Wings Over Scotland

Another superb spot of debunking Rev. But, a small complaint: after reading: “The classic “critics say” is a favourite of the Scottish media – particularly the BBC – and usually means either a rentaquote Unionist politician or Some Arsehole. (On this occasion it turns out to be Murdo Fraser, so both.” – I spat coffee all over my lap top, major clean-up required.

“In short, then, the Mail is trying to fabricate a grievance against the SNP in an area where Scots in fact do better than almost anyone else in the country, on the basis of figures it appears to have pulled completely out of its fundament.”

So the usual BritNat MSM routine then?

Just like they have done with Trains, Personal Tax etc. EssEnnPeeBaaad ad naseum.

These BritNat MSM fuckers don’t care that they are peddling lies, or even that we know that they are.

As long as the subliminal “Scotland Shite ‘cos EssEnnPeeBaaad” headline is seen by as many as possible.

The Unionist Soft Coup against Scotland’s Democratically elected Government led by the BritNat Media continues unabated.

Isn’t it amazing!

The past few days have saw it confirmed that the Scottish Tories tell more lies than any other political party in Scotland..Even Labour!!!

The Mail asks Murdo We are DOOMED Frazer to lie through his teeth, so that they can print more lies, for the benefit of people who don’t mind paying to be lied to.

Just as Andrew Neil and the BBC are being ragdolled all over the internet, for their lies and disinformation during Brexit, and connections to some very shady organisations (run by Neil)

Just as the news that the claims by Boris Johnson and Teresa May about the Russian involvement in the chemical weapon assassination attempt, was all a pack of lies, even though it has spread throughout the world, with several countries throwing Russian diplomats out of their countries!

I am beginning to wonder of their is any point in democracy in the UK any more, as we surely can’t make an informed choice as to how we will vote, if politicians are able to lie through their teeth and then shrug their shoulders when they get caught.

What a farce!

The Daily Mail, the Daily Express and the Herald, are when it comes to the SNP independence and Scotland in general hostile.

When you lie to someone to make your point,you believe you are actually gaining a victory over them, but in fact it shows they have won against you ,simply by having truth on their side.

We don’t need to fabricate because our shield is nothing more than the truth. It is the Unionist politicians and media which have to fabricate an alternative story, and in doing so they lose touch with the truth and their morality.

That can only survive so long ,and as mentioned by a previous poster, more and more people are questioning the role of the media and politicians in England as well as Scotland.

It is self destruction by a thousand cuts.

In the Beach House Coffee shop in Leven out of the snow letting the g,children play the 2penny slides and just read that article on the free paper rack collection.

Brilliant Rev… Lol. 🙂

@Street Andrew

The poor pig had no choice over what was put in it’s mouth…

Well I’ve just seen the graphic results of theferret.scot fact checking political parties in Scotland. Guess what – the SNP is the most truthful, the Tories the biggest liars. Just like their house magazine the Daily Mail.

The ruling values are the values of the ruling class – as someone once said(probably Marx. We have some top class fabricators in the UK.

From Stu’s twitter.

link to twitter.com

Current and future squirrels to look out for.
Russia, Games and Wedding, anything but Brexit.
Tell everyone you know to vote YES this time.

I can’t believe it!
Surely the daily mail wouldn’t lie.
The british main stream media talking pish.
Oh I forgot its tory uk.

My daughter recently moved from Glasgow to Manchester and her policy increased by £500 because of change of address. So your research is spot on once again.

Mail twice.

Mad Murdo Fraser – the man who gives Rangers supporters a worse name.

Great article.

Let’s maybe hope that people, well anyone reading that rag, will look at their bill and put two and two together! Some will come up with a wrong figure though whatever the reality actually is.

I see Disney might be going to buy SKYnews UK? Fantasy is so in right now.
Just like when they read how bad the SNHS is and they’ve got to have treatment from same Scottish NHS and it’s excellent treatment, they say, oh, wait a minute, but the daily heil said SNP very very bad, so the daily heil must be telling me porkies!

Etc.

Nope. Renewed my car insurance yesterday for same price as last year.

I’ve long thought that because holding the press to account brings its own problems.
The answer would be for Holyrood to introduce legislation for self censure!
While it wouldn’t necessarily help in this instance (brilliantly debunked Rev)
A party who introduced penalties for Politicians who lie would win votes.
And the Party/Parties who oppose it would I think pay a price at the poll’s too,for fighting for the right to lie!

Being “expected” to resign as a matter of honour no longer exits.
And while it wouldn’t stop the Media lying over other stuff,it would IMHO be a step in the right direction,to making an informed choice about who gets to run things.

I can’t see any reason for it not to become the norm for every Scottish politician to be held to a high standard and to pay a price for falling short…..up to and including “drunken ” tweets.
If we are to assume that there is “no” private space on the internet,so should they.

Unsurprisingly …..
I would go further and argue to have a commitment made during Indy ref 2,
That in an Independent Scotland,elected representatives will be – Constitutionally – bound to Holyroods Code of Conduct.
Even to the extent of Criminal law…..everyone who stands for election would know the standards expected…And if they don’t like it don’t run!
Also everyone who gives evidence to Holyrood falls under Perjury laws.
And we would not only finally have our government within slapping distance,we could slap them bloody hard if they don’t behave.

We can’t and shouldn’t mess with the freedom of the press,but we absolutely can make Holyrood a place where we can trust that the Truth will be told and broadcast live no matter who else owns or runs the Media.
The Media either can’t or won’t hold our politicians to account.
So we will just have to do it ourselves,and between Holyrood Parliament TV and the internet we can make the change over to “the people” themselves becoming the 4th estate.
And “,I think” this should become part of a “manifesto” commitment for an Independent Scotland!
Let the No side argue against that,and for keeping Westminster’s lying system,if they dare!

Hopefully….Eventually…
This would also have knock on effect in the Media,as in, Truth and Accuracy become expected.
EG..The story above could in Theory be asked about in Holyrood where the “actual” truth better be told….
So if a story is concerning us we just get our MSPs to ask in Holrood,if we can trust the answers there,we don’t need to try and “fix” (with their consent as to how) the MSM.

Socrates MacSporran says:
4 April, 2018 at 1:37 pm
Mad Murdo Fraser – the man who gives Rangers supporters a worse name.

Not forgetting my Slovene girlfriend, the educated half of this comedy tory duo.

Adam Tomkins MSP Retweeted

Murdo Fraser
?
Verified account

@murdo_fraser
Mar 27

It requires a special talent to set up a new agency without having any idea how much it’s going to cost…

There’s also the indirect way to counter the lies and hyperbole from the MSM, and that’s for things that have nothing to do with Indy or the SNP. An example from the Daily Mail in January where it debunks itself, all in the one article.

“Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has been hit by another flood when a sprinkler system misfired.
. . .
Officials said it took just a few minutes to shut the system down. The water was drained and there was no damage, officials confirmed. [so it wasn’t hit by another flood]
. . .
The new leak happened when the ship was in her home port of Portsmouth for a training exercise at the weekend. [It wasn’t a leak it was the sprinkler system]
. . .
A Royal Navy spokesman told MailOnline: ‘. . . the fire warning system was inadvertently triggered on-board HMS Queen Elizabeth and some sprays activated,’ [so it didn’t misfire, it was set off accidentally]

That’s a bit specialised for most perhaps, but that’s the general idea. Just debunk all the media when it comes out with total crud, and people will learn more and more to mistrust it completely.

Now, about that nerve agent definitely made in Russia …

And of course there’s the good old Daily Express in December:

“EXPOSED: Queen’s new £3.1bn warship SINKING as critics slam MoD for getting ‘mugged off’
. . .
It’s leaking at approximately 200 litres an hour which is pretty significant”

200 litres is two totally full to the brim bathtubs an hour, hardly a problem for a ship the size of 600,000 bathtubs below the waterline, and pumps capable of removing 1 bathtub every second probably, if not quicker.

But hey, the Daily Express had it sinking.

Oh he’s some arsehole right enough…

I said itbefore, the sooner the media are fined for every iie they print the better.

@Thepnr
Mmm, I never thought of that. Oh well!

It’s the thought that counts.

@yesindyref2, your calculation is pretty close! HMS Queen Elizabeth displaces 65,000 tonnes, = 65,000,000 litres, = 650,000 bathtubs.

Wiki also tells you the displacement… 😉

@geeo says: 4 April, 2018 at 2:06 pm:

“Didn’t take long for pretendy SNP supporter Blair (Pish) Patter-son to pop up with his “why are the SNP not debunking this …to say nothing is to condone it”, pish talk.”

Ach! geeo, people like Blair actually think they are being subtle with such comments. As about as subtle as a steam hammer in the hands of an inexperienced operator.

It reminds me of an incident I watched when I was an apprentice doing a stint on plant maintenance in the bays of Rosyth Dockyard.

It was lunch time and I was checking a circuit and replacing a blown fuse for a nearby machine. A group of workers were sitting together eating their packed lunches . There was a bet being argued that the steam hammer operator could judge the drop of the big steam hammer to 1/1000 of an inch and money was changing hands on bets as to whether he could or could not.

In the event the old operator, who was working an extra year after having reached official retirement age, placed his retirement gold pocket watch on the machine and dropped the hammer. Sure enough the hammer stopped actually touching the watch glass without breaking it.

Later I was telling the craftsman I was assigned to as an apprentice, how impressed I was at the operator’s great skill – and he laughed at me and explained there was no actual skill involved just great cunning.

Seeing my puzzlement he explained. The machine had electro-mechanical settings and the old operator had not only used a micrometre to measure his watch but had a bit of brass milled to the watch’s thickness and did test runs on it to get the correct settings.

That was before one of his chums got the victim of the con into the subject of skilled operation of the machine. Sometimes things are not always what the seem to be. Blair may think he is being subtle but it may be far from the truth.

As an ex/life insurance salesman this gave me a good hearty chuckle, thanks rev.
The whole insurance industry will be laughing about this utter tripe by the SNP bad brigade.
Just wait till your car insurance is due, do you expect to get a letter telling you that your provider of choice is going to bleed you dry………… ha ha ha, chuckle chuckle lol

Who TF is Michael Blackely anyway ? Is he that fat fuckin waste of space that looks like he has been dragged through a pig sty backwards and then missed out on refurb ?

Talking about the new carrier in terms of bathtubs full of water might seem to be completely O/T but it’s not.

“EXPOSED: Queen’s new £3.1bn warship SINKING as critics slam MoD for getting ‘mugged off’
. . .
It’s leaking at approximately 200 litres an hour which is pretty significant”

The quote yesindyref2 posted from the Daily Express was way off in describing 200 lites/hr as “pretty significant” in comparison to the size of the carrier. A good journalist might want to check his or her facts before publishing an article. This one clearly didn’t.

The real significance could have been checked in just a couple of minutes, the actual significance of a similar leak in an average size house in Scotland is the equivalent of 4 Tablespoons of water per hour. Not significant at all then and ridiculous to describe the carrier as “SINKING”.

The real point of course was an attempt to discredit the shipbuilders in Rosyth by implying how shoddy the workmanship must be if the ship is already sinking.

Which brings me to the Mail, where have the figures come from that quote the price for car insurance in Scotland? A good journalist would have backed up these figures with a source just as this article on Wings has done.

Or maybe the story has nothing to do with good journalism at all, given the chance to paint a picture of SNP BAADD.

No wonder they hate you Stu. They being the teaboys who write this pish. But dinnae fear, they’ll manage to squeeze it into a bulletin or three before the day is over. I mean that’s how it works after all innit?

Teaboy writes headline pish, passes it on to another one in a tv station and they ‘broadcast’ it so more people can be telt the lies.

That’s the circle jerk of ‘phony news’ and ‘made up stories’ that people have been fed for generations.

Thankfully we’ve aw learned their techniques and no longer fall for this utter tripe. (for many of course, never did read these rags)

We should get millions of wee stickers printed wi the words ‘Aye Right!’ on them and just go around sticking them on papers’ headlines’ such as abtl. Or ‘Lies’ or ‘Really?’. Something to just place enough doubt in a passerby’s heid.

Well skewed Stu.

@Thepnr
I use a 12 volt pump to empty a 200 litre barrel into 5 litre jerricans, it does 100 litres in about 45 mins including stop to cool down and have a rollup, and stops to change jerrican, top up to 5 litres, wipe down drips and put away, get more. With a heath robinson swtich, pipe and stopvalve arrangement too.

For a yacht you can get a 12v bilge pump for £122 without shopping around, capacity 16 litres a minute, pump out the QE in 13 minutes flat. Admittedly the higher lift would mean it needs a stronger pump!

Do these rag journos have any clue at all? Or do they just not care? Or both?

The never ending deluge of negativity from a gutless spineless press.

These pathetic apologies for journalists should be ripping into the likes of that straw headed tory turd boris and the rest of his tax dodging buddies instead of putting so much effort into such a trivial story.

No wonder their sales are on a continuous slide when they publish such pish.

Archbishop 3.21

If Lesley Laird has not been doing hr council duties since October 5th

She was clearly bullshitting when she said this the week before.

If we are going to be an effective Labour government, we need to recognise we need to have all our players playing effectively. That includes local government. That’s our front line and we need to get it right.”

But then she is a big Gordon Brown fan!

link to archive.is

mike Cassidy 4.30

A total hypocrite.

And she’s an absentee laird!

The Daily Maul living down to expectations as usual then.(sigh)

They’re consistent. You have to give them that. Consistently…(fill in as appropriate)

Any Scottish newspaper would know that compensation claims settled via Scottish Courts tend to be much less than south of the Border and fraudulent insurance claims for whiplash also less common here. But why led facts get in the way of Unionist lies.

Good to see Joan McAlpine is on the case as to why Young’s thinks their Annan factory is not a centre of excellence when it won Royal approval for its products. No doubt Seafood caught in Scottish waters will become British after the move to Grimsby.

OT
So Mundell is giving it swamp gas about the Scottish economy not doing as well in growth as the UK, while losing 450 jobs in his own constituencey by doing NOTHING about the UK Gov giving £3.3 million of EU funding to Grimsby to take those jobs away.

Mundell – the Crown Prince of Hot Air.

@ Sinky, correct about Scottish compen’ cases, I was told by a union lawyer to go & check English compen’ cases at the Mitchell about 20 years ago.

BBCs Bryan Taylor reporting that he has spoken to all the businesses in Scotland large and small….Wow!

Some going for a man who can barely waddle a 100 yards, or has the BBC been using taxpayers money to phone *everybody*

Let us know if you have a business that was contacted by the BBCs intrepid Bryan Taylor today

@colin alexander says: 4 April, 2018 at 4:18 pm

“Why not just stick with genuine justified criticism of the failings of Shona Robison and the Scottish Govt to make sure Health Boards are properly running health services in their health board areas and are properly held accountable so patients and tax payers get the best, safest health service possible?

Hilarious, Colin. In the first place the papers leave, “the justified criticisms”, (Aye! Richt!), to the likes of Colin Alexander and co, on Wings and other social media blogs.

The fact is you are blethering claptrap and you haven’t got a clue about the accountability within the SNHS.

Away and read this:-

link to parliament.scot

Got my first ever Survation Call this evening! Sounds like the Tories want to frack Deeside, but are also aware that a snap GE is likely to be called and need to know how to play it.

These bozos really make me want to puke! Five years ago almost to the day I was rear ended while waiting for a gap in the traffic at the slip road exit By a moron whos car was festooned with better together crap! I ended up in hospital with injuries the least if them was whiplash or so I thought. Months later I was still recieving treatment from a fantastic physio who correctly diagmosed that I’d need an operation before my injuries could be sorted properly by this time I’d had a dozen physio appointments I returned to the physio after my operation and while working on me she told me that I really should think myself lucky I was in Scotland rather than down south. I told her she was preaching to the converted but asked why and she told me that most NHS trusts only allow accident victims two physio appointment before they are pointed in the direction of private physio’s and told to contact their motor insurers to make the payments In otherwords English accident victims health treatments are met by insurance companies and they in turn bunce up the premiums of all their customers. Therefore yet again we Scots are subsidising the poor English NHS

“It’s leaking at approximately 200 litres an hour which is pretty significant”

or, to put it in a unit of measurement that the, mostly ancient, readership of The Fail might actually understand, “43 gallons”.

“200 litres” sounds SOOOOO much scarier.

Tis the season
Of the Year
Snuggle up in bed
Maybe grab a Beer

Snaw and Ice
Real cold Feet
Jump into yer bed
Try and get a Heat

Braw looking Skies
Red Cloudy Vein
Shiny and Bright
Through the Mindy Pane

Winter Still Hear
Spring Still adrift
Aye a Cuddle in Bed
ah wullny Shift

But never ye Mind
It wull go away
And will wake up Bright
To a nice Sunny day

Bill Glen

Dr Jim They must hiv supplied TooDaloothenoo wie a couple dozen phess tae keep oan the phone but Brians build fur marathon eating ah don’t know about the phoning endurance task lol .

yesindyref2 says: 4 April, 2018 at 4:25 pm

“For a yacht you can get a 12v bilge pump for £122 without shopping around, capacity 16 litres a minute, pump out the QE in 13 minutes flat. Admittedly the higher lift would mean it needs a stronger pump!
Do these rag journos have any clue at all? Or do they just not care? Or both?”

They are, of course, mainly academics, right out of college and into journalism. For some real life passes them by.

Anyhow, what I wanted to point out is that leaks in ships is par for the course. Having sailed on sea trials on everything from motor torpedo boats to nuclear submarines I can say with certainty that leaks, particularly from main prop shafts is quite normal.

That is why they have bilges and installed bilge pumps and most capital ships have large portable electrically powered pumps.

Now figure out that modern warship have Sonar domes and various other lumps of equipment that requires watertight seals. Landing craft have ramps to lower and these need seals and seals often develop leaks. It really usually is no big deal.

“Nicola and the SNP made utter fools of themselves by supporting Saint Theresa, in my humble opinion.”

Ok Rock, so if wasn’t Vlad and his gangster regime, that is famous the world over for bumping off spooks, journos, any electable opposition in Russia, who was it?

All that aside Rock, what’s it actually like in Fluffie’s Scottish haha Office these days?

You’ve got your civil service brief Rock, log on WoS peak after teatime time, endless civil service love of repetition but basic message, Sturgeon bad, SNP worse, Kafkaesque sticking to the civil service script/total lack of imagination, too risky, higher grades only for that, evening in, evening out, all to take any “heat” out of WoS btl?

What civil service grade are you anyway Rock? pretty lowly I’d guess but its a job, its Edinburgh, catch glimpses of Viceroy Fluffie now and again, could be worse eh Rock:D

I am close Rock, or is all of the above just cybernat gossip?

Bobp says:
4 April, 2018 at 10:05 pm
Sylvan 1.37pm. Agree completely, if a newspaper article is proved to be maliciously false without proper research done on it.The Scottish government should pass a law Imposing hefty fines on these lying toerags, and also make them print a front page retraction/apology.

Great. And what happens when we do eventually get what the whole of UKOK hackdom are working so hard for. Scottish First Minister Ruth Davidson.

We’ll all be sent off to the UKOK gulag.

Rock on duty at 8ish throws a few stones in the water then heads off. So predictable and boring. By the way he doesn’t like the national or the FM JUST IN CASE WE DONT KNOW! LOL

Rock keeps quoting his own posts with time and date record…so sad!

Its a job, ain’t that so Rock. And the civil service is all about the endless repetition, its what makes it tick, like the most boring clock in the universe, tock.

Hey Rock, something to keep in mind and this goes out to everyone in Viceroy Fluffie’s Scottish haha Office.

When you lot are in Scotland, girl and boy civil servants, every time you encounter more than one Scot, its highly likely one of them is a YES voter. And you may even be looking at one tomorrow, around the Scottish haha Office water coolers.

There is almost certainly no YES voters in any UK newsroom and certainly not Pacific Quay.

Its not that these tory crews are any better at vetting than the great impartial civil service of the United Kingdom Rock. Its that no YES voter could stomach being there.

Nighty night Rock.

There is just one problem with the suggestions, above, about holding newspapers and media outlets responsible for “fake news” or malicious stories.

The papers lawyers would simply instruct the papers to label any contentious pieces: “Opinion” – which is free.

So glad I ditched the TV propaganda licence.
The most sickening thing in The Skripal case though is that the vast majority of people will sit with their TV dinner and hardly notice the BBC paper over the gaping cracks in government. Any raised eyebrows will be neutralised by distraction headlines in the gutter press which the cattle will digest on the train, bus or in the airport since now it’s all free.

Sure the city of London press machine will toss the government to the wolves when the times is right. but that time will only come when the balirites have toppled Corbyn and the old order is returned. Then the establishment knows that they can play ping pong pseudo democracy between neoliberals in different colours.

Robert Peffers

thanks for the link. Had a wee look: “Health boards are accountable to Scottish Government Ministers”.

That’s not what Shona Robison told me. She said the Scottish Govt are nothing to do with what Health Boards do. I knew it was a fob off. Thanks for confirming it.

I also had a laugh at this one: “The manifesto included a commitment to operate a ‘presumption against the centralisation of core hospital services’ (SNP, 2007).”

Under SNP Scot Govts Hospital services have been centralised on a scale never before seen.

Crackerjack says:
4 April, 2018 at 10:45 pm
Rock, I don’t agree with everything you post,,But Nicola and the SNP jumped the gun when it came to agreeing 100% with Treeza and Boris on this Russian poisonin

Hi Rock.

Finished the crossword, swipe out, catch the last bus;-)

Brilliant front page of the National regarding the village idiot Boris and the Russian poisoning:

The only reason the Daily Hail exists is to spread malicious
propaganda that will keep the rich in the pockets of the poor and England’s main cash cow Scotland.

Critics, Intellectuals, Common all garden workers, all agree that the Daily Hail is a pile of shit used to gather the budgies dropping in the bottom of the cage.

Indy2 says:
4 April, 2018 at 11:06 pm
The Tory english Government are starting to look like complete idiots are the world now because of this Russian poisoning fiasco.

Have a safe trip home Rock. See you tomorrow evening and say hello to everyone in the Scottish haha Office too.

Ohmigud we’re suffering an attack of trollarrhoea.

yesindyref2 says:
4 April, 2018 at 11:25 pm
Ohmigud we’re suffering an attack of trollarrhoea.

I think the civil service technical name for it is, tantrum, as in throwing a tantrum, btl, well anywhere really, isn’t it Rock:D

What is happiness ?

Its winning a few shillings with a Barcelona and Liverpool double.

@Bobp says: 4 April, 2018 at 10:05 pm{

“Sylvan 1.37pm. Agree completely, if a newspaper article is proved to be maliciously false without proper research done on it.The Scottish government should pass a law Imposing hefty fines on these lying toerags, and also make them print a front page retraction/apology.”

Whyever would they want to do that, Bobp?

Why interrupt them when they are the SNP’s best recruiters to the Indy movement.

Read through Wings and note how many Wingers aver they used to vote for a unionist party then found out they were being lied to and say they will never again vote for that party ever again.

Everyone hates being lied to.

RE: Wings night out in Glanrothes.

Would love to be able to turn up and meet you all face to face

unfortunately – work, distance etc preclude my attendance

will be with you all in spirit and will raise a glass to the success of the meeting in fostering friendships and committment to independence

From Nicola Sturgeons announcement in Holyrood on her support for the UK governments position re Russia

“*Going on what I’ve been told*”

When the liars quote they’re not very good at quoting so they quote stuff they made up and hope if they quote it enough just like the Labour party taught them at Labour party school the weaker minded will requote it all over again and the walking dead brains will eat it up especially if they print it in Past Grandmaster Cleggs Daily Record

So, how do we tell their readers that they’re all being made fools of?

@Indy2

I’m now coming and bringing an Indy friend. Looking forward to seeing old friends.

Just thinking that “handclapping” hasn’t commented for a while. Met him last time there was a Wings night in Edinburgh.

Hope you’re ok!

SNP have traditionally been fans of the Soviets aka Russia.
That is not unexpected as the SNP would probably have supported anything anti English including Adolf.

@Flower of Scotland
Be careful, you’re talking to a troll. Ask Ian B.

The sock puppet show starts at 8pm and ends later on.

Same show, same actors, same pish-water patter.

“SNP BAD”

“INDY BAD”

“NICOLA STURGEON BAD”

“THE NATIONAL REALLY BAD”

TALK

PISH

POST

REPEAT

(To the tune of “im a little teapot)

“They’re a little britnat,

likes to shout…

they open their gobs,

and pish pours out !!

Book yer seats for 8pm tomorrow, starring Rock/indy2/coco alexander/crackerjackass…..ok..its just Rock.

Ah well…!!(sigh).

Is Tomkins a spy?

link to caltonjock.com

Edinburgh to Glasgow (express version):
link to youtube.com

Seat-belts suggested.

That ‘Scottish Daily Mail’ pretty much full page headline above alone should make their fading readershit question their motive(s), being SO much against Scotland… ah now feel a new turning point has come.

YEAH… bikers with head cams, ride the M8 journey.

Have a great weekend Scotland.

X.

The weekend begins NOW.

It’s oor 4-day festival 🙂

i_c_t_a_d.

Y_s_

Soooo…conversely there could have been a very positive headline about the cost of car insurance in Scotland in comparison to most of the rUK.

And Hamish 100 @ 5.05 pm, you are absolutely right about their need to deflect from the loss of over 400 jobs in Annan when Youngs close down. Wonder what the Mundelly’s are going to do about that!

The Daily Mail aspire to reaching the black hole at the bottom of the scrapings at the bottom of their barrel.

Perish the thought that the Scottish Daily Mail could ever say anything to make any soul feel glad that they live in Scotland. What an epitaph.

@ Dr Jim: “Let us know if you have a business that was contacted by the BBC’s intrepid Brian Taylor today.”

Aside from Mother India and Diamond Dolls.

Oops – link to FT article:

link to archive.li

I did notice in the second para of that FT article our old friend ” critics say “!!!

Thanks Regards for my ‘education’ in being able to spot nonsense!

Gary just doing his bit in damage limitation. Craig Murray is seriously upsetting the apple cart:

As Porton Down now confirm, here is a straightforward lie from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a lie that British diplomats around the world have been promoting to foreign governments.

Gary is sitting only a few miles from Faslane. Pacific Quay wouldn’t stand a chance if the Tories succeed in starting a hot war with Russia. Would they be so stupid? Boris isn’t a Bullingdon Boy for nothing. Swagger around trashng everything is his MO. He should be sacked. So should Theresa May.

link to craigmurray.org.uk

£100Billion more is borrowed and spent in the rest of the UK. (£50Billion public – £50Billion private Chinese) Scotland has to pay off the debt. (Pro rata £10Billion less for Scotland). Scotland can’t borrow or spend.

Too high illegal Tories taxes (when the price had fallen) has ruined the Scottish Oil sector. 2010 illegal regime brought in. 40% since Jan 2016. Scotland has lost £Billions and 120,000 jobs. Scotland could have had near full employment – putting wages up. Instead it has slow Scottish growth. Not being treated equally.

Fracking in the rest. of the UK is tax free. Pays no tax.

£1Billion wasted on Trident which could gave grown the economy. No ‘minimum pricing’ for 5 years. Has lost Scotland revenues and growth. May 2018.

Tax evasion Scotland loses £3Billion a year. Tax Laws not enforced by Westminster Treasury.

Illegal wars have cost Scotland £Billions which could have been spent investing and growing the economy. Not blowing the world to bits causing the worst migration crisis in Europe since 11WW. Costing £Trns. The Westminster unionist lunatics.

The UK Union costs Scotland £Billions. Economic lunacy to damage Scotland and put more borrowed funds into London S/E. Taking £Billiions from Scotland. EU grants and investment lost because of UK indecision. The fishing industry mismanaged for 40 years by Westminster incompetence.

Ie HS2 and Hinkley Point. An absolute waste of public money. With absolutely no business case. Scotland has to pay back on the excess borrowing. Damaging the Scottish economy and growth.

The Westminster Brexit will ruin the Scottish economy. Devastate it. Scotland did not vote for it but is having it imposed by Westminster lunatics.

The Tory unionists are the biggest liars on the planet. Every word May utters is a lie. Johnston is a habitual liar along with the rest of them.

Despite being colder, nearer the source and in surplus. Scotland pays a relative higher cost pruce for fuel and energy. 10% more.

Westminster Treasury mismanagement and misappropriation has slowed Scotland’s growth since 1928 and before. Depopulated Scotland. Taken £Billions illegalky from Scotland to benefit London S/E. Now totally congested to ruin the UK economy. £Trns in debt.

Mad unionist is a sad unionist. Proportionally more Scots fought and died fighting Fascism.

Morning all.
This is O/T, but I’m absolutely fuming about this…..

Today the SNP minority run Falkirk Council, could well be replaced by a Tory/Labour coalition as the Labour councillors are prepared to back the Tories in a takeover bid.

Richard Leonard has been asked by the SNP Council Leader to suspend the Labour councillors from the Labour Party if they go ahead with this, as was done with them in Aberdeen.

Not holding my breath, but hoping that some of the Falkirk Labour group will see sense and NOT support the Tories….

link to bloomberg.com

Brexit means Brexit means nothing now, and means it meant nothing when Theresa May spoke of nothing else 20 months ago.
Brexit now means a politically motivated re-arrangement of how the UK and EU interacts. Nothing more.

Skripal was stage-managed by No.10 for propaganda purposes to take attention away from the Tory Government’s use of Cambridge Analytica in GE17, EURef16, & IndyRef14. The Skripal lie has been very successful in separating Analytica from the UK Govt.

Rob Wainright boss of Europol says:- In the last year or 18 months, there’s been “a perceptible trend towards a blending of state-actor capability with the criminal community,” Wainwright said without elaboration. “It’s therefore becoming a more dangerous game.”
Whatever that means, we know for certain that the Tory Party in particular and the UK Govt in general does not exclude industrial-scale lying, fraud, tax evasion, insider dealing, money laundering, criminal association, election-rigging, policy scamming, and systematic corruption, from its daily dealings.

The British Establishment is a criminal class.

Voting for the Tory Party is voting for an increase in crime.

Living in the UK is dangerous. So says a recent Expert Report.

Just watched Sky News long pained reporting England’s Brownlee brother’s failure in triathlon.

Thrown in right at end Jacky Beltrami said grudgingly ‘Scotland’s Marc Austin did win bronze’.

Faint praise indeed from our British brethren.

Well done Marc (whose hair I used to cut in his early days at Stirling Uni) 🙂

I see the Herald happily reporting another negative SNP story regarding Scotland`s economy growing at half the rate of the rest of the UK. But the thing that interested me has been the sudden upsurge of bitter anti SG posts, one this morning having 101 ups, which never happens.
Its seems to me there is something very funny going on with that paper in line with the ramping up of the anti independence movement as a whole
It also led me to wondering why there are only a handful of readers comments in the National by comparison.

@McDuff 0923. The upside to that negativity in my experience is that that paper has had a poll which shows Indy doing well.

I notice the same with the BBC website.I am always polite and helpful to the Unionists and that riles them. I get my sound bite in and as concerned trolls do I sympathise with concerns they have but not to worry independence will sort out their worries. Strangely after a while the BBC has a problem with my posts.note they never block me because I am overly polite.

@Capella

FT are mushroom farming. Scotland doesn’t control its economy and hasn’t for quite some time. Understanding Devolved and Reserved issues is going to be a must for any future Scotref I’d say.

How and ever and for the removal of doubt. A wee link: link to parliament.scot

Most folk should note which column financial and economic matters rests in. Scotland has competence over a budget, NOT an economy. The Scottish government can invite investment and economic growth, but it relies on Westminster to set favourable economic parameters. The SG have only a percentage of tax raising powers and zero control of essential resources and revenue streams. We have no treasury, no control of employment legislation or benefits and clearly no control over foreign policy, borders, trade or immigration.

Effectively, being asked to grow an economy with your mouth gagged and your hands and legs tied behind your back.

When a Scottish government in full control of ALL of the above fails, then they can have a wee gripe. Pretty sure we would to. Until then, it’s just another SNP bad headline and can be safely filed under bin.

dakk

SNAP! listened to the news bulletin at 9.00 am on R4- Began with the news that England had won something or other at the Commonwealth games, then there was a whole pile of other stuff, then loads about Alistair Brownlee and how he hadn’t won but come tenth, shockingly, and his brother had managed to come a little bit higher up …. oh, ‘and Scotland’s Marc Austen won bronze’

They canna help themselves! so biased.