Wings Over Scotland

True, but: “And forrit, tho’ Ah canna see, Ah guess and fear”.

Maybe the shite we have to put up with from Better Together etc will be the least of our fears for 2017.

Good luck to all Wingers – we might need it.

Note to Kevin McKenna:

Try getting up earlier in the morning when you’re trying to pull the wool over folks eyes, you’re as transparent as a hospital windae son

Which under the SNP is see through and quite a lot of us remember the way Labour used to run our health service thanks very much and no matter how much you’d like to project, the SNHS has never in it’s history been in better shape considering the Tory cuts not the SNPs

Even in the death throws of Labour buffoons like McKenna still long for the days that never were and want them back

Jeez! whit dae these folk use for memory cells

Such a parcel of rogues in one picture. Best to all of you come The Bells.

Auld Rock

I wonder who the sinister art security guard represents?

Have a creatively productive 2017, Chris. More wit from your box of pens, please.

Your weekend reading:

A death in the family: link to wp.me

At least the only way is up from here – isn’t it?!!? Please tell me that’s so!!

Anyway, mumsyhugs and orrabest for the Ne’erday and beyond to Stu, Chris and all the posters and lurkers out there – and soft ‘no-ers’ who visit the site and who will hopefully realise that we’re not vile cybernats and are welcome in the broad church of folks who just want us to have control over our own destiny. 🙂

Looks like the Grim Reaper is embarrassed to be included in that ‘mug shot of the suspects of 16’

Thanks to Stu and Chris for keeping us sane in the midst of madness – thank you for all your great work and to all the contributors on here thank you for your knowledge, patience and good wishes – I hope you all have a great new year and to our many friends still finding their way to us, come aboard you will be welcomed with open arms.

It’s not a gallery as such Grouse. That’s one way glass.
You must have led a sheltered, good life 🙂

You used to get paid to make up the numbers on the other side. I did it once.
Not one of us looked anything like the alleged perp.

Re ‘guard’. Either the ghost of Nixon, or a very young Kissinger.
Death’s looking well.

Happy New Year Chris, is that the four ba’ you always get stuck behind.. 🙂

Grim indeed, let’s hope 2017 will be an improvement.

Thanks to Stu, Chris and other contributors for all the useful info against project fear.

All the best for Hogmanay and 2017 to fellow wingers.

Another classic, well done Chris. Happy new year abidy, bring on 2017 I’m rarin to go, one convert at a time.

link to bbc.co.uk

Happy New Year from Auckland New Zealand!!! Vile separatist NZ, and yes, there’s still lots of cringers here too, and lots of immigrant English explaining how shite Scotland’s going to be, unless we’re run by you know who… Scotland’s nothing like NZ apparently:D

@Dr Jim 9.44am

I quite agree. Kevin McKenna should try looking at Labour “achievements” without the rose coloured specs!

Happy New year to all Wingers, when it comes, and a huge thank you to Stu for the best Indy blog ever!

Looking forward to more from you Stu in 2017.

@Grouse Beater – My original title was Usual Suspects (the Rev’s in charge of that dept.) which would have perhaps made doubly clear it’s a police lineup, not a gallery. But then, if the drawing’s good enough it should be clear 🙁

Anyhoo, my thanks to all on here for your support through the year. So you know, my wife goes through the comments each week and picks out the most gushing ones just to give me a riddy.

All the best for 2017.

Chris: “It’s a police lineup, not a gallery”

Ah, that duly negates what I mistook for a crappy frame. 🙂

My erroneous perception is what is called, a precognitive shift of force to the cue. Honestly.

Kezia’s New Year message: “Being part of the UK is even more important to Scotland than staying in the EU”.

Is it not a constant that Labour are the party determined to undermine Scotland at every opportunity ?

The Scottish branch office are feckin clueless , bereft of political talent and intelligence , willingly controlled by their masters at HQ whose only allegiance is to THE country that will gain them power at WM ……….they really really really are the political party that Scottish people should be oh so embarrassed to admit that they support .

Keiza’s allegiance to the UKOK is NOT commendable but pathetic and treacherous to the parliament she sits in. She forgets who she is suppose to serve, not elected to serve by the way, as a superior candidate trounced her , however she is part of a SCOTTISH parliament and thus is expected to promote and defend Scotland and it’s people. And there’s the rub……

Labour are the party that just keeps giving……empty words……empty promises……running on empty.

I hope in 2017 and beyond that Scots who are still in a political wilderness will finally wake up to the reality of Labour and all of the other Unionist parties.

It is all very well and right to have an opposition to a government but currently what we have at Holyrood are Unionist opposition parties who are openly opposed to Scotland and the rights of it’s people and that is definitely not worth voting for.

Happy New Year to you and yours.

Happy new year everyone, and all the best for 2017.

A Guid New Year tae ane and awe!

And here’s tae the back o’ Shiehallion!

2017 shall be a good one! Let’s make it so.

Thanks to Stu, Chris and all the Wingers for all your efforts.

Depressing isn’t it. R Scotland still talking about all the celebrities who died in 2016. Grim.
Fortunately, nothing of any importance has been drawn to their attention so far.
Thanks for the year of cartoons Chris. Always a little light on the darkness!

New Year is coming and I resolve to enjoy it, in spite of everything!

Great cartoon Chris. Good riddance to 2016.
….
heedtracker says:
31 December, 2016 at 11:50 am

“lots of immigrant English explaining how shite Scotland’s going to be, unless we’re run by you know who… Scotland’s nothing like NZ apparently:D”.

If Westminster rule is so wonderful, why are they living over there?

Socrates MacSporran says:

“Re the guy in the corner of the cartoon – maybe it’s just me, but, he looks a wee bit like Kevin McKenna.”

He does, just a wee bit though. I think he represents all those who are always in the background, meddling and controlling, like the CIA or MI5 on behalf of those we never see or hear about.

I don’t really care who he is, I’m just an Independence supporter but know that when the truth is revealed, the shit will hit the fan.

Wings and all who visit seek only the truth. Drives “them” mad so it does LOL. The suspicious looking guy is just keeping a watching brief over events.

Great caricatures of al-Assad and Farage.

Happy Hogmanay when it happens.

I heard a story Lidles have coal in their stores for first footing. Looks like I’ll be doing my shopping in Lidles now. It’s the wee things. Maybe they’re a sign of bigger things.

I’m indifferent to the new year. Same rut as last year, and the rancid local corruption goes from strength to strength. Just another year older, and no escape ticket yet.

I hope instead for progress on the Indy front. I hope when the Supreme Court comments on, or even just ignores Scottish sovereignty, it becomes the catalyst for heated debate. A “known” known in Dick Cheney speak. I hope the SNP lieutenants are making sure the ground troops are properly up to speed on the issue before they set foot in any BBC studio. Derek Mackay was a powerhouse against Andrew Neil. We need to see that level of performance every time.

It’s like the glass ceiling for women in business, or ethnic or folks from different races meeting institutional prejudice. You have to be that much better than “the norm” just to make progress at all. That’s what the SNP needs to be with the Unionist media, sharp as a razor and right on top of their brief. Nothing short of that will do. I want to see Unionist after Unionist nailed to the spot to answer how they square away the constitutional quandary of Scotland’s inalienable sovereignty. We need our population, Independentists and Unionists alike, to be fully aware of Scotland’s sovereign status.

It’s going to matter.

It’s going to matter twice. Sovereignty is bedrock of our claim for Independence. It is our kryponite for the Union. Scotland’s sovereignty recognised by the Pope via the Declaration of Arbroath was unique in all Christendom. It remains unique, and pristine, and waiting for us. But it is also our safety brake against Brexit. When Theresa May presses the Article 50 release, we need to brace ourselves for the Tsunami of horseshite telling us what a great opportunity it is. And I’m not talking about any compensatory access to the single market. That’s the booby prize we get as we get the boot up our arse kicking us out of Europe to stand outside with the UK yobos, bawling and brawling in the street outside. I’m already holding my nose to vote SNP because Independence is the more important grievance I hold, but if the SNP sells out my European citizenship for token access to the single market, then take a warning, I won’t we feckin’ happy.

There isn’t anything else frankly. Commerce locally is non existent. My High Street looks like New Years Day every day of the year. I was going to say it resembles Aleppo, but that’s a tasteless remark, a raw and joyless slight at the expense of the Syrians. When I was a kid, you could not walk the pavement without stepping into the gutter for the crowd. Changed days. A tweak in local council isn’t going to change that. Hellfire, it’s the rancid Council which has largely brought it about.

That’s what I want in 2017. If Independence is beyond us, how about deliverance from evil?

Happy new year to the people who keep me sane, Stuart, all contributors & my fellow wingers. Love you all xx

@Breeks 2.13pm

Agree with you. I don’t think we’ll get independence without the SNP but on its recent and current performance I don’t think we’ll be getting there anytime soon. It looks like there’s been a failure to learn the lessons of Indyref1 thus the need to buy time.

@Ron Maclean
I think the SNP are doing similar to what they did for the General Election, that’s working for the majority. So for the GE it was more powers up to Devo-Max, as supported by around 66% in Scotland, and now it’s EU / single market as supported by 62% in the ref (65% according to a recent poll). They’re going the slower steady route, and no real option but to do that.

I think a lot of us, me included, are getting impatient with that, but it is the right thing to do. Rather than going flat out for Indy to cater for the 45% (up to 48% perhaps in polls), they are, whatever the Unionists like to say, respecting the democratic votes of the People of Scotland who voted 55% NO to Independence, but only 38% to leave the EU with the rest of the UK (see the way I put that).

And what they are doing is basically forcing Theresa May to say to us all “get lost”. Well, I can live with that 🙂

On top of that though I think there’s more significance to the coming UKSC appeal decision, perhaps even more major than the result of both referendums, and until that’s known, it really is wait and see.

May I wish all Wingers and the whole of the “YES” movement of all creeds colours and orientation, a happy, prosperous and Peacefull New Year which brings us closer to our ultimate goal of Independence.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.A dream we dream together is Reality

Peace Always

@galamcennalath
Here’s a good one from the Andromeda I’m rewatching:

“When they are dying tell them a riddle,
And when they laugh,
Let the Gods of Nature
Finish what we have started”.

Amen to that!

Ha Stoker, I couldn’t decide on Nixon or a be-speckled Tory, Murdo Fraser MSP (A lucky Dip Holyrood winner, on just 10,353 votes behind the winner).

Have a good and happy 2017.

‘The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.’ -Eleanor Roosevelt

I rather like that.

Happy New year and may 2017 bring us everything we wish for our country.

And many thanks to all the sanity savers I find here and on WGD.

Pretty much sums up what was a shit year. Probably not fair to Death putting him in the same room as the other three. Unless that is a prediction of what Theresa May will look like in a few short weeks.

The stovies are ready pretty much and the No Yoons sign is up on the door.

Bliadhna mhath ur and I hope that 2017 is a better year for you all unless you are a Yoon that is and if you are then may the reaper call on you and hell mend yee!

So here’s a thought for anyone who can be bothered thinking on this day. Put yourself in the shoes of a political historian in 2025 in Independent Scotland, looking back at 10 years of Scottish history, and what significance would 2016 have in the long-term achievement of Independence?

I’d call it the year of the Tactics of Illusion. What you see is not what you get.

Hope all you eagle-eyed Wingers soar higher this new year! As per ElDeighan @3.20pm. Are these 2 ‘leaders of the world’ really about to warmly embrace each other – in love? Your fine cartoon Chris, is as morally telling as that Lithuanian artist’s ‘holy Tsar’ Putin and ‘pussy’kat Trump – in a loving ‘snog of death’? Can anyone here post in a copy so we can all benefit from their Platonic(sic) relationship?

Happy New Year to Rev Stu and all Wingers.
Special thanks to Chris for his cartoons and to and all the posters and commentators for their bright conversations,interchanges and voices.
let Scotland make 2017 one of the years that defines her Independence

@yesindyref2

Alex is a gambler and he lost. He backed an outsider and it did well, but not well enough.

Nicola is not a gambler. She will wait as long as she possibly can for the full horror of the right-wing Brexit to sink in. That may take longer than either you or I think desirable. She is also sitting on a massive heap of data from the National Survey, and because of the detail in the questions, she will know fine well what needs to be done to get the win.

Remember that telling quote from Rob Shorthouse about running, not the campaign you’d like to run, but the campaign the data tells you to run? BT stuck rigidly to that while the rest of us ran around with stickers and balloons. It was fun, but we lost…

That’s not going to be the case next time.

As if 2016 hasn’t been bad enough there going to add an extra second to it at midnight. Bummer!

When 2017 eventually arrives, let’s hope it’s a great year. I’m an avid Wings reader and don’t post much but hopefully can still count myself as part of the Wings family.

So, to all you purveyors of freedom, have a Happy New Year and all the best for the future.

Happy Hogmanay to everyone!

I had a walk along Princes Street earlier today and it all looked brilliant. There were lots of people from all over the world here in Edinburgh to celebrate New Year. It was all very international with lots of markets selling different foods & gifts from all over Europe.
I do love being European.

Lots of bandstands and big screen all over the place. A side street jam packed with porta-loos! It all looked very organised. It was a wee bit windy & a bit of rain but it looks as if the weather will be good for the Hogmanay party!

kininvie
@yesindyref2

“Alex is a gambler and he lost. He backed an outsider and it did well, but not well enough.”

Eck was at the head of the Gradualists, which has been the strategy since 1990.
2012 surprised everyone,and it gave the mandate. Not a gamble, more an obligation. I suspect we (inc Alex) all knew it was too early.

defo

The 2014 IndyRef was just a dress rehearsal.

Everyone learned lots during that dress rehearsal and come the main performance it will most definitely be ‘alright on the night’

Ach weel Waterboys oan fu bung Sweet Thing.. first time I’ll never say happy new year to my dad kinda strange..

Happy New Year Stu and all the Wingers.. johnking hello..

Happy new year to all wingers.

Happy Happy Hogmanay Rev Stu, Chris, Hamish and all Wingers the world over = )

Wishing you and yours a wonderful, joyful and hopeful 2017 xxx

I believe this is the beginning of our new beginning.

Nicola is canny and clever beyond measure. She and her colleagues are building up the evidence and preparing the strongest case for Scottish Independence that this electorate has ever seen. Our dreams are in good hands = )

And to all the World, Peace and Love and Hope

The ” Supreme Court” judgement is next up , and I wouldn’t
be surprised to see the decision to favour the ” devolved” governments, as
after all the credibility of the supposed “UK Supreme Court”
is also being judged.However, if they decide that Edinburgh ,Cardiff & Belfast should
be “consulted”, I am quite sure that TM will ” consult and ignore” and continue
with her inflexible dictorial ( I’ll decide) style of ” leadership” .

Happy New Year when it comes folks. 2016 was a strange year, here is hoping that 2017 is a lot more peaceful, prosperous and a lot less homicidal….

…and that edge ever closer to independence 🙂

bugsbunny@7pm
Sorry Dugdale is not yet up to FUD status, more like YTS FUD, but not time served FUD.

cheers Alex it hurts sair… guid ane to you and yours..

I would very much like, as a wee kick-start to the new year, if some lurkers would say hello, especially those who were previously ‘No’ voters but have changed their mind.

It would be a richt guid tonic with which to welcome The Bells!

We know you’re there!

🙂

Yay! Lurkers.

Those of you who read our witterings and arguments and don’t post, please just say Happy New Year to us, as we, well speaking for myself, I, wish you and all posters and Rev and Chris and other writers, Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all Wingers from this lurker. I’m sure we’ll get there sooner than later.

Dr. Jim @ 9.44am. “what does McKenna use for memory cells ?” The same as he uses for brain cells….. Budgies……. Yes the deliberately slow talking British Labour supporting hack’s Heid is full of BUDGIES.

Here’s tae us, wha’s like us – no enough yet! Here’s to 2017 and a guid year ahead to one and all.

Salmond the gambler doesn’t resonate with me. I always thought he had a rare talent for strategy, like for example the way he floated the idea of DevoMAX on the ballot, only for the Unionists to froth at the mouth and demand a single binary option, which is precisely what he wanted. Turkeys not just voting for Christmas, but stamping their feet demanding it. Classic Alex Salmond.

I think the SNP and YES should have been much more vocal in defence of him, but all too often the propaganda prevailed, and people even on our own side were disposed to accepting he was a liar, or women didn’t like him, or people found him too smug. Smug? Why do we have a statue of Donald Dewar and a bizarre new Parliament building? The first First Minister, but from the party who brought in the 40% rule to wreck devolution in 79. Is that not just a wee bit “smug”? The Unionists ran a smear campaign against Salmond because they knew he could run circles around them politically and strategically. I can’t tell you the number of times I asked somebody who pulled a face at the mere mention of Alex Salmond to tell me a specific lie Alex Salmond had said, and they never could.

I like Nicola too, but in a different way. Being an opportunist generally carries bad connotations, so I don’t want to use the word, but Nicola is very good at turning events to her advantage, with Brexit being the most striking example. I don’t think she has the raw cunning of Alex Salmond, but then again, I don’t think that cunning is very far away from the point where it’s needed. I think both Nicola and Alex are on the same wavelength. What’s more, I don’t think the Unionists would dare to smear Nicola the way they did Salmond. I think public opinion would quickly become very protective of “Oor Nicola” and fine the BBC craws know it.

Credit where it’s due, support for Independence is proving resilient in defeat, and for all the lack of forward momentum since 2014, there hasn’t been a single step taken backwards. There’s a sense that Independence is like a cable tie; every click draws it closer and it’s an unforgiving one way process.

In the wider cabinet, there are faces which inspire confidence, and faces which, well, how can I put it? Let’s just say they wouldn’t be in my cabinet. But hey, let’s stay constructive.

I don’t pretend to like the “Swan” strategy; calm and serene above the waterline, but paddling like a demon beneath the surface. Theresa May deserves the derision she gets for keeping her Brexit plans to herself, and yet the SNP also asks for a lot to be taken on trust. I’m a cynic. I don’t really “do” trust. Not with a politician.

But my biggest frustration is this tired old chestnut, sovereignty. It vexes me that two years after a referendum on Independence, and an SNP is Scottish Government for a decade, why is Scotland’s historic sovereignty still a grey area of ambiguous uncertainty apparently open to conflicting interpretation? For me it feels like we are pursuing the most circuitous route possible to arrive at constitutional independence, and when we finally get there, we’re finally going to see the shortcut across the lawn which would have got us to the same destination in a fraction of the time.

What are we afraid of? Civil war? Really? A guns and tanks war? Or bottles of Buckie at dawn civil war? Our own version of the Irish “troubles”? Fair comment? I don’t know. Those Unionists in Freedom Square seemed furious about winning, heaven help us if they’d lost. They actually seemed furious about everything, everything that is except the piss poor job Better Together made of articulating the positive case for the Union. Do we really think these blobs are representative of Unionism? Or just a vocal but insecure minority who are merely the product of a narrow and insular upbringing? It’s not a good bath they’re needing, but a wee bit of an education one on one. That isn’t a euphemism for a punch in the head by the way, I actually mean a literal sit-down-and-listen education about the country and the saltire they’ve just spat on.

See I have a problem. I want to ask someone about it but I can’t find the Unionism in Scotland. Britnat figureheads and mouth pieces, yes, plenty of them, Britnat yobos, yes, but are they a new phenomenon or just Type cast Rangers Supporters stuck in front of a camera? Britnat propaganda, Oh yes, on every TV and shelf at the newsagent, but where do you go to to find a quiet, normal, reasonable Unionist who isn’t part of the circus? Where is grassroots Unionism? How do we engage with it?

The more I look back on 2014, the more I see how we weren’t ready, and how superficial we were. If we had voted YES on Sept 18th, while a great many things would have changed as a direct consequence, the only ACTUAL change directly caused by the vote would have been to empower our sovereignty. We’d have flicked a switch. It really was that simple.

Hi Ian Brotherhood. Just to make you feel a wee bit better in time for the bells. A Guid New Year tae y’rsel, Stu, Chris and all Wing readers. Its 9:15am 2017 in this wee part of Oz and a beautiful bright sunny morning. Have a good one.

@Alistair Donaldson

Welcome, and good job on posting Hello!

C’mon on out you shy yins, and say Hello! We love new supporters.

Have a good 2017, everyone.

A very happy New Year to all Wings staff, posters and readers. May 2017 not be as boring as Rev Stu predicts.

I would like to see the Supreme Court result giving rise to more arguments to put the Unionists on the defensive. Since the Treaty Of Union says we are equal partners in this Union where is Englands Parliament? Where is Englands grant to live off? Where is Englands Barnet formula?

These are the questions they do not want asked. They think they have got away with it. Lets make them think again. Robert Peffers has shown us the way.

Great cartoon, Chris. A very Happy New Year to Rev. Stu and all contributors, BTL commentators and all who wish for Scottish independence.

Happy New Year Scotland
xxx

Moving into 2017 now and a year closer to getting our Independence folks. Let’s hang on in there, unite with all yessers, support the SNP and continue to work our butts off to push up the numbers.

2016 wasn’t a great year but Michael Gray reminds us that it wasn’t all doom and gloom.

link to thenational.scot

Anyway I want to take this opportunity to thank Stu, Chris and the many posters (and non-posting visitors) on here for promoting and supporting our cause to the hilt. A big thank you too to Nicola, Alex and team Scotland at Holyrood and Westminster XX

I’m sending my love and best wishes to you all for a happy, healthy, peaceful and wealthy 2017 XX

An oldie but still relevant:

link to youtube.com

Another oldie and one of my favourites. We’ve been given a second chance. Let’s UP THE ANTE and break the chains that bind. Get out of this dysfunctional Union ASAP.

link to youtube.com

Happy New Year!

I decided to break the rules and go out the back door, have a roll-up, and in the front door, all AFTER the Bells. Yippee! I want to Break Free (from Westminster)!

link to youtube.com

“Auld Moses took
A dry stick and
Instantly it
flooered in his hand.

Pu Scotland up,
And wha can say
It winna bud
And blossom tae.

A miracle’s
Oor only chance
Up, carles, up
And let us dance!”

HNY to all in the Bonniest of soon to be self governing countries…Scotland!

From Me in DDD. ( Deepest, darkest,…..)

yesindyref2 at 6.06

An interesting post. There is a position that is rarely pointed out.

As we started the last referendum campaign the figures roughly calculated were 30% for independence 50% against independence and 20% don’t know.
The situation is now about 50% (or 48%) for independence, 30% (or 32%)against and about 20% don’t know. The situation is reversed. The unionists need all of the “don’t knows” to win. Which is why they know we are winning.

Kezia’s latest statement reveals that not only is she out of her depth but that she is a Tory.

Happy new year friends

Salut- have a great 2017

Slainte!

Happy New Year to Rev Stu and every Winger. Thank you for keeping the promise you made after the outcome of Indyref 1….that, so long as we are here, you will be here. You have all absolutely risen to the challenges of 2016…and continued to inform and inspire us.

In the early hours of 2017 we are ALL still here, the YES movement may have been resting, but no longer dormant. We are still moving forward..advancing, not retreating! Gathering our thoughts, consolidating our movement, planning ahead and imagining and planning the society we have always had the potential to be. Wings is, has been and always will be essential to us activists.

@Beor –

Yaaay!

Happy New Year to you friend.

@Frogesque –

Hear ye brother, hear ye loud and clear.

We all have to do what we can, in whichever wee toty way, to make it happen.

We all have different viewpoints, experiences, talents, and how we use them is up to us, but the central aim is crystal-clear – no more WM control of Scotland.

Happy New Year to all Wingers.

2017 will see us a lot closer than 2016

Crap cartoon……panders to the Bremainers and Clintonian whingers. Scotland…..free from Westminster and Brussels and on good terms with the new USA administration is the way forward.
I have been a passionate supporter of Scottish independance but I want nothing to do with the nightmare that is the EU. The English and Welsh people called it correctly. Given the choice, I’ll vote to remain in the UK rather than the EU.
I’m convinced that the Scottish and Westminster governments blundered badly and displayed a complete lack of discretion and foresight during the American election campaign.
Trump may lack diplomacy, but he tapped into the prevailing mood of a great many people across the Western World……..sick of political correctness and being told what we cannot think and say, sick of being ignored by the self-appointed and ‘Oh So Smug’ political elite, sick of the multi-cultural lie, sick of the Global Warming hoax and all the ‘Green Taxes’ imposed on us. 2016 was a great year for those of us who aspire to real freedom.

Was the labour party a massive con right from the start?
I think so.

There to keep u down and going round in circles,with the odd sweety here and there.

Man… how they must have laughed.

No more manufactured religeon please people.

Aye let’s hear ye Wings lurkers..

Who do you love..?
X.

@Still Positive & @ Meg Merilees & @Smallaxe..

How are you doing fine sovereign Scotspeople?

Auld Lang Syne.
X.

2017..

I am one sovereign Scotsman..

I am one of many..

I am one of you.

Welcome to 2017.

A new beginning.

The force re-awakens.

Happy New Year !
I see Nicola was out delivering baby boxes yesterday. The BBC asked Monica Lennon, Labour person, for comment. SNP bad, of course.
I wonder if there will be any sign of humanity from Unionist politicians this year?

Happy New Year to everybody!

A new year brings new hope. Mine is that this be the historic year when we will see Scotland becoming an independent country.

Slàinte mhath!

Well here we all are in 2017.
It doesn’t feel any different from 2016 —YET.

Here is the news where they we are :-

Baby Box delivered to Mothers-to-be by Nicola Sturgeon.

In 2001 the then SG feared paying out paying out £20 million to contaminated blood victims – the current SG has agreed compensation to those victims.

The FM says Scottish wishes to remain in the EU must be respected.

Here is the news where they are :-

T May calls for unity in, “Her Country”, after her Tory Government, “Laid Bare”, divisions in, “Her Country”. That’ll be England then- will it?

Cabinet files from 1989 show Thatcher ordered sentries at Faslane to shoot intruders on a nuclear submarine.

Should she not have ordered the sentries be shot for dereliction of duty for NOT doing their jobs properly?

@ Smallaxe – Happy New Year to you and a Year of Health and Happiness to you and Mrs Smallaxe.
When Pandora opened her jar and every misery poured out on humanity, only Hope was left. So I do cling on to hope. Keep on looking for green shoots.
link to en.wikipedia.org

Start the New Year, with BBC smear,

link to bbc.co.uk

Records reveal Scottish Labour minister unease over blood scandal payouts
8 hours ago
From the section Scotland

is not the headline. Why would BBC Scotland’s all new and exciting Donalda regime make it look like its SNP Scots gov fighting compensation payments to 3,000 Scots?

Monster the government, with a ghastly SLab crew? Just another year in teamGB, lets go.

Morning everybody. Happy New Year, I hope that the heid is no too sair.

I’ve just had the first swear of the year when I heard TM waffling on.I’m not sure which country she is on about, it ain’t mine anyway. Yeuch.

Have a good one folks, I can feel it in my blood, it’s coming…

Fred:

Your more than welcome, I had a single end in Hillkirk ST at one time.

Peace Always

2017, I’d like this to be a prediction, but maybe I’ll just leave it as a hope …. this year we will see a clear majority of Scots finally coming to the conclusion that Indy is the best way forward.