The World Inside Her Head
The media coverage of the gender-ideology revelations in Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir has been based on a couple of short sentences from it, but since the main section of the book devotes 14 pages to the subject it’s worth checking out in depth, at least until something more interesting happens.
Highly intelligent people only, obviously.
We’ll let you read it all first, then unpack it. (Click all images to enlarge.)
Right, let’s go.
“During the 2016 Scottish election, I had taken part in a hustings arranged by the LGBTQ+ campaign organization, Stonewall. Alongside me were Tory leader Ruth Davidson, Labour’s Kezia Dugdale, Patrick Harvie for the Greens and Willie Rennie of the Lib Dems.”
Well, it’s important to start with a balanced panel including, uh, one heterosexual.
The SNP’s commitment to gender reform in the 2016 Scottish Parliament election manifesto was vague and easy to miss, a single sentence buried at the bottom corner of page 21 saying “We’ll do something but we don’t know what”, and showcasing what would later become a defining and all-encompassing SNP catchphrase: “international best practice”, meaning “whatever Stonewall tells us to do”.
Sturgeon then leaps straight ahead to the passing of the GRR in Holyrood six and a half years later, thereby neatly and conveniently bypassing pretty much the entirety of the developing gender debate and all the reasons it became so polarised and toxic.
“MSPs sat well into the early hours of the next morning. The ‘debate’ was a bin-fire of filibustering, fearmongering and insults. It wasn’t all in one direction, but, whether this was the intention or not, it gave vent to the open demonization of trans people, already one of the most vulnerable and stigmatized groups in society.”
Sturgeon likes to pump out this trite line every time she’s questioned on the subject, despite there being no evidence whatsoever that it’s true in Scotland (or the UK, come to that). Actual recorded cases of trans people being subjected to violence are, thankfully, rarer than hen’s teeth, let alone being subjected to violence because they’re trans. You have to go back six years to find even one in Scotland. The same applies to discrimination, with zero recorded cases.
But remember, whatever they feel is reality, and is all that counts.
“I cannot begin to imagine what it must have felt like to be a trans woman listening in to these exchanges and hearing it implied that you were, almost by definition, a sexual predator, a danger to women.”
Transwomen are by definition men, and all men are by definition a potential danger to women, because the engine of danger is the penis and 95%+ of transwomen still have one. That’s why ALL men are barred from female-only spaces, not just those who haven’t been certified as “nice” by the Not All Men Directorate (formation pending).
But alert readers might have already noticed a striking difference: transwomen are all saintly and good and deserving of sympathy despite having some monsters in their midst, whereas gender-critical women must be judged and condemned for having some bad people in their midst – for “standing alongside” the far right or various foreign dictators. Why aren’t trans people similarly castigated for “standing alongside” Isla Bryson? Because they don’t endorse him? When did, say, For Women Scotland or Sex Matters endorse Vladimir Putin? Why are they held responsible for him, but not trans people for Bryson?
“And for the countless men out there who are predators, rapists, domestic abusers of women, it must have felt like one big get out of jail free’ card, as attention turned away from them and towards a tiny minority, out of which an even tinier minority have ever behaved in such a way.”
Only a tiny minority of men are predators, rapists or abusers. But for some reason Sturgeon never seems to get indignantly exercised on behalf of the vast majority who aren’t abusers when people talk about male violence against women. “Not all men!”, she absolutely never says.
Similarly, NOBODY has EVER said that all, or even most, transwomen are rapists. But there’s a documented correlation between cross-dressing men and violent/sex crime, and a disproportionate number of trans prisoners in the UK are in jail for sex offences, and – we’ll say it again – anyone with a penis is a POTENTIAL rapist, whether they’re wearing a dress and lipstick or not, which is why the Supreme Court recognised that they should all be treated the same in terms of access to female spaces.
“My optimism was short-lived. In the early weeks of 2023, it was shattered, and with it any notion that this was an issue only exercising the political bubble. In mid-January, the UK government re-ignited the controversy with a decision to deploy the never-before-used section 35 of the Scotland Act to challenge the new law on the grounds that it interfered with Westminster powers.
It was preposterous, but suited the Tory agenda perfectly. Not only did it undermine the authority and autonomy of the Scottish Parliament, increasingly a Tory tactic in the fight against independence, but it also exacerbated the kind of culture war the Tories saw as motivational for their natural support.”
Except that evidently it WASN’T “preposterous”, because the UK government won their case in court. If the ruling undermined the authority and autonomy of the Scottish Parliament, and suited the Tory agenda, that’s entirely on Nicola Sturgeon for putting it at stake in the first place.
The next paragraph is a biggie, though.
“That move was incendiary, but it was a different spark that set things properly on fire. At the end of January, a trans woman called Isla Bryson was convicted of raping two women and was immediately taken to a female prison.
This was a development that gave a human face to fears that until then had been abstract for most people. According to opponents of the law, here was a real-life example of a dangerous sexual predator gaining access to vulnerable women by virtue of ‘pretending’ to be a woman.”
Now, the phrase “according to opponents of the law” is intriguing. Can Sturgeon be suggesting that Adam “Isla Bryson” Graham, a convicted double rapist, ISN’T an example of a “dangerous sexual predator”? That sounds pretty crazy, frankly. Is she saying there’s something debateable about the idea that he’s trying to gain access to vulnerable women by getting locked up in a female prison?
(And while we’re here, “opponents of the law” is a very sneaky use of language. What she means is “opponents of the ACT”, ie the Gender Recognition Reform Act. But that isn’t “the law”, because the UK government and the courts struck it down as being an unlawful breach of the Scotland Act. Opponents of the GRR are in fact DEFENDING the rule of law, not opposing it as she implies.)
But it’s the inverted commas Sturgeon puts around “pretending” that are even more illuminating. They can only be reasonably interpreted to mean that she categorically DOESN’T think Bryson was pretending, but that he really WAS (and is) a woman.
That she nevertheless doggedly refuses to use female pronouns for him shows her abject cowardice rather than any conflict about what he really is, as she admits later:
“Whatever the reason, when confronted with the question ‘Is Isla Bryson a woman?’ I was like a rabbit caught in the headlights. The fact that I wasn’t the first, and certainly not the last, politician to be felled by this ‘gotcha’ question was no comfort.
Because I failed to answer ‘yes’, plain and simple, to the basic question, I seemed weak and evasive. Worst of all, I sounded like I didn’t have the courage to stand behind the logical conclusion of the self-identification system we had just legislated for.”
It had sounded like that, of course, because it WAS that. But nevertheless, while she continues to refuse to give a straight answer to the question in interviews, we can now unmistakeably determine her stance from what she HAS said.
She says the “plain answer” to the question “Is Isla Bryson a woman?”, the answer a brave person would give, is “Yes”. Nicola Sturgeon thinks Adam Graham genuinely, and very suddenly, became a woman at some point between committing multiple rapes and being put on trial for them, and her reason for believing this is because he said so.
By Sturgeon’s own admission, in her own words, Isla Bryson being deemed a woman and sent to a woman’s prison is “the logical conclusion” of the Gender Recognition Reform Act, a law she says she still firmly believes in and wishes was on the statute books. Her only qualm is that having been convicted of rape, he shouldn’t be allowed female pronouns, as if they were some sort of prison privilege that can be withdrawn for bad behaviour. (And presumably restored once he’s had some time to sit down and think very seriously about what he’s done.)
She continues:
“I pointed out that the threat to women comes from predatory, abusive and misogynistic men, not from trans women.”
But Sturgeon still refuses to accept the crucial fact that the Venn diagram of “men”, “predatory, abusive and misogynistic men” and “transwo men” looks like this:
They’re all men, hen.
And then she resorts to even more desperate nonsense.
“And I maintained that since men have never needed a gender recognition certificate to access our ‘spaces’, making it easier to obtain one wouldn’t open these spaces up any more than they already were.”
By the same logic, burglars don’t need a key to break into your house so you may as well leave all your doors and windows unlocked all the time, and make it legal for anyone to walk into your home any time they feel like it and a hate crime to say anything rude to them when they do.
“These arguments are not wrong”
Yes they are.
But then we get to the real heart of it.
“I know that many, probably the majority, of those opposed to the legislation were genuine in their concerns. Even though I believe those concerns to be ill-founded, I have never doubted the sincerity of those who hold them.
But for some of the loudest critical voices on this issue, it wasn’t just about gender recognition reform or even trans rights more generally. However firm the views they might have on the issue itself, it also served as a weapon in bigger battles.
To me, it is beyond argument that the trans debate has been hijacked by voices on the far right, by some of the more radicalized followers of leaders like Putin, Trump and Orbán, for example.
And yet any time I say as much, I spark howls of outrage and denial from certain campaign organizations who claim, completely and utterly wrongly, to speak for all women and all feminists.”
We are not aware of any campaign organisations who have EVER claimed to speak for ALL women on the subject. Only for the vast majority.
And we’ve already covered the fatuous, infantile speciousness of the “[Bad Person X] agrees with you about [Subject Y] therefore you must be on the side of evil and part of [Bad Group Z] just like them” argument.
But then Sturgeon really gets the claws out.
“There is a brittle defensiveness to this, of course. They assume I am talking about them, when I am not. Much as I disagree with their views, I have never doubted that they hold them sincerely. But how highly intelligent people can fail to see who is standing alongside them is beyond me. I am not expecting it to change their minds, but I do think acknowledging it is important.”
Is it? Why? It seems incredibly mundane and irrelevant to us. Good and bad people always have things in common. Good and bad people can both like cheese. Good and bad people can both be Muslim. Good and bad people can both have short hair. Good and bad people can both support St Mirren. What’s your point, caller?
(And actually, we’re being excessively generous for the sake of argument there – while good and bad people can both agree that we SHOULDN’T mutilate and sterilise confused autistic and gay children with wrong-sex hormones and surgery, in truth we’re really not at all sure that you can possibly be a good person, by definition, if you think we SHOULD. It’s a bit like saying there are good and bad rapists. Liking cheese isn’t a value judgment, but harming vulnerable kids is always bad.)
“For some others, the bigger battle is about pushing back against minority rights more generally. The inconvenient truth is that many of the most vocal deriders of trans rights, when the surface is scratched, turn out to be raging homophobes too. Some are also racists.
And, ironically for those who claim that their opposition to trans rights is all about protecting women, more than a few are also deeply misogynist. They would take away women’s rights, such as abortion and other reproductive rights, in a heartbeat.”
Let’s just translate that, shall we?
“People who oppose self-ID are very often raging homophobes and deeply misogynist racists. But if you oppose self-ID and you’re offended by that statement, you’re brittle and defensive and an idiot, because I didn’t even mean you! Of course YOU hold your views sincerely and I have never doubted that and I respect you in a respectfully respectful way!
Of course, I never say WHO of my opponents ARE the homophobic racist misogynists, so you have no way of knowing whether I could mean you or not, but you’re still stupid for thinking I could have meant you, because I am Nicola Sturgeon and I am therefore obviously kind and reasonable and good and sensitive and would never do such a thing. Oh, by the way, you want to ban abortion too, bigot.”
All charm, isn’t she?
“Of course, there is also a more peculiarly Scottish angle too. For some, it is about undermining the SNP – and demonizing me.”
We didn’t “translate” that last bit. She actually said those exact words.
We then get The Tale Of JK Rowling’s T-Shirt, which we’ve already covered, and then we’re back to Sturgeon’s ego again.
“What would it have said about me, though, if for the sole purpose of giving myself an easier time I had abandoned an attempt to make life a bit easier for some of the most stigmatized people in the world? It would have run counter to every instinct that brought me into politics in the first place. Despite the hate and prejudice the debate has poured down on them, no trans person has ever said to me that they wish I hadn’t tried.”
Peculiarly, Sturgeon seems to be unaware that the vast, dizzying, overwhelming majority of abuse in the gender debate comes from the side she’s on. (And is largely directed at JK Rowling. As far as we can tell, incidentally, Sturgeon has never specified whether Rowling is on the side of all the evil fascists or the people with sincerely-held beliefs. When talking about Rowling’s t-shirt, Sturgeon equivocates with “I obviously don’t know what her intentions were”.)
“Trans people are not an inherent danger to women. Predatory and abusive men are. Some of these men will be found within, or choose to attach themselves to, the trans community. There are bad people within every group in society. Amongst biologically born women, there are some who pose a danger to children.
However, for no other group in society do we argue that the way to deal with the bad apples is to withhold rights from the rest. We deal with the bad apples instead. The same should be true for trans people.”
We’ve already noted that “trans people” and “predatory and abusive men” are not mutually exclusive groups, and that transwomen are statistically literally HUNDREDS of times more likely to abuse children than biological women are. But hey, details, pfft.
That second paragraph, though, is an astonishingly blatant lie. That is, in fact, EXACTLY how we deal with groups containing “bad apples”. As we’ve already pointed out several times in this article alone: not ALL men are rapists, but because there’s no way to tell which ones are, we exclude ALL of them from women’s spaces, even if they’ve grown their hair long and put on a funny voice.
Sturgeon was actually challenged about this in Edinburgh last night by Gina Davisdon of LBC, and gave a waffling, evasive and patronising reply.
But hold on.
“There’s no other group in society where if somebody does something wrong we say that the entire group is responsible for that.”
And that doesn’t happen to trans people either. Nobody’s said “Isla Bryson did some rapes, therefore we’re banning transwomen from women’s toilets”. The Supreme Court didn’t change the law, it ruled that transwomen were ALWAYS banned from women’s toilets, long before Bryson ever raped anyone, because they’re MEN, and men aren’t allowed in women’s spaces.
Or as Sturgeon put it: “There can be no question that [the Court’s ruling] is a definitive statement of the law as it stands”.
But then she makes very clear that she wants men in there as soon as possible.
“But it is not a moral judgment. Nor is it a statement of what the law should be. That is a question for parliaments and politicians. Once upon a time – not so long ago, in fact – the criminalization of homosexuality was the law. So was Section 28. Laws that stigmatize and exclude people can always be changed.
So where do we go from here? I hope we can now do what I failed to do a couple of years ago. Take a step back and start with a blank sheet of paper. Find ways of protecting women against those who pose actual risks to us – abusive men – while allowing trans people to live safe, happy and accepted lives. Surely that can’t be impossible.
It may need people like me to acknowledge that self-identification as previously proposed does not have sufficient public consent at this time.”
As she has been throughout her career, Sturgeon is a master of saying things that don’t really say anything, warm-sounding words which don’t translate into any sort of coherent plan of action. We’re always deeply sceptical of people who say “Find a way to [X]” without then saying what that way might be. What does any of the above mean?
She wants the law changed to let transwomen into women’s spaces, that much is clear. Nothing else counts as being “accepted” for them, because validation of their identities is non-negotiable. We already know they refuse to accept trans-specific or gender-neutral provision, because that implies that they’re not real women like all the actual real women are.
Sturgeon’s solution is to “start with a blank sheet of paper”, which can only mean abolishing the current laws protecting single-sex spaces. Since she grudgingly accepts that self-ID doesn’t have public consent “at this time” (newsflash: support for it is going backwards at a spectacular rate of knots), the only possible compromise position is then that trans people with a GRC would be admitted, which is currently almost none of them.
But since we already know she wants GRCs to be available on demand for £5, with no safeguarding checks, on the basis of self-ID, that’s a pretty trivial hurdle. Immediately on passing this hypothetical new law, single-sex spaces would be effectively a thing of the past, because every transwoman with a fiver would have already collected their GRC while the law was going through Parliament.
Sure enough, the next sentence lets the cat out of the bag:
“In turn, it will take the other ‘side’ to agree that trans exclusion or segregation is not acceptable.”
Because all “trans exclusion or segregation” can possibly mean is “transwomen not being allowed to go wherever they like”. Nobody has EVER proposed that trans people be EXCLUDED from anything, whether it be sports or changing rooms or toilets, merely that they be required to use the spaces reserved for their biological sex, like everyone else (or legitimately gender-neutral provisions).
“Segregation” can therefore only mean the “segregation” of transwomen from actual women in female spaces. Sturgeon is clear: that’s “not acceptable”. So tough luck, ladies – if it’s got anything to do with her you’re getting blokes in your spaces, no matter what laws have to be written or rewritten to make it happen.
As for “protecting women” against “actual risks”, those are just empty, meaningless weasel words, to be understood in the context of her assertion that transwomen would by definition never hurt a fly and the only danger is those pesky “predatory, abusive and misogynistic” men with short hair and wearing normal trousers and flat shoes.
Because at the end of the day, you ARE all just bigots if you disagree, and sooner or later you’ll come to your senses.
“I strongly believe that one day we will look back on this period in history and be collectively horrified at the vilification trans people have been subjected to. In times past, gay men and lesbians suffered the same hate and hysteria, and while prejudice has not been eradicated, society did eventually come to its senses. I have faith that the same will happen for trans people.”
And perhaps Sturgeon is just suffering from a guilty conscience over that fact, that homophobic prejudice wasn’t defeated with any help from her:
Or maybe she just wants to ensure her future supply of free champers.
(And the selfies with young people that seem to be her main source of self-worth.)
But it’s clear that at heart she hasn’t changed her beliefs on gender ideology one iota. As far as Nicola Sturgeon is concerned, men dressed as women are the ultimate women, and even the rapist ones would never rape anyone, and if they did it wouldn’t count because they’d had their pronouns taken away.
So wave her off cheerily as she leaves Scottish politics, readers. Let’s hope she finds happiness at all those LGBTQ+ galas in London, and never darkens our door again. Because we, for certain, have had enough of her to last a lifetime.
From Chief mammy to just another a peasant in the big Shity! London is a lonely place.
Another blinder, stu, thank you.
I couldn’t, and wouldn’t want to, navigate through her sea of lies, obfuscations, disingenuity, omissions etc.,in order to translate it. And as always, you’ve done a cracking job.
Mark, she is, of course, going to have a great time, whooping it up in London and living a life she could only dream of, if she was still in Scotland. Think of all the new victims, oops, sorry, I mean think of all the new people she will meet.
And start a host/parasite
relationship with. Like a tapeworm. I wonder if Colin and Pete suffer from long standing gastro-intestinal problems?
London won’t be impressed with a denying dyke from Jockland. Your having a laugh.
Mark Beggan says:
15 August, 2025 at 6:32 pm
London won’t be impressed with a denying dyke from Jockland. Your having a laugh.
But she won’t be denying ANYTHING down there, and if she admits to anything, she’ll make more friends.
“London won’t be impressed with a denying dyke from Jockland. Your having a laugh.”
Aye – she’s a bit old for their taste. Also not being a very close relative reduces her chances even further LOL! Tho she may score joining the Satanic sect to collect her wee envelope & the funny handshake if she shuts her mouth.
Who actually wrote this book? Organiization stigmatizing etc. etc. All written in American English, not the style of English taught in Sturgeon’s beloved Scotland.
That’s what happens when you use ChatGTP!
Came here to say that…
No, they’re not. They are standard English, Edward.
The spelling is American.
Sturgeon should’ve followed the advice “Better to remain silent and be thought a duplicitous fool than to speak publish your memoirs and remove all doubt.”
Excellent comment RK.
During covid era I came across Jangro Professional antiviral disinfectant and I swear by it for all those annoying cleaning jobs, works well.
SHE whose name shall not be uttered would benefit from having whatever brains (still remaining) temporarily removed and thoroughly dunked in a bucket of the stuff to clean it as it certainly appears to need it!
It’s difficult not to contrast “that picture” of the tartan stilletoed Sturgeon basking in the approbation of the masses at the SEC, to the hurried and decidedly uncomfortable 14 minute press conference which replaced all the promised interviews with the gathered media reported yesterday.
How are the might fallen. In truth, many of us (and I include myself in that group much as I hate to admit it) were taken in by Sturgeon in the immediate aftermath of the 2015 election.
After the bitter disappointment of the 2014 result, the 2015 GE seemed to presage a final push which might actually produce independence in the short term rather than the generation many of us feared in the immediate aftermath of indyref1.
Of course there were many like me who had not previously joined political parties who were taken in. We had no way of knowing that there was something of the night about Sturgeon and some of those around her, or that she would prove to have feet of clay.
Sadly, we know now. One of our primary tasks going forward is to ensure that she and her supporters are not just politically defeated, but utterly destroyed. We need to ensure that our descendants will see her and her legacy in much the same way Norwegians regard Vidkun Quisling.
You and me both, it was a year later during the Brexit debacle in the HOC and that was the opportunity to utilise the 56 MP’s to screw T May for a deal in return for the SNP support when she was failing to win over her tory rebels.
That was when I realised, Nicola didn’t feckin care about independence, Alex Salmond would have taken advantage of the turmoil in May’s government at the time and Nicola just say back on her arse and did feck all.
Well, she did manage to completely destroy the independence movement to the extent that YES would have to start from stratch as everyone is too scunnered.
He wouldn’t even have let it get that far, imo. The moment the 56 were elected would’ve been his exit, that was SNP policy (A majority voted to Westminster) the 56 & the farce that was the Smith Commission after all that Devo Max crap, the Scotland bill farce & then the Brexit vote would’ve put the tin lid on it to exit.
I don’t think Westminster had any intentions of honouring the idyref result anyway if it had been a YES. They only said they’d respect the result, nothing in legal writing to say that they’d actually implement it. A fact made clear during the many Brexit debates where David Lidington & Phillip Hammond admitted in parliament that indyref was ‘only advisory’ just as the Brexit vote was. Tho they got to implement their Brexit result as it was “the will of the (English) people” They’re slippery feckers. They didn’t earn the term Perfidious Albion for nothing..
I look forward to he/her living a long and healthy life in complete obscurity whilst yearning for the limelight.
Nobody in their right mind can ever support independence when their is a chance that an independent Scotland would be run by the current SNP / Greens who would push through GRR as their first priority and destroy the rights of the majority of Scottish real women.
There is zero chance of Scotland becoming a self governing territory any time soon. Which makes the rest of your point somewhat moot.
It’s all very well protecting women from nasty men, but who is going to protect them from other women who throw irons at them?
That right, aye?
What rock have you been living under? Does the SNP now run parliaments in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Africa & the entire EU? Well I never.
Scotland wouldn’t have this shit forced upon on a majority. A Scottish parliament would have oaths & a written constitution. That’s what other independent countries do & this gender woo nonsense (A USA World Bank/IMF brain fart to get the natives fighting, especially amongst religious groups) would be shown the door or, as the EU leaders are finding out, they’ll be voted out of power if they haven’t played jiggery-pokery with the elections now too.
Scotland only has this shite foisted on us because OF THE UNION & us Scots are always treated as England’s testing ground & lab rats.
& Haven’t you noticed this shite has already been in the UK for almost a decade? Originally introduced by Labour.
Bottom line is Sturgeon refuses to listen to the vast majority, science, and biology.
My Daughter never once seen my genitalia and no one with male genitalia will ever be allowed to mix with female members of my family in changing rooms or toilets.
This would save on police resources when I would stop anyone trying it and it would make the A & E Depts quieter.
It isn’t happening and it never will
Sturgeon can join the Flat Earth Society as that might be accepted well before her ideas.
Sturgeon doesn’t have any sort of future in Scotland, none whatsoever. The sooner she leaves for London the better.
Ah well.
Look on the bright side; Scotlands “loss” is Lahnduns “gain”.
Tee hee..
So when is she fucking off to London to inflict her Toxic self on the Sassanachs? She should take the Toxic Harvey with her.
Wait for it ! A seat in the House of the Dead and a Grace and Favour apartment to boot. The full bingo card !
And Lorna, Margaret, Ross too. And then there are too many within the Snp cabal that I fervently wish might be considering a move south. They’ll all love London and London will lurve them, until the moment it doesnt anymore.
Can I add? TY.
And London NOT liking them after a period of time is maybe what SOME of them are afraid of.
So Vance got caught Poaching and didn’t have to run for his life and get rid of the fish and didn’t get arrested either and no Court appearance – WTF!
I’m all ears, care to elucidate?
This turned up with a search. lol
link to schiffsovereign.com
Thank you, Dan.
Further proof perhaps of a multiple tier justice system.
Aye, plenty evidence of multiple tier justice system.
EG. Harry Dunn
link to en.wikipedia.org
This example of Vance poaching is conflating American laws and Amercian’s freedoms under their constitution with laws of the British Home nations.
I had posted a reply to another comment about needing to have a more conformist society but what I mean is that a society that conforms to Scottish law and not the norms of American society imported via Social media where everybody and their dog thinks they can do what they want because the constitution allow it even though the constitution is the American constitution and only applies to Americans.
We simply need Scottish law to applied correctly to Scottish citizens without any nonsense from activists and a lot of the problems we face will disappear and that includes those affected by this Trans ideology.
I forgot to add that i cant outrun the Bailiffs any longer.
ANY female supporting this lunatic and her deviant perverted ideology is a Tr@ itor to her biological sisterhood and should be considered as such,her constantly ignoring open threats of VIOLENCE and INTIMIDATION against opponents of this depravity by these puerile scum says everything about her feelings and concern
Her comment about the tories using any action to defeat and undermine independence when talking about the GRA was superfluous because under her there was NO ACTION on independence
I was looking forward to you making an appearance today 😉
Don’t ask me why lol
But I will say this, not in disagreement as such, more as an amendment: there’s deep, deep treachery to men too.
The misandry is off the scale.
Thanks for this Wings, it was good to read the whole chapter. Her writing is charmless and devoid of any semblance of wit. But that’s a by the by if there was something else appealing – but ‘heigh-ho’ as Scott would humf from time to time. .
It irritates me that not once does she ponder the words ‘Gender’ and ‘Sex’ and consider that they belong in totally different categories of the English language. For a woman who claims to have read lots of books, she sure is careless about the two words which have, by her own volition, brought her the most criticism.
IF she doesn’t know the sexual difference between men and women then she has serious intellectual (and probably emotional) problems.
IF she does know the sexual difference between men and women then why is she lying about it?
IF she doesn’t know the difference between gender and sex – she’s a moron
Quite!
But you are too kind/generous in your assessment.
Wait for it ! A seat in the House of the Dead and a Grace and Favour apartment to boot. The full bingo card !
Maybe not the full bingo card immediately.
There’s too many loose ends just now, but if the anglo state controlled judiciary do their job well, she’ll be on her way to ‘happy ever after’ within a year or two.
Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won’t get very far. — Nicola Sturgeon.
But you just kept on pulling girl!
Thing is, she was lying about that too.
She WILL get far, because no one, especially a Scot, in many, many decades has done as much GOOD WORK for the Union.
“every transwoman with a fiver would have already collected their GRC”
No, it’s worse than that. It should read “every PREDATOR with a fiver would have already collected their GRC”. Claiming a trans identity has nothing to do with it because that can’t be verified.
They don’t want limits on getting GRCs, so there’s nothing to stop every single man from getting one. Paedos would be queuing up for them.
Perhaps everyone should apply for one to show what a fiasco it is. Perhaps if women waved their GRCs and went into men’s bathrooms and changing rooms en masse then they might think again.
Excellent post, Joolz.
Well said.
Oh, and forgot to mention, that women going onto Male golf courses en masse might get more attention than any other invasion.
Off Topic;
Nice to learn that Michelle Dewsbury, former “Apprentice” contestant and present GB News presenter has won her case against the Virgin Active gymn chain following an incident earlier this year when a biological male was admitted to the womens’ changing room in which she was changing.
Guess Ms Sturgeon won’t be going for many sessions at that chain if she relocates to London. With her metropolitan elite views she’d probably feel somewhat deprived if the changing room lacked a token six foot weightlifting guy who identifies as female.
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow’s parties?
A hand-me-down dress from who knows where
To all tomorrow’s parties
And where will she go and what shall she do
When midnight comes around?
She’ll turn once more to Sunday’s clown
And cry behind the door.
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow’s parties?
Why silks and linens of yesterday’s gowns
To all tomorrow’s parties?
And what will she do with Thursday’s rags
When Monday comes around?
She’ll turn once more to Sunday’s clown
And cry behind the door.
The Velvet Underground !!
“We already know they refuse to accept trans-specific or gender-neutral provision, because that implies that they’re not real women like all the actual real women are.”
Validation is not the only reason, although it is a big part of it. The game goes a lot further in that these men actually want to replace women in the belief that women are second-rate humans and not quite as fully human as the men.
Let’s start with the data (that they tried to suppress) that ‘transwomen’ actually commit more sex crimes than any other social grouping in our prisons. Some of them are treated to surgery and hormone treatment while serving their sentence, so we must assume that being thwarted from claiming ‘womanhood’, these men actually raped and sexually assaulted “other women” in order to gain notoriety that would gain them, in turn, a prison sentence and access to the ‘transitioning’ process. Talk about rewarding deviant behaviour!
Since it is patently obvious that the majority of these men are sexually motivated by heterosexual transvestitism (cross-dressing) and the sexual thrills associated with that (fetishism/autogynephilia), it must be safe to assume that they are not motivated by the fair sex’s (perhaps that should be gender’s) lauded gentleness and caring nature since not all female people are either gently and/or caring. So, the gender horse manure falls apart at the first hurdle; then, the behaviour in raping and committing sexual assaults is peculiarly male, so when did this ‘transition’ take place? The biological imperative is a whole other chapter and seeps into the ‘transhumanism’ debate which will be with us very soon as people begin to catch up with the real motives of those who push this stuff – not the porn-addled men, but the backers, the techies, the pharma’s and the lawyers.
Can their supporters, like Ms Sturgeon, explain to us all how the human brain, with its sexed chromosomes directs changes all over the body at chromosomal level to change violent and rapey men into douce and obliging ‘women’. If it was able to do this, wouldn’t biologists have noticed before 2010, when men started to call themselves ‘women’. What were these male transvestite fetishists and autogynephiles before they suddenly became ‘women’? Fetishists and autogynephiles, perchance, driven by sexual compulsions and porn?
So, to sum up: same sex marriage negated the need for GRCs for that purpose. So what else would compel a man to ‘transition’ and try to enter all female spaces, services, etc? Could it be that they wanted not only to have the sexy feelz, but also the opportunities to replace women at every level of society? Because that is precisely what they started to do after 2010 when the mantra ‘Trans Women are Women’ reared its ugly head for the first time. Then, along came the ‘trans’ men (young women) and the ‘trans’ children, who became essential as human shields to hide the real motives of the men. Also, if there are ‘trans’ children’, who are sexually innocent, this could not be a sexual driver, could it? Is that a pink, porcine creature with wings I spy overhead?
‘Trans’ men (women) are despised by the brotherhood, but they are okay as a standby for sex at a pinch or to hide behind. The ‘trans’ children are lauded as the men’s younger selves, struggling against the reality of their “innate femaleness”. Oh, that porcine creature is back. Yes, the majority of men are not predators, and there will be men in the “trans community” who are not, on the face of it, rapists, but a lot of them, too many, are, as the court records attest to in both Scotland and England. So, no men in female spaces. None. Ever. Third spaces or just go forth and multiply – which itself, the very driver of humanity – becomes more and more impossible as the hormones kick in or the surgery lops off the danglies.
Transhumanism, Lorn?
I immediately recognise much of the truth in what you are saying.
For any sane, well adjusted person it’s at best a regurgitative dogs breakfast isn’t it?
Frightening.
Yes, Nae Need, ‘transhumanism’ is looming. With AI, it could become more prevalent. Jennifer Bilek, a Canadian (I think) journalist has done a deep dive into this stuff. What she discovered is very disturbing – real Stepford wives stuff. It sounds mad, but it is very probable. Science fiction writers and film makers are way ahead of us on this. It promises to make ‘trans’ into a teddy bear’s picnic in comparison.
The thing is, like every new invention and advance in human knowledge, it seems that the good it brings is always tempered by the bad, and bad faith actors can be guaranteed to step in and hi-jack the worst of it – porn merchants, robot manufacturers, et al. In an ideal world, the good would triumph, but it never seems to work out that way, and the lowest common denominator is always to be sought.
I had read on another forum where a poster described a married cross-dresser he knew. He said that the man went out of with his wife dressed up as a woman and loved how everybody accepted he was a woman despite the fact that people were too polite to say that he was quite obviously a man dressed up as a woman.
We are living in a society at the moment where people who too kind to point out of the obvious and that allows male vanity to have full reign.
It boils down to the society we are living in where anything goes and there are no boundaries or limits as to what is socially acceptable.
It comes down to what we want in an individualistic liberal society where there needs to be a conversation about how we balance the needs of the individual against the needs of living in a functioning community.
When the conversation is framed in that way, I’ve got a feeling that a lot of people who are against this Trans ideology will be asking themselves if the solution is to be socially authoritarian then how will it affect them and their individualistic lifestyle.
I’m not sure it has to be authoritarian if we can manage to stick to the law on fetishes in public. It was at the point where this was allowed outside the home or the clubs when we lost the plot. As the UKSC pointed out, the law has not changed. It has always been against the law to be a voyeur, a flasher, a taker of photos of people in a state of undress or on the loo, without their knowledge, master rating in public, etc. If these were enforced again, these men would vanish indoors and out of our faces.
Was looking at a video of that Labour councillor who was cleared of incitement or something when he said in a public space that certain people should have their throats cut. Apart from a two-tier justice system being in operation in some places, all around him, hanging on his every word, were gormless, vacuous females with the requisite blue hair and simpering obeisance. I wouldn’t want to cut their throats – either those eejits or the handmaidens – but they do invite a good shake to rattle their teeth, don’t they, with their salivating, empty virtue-signalling? What is it with some women and their adoration of the most awful men who treat them like something they trod in and feel no remorse? Ms Sturgeon and her ilk are ("Tractor" - Ed)s to all females.
@ Lorn 10:46
There is no doubt that the reality in Scotland is different from the reality presented by the English and American media but that’s doesn’t account for the current case of Nurse Peggie and similar incidents where the law of Scotland isn’t being followed.
It’s obvious that this isn’t happening where an unelected UK court needs to decide on something that is as plain as what a woman is.
If the Scottish Law system can’t be independent and decide what is appropriate for the wishes of the Scottish in the light of Globalism where activism from outside of Scotland is paramount then why should we not look to the Global community to side with what is best to Scotland and campaign for that, even if that means being more socially conservative?
Ultimately, we simply can’t simply pick and choose what is more appropriate to Scotland depending on your political ideology. We either choose a Scottish way, warts and all or a Global way where everybody is pleased and certain identity groups needs to compromise.
There’s loads of children going “missing” in the two current war zones & I’m talking thousands of them, not just a few. P mentioned this too way back at the start of that conflict in the R speaking regions of U who were being ethnically cleansed, persecuted & going ‘missing’. No international body allowed in to investigate.
Others are being found in mass graves over at that other place, rubble central, with their organs missing & no agency allowed in to investigate suspected harvesting of organs there either. Any attempt & they’re assassinated cause, y’know, everyone is Ha*mas LOL
Then there is this gender woo drive to sterilise & experiment on young people with botched surgery.
Something is afoot here…the Nazis are back. It wouldn’t surprise me if they were experimenting to make a man pregnant or some other Frankenstein horror FFS.
AI is going to be a shit show of domination in the wrong hands. Good job the Chinese didn’t waste their time on Tiktok moaning about feckin pronouns at Costa coffee but stuck in at school instead & have trumped Trump on the AI front & stole his donor billionaires thunder. AI will be used by the global elite to cut off supply of everything from personal bank accounts to who can or can’t access healthcare cause AI can work 24/7 & doesn’t have a conscience. The WEF even discussed how they could close bank accounts at the flick of a switch if yer not a good little soldier & do as yer telt by the AI big brother monitoring everything where we’ll all own nothing, eat bugs & be happy.
Good to see you back Geri!
I’m not up on what you have written here but it’s got a certain H G Wells Time Machine aspect about it with the “them and those”; the diffident pleasure seeking idle Eloi leaching off the (to them) increasingly failing repellant everyone else who do the actual work..
Just a piece of fiction but it’s increasingly looking like he grossly overestimated on timescale..
“The Nazis are back”
They’ll be calling for gas chambers next, eh Barbs?
With her comments in the media where she is all but saying she is now Trans by coming out as non-binary and her change in appearance, there is no way that she won’t be taken seriously if she attempts a comeback in Scottish politics in the near future.
Also judging by the ‘national’ press, she isn’t being taken seriously south of the border so let her bask in her proverbial 15 minutes of fame at the moment because she is heading into obscurity.
Seen this and thought very apt…..
“The Vesuvian varlet of vice vomited vexatiously vacillating vitriol until the vapidly vainglorious verbosity of the vaulted vagient was eventually vanquished by the vigilantly veridic.”
Various varieties of vapid and vacuous in a victorious vacuum of victory.
That’s London for you.
After reading all that, I’m beginning to think the frankly unthinkable.
Is it possible that the biggest story and most well-kept secret of Scottish politics in a generation has somehow or other eluded us all.
Is Sturgeon a transwoman?
As Sherlock said, once you have eliminated the impossible, the incredibly improbable must be the truth.
Nicola Sturgeon is suffering from Imposter syndrome. Imposter from all semblance of reality.
Thanks for documenting this passage. I wanted to skim but ended up reading every word increasingly slack jawed, from the repeated claim gender critical feminists are “homophobic… misogynistic… possibly racist” to the cavalier sacrificing of female prisoners every eager “transwoman” have the right to shower with before eventually being transferred to a male prison, to the full admission she hasn’t changed her mind one iota and is impatient for the rest of us to catch up and “consent”. Wow.
The best part is that even in the context of a carefully written memoir, where she has had the time to finesse her arguments and narrative control, where nobody can argue against her in real time, as with all trans activists what inevitably comes out of taking an indefensible position is gobbledygook that sets every bullshit alarm within a ten mile radius ringing.
Maybe I’m cynical but I think she’s angling herself for a slot on TV today, maybe a transition to America.
She’ll fit in well being a panelist to the American TV show ‘The View’.
Mibbes..
She isn’t really that polished a speaker what with the nodding head routine, I think they’d tire of her over there pretty quickly.
Anyway, more to the point – again;
#Where is sneaky Pete?
I could imagine that her ‘salty’ comments wouldn’t go down to well with the Yanks whereas the likes of Gordon Ramsey has the backup of having had experience in the catering industry and knows what he is talking about.
Kate,
The article at this link may be of interest to you.
link to pressreader.com
Fucketybye!
So why did Sturgeon home on this subject when it was of no interest ti anybody.
Was it her personal crusade and why
Was it a deliberate act ti subvert independence and who was driving that.
Viktor Orban spilled the beans some time ago in an interview when he refused to sign up to this gender woo rubbish that was being parasitic across all of the West as parliaments everywhere fell over themselves to rubber stamp this nonsense despite public backlash.
The Gender woo nonsense is a directive from the World Bank & International monetary fund (both American) who advise government policy or they withhold loans, favourable loan rates, can block investments, block trade & can inflict harsh austerity policies if countries don’t do as they’re telt. This was also confirmed by some African nations who were horrified they were being held to ransom over some shit they didn’t even know what a transperson was LMAO!
So America wants this crap & the West has to comply. Theresa Mayhem must’ve gave Evans the memo to try that shit out on the Scots first & Nicola duly complied as she had feck all else to occupy her time as First Minister & wanted to be the first Muppet in the UK to say she was being “progressive”. Pity she didn’t want to be the first to actually get indy done rather than this shite she had no mandate for.
Meant to add this also explains why this was rushed through every parliament across the West with very little background to any of it & not much parliamentary scrutiny either. TRA woo woo wasn’t a grassroots movement. It sprang from nowhere & was just instantly accepted & rubber stamped across parliaments. I suspect USAID heavily interfered in pushing compliance through their legions of NGOs & advisors too & a fair few rent-a-mob activists to lend this bullshit some credence with a fair few bad wigs & a mega phone outside universities annoying the general public.
Yep, Japan told the same tale, and were trying to push through self-ID while gay marriage remains illegal. Just great in a culture with such strong traditions of same sex bathing traditions (public baths). Thanks, yanks.
@ Kate L
This will only result in the rise of Sanseito in Japanese politics and subsequent push of other Japanese politics further to the right.
It is a narcissistic egomaniac who never once said a single intelligent thing whilst in power and sounds even dumber and disconnected from reality by the day.
Im not reading her book.
I don’t really care whether Sturgeon is a Lesbian or in the extremely unlikely event of her originally being a bloke, its not relevant.
There is too much made of the sexuality preferences of MSP’s in what they do, they are there to represent their constituents, all of them, even if they are heterosexual and very much in the majority and not gay like them.
I would not care whether my MSP was lesbian or gay as long as they represented EVERYONE, and not just their own.
I would not for someone trans though and this is simply because I believe they have too many personal issues already to be able to do a good job, nor do I feel they can remain objective because of who they are and not as Nicole seems to think because I am racist , right wing, a trump supporter or transphobic!
Rob
A well written, measured and accurate summary.
A thing our politicians are incapable either of understanding or of emulating.
The “yellow peril deviant eastern/ Chinese” as the Victorians and Edwardians liked to call them must now be laughing their heads off- and; without a shot fired.
We are run by complete and utter brainless f8nnies who get their funding from God only knows where.
Classic decadent decaying dying days of Empire syndrome played out on MSM, day in, day out.
When world beating UK is done and dusted the good ol’ up to its eyeballs in debt US of A will surely be next, money doesn’t grow on trees endlessly..
Please go FFS, and don’t slam the door on the way out. She is unique though.
She manages to be detested by Unionists and Nationalists in equal measure. Quite a legacy.
“detested by Unionists and Nationalists in equal measure”
Yes, and surely the result of trying to serve two masters, which is the inevitable outcome of a national party elite co-opted to run a colonial administration on behalf of the imperial Power. For what personal reward is the question?
Is it just me or should Nicola Sturgeon have told what she wrote in her book to a therapist or a trusted, level-headed friend rather than publishing it for all to read. Doing it the way she has, in the style she wrote all seems rather unseemly.
Granted, the money would have flowed the other way and, presumably, that was not part of her plan.
I read someone in the Herald. Saying her success was living rent free in the heads of those who despise her.
As if that was something to be proud of, or aspire to. Is this what our society has become? Being proud of bad people.
We don’t hate her for being Nicola Sturgeon. We hate her for destroying the SNP, splitting the movement, holding back our country for decades. Treating former colleagues like pariahs, the make believe gender fantasies. Stealing funds, ignoring the Yes voters. Ruining the reputation of Holyrood.
If the Herald think this is some kind of victory for her. They really need to see a priest.
Looking through the pages here I was struck by this phrase
“Independence had always been the means to building a better country,never a holy grail to be pursued for it’s own sake.”
In 2014 I attended a Radical Independence Conference in Glasgow and I well remember a number of individuals who,when I asked them if Indy resulted in a Rightward facing Scottish Gov would they still support it,replied with straightforward and very firm “No”.I was struck that for many of these people Scottish Sovereignty was a means not an end.I.E. their politics found little support electorally and the westmninster system meant this would continue but,with the advent of Holyrood,here was an opportunity to change that.Those lines in Sturgeon’s book suggest she is one of those Indy supporters.
Well,so what?After all for years there has been a dividing line in the SNP between “fundies” and “gradualists” and so on.However I think this is different.Despite the difference of approach between “fundies” etc the goal has always been Independence/Sovereignty as an end not a means.Sturgeon’s view leaves itself open to the rejoinder “Well,if Independence leads to negative outcomes,however they are characterised,it’s not worth pursuing is it?”.Those were definitely the vibes I got in 2014.I.E. “If indy gets me what I want fine.If not fuck it,I’ll focus my support elsewhere.”
I should say I am currently no supporter of Independence but Im open to discussion.I was an SNP member many years ago and campaigned for them across Lanarkshire.I was young then,though,whereas now Im a beer addled miserable old git.Cheers!
«INDEPENDENCE had always been the means to building a better country,never a holy grail to be pursued for it’s own sake»
Whoever is responsible for that statement has not grasped even tenuously what INDEPENDENCE actually means.
Without the total autonomy, freedom and internal control that being an independent nation notionally brings building a better country is fantasy,
Independence entails risk, as any worthwhile initiative or adventure will.
If the contemprary Scot is so risk averse as to surround independence with «qualifications» they may well deserve the fate of fading and whinging into nothingness.
Independence is not mythic but reality, not a holy grail for dewy eyed dreamers to occasionally sip from.
Remember folks…
There’ll still be elections in an independent Scotland. You know, like every 4-5 yrs or so. There’ll also be a constitution & a new parliament.
Independence is forever. Politicians are temporary.
Not even the current UK system offers guarantees that there’ll not be arseholes in power at some point with batshit policies so why do ppl insist on making that a requirement for Scotland to guarantee that it’ll never happen? It’s bonkers.
It’s cause they’re not really independence supporters. They’re spreading shit & imposing unrealistic criteria to meet in the hope of spreading doubt.
Indyref was a broadchurch. SNP, under Sturgeons leadership, switched the narrative. How apt! Every Yesser was suddenly her adoring fans.
I know Yessers who immediately stopped voting for Sturgeon after 2015. They couldn’t stand her & knew she was never going to have the balls to call a ref.
Eyes on the prize folks! Politicians will come & go, indy is forever & we’ll get to shape our own parliament.
“we’ll get to shape our own parliament”
That’s right, Barbs. Tell the world YOU intend to have a say in how Scotland is run.
Can we have louder, longer and more frequent posts, please. If you need crowdfunding to set up your own site, I’m confident that could be arranged.
Absolutely dead certain, in fact.
Majority rules, Sunshine. That’s how democracy works in the real world.
If Scotland votes for right-wing fuckwits or Lefty snowflakes to be in power then so be it. It’ll have been achieved by public opinion & at the authority of the ballot box.
Stray off & go rogue & there’ll be safeguards in parliament to prevent it & for the public to call a general election. Not fellow parliamentary vote as it currently stands under the UK system – the same UK system that prevented the public removing Sturgeon & her gender woo bullshit she’d no mandate for.
That’s how it works. You nawbag eejits want to invent problems that doesn’t even exist under the current UK system. Let me guess, Scotland has to be better. Scotland has to be different. Scotland should carve lifetime guarantees in stone & emerge fae Glen Nevis on a unicorn bearing free gifts for all…
Get yersel tae….
Once yer indy there’s none of this fictitious bullshit. You either believe Scotland should be independent & make it’s own decisions or yeh don’t.. That’s the only question yer being asked. Not mundane shite like what political parties there’ll be & will yer bins still be emptied FFS..
It’s amazing innit – no one asked Brexshit a single fucking question or even produced a white paper but you were a fully signed up member immediately. Maybe indy should just hire some bus advertising..
What is in it for me? That side had been in charge prior to 2007 and took over again after the referendum. Love of country means nothing to them, culture itself is treated with suspicion and politics a means to achieve selfish ambition. Identity politics, race and gender theories were being pushed by international/US capital so why not? In Sturgeon’s superficial mind it was a template. ‘Look at me I am a good person’. At the same time they were acting as managers for Westminster who in turn demanded that International capital get everything it wants whenever it wanted it from Scotland. Government revenues accrue to Westminster, ownership and profit go offshore.
STURGEON shuddered at the very concepts of nation, national and nationalism and disliked the style Scottish National party, that she found a facile substitute in the sub politics of gender identitarianism is typical.
The history of nationalism per se is a complex mix of good and bad but most of the bad arises from imperialist or colonialist powers suppression of it.
Nationalism = nazis and fascists is what «they» would have you believe.
By that criterion the movements that ended empires were all driven by it.
Sturgeon is clever she knows exactly what she engineered the SNP into becoming.
“..if Indy resulted in a Rightward facing Scottish Gov would they still support it,replied with straightforward and very firm “No”.I was struck that for many of these people Scottish Sovereignty was a means not an end.I.E. their politics found little support electorally…”
Are you saying that Scots, who are left of centre, didn’t support leftist policies? Doesn’t add up….
I believe the OP is trying to say that while some indy supporters were very vocal about supporting independence they weren’t interested in independence but only interested in getting left wing policies in Scotland that wouldn’t be possible with the Westminster system.
One of these left wing policies is ironically Trans ideology which has rightly preoccupied this site.
You will have to agree that is a very valid point.
For myself, I voted for independence in 2014 but wouldn’t have if there was even a slight doubt in my mind that Scotland would have turned politically to the right after independence.
That was then and this is 2025. I still believe in left politics but politics in an independent Scotland has to mirror the needs of the Scottish people in 2025 and beyond and that means having right-leaning policies as well.
These right-leaning policies isn’t the right wing Westminster politics of 2014 or the right-leaning policies of 2025 imported from America via social media and NGO’s but right-leaning policies suited to the realities of Scotland in the late 2020’s and beyond.
It is striking how many of the regulars on here are actively pursuing some ideological goal, and support Indy only because they believe it might better advance their primary objective.
That’s a fundamental driver of the inability of the Indy movement to push support past 50%. Far too many, both within the political power structures and at grassroots level, don’t want the support of people who would water down the possibility of them achieving their primary goal. So rather than sacrifice their heart’s true desire, they choose to hamstring Indy instead.
It’s telling that both Alex Salmond and Rev Stu have clearly understood that for Indy to succeed, it must be a “broad kirk”. Very sadly for Scotland, that lesson has been failing to gain across the board traction for some time now.
Good post.
For any major campaign to succeed, the first step is this:
Do NOT alienate those who already support the project.
The SNP, especially under Sturgeon and her continuity puppets, have done the very opposite.
And some anti -Sturgeon indy supporters on here persist in this strategic error.
God forgive me but for once you are right and for once I agree with what you said.
Jeez..
Anyway I’m sure you’ll return to normal service imminently though and this aberration will fade in time..
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I’ll put in a word with the Big Man upstairs – see what I can do.
Meantime, if you could please try not to take the name of our Lord & Saviour in vain. That’s just gonna make my efforts more difficult.
Thanks in advance.
Crypt key; Griselda?
Spot on TURABDIN.
The most offensive aspect of Sturgeon’s angst-filled irrational pubescent mutterings she misleadingly calls an autobiography is the way it’s written.
She should have hired someone who knows what words are and how to use them to scribble doun the hallucinations and imaginings plucked from her dark febrile dream-world.
But perhaps I am too cruel and should instead raise myself up. Up to the standard set out in Galatians 5:22.
Perhaps I should live by the Fruits of the Spirit and forgive Sturgeon her sins against the Scots and most especially her sins against the world of literature.
Perhaps I should aspire to live by the Seven Fruits. The fruits of love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, and faithfulness: adopt a gentler disposition; pursue a generosity of spirit hitherto unknown to me; cultivate a more considerate behaviour toward others.
Yes. The path ahead is clear to me now – I will gorge myself on the fruits and be a better man for it.
As for Sturgeon… I suppose for those she has so egregiously betrayed there is some justifiable sport to be had in her public vilification; some satisfaction to be garnered in watching her descent into madness and inevitable obscurity.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she ends up a ‘resident’ of some asylum for the criminally insane… the House of Lords, perhaps.
However, I who am now a discerner, a follower, in the way of the Seven Fruits have already moved on. I have cast from my mind what has been the face of colonialism in Scotland for several years now – England’s former Scotland Governor-General, Nicola Sturgeon.
Sturgeon is now dead to me… may the Lord have mercy on her twistit soul.
Your life’s greatest work and the crowning glory of your career is there, just waiting for you to seize the opportunity, NC.
Translate “Frankly” into Scots.
Nice wee read in the Guardian by the ‘elderly terrorists’ of Yvette Coopers making.
Also a confirmation that a certain country’s defence league set up a unit to besmirch/smear as terrorist those in the media to gain sympathy for their actions in you know where and to excuse the murdering thereof.
Thank you for the recommendation. All VERY impressive people that have been interviewed. Younger people have been deliberately silenced. What is going on is an obscenity
It’s great that you care. If near-terminal smugness can keep you warm, you must be saving yourself a small fortune on heating bills over the winter.
The majority of rational observers though, have worked out that the only thing keeping the conflict going is the yellow tunnel boys hiding behind their hostages.
It’s tough for those on the surface, forced by their leaders to use their fragile bodies as human shields. I guess the moral of the story is that in a democracy, people need to be very careful who and what they vote for.
And that, of course, brings us back to Scotland’s Mammie, and all the votes you and your ilk blindly splurged on her and her ardent disciples over the years.
Because you did that. Yours is the responsibility. And you have yet to apologise for the harm you have done to Scotland. I’m afraid that because of that, you’ve lost the right to pronounce on what’s right and wrong.
Because self-evidently, you don’t have a clue.
“My optimism was short-lived. In the early weeks of 2023, it was shattered, and with it any notion that this was an issue only exercising the political bubble. In mid-January, the UK government re-ignited the controversy with a decision to deploy the never-before-used section 35 of the Scotland Act to challenge the new law on the grounds that it interfered with Westminster powers.
It was preposterous, but suited the Tory agenda perfectly. Not only did it undermine the authority and autonomy of the Scottish Parliament, increasingly a Tory tactic in the fight against independence, but it also exacerbated the kind of culture war the Tories saw as motivational for their natural support.”
So let’s all remind ourselves that at this point Nicola Dud had been in power NINE YEARS with three majorities twiddling their thumbs at Westminster & mandates for indy wilting on her desk to trigger a referendum.
What kind of stupid is she? Even the dugs in the street know that Holyrood is an administration with absolutely zero authority & autonomy & can be revoked at any time of Westminster’s choosing. The whole point of independence was to have our own parliament with our own decision making. Durr!
She’s another entitled & delusional feckwit who wanted to remain head honcho in an ADMINISTRATION & then complain about the rules whilst she had permission from the electorate to leave at any stage by announcing a referendum & for MPs to leave Westminster immediately.
Just more proof that she’d never any intentions to do so. If she really wanted authority & autonomy she had it gathering dust on her desk & squandered countless times to use it. Scotland could’ve had it’s very own parliament by now.
I’m an old fashioned nationalist. I want independence because I am Scottish,and totally reject Britishness.
It’s nice and simple that way. That’s why every country that has broken away from mother England. Has done so on the basis of culture and rejection of English identity and suppression.
Unfortunately some Scots think being independent is about economics. They were the faint hearts who voted no in 2014. If you are a true Scot , then you vote for independence for richer or poorer.
The capitalist argument leaves me cold.
I believe a lot of Scots think exactly like you do – maybe 50% or more.
But when push comes to shove do you think the economics can be ignored purely because you are Scottish?
Since when did England start paying out free pots of money to Scotland?
Scotland is rich in natural resources. Those same resources England takes for free.
Our economics are just fine & dandy. The proof of that is the English refusing to get tae fck & allowing a democratic vote to take place. They’d hardly want to keep us if we weren’t of any benefit to them. They’re not exactly renowned for charity are they?
They, on the other hand, are no benefit to Scotland. None.
Scotland is a sovereign nation. In a diddly political union that only ever benefits one country. That’s not a union at all. That’s a parasite feeding off a host.
Colonialism is over. The world is sick of spongers fleecing them with fake accounts, fake GDP to inflate the G7 & skew world rankings/loan rates & imposing fake austerity through their reserved currency privileges. They can also cook the books to skew results in their favour. They’re being booted out of Africa & the Global South. The whole point of BRICS+ teaming up & getting shot of the Wests hegemony & grift & the Brits will be the first casualty.
Nationalism is on the rise too across Europe as the EU is just another grift of unelected bureaucrats getting fatter whilst their populations are forced to suffer policies they never voted for, wars they don’t want or start, immigration they want even less & an energy crisis/ cost of living crisis while their elected leaders blow through £/€/$ billions blowing shit up in far flung places that’s fck all to do with them but to keep the grift going elsewhere. They’re already resorting to type by rigging elections now or voiding them completely and blaming R for interference LOL Aye, that’s believable..
Looks like soon everyone will be taking back control of their own wee patch of land cause they’ll have no choice. Unions are proving to be shit everywhere cause it’s just another name for colonialism.
MAGA & MEGA! LOL! Now there’s a thought! As they’re booted out of all the countries they’re currently fleecing & squatting in cause they’ll no longer be able to just print money while they loot everyone else .
The USA is nearly at the point of a civil war too. They’ve played the dumb enforcer/world police for too long & neglected their own shit domestically. MAGA fell flat on its arse almost straight away & yanks are pissed their senate is overrun with foreign agents working on behalf of an antisocial neighbour thousands of miles away blowing people & shit up for fun with American weapons while they don’t have healthcare or a pot to piss in at home. The UK is completely captured there too. Starmer, Tory & Reform all more interested in foreign affairs than the more pressing ones at home.
Big Jock
Unfortunately some Scots are cheering on the imperial colonialists in the east as it attempts to re-absorb its former colony that broke free.
That disqualifies them from claiming to know what independence, national freedom, protection of culture and language, and decolonisation are about, however much they like to squeal to the contrary.
It’s a major failing within those who claim to be grassroots Indy supporters. That failing being visible to all Scots, it continues to turn off soft No’s from supporting Indy.
The major failing is the dominant national party and native intellectuals failing to explain to the people their colonial reality. In other words, “what independence, national freedom, protection of culture and language, and decolonisation are about”, as explained here:
link to cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com
and here:
link to liberation.scot
Mayo clinic …
“Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. They need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them. People with this disorder may lack the ability to understand or care about the feelings of others. But behind this mask of extreme confidence, they are not sure of their self-worth and are easily upset by the slightest criticism.”
As a focus for contempt, she is genuinely world class.
If we are able to learn from this experience however, she might become the stepping stone that we need.
Agent. The problem with economics, is that the master country can lie. As they did in 2014, and have been doing since 1707.
It ends being an argument about who you believe, rather than the facts. Because in this world nothing can be trusted.
That’s why its difficult for Scotland to get independence. Scots are terrified of their pensions being lost or mortgages going up. Its mostly fear driven, but the sheep are pretty gullible.
The Irish were potless when they got independence, so was India. But the passion for their homeland made them fight for freedom.
We have turned a vote about a countries right to exist. Into a sterile debate about currency and bank accounts.
Are the Scots really this fickle.
Unionists are gullible. Like the UK can even guarantee them those things for eternity. Or that they’ll always have a competent government in charge despite decades of proof that we don’t & it’s just the same shit, different rosette every 5yrs on when a Tory wants an early election.
Unionists are never a happy bunch either. Everything is made sterile. Glass always half empty. No fun, miserable & always angry. That’s hardly healthy is It? Even the NO campaign was as miserable as sin. Unlike the Yessers carnival atmosphere.
It’s funny though cause these same eejits have a cheek to complain someone else is stealing their country/culture/identity/traditions & way of life while they’re cheering on the neighbours to take it instead & take all the fixtures & fittings while yer at it! LOL
You couldn’t make it up.. There’s no other explanation for it than they’re not right in the heid. They’re always hypocrites.
“they’re not right in the heid”
Colonialism results in a people with a ‘colonial mindset’, which is ‘a manufactured being’ (Memmi) and this requires ‘difficult treatment’; which means we are also dealing with a psychological condition, not just an economic condition, i.e. an under-developed nation and people due to colonial plunder as well as cultural domination:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Something I heard time and time again post 2014.
‘I wanted independence in my heart, but my head said no’. In other words they thought people like us were just unthinking patriotic Scots. This mechanism was used to salve the consciences of those voting against their own country.
Brexit then made it acceptable to want independence. Because to them this was the correct economic and moral decision. Again Something used to delegitimise those who would vote for independence no matter what.
I think at least 20% of no voters. Woke up on the 20th September and knew they had betrayed their own country. Yet they couldn’t, or wouldn’t ever admit to us, that they committed this act of betrayal.
Brexit was a convenient excuse to change their minds.
I have believed in independence since age 16. I have studied the history, economics and mechanics for all those years. Yet some clown who only looked at a white paper or economic argument for a couple of weeks before voting. Gets to sit there and patronise your average yes voter.
I believe there are hundreds of people like this. They have a superiority complex. I know, because I have listened to their ill informed guff for years.
They are brainwashed by the colonial mindset. Brexit isn’t a reason for independence, its a consequence of not being independent. We are not independent because of the plastic Jocks, who want Scotland run from London.
Big Jock
So you’re saying if we had been Independent we would still be in the EU and thus not Independent?
I think you better help me out with that one. There are no sovereign independent countries in the EU. Only a clown could argue to the contrary.
There is actually. Hungary & Slovakia don’t mind telling the yanks, the EU & U to do one. So did Georgia.
Oh dear, that resulted in sanctions, an assassination attempt & endless threats of lawfare.
Trump has just colonised the EU with little Britain inc. It was always colonised by America through NATO but Trump has just finalised the deal. Europeans (& its immigrants) will all work to MAGA & pay NATO military complex & Uncle Sam by buying back the shit they make & we’ll all be thankful.
He didn’t think it through tho cause the EU doesn’t have the money, innovation & the skills to reindustrialise & certainly not the tech & workforce so they can’t make America great again cause let’s face it, they were never that great to begin with.
BRICS is where the wealth & tech is & they’re not invited to join cause they can’t. I’m lead to believe that there is a clause that says that ALL countries who have imposed illegal sanctions on other countries can never become a permanent member. France already rejected.
See, this is why independence is vital for every country & along with it, self sufficiency. You can then tell colonisers to go fuck themselves just like the Chinese, Brazilians, India & the Rs have done. 4,000 illegal *crushing* sanctions later & they can still give the bird. It doesn’t affect them. They’re self sufficient & can trade as they dump American & British agriculture, cancelling farmers contracts everywhere & trading with non terrorist countries instead.
And there was you, thinking it was brown people & Eastern Europeans stealing yer lands & starting armies..LOL! Surprise!!! It’s yer country cousins. A fact drowned out by Brexitters too dumb to read the room yer the 52nd state & distracted by Farage & his minions.
“Only a clown could argue to the contrary”
OK, maybe I got that one slightly wrong.
A plastic Barbie could also argue to the contrary.
As people like Bastard Tax MOAN, Agent Dipshit, Yoonionist Scotland hater Stuart, Yoonionist Scotland hater Aydan, Yoonionist Scotland Hater Beggan and other Scotland haters HATE being disagreed with it interferes with their sense of superiority
Shouldn’t you be keeping a low profile?
The assisted dying boys might be monitoring this site. Somebody might have tipped them off it’s a rich source of unproductive geriatric oxygen thieves, just ripe for being offered one final chance to do something positive for Scotland and for the global environment.
It wisnae me, honest!
Clowns looking for a circus.
One free handed poster trying not to think about pricks.
Every country in the EU is sovereign and independent. No , it’s not like Scotland in the UK. We are not a sovereign nation in the UK.
The EU is a voluntary agreement, and all members have their own laws and foreign policy. They also issue their own passports and have their own stated nationalities.
They control their macro economics and internal defence spending.
Scotland has none of these things.
Big Jock says….. The EU is a voluntary agreement, and all members have their own laws etc…. Scotland has none of these things……
Is that so, Big Thickie ?
So Scots law is just a figment of everyone’s imagination ?
“So Scots law is just a figment of everyone’s imagination ?”
May as well be cause a wee title fae an adulterous feckwit seems to give them an identity crisis & they forget where they are & whom they’re supposed to serve. It’s certainly not another countries King, another countries sovereignty above it’s own &or protecting an unequal union either.
Retaining Scots law is a condition of the union or England would’ve binned it already.
The EU can hold referendums to exit at any time. They also have their own independent policies on immigration. It’s lost its way since Vonder liar took the helm & became Americas Puppet nose poking into everyone’s parliaments with USAID, fake rent a mob activists, austerity for everyone but the top tier & legions of NGOs & careerists all singing from the same hymn sheet in the EU parliament like they’re all one big country even if it destroys their own economies in the process. All the parliament is for at the moment is to grease the pole onto a lucrative job elsewhere.
She’s completely destroyed it on behalf of the IMF & NATO. Now it’s just fat cats, bureaucracy, authoritarianism, censorship & warmongering. Don’t think yer saved cause of Brexit – yer not. You’ll never get to leave NATO. It was always NATO & the IMF that was the problem, not the EU until it was captured & deindustrialised. You can thank Maggie & the Tories, the outsourcing & sell everything, for the start of it all. Maggie’s *special relationship* of jam today, feck all later ideology.
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It’ll break up completely very soon as countries take back control of their own affairs. They’re so far behind on tech & innovation it’ll be centuries before they’d regain ground, if at all. Free trade doesn’t seem free at all now either as they’re trigger happy on the sanctions front. Tourism, a massive military complex & a collective meat grinding machine for NATO & it’s endless warring is all geopolitical analysts see in it’s future.
Scots law is frequently undermined and challenged by England’s Supreme court. Its not actually independent. We couldn’t hold a referendum under Scots Law because England said no. So it’s bullshit to pretend our legal system isn’t under England’s yolk.
“England’s Supreme court” ????????
No such thing, Big Daftie !
I presume you are thinking of the UK’s Supreme Court ?
Don’t you know Scotland has been a willing member of the UK for over 300 years (confirmed as recently as 2014 !).
The UK Supreme Court was the brain fart of Blair & his handlers to follow the yanks in making a political court that’d always favour the head honcho & it’s one party state.
It’s not elected & is appointed by the monarch on his prime minister & his Lord chancellors recommendations after a wee ritual of some pig shagging & some doughnuts at a wee committee meeting. Well we all know who’ll always be the monarch & what nationality the PM & Chancellor will be eh?) It’s an English court pretending to be independent. It isn’t.
It couldn’t even get the prorogation of parliament ruling right & lying to Lizzie was perfectly legit in their eyes. Durr!
‘Don’t you know Scotland has been a willing member of the UK for over 300 years (confirmed as recently as 2014 !)’
No it hasn’t.
All that happened in 2014 was that everyone could vote, including English sett-lers & EU citizens. A privilege not extended to the Brexshit vote & even UK general elections. Not surprising.
So no, you didn’t actually have anything confirmed in 2014. Scots voted YES. Immigrants & transients tainted the voting pool. Same as the sett-lers tainted the Welsh Brexshit vote. Spreading yersel around like a parasite to get the votes you want is confirmation of nothing but that yer a parasite.
Here’s an idea, let’s go again if yer so confident..
Insider, showing your class as usual!
Thank you “Big Jock” !
Good to see you’ve realised how stupid your comment was !
Cheers !
So now you agree that Scotlands laws are part of British Law! Seems you are tying yourself in knots union boy.