’t miss a second of their half-hour build-up about how wonderful England are.

Know your place you Sweaties. You don’t matter, it’s all about England.

Nicola has played a blinder by waiting. It now doesn’t matter if Art50 gets delayed because people have had the chance to see Westminster collapse without the distraction of demands for a Scottish Independence during the talks. Nicola cannot be blamed for the chaos surrounding the votes.

People are also beginning to realise that no matter the result of any votes the travel will be to the right and the gap between the UK and Europe will grow ever wider. If they open their eyes a bit more they will detect the door being opened to America and lower food standards and the privatisation of the NHS.

As the cartoon suggests the rats are on the run and they will soon turn on each other. The LibDems will demand we go down with the ship. Labour will go down with the ship due to indecision. The Tories will take private jobs in the USA takeover.

The time to go approaches fast.

galamcennalath @4.22 yot post reminds me of the story when Robin Cook was a Labour Foreign Secretary, when he took over that office of State, apparently there was a huge oil painting celebrating the British Rule over Dark skinned people, Cook decreed that was too Imperialistic and had it replaced by a huge oil painting of Oliver Cromwell, First official foregn dignitory to his office since the Cromwell painting went up was the Irish Foreign Minister,
If anybody is wondering what Cromwell did to Ireland i recommend you get a copy of Peter Berresford Ellis book entitled to Hell or Connaught. This is the choice given to the Irish by Cromwell be killed or be transported to Connaught where conditions were so poor you would have little chance surviving. Morrissey of the Smiths mentions it in a song “The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories
And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him
And will salute him forever.”

Get back in your kennel Scotland. Yo englands bitch.

Who would give money to the failing rag the hootsman don’t click on the link.

@Lennie Hartley @5.04: good anecdote about Mr Cook.

Whether in Drogheda or Dundee, Cromwell was pretty vile.

Wee Wullie Rennie, runin thru the toon,
Here, there, everywhere lookin like a cloon,
Wi his pals Jo an Vince,
wi knowledge pretty sparse,
All the punters tellin them,
“stick your policies up your a*rse”

The Liberal Dums in crisis,
They huvnae got a clue,
Seein wee Wullies coupon,
is enough to mak ye spew.

When Wullie looked in tae the crowd,
seein awe they empty seats,
Never missin an photie shoot,
he began tae greet,
Sumday fae thon BBC,
Feelin sorry fur his state,
Blamed thon nasty SNP,
fur his parties sorry fate.

Feel free to add on.

Legerwood @ 17:26,

I do agree, actually. I have evidently failed to make sufficiently clear my point on that! An Irish border poll would surely shame us into following suit, if by then there was still any residual reluctance.

Better of course to be ahead of the curve, but whatever it takes…

Cook decreed that was too Imperialistic and had it replaced by a huge oil painting of Oliver Cromwell

Funny how BritNat Scots don’t see Cromwell in the same light as the Irish do!

No doubt it’s because the Irish have ‘updated’ their history over the last 100years. Scotland’s history is still very much seen through the occupiers’ eyes.

“September 1, 1651 the day a fifth of Dundee’s population were massacred … Across this prosperous and well-ordered city Monck’s troops smashed into homes robbing, killing and r8ping. … The plunder was exceptional and the murder without equal in Scotland’s history. “

link to eveningtelegraph.co.uk

Tinto Chiel says:

Whether in Drogheda or Dundee, Cromwell was pretty vile.

From what I can gather, the massacres were of similar magnitudes. Perhaps 3500 at Drogheda, 2500 at Dundee. It looks like Dundee’s deaths were proportionally greater among civilians. Truly awful events.

Every Irish person will know about Drogheda. How many Scots know about Dundee’s similar misfortune two years later?

RE: Dundee and Monck.

When the City Churches’ gardens were being renovated quite a number of years ago, many skeletons were found around the foot of the Auld Steeple.

A quote from the following link:-
“In the middle of the 17th century, Dundee was besieged again, this time by the English General Monk.
Being a well-fortified and thriving Royalist stronghold, Dundee withstood the siege for six weeks until the garrison and many innocent citizens were betrayed and massacred, and the Governor was ignominiously beheaded after three days heroic defence of the Great Tower of St. Mary.
Periodic excavations in Nethergate unearth human skeletons and bones, probably victims of Monk’s massacre.”

link to dundeestmarys.co.uk

Also, from 1960,

“Mass Grave Found in Nethergate”

link to bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk

Can shame us into it first.

Bobp says:

Nothing like a bit of airbrushing of history by the occupiers.

Makes you wonder what all those historians in Scottish universities have been doing with their time? Selective research? Research not known widely? Or, collective complicity with the BritNat version of events?

I would guess collective complicity to keep their cushy jobs and pensions.

Chris I reckon that your latest cartoon highlights that you’re being pretty pessimistic about the situation, especially if you take into account that Gavin Williamson, fireplace and pottery salesman come Secretary of State for Defence, has it all in hand.

link to youtube.com

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@ Dr Jim says at 11:53 am …. ”Jo Swinson had that funny fake posh accent before she ever moved to England to live, I’ve got a niece and her family living in England for years they don’t have funny fake posh accents, I lived in Spain for 12 years I never ended up talking like speedy Gonzales and I actually speak Spanish, well that’s Mexico but Y’know.”

She’s supposed to be the MP for East Dunbartonshire. I wonder if her constituents are aware of the fact that she’s living in England? How can she do her job properly? Aw right …. she doesn’t.

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@ galamcennalath says at 4:22 pm …. ”Jeremy Hunt has pissed off Slovenia by saying it was ‘a vassal state of the Soviet Union’ when of course it was part of Yugoslavia (socialist, neutral, and certainly not under USSR domination). I have a profound and lifelong hatred of Tory philosophy and attitudes. However, to this is now added amazement at their levels of ignorance. Hunt is the Foreign Secretary and yet doesn’t seem to have a grasp of European geography and history. It’s not a one off – consider the arrogant bullshit directed at the Rep of Ireland. Or, virtually everything Johnson or Rees Mogg utters. Thatcher’s Tories were not nice people, but I don’t remember them also being thick as mince?”

Levels of ignorance? It’s been a REAL eye-opener galamcennalath with Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, admitting that ”she was profoundly ignorant of the country’s political divisions and “slightly scared” of the place” and of course Dominic Raab, ex-Brexit secretary, being another example …. of many. The upside to Brexit is that it has divulged that it’s a bunch of birdbrained clowns that are running the show. Let’s hope that non-political Scots have noticed.

link to buzzfeed.com

When i was 10 yr old we left Scotland to move to Ireland ( i went to st johns in the gorbals in the 60’s.). I dont know too much about Scottish history, other than what i learned myself in later years. But i can tell you all about the 1916 easter rebellion. Boys of wexford, black and tans etc, every period of irish history. Nothing airbrushed or left out. Which would have been had Ireland not won her independence. I think this is why some of the scottish population have a lack of self worth.

Robert J. Sutherland says:
23 February, 2019 at 6:28 pm

‘Episcopalian, which was a solely English development caused by the personal difficulties Henry VIII eventually had with the Mother Church’

Episcopal Church is a native Scottish church. It is the only member of the Anglian communion not to be an offshoot of the Church of England.

In 1560 the Scottish Parliament removed the Popes authority in Scotland. Reformation stage 1. The Presbyterian church did not become the established church in Scotland until 1592. Until then the Episcopal church was the Church of Scotland.

John Knox progressed from reforming Catholic priest, to the Episcopal church and eventually started following Calvin.

However my point is that the Jacobite risings were not Catholic risings as some people think. Catholicism had been illegal since 1560 and were only around 1-2% of the population by 1745.

I would think that for most Scots the scales must have fallen from their eyes at the contempt WM politicians have for Scots. Unfortunately it is also held by a number of politicians from the BritNat parties here, truly the house Jocks that will take any insult as long as they feel they have personally gained.

If we are looking for odious politicians there are, as far as I can tell, plenty to see within the BritNat based in Scotland parties (100% in the LibDems, can anybody name one with any redeeming features).

Remember the only parties that are against independence are not Scottish and are financed by another country.

WTF is it with emojiis on this site ???

Fur when yer really annoyed:

😡

@K1 thanks for that, I tried to cut and paste an emojii from another post but it failed.
I’m obviously as good at cut and paste as Tinto was yesterday LOL.
Looks like I’ll have to dig out my old DOS shortcuts from 1992.

The sands of emoji ma.

Wee Wullie’s Works Do in Hamilton Town Hall. They’re not even on the stage. They’ve built their own wee platform halfway down the hall floor. So they can’t even half fill half the hall.

Winnie Ewing took to the stage in that same hall.

Interesting article.

The Independent Group is go – but how do you become a political party in the UK?

Among other things

“…the treasurer would have to supply all the details about their financing. This would open them up to financial scrutiny that they can currently avoid.”

So maybe we’ll find out how many bags of money have been handed over by the Israeli embassy!

link to archive.is

Robert J. Sutherland says:
23 February, 2019 at 4:08 pm

“This current reasonable wish for Brexit “clarity” has its limits. There may be a point in ongoing turmoil where it will be advantageous to impose our own clarity as an attractive way out of the megaguddle.”

Aye, one indeed does wonder just how much and what type of further “clarity” is required.
All those various impact assessment studies that found Scotland and latterly the UK leaving the EU would have negative effects pretty much across the board in societal and economic terms.
We’re already currently having to endure significant negative effects before “leaving” (in whatever shape or form it may or may not manifest in) has even occurred.
This damage which will be difficult to come back from or even mitigate against with the limited powers (which may be reduced further) we have is in the process of being done.

Which comes back to the following:

“We believe that the Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold another referendum if there is clear and sustained evidence that independence has become the preferred option of a majority of the Scottish people – or if there is a significant and material change in the circumstances that prevailed in 2014, such as Scotland being taken out of the EU against our will”.

It states “being taken out of the EU against our will”. I read that as in the process of or it would have said “having been taken out of the EU against our will”.

Of course the “such as” in itself could cover all sorts of stuff, like you know, having an EU ref. foisted upon us in the first place by a party that broke electoral law to gain power, then an EU ref “winning” result being obtained by a campaign that was also found to have broken the law and undermined democratic principles, etc, etc…

It’s so very apt the ship theme of Chris’s cartoon.
When I worked on boats and rigs the safety training was to quickly and safely get to the muster stations and lifeboats to give as much time as possible in case there were extra issues arising with the launch process or the boat’s engine wouldn’t start.
You don’t muck around with brinkmanship trying to find your phone charger or iron your underwear before putting on your life preserving immersion suits.

Anbuddy ever tried to swim and laugh at the same time… it’s excellent fun, you should try it sometime, backstroke recommended. 🙂

THE ‘Labour’ ABSTAINER, is the ship on the east side:
link to youtube.com

This was written and released in 1987 by Sonny:
link to youtube.com

Fuckin’ denied at 3mins 09secs by Vevo:
link to youtube.com

Notice how there are no longer any Unionist politicians on board either of their broken ships, they have already gone overboard and under, are about to go down with their unrespective boats, or they are indeed also the present day equivalent of ‘spitting image political rats’.

Notice also how THE MAYDAY craft has already split-in-two, this is the part where the bow goes vertical and bobs up n down in the water furra couple ah minutes before going down to the bottom of the English Channel. Aye may share a familiar and demonstrative video wae ye’s laters…

“What’s that you say Coastguard… both of their boats struck their iceberg on route from Dover to mainland Europe in broad daylight on a calm and clear day”

Yeah, both common rats and political rats are always the last to leave a sinking ship.

Know-tah-benny: Jist so’s ye’s knows “The Wets” represents “TIG”

@Dan
That’s an interesting article, and a new take on the situation. Can’t work the implications out straight away.

@Dan
Mmm, a very quick analysis says that it could and would affect things BEFORE March 29th as the UK Gov would cleraly be aware of it. So it could make a no-deal more likely, plus also perhaps give the UK Gov more bargaining power to get changes, even including the Backstop,

The more ye look at this fine Cairnstoon ’19 piece, the more it looks like “THE Labour ABSTAINER” ship has run aground! and is destined to become one of those rusting wrecks ye see dotted around the coastlines of Earth.

“S.S. IRRELEVANT” sank achwhile bach, somewhere out at sea, nearby a mystery fantasy island – they couldn’t even make it over to their Tory politicians self-formed international iceberg – there there there they now reside on their castaway adrift paradise.

Important reminder: “Rrremember Captain May (yerra womble), in the event of emergency the captain is supposed to go down with their ship… how’s that view lookin’ frae yer bridge, captain?”

BREAKING: Theresa goes in and makes a surprise move!:
link to youtube.com

Gus1940
And earlier in the day the SvF kick off was mentioned swiftly followed by ” and then its the BIG game England v Wales”. Its all about England.
When Scotland is playing against Wales Ireland Italy or France there always has to be an English commentator and a presence in the studio just to emphasise that we are in charge.

Wonderful…Labour getting torn into by SNP’s Susan Aitken at Glasgow City Council meeting on 21st February. Share this footage as much as ye can as she tears them to pieces about their conduct over the past ten years denying women’s equal pay. And rightly demonstrates what a shower of morally bankrupt hypocritical bastards the lot of them were and are:

link to twitter.com

And if this has already been posted it is worth reposting over and over again, let there be no hiding place for Labour at every level of government in Scotland, we are yet to remove these utterly useless careerist gits from all positions of influence and power in our city’s, our local councils and our national politics.

Susan Aitken is a breath of fresh air and an articulate sight to behold, more of this please.

Pan the image 180 degrees to YOUR left and YOU will see, that YOU control YOUR destiny and sailing ships will pass you by:
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More from Tabletop Theresa the Terrible:
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Can ye feel that overhanging UKexit feeling hanging in the air… it’s like an invisible smog, ye can see it in the affectings and effectings of the People, everyday people.
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It’s like, if there are Air-waves and Micro-waves, then mibbies there are “Brexit-waves” pure hingin’ and mingin’ awe aroond us in the Air.

Scientists say… The Perfect Storm should clear the Air.
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Doesn’t a lot of the Labour party anti-semitism stem from the hoo-ha around the International Holcaust Remembrance Alliance definition document which Corbyn did not accept in full as he wanted free speech to be able to critics Israeli actions against Palestine.

As you say, how can we have a PM who is to friendly towards the state of Israel, look how much Trump does to court their friendship, even moving his embassy to Jeruslem.

It’s like the White helmets all over again, Friends of Israel have achieved the Heiniken effect – reaching all levels of governments world wide, and parts we can’t even know about … yet.

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Listening to a Labour MP today who is proposing an amendment next week that WM accepts T may’ deal on the promise that she will then go to a second referendum and stand or fall by the result .
When asked if he actually supported T may’s deal his reply was that ‘Labour would abstain’ in the vote to allow the deal to go through.

I’m sick and fed up of Labour MP’s abstaining. They are paid to vote, not sit on their hands and their principles are so eroded that they would actually hold their noses and allow a bad deal to go through….

Time they were all replaced.

Evenin’ Meg and howde do.

SO here’s another random progressive notion… if politicians are paid to vote for the People they represent… SHOULD they CHOOSE to abstain from a vote… they should incur a financial penalty… like let’s start betting at, say £500.00 per abstention?

Then have said collected abstention fines donated to worthwhile charities, that way everyone wins!

That would get them voting in no time, or would it?

Ronnie, does bill have an exhaustive list of Scottish inventions? Off the top of my heid
I can add the TV, the phone and the fax machine in the world of telecomms alone.

Sad for Scotland but boy oh boy wee Wales – giants among rugby!

Ronnie , I have been a fan of the native americans since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Their philosophy on all things was impressive and as the man said we had much to learn from them.

I like that idea Cactus… we could dock their wages for each time they abstained.

It’s counter-productive – would soon cure it though.

Aye Meg, mibbies five hunner is not enough, £1,000 per abstention it is.

Aussi, just out of image in the background is “THE UKIPPER” vessel, coming to seek out and collect the two wet-rats swimming about out front… here it was going for an earlier re-fit:
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U-know what ah mean…

Is the Cnclr Graham mentioned by Susan Aitken the husband of Johan Lamont?

Ref Scottish Inventions

I thought I read ma y moons ago a mannie fae Tain / Balintore invented the ATM? maybe it was another product?

However the pin Number is credited to James Goodfellow.

I think the list would be endless.

Ref Scottish Inventions.

Here’s a good start

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