How To Create Racists
This really is an extraordinary headline, for multiple reasons.
Because what actually IS “the rise of Reform”?
The only thing “the rise of Reform” can possibly mean here is “more and more people choosing to vote for, or express their support for, a particular lawful political party in a democracy”. Why are we supposed to think that’s a terrible thing, when it is in fact the entire POINT of democracy?
The way to “resist” the rise of Reform is to offer the electorate something better to vote for. What their rise proves is that all the other political parties are failing to do that. That isn’t Reform’s fault, and it isn’t the electorate’s fault either.
But what is it Reform are offering that’s so awful anyway? Let’s have a look.
Let’s for a moment put to one side the fact that all politicians’ promises are essentially worthless and are rarely kept. That would almost certainly be the case with Reform too, although they have the significant advantage that it hasn’t been proven yet.
(Every current party at Holyrood HAS been in government at some point in the last decade or so, either in Edinburgh or London – the Lib Dems as part of a Westminster coalition with the Tories, the Greens as part of a Holyrood one with the SNP, and they’ve all been pretty wretched failures. Only Reform, among parties likely to secure any MSPs next year, are as yet untainted by power, although they’re already having a bumpy ride in a number of English councils.)
But we can only judge parties in an election campaign on what they pledge, and what of the above is the Scottish public likely to find objectionable or offensive?
“Abolish Net Zero”? All sensible people know that Scotland’s contribution to climate change is so infinitesimally small that nothing we do can possibly make any difference, so all that pious proclamations and virtue-signalling measures aimed at reducing our carbon footprint to nil achieve is to impoverish people already struggling with the cost of living and make everyone’s lives that little bit more miserable. Enjoying those paper straws and only getting your bins collected every three weeks? No, nobody is, and the only people who are getting anything out of it are posturing politicians.
“Stop illegal immigration”? We’re all against illegal stuff, aren’t we? There are no boats landing in Scotland, but their occupants are, and Glasgow City Council – which alert readers will know is run by the SNP, not Reform – is complaining bitterly about the strain being put on public services as a result. You know, just like those racists do.
It’s all very well grandstanding about how much you welcome refugees, but if you then turn around and whine that you’re only welcoming them as long as someone else has to pay for them, it rings somewhat hollow.
(Though in private, they lay the blame closer to home.)
Poll after poll for many years has found that however much we wang on about “Jock Tamson’s bairns” and Kenmure Street, the Scottish public’s view on immigration is barely any different to that in England. The reasons that Scots tend to vote for different parties have nothing to do with a greater fondness for immigration.
“Restore Scottish education standards”? Not much controversy there.
“Solve Scotland’s housing crisis by building more homes and prioritise locals for social housing”? Again, such a policy is hardly a foul outrage against common decency. We strongly suspect both of those aims would be supported by a vast majority of Scottish voters right across the political spectrum in any poll.
“Protect women and girls safe places, end woke policies in our schools and oppose self-ID”? Once again, these are utterly mainstream positions overwhelmingly backed by the electorate but ignored, decried or sneered at by the other parties. It’s Reform who are speaking for the vast bulk of ordinary Scottish voters here, and the SNP, Labour, Lib Dems and Greens who are with the extremist fringe.
NONE of the pledges on Reform’s leaflet, then, are even mildly contentious as far as the Scottish public is concerned. So how do people generally tend to respond if you try to gaslight them that a party espousing sensible policies they agree with – again, let’s leave aside the question of whether those policies would be successfully executed in reality, because it’s true for every party – is in fact a vile and reprehensible menace to the very foundations of their society?
That’s a rhetorical question, of course. It’s the tactic that’s been failing spectacularly against UKIP/The Brexit Party/Reform for the best part of 20 years now. It’s the tactic that brought us the Leave vote. In the USA it’s the tactic that brought Donald Trump two election victories. And it’s the tactic that’s now bringing us this:
It’s six months since John Swinney put together a laughable “summit” in Glasgow about the threat posed by Reform to Scottish democracy, and what’s been the result? How’s the great strategy working out this time?
And still the mainstream parties double down on a tactic that’s an endlessly-proven failure. This week has seen a confected political and media storm about comments made by Reform MP Sarah Mochin in a TV interview, when a caller complained about white people being under-represented and demonised in TV adverts.
It’s worth looking at what she actually said.
POCHIN: It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of, you know, people that basically are anything but white-
HOST: What’s wrong with that Sarah? What’s wrong with that?
POCHIN: Well, it doesn’t reflect our society and I feel that your average white person, average white family is, I agree with you [caller], not represented anymore in there.
HOST: Lots of white people on television, Sarah, are there not? There are lots of white people. There are lots of white men. There are lots of white women.
POCHIN: We’re talking about adverts, and how many times do you look at a TV advert and you think there’s not a single white person on it? And actually it’s something that’s happened because, I believe, of the woke liberati that goes on inside this sort of arty-farty world, and when it comes to northern towns like Runcorn that I represent it’s just not representative of the rest of the country. It might be fine inside the M25 but it’s definitely not representative of the rest of the country. I’m actually, I’m hearing this more and more, people notice this and people will switch off.
All of the people you’d expect leapt on it, focusing on the first half-sentence (which had interrupted by the host before she could finish her point) to suggest that Pochin was horrified to see non-white people on TV at all.
But that wasn’t remotely what she’d said, as was perfectly clear from the rest of her comments. And rather awkwardly, what she actually HAD said was completely, unequivocally, demonstrably and comprehensively true.
Just weeks ago a report (commissioned, with towering irony, by the ultra-woke Channel 4) found that non-white people were indeed vastly over-represented – by a factor of more than 12 – in TV adverts, while other, predominantly white, minorities were heavily under-represented.
(C4 naturally presented this as great news, only complaining that not enough of them were also “LGBTQIA+”, who were also too often portrayed as fun, not serious.)
But Pochin was dragged over the coals for stating a simple fact in some unplanned, off-the-cuff remarks responding to a caller on a phone-in show. And many of them were the same people who during the Hamilton by-election a few months ago had FURIOUSLY defended actually-racist comments from Humza Yousaf and Anas Sarwar in planned, co-ordinated speeches complaining that there were too many white people in good jobs in Scotland.
Because apparently being angry that a 94%-white country has mostly white people in top roles isn’t racist, it’s a “powerful point about a lack of representative leadership”.
(There is no such “lack”. Non-white people are in fact proportionately very well represented in senior positions in Scotland.)
Apparently for some reason we MUST pretend there are 12 times as many non-white people in Britain as there really are, and be very very upset that there aren’t. Indeed, we can complain about white people being white as much as we want.
Just last month, the countryside was too white.
The England women’s football team is too white. (Presumably they’ve picked inferior players on purpose for racist reasons, which will be why they’ve, er, won the last two Women’s European Championships and reached the last Women’s World Cup final.)
(And even though non-white players are in fact over-represented by 325%.)
The royal family is too white.
There are too many white men in Transport For London.
There are so many white people in theatre it’s simply “hideous”.
Question Time is too white, even though it has non-white people on 40% of its panels despite their only being 4% of the population.
Even black people are too white.
And you’re not allowed one white family in London.
(Something that’s becoming increasingly the case in real life, as depicted in this BBC documentary from 2016, which is well worth watching. Nobody in it is racist, and the non-white people in it have done absolutely nothing wrong either. It’s just very sad.)
Pochin is also entirely correct that voters get cheesed off about it.
As you’ll see if you click the images, many of the incidents we’ve listed above attracted huge numbers of complaints to the broadcasters or other authorities involved, which were invariably dismissed, which then (quite rightly) fuels the complainers’ sense of injustice and resentment.
And over and over again we learn the result of monstering normal decent people as “far-right” bigots for stating simple truths and holding entirely reasonable opinions – you push them further and further away until they DO vote for right-wing parties, out of sheer frustration and anger, because those parties are the only people who don’t seem to actively despise them.
And that, readers, is how you make racists.
(Equally, for pointing out this endlessly-evidenced cold hard fact, we ourselves will without a shadow of a doubt be called far-right racist bigots, etc etc. As ever, the people warning about the bad thing happening somehow get blamed for it when their warnings are proven correct.)
Of course, John Swinney was in reality just using Reform as a shoddy scare tactic to demonstrate why Scotland needs independence, despite the fairly obvious fact that independence would almost certainly make Reform stronger in Scotland, not weaker.
(Because firstly with independence achieved the SNP would no longer be holding the bulk of the indy vote hostage and would have to – yikes! – campaign on their record in government, and secondly if an indy Scotland was trying to rejoin the EU that would be a huge boost to Reform, since even a third of SNP voters voted Leave. They’re still barely polling above 20%, but almost twice that many Scots rejected the EU in 2016 and would likely flock to Reform if rejoining was a possibility. On 38% they’d suddenly be in real contention to win Holyrood elections, not just come 2nd.)
But that doesn’t make his comments any less idiotic or counter-productive. There are still six months until the election, and since the other mainstream parties are equally terrified of Reform and are using exactly the same cretinous tactics, the chances are that by May they – and we, and everyone else who’d really rather not have Nigel Farage in charge of anything – will actually have something to be scared about.
Alternatively, of course, everyone can try screaming “FASCIST!” and “NAZI!” a bit louder at people whose views are quite manifestly neither fascistic or Nazi, but merely reflective of how a measurably growing number of your friends and neighbours and families are feeling, and see if it suddenly starts working.
Well that should get rid of the last few remaining friends you have in the Indy movement!
Scotland is being killed by immigration. We desperately need to stop the flood and remigrate people who shouldn’t be here.
Remigration is the hottest new policy voters are demanding across the West. Every illegal deported saves money and lives.
Scotland is full.
We are not all Jock Tamson’s bairns.
Scotland belongs to the Scots.
Is that you, Alf ?
The BEAST who was deported and then came back and was imprisoned to await deportation AGAIN was apparently given £500 to leave the first time , he then came back and insisted that he be given another £500 if he were to leave again otherwise he would create a stink , I don’t know if the CLOWNSHOW that is LIEBOUR paid him again but to be honest I wouldn’t be surprised
There is a petition on change.org to STOP the uk government using the army camp in Inverness to house 900 MALE asylum seekers , the Scum Nonce Party angrily (yea right)stamped their feet BECAUSE they hadn’t been consulted NOT because it is WRONG , the petition had 1900 signatures yesterday today it is nearly 6,000
LIBERATE SCOTLAND should illustrate and highlight this abomination FORCED on the people of Inverness by the colonial government and their sidekicks the yoonionist incompetent snp
Immigration from England?
Absolutely on the nail
Yep!
The Left Wing in Britain are staring into the abyss and there’s nothing they can do about it.
one afternoon, for an exercise, annoyed because all these folks were saying everyone was racist, I went and worked out the numbers for Scotland, for SUSTAINABLE NETT MIGRATION – it was long and tightly argued, but I will spare you the details, it comes in total to about 10K A YEAR, total number, english and outsiders, and splitting it 5K high performers and 5K charity cases.
Now look at this story – the meat is the chart midway down.
link to archive.ph
totally pisses on my 10k per year numbers and has done for all of this century. The english are more than 10K a year on their own, then there is the other lot – lets call them “BAMS” (dropping the e) for fun.
its been bad for all that time, but has gone absolutely nuts in the past 3 years. I don’t go into Glasgow or Edinburgh much, but you can see it on the streets, these little ethnic gangs milling about – whatsaallthatabout … the guardian tells me they are brain surgeons and research fellows at the university, or could be – IF I STOPPED BEING -RACIST-
what are nigerians doing here? Nigeria is a pretty good country for Africa, the biggest nation, the richest, with oil – and it subsidises prices for domestic consumption (imagine you could do that) – come over as a “student”, get knocked up, forget about your visa, bring your family over – avoid deportation …?
now, more numbers – 18K ABORTIONS last year and I bet it is almost all natives
now, I know, I know … its a “womens right to choose” – yeah yeah individual circumstances and all that, but in the large –
RU FUCKING KIDDING?
– so we are wazzing up young Scots with the hot needle and flushing them down the lav while importing untold mystery meat from fuck knows where to do what exactly?
crime and welfare fraud? Or maybe they are all AI experts going to build the next NVIDIA.
supposedly these folks are the engine of economic growth but I’m not feeling it
I saw an odd job ad recently, it was for the local council, it was the second best job in the council and it was for a “resettlement officer” – your job was to make sure the randoms were doing alright; the arseholes have a waiting list for housing which has grown over the years to ridiculous proportions, but … you see their priorities
amazing how easily manipulated people are by the threat of being called “racist” – it’s not racist to pursue your own interests, whether personal or national.
we need to have our own human rights LOBBY for the “INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL FIRST PEOPLES”.
my specific problem with farage is the economic damage he intends to do with his super thatcherite / neoliberalism on steroids policies
– but he is also a pied piper and conman; he is totally alright with “legal migration” and according to the ONS, there will be another 10M added to the population, entirely legally, by early 2030s. In any of these scenarios, Scotland and the Scots will get fucking hammered.
Took a bit longer than I expected but the full conversion to Reform supporting white supremacist is complete.
Thanks for proving my point, you absolute fucking idiot.
You are spot on Rev. Kudos. I regularly big up your website in the Spectator. I am not an Indy supporter mainly due to the half wits in the SNP. However you are a brilliant journalist compared to your colleagues in the Scottish press.
You’ll drive yourself insane with some people, Rev. Your piece is absolutely to the point, well written, evidenced and factual. Some people just can’t take the objective truth. It must always be their truth based on misplaced and suicidal empathy.
Wrong I’m afraid. The rev is pointing out evidence based commentary shared by many Scots.
Are you OK?
We shouldn’t worry about Reform because, in the immortal words of Michael Barrymore, it’ll be alwight …
Poor auld Scots. Never mind the people of colour appearing on Adds. Do you ever hear anybody Scottish . Nah course not.
What have I proved, exactly? There is nothing idiotic in noting the very predictable shift to racism based posting after years of posting about trans issues. It is a very common move among people such as yourself who have dedicated years on that subject.
Off you pop now, fuckwit.
Are you Sturgeon in disguise?
@Cofused: You certainly live up to your name – human rights laws apply to everybody who can demonstrate that they’re human.
And as for your blether about “aboriginal indigenous” people, have you checked your
own DNA yet?
Mrs Grimble: tell us about “protected characteristics” in ‘Statutes in Force’. So far as I can see, most of us are NOT provided with significant protections which are selectively granted to some under Westminster legislation. On a practical assessment this amounts to exclusion of the majority of humans within the ‘UK’.
You write as if a colonialist and without any appreciation of issues which are absolutely obvious if any attempt were made to study history and social anthropology world-wide. Confused could well have a better grasp of reality than you have.
Have you any explanation to offer?
If gender and ethnicity become a protected characteristic, the whole palavar about Human rights would go away.
It won’t though as too many individuals and organisations have a vested interest in the status quo.
Exaggerating the proportion of non-whites in the UK population-as depicted in widely seen advertisements- risks a backlash.
Folks who do not live anywhere near Bradford or Bristol, e.g. in most of Scotland, may conclude that their neighbourhoods are atypically white, but are destined to become less ‘hideous’ if non-whites are so prevalent elsewhere. We know that already Britons believe the BAME percentage to be much higher than the census finds.
So this could play out as a classic case of the law of unintended consequences. A well-meaning effort to accustom the majority to a major demographic shift, by making it appear more major still, only inflames panic about imminent replacement. It gives the ‘evil far-right bigots’ fuel for whatever flames they may or may not plan to fan.
The mystery is why the over-representation of ‘aspirational’ blacks in particular (not so many Indians, Pakistanis or Chinese) has become so blatant. Liberal bourgeois guilt and undigested wokery after the 2020 BLM hysteria? There were token ‘blacks’- usually light-complexioned mixed race models- for years before then, but the recent explosion cannot be rationalised commercially. There are not nearly enough young, affluent black consumers to offset the whites who may rebel against this propaganda with their wallets and credit cards. I do not take conspiracy theories very seriously, but the ad business’s hive mind seems to have been struck by a peculiar, self-defeating virus.
Confused @ 15.31.
Nigerians are almost sure of successful asylum claims should they just state they are Christians and fear religious persecution in their own country.
Some 36 Christians killed in May in one instance, 200 in June, as an attempt is made to create an Islamic state.
Be in no doubt that NGOs and Refugee Support Organisations make sure that this particular ground for claiming asylum is made known to appropriate illegal immigrants.
Immigration is a very big and very corrupt industry, it’s not just human traffickers but lawyers, judges and NGOs have their beak in this pie.
Scottish people are being taxed through the eyeballs to pay for their own replacements. Many of them violent primitives who come here to commit crimes and consume what’s left of our welfare state. This is intolerable.
If settler colonists can come in to our country, they can be required to leave too. Scotland is the land of the Scots, nobody else has a God given right to live here against our will.
If “white people” as Humza calls you aren’t allowed to have our own country IN SCOTLAND, nowhere on Earth is safe for white communities. It’s only “white people” countries that are told they must accept mass scale replacement immigration. African and Asian countries have openly racist immigration laws and they don’t care who knows it.
But it’s important not to be racist. So we can also deport Sturgeon, Swinney and the rest of the “i love refugees” crowd because “white people” who work for the destruction of our society aren’t needed or wanted anywhere.
We need Scotland, because it’s the only home we have. We don’t need Swinney for anything.
Well said, Red.
Stu
Reform aren’t the answer. I remember when one of them threatened to track you down and kill you, so maybe stop shilling for them.
Best regards, G
After 14 years, I’m so tired of people who can’t read.
Stu
You know I can read, even between the lines *shrug*
Best, G
Well then why the fuck are you claiming that I’ve said “Reform are the answer”?
Tired you say Rev of people who can’t read.
But it’s worse than that because because here’s them that can read, can see with their twa eyes, but can’t think.
Deaf dumb and blind that can’t play the mean ping ball to mis-state on old rock ballad about not getting fooled again.
Now that(according to the lefty losers) we are all white supremacists. What is the Scottish government doing about the Pakistani Grooming Gangs operating here in Scotland?
Ignoring them, and voting down investigations into them. The SNP are enabling vermin.
link to consoc.org.uk
“According to Goacher, Reform have promised to:
Reduce spending in local government via an equivalent of DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency in the USA formerly headed by Elon Musk) in each local authority area
Stop employees working from home
Reject any proposals to house asylum seekers in the area of a council they control
Remove any employees with Diversity and Inclusion responsibilities in their role
Stop all net zero projects.
He goes on to point out that each of these promises probably faces legal hurdles – either from legislation specifically covering local government’s role, obligations and powers or from more general legislation covering things like employment and equalities rights.
For example, a number of councils have already lodged Judicial Reviews against hotels in their areas being used to house asylum seekers because it constitutes a “change of use”. According to Goacher all but one has failed.
Similarly, on net zero projects, in most cases ultimate legal authority will rest with central government.
It’s worth adding that the so-called DOGE initiatives are also likely to face some legal problems if the experience of Kent County Council is anything to go by. Shortly after Reform took over control of KCC, a letter was sent to staff announcing the DOGE initiative and demanding their co-operation, with threats of disciplinary action if they failed to do so.
The letter was signed by the new Reform Leader of KCC, Councillor Linden Kamkaran. So far so good – as long as she had ensured she had the authority to do this and it was legal (the disciplinary threats bit is obviously controversial).
But the letter was also signed by Nigel Farage as the Leader of Reform UK and Zia Yusuf as the (then) Chairman of Reform UK. And was on Reform UK headed paper. Neither Farage nor Yusuf had, or have, any legal standing to instruct KCC staff and the letter makes it clear the DOGE unit is actually a Reform Party organisation, with therefore no legal standing with KCC.”
“Holy screaming Lefties Batman!!”
You know if I was a Lefty with my snout in the gravy boat I would probably be shiting my pants about now
Another epic which will require a couple of reads to digest a lot of it. One can only imagine the Pop goes the weasel blogger working himself into a lather to respond if he has not already posted in here in cunning disguise. Keep them coming.
They’ll be raging because everything the Rev has said is true.
The surest way to offend people is to tell the truth. No Scottish nationalist could support turning Scotland into a colony of Afghanistan and Nigeria.
But we have a lot of fake Scottish nationalists who are too weak to handle the truth. The cringers and the cowards. The people who think the highest value of Scottish nationalism is sooking up to the EU and other failed globalist projects. They’ll rage and they’ll spit and they’ll lie, but they can’t change the truth.
The truth is that our society is on the brink of collapse because of a historically unprecedented immigration invasion. If we are unable to find a democratic means to restore law and order to the borders and remove illegal and benefits-seeking foreigners, what comes next will be worse than anything Farage could do.
From Stirling to the sea…
Sadly it has always been the habit of the Upper and Middle Classes to ignore the legitimate concerns of the Working Class, (which they despise and are insulated from) until civil unrest, violence, revolution, and outright war temporarily unsettle them.
It is always ugly, brutal, and avoidable, but they never learn because they, personally, are comfortable. Until suddenly they are very UNcomfortable.
“Sadly it has always been the habit of the Upper and Middle Classes to ignore the legitimate concerns of the Working Class, (which they despise and are insulated from)”
And this is more especially in the case of a colonial society where the assimilated native bourgeoisie assume the values of the colonizer, which includes “the crushing of the colonized” (Memmi) as well as subordination of native culture and language.
What did we think private (i.e. colonial) schools and elite universities were for if not to prepare the 3% elite who rule over us and run our institutions? For that is where the ‘Scottish’ elite learn their ‘values’.
Tho in a colonial society human values tend to be in short supply (Cesaire), as we can see in Scotland having the highest prison population in NW Europe, highest poverty levels, lowest life expectancy, highest drug addiction etc etc, all symptoms of cultural/colonial oppression.
Alf – I see your campaign of terrorism against the WoS comments section shows no sign of abatement.
“highest poverty levels”
Some interesting claims there, Alf.
Knowing as I do that England contains some God-awful shitholes, I decided to do some online research to find out for myself how they stack up against ours.
At first I started to think that my search engine was making UK synonymous with England. Every list of the most deprived areas in the UK contained English places only.
Eventually I twigged. There are so many places in England more deprived than the worst of Scotland that you need a big list to see them all.
As of 2 years ago, of the 30 most deprived areas of the UK, the first and only Scottish area came in at number 26.
So England had 25 areas worse off.
“In May last year, just before the General Election, I wrote about the huge crisis in local government for this blog. The most important financial fact was that central government funding for local government had fallen by 40% between 2009/10 and 2019/20.
“All councils have been caught in an iron triangle of falling funding, rising demand, and legal obligations to deliver services” say Stuart Hoddinot and Alex Thomas of the Institute of Government.
Analysis by the Financial Times’ Jennifer Willaims shows that the 10 councils taken over by Reform had already identified £500 million in cuts in the February-March budget papers this year alone.
The same FT article reports Nigel Farage as claiming that “We are going to make big savings. We will stand here before you in one year’s time and show you the excessive costs that we have taken out of local government”.
In Kent CC, for example, in 2023/24 71.6% of its spending went on statutory adult and children’s social care and only 1.2% on head office costs. It’s difficult to see where any further “big savings” could come from without cutting statutory provision – which could face legal challenges..”
link to consoc.org.uk
And then they will use any ‘savings’ to fund…..
tax cuts for the rich.
Read it and weep, lemmings.
Topically, one of the stories on Radio Scotland this afternoon was the proposed move of 300-odd would-be immigrants (ex-pats?) to an army barracks in Inverness.
In November.
Haven’t they suffered enough?
Highland Council look set to levy a Tourist Tax for 2026. Currently, 5% is being touted.
Legal visitors from elsewhere in Scotland to Inverness next year will no doubt enjoy the irony of being taxed on the amounts that they are being fleeced, while rubbing shoulders with illegal visitors who don’t pay any tax at all.
Haha, just my little joke. Ah hae ma doots anybody will be enjoying it.
As George Orwell observed a whopping 80 years ago on the overuse of the word “fascism” by leftist elites.
“Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable'”
The new word is “racism” by which our new faux- progressive lords and masters deign that the thoughts of the plebs are in this day and age “not desirable”.
One thing the racist-crying Tena-wearers club should consider, but won’t, is that the Rev and other Scottish nationalists sounding the alarm about this would prefer to talk about almost anything else.
But we are forced to talk about this because our country is dying in front of our eyes and the people we trusted to protect it have abandoned the Scottish people in favour of foreigners. They won’t even look into the massive grooming gang problems in Glasgow (!) because the lives of Scottish children are less important than their precious migrants.
The easiest thing in the world is to cover your ears and go “la la la can’t hear you racist”. But the Rev isn’t bringing this up out of some sudden late life conversion to hatey hatefulness. He is compelled to bring it up by his own honesty and love for our country. An honest man won’t let you walk into a trap, an honest man tries to warn you about danger even if he gets scorn in return.
If Scotland isn’t important enough for us to have difficult grown up conversations about, what are we even doing? That’s the problem with the nu SNP, no real talk, just empty slogans. But we can’t live on slogans. Scotland needs leaders and people with the courage to tell the truth.
It has been many years now since a slow evening’s fun at McHateface Lodge has included playing “Spot The White Family” during the ad breaks on the telly.
Just as it has been many years now since, concluding that any attempt to speak common sense and facts about immigration nearly always resulted in accusations of wacism being hurled, I realised that the wacism accusation hurlers are posturing, virtue signalling fuckwits.
So that’s many years now that I have been ahead of the curve.
As I’ve said before, we have to hope for Reform and we have to hope they have some success in curbing the worst excesses of the ever-increasing wave of immigration.
Because if they are sabotaged and fail, what comes after will be far worse.
The ultimate advert is the multi cultural family sitting at the British dinner table.
Eating a micro waved dinner made of insects in a synthetic sauce distilled from processed sewage.
The micro waved dinner will generate a plethora of recyclables, including plastic tray, film, cardboard sleeve, etc and in the small print the eagle eyed will spot a Modern Slavery statement and a pledge to reach Nutt Zero many years in the future.
Why are so many not understanding this?
Stu is neither being racist, nor pushing the Reform agenda.
Reform are the only apparent option of kicking the uk political status-quo into touch.
I have an idea of just how bad they could be with their hands on the reigns, but the point is that they’d be bad for everyone, not just here in Scotland.
If Reform can cause enough of the other political half-wits to waken the feck up and change tack, then that could be useful for us in the longer term.
After all, do we not want change? Voting any other way is simply going to endorse the crap that’s been dispensed to us for more than the past decade.
Spot on.
Labour’s reign is showing us that they’re just as useless (and nasty) as the Tories and Lib Dems – voting Labour is another dead-end, despite their assurances that they’re ‘different’.
I live in a (‘New’) Labour borough in London, the Labour Party here are lying, bullying scum, since our (‘Old’ Labour MP retired) there’s nobody even attempting to keep the
arseholes in check.
The first thing Farage should do if he gains power is to ban the wearing of masks or face covers in public. That would finish the Left Wing off in one fell swoop. End of opposition. No face No protest.
the first thing farage should do is to wear a mask to protect us from looking at his frog like visage
By far the largest immigrant population in Scotland is refugees from the failed state of England.
600,000 of them , massively affecting our NHS,housing,political systems.
the english are still the worst; but given what we already have to put up with them, we don’t need another crowd of thieving carpetbaggers
The English might like looking at your daughter, Scot, but they probably won’t drug her, rape her and then pass her around their mates for “entertainment”.
If the English start bursting into kid’s dance classes and carving up wee lassies I’m sure we’ll all get to hear about that too.
I was a young teenager in Invergordon in the 70s, there were grooming gangs back then.
They weren’t Muslim taxi drivers etc, though, they were offshore riggers – mainly Scottish, English and Americans, I think. p
They plied a group of girls in my year, with alcohol and drugs smuggled in from the continent, via the rigs and supply vessels. It all happened on the moored ships the riggers stayed on when they came offshore.
Some of us at school knew this was happening. I imagine some adults were aware of what was going on too.
Rocky @ 11.40
The most obvious example being Randy Mounteback formerly known as Prince..
Epstein, Kincora, Saville, The Catholic Church, and The CoE, among other recorded cases suggest otherwise, hatey.
Evidenced based reports such as……
link to gov.uk
and
link to assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
…..also indicate that the simplistic narrative swallowed by the terminally gullible that it is a black and white issue (in every sense) is not a tenable conclusion congruent with the available facts.
But then what else would normal, decent people expect from those such as yourself obsessed with dividing the species based on skin pigmentation?
So what exactly is it you’re claiming here, Dave? Is it that the English ARE bursting into kid’s dance classes and carving up wee lassies?
Well, well. I genuinely didn’t know. None of the people I know know either. Thanks for the update. I’ll pass it on.
“what else would normal, decent people expect from those such as yourself obsessed with dividing the species based on skin pigmentation?”
Ah ken, Dave. It’s that precise obsession that, to take a random example, would have rioting crowds on the streets of Islamabad and a popular revolution if a white, Christian boy was ever made President of Pakistan. By fraud.
But you’re right. As I am a member of the white race, it’s only natural you should hold me to a higher standard and expect superior morality to a member of one of the other races. And because it’s you stating that, and you’re a good virtue signaler, you’re not being racist. You can’t be because you’re intrinsically good.
One final point. Normal, decent people, or at least the ones of my acquaintance, don’t believe believers are innately superior to non-believers. They don’t believe men are intrinsically more valuable than women.
But that’s exactly what followers of the Religion of Peace believe. That’s why we end up with a diverse society of four classifications, with believing men at the top and kaffir women and girls at the bottom.
As I’m not a follower of the Religion of Peace that puts me at a considerable disadvantage. The women and girls in my family even worse.
Maybe not you though, hence your post.
Ah bless!, hatey’s been triggered.
Would you like some tissue to wipe the spittle from that wee gob of yours, sonny?
It’s a sure sign of desperation when someone is reduced to such straw man arguments to shore up their subjective, selective narrative.
Re-framing someone else’s point to suit yourself is not going to wash with the grown up’s, hatey. And the point remains that the available objective evidence demonstrate the standards you claim to uphold with your own version of virtue signalling are just as likely to be breached in this context by any group, regardless of ethnicity, skin pigmentation, religious or non-religious affiliation, or culture.
Because the third universal constant, in addition to death and taxes, is that it doesn’t matter where you look, there’s always some sub-group or individual(s) who will kick the arse out of anything.
Indeed, a Poundshop Josep Borrell such as yourself provides living proof of that constant. In any other context, you’d be shrugging your shoulders and claiming the universalism of “human nature” in your usual selective way to suit convenience.
And the irony of your little temper tantrum outburst is that you present a mirror image of what Stu Campbell is arguing against in this article.
Just like in the examples Stu Campbell lays out above: painting anyone who does not hold the same opinions as yourself as unable to be a ‘normal decent person’ and monstering anyone who holds a different perspective as “far-left” virtue signallers etc for stating simple truths and holding entirely reasonable opinions backed up by objective evidence.
Trying to be a cartoon character from Viz is not much of an ambition. Maybe it’s time you took a sabbatical to get yourself some therapy rather than continuing to make such a public spectacle of yourself, hatey. I’m sure you can do better with the right guidance and mentoring.
“Maybe it’s time you took a sabbatical”
It’s past time you troubled to discover how things work on Wings BTL.
Hint: You’re not Rev Stu, are you?
Ah! You mean hatey and the rest of his tag team get to have their own way by shouting down anyone who dares to contradict their Official Narrative.
Somehow, I don’t see Stu Campbell putting up with such puerile school playground antics.
You have my attention, Dave. Well done.
Explain for me and other puzzled readers how one goes about shouting down others on a forum with maybe 10 minutes minimum between a post and a response, on a very good day.
And, on a forum where there are unlimited posts available.
Got to say, Dave. You’re never going to wrest Scotland’s freedom from the rapacious, perfidious, blood-soaked, imperialist aggressor when you take a fit of the wobblies just on reading something you disagree with online.
Scotland needs our heroes to be made of sterner stuff.
Count your own post’s, hatey.
Particularly the number of negative responses and condescending and contemptuous tone* used, along with the very woke post-modernist practice of substituting unsubstantiated assertions for actual evidence and dismissing any evidence contrary to your limited comic book character narrative with the same ‘monstering of others’ that the Rev outlines in the above article.
It’s not quantum mechanics.
*Which more often than not invites the same approach reflected back by other posters.
You could always count them for me, Dave, make yourself useful.
I do appreciate your joke about unsubstantiated assertions though. This place defo needs more humour, keep them coming.
In fact, here’s another suggestion. Why don’t you count the posts from all posters that contain unsubstantiated assertions?
Why have a dog and bark yourself, hatey?
Though in your case, you’d be the legendary Ludlam’s dog – who was so lazy it had to lean against a wall to bark.
You do your own homework, son.
A sincere person prepared to read the article’s nuance about representation should not be calling you out as a racist. The comments BTL show that many people do not do nuance and want to move straight from issues of (over)representation to we’re full up or go on about grooming gangs or the latest immigrant ‘outrage’. We all know grooming gangs are illegal and so this is a matter for law enforcement. If the police won’t act to stop illegality then people can pressure them to act until they get the message. However, that would mean people having to get involved in a political cause rather than foaming at the mouth in their armchair outrage.
The only issue I have with Pochin is the ‘it drives me mad’ language which is an irrational reaction, an emotional outburst, that may or may not be indicative of something else that she cannot acknowledge. Similarly, the people being upset about overrepresentation in adverts. If that’s what make you upset, then you need to get out more and work off your frustrations more productively. I have some ‘skin’ in this game and I notice overrepresentation but it really is a minor issue in terms of the media. I remember Rory McGrath complaining way back about too many Scots doing voiceovers for commercials. In a way ’twas always thus. You get underrepresentation, then you get an overcorrection, and then it usually settles down a bit. The ‘it drives me mad’ people will then move onto the next target for their ire.
Your point about giving people something to vote for is absolutely correct. The political class has left ordinary folks to sink or swim and let a housing crisis persist decade after decade and populist parties like Reform will get a hearing in just these circumstances. The political class had a chance after 2008 to change their ways but there is no political imagination left. Politicians are in effect reduced to being the gatekeepers who choose which ones of the rich and connected get to spend public money. That’s why lobbying is so important and also why the SNP ministers make use of a loophole in the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016. Remember Sturgeotti’s little rooftop election success rooftop party for the rich and connected. Did any of you get an invite?There’s yer modren Scottish politics right there!
The following links shows the numbers who view TV and read newspapers in the UK:
link to barb.co.uk
link to pressgazette.co.uk
The approximate population of the UK in 2025 is nearly 70 million people. Very few people watch TV and read newspapers these days.
It means the message of the mainstream media in audiovisual and print is becoming more irrelevant and it is hard to see those industries surviving in the next 5 to 10 years as the Boomer generation dies off.
Their only purpose now is to generate controversy in order to gain and retain viewership which is why we see shock articles about Mochin.
The same applies to mainstream political parties who virtual signal is such grandiose ways to an ever decreasing base that is willing to go out an vote for them in order to get themselves elected due to the majority not bothering to turn up.
Most people get their information from the internet, including sites like wings so this woke narrative or whatever you want to call it is on borrowed time.
Of course the counter argument to this is that the young have totally bought into this but people turn conservative in nature as they get older and besides, I doubt very much outside the vocal minority that many young people believe in this nonsense but only say so in public due to peer pressure.
@ Bilbo – thanks for those links to TV and press viewing/distribution figures. Very interesting indeed – less than 3 million for TV News progs, and Daily Record is the only circulation reported for Scotland at around 40,000.
@ Sarah
There was a ‘fury’ in the Scottish parliament where all the political parties united over STV moving news production from Aberdeen to Glasgow.
The argument being made by STV is not news production is making a loss and nobody watches news anymore:
link to archive.is
It also has to be noted that of the dedicated news channels in the UK, GB News is the most popular but it is making year on year losses and AFAIK, hasn’t made a profit since it has started.
Mainstream political parties are desperate to keep mainstream news media alive due to the unhealthy relationship they have with them. Political party spin doctors are able to get the right messages out to the public and news media generates controversy in order to retain viewership to an ever decreasing audience who are partisan and only want to hear what they want to hear.
I remember during the Brexit Referendum, I was impressed by the quality of journalism from the Irish media and it’s state broadcaster, RTÉ. I think it was Tony Connelly who provided great opinion and an ongoing podcast about it.
The UK needs the same type of quality journalism that is the norm not only in Ireland but all around Europe and the world. I would have concern if we had the same quality of journalism here and it was failing but I have zero sympathy for these trash journalist organisations. The sooner they fail the better.
Colonialism is defined as ‘hateful racism’ (Cesaire). Scotland since at least 1707 used to be subject to just two forms of colonial racism: 1. that colonialism is racism and; 2. that oppressed native subjects internalize that racism (e.g. Scottish cultural cringe). Now it seems we are subject to a third form of racial oppression.
Which all goes to show that a colonized people are ‘out of the game’ (Memmi), merely bystanders to what is happening in their ain laund, which is rapidly leaving them!
Insightful piece Rev.
I could be mistaken but I think I have read this post previously……….. but only 1236 times!
At least, this time, we were spared a link to some additional mince. Alfie Boy is in love…………with himself.
Chas – of course, the irony being that the history of Scotland and colonialism is as a perpetrator rather than a victim.
Two twats in a row. Bingo!
Colonialism does appear to be beyond some people, e.g. those in denial, those craving dependency, and of course the substantial colonial administration payroll. But colonialism is not really that difficult to understand:
link to salvo.scot
“Colonialism does appear to be beyond some people”
How true that is, Alf.
Take the map of the world, for example, and study the names of cities, towns, villages and hamlets, in the New World, the Caribbean, Africa, Australasia, etc. See the Scottish names everywhere, providing the evidence of Scotland’s part in one of the greatest colonising adventures in human history?
All denied and ignored by some as inconvenient facts.
Now take our own Scottish high streets, and the media we are all exposed to every day. Observe many of the people who as recently as 40 years ago, either they or their ancestors lived happily enough in a remote continent. But now they are here, warping our laws, diverting our financial resources to their betterment, and sometimes, as senior politicians, just simply telling us what to do, think and say.
Yup, that’s colonialism all right.
Yet it remains beyond some people to call it for what it is, and they wang oan and oan that colonialism is only ever when the people originating in another part of the unitary state that is the UK choose to live in this part of the unitary state that is the UK.
I have to say, Alf, that as a reason for the break up of the UK, the fact that some English people live in Scotland is not a particularly good one. My mind is made up on that, and it won’t change until the English start making a habit of randomly carving up innocent Scots with knives.
Why it is that you don’t use some of the better reasons – that £150 billion per annum you like to assert for example, doesn’t “appear” to be beyond me. It is beyond me.
And, I suggest, your failure to capitalise on that claim is beyond the thinking of most thinking Scots when they read you asserting it.
Not least, it will be beyond the thinking of many of the English in Scotland, who would dearly love to get their filthy mitts on some of that £150 billion, just like us indigenous Scots. You see, they are not so different.
The sub-Saharan boys now – that’s like chalk and cheese. That’s authentic colonialism – red in tooth and claw, and possessed by a world view that sees every one of us as second class, but only because they don’t much deign to notice women. Until they choose to, and then they’re fourth class.
It’s such a shame you’re in denial about Scotland’s colonising past, Alf. I’d wager there will still be surviving accounts describing how the Scots boys on the American plains regarded Injun braves in the pecking order, and where they ranked Injun squaws.
Yes Alf – people thinking Scotland is not a colony is more evidence that Scotland is a colony. You’ve got this nicely wrapped up haven’t you.
Alfie Boy
I actually ‘clicked’ on that link but was shocked to see that is was a piece written by someone called Alf Baird. My interest immediately evaporated without reading a single word.
You definitely need some new material.
Couldn’t agree more, Alf.
I’ve been concerned about the third form for a while.
As if we don’t have enough layers of shit to get out from under.
Reform could improve their pro-brown supporting credentials by promising to enact a law if they gain power that forces “chocolate” makers like Cadbury to increase cocoa solids.
Whilst everything is going to hell in a handcart in the UK, even my one vice of enjoying a bit of (sadly overpriced) chocolate is becoming nigh on impossible when it jist tastes like brown candle wax.
This latest £4.80 bar isn’t much better than the ScotBlock cooking chocolate I used to by out of ScotMid back in the day when I was less of a cocoa connoisseur and quantity over quality was the main priority.
FFS, it’s got to the point I’m beginning to recall the hell of visiting the Hershey’s “Chocolate” World in Pennsylvania and consuming what was a substance no better than dug chocolate.
Dan, we really like Lidl’s range of chocolate. Though I can’t remember the price as Lidl’s is 50 miles away so I don’t get there often, but I would think it is cheaper than other shops, and better quality chocolate since the firm is German and the continentals certainly like good food!
He’s posted a dozen or so screenshots in defence of racist comments by a Reform politician in order to promote the idea rhat white people are unfairly under-represented in the media and public life. Fuelling this nonsense is exactly the Reform agenda.
I’m younger than many people on here but I am old enough to remember monkeys selling pg tips and aliens selling mashed potato. Also old enough to have a grip on reality enough to understand that adverts (which are the thing that kicked this nonsense off) are designed to sell things rather than be documentary footage of real life.
To all those saying, “Rev Stu, your transformation to the right is complete”…
I feel that the Rev is like me.
I have ALMOST EXACTLY the same instincts and principles as I did in 2014 when I was a liberal leftie who voted Yes. (And in 2016 when I was a liberal leftie who voted Remain). It’s just that in the intervening period the left has gone so nuts, and has captured so much of the state, that I find myself agreeing far more with Nigel bloody Farage than with any left-winger.
I was always in favour of immigration; because I never thought any government would admit four million immigrants in three years.
I was always a liberal on cultural/social issues; because I never thought people would be flung in jail for saying men can’t turn into women, or that the abortion limit would be completely scrapped.
I was always in favour of a strong welfare state; because I never thought anyone would pay a generation of young people to stay at home in spurious grounds.
I always rolled my eyes at businesses moaning about their burdens; because I never thought anyone would government would impose a tax on jobs.
I was always in favour of fighting climate change; because it was obvious that nuclear energy was the way to go.
Don’t get me started in covid and the near-collapse of law and order.
Maybe I was naive.
For a lot of people who are interested in politics, being “on the left” or “anti-Tory” or whatever is really important to them. They will vote for their “team”, and against the “other team”, regardless. To me, that is a really stupid way to be. I was a leftie; apparently I am now on the hard right; well if that’s how you want it, crack on. I have the same values.
That you, “Chas”?
@Hello Hello
Interesting post, thank you. I think many of us would agree with your sentiments.
(Ignore the village idiot/fat bloater btw, adding value as ever)
I can relate to a LOT of that, Hello Hello.
__________________________________________
Great piece, Stu.
Positive discrimination is actively anti-meritocracy, and therefore in a majority white population, woke policies of positive discrimination become systemic racism against the majority. Recruitment practices are riddled with this. DEI, should DIE. It’s gone TOO far.
Somebody up thread was talking about the pendulum swinging.
I watch as as the pendulum swings over my head, from one side to the other. The middle ground is always looking up and watching extreme movement from one side to the other. The pendulum rarely seems to favour the moderate.
exhaustive
link to archive.ph
– it goes back a long way, and it’s not random
an oldie but a goodie –
link to youtube.com
– liberia was the place lincoln tried to ship the freed slaves, who once freed, decided to enslave the locals
wakanda it aint.
– govanhill, it could be soon.
remix news on twitter is also useful
When you ask yourself – who is doing all this, these insane, suicidal policies across the world? It tends to be women, a specific kind of “wimmin”.
– this guy’s got it.
link to archive.ph
But Ken Kesey “got it” decades ago – we are being run, all over the world, in every bureaucracy by a type, it’s the “Nurse Ratcheds”
Now look at Jenny Gilruth (as only one example) and think of her last performance on debate night – the dead shark’s eyes, the over controlled expression, the bland deflections – she is holding in her hate, all the time, nuclear strength passive-aggression
… and also a decent bet to succeed Swinney.
Mind also, the carpet munching; she does not do normal relations, mums and dads, families, stable marriages – that’s all oppression or something. Penis in vagina is r4pe. If you want a kid then its the turkey baster with a donation from a gay friend. “mum” might even be hate-speech by now.
– the thing about the bull-dykes, they have enormous “penis envy” (freud was right); a need to prove themselves, to over compensate – and in positions of power they want to make us all submit to them and the “power of their massive strapon”. Think I’m going a bit too far? – check out that old photo of Ruth Davidson straddling the gun on a tank … what’s going on there then?
As much as I’m laughing, you have a serious point.
Oo er missus.
Well, my sunscription to this site is now cancelled. I don’t know what it is about any more, but it certainly isn’t independence.
Lol
Too many over sensitive people on here. Get a backbone.
And here’s a thing. At the weekend a UK government was berating Scotland because the naval contractor at Rosyth was having to employ and bus in 300 Filipino welders.
But its the same shit show over on the Clyde where in addition to foreign welders BAE are flooded with Romanian painters. Again the fault of Scotland letting the side down, hampering the war effort.
So why is Scotland so run down, so de-industrialised, that it can’t aside of building ships make steel, make cars, manufacture the steel jacket legs for the offshore industry who procure the manufacture in Dubai, China and other far flung places.
And if its just Scotland that’s letting the side down why does Hinkley Point C new nuclear reactor plant being constructed down in Somerset have around over half of its circa 12,000 workers from around the world.
Its a good question and good on Farage for berating our downfall being due to foreigners coming to our shores. Racism, scape goating, its an easy message to play to the deaf dumb and blind populace bereft of thinking.
Now the UAE, or Qatar or Norway, unlike Scotland found oil and gas and developed and prospered. Interesting eh- we won’t get fooled again.
Willie: it is long-term lack of investment in our own young people that has caused this crisis in loss of trades and skills. Cutbacks in college funding, cutbacks in university funding. Older people were made redundant to save money and their skills were lost to future generations.
Also, bringing people in to work for sweeties or to outsource work to other parts of the world is the plan. Globllisation. Profits are being hoarded off-shore or in other places and not re invested. Short-sighted politicians and utterly self-seeking politicians.
Adam Smith wrote extensively about investment and profiteering, about under-cutting wages to maximise profit and so on, warning about exactly what is happening. He spoke of ‘tradesmen’ in his 18th century world, but our problem is corporate, global business in the modern world and it is driving massive displacement, rapid social change never experienced before and the breakdown of cohesive society. Follow the money.
The SNP, Scottish Greens, Scottish Labour and Scottish Lib Dems were tripping over themselves to tell everyone who was prepared to listen that the Scots are so different from the English that they would welcome ten million immigrants into Scotland.
No, I exaggerate, but they all did bleat on about how non racist and pure the Scots are compared to the rest of the “far right” hoi polloi. Turns out we are not that different at all when it comes to people who make their way through peaceful Europe to English shores, then up here, as fake asylum seekers.
How can you be an asylum seeker when you have passed through umpteen safe countries? International law states clearly that people seeking asylum must remain in the FIRST safe country.
Now, that aside, the Westminster government thought: okay, these virtue-signallers up there in Jockland want hundreds of thousands of immigrants to pick their soft fruit so we’ll oblige them by sending them hundreds of thousands. Once again, the English politicians have outwitted the Scots politicians and their followers. They have hoist us by our own petard! Well, not me, because I saw this coming.
Inverness, a relatively wee place, is now set to pay host to hundreds of ‘asylum seekers’, and Glasgow council is set to go bankrupt through its own stupidity and hubris by volunteering their city and its people. Nemesis is fast approaching, and every town and village in Scotland will soon be in the same position as those in England. Who is posturing now, eh, as public finances hit the buffers?
Immigration can be a good thing if it is managed properly, if those coming in are willing to integrate and even assimilate in major ways. If, however, they bring attitudes and cultures with them that cannot be either integrated or assimilated, the host country is in big trouble. I do not blame anyone for wishing to have a better life either, but the objective truth is that neither the UK as a whole, nor each constituent part, is in any position to play host to vast numbers of mainly young men who will require to be housed and fed. and whose attitudes to many things is inimical to our Western culture. Yes, we share our values with the rest of Europe
Some local people in Inverness suggested some time ago, apparently, that the Cameron Barracks should be turned into housing for local young families, and this was rejected by the council. Remember, this is the area where hundreds of houses are planned, just skirting and nibbling Culloden battlefield, and the tender for covering the barracks will run into millions.
Scotland has a massive housing crisis, as does every other part of the UK, yet, by law, these people must be housed in front of our own people, must be seen by the NHS in front of our own young families, although the numbers had never been anticipated when these laws were made. This is not conjecture. Look up the law. Trouble is coming and the virtue-signallers, those who refuse to face reality, will be forced to face the consequences of their own stupidity sooner rather than later. As usual, though, it will be working-class areas and working-class people who will be expected to pick up the slack, not the ever-so-nice middle-class, trendy lefties.
Well said, lorncal.
Have you been watching what’s been going in rural Eire?
Well said, Stu. It needs to be said and you nailed it
“Scotland’s contribution to climate change is so infinitesimally small that nothing we do can possibly make any difference”
How nearly true. Just like the contribution to society made by me paying taxes is so infinitesimally small that it could not possibly make any difference.
And I’ve recently read a novel set in Yorkshire during WW2, in which the main character’s father “did his bit”, as I understand the saying was. His own contribution was so infinitesimally small that it could not possibly have made any difference.
In fact every such contribution makes a very slight difference. The combination of everyone’s contribution makes a noticeable difference.
Nah. Nobody’s contribution makes a difference when for each one contributing, there are hundreds doing the opposite.
That’s the flaw in your argument right there.
If every Scot pledges never to travel, heat their house, or warm up food, ever again, China is hoaching with cities, each with bigger populations than Scotland’s, laughing at our folly.
India too.
You’re trying to extend the metaphor of a country “pulling together” to the entire world and it doesn’t work.
I get what you’re saying…but is there really any point in our destroying ourselves in the quest for Net Zero® when China, Rusha and India are merely going to look on in amusement as the stupid Westerners tear themselves apart? 🙄
@ Jeremy Dawson
Of course there will be a few semi skilled jobs created here but the majority of the jobs that will be created due to Net Zero will be in China.
Of these semi skilled jobs that will be created here, they will be paid for from higher energy bills which means money sucked out of the economy. Therefore the green jobs created will be at the expense of jobs in other parts of the society, most likely the service sector as people cut back in going out to restaurants, pubs etc.
Correct. There are more of them than anybody else. 10’s of thousands of THEM. And the spineless pusilanimous numpties of scots are afraid to point it out. And why are reform getting such big figures? I used to think we new better ffs.
For the first time I agree with anus sarwar. Scotland can’t afford another term of the vacuous, spineless swiny tinkering round the edges of what patently bloody obvious. He’s a funking cretin.
I aw the news about Cameron Barracks, just a couple of miles from me. So we are going from an almost completely white scottish area to somewhere where hundreds of migrants, and make no two ways about it, sub sahara africans, who are essentially unknown here will be hanging around the town with nothing better to do.
This area was generally lib dem or snp traditionally but once this happens I see reform taking over here too.
What puzzles me is why do hysterically touchy (usually) middle class left wingers believe that they have a monopoly on the campaign for Scottish independence and a right to police who is allowed to be a part of the movement? Their no one is illegal, no borders etc would result in what if and when we achieve independence?
A few days ago I looked up two of the three main organisations steering advertising in the UK and I then asked grok what it thought when I presented it with my findings and it replied that given the boards and senior positions were majority white, or at least people who look white, on a very large scale that their do as we say, not as we do routine was at best performative and indicative of an elite completely detached from the population.
I have always had my suspicions that a lot of these middle class left wingers don’t really believe in Scottish independence but see the movement as a way to get policies introduced in Holyrood that would never get passed in Westminster as well as pressuring Westminster with surges in support for independence.
As these advertising agencies with all white boards pushing multi-racial families in their adverts, the answer is simple.
These companies are located in metropolitan areas that are more multi-racial and multi-cultural whose demographics are nothing like the rest of the country. They are competing with non-whites for these well paid professional roles.
They are not pushing any political agenda but doing so out of self interest so they can justify their senior positions in a company that has a broad spectrum of employees of different skin colours.
Next year was never ever about Independence Roddy and the Scottish Prism has just got the message as well as Peter A Bell, who have been banging on about unity when even a dead donkey knew the SNP wasn’t bothered about unity or Independence. But never mind we have all now realised Reform is bigger than some have thought.
Lets be honest anyone who has been paying attention could see that Independence didn’t stand a chance until after the 2031 election but there is light at the end of the tunnel for Scotland and the movement in the form of reform.
The UK is riddled in debt it can’t afford to pay and who caused all this mess capitalist and the best of it all Nigel Farage is the very last person you’d want running a country well is he. I believe he might just be the archer that tips the scales in Scotland favour for Independence. Starmmer is no PM and the only person in the UK who thinks he’s doing a good job is John Swinney and neither is Nigel Farage this is one individual who can’t see past his own photograph.
I have one concern and it should concern as us all and that’s if the Unionist taking control of Holyrood because if they do its Nuclear reactors every in Scotland and I don’t think Unionist or Nationalist wants that, but it benefits England and we all know no one south of the borders needs Scotland to win a general election.
Trust me anyone who knows John Swinney knows he’s a moron and he’ll screw next years Holyrood election, Westminster banking on it.
And let’s not kid ourselves, if Miliband and his crew south of the border manage to foist unneeded nuclear power stations on Scotland they will then have reached the real goal – which is an excuse to foist the nuclear waste on us as well.
They’ve tried it before, at Mulwhachar.
Why is it the same people who complain that “England closed Grangemouth” (a lie of course) then also say “how dare England build nuclear power plants in Scotland”. Sizewell B employs 750 people in well paid jobs. There have been more deaths at Grangemouth than in the entire history of the UK’s civil nuclear industry (0 deaths). So what’s the issue?
if england needs nuclear power stations it should build them where they are most needed – central london, oxford, cambridge; england is an ugly flatland shithole, so nothing is lost scenically; they could also frack alongside these plants. Saves on transmission losses. What’s the problem, nukes are safe, no one dies.
I also fail to understand why they operate 4 refineries when they could import all their processed petroleum products from amsterdam.
Obviously that is an incredibly stupid thing to say, but to indulge you for a minute. There are plenty of nuclear power plants in the South East of England. Why would you build one next to or in some of the most expensive cities in Europe, where they will struggle to secure the required supply of water?
I realise your mind is a maelstrom of rage and anti-English hatred, but even you should be able to engage with those points. Assume you’re also up for closing Grangemouth, if the U.K. needs oil and gas products, make them in England right?
“Obviously that is an incredibly stupid thing to say…
Confused is making a point. A point cleverly engineered so as to befuddle simple Anglo or Yankee minds whilst that same point is obvious to the more advanced intellects of the Scots… who also see the humour wrapped aboot its delivery – humour that is hidden from the literal thought processing straight-jacketed Anglo-brain.
“…the U.K. needs oil and gas products…
And since England has none of its own oil it steals it from the Scots… it’s the Anglo way of doing business.
“England has none of its own oil”
Wow, Northy, such ignorance.
You should check out a map of UK oil and gas fields.
“…such ignorance.
Where some see ignorance… I see rhetoric.
@100% Yes
“Roddy and the Scottish Prism has just got the message as well as Peter A Bell, who have been banging on about unity when even a dead donkey knew the SNP wasn’t bothered about unity or Independence.”
Yes, finally the penny plopped into the deep well. Splosh!
Glimmers of hope die a very long protracted death it seems.
Best to have no hope in the first place 😉
I’m completely against nuclear too.
@Northcode
“Confused is making a point. A point cleverly engineered so as to befuddle simple Anglo or Yankee minds whilst that same point is obvious to the more advanced intellects of the Scots… who also see the humour wrapped aboot its delivery – humour that is hidden from the literal thought processing straight-jacketed Anglo-brain.”
PMSL
So true, Northcode.
Interesting piece reporting on how Reform’s chief policy spokesperson Lee Anderson MP is calling for extensive benefit cuts.
link to telegraph.co.uk
Aside of the party calling for the notability scheme to be curtailed where disabled people should only be given three wheel mobility cars similar to the 1960s blue three wheelers he and his party are also calling for Personal Independence Payment benefits to be stopped.
It’s an interesting policy that must strike fear into sick and disabled people and I wonder if it is policies like this, together with Farage’s penchant to privatise the NHS that is encouraging folks here in Scotland to vote Reform.
No support for sick and disabled, the privatisation of the NHS and no immmigrants – what not too like. Sick people are are real burden and where have we heard that before – Eh?
Makes you wonder what their view on old people is.They too must be a burden whose benefits must surely need to be cut too?
And lastly, I wonder what Reforms view on genetics is against the line that supporting the weak weakens the “gene pool” Now that would surely make Britain Great Again perchance.Alf Garnet would be proud.
Or am I missing something?
You’re missing that virtually the first thing Labour did on coming to power, apart from cancelling the Winter Fuel Allowance, was steamroller in the Assisted Dying bill.
That came out of nowhere.
Just because nobody is talking about it right now, doesn’t mean it has gone away.
Like all benefits there are plenty of folk who are not entitled, taking the piss claiming or who simply don’t deserve to be paid benefits. We all know some of them.
The big problem with benefit reform is that there are always genuine folk disadvantaged
Like the millionaire tax avoiders you mean?
Who steal ten times as much as benefit cheats?
When will they get mentioned by Fish Face?
“Or am I missing something”
You have missed Just about everything.
in worrying to much about benefits you have ignored the bigger picture.
Do you want your county and culture or just your benefits.
There’s more at stake here than benefits.
If this continues you will not have a country.
A wee slip of the finger perhaps. It’s Reform MP Sarah Pochin, not “Mochin”.
REFERENCES TO SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS……some of those may have a clearer understanding of colonialism and its consequences than many Scots who scoff at the idea that their country is effectively a colonial possession of its neighbor.
Underdeveloped, powerless with a long history of migration….sound familiar?
It’s already been said that these Sub Saharan Africans and other immigrants will be housed in poorer areas where accommodation is cheaper.
In these areas there won’t be many that scoff at the idea that their country is effectively a colonial possession of its neighbor. The areas where these wealthy unionists who have this mindset though and the pretendy independence supporters who will do anything to stop Reform will not see any immigrants on their doorsteps.
Having been effectively a migrant, unwilling, since the age of 5, along with parents and siblings i do identify with migrants, who btw are not all bad people.
The biggest risk for them is exploitation by those who definitely are.
@ TURABDIN
I have personal experience of these immigrants as they live in the street I live and I’ve mentioned it in this site. As I said, there are young African families living in my street. I don’t know if they are here seeking asylum or on working visa. They don’t cause problems and I don’t have any problem with them.
I have had different experiences of immigrants in my area. It isn’t the young men of fighting age giving me the thousand yard stare, or as we say here giving me the severe growl.
What is more unsettling is this one that just stood beside a railing in the middle of the town centre and stared. I don’t know if he was staring at me specifically or was just out of my mind on drugs.
Another unsavoury event that I witnessed was an elderly African man who just stood in the middle of a supermarket aisle and was staring at two teenage girls that looked of school age. If they were my daughters I wouldn’t let them go out dressed like they were but that isn’t the point, the old African guy just stood and stared at them and it was obvious. What normal, decent minded man would stare in such a way at very young girls?
Going a bit off topic.
I have a passing interest in Japanese culture due to playing Japanese video games and to a lesser extent, watching Anime. This interest involves reading articles and watching YouTube clips about the country and it’s society.
One of the YouTube channels I watch has clips that details a days life of everyday people in Japan like for instance small business owners or shop employees. The clips not only details their job routine but also their daily routine.
With this channel and other material related to that country, one aspect that hit me was how much Japanese society is focused on supporting and maintaining their internal economy.
Of course there are historical reasons for this. It was an island nation closed off to foreigners for hundreds of years which has fostered an isolationist mentality but there is also cultural reasons where for example they hate to waste so buy quality expensive goods that they will pay later to repair rather than throw away as well as living modestly and willing to spend money on personal items like hand made jewellery rather than the latest iPhone.
This mindset means that businesses and craftmakers can thrive in local communities which results in local economies being sustainable.
It will be impossible to replicate this mentality in any western society and no government strategy can try to replicate the conditions where local economies can survive in a similar manner.
However, given the rapid changes we are seeing in our society where traditional mainstream media are disappearing, we are will be living in one where media content is tailored to individual tastes and advertising will be same so there won’t be less of these adverts that all contains multi-racial families where the one white child looks nothing like their black parents.
There is an opportunity that with this change in media tastes and more targeted advertising that people are more inclined to use their purchasing power on goods that reflect their individuality that can be produced locally rather than this American consumerist slop like iPhones and Gucci bags.
It’s doubtful that will happen in practice but is possible as the influence of these multinational companies on our society wanes with the demise of mainstream media that used to capture the attention of large amounts of the public.
I have a passing interest in Japan for very different reasons than video games and Anime, which I have zero time for as feel they are merely unproductive insular distractions to that of improving wider society by folk interacting and developing cohesion on a more local community based level.
My interest is mainly, industry, and how they can sustain multiple similar companies evolving high-end products over decades. Such as motorbike manufacturers, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha. (Who on occasions will even work together and market the same bike eg. Suzuki RMZ / Kawasaki KXF model).
Compare to British bike and car industries for lolz.
Actually nipping out later to rebuild a Honda CR500 engine after sourcing all the required parts and correct specification bearings and seals. It’s an absolute animal of a bike from the late 80s/90s 500 two stroke era.
I also understand that Japan is a clean country where people take some pride or care in how they live, unlike so many folk and organisations in this sorry cesspit of a land.
Touched on the Japan subject previously with a link that may interest you to a program called Japan Calling from decades back.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
And the post above that one comments on the dirtiness of Scotland.
Frosty here this morning, so the start of wintery cold weather and yet another year of folk struggling to heat homes and businesses in an energy rich country.
Thankfully got all my house stonework and lime pointing complete before the frosts arrived, and just getting the last gloss top coat onto my restored cast iron roof gutters and downpipes before refitting them.
keiretsu
zaibatsu
MITI
Wilson tried to create a MITI – strategy organisation for the UK economy (“white heat”) in th 60s and the city almost destroyed him over it; the city does what it wants, that is the rule, and the capitulation of labour to them was the removal of clause 4
the city was just chaos, essentially, but the ideological class war aspect came with the adoption of milton friedmans ideas via thatcher and her successors, especially tony blair
all this is very well planned and hard to defeat, the public know and understand little of how things actually work; for us it is a straitjacket that relegates us to eternal shithole status; it is structural, baked in and you can’t beat it … unless you GET OUT
I’ve been to Japan a couple of times over the last few years and it is an incredible country, everything works impeccably, it is clean to the point that you could eat your dinner off the floor, although oddly for such an otherwise advanced society it is very cash based. If I could put my finger on one thing that keeps it that was is that everyone takes impeccable pride in the work and it’s a point of honor to do your job to a very high standard no matter what it is. Society is not tolerant of the kind of things we put up with in the west like drug taking, petty theft, antisocial behaviour etc. There’s not really any such thing as ‘not guilty’ in the Japanese justice system. If you are arrested then you’ll be charged and likely jailed, during which time you’ll work in a factory. As a result, it’s incredibly safe for everyone.
There’s also virtually no immigration. It’s not that having no immigration explains why the country is the way it is, but if they had immigration it would not be the way it is.
@Dan – why are you such a miserable bastard? By all accounts you live a comfortable life in a rural part of Scotland and you still have your health and are able to get out and about in the outdoors. That means you likely have a better life than almost everyone who has ever lived. Yet you moan endlessly about extremely trivial things like the fact that the coal in your stove was dug out in Colombia. If you lived in Japan, where by the way your endless moaning would not be tolerated, you’d still find a whole load of things to complain about.
@ Aidan
So pointing out stuff like the fucking insanity of importing coal from Columbia to burn and heat homes in energy rich Scotland when we have to put up with all manner of emission taxes, ULEZ, NetZero & “save the planet” horsehit makes me a miserable bastard.
FYI you need to be more alert as I have never burnt coal in my wood stove as I have an endless supply of firewood from all the beaver gnawed and felled trees, amongst other sources of wood though land management.
And pointing out 80 grand bonus for Scottish Water manager when they still deliberately pump untreated sewerage into the UK’s biggest river makes me a miserable bastard.
I’m also not a selfish bastard, and even if you think I live a life of relative comfort and good health (how would you possibly know and come to that conclusion?) that doesn’t mean I don’t care deeply about the wider community, society, and land that I exist within.
So go take a flying fuck tae yersel you trolling prick.
No, calling the wealthy and prosperous country which you live in a cesspool is what makes you a miserable bastard. Maybe it is ridiculous for us to import coal when we have plenty of coal here. However, mining coal is dangerous and very bad for your health, so I’m not sure how many Scot’s would be queuing up to do it. We can disagree on that, but ultimately it’s an immensely trivial issue in the scheme of things. It’s amusing that I get called a “Scotland hater” or some other nonsense, yet here you are telling us how terrible Scotland is all the time. Cheer yourself up man!
How many folk and children are living in poverty in Scotland?
How many homes and businesses struggling to pay energy bills?
I’ll call the country I live in a cesspool, seeing as it still pumps untreated sewerage into our rivers, and can’t properly manage the waste it creates because it lacks the will and infrastructure to do so. And that far too many folk are lazy and clarty and can’t even put their rubbish in a bin.
Hundreds of millions can be pissed away through flawed Circularity Scotland / DRS initiatives that could have been spent on the front line of staffing and running existing recycling centres more efficiently.
It’s all trivial stuff though in your eyes. Just for the record and some perspective, what is actually considered important to you?
So because you consider mining coal to be dangerous, it’s fine for us to burn it here and jist get other people from far-flung lands to do the dangerous work of extracting it.
Lots of work is dangerous but someone needs to do it. I wasn’t a fan of getting choppers out to boats and oil / gas rigs, especially because at that time quite a few were falling out of the sky and lives were being lost, which shouldn’t happen unless servicing and safety protocols aren’t being followed as diligently as they should.
But I had to do that work because it was the only way I could earn enough to get a mortgage to buy a property in the area I live in.
On one occasion I may even have saved a chopper from going down and lives being lost, because on one trip out to a rig the workers had to wait for hours due to fog and backlog of flights. When we eventually got onto a chopper and were getting strapped in and shuttling out to the take-off pad, I observed fluid dripping from above my head on the vent / light panel. Reached up to get some on my finger then sniffed it. Hmm, Jet A1 fuel leaking… well that ain’t good. So got out of my seat, much to the annoyance of fellow passengers, and walked forward to get pilot’s attention and let them know of the fault. That initiated an abort to the flight, and we shuttled backed to the departure area and had to get off and wait. Who knows what could have occurred if it weren’t for my alertness and mechanical knowledge.
Sure I mean there’s no denying there are problems and challenges, it would be great if everyone could have a comfortable life. But let’s put this in context, being in poverty in Scotland means it’s hard and stressful to make ends meet, it doesn’t mean living under a bin bag wearing a towl as clothing like you’ll see in Mumbai, or the family of six I saw living on a mattress on the street with young children in Buenos Aires. Nor does it mean living somewhere where gun crime is completely out of control in places like Chicago or Philadelphia. Scotland on the whole is a beautiful, interesting and peaceful place to live on the whole.
I don’t know what you’re point is about coal, are you saying Scots have an obligation to mine it if we want to use it as a fuel? I thought the point was it was an asset?
I’m always interested about hearing about life on the rigs, certainly get the sense that it is orders of magnitude safer compared to the 70’s and 80’s!
Thanks to all who posted to my reply before it veered off on a tangent.
@ Dan. Interesting YouTube video. I know it is not your cup of tea i.e. it’s purpose it to provide entertainment and a lot in the medium is garbage but there was a lot of good Anime in the 80’s and 90’s that had deep philosophical themes akin to cinema and a lot of ideas that were contained in that YouTube clip are fleshed out in these Anime productions.
@ Confused I’ve heard of the 60’s White Heat policy but didn’t realise it was as ambitious as what the Japanese government were doing.
The idea I like about how the Japanese does things is that while they have competition, companies also have mutually beneficially relationships when it benefits all parties.
I’ve seen this numerous times in the Japanese entertainment industry where a franchise spans video games, Anime series, music, merchandise etc but there was a simple one in a YouTube clip where a vegetable shop whom a woman who owned a bakery shop bought produce from allowed promotions of the bakery to be advertised in the store. It was a win-win situation for both shops.
It goes back to what I had originally said of local businesses having good relationships keeping themselves and the local business community as a whole healthy allowing money spent in the local economy in the local economy.
With the things you mentioned, the same things were being done on a regional and national level, keeping the Japanese internal economy thriving and keeping Japanese peoples money in the Japanese economy rather than them buying useless tat and money flowing out of the country.
As you said sadly, it can’t be duplicated in any form here with the City of London having such undue influence.
Haven’t you noticed in ads that a black man usually has a white wife and vice versa? Isn’t this a sort of balance?
Or vice versa ,black wife and white man, or the kids are of a ethnic mixed race , THAT is no different it is still implying that what is portrayed is the NORM when it is definitely not
The furore is because it misrepresents the reality , and once again the establishment is CHOOSING to present misinformation and a lie
IMO it is just another example of the trans situation where less than 1% of the population are allowed to DICTATE the kind of society that we exist in , it is also since the introduction of same sex marriages and the forced inclusion of pride that we see an ongoing war in which minority grouping can forcibly rise to the top and direct the policies and direction of our governance
This is exemplified and illustrated by HR proclaiming to be the best wee GAY parliament in the world where non heterosexuals are overly represented and dictate the policies and agendas imposed on the electorate
The perfect and glaring example of the FORCED introduction of the GRA and the despicable HCA forced through to SILENCE and PENALISE opponents to these abominations
Meanwhile while HR is concentrated and focused on deviant and perverted policies which undermines and threatens the very safety and security of our greatest asset our womenfolk our societal, financial , employment , business , health and welfare sectors are ground into dust by incompetent arsewipes who are more concentrated on the contents of our childrens underwear than they are on making Scotland better for EVERYONE
Sadly SGP has released another selective and inaccurate post about the above post on his site. This resulted in a pile on of his readers in the comments section supporting his views. I have respectfully commented challenging them and asking if they had read your blog.
I suspect it will not appear or will result in more attacks me.
Anyway I think your latest blog is interesting and you make relevant points well documented. Thank you.Cowdenbeath aye
James’ absolute pathological terror of dissent is the last entertaining thing about him.
Whit say ye?
Is this tae be the fate o’ Scotland?
Is this how us Scots are to meet our end?
Driven oot oor ain hame o’ a thoosand year and mony mair only tae fade awa and be forgat.
I fear the land o’ ma forbeirs be lost tae me – and sae be ma leid and ma heritage, ma tradeetions and the auncient cultur o’ ma people.
Scotland is dying… aye, and the Scots alang wi her.
Stat rosa pristina nomine – “the rose of old remains only in its name”.
“Whit say ye?”
SFA.
You really must learn to post in a language Wingers can understand, Northy – the King’s English.
Otherwise, your plaintive calls for help shall go forever unanswered.
“SFA”
You tell us you have sweet fuck all to say and then you go and ruin it by saying stuff.
Surely I can’ t be the only one on here experiencing huge disappointment.
Not at all, Northy.
I was pointing out that your sad cry for help had gone un-responded to and kindly suggesting that your use of a language, only a minority can understand and even fewer can write, is to blame.
I see my sympathy and well-intentioned help were scorned. You can’t teach the willfully ignorant.
Bad dug, Northy – nae biscuit. Noo, intae yer basket and dinna move afore supper time.
Surely I can’t be the only one on here suspecting that “experiencing huge disappointment” is the What Three Words of your life? 🙂
“the King’s English.”?
That would be this “King” would it, hatey:
link to weforum.org
The darling of the WEF Globalists.
Hatay Mchateface going in to bat for the Globalists and Globalism!
SAY IT AIN’T SO!
I know, I know.
But, you know how people are, hatey, – that “human nature” thing you keep banging on about (but fail to define).
Before you know it, you’ll be finding yourself THE target of the moment in the inevitable purity spiral process. Being denounced as some [checks notes] “pinko, woke, middle class, lefty, darling” (did I miss anything out of The Official Narrative list of “monstering ordinary decent people”?) by someone even more holier than thou than you are for saying something positive about a Globalist goon.
Still, that’s the nature of the mindset you are trapped in, hatey. Live by the purity spiral, die by the purity spiral.
But, keep digging, sucker.
Och aye the Nickitty-Nackitty Noo, jings, crivenns, help mah wee sleekit cowerin’ Boaby, shoosh wi’yer Rabbie-Burns-meets-Oor-Wullie shite or ah’ll gie ye a belt wi’mah corkscrew-shaped cromach afore ye kin say: “We wurr pure dragged oot o’that EU… AH-GAINST oor WILL!”
I suspect that the county councils Reform now control in England will be their undoing. Its come too early and people will work out they are utter fuckwits who make Lib/Lab/Con look like competent! Had it happened a year out from a GE then they’d get away with it but you can’t hide that level of fuckwittery for 4 years, even with the rabidly right-wing press in England.
Also rather surprised that the press haven’t worked out yet that one Reform council leader is ex-BNP (& EDL) and listed as such in the membership leaks from 2 decades ago. No doubt the individual in question would claim they “have been on a journey” but they’re still a dyed in the wool racist/nazi by any reasonable standards.
Unfortunately that leaves us with the current corrupt/incompetent/owned by Israel politicians that we’ve had at Westminster since Blair’s time. People might end up looking at Reform as moderates (FFS) compared to what will emerge if Lib/Lab/Con are able to maintain the status quo in 2029.
No easy answers but democracy* in the UK is on a shoogly peg right now….
*its not democracy anyway, its elective dictatorship – Halesham got that right 50 years ago & he WAS the establishment.
As someone who has paid for the benefits system all their life, has never claimed anything and likes the idea of a safety net if things go wrong there are certain thing I would like to see being reformed.
Disability payments need a overhaul, it was originally meant to support folk to get to work, lots of folk just assume it is a reason for them not to work. It should also cease at 67 except for those classed as disabled.
No benefit being paid to anyone should exceed the average wage in the country, ever.
If you are claiming unemployment benefits or social security simply because you don’t have a job then work should be provided, even if it is useless work it stops the ability of anyone simply deciding not to work as a lifestyle choice, don’t turn up no benefits.
Pensions should have some link to ni contributions unless disabled etc, pensions and benefits for those who don’t contribute are higher than those who pay ni all their lives as lots of the “freebies” only go to those who have never paid in.
Yes Rob there are many of us, who never having had to use the benefit system,never the less support the system.
Sadly there will be many, and we may all know of some who abuse the system That however is unfortunate because sadly it’s a fact of life that difficult to practically avoid.
Of course its easy for many to let their prejudice soar and see everyone who is on benefits as being a benefits dodger.Like immigrants they come like Scroedengers Cat to both both steal our jobs and steal our benefits.
What for me iss bog issue is how the corporate masters of the universe have and continue to hollow out our wealth. Power, ports, airports, gas, and more are examples of that. And transfer pricing of costs and profits around the globe folks have no real idea of what goes on.
Michelle Mone is but a two bit lush feeding at the bottom end of what is a big big trough for the real big money interests.
But I digress. We are all for the most part rats in a trap and its set to get worse, much worse.
My own particular pearl is the slogan that in the USA folks are free to buy as much health care as they need. And if folks didn’t work hard enough, or save hard enough, then hell mend them.
And that why for many of the disenchanted at the political system, or their natural Alf Garnet predilections, they will vote Reform.
Indeed… I know of two individuals on sickness benefit whose primary health complaint is being morbidly obese, hardly surprising given they live on takeaways, and they receive additional benefits as the others carer – how they get to do that escapes me! Their household disposable income on benefits alone runs to several thousand a month and way exceeds that of those on minimum wage working a 40 hours week who pay income tax, NI, pension contributions and council house rent.
Is it any wonder some people can’t be arsed working for a living when they can play the system?
They’ll always be people who try to abuse the benefits system, That’s life.
However, what folks seem to disregard is the Michelle Mone’s of the world. A two bit lush who can cream the odd £100m or so at public expense. And she’s the absolute bottom of the pile of the real big boys who feed big.
But sadly we don’t go ballistic about those who feed big. Only the bottom end scum bags that trough on a benefit or two.
But that’s the way it works. Thats the way too many people are. Focus downwards on the bit slurpers and not upwards on the real big troughers. That said, the benefit dodgers annoy me but not as much as the big boys.
I am in perfect health right now.
I just don’t see the need for hospitals; they cost a lot don’t they?
It’s just natural selection, isn’t it?
Also, ban antibiotics.
Some people aren’t as sick as they pretend to be.
Are you certain you don’t have mental health issues? It looks like it from the repetitive drivel you post. Maybe best if you consulted your doctor!
Talking to yourself again, walloper?
An observation on the subject of “benefits” – another one of those weasel, loaded words that gets used instead of social security:
Would it be a valid or invalid assumption to make (or even presumptuous) that:
a) there is a general understanding that the state pension is officially classified as a ‘benefit’? As are age related free prescriptions, travel passes and TV licences.
b)that those boasting of never having claimed any “benefits” will be too proud to accept the State Pension, bus passes, free prescriptions et al when they become eligible for them?
THIS American anti-white racist swill is how you make racists. Incredible that this ludicrous, disgusting filth is unironically published.
link to heraldscotland.com
Turabdin: you are right. Many people who call themselves Scots or British are also the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of migrants. Several millions came here after WWI II and settled in and down to start their own families who are third and fourth and fifth generation. The same happened in England with Caribbean people.
The big difference is that these migrants and immigrants integrated and assimilated. They may have been looked at askance to begin with, but everyone accepted them eventually. If masses of white people from Europe and here migrated to Africa, we would be looked at askance, too, and resented for forcing up prices and forcing down housing priorities for Africans. It is not racist to tell the objective truth.
It is racist, towards black or brown or white people, to lie to them. If we are losing people, why are we losing them? Where are they going? The answers to fix our ills lie in our own hands, but they will involve forward thinking and the willingness to rein in globalization, multinational companies’ exploitation, to pay fair, living wages, to start building social housing again and to encourage young families to have children by offering them incentives.
Scots went to every part of the world and integrated. Sometimes, they oppressed the native peoples, but, eventually, they settled down and life went on, albeit differently for everyone, and the native peoples often had to settle for second-class citizenship, which can no longer be tolerated. These young men cvouldf also settle down, but we have to remember that they will want to bring their families over here, too, and who can blame them? We cannot turn the clock back and the generations today cannot be held responsible for what happened before they were even born. To suggest that white people today are responsible for the past is utterly ludicrous and rooted firmly in stupidity and crass ignorance.
The days of European colonization are gone and are now in reverse, and, rightly, we need to accept that at least some of these people – who are not all bad, as you say – will wish to come here. What we cannot accept, if we wish to survive as a Scottish culture, is unlimited and uncontrolled immigration from ANYWHERE, legal or illegal. No country could possibly survive unlimited and uncontrolled borders. No country, no culture.
There must always be a limit to our compassion in the interests of self-preservation or we descend into suicidal empathy that will destroy us completely (the Neanderthals did not die out but were overtaken by Homo Sapiens, who probably outnumbered them). However, money talks – and shouts – and the loudest voices are those who wish to exploit all of us, black, brown and white alike. Just because someone is black or brown does not mean that he or she is incapable of viciousness, cruelty and aggression.
Human qualities that are negative are not confined to white people, as we are experiencing every day now in the UK, with rapes and murders by migrants escalating. We should also remember that many of these young men might well be traumatised by war and their propensity to violence exacerbated by their experiences.
The recent documentary on the Inverness care home did not dwell on the language problems either: old people, already confused by dementia, not understanding a word their carers were saying; young men caring for old women who were frightened by them; carers underpaid and overworked. Exploitation. That is why so many are being brought here by our political and commercial classes. Scots and English will not work for wages that barely cover their, and their families’, needs, so foreign workers, crammed into sharing accommodation to cut costs, will be brought here to do it instead. I doubt that, en masse, Scots’ shining opinion of themselves as pure and ‘woke’ will survive these strains.
We can’t afford to do nothing about the 2026 election.
We must strengthen the support for decent, non-SNP candidates.
Robin McAlpine’s article yesterday, “The vibes of arrogance”, tells of Dalkeith branch being swamped by Colin Beattie with a group of 15 members attending an EGM and forcing through in the most unfounded, improper way, a resolution which ended with Tim Rideout being ousted as chair. Guess who was voted in to replace him? Colin Beattie. He being the SNP Treasurer whilst £600,000 went missing, arrested but no charges laid, who is selected as 2026 constituency candidate because he offered his branch £20,000+ on condition of selection, and currently again SNP Treasurer, I think.
So, Wingers, are you going to let such people have their own way or are you going to support people with ethics and principles?
Wow. They’re still at it, then. Incredible.
On the very point of ethics and principles.
No.
Reform baby Reform.
Drill baby drill.
Speak Freely Speak.
Oh! Almost forgot.
Frack baby Frack.
anyone taking a bribe off Beattie should at least have the wit to ask for
600K
since the millenium Scotland has gained over 200K anglos, mostly middle class, essentially tories and little englanders who think Scotland is a shire, a possession of England, war booty, do not consider themselves “new Scots” and who will never vote for indy
– then the other lot, the BAMS, about 300K; they are just biding their time on benefits, crime and the grey economy, till the point they can go for a “caliphate”; they likely favour the union because of the amount of muslim brothers they have in england
none of this is good; between a rock and a hard place
Census data suggests a probable need to double these figures, at least. Inflows from rest-UK are approx 50,000 per annum, which indicates over 1 million people since devolution.
The last census was incomplete due to lack of responses, and the most recent estimate of 5.6m for Scotland’s population could be well below the real figure which may be 6m+, also reflecting the ever worsening crises in health, housing etc. Holyrood’s already limited budget has not kept pace with population growth since devolution.
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Arrange a date and recreate the arranged fight to the death on the North Inch of Perth..
Historical precedent and aw that..
Vote Green and you could be the proud owner of a pair of very large breasts. You could feel a right tit.
Vote SNP and you can hang around women’s changing rooms and claim untold benefits. (You will need them to pay your bills.)
Vote Labour and you can lose your identity and your country at the same time. Real value for money.
Vote Libdems and enjoy the clown show. Free popcorn.
Vote Conservative if you think it’s 1983.
Vote Alba just for a laugh.
Vote Reform if your willing to take responsibility for your actions.
Lol, Mark.
Apart from the last line, that’s a much more polite post than one I made a month or so back. I’m pretty sure I called them ALL arseholes and cunts.
I’ve been looking for my WILLING down the back of the sofa, in every cupboard, drawer and under every conceivable hidey place . . . canny find it anywhere 😉
I’ve been working on some complicated maths calculations and I’ve arrived at the following conclusion:
“If the Scots are eventually driven to extinction by the actions of the English then the average IQ of the entire planet will drop by over 75% with the greatest decrease occurring in North America and Southern England … interesting.”
“like you’ll see in Mumbai… or… Buenos Aires
But Scotland isnae mankit Mumbai or bloody Buenos Aires, is it?
The Scots pretty much built the modern world and invented the foundations of most of the tech it uses today – maist stolen by England wha kept aw the profits tae itsel.
With her vast reserves of natural wealth and the innovative genius of her people Scotland should be one of the richest first world nations on the planet; and the great majority of Scots should be living safe, secure and very comfortable lives considering all the benefits derived from their ingenuity they’ve bestowed upon an ungrateful and ignorant fucking world.
But thanks to England, and England alone, the Scots have been fucked ower again and again and again while the world looked on and shrugged.
Well fuck England, fuck the United Nations, and fuck the world entire.
If the UN and the rest of the ‘civilised’ world cannae be ersed gien us hauners in gettin’ perfidious Ingland aff oor backs then they are of no fucking use tae the Scots… and we might as well tell them that tae their face; we hiv nuthin’ tae lose that we hivnae already lost.
The Scots should be really very fucking angry at the way they’ve been treated by their unworthy shit of a neighbour and at the blithe ignorance of the world to the plight of the people who gave them a leg up toward a more enlightened civilisation (wasted fucking effort by the way nutcases around the planet are currently tearing it aw doun).
Exactly – Scotland is not either of those places, it is an extraordinary country that has achieved incredible things, and punches well above its weight for its size. It’s just a shame that some of the nosiest, anti-intellectual bigots spend so much time doing it down all the time.
“the Scots have been fucked ower again and again and again while the world looked on and shrugged.
Well fuck England, fuck the United Nations, and fuck the world entire.
If the UN and the rest of the ‘civilised’ world cannae be ersed gien us hauners in gettin’ perfidious Ingland aff oor backs then they are of no fucking use tae the Scots”
The authentic words of the eternal sitter on his flabby arse, hands held oot fer freebies – “Hey pal, can you spare us some freedom?”.
Tell us true, Northy. Did you ever write scripts for Rab C. Nesbitt?
THE GREATEST «THREAT» now is the Americanization of virtually everything and the conceit that everyone desires to be part of that culture, speak its language and embrace its existential worldview.
In these matters that default setting is manifest in the internet, its social media themes, its search engines and the global forces that seek to exercise control over information and thought.
It may well be that so called minorities will have a role in erecting traps for this globalist «groomer»; minorities prepared to take a stand regardless of intimidation.
Don’t you mean the China-ization of everything!
The American entertainment industry is in decline but America’s slimy tentacles have wormed it’s way into every facet of our society via social media platform.
You can see this level of idiocy on Youtube that involves people living here arguing with the Police that there rights under the various American laws are being abused. It’s embarrassing.
As to your assertion about China, they just want to build and sell things. Is it their fault that stupid politicians in western countries allows products and services to be bought from China even when it isn’t in their national interest?
“China, they just want to build and sell things”
Sure. Their clear intention to become #1 in the world (and off the world in space) is purely so that they can do a better job of building and selling things. Heck, that’s why they’re bank-rolling poot’s war now – it’s a great opportunity to build and sell things.
Amazing, though, that you can airbrush out of history the 2-year period when China just wanted to infect us all with their man-made virus.
That 2-year period that is as responsible for the utter mess we find ourselves in now as Brexit and The War and the fucking Tories combined. NOT TO MENTION A BODY COUNT NORMALLY NEEDING A WORLD-WIDE WAR TO ACCUMULATE.
I honestly believe one of the side-effects of the Chinese Flu must have been collective amnesia. I mean, come on, we spent the best part of 2 years LOCKED UP IN OUR FUCKING HOMES WHILE OUR ECONOMIES AND HEALTH SYSTEMS WERE WRECKED AND AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF OUR YOUNGSTERS HAD THEIR FUTURE PROSPECTS PERMANENTLY STUNTED and people don’t even want to talk about it?
Some of us DO want to talk about it. Just not middle class, metropolitan (likely public sector) lefties who are frequently offended by home truths and have an irritating habit of selective amnesia and/or point blank refusal to accept the evidence of their own eyes, all for the sake of their (entirely misplaced) sense of moral superiority and their idiotic, moribund political ideology that’s literally never worked anywhere.
Hope this helps serve as further explanation. 🙂
WHERE AMERICA GOES CHINA FOLLOWS, and where China goes America follows.
A «danse macabre» starring emperors Xi & Trump.
Globalization promoted China as world manufacturer and from that country the USA is learning the black arts of population surveillance and control, and clicking «share» with buddies.
The smart money, I do hope Scotland is smart in that regard, is on both dancing their way to an Edgar Allen Poe scenario finish.
I hope flame proof hazard wear is on hand.
I wonder how long before we have an AI generated troll in here. I doubt they are here yet as intelligence artificial or otherwise is certainly not obvious in the drivel they post at the moment.
Given the level of intelligence shown by some of these trolls, a chatbot from the 60’s could perform better than them:
link to en.wikipedia.org
We’ve already got at least 4 basic yoon bots;
“Caveman”
“#SitePrick1”
“Chas”
“Aidan”
One merchant banker.
There’s only one merchant banker.
[set to the tune “Guantanamera” – words repeat indefinitely]
I AM NOT AN A.I. TROLL, I AM A FREE MAN!
Well, I will be once Scotland is liberated from England’s evil clutches.
I’ve been to “The Village”… Portmeirion village that is. It’s much smaller than it appears on the telly.
I was a big fan of Patrick McGoohan… he was great in “Ice Station Zebra”, tae.
I miss the cold war… not least because of all the great spy movies it generated.
And of course a mention must go to the magnificent Beryl Reid as Connie Sachs in the TV version of Le Carre’s “Smiley’s People” (a character based on a real person, allegedly).
Anybody ever been to Marseille? Not on holiday but the normal parts of town?
I was there for a while around 20 years ago and can well understand why folk get upset about lots of immigrants hanging around and why reform are now doing so well despite them seeming to be as incompetent as the rest.
Crowds of young Africans (algerians in marseille) on each street corner feel and are threatening.
This is why as soon as this starts in Cameron barracks in central Inverness reform are probably going to win here in 26, something last week was very unlikely
I was there 8 years ago, not a safe place for the reasons you’ve said
Yes, I’ve been too.
The frog (apologies, no racist pun intended) has been boiled soo slowly many younger people have got so used to a lack of social cohesion and feeling wary, that they probs don’t notice it as much as older people, people who have lived through more consistent and predictable social/cultural behaviours.
Villages, towns and cities with Liberal/leftist administrations are worse off than those of a more small C, centrist, patriotic outlook.
Voters for Reform are largely to be found in those places that voted for Brexit. Also working class voters provided strong support
Strong support also comes from areas with poor health ouycomes, particularly respiratory problems. Increased support for Reform comes from people who have asthma, COPD, or are obese.
Public health is a clear issue. But with Reform planning DOGE cuts to public services that have been subject to 40% decrease in funding the NHS is unlikely to prosper unless administration is stripped to the bone. With an IT system thathas big problems in England’s NHS things can only get worse.
“things can only get worse”.
Do you mean the plebs will get fatter or breed more Reform voters?
Or
Do I detect a whiff of class contempt here,yes I think I do mixed with an air of panic.
I caught that too, if you vote reform you must be all educated idiot and I’ll.
That sort of argument is not going to stop the zeitgeist, what the other parties need to do is listen to their voters and come up with something that actually solves the things they want fixed.
Simply saying anyone is a fascist that votes for them, is a moron or is a racist wont work any longer, they need to actually do something to show what they are offering is aligned with people’s actual values, not they ones the political parties say they should be.
Detect what you like.
A lot of Reform supporters are normal people. There is stronger support from those who supported Brexit (and those who supported UKIP). That shows a stability in support, at least in those places.
On health.
“These are the findings of a new analysis, led by researchers at Imperial and published today in the journal BMJ Open Respiratory Research, which explore the links between health outcomes and voting patterns during the 2024 general election.
It finds that at the constituency level, areas where Reform UK performed well had a higher prevalence of people living with chronic diseases – particularly conditions associated with breathlessness, and poor lung heath.”
link to imperial.ac.uk
“It finds that at the constituency level, areas where Reform UK performed well had a higher prevalence of people living with chronic diseases – particularly conditions associated with breathlessness, and poor lung heath”
That’s got to be good in a certain way.
We won’t find Reform supporters marching through our streets calling for jihad.
They’ll be too short of breath.
Here’s a thought. Isn’t Farage in thrall to the demon nicotine? Could it be that Reform is the last dying gasp (pun intended) of that cruelly abused minority, the fag smokers of the UK?
They do say that like calls to like.
Mark, you’re no wrong.
Sam is a big silly who talks pish about MUP too.
Sam says: “Voters for Reform are largely to be found in those places that voted for Brexit. Also working class voters provided strong support…”
You’re overthinking it. Social revolution? Occam’s razor would just categorize those people as those most susceptible to populism.
Social status / income band – typically less well off, weaker education, fewer opportunities vs more frustration.
Live in abandoned communities – typically a once thriving locality fallen upon hard times, percieved as abandoned and made to feel superfluous. (“Fallen” on hard times is a euphemism, frequently these communities were destroyed by incompetence / greed / corruption, collective term = Conservative).
Short jump to people who are deeply mistrustful of politicians. See above for the why.
Growing feelings of insecurity; a belief whether right or wrong that things are getting worse mixed with fear of losing what little comforts and security they have. They perceive their communities are fragile. To a degree they are once all the safety nets are removed and sold off.
Demographics. Those vulnerable to populist narratives are typically older men, often described as gammons, but often from a generation where men were the providers with responsibility to put food on the table, shoes on feet, and provide the home with stability. If somebody has to “do something”, it’s traditionally their job. Men being men, “doing something” usually means getting angry and tribal, and frequently looking for a scapegoat to make an example of.
People are their own judge and jury: (little tricky concept to grasp), but they are easily manipulated and led to believe what they want to believe, but averse to thinking objectively about right vs wrong, and extraordinarily difficult to persuade that what they’ve been sold is (usually) a pile of shite. Half the time, they haven’t even read the shite in the first place. It just sounded like what they wanted to hear. I’m angry about something, – and it might as well be that.
Reform exists because the political machinery in the UK has been a rotten and self serving dung heap for decades, and for decades it engineered a society of people who put greed ahead of social structure, respect, and stable communities.
Literally everything from your diet to your clothes, and where you live, is a consequence of money, not worth. Poor people get shit. That’s how it works. You are what you own.
The “funny” bit is, that the bourgeoise “I’m alright Jack” types on a middle income have begun to realise that for all they’ve bought. they’ve got shit too, but they have spent a lot more money getting it: a fortune on a house that’s a piece of crap, a car with no value that brings you dependency on the manufacturer, thousands into a pension pot that’s shrunk to nothing, and a shit job to show for all the money they spent on Crispin’s Private School education, and literally every activity you engage with, from a drive in the country, a pint down the pub, to watching tv has its own individual tax surcharge to pay. You haven’t a pot to piss in, but luckily they take the piss too.
Reform isn’t a working class revolution. Behave. That’s a lie. Reform is the just a very ordinary populism turning up on cue to exploit an increasingly putrified society.
It has no values, it’s opportunistic, morphs into whatever resonates with the crowd, and if history is anything to go by, at some point the consequence is bloodshed and disorder on a sliding scale of intensity, from riots and civil disorder right up to war. Meantime it’s the weak and vulnerable who get targetted, and its no surprise they’re frightened.
To “sort” any of this, we are looking at the wrong end of equation. It’s not the angry shouty men in the street to blame, its the faceless men in grey suits who treat society as a game of exploitation. The faceless types who “don’t” get named in Panama papers or Epstein lists, and won’t get vaporised if the war they started to sell weapons goes nuclear.
But, typical for parasites. They got too greedy, sooked too hard, and now have a big problem once the host knows they’re there.
Reform is a UK phenomenon, not a Scottish phenomenon, because disillusioned Scots have an escape option with Independence. Scotland is only vulnerable to Reform to the extent Unionism forces it on to our agenda. Otherwise, it’s all alien.
I suspect most Scots are just bored stiff by McFarage, and heartily scunnered that a feckless and dysfuntional SNP has kept us chained by the neck to this burgeoning basket case dystopia which eyes up our nation as a free food source.
It is frustrating that posts like this often take so long to appear on the site.
As with so many other aspects of life, timing is crucial in debate. Salient points and arguments made too late, outside the control of the contributor after the debate has moved on, and other articles have appeared on the site, lose their impact value and effectively waste the time and effort put in by the contributor.
Resulting in any BTL debate being dominated by the simplistic and the shallow.
Aye, noticed this previously. That long term posters of decent content are still held on moderation whilst the likes of Hatey is free to spam all day long says it all. And that can only be intentional, or in a plot twist, Hatey is actually Stu. lolz
“Decent content” is a subjective term.
Put it this way, I’ve got about 1000% more faith in Stu’s discernment and ability to fairly and objectively sort the wheat from the chaff than swivel-eyed loons, low-wattage types and obsessives.
So let me get this right!
Swinney is warning that Hollywood is too weak to resist Reform ”
In other words it’s to weak to stop Scottish voters from voting for someone else.
They spin it like Reform is an alien invasion.
An alien invasion of Scottish voters. Mr McKenna is right about SNPs contempt for Scottish working people.
The 5 most dangerous cities in Europe include Bradford, Marseille, Coventry, Birmingham, and Naples.
Bradford has been designated UK City of Culture for 2025.
Sadly it has always been the habit of the Upper and Middle Classes to ignore the legitimate concerns of the Working Class, (which they despise and are insulated from) until civil unrest, violence, revolution, and outright war temporarily unsettle them.
It is always ugly, brutal, and avoidable, but they never learn because they, personally, are comfortable. Until suddenly they are very UNcomfortable.
How to create racists:
link to heraldscotland.com
She is so right, Onlooker.
I hereby resolve to travel to her home country and lecture her people on the brown privilege they enjoy.
I intend to particularly focus on the unjust behaviour of their forebears, who throw out my Scottish forebears, citing openly racist pretexts for doing so. When they learn what they did, her people will be wracked with guilt, shame and remorse. But it’s OK, I will forgive them.
I hope and pray that many more like Nuzhat Uthmani will make the ultimate sacrifice of abandoning the earthly paradises they have built for themselves in their own home countries and travel here to Scotland to settle among us and selflessly devote their lives to teaching us the true path.
SHE IS LINKED TO THIS
link to wosdec.org.uk
Jobs for the girls….and one man who likes baking and going on trains.
Obsessing over ones race, is that not a species of racism?
This kind of color oriented discourse would not be possible in many countries.
I have some worries about reform as I disagree with a lot of things they stand for also I have to say we need to clarify the difference between illegal immigration and actual asylum seekers. Because I am fully in favour of those in actual danger of being genocided or murdered being allowed to come in but otherwise I actually agree with pretty much all your points there stu and this is from someone who used to be a SNP voter even advising my girlfriend (who isn’t interested in politics) if she wanted to vote she should vote SNP. Not any longer.
“Obsessing over ones race, is that not a species of racism?”
Do you mean internalised self doubt about a place in the hierarchy of race?
RACE like GENDER i consider a social construct, a variable subject to ideological shifts, prejudice and novel trend within that construct.
Both are examples of «pseudo science».
The notion that white people are more prejudicial in attitude on this matter than others is nonsense. What is currently going on in Sudan and Yemen and Xinjiang are examples to ponder.
If your face, your name, your religion or culture do not fit the accepted norm you will be categorized according to the in-or-out group taxonomy.
All societies operate such primitive coded classification systems. Some are subtle some are not. I write as one who has been often mis-classified, something i have found amusing.
The human species is still in its infancy, still narcissistically inclined to look for the familiar reflexion in the mirror.
Good post.
I agree with your many VERY interesting points.
Responding to all those points in any depth, would result in a War & Peace tome.
Wouldn’t it be a laugh if the promised 72 virgins turned out to be half a dozen cross dressers from Newcastle.
This story is ten years old:
link to bbc.co.uk
‘Mr Farage, however, claimed “canny Scots” had negotiated a better deal than other parts of the UK when the Barnett formula – which determines how public money is distributed – was created.
He said: “This all has to be rebalanced because frankly English taxpayers are a bit cheesed off with so much of their money going over Hadrian’s wall, giving people no prescription charges and no university tuition.”
“…canny Scots…Hadrian’s wall…” Two bigoted statements for the price of one. Conveniently forgetting Scotland finances England with our stolen natural resources, of course. The usual. Remember when wee turtlehead got chased into an Edinburgh pub in 2013? You think that horrible millionaire Trump-pal Little Englander bastard is going to forget that? Let him into power here and there will be trouble.
Coupled with statements he made in this story years ago, you can see where his head is at with regard to this country. He would thrash us even more mercilessly than the current vermin government for revenge. Any Scottish person voting for Farage is a damned fool, and an enemy of this country. Screw the nut.
link to uk.news.yahoo.com
Bravo! Very well said.
But….many folk are thick, it seems.
James! They’re not thick they just disagree with you.
Read Onlooker’s post. Or read it again.
Onlooker, You just might have cottoned on to a coning plan, if we lose of the free benefits it might just stop immigration to Scotland from south of the border.
Well here’s one fools arse you can kiss.
Well, Beggan, Hell mend you. It’s like voting for Trump: a pity the rest of us have to suffer alongside you for your own stupidity. There is zero political choice in Scotland, now, but that Little Englander cunt Farage, and all his lobotomy case fans, can go fuck themselves.
“a pity the rest of us have to suffer”
Sure. A pity Scotland has to suffer because the Indy movement spent 10 years preferring to vote in fuckwits over and over, simply because they seemed to be of the same tribal group.
You’re just the same as the Dems in the USA. They won’t admit or even recognise that Trump is the monster they conjured up by their decade of excess, hubris and unbridled wokery.
And the same excess, hubris and unbridled wokery in SNP/Green Scotland will conjure up Farage here too. And the “blame” is on you and those who “think” like you.
You’ll be on your death bed still believing you can win in politics if you just scream the right potty-mouthed insults often enough and loud enough.
Your post above being a perfect example of the type.
“Let him into power here and there will be trouble”
Too right, Onlooker. Much better if we all vote for the P@lestinian party. There won’t be any trouble when the keffiyah-wearing Arabic chanters are marching up and down our streets every week.
Still, as with every one of Rev Stu’s articles, it’s only ever a few days until the BTL usual suspects come right back behaving as if Rev Stu had never bothered (perhaps more accurately, as if they never bother to read what Rev Stu puts together).
It’s worth repeating just what horrors Reform are planning to unleash on the helpless Scots:
Abolish nutt zero to get energy bills down.
Maximise extraction of local fossil fuel reserves, providing employment for Scots.
End the theft of services and cash by crims and grifters by stopping illegal immigration.
Restore Scottish educational standards to what they were back in the days before the SNP trashed them.
Build houses.
Prioritise Scots for social housing in Scotland.
Protect women-only spaces.
End wokery in schools.
Oppose allowing blokes to claim “See me, I’m a laydee” and expect everybody else to validate their delusions.
The utter bastirts and English cants. How dare they promise stuff that Scots want. How fucking dare they!
Babbling chimp. You seem to think you need to reply to every single post here, like you own the site. Boring troll nutcase.
@Onlooker says: 31 October, 2025 at 7:49 pm
“Babbling chimp”
“Boring troll nutcase”
Oh dear, Onlooker, it looks like my list of popular and sane Reform policy promises has triggered you!
I’m tempted to post it again 🙂
But you’re not worth it. Besides, Rev Stu already has posted exactly the same list at the top of the article.
And guess what, Onlooker, he does own the site. So why don’t you call him a boring troll nutcase and babbling chimp?
The small group of nasty nats will cut off their noses to spite their faces.
When you spend ten years or so of your life convinced that the big Indy is just around the next corner and anybody else that says different is beneath contempt. You don’t leave yourself much scope for alternative thinking.
Firstly the soul searching and realization that you’ve been played like a Yoyo takes some inner strength to move away from. Secondly you are partly responsible for the attack on women, the attempted indoctrination of children, supporters of terrorist organizations and the destruction of your own society. Then there’s the Saltire stapled to your cock.
Enough to drive you to drink.
Who’s pulling your Yoon yoyo, Beggan?
Has anyone seen the latest example of irresponsible candidate choices by the SNP? An 18 year old was nominated by SNP for ward 6 of Stirling Council and “won” yesterday. 26% turnout.
How useful can an 18 year old be?
Poor Stirling.
It’s a disgrace.
Sarah, perhaps he’ll be more use in 7 years when his brain is fully developed (according to SNP-devised sentencing guidelines)
Rape cases in Glasgow up thirteen percent in the last year.
The evidence used to make the point about over representation of non-white people in adverts (Current Trends (2020-2025)) suggests that the non-white population of the UK stands at 13% of the populace (4% Black; 8% East Asian; 1% South Asian).
It would seem reasonable, however, to assume these figures are an inadequate representation of the ‘non-indigenous population’ (whatever that is after thousands of years of immigration in and across these islands) because an 87%-13% split seriously undermines any narrative from whatever source that the UK is being overrun by non-white people. Even with an 80%-20% split any argument about the indigenous white community being anywhere near close to being a minority seems grossly exaggerated.
On which note it would aid debate and avoid misunderstanding, particularly BTL, if it were made explicit whether the problem here is too many ‘non-indigenous’ people around per se- including in adverts – or too many non-indigenous people who are, to use Sarah Pochin’s term, “non-white” (i.e. Black or Asian).
Because there is no way of telling whether a white person in an advert is indigenous to these islands or not. For all anyone knows the white person in any advert could be Scandinavian, Slavic, Jewish, Hispanic, Australian, North American, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Italian, Greek, or even Welsh/Scottish/Irish given that the criteria being argued here is that of majority representation of the indigenous population in these islands – i.e. White English.
It may even be the case that Welsh, Scottish and/or even Irish people are over represented in adverts?
Of course, if the issue is not about majority indigenous representation in adverts and anyone with white skin is okay regardless of whether or not they are actually representative of the majority of the indigenous population (English), then making it clear and explicit that the relevant criteria is skin colour only provides the necessary level of clarity one way or the other.
The article above also reports that “a caller complained about white people being under-represented and demonised in TV adverts.”
Whilst the first part of that claim is addressed in this article, it would have been useful to see the second part of that claim about white people being “demonised” in adverts to test that claim with, you know, evidence or otherwise rather than giving such a claim a free pass.
Taking a wider practical perspective the issue of how this particular complaint – of too many people of the “wrong” skin colour being over-represented in adverts – would be tackled by either existing political representatives of parties which have held some kind of power – Conservatives, Labour, Lib-Dems, SNP, Greens – or Reform seems to be wholly absent from the debate? It seems reasonable enough to expect those animated about the issue to at least present some practical solutions?
Because the thing about the advertising industry and those who the advertising industry serves is that both are in the private sector, not the public sector.
Is it envisaged or proposed in some way by those making or supporting this kind of complaint that either the existing Government or a future incoming Reform Government should nationalise the advertising industry? In other words, more big Government?
Or impose what would in effect – albeit with very changed criteria boundaries – be just another form of DEI quotas for adverts perhaps?
Or something more radical, mayhap? Such as, to take one example, the stance of existing organised groups like Generation Re-migration seeking the removal of all non-white people living in the UK regardless of for how many generations they have lived here?
If none of the above, it would be useful to hear what practical remedies, if any, are being proposed to address this complaint?
What is that those for whom this is an issue see as the role of Government, any Government – including a Reform Government – in addressing choices made by the private sector that are considered to be problematic?
Moving on from this specific but keeping with the theme of practicalities:
On the matter of immigrants legally working in the UK, two practical issues arise.
Firstly, as previously noted on earlier threads, a key part of that is insufficient skilled, knowledgeable, and experienced “indigenous” labour with the required expertise. A result of decades of off-shoring and deliberate systemic purging out of the system of those attributes in favour of financial rent seeking rather than industrial capitalism.
Thanks to offshoring manufacturing, the Western industrial base mostly has to be built from the ground up. Is that even possible? If you think about it, an apprentice machinist on an assembly line fifty years ago was being taught how to do it by a master machinist who had been taught by a previous master and so on back to the middle of the 1700s when industrial production was invented. Each in the series advanced the technique, of course, but it’s still a chain you could trace back, machinist by machinist, for all that time. If that sequence of teacher-learner-teacher is broken, if the teacher has retired or died leaving no apprentices, how long will it take to get it back? Putting a pallet of engraved paper in the floor of an empty building and hoping it will turn into a pallet of anything is magic thinking.
How is it proposed that this problem be addressed in a timely manner – ie a lot less than several generations – without use of experienced and skilled labour which largely exists outside the UK after decades of off shoring in order to bring the indigenous workforce up to speed?
Bearing in mind that deporting such non-indigenous labour will simply result in the same problem writ large we saw the other month in the USA. Where 300+ Koreans fitting out a multi-million dollar factory bankrolled by foreign investment were handcuffed by Federal agencies and deported, only to be begged by Trump to come back shortly afterwards because the skills don’t exist in the US workforce.
Putting at risk the private investment seen as the only route to the long term process of re-industrialisation and the training of the indigenous workforce (whose definition and whose doing the counting/determining that criteria by the way?) to restart the necessary process cycle not just of skills and expertise but also experience which takes years/decades.
Or is it proposed that Government (Reform?) reverse almost half a century of privatisation and dependence on the private sector as the sole engine of investment (the one that off shored productive industry which adds real value to the economy and deskilled the indigenous workforce in favour of the FIRE sector and rentierism) via the elected Government and public sector making the investment decisions instead?
Secondly, and related, anyone serious about tackling what is raised as a complaint – the over use of immigrant labour (because the decision makers have not only de-industrialised the economy but also de-skilled and de-experienced the indigenous work force) – in a practical rather than virtue signalling way would be better focusing on the decision makers rather than the immigrant workforce.
A practicality also applicable to refugees. The supply of which is driven by demand created by (a) Western controlled global institutions such as the World Bank/IMF stifling local development in favour of the repatriation of profits from resources through the threat of sanctions and investment strings; and (b) Forever wars of choice by successive Governments who are little more than the same single transferable uni-party which creates a refugee problem not just in the UK but also neighbouring states and across Europe.
As a side note; the success of [checks notes] ‘forcing down other peoples throats a foreign language’ – English in this case – has it’s blowback in attracting refugees created by the policies of our Government’s to these shores. Some who bellyache about this need to stop wanting to have their cake and eat it and deal with that reality rather than trying to reframe the problem to suit their own biases.
The practice of laying siege to buildings housing refugees from the policy choices of our Government’s and terrifying the bejesus out of even the staff working there; setting fire to places of worship; or attacking people with the “wrong” skin colour in the street etc is simply futile and impractical in terms of providing a practical solution to the problems which arise. It lets the decision makers off the hook and allows those decision makers to continue creating the same problems.
Focusing ire on the mote rather than the beam simply allows the continuation of the same old divide and rule approach of those decision makers and gets us nowhere near addressing the issues in the practical way required to produce workable outcomes.
New poll in North Yorkshire shows a big rise in support for Reform coming from young Pakistani males in the area. Many of these young men who have invested in their future feel left behind by the mainstream parties.
There goes the Reform are Racist theory.
This may have been mentioned already.
Apologies if so, I’ve not yet had time to read all the BTLs.
Robin McAlpine wrote an interesting article recently about racism wrt the Labour Party. I liked the way he delineated an important distinction:
Racism is not so much what people SAY, but more how they SEE.
Read the article – link to robinmcalpine.org
I read this on a dismal, cold wet morning and he managed to get a good belly laugh out of me with his opening paragraph.
Nae Need! That McAlpine post is simply outstanding. At first I didn’t understand what he meant by “racism is what you see”. Now I’ll never be able to unsee it. Thanks!
Aye, it’s good.
I enjoy having people like Stu and Robin (and others!) tackle similar topics to each other, but from their own unique perspectives. It gives a more rounded view, especially when you know their views are genuine (as opposed to electioneering slogans, for example).
It lets me mull over my own perspective, compare it with other peoples, and then adjust my own thinking if I know that is what is required by ME, by my own moral code.
I don’t mind adjusting my own thinking to encompass a greater truth.
“simply outstanding”
You reckon? I thought it failed to even reach mediocre.
I believe anyone can defend against accusations of racism by looking at the facts.
There’s one imported group of people in the UK who make a habit of blowing things up, knifing innocents, declaring death sentences on those who offend their beliefs, etc.
That same group of people, imported into most of the rest of the countries of Europe, are doing precisely the same things there too.
QED
If Robin, and you, and some of the other regulars on Wings BTL believe the route to an Independent Scotland lies in making common cause with these people, that’s fine. It’s a free country for now. Make your pitch and put it to us Sovereign Scots.
But unless you convert, you’ll never be anything but second-class trash to these people. Useful idiots, certainly, but trash all the same.
Hatey,
As per too frequently, you miss the point entirely and go off at the deep end.
Have you even read the article?
If so, what do you think Robin’s point is?
For that matter, what point d’you think Stu is making in this piece we’re all commenting on?
I think you just proved Robin’s point.
“what do you think Robin’s point is?”
Robin’s point is that it is racist to suggest the good people of Birmingham pose any risk to visiting football fans.
And it is not racist to claim that the visiting football fans pose a risk to the innocent and helpless people of Brum.
Despite the people of Brum outnumbering the visiting fans by around 1000 to 1.
Despite the number of visiting fans being small enough that the police could probably manage to accompany each one with a personal uniformed minder – just to stop the fan viciously attacking a helpless Brummie.
As for Stu’s article – he’s pointing out that Reform have policies, on paper at least, that every reasonable Scot can get behind.
And boy, does that stick in the craw of the usual suspects, exactly as Rev Stu predicted.
In a sane world, political parties wouldn’t be arguing over these policies at all. It would be over which party could execute them quickest, or most efficiently, or for least cost and most profit.
But on Wings BTL, it’s anathema to even discuss them, because it’s an article of faith that your enemy can never be right about anything. Never ever.
Colonialism always involves ‘hateful racism’ (Cesaire), whether it exists in Palestine, India, Kenya, Ireland, Scotland or wherever.
All we really have to do when explaining racism which is ‘a consubstantial part’ of any colonized society is to alter Robin’s statement, whereby –
“you have a well-established hierarchy of racism in which racism for you is really a tool to suppress (a colonized people/culture) in favour of (the colonizer/culture)”.
That Robin (and other Scots intellectuals, including the Rev) still appear unconscious to this reality reflects his specialism being political science, and not postcolonial science, as well as perhaps the enduring effects of a colonial mindset.
link to wp.towson.edu
the reason why “scottish intellectuals” (bourgeois leftists / middle class wankers) cannot accept ideas of colonialism is because – deep down – they are themselves … racists. While loving to spraff around being “anti racist” (see bella).
– but the thing they cannot take is the idea that they are just another gang of “white n1ggers”. (Like those terrorist mick bastards …!)
This is crushing to a narcissist. It also has something similar going on, psychologically, to people who are victims of fraud – they will resist the proof of the con even when presented to them and turn on the messenger, to defend their fraudsters.
The essence of the “scottish cringe” is that -really- if you, lose your accent, adopt anglo attitudes, go to uni, especially england, more so oxbridge … you too can finally make it as an almost-englishman, maybe with a bit of tartan fluffery. Many such examples. To quote kipling, the jungle book :
I’m the king of the jockos
the jocko vip
Ive reached the top and Ive got to stop and thats whats bothering me
I WANNA BE A WHITE MAN ANGLO
ooh oooh oooh I wanna be like YOU OO OO
(and we’re not -N1GGERS- no way)
See below.
It’s passing strange that the Rev puts up with your monstrous arrogance Alf, not to mention your spamming of this place with your academically half-baked and self-regarding post colonial schtick.
Luckily only a small coterie of moonhowlers in here pay any attention to your tsunami of laughable “Scotland as Colony” baloney. The idea that incisive, well respected commentators like Stuey and Robin who (unlike you) have mass audiences somehow lack your consciousness is just risible.
It tells us everything we need to know about what passes for your analysis.
@ Andy Ellis,
Northern Ireland and the North of Ireland have long been colonial subjects of England. If there, why not Scotland?
Kitson, with the approval of UK government and military leaders, quickly introduced the terror tactics as previously used in the colonies of Kenya and Aden.
“Collusion, Counterinsurgency and Colonialism: The Imperial Roots of Contemporary State Violence
Mark McGovern”
Northern Ireland after 1968: An Anticolonial Struggle?
Stephen Howe
The Northern Ireland Conflict and Colonial Resonances
Stuart C. Aveyar
The GFA states the UK government to decide when/if a border poll is appropriate. it also staates that the opinion of the people in Northern ireland on reunification overrides the views of those in the Republic, the majority of whom already favour reunification.
We have the same situation in Scotland where it is the UK government that decides when/if we might decide our constitutional futurre.
The United Nations views a colony as a territory that is not self-governing, meaning its people do not have the right to freely determine their political status or pursue their economic, social, and cultural development.
“Freely” means without restriction, hesitation or obligation
“It’s passing strange that the Rev puts up with your monstrous arrogance”
Jings, pots and kettles come to mind.
I can’t help being the only academic in Scotland to research and publish on our subaltern colonial reality. Things might be different if Scots accounted for more than 10% of the academics at our so-called ‘elite’ universities, which in itself is rather an obvious colonial legacy.
“it is the UK government that decides when/if we might decide our constitutional future”
Sure, we don’t get a free shot at changing the constitutional framework.
But that doesn’t stop a hundred patriotic Scots standing for office on a plebiscitary policy. And it doesn’t stop us voting for or against them. And it doesn’t stop that 100 Scots declaring UDI if a majority of us Scots vote for it.
What do you think WM is going to do then? Imprison us all?
You really need to stop hiding behind this “WM says No” figleaf, sam.
“the UN views a colony as a territory that is not self-governing, meaning its people do not have the right to freely determine their political status or pursue their economic, social, and cultural development”
How does the UN view a geographical area that is given a free referendum on Independence and says naw?
Hows about a little reality, sam? We were given a chance and we bottled it. Now we’re a bit feart to try it again, because we suspect we would bottle it even more next time around. Isn’t that about the size of it?
It’s a Scottish thing. We talk the talk but we can’t walk the walk.
“a geographical area that is given a free referendum on Independence”
You need to keep up Hatey. Several electoral mandates in favour of a referendum have been blocked since 2014, and are currently blocked also by Holyrood’s faux ‘nationalists’ providing more evidence that they are working as a colonial administration protecting the status quo, i.e. colonial rule:
link to dearscotland.substack.com
@ Alf Baird says: 1 November, 2025 at 1:59 am
“a geographical area that is given a free referendum on Independence”
You left out the rest of the quote, Alf:
“AND SAYS NAW”
BTW, did that come up at the UN? I can well imagine one of the delegates/attendees saying “Haud oan, I’ve just been doing some homework, and it turns out youse was all asked if you wanted to end your so-called “colonial” status in 2014, and you sez Naw! Fit kind of colony is that that is given a free vote if it wants to nae be a colony any more and sez it does?”
I bet you could have a heard a pin drop if that came up, eh?
“Haud oan, I’ve just been doing some homework, and it turns out youse was all asked if you wanted to end your so-called “colonial” status in 2014, and you sez Naw! Fit kind of colony is that that is given a free vote if it wants to nae be a colony any more and sez it does?”
I bet you could have a heard a pin drop if that came up, eh?
😀
You do make me laugh, Hatey – we have a zinger! Oooft. 😀
No response, I note. Imagine my surprise etc.
@Alf 1.59am
Loathe as I am to agree with Hatey at the best of times, he has a point. The UN is more than likely to point to the fact that Scotland refused independence when it was asked and that whilst the British nationalist establishment has refused to grant a second referendum (which isn’t a good look) it hasn’t said “No, never” but “No, not yet…”. They haven’t “done a Madrid” and jailed the leaders of our movement, stolen ballot boxes and beaten up grannies in the process of voting.
There IS definitely an argument that Westminster’s refusal to honour the 2012 Edinburgh Agreement precedent represents a lack of good faith, and is in itself anti-democratic. However, international law doesn’t necessarily accept that the right to self determination (particularly via UDI) is legitimate.
Hitching our wagon to the UN’s appetite to declaring us a non-self governing territory is not necessarily going to work at all. Even if it DOES work, it could involve a process which is much, MUCH longer than just persuading the > 80% of native born Scots in the electorate to grow a pair and vote for independence.
I see you’re still hung up about the lack of native born Scots at our universities. So what? There are doubtless many Scottish academics at foreign universities. Aren’t those who are subject matter experts in constitutional law, international relations theory and other relevant disciplines lining up to support your case. Even better, how about “third party” authorities who aren’t Scottish or British and are therefore (presumably) neutral?
It’s not as if the UK is particularly popular abroad, so what explains the lack of intellectual hinterland and support for your quixotic campaign Alf?
@Sam 10.01pm
I don’t think many people would accept your assertion that the situations of Northern Ireland and Scotland were the same, or indeed even that similar. The broad historical context, what happened in the run up to partition in the 1920’s and Irish politics since aren’t really that analogous are they? the fact that there are *some* similarities and resonances doesn’t mean we can simply conclude that Scotland is in fact a colony.
I certainly know quite a few Irish people who simply don’t accept that Scotland’s experience of being a (generally) willing participant in the union is anything like the experience of the Irish people, whether as a whole or just those in Ulster/Northern Ireland.
As to your discussion of the word “freely” and what it means, the issue those supporting the “Scotland as colony” trope will have is what happens when the UN says: “No, you don’t qualify as a non-self governing territory” because the British nationalist government and state isn’t saying, “No, never” à la Madrid to the Catalans and Basques, but “Not now”.
If the Scots people aren’t happy with the conditions being imposed by Westminster, it’s up to them either to repatriate all the necessary powers to hold another agreed or “legal” referendum, or ensure a pro-independence majority in plebiscitary elections.
A population which accepts a “No, not now” response from Westminster as an acceptable response, and quietly gets back in its box until it is graciously granted permission (or until the UN drops independence in to its lap) isn’t ready or even fit for independence.
In support of the valiant work of Alf, Sarah Salyers, and SALVO I post again this link:
SCOTLAND AS COLONY – A WAY FORWARD
link to gobha-uisge.blogspot.com
@Any Ellis – the inescapable point being that nobody at the UN has the slightest interest in the ramblings of the eccentric professor from Edinburgh, apart from a few fringe nutters that keep Craig Murray’s company. The Scottish people aren’t living under oppression, and enjoy a very high standard of living and political freedom compared to almost anywhere else in the world. Even if respect for the territorial integrity of states were not a foundational principle of international law which precludes interference in the internal affairs of the U.K., the UN and other international institutions have much bigger fish to fry at the moment.
At some level I think the fact that the leaders of this movement to establish a new state spend their time spamming BTL read by at best a dozen people, rather than doing something useful, is probably a tactic admission of its hopelessness.
Alf’s spooked the Yoons again. LOLZ…
@ Alf Baird I wouldn’t fash myself about the repetitive shite that the Franchise Fanny and his fellow Scotland HATERS excrete across the comments board , didn’t you know that the Franchise Fanny is sooooo proud that his pal STUEY once liked a tweet of his and gave a severe fisking to the moonhowlers
On Scotland’s colonial status, good to see that Robin is also moving ever closer to understanding our economic, political and social reality, that with our wealth extracted by London and offshore interests we are always going to be an under-developed nation and people:
link to thenational.scot
Come on Robin, you can say the C-word.
@Alf – Raising money to fund an approach to the UN to seek Scotland being added to the list of NSGT’s, but instead using that money to fund a trip to New York to talk about the Kanak people of New Caledonia. Is that embezzlement? It sounds a bit like what Peter Murrell is in hot water over.
Sorry to burst yer manky 77 bubble, but “we” said Aye.
McAlpine mentions Lanarkshire politics during the Labour imperium; it surprises me there has never been any great novel produced about it all – over the decades I have picked up via, almost by osmosis, snippets of tales, here and there, and it is like – mafia films, the sopranos, game of thrones, breaking bad – someone could write a great novel (if they decided to then live abroad). Tons of writers around, Brookmyre for example.
The sophistication of the corruption is off the charts – the players (its a club and you aint in it) have an untraceable currency and an infallible ledger (better than the blockchain); the currency is the favour among a clique who know all of each others business. It is very hard to penetrate for no one inside has any interest in blabbing; you pay your dues to get inside, and people know things about you – everyone operates on the principal of mutually assured destruction. Omerta is in operation.
One hard record is the planning decision ledger. But without a guide and forensic accountants, impenetrable.
The sad thing is that once the SNP took over, nothing changed much. All the old Labour types were really worried some anti corruption drive would be made, they needn’t have bothered.
A few diverting random snippets from the historical ‘CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SCOTLAND’ –
« (April 12, 1304). The King [Edward 1 of England] to the Prince of Wales. Commands him to procure as much lead as he can for the siege of Stirling from the churches, &c. around Perth and Dunblane except over the altars. Kinghorn, [Royal Letters, No. 2677.] »
« (May 4, 1304). John de Drokenestord keeper of the Wardrobe, to Richard de Bremesgrave. Tells him quickly to send all the wine lately taken by him at Berwick out of the ‘Godebeyate” of Winchilsea, John Heyron master, to be delivered to the Prince of Wales’s butler at Stirling for his household. Says the Prince was informed that the mariners, on asking Richard if the wine was to be sent, were answered ‘that it should not be done.’ Whereat he is much annoyed, both at this act and others done against him since he came to Scotland, as people inform him. Desires him to say how the wine was arrested , and how many tuns there are. Also advises him to get Sir Walter Reignand to excuse him somehow to his Lord. Written at Stirling the 4th May. [Exchequer, O. R. Miscellanea (Army), No. 18] »
« (May 4, 1304) The King [Edward 1 of England] to the sheriff of Perth. As Mathew bishop of Dunkeld has sworn fealty and come to the King’s peace, he commands that the temporalities of his bishopric, churches and others, with his private possessions, taken in the King’s hand for his disobedience, be restored to him to be henceforth held of the King and his heirs kings of England. Under the Privy seal 4th May, in the 32nd year. Stirling. [Chapter House (Scots Documents), Box 99, No. 64] [The day and month cancelled. A draft; originally to the sheriff of Stirling on behalf of the Bishop of St Andrews] »
Another post disappeared into the ether. A post that was supportive of Stus rationale in the original article. Another yellow card. I don’t understand the trigger words anymore.
Posts disappearing into the ether has become a regular issue. I am aware of it, and so are others.
Censorship is the way of today’s Britain. Insidious and far reaching, folks are increasingly more and more becoming aware of how extensive it is.
You are not alone George Fergusson.
Just had a reply to post to you George on the matter of c*ns*rsh*p and how extensive I think it is. But it’s disappeared.
We’ll see if this get through.
Perhaps Susan Webber is running training courses in this practice for other bloggers?
Indeed.
The consistent non-appearance of posts which, for example, raise serious practical questions to spurious assumptions and seriously flawed and sloppy arguments; or posts which appear out of synch because they take twenty-four hours or so to appear, is a curious methodology of inviting grown-up debate and discourse for a site which one reasonably assumes has the serious objective of generating more light rather than more heat.
Which clearly indicates, on the basis of the available evidence, that such an assumption is no longer valid, if it ever was.
Just picking up on the issue of colonialism but I could help but see a clearer example of this than with Baroness Smith of Cluny, Labour party hack, youngest daughter of John Smith and Advocate-General for Scotland responded to the court that has been asked to undertake a judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action to have that review denied.
One of the grounds for the request for denial is that the English High Court has been asked to review a similar action.
Now as I think most folks understand it, the English High Court is not Superior to the Scottish High Court or the Scottish Court of Session. Scots Law moreover is or was supposed to be guaranteed by the so called Act of Union.
But here you are. A naked brazen attempt to shut down the Scottish Courts.
Colonialism, you don’t need to look far.
Scotland will be to weak to resist reform uk.
Bullshit do your job and tell people that you will resist NHS privatisation and remind them of the vow and I say again ask if he will set up a doge and will it abolish the UK government office in Edinburgh then at least you can fairly accuse him of having double standards.
Good morning, my fellow Scots… my colonized compatriots.
Aphorism of the day:
“Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul”
Think well on it those who would free their own souls frae imperial oppression.
I like this yin whit I spawned intae existence masel:
“In London the folk simply stared when I spoke to them in English; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.”
I hope everyone on here – wha isnae a colonizer, shuir (ach… e’en thaim anaw, a daursay) – haes a guid day the day.
I am a big fan of Samuel Langhorne Clemens… this is one of his I have mangled to suit my own ends:
“It is by the grace of God that in Scotland we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”
A SCOTLAND DIVIDED AGAINST ITS SELF, perfect for handing over the keys of the kingdom to the devil.
WHAT DOES SCOTLAND WANT? The continuation of sleep walking into global irrelevance and the Darwinian consequences of continuing to do so?
Put simply, without «total command» Scotland is unlikely to survive beyond references on Wiki.
«Extinction or make a cup of coffee?»……after Albert Camus.
So…are we being encouraged both votes Reform?
Just off out to deliver SNP leaflets. Good polling newss (smiley face). Sining let us get ris of those bigots and fools who will not let Scotland live and let luve.
Nothing in the piece suggests that.
“Just off out to deliver SNP leaflets.”
Not sure if troll or serious…
Oh well. Just be sure that you insert an addendum which reminds people about:
– the missing £600,000
– the camper van
– the genderwoo
– the Hate Speech® Act
– the suspiciously expensive IT and video equipment
– the repulsive “HWHITE!” outburst
etc. 🙄
This Luve’ you speak of is that taken analy? You are amongst the right people if you do. Bend over and take it for the SNP .
Team player Izzie.
Remember to wear the cheap suit and the Antifa mask or they won’t know who you are.
Sort doomer. People are not interested in that stuff. They want to know about rates schools and housing. Definitely not immigrants.
“that stuff”
Heh. Really?
Good grief, “Wee Ginger” is missing a puppy, it would seem.
@ Izzie “people want to know about rates, schools and housing.”
But the current SNP aren’t dealing with those either. They select an 18 year old for a Stirling ward, and organise a completely corrupt system for Holyrood list candidates whereby people can self-id as disabled and get pushed to the top of the list despite only getting 2% of the members votes. Such people have shown themselves to be incompetent and worse.
Our politicians aren’t up to the job, and our democratic system allows a continuance of such people in power.
You surely cannot think that this is an ideal state of affairs?
We need people with ethics, a sense of public duty, and some ability, to administer our services etc, and we need to be out of the Union. I’m sorry to say it but the SNP now is incapable of providing what is needed.
Unfortunately Sarah you are wasting your time with Izzy many people have tried pointing out the truth to her but she is truly a Scum Nonce Party sycophant and apologist, a dyed in the wool cultist , she cannot even see that her party of deviants and perverts want her sex to be subsumed
THE SELF STYLED Reform party, which reading the signs probably finds Scotland bothersome,has managed to produce a manifesto without any particular reference to the country.
Scotland is thus just another, not holy home counties, «Ukanian» region which given the current decadent state of BritState, which Farage proposes to fix, makes the «Unionist» yarn look more than ever a tale of cruelty worthy of the brothers Grimm or Sacher-Masoch.
Those voting for this axis of anglocentrism merit the brutish outcome and hang by what remains of their integrity, Scotland does not.
Turabdin,
I think Farage has suggested there will be more Westminster oversight of devolution. Greater accountability, you know. He has also said he is going to “fix” our public services. Gawdelpus.
OVERSIGHT, code for a lot less of it, until nothing remains.
If the majority fail to grasp what is going on, those that do may have to spell it out to them…in BOLD.
Looking at the pictures of the Trans counter demonstration today in Edinburgh I noticed that the Trans banners are now all about
“Live and let live”
No “kill Terfs” and other threats against woman.
All peace and love!!
“Let’s live together”!!
and there was me thinking they are mentally ill.
Mentally ill or just realising that they can’t push limits any more?
In a sense yes. Mentally ill people are very cunning. They know when to ‘go quiet’ placid, puppy dog. Like a rabid animal never turn your back on it.
I’ve been meaning to look into this for a while, most likely just to mention to gauge opinion but given the article contains comments from Mochin/Pochin or whatever you call her surname, thought I’d mention it now.
Most TV adverts are for everyday products owned by international companies and are most likely created by US companies to reflect US demographics and are changed for other countries using voice actors.
However, there are a lot of adverts that are for charities and considering most of them are staffed by middle class champagne socialist luvvies, I wonder if these charities use their purchasing power to affect the TV programmes that they choose to have their advertisments put on between?
As I mentioned in a previous reply in this topic, hardly anybody watches TV anymore so the TV companies are desperate for advertising revenue so in effect, it gives those who choose to advertise on that medium more power over the choice of content that they choose to put their organisations revenue on in the form of advertising.
Given that most TV content is tat and hardly anybody watches it, the effects on society is negligible but given that news content relies on advertising revenue as well especially as in the UK we have 3 dedicated TV news channels which a part of the population relies on for news, is it right that charities who spend a lot on TV advertising are allowed to influence the narrative of new stories, whether directly or indirectly?
Daddy what’s TV?
Thank you for proving to this site how much a thicko that you are.
Can’t wait until we read the other site’s thickos comments on this.
Now that’s an interesting development. I’ve not seen a post appear with a key section taken out!
I’d put in a complaint if I were you, Bilbo. Because the way this post has actually appeared commences with a tentative hypothesis…..
“I wonder if these charities use their purchasing power to affect the TV programmes that they choose to have their advertisments put on between?”
…..and concludes with a definitive answer to the affirmative …….
“is it right that charities who spend a lot on TV advertising are allowed to influence the narrative of new stories, whether directly or indirectly?”
….with no supporting evidence whatsoever for the original conjecture to produce the definitive conclusion reached.
Talking of creating racists… here’s one that was made in, or by, England.
“Och aye the Nickitty-Nackitty Noo, jings, crivenns, help mah wee sleekit cowerin’ Boaby… shoosh wi’yer Rabbie-Burns-meets-Oor-Wullie shite or ah’ll gie ye a belt wi’mah corkscrew-shaped cromach”
My God… how embarrassing – not for me or for the Scots people, who are the target of this racist thug’s thickery, but for the anti-Scots (probably English) simpleton who scribbled this shit doun thinking it was somehow imbued with wit!
Is this Scotland’s friendly neighbour and partner in union’s true face; the vicious and ugly, but mostly stupid, face of hateful racism; the face of anti-Scots imperial England; the face of colonialism?
Ther scarce be a wird pit doun here fae colonialists that’s onythin’ ither than abuise, threit, lie, errure, afftak, diveesion, diversioun, distractioun, logicale fallace, or hatesome antiScot rethorik.
Aye Northcode, this is why colonialism is defined as ‘hateful racism’ (Cesaire) and everything else follows from that fact.
That is and will continue to be the reality for subordinated Scots so long as we are ruled by another people and culture that considers itself superior, and some of us who consider it to be so.
When I first read your posts way back in 14 I just thought that you were havering but once you see it you cannot unsee it.
Aye, colonialism ‘is based on psychology’ (Cesaire) which implies the only thing still standing in the way of our liberation is the pathology associated with the colonial condition/mindset, and in particular the denial of oppression, as we see btl here:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
And that’s your 14th comment since this post was put up on Wednesday, with all those 14 posts saying essentially the same thing. Perfectly normal behaviour I’m sure we can all agree. You’ve provided an academic source which is great, but it’s evidential value is somewhat reduced since it was written by you.
“Aidan says:
2 November, 2025 at 8:44 am
And that’s your 14th comment since this post was put up on Wednesday, with all those 14 posts saying essentially the same thing. Perfectly normal behaviour I’m sure we can all agree. You’ve provided an academic source which is great, but its evidential value is somewhat reduced since it was written by you.”
Is Professor Baird, referencing, name checking, and marking his own homework again?
Now if one of his students were to have done that…
Alfie Boy is on a roll again. It’s just a shame that it’s mince on the roll! Maybe try some bacon, black pudding or a fried egg.
Variety is supposed to be the spice of life!
As I recall, Alf, the traditional Highland black house had no windows.
It was warmed by a peat fire, yet had no chimney, the smoke eventually percolating through the thatched roof.
I’m firmly of the view the imported ideas are superior.
Just as I am convinced of the superiority of the Not Proven verdict in Scottish law. I guess you will insist it’s racist colonialism that is abolishing that at HR, but I disagree.
It’s the people and parties you and your ilk have slavishly and tribally supported and voted for over decades that are dismantling what remains of our unique national and cultural heritage.
@ Alf Baird and James, Yes James Alf certainly is creating a stooshie amongst the cringing Scots BUT yoonies , immediately after his most recent post 4 cringing Scots BUT yoonies couldn’t wait to create a pile on , it is becoming more apparent despite the desperate attempts by the Scotland HATING fuckwits that people are starting to question if they have really been BRAINWASHED by the despicable and malevolent engerlish establishment into believing that they really are too stupid , too weak and too poor
Unfortunately it is TOO LATE for some of these COLLABORATING , CRINGING , fuckwits to see the TRUTH but when we are independent I’m sure they will have plenty of volunteers willing and able to assist them relocating to their nirvana
Of course we’re too stupid Twat H. Which of the genderwoowoo, the deliberate closing down of North Sea oil, the eye-wateringly expensive and failed jam jar recycling scheme, the hounding of Alex Salmond, the bin fire that devolved education has become, or the frankly unbelievable ferries fiasco are you categorising as the works of a nation blessed with towering intellects.
FFS! How much more evidence do you need? Are you too stupid to notice these things?
“plenty of volunteers”
Not counting yourself in that, are you? Surely you’re not expecting to live that long!
Do you think that typing like an inbred stereotype of a sporran-swashbuckling “Scotchman” is something to be defended? Will the WD Watkinsims help undecided people to take your political views seriously? Will your independent Scotland have the newspapers written like they were composed by some sheepshagger from Auchinleck?
…and that only “they English” would dare to criticize this stupidity?
OK, Harry Lauder.
Would it be [checks notes] “monstering normal decent people ” to ask, for example, how Reform UK’s proposals to champion digital crypto currency – which would result in significant tax cuts on crypto profits putting yet more money in the pockets of already wealthy investors in the overheating tech bubble at the expense of public service funding – is going to address issues that affect ordinary people every day?
Or, to take another example, why, despite the fact that according to the Current Trends (2020-2025) chart in this article the UK is 87% White, there appears to be a widespread perception among ‘ordinary people’ that the figures in that chart are the other way around?
Or what evidence exists for the claim that white people (ordinary or otherwise) are, quote, “demonised in TV adverts.” Unquote.
Come to think of it, how does one qualify to be one of these “ordinary people” in the first place? What is the criteria? Who is setting that criteria, and whose doing the counting?
Is it those with the most twitter followers? Those who shout the loudest? Do you get disqualified if you don’t fit the profile of opinions preferred in whoever is setting the narrative?
Or would asking such practical questions be tantamount to [checks notes again] “despising” people?
@Andy Ellis
You miss the point, Andy. Might be my fault.
That the elite in England reflexively reverted to colonial violence in Northern Ireland tells that it is part of the mindset.
Northern Ireland and the Republic remain colonised. The evidence for this is the existence of the border.
There is no information at all about the conditions needed to trigger a border poll. No respect for the people of NI to determine their own future.
In Scotland, the Supreme Court’s ruled that a Scottish parliament does not have the authority to legislate on a referendum for independence.
In the context of UN Resolution 1514, “freely” refers to the right of peoples to determine their political status and pursue their economic, social, and cultural development without external coercion or interference. The UK is in breach of that resolution
I don’t think I missed you point, I just didn’t agree with the direct correlation between NI and Scotland. It was your phrasing. The differences rather than similarities now are also evident even with respect to the Border Poll issue you mention.
The criteria remain (probably purposefully?) vague, but the kicker is, that however inadequate you might find that vagueness and the fact that the decision to call a poll is in the gift of the Secretary of State, he’s under a legal obligation to do so if there is evidence that the majority in NI would vote for unification.
If Scotland wants the same kind of treatment, it has to bring it about by forcing that kind of devolutionary settlement on the British nationalist establishment and /or threatening to take full independence more directly via plebiscitary elections. Given recent events and current polling I doubt Scots voters have the political balls or acumen to do either, so we’re doomed to more years of squalid SNP led devolution.
The Britnats didn’t just decide to grant the Good Friday Agreement settlement in the case of NI out of the goodness of their hearts, but as part of a complex process to end decades of violence and with the assistance of pressure from outside, particularly the US Irish lobby, Ireland and the EU.
The international community isn’t going to act as some deus ex machina to impose a settlement in a dispute between Westminster and Holyrood, particularly because they’ll be even more hesitant in cases like Scotland, Catalonia or Quebec than more “straightforward” or clearly colonial or violence based conflicts like Kosovo, Timor L’Este, New Caledonia & others.
As for you last paragraph, it’s certainly arguable though whether the UN or anyone else would do anything proactive about it is more open to question. The counter argument is that Scots are indeed free to determine their status and they’re not being coerced or interfered with: there is indeed a right to self determination but it is neither automatic or unlimited.
“…Scots are indeed free to determine their status and they’re not being coerced or interfered with…”
STV hack;
“…if there is a majority for Scottish independence at Holyrood after the election will you accept that and grant a second referendum….”
Sir Kid Starver “No”.
Yes James, as well as ‘hateful racism’ (Cesaire), colonialism is described ‘as force’ (Fanon), and ‘geographic violence’ (Memmi).
This is why national party leaders become ‘petrified’ and develop a ‘neutral’ and ‘immobilized’ stance on the matter of independence (Fanon), for they fear what the colonizer is capable of; and here we are reminded that ‘the root of colonialism is fascism’ (Kelley), as we have seen in many colonial situations, including Ireland.
How odd that the root of colonialism should be fascism.
Colonialism has been around since the first tribe of animal skin clad apes looked at another tribe, noticed they had juicier fruit or less hairy she-apes, and thought “we’re having some of that”.
Fascism was invented a little over a century ago.
Still, I’m sure Alf knows best.
@James 12.54am
And your point is caller…? So what? It’s perfectly possible to argue (as I and others have) that the decision of the British nationalist establishment to renege on the 2012 Edinburgh Agreement precedent is both profoundly anti-democratic and ultimately corrosive to the very underpinnings of Scottish unionism. I think even some thinking unionists (which is doubtless a pretty small minority, but even so…) recognise this fact.
Polling evidence suggests that a super majority of Scots believe that only Holyrood should decide when, how often and under what conditions, we get to vote in an independence referendum. Sadly, that’s not what the current devolutionary settlement dictates, and the Supreme Court has now effectively closed the “unagreed” referendum route.
That means that the Scottish people face a choice: either they accept that our independence is subject to UK wide veto (which is effectively what the Spanish state insists with regard to the Catalans and Basques), or we force a change of the current devolutionary settlement. Other peoples have done so and there’s no reason we can’t do the same.
If we don’t do so we can carry on blaming external forces for colonising us, but nobody in the international community will take us remotely seriously. Not having the balls to take rather than ask for our own independence is hardly a great signifier that we’re either entitled to it, or fit to have it once it’s achieved.
The past decade of Scottish politics is hardly a great advert for the kind of governance we can expect when we DO reach the sunny uplands of independence.
As Thatcher once observed (and I paraphrase but anyone can Google for the quote), the britnats weren’t interested in stopping the Scots leaving if the majority wanted to, but they weren’t going to let the tail wag the dog and have the Scots dictate a devolutionary settlement that the little Englander electorate wouldn’t find acceptable.
To that extent if no other I’m afraid Thatcher was right: it’s up to the Scots to either man up and vote for full fat independence, or accept that they have to negotiate the best devolutionary deal that the English proles will accept. They’re not going to make it easy, and they’re not going to accept a settlement that is seen to tie their hands or give the Celtic fringes what they regard as too much power and influence.
The Good Friday Agreement is – at least arguably – a special case in that most folk in mainland Britain (including most Scots except Orange Order / Loyalist fringe nutters) would be quite happy to see them sling their hooks and join the Republic.
UN resolution 1514 was produced by the General Assembly which means that it has no legal standing.
England’s unconstitutional domination of Scotland, presumed without formal provision in the Treaty of Union, and enforced by inappropriate voting methods and pseudo-legal chicanery, has no legitimate legal standing.
Oh good – another day of alternative facts
Have you learned nothing from your years of study, Xaracen?
All law, all property rights, all ownership, arises from “pseudo-legal chicanery”.
How could it be otherwise? When the first proto-human levered herself upright and looked around her, nothing she saw was the property of anybody or any thing.
All of your greeting and gurning arises from your futile efforts to justify one system of pseudo-legal chicanery over another.
I write “futile” because you don’t acknowledge what most people have always known – might is right. Might, as in power, force, or just the tyranny of the majority, always wins out in the end.
Great article rev says it all.
This is a transliteration of a segment of Ailsa Gray’s powerful speech on behalf of Liberation in Geneva:
« In the 1880s, Robert Louis Stevenson also initiated pro-Union plans to write a book on Scotland’s history. But after immersing himself in trial papers and firsthand accounts, he abandoned this project. He used his research to write a historic fiction book, part written in Scots, called ‘Kidnapped’ set in the years following Culloden. He felt compelled to write this after he witnessed the evictions of Highland Scots in 1870, over a hundred years after the Highland clearances first began.
« Beneath his Jacobite adventure story lies a forensic account of colonial violence, military occupation, the targeting of civilians, scorched earth tactics, crops raised, cattle seized, townships reduced to ash, communities left to starve in a calculated act of attritional warfare.
« What follows is cultural humiliation systematic dismantling of the clan structure, and proscription of the Gaelic language, religion, dress, and music. Each pillar of our national identity criminalized. People were forcibly cleared from their land to make way first for sheep and then deer, then transported to the colonies, many of them in coffin ships to toil as unpaid indentured laborers on the cotton and tobacco plantations. (May I say we don’t get this history in our education system in Scotland.)
« As Barry Manikov, professor of literature at Hawaii University, wrote, ‘Kidnapped’ was an anti-colonialist document, a statement on the power of art to reclaim the past and reconstitute its victims and its villains. It was an artist’s gift to the country of his birth and the language of his people. Stevenson created a social and political chronicle without ever giving the impression of having done so.”
« Now, I agree with Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson (and as you soon find out, Robert Black). The Treaty of Union was not a partnership of equals. Instead, it was a hostile takeover, or annexation, by a continuing English state. Scotland’s sovereignty was not extinguished. It was repackaged, redirected, and repressed. The Scottish crown, the Claim of Right and the Community of the Realm endure not relics but as living constitutional truths. They remind us that sovereignty was not granted by Westminster nor inherited by monarchs. It is vested the people.»
Link below to audio of full speech. Sound is very unfortunately poor, so subtitles ON advised.
Copy and paste if necessary —
youtu.be/ORO4jXN9czY?si=R2HjnV4iAw5ALcxm
At least three of Robert Louis Stevenson’s books have been translated into Irish. ‘Caitríona’, translated by Seán Mac Maoláin, was published in 1933 (printed in the beautiful cló gaelach typeface). Superb writer Darach Ó Scolaí recently translated Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island’ (‘Oileán an Órchiste’) and ‘Kidnapped’ (‘An Fuadach’) into Irish. Here is the opening paragraph of the latter:
« Maidin amháin i mí an Mheithimh sa bhliain 1751 a thosaíonn mo scéal, nuair a bhain mé an eochair as an doras i dteach m’athar den uair dheireanach. Thosaigh an ghrian ag soilsiú ar bharra na gcnoc agus mé ag siúl an bhóthair agus, faoin am ar bhain mé amach teach an mhinistir, bhí an lon dubh ag ceol i líológa an ghairdín agus ceo na maidine ag ardú sa ghleann. Bhí an Caimbéalach féin, Ministir Easáin Deathain, ina sheasamh romham ag an ngeata. D’fhiafraigh sé díom ar ith mé bricfeasta agus, nuair a d’inis mé dó gur ith, thóg sé mo lámh faoina ascaill. ‘A Dháibhí, a bhuachaill’, ar sé, ‘siúlfaidh mé chomh fada leis an áth leat, le tús a chur le d’aistear’.» (AN FUADACH, Leabhar Breac, 2016)
A few of Sir Walter Scott’s works were also translated into Irish in the early 20th Century. I have for instance ‘The Talisman’ (‘An Chloch Órtha’ (in cló gaelach), translated by Niall Ó Domhnaill, 1936).
Also on my shelf is Neil Munro’s ‘John Splendid’ (‘Iain Áluinn’, translated by Seán Tóibín, 1936).
What’s the point t of translating a novel in English into Irish when all Irish speakers are bilingual and can read the originals? Far more useful to translate material from other languages.
Sin an rud a thuirt an guth beag a tha nam cheann co-dhiù. Suas leis na lèintean purpaidh!!
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:
1 November, 2025 at 9:52 pm
“At least three of Robert Louis Stevenson’s books have been translated into Irish. ‘Caitríona’, translated by Seán Mac Maoláin, was published in 1933…”
========
Fhearghais, a charaid
You are just the man to address a conundrum that has long puzzled me.
‘Catriona’ is not an Anglicisation as you well know. It is also the standard Scottish Gaelic spelling – one that violates the ‘broad to broad, slender to slender’ rule governing vowels either side of a consonant/ consonant group.
Do the Irish spell Caitriona ‘correctly’ while we get it wrong?
People on here who hide behind made up names are no better than the Antifa thugs hiding behind masks. It’s a cowardly Left wing thing.
Hello Mark,
Hear, hear!
“People on here who hide behind made up names are no better than the Antifa thugs hiding behind masks. It’s a cowardly Left wing thing.”
Sorry. I just cannot see, to take two examples, Hatey Mchateface and Captain Caveman (among others) fitting this profile.
Well Dave I think you’ll find that these are their actual names. The Captain does live in a cave and when it came to naming their son Hatey they said the first thing that came to their mind.
This is Scotland in 2025, Mark.
The Hate Crimes act remains in force. If any mainstream political party has pledged to revoke it as part of their manifesto for the 2026 HR election, I am as yet unaware of that.
Did you just assume my gender? As far as I am aware, Scotland in 2025 still legally acknowledges the existence of some 20 or more “official” genders. Again, if any mainstream political party has pledged, etc etc.
These are two examples in which Reform could hoover up votes. Repeal the HCA and dismantle the Scottish genderwoowoo industry. Preferably with extreme prejudice – immediate dismissal of its peddlers from employment subsidised by ScotGov, in the style of President Trump.
Drain the peat bogs, dig up the peat, dry it out and burn it to fuel our Scottish industries and heat our Scottish homes. A metaphor and a practical policy by which Reform can hoover up yet more votes.
I see no evidence beyond Morris dancing (what a strange, strange thing that be) and some cricket (what a strange, strange game that be – although India has claimed cricket for itself it seems) of any kind of substantial English cultural identity nor much in the way of Anglo-traditions either.
But then England is another country and the English another people and, being a Scot masel, both are very alien to me; it’s possible, therefore, that there’s a chance beyond that ‘Great Britain’ surface shine of there being more to the English than I know.
In the end I don’t give a hoot one way or tither whit Ingland is aw aboot – I just want its thievin’ face oot ma hoose, oot ma toon, and oot ma country.
Regardless of Inglis cultur and tradeetion – such as it be – how the foreign power that is oppressing the Scots to this day can see itsel superior to them in anything other than the use of force only shows the depths of its delusion.
England… aw posey and fists – aye, and with a wee bit Morris dancin’ tossed intae the mix anaw.
I’ve conjured up an unwanted vision in ma heid of the British Empire personified as a Morris dancer and swanning its way aboot the planet in a floppy, unatural and disturbing fashion.
“We are England… look upon us dancing and despair”.
I would see Scotland and the Scots have the same ‘close’ relationship with England as they do with the surface of the Moon.
Yet another of the posters on here whose seething, bitter resentment may best be understood as arising from being scornfully knocked back by a buxom, confident Lancashire lass at a sensitive age.
Poor Northy.
Still, to be positive, at least she didn’t have a big nose, although if she had, Northy could have had a more balanced existence since, with a chip on each shoulder.
I have always seen Scotland as primarily the land of haggis, bagpipes, shortbread and world-beating drug deaths. Though admittedly superficial, it appears to be at Einsteinian levels of depth of insight compared to your knowledge of England.
I mean, there is clog dancing as well!! And what about croquet, real tennis??
I think this resentment all comes back to the snooker, Northcode, as most things do: Scotland used to rule the world on the green baize but is now reduced to grandad Higgins boring his way to the odd semi-final and Stephen Maguire having a typically Scottish, self-loathing and violent mental breakdown after missing another easy shot. I know King Hendry’s reign is a distant memory, but you would do well to remember that sporting success goes in cycles and I am sure the new ‘Angles’ McManus is out there somewhere.
Chin up and keep the faith.
NC says ‘I’ve conjured up an unwanted vision in ma heid of the British Empire personified as a Morris dancer and swanning its way aboot the planet in a floppy, unatural and disturbing fashion.’.
An equally accurate vision would be of the British Empire personified as a Bagpiper leading Scottish settlers commiting massacres (see New South Wales and Canada).
Neither vision has real validity for any except embittered extremists.
Nonsense Northcode. We have clog dancing as well.
“…hide behind made up names…
How can we know if a moniker used in this place is a poster’s real name of not?
We can’t, is the answer.
Anyone on here could call themselves by any name… and just because it might look like a ‘proper’ name (being comprised of a first name and a surname say) doesn’t mean it’s the poster’s real name.
I could call myself Mark G Walker or George Beggan or George G Mark Walker-Beggan or His Royal Highness King Big Ears Graspy Hauns of the Stolen Lands – and who would know if any of them were real or not?
Although I could only describe as ‘moron’ any who would consider King Big Ears as possibly being genuine.
Northcode! That name sounds like an STV drama series that was pulled due to poor viewer ratings.
A wild claim like that one, Mark, demands evidence.
When did STV ever pull anything due to poor ratings?
Guilty as charged, I must admit (or should that be ‘not proven’?). I only *live* in Wiltshire.
And so as we awake this Sunday morning we learn of another absolutely horrendous stabbing incident on a train heading to London.
At present we do not know who the perpetrators of this incident are, save that they are in their 30’s, black and British born. No doubt many will jump to the conclusion that this is just the latest horrific incident perpetrated by people of ethnic origin. Very much a conclusion that many will not unreasonably conclude.
Whatever the cause, I think it becomes crystal clear that we have not done enough to understand what is driving these outrages which are occurring not just across England but also across other countries across Europe.
Domestic criminality is one thing but ideological criminality is another. But do we understand why these classes of criminality are occurring. What drives the mindset to do what these people do.
For me I remember only to well when on the first day of the school holidays an attack was made on Glasgow Airport to explode a car bomb on the airport concourse. Some of the perpetrators were doctors. Not the type of people one would expect to try to carry out such an atrocity. Something drove them, and the others that followed and I do think if we don’t know what is driving this criminality then we need to find out. But I suspect we do know and it is also telling I think that these atrocities, now quite regular, did not occur 30 years ago.
Of course 30 years ago there were atrocities arising out of and in consequence of the war in Northern Ireland. Hatred at that time was extant against Irish people, similar to what is happening today against Asian types, predominately Islamic.
And so, with another outrage, that may be purely domestic criminal, or ideological criminal, we truly need to raise awareness of why so that adequate policies can be put into place to stop the horror.
We need to be strong, robust and all of that with all the fine words but, even if this one is not terrorist, to use the now misused word, we need to understand why?
It’s their way of saying thanks for letting them, or their parents, into the country to live.
Obviously there’s far too many of us for us all to be thanked. But random representatives can always be picked out to be the recipients of personal acts of gratitude.
Then again, maybe I’m havering. Could be the fossil fuel lobby operating “arms length” to drive people off public transport and back into their cars. That would work too.
In a fair and just society, violence motivated by racism or any other form of bigotry needs to be investigated and dealt with. Historically as this has been white on black violence in the UK, violent incidents like this are treated as such until proven otherwise.
However what isn’t investigated or at least highlighted in the media is any racial motivation of violence against white people by someone of a different ethnicity.
Just because it isn’t highlighted in the media or investigated as such doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It would be naive not to think this especially in the current climate where everything is about Critical race theory and white privilege.
It’s too early to say what the motivation for this attack was. The perpetrator could be a convert or just radicalised by online material. It could simply be caused by severe mental illness where they individual never got the treatment and monitoring due to cuts in service.
We simply don’t know and to jump to conclusions either way isn’t helpful to anyone.
“Historically as this has been white on black violence in the UK”
Delusional.
Do some research. Open your fucking eyes.
In particular, check out which demographic is vastly over-represented in UK knife crime statistics, both as perpetrator and victim.
I think the point Bilbo is making is that it’s only incidents where a white person has inflicted violence on someone of another race (e.g. Stephen Lawrence) that have been treated as racial incidents.
Young people, eh, hatey!
With ” almost 19,700 cautions and convictions made for possession of a knife or offensive weapon. Juveniles (aged 10 to 17) were the offenders in around 18% of cases.”
link to commonslibrary.parliament.uk
And with the 10-18 age group making up around only 10% of the populace, that demographic certainly stands out as being over-represented.
link to statista.com
And seeing as I like you today, hatey, because I might not like you tomorrow, I’ll do the maths for you:
2024 UK population: around 69.3 million
10-14 age group = 3,581,732
15-19 age group = 3,509,155
Total = 7,090,887
10-19 age group as a % of UK population = 10.23% to two significant figures.
“terrorist, to use the now misused word”
————
Talking of misused words, Gaelic officialdom has sequestered the word for “rebellion” (“ceannairc”) to now mean “terrorism”. For Gaelic-speakers therefore rebellion cannot be noble or honorable — it heads straight up the dial to terrorism. A lexically imposed mindset. Probably not insidiously but simply through lack of imagination. Maybe “ceannairc-uabhainn” (“terror-rebellion”) or some such would fit.
Most interesting snippet Fearghas. Astounding how a word in a language can be repurposed.
Rebellion and terrorism are quite quite different words. Put side by side “to rebel|” is quite quite different from ” to cause terror”
Or put another way, the 45 Rebellion would with the repurposed word ” ceanairc ” would fall to mean the 45 Terror.
Ah am blas na Beurla!
Now when Gaidhlig needed a new word for the square box as it used to be called, the word ” telebhisean ” was I believe created.
We’re ALL Jock Tamson’s bodybags.
Another weel-kent and institutionalized example of colonial racism (obscured by cultural assimilation) that is missed from the Rev’s analysis of everyday racism as impacting subordinated Scots and Scottish culture/language under Anglo domination:
link to thenational.scot
Which helps us understand that ‘independence is a cultural emotion’ (Fanon), and less a matter of political ideologies.
Prof Baird says “‘independence is a cultural emotion’ (Fanon), and less a matter of political ideologies.”.
Excellent. In that case, the sovereign Scottish people have independence already. Although fewer than 50% (allowing for “don’t knows” share this cultural emotion.
@ Lying pishspreader above, believe it or NOT you are NOT the LYING Brutish Bullshitting Corporation so your pish has no relevance , and just so you are aware no matter how many times you post your LIES and MISINFORMATION SCOTS voted 52.7% FOR independence other NON SCOTS sabotaged a SCOTTISH constitutional vote
“Scots voted 52.7% for Independence”
Naw. Unknown numbers of Scots who voted Yes in the Indy referendum did so on the clear understanding Scotland would immediately join the EU.
Scweam and stamp your foot all you wish, Twat H, but that’s not Independence. It’s subservience to foreigners in Brussels.
You’ve had 11 years lying to yourself and anybody else who will listen about our recent past. The lies aren’t working, Twat H.
Why not try the truth?
“the sovereign Scottish people have independence already”
That may indeed appear a statement of the obvious, in that a sovereign people may normally be as independent as they wish. But there are certain factors inhibiting the Scottish people in this regard:
1. Given the effect of a ‘colonial mindset’ which is the direct result of colonial oppression, the oppressed native group, or at least a good number of them, and particularly the more privileged elements, may instead continue to ‘crave dependency’ (Cesaire). And hence we define the ‘No’ voting anti-liberation Scot, more or less.
2. In addition, there is the fact that a referendum continues to be denied by the dominant power/culture, so the oppressed people are prevented from expressing their sovereignty.
3. Meantime, successive elected majorities of nationalist politicians have failed to assert sovereignty, ‘which sickens the movement’ leading to its ‘rupture’ (Fanon).
twathater says “SCOTS voted 52.7% FOR independence other NON SCOTS sabotaged a SCOTTISH constitutional vote”.
Thanks for your polite and enlightened post that precedes this information..
So I can fully understand the significance of your data, could you please how you define “NON SCOTS”?
Best of British luck getting an answer to that.
Naw. It’s nae rocket science.
It’s a bi-lingual pun. As you almost certainly know, “Non” is Frog for No.
A Non Scot is a Sovereign Scot who voted No to Indy in 2014.
twathater says “SCOTS voted 52.7% FOR independence other NON SCOTS sabotaged a SCOTTISH constitutional vote”.
Thanks for your polite and enlightened post that precedes this information..
So I can fully understand the significance of your data, could you please explain how you define “NON SCOTS”?
In some folks eyes I am an “non scot” because I was born abroad.
For those that know me this is laughable but whatever.
While I would be in favour of a definition of a number of years permanent residence as a qualified for voting in independence referendum the definition of the hard liners here seems to be a “non scot” is “someone who doesn’t agree with my point of view”
“explain how you define “NON SCOTS”?”
By voting ‘No’ some Scots reject the offer of Scottish nationality and Scottish citizenship – which can only be obtained through independence.
In that sense they do not wish to be Scots, do they? They wish to be something else.
Well by that definition 100% of Scots voted yes then didn’t they. Given your long held belief that only Scots should be allowed to vote in any future referendum, should we take it that only people who intend to vote yes be allowed to vote? Should there even be the option to vote No on the ballot?
@Aidan 6:09
Bingo! You’re getting there. What took you so long? 🙂
Just one more “logical” deduction needed to complete the jigsaw.
If all Sovereign Scots vote Yes (the definition of a Sovereign Scot is somebody who votes Yes), and all Non Scots vote No (the definition of a Non Scot is somebody who votes No), then what need for a referendum at all?
Geddit? 🙂
It only needs one Sovereign Scot to exist and Scotland is an independent country.
QED.
Prof. Baird says “By voting ‘No’ some Scots reject the offer of Scottish nationality and Scottish citizenship – which can only be obtained through independence.
In that sense they do not wish to be Scots, do they? They wish to be something else.”
Not so. He conflate Scottish nationality with Scottish citizenship of an independent country.
He therefore argues that Bavarians are not Bavarians because they are part of a union called Germany. It is possible to be both.
A Bavarian proud to be Bavarian can nevertheless make a rational decision that it is best for Bavaria to be part of Germany. It does not mean they are not Bavarian.
@factchecker
Imagine coming on to a public forum and openly claiming that, in effect, someone’s political beliefs and how they vote determines whether or not they have any bona fide claim of nationality and citizenship…? A more illiberal, pseudo-totalitarian worldview is hard to imagine – tow the line (whatever “the line” happens to be) or become a non-entity, a sub-citizen. I daresay, Messrs. Césaire and Fanon will be turning in their graves at being endlessly cited by an individual holding such views?
This would be bad enough if one of the resident enibriates here, let alone someone claiming to be a learned academic and representing the Scottish people at the UN (in whatever capacity). It’s all a bit embarrassing.
‘Your logic’ sequence is incomplete, hatey.
Proceeding on previous branches of ‘your logic’ chain, all non-Scots (the ones who don’t want to be independent of the English Crown), being non-Scots are by definition immigrants into this independent country of your construction and therefore should be removed – regardless of surface skin pigmentation.
Of course, those now non-Scots who currently reside in that part of these islands who obsess about the over-representation of [checks notes] a mere ‘13%’ of the populace in adverts or even, seemingly in some cases, the actual presence of immigrants in the Country will have the courage of their alleged convictions and remove themselves voluntarily from this now ‘independent’ Scotland.
Imagine coming onto a public forum dedicated to Scottish independence and posting unionist shite day in, day out….
Your ‘logic’ is incomprehensible, Dave.
Perhaps you are too.
Seeing as I’m following your logic, hatey, your response almost classifies as Zen.
I’ve seen people pass back handed compliments to others, but this is the first time I’ve seen someone pay a back handed insult to themselves.
I guessing you had a birthday recently and someone got you a mirror?
Bavaria! Bavaria! Bavaria!
All I see on here these days are colonialists (unionists if preferred… same thing) banging on aboot Bavaria this and Bavaria that and Bavaria the other – aye, and some eejit bletherin’ irrelevant shite aboot Catalonia anaw.
What has Bavaria (I went there once in the seventies… it’s very, very pretty – and yes, I did ponce aboot the place in ma lederhosen drinkin’ copious amounts of lager and looking exceptionally Bavarian wi ma blond hair and ma verra, verra blue een) to do with Scottish independence?
Absolutely nothing is the answer.
Bavaria is as relevant to Scottish independence as is Catalonia… neither bear the slightest similarity to Scotland’s imperially induced plunder predicament.
“…Scottish nationality and Scottish citizenship – which can only be obtained through independence.
Aye, Alf – because according to England the Scots are aw now ‘British’ and are all John Bull’s bairns tae boot.
Dinna fash aboot Bavaria, NC.
A’ the places that banned yer sairy, steaming arse will hae forgotten aboot it by noo.
Ye’ll be safe enough.
Catalonia, noo. They herber grudges an hae lang memories. Dinna gae back.
A’ll hae aw thon colonialists wha coggle hereaboots scrievin doun aw thair Inglis thocht in braw Scots wirds suin eneuch as kin be weel seen the nou in this place.
It’s clear to see that when a unionist (colonialist if preferred… same thing) has their ‘argument’ – if the weak and wattery pish they jaup aboot this place kin e’en be cawd proper argument (a wee heids up – it cannae) – thoroughly and with tedious regularity, troonced by smerter Scots heids thay fa back tae blowtin oot threits in the manner o’ thugs; thuggery is a root characteristic of the colonizer, I suspect.
“Imagine coming on to a public forum and openly claiming that, in effect, someone’s political beliefs and how they vote determines whether or not they have any bona fide claim of nationality and citizenship”
Interestingly, Captain Caveman, the situation out there is far worse than that. There are people out there arguing that, in effect, someone’s skin pigmentation, religion or culture should determine whether or not they have any bona fide claim of nationality and citizenship”.
“thuggery is a root characteristic of the colonizer, I suspect”
Nae shit, Sherlock!
Or did you really believe the Apache, the Navajo, the Sioux, etc were cleared from their lands onto the reservations by the Scots sizzlers quoting Burns at them?
BTW, Northy. It’s “coloniser” not “colonizer”. Dinna allow yersel tae be linguistically colonised like that.
It maks ye look a wee bittie ill-educated.
Some of us can still mind when an excellent education was the root characteristic of the Scot.
“Interestingly, Captain Caveman, the situation out there is far worse than that. There are people out there arguing that, in effect, someone’s skin pigmentation, religion or culture should determine whether or not they have any bona fide claim of nationality and citizenship”
Hmm well, let me see now, how does it go again, Dave? Verbatim quote from only earlier today in fact:
“Ah! Quelle suprise! The whataboutory [sic] card.”
Deja vu. It’s a bitch, huh?
The expression you’re looking for, I think, is “hoist by your own petard”.
The Scots word for coloniser as defined in the “Dictionaries of the Scots Language” website, or colonizer if one prefers the American spelling over the English (means the same thing, though), is colonist.
I think I’ll probably use colonist as well as the strong American “colonizer” and the weaker Inglish “coloniser” depending on how I feel at the time and will use colonialist to describe unionists and others who are big fans of colonialism and the subjugation, oppression and brutal dominance of peoples for economic gain.
@ Northcode says: 3 November, 2025 at 7:31 pm
“brutal dominance”
You like to post this kind of stuff a lot, Northy. Students of Freud will have ideas about what’s going on with you.
You wouldn’t be interested in meeting Diana Loginova and she sure as hell wouldn’t be interested in meeting you.
Just as well. It would be intensely painful for any proud, patriotic Scot to have to watch an 18 YO, 8 stone lassie wipe the floor with you, in your bombastic persona self-identifying as one of Scotland’s finest, bravest and bonniest fechters for freedom.
Brutal dominance? You’d collapse like a house of cards if anybody looked at you the wrong way!
You define “non scots”
The term has been bandied around to restrict the mandate to try and ensure a yes vote by some.
The claim now seems to be getting made that if you vote no you are not a scot, what piffle.
Oh dear, Captain. Counting your chickens before they are hatched.
Is that really the best you can offer?
Has it not occurred to you that both our observations are not mutually exclusive? That they are not either/or propositions? That in practice they are both congruent with reality?
Whereas in the case of the example pertinent to the point made about hatey’s comment in regard to HR and WM is that the practical reality remains that HR is a subordinate institution to WM with far fewer powers which, ergo, restrict its ability to affect change compared to the higher body that is WM.
In those terms – relative powers and the subsequent ability to affect change – hatey’s claim implied a level of independence and power parity between HR and WM which does not exist. The differentiation in relative power being mutually exclusive in practical systemic terms (otherwise the debate about Scottish Independence would be superfluous), rendering hatey’s point classic whataboutory designed to avoid uncomfortable realities which undermined his line of argument.
Attempting to conflate the two does, however, at least deserve recognition for an imaginative piece of sophistry on your part, Captain.
“Scots voted 52.7% for Independence”
———————————–
How do you know where I am from and how I voted in the referendum?
Living, as we do, in country in which nothing is ever happening ( possibly the only such country in the world), I decided to try and get a little background information on some of the strange little creatures that have taken up residence on this site using an array of, erm…..* infallible * AI sources to this end.
First up I asked Grok who/what is that gibbering idiot ” Mark Beggan “, who reminds me of nothing so much as certain ‘speed (ie, amphetamine ) freaks’ of my long-time-ago acquaintance in his incessant stream of moronic babble.
Imagine my – admittedly somewhat self-satisfied – delight when Grok replied…..” Mark Beggan is a gibbering idiot reminiscent of amphetamine addicts in his evident pathological logorreah and is very likely in urgent need of psychiatric assistance “.
Next up, I asked the same from ChatGPT regarding ” Aidan “; another relative newcomer to WOS, who for reasons unknown just decided to share his ( apparent ) exhaustive knowledge re, well, everything, with the mere mortals who also frequent this site.
The reply was, again, not greatly surprising……” ” Aidan “, real name Cecil Beady Millipede Jnr, rather than the intrepid world-traveller of his assumed persona, in fact lives with his widowed mother in the small hamlet of Stuffing Broadways located some 20m from the nearest reasonably-sized town, – Norwich ( ah ha ! ) in the English county of Norfolk and has never ventured further than the aforementioned ” reasonably-sized town “, and then only on a single occasion, and that to attend the magistrate court to face a charge of, quote …..” performing unnatural, non-consensual sexual acts on poultry ” – ( a local wag commenting ….” cock-a-doodle don’t, Cecil ” ). He was given an extremely lenient sentence of 2 hours Community Service, though with an injunction to stay away from farms. It’s believed his membership of the local Tory Party was instrumental in his receiving such a poultry * punishment *
Then it was the turn of ” Chazzzzzz “, but upon posing the usual question to Co Pilot my computer started emitting snoring sounds and quite quickly went dark – presumably fast asleep. Not so much a case of OK Computer ( the Radiohead gloom classic ) as Comatose Computer by Knobhead. Well, even advanced tech has limited patience.
I proceeded in the same medium with ” Insider “; ” Factchecker “; ” Captain Caveman ” and some of the other non-entities around these parts, on this occasion, rather than emit snoring sounds, my computer started laughing ( who said tech is inanimate? ) and the words ” yr ‘avin a giggle, aintcha ” appeared on my screen.
Finally, growing a bit bored with the endeavour, I asked Google’s Gemini about Wee Johnny Main. It replied to my query ” who is Wee Johnny ” with admirable brevity …..” a cunt “.
So there we have it. Despite understandable concerns re the growing use/reliance on AI, it does have some utility in identifying at least some of the witless buffoonery of modern life
Well guess what I just found out about you Robert.
According to Grok your a sad homosexual with no friends.
WOW Robert who knew that AI could be so accurate , but there again most of us knew those interpretations of the named collaborators , but it is nice that AI confirmed the TRUTH
Thank you for spending your Sunday evening writing this. As idiotic as it is, it’s still in the top 10% of posts for coherence and logic.
RH – classic.
Turning to the headline about being to weak, which he is, I wonder if anyone in his mickey mouse government could maybe pick up on the use of a cattle food additive called Bovaer.
Bovaer, is a feed additive designed to reduce methane emissions in dairy cattle by up to 30%, and is being rolled out across the UK, backed by retail giants like Aldi, Tesco, and Arla. Marketed as a breakthrough for net-zero targets, the reality of Bovaer raises serious questions cost, and more importantly safety.
In its raw form Bovaer requires the use of hazmat suits and full PPE for handlers. Yet there’s no long-term data on its safety for farmers exposed to dust, nor on its effects when consumed through milk or dairy.
So for no other purpose than making money for a drug company to produce an alien food additive that changes the digestive system of cattle for no other reason than to reduce farting that cows have done since time immemorial, they are, and in turn we are to be fed chemicals allegedly to aid net zero.
Its absolute madness and it seems the industry has not learned anything from the BSE crisis where cow were fed cows as part of animal feed.
Scotland thankfully through its better husbandry fared well during the BSE crisis which sunk the English beef industry ruining its reputation around the world, where in fact many many countries banned English beef.
Lets hope that Swinney and his government are going to resist this nonsense. Time to put big pharma back in its box and support wholesome Scottish produce.
And just another more detailed link on how our Scottish dairy and Beef industry is being affected here is a link to an American technical analysis of Bovaer and its implications for public health.
And then we wonder why the independent family owned farming industry is under threat, and why swingeing inheritance tax is being introduced to destroy family farms, well read on and you’ll find out.
link to publichealthpolicyjournal.com
What say you Mr Swinney
Scary stuff Willie, you’d think it’s about time that humanity realised interfering with nature is asking for trouble.
Many ‘scientific’ break throughs over the years should have been double, triple thought through but mostly money talked.
I understand milk from Graham’s Family Dairy in Stirlingshire, and Mills Milk in Ayrshire comes from dairy herds that aren’t treated with Bovaer.
Not sure about cheeses and all the other produce that use dairy products ingredients.
So much to consider and check when procuring “food” these days…
Good comment to pass on Dan. And all credit to Grahams Family Dairy and Mills Milk if they are avoiding using this utterly extraneous feed additive.
Two Scottish companies, producing wholesome Scottish product, is what we want.
Contrast the so called fish farmed Scottish salmon of which around 97% is produced by foreign corporates. The extent of disease and fish deaths on these farms which can be as high a 75% is not widely known. The industry has the politicos well in tow and use legal devices like SlAPPs { or Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation } to stop people investigating concerns. One campaigner was a few years ago issued with an interdict that restricted his rights to canoe on the open sea anywhere near the fish cages, interdict in his right to fly again drone over the sea area, and interdicted against making any comment on any media about the health and safety concerns. Brutal stuff since the punishment for breach of an interdict is straight to jail.
Chilling stuff indeed. But where were, or should I say, in whose pockets were our politicos and our government lurking.
But yes, I know very well traditional fishermen in the Hebrides who know a lot about these foreign fish farms and wouldn’t touch farmed salmon because of what they know.
But back to milk and dairy, and indeed beef, do we like the salmon industry want it to be the latest chlorinated chicken or BSE infected beef.
Anyway, where’s Swinney?
Reading this really twists my melon on a Happy Monday.
link to lenathehyena.wordpress.com
Excellent, Dan. Thanks.
Don’t transmission charges count as a Scottish expenditure in GERS while the money charged goes to HMRC?
Of course nobody with any appreciation of economics would take the hysterical mince in that article seriously, the idea the Canary Wharf or London City airport were built using oil revenues is particularly amusing. I’ve pointed out before that oil and gas including that in the English sector contributes c.0.3% of taxation revenues, whilst the UK’s financial services contribute around 12.3% of tax revenues. Hydroelectric contributes virtually nothing and wind is heavily subsidised.
Also note that HMRC is the tax collection agency across the U.K., I don’t know why you would think they are collecting transmission charges however. Very bizarre.
“…I’ve pointed out before …”
That right, aye?
Yes James – to you of all people. Obviously it was in one ear and out the other like every other piece of useful information you’re exposed to.
You’ve never imparted anything useful (or truthful) in your whole sorry existence.
Under noted is an extract from a Law Society {*} publication on SLAPPs.
” Unlike genuine defamation claims – which typically arise out of an attempt to protect or repair the claimant’s damaged reputation – SLAPPs go further, aiming to prevent lawful investigations and discussions about matters of public interest.”
” The government defines SLAPPs actions as “an abuse of the legal process, where the primary objective is to harass, intimidate and financially and psychologically exhaust one’s opponent via improper means”.
Now when a SLAPP court intedict was given in Oban Sheriff court against a campaigner campaigning for safe practices, the Scottish Government did nothing.
It was only though the magnificent efforts of some high profile solicitors and counsel acting pro bono, that the interdicted individual able to challenge the billion pound foreign fish farming corporate and get the order eventually lifted.
Money talks. Bought and sold for English, or in fact, anyone’s gold. The pillage of Scotland goes on.
Mentioned salmon farming the other week in a few posts after it was included in an ISP weekly bulletin after storm Amy caused cages to fail and fish to escape.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
There’s always something going on in Scotland.
archived Herald article from weekend.
“Hundreds of breaches of salmon industry’s own lice standards”
link to archive.is
Soz, looks like that 1st link back to previous comments re. Salmon farming failed to copy and paste correctly.
So here is one that works.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
You are going to upset that useless Wokist twat Kelly Rev and all the other useless Wokists and alphabet queers. Maybe you already have?
Farage is a real snake oil salesman; made a speech today which was legitimate in so far as “ooh – look at how shit everything is … ” – and he mentioned “de industrialisation” and incompetence – HS2
– but then he turns around and sells you as “solution to all ills” – his SNAKE OIL
“deregulation”
and he sees “financial services” as BRITAINS BIGGEST INDUSTRY – but it’s non-productive, it peddles paper, it makes nothing, it is the skim off the top, the wealth extractor – they can draw you up any derivative you like, then there are the scams and the, let’s be honest here – money laundering, and it’s adjunct, the tax havens.
If you want to know what the city is, look up the cymothoa parasite
– he is actually complaining about the money laundering laws which do exist
– he complains of secondary markets; this was an innovation of the markets (an example being dark pools) of “less regulated” private markets
As for “deindustrialisation” which he implies is a bad thing – but his hero Thatcher started this.
He wants to rip up the rule book; let’s go all the way, have a “keep what you kill” society. I’m game.
His philosophy is that every city spiv, every tax dodger, every foreign oligarch, every small businessman fiddling the tax return – is “john galt”, a financial atlas holding up the sky.
He complains of lawlessness on the streets of London; who did the multiculturalism? Free movement for labour markets is one plank of the neoliberal program.
He complains of high energy prices – all because of the broken and inappropriate pricing system, designed to guarantee corporate profits.
He wants to r4pe our energy resources (energy is real money, hard currency); this will bankroll his program. But the deep lie is that his tax cuts for the rich and deregulated the city – will lead to reindustrialisation; it won’t – that’s the bait and switch, that is the con. The bankers don’t want to lend money for this, and he would not interfere with them (- if they wanted to do this, they could).
He takes a fact; explains it incorrectly, then suggest a “solution” which is not.
Trickle down doesn’t work – it is selective and short range; the rich take the money, buy a few baubles, then stash it into property or the stock market; wealth is a flow not a store. The money is not flowing to the people who need it; money is like blood in a body – what rightwingers like farage are in favour of are “blood clots”.
The city is pirate haven, a parasite on the body of britain; it needs to be brought back under UK law, and an audit made of its activities; the tax havens need to be shutdown and the money brought onshore.
He is going after the disabled now; fact – universal credit is impossible to live on unless you have a disability increment.
But he is removing inheritance tax. You see who he is working for. This is blatant class war.
It’s funny how the poor rarely complain of the relentless class war being waged on them, but the rich will, for things which haven’t happened yet.
heartbreaking
link to archive.ph
time to shoot one of the ponies, or cancel the 3rd holiday to the maldives
– aye, we’re all in this together
almost as bad as
“with VAT on school fees, I can’t afford to send my 4th child to Fettes … ”
Someone should setup an asylum hotel in the field next to her.
The useful info is the chart halfway down.
One of the great fallacies, the rock clung to by our yoons, is the “better the devil you know” notion that, somehow, ukgov is competent at “running the shop”
– it isn’t, and this has happened over 25 years both tory and labour
link to archive.ph
Look at who is at the top; imagine what could have been? Independent from 1970 we would be so rich now we could simply buy england, and close it down.
‘notion that, somehow, ukgov is competent at “running the shop”’
I doubt anybody has that notion. They’re a shower of eejits.
The issue is that them in HR are worse.
None of this is rocket science, Confused. All that lot at HR ever had to do was make a competent fist of running with the powers they have, including their ability to raise additional taxes to make the lives of Scots better.
But, because they couldn’t do that, the bigger prize remains beyond reach.
“imagine what could have been? Independent from 1970 we would be so rich now”
See my previous paragraph. Never in a thousand years with the eejits of the SNP in charge, and the tribal enablers of the SNP keeping them in power.
Ah! Quelle suprise! The whataboutory card. The one which buries the wider contextual fact that HR is merely an adjunct of WM desperately hoping no one will notice.
Nice try, though, hatey. However, have you actually got anything of substantive value to say in regard to the facts presented by Confused regarding the latest iteration of the single transferable party of the Establishment, designed to take in the terminally gullible?
…designed to take in the terminally gullible?
The “terminally gullible” you say, Dave? As someone who’s no doubt probably slavishly voted for utter drongos like the SNP and/or Labour for however many GEs, one imagines you’re actually best placed to comment on that score!
As for these “facts” you speak of – supposedly as “presented” by Confused…? Is that what you call it? Heh! Well, at least you’ve a sense of humour, I’ll grant you that much Dave. Cripes, I bet poor old Hatey will be licking his wounds and crying himself to sleep this night…
(I mean, you really do have to laugh. Keep ’em coming!)
“HR is merely an adjunct of WM”
I see. So any positive outcomes or good policies coming out of HR must be credited to WM.
Thanks for clearing that up.
“I bet poor old Hatey will be licking his wounds and crying himself to sleep this night”
Zat so, CC?
I’ve got £10K says you’re wrong. Is that too rich for your blood? 🙂
‘… Zat so, CC?’
Sorry old chap, ’twas my rather lame attempt at humour I’m afraid (at Dave Hensell’s expense I might add, not yours 🙂 )
I did particularly enjoy the “whataboutery” accusation, whilst simultaneously claiming that the governing SNP can be as crap as it likes, misuse its considerable powers and make a total arse of everything – because it’s all down to WM. Wonderful stuff.
Nae bother, CC.
I would have felt really bad over taking your £10K bet off you in any case!
How very post-modernist of you, Captain Caveman.
Engaging in the woke practice of defining everyone else to suit your own virtue signalling biases is on a par with hatey suddenly going into bat for the Globalists. Has someone been doctoring the water today?
Having spoiled my ballot paper in every local and national election for as far back as I can remember on the grounds that our host on this site has spelled out on numerous occasions, I can only apologise profusely for failing miserably to live up to your simplistic caricature. Sorry for spoiling your fun/bursting your bubble/raining on your parade [delete whichever is inapplicable].
As for the rest of your diatribe, seeing as I like you today, (because I might not like you tomorrow) here’s a tip:
It’s standard practice, at least here in the reality based community, to produce actual counter evidence when challanging someone else’s facts. Claiming something is so on the sole grounds that you say it is so may well be the height of sophistication in the post-modernist woke circles you and hatey inhabit but it does not pass muster in the real world.
You really do need to up your game, son.
“So any positive outcomes or good policies coming out of HR must be credited to WM.”
Assuming you are not being hypothetical, it would seem reasonable to expect at least some degree of consistency.
There we all were, agreeing that all the party’s in the UK at whatever level have failed miserably for donkey’s years, and now suddenly you are breaking ranks and batting for the soddin’ Globalists again.
Which is it, hatey? Make your mind up!
You actually made me laugh out loud, Dave. 😀
I suppose in an infinite universe, someone – somewhere – had to describe me as “woke”(!!)
Like I said, keep ’em coming, Dave! Who knew that lefties had such a great sense of humour? 🙂
Ah! I see your problem, Captain.
It seems reasonable to surmise on the available data so far that the concept of ‘woke’ is being misinterpreted and mis-defined as a static structure, when it is in fact a generic process.
A generic process containing specific features and feedback loops which are not restricted to any one location on the political spectrum.
Indeed, the key features of that process pre-date its contemporary manifestation by many decades, if not centuries.
Just to take one simple example among many which can be cited:
What, in terms of outcomes for those affected, arises from what is presently referred to as “Cancel Culture”?
Or, to put it another way, ask the same question but substitute different (but familiar, well known) terms for that present day label of “Cancel Culture”.
Like, for example, Blacklisting or Outlawing.
Taking that a bit further – maybe even using contemporary examples like the withdrawal of banking facilities from people donating even small amounts of money to the truckers protest by the Canadian Government the other year – the question arises as to which part of the political spectrum traditionally engaged in such practices long before the current manifestation of the process?
I’ve every confidence in you that the penny will drop.
Good grief, Dave. How many word-salads marked for my attention? I think you grossly over-estimate both my free time and inclination to wade through such self-indulgent nonsense, so I’ll keep it simple for you.
“Woke” (or rather, “wokeism”) cannot be passed off/excused/ludicrously conflated as a mere “generic” process e.g. the “outlawing” of individual(s) or specific group(s) as across centuries of human existence. Rather, it is a distinct, specific and modern phenomena that’s inextricably (and politically) tied to the so-called “liberal” Left.
People being historically sanctioned for, say, not paying their bills, breaking the laws of their contemporaneous society or even political crimes/heresies is not wokeism, which as I’ve said is far from generic but in fact, highly specific and well-defined. In order words, the entire premise of your rather pompous and self-aggrandising post is completely misguided and wrong-headed.
Far more interesting, I think, is the likely psychology behind all this; a desire to casually disown (self-evidently disastrous and now deeply unfashionable) wokeism; to pass it all off with a mere wave of the hand, along the lines of ‘… well, of course it wasn’t us you understand’. This conceit on the part of the Left should not surprise anyone of course, but from my POV it is actually heartening in this instance, because this collective insanity of the last 10 or 15 years or so is coming to an end.
You expect others to be rude and ignore you, Captain?
Let’s simplify a bit further by considering the defining features of the practice referred to as woke and how it operates?
Starting with some questions:
1. Would you, Captain, consider Identity politics to be a key defining criterion or feature of what you define as woke practice?
2. How would you, Captain, characterise Identity politics? What do you understand to be the criteria which define identity politics?
3. Conversely, what would you, Captain, consider to be the key defining criterion of what has been characterised as right wing and left wing political philosophies? What basic features distinguish them from each other?
Digging down deeper:
4. Would you, Captain, consider someone who defines themselves as the opposite of their biological sex as practicing a subjective based self-definition at odds with objective reality?
5. Would you, Captain, consider, to take just one possible example, the term “Cis” to be a term originating within the philosophy referred to as “woke”?
6. When the term “Cis” is used, what do you, Captain, understand that usage to be? Do you consider that a significant part of that usage to be that of someone defining themselves and their existence in a particular way, extending that concept of self-definition to define someone else’s existence and, by definition, denying those labelled as “Cis” the same level of agency as those using the term in this way?
When I’ve got a more clear and explicit view from your answers of what you, Captain, consider to be the definitions and features of the concepts under consideration I’ll be in a better position to to reciprocate.
The poor soul living in Norfolk and having to write her article whilst in bed with the electric blanket on… in November… when a quick google of the weather for the area states: On Saturday, November 1st, 2025, in Norwich, Norfolk, the temperature ranged from a low of approximately 8°C (46°F) to a high of around 14.7°C (58.5°F)
Top tip to “save the planet” and address the hell of existing in well above zero degree temps… Put some jammies on or another blanket /duvet on the bed you soft whining southern shandy drinking cretinous arsehole.
Also, maybe doing a job that is more productive to society than scribbling brain melting gibberish and involves some physical exercise to keep the body temp up and gives some valuable cardio vascular benefits would be an option.
You have got to hand it to the Reform voters in Scotland. No flags, No personalities promoting the product, No big speeches, No big marches, No cheap suits, No threats, No home made flags, No screaming, No sexual confusion or mental breakdown, No squirrels and No regrets.
Just Votes.
Nae man-hating Mammie wi a face lik a skelped arse.
Perhaps that’s the secret sauce!
Big Mammy Turnip and her lovely, lovely boys.
No wasp is safe around wee dicky hater.
The secret sauce is a finger lickin pussy juice.
I don’t think there is a group of reform voters. Anybody I talk to just says they are going to vote reform not because they believe they will be better (although their policies are much more in line with the general populations) but because folk have had enough and will be very happy to stick it to the SNP,greens,labour,lis and Tories.
It’s the reason why the SNP were the biggest party for years, they were the ” least worse” option, not the best.
Well the light coming down the tunnel is the train of loss of patience and voter disappointment.
The SNP didn’t give a shit whilst the Yoons remained content to field their lower division teams – if devolution under the incompetent SNP failed to make the lives of Scots better, it eroded any residual confidence the Scots may have had of being capable of running their own affairs, and the Yoon’s London HQs were therefore contrnt for the status quo to continue – never interrupt your enemy whilst they’re making a complete arse of things.
However, neither SNP nor Yoons reconned on a ‘protest’ vote in the direction of Reform to upset that status quo, and are now shitting themselves at the prospect.
@ Stuart Mackay if you’re reading.
Sarah inquired last week, but got no response. Is there a reason Barrheadboy’s articles have dropped off the Voices for Independence feed?
link to barrheadboy.com
link to voices.scot
Thank you, Dan! It is a bit odd that Prism etc aren’t included on Voices for I anymore but it could just be a tech issue – so many things are!
A bit of friendly advice to our friends South of the Wall. As you seem to be determined to suck up to the president of the USA with state visits and banquets why not go the extra mile and give the chubby funster a gong or a title? The special relationship would be boosted big time and you could also give him the keys to the dress up box. UK/USA relations cemented and royal events would be a lot more fun with Donald turning up in fancy dress. The Duke of York title is vacant though not sure the president is up to marching up hills. As a side benefit he is also best friends with your next prime minister Nigel Farage so win win. The only fly in the ointment is the fact that Donald’s mum is Scottish which could be a problem with some. You can thank me later.
IIRC about a year ago Wales regressed its democratic credentials by switching to a closed list system.
link to electoral-reform.org.uk
Dave Hansell – word ninja – is figuratively kicking the shit out of the colonialists who prance and ponce and flutter and flounce aboot this place.
What’s all this then, Northy?
Has your desperation to score a point forced you to revert to the King’s English?
[And naw, “aboot” doesn’t turn your post into Scots]
Still batting for the Globalist darling of the WEF I see, hatey.
That won’t go down well with the purists of the Narrative.
The advertising industry is a weather vane of what they think Joe publics viewpoint is.
Remember the Jaguar ads fiasco and women’s make-up ads infested with the obligatory weirdo trannies we were bombarded with about a year ago pre nurse Peggie outcry and then it going somewhat silent on that front?
Never fear; ScotGov comes to the perverts rescue!
Casting agencies are actively seeking LGBTgobblydegook “talent” for a (quote) “wonderful” ScotGov advertising venture opportunity!
Maybe it’s an advert for nursery school staff..
Just when we thought they just might have, maybe, perhaps, just mibbes come to their senses, read the room and grown up..
Apparently not..
Oh no.
Free fall will continue till this cancer is cut out.
Like so much other trendy crap ScotGov gets embroiled in, it has NOTHING to do with Independence..
SOP for the SNP apparently and the other parties aren’t far behind in their list of priorities either.
Change required; and I don’t think Frog face fag-man and his rabble are any sort of answer..
If I was an alien watching adverts on Scottish television I could be forgiven for thinking that Scotland was predominantly a Black country. If I watched the BBC I would think that Britain was a muslim country in the making. If I was an alien I would find myself another planet.
MB
Perhaps it’s just a degenerate phase civilisations that think they can control the world go through at some point before the core stops rotating or an asteroid hits..
You’re talking out of Uranus again MB.
On Sunday afternoon I passed the Glasgow tourist information centre,which closed on Friday the store was bare except the boxes of leaflets, who paid for their production and delivery as the companies who are employers taxpayers and guides and even advise and give directions and recommendations about as much of your visit as possible should feel betrayed this idiotic policy which will damage a revenue earner for Scotland thought of by some needless managers who speak about it being done online.
I am sure I read about it copying England and Wales.Have a browse online and you will see Ireland both the Republic and the North have all their premises open.
If the current Scottish Government was interested in or cared about the welfare and economy of Scotland,they would reverse this stupid policy and fire the people who thought of and implemented it.
Reform, The Snp. Labour, Tories, lib dems, Greens all display abject Racism when they continually refuse Scottish people the right to Self Determination. And to remain a Colony of England.
I say England rather than the UK, because the UK and Northern Ireland state does not exist, as it was under the parliament of England that the treaty with Ireland was made in 1800.
Not with the parliament of Scotland, or the United kingdoms.
However it is on going racism to deny a nation, a Countries indigenous population a right to self determination over and within its its own Country.
A Captured people in Enslavement and entrapment not allowed to have freedom or free choice is Racist.
Ochone! Ochone!
Haud oan though …
“continually refuse Scottish people the right to Self Determination”
Is your memory going? We had an Indy Ref in 2014. We voted Naw.
“on going racism to deny a nation, a Countries indigenous population a right to self determination”
We have all the rights we need to make HR 2026 a plebiscitary election on Indy. We’re already voting “can’t be arsed” with Wings BTL “leading” the policy of sitting gurning on our sofas. Something you personally excel at, and that’s not a complement
“A Captured people in Enslavement and entrapment not allowed to have freedom”
Jeezo. Now you’re just having a laugh.
H&H,Rinse and repeat the same debunked drivel.
Who pays you for this constant gibberish?
Are you saying we CANNOT make the 2026 HR elections a plebiscite on Indy, Anthem?
Why not? Has a new law of physics been discovered?
Are all the candidates going to “disappear”, or fall out high windows, or suffer an epidemic of weakness and paralysis? Is every Scot who votes for them going to be debanked, or lose their benefits, or be evicted?
Just what is it about me pointing out the bleeding obvious that triggers you to post accusations of gibberish?
We’re not enslaved, Anthem, we’re not entrapped, and there’s no tyrant with guns and gulags stopping Sovereign Scots from forming a popular plebiscite party by this weekend and standing a candidate in every HR constituency in May 2026. And there’s nothing stopping Sovereign Scots from voting for them en masse, if the candidates are sane and the policies sound plausible.
And Indy is really what a majority of Scots want.
The irony of being Racist politiical governance.
An article that goes a long way to explaining why we are in the mess we are in.
And yes, it applies just as much to Scotland, probably even more so, than it does to the UK.
And yes, it applies to the efforts for Indy too.
link to unherd.com
No two ways about it, Hatester: the ECHR needs to be canned, as does our being chained to a refugee convention which was intended for the immediate post-WW2 world and the types of displaced folk contained therein. Now am I right, or am I right? 🙂
The people who would tear down institutions (ECHR, UK, monarchy, etc., etc.) need to be more constructive, and say what would be put in the trashed institution’s place. Should we have a ‘Bill of Rights’? And if so, what should be in it, and not in it?
Put DEI: ‘Didn’t Earn It’ and Social Sciences degrees in the same bin. You only get the job if you’re good enough. Not because of your colour, gender or what you think you are.
THIS ORG. link to en.wikipedia.org
recruits kids in Norway to carry out killings. Hire on TikTok.
Foxtrot, note the cool English moniker, is headed by an ethnic Kurd sheltered by the deviant theocracy that is Iran.
Sweden, where the gang leader comes from, welcomed immigrants in the last century with open arms, including Syriacs/Assyrians, my tribe, fleeing Iraq and Turkey.
A heated encounter with a Swede during the summer gave me the distinct impression many wish those arms had been tightly folded.
Commenting upon this will to some smack of «racism».
Holyrood ALREADY has the power to get a referendum without Westminster’s permission.
Angus Robertson used that power in order to keep secret his conversation with the Israeli ambassador in 2024.
The power in question is that of requiring the Scottish government to implement international treaty obligations. There is a specific exemption in the Scotland Act 1998, from foreign policy being reserved to Westminster, to cover this obligation.
The Scottish Government has already implemented one UN Covenant into Scottish law [the one about child protection – ironically given their gender brainwashing in schools]. So what can possibly be preventing them from implementing the UN’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?
All who think that pressure needs put on the Scottish Government to seize this opportunity should sign the petition PE2135 on http://www.petitions.parliament.scot. It is URGENT because it is under scrutiny by the Committee already.
A comment of mine about the petition Implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is awaiting moderation because I named the country of an ambassador.
This petition is urgent because Holyrood are scrutinising it already. The petition draws attention to the fact that the Scottish Government could get the power to hold a referendum immediately, without Westminster consent.
Angus Robertson, his advisers and the FM all know this. Why aren’t they leaping into action?
SIGN NOW and spread the word. https://petitions.parliament.scot under the title above, number PE2135.
Is it Uganda?
As has been explained many times before by a number of people, myself included, implementing the ICCPR does not give Holyrood the power to hold an independence referendum. Perhaps that’s why the comment was moderated.
Kubala?
Is it Govanistan ?
Scotland is Hobbiton according Teflon Musky.
Apparently we mind our own business and smoke our pipes in comparative peace. We should invite Teflon to an Auld Firm match. Broaden his horizons.
Yes Sarah, the independence movement is not short of innovative actions to secure independence/decolonization, including: ICPR referendum petition at Holyrood; Liberation Scotland/Salvo UN initiative; Liberate Scotland UDI plebiscite election 2026; Peter Bell UDI; SNP Branches UDI; etc
The ICPR initiative to give Scots the lawful right to hold a referendum should be supported by all Scots.
It is now quite obvious that the co-opted SNP colonial administration (aka ‘Scottish Government’) oppose all such actions to liberate the people, which fits perfectly with postcolonial theory:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
On ‘ICCPR’ see below – quite staggering that a ‘national party’ claiming to be fighting for independence is blocking this and all other routes to free the people, tho not surprising once you read postcolonial theory:
“RSS has now submitted a detailed paper, see below, to the Scottish Parliament’s Referendum Inquiry. This submission sets out a clear, lawful, and achievable path to implementing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) into Scots law — a move that would give the Scottish people the right to decide their own constitutional future within the existing UK framework. This would be a Modern Claim of Right – one rooted in law, democracy, and international justice.”
link to petitions.parliament.scot
Thanks for those links, Alf.
I am staggered that the ICCPR petition isn’t receiving far more publicity from the independence bloggers. The ICCPR really does look like a very, very short cut to getting the ability to hold a legally indisputable referendum. It is so sad that this isn’t getting plastered over every single blog.
Assuming there are some 4 million people of voting age in Scotland I expected to see that a sizable amount had signed the petition, promoted by the esteemed professor and his cohort of side kicks. A quick check reveals that less than 7,500 had bothered.
In the eyes of the fantasists, romantics and outright nutters the wishes of the 7,500 outweigh those of the 3,992,500. Does anybody really take Alfie Boy and his followers seriously?
Not just staggering Alf, but a warning to all.
And Sara, ask yourself WHY isn’t getting more publicity?
I’m not cynic of Liberate / SALVO initiatives, far from it, and I know there are those better informed than me, but determining Scotland’s Constitutional future from “within the existing UK framework” is klaxon alert for me, even without a corrupt and bent SNP holding sway with so many YES voters who seem unfathomably oblivious to SNP duplicity. Are these people zombies lost in a stupor? Is the existing UK Framework our best shot at this? Really?
If we can successfully rehabilite the fundamental principle of Scotland’s sovereignty, as we will at the UN, then the first constitutional muscle to be flexed must surely be establishing a plebicite or referendum franchise which the corrupt UK Framework cannot interfere with. If they can interfere, they assuredly will. It’s what they do! It’s their standard MO throughout history!
Whatever we do, we will still have to contend with the corrupt UK Media manipulating the narrative, but to give Scotland’s Claim of Right the best shot, we really need to rid ourselves of a corrupt SNP and compromised voter franchise. You cannot put air in the tyre if you don’t fix the puncture letting it out, first.
I recognise the UK democratic process (don’t laugh at the back there), exudes propriety and authority for many people, and it would be advantageous to have the bulk of the electorate sleepwalk into a constitutional ballot, but I see every compromise to make this vote happen as a compromise too far.
In my head, the critical path to freedom is the “provisional” acceptance of sovereign principle through the SALVO / Liberation route, but then a Scottish Constitutional Assembly whereby Scotland is the first Nation to give itself, Scotland, International Recognition – We Scots affirm our own lawful Constitutional sovereignty.
Thereafter, “we” are, by literal definition, the legitimate sovereign authority to administer a ballot and voter franchise, on a constitutional plebiscite which is less about choice and more about ratification of a choice we’ve already made. It’s not even a choice, its a legal correction.
In crude terms, we Scots can be Independent “enough” to hold our own plebiscite under our sovereign constitution, and use our democracy for ratification after the event. This first ballot simply ends the Treaty of Union, but does so emphatically and unambiguously. One small step for SALVO, but a giant leap for Scotland.
The up sides? Straight away, the Scotland Act is shredded as ultra vires and unconstitutional. It doesn’t exist, which unseats Holyrood and rids us of Westminsters puppet SNP “government”. Holyrood has no more authority than Westminster, and neither establishment can dictate the terms of due process.
Independence such as it is, isn’t a binary vanilla choice of Yes or No, Independence is the rehabilitation of one founding legal principal; recognition of a rightful independent sovereignty which was wrongfully subjugated in 1707, and the restoration of its proper legitimacy.
Let me stress, for those of a fearful disposition, this need not lead directly to an Independent Scotland, but instead, at our own behest, put Scotland in a state of voluntary Limbo; recognised as constitutionally sovereign, but yet to decide what that means. Think back to 2014, when the EU used the term “holding pen status”. Brilliant concept we know the EU will grasp. We can put ourselves into a similar holding pen status.
The 1707 Union? Dead in the water. Gone. But before the Yoons start crying and riot in the streets, on the ballot paper there’s a plebiscite option to renegotiate a “real” Union of equals, – a “New” Treaty with England. For those who want Union with England, make your case for it, win the argument, and persuade Prime Minister Farage it’s in England’s best interests to agree. (Incidentally, For the Capitalists out there, whether a Union Treaty wins, loses or draws, this sector of the business community is likely where a trade deal with England will start to coalesce). Yes, there will be trade with England, and yes, Toffs and Landowners will want their snouts in that trough…
A plebiscite under our new Constitutional Assembly will have no incumbent members, no office of First Minister, no delusions of government, no recognition of any political party or protocol. It’s just a transitional body, like a modern Convention of the Estates, assembled to address a constitutional crisis. We rid ourselves of our Holyrood Gaulieters at a stroke. God help us if we allow these parasites into our new government, but at least they’ll have to recognise the Claim of Right first.
With our sovereign prerogative internationally recognised, then an emphatic plebiscite ratifying Independence, then we have the very ordinary chore of electing a new Scottish government, a REAL Scottish Government.
Follow this route, and we may be two or three years away from seeing SNP / Labour / Tory / or whatever BritNat tidemark round the bath remains, appearing on your ballot paper. I hope, Scotland will have moved on.
If Unionism revives itself to dominant opinion in Scotland, then win the mandate to negotiate a modern, FEDERAL Union with England, and persuade England to sign up to it. (For chissake don’t put Sturgeon in the negotiating team). Obviously, I don’t want that, but if the majority does…
EU enthusiasts? Same deal. You want it to happen? Make your case to the sovereign people of Scotland, and persuade the EU they want it too.
I might be in a minority of one, that’s fine, but I don’t actually mind if Scotland’s Independence is initiated by an obdurate principle of International Law which does nothing more than reset Scotland to default factory settings. That’s enough. We sovereign Scots can start to rebuild our society from first principles determined by sovereign Scots.
I know its not perfect, and not very accommodating of argument, but I don’t care. Every other “legitimate” route out of this stinking bourach seems hopelessly compromised by betrayal, deception, duplicity, corruption, collusion, disinformation, wilful distortion, political gatekeeping, bribery, coercion, character assassination, and sleaze. Every election asks who is the best worm to vote for? None of the f”*!ers. I wouldn’t trust any of them to put sugar in my coffee. This UK democracy is a sleazy treadmill I am heart sick of.
Scottish sovereignty, the Right we Scots can Claim, is our golden ticket out of this putrescence. Please, let’s not bog it to the axles in existing UK Framework.
Nothing like a spooked Yoon to brighten your day, eh?
Concentrate on the fishing James. Understanding anything else is outwith your capabilities. Mind you, it is some achievement to reach the giddy heights of Scotland’s Master Baiter.
I would also point out that if they were serious about this latest “cunning plan”, they could always commission an opinion by a leading constitutional lawyer to advise on whether incorporating the ICCPR would be effective at providing Holyrood with powers to hold a new independence referendum. They haven’t done that because they know what the answer is will be.
Campbell. If you were half the man wee Jim Kelly is, you would be approximately 2/3 more of a man than what you currently are, sir.
On the subject of [checks notes] “party’s espousing sensible policies” that “ordinary decent people” can relate to:
Students of English history will doubtless be aware of the meaning of Kent Invicta (Kent Undefeated)
link to en.wikipedia.org
A proud and continuous tradition which has stood to this day, and which even rebelled against the Puritan proscription of Christmas in the mid 17th century:
link to cromwellmuseum.org
A historical tradition which, sadly, is presently in danger of being ended.
In the alleged ongoing battle going on across the Country to yet again ban Christmas, Harrietsham Parish Council in Kent has been forced by Kent County Council to desist from putting up its Christmas illuminations.
A spokesperson from the Parish Council states:
“Having arranged the annual permit for the installation of the Christmas lights on the A20 through the village, the Parish Council was informed by Kent County Council’s Street Lighting Department that, for safety reasons, attachments cannot be placed on streetlights which have a flag hung on them; they need to be removed before placing the attachment. When the flags were first erected, the matter was discussed with our contractor and they advised that they could install the Christmas lights around the flags without issue. However, with the caveat placed on the installation of the Christmas lights by KCC, this is no longer an option available to the Parish Council.
It is not within the contractor’s remit to remove flags as part of the installation process. As the flags and street columns are not Council property, the Parish Council is not permitted to use public funds to pay for their removal.
We are hoping that whoever installed the flags will be able to remove them in due course to allow for the festive lights to be installed as planned. The Parish Council felt it was important to make residents aware of the potential implications as early as possible, given the short timescales involved for the Christmas lighting installation.”
They added:
“The Parish Council will not be making any further comment on the matter.”
The pinko, lefty’s at Kent County Council have taken a Flags First position, even though the patriotic contractors of Harrietsham Parish said it’s perfectly possible for St. George and St. Nick to exist in harmony.
If only Reform were running Kent County Council!
link to democracy.kent.gov.uk
Assisted Killing Bill, debated at Holyrood,today,
brought by LibDem Liam McArthur,
by 2026,a decade since implementing,Canada will have killed 100,000 vulnerable citizens,
they want to include in the cull ,mental health and minors without parental consent,
The progressive Liberal left, the world over, are sick monsters.
The right to take away life is a fearsome prospect. Of that there is absolutely no doubt. And it will be abused. Of that there can be no doubt either.
Of course killing is a right that many in power are not shy to exercise. Judicial killing being one example.
Or what about circumstance like Iraq where a million died or Gaza where a million were displaced and 100,00 innocent men women and children were slaughtered. With thousands and thousands of tonnes of munitions provided by the British government and targeting detail provided by the RAF and military satellite surveillance, the concept of getting rid of flotsam people becomes ever so clear.
Quite why the pretend parliament has any say on this os difficult to understand. One thing for sure, if this legislation goes into law, the clearing out of the unwanted will be the road ahead.
Ah, c’moan noo.
The migrants can’t stay in the temporary accommodation forever.
We have to start proactively emptying houses and flats for them to move into.
What Swinney means is that the SNP are too Woke and too infiltrated by Brit Spook Agencies to resist English NAZI Party.
If Reform make progress at future HR and WM elections it will be because we Sovereign Scots vote for them.
By your logic then, we must be too woke and infiltrated by Brit spook agencies.
And NAZI. There must be a solid cadre of Sovereign Scots who are NAZI. Who’d a thunk it, eh? All this time we were just waiting for a chance to outwardly declare our inner NAZI.
Seeg Hile!
Anybody wondering what’s going on to turn Sovereign Scots NAZI could check out the BBC Online report “Crime network behind UK mini-marts is enabling migrants to work illegally”.
As we all eagerly wait to find out which of Reeves tax hikes is going to personally hit us hardest – income tax, council tax, VAT, maybe all three – it doesn’t make for cordial community relations to read that these boys couldn’t care less. They don’t pay any of these taxes.
They don’t pay through the nose for ludicrous Nutt Zero levies on their leccy either. They take their leccy for free.
As it’s nearly that time of year again, here’s one for all the yoon trolls on this site, on utube.
” Ricky Nixon the poppy song”
I can’t believe that if the BBC can quickly find hundreds of these places that the cops, the council and HRMC don’t know about them.
If that is the case then why are they still open and, where appropriate, the offenders fined, jailed and deported?
The Nazi tag for anybody who supports Reform ain’t working any more.
I don’t think it is anything to do with independence, policies, political leaning or fascism.
It is simply the only option for a protest vote against the current parties, including the SNP, and it looks like the mood of the whole country wants a protest vote.
My feeling is that reform will either win or nearly win the next elections in the north and south. However because they are as clownish as the rest they probably will only do this once and not be able to repeat it again.
If you pull back from the “they are nazis” insults and realise what it is actually about for many ordinary folk then the other parties may actually be able to come up with a plan which is more that stupid insults to get votes.
Somehow I don’t see this happening cos they are all idiots so a little bit of a circular argument.
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, lefties genuinely (and inexplicably) believe they’re morally superior – with unbreakable faith in many cases.
Worse still, great swathes of perfectly decent, well-meaning folk are all “evil” (e.g. small-c Conservatives, often far more altruistic, proactively civic-minded and active than their supposed, self-appointed “moral superiors” – and likely a lot less misanthropic to boot in many cases).
Branding millions of Tories and Reform voters as “Nazis” is just the latest exercise in “othering” and dehumanising those who refuse to go along with an increasingly absurd, moribund political ideology that’s never worked anywhere, ever, and never will neither. I mean, you’d think someone would cotton on…
Some of the excellent piece by a great writer needs repeated for the bad actors continuing to shill for FishFace on here;
“The city is pirate haven, a parasite on the body of britain; it needs to be brought back under UK law, and an audit made of its activities; the tax havens need to be shutdown and the money brought onshore.
He is going after the disabled now; fact – universal credit is impossible to live on unless you have a disability increment.
But he [FishFace] plans to remove inheritance tax. You see who he is working for. This is blatant class war.
It’s funny how the poor rarely complain of the relentless class war being waged on them, but the rich will, for things which haven’t happened yet”.
Any Scot who votes for “Reform” should be immediately sectioned and sent to Carstairs.
Quite apart from the content of the “excellent piece” which is deranged swivel eyed nonsense, given the extremely poor quality of writing, can we assume that the works of the “great writer” have been badly translated from a foreign language?
Does anyone know if there is any kind of collection set up to try and help Moira Salmond keep her home?
Hi Marie M, I don’t know anything about the finances of Mr and Mrs Salmond nor the future financial risks of legal action. However, I get the impression that there are friends who will keep an eye on what is needed and will call for public help if necessary.
I think lots of folk are going to vote reform, I can tell you carstairs is not going to big enough to keep everyone.
Plus if more folk are inside its walls than are left outside what does that mean about being “normal”
The far left wing agenda pushed by the greens and SNP is about to be finally buried. All the students that keep pushing this shite are going to be very disappointed cos there are more of us oldies with some common sense.
The attitude shown by some that because you don’t agree with “us” that you are a bad/mad/crazy person who doesn’t deserved to be listened to is a typical far left attitude. ie I am right despite being in a minority and anybody who disagrees needs to be ………..
See you up the dole office then.
“See you up the dole office then.”
Something tells me it’s not exactly your “debut” uttering that phrase, eh Fatso?
I imagine they have your tankard on the wall and you have your “special chair”? Not long to go now before you get your gold clock.
“…there are more of us oldies with some common sense…”
Well, I’m an ‘oldie’, and I can remember Margaret “Bastard” Thatcher and this c*nt, the c*nt that brought us “Brexit” is being feted once again by ‘the meeja’, and a lot of gullible fools are falling for it. Again. Even some gullible ‘oldies’ it would seem according to your post.
Thatcher on steroids? Thanks, but I’ll pass.
You won’t be able to, that’s how democracy works.
We have all had to put up with the shit show that the SNP and Greens have created for years and they are now on the way out.
Its nowt to do with reform but more that they are the only real protest vote to get rid of the incumbent morons.
If screaming Lord Sutch was alive he would be the next PM
We get whoever England votes for. That’s democracy, is it?
James, I am certain that you will be putting that massive brain of yours to analysing the current political scene. Once the task has been completed, will you be posting on here telling us who to vote for to achieve Independence.
The whole of Scotland awaits in breathless anticipation.
You’ve engaged your massive mouth again, Inglis.
The SNP is ‘far left’?? What distorted definition is that based on? Their basic economic outlook is centrist neo-liberalism and is not even traditionally left wing, let alone far left. I am not even sure the Greens are especially economically left wing these days.
When you talk bout ‘this shite’ do you mean the so-called progressive ‘woke’ social agenda? I can understand some objection to that as actually quite a lot of left-wing people object too e.g. to the extreme trans rights stuff and curbs on free speech with insidious consequences, but what else are you really talking about?
None of this would be a reason to vote Reform in my book because they are a hard right party that would decimate public services, set the wheels in motion to privatise the NHS, curb free speech miles more than it is now and make life a potential misery for migrants here perfectly legally (then deport them) whilst at the same time emboldening genuine racist thugs to go about their intimidation, and worse, as well as being generally incompetent, nasty and beset by internecine fighting.
Nigel Farage speaks to a certain demographic but even his fans must admit he does not remotely speak for everyone and more importantly, does not try to and never will. He is thus divisive by default and the last thing we need is more division. His current UK approval rating is 30%.
I am not even sure the Greens are especially economically left wing these days.
Good grief. Heard it all now.
LOL
As is evident from your responses generally, your ignorance suggests you have, in fact, heard very little. But then Reform supporters like most ideologues love nothing better than running around with their fingers in their ears going nah, nah, nah nah nah. Actually, why don’t you simply write that for all your replies? ‘LOL’
Heh! Well, all I can say is, I’m so glad to get under the scabrous skin of low-wattage lefties like you. Your accusing me as being the one somehow in denial and sticking my fingers in my ears et al is, in particular, all kinds of special and beyond delicious irony.
Have a great day. 🙂
I expext that these morons would describe ‘free’ prescriptions and bus passes for pensioners as being
“hard left”.
Alright, Fair enough., Captain. I see it has to be Janet and John time again.
Someone makes the claim that they are a woman……..No, hang on scrub that for the moment, that’s too soon. Let’s go really basic.
You’re out and about, maybe walking along the river bank or canal, maybe in the countryside. You pass someone, exchange pleasantries, and they point out to you in the middle distance what they claim is a stork, or a heron, maybe a duck or a hare.
Do you, Captain, take their word for it?
Yes/No?
How do you determine whether they have accurately identified what they are pointing out?
Would it, perchance, be via the use of empirical objective criteria based on the known features of whatever is being claimed?
If the observed features fit the known objective criteria of what is being observed, your answer is going to be yes. If not, say the alleged stork is too small and the observed features of what is being pointed out don’t fit the criteria and better fit the known features of a heron, your answer is going to be no – you don’t take their word for it.
So, let’s now get to the example of someone making the claim that they are a woman.
If they possess the known features that fit the empirical objective based defining criteria – which are biological – you are going to agree with the claim and take their word for it.
However, if their claim does not pass this test – one clue, among others, being, say, that they subjectively self identify as a woman but don’t possess the biological definitional criteria – do you, Captain Caveman, still take their word for it?
Yes/No?
If your answer is Yes, you do take their word for it, Captain Caveman, two possibilities present:
either;
1. Based on the implied content of some of your contributions – particularly in regard to the concept of ‘woke’, – you are not being entirely honest;
or
2. You are rejecting the use of empirical objective criteria – such as recognised relevant defining features – in favour of a subjective individualist approach constructed on the same ideological and philosophical basis of post-modernist theory and practice that rejects external reality and empirical methods in favour of individually constructed narratives which is at the heart of the ‘woke’ thought process.
Should this be the case, (though I strongly suspect it is not), congratulations, you’ve just outed yourself as “woke”.
However, if as I strongly suspect, your answer, Captain Caveman, is no, you do not take their word for it, a further issue arises.
Which is that having committed publicly to an approach which is based on the application of empirical evidenced based objective criteria using recognised objective features of whatever concept is being discussed, that approach has to be applied consistently rather than in a subjective pick and choose, à la carte, way to suit rhetorical or other individualist convenience.
Otherwise, that simply reverts back to the post-modernist ‘woke’ process of what passes for analysis of the world.
Still keeping up, Captain?
Good. Let’s move on.
Having established that you, Captain Caveman, don’t accept someone’s subjective based claim to be a woman on the grounds that they do not meet the empirical objective biological criteria to fit that definition, here’s another question:
Would you accept someone’s subjective based claim that they are on the political ‘left’ or, conversely, the political “right”?
What objective empirical evidence based criteria and features would you use to verify or otherwise those particular claims?
Assuming, of course, that you are taking a consistent approach rather than picking and choosing when and when not to apply that approach to suit convenience?
Would, to take the ‘left’ hand side of those two political classifications, features such as “class”, “solidarity”, “unity”, “equality”,“dialectical materialism” and other familiar related and recognised features associated with the philosophical and ideological basis of the concept of the political “left” be the appropriate definitional criteria to use in assessing whether such a claim is congruent with objective reality?
Conversely, would you, Captain Caveman, perhaps consider features such as “sovereign individualism”, “hierarchical division”, “sectionalism”, “hierarchies of oppression”, “narrative based reality” and so on to be the closer fit to what is recognisable as the defining features congruent with the political philosophy and ideological basis of the political left?
Or, to put it another way, if some individual or group espousing individualism and sectionalism over class; a hierarchy of oppression over solidarity, unity and equality; and an individualist subjective based narrative philosophical approach over objective (Marxist) materialism, would you really consider a claim by such an individual or group claiming that they represented the political ‘left’ to be congruent with the core defining features of that concept and, by extension, observable reality?
A philosophical approach that almost entirely ignores economic inequalities (class) in favour of Identity Politics (the atomised, sovereign individual) which brings people together by segregating them into smaller and smaller groups based on their gender, their sexuality, their ethnicity etc.?
Really?
Because a regressive and negative cult that insists on the primacy of subjective based individual/group narratives over testable evidence based objective social reality, because objective society does not exist, only the subjective feelings and narratives of the individual and the group, has familiar echoes.
It should do because this is the narrative of “no such thing as society, only the individual and the family” philosophy of Thatcherism. Or Randism on steroids.
An approach which is the antithesis of any political or social based group, organisation or institution claiming to be progressive or of the left.
It is divisive and represents an extremely effective divide and rule Class based attack using the disguise of left/progressive labels. Salami slicing groups in society ,which do and should have more in common with each other, into a hierarchy of oppression sold as “progressive” by identity politics.
Driving a coach and horses through the principle of equality in terms of objective treatment and approach in favour of subjective?—?ie selective?—?judgement based on identity and where that subjectively manufactured identity is located within that hierarchy of oppression pecking order and rejecting outright any practical notion of a wider society.
Perhaps this picture will help: link to steelcityscribblings.uk
Or, seeing as I like you today, Captain: link to davehansell.substack.com
Now I know full well, Captain, that you ain’t going to agree. However, coming up with some lame one-liner about word salads or other such lightweight level nonsense is not going to cut it. Because what matters is that having committed to an empirical objective evidence based approach against the subjective woke narrative process, a coherent evidence based counter-argument as to why is required.
TL;DR
NMPTYHTASOAG, Captain.
(Not My Problem That You Have The Attention Span Of A Goldfish)
And there I was thinking you were a traditionalist and would go down with your ship.
One would have at least anticipated some kind of token effort to defend their position from someone claiming to be an engineer.
Just how badly must someone lack any sense of self-awareness (or indeed reality) to expect someone else to actually read through – less still attempt to address (insofar as that’s even possible) – that huge, verbose pile of dross? Especially someone who’s already told you – in very clear, blunt terms – that they’re really not going to engage with you, beyond the (similarly very clear) explanation already provided?
For the avoidance of doubt, Dave: I’m not going down the rabbit hole with you, and couldn’t care less what absurd conclusions you might or might not draw from this. You’re going to need to find another victim.
That’s fair enough, Captain. Workhouse Rules: If you can’t take it, don’t dish it out.
All you have to do is stop this nonsense woke approach of defining other people’s reality for them – as well as your own – and then running away when challenged with evidence based argument whilst bleating like a mardy arsed five-year-old that other people think you are, let’s go with, cognitively challenged.
Or is it too much to expect grown up debate from those who have not progressed beyond the school playground?
At the moment, all we get from you and others from the tag team is the equivalent of some Twitler Youth screaming evidence free “CIS Transphobe” at anyone not you, but substituting the term “left” instead.
And on the showing so far, it’s clear to a blind man on a galloping horse that you don’t know left from right and are happy in your ignorance of not realising that Stu Campbell’s arguments above are also about you.
If you don’t like it, up your game.
‘Whenever colonialism is imperiled’ the colonizer ‘reveals its fangs’ (Fanon) and reaches for ‘the root of colonialism’, i.e. ‘facism’ (Cesaire):
link to thenational.scot
Odd, isn’t it, how the fascist archetypes, Italy and Germany, were just about the least colonialist European nations in the early decades of the twentieth century.
But I guess that’s an unsubstantiated assertion from me.
Still. Thinking about it, the guff about the (checks spelling) coloniser revealing its fangs is unsubstantiated too.
Fa aboots Dave H to pull Alf up on that?
Why have a dog and bark yourself, hatey?
And that is exactly what we see today in Scotland.
The fangs are out and have been out for a long long time albeit to a large extent masked from everyday view. Political prosecutions, kompromat, bribery and when needs be extra judicial killing are all in play. Just look at what the British colonisers did around the world as they tried to brutally suppress independence movements.
The full extent of the British fang is still to be seen, and its coming.
Aye, Willie, the revealed fangs are masked from view.
Erm.
By suggesting Scottish independence as ‘a security risk’ the Labour Gov appears to have given the ok to the security services to do whatever is needed to stop it.
Fanon was right, imperialism always reveals its fangs when independence nears in the colonies, and colonialism ultimately reverts to ‘force’ and ‘geographic violence’.
‘a security risk’
Maybe actions have consequences. Maybe what happens on Wings BTL really does affect the real world.
Take all the pro-poot shilling for the past 4 years. Remember all those unchallenged posts welcoming the militarist, imperialist annexation of those wee, independent countries on Europe’s and the EU’s eastern boundaries.
Maybe somebody noticed.
I thought MI5 had already interfered with the Salvo petition, and issued a D-notice to prevent any newspapers covering your unsuccessful approach to the UN?
Are you worried that you might end up rendered in a shipping container in Diego Garcia? If the “Scotland is a colony” posts stop coming for a few hours we’ll know to send up the red flare.
Do you mean rendered or renditioned, Aidan?
Depending on your reply, I make have to stop eating processed meat products labelled “Not for the EU”.
@Hatey – I’d hope the mince we all get treated to on here would be giving you enough protein. However, it’s equally possible the security services have there hands full dealing with actual threats, not a group of fantasising old men.
@Aidan;
The Salvo Petition is still comfortably in play, Aidan, as you well know. Its approach to the UN is ‘unsuccessful’ only in the sense that it hasn’t succeeded yet! It also hasn’t failed, yet! This despite your dogged insistence for many weeks that it had already been ‘thrown out’ on the day of its submission, and was ‘never coming back’.
No-one directly involved with the Petition had any expectation that success would be achieved in months. It was always expected to take at least a few years, if at all. Despite that, the current mood of the active team is optimistic, progress to date being substantially better than predicted. Failure is entirely on the cards, but so is success. No-one knows how it will turn out.
Your mockery is an excellent sign that you have no good argument to presume the inevitability of its failure.
@Xaracen – you’ve been asked on a number of occasions to provide evidence that someone with decision making powers is at the UN is looking at or considering the petition. You’ve always ran away from that perfectly reasonable request. Your assertion that the team “remains optimistic” is not evidence.
As I said, the petition has failed, nothing is happening and nobody is interested, the money will run out especially at the rate it is being diverted to other causes.
Isn’t it sweet to see two Yoons spooning?
Easy to see where you get your ‘values’ from, ‘Aden’?
Dinna get aroused, James.
And pit yer sock back oan.
Oan yer fut.
Alf – who paid for your trip to New York?
Aidan said; “you’ve been asked on a number of occasions to provide evidence that someone with decision making powers is at the UN is looking at or considering the petition. You’ve always ran away from that perfectly reasonable request.”
Your call for some documented evidence from ‘someone with decision making powers’ is not only premature, Aidan, it is dishonest. If you know the process as you claim to, then your ‘perfectly reasonable request’ is anything but!
I have never run away from any ‘perfectly reasonable request’! As I have pointed out several times on these pages, no UN body is formally considering the Salvo Petition itself as yet, because other processes need to be undertaken and completed successfully before that can happen.
You know this!
The first is to have Scotland sponsored for recognition as a potential NSGT. That is not expected to be a rapid process, and has no guarantee of success.
Several UN members have been approached for this purpose, and at least one state representative has informally expressed interest in doing so. That interest has not yet become a formal agreement as far as I know. That’s all you’re getting.
@Xaracen says:
“Don’t tell him, Pike!”
@Xaracen – I’m flying into Inverness tonight, I’ve informally asked the pilot about taking over command of the flight, it might work, it might not, I’ll keep you posted.
Xaracen 7:44
So you admit that absolutely f*ck-all is happening to your daft wee petition !
@Insider; The Salvo Petition doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It has been formally lodged within a complex international legal and political framework whose timelines and processes are not dictated by social media impatience.
The petition’s formal evaluation is one part of a broader initiative that is already generating movement, alliances, and scrutiny within the UNGA. Just because you can’t see the gears turning doesn’t mean the machine isn’t running.
“Just because you can’t see the gears turning doesn’t mean the machine isn’t running”
Odd, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a machine like that before. Even the continents are drifting apart faster than human fingernails grow. And you can see that by observation every 24 hours.
But I guess what you’re saying, Xaracen, is that there is no hurry for anybody to liquidate any assets, or swap savings into any specific currency, or take out any second nationality, or do anything really in preparation for the UN declaring the UK defunct.
Because we’ll likely all be deid first.
But do tell us, Xaracen, what steps have YOU been taking to mitigate the myriad effects of what will be the biggest political and economic upheaval of your lifetime?
Hatey asks;
“But do tell us, Xaracen, what steps have YOU been taking to mitigate the myriad effects of what will be the biggest political and economic upheaval of your lifetime?”
None of YOUR business, Hatey.
Who within the UNGA is scrutinising this?
Nobody in the UNGA is scrutinising your posts, Aidan.
Yes – so my posts are having the exact same impact on the UN process as the petition. I.e. none. It’s over mate, give it up.
Your conclusion doesn’t follow from your assertion, Aidan, because your assertion comes with no provenance.
Epic logic fail!
Willie…
“The British Fang is coming” !!
Brilliant !
@ Dan, your enquiry to Voices for Independence about why Barrhead Boy/Through a Scottish Prism no longer appears on Voices has borne fruit – there is now a strapline explaining that “protections designed to stop AI companies stealing content” means that he can no longer download Barrhead Boy stuff.
Ya Sarah, I clocked that recent addition to the header on the voices for independence page.
link to voices.scot
A few months back there was a similar tech issue with Wings articles not being included in the feed but that eventually resolved itself.
Link to BarrheadBoy page, so folk can bookmark it and go direct to site to check for posts, seeing as it is one of a ridiculously few sites that is promoting initiatives that could make a difference as most other “players” haven’t got their heads in the game.
link to barrheadboy.com
It must be a knock for some of the fragile egos of the Scottish political activist “intelligentsia” when they are getting their arses kicked by fucking Reform because they are so lame they cannot work with others and come up with any strategy to counter that low brow dog whistle bullshit.
Whilst here I’ll tack on a link to Dear Scotland site, as Leah Gunn Barrett continues to put out some good informative and thought-provoking articles which should be getting more exposure.
link to dearscotland.substack.com
Sarah, Dan,
The error I get when loading the feed from Barrhead Boy is “permission denied”. Most likely whoever is hosting the site (WordPress?) has added checks to deter anyone who is not a human from access the content. Usually this was just to the web site but an increasing number of sites apply it to their RSS feeds as well. Until that restriction is lifted there’s not much I can do to resolve the issue.
“Does anybody really take Alfie Boy and his followers seriously?
Well, the colonialists (unionists if preferred… same thing) creeping about this place certainly take Alf Baird seriously.
Why else would they expend so much effort crawling all over Professor Baird’s comments attempting, and failing spectacularly, to discredit his assertion that Scotland is an illegally annexed non-self-governing territory… in other words a colonized possession of England?
Personally I rarely, if ever, reply to Alfie’s and the James guy.
They both come across as the type of looney that i would cross the road to avoid and remind me of the saying about not arguing with idiots, they only drag you down to their level.
Neither has anything sensible to say and are obviously nice and warm in their little bubbles.
They both obviously don’t get out enough in the fresh air.
Jings , what an erudite addition to the conversation.
Isn’t failing memory and declining faculties a bitch though, Northy?
Take your latest bodged effort:
“in other words a colonized possession of England”
You completely forgot to tack this bit on the end:
“that nevertheless is being offered a perfect chance to organise and vote for plebiscitary candidates in May 2026 who could, if successful, legitimately declare Scottish UDI with full democratic authority”
And this bit:
“Only, nae Scot can be arsed, much preferring to sit aboot greeting and gurning and pointlessly posting online instead”.
THAT CHINESE NEWS TEXT which referred to England’s Scotland gets it right.
Anglo-American is THE language for liars, hypocrites, double dealers and for treaties easily broken.
On a different tack I see the BBC is reporting that in to the £148m that a court has ordered Michelle Mone’s Medpro company to repay that a further £39m is due to HMRC.
However, with the company going in to administration last month and the administrators revealing that the company has only £672,744 available to unsecured creditors one wonders who is going to take a big hit.
Quite a gal is Lady Mone and her man. Successful business people well due the multi million pound yachts and private jet that their businesses afford them. And they are only the bottom end of the pile who feast on the table of largesse.
Ah well. Les Streeting has said he’ll pursue the company ( now in administration) ” with all we’ve got”
Ah well that’s that then. We wont get fooled again. We can all sleep soundly in our beds now having heard that. And no doubt any shortfall can be made up by the swingeing tax rises on workers and pensioners widely predicted to be being announced by Rachel ( dodge the letting licence ) Reeves.
Better together – eh, or am I missing something?
9
What you are missing is that our home grown lot are just the same.
Neither HR or WM are particularly honest traders and you would struggle to fit a fag paper between them.
I am not sure what the answer is, other than how do we get rid of them all and replace them with something better, whatever that is.
@ Rob, the answer is to elect MSPs who are honest and principled and want to restore Scotland’s constitution whereby the politicians were subject to having their laws and persons replaced by the Three Estates [which comprised in those days the clergy, landowners, and burgh representatives].
So if we get enough MSPs from the Liberate Scotland umbrella party into Holyrood in 2026, we can look forward to a better future!
@ Stuart MacKay. Thanks for the explanation. I don’t suppose Roddy could give you access so his stuff could be included in your very valuable service?
It is true that – although I cut a most admirable and undoubtedly enviable figure as I strut and swagger about this place in the manner of an Inglis lord and dressed in my literary finery and taking a poetic piss here and the odd dramatic dump there whilst thrusting, yes thrusting… what a wonderful word, my figurative wolverine fangs deep into the rancid flesh of colonialist comments before tearing them to shreds – I might, on very rare occasions, present to my admiring Scottish public a tad more arrogant a silhouette than I would wish to impress upon them.
Ah well… as near to perfection as my wit be, only the Lord our God can own the title of “Perfect”.
Always put water in it, Northy.
An Islamic Communist wins in New York,
i always thought the last ever war would be between Islamic and Communist states,
the West having already destroyed itself in it`s own war between the woke and the sane.
Hoorah!
The last vestiges of my “Scottish Cringe” have finally been shot down and annihilated by the ARC-170 starfighter of my psyche.
Instead I find myself cringing at many things – with a few exceptions – English.
For example, where once (when still immature) I admired the character, James Bond, I now see only a slow witted, not very funny, arrogant and vainglorious, irresponsible English thug swaggering around the planet causing all sorts of wanton chaos and pointless destruction for the benefit and greater good of the empire.
Indeed the Bond character, as portrayed by actor Daniel Craig, is an almost perfect euphemism for the now defunct British Empire.
If you are a Scot still suffering from the Scottish cringe just take a slightly more critical look at virtually everything England does or says and you will quickly arrive at the truth of England’s supposed superiority; you will quickly discover that the “cringe” rightfully belongs to the English and not the Scots.
Yet another Inglis lie inflicted upon us Scots.
Look inside yer ain heid and tell the ‘cringe’ tae fuck aff back tae where it rightfully belangs… in the heids o’ the Anglos; aye, and thon spawn o’ the Anglo, the Yanks, tae.
If you are still comparing yourself to the English, then the problem will remain. Getting rid of the cringe is not an external problem, it is internal, that is the whole point, so cringing at others is papering over the cracks, false bravado. Getting rid of an inferiority complex comes from genuine self-belief, not an anti-belief in something else as your benchmark. Your whole worldview seems to be dominated by ‘what the English are like’ and it does not matter how negative that view is, it won’t generate self-belief.
I judge the Americans far, far and far away superior to the English and I deem the Scots easily a match and more for the Americans which sets the Scots intellect many light years beyond that of the Anglo.
I am afraid It is you who suffers from the cringe… from the “Colonist Cringe” – an inconsolable embarrassment of all that is English driven by deep-seated guilt at how your people, your country’s onetime empire, mistreated and abused a half a billion of the planet’s people and especially how they subjugated, oppressed and abused the Scots.
How dare you – an Inglish, a member of that international criminal gang who inflicted great physical and psychological harm on the Scots – have the temerity, the arrogance, to speak openly of MY people’s great suffering at the hands of YOUR people… you… you… you… you cock, you willy, you winkle, you weenie, you phallus, you peter, you pecker, you pee Pee, you penis… you… you… prick!
Good day to you, sir.
Thank you, James, for showing me the way.
Um, you do realise that the Scots were willing partners with the English in Empire, and did rather well out of it, right?
You people. Quite (unintentionally) hilarious. Keep ’em coming.
Not a single TRUE Scot benefitted in any way whatsoever from your people’s despicable empire – not a single one, cave creature.
And I can assure you that many of the words I scribble doun here are, for the greater part, most intentionally hilarious and I thank you for the compliment.
Good day to you, sir.
Prick!
Thank you again, James. Your fine example is proving to be very fruitful.
Looking at Northy’s post above, CC, the “‘em” in your final sentence may be superfluous.
I genuinely didn’t know this kind of behaviour was contagious, but that’s defo the conclusion the accumulating evidence is suggesting.
‘… Not a single TRUE Scot benefitted in any way whatsoever from your people’s despicable empire’
Wrong. Whatever a “TRUE”(tm) Scot is supposed to mean in your befuddled, echo-skulled head.
As I said. You people – making absolute arses of yourselves like this, on a public forum. Embarrassed for you.
‘… I genuinely didn’t know this kind of behaviour was contagious, but that’s defo the conclusion the accumulating evidence is suggesting.
When you’re trying to ingratiate yourself with the likes of Fatso, you know you’ve hit rock bottom.
Hm, I think you protest just a little too much NC. Even if one were, for argument’s sake, to accept that all of Scotland’s problems can be somehow related to the bastard English, you still have the same problem of the cringe, and you ain’t going to rid yourself of that by further benchmark reference to the said bastards.
When it comes to the colonial legacy of the British, I certainly despise it, but I do not feel personal guilt or cringe, the latter being something that even though you wish it, cannot be imposed from without (something you would do well to take note of). I am not a ‘member’ of any ‘criminal gang’ any more than you are, as a son of Empire too, or indeed of the current regime in Scotland, one you clearly thoroughly despise. The sins of the fathers should never be visited on their sons.
I am not a nationalist and I think nationalism will always put up these problems. If you believe in it as a philosophy then yes, I can see how you might tar all citiziens of a nation with the same brush, historically and in perpetuity. That is your choice, but I reject it and so no matter how much you shout it, it is water of ducks back as I know it is driven by ideology, not reason.
“IDEOLOGY, NOT REASON”
That will work very well on a banner or T-shirt, thanks Englishbystander.
If you spot it on a T-shirt at the next AUOB march you’ll know it’s me… or perhaps someone I sold one of my T-shirts to for a tenner.
I can see you need a few more lessons on how not to think literally.
I appreciate that it isn’t easy and that lateral thinking comes naturally to the Scots, but apparently not to your people.
There’s no shame in that… it’s just the way things are.
Perhaps this might help – logic is always truth, rhetoric often isn’t.
Go with your gut… if it feels like a piss-take then it probably is.
Is that another T-shirt slogan? Perhaps not.
And remember – IDEOLOGY, NOT REASON
Glad to be of service 🙂 I will look out for you if I ever visit one of your marches. I will be under the banner that says, REASON, NOT IDEOLOGY
I am aware of your humour but my style as a true cricket-loving English, is to play it with a straight bat, though typically for us English, with a healthy dose of sly, blank irony.
“IDEOLOGY, NOT REASON”
Dead richt, Northy.
If ye intend tae dip yer tootsies intae the world o’ business, maybes cram a few mair bawbees intae yer rustit sporran, yer first step has to be adopting the Kings’ English and dumping yer deranged Scots leid fantasies.
Glad you hae that straight in yer ain heid, hooever muckle ye may bloviate oan here.
Nae need tae completely dump the Scottish aspect though. Gie the punters a tartan carrier bag tae pit the T-shirt in, and mind tae stick them a pretty penny fer that.
Anes wi the King’s or late Queen’s heids oan, mind, as nae ither cants are legal tender 🙂
Ah ken fine hoo much that must stick in yer craw, but business is business, eh, Northy? Fit cant cares aboot colonisation when they’re raking it in?
Certainly nae you.
politics at times becomes “no one to vote for” and its adjuncts – lesser evilism, tactical voting, but the irish are doing some creative things
link to archive.ph
“enhancing the vote”
usefully detailed
link to archive.ph
I would not say everyone who is going to vote for Farage is a “nazi” – in the current times the term has become meaningless – but they are mainly just stupid. Fucking thick. NF comes along with his “anti politics”-political schtick and people buy into it, reading what they want into him, even if it has no supporting evidence. Remember, “half the people are below average” and 13M votes gives you total power.
NF, when you listen to him, like you know – an entire speech which has not been editorialised by the bbc or the mail – is quite honest about what he is going to do, and when you look closely, there is nothing for the folks who are going to vote for him. He does tell you what he intends – it’s “city uber alles” and “legal migration is fine”. His backers, his class, are going to get even richer while everyone else is ground down – there will be equality for all, at the very bottom.
He is not a “nazi” – what he is proposing is not “national socialism”, a radically different thing from fascism. NF is just a “bankers shill” and likely a spook stooge, an appealling (to the nigels) type of pied piper. Unfortunately, for a while now, there is this common belief that “capitalism” is just “letting the rich/corporations do what they want” (it needs rules, setup right and regulated). It never was that. And fascism, which is the corporate takeover of govt, is merely its diseased shadow – the worst form of govt. By this definition we can see the USA “went fascist” around 1950, and so the fashionable misuse of the word “trump is a fascist” is grating.
Alan Clark, the hilariously indiscreet idiot toff doing his “toad of toad hall” act, actually was a nazi; he admitted it a couple of times; he thought “national socialism” was the best political system and britain should have done a deal with the germans (Hess and all that). I suspect a lot of the older toffs feel the same way; Churchill was a disaster for the empire, he destroyed it, and after the war “the keys were handed to america”.
What is the danger of NF, is he any worse than the rest of them? Well the problem is his limited intellect and his commitment to a simplistic ideology – tax cuts, deregulate all; now you can be smart in life, or dumb, and either way do okay – the trouble really happens when dumb people think they are smart, and – by whatever circumstance – find their hands on something valuable, with control over it. That is dangerous.
Who actually knows “how britain really works” – how it functions? Someone must do. I suspect a handful of high level mandarins at the treasury/home office/foreign office, plus their counterparts in the city. These are insiders, and they are not going to tell anyone what they know. On the flipside, there are a handful of “voices crying in the wilderness” that no one listens to. Either way, the people – “the mob” – are just some dumb animal, to be manipulated by sound bites and placated with sky sports and TV talent shows. How they vote is designed not to be important, the available parties with little between them (important decisions are made in private).
So, whenever a new govt gets in, with its program, it wants to do things (for the optics), but realises quickly how much it does not know – then they let the bureaucrats run things for them; but then you get some dumb ideologue who insists on “doing things”. In politics, things can always get worse; and it doesn’t matter how bad the tories, SNP, labour, greens, lib dems are (and I hate them all) – farage and reform is going to be worse than any of them.
Suppose you appointed as a surgeon, someone who knew little of physiology; he opens it all up, pokes around inside and says “what does this do”. E.g. the pancreas – I never studied medicine, so I don’t see the point; the liver, I kinda get, and the kidneys as well. But the pancreas? You can live without it (I think), so why not get rid. Cancer there is really bad. Also, the gall bladder. The intestines – you have 30 feet of it, but why not just 20? Also, you only need one kidney. You can get away with this vandalism for a while, then you eventually slice something vital, and it’s over.
NF can create a “boom” in the south east, for a little while, but then it’s all going to fall apart. The problem for us is that Scotland for him is just “something to be used”, sacrificed, to keep the “real britain” (little south east england, the golden triangle) afloat. We are going to get it first, and hardest. Just as with your own body, in harsh environments, the extremities are sacrificed to save the core. This is going to be a lot worse than chillblains.
Farage is coming. Independence is the only thing which can save us. It needs a bold move, and hence – not the SNP.
Spot on.
It’s times like this that I bet you wish you had engaged in dialogue with the ‘stupid people’ instead of screaming like a bitch.
“tories, SNP, labour, greens, lib dems are (and I hate them all) – farage and reform”
Odd.
You haven’t mentioned the Islamists.
Haha, just my little joke. Not odd for you at all.
Fingers crossed, eh, Confused?
No mention of the Zionist’s (including the Christian ones) either.
Or the Bandera worshippers in 404, not forgetting the cheerleader followers of both.
Still, if you get your skates on, hatey, there’s time to submit a complaint to the Equalities Commission or even the ECHR before they are abolished, and you cease to be covered by their provisions.
Incredible analysis confused, to summarise; “I don’t think that everyone who is planning of voting for reform is racist, some of them are just stupid”. Then some wibble about the city, which is by the way the least Reform place in the U.K. NF might have a few rich friends, but he has zero support in the city or in Canary Wharf or anywhere else like that. All of the buildings in either of those places would put substantial resources into keeping him out. NF’s core support is amongst older people, business owners, former soldiers etc in smaller towns.
I notice none of this apparent intelligent analysis even comes close to identifying what is obviously, glaringly the most serious problem; NF has so far failed to run an effective team, and b; the party’s inability to develop policy.
But again “Confused” you are confused because you don’t know anything, so you have no foundation on which to undertake any of your own analysis. You simply find monologues on left wing blogs which you like and regurgitate that to an equally credulous audience who laps it up like a clapping seal, because again you’re saying something they like to hear.
Stand down, everyone, “Aidan” says it’s not right at all.
Phew, thank goodness for that, eh?
Yup – close one there James, thankfully we managed to catch it before you soiled yourself loudly in public place again
Spot on Confused.
Colonialism ‘is like a cancer, it seeks only to grow’ (Fanon). And a colonised people of course are always ‘sacrificed’ (Cesaire).
The liver and the kidneys, Alf.
What does Fanon say about mixed grills?
The main point is made by Confused, that “in harsh environments, the extremities are sacrificed to save the core”; and that will always be Scotland’s unfortunate destiny so long as we remain a colonial appendage.
Which explains why decolonization and liberation is the only remedy for the ‘colonial condition’.
An excellent post, Confused.
Ah, c’moan noo, Northy. Yer breeks are aflame again.
Ye’re really thinking hoo much better that would hae been in Scots.
Noo am ah richt?
Well, you seem to have covered the style of the narrative in Confused’s contribution to the debate, hatey.
Any chance of actually deconstructing the content of the argument and coming up with a coherent evidenced based counter one?
Or are you going to continue being a lightweight with the woke no debate line?
“Who actually knows “how britain really works” – how it functions? Someone must do. I suspect a handful of high level mandarins at the treasury/home office/foreign office, plus their counterparts in the city”
What’s that you say, Sooty?
Evidence based?
Is that it, hatey? A Cardinal Richelieu impression?
Colour me underwhelmed.
@ Confused at 3.25: this is a good, solid read, worth the effort.
sarah,
Your sarcasm is most amusing but I fear it will fly well above the heads of many of this site’s regulars !
I thought some parts of it were offal 🙂
I see the SNP are going to Court again about housing trans in female only prisons.
All the money in the world to spend on nonsense. That’s the tranny SNP. Deliver nothing, squander plenty.
Just ask yourself what have they delivered. Not of course that Labour and the Tories are any better because they are worse.
The political system both in HH and WM is hollowed out.puppets of the big money corporates who have plundered the country bare. Just look at the resources Scotland has and then look at the pig poor run down economy where poverty, real poverty is a reality as many folks struggle to feed, light, heat and clothe themselves and their children.
And now the so called middle classes are feeling the bite.
But in the plunder of Scotland, the to train and educate has created a broken people. No vision, no optimisim, no drive its so evident when you look around.
But at least we’ve got Trans rights and net zero. ( nb Scotland through renewable generates much much more power than it needs. Think about that. And also have a think about the chemical addition Bovaier thats now beeing start to feed all dairy and beef cattle feed to stop cows farting. Seems it interferes with gut enzymes. BSE mark two perchance but Mr Swinney approves because aside of making big profits for the international drug maker, it supports net Zero.
Could someone explain to me the purpose of COP30? I look at all the ‘great and the good’ jetting in with their entourages , their security folk and the media of the world. They presumably stay in the best hotels and not the local B&B’s so how much does their wee sojourn cost ? Starmer has said he won’t be putting any money in the funds to protect the rainforest so what is the point?
Could they not just have a zoom meeting or two , three or a hundred – that would cover all they manage anyway , just talk.
I’d love to know the cost of the useless much heralded and promoted Cop meetings.
What’s the point in it anyway, with no buy in from either USA or China?
More idiotic, vacuous virtue signalling.
Simply put, it’s a grift.
They jetted in Aberdeen Angus steak and Scottish salmon to put on the menu at some previous foreign event, rather than eating locally produced sustenance.
And there were industrial diesel generators recharging leccy cars at Gleneagles so “planet saving” arseholes could drive Teslas to and from Glasgow instead of using the *train at another.
Fucking hypocritical virtue signalling wastes of space the lot of them.
*Scotland may have a metric fuck tonne of renewably generated leccy, but it’s heehaw use in “saving the planet” when our rail network is only electrified as far north as Dunblane, so we still require diesel powered trains.
And you’ll not see many principled eco-warriors disembarked at Dunblane and continue their journeys north to Aberdeen or Inverness on a fucking push-bike… Aye *diesel trains for the win because being a virtue signalling twat is somewhat easier than cycling a hunner miles.
*And of course the diesel is imported seeing as we no longer have a refinery…
Fuck me. I spent the last few days rebuilding engines, gearboxes, suspension, and brakes on motorbikes, quads, and rally cars, and could likely do a better job of organising and running a country while off my tits and getting a groove on in some Dutch heavy techno club communicating instructions back to Scotland by scribbling notes onto a homing pigeon’s leg during dance floor piss breaks.
Like the UN just another Left Wing talking shop.
COP 30, A good old soiree, fancy meal, and chin wag about things like saving the planet through stopping cows farting.
What else do you need to know Diabloandco. But I suspect you knew that already!!
John Lewis knows which way the wind blows.
It’s being reported in the more-or-less mainstream media that Corbyn and his Islamist pals are consulting lawyers over Sultana’s behaviour since she accused them of being sexist boys and flounced out.
At stake is a sum reputed to exceed £1 million which Sultana currently controls.
You could get ten decent camper vans for that up here. Does anybody ken if camper vans are like houses in England – far more expensive than they are here?
Can I just say how much it grieves me to see an authentic, socialist, pro-Pally movement riven by student political egotists pointlessly fighting each other and completely ignoring the genuine hopes and aspirations of the decent idealists who have forked out their hard-earned cash in the belief that this time it really will …
Naw, that’s never gonna fly.
Anybody seen the wanker?
” The way to “resist” the rise of Reform is to offer the electorate something better to vote for. What their rise proves is that all the other political parties are failing to do that ”
Never a truer word spoken Rev Stu. Labour, the Tories, the Lib Dems and the SNP are all the same. Folks have little time for any of them and the SNP are only holding on because folks see them as the lesser evil of the other three openly establishment pro union parties.
The country is a mess, the economy on the slide, social services in collapse, the UK and Scotland with it is for the many a poor house.
No surprise then that against this background the Reform vote both in England and in Scotland is on the rise and they mine a rich vein of disenchantment and resentment. But the resentment that Reform mine is a fallacious one. In its earlier iteration of UKIP it was the filthy EU and the Europeans who were doing us down and England bought that big time. Of course now that the UK is out of the EU things have gotten worse, much worse.
So now with Reform its the dirty immigrant and the boat people who are doing us down and the gullible public buy it big down form a Party with a leader who incidentally wants to privatise the NHS.
You may say voting, like a Turkey votes for Christmas is democracy Rev Stu, and you may be right, but concomitantly not all of us are Turkeys. But then again, once we get a Reform UK government and things don’t get any better, there’s always the subsidy slurping dependency Jocks and those on benefits to target after that.
However, going back to the initial statement, the widespread disenchantment, disillusionment and disenfranchisement is something that can be build upon.
The lead up to the referendum of 2014 brought into sharp focus just how invigorated the electorate could become. There are many many positive messages that our independence movement have to offer. Sadly our faux independence movement doesn’t offer that and frankly militates against that.
And that is the message that needs to go out against the tidal wave of populist resentment that Reform seeks to inculcate with the disillusioned.
Hitler needed a scapegoat and had it in the Jews. If we are not careful we could be the next scapegoats.