Irony you can’t buy
Posted without comment.
But the reason you can’t buy the irony is that she doesn’t need the money.
So that’s quarter of a million pounds just for running away when things got a bit sticky, on top of the circa £225,000 in wages she’s trousered since resigning as FM despite never turning up for work while she’s been gallivanting around the UK flogging her wretched book (publisher’s advance £300,000), and the fat pension (circa £62,000 a year, index-linked, for life) she’s got coming in a few years’ time, supplemented with nice little bonuses like the £25,000 ITV paid her to commentate on the 2024 election.
Alex Salmond, let us remember, died penniless, still fighting for independence, having donated hundreds of thousands of pounds from his Parliamentary income to charity.
So it’s no surprise she couldn’t quite manage to squeeze a tear out of her bone-dry eyes in the chamber yesterday no matter how hard she strained and rubbed.
Good riddance to the richest traitor in Scotland’s history.
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APPENDIX
Nicola Sturgeon was still First Minister on 28 March 2023. Since then she’s barely spoken or contributed in Parliament, but her earnings have been:
MSP salary: £222,572
Officeholder resettlement grant: £64,378
MSP resettlement grant: £77,710
Book advance: £300,000
Other declared extra-Parliamentary earnings: £31,600
TOTAL: £696,260 (with £97,710 of it tax-free)
Or just over £232,000 a year. (Current salary for the First Minister: £182,438.)
Said without even a hint of irony. A blow torch couldn’t even mark the brass neck of her ("Tractor" - Ed)ous brass neck. Good riddance indeed!
Sturgeon is Scotlands shame!She drank from the posioned chalice. Turned by the british state for the temporary illusion of power. In return, the state would conceal her seedy corruption. She was groomed early to become the leader of the SNP and, at the critical time the british state would play their ace card – a sturgeon utterly obsessed by power and blackmailed for her failings. This was the UK deep state right at the heart of the independence power circle. Anyone who watched her rise through the ranks could not fail to notice how easily doors opened for her and how entrenched she had become at the snp power centre. Her handlers did their job.
Time will expose it all. Her legacy will be one of shame.
Scotland will reflect on how a parcel of rogues betrayed us again.
Time will expose all. I hope so Lothianlad. I see my beloved country as a place that rewards human scum (Sturgeon) and punishes principled people.
“ No matter the depths of loyalty to your own political tribe, don’t forget to think for yourself”.
The absolute nerve – when you consider the treatment meted out to anyone (either within the SNP or outwith ) who had the temerity to disagree with this administration ( deliberately not using the word government).
J Robertson @ 12.47.
“don’t forget to think for yourself”, I believe she actually intended to say, “don’t forget to think OF yourself.”
A piece of sound advice she has followed to the letter throughout her self interested political career, I believe.
And a tidy pension.
Wondering if she’ll become baroness sturgeon one day, sitting next to lord Blackford of humblecroft and Baron wishart of slipperness.
Her words conceal a message to abandon independence and that even devolution could be withdrawn.
An attempt to undo decades of hard by those who strived for freedom.
Shameless.
She’s the worst of the worst.
I thought I hated thatcher but nicoliar’s filth I will take to my grave. She robbed us of our future. Bad witch.
RIP Alex. You will not be forgotten in our history. She/it will mostly and absolutely For her treachery.
Well put. I agree 100% and more.
Good riddance to a treacherous cow. Stepping down cause she knows she’d have the walk of shame otherwise.
Back to being a nobody. The longest serving asshole that achieved the grand total of fck all despite huge public support, numerous mandates in two parliaments & THEIR MONEY. Shame on you.
Just fuck off already. We don’t want to hear or see yer blinky blink bullshit.
Geri @ 13.00.
If only she were going to disappear back into obscurity, Geri.
I’ve no doubt she and what she described as, “her travelling band of lesbians” (I’ve got no probs with les or gays) will be opinionating on trendy TV & radio programmes, giving her “informed” views on Scottish Independence as a former FM on political chat shows etc.
If we’re pig sick of the sight and sound of her now (and I for one sure are) it’ll only get worse.
This gal ain’t for going quietly into the dark night of (unpaid) political silence I fear.
Gawd. You’re right. We wouldn’t be that lucky. The failed politician will be wheeled out every now & again to comment where everyone else is going wrong.
*Pulls plug on the TV*
Is that hairdo non-binary?
Never mind, Swinney is doing his best to be her identical replacement
What’s her legacy? I was ever only in the SNP to gain independence. She was deputy during the referendum. How did she progress the campaign after that defeat? Nothing except to try and jail the leader of the referendum campaign. That’s it!
David you say, What’s her legacy? Alex Salmond down fall and his untimely death I feel sure.
She tried and failed to turn people away from Independence but was able to stopped it but for how long. She’ll be remembered as the nationalist who saved the union for thank I give her credit, it just a pity it took us so long to realize she was working for the British state.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but did she say it was a honor to a MSP for all these years, so why wasn’t a honor to be FM.
Nicola time in office will be remembered as she took a lot and gave fuck all in return.
To be giving the Keys to Scotland future and throw it away for that?
I feel sure we’ll see her on election night pointing out how good John the moron has been.
Hasn’t reform closed the gap on the SNP and little man child isn’t happy.
Don’t know about the rest of yies, but I cannot even watch her now. I thought I would never hate anybody more than Thatcher, but she managed it.
Yup! I feel exactly the same. I reach for the remote. I don’t want to even listen to her.
Hopefully she’ll piss off out of Scotland & never come back. She can keep the cheap suits & the van.
“Ye who suffer woes untold,
Or to feel, or to behold
Your lost country bought and sold
With a price of blood and gold.
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number –
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which, in sleep, had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.
The Mask of Anarchy. Percy Bysshe Shelley.
I thought the sainted Donald Dewar would have been the richest “tractor”.
As a member of the Labour party he would have made the usual complaints about public services being sold off. He left behind a substantial fortune, most of which was in the form of shares in said organizations.
If she wants her £62000 a year pension she will need to wait until she is 65 years old. Depending on how desperate she is for money she could take it just now at 55 years old but would lose 4% per year taking it early which would reduce it by 40% !! So £37200 per year starting now. She won’t be able to filter that through her named company and will have to pay tax to HMRC wherever she registers to pay tax!!
Her time I am sure will come. Her dark deeds will come back to haunt her.
In the meantime she will have to live day and daily with that thought.
The nastiest, most self-centred, little b1tch in Scottish history.
A fucking disgrace to the whole nation.
Burning in Hell would be too good for the likes of such scum…
And the rest of the Scottish Nonce Party follow closely on her stinking heels.
As a woman myself, I cannot get around the fact that both Thatcher and Sturgeon respectively and individually destroyed the UK and Scotland. It shows that female politicians are just as bad as the male ones – in their cases, worse by a country mile. Will never forgive either.
Thatcher was a necessary evil, presumably you didnt live in pre-Thatcher times. The unions destroyed industry in this country. That’s why we are poor. The money was driven out of manufacturing and job creation, and into ponzi schemes and foreign shores.
The unions lost sight of the fact that your job will be more secure if you do some work. They destroyed the motor industry, steel, mining, shipbuilding, all the big factories, millions of jobs. All pre-Thatcher.They suffocated innovation and ambition.
You are right: the unions (some of them, not all) overstepped the mark and held the country to ransom for spurious reasons that made no economic, social or political sense, and, yes, they would have had to be reined in eventually by somebody.
However, Thatcher decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater and handed everything over to privatisation and her own cronies instead of streamlining the public services to reflect efficiency and accountability. She thought that a national economy could be run in the same way that a housewife ran her family budget.
She u-turned several times and would have u-turned even more had the institutions and organisations been willing to stand up to her. Globalisation and importing what you need is fine and dandy until you have a conflict and you find yourself paying through the nose for essentials. Look at what is happening now. We can’t even build a boat without hassle and overspend. Thatcher destroyed the UK, not the unions, although their behaviour certainly contributed to that state of affairs.
Sturgeon was a bad choice for FM from day one. Some saw very early on that she was a manipulative madam, but Salmond had given his word and stepped down, having failed to persuade enough people to vote YES. Sturgeon was Salmond’s and Scotland’s mistake. Big time. The betrayals came almost immediately. Swinney was always at her elbow, the eminence grise of SNP politics.
Yes well I was there as well so let’s not ignore the hundreds and hundreds of billions of pounds siphoned out of the taxpayers’ pockets by Thatcher and Co via removing Rent Controls, creating Housing Benefit for landlords to charge what the hell they wanted, and creating Family Credit that allowed the huge companies to pay crap wages in the knowledge they’d be topped up. Neccessary evil my arse. And so much of that went offshore…
Bad management got bad unions. Two cheeks of the same arse. A bit like saying free enterprise good, state ownership bad. We certainly know how that has turned out.
Thatcher came along at the time of the bad unions and bad state ownership. What of course happened before that was the good free enterprise industries all collapsed and had to be taken into state ownership.
Maybe the answer is in the swing of change. Maybe that is what keeps the production sharp. Or is there something else?
The dead hand of the state vs the sainthood of the private sector. Look around, and look back before you answer, and then ask what has China done to develop at the rate that it has these last 40 years.
“Thatcher was a necessary evil, presumably you didnt live in pre-Thatcher times”
There speaks a good old tory with his head up his arse
I lived in pre Thatcher (THE SCUM) times and all your supposed good employers were greedy arseholes who siphoned off every bit of profit and NEVER invested in new tooling or machinery
I worked as an outside contractor in shipyards all over Scotland and they had one thing in common outdated and ancient machinery and tooling, the owners extracted all the profits for their grandiose lifestyle and the workers got measly pay rises,because the scum owners wouldn’t modernise the machinery they became uncompetetive and were forced to close , the first sign of modernisation came with the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders being taken into public ownership where new and modernised equipment was installed making the job more effective and competitive, but by that time other countries were offering subsidies to their shipbuilders makng them more competitive
The coal mines were the exact same ancient machinery and equipment until the state took over
The miners were BETRAYED by their own people same as Scotland, they had state trai tors directly in charge of the unions , the miners failed because they didn’t fight back with the same violence that the FAKE police inflicted on them, all well documented and proven
But Wally blames the unions for ponzi schemes and work going ofshore
WALLY is well named don’t be like WALLY don’t post PISH that you know nothing about
And Lorncal I am surprised that you would agree with WALLY I thought you had sense
Is there any way to sue her to get the money back she claimed as an MSP, whilst not turning up for work? That’s fraud, surely, stealing from the taxpayer? Do MSPs have any set amount of hours they are legally obliged to work to get paid from the public purse?
The rest of us would just get fired if we didn’t turn up. I’m perfectly serious. She’s clearly perfectly comfortable with blatant theft, and with total contempt for her constituents. This horrible wee manhating goblin deserves some sort of punishment for the extreme damage it inflicted on this country during its reign of (t)error, and on poor Alex Salmond.
Ex-SNP MP Joanna Cherry: “It is easy to make a promise. Much harder to keep it. Sturgeon governed by press release but had no idea how to deliver. My forthcoming book analyses the damage she’s done to Scotland, the SNP & the independence movement & what might be done to put things right.”
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Should be interesting.
I always liked Joanna. She’d have been a good FM. If she’d challenged Sturgeons leadership she’d have won it hands down but the knives were out for her. Sturgeon & her minions set about changing the rules to block her from standing at Holyrood.
At first I thought it was cause Sturgeon is a psychopathic narcissist but on reflection now it would’ve also been her handlers blocking her. They’d not have wanted Joanna in Holyrood at any cost cause it would have meant Alex Salmond back in some capacity (as advisor or something) & Indy would’ve been back front & centre.
Geri, Joanna is another one who sat on her arse and said fuck all about what was going on under the deviant, it took her a long time before she mentioned the GRA and her opposition to it was how it impacted on lesbains not how it impacted on WOMEN and girls
TBQH not one of them in the Scum Nonce Party can avoid criticism they all sat back on their fat salaries and pension pot and stayed STUM while the deviant destroyed the independence movement, even when they knew what had been done to DESTROY Alex Salmond they remained SILENT, heroes or integrity none of them
Failed lawyer Sturgeon peddled and condoned the genital mutilation of our children. She sanctioned the abuse, torment, degradation and trauma of female prisoners by allowing biological males into their midst. She conspired to destroy and betray Alex Salmond, causing him and his family untold suffering and harm which, I believe, was a major contributory factor in his untimely death. I could go on but it makes me sick to the stomach so far. All of this was so disgusting and abhorrent. Turns out she never believed in an independent Scotland. Who knew?
I, for one, trusted and believed her back then. People rarely see through a psychopath. We’re used to the film versions of psychopaths. The clearly crazies. But most psychopaths are clever. They have to be. They know how to mimic human behaviour. How to pretend to care, while not actually feeling anything except an overwhelming and near perpetual sense of entitlement. They get what they want mostly through manipulation. Sturgeon was Commander in Chief who inflicted her cruel and devious and manipulative shitshow on the people of Scotland. She could be a door-to-door bible salesman and would remain a psychopath.
She was right about one thing. Give me your vote and I’ll take all your money. Off you go. Goodbye for good and know that you are unwanted now and unloved and will never be forgiven.
Christine says
“ […psychopaths] get what they want mostly through manipulation. Sturgeon was Commander in Chief who inflicted her cruel and devious and manipulative shitshow on the people of Scotland.They get what they want mostly through manipulation.
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With only cosmetic changes e.g.male pronouns, “The world” for”Scotland“, the above passage could apply to an actual Commander in Chief -of the US military!
But TACO Trump is preparing to quit the fight he was bounced into starting by BB Yahoo. In Tehran they are already claiming victory- with good reason. The theocratic regime the Don and the Yahoo swore to destroy has survived. Their “Oil War” has prevailed over the cowards’ war of high-tech ordinance waged by BB and the Don.
Reverting to the Sturgeon analogy, Murrell was hardly a counterpart of BB- even though each may end up in jail.
To add to the litany of comments already made I would add Branchform, sneaky Pete dropped like a hot potato once the authorities caught on, her cohabiting in marriage with the other half having just shy of half a million sloshing about to spend on luxury items, and would never have thought to enquire where it came from not least as 2 of the 3 signatories for party payments/ purchases lived under the roof of chez Murrells.
And (do correct me if I’m wrong) Dot (breathy) Bains office decided not to proceed against her.
Why?
Well tricky Nicky claims she has nothing to answer.
However, Dot Bains crew claimed it would not be “in the public interest”.
Hardly a fulsome shining exoneration eh?
French fancies anyone..
Oh, to see ourselves as others see us Nicola. If only Mr Salmond was still alive to recite this in Holyrood on your final day.
To A Louse
Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie?
Your impudence protects you sairly,
I canna say but ye strut rarely
Owre gauze and lace,
Tho’ faith! I fear ye dine but sparely
On sic a place.
Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner,
Detested, shunn’d by saunt an’ sinner,
How daur ye set your fit upon her —
Sae fine a lady!
Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner
On some poor body.
Swith! in some beggar’s hauffet squattle:
There you may creep, and sprawl, and spr
Wi’ ither kindred, jumping cattle,
In shoals and nations;
Whare horn nor bane ne’er daur unsettle
Your thick plantations.
Now haud you there! ye’re out o’ sight,
Below the fatt’rils, snug an’ tight;
Na, faith ye yet! ye’ll no be right,
Till ye’ve got on it —
The vera tapmost, tow’ring height
O’ miss’s bonnet.
My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose ou
As plump an’ grey as onie grozet:
O for some rank, mercurial rozet,
Or fell, red smeddum,
I’d gie ye sic a hearty dose o’t,
Wad dress your droddum!
I wad na been surpris’d to spy
You on an auld wife’s flainen toy:
Or aiblins some bit duddie boy,
On’s wyliecoat;
But Miss’s fine Lunardi! fye!
How daur ye do’t.
O Jenny, dinna toss your head,
An’ set your beauties a’ abread!
You little ken what cursed speed
The blastie’s makin!
Thae winks an’ finger-ends, I dread,
Are notice takin’!
O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
An’ ev’n devotion!
`All political lives,
unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure,
because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs` EP.
She was a Neville Chamberlain when we needed a Churchill.
Esp after the EU vote, instead of attack it was let`s wait and see.
Then she got the woke `diversity fever`and that was the end of her as a serious politician and sane person.
She churns my stomach like all Quislings do. The damage she has done to Scotland should bring charges of Treason against her and her Woke coven.
I totally agree Iain.
Where’s Hatey?
Even Beggars has gone quiet..
Sorry my bad, celebrating Eid el fatr no doubt 🙂
A war cant run itself you know. Just getting my Dragon Ladies in order.
The Chief Turnip? You’ve got to hand it the Rev. Right down to the last penny. What a grubby wee fucker she is.
And it’s Mr Beggars to you.
This thrawn wee besom really really shouldn’t have fooled us. I mean, who could possibly have any doubts about someone who praised Kissinger and Madeleine Albright.If in some alternate universe we were Palestinians she would be Mahmoud Abbas, the despicable betrayer of his people.
We’ve got the Political Martyrs Monument on Calton Hill.If there are still such things as public toilets in Edinburgh, I propose a plaque placed in the urinals dedicated to Nicola Sturgeon.
That’s the financial damage and then there’s other damage. The lifes lost, the back stabbing, the lieing, the attack on women the corruption of children the destruction of institutions etc etc etc.
In the history books she’s under Wokism and rape of women’s rights. The rise of the New Elites.
So-called ‘Nationalist’ elites retiring on fat colonial pensions tells us all we need to know – colonial administrators all.
Mair fools us, because postcolonial theory actually warns us this is what happens with a dominant national party:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Another post disappeared into the ether. I have worked out it out. A defunct 5 year old e mail account gets in. My new account doesn’t. I was only encouraging people not to vote. I can’t vote for any of them. I am so glad Sturgeon has gone. The biggest single failure of the Scottish Parliament. Crocodile tears today because the gravy train had stopped. She will have to get a real job like the rest of us. The new Scottish Parliament have a £5billion deficit in the coming Parliament. Well done Nicola.
More neck than Melman the giraffe!
If there’s any justice in this world she’s due at the very least a decade in jail.
robertkknight says:
20 March, 2026 at 9:38 pm
“More neck than Melman the giraffe!”
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Is Melman’s neck also made of brass ?
I see that Starmer has caved into the Child Rapist Trump and the Jewish State.
Ian
Maybe this was the plan all along
Inflame trends in “Kurskland” to tip the hair trigger “R”s into action then facilitate the proxy war at a distance with new age lendlease and extremely profitable weapons and ordnance sales thereby keeping one competing super power bogged down.
Focus elsewhere and then expect Europe to foot the bill.
Turn a blind eye to Is Rye Ale actions in the ME thereby tying down troublesome “brown” people kept safely at arms reach from US shores this time.
Allow yourself to be glove puppeted by Is Rye Ale again and big Washington lobbyist dollars, to go for the chop in I ran playing the WMD card that they had only recently claimed they had completely and bigly destroyed.
One eye on the mega oil bucks has no impact on this – honestly and to do this they need regime change.
Once it gets messy and others need the “energy” supplies you’ve initiated into being withheld then get them to do the hard bit and stand and keep open the vital arteries that your actions precipitated the closure of- all the time remembering a bit of pre game time manoeuvreing by judicious regime change in oil rich Venezuela means that others will run out of oil while you don’t.
And not forgetting of course hoisting the Jolly Roger and nicking tanker loads from others “evading” sanctions that you’ve now only just decided you are going to alleviate anyway so the sweating parasites in the stock exchange don’t do anything panicky.
All along as eyes are elsewhere Is Rye Ale pursues a demolition led land grab while their leader hides from the International war crimes tribunals..
Didn’t the Serbs receive very very different treatment for this sort of behaviour?
All together “from the river to the sea, it’s the second coming of Jericho and Armageddon”..
It’s like one sick factory churning out asylum seekers, oil and others natural mineral resources for mega $$$$$$$$$$..
Yep and he caved into Mandelson and the Pakistani Grooming Gangs. His wife is Jewish. Maybe she bitch slapped him into it.
Yip Starmer is the ultimate Gay Lord. Britain is the wee freaky child no one wants to know.
Mark: seems arguable that the principal reason for Queer Squirmer being Labour leader/PM is his commitment to the hebrew section of the semitic population. There certainly appears to have been ‘State Capture’ of the UK as well as USA incorporating incorrect and partial use of the term ‘anti-semitism’.
Do any participants here have expert knowledge of Race theory such that enables more light to be cast on the matter of Starmer’s affiliation?
The year is 1707. The Scots are betrayed by their own elite and handed a death sentence. A death sentence to be administered by poison.
It is a slow acting and painful poison. Slow, but very deadly; its lethal action inevitable… its cursed name is ‘Treaty of Union’.
Yet there is still hope for the Scots, even after 300 years of the poison eating into their heart.
For even as the poison called ‘treaty’ is deadly it is easily cured and the victim’s health restored by the application of a simple remedy… a remedy called “Termination”.
“Termination” is the legal term given to the action of one party to an international treaty seeking to end its participation in that treaty.
In Scotland’s case the Scots seek to end the poisonous effects of their treaty with England due to the material breach of England’s obligations as set down in the treaty’s text.
The treaty between Scotland and England was never intended as a genuine treaty… it was only ever the device used to administer a deadly poison to an entire people.
It’s time for the Scots to save themselves and Terminate their poisonous, lethal treaty with England… before that treaty terminates them.
It’s the year 2015 and the Scots are betrayed by their own elite and handed a death sentence to be administered by poison.
The poison makes men think they can be women. A poison that deludes some Scots that the majority are yoons and trolls.
A poison that keeps some of them ranting for a decade or more
The poison originates from hatred of anyone who dare disagree with them.
Homegrown poison distilled over years of resentment and dependency on ideology.
Mark, is that also ideology of dependency ( with ref. to final sentence)?
Mark: also ‘ideology of dependency’ (ref. your final sentence)?
@Jay
Yes indeed. That opens a whole box of worms.
“ideology of dependency”
Yes, the colonized elite ‘want dependence, they crave dependence’ (Cesaire), even to the extent of ‘mimicking the colonizer’s language’ (Fanon) and assuming their ‘superior’ identity. All colonized peoples contain such people.
But our contemptible elites cannot serve two masters, and because of their colonial ‘cultural assimilation’ the colonized are sacrificed.
“After a time,” said old Mathers disregarding me, “I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them.
I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man’s body.
What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?”
“What?”
“That No is a better word than Yes,” he replied.
Flann O’Brien.
O’Brien was right, except in the answering of one question… “Should Scotland be an independent country?”
I am not quite sure whether it was Flann O’Brien, Myles na Gopaleen (a character in a 19th century novel by Griffin originally before being adopted by another), Brian O’Nuillain or George Knowall who said this.
“The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.”
Minding mice set a high bar for English politicians. But they are cute hoors.
Sturgeon would have right at home under the Iranian regime.
She would have been a rising Star.
It is a simple message, but one the majority of brain-washed Scots don’t appear to comprehend.
Here it is again… the Scots, no matter what they desire, have no power, no democratic mechanisms (despite illusory appearances), and no say whatsoever in what is done to them and done to their nation and their country by corrupt foreign England and its corrupt foreign carpetbagging chums.
Even if the Scots had ‘won’ the tactically stupid Scottish Parliament vainglorious ‘referendum’ manoeuvre back in 2014 with its weak and moronic “Should Scotland be an independent country?” question – tactical stupidity which has done the independence movement more harm than good – their democratic expression would have been treated as nothing more than an opinion poll by their coloniser.
Scotland is a colony and her people coloniZed.
And guess what?
Correct – the coloniSed aren’t given the opportunity to choose how their colony is managed, or more often mismanaged, and their wealth stolen by their oppressive colonizer… which in Scotland’s colonial case is England.
It couldn’t be simpler; despite ANY appearances to the contrary, the Scots have no say over their own people’s destiny or their own country.
The solution?
DecoloniZation… the ONLY solution as it happens.
“We must not take this parliament of England in Scotland for granted”. Is the full text, or should read as such,
Remember we [ Scotland ] are not in a 1707 treaty with the parliament of Great Britain, nor are we in a 1707 treaty with the Anglo- Irish United kingdom parliament of 1800.
And England has no more legal right to send a devolved parliament to Scotland, than Scotland does to send a devolved parliament to England.
Keep up faux appearences is What is destroying the place where we live.
The Scottish Parliamentary election in May is just English trickery designed to fool the Scots into believing they have choices over who rules them… they don’t.
My view, and remember each must walk their own path, is that the Scots should ignore en masse England’s fakery of Scottish democratic choice in May and stay home – not even show up just to spoil their ballots.
Exception: (at this time there might be some tactical value in Scots voting for “Alliance to Liberate Scotland” candidates if one is available to them.)
An EXTREMELY low turnout would express more about how the Scots feel about ‘the union’ (and Holyrood, that Westminster sub-office) than any other action they might take; and show England that its illusions of Scottish democracy and its trickery baith… are beginning to fail.
I expect that will send a kick so far up Westminster’s puckered arse it will do something galactically stupid to reinforce the view in Scotland that its lang syne time to Terminate the Treaty of Union.
Scotland is a independent country,
Its the Scots brain that is under captivity.
The Brain, also known as Vengeance and Ein Toter sucht seinen Mörder (A dead man seeks his murderer), is a 1962 UK-West German co-production science fiction thriller and one of my favourites.
It is utterly ridiculous, but actually manages its preposterousness quite well.
“Its the Scots brain that is under captivity”
Yes James, the colonial mindset is our biggest enemy.
As Steve Biko said:
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”
An oppressed people really need to better understand their ‘colonial condition’:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Scotland was dissolved from the 1707 treaty with England the same year it signed the treaty 1707 by the monarch of England and the parliament of England.
Scotland has been a republic Country sine 1707, with no monarch. No monarch head monarch under the crown of Scotland.
The rest is history, [ false history ] wrote down that still captures the individual minds of people in Scotland, a self made prison without bars.
Baby Braveheart says;
‘You can take away our freedom but you will never take our Benefits’
Northcode,
The point is, that England needs to back Scotland in the long standing lie and deceit surrounding the falsehood the 1707 treaty of union between Scotland and England.
Simply because when they recognise Scotland has not been in the treaty with England since 1707, then they regain their own of England and its borders and laws equal to Scotland,
It does not just release Scotland, it releases England from the outside impose laws of and treaty that came thereafter 1707.
Scotland and Englands people have to be on the same page to recognise the deceit being played on both their Countries.
England needs to wake up too.
I don’t really give a damn about whatever predicament poor old England might find itself in after the Scots Terminate the union (hoax or not, real or not).
England has been feeding, vampire-like, on the Scots for centuries with neither thought nor care about how its self-nourishment might adversely affect the Scots
Karma? Is it real? Let’s fucking hope so…
Let’s talk about war. Let’s talk about English politics. Let’s talk about baby ‘nation’ America stomping about the place having a deadly tantrum. Let’s talk about that simpleton, Trump. Let’s talk about biology. Let’s talk about cross-dressing. Let’s talk about corruption at the highest levels of Scotland’s government. Let’s talk about how terribly mismanaged Scotland is. Let’s talk about how terribly stupid the Scots are for ‘electing’ such a corrupt, witless, indolent bunch of self-serving ‘Scottish’ ministers…
Let’s talk about anything else, at all, in the universe, but the real cause of ALL of Scotland’s current woes (hint: they aren’t the fault of indigenous Scots)… the coloniZation of Scotland by England.
Decolonization… you know it makes sense – well, it does if you’re a Scot.
The people of Ireland need to realise that they are not in a treaty with Scotland if they wish to regain control of their laws and borders,
The deceit of the 1707 treaty of union over Scotland has repercussions on each of their own countries and how they are being controlled from out with today.
“The people of Ireland need to realise that they are not in a treaty with Scotland”
Yes, that’s what it says here, Scotland already put ‘out of the game’ in 1707 and Ireland about to be in 1800:
link to legislation.gov.uk.
[1.]The Parliaments of England and Ireland have agreed upon the articles following:
And whereas, in furtherance of the said resolution, both Houses of the said two Parliaments respectively have likewise agreed upon certain Articles for effectuating ….
Of course, the real poison killing Scotland as a country and the Scots as a people is colonialism.
The antidote?
Decolonization.
Irony of ironies, and she’s quite happy to use that rancorous phrase – ‘to get off Scot-free’. The world really has to be educated on this one. It has become a serious slight against the Scots. Let’s start at the beginning: Skat is Danish for tax. Skat-free, meaning tax-free became scot-free meaning that country of wastrels answerable to no one. The United nations should ban it’s use.
Wow. I hate her even more now.
Yes, Frank, the term has been misappropriated, diverted from its original meaning and used against the Scots by anti-Scots racists… the likes of Sturgeon
Origins and Key Details:
Medieval Tax: The “scot” is derived from Old English and Scandinavian (skat) terms for taxes or tavern payments, meaning “scot-free” meant avoiding a payment or fine.
No Scottish Relation: Despite the spelling, it is not related to Scotland or Scotsmen.
agentx
Well done, you saved me the trouble.
I would only add that American English pronunciation of “Scot free” is very close to the original.
There is another bogus etymology relating to a Mr Scott, formerly an American slave.
AFAIK it came fron dues (in England) called ‘escots’ or ‘escot-free’ if no due was to be paid,shortened to ‘scot-free’.
No capital ‘S’ in this ‘scot’ as it has absolutely nothing to do with the Scots or Scotland, although some folk seem to think it has – on both sides of the border.
I looked up the origin of the phrase online. It seems the origin is mediaeval and not at all to do with Scots or Scotland. in the context, “scot free” means free of tax or scot.
Scotland is ‘free of Scots’, if the oppressor ships oot 3-4 million (as they did between 1707-1970) and makes those that remain think they’re aw ‘British’. Colonial job duin.
Taking Scotlands Freedom, Taking Englands Freedom, Taking Irelands Freedom,
Under a Falsfied 1707 treaty of union with Scotland,
It seems to gone over some peoples head that the faux treaty of union in 1707, it incompasses more than one Country.
That the repercussions have ramifications to all the people of all the Countries involved of that one piece of falsified treaty in 1707.
When everyone and all those people from those Countries are under burdens, pressure and stress they are today.
It is time for all the people to to wake up, not just Scotlands people.
No 1707 treaty of union with Scotland results in no Great Britain parliament, no Great Britain parliament- no Anglo- Irish parliament, – no United Kingdom parliament, no treaties since 1707 , no EU policies or laws.
No interference from outside in our Countries.
It is much more than just Scotland that gains it Freedom.
Frank Gilloughley,
Thank you for that information, I always wondered how that phrase had come about.
James I do believe you are permanently on the Loopy Pro app.
Scottish independence set back for a decade. Job done. Good on you Nicola. Your handlers will be pleased.
Don’t forget that Sturgeon set up NICOLA STURGEON LIMITED so that she could reduce the amount of Scottish tax that she pays.
Just in case Lorncal and this site which are so focused on gender critical matters don’t mention and highlight this to help address and deal with the concerns they have…
link to isp.scot
“Don’t Forget the Urgent Government Consultation on the Schools and Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Regulations) 1967, open until March 24th, on trans provision for toilets and changing facilities (among other things), which schools must legally provide pupils. The Scottish government is trying to amend school regulations instead of just applying the Supreme Court ruling.”
And a link to the consultation.
link to gov.scot
Regardless of wether the recorded historical information has to be repeated until Scotland, England, Ireland and possibly Wales, has to be repeated time and again to the people of these nations absorb it,
The reassuring fact is that no globalist has been able to dismiss the facts from the records without themselves being dismissed as liars or word smithing events.
Then whom would listen to them in the future, as story tellers without evidence.
I’m stunned she has used the derogatory racist term “scot free” and not been picked up on that.
It is not a derogatory racist term as ‘scot free’ has zero to do with Scots or Scotland, see posts above.
Dan,
That would be the devolved government of England under English laws, Statues and legislation sent into the realm of Scotland on the matter of trans,
One the Statue and laws from whence the Scotland Act -devolved parliament in Scotland derives from is recognised, then the chaos purpose orders and actions are cleared up. Along with the root problem.
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime”
– little Nikki (she’s a devil) is doing alright. Given all the people who would be “investigating” her got their jobs from her (and she has dirt on them) – I think she should be safe.
Shame Epstein didn’t understand what a corrupt locked down rotten shop legal Scotland is : if he had setup on Arran, he would not only have gotten away with it, no one would have suspected anything.
– the cartoon The Big Yin, by malky mccormick had a character PC Owen Yirway, “nothing to see here” (Dunblane, Lockerbie, Fettesgate, noncing scandals, the ice cream wars, your pick here …), a country where there is no crime, only incidents and altercations.
And yet all this cries out to heaven for justice; I was hoping someone would come forward who had all the info (all the alphabetties names, the whatsapp messages, all the evidence from the trial, the evidence they were not allowed to lead at the trial, the spicy details of nikkis private life, the tsunami of noncing at the SNP, which is just a noncing club … ) and was so mad they were willing to go all Samson/Suicide Bomber on them all. Move to Iceland, they have free speech there, then keep uploading it all to the internet.
Nikki doing politics : “trashes the place, goes on the shite”
– harrumphs : “look at the state of this place, its trashed and full of shite … ”
in other news :
bonnie blue is bemoaning the lack of modern morals and the degenerative nature of social media
donald trump is bemoaning the failure of international law and the lack of diplomatic protocols and the reluctance of trusted NATO allies to send their navies into a shooting gallery suicide mission that even the americans won’t touch.
peter murrell is crying about the corruption and delay of our two tier justice system
one of our top tr4ctors says : “england needs to steal EVERYTHING”
link to archive.ph
it always amazes me how, it is the mantra, the dogma, the obvious truth, the basic understanding in our economy :
London, i.e. THE CITY is an ENGINE OF WEALTH CREATION, and thus London and the South East is the “Atlas holding up Britain’s SKY”
– but whenever push comes to shove and backs are up against the wall, the call is always to do one thing :
PUMP THE OIL LIKE FUCK – PUMP PUMP PUMP
but surely the oil is a very small and irrelevant part of the economy : should the city, on its own, not be able to “create more wealth” and “generate growth” ??
I was flying my drone (DJI with hasselblad camera) over Faslane yesterday …
– then this guy with a rucksack appeared and said there’s (I think he said)
an ALL YOU CAN EAT SNACKBAR
(sounds good, I’m in)
then – men with guns appeared and it got a bit bravo two zero.
someone should post bail. Or get me a decent human rights lawyer, mike mansfield, say.
I need to get home to feed my wolf-dog hybrids (one pakistani lasts them almost a week); lovely boys – they can -smell- an english, I have them trained … ANGLO! I shout, then they go into pack mode
Fat boy Patrick Grady out canvassing in the West end today.
Grok has contradicted itself and its maths is wrong. I’ll do the sums for my own curiousity when I’m in front of my proper computer but the sums are not insignificant. For instance Grok tells us that 30,000 of each payment is tax-free but does the gross-up calculation on the full amount. It should only be grossing up the 30,000. It was NIC-free back in the day but that may have changed. If so, the divisor would need adjusting.
I’d also want to test the tax rate assumptions. Don’t party leaders release their tax returns these days or was that a one-off in the interests of non-transparency?
To change the narrative for a moment an Iranian man and a c have been arrested trying to enter the Faslane naval base.
Elsewhere the British base of Deigo Garcia some 2,400 miles from Iran has come under Iranian ballistic missile attack.
Maybe no surprise when the UK is facilitating US bombing missions from both Fairford in England and Deigo Garcia whilst deploying UK boots on the ground.
And here was us all being told by Starmer that we are not involved and by Trump that the war is over with all objectives achieved.
Grimly this was not our war. But it is now as British bases and troops come under attack from an allegedohh defeated Iran.
Let us pray that the arrest of an Iranian trying to access the nuclear base at Faslane was not a prelude to an attack here.
Thats it. Back to the odious Sturgeon.
V
@ Willie, Craig Murray tweeted yesterday that the “attempt to enter” Faslane was done by the 2 people going to the entrance booth and asking if they were allowed in.
Then they were arrested.
Some mis-reporting apparently. I wonder why…
Does that sound like a plausible set of events?
Sounds like a false flag to me.
If Iran was going to hit anything that far I’d have thought navy vessels would be swimming with the fishes by now. They’re obviously a much more prized target & would crucify Trump at home. Adding further fury to the already downed $billion dollar planes.
Sounds like Yahoo & Trump is desperate to try drum up some support & scare other countries that Iran can reach that far.
I could be wrong tho. Maybe they can. Iran admits to what they’ve hit (& what they haven’t) in a statement so I guess we can only wait & see.
The two Iranians at Faslane LOL! Ruskies must be taking turns this week…
The Iranian regime has spent 47 years perfecting the art of lies. It’s what they do. Remember Baghdad Bob? During the Iraq war when he declared in public that America would be destroyed in the desert as an Abraham’s tank drove by behind him. Priceless.
When that regime says something you can bet your bottom dollar it’s a whopper!
They had hanged three young athletes in Tehran the other day. That wasn’t a lie. You see.
Who knows what the Iranian at the door of Faslane is it about.
The fog of war is all around. Was it the Iranians sending a message. Was it the Brits sending a message. We got that message before with WMD and the UK only half an hour from attack.
Of course the Iraqi WMD turned out to be a fairy story but it got El Tel to take us into the Iraqi disaster. Could it be more of the same. Could the attack on Deigo Marcia be more of the same.
Certainly if you believe the Trumpet the lightning strike decapitate and incapacitate has been a score card ripping 12 out of 10. All objectives achieved. Iran has been flattened by superior American military might.
Only thing is that it doesn’t actually seem like that. That much we can tell as drones and missiles land on Israel, Qatar, Bahrain and Dubai with the straits of Hormuz closed. That isn’t Scotch Mist spin. And it doesn’t seem like the Big Buffoon has achieved his objectives whatever he says.
But we don’t know. Maybe he is trying to drag the UK and the rest of Europe into the conflict now that the most powerful military in the World has done its bit.
Me, I just worry that the so called win is not the win and that we might be in for the long haul unless someone delivers and off ramp.
Trump for First Minister is what I say as a tongue in cheek wholly out of place comment at such a grave time. He’s half Scottish after all and queen Queen Nicola is half Svengali.And both tell lies.
Instead of watching baby Trump maybe you should educate yourself.
Iraq had emptied its war chest being a proxy for the USA against Iran. 8-9 years that went on for. USA even providing him with chemical weapons to use against the Kurds. War ended by UN intervention.
Iraq was a sitting duck. They had no army & they had no weapons. Saddam believed, foolishly, that cause he was a US proxy they’d leave him alone. He was keeping Iraqi factions in order. They didn’t. Those factions were probably funded by the USA too – they’re fond of creating terrorist cells & fake uprisings. It’s what they do to weaken a country before they storm in all “stunning & brave” & mow down defenceless civilians & a military that had already been depleted.
They did the same to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Afghanistan, some African nations, Myanmar etc. But don’t get too excited cause it’s only brown ppl all the way over there – they’ve done the exact same to the EU & the UK. Stripped out NATO to help U …or was it? I suspect they’ve stripped it for other reasons. Not just weapons & given us piles of debt but have left us with no energy security either.
It wasn’t “priceless”. It was illegal wars that had acted against the United Nations & are war crimes.
Im not even going to get into the death penalty. The USA is the world’s biggest terrorist & has executed plenty! Killed millions that were not even guilty of a crime & those they did accuse conveniently never got to see the inside of a courtroom. They’ve no moral high ground. Another countries judicial system is fuck all to do with them but they’re a parasite into everyone else’s like they’re some Saint.
Two groups to look up if you care. National Endowment for Democracy & USAID. Both organisations have rent a mob activists that are specifically designed to cause trouble, terrorist attacks, astroturf & pretendy regime change uprising so they can storm in & save the day. Trumps crew even brags about them. It gives them a foothold to charge in. They’re also in every parliament as lobby groups & NGOs usually hiding as charities to create division & destroy political parties who’d opposed their bullshit. Corbyn, Sturgeon & this TRA bullshit is a good example.
So what do you think the USAs plans for Blighty & the EU really are? I suspect it’s not good & little ol’ blighty is up shit creek. There never was any ‘Special relationship’ pish. Everyone is expendable. More so now since they’re not doing as they’re telt..
As I contemplate Ms Sturgeon and the devastation she wreaked on the independence movement from within I’m reminded of the unattributed African proverb,
” The sheep spend their life fearing the wolf, only to be finally eaten by the shepherd”.
I’m here all week, folks.
Well put, Sven.
From one midget [comparatively] horror to a vast, global one. Read Craig Murray’s blog today “Seeing Trump Clearly”.
Having read it I find it totally convincing. Trump hasn’t blundered into the military action against Iran – it has been planned, and is a continuation of Biden’s active policy.
It is terrifying.
Craig should follow Brian Berletic. YouTube: The New Atlas.
He’s been banging on for years about US foreign policy “continuity of agenda” which is hidden in plain sight for anyone to read & outlines exactly what their agenda is.
Doesn’t matter who is in power. The agenda remains the same. BlackRock even said the same when asked if they were worried about Trump being elected. “Doesn’t matter which one it is” was his reply. Which makes a total arse of elections because the rosette may change colour but the unelected arses in the background don’t. They remain the same & so does the agenda..
**First time post**
Scotland definitely better off without her. If only Alex hadn’t been quite so swift to step down after the Referendum….
I was looking at YouTube today and came across a video from The Independence Forum, here is the video link for anyone wanting to watch youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2ZWOJhuhc. You could start it at 3:00.28 which starts with Professor Aileen Mcharg Professor in Public Law and Human Rights who was clearly to me a unionist lawyer with a one sided view on the constitutional question.
If I understood this woman correctly she was saying Scotland doesn’t have any rights in law other than the section 30 order process and its only this process in which Scotland can become Independent.
I watched the event and at the end of it I thought to myself, is the woman’s opinion on the constitutional question the real reason the SNP and its leadership hasn’t delivered Independence in the last 11-12 year. Listening to her, even if the SNP won election after election and even if the SNP got in May 2026 65 MSP’s and did win an outright majority it wouldn’t lead to a referendum and even if the SNP took it to the courts they’d lose.
Scotland and its people have no rights in law we can win every election and its never going to deliver Independence its only Westminster who has any right under the union.
If you have the time you need to watch this video, because Leah Gunn Barrett makes the point about the petition ICCPR and was told by Mcharg it wouldn’t be put into law ever.
From what I heard the Gold standard wasn’t worth the paper it was written on, the section 30 order process would never be granted again and from internal and international law Scotland would never be Independent.
So basically we could all vote for ATLS, SNP or any other Pro-Indy party Scotland doesn’t exist at all and its only Westminster or the PM who has any rights on these Islands.
But don’t forget, 100%Yes, that the Claim of Right DOES still exist and is legally enforceable. We just need to take the cases to demonstrate this. After all, Charles Windsor had to swear to uphold it before he could claim [albeit falsely as he’s not yet taken the Scottish Coronation Oath] to be King of Scots.
The Claim of Right gives the people the power. The Union has been shown to be a lie – a successful lie so far but nevertheless, a lie. It has no legal basis – how could it when the Claim of Right still exists and is incompatible with England’s constitution.
What surprised me was the audience actually clapping Professor Aileen Mcharg, when she was stating clearly that Scotland had no rights to leave the UK via internal or external means, unless a Section 30 order was granted from England. So even if John won the May’s election and obtained 65 or more seats given the SNP an outright majority he wouldn’t be granted a section 30 order.
Professor Aileen Mcharg was making the point voting for John Swinney’s Independence plan and voting for the SNP in May 2026 wouldn’t bring Scotland closer to leaving the Union.
After watching this video Professor Aileen Mcharg was making the UKG position on Scotland and its position in the union clear and that Scotland no longer existed and it wasn’t a country anymore and was replaced by Britain and it wouldn’t be entitled to leave unless it was granted permission from the UK PM, which we all know would never happen.
I found all of this helpful because we had someone (Professor Aileen Mcharg) take the time and explain what we have all been searching for for the last 11yrs and that was the section 30 process was a dead duck and the SNP government has known this all this time.
Yet John Swinney is going into this election promising if he wins a majority he’ll be granted a Section order is just a outright lie because he won’t get a majority and if he did the UKG position is never to grant one because they don’t have to under UK law and even if the SNP took the UKG to court Professor Aileen Mcharg stating the SNP would lose.
So Scotland Independence hopes within the UK system is dead there is no means in which Scotland can leave from within the UK. This is why it was so important for Indy supporters to watch and listen to this video simple because if we all had a greater understanding of what is actually happening then we have a better way to deal with it. It would appear to me from listen to these our speakers that UDI and the externally route outside the UK with the claim of right was Scotland best and only hope via the UN.
So basically for those who are going to vote for the SNP 1 or both votes aren’t helping Scotland your condemning her to anther 5yrs within the union which in dire trouble.
You’re right 100% Yes – the only route to Scottish independence within the UK’s legal system is for an act of parliament to be passed at Westminster. Since all parties at Westminster apart from the SNP are opposed to Scottish independence, currently that doesn’t seem likely to happen. So there are two routes available:
a) increase political pressure on the Westminster Parliament to change their position; or
b) attempt some form of UDI.
Arguments around the claim of right have been tested in court and rejected, and the ICCPR route is also a non-starter for reasons I’ve set out previously. SNP 1&2 is simply about keeping the gravy flowing, John Swinney knows full well that Westminster won’t legislate for a Section 30 order after May regardless of the result, but he has mouths to feed in the party so he has to trot out this nonsense to keep his position safe.
Scottish Oath Taken: King Charles III took the statutory oath to uphold the Presbyterian Church of Scotland at the inaugural meeting of his Privy Council shortly after his accession. This oath was taken on September 10, 2022, witnessed by the First Minister of Scotland and the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Nature of the Oath: This oath is a requirement under the Act for the Security of the Church of Scotland (1707) and was taken at the first available opportunity, as required by law.
“So Scotland Independence hopes within the UK system is dead…”
Such hopes were never alive, such hopes were never real, … there is no path to a colonized people’s liberation, and never will be, through the alien laws of their oppressor designed to subjugate that people, designed tae haud thaim doun.
The Scots are a people whose country was invaded by a foreign power – it helps to see Scotland’s predicament more clearly to think of England as such – that would see Scots tradition, identity and culture extinguished so that its ‘charter to steal Scotland’ might have a clearer path to its objective.
Being colonised is a pouerfu sair plyte tae beir… but adopting the ways of the English and lowering oneself to be one of them would be a far worse fate in ma ain een.
Folk just have to look at those types of Scot who have sold their souls to achieve that end to see what pathetic creatures such a bargain with England makes of them.
Section 30s and the like and England’s supreme court and English laws are all suppressive tools used by Scotland’s oppressor tae haud the Scots doun.
There is no route to Scotland’s freedom from English rule using English law.
Professor Aileen Mcharg is English and a unionist (colonist if preferred… same thing)… so not much point in listening to anything she has to say if you’re a Scot.
Her ‘expert’ English legal opinion on anything to do with the Scots is suspect to say the least – utter nonsense might be a better description.
She co-wrote a book (more of a pamphlet, really) titled ‘The Scottish Independence referendum” with three other unionists – only one of which was born in Scotland, I think – and it was harder (and not only because of that awful literary style peculiar to lawyers) to read than any of that Harry Potter stuff and sold considerably fewer copies.
Mcharg is pure BLARG!
That is wrong. Scotland is a sovereign nation & there were preconditions before the Act of Union ever took place. The claim of rights.
What she is basically suggesting is that we don’t have democracy & are not entitled to it either which is not only against international law but against the UN charter.
Some human rights lawyer she is eh? She’s not a constitutional lawyer.
Even Palestine has a right to self determination FFS! We’ve recently just watched real international lawyers say exactly that at the recent court case.
Independence hosts shouldn’t bring these people on without someone equally qualified to rebut.
Edinburgh today.
The only people waving saltires these days are the ‘Right wing’ the Left have abandoned the Scottish flag for any flag or cause. Like whoring themselves out for any cause.
“Refugees welcome”
Refugees enter the country at any time and get money and shelter. I don’t think they give a toss if they’re welcome by the left or not.
At least the right wing fascists paid for their own banners.
It’s a gas!! And it definitely is not Independence!
What are the Left so afraid of?
Did I forget to mention the Tranny’s. Well shame on me.
Politicians from across the gender spectrum came together to defeat a law aimed to legitimise the killing of terminally-ill policies. Speaking with deeply held emotion, successive MSPs argued that although having no hope of any reasonable prospect of any possible future existence, the current SNP policy on a route to independence should survive.
Choking back the tears, First Minister, John Swinney, his voice trembling with feeling said, “My own policy was diagnosed many years ago as being “dead in the water”, and yet it still gets votes and is basically all the SNP has to fall back on, so we should do all that we can to ensure that fake commitments and unattainable aims are provided with palliative care before being buried forever.” He went on to say that if the SNP win a majority of seats in the May elections that he would do everything that he could to, “write a strongly-worded letter to Keir Starmer on headed notepaper asking if would be OK to hold a wee smidgen of a referendum on Scottish independence.”.
Emma Harper MSP added, “What about that greyhounds thing or is that a different debate?”.
The leader of the Conservative opposition slammed Swinney’s response stating that, “the SNP should be given a one-way ticket to Switzerland” after multiple failed attempts to apply artificial aspiration to their policies, but Anas Sarwar was more conciliatory and suggested that failed policies and failed politicians should be treated with powerful pain-numbing pharmacology to reduce the pain caused to the electorate.
In other news:
The Scottish Parliament has passed a law to ban greyhound racing in Scotland along with commercial toad-taunting, competitive gnu surfing, and the launching of toucans into space from oil rigs.
Happy anniversary tomorrow of the 1421 Battle of Bauge.
Called to assist their French allies reeling under English occupation and devastation during the Hundred Years War.
The Scots expeditionary force under the Albany Stewart Earl of Buchan alongside some French still prepared to fight met and fought the English under English heir to the throne the Duke of Clarence, brother of psychopathic English Monarch Henry V.
The victors of Agincourt met their nemesis by the Scots, being spectacularly beaten, setting back recent unchallenged English supremacy in the war.
The Duke of Clarence was slain, English Royalties succession became increasingly tenuous as a result (ultimately) leading to them in-fighting in the War of the Roses to the great glee of most of Europe watching on.
Battles were won and lost but the direction of English reverse in the Hundred Years’ War had been set leading ultimately to yet another English lost foreign war by 1453.
France remembers Scots help turning the tide, their military still play the Scots military march “hey tutti tati” which they know as the March of Robert the Bruce.
Anglocentric British history generally airbrushes out (or minimise) this major event.
Typical.
Has the £600,000 stolen by high ranking SNP officials when Sturgeon was SNP leader been found and recovered?
Have the thieves been brought to justice?
Would the Scots of old have tolerated such a theft?
Angus
Yes that just seems to have been forgotten about in the unearthing of sneaky Pete (allegedly) getting his hand caught in the sweetie jar clutching too many that weren’t his.
And that’s just the Party’s sweeties.
Looks like Tricky Nicky oversaw the ringfenced Indy war chest of £600k being spaffed against the walls on leccy bills, burner phones, train spotter SPADS, a library full of “dark romance” novels and of course French hotel rooms..
It’s long gone and none that know are talking..
( PS Not in the publics interest according to Dot breathy Bains (ahem) “delegees”)
The story so far…..
Big beautiful Lefty meltdown. I knew they would. Everybody knows this. They tried to play poker with the daddy of poker.
Loosers. Everyone of them. The coalition of the willing. Not so thrilling. Loosers and they know it.
This is bigger than the biggest bible story. I was right. You know I was right. They said I couldn’t do it and I did. Who’s sorry now. Very sad. Very sad.
We’re going to make democracy great again.
Beggars
You’ve been on Baby Trump again haven’t you? 🙂
No. whoever you are. I’m on Freedom.
Ye cannae spell. Loser
sam says:
22 March, 2026 at 7:46 am
“Ye cannae spell. Loser”
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How do you know that?
Baby Mark says
I love life. Thankyou IDF.
Does Nicola Sturgeon Tell “Frankly” Fibs About Three Political “Casualties”?
I have now read Nicola Sturgeon’s Memoir, “Frankly”, and am disappointed that she leaves out so much. One glaring omission is Mark McDonald MSP, the first Government Minister to resign after she took office in 2014 … and me! But, more later.
Nicola is planning be planning a “chunky new chapter” for the paperback “Frankly”, due to be released in August, but is she telling the truth – but ignoring omissions – about some of the realities?
MARK MCDONALD MSP
She does not even mention the unfortunate Mark McDonald MSP at all, the first Government minister casualty of her time as First Minister. I had a soft spot for young Mark whom June and I met on the occasion of the royal visit in June 2011 when the then Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, gave an evening Holyrood Palace reception for all new MSPs. That was fun! And the second time was at the SNP Group Party the following December 2011 when we ran into him again. I didn’t much like his brand of expletive-laden, stand-up comedian but he seemed to work so diligently and had a charisma that was so lacking in the other youthful, serious-minded SNP MSPs at the time.
And so it turned out to be. Alex Salmond, the First Minister, appointed him soon after as Parliamentary Liaison Officer. He served later as Parliamentary Liaison Officer for John Swinney, Deputy First Minister. After the death of SNP Chief Whip, Brian Adam, in April 2013, he was selected by the SNP to run for the Brian’s former Constituency of Aberdeen Donside. It would have been difficult to resign his “mere” Regional seat beforehand but he did so and he achieved his own constituency, although at a reduced majority. Mark worked hard and in the May 2016 Scottish Election, he recorded a largest SNP majority in Sturgeon’s victory! It was time for payback and he was rewarded with an appointment to the Scottish Government to serve as Minister for Childcare & Early Years.
All appeared fine but stories began circulating within the SNP – although I was semi-detached member of the rumour machine, always on the receiving end – about his allegedly sexual language with certain members of his female colleagues. It was about the time of “sexual misbehaviour” that was a growing concern at Westminster and, by extension, to Holyrood. Mark resigned from his ministerial position in early November 2017 with a carefully worded letter to the First Minister saying that: “It has been brought to my attention that some of my previous actions have been considered to be inappropriate … ”. What could they be? But, it was a purely SNP matter, not a Scottish Government “complaint” apparently. There was no Police involvement at all. Later that month – when he was facing suspension from the SNP with referral to the Disciplinary Committee – he resigned from the Group of SNP MSPs. Everyone piled in, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, saying he should resign his Parliamentary seat of Aberdeen Donside! They do that sort of thing. Mark continued as an independent Member of the Scottish Parliament until May 2021.
It wasn’t over for Mark McDonald. The following year, 2018, when the Parliamentary Standards Committee fined him a month’s salary as a punishment for sexual harassment by text against two women, although Mark appear to not have been furnished with evidence after “new SNP information about his behaviour came to light”. This is at the time when the SNP Scottish Government was conducting an assassination attempt on the reputation of former First Minister, Alex Salmond, later rejected by the Court of Session and High Court. How could Nicola Sturgeon not have “remembered” Mark McDonald, her first significant Government casualty of her reign in the Scottish Parliament?
In June 2021, Mark revealed that he had established a consultancy business – as many retiring MSPs do – following his departure from politics. In August 2022, he announced that he had begun working for the pressure group, Scottish Autism, as their media and policy officer.
DEREK MACKAY MSP
Nicola Sturgeon could not “forget” Derek Mackay! She affords the Derek Mackay MSP a passing mention, but of only two and a half pages in 464-page book “Frankly” in her time as First Minister of Scotland.
I first met Derek on our assessment date in June 2010, to be included as MSP candidates for the election the following year. Aged 33, he was already Leader of Renfrewshire Council and had dropped out of university at age 21 to follow a life in politics. He had also married young and had two young boys. A man in a hurry, I thought, and he was now putting himself forward to be an MSP! He gave a one-minute, hilarious presentation on a “blind topic” that he didn’t know anything about previously, delivering in a distinctive, Renfrewshire musical lilt. It was brilliant, quite the outstanding feature of the all the MSP wannabes who spoke on a “blind topic”.
The second time I met him was in his office (at my suggestion), soon after we were both elected as MSPs. Since the SNP were in control in Renfrewshire Council, did he have any tips to pass to me about Fife Council when we had joint control with the LibDems? The “problem” was not with the LibDems, who were actually more bolshy than the SNP counterparts, but with the Council Chief Executive and his senior officer corps and getting them to do what the Fife Council (the elected councillors) decided. Derek explained that, as a recently retired Council Leader, they had a regular Council “Cabinet” meeting on most Mondays, whereby any executive orders/questions were passed formally to Chief Executive and his officers … and that was it! It seemed to be simple and I couldn’t appreciate the normally garrulous, but dogmatic Derek, taking “no” for an answer from oficers! I passed my observations on Renfrewshire politician/officer relations onto my senior Fife Councillors in early course but, whether it made any difference, I leave the Fife Council observers to decide.
Derek Mackay continued to climb the greasy pole of SNP and Scottish Government politics together. He achieved Chairman (Convener) of the SNP in June 2011 and Minister of the Scottish Government for Local Government and Planning soon thereafter – for which he was eminently qualified. However, I was starting to change my mind on this “young Turk”.
Not longer after, he was elevated to SNP Chairman. He was in charge of 2011 Conference when he encountered Gerry Fisher, already nearing 80 years of age, who raised a point of order. Gerry was a member of the “Awkward Squad” who regularly made to such points of order. In fact, Nicola Sturgeon referred to him at one SNP National Assembly that I attended as “the guardian the Party’s Constitution and Rules”, humorously as I recall. Derek reprimanded Gerry several times to such an extent that the live TV feeds were cut to the television people through in the adjacent room. Not to save the Party from an embarrassing fisty-cuffs which had broken out between the floor and the chair, but the rather unseemly treatment, I thought, of the young Chairman and the elderly delegate member – who was old enough to be an SNP member before Derek was born – and seemed to be making reasonable points of order.
The second incident was just after the Derek Mackay had achieved ministerial status and he was entitled to the official driver to drive him home near Paisley from Holyrood duties. He came into the bar of the Macdonald Holyrood Hotel one evening as he must have been staying overnight in Edinburgh. His sole conversation that I do recall, was how the driver drove so slowly homeward! Being among SNP MSPs, I volunteered that he must been observing the speed limits but Derek was having none of it as “he was driving so slowly!” I shudder to think what the conversation would be like between the official driver and the minister.
The last time I met Derek Mackay was as Chairman/Convener of the SNP during 2012, when I was suspended from the Party. He phoned me on my home land-line on Saturday, 24 March 2012 to enquire whether it would be possible to “deliver a Complaint against me” the following day, a Sunday. As planned. he turned up at my house (in his own car!) at 12 noon the next day. He presented me with a bound volume dated yesterday, entitled “Disciplinary Committee” and “Complaint”, plus six referenced sections, signed twice in a computer facsimile, by the National Secretary, William Henderson (whom I’ve never met before).
My wife, June, provided us with cups of tea/coffee and left us alone while I scanned through the bound volume. “This is rubbish!” I said. “It has nothing to do with my completing the Candidate Application form for which I had provided information about uncontested, divorce proceedings against me by two former wives in 1970 and 1986”, I protested. (I had to take divorce proceedings against my third former wife in 1990s.)
Derek was flummoxed and said: “It’s powerful stuff”, changing the subject. I said: “That’s got nothing to do with my filling in the form improperly”. Derek changed complete tack, saying:
“Of course, there is one way out of this disciplinary procedure. You could resign immediately (my emphasis) from the Party (and the SNP Group of MSPs), having never received that letter issued from the National Secretary, and that would be the end of it! The Party HQ would not be taking any further action against you and you could stay an independent Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dunfermline.”
I was incensed as the Party HQ had received a malevolent, written Armstrong Complaint against me in February 2008 but completely failed to disclose that to me until after I had become an MSP in September 2011! Nevertheless, I asked if I could think about overnight and he agreed. After less than 45 minutes he left – not the joining an “SNP council of war”, as described in the Sunday Herald as I thought – but a return journey to his home in Paisley with his family for “domestic duties” he told me!
I discussed Derek’s proposal for rest of the day with June. I had been an SNP member for 38 continuous years since 1974 and would not give up with a fight! At the time there was no chance I would resign my Holyrood seat which I had served – and enjoyed – as a councillor and an MSP since 2007. I slept on it and consulted my Constituency personal assistant (PA) and my solicitor the following day. The SNP HQ had been particularly treacherous to me; having received the complaint against me in February 2008 and failed to disclose it to me, let me going through the complete, successful vetting process in 2010 and miserably failed to support me as an MSP, despite having been told my written defence against the Armstrong accusations rather belatedly – through no fault of my own.
I decided to fight against my suspension and expulsion from SNP. Derek had provided me with his private mobile number (and I still have that note!) and I called in the late afternoon. He was remarkably magnanimous when I told him that I would not accept his “offer of voluntary resignation” from the Party but would fight the case raised by the National Secretary. The ball was then rolling for an appearance in front on the Disciplinary Committee.
What then happened to Derek Mackay? He “came out” as a homosexual in 2013 and separated from his wife and two young boys soon thereafter. So much for my “domestic duties”! Nevertheless, Derek achieved, by a series of promotions, the status of Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Economy and Fair Work by 2018. The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, mentions him first on page 357 on “Frankly”, and allegedly pretended she did not know anything of his indiscretions or predilections up to 2020. It came as ”a bolt out of the blue”, she said. I, for one, don’t believe her.
The evening before Derek was due to announce his budget on 06 Feb 2020, the First Minister was advised by a tabloid newspaper that they had uncovered social media messages of about 350 texts going back to six months ago, between her 43-year-old Finance Secretary and a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, originated by the older man (whom he called the schoolboy “really cute”). Given the age difference and power imbalance between them, plus the impropriety of it all, Nicola did not fire him on the spot when they met. Instead, she called the redoubtable and impressive Kate Forbes, his Deputy and the Public Finance Minister, to tell her she should be prepared to give the budget statement in the morning! On page 357 she “admired his courage” when he separated from his ex-wife and two young sons but, according to the First Minister, Kate was “very concerned about him” but “she remained admirably calm”. In my opinion, they should have reserved their concerns for his abandonment of his young wife and their two sons (according to Nicola, “Derek had come out as gay relatively late in life” at 36 years old), plus the pestering he was doing of the young schoolboy. (At one year younger, he, Derek Mackay, would have appeared as a paedophile – as some jurisdictions, e.g. in the USA and some European countries provide.) According to Nicola, “I had received and accepted Derek’s resignation (from the Finance Secretary’s position) within the hour”, although the Scottish Government had told the newpaper that it demands “full evidence” and “justification” for intruding into Mr Mackay’s private life(!).
What was Derek’s “punishment” for bringing the Scottish Government into such disrepute? He was immediately suspended by the SNP and a “disciplinary investigation”, including “my mental health and serving my constituents” launched, before he “resigned” from the SNP on 20 March 2020. An SNP spokesperson said that “the resignation of Derek Mackay had brought the matter to a close” – a familiar route that Derek had once suggested to me in 2012!
However, there was a positive financial sting in tail as far as Derek was concerned. Because he was still an MSP – and the SNP didn’t make much about it – he was still able to continue until May 2021, more in a year in advance, although he didn’t attend the Holyrood Parliament once at the time. He got £80,000 gross for that. Also, he was awarded a “resettlement grant” of more than £65,000 (£30,000 tax-free), £11,945 severance-style payment for leaving his ministerial post, Edinburgh flat accommodation costs of £5,000 and miscellaneous “office expenses” of around £12,000. All taxpayer-paid, of course, and not bad for “resettling” a 43-year-old. Nicola doesn’t mention this in her Memoir, possibly because she’s been milking the system dry since April 2023 and she’ll get a giant-sized resettlement grant etc – of six figures proportions – when she eventually “retires” from the Glasgow Constituency after May 2026.
BILL WALKER MSP
You’ve guessed it – there is no mention of me in “Frankly”! Modesty aside, not only was I suspended from the SNP, but later resigned my MSP Constituency seat of Dunfermline in 2013, the pinnacle of my later life. This was during the Deputy Leadership of Nicola Sturgeon but no mention of this fact in the book. She and her husband Peter Murrell, the Chief Executive of the Party at the time, played a major part of my Dunfermline resignation. I have read that Nicola is planning a “chunky new chapter” for the paperback “Frankly”, due to be published in August. Among the fiction, may I suggest she addresses the following realities?
• I have read a lot about Nicola, including two previous biographies by the writer (not the MSP) David Torrance (“Nicola Sturgeon: A Political Life”) published in 2015, and by Ian Mitchell (“Nicola Sturgeon, Vol 1: The Years of Ascent”) in 2022. She also earns a mention in the seminal, last work by that great Nationalist Gordon Wilson (“Scotland: The Battle for Independence – A History of the Scottish National Party 1990-2014”) published in 2014. These three authors mention me in their writings but never Nicola Sturgeon! Is it because it is too “embarrassing”, as David Torrance states, or is it because she is trying to cover up two monumental blunders she made in 2008? On 27 Feb 2008, Robin Armstrong came into her Constituency Office to complain about Cllr Bill Walker, recently elected to Fife Council. Nicola wasn’t there (allegedly) and he met Mhairi Hunter – a long-time SNP compadre, former election agent, future Glasgow councillor and currently constituency office manager of Nicola. Mhairi wrote a report to Peter Murrell that the very day about my “marital misdemeanours” against my two former wives. It is a pity that it took almost four years for the SNP HQ to admit that an allegedly serious complaint had been disclosed to me by Ian McCann in 2011, the Corporate Governance and Compliance Manager. Didn’t Nicola Sturgeon and Mhairi Hunter “chat to each other” in the Constituency Office and, worse still, didn’t Nicola deserve to be told about the serious complaint that had been received by Peter Murrell about Bill Walker, recently elected to Fife Council? Did not Nicola and Peter share such stories, even “pillow talk”, between themselves? After all, they have been living together for the best part of ten years.
• If I had known beforehand, I certainly would have taken legal action against the “complainer”, Robin Armstrong, and would not have stood, successfully as it happens in 2011, as an MSP in Dunfermline. Such is the “black arts” practised by SNP HQ! Yet, I invited the “SNP golden couple”, Nicola and Peter, to be our guests-of-honour at our Dunfermline SNP Branch in our grand Burns Supper in 2012. Not a word was said about the Armstrong Complaint to me by either of these, including the morning of the event itself, when Nicola texted me to tell me she had been fighting a “head cold all week – and it was getting worse!” On reflection, I should have known that she was trying to get out of it, due to media explosion was about to take place a month later but I was only thinking of the catastrophe that was happening to the Branch Burns Supper. She seemed to have, in fact, recovered on the evening itself with Nicola posing for many “selfies”, including the infamous one with me, with her hand round my neck, as published on my blog! The evening went “swimmingly well” as Peter Murrell reminded me the next day in an email: “We both enjoyed it!!” – as recorded in Volume 2 of my own Memoirs. Strange that it is not recorded in “Frankly”.
• The next time I ever spoke to Peter Murrell was a few weeks later on 03 Mar 2012. To recap, I had an afternoon meeting with Cabinet Member, Bruce Crawford MSP, in my Dunfermline Constituency Office, about the Sunday Herald which it intending publishing the next day. The meeting went well and he asked me when I would be that evening. I replied “at home” and, rather naively, I thought it would be the SNP rebutting the story that the Sunday Herald was proposing to run! When he, Peter Murrell, an employee on the Party, phoned me at 8:30pm at my home to tell me that that I was being suspended immediately (by the National Secretary whom I had never met) and was being referred to Disciplinary Committee at once – something unheard of in the case of Mark McDonald MSP and Derek Mackay MSP as above. Peter Murrell had read the report about the “Armstrong Complaint” almost four years ago, but not sent a copy on to me, or otherwise informed me, leaving me in the dark for years. The Sunday Herald article appeared next day on 04 Mar 2012.
• To compound it, Nicola tried to cover it up, after the BBC TV News ran an interview story when Robin Armstrong came into her Constituency Office, by claiming later that in 2012 Mhairi Hunter had decided that it was a “Party matter” in 2008 (not a Council nor later Parliamentary topic) and contacted SNP HQ directly, via Peter Murrell (her husband) and it wasn’t anything to do with her, Nicola! Amazingly, neither Mhairi nor Peter mentioner the “complaint” at all to her. It strains credulity to the limit. Of course, as a political colleague said at the time: “The male members of the mainstream media (MSM) were in love with Nicola, so preferred to hear her dulcet, apparently credible tones forever, rather than be exposed as a liar!”
• Between 2020 and 2022, I made a formal “Subject Access Request”(SAR) to the SNP HQ under “Freedom of Information”(FoI) legislation to check whether the SNP HQ had the personal SNP information I had in various files. This was to be included in Volume 2 (and the future Volume 3) of my Trilogy. This involved Peter Murrell, Ian McCann and the SNP Data Protection Officer, Scott Martin, a qualified solicitor. When I was speaking to Scott Martin in January 2021 he confessed that he “was clearing out the files, going back to Alex Salmond was a suspended member of the shorted-lived 79 Group” … in 1979! I don’t have a note of whom told him to do the shredding. When he had asked me what information that I wished, I said “everything which concerns me!” After a few weeks, I received a “response” from the SNP which consisted of few receipts when I had contributed to the SNP over the years but no information of my MSP vetting, a copy of the Armstrong Complaint (and my replies to Ian McCann), my Expulsion, appearance in front the Disciplinary Committee etc. Apparently, Scott had made all the personal information “disappear”! I had to bear in mind that I was up against the most powerful couple in Scotland – Nicola Sturgeon, SNP Leader and First Minister of Scotland, and her husband, Peter Murrell, Chief Executive of the governing party, the SNP. It was time to bring in the “big guns”.
• That seemed to work. I contacted a couple of legally-qualified, Scottish MPs, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office(ICO) and three case officers. Amazingly, the SNP eventually produced a bigger dossier of over 130 pages on 16 Dec 2021! There was none of the material I had requested, cited in the previously paragraph (which I had copies of anyway), but additional “interesting” material on the how the hierarchy had “investigated” the Armstrong Complaint in 2008 and more recently tried to cover it up! Scott Martin declared in a covering letter that the Party did not my “hold” any further information about me. The SNP document shredder must have been working overtime. I reported the “missing material” to the ICO who wrote to the SNP on the 25 Feb 2022, in terms of the SAR did not satisfy them, that:
“It is our view that further work is necessary.”
It wasn’t until 06 Jun 2022 that I was advised by the ICO, that the Party, through the SNP Data Protection Officer, Scott Martin, officially admitted that it did not hold [further] “electronic copies” and that further “paper documentation did not exist” about my case. I thanked the ICO (and his case officers) and was pleasantly to receive an ICO email which formally stated:
“However, be assured that the case will remain on our systems, and should regulatory action be considered in the future against the SNP, your case may from part of the intelligence against them.”
I was happy at that as the ICO, in my opinion, had noted the deviousness and evasion of the SNP under Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell.
May I suggest that Nicola Sturgeon might be planning a “chunky new chapter” for the paperback “Frankly”, due to be published in August, but is she telling the truth – but ignoring omissions – about some of the realities above? Over to you, Nicola!
Truth is to Sturgeon what intelligence is to Trump.
That comment. Or was it a rant. No one knows. I never read it but it proves that AI is analy retentive. Well that’s a plus.
Meanwhile back at the desert. The Death Cult gets it’s comupence.
“William George Walker (SNP politician)
A case was brought against Walker and was heard at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on nine days over a two-week period and adjourned on 2 August 2013.[8] On 22 August 2013, Walker was convicted of 23 charges of assault and one breach of the peace in relation to three ex-wives and a stepdaughter.
On 20 September 2013, he was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Edinburgh Sheriff Court. When sentencing him, Sheriff Kathrine Mackie said “Having regard to the gravity of these offences as a result of the cumulative effect of them, your extreme denial and complete absence of any remorse, and the assessment of risk, I have come to the conclusion that a custodial sentence is the only appropriate disposal. In my opinion, the repeated abuse and violent behaviour towards your three former wives and stepdaughter over a period of 28 years outweighs other factors.”
Within a few weeks, lawyers acting on his behalf appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh to appeal against a custodial sentence and this was quickly dismissed.
He was released from HM Prison Dumfries on 21 March 2014 under automatic early release rules after serving half of his sentence.[16] On 17 April 2014 his appeal against his conviction was turned down.”
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For information.
Bill Walker comment, I reckon, has over 4040 words!
Is this a record for a Wings post?
Blue blue windows behind the stars.
Yellow moon on the rise.
Big Missiles flying across the sky.
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us
Helpless, helpless, helpless
Baby can you hear me now…
An alien spacecraft from another world did not crash land in America’s Area 51.
The Illuminati is not a sinister organisation that, according to Dan Brown, secretly rules the world.
And Donald (tae thick tae be a real Scot) Trump is not an evil genius as Craig Murray suggests.
Murray proposes, in an intelligent and persuasive article titled “Seeing Trump Clearly” posted on his blog, that Trump is a lot smarter than he pretends.
I, however, propose the opposite… that Trump is actually a lot thicker than he pretends.
What the world sees in Trump’s public persona of hyper-stupid is, Craig Murray posits, a cunning pretence designed to lead folk to the conclusion that Trump is a lot smarter than his current public displays of immense stupidity would have us all think he is and that his apparent thickery is an act to hide his evil geniusness.
My proposition, in contrast to Murray’s, is that Trump is really far, far, far less intelligent than his public acts of ultra-dumbness would have the peoples of Earth believe.
Trump is not an evil genius. He is, however, a genius evil.
For if God is infinite intelligence then Satan (being God’s opposite) must be infinite stupid… and Trump must be Abaddon.
Abaddon… the fallen angel of the abyss who is Satan’s right hand – even his biblical name holds Trump’s within it – is Trump in its Earthly form.
Trump, then, is Abaddon incarnate; a malevolent evil spirit charged by Satan to destroy humankind using the faersome and terrifying power of infinite stupidity.
The devil, through AbadDon, now sits on the highest seat of humanity’s power… God help us all, for the Trump of doom is upon us and humankind faces its extinction at the hands of Abaddon under the gleeful eye of Satan.
Guid mornyng aw… a howp ye aw hae a nice Sunday day theday.
And when the Lefty’s were thrown down into hell. They cried!
” Lord forgive us we didny Ken”
And the Lord said.
“Ye Ken noo”.
Amen.
Aidan, I couldn’t post to you above as there was no reply option. Reading between the lines the SNP leadership/SG has been following Professor Aileen Mcharg doctrine on the union as gospel as the only means in which Scotland can leave with out looking at other options to Independence. She mentioned ICCPR when Leah Gunn Barrett brought it up and instantly demised it entirely and that the Westminster wouldn’t implement it either because like Leah Gunn Barrett said it gave power to the people and took it away from Westminster, well the powers that be don’t want that.
Honestly I can’t emphasises enough how this even was interesting because I gain from it that SNP and Scottish government was entirely taken in by this Professor’s Aileen Mcharg doctrine on the constitutional question and because of this the SNP has been useless in any other route other than a section 30 process. Professor Aileen Mcharg Professor emphasises that the plan put forward by Swinney on Independence wouldn’t achieve anything that the SNP was wasting its time this is the same opinion that Wings and others have made.
What is interesting was how many people who claim to want Independence are running about with their ears covered and their eye’s closed.
If your opposition are arguing there points you need to listen in order to combat it.
Scotland position has been put clearly the people have no right to leave the union unless a section 30 order is given and there is nothing in UK law that says if a country wants to leave it has to be given the right to leave so if Wales, NI or Scotland wants to leave its down to the PM granting it, even if NI wanted a border poll it down to the PM granting it even though its state they can have one every seven years, it isn’t worth the paper it been written on.
Scotland is entirely FREE to leave only if its granted by the PM @ Westminster.
Professor Aileen Mcharg, her words spoke volumes to a certain point after all she was making the UK position clear.
What options are open to Scotland was also made clear it was time to take a different route and to simple defy the UK position and start the war of Independence all over again except this time it wouldn’t be on the battle field it would be at the UN and the external courts and this is what SNP and Scottish government should be putting in it manifesto.
even if NI wanted a border poll it down to the PM granting it even though its state they can have one every seven years, it isn’t worth the paper it been written on.
That’s not the case. The 1998 Belfast / Good Friday Agreement and the Northern Ireland Act 1998 imposes a legal duty on the Secretary of State for Ireland to hold a border poll on reunification if it appears likely that the majority of the population of Northern Ireland would vote in favour.
The criteria were left deliberately ambiguous, but it is widely thought that a series of polls showing unambiguous support, or victories in elections for parties supporting a border poll and standing on such a platform which represented a majority of voters, would make it illegal for the Secretary of State NOT to hold such a poll.
The Northern Irish are at least in a better position than the Scots in that respect.
link to commonslibrary.parliament.uk
Yes, Andy.
The majority of people in Ireland (south of border), around 66% favour reunification. Their wishes are likely to be frustrated for a long time, certainly not before the next GE in 2029 in UK and Ireland A Clarity Bill is needed (and wanted by Alliance in NI) for both all Ireland and Scotland and certain to be resisted by UK government.
“Scotland is entirely FREE to leave only if its granted by the PM @ Westminster”.
That being the case London will make sure that there will NEVER ever be a PM who is a SCOT, just make doubly sure that another Referendum on Scottish Independence will never be considered less granted !
So there is your British Democracy and British sense of fair play, it’s shite being Scottish !
“That being the case London will make sure that there will NEVER ever be a PM who is a SCOT”
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Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh and Gordon Brown was born in Giffnock. Both were PMs since devolution.
Agentx
JBG clearly means forthwith.
Anyway; Teflon Tone survived so long as he made himself more English than the English themselves, and while I declare no sympathy for the arch ("Quizmaster" - Ed)- the Broontosaurus- he never became (like many) a PM by standing at a GE, was hated by the Engerlush as “that Scots git” and made the long walk following their failure to support him at his one and only PM GE sitting.
Try listening to the points people are trying to make eh?
“Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh and Gordon Brown was born in Giffnock”
So that makes three centuries of colonial oppression alright then?
As an ‘agent’ you shoud ken colonialism ‘is always a co-operative venture’ (Fanon) wi native elites, tribal/clan leaders, and witch doctors (e.g. Church o Scotland Meenisters, like Broon’s faither).
Plenty of Scots heid bummers and ‘pampered bourgeoisie’ among the ‘parcel o rogues’ aye selling us natives oot for their wee privileges, like hersel the verra subject of this article.
Whit did ye think Holyrood’s budget was for if no the ‘wages of colonialism’ tae keep the colonial racket an status quo goin.
Aye, Alf.
They didn’t serve under a Scottish political party. They served under the colonisers & not one of them opened their gobs to stand up for us being robbed blind.
Agent x
Westminster is rigged to never have a Scottish political party in charge. Same as Wales & NI. There won’t ever be a Scottish PM.
The overlord always wins. We’re outvoted at every opportunity too. Even if we ((Scotland, Wales & NI) all clubbed together we’d still be outvoted which makes the entire Westminster project a farce & isn’t democratic, far less the mother of all parliaments.
The English just couldn’t contain their contempt for Scotland in 2015. Insult after insult towards Scots in their maiden speeches. Inc that vile knt, Lucy Frazer, with selling Scots back to the colonies as slaves where they belong. How any self respecting Scot can be a naw voter is beyond me. They despise us. I used to watch parly TV until I started throwing cushions at the telly. The contempt just oozes out of them every single day. Entitled bastards.
The Labour party should be shunned just as equally as the Tories are and run out of Scotland.
They’ve been the biggest knts at every opportunity. From denying us our vote in ’79, counting the dead as a No voter (WTF?) hiding the oil wealth while they kept Scotland in absolute squalor, keeping £billions in the London treasury ’cause we couldn’t think what to spend it on’ tae trying to saddle us with lifetime debts with PFI, tae 2014 & getting intae bed with the Tories to shit all over Scotland.
George Galloway, maybe the only person to show the Labour supporters who want Independence that voting for the SNP is a wasted vote.
I for one aren’t a lover of George but I welcome anyone who has a strong voice and supports the cause, we need it.
Could Sturgeon be a plagiarist?
The quote “If everything is a scandal, nothing is.” is attributed to Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Donny boy’s maw.
Sturgeon changed it a bit to avoid the AI plagiarist police, but not by much when she said “If everything is a scandal or an outrage, nothing is, which means that those who deserve to be held to account get off scot free (yes, we know this expression relates to a medieval tax and not the Scottish people)”.
Who would have thought that noble Sturgeon could sink to such plagiaristic levels?
And her a brilliant author hersel tae.
I think Donny boy’s maw’s quoted sentiment is utter nonsense, by the way… sounds good if you’re a scandal prone high society sponger, though.
Mark Beggan @ 09.49.
Twinkle, Twinkle, little star.
I don’t wonder what you are.
I surmised your spot in space
When you left the (Iranian) missile base.
Any thinking that I do
Centres on the cost of you.
Ans I shudder when I think
What you’re costing them per twink !
Brilliant Sven!
why?
link to telegraph.co.uk
– surely the city, being the engine of wealth creation, can solve all problems via the free market and e.g. writing some derivatives contracts
then the english can eat them, or burn them for heating
it almost implies that it is energy, not “money” that is the thing that really counts, the capstone which holds the whole edifice together.
the tory bastards are still going nuts about it
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oil – is the base to the whole fucking christmas tree – and “the innovation of the city” and “the taxes of the south east” are fuckall to do with it
and this takes us back to jim rogers and that old youtube clip where he calmly explains the realities of forex markets (not controlled by britain) to a silly english woman who shits herself into a desperate “cope” the likes of which I have rarely seen; jim says “what has england” (that it can sell to the world)? i.e. nuthin, and so if the pound (scotland with its own currency) drops from 1.30USD down to 0.80SD – that is a loss of what? 40% of its value …
– it is not iranian missiles you need to fear
– it is not even all the muslamics who are now openly organising in public
England becomes bankrupt, it imports 40% of its food; the smart money gets out, then you have a failed state, IMF bailouts, and the whole thing just falls apart. We have been lulled into a false sense of safety – that “free markets” and “smart, just in time” logistics will always work; when it doesn’t, yer fucked. 2 things primarily lead to state collapse – lack of food (people get on the streets) – and if you can no longer pay your police and soldiers – otherwise no one will be there to keep order. Bear in mind, if you want your cops/soldiers to obey you at the crunch, you need to pay them in foreign currency, likely dollars (and where do you get that). In this scenario, collapse of order, it is likely large swathes of the midlands would setup their own mini states – ah – multiculturalism, the gift that keeps on giving. Just make sure you pay the “jizyah” if you visit.
This – existential threat – is why the 2014 referendum was rigged via the postal vote; they couldn’t take the chance, they knew as my granny would put it “yer arse is oot the windae” if they lost. So why take the chance? This is a “defence of the realm” issue – fuck the Scots, they were bought and paid for 300 years ago.
What we need is a revolution & a spot of regime change.
Forget Ayatollahs – we’ve got the fckn parasitic English who told us it was worthless shit. Look at them all scramble since their wee gig in the GCC went offline.
I wonder who’ll spark up the bombers & come save us? Tories are nasty animals & not nice ppl either, Don J…
Trump’s adventure in the Niddle East is likely to lead to a humanitarian disaster there and a more repressive regime interested only in the survival of the rulers.
They passed that point with a Jenny side.
Issy doesn’t work alone. Everything needs American approval. His BS he’s telling Yahoo not to be naughty is just insulting to everyone else’s intelligence. It’s an insult to Iran too who isn’t stupid & knows exactly where missiles are launched & what countries are assisting. I see the UK is put on notice. Their pretence is up too. They warned even before this kicked off that they’d reciprocate, including to those who assist.
He is conducting war crimes & illegally invaded a Sovereign nation. Time to use that well worn “They’ve a right to defend themselves” only this time it’d be true.
Meanwhile, Trillions of $ down the toilet on this wee excursion.
You’ll notice also how they’re staying away from the phrase ‘weapons of mass destruction’, WMD. They just say atomic bomb, like it’s something different. They’re all rats, every one of them.
The hour of doom is at hand for the Iranian people. Their chance to free themselves from a terror not seen in Europe since the Third Reich.
Who, the doped-up out of control trigger-happy half trained conscript IDF?
They’ll kill anything on 2 legs, four legs and if it can’t walk then just wheel it in..
Sicko cheerleader..
Iran has responded to Trumps rant with ultimatums of their own. I’ll raise ye with five of oors..
They weren’t shouty tho.
I think that’s a bust. They’re not holding back. Shareholders assets are next.. OUCH!
Ex PM of Qatar has issued a warning to Gulf states too. Don’t declare war on Iran. Here’s how it will go :
USA will immediately fuck off, arm both sides, send in some factions/mercenaries & let you all kill each other, then they’ll return to clean up the spoils with Yahoo.
There’s a man that knows how this always goes down.
As for WMD. White P is being used against Leb. The media aren’t mentioning that. The war crimes are just mounting up by the second..
Just where is Hatey?
I see death now stalks the w3st b8nk..
What’s the bets ol’ Hatey is over there on “ kibbutz vacation” shouting on the lynch mob from the back..
Wheesht YL! – It might hear you and return to make me scroll on by ad nauseam.
I posted a video from The Independence Forum, here is the video link again, if you haven’t watched the video I suggest you do so youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2ZWOJhuhc. You could start it at 3:00.28 which starts with Professor Aileen Mcharg Professor.
Lets just say there is no other route to Independence and that the section 30 order is the only route, just to see how many option Swinney could take to secure that section order please feel free to add if I’ve missed any out.
I would say there is five nationalist on these Ireland’s and three possible four would want the UK to break up England, Scotland, Wales and NI and of course you have the British nationalist who keep us all together.
1 The SNP could join forces with England, Wales, NI nationalist and unite under one party like ATLS has done with one goal to end the union by winning a Westminster election outright.
2 The SNP could join forces with these other nations and write to the PM demanding to know what the process for a nation to leave the UK including England, because I believe its a question that been ask of for four PM and not one has given a answer.
3 If the SNP win May’s election the party could try and force the UK hand with the threat of UDI.
4 The SNP hasn’t and we all know why but it could put its full backing behind Salvo and try and persuade these other nations to follow a similar route at the UN.
5 We are told we aren’t a colony well lets prove to the world we are, the SNP could refuse to work three days of the week and attend Holyrood but do not work and their Councillors could refuse to conduct council business, either forcing the UK to grant a section 30 order closing Holyrood down.
6 The SNP could close the border between England and Scotland with a mass protest of people what ever happens it has to be people power.
7 The SNP could have work with other parties and formulated a plan for May election to win a out right majority which would have had more effect that the SNP just winning.
Professor Aileen Mcharg Professor doctrine was that Westminster held the sovereignty over all these lands and its people, if that was true Charles would be king of Scotland and wouldn’t need to swear a oath to the claim of right.
I have no idea why the membership of the SNP aren’t seeking action of any kind which the SNP leadership and SG isn’t prepared to do. But I know one thing crying wolf on Independence isn’t going to wash with the general public much longer and I got a feeling the SNP membership is heading in that direction as well.
What about building tunnels. Lots and lots of tunnels.
The SNP & it’s membership have been completely captured. There is zero point in hoping for a road to Damascus conversion. Sturgeon & Robertson systematically removed all democratic leavers within the party too so the membership can’t change even if they wanted too.
I can’t even describe them as devolutionists either. We seen that years ago when Ash Denim was running for Leadership. She put Indy right there on the table for the taking & the fckwits chose the “continuity” (to carry on & do nothing) candidate instead = dumbza. Meanwhile, every SNP MSP was running around the media telling everyone they weren’t even prepared for more devolution! That right there tells you they’d done fck all with numerous mandates, in both parliaments, even if WM had offered them some crumbs last minute to take a plebiscite off the agenda.
The Greens /SNP have USA “National Endowment for Democracy” & USAID all over it. An activist group that are deployed to fck up & destroyed political parties, force regime change, astroturf, join/front lobby groups & NGOs usually as pretendy Human Rights charities. The TRA debacle is a classic example of it in action. So are those Unelected’American’ parasites that infested the SNP. Derailing Indy with TRA & tagging the EU onto an Indy vote.
That so called lawyer you refer to seems to be another one. What she’s basically saying is everyone has democracy, but not you, Scotland. You’ve to beg your Overlords even tho yer a Sovereign Nation in a voluntary union by consent. Which even the Supreme court didn’t even dare say. The opposite. The ballot box holds legal authority.
Scotland can’t legislate in Holyrood. It’s an English outpost. They have zero authority what happens outside of it. A section 30 is dead. It’s been dead for years. Even Angus B McNeil told us that years ago when he tabled plan B & was booed at conference for his efforts. The membership was even captured way back then because this was also the time they thwarted ever effort for advancing indy.
SNP & Greens have to be removed. There is no other cure. Sturgeon destroyed the party from outwith & within. Scotland has to concentrate on winning a majority of Westminster seats under a new independence manifesto. That’s the only recognised seat of power. Sturgeon also allowed Holyrood to be stripped of powers. It’s not the same administration as what Alex had. It’s basically now a talking shop of the most fckd up policies they can think of cause they’ve now got too much time on their hands.
Nothing wrong with putting up candidates for Holyrood but it’s an administration & section 30 is dead as a dodo there. A majority at Westminster is the only recognised vote that carries any weight.
People need to stop trying to revive the SNP. They don’t want revived. They’re comfy where they are. Stuffed full of yoon careerists who’d rather invent shite like pardoning Witches fae centuries ago than actually get on with what they were elected to do.
A question for Alf with his maritime hat on, I thought ships sailed on merrily in fog only to discover on Saturday while willing them to sail on , that they don’t. I was trapped , quite happily, on Arran for a night because of fog on the Clyde.
I was high above it and the sun shone all day but my wee ferry left a large number of folk in disarray.Got off the island the following morning but not without a plethora of amber warnings from Calmac.
Should anyone be thinking of travelling there , I understand the Caledonian Isles not only doesn’t like fog but it also has a wee technical problem with its port engine!So I think that means Troon departures only and not the very handy Ardrossan .
It was obvious from day one she wasn’t interested in Scottish independence ; the number of Sturgeionites who hassled me because I said so was to be expected – I knew it would take 10 years to get rid of her.
Fog should not necessarily prevent a sailing. Modern ships have excellent navigation systems, they can tell what is around them. Speed can be reduced where necessary. Its not as if the Scottish firths are busy either, after being sold by Westminster to offshore/foreign private equity funds whose high charges and lack of investment has chased much of the shipping away from Clyde, Forth and Tay. Which also helps explain Scotland’s lack of international trade.
“A £3m funding pledge for a Scottish port comes with hopes that a new ferry service to France will set sail soon, the Scottish Secretary has said.
Douglas Alexander said the investment in Rosyth from the UK’s Growth Mission Fund would see plans for a direct ferry service between Scotland and France take a “big step forward”.
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I notice you didn’t comment on this from the previous topic.
“investment in Rosyth from the UK’s Growth Mission Fund”
London governments sold Scotland’s public utilities including port monopolies for peanuts based on the specific argument that private owners would be responsible for all investment in future.
What we find is the opposite, crumbling utilities infrastructure and where investment only happens when public money is put in, which directly benefits the private/foreign owners of Scotland’s former public utilities.
Its the same with the Clyde where City Deals has put money into offshore privately owned Clydeport’s pocket and we are also paying excessive amounts of money to them to buy back an obsolete investment-starved Ardrossan which we used to own.
Wesminster’s offshore private equity funds who were handed Scotland’s former utilities rub their haunds an laugh at Scots.
Yoon Troll X; “A £3m funding pledge…”
LOL.
‘Here’s some crumbs, Jock’
“London governments sold Scotland’s public utilities including port monopolies for peanuts based on the specific argument that private owners would be responsible for all investment in future.”
Exactly. This con is used for everything. Privatise everything – it’ll be bigger, better, more efficient, upgraded tae world class standards & it’ll create loads of jobs.
After privatisation.
Aye, right, gies money out the public purse & we’ll have a wee think about it fae ooor tax haven in the Bahamas. If ye don’t stump up it’ll just go to rack & ruin.
Scotland wouldn’t need peanuts from the English piggy bank if we were independent. We’re a wealthy country. We’d could fund this ourselves outright without some poxy fund offered to use by the thieves. We’d be in a position to offer that shit deal to them instead. With interest of course.
“Alf Baird says:
20 March, 2026 at 9:11 am
My preference would be for Scotland to reduce dependence on England’s supply chain and develop the direct ferry link to the continent. I worked/led on that project from 1995-2000 in EU funded research to identify and select an operator……”
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Has your position now changed because there is a £3m funding pledge for a Scottish port from the UK Gov?
“Has your position now changed”
Nothing of any significance can change in a colony until it becomes independent and in charge of its own affairs. Until then Scotland and the Scots will aye be made ‘dependent’ on England.
As much as it pains me to say this, I am inclined to agree with James here. This feels like a pre-election headline grabber to help Anas Sawar (who I cannot imagine is very popular in No.10 at the moment) avoid a total catastrophe in May. The money will go to some consultants to come up with a very large number to restart the service (after May ofc) at which point it’ll be no ya cannae.
It is sometimes extremely difficult to gauge how stupid some people really are , but time and time again they actually expose and highlight that stupidity
Is it really that difficult for the hard of thinking Scotland hating proud Scots buts amongst us to do a wee bit of research and realise that we are and have been lied to day and daily for 300+years by LIARS and THIEVES not only in the neighbouring country but also by the quis lings and trai tors residing here
If only these fuckwits would STOP for a minute and think that the incompetence and corruption that they complain about daily going on in Scotland is merely a shadow and a small reflective mirror of what is taking place in WM that they hold up as an example of goodness
It is frustrating that they don’t want better for their families and their children’s future, that they actually believe that THIS uk governance is the best that they can hope for, everyone commenting on this blog wants a better future for their families they also know that that better future will not come from the SCUM in WM or HR, yet their ignorance and stupidity forces them to defend the incompetence and corruption of WM whilst exposing and deriding the incompetence and corruption of HR
Are you too stupid to realise WE should ALL be on the same side
Thanks Alf!
The Caledonian Isles is a bit elderly much like me!
First I wash my clothes. Then I dry them. Then I do the irony.
Re Iran war . Poor wee stupid Norway is laughing all the way to the Sassanach Offshore Tax Haven Banks. The Norwegian hospitals are filling up with broken ribs so hysterical has been the laughter from them.
Thanks Alf!
The Caledonian Isles is a bit elderly much like me!
Speaking of irony , apparently the Minister for War in the US of A said ,”The problem with Iran is it spends money on weapons and missiles instead of improving life for their people”
Also , allegedly , Trump has thrown him under a bus and blamed him for the war – unfortunately it is a metaphorical bus not a nice big yellow one!
Surely the book advance would not be immediate income, but would have been handled in am much more tax sensitive way.
Hey…
You’ve got to hide yer love away…
Groovy whit
Scotland’s calling.
Cheers. REV.
Backbench.