Happy Anniversary
It was exactly one year ago today that the Supreme Court delivered its judgment in the case of For Women Scotland Vs The Scottish Ministers, a judgment which has still not been implemented by the Scottish or UK governments, so it was quite bold of the SNP to choose it as the launch date for their manifesto.
The judgment (which the SNP are in fact still fighting in court) is not referenced in the document and the phrases “women’s rights” and “single-sex” do not appear anywhere in it, although it does say “We are committed to upholding and protecting the human rights of trans people as far as possible within our powers and we will do all we can to ensure that trans people’s identities are recognised and respected”.
So, y’know, more of the same to come for the next five years.
They are slow learners arent they
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. What utter and complete b…. they are. Never going to get my vote until there is a complete clear out of personnel. My husband says the same.
Is that a gravy escalator they’re on?
There’s a lot of practical uses for a cured and varnished TERF skull.
Most people already have a spurtle, a shortbread tin, and a tea towel with weird Scots words printed on it.
Selling TERF skulls could provide a much-needed boost to tourism revenues. If international travel is gonna be as affected as the experts are predicting, we’ll need new pull factors to get the English holidaying here.
Relax pearl clutchers! They needn’t all be genuine skulls. The Covid Spreaders will knock out as many realistic plastic facsimiles as we need, at prices we won’t be able to resist.
[Anybody unaware that the Covid Spreaders already make about 95% (by volume) of all Scottish tourist souvenirs? How TAF did that ever happen, eh?]
H McH: many a word said in jest… Succinct and sarcastic, but utterly to the point.
Thanks Lorncal.
I resolved to cut down my time on here, but honestly, it’s a lot of fun!
We all need to be pacing ourselves. We’re about to get another 5 long years of SNP mediocrity and reality denial driving Scotland ever further round the U bend. Those 5 years are going to drag.
Finding humour where we can may be our best hope for surviving with our sanity intact.
On a positive note, postcolonial theory predicts the co-opted national party acting as a ‘calcified’ colonial administration eventually ‘disintegrates’ (Fanon).
FANON might agree that the disintegration needs coordinated third party action, especially when ballot boxes are filled with sand.
Alf: you are not wrong, but, in Ireland’s case it took 18 years of the collaborationist party under Redmond before it started to fall apart – and only after he had died. The SNP will be in power again, so we are having to wait a helluva lot longer. Why is this? Because SNP supporters and voters (topped up the odious Greens) are willing to initiate a scorched earth policy in Scotland in relation to women and girls.
There is nothing to prevent the SNP and Holyrood introducing legislation to ensure that the UKSC Ruling is embedded in every public institution/business and in every private one in Scotland. If they did, they would be lauded by Westminster and welcomed into the body o the kirk because they do not want to be threatened first to bring in this legislation which they know is inevitable. However, they will all try to water it down as much as possible.
They are all – that is, all the parties – implicated in the ‘woke’ tyranny that reigns in the whole of the UK. These people are parasites who invade and infest every decent part of society to undermine it. Nonetheless, time is not on their side and neither are events. The whole shebang is going to collapse – in England first – (another riot today after a gang rape in which the perpetrators are being shielded probably because of their ethnicity, although, as yet, no evidence had been offered on either side). The very real fears of people who are far from being ‘far right’, but who see little positive future for their children, have had enough.
England is going to fall first, and, after that, Scotland. The gross stupidity of the politicians in pushing ‘woke’ policies on their populations without any consultation is beginning to play out now. It is possible and one thing to be generous and decent hosts to people who deserve our sympathy; it is quite another to allow your country to be overwhelmed and undermined through policies that are so malignant and so obviously malignant to the host nations that they become toxic, parasitical policies. Both uncontrolled immigration and ‘trans’ fit the bill, as do ‘net zero’ and impossible-to-achieve renewables targets.
The Tories’ wholesale privatisation programme started the ball rolling – can anyone tell us which privatised public utilities have benefited the public or cost less than state ownership? I am no Socialist except with a small ‘s’ and certainly for all public necessary utilities, such as water and energy, etc. as it has always been a Scottish trait. We have all lost – and that includes England – the small ‘l’ liberalism and there small ‘c’ conservatism that amalgamated to make up the small ‘s’ socialism. It has gone, wiped out by so-called progressive policies that are so regressive as to bye pulling and pushing us into a dystopian future.
I don’t care if the SNP and Greens are calcified, Alf, I want them both gone from Scottish politics because they have poisoned the well from which we all have to drink. I cannot believe that our politicians do not know that the vast majority of ‘trans’ are not autogynephiles and fetishists; on the contrary, I believe they know it perfectly well; just as they know that unregulated immigration will lead to a massive drop in real terms to the economy and to people’s incomes.
They listened to the false prophets and we will all reap the consequences while they trip off into a future guaranteed by a large pension and opportunities to enter other lucrative positions. That is the reality we face. Look at all those well-fed faces in the photo above, and weep for Scotland.
“in Ireland’s case it took 18 years of the collaborationist party under Redmond before it started to fall apart”
Aye, Scots have similarly had inflicted on us almost 19 years of colonial administration and its ‘mystifying’ policies by faux ‘nationalists’ wha tak thair oath tae a furrin croun.
We have to persuade people that only independence can solve our problems. Currently only 10 to 20% of the population believes independence is a priority. Until that changes, the snp may seem acceptable to enough people to keep them in power.
So we keeping pushing alternatives, keeping trying to show people the light of independence. The truth will prevail, it always does.
@Jamie
Have you maxed out on the antisemitism card?
That gets about 10% traction on here.
You might be able to increase your best case 20% to 30%, if the population subsets comprising Scottish Indy supporters and Scottish antisemites are distinct and separate.
Why do they still get so many votes????
sydthesnake: Why do they still get so many votes ?
Nae credible alternatives and by promising yet more Freebies ( which of course are not free but paid for by hardworking taxpayers )
Essentially, syd, because most of those who vote for them await the nirvana of independence – which will never come by voting for the SNP. It is cyclical self-sabotage because the SNP and the Greens are not interested in independence. Also, because use people who are not nationalists vote for them as they perceive them to be less evil than the alternatives – which, of course, is not true.
They get so many votes because the old Labour vote of 20 years ago and more got so sick of the corruption and incompetence that they deserted en-masse to the SNP.
Without Alec Salmond -and he didn’t appear to make sure the calibre of MSP candiates was any good- the SNP has been stricken with all the old Labour malaises. Amazing it took so long (ie to 2031 if we’re lucky) to get rid of them.
I don’t think it was just Old Labour who defected to the SNP, but New Labour, too, and it is these New Labour types who dominate. In fact, they are even to the left of New Labour into hard left territory. I recall saying in 2015 that we would live to regret letting them all in to the party. Not so much Old Labour, as many of them do actually believe in independence, or, certainly, devolution, but the hard left never has and never will. They are Unionist to their bones because their ideology does not admit of any other stance than what is termed the ‘woke’ one. They are, therefore, ideologically and viscerally opposed to independence while telling the SNP leadership that they are in favour of it.
Nah, they want to have absolute control of the SNP (and the Greens, of course, and the Lib Dems) to completely undermine independence and pursue their insane policies. They are parasites who will kill their host, but not before moving on to the next victim – like that horrible wasp that lays its eggs in the brains of other insects to control them whilst eating them alive from the inside soft parts before breaking free of the carapace. Ugh! I can thi9nk of no more apt description of their treachery and cold-blooded use of others. Essentially, it is a form of cultural Marxism, with lashing of queer theory and post modernism, but I doubt that they would even recognise it as such. What is more pitiable is that most SNP, Green and Lib Dem supporters don’t recognise out for what not is either and believe that they are “doing good” work. Jesus wept!
Angela Constance is my SNP MSP and to be honest I received a leaflet from her and it states Independence in three different areas. She help us on more than one occasion, I like her but I can’t vote for her because of the SNP.
When I look at that photograph I think (“("Tractor" - Ed)’s)s and redcoats everyone of them.
This election is the opportunity for women to defend themselves and their rights. So vote for anyone other than the greens and SNP, don’t vote for these party’s because of Independence Independence isn’t on OFFER.
Where’s the Independence horse cart? This SNP will say and do anything for THEMSELVES.
.The SNP has no interest In Scotland, its people, or Independence, this is a fact. Even if the SNP got an outright majority, and then went and asked for a section 30 order, England couldn’t afford to say YES. People have to stop believing they have to say yes, because that’s undemocratic, well so was taken Scotland by force in 1707.
John Swinney will ask for a section 30 order and it will be turned DOWN by the UKG and the SNP wont challenged it. The SNP’s backup plan will be to look to a Westminster election and state, vote only for the SNP and if we win more votes than all the Unionist parties put together the UKG can’t refuse a section 30 order, nut the will again. No Country including England are going to make themselves poorer by losing Scotland. People including this panel have to waken up, it isn’t the UKG who are denying democracy it’s the SNP. The Leadership of the SNP keep making rules regarding Independence which are unachievable and they are doing this to feather their own nests and for their own ends.
There isn’t one of yous who get elected that will have a hope in hell on changing the constitutional question while the SNP is hell bent on the Union. I’m afraid Scotland will still be in the Union in 2031 and then we cannot be arguing again on the question of Independence simply because Independence isn’t going to happen until the SNP is destroyed.
Its the SNP who keeps blocking Independence, they’ve done it again with the Holyrood election by telling everyone to give two votes to the SNP knowing that by given two votes to the SNP reform will win 20 seats and that will be all due to the SNP. The SNP has also made the election about a super SNP majority knowing for any party to get a super outright majority it’s impossible and it will fail and fail it will, but it didn’t have to fail if the SNP opted for an Independence majority by telling people to vote for the SNP on the first vote and any other independence party on the second vote, but they haven’t. it’s going to be the same in the Westminster election only vote for the SNP to win more votes than all the unionist this is impossible to achieve but the SNP knows it.
The SNP and its leadership aren’t acting like an Independence party and from their actions there is something sinister happening with the SNP and its refusal to move Independence forward and if you asked me Sturgeon is the sole reason behind it.
I can’t and will not be voting for the SNP or Greens.
You can delete the previous one, thank you.
Three comments that totally contradict each other.
Your not voting SNP. That’s really difficult for you. Caught between your contempt for Britain and the realization that you support lunatics who think they’re Elite.
Mark, no one in this household is voting SNP I also stated I couldn’t and I won’t ever again.
if the may elections are not about the massive existential question of the Scottish nation’s place in the world then just stay at home and draw up plans for the «revolution», which we all know must come. The object is cracked, worthless and beyond repair,
Nothing else matters in this fractured world of muscular bully boy dickhead politics and its piteous actors,
Both the SNP and Greens singing of the same hymnbook when it comes to Independence, “we need to persuade more people to vote YES” how can this be achieved when both these party are turning the people who would vote for Independence but now won’t vote either Greens or SNP.
“draw up plans for the «revolution», which we all know must come”
You first, TURABDIN, we all sorely need a revolution or two in your part of the world.
Drag some of your medievalist, theocratic, misogynistic, paternalist shitholes, kicking and screaming, into the nineteenth century.
We’ll watch and learn from your example.
Chop, chop now. Heads and hands, just as fast as you can.
I left «my part of the world» age 6, i have been effectively «homeless» ever since. I know first hand what the selfrighteous anglosaxon west is capable of, just bomb the shit out of those subhuman towel heads….etc
Making mortal enemies comes so easily to that type..pace Trump & pals.
The old world dispensation is fast approaching its dénouement.
The so called «middle east», a term conceived by an englishman with no sense of geography, is what colonialist drawers of imperial lines in the sand have made it…the west richly merits the result.
You would appear to know little about the culture of the arabophone world or you would not make such comments.
Sorry, TURABDIN, but “some bastard English did it and then ran away” works no better in the Middle East than it does in Kilmarnock.
Generations have passed since any white man drew frontiers in the sand. If the countries of Europe can manage population exchanges, ethnic cleansing, wars, conquests and re-conquests to come up with some semi-stable political entities, then so can the so-called “older” civilisations. That’s if they really want to.
As for the schism at the heart of the Great Islamic divide, that’s entirely on the followers of the religion of peace.
The ‘revolution’ has already begun. Those people you hate so much have been leading the way.
If you mean the English, Mark, very few of us hate them. Honestly. We just want our independence which is not the same thing at all. You are right, however, England looks set to lead the way to revolution, and the consequences will be that the UK itself falls apart. If revolution does come, it will come to England, not the UK, and it will be England that leads the nationalist departure from the UK in favour of its own independence. You’ll get no dissent from me. The four nations will be immeasurably better apart from each other with overriding and overarching common interests. Rather like the Scandi nations. That is how it will pan out because it has to, really.
But, but, but they will cap the price of eggs! The paucity of ambition is staggering.
Cap the price of eggs low enough, and Scottish kids will be able to afford to egg caps, passing cars, letter boxes, and police horses.
Does anybody have the figures to hand that detail the Scottish NHS’s record on dealing with the adverse health effects of high cholesterol? I’m betting it’s something like the worst in Europe.
Never mind though. Let’s all start eating more eggs.
This picture says it all about what the SNP is.
We live in a country with huge issues all around us. An economy on the slide, public service on the slide, budgets on the slide, falling living standards, huge governmental corruption of process, and against this for an election address these clowns assemble for a photograph of them holding TERF banners.
That I am afraid says it all about what our ” national ” party is all about. No aspiration they cant even deliver on the bread and butter. A deadwood parliament incapable in even the basics. Woke, as this picture shows is their focus.
Why are colonialists, generally as a ‘species’, so physically unattractive?
Could it be that God has marked them in such a way that they might be more easily identified as enemies of true Scots – His favourite folk on this Earth – and therefore more easily avoided by them?
Or could it be that hideousness is a requirement for MSPs under the terms of the Treaty of Union?
Or could it be that MSPs were, as children, forced by their deranged guardians to beat their own faces with an ‘ugly stick’ after brushing their teeth before bedtime?
Or perhaps colonialism is like syphilis – the more advanced the grip of this terrible disease on a colonialist the more unbeautiful they become.
I doubt we handsome and gorgeous Scots who wander this place (unionists excluded) will ever know the truth of it, but one thing has been made clear to us… the main reason for the Scots not to vote at all (unless their vote is for the ATLS) in May’s Westminster’s quinquennium Scottish pantomime is that its MSPs (bar those of the ATLS, of course) are just so damned ugly.
Scotland is a colony, of that there is no doubt, but can’t her pretend ‘Scottish’ representatives at least be pleasing to look upon, like the indigenous Scots they are meant to represent?
Because I will tell you this, my fellow scrumptious darlings… in no universe can it possibly be said that any of those faces that curse the image shown above represent either my stunningly ornate self or my beautiful people.
You have missed your vocation in life. You’ve got the makings of a good jihadist.
Careful there, Northy!
The concept of “bimbofication” has only recently made it into the MSM, courtesy of shenanigans in the upper levels of the US government.
From the way you’re writing in your post, I’m concerned you may have fallen under its influence.
Fight it off like a man, Northy!
Urghh…put me in mind of Leon Brittan! Once billed as the ugliest man in politics and probably a pedo too.
Urghh to the whole lot of them!
They keep it on their desk because it’s the only thing that keeps them elite. The New Elite are just normal everyday grifters without it.
Any woman who is still voting SNP or Green after both parties efforts to get GRR onto the statute books needs a serious talking to….
The SNP are the drug dealers feeding the Nationalist Crack heads. We all know how low a junky will go.
100% Yes – the Rev is going to kill you with hammers!
BELFAST CITY COUNCIL RESTRICTS PRIME RENTAL SITE TO PRO-TRANS TENANTS
Applicants for a prominent and iconic city centre rental must be ‘LGBT compliant’, local government officials have said.
Belfast City Council said plans are “in progress” to house a new taxpayer-funded “LGBTQIA+ Hub” on the first floor at 2 Royal Avenue. In February, the Council called for “expressions of interest” to rent ground floor space in the same Grade B+ Listed Building.
Alongside requirements such as the need to be “public facing” and “financially sustainable”, proposals for long-term use “should be complementary and compatible with the LGBTQIA+ Hub”.
‘IDEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS’
In a statement to the Belfast News Letter, the Women’s Rights Network NI said the pro-LGBT terms of rental amounted to “attaching ideological conditions to the use of a public building”.
Lord Young of Acton, founder and Director of Free Speech Union, warned: “If Belfast Council is granting LGBTQIA+ activists a veto over what groups are allowed to use the ground floor, that is a clear breach of section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998”.
The Act, he explained, “imposes a duty on public authorities not to discriminate against service users on the basis of their protected religious and philosophical beliefs, which includes the view that transwomen aren’t women and marriage should be between a man and a woman”.
“If a Christian group applies to use the ground floor and is vetoed by the woke groups on the first floor, it would have a slam dunk legal case for unlawful discrimination.”
MILLIONS
Last year, Belfast City Council was accused of attempting to hide the fact that it may cost millions of pounds to create its ‘LGBTQIA+ hub’.
The Belfast News Letter used a Freedom of Information request to obtain the feasibility study for the proposal.
The Council attempted to redact the hub’s estimated cost claiming it would “prejudice the commercial interests of the council”. But the figures, which were still visible, indicated the price “could range from £0.5m to £10m”, followed by an ongoing annual subsidy of £70,000.
The hub has been commissioned by the Council in collaboration with controversial activist organisations, including The Rainbow Project and Transgender NI.
(The Christian Institute, 16 April 2026)
link to christian.org.uk
Ach, let them establish their ghetto. They can have the toilets of their dreams, toilets that are ‘female’ or ‘male’ in name only and interchangeable. Paradise on Earth for the sexually incontinent.
Maybe the SNP will relocate their office from Edinburgh, it sounds ideal for the current crop of deviants and enablers as well as their ideology Svengalis..
They could even call it Tricky Nicky House.
Murray, Blackburn, Mackenzie have a wide ranging report on how deeply entrenched is the woke nonsense in charities which ought to be providng benefits exclusively for women and girls but which fail to do so by including men who identify as women in their work.
MBM also show how the Scottish government applies pressure on these charities to continue with the woke nonsense through their funding.
link to murrayblackburnmackenzie.org
Strange but True.
The rest of the world is undergoing sysmic change. A new geopolitical map is being drawn. Certain parts of the world will never be the same again. Western Europe is left exposed and weak.
But in Dear old Jockistan it’s sweaty rapists and rent boys.
Mark Beggan @ 14.17.
A shift in the way we behave,
Has brought on a structural wave.
The norms we once knew,
Split completely in two
A seismic change, scaring even the brave.
Boom, Boom.
….So draw a line in the sand.
Doom is at hand.
So I take it Craig Murray won’t be doing business with the Cartels after all.
If he chose to get some cheap tats while he was there, I hope he paid very careful attention to their possible significance.
Especially if he intends to re-visit the good ol’ USA again!
He can always read the Motorcycle Diaries whilst languishing in a Venezuelan hospice. Taco Murray and the journey to Caracas. Most Wanted Radical lunatics FBI files.
Have to say I have never ‘got’ Craig Murray, although I do think, at heart, he is a decent cove. With all his experience of international affairs and politics in different parts of the world, his anti Israel stance leaves me cold because it appears to have little basis. Not saying the Israelis are angels, but the visceral antipathy is rather disconcerting. I also find him rather naive, but in a touching kind of way. Can’t say I dislike the man but I find him a strange one. All I can say is that he betrays so many traits of the ‘woke’ – pro ‘trans’, for starters – that I have grave doubts about his ideas for a post independence Scotland, but, as always may be the case, I may be very wrong about him. I do hope so.
I believe this is deliberate in order to lose votes thus ensuring no majority which lets them off the hook for a referendum and five more years at the trough.
How I loathe the SNP.
I see the works to George Square have uncovered the vestiges of Johan Lamonts legendary Fuhrer bunker!
However the size like all things SLAB simply confirms the branch office always do things on the cheap..
Happy Anniversary Rev.
Is it a year since that wonderful pic of the joyously victorious women emerging from the UKSC underneath your inspired banner headline, “THE JOY OF SEX”? Hi
Unforgettable.
As a disillusioned independence supporter I believe the SNP election manifesto should contain the following policies.
Keep Alexander Dennis factories open.
Repeal the GRRB.
Build a steel mill.
Build a film studios.
Guarantee corroboration,trial by jury of 15,and reinstate double jeopardy and not proven and discard attempts at anglicisitation.
End early release of prisoners
Bar prisoners from voting.
Prevent N privatisation
Cover picture;
Have you ever seen an overloaded staircase that you secretly wished would collapse?
Where’s cartoon Hamish with a cartoon fizzling stick of dynamite when you need him eh?
I pressed submit accidentally before finishing.
Prevent NHS privatisation.
Put Scottish fishermens future before EU member states.
Separate support for Independence from EU membership
Abolish the UK supreme court
Don’t ignore grooming gangs and punish them properly.
Copy St George’s Park
Keep Glasgow School of Sport open.
Stop building student accommodation.
Reopen the tourist information centres.co
Hold a public vote on joining the EU.
If you could do these you could look competent and capable and possibly increase support for Independence.
Vote Reform.
My Reform candidate couldn’t even give the correct name for my constituency. No Sale.
Any chance of reinstating ‘Airborne’ for young offenders, Peter ? Very high success rate in preventing reoffending.
I don’t know how you managed it, Peter, but you seem to have excluded a lot of what the majority of sane, rational Scots actually care about.
Well done you.
Well at least that’s one pothole fixed.
I clicked on the link to their manifesto to see what they had to say about other protected classes (eg, physically disabled) and it said Access Denied. Are they ashamed of their own manifesto?
MI6 Still ate it I see.
On Scotlands Side just like the Alliance for Liberation political TV advert. Eve Comrie and Tommy Sheridan with one policy. Patriotism combined with your wee bit Hill and Glen. What would Scotland look like after Independence didn’t get a mention. Buy a pig in the poke TV advert. No mention of the Supreme Court ruling or any other intelligent policy. I predict they will return zero MSPs.
The intelligent bit George was explaining the D’Hondt regional vote, and reduce unionists picking up their seats for free as SNP 1 and 2 auto backfires.
Want a supermajority, looks the only way at present.
That’s what I and I suppose many others will have taken away from it.
@Young Lochinvar
That’s a fair comment I suppose, but I don’t think it landed. Anybody with an IQ over 80 understands D’hondt system. The SNP have made SNP 1 and SNP 2 a test of loyalty. The wee bit hill in Glen didn’t work in 2014 and it won’t work now.A vision of an Independent Scotland has not materialised since 2014. The same doubt and questions still remain unanswered. And that TV advert was a continuation of that tactic. I won’t grace it by calling it a strategy. It was a TV advert for Alliance for Liberation to gain a couple MSPs. Maybes Eve and Tommy themselves. I still say they will get nothing.
Fair enough George, but it will have brought the existence of the party to peoples consciousness, something MSN and (ahem) this site have conspicuously not..
Fair point?
Information is all..
“What would Scotland look like after Independence” would obviously be a matter for the Scots alone.
What Scotland looks like today is a consequence of decisions made by our Westminster rulers.
@Alf Baird
True it will be a matter for Scots but don’t you think a wee skiffy on what it would look like is in order. Or at least some policies. Fanon, Memmi or whoever are telling us its going to get better. Declare the betterment. It’s not manifest in policies. I mean the Scottish Government don’t even know the difference between a man and woman. I don’t trust them. And having been shafted for 20 years neither do the Scottish Public.The big interest in this election is the volatility of the polls. Makes for betting difficult.
“What Scotland looks like today is a consequence of decisions made by our Westminster rulers”
Dribbling havers.
You’d have us believe 20 years of Hollyrood legislation has had SFA effect.
Jeezo, Alf, do you ever just listen to yourself?
“Hollyrood legislation” is subordinate to our Westminster rulers, Hatey. If London dinna like it it disnae become UK legislation, as they have proved once or twice.
Refusing to permit a mandated referendum is another feature of ‘colonial force’, of course.
Holyrood and the UK-‘ScotGov’ (or ‘Executive’) is Lord Lugard’s ‘indirect rule’ in full view, so long trotted out in many of England’s colonies, it even makes some of the natives think they are in charge! LoL.
Yes George, “I don’t trust them” either, and why would any nationalist trust colonial administrators like Swinney and his gang?
That’s why I have voted for ALLIANCE TO LIBERATE SCOTLAND Party and suggest all other Scottish nationalists do likewise.
“What would Scotland look like after Independence?”
A less interesting question (and to be honest why would the Scots care?) might be “What would England look like after Scottish Independence?”
I’m calling the answer as “shit and broke”.
England will be kicked out of the G7 and kicked out of the G20… and with no chance of ever being allowed back into the Euro Union.
America will move its nuclear weapons platform from Faslane to the Thames estuary and charge England the cost.
However, if England plays its cards right, weeps on it knees, begs for the world’s forgiveness, and apologises for all the trouble it caused folk during its misguided British Empire period India and some African countries might send it some aid.
England’s cousin, America, might even give it a family discount on the cost of hosting America’s weapons systems on some prime English real estate… so there is some fixed asset cost-cutting hope there that might save the English a few bucks, I suppose.
Not much chance of England getting any financial aid from the Scots, tho. Not until it has paid back the value of everything it stole from them this past three centuries.
That is exactly what Alex Salmond was going to stand on was it not? A single issue – Independence. As a collective. One priority.
They’ll vote for the policies they like with no whip or threat from anyone else involved.
They’re looking for seats in Holyrood. They’re not running a referendum.
& What supreme court ruling are you referring to? That only applies to Holyrood. Not what happens outside of it.
@Geri
What Supreme Court Ruling are you referring to? The biggest single legal ruling of all time is what I am referring to. And unless you admit your defeat the struggle will continue.
And the Scottish Government has failed to implement the outcomes of that decision. Many millions later Sandie Peggie has left for Australian Ah well the Scottish taxpayer resources are unlimited.
George
I think it was big Theo who hopped it to Australia once the game here was clearly up.
Just saying..
I think Eve Comrie has made her feelings about GRR perfectly clear. I believe it even cost her friendship with Yvonne & to leave Alba too.
I don’t think they’ll be leading the charge at Holyrood but I’d put my money on Eve to be having none of that nonsense when it arises in Holyrood votes & to vote accordingly – if she won her seat that is.
She’s also a lawyer so she’ll be well aware of the SC ruling.
What’s not to vote for? Would you rather a free loading Yoon or an SNP/Green grifter? Cause you can bet they’ll not put up much resistance to this gender nonsense. They seem to love anything that helps destroy Holyrood.
I care not who and how the people vote, as long as I get to count the postal votes.
So, my postal vote came in – 2 papers, purple and beige; this is a bit of a cunt already as when I am making the photocopies it will run out of printer ink long before the paper tray is empty. Fucking printer ink costs more than champagne, by volume.
The constituency is just yoon-scum and sellout-scum (SNP), so “no one to vote for” and I might spoil it in that way – NOTA – and creatively spoil the rest of it by renaming the parties : SNP = Stonewall Nonce Party, Reform = DESTROY
On the list there is a great variety, and as well as the usual scum, the dingbats and a handful of people actually for indy; trouble is there is more than one of these, so maybe look into that.
“Alliance to liberate Scotland”. They are broadly in line with much of my views and have some people we have heard of; the ambassador the other day said this :
“You cannot believe both that Scotland is a nation with the right of self-determination and that London should have a veto. London CANNOT AFFORD to lose Scotland’s vast resources and will never agree. Independence WILL NOT BE GIVEN to us, we must take it. When Independence comes, it will be IN CONTRAVENTION OF UK DOMESTIC LAW. Scottish Independence is therefore a revolutionary cause or it is nothing.”
– a concise statement of reality. Then they had big Tommy on the telly.
How do we know who the good guys are? Well, we usually know in retrospect (shot, hanged, nailed to a plank of wood, hounded all their lives). Tommy is a good guy, not everyone’s cup of tea, but honest and charismatic; he could have had a great career in the Labour party if he had just “toned it down a bit” (socialism and all that); he also help to inflict, outside of parliamentary politics, the first defeat of their beloved Thatcher; for that he will never be forgiven. I don’t reckon he touches kids, has no connection to epstein island, or foreign bank accounts – he was even having trouble trying to get a gig with the council as a social worker; nor is he intending to cut his dick off and get a pair of tits. This puts him miles ahead of almost everyone.
As for the ambassador, the middle class liberal to tommys working class socialism, we know he has integrity as he could have had a nice career in the civil service; he would be on well over 100K a year by now, and then there’s the 28.9% pension, defined benefit. Like Pete Wishart enjoys. They also sent him to jail for – bollocks – and the spooks have certainly tried to fit him up over other things, but he knows their ways.
Then we have Phil, Barrhead Boy, Eva, and their weekly podcast is decent. I will give them the list X. And print off some extra copies, until the ink runs out.
“vote early, vote often”
An excellent plan of action, Confused.
The contracts for design, build, running and maintenance of Scotland’s gas chambers will be yours, if there is any justice under heaven.
Incidentally, I’m dying to know: Have you been hounded all your life? Spill the beans.
it’s something I’ve noticed with you; first of all, you aren’t that smart or well-read for a start, not many people are, but you seem to have a basic problem with reading comprehension; you seem to be able to miss the point in several directions at once. Of course if you are paid by the post, by the word, no matter how shitty it is, that explains a lot.
Did you do the higher exams? English Section A Interpretation : read a passage and answer question on it?
You seem to have a desperate need to insert yourself and a shallow overconfidence about your own intellect, everything is a cliff-notes/wikipedia/daily mail take; do you have any thoughts of your own, personal experiences that elucidate your point?
I said to you a while back if you want to just be honest and give your own “argument for the union”, why not give it?
– you’ve got nothing.
HMcH
Just watching ITNs “special” this evening on shop lifting plus the social media inflamed gang shop lifting spree going on dan saf..
Now I know you are an unrepentant Enoch Powell type so is this your “rivers of blood” epoch ending event?
Yeah yeah yer attention is elsewhere as Is Rye Ale eradicates “brown people” with a mechanised efficiency the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the forties, and which in similar vein you go to inordinate lengths to blame themselves and anyone but the perpetrators (that would be yer sponsors BTW) for. Vor sprung durch technic eh?!
Oi vey..
So what about rivers of blood and anti immigrant pearl clutching then?
Is it all black and brown people doing this and (ahem) Tory style pedo ring grooming or not?
Or heaven forbid are your EDL/ BNP types getting in on the act too? You know, trashing the local corner “Paki” shop for good measure?
Simple question.
Factual answer (not unherd propoganda please!) so we can all assess the realities of the situation and not just the rent a mob blood in the water chumming you’re so very very keen on..
Over to you “old boy”..
I vaguely remember the airborne project I think it was fairly successful,so have it on a trial period to see if it works it can’t be worse than early release or diversion of prosecution.
Regarding issues such as rising power and general cost of living bills I believe that they would be the main issues being discussed by all parties and mentioned other things that are possible.
FFS giesabrek! Are placards promoting violence towards those who disagree not a crime? If the SNP promote such policies and tactics to silence debate by intimidation, it demonstrates that they have no plan to pursue democracy, let alone independence, preferring to focus on division rather than co-operation to achieve the BIG goal. They are self serving troughers.
When DJT was elected POTUS, a lot of people asked in a bewildered and somewhat sneering manner, “USA has a population of 330 M, is that the best they can do?” Scotland has a population 5.5 M. Is the current crop of Holyrood wannabees of all political persuasions the best that Scotland can produce?
“If the SNP promote such policies and tactics to silence debate by intimidation, it demonstrates that they have no plan to pursue democracy, let alone independence, preferring to focus on division rather than co-operation to achieve the BIG goal. They are self serving troughers.”
Excellent synopsis.
Going further, in a colonial society the administration ‘behaves like a gang’ (Fanon) and takes the movement up blind alleys; and lest we forget ‘the root of colonialism is fascism’ (Cesaire).
Here we also have woke ideology which always ‘looks for its punishment’, as we see with malicious laws used to hound those who disagree with the elite’s ideology; which means woke is another form of fascism.
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Marie says:
16 April, 2026 at 5:34 pm
“My Reform candidate couldn’t even give the correct name for my constituency.”
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Isn’t that true also of most constituents?
Probably – but I’m referring to the candidate – not the average constituent.
What seems to get missed in the election hysteria that on woman’s issues the Scottish government is not following the guidelines set out by the Supreme court ruling.
This isn’t only happening with the SNP, it is happening south of the border with the UK Labour government.
If governments are not following the law on this issue, what other things are they not following the law on?
We are getting hung up about far right this, far right that but what we are failing to see is that governments at all levels are dysfunctional who are not only not abiding by the wishes of the people by foisting unwanted policies onto us but also not abiding by the law.
I had talked about the notion of a ‘cosy centre’ in a previous post. Isn’t it time to punish this cosy centre and getting people elected to Holyrood from parties outside of the mainstream, both on the left and right?
Postal vote done:
ALLIANCE TO LIBERATE SCOTLAND
WELL DONE ALF BAIRD!
Postal vote done:
ALLIANCE TO LIBERATE SCOTLAND!!
DITTO, DITTO!!
“ If governments are not following the law on this issue, what other things are they not following the law on?”
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Vetting of potential ambassadors to USA?
PAPAM TESTICULOS HABET!
Pope Leo dares to utter what so many dare not even think.
Fear of America & its operatives grips the planet, but by what exactly?
Patently an undescended matter for the west’s political classes.
«USA, corporatist rogue state headed by a sociopath»….. voilà!
btw. has the UN gone on sabbatical leave?
The UN lives in fear.
The US & it’s minion have permeated every department.
Death threats to judges, illegal sanctions, illegal individual sanctions, mowing down UN workers delivering aid, mowing down journalists, mowing down other countries leaders, illegal wars, jenny, Colonialism, head choppers who are busy cleansing the population, another they’re desperately trying to start a civil war in & then there’s just kidnapping ppl..
..but it’s everyone else who is the terrorist. Not them LOL!
I think it’s two things that’s given them the fear…
Sanctions: Thrown out of the international payments system if anyone dares open their mouth & the sanctions against individuals are equally as brutal. There’s also just seizing other countries reserves & assets.
Central banks: They’re no longer wanting to stick to their own lane. They want in on the action too. People’s data so they can crank up the individual sanctions on an industrial scale. Digital policing is in our future. They’ve already had success with this with Canadian protesters. Closing ppls private bank accounts.
They need to lose the world currency & China is helping that along by offering an alternative payment system that’s already exceeding demand. So the orange one came out throwing sanction threats around again to anyone caught using it.
Irn made mincemeat of those data centers in the GCC. It’s 24 hour surveillance.
Don’t forget Piracy on the high seas by America and Isrral, not long now before the UK joins the fuckaneers…
Gosh that sounds terrible Geri – no point in Scotland trying to spend any time appealing to that organisation then!
Correct James.
I also forgot extortion. They’re fleecing the GCC for $billions in hard cash for protection money & fake peace negotiations they’ve no intention of sticking to & the funds are all going direct to the Trumpton family fund cause they’re all at it. It’s a mafia family outfit. They’re all out for what they can grab. They’re also insider trading on the stock market too playing TACO.
No luck AI Dan – it’s untenable in its current form & has been for years. It’ll either reform or it will be replaced with an entirely new one. The orange one already tried his own “board of peace” that went down like a lead balloon. The American Empire is over. Irn put it out of everyone’s misery by cutting off its bank accounts (The GCC) & it’s only a matter of time before China cuts off its rare earths that the USA needs for weapons.
That’s another mafia outfit, the military industrial complex, fleecing millions & they all have stakes & shares in it & are making millions.
TURABDIN says:
17 April, 2026 at 9:33 am
“PAPAM TESTICULOS HABET!”
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Congratulations on aesthetic Latin word order.
I think you mean, though, PAPA TESTICULOS HABET.
You have the accusative case instead of the nominative.
For your interest the earthier equivalent in Gàidhlig is:
THA CLACHAN AIG A’ PHÀPA- which is no more idiomatic than the Latin!
George Ferguson @ 7:43 pm; you are wrong, the number of people with IQ’s over 80 who don’t understand the D’hondt system, is shockingly small.
COVID seemingly has reduced IQ by 10 points ! Some folk cannot afford to lose 10 points !
@ Bilbo at 07.29: “Isn’t it time [for]…getting people elected to Holyrood from parties outside of the mainstream…”
Yes, of course. As has been discussed btl, this happened in Ireland in 1918 when the previously dominant devolutionist Irish Parliamentary Party won only 6 seats and Sinn Fein won 70%, 73 of 105 seats.
Our problem is that Sinn Fein had existed for years and people knew all about it. Alliance to Liberate Scotland Party was held up by the Electoral Commission and was only registered a few weeks ago.
Strangely, The Electoral Commission has allowed the registration of a party called Independent Green Voice Party. It’s line is “Organic, Local Democratic”. You will be even more amazed to hear that the founder, leader, treasurer and nominating officer is Alister MacConnachie, ex-UKIP and wearer of the manky Union Jack jaikit at the Yes marches. So not really organic nor local nor democratic.
‘IT’S A RED CARD’: PREMIER LEAGUE BLASTED FOR PROMOTING LGBT PRIDE
The Premier League is facing heavy criticism for promoting transgender ideology through its ‘Premier League with Pride’ campaign.
Linzi Smith, who successfully challenged the Football Association’s association with Stonewall’s Rainbow Laces campaign last year, intends to bring a legal case against the Football Association (FA) for continuing to promote the “highly political LGBTQ+ agenda”.
‘Premier League with Pride’, a new annual event for ‘LGBTQ+ history month’, decorates stadiums with rainbow flags and provides inclusion training for all players, including children’s teams. The campaign also covers the Primary Stars school programme, which includes pushing children as young as five to “demonstrate active allyship to the LGBTQ+ community by creating rainbow flags”.
‘HYPOCRISY’
Smith, who is a Newcastle United fan, said: “Given that The FA backed off on rainbow laces, I was shocked to find they’d approved this new ‘Premier League with Pride’ initiative. With its Pride symbols and politically charged language, it’s essentially a rebranding of the rainbow laces campaign.”
“The rules governing The FA specifically state that for any players and staff under its jurisdiction, religious and political messaging is off-limits. The frustration is they don’t seem to think these rules apply to them: they continue to promote the highly political LGBTQ+ agenda.
“When I see players, on the one hand, threatened with sanctions for expressing their religious beliefs, and on the other, being pressured – for the sake of a political agenda – into wearing Pride clothing that conflicts with their faith, all I can see is hypocrisy and double standards. And I refuse to ignore it. In my view, it’s a red card.”
IMPARTIALITY
Conrathe Gardner, Smith’s legal representatives, explained that Pride is political because it has social policy objectives such as allowing people to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate solely by “professing another gender identity”.
The firm stated: “The FA is required to ensure political as well as religious neutrality in the game; this is essential to ensure that everyone can enjoy football without being subjected to political messaging they disagree with.
“Our client is of the view that, just as it would be wrong for the LED messages beamed around the stadium to promote messages such as, ‘Vote Labour’ or ‘Vote Reform’, so it is also wrong for Premier League stadiums to be filled with symbolism for the controversial political movement which believes biological sex is wrong.”
VICTORY
Last year, Newcastle United acknowledged that Smith’s gender-critical views are legally protected.
The football club had revoked her membership and banned her from matches until 2026 for publicly defending the reality of biological sex.
She also won a case against Northumbria Police after the force investigated her social media posts for “malicious communications”, one of which stated simply “trans women are men”. The High Court ruled that the force’s participation in Pride marches breached its duty of impartiality.
(The Christian Institute, 17 April 2026)
link to christian.org.uk
The problem is two-fold, Fearghas: 1) Stonewall very successfully managed to persuade many people that ‘trans’ was the new ‘gay’ and that victimhood was real (it decidedly isn’t); 2) most government departments run scared of the terrifying ‘trans’ activists who are normally concerned with terrifying unarmed and speechifying women. Proper use of the police in the latter case would solve this overnight, so we must deduce that this is what government wants, and the police are being curtailed.
In the first case, it is necessary to demand to know what ‘trans’ is, how anyone reaches that nirvana and how they know. British and Scottish case law in recent years has been built on something that has no definition in fact, let alone in law. Int has been taken as read that ‘trans’ is a thing and that these poor people are discriminated against in all circumstances. That this is not done must be so because government wishes it so.
The reality is very different and only one part of ‘trans’ is dangerous immediately, and that is the male to female category. The women and children (almost entirely driven by social contagion) are the human shields for the male to female category, which is almost entirely sexually-driven and fed by porn. It is the refusal to admit this truth that has led to the legal mess we are in now. Again, government must be colluding in this state of affairs.
“The FA is required to ensure political as well as religious neutrality in the game; this is essential to ensure that everyone can enjoy football without being subjected to political messaging they disagree with.”
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Does the SFA have a similar rule?
If so, why were huge VOTE SNP billboards displayed at Brockville during last weekend’s Falkirk v. Rangers match? I am confident a number of YOONs were present- especially among the visitors.
O/T
Can anyone see how Starmer can survive the next few days in post? His claiming he had no clue about the Prince of Darkness’s vetting failure is utterly jaw dropping. He’s either an utter fool and unfit to be in post, or he’s a liar and even more unfit to be in post?
I realise that Labour MPs aren’t renown for their brain cells or spines, but even they must be calling foul here. This ain’t gonna play out very well on doorsteps in the coming weeks, prior to election time.
Let’s hope he’s toast and we can at least be free of this appalling PM. (A GE is too much to hope for, sadly. It’ll just be some other lefty drongo lame duck, but you never know, if combined with a hell of a beating in May).
He won’t resign. He’s clinging to power like a limpet. Billy Liar. The best part is yet to come when he gets replaced.
This war has left them all with their knickers round their ankles. The terrible effects of mass uncontrolled immigration, The pandering to Islamic lunatics and the denial of the supreme court ruling. The Left in Britain,like the regime, are out of time.
The world changed and they all stayed the same.
The next couple of years are going to be the worst Scotland has seen in living memory. Lots of screaming.
Captain Caveman @ 13.55.
You don’t believe he may adopt a strategy from the T Bliar playbook and threaten to table a vote of confidence in the government, thus tying his personal survival to that of every other Labour MP, CC ?
No way in the world will these turkeys be voting for Christmas.
But Christmas has voted for them.
@Sven
Yes, that is a nuclear option – and one I could well imagine someone like him using. As we both appreciate also, when push comes to shove, those Labour MPs well know they’d be wiped out at a GE (their most hated, inept government having made such a fist of everything from start to finish, just like every other Labour government before them). They’ll make a lot of noise but ultimately carry on with the gravy slurping.
Could be worse though – we could have the nutters like the Greens in charge.
Why are you surprised? This guy in an agent.
The British Establishment & it’s “friends” parachuted this guy into the Labour party to destroy it from within.
To play Judas & knife Corbyn in the back. To kill the Corbyn bounce stone dead.
Then he was given the task to remove all Corbynites from the party, Westminster MPs & Councillors with fake allegations of “antisemitism” that’s a personal favourite of the “friends”
Then he’d to set about eradicating most of the Labour membership who were onto him.
Then reverse on every single thing he won the leadership on.
Now it seems his “friends” have no further use for him because he seems to have baulked at the idea of going all in on the war crims. Imagine, a former CPS & human rights barrister embracing Jenny side with gusto & Iran was next for some refurbishment. Suddenly has a conscience & paused. Time he was cut loose then..
His “friends” chose Mandy. They chose all of the orange ones cabinet too. Now the shit has hit the fan with the release of the Eppy files, his “friends” have thrown him to the attack dogs..
No flies on them…
The Labour party needs to jettison those lobby groups but it’s too late, they’re all as corrupt as fck.
Or make a new labour party….oh, wait. That seems to have been trashed before it even began.
There a pattern eh? It’s almost as if these Muppets aren’t really in charge of the country. They’re just the Muppet to give the plebs the impression they have democracy.
Anyone who has watched the Labour Files knows this guy was an agent parachuted in to kill the Labour party from within & he succeeded.
As for Mandy, Starmer doesn’t get to choose him. The Unelected Eppy class does. They choose everything & everyone.
Looks like his purpose has came to an end & they want to cut him loose now. Throw him to the attack dogs. (Media)
It’s a tale as old as time.
The whole vetting story is made up nonsense – look, a squirrel!
@ George Ferguson and others re the Alliance to Liberate Scotland PP Broadcast.
It has converted at least one person from SNP 1&2 to Alliance 1&2. An ex MSP and v experienced, longtime activist, was rung by the person in question, a friend, to tell him this good news.
Keep spreading the word and we can hope, in the Highlands at least, that we can reach enough people with the message and achieve a list seat.
@Sarah
Your positive optimism is commendable to the Independence movement and now I know why. In your later post you say you are in the Caithness constituency. God’s chosen county according to my wife. The main hope I have for that area after the election is promises made during the election, that they will re-establish the maternity unit in Wick. You shouldn’t have to go to Raigmore to have a baby in the middle of Winter down the cassemire.
I almost agree with Mrs Henderson – I’m in the Wester Ross section of the constituency – perhaps God will extend his benevolent view to us as well!
I definitely agree with you about the maternity unit, and other services. We need cottage hospitals/convalescent homes/carehomes around the region, not just Inverness. Mind you it was ever thus. My husband’s grandfather was prepared to give up some land with no charge for a road to be built but Inverness Council still wouldn’t build a road to the 5 townships in question. It only happened when we escaped falling under Inverness Council.
link to yougov.com
Watching the Labour scandal unfold minute by minute.
The 10cc hit song comes to mind.
I’m Mandy Fly Me!
At least I can vote for the Alliance in my neck of the woods and even better , Tommy Sheridan is the man!!
I’m lucky as well – in Highlands & Islands, Caithness constituency, there’s Alliance on both ballots. Not Eva, Tommy or Craig but at least decent, sensible folk.
My Father in law was a Caithness Councillor he won it on a toss of the coin. A draw and nothing separated them. He won and did a lot of good work for the community. Constantly worried about Inverness Control. He would be burling on his grave to see how things have come to pass.
It has got worse since Westminster imposed the reduction in Councils – no more District Councils, only Highland Council with a Chief Executive on a vast salary overseeing a poorer and poorer service. We haven’t even got the local Service Point in Ullapool anymore.
George
I reckon the whole counting crosses process should be topped off by the candidates doing an arm wrestle. 🙂
That should weed out the limp wrists quite efficiently.
The days of respecting a toss of a coin and a gentleman’s agreement George has long disappeared with DEI and the feminisation of society roll outs..