Wings Over Scotland

The beginnings of Fascism in the UK…..They will want foreigners to wear identifiable badges next….Maybe a wee star or something ??

I don’t want to live in this country any longer…

How on earth did we get to this.
How long before they roll out a de-lousing initiative?

“And you Reverend Stuart … Are your papers in order?”

Chuckles till he hears knock at door!

Foreign doctors working in the English NHS please be advised: Always have your identity documents ready for inspection.

Yep, it indeed is quite scary.

Thinking the tories were trying to take us back to an idealised 1950’s Britain was vaguely amusing but to 1930’s fascism? Just horrendous.

Goodbye any thoughts of an easy brexit. Burning bridges more like. Europeans will rightly be furious about this. The further rise of the lunatic right. Yet with the compliant British press spewing out what a good idea this is, the brain dead will follow without a thought.
They are creating an even worse country than we ever thought possible. Exit please.

Will Scots get a blue star?

What frustrates me is that, no matter how bad the Tories and the UK get, there will always be people who say “but how could we afford to be independent? What about the oil price?” There will always be people who will keep hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse.

I say that because I suspect a lot of folk see what’s happening and think “surely people who voted No have got to realise they were duped by the vow?” and so on. Let’s be realistic here. Human beings have an extraordinary capacity for ignoring inconvenient truths. A lot of people simply will not listen to reason until Tory policies are actively harming them in tangible ways (ie not just ruining the economy or whatever – anything that can be explained away will be).

In other words, don’t go thinking there’s suddenly going to be a majority for independence after this Tory conference. They’re basically outlining a blueprint for turning the UK into an isolationist, fascist state, but that still won’t feel real for a lot of people. And a lot of folk who voted No in 2014 will agree with a lot of this stuff anyway.

Having said all that, some of these policies WILL actively harm people in tangible ways – EU citizens, people who have married EU citizens etc. So there are No voters who will be changing their minds. But we’re still going to have to be patient – even though for many people, every day we’re under this disgusting union is a day too many.

We’ll get there, but it’ll be by showing people that independence is now a necessity, not simply the desirable future we sold it as in 2014.

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Yoon.

Was in Berlin a couple of months ago with an English work colleague. We were walking down a portion of the berlin wall museum close to check point Charlie.
It was funny, we were going at a different pace reading about all the history of the rise of the nazi party from the 20s into the 30s.
I kid you not, at about the same time our first comment was on the striking parallels with the EU referendum. It was quite chilling and the headline above makes it so much more real.

I wonder at what stage of this process Scots Welsh and Irish become “untermensch” and are forced to identify themselves in public?
Another Indyref No vote would certainly send a message saying we are ready to accept the idea in Scotland.

Surely this piece of fascist nonsense will finally let people see the real Tory agenda.

Scotland has to tell the world that we want nothing to do with it – bring on Indyref2.

That’s certainly a novel approach towards being business friendly from those who constantly harp on ad infinitum about freeing up business from state regulation and red tape.

Moving swiftly on it would seem reasonable to observe that this cannot necessarily be considered a one way street. The Health Secretary appears to be taking the opposite approach by announcing an initiative to financially penalise ‘British’ workers who train as doctors if they go and work abroad within a certain time frame after their training. The point being that limiting the opportunities for UK subjects to work, study and travel freely in Europe might not necessarily be limited to the EC and the remaining twenty seven states. Indeed, the feudalist Westminster regime and Establishment seem keen on imposing such restrictions both ways, and not just in regard to freedom of movement to and from Europe.

Edwina Curry, allowed to lie that ENGERLISH hospitals and the English NHS is in much better shape than Scottish NHS. IMHO the EBC are taking part in a co-ordinated day of anti Scottish vitriol as a lead in to Ruth the Mooth’s bad mouthing of Scotland at Birmingham prior to the raising of st Theresa to godess of the tolly party. Aye whit a bunch of nasty nasty people.

Can you imagine how this is playing to those casual racists who emerged from the closet after the referendum? The elderly who were berating Brown faces in the street, the folk who were spitting at furrin looking folk.

My heart goes out to anyone who.doesn’t have a white face south of the Border. Children?

A 50% increase in racist crime since June, and this is how they respond?

I’m so ashamed to even share this island with these people.

Anyone with a moderate IQ must see the direction. The EU and world are watching this filth.

Adam Davidson says: “Maybe we could make the foreign workers wear a star on their clothes and the businesses where they work paint a star on their business premises….”

Already done and dusted. Edward I made Jews wear yellow patches before deporting them to France. His English captains made many walk ashore on sandbanks for “exercise”, before leaving them to drown in the incoming tides. 400 were burnt alive in a York church, seeking sanctuary.

He borrowed ten times the English National income from the Jewish community to finance his conquest of Wales before ratting and scapegoating thrm.

Not the kind of stuff for a Jamie Oliver programme?

The fascists have already happened in England.

See this:- link to mirror.co.uk

My next door neighbour called me a “an obese Scottish illegitimate person gypsy vagina” to which the Police said he shouted that whilst on his own property so we can’t do anything about it.

I tend to find its the villages are worst – must be all that inbreeding – and they can’t even play a banjo between them.

I do think we have entered the realm of political comedy capers. The UK’s major political figures and institutions are now held in derision by an increasing percentage of the informed population and MSM is going down the stank (or siever if your from Hamilton or Larkie)with them.

I laugh now when I see Ruth Davidson. The huge damage the unionist cause is doing to itself by overpromoting such an eejit will soon become evident. As I put on the previous post Ruth is going through the process of murphification at the moment. As she has nothing to say and no evident political abilities she will become a caricature in due course. When everybody starts laughing she is finished. Give her six months.

Meanwhile the silence surrounding Kezia deepens. This is significant. Is she politically dead but the body has not been found yet? Has she suddenly realised that the political favours she had expected from MSM and relied upon are now being granted to Ruthie? Does she understand she has been thrown overboard?

“In other words, don’t go thinking there’s suddenly going to be a majority for independence after this Tory conference.”

This piece is spot on. And the wretchedness of it all is that there is no effective opposition. Why aren’t the useless labour party organising street demos and the like?
But, although there won’t be a massive uplift in the polls for independence, as Doug says, the slow insidious sleepwalk to xenophobia will affect directly some of the No voters as they can’t escape the direct impact all this will have on them and their families.

Doug: “no matter how bad the Tories and the UK get, there will always be people who say “but how could we afford to be independent? What about the oil price?”

Good post. Some people are addicted to punishment, the same who loved Thatcher.

I think the scenario I posted last week of the Scottish Government being suspended just got its odds shortened.
Would anyone disagree?

Was listening to BBC World last night. Amazing how many “non-British” accents there were, all working for the BBC as correspondents. Will these staff also have to be listed?

A more pertinent question: In these days of austerity etc., why do we still have BBC World?

“our partnership is one of equals”

Aye, they keep telling us that: link to wp.me

I was going to write a small comment using foreigners wearing badges. Beaten to that one. However I am now saddened and angry that the country my father and his generation fought to protect has now started to turn into the fascist state that they defeated. Scotland and Scots must now stand up and be more vocal in condemnation of this increasingly right wing government. I include in this political parties here i.e. SNP, Scot Labour, Scot LibDems, Greens and if she wants to remain credible Ruth’s Tories. With the colonisation of MSM it is up to all of us to tear ourselves from this growing fascism down south.

BTW, will anyone point out that some of the Tory headlines are illegal practice?

You can’t hold lists of non British staff, it’s simple discrimination. You can’t pick a British person for the job, you pick the best, that’s the law.

However, we know the Great Repeal will soon take care of all that nonsense.

You wonder if any of the global community are going to speak up at this blatant discrimination, and inevitable danger and targeting happening to their citizens.

This is depressing. Call Kaye is cringe worthy today. All about not letting those foreigners be doctors, and forcing our true brit doctors into 4 years’ service. We already have a recruitment crisis, getting rid of the foreigners will worsen it. Currently changing jobs within NHS training is inordinately difficult: remove the safety net of being able to go abroad for a couple of years and come back with new skills, and watch recruitment plummet.

And to have that cretin Edwina Curry on patronising people….it makes my blood boil. I’m now tempted to emigrate. The UK is going to become a very, very unpleasant place

The gradual, step by step, drip by drip process which is being recognised by that section of the population that is not Brain Dead [ link to imdb.com ] can be found in the late Milton Meyer’s account hers:

link to press.uchicago.edu

This was the sleeping giant called English nationalism. Awoken by the Tories and UKIP. It was always there bubbling under the surface.

The English have always been anti foreign. They tried to destroy Eire and now they want to obliterate Scotland out of existence. Post Brexit don’t expect any of the refranchised EU laws to come north of the border. Tony Blair made his intentions clear by setting up a British Supreme court when no British legal system exists.

That work will continue at pace. The Tories have their eyes on Scotland’s legal framework. They want to erode this and thus erode the Scottish government.

For heaven’s sake call the bloody referendum before we lose all our EU friends and our soul.

I contributed a piece on WGD not so long ago stating that the UK was heading for a dark place.

I was wrong.

We’ve already arrived.

England now full of separatists from common decency.

Doug Daniel at 9:22 a.m.

You have nailed it exactly Doug. We must not fall into the trap of thinking that the greater our outrage, the sooner we will get independence. It is more likely to be a long, slow war of attrition. How long? – I don’t know. Hopefully sooner rather than later. But we need to be realistic. Significant numbers of people in Scotland support the Tories (although they cleverly avoid using the words “Tory” and “Conservative”, choosing instead to position themselves as a Ruth Davidson fan club.)

There is still a rump of Labour and Lib Dem supporters in Scotland who hanker after a liberal, progressive United Kingdom. These people are key to achieving independence – when they realise that the prospects of England voting for progressive policies are vanishingly small, then some might turn to independence as a way out of their dilemma. But even for this group, conservatism (lower case “c”) is a powerful force and some will never see that the way to get the type of society they want is to break away from the increasingly right wing UK.

The good news is that the more extreme the Westminster government becomes, the sooner we will be independent. In that respect, things are ticking along quite nicely. But I fear for the pain and suffering to be inflicted on vulnerable people and “furriners” along the way.

Tam Jardine, I think many here agree with you, it’s about time the SNP started picking fights with Westminster and generally much more abrasive with them and the media.
Nobody has any respect for a door mat.

Is it just me that feels the momentum towards yes has now went over the tipping point?

I totally agree that the Scottish goverment has to attack the recent statements emanating from the Tory conference. And actually attack them with vigor. To attack them would not be political but moral.

*Footballers

In the cafe reading that ‘left behind’ Daily Wrecker page 8;9
Lots of young & old Tories sleeping through the conference dressed in their union jackery apparel. Tory zzzzzz list.

Tories or UKIP in disguise they ask!

Older Daily Express reader opposite, we’re on chatting terms, looks worried. “That’s terrible” says she, referring to the May comments…. Aye it is… We break eye contact and read on.

Anyhoo!

As long as the Scots electorate are not sleeping that’s the main thing.

Joking aside, I was shocked at this tory policy and take note this is them moving to be centre ground in England – disgraceful!

I look a across the table at my German colleague or the polish lady that cuts my hair, etc. How long before the british state asks me as a Scot living in Scotland to report these people for potentially being illegals?

This was already done under Mrs May with her “Repatiation vans” with shop an illegal immigrant adverts.

Now is he time to reach out to labour NO voters and ask them to come over to independence, tories in England will be in power for he next twenty years.

What other reasons could NO voters have this time for not wishing Scots to govern Scotland?

It’s no longer simply independence we need. This is now about the need to escape from this.

Wake up Scotland FFS before it’s too late to escape this tsunami of fascist poison pouring over the border.

I wonder what effect this will have on the all the Football and Rugby Teams in in GB?

The Tory’s continue to make immigrants scapegoats for Westminster’s economic incompetence and mismanagement of running the UK.

Doug’s post is, I’m afraid, spot on. But we – those of whatever hue in favour of Scottish self-determination – have to get on the front foot. The cautious, gradualist strategy (which we all understand the reasons for to the nth degree) has a finite shelf-life, and the expiry date on it is looming, if not already here.

The colonial MSM are a sick joke, but the notion that the SNP has no opportunity to engage aggressively with the enemies of Scotland – and that is what they are – doesn’t wash. We’ve seen numerous examples cited on WoS by contributors in just the last week where open goals have been missed due to the still overweening idea that competence and reasonableness should preclude us from snarling and fighting. Dear Lord, even a bit of teeth-baring wouldn’t go amiss..

Good morning Wingers.
I have had a very sleepless 24 hours thinking about events over the past few days.
In every human action there is a cause, especially with politicians. Let me run something by you all. I approached this is a calm detached manner ,trying to put myself in the position of Ms May and the Conservative strategists.

Firstly, I know Labour is unelectable in England. Secondly I know that the voters in my Conservative heartlands would never forgive me if I failed to carry out their wishes of reducing immigration and leaving the EU. The Tories would also be punished at the ballot box and also become unelectable. Who would profit ?

The answer to that is I don’t care. It is about retaining power for my Party.

The divisiveness of the EU referendum did one thing especially that all politicians fear, but require. It unleashed the mob mentality as evidenced by the rise in assaults on foreigners. The problem is , once you have released the mob do you want to be consumed by it or be part of it?

Politicians know the only way to remain in situ is to lead the mob.

So, we have Tories at the head of the crowd,laying down laws to appease and show leadership to the unleashed xenophobia on these islands. The problem is that they are now locked in that position and the demands of the mob will become ever greater.

Take Back Control . Of what? I believe the Tories were looking at a strategy to do exactly that, since the referendum, hence the delay in pushing the button on article 50.
Moreover, I , if I was in their position would apply the” taking back control phrase “to all of these islands. You cannot govern universally with such an agenda, with opposition attacking you from all quarters . You have to show strength, leadership, purpose.

That is why I believe there will be a move in the near future to disband all devolved Parliaments. Why else change the EU law ? Give the decision to challenge that action to the Supreme Court rather than an unfavourable European Court.

We could be in an end game for the Government, but more likely at the start of a desperate fight for freedom.

Sorry for the length of post.

Nigel Farage will now have to list Mrs Farage as a foreign worker.

Quelle Dommage!

I’m amused at many of the comments on this topic.

“England changed today” for example.

No it didn’t! This is what England has ALWAYS been like outside London. The average white English person is racist, xenophobic and considers anyone not English & white to be inferior to them. They may appear polite but that’s what they believe, its what they’ve always believed. I get called a “Scotch cunt/sweatie/Jock bastard” at least half a dozen times a month & that’s been going on for 27 years. The average white English person despises the Irish, Scots & Welsh and again that’s been the state of things for hundreds of years.

At least some of you have finally woken up to this, well done 🙂

Oh and obviously there are exceptions to the above, but what you should remember is this :

In Scotland if you call someone English an English bastard then that is classed as a “hate” crime – ie its treated the same as racially-motivated crime.

In Wales the same applies.

In England you can call someone a Welsh bastard or a Scotch bastard and the police will do nothing because its viewed as nothing more than general abuse. Interestingly calling someone an Irish bastard IS treated as a hate crime but then they’re not part of the UK now, lucky bastards 🙂

Will tax evading non Dom Murdoch be listed? A criminal who illegally bribed public officials and hacked phones.

Amber Rudd is another tax evading crook. Taking over the mantle when her father was investigated for criminal activities three times and banned.

Westminster caused the migration crisis in Europe. Thatcher, Blair, Brown, Clinton, Cameon and Osbourne deregulating banking and illegal wars destroyed the world economy. May is following the trend. Causing the problems but refusing to help. They are despicable.

My old mum sent tory canvassers packing with a ‘we fought in the war to keep people like you out!’

And that was in the 80’s. She was a former Tory voter who couldn’t stand Thatcher or what the Tories had become. God knows what she would think of the current lot.

One wonders how long it will be before restrictive quotas are introduced on who and how many serfs on these islands, who are not classified as ‘foriegners’, are allowed to leave – either to work or study outside this failed state or emigrate to escape it?

Lab and LibDem in Scotland …. come IndyRef2, you cannot possibly support this union, can you?

So upset by it all I forgot to add this statement from Nicola and others re toxic tories

link to snp.org

Although I agree with Doug Daniels points earlier, I still hope that given this weeks events, enough former No voters will turn away in horror from what Britain’s becoming to give us a decent majority in IndyRef 2.

All this is to address the split in the Tories that allowed UKIP a voice. There is no need for UKIP now, the Tories have taken back ownership of the policies and views that were prevalent with Churchill and Enoch Powell.

The Sun was Full English Brexit this morning and I expect the Tories membership to rise as Kippers move back. Slab have to make a choice now because their options are to be with the Tories or not.

Interestingly, some of the Yoon commentators are trying to blame this on the SNP, really they are. The BNP and EDL, Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen in France all now legitimised by Tory policy and Brexit.

Really, they are blaming the SNP.

@ Glenn

Well said Glenn everybody from anywhere in the world is welcome in Scotland,we Scots can be found in every continent on planet Earth to then deny that right to other human beings who allow us to live peacefully in their countries would bring utter shame.

We will not stand for it or allow some English xenophobe Nazi to dictate who can or cannot come to our country,i hope the world understands now that we Scots are on the front line against fascism rearing its ugly head once again in the continent of Europe and we need the worlds help.

Grimly, the only part of the Tory Rally I saw was a couple of minutes of Rudd’s speech.

Blood pressure alert and all that.

But I was staggered by the complete lack of self awareness in her line

“Money drives behaviour”

She should know.

link to archive.is

And for day one of the New Reich.

Asked whether she was prepared to “name and shame” companies which did not comply by publishing a breakdown of the nationality of their workforce, Ms Rudd told BBC Radio 4’s Today it was “not something we are definitely going to do” but it was “one of the tools” under review “as a way of nudging people into better behaviour”.

link to archive.is

If you want to go to the actual BBC page archived, they are looking for comments!

as much as it goes against the grain, needs must, time for NS to consider a fear campaign to win the soft no’, who, despite some of the optimistic opinions, still need to be – not ‘won’ over, or ‘sold’ independence – but terrified into it.

jack-boot days, if not here again, are certainly round the corner.

@Vestas

In a word: Pish!

I dont know the circles you are frequenting but over 30 years I lived, studied and worked all over England from Hastings to London to Blackpool and never met any hostility from English folk.

They were kind, welcoming and open. Maybe its the circles you mix in but your experiences certainly werent mine.

re my 11.21

Couldn’t resist it.

Asked the BBC if they would be complying as we cant have these foreigners like Graham Norton doing jobs British people could do.

@Heedtracker, I was whistling that tune after reading the article.

Call Kaye programme.

3 hours of drudgery and political venom against Scotland. Attacks on the Scottish health service by a reject tory and ex English health service minister where it has been claimed was more interested in being pals with thatcher,Sir Saville and as alleged “doing a monica Lewinsky on PM Major”

Fred McAuley — please come back.

“In England all the boasting and flag-wagging, the ‘Rule Britannia’ stuff, is done by small minorities.

George Orwell.

Well, you could have fooled me, George.

And what the hell was ‘1984’ about if not set in a fascist England of the future?

@Blackhack says: 5 October, 2016 at 9:06 am:

” … I don’t want to live in this country any longer”

Eh! Why would you not want to live in the country of Scotland because the United KINGDOM of GB&NI make idiotic NAZI like laws?

The largest Westminster Establishment propaganda myth propagated by such as the BBC and MSM is that the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland is a country. Can you not read English, Blackhack?

Sound it out like they used to teach in primary one U-N-I-T-E-D K-I-N-G-D-O-M Spells United Kingdom. It does NOT Spell United Country.

The propaganda, since long before the Treaty of Union does not match the legal reality in many, many ways. If you not only accept their lies but continue to use and accept them as truth then you are, a perhaps unwilling, undercover agent of the lying, anti-Scottish, Westminster Establishment.

Here’s the truths they do not want you to use.

Britain is am archipelago of many islands that lie of the northern edge of the main European continent.

Great Britain is the largest of those islands and it contains the three countries of Scotland, Ireland and England. (Ireland, all of it is a country but its government is partitioned between a UK Province and the Republic of Ireland.

The United Kingdom, (of Great Britain & Northern Ireland), is thus exactly as it describes itself – a Kingdom but nit a single country and The UK of GB&NI is <b< NOT Britain – it is exactly as its title describes it, “The UK of GB&NI”.

In point of fact there is a difference between, “The United Kingdom of GB&NI Government“, and “The United Kingdom”, per se.

This is because there are another three, non-UK government states, contained within Her Majesty’s actual United Kingdomi. These three are ndependent of the UKofGB&NI Government, These are the Crown Protectorates of Jersey, Guernsey & Man.

So there you go, Blackhack, there are eight countries in Britain, Seven countries in the United Kingdom, Three countries in Great Britain, four countries goverened by the government of The UKofGB&NI.

Oh! And, BTW: there are only two Kingdoms that comprise the United Kingdom of GB and NI.

When was it you became an undercover agent of the Westminster Establishment and started propagating their propaganda?

Doug Daniel @9:22am

Excellent post, Doug. It is bloody frustrating but, as you said, we just have to be patient. In spite of all the evidence now available, most soft No voters will not convert suddenly. Pennies will drop, but many people need a bag full of them before they are willing to change their belief system. Having said that, I hear the loud clink of pennies dropping every day. It’s coming, for a that. 🙂

Actually, we have to thank the yoons sincerely, for obsessing about another IndyRef and keeping it high on the agenda and in folk’s minds – it is a certainty that most soft NO voters are already seriously thinking about what they are going tp do next time. They see what’s coming.

Clinkkkk – there goes another one. 🙂

@ heedtrtacker – Spitting Image caught the Tory mood singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”. Back to the future.
link to youtube.com

Video from LBC’s James O’Brien

link to lbc.co.uk

Tory-mp-attacks-unsettling-home-office-plan-to-make-business
link to archive.is

Capella says:
5 October, 2016 at 11:44 am
@ heedtrtacker – Spitting Image caught the Tory mood singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”. Back to the future.

The original is much more frightening.

link to youtube.com

Hamish100 says:
5 October, 2016 at 11:37 am
‘Fred McAuley — please come back.’

That’s how bad its got, I actually agree that Fred McAuley would be better.

Remember the days when Lesley Riddoch was doing that slot? Seems such a long time ago.

Prediction – one of the main Tory tactics in Indyref2 is going to be stirring up anti-immigrant feelings in Scotland. Pure evil, but its one of the few weapons they have left.

@ Glenn

A zinger!! Bloody well said, mate.

Everyone in Scotland must know a “furriner” on some level – husband, wife, hirlfriend, boyfriend, work colleague, shop keeper etc, etc. It is OUR responsibility–every person in Scotland–to protect them, our European partners and our friends against this rising facism from England. We cannot afford not to.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil was that good men should do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

Is it just me that is now thinking “Hold on…this is a ‘Look a Squirrel!’ tactic?”

Real Tory leads, in these days of spin, simply put up some puppets and grab the headlines with some controversial but ultimate guff non committing conference speeches ( any speaker promises are easily replaced with a “that was her\him, lets move on” plea these days) and all the while in the background even worse plans are being hatched and executed in utmost secret.

When it all comes out, the question will be “Well you didnt do anything, you were all just running about calling us Nazis is we recall correctly!”

Very scary times indeed.

Ian Smart’s comment is the true face of Loyal Unionist Labour. No pretending to be in pursuit of a left of centre workers paradise but in favour of a hundred year reich of conservative rule & wouldn’t countenance a left of centre independent Scotland. Smart is a blood and soil British Loyalist who lays his baggage on the heads of left of centre Yessers to smear them with his own distasteful beliefs. What a creep

@ heedtracker – indeed – “still think you can control them Theresa?”
The Tories could adopt it as their party anthem after Land of Hope and Glory. It’s a catchy little tune.
A sad way to mark the anniversary of the anti-fascist Battle of Cable Street.

While we are waiting for Article 50, would it be worth having a referendum on repatriation of a couple of powers?
Obviously one of them being immigration. That will get all the bigots spitting feathers.

Rye chuckle at the Times…

Is it pure cryptic coincidence that Ken Clarke looks suspiciously like he’s doing a salute to Hitler?

Maybe there is hope for some UK journalists…

….maybe.

It’ll soon be time for action. Supine disengagement will no longer be an option.

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

test

Gordon MacIntyre Kemp has a good article in The National on British “blood and soil” nationalism after watching “Look Who’s Back”:
“For a few years now I have been becoming more and more ill at ease with the rising tide of British nationalism. Economic uncertainty, austerity and personal feelings of insecurity, coupled with increasing dissent with growing inequality have laid the psychological foundations for despair among those of a conservative mind set.”
link to archive.is

This BMA report contains many helpful hints to those in government and ex politicians who are given air time but have not yet managed to understand the well established links between health and social care policies within the wider economic framework. Particularly before they share their opinions on the NHS.

‘…Evidence and experiences in other countries (such as Iceland, Sweden, Canada and Norway) highlights the importance of maintaining high levels of public spending on social welfare and health as important mechanisms for improving health outcomes and narrowing health inequalities, while also supporting economic growth. This demonstrates the need for: – increased investment in social protection systems – such as unemployment programmes, housing support and income maintenance – to counter the projected future decrease in welfare spending – increased investment in healthcare and public health services in the short and long-term, including adequate funding for evidence-based preventative and early intervention services…

Higher levels of public spending on social welfare – such as on unemployment programmes, housing support and income maintenance – has been found to improve health outcomes and narrow health inequalities…This is particularly important for those with low educational attainment levels and those with long-standing health problems…While it is often argued that investing in the welfare state undermines productivity, efficiency and economic growth, there is countervailing empirical and historical evidence showing that large welfare states do not appear to hamper economic growth… An important mechanism for improving health and wellbeing, reducing social and health inequalities, and thereby improving productivity and human capital (the economic value of an individual’s skills, knowledge and experience), is therefore through investment in social protection’

link to bma.org.uk

It’s an excellent read,quotes Marmot extensively, references the relationship between precarious employment and premature death, emphasises support in early years and outlines the provision of adequately funded integrated care.

Politics is hard isn’t it when we expect responsible management of state assets, a holistic empathetic politics, decent capitalism, deliberative democracy recognising that the citizens who are experts by experience are often better informed than their political representatives (the Danes have a good track record in deliberative democracy because their politicians don’t fear reasoned direct discussions with their electorate (link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com).

Understanding that we now live in a globalised world and the big society questions are how to combine economic growth with meeting ecological needs i.e. addressing sustainable energy and food systems through innovative enterprise is the challenge for competent government but is entirely missing from the deeply divisive speeches of a WM government who Scotland did not vote for.

Focusing on immigration as the cause of all UKOK’s woes is a spurious diversionary tactic and can’t disguise that the maquillage has slipped off the ugly face of UKOK politics. Scotland is too far down the line to fall for that because we now know that decades of internal economic mismanagement and a reliance on the politics of exclusion has brought us to this point- an unedifying end to the UK political scene.

Mainstream politicians manipulating the fears and prejudices of their electorate and who want us to become inured to current MSM headlines is a despicable politics. Scotland should extract itself from this most toxic of situations as soon as possible. Under the auspices of Indyref2 or SG declaring that this is a broken political system that cannot work for Scotland- either route is acceptable.

Changing T.V channels I had the misfortune to catch a few seconds of the Prime Minister’s speech to the tory party conference. Sick inducing.

I have been getting frustrated at the political blast from Westminster painting a rosy picture of Brexit. The increase in press and Government comments against immigration saddens me greatly. I know it is all about future votes for the Government and the party. How sad, but I suppose understandable from their viewpoint. ALL Politian’s lie to push their agenda.
I only hope we do indeed leave the UK soon.

link to mirror.co.uk

Ruth grovels to her un-elected PM. Inverness is such a shit hole isn’t it Ruth.

And “I’m delighted we have such spectacular surroundings,” said Ms Davidson.

“Usually they put the Scots in a place where nothing can be broken. Or stolen for that matter!”

Which should be on a big banner behind her tory HQ desk. Still not as much fun as,

John Cleese ?@JohnCleese Oct 2
John Cleese Retweeted David Puckridge
Why do we let half-educated tenement Scots run our English press ? Because their craving for social status makes them obedient retainers ?

John Cleese ?@JohnCleese Oct 2
John Cleese Retweeted Larry Malley
Both ? That’s a remarkable achievement

Seriously,I’d rather have educated,cultured and intelligent people in charge. Sorry for the elitismJohn Cleese added,
Larry Malley @Lardo9
@JohnCleese @DavidPuckridge that’s a bit upper class and classless John.

Joint statement from SNP, Plaid and Greens calling for resistance to toxic Tories.

link to snp.org

@Bob Mack

Parents urged to boycott requests for children’s country of birth information
link to archive.is

Bob Mack & Nana

My grand-daughter started school in Surrey last month and on her second day there was a letter in her tray for her parents to complete which asked for her place of birth and nationality.

heedtracker (12:56pm)

Any newbies lurking? Please avoid clicking on the direct link within the post by the aforementioned poster.

Direct links help to put food on the tables of those scumbags who routinely help take it off the tables of Scottish families. ‘Heedtracker’ has a track record of helping them to raise advertising revenues and there is absolutely no excuse for it.

Many Wingers go to great lengths to archive their links to prevent helping the Unionist cause but some, such as heedtracker, repeatedly throw it back in their faces.

Please avoid funding the BUM!

Still waiting on the announcement about furreners in The World’s Greatest Football League, or in the manager’s office of the The World’s Best National Team.

Rancid’s attempt at lip stick on a pig.

link to archive.is

Re;jaMur@12.52

Thanks, will be ordering those Scot/EU posters today.

Simply this.

link to snp.org