Here And There
Posted on
June 02, 2025 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is what Labour say in Scotland:
And this is what they say elsewhere, when they think nobody in Scotland is looking:
One day someone’s going to tell them about the internet, and our life’s going to get a lot more difficult. Until that day, though, let’s just enjoy the laughs.
And what chance replacing Barnett will see Scotland’s finances increase after 15 years of established Westminster cuts.
I would have thought a long established Party like SNP would be jumping all over this getting on TV, Newspapers and Billboards but a man in far off Bath has given them the ball but they won’t even catch it let alone drop it.
“cut funding for Scotland’s NHS and public services”
They will have to cut funding to pay for all the compo claims coming down the pipe. The botched jam jar recycling. The discrimination cases brought by believers in biology. The case brought by the late Alex Salmond (how is that one coming along?). Etc.
They could claw it all back by turfing the current occupants of HR onto the streets and housing asylum seekers in the place. I know asylum seekers get a bad press, but their criminality and profligacy with taxpayer’s extorted cash is amateur time compared with the politicos and the civil service.
Maybes we should have a referendum. Ask the people of Scotland what we would rather spend our money on – the pointless wee, pretendy parliament? Or our public services.
Haha! We won’t get that referendum because we all know how Scots would vote.
“One day someone’s going to tell them about the internet…”
It won’t make any difference. Just as life found a way in Jurassic Park…stupidity will find a way in Scotland’s political class.
I think WoS will be enjoying the laughs for a long long time to come yet.
On a different note.
I’m not a fan of Farage… but I believe in the old phrase ‘manners maketh man’.
I don’t believe it’s proper for Scotland’s public figures who have a public voice and are public representatives of Scotland to use such undiplomatic, crude and frankly childish language like ‘poisonous, pathetic and toxic little man’ or ‘chief clown’ to describe the elected leader of a foreign political party regardless of their personal opinion of that leader or the party they represent.
It can be difficult to keep one’s true opinion of another strictly private…especially when dealing with folk whose beliefs and actions one might find unappealing or even repulsive; but representatives of entire peoples should be held to a much higher standard than the rest of us.
International diplomacy is vitally important to good relations between nations…just take a quick look around the world to see what happens when it fails.
No surprise really. This was discussed during indy that this is exactly what they’d do. Bitter together, pulling & sharing eh? Aye, just misery. Nawbags won’t be happy until we’re all in the same shite standard of living. Indy boys had it right – bring it on. They’ve feck all left to flog so they’re on the prowl & “Scottish” Labour can shut up cause they voted & promoted Bitter Together despite knowing Scotland was being condemned in the event of a No vote.
Farage would be better to scrap the Union & make England independent but there’s nae chance of that ever happening. England would be piss poor cause it produces nothing but any endless procession of fuckwits to abuse & thieve Scotland & that won’t ever change.
“there’s nae chance of that ever happening”
Aye, Geri. If he ever gets to be PM he’ll be taken aside and telt tae shut up aboot England ditchin’ Scotland and those with the real power will explain to him why England desperately needs Scotland and that the empire went bust quite a wee while ago and that England’s cupboard would be bare without Scotland’s vast larder tae keep it stocked up.
Wales does badly out of Barnett. Scotland does well. That is an article about the Welsh FM. No hypocrisy from Anas.
It might be about the Welsh FM, but it explicitly says Barnett applies to all three devolved nations. Read properly.
Count yourselves lucky; here in Wales our representatives have determined that their number needs to be increased by 50 % (that’s right -half as many as before, disregarding their numberless ‘staffers’). This is due to the immense pressure of work, and the fact that many of the members of the Cynulliad have partners and friends without gainful public employment- and that clearly cannot be right.
As an instance, our Member for international relations is rushed off her feet-or will be as soon as we HAVE any international relations.
Devolution is a vast racket, and should be abolished.
they probably want to give us more money, like 100% of all the taxes raised in Scotland, and the oilfields properly accrued to our account, and not “ex regio”.
I am sure.
If Reform become the main opposition to SNP at Holyrood,
the BBC in Scotland will promote them as they did with Ruth Davidson and are doing with Sarwar.
Kaye,Cook,Robertson and Campbell will be all over Farage,
telling us how shite Scotland is without the charity of the English.
Thd Barnett formula.
A friend says he can give you back £10 you loaned him.
He says he has to borrow another £5.
So you will get £5 but then adds he owes interest on other loans and your share is £1.
So you get £4.
The Barnett formula who wants it.
Farage, like Trump, is an opportunist and a disrupter. He might actually be good for our Independence cause in the long run. Something has to give in the age old impasse and either cheek of the same old arse is not going to give us what we want. Let him tear it all down and then see what emerges…If not the Barnett formula, what then? Justify it all by some fresh approach and modern day accounting and let’s see who pees up the wall the highest.