Wings Over Scotland

Classic Chris, just classic.

Meanwhile the figures show Alba are £80k in the red. ISP are breaking even.

Welcome back Chris, where have you been?

On the ball as usual, well done.

The SNP leadership seems to only be able to concentrate on the here and now and its been like that for ten years. It don’t take a genius to realize that come 2026 Holyrood will be returned back to the Unionist parties and from 2026 onwards the Unionist including the Greens will make sure the SNP never are in a position to run Holyrood again its a this point the SNP fall and there isn’t anyone in the SNP who could save the party from the abyss.

Lets be honest the SNP has run the party the same way its run Scotland, I’ll sell this to hide this or I’ll take the money from here and use it here and lets hope no one notices what I’ve done.

No money, No activists, No leader, No plan, No support,
No moral fibre, No integrity, No honesty, No guts, No experience, No trust, No future.

They gave Scotland baby boxes and men in dresses.

A great talent pity about the subject matter.

You can only rob Peter to pay Paul if first you have a Peter to rob.

But the SNP don’t have a Peter to rob. Mind you they did at one time have a Peter who made off with the loot.

Financially it’s conference in a phone box time for the SNP or as the toon shows the treasurer looking up the piggy’s arse.

” Peter ” mugged ” Paul ” on the road to Damascus but , in an interesting plot-twist , rather than any conversion occurring , ” Paul ” turned the other ( arse ) cheek and responded ” hit me baby one more time ” . ” Peter ” duly obliged , to the tune of £600,000 , bought his maw a campervan ( even though she couldnae drive ) n blew the rest on ” Twinks ” n pies .

The moral of the story ?

False prophets make real profits . At least until their masters decide they’ve served their purpose n feed them to the dogs .

Great to have you back , in typically fine form , C.C

Paddy Cullivan has many good lines in this 2021 interview by Peter Young, one of them being: “You should tie the SNP’s wages to how soon they get independence.”

Republicofscotland @ 10:38 am

Yes RoS, colonialism aye depends on its native collaborators – Cesaire’s “confidential agents pensioned off at high reward”

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

Breeks says:

“There would be a downside mind… If I was in charge, this modern day parcel O’ Rogues and tr@itors to Scotland would all be up to their necks in “shite”…. Sturgeon and her Alphabetty conspirators foremost amongst them. What can I say? It wouldn’t be pretty.”
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If you need any help just let me know. I’ll bring my own whip an’ spade. 🙂

Twathater;

Absolutely correct.
Westminster has done all it can to deny democracy while the SNP have done pretty much everything they can to undermine themselves and people’s belief in the political route.
SALVO!

Muscleguy @ 8:17am, you are gravely mistaken. You may be a very fine scientist but you clearly cannot read a set of accounts. That is OK. You are in good company, including a reasonably well-known blogger in the independence community who doesn’t get as many views on his website as Stu gets.

I am aware that people have been making comments on social media about Alba being in the red. To be clear, it is not enough to look at the Income & Expenditure Statement, nor is it even sufficient to look at the Balance Sheet. Notes to the accounts are an integral part of reading a set of financial statements. The Notes to the Accounts, in Alba’s case indicates that, as at December 31st last, we were in the black – not by much but still in the black. A deeper review of the full accounts also indicates that Alba is very good at paying its bills as they fall due. Fiscal responsibility is a good thing and I am glad we are practicing it. It is clear to anyone reading the accounts that there is work to be done in 2024 to maintain our financial position. However, it is evident to me that Alba leadership has practiced fiscal restraint in the past and, until I see evidence to the contrary, I trust them to continue doing so.

It would be really helpful if people would not rush to Twitter and post nonsense without thinking – that is the problem with social media and the “must do it NOW” culture into which many people are sucked. I am also surprised that a scientist such as yourself would not ask questions before forming a view.

Well we are starting to see labours 2026 campaign approach.

Constant media “the SNP is wasting public money on vanity projects”

London cut £150 mill from the scottish budget forcing major cuts

Give murray £150 million to distribute to labour target seats in the name of the uk government.

Meanwhile the SNP is firefighting

A police enquiry.
Someone appearing in court.
The Salmond case appearing in court and major costs to the scottish government.
Someone being charged with perjury.
Someone being charged with conspiracy pervert the course of justice.

Nicola dissapearing into a hole in the ground saying it wasn’t me!!

Key players that thought they were being protected will be chucked under a bus.

Interesting 2 years ahead

I think the SNP brand is dead in the water

“I’m very happy indeed to wish them well, and many, many celebrations of the anniversary of their independence in the years to come.”

Aye. I bet you even have yer wee tash & salute even doon to a tee tae.
Lest we all forget the obvious – it has zero elected representative, has banned opposition & is scrounging off everyone for weapons so isn’t very fucking “independent” eh?

What have they done since independence besides waste millions to rename half the countrys streets & erect monuments after their Nazis fascist heroes & completely corrupt the country?

link to wsws.org

“Last year alone, 237 streets, squares, avenues and boulevards were renamed just in Kiev, as the city’s authorities, headed by mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, proudly report. The same government, which for nine years since 2014, when Klitschko first became mayor, could not build in Kiev, a city of 3 million people with constant traffic jams on the roads, a single new metro station, a single new multilevel transport interchange, a single new medical center, a single new campus, a single waste processing complex, and so on.

Where did such an insistent desire to rename everything and everyone come from? Is it because a large number of local residents wanted this? Because they were suddenly no longer satisfied with the names of the cities and streets, where they themselves, their parents, and sometimes grandparents were born and raised? Nothing of the sort. There were no referendums, no votes of local residents on these issues, no one asked their opinion.”

Yer a plebiscite Main, always will be. It’ll soon be time for you armchair fuckwits to be greeting over yer poppies while waving yer wee U flags.

OT

We are all familiar with Scotland’s economic plunder, but I have misgivings about another form of plunder…

Right now, there seems to be a mountain of archaeological investigation going on into Iron Age Scotland, yet with rare exception, the case studies are presented by English presenters with a decidedly British perspective.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure these people are adequately qualified and probably have a wealth of experience, but where are Scotland’s archaeologists?

The actual history of Scotland truly fascinates me, yet time and again I’m obliged to sit through “introductions” to Lord So-and-so pictured here in all his finery…

The reverence is nauseating. Most of these f$*kers have been a blight on Scotland, and Scotland’s prosperity, for generations and I am certain they have nothing to add to Scotland’s historic credentials. I would more readily believe the opposite, that the same individuals would rather see Scotland’s heritage remain dormant and buried in the clay while they promote an ersatz “history” of Britain. Time was, they’d have poughed anything Scottish back underground.

I am curious about the mechanism which makes Archaeolgy in Scotland so apparently commercial in these difficult cash–strapped times. Who’s paying for this? I would like to be persuaded this isn’t just that Scotland is producing a wealth of stunning artifacts and archaeology, but as seems ever the case, Scotland’s wealth must be harvested by somebody else.

To my shame, I’d readily accept my personal mistrust could be misplaced, and perhaps we should be grateful for so much attention from experts in their field, but their “frightfully British” bias in perspective gives me the dry boak, and more seriously, sows doubts about their objective impartiality.

Granted, it must be tedious being an Archaeologist south of the Border where their inigenous culture was subsumed by centuries of Roman occupation; an prolonged occupation they seem weirdly proud about. It sticks in their craw that Caledonia resisted Roman invasion, while the tribes in the South rolled over.

There is a missing divide, a deference, between British Archaeology and Scottish Archaeology, and until that changes, hands off our stuff.

Geri

Welcome back.

This place has been as miserable as a sparsely-attended wake on a dreich day lately. We need all the larffs you can post.

But first, we need your apology to all the guid fowks of Wings BTL for your confident prediction that the F16s would never get off the ground. Best you get that one done and dusted before trying to convince anybody you know anything of what you post.

Tell us though, just what is it about a nation fighting to rid itself of occupation, colonialism and imperialism that sticks in your craw so much. Every rational Scot would agree that’s a queer belief for a so-called supporter of Scottish Indy. So what’s the ghastly secret you come on here frantically scrambling to hide?

Hatey McHateface @ 9:18 am

“Tell us though, just what is it about a nation fighting to rid itself of occupation, colonialism and imperialism that sticks in your craw so much.”

These people were not properly liberated, they were sold on and enslaved by their own corrupt elite to another imperial power and ideology/culture; it is now the latter’s dubious values that are sovereign in their land, which is being wasted.

The people in question are still colonized, this time by a different albeit still alien culture. No matter who the colonizer is, a colonized people remain ‘bystanders in their own land’ (Memmi).

Alf Baird

So they would have been much better off lying down and accepting Pres P’s dubious values instead?

Would you even be prepared to accept there might be some of them still smarting from their knowledge of the Jenny Side the Orcs visited on them less than a century ago? A real Jenny Side, mind, not a wee, pretendy one.

How’s about Pres P’s denial of the right to existence of their language and culture. Something else the Orcs have a bit of history of.

Tell the wondering readers of Wings BTL. This new dubious colonialism you write of. Does it deny the people of U the right to speak their own language, study their own history, and celebrate their own culture?

Strangely enough, these are rights we all have here in Scotland too. We can immerse ourselves in Scottish culture and history, speak nothing but Scots or Gaelic all day long, and never go out of doors other than in the kilt.

And nobody will give a fuck.

Yet we find you, an educated, respectable Scot, with some reputation in your own country, coming close to making common cause with the Orcs.

Not for the first time I have to ask, WTAF is wrong with your heids?

If those seeking Scottish independence were truly «nationalist» the SNP wouldn’t be what it is now.
Too many just play mind games.
The British state needs to be scared out its aging wits, not massaged.

The Yankees empire is over.

They’re completely out of control & answerable to no one. Not just from threatening nukes but from their endless crusade against everyone else’s safety & security.

Just what exactly are they doing in U with 46 bio labs & permission to kickstart that great Nazi past-time of practicing science on the infirm – that they originally crawed was propaganda. Yet another lie exposed. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to discover C*vID was deliberately planted in China cause that’s what they do.

I’d rather have anyone than these fucking eejits in charge to destroy Europeans & blatantly defy international law..they should feck off back to Yankee land – plenty nutters to experiment on there..

I’ve had to modify link to remove U..

link to peoplesworld.org

Alf 9:45

“These people were not properly liberated, they were sold on and enslaved by their own corrupt elite to another imperial power and ideology/culture; it is now the latter’s dubious values that are sovereign in their land, which is being wasted.

The people in question are still colonized, this time by a different albeit still alien culture. No matter who the colonizer is, a colonized people remain ‘bystanders in their own land’ (Memmi).”

Well said.

Hatey McHateface @ 10:11 am

“Yet we find you, an educated, respectable Scot”

My apologies, I’m sure that was an absolutely shocking discovery to the colonized mindset, which is dependent on ‘debasing the colonized’ (Memmi).

Apparently the biilionaire Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been arrested at Le Bourget airport after flying in to Paris on his private jet. He holds Ruzzian and Emirati citizenship.

Well…of course he does.

link to bbc.co.uk

Dorothy

Yes, sorry. I had to remove the U name in the web address because it flew into moderation.

47 USA bio labs in U. The USA now admit to having yet denied it for yrs. All being run without inspection & in defiance of various conventions & international rules. Why so many in that location? I don’t have access to an archive web to shorten the link but you can Google the heading & the page should appear..

From the article:

“As I stressed time and again, the U.S. conducts more bio-military activities than any other country in the world.

“Moreover, the U.S. is the only country opposing the establishment of a verification mechanism for the BWC.”

“The United States has been accused of engaging in biological warfare in the past.

“Late Cuban leader Fidel Castro claimed that its operatives had introduced swine fever and dengue fever into the country, with a previously unknown strain of the latter created in a laboratory.

The aim was to create “the largest number of victims possible,” he said.

Former Daily Worker (U.K.) international correspondent Alan Winnington and Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett were accused of treason and had their passports canceled after exposing the U.S. biological war in Korea in the 1950s.

Despite the denials, an International Scientific Commission headed by Cambridge University’s Professor Joseph Needham concluded that China and North Korea had been subjected to bacteriological weapons.”

Andy Ellis @12.04pm.

A politically motivated action – that mirrors, that of the politically motivated arrest – of the high ranking Huawei executive, a woman – in Canada a few years back.

Tucker Carlson has called for his release.

Meanwhile the Italian police, have opened up a manslaughter case on the death of Mike Lynch (and friends and family) on his yacht – his business partner – Stephen Chamberlin – was mown down and killed in a car “accident” around the same time, Lynch’s super-yacht sank in the Med – coincidence? I don’t believe in coincidences – in matters such as this..

Poll suggests – that BLiS branch manager Anas Sarwar – will be Scotland’s next FM – and that Nigel Farage’s Reform Party – will win, eight MSP seats at Holyrood.

link to archive.is

Ellis 12:04

That’s cause yer mates despise free speech. They’ve lost the narrative since the dawn of the internet so they’ll shut down or silence all platforms they’re not in full control of, that shares actual reality rather than their bullshit.

Yahoo, another mate of yours, has openly called for the silencing of dissenters & of internet platforms like TikTok for sharing war crimes. By force if need be & the globalists are more than happy to oblige by arresting, sacking, assassinating or funding & organising counter protests like yer other mates over at the EDL trying desperately to whip up some anti Muslim shite to make way for their next puppet regime, Reform.

It won’t come as any surprise to anyone outside the British bullshit corporation.

RoS

Aye, how thick are they to think ppl will swallow the accident crap? Two deaths around the exact same time isn’t an accident.

Just a quick point to ponder… Which “nation” was more likely to retain it’s distinctive linguistic integrity; the indigenous nation left defiant and unoccupied, or the nation subjugated to Roman rule?

Kinda though-the-looking-glass stuff eh? 😉

Stane, hoose, and moor were already words in use here in Caledonia by AD 142. So who taught whom to speak Anglish if it wasn’t the Angles? Maybe Pictish didn’t disappear at all.

Dorothy Devine @11.47am

Unfortunately – I can’t link to article, because U is in the article link name – if you wish to read the whole article, it called:

On a Knife’s Edge in U——e

On the Consortium News website.

“Nuland’s answer under oath to Sen. Marco Rubio on Tuesday appeared to confirm the U.S. has biological weapons in U labs. Rubio asked her point blank whether U had biological or chemical weapons. A very uncomfortable Nuland answered that U was conducting “biological research” and the U.S. was worried “materials” would fall into R hands.”

Breeks

It has been conclusively proven that the most famous part of the Declaration of Arbroath, the bit about “100 of us remaining alive” is a direct quote from the Roman author Sallust, who died in 35 BC.

The Declaration also boasts of the obliteration of the Picts by the Scots, but to be fair, it also grants the legitimacy of the Original owners of the Holy Land, as well as celebrating the warrior prowess of some of their great leaders.

So it remains a handy manuscript to hurl in the faces of the “river and sea” chanters, along with their bandwagon-climbing, virtue signalling useful idiots.

As I wrote this morning though, I’d give the ancient history a body swerve. As we can see, it’s a minefield.

To be truly «Scottish» why not learn Welsh the modern form of the language spoken throughout «Scotland» aka Caledonia before the English and Irish invaded.
Mind games again? Or an airbrushing from history of a culture whose traces were maybe systematically expunged?
Lowland Scots pushed their way into Orkney & Shetland «overwriting» the norse language and culture of the islands.
A little bit of home grown imperialism?

@Republicofscooby says: 25 August, 2024 at 6:28 pm

former First Minister also dismissed SNP Cabinet Secretary Angus Robertson as a “fud”

I kinda thought being a fud was key to advancement in the SNP.

It never was any obstacle in the past under AS. It was him who fast tracked NS into the leadership position. And was she ever a fud.

Still, I see Ros is at his usual games. Dig into the article, and this is what AS actually said:

“he’s managed to compromise one of the very few consistent, clear lines that the SNP Government has managed to portray in recent months”

So there we have it. Ever the consummate politician, AS neither supports or condemns the purpose of the meeting, and neither supports or condemns the SNP policy that has lead to criticism of the meeting.

His criticism is entirely based on Robertson breaking the SNP consensus policy, and thus committing the cardinal political sin – sending mixed messages.

It’s good to get that cleared up.

We now know why independence will never be achieved & the SNP went to the dogs the moment those fuckwits went to WM.

Until the UK is knocked off it’s security council perch, which will thankfully be soon, it’ll always be compromised by the geno-cide lobby.

Anyone who watches the UN live TV channel will know that’s an absolute given. Over 100 countries can condemn what’s happening in Palestine until it comes time for the eejit from the UK to speak with the usual shite “an invading, murdering, gen-ocidal, rap*ng, degenerate force has a right to defend itself & can take as much land as they see fit” pish..

There’ll be a special seat in hell for them. They’ll not take their bank balance with them.

The SNP is an administration. It has fuck all business cozying up to warmongering degenerates on their wee all expenses paid excursions to be indoctrinated into their plastic pish their God gave them permission. All sense is lost on those fucking zoomers. No one else would get away with that pish in a court of law. “God gave me it” lol! I suppose they can prove that eh?

The Anglo American downfall can’t come soon enough. They’re a fcking weapon to world peace, security & the human race. If they can’t threaten with nukes & trade – they’ll try a spot of virus/chemical warfare. I didn’t know until recently that they had refused to sign up to a world wide agreement NOT to put nukes in space. FFS – hopefully soon they’ll all fuck off & colonise Mars out of everyone else’s airspace.

It also proves, just like the EU & USA congress, WM is completely captured. Nothing good will ever happen there. Money talks & trumps democracy.

Geri and RoS,thank you!

Robert

“However, what is laughable is that 50,000 blue-haired biology deniers, wee ginger fuds, the generally weak and feeble minded and other assorted troughers and camp followers refuse see it.”

They do. They’re not independence supporters. They’re the *happy as we are* crew if they even exist in the first place. Colonisers always have problems with real numbers.

TURABDIN @ 5:39 pm

“Lowland Scots pushed their way into Orkney & Shetland «overwriting» the norse language and culture of the islands.”

Not quite. The Picts as descendants of the Neolithic people, according to the archaeological and historical record, would rightly have regarded the vikings as invaders. The Pictish kingdom opted to merge with the Gaels to create a Scotland able to repel the vikings and other invaders.

For those investigating Pictish, one available resource online is the 2015 PhD thesis by Guto Rhys (329 page pdf) —

‘APPROACHING THE PICTISH LANGUAGE: HISTORIOGRAPHY, EARLY EVIDENCE AND THE QUESTION OF PRITENIC.’

« 1.5 The Battle over the Ghosts of the Picts: In the late eighteenth century the conflict over the Picts and their language grew more virulent, driven by political, religious and ethnic prejudices and factionalism. This century saw not only the union of the parliaments of Scotland and England in 1707 but also the violent defeat of Jacobitism in 1746 and the attendant suppression of Gaelic identity. The later horrors of the Highland Clearances and famine were to contribute to the contempt felt by many towards all things Gaelic.

« As we enter more deeply into the Enlightenment little credence was given to early origin myths, and a new critical approach, based on evidence and reason, emerged. The Picts were sometimes pressed into service to validate the personal and political agendas, or bias, of involved parties. Some Scots-speaking Lowlanders were placed in a quandary; just how Celtic should they consider themselves? Buying in to a Gaelic past would involve equating themselves with tribal, highland barbarians who were moreover descended from immigrant Irish, whose adherence to Catholicism in recent centuries evoked alarm. Imagining themselves as immigrant Saxons involved the danger of delegitimizing their claim, as first holders, to occupy and rule the land. Finding the means to portray Lowlanders as indigenous, in particular if this could trump Gaelic claims to the linguistically anglicised east, had great appeal.

« The Picts, details of whose language and culture were gradually emerging from the murky past, were becoming objects of increasing interest. They had left very little in terms of concrete evidence of their identity and they were ‘convenient blank sheets on which almost any tale could be written’ (Ferguson 1998, 185). »

link to theses.gla.ac.uk

@Breeks –

Really interesting stuff, and obviously a bit controversial too.

If you’d like to consider expanding your thoughts into an article we’ll publish it. No word limit.

😉

Breeks, with respect, your unsubstantiated assertion that “the earliest recorded place name in Scotland is Stenhousemuir” is untenable. Please reference a reputable authority.

Meanwhile, an “in-house” academic authority for the roots of “Scots” as such is obviously the online DSL (DICTIONARIES OF THE SCOTS LANGUAGE/ DICTIONARS O THE SCOTS LEID) website, which states the following:

« SCOTS: AN OUTLINE HISTORY: ORIGINS
The first speakers of the Old English ancestor of Scots arrived in what is now southern Scotland in the sixth century CE. These people were descendants of Germanic invaders who had arrived in the south-east of what is now England from the early fifth century. Their variety of Old English is known as Old Northumbrian, a northern sub-dialect of Old Anglian, the Old English dialect spoken over a wide territory stretching from the English Midlands to the Scottish Lowlands. The area that these first Old English speakers occupied, in what was later to become Scotland, is characterised by place-names with early Old English elements. This area consists of a wide swathe of what is now south-eastern and southern Scotland, with less extensive settlements along the Solway and, perhaps rather later, in Kyle in mid-Ayrshire.

« Before the twelfth century the English-speaking part of Scotland was limited to these south-eastern and southern areas (except perhaps for the royal court of King Malcolm III and his queen, Margaret, a princess of the ancient royal house of Wessex, whom he married about 1070). By contrast, there is good chronicle and place-name evidence that by the tenth and eleventh centuries the Gaelic language was socially dominant throughout much of Scotland, including the English-speaking south-east. In origin Gaelic was the native language of the Scots of Alba, the kingdom centred north of the Forth and Clyde, whose kings in the tenth and eleventh centuries also gained dominion of the more southerly parts of what was to become an expanded Scottish kingdom.

« Until the late eleventh century the increasing linguistic dominance of Scotland by Gaelic continued, but this trend was reversed with the accession of the Normanized kings of Scotland, particularly King David I (1124–53) and his immediate successors. Thereafter place-names and other indications show a spread of the English-speaking area beyond the south-east, first to other parts of southern Scotland, then in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries to eastern Scotland north of the Forth.

« This expansion of English in Scotland was brought about by several important groups of immigrants who came to Scotland at the invitation of the king: English-speaking servants and retainers of the new Anglo-Norman and Flemish landowners, and of the monks from England and France; and English-speaking ‘pioneer burgesses’, chiefly from south-east Scotland and from northern England, who settled in the new royal and baronial burghs of Scotland that the king and his supporters had founded.

« […] Though the language of the royal court and the baronage of Scotland was now Norman French, later to become Anglo-Norman, the native tongue of many of these immigrants of lesser rank was a variety of Northern English heavily influenced in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar by the Old Norse language brought to northern and midland England by Viking-era invaders and settlers. This Norse-influenced Northern English was the principal, though probably not the only, language of the early Scottish burghs, and its contribution to the formation of the language later known as Scots is probably even greater than that of the original Old Northumbrian spoken in south-eastern and southern Scotland.

« […] Gradually the variety of Northern English spoken in Scotland began to diverge from the Northern English spoken in England, and the Scots language (although it wasn’t yet called Scots) emerged from the thirteenth century onwards. »

link to dsl.ac.uk

The SNP government – post-Salmond have gotten our NHS into such a state that taxi’s are now being used to ferry patients to A&E – some of the patients are seriously ill and collapse – and pass-out in the back of the taxi’s.

All the ambulances are tie-up at A&E trying to unload patients.

link to archive.is

Wikipedia – where truth goes to die, edit or be rewritten.

Why on Earth would anyone write stuff in their own *accent*?

I’m from Essex, but you don’t see me writing “awwrite me ol’china, going daaaaaarn the pub wiv me mates for a few pints and a pie and mash maaate”.

Alf. I hate to be the one to break it to you but it’s still English mate.

Well, you made me chuckle Sven, thank you! 😀

If Scots is so far removed from English that it is a separate language then I’m a polyglot. I’m off to update my CV.

Geri
Ignored says:
26 August, 2024 at 10:29 am
Wikipedia – where truth goes to die, edit or be rewritten.

If you prefer to subscribe to Breek’s brainfart theorising, then go ahead.

James @ 12.24.

Ah, if only I had a forelock to tug, James. Been many a decade since my days of a DA & friction on a Saturday morning before toddling down to the Magic Stick or the Locarno in the evening.
A quick rub with a soft cloth would suffice to restore a healthy glow to the old bonce now I fear.

That’s right. No more needs said but seeing as the ink is free…

An administration with cack aw knob…

They’ve heehaw say on our economy
They’ve heehaw say on foreign policy
They’ve heehaw say on immigration
They’ve heehaw say on the cost of living
They’ve heehaw say on peoples wages
They’ve heehaw say on pensions
They’ve heehaw say on anything of any significance

So it begs the question why the fuck they’re going jollies to rub shoulders with genocidal maniacs, bark no fly zones to nuclear powers, host a good old shindig with weapon manufacturers or have endless orgies with those unelected dark forces known as NGOs. Especially the purple kind.

You’d have thought , given they’d ten yrs at the top, to exchange “administration” to “The parliament of Scotland”

No need to answer. Mediocre management wasn’t an accident.

Caveman captain – you don’t need to have a written language. Your kind pollute the Western world & you’ve fck all culture of yer own. Morris dancing & jellied eels – wow. Just what the world is looking for, we’re all well jel!!

FFS, I might’ve know Memmi would have something to do with it…

Alf. Your own language – the one you’re using here – is ENGLISH. That’s just a plain, binary fact, son, and no amount of blurb about being colonised is going to alter that fact. Whether you choose to deal with it or not.

@Geri –

You might find this of interest – we saw a reference to the author via Leah Gunn Barrett’s ‘Dear Scotland’ and checked him out. We assume Alf Baird will already be familiar with his work.

link to offtopicscotland.com

Who could blame our hard working teachers – if they decide to take strike action – Tammany Hall – aka Glasgow City Council, is full to the gunnels, with crooks and con men/women – lets start by cutting their jobs – and keep the teachers, lets face it, we need the teachers more than that lot.

“Teachers in Glasgow are to vote on striking in a row over controversial job cuts.

The EIS union describes Glasgow City Council’s decision to cut 450 posts over three years as “damaging and dangerous”.

The council axed 172 of those teaching posts this year. The ballot will run until 1 October.

If teachers vote to strike, action could take place after schools return from the half term break. They are also voting on whether to take part in other forms of industrial action short of striking.”

ROS@2.28pm.
The Flamingo Land is no more than a Thatcherite give away. The public land being given to Flamingo Land is being sold to them for an undisclosed commercial in confidence exclusive deal. Anecdotal comment however is that the circa 36 acres of Loch side land is being given away for a few tens of thousands of pounds.

And so with 36 acres of land for free it doesn’t take a genius to work out why this Yorkshire based theme park come propery developer is camping at the bit to get it’s hands on this land. As Tesco say, once it’s gone, it’s gone.

And so with Flamingo Land on ownership of the land they as developers will then be able to set up deals with hotel groups, restaurants, and other retail businesses whilst retaining sufficient land ( as bunk house type chalets thst after a few years can be repurpoded to building expensive houses. Oh and of course there is already a housing development mixed in to the development too.

No wonder the great and the good of the SNP, the enterprise agency, and the and the regulators were all happy being wined and dined a a paid for freebie propery development jamboree in Cannes a few years ago. Money talks. The SNP and the quango are Thatchers children selling off ( or giving away at mates rates) the family silver.

Captain Caveman @ 1:28 pm

“Your own language – the one you’re using here – is ENGLISH.”

In a colony “it is only the language of the colonizer that opens the door to opportunity”; which is what makes the colonizer “a privileged being” (Memmi).

English is niver ma mither tongue tho. A fowk’s mither tongue is ruitit in thair saul (Kay), hit disna come fae some statutory monoglot colonial institution.

Oor ain language is wha we are, whit gies us oor identity. Tak awa a fowk’s langage ye tak awa thair identity – imperial job duin!

Langage is a human richt, mind, an gies us oor diversity. Fowk dinna aw want tae be makkit English, ye ken.