Wings Over Scotland

“INDYWANG!”

I like it!

You can always tell when Sturgeon’s lying about the indyref. There’s movement where her lips used to be.

Absolute belter, Chris.

This is the election where I quit Scotland.

When people who should know better re-elect criminals because they are too impotent and subjugated to do anything but.

This is the election where I start identifying as Irish. Fuck it, I have the passport. So does my daughter.

This is the election when I join the world and never look back.

Best of Luck Scotland

You could have been a contender.

fantastic cartoon .

I hope she feels such shame at fooling us all. But I know she wont.

They must have a never ending supply of barge poles to keep pushing it back.

This is a must read by everybody wanting Independence. It was written by the same guy who drew up the Edinburgh agreement.
It needs to passed on to as many Yes Indy sites as possible before your election. It’s a long read but woth the time spent reading it. Don’t let WM undermine you, know what they plan to do & maybe can do.
link to bsg.ox.ac.uk

Excuse my ignorance, who is that?

@ winifred

Indywang i presume is a play on Numberwang.
Sketch from Mitchell and Webb Show. Basically just number gibberish.

link to youtube.com

There is a wee note to Robert Webb in the bottom right.

Numberwang but…wow, that was lost far down the memory hole… until I just youtubed it. Oh yeah!

WHAT DO WE WANT?

INDEPENDENCE!

WHEN DO WE WANT IT?

Eh, any time you see fit……

Ha! INDYWANG love it Chris.

This from the heading Colonialism in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

«Although the English word imperialism was not commonly used before the nineteenth century, Elizabethans already described the United Kingdom as “the British Empire.” As Britain began to acquire overseas dependencies, the concept of empire was employed more frequently.»

Why Scotland needs an assertive, articulate independent voice.
There can be no faintheart measures from nationalist leaders.

The Daily Hail the Hitler supporting propaganda pamphlet
has a seat by seat account of who best to vote for in order
to stop the nasty Scots having any human rights.

All of the seats they list today suggest Labour 1 Tory 2.

How strange the change for right wing extremists telling the plebs
to vote Labour.

The reason given is that Sarwar will not permit another referendum as
Instructed by his London HQ.

Effigy 9.52

So that’ll mean only Alex Salmond is the only leader who is in favour of Scottish IIndependence?

Because I can’t see any other who is in favour of it.

I’ll be campaiagning for Sarwar to take the seat of the demented Sturgeon in Glasgow Southside and ALBA for my list vote.

We need to drain the swamp before we even think of Scotland becoming an independent nation.

LET’S DRIAN THE SWAMP
DON’T VOTE FOR THE SNP,,, EVER AGAIN!!!

Effigy @ 9.52

Re the Daily Mail recommendation for voting Lab.1 Tory2 – is that a strategy to try and increase the Tory seat tally since Labour is in third overall position.

Agreed, they know that Sarwar/Starmer will never vote for Indy but perhaps they sense the unease that a lot of folks feel about the SNP and know that many Scots and former SNP voters would never vote Tory.

A ‘wee nudge’ from the paper suggesting homely ‘old labour’ like in the old days, as ‘yir faither’ voted might just be enough to take votes away from the SNP and possibly let the Tories slip through in more marginal constituencies.

No email notification again Stu- 2nd consecutive Saturday & no email telling me there’s another toon from Chris Cairns to make me smile.

Had assumed he was off golfing given the wonderfully glorious weather Scotland is having.

link to thetimes.co.uk

Why does anybody want to be voting for independence at this time when you are voting for policies like these. Scotland deserves better! I’ll not be voting at all this election. If it’s worth having, it’s worth waiting for and now is definitely not the time for an independent Scotland. Now is the time to clear out the crap!

Hi Mark,

I put nothing past blind unionists.

I do believe the Mail gives the blind a white stick to navigate
the path to English suppression.

They don’t have the ability or the courage, they are procrastinating. Using any reason to divert. Making their own hay like Boris Johnson and his clique.

But send us more money anyway!

“We guarentee men in dresses first though.”

Alba barely 3 weeks old and the MSM are already having to ease off the SNP (not quite able to label them together yet). Imagine their dilemma if Alba gain a foothold in Holyrood. Get yer popcorn while ye can!

Mark Boyle says: 17 April, 2021 at 10:19 am

@Effigy says: 17 April, 2021 at 9:52 am

The Daily Hail the Hitler supporting propaganda pamphlet
has a seat by seat account of who best to vote for in order
to stop the nasty Scots having any human rights.

All of the seats they list today suggest Labour 1 Tory 2.

How strange the change for right wing extremists telling the plebs to vote Labour.

Do you really think your average Daily Mail or Daily Express reader is going to vote for a party led by a Sarwar just because their preferred rag says so?

The Tories are gaming the system as they have always done.

They are also hypocritical for accusing independence supporters of doing the same thing as doing something wrong.

Judging by the BTL comments on here, the depressing thing is that indy supporters are unwilling to do it because they can’t see the big picture that by voting SNP 1 and Alba 2 they will get both a super majority to deliver independence and a real opposition to check the ultra-woke SNP in check.

The ALBA party are hosting a conference today in preparation for their manifesto next week, items being discussed are women’s rights, a written Scottish constitution, the economy, education, renewables, pensions, a Scottish currency, and a independence strategy and a several other topics.

The ALBA party are now the Scottish party of independence, that’s working for the good of the Scottish people.

Ironically Robert Webb was one of the 200 prominent people who in August 2014 stated in the Guardian that they didn’t wish to see Scotland independent. So you shouldn’t have bothered with the apology Chris.

A great cartoon and confirmation of what most of us know to be true

The lurkers from WGD this cartoon is aimed specifically at you people does it ring a bell does it make you question what princess Nicola has in store for everyone because it’s certainly not Indy ref2 never has been never will be while she and her circle are in charge that’s .GUARANTEED

@ Mark Boyle re, ‘Do you really think your average Daily Mail or Daily Express reader is going to vote for a party led by a Sarwar just because their preferred rag says so?’

Yes, if they can do it in ‘red’ Morningside they can do it anywhere, plus there not hellish much difference between Stamers labour and the tories, is there.

Here’s the report

link to bsg.ox.ac.uk

What’s that other game Sturgeon likes to take part in?

Oh aye, Injunctionwang.

kapelmeister says:
17 April, 2021 at 10:58 am
Ironically Robert Webb was one of the 200 prominent people who in August 2014 stated in the Guardian that they didn’t wish to see Scotland independent.

Open letters are the literary equivalent of Woody Allen having sex with someone he loves – i.e. masturbation.

Nevertheless, the Guardian Celebrity Yoon epistle was tame stuff by the standards of the genre:

The decision on whether to leave our shared country is, of course, absolutely yours alone. Nevertheless, that decision will have a huge effect on all of us in the rest of the United Kingdom. We want to let you know how very much we value our bonds of citizenship with you, and to express our hope that you will vote to renew them. What unites us is much greater than what divides us. Let’s stay together.

Some of the names on there suggest they were doing Sleb Archeology to dig up people you probably haven’t thought about since 1991:

Kriss Akabusi
Cilla Black
Gyles Brandreth
Sir Bruce Forsyth
Bamber Gascoigne
Esther Rantzen

My headcanon is that they raided Alan Partridge’s rolodex.

Pacman. 10.46am

Can you tell me which part of this “big picture” do I not see.

Because from where I am standing, I see it quite clearly,,,and I see a Perverts Charter.

Led by a Pervert in Sturgeon, and backed up by her equally perverted gang of Crooks.

I will never vote for the SNP ever again.

Sturgeon will never meet Salmond to discuss Independence,,,and those who vote for her and her Party are complicit in all she does to the people of Scotland.

Only perverts vote for the SNP.

Deluded perverts at that.

gus1940 says:
17 April, 2021 at 11:03 am
Last night’s PPB was on behalf of something called The Family Party.

I thought they were one of The Artist Formerly and Then Presently and Now Formerly Known As Prince’s side projects, having released Nothing Compares 2 U to little fanfare before Sinead O’Connor shaved her head and knocked it out of the park with her magnificently emotional cover version.

Do you remember Question Time of old
and the Liberals were the 3rd largest party?

The Libs had a representative on most shows.
Just as soon as SNP took 3rd spot their place
in the show was given to one of their favourite
right wing journalists.

I guarantee that even if Alba can gather more votes
or seats than the Fib Dems or Greens, they won’t be
given their seat in any TV debate.

If ever he did appear he will be diluted by having a sea
of right wing MDs and Churnalists all targeting him without answer.

Indy ref 1 was exactly the same.
Begin with the Unionist reporter hinting SNP bad then
Tory MP accusing, then Lib accusing, then Alex answering during contact interruptions
and being cut of short so some Labour guy can attack again without reply.

Finish with a wee unbiased crone like Smith to summarise Alex, SNP and Independence bad.

One of the great Jewell’s in the independence crown will be to remove this poisonous media
from our shores!

Republicofscotland @10:26

I see that Oliver is going to present a weekly current affairs and interview show on this GB News. Which promises to talk to people “who make Britain great”. Andrew Neil and Neil Oliver pathetically trying to prop up the union.

I suggest an apt title for the show… Neil Desperandum.

I’ve decided to edit this bit from my earlier post

Not sure as yet what the Greens propose doing about male/female names. Obviously if it is called Patrick it might suggest ‘it’ might be a baby with a wang! 🙂

Wang! the word of the day?

Neil Oliver & George Galloway. Two individuals I may have had some respect for in the past but now that the masks are off revealing a couple of rabid yoons all I can say is: Wow. British nationalism certainly brings out the worst in some folk. 🙂

Independence is one thing. It’s a noble ambition ,but very hard questions have to be addressed. What currency? If it’s Sterling then the Bank of England will control interest rates. What about Scotland’s share of the National Debt? What about the immediate deficit when the Barnet subsidy is removed? What about the cost to Scotland of a defence force and the NHS? Will Scotland be allowed into the EU,and if so will it have to adopt the Euro, and who will control Scottish fishing waters? If Scotland does rejoin the EU what effect will an immediate hard border with England have on Scottish trade and business with the rest of UK. Rember 60% of Scottish goods go to England. The English can find other markets to replace Scottish imports. What about Faslane and the jobs it creates. Who will finance Scotland’s Massive Public Sector once UK funding is removed. What sort of Covid vaccine rollout would Scotland have produced if it had been independent?
These crucial questions and many more are NOT being addressed by Nationalists. I can see the arguments that revolve around self determination and they do have a moral justification. My worry is that achieving independence could literally bankrupt Scotland in the short and medium term.We were told by thevSNP that getting out of the EU would be massively complicated because we had been tied into the Block for over 40 years. Well we have been in the Union for over 300 years. Leaving it will make Brexit look like a walk in the park.

Alan Thoms says:
All that you ask has been answered thousands and thousands of times try to keep up.

Alan Thoms @11:41

“What about Faslane and the jobs it creates?”

Ah, you mean all the scientists monitoring the area for radioactive pollution.

@Wullie – ‘All that you ask has been answered thousands and thousands of times’.

I don’t think any of these questions have been answered, Wullie. Have they?

There are plenty of folk in Scotland willing to vote for independence, but you’ll never get above 40-50% without confronting this.

Republicofscotland @10.37
It has been apparent to me for a long time that the BBC hates almost everybody. Scotland, Wales, NI, rural people, the ‘lower orders’ (as they would probably describe them), posh people, business people, Tories, Liberals, old Labour. Even the people they seem to approve of they also patronise and despise.
Who do they like? The urban elite, Blairites, selected wokey scary people, some remainers (but not all), and themselves. The cloud of smug hanging over the BBC is revolting.
As for STV/ITV I wouldn’t know, I avoid them like the plague as they seem to be much like the BBC but with adverts.

Alan Thoms says: at 11:41 am

“Independence is one thing. It’s a noble ambition ,but very hard questions have to be addressed. What currency?”
——————–
Oh dear, you were just getting started and then you dropped your yoon knickers..!?

Daisy Walker. 11.52

“But in the meant time, this election, is not about converting No voters to Yes… That will be for round 2.

This is about ensuring that “perverts get access to female only changing rooms”

There,,,fixed that for you Daisy.

ONLY PERVERTS VOTE FOR THE SNP!!!

LET’S DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!

Is there anyone left in Scotland who would actually admit to being a member of the SNP???

Or worse still,,,is there anyone left in Scotland who would actually wear their SNP badge with pride???

Because what you are actually telling the world is,,,

“LOOK AT ME,,, I’M A FUCKIN PERVERT”.

Dan. 12.12

So you want me to Weeshit for Indy Dan?

You don’t want Sturgeon’s stinkin knickers washed on a public forum.

Are you also going to tell the teacher on me Dan?

I’ll make it a bit clearer for you Dan.

GLASGOW SOUTHSIDE VOTE

SARWAR 1 AND ALBA 2

LET’S DRAIN THE SWAMP

NEVER VOTE FOR THE SNP,,, EVER AGAIN!!!

And just for you Dan,,,

“THIS TACTIC CAN BE USED THROUGHOUT SCOTLAND”.

ONLY PERVERTS VOTE FOR THE SNP.

Additionally, Suppose we do achieve a reasonable majority with the help of the incumbent criminals, and then try to fight a referendum on independence, what are the Unionist parties going to do to us? Come on be honest, we will be bracketed with Sturgeon and all the loony perverts who have been funded and encouraged by her administration. They won’t give Alex any credit for his fight against the junta, he will in their propaganda, have sold out and all the rightful indignation in these pages will prove to Unionism that we are self-serving hypocrites.

Remove the scum first!

Andy says: at 12:21 pm

“So you want me to Weeshit for Indy Dan?”

You’re already effectively weeshting for Indy yourself, because if you want rid of the roadblock to Indy that is Nicola Sturgeon you would have more reach and voice to influence that happening if you went round the doors of those in the constituency she is actually standing in.
Andy, you’re shouting at tea in here.

Just seen today the Greens have effectively abolished women and sex will not be recorded on birth certificates, won’t be long till the SNP sign up to this as well.

Hope the SNP1 crowd are proud of themselves today, when we get the SNP/green coalition and the handful of Alba msps carp irrelevantly from the sidelines.

How anyone who cares about Scotland and it’s people could vote SNP1 is beyond me, they must love the party more than anything else.

Effigy says: 17 April, 2021 at 10:26 am

Hi Mark, I put nothing past blind unionists. I do believe the Mail gives the blind a white stick to navigate the path to English suppression.

All they did was cut and pasted Tiddles Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain/All4Unity/Club For Utterly Sad Bastards With A Problem With Jews (whatever it is called now) “dummy sheet” which he lifted from any one of a dozen voting analysis websites about which party got the second most votes in seats. It’s an easy space filler, which in a slow news week was welcome. There’s only so much they could write about Prince Phillip.

PacMan says: 17 April, 2021 at 10:46 am

They are also hypocritical for accusing independence supporters of doing the same thing as doing something wrong.

By the same token, indy supporters are equally hypocritical for pouting over two newspaper articles doing a lazy cut and paste job. It’s all rather wee waens screaming “yous is cheating” at each other in the playground.

If it can be done and isn’t illegal, it’s in the rules. What’s happening this time out is par for the course and if any of you out there think the SNP and Greens don’t get up to the same dirty tricks as the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems (either directly or via their “deniable assets”), you’ve never spent time out on the stump during elections.

Politicians at election time have about as much scruples as people in showbiz.

Anyone will two functioning neurons knows that NS / SNP have no desire nor competence to deliver independence. Her party is filled with gender nutters, carpetbaggers, troughers and just plain morons.

I hope that those who plan to vote Alba get the word out. It needs the grassroots getting back their mojo.

Alba is up against major MSM pile ons – constantly demanding AS apologies to women whose allegations he was acquitted.
– Where are the MSM questions to NS on the 600k?
– Where are the MSM questions to NS on no-one being held to account for the harassment policy cock up?
– Where are the questions on her “I can’t recall or remember answers to the inquiry? (Afterall if they can dredge up the trial to AS why not dredge up the inquiry to NS?)
– Where are the questions on throwing women’s rights under the bus with self ID?
….AND ON, AND ON, AND ON

If anyone can’t believe that the MSM are soft-soaping the SNP / Greens then you’re kool-aid is over-flowing.

This is not a fair election. Grassroots – speak to people, inform, and show the real truth. Alba is counting on grassroots to be active participants in this election not passive bystanders.

The questions haven’t been answered and that is the greatest fault of Nicola Sturgeons leadership of both the SNP and the Scottish government.

I’m not disagreeing, but it’s more complicated.

People (unionists mainly), assume and Indy Scotland will struggle because they’re just feeding the existing data into the existing number crunching machine, ignore all the evidence that paints a positive future, and frequently deploy tricks in accountancy to distort the figures.

A famous distortion was Scotland allegedly having a GDP similar to Peru or somewhere, but the figures were ridiculously skewed. For example, when they’d “assessed” Scottish oil, they’d looked upon oil as a UK resource to which Scotland would only inherit a population share of 10%. It overlooked the fact that 96% of the oil would be Scottish, not 10%.

You probably can’t produce a definitive version of the Scottish economy after Independence. There are too many variables which are bound to change, and perhaps change several times. You might have a general idea of where you want to be, but there might be a whole number of course corrections required to get there.

It thus follows that if you cannot predict the benefits with any reliable certainty, then equally, you cannot predict doom and despair with any reliable certainty for all the same reasons.

All you can do is look at the raw resources and balance of trade which an Independent Scottish economy would have, (which tends to mark Scotland as being rich in resources), and whether the future of an Independent Scotland is to be buoyant or gloomy largely depends on whether we have a good Independent Government which develops the advantages and steers clear of the pitfalls.

This whole economic argument continually rears it’s head as an Anti-Independence shtick because the UK is an existing economic scenario, and even though the GERS figures are unreliable, they are still figures produced. It is thus easy for Unionists to present Scotland’s place in the Union as a “known” and “safe” scenario, whereas the figures for an Independent Scotland represents a risky leap into the great unknown. But ask yourself this, if the figures really were so gloomy for Scotland, why doesn’t the UK Government release the raw economic data it uses to produce the “manipulated” figures in GERS?

The other “device” in this which masquerades as an argument, is that whenever anybody does postulate of how a Scottish Economy might actually perform, the same unpredictable nature of the predictive arguments is suddenly adopted by the Unionists, and used to discredit the ‘possible’ economic model by saying it’s based on Mickey Mouse fantastical numbers. The whole argument is rigged so nobody can see a level playing field.

Debt is another distortion of reality. How will Scotland manage it’s share of UK debt? Well, UK debt is not Scotland’s debt, so Scotland could simply shrug it’s shoulders and say it isn’t our problem, but I don’t think that’s the best option.

I think Scotland would actually want to shoulder some of the UK debt, because if Scotland takes on some of the debt, then straight away, it tremendously strengthens Scotland’s hand and leverage when it comes to apportioning Scotland’s rightful share of UK assets. (An argument that cuts both ways, – weakening our hand if Scotland refused to take on some debt).

But debt is not necessarily a bad thing, because as predicted way back in the McCrone Report, a Scottish economy buoyed up by oil, productive manufacturing like food and drink, massive strategic resources like fishing grounds, and massive Renewables potential, such a healthy economy could make Scotland’s currency a very hard currency, and while Scotland would be a very wealthy country, our export industries would be hammered because our strong currency makes our goods very expensive for other countries to afford.

To prevent Scotland’s currency skyrocketing and killing our exports, a judicious use of debt could be an extremely necessary, indeed vital component in our toolbox when trying to keep Scotland Export markets stable and affordable, without necessarily injuring the Scottish economy.

This scaremongering argument that was often re-hashed as a terrible world of pint costing £8 in Norway. £8 a pint is readily affordable to the Norwegians and their Krona. It’s only extortionate if you’re buying your pint with Sterling.

Ah well the postal votes are now and people in receipt of a postal ballot do what they do, and complete the ballot and return the votes near immediately – thereby locking in their vote early doors.

Not difficult to see therefore why there has been a media blockade on Alba save for negative commenting.

Not difficult to see either how Nicola Sturgeon who has for some considerable time been repeatedly plugging SNP 1 and SNP 2 wrote to supporters some four weeks back to encourage people to secure postal votes

Getting people to lock in their votes before ALBA are allowed to get their message out is absolutely undemocratic. Some 35% of votes have now been issued as postal votes!

And so on visiting two older friend in their 70s today who support independence I was told triumphantly that – ” that’s both votes SNP in the envelope ready to post ”

However, when I explained how the voting system worked last time, how in our region we secured no SNP despite 43% of the vote, and how there was now an ALBA option that would secure seats, the immediate response was ” we’ll steam open the envelopes and change the votes ” No need to says I you’re both fit enough to vote in person just do that instead.

But how many other votes will go out mislead by censorship and the deliberate attempts to encourage early doors postal voting.

Such is the ways of totalitarian undemocratic parties the world over. And Nicola Sturgeon is the example of that.

Postal vote malfeasance is very real in 2021 Scotland.

willie says:
17 April, 2021 at 1:04 pm
“Ah well the postal votes are now and people in receipt of a postal ballot do what they do, and complete the ballot and return the votes near immediately – thereby locking in their vote early doors.”

Mine gets handed into the the polling station, on the day, and as late as possible in the day so that it goes to the count at the same time as the ballot box.

@ willie and Wee Chid:

I hope you are right that one can vote at polling station even if a postal vote has been issued. That has been the case previously BUT the Highland council guidance suggests that this time if a postal vote has been issued then that is the only way one is allowed to vote.

My husband and I decided not to apply for a postal vote for that reason – we aren’t happy nowadays with the safety of the postal vote system so prefer to go to the polling station but knowing we could use the postal one as a back-up if unwell was handy. But we read the HCouncil guidance and, as I said, we understood it to say that if you had been issued with a postal vote then you had to use it.

Gus1940 @ 11.03 am

The Alba Party have a PBB on Weds 21st at 18.55 pm on Bbc 1 , all the other parties have broadcasts next week as well .

The media love death stats.
How about giving the Grim Reaper a helping hand.
link to off-guardian.org
Scotland has the kind of «right on» socially «concerned» political class to attempt clearing the way for this. When puritanical countries loosen their moral corsets expect the dear old things to go ape.
In ex Catholic Belgium doctors can «euthanise» at year one.
What the nazi eugenicists were rightly condemned for the caring EU is set to replicate.
This is another old «conspiracy theory» proven to be anything but.

Dan, Only somebody at the end of their tether? in short desperate dan.

Shetland is a part of Scotland.
It is not a country.
It will not be opened to offers of bribery as to its belonging.

They like Scotland itself would be enormously wealthy if
it could keep all its own revenue.

I’ll be wanting the 6,000 square miles of Scottish waters stolen by
England returned the day after independence too.

Some desperado drunk dads are just beyond the pale. Daddy was a bank robber…

link to whorattledyourcage.blogspot.com

Sarah @1.48

Just checked the electoral commission and there should be a procedure for re-issuing spoiled ( or missing ) postal ballot papers up to 10.00pm on the day of the election.

I undernote an extract from the EC and would suggest that folks who wish to change their spoiled papers read this and check with their local election board.

Procedure for re-issuing spoilt postal votes

If a person spoils their postal ballot paper(s) and/or postal voting statement, it is possible for them to obtain a replacement postal ballot pack. Replacements can be issued up until 10pm on polling day
.
60 If the request for a replacement postal ballot pack is made between 5pm on the day before polling day and 10pm on polling day itself, the replacement postal vote may only be issued to the elector if the spoilt documents are returned by hand

61. In such cases, the issue of a replacement can also only be made by hand. You must put in place systems to enable you to issue replacements up to 10pm on polling day. Particular consideration will need to be given to this where the issue of postal votes has been outsourced.
?

You should consider whether or not particular arrangements need to be put in place for disabled electors when making arrangements to reissue spoilt ballot papers, as there may be some electors who are unable to attend the elections office due to disability.
Before a replacement can be issued, the spoilt postal ballot paper(s) or spoilt postal voting statement must be returned to you, along with the remaining ballot paper(s) or postal voting statement, return envelope ‘B’ and ballot paper envelope ‘A’, regardless of whether or not these have been spoilt
62.
A new postal ballot pack can then be issued to the elector.
The legislation requires that any returned spoilt ballot papers and
postal voting statements have to be cancelled and sealed in a packet
for spoilt postal ballot papers, even if only one of them has actually been spoiled

63.The elector’s name and electoral number must be added to the list of spoilt postal ballot papers to show that the spoilt ballot postal vote has been cancelled. The name must not, however, be added if the elector is registered anonymously

64. The ballot paper numbers of the replacement ballot papers must also be added to the list. In the case of a postal proxy, the name and address of the proxy must be added to
the list alongside the other details

65. You must also add the details of any spoilt ballot papers which have been cancelled to the list of all cancelled postal ballot papers (see paragraph 5.39).A flowchart summarising the procedure for re-issuing spoilt postal votes is available for you to use to support this process

So the branch manager of the Lib/Dems in Scotland Willie Rennie, has taken up SLABs mantle on federalism. Rennie wants to see a federal UK, most likely to thwart Scottish independence, however that plan is as we all know a non-starter.

Infact Rennie is a bit of a joke figure, his latest escapade, in front of the BritNat paparazzi sees Rennie toss hotdogs in the air at a staged barbecue. The Lib/Dems are just at Holyrood to make up the numbers like the trans obsessed Greens, they can promise the earth knowing fine well that they never need to deliver anything, as they’ll never actually be in government.

Speaking of governments the English Tory one, wans to project Union Jack flags over multiple building in Glasgow, during the COP26 conference, to show the world just how British we really are…I’ll say no more.

link to thenational.scot

One wonders just how much its costing the taxpayer with regards to the current charade, which is passing as Phil the Greeks funeral. I see the BBC are offering their staff counselling, who just can’t come to terms with the passing of the sponging royal consort Phil the Greek.

I wonder how many of the BBC’s staff will step forward and say I just can’t cope now Old Phil has transcended to that royal trough in the sky.

There must be a panic on at 77 Brigade H.Q. with the frenetic trolling that is going on in this site. Capt. Yossarian; John Macnab etc. The O.C. at Denison Barracks who dished out those nom de plumes to the ‘intelligence’ redcoats must have had a sense of humour and some literary knowledge, unlike the low level abusers attempting to hound real nationalists off the site.

Add in the low level guttersnipes such as the entity’Andy’ playing the ‘pervert’ card to death supposedly in protection of women and children, whilst verbally abusing female contributors..nice one private! or in his case ‘privates’ might be more appropriate. Plus the occasional self proclaimed’PHD’ who is a grade one spy..I’m wonder how long it will take him to resign from ALBA when his handlers order him it’s time, and display the ripped up membership card? His minders at St. Andrews will be very please with his progress..but still needs to work on his Scoticisms…’winding your neck in’ nah..definite giveaway..’roasters’?…old hat I’m afraid old bean.

When I read commentators on here recommending voting for the aristocratic millionaire Sarwar, son of the Governor of Punjab, winner of then Spirit of Britain ‘(sic) award, the man who had the privilege of having the first constituent to be ejected by bailiffs for the imposition of the bedroom tax in Scotland..and did SFA while on a lecture tour in India; the man who wants to pardon the Aberdeen councillors who were in coalition with the tories; who wants more nuclear weapons dumped 30 x miles nearest our greatest population.. a unionist dictator refusing Scots the right to a Referendum, then I know we’ve got the Brits worried.

BTW Yossarian..the Clair Ridge oil field which the Brit State is trying desperately and covertly to drain through its proxy licences to International oil companies..is bigger than the North Sea Bonanza ever was. And Shetland cannot make itself independent despite you and every stinking Unionist attempts to divide and conquer..no more than Borders can secede from Scotland. This has been explained many times on this site , long before you and your faux comrades were parachuted into here to undermine us at the moment of truth. Try doing your homework before clocking in on your next shift.

Ebok – the English have been under the thumb since William the Bastard and his mates stole their country in 1066. Much of English history, from the 1381 Peasants Revolt to the Chartists to the 20th century Labour movement to the Brexit referendum(s), is the story of ordinary people trying to get a better deal from the sociopathic oligarchy that sneeringly rules over them, and mostly being defeated and ground down by TPTB for their trouble.

Serfs you were and serfs you are; you shall remain in bondage, not such as you have hitherto been subject to, but incomparably viler. – King Dick II

Most, or possibly all, of the crimes of the British Empire were first perfected on the English, from the theft of land to the suppression of language and identity, to the serfification of the peasants (who would later become the working class, “free” to lose an arm working for pennies in a factory and then die in a ditch).

There’s been a lot of mostly ignorant blather recently about the British role in slavery and whatnot. Well, of course the ruling class were beastly to foreigners. They treated their own people like dirt for centuries and happily threw them under a bus as soon as cheaper sources of labour became available.

Perversely, this is now used as a cultural bludgeon against average English people whose great-grandparents probably had to share an outdoor toilet, by the descendants of toffs or nouveau riche twats who’ve never had to put in a day’s hard graft in their pampered lives. The Guardian – the in-house magazine of the institutional class – is full of millionaires raging at how frightfully backwards and bigoted ordinary English people allegedly are.

A voter was asking me what do I know about the candidates in the South of Scotland.

I told them Joan McAlpine likes cock.

They responded using the words of the late Bobby Ball:

“That’s good enough for me, cock. What else do you know about Joan McAlpine? the voter asked.

I told them Nicola Sturgeon hates her guts cos Joan McAlpine disnae believe putting on a dress makes a man a woman.

“That’s all I know I need to know, the voter said. I’ll vote for her in the constituency and Alba on the Regional List”.

@ Willie at 1.04 and 2.59, Wee Chid at 1.0and Sarah at 1.48 and 4.13

As you have said, someone who has spoiled a postal vote can get a replacement.

Postal votes can also be handed in to the polling station on May 6.

But, someone who is registered as a postal voter CANNOT vote in person on the day. The polling station staff will not issue a ballot paper, because that person will be marked on the register as a postal voter. (Someone who has appointed a proxy can vote in person, provided the proxy has not already done so.)

Wee Willie Rennie, the master of retrospectively I wouldn’t have done that.

No you wouldn’t Willie because you and your party have never achieved anything for Scotland.

You just whine in the wings about the obvious and pledge you would have done better
Safe in the knowledge your party has never had a majority in over 100 years.

The parasite Party praying for a minority government desperate for their few seats to gain power.

Are we in awe of Cyril Smith, his confidant David Steel, Clegg, Fanny Alexander, Joke Swinson,
Tim Fallon and I don’t even know the name of the latest nonentity leader.

Another London Party with just enough clout to give Wee Willie a Lordship when he turns 60.

My SNP MP was on Twitter encouraging people to get their postal votes off as soon possible – hashtag ‘both votes SNP’. ?

Is there something going on with ‘come to ghana’ twitter account, and Craig Murray’s? I log on but get nothing but the icon for the twitter, nothing else.

Other twitter accounts appear to be working fine.

Cant help but think the gradualism is really about demographics but they cannot admit it so dress it up with so many baseless excuses. Unforgivable if so. Along with all those who continue to suffer under austerity and those whose businesses are now going to the wall due to Brexit, they would throw old people including stalwart indy campaigners under the bus. Hope I’m wrong.

Re twitter, working now.

“ Sturgeon goes on spending spree with UK credit card “ the Spectator.

I hit Submit too soon some might say not soon enough).

As an alternative to my ramblings above, Alan Thoms could follow others’ suggestions and just read the Wee Blue Book. As a public service, there is a link to that on this very page.

“Al-Stuart says: All that is left to the site Wanger is to abuse everyone”

Al, don’t you have spell-check?

link to twitter.com

Correct in what is being attempted, but misses two critical points in his conclusion. (Perhaps he said more, I have only seen this minute long clip).

1. It is unlawful for the Treaty of Union to be unilaterally altered in any way without the explicit consent of both signatories. It is a Bipartite Treaty between two sovereign Nations. It cannot be changed arbitrarily to suit Westminster’s ephemeral whim.

2. It is not moving from rule by principle of consent to rule by principle of Law. It is actually quite the reverse. If the principle of Union by consensus is set aside and becomes rule by apparent law, (especially internal domestic “UK” law) then it becomes an act of unconstitutional colonial subjugation, and that is explicitly against the International rule of Law.

On postal votes in my opinion they are sent out far too early, which I think leaves postal votes open to abuse.

link to thenational.scot

“The Postal Ballot at the Scottish Independence Referendum – Fraud?”

link to archive.is

Also I think the only way that the ALBA party’s( of which I think will obtain quite a few seat come May6th) chances of not returning any seats in May’s election is if the early posted postal votes are tampered with.

Remember Ruth Davidson had access to the postal votes, how difficult then would it be for the British states security services to gain access to the postal votes, not very in my opinion.

This a legitimate concern even though Sturgeon doesn’t want an indyref until the twelfth of never, Boris Johnson will definitely not want an indy majority at Holyrood come May 6th postal vote tampering is a guaranteed way to stop that indy majority.

If you think the UK government wouldn’t dare interfere in a countries voting system, well the UK has been interfering in Kenyan elections for decades.

Crazycat & Sarah, here in the USA we have in-person early voting as our main method of voting other than on Election Day. In fact, it was encouraged at the Presidential Election last year. 62% of eligible voters in my county took advantage of that, including my wife and me. Early voting lasts seventeen days and includes two full weekends. It ends on the Saturday afternoon preceding election day on the Tuesday.

You are allowed to vote at any early voting location in the county and the county elections board had an app on their website that gave real-time information on the wait at each early voting site. There was no wait when we went to vote at about 4pm on a Sunday afternoon.

Granted, part of the reason why in-person early voting was so popular was (a) COVID-19 and (b) postal service delays. However, I continue to be bemused that nobody in the UK has seen the value of in-person early voting.

Republicofscotland. 3:28
There are racist undertones in the usage «Phil the Greek».Rather unpleasant and not what modern Scotland is about.

‘And Shetland likely knows that the oil reserves would be out with UK-Shetland territorial waters’.

No they wouldn’t, much would be inside. Same, by the way, with fishing grounds.

The purpose of any website like this one is to examine the politics of Scotland, not the politics of Russia or KSA. These questions will be asked in the future and they should to be met with sensible answers. Trying to belittle folk for asking questions will get you no-where.

There is no-doubt a future for oil, but there is a lot of it available in the world. That means it is the extraction costs that determines how viable it is and ours are higher than most anywhere in the world at the moment.

@ Republicifscotland at 6.46

Ruth Davidson did not “have access” to postal votes.

As registered referendum participants, the Tories sent counting agents to the sessions where the postal ballots were removed from their envelopes so that the signatures on the declarations could be ratified.

Those agents, like those of all other parties, will have tried to sneak a peek at the ballot papers themselves as they were being extracted from the envelopes and counted into bundles. (With only two options, that was easier than in an election with multiple candidates.)

That is not illegal. What is illegal is reporting the impression gained from those sneaked peeks to anyone else, even if that person does not then spill the beans on TV.

Needless to say, it’s widely done despite the illegality, and RD, like people on our side, will have known that the postal votes were mostly No. Anything else she said was speculation.

Can I put my tuppence Worth in here.

I would Never vote for the SNP, I don’t want to be accociated with them.

@ capatain yossarian.

Gies peace you ya clown. How many times have we done its shetlands oil to death?

“The reality could scarcely be any more distant from Tavish Scott’s transparently inaccurate posturings. International maritime law (specifically the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, which is signed and ratified by the UK) is extremely clear on what the situation would be with regard to Shetland and Orkney’s ownership of North Sea Oil in the context of an independent Scotland – it wouldn’t have any.

Under UNCLOS III, the islands would be regarded as an “enclave” residing wholly within Scotland’s “Exclusive Economic Zone” (see the paragraph “Continental shelf”), and as such would only have the right to resources within a 12-mile radius of their coastline – of which, in terms of oil, there are basically none.”

link to wingsoverscotland.com

Another unionist clown re raking over the coals of long dead arguments as you have nothing left in the ammo department.

I don’t think Andy said he was Voting Labour back into power. Infact Labour haven’t got a hope of being the governing Party in Scotland.

I think it is because Labour are the best placed to take the seat from Sturgeon.

So I think you were mis quoting him big time.

Maybe a touch too much bias Thomas.

Let’s stick to the facts Thomas.