Wings Over Scotland

What Luigi said….

The eject button will be pressed soon, who next will seize the poison chalice of “Labour” “leadership”, in Scotland?

She’s her father’s daughter alright ..

Excellent.

Kezia is definitely an asset, but to which side!?

And with scowls like that, you know they are really all Tories underneath the red paint!

Haha excellent cartoon. I do think even Kezia might laugh at that.

I can see the ‘news’ headlines now ‘Labour leadership fiasco – Sturgeon must answer’, OR as the illiterate and hatred filled English Daily Express might put it ”Battered’ Sturgeon, ‘KICKED in teeth’ over button ‘FAILURE’ misery’.

I keep saying this, but this week’s cartoon is one of the best.

Good old Daphne Broon.Dont you just love her.

Parliamentary Channel

Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee – Chairman (Sir) Edward Mountain Unelected Tory Multimillionaire milking the public purse. In politics to line their pockets and their associates. The unelected Unionist/Greens on the take. Abusing public money. Against the majority wishes and the public interest.

A public disgrace. Cheek doesn’t come into it. Totally non democratic.

Farming now railways. The Unionists on the take. Taking the piss.

Aberdeen/Inverness rail line goes through Mountain’s ‘small’? farm?

Ken 500: You may be accused of making a molehill out of a Mountain, Ken.
Cairns, but for the fact that you favour an Independent Scotland, you would have had Dead Tree Scroll proprietors beating a path to your door.
An excellent take on Buttongate.

All the old labour stalwarts are slowly but surely being brought out of the detox clinics and re installed in their privilidged positions. Over the last few weeks the EBC, STV MSM have been giving them oxygen of media exposure. Magrit Curran, Tom Watson, Ian (stab) Davidson + all the unelected MSPs etc. To restart the SLAB expense train, for the benefit of the daft jocks. Dim Jim will make an appearance soon to start edging his way into Kezias position. SLAB is on its way back now we have seen their new improved “dream team”. Watch this space, they haven’t gone away you know. This all achieved with the connivance of Westminster yoons of all persuasions.

Unelected Unionists using the Committee system to score party political points. Totally wasting public time and money. They are a total disgrace, A complete and utter useless disgrace. They would do anything to hamper progress in Scotland. They haven’t a clue what they are speaking about. So out of touch it is appalling. Hypocrites.

Nothing highlights the importance of leadership more than when it is missing!

ATTENTION,Nana’s links are on the last thread.

Peace Always

“yesindyref2 says:
She’s her father’s daughter alright ..”

Don’t think so – her father is a well known SNP supporter and member!!

Nice one 🙂

For one hour the other night there, the media and Scottish Labour banded together and literally hissed at the SNP over the voting result. A result whose failure for the Unionists, lay at the hands (…or finger) of a Unionist …but, WHOA!!! Let’s get one thing straight …it was the SNP’s fault!!

The BBC article that initially reported it was sulky, provocative and accusative and Scottish Labour weren’t much better. They just couldn’t hold their hands up and admit that Kezia had made an honest mistake (for that might be all it was!)

Even the BBC’s wording was glossed over. It stated ‘But when it came to the final decision, the vote was tied at 63 all – with Ms Dugdale apparently not voting. The presiding officer then used his casting vote to back the government’. And who is the presiding officer? None other than Ken Macintosh, Labour MSP for West Scotland.

But rather than the BBC wondering why Ken, a former Labour MSP had not only decided to vote WITH the SNP (as according to the BBC), but in doing so, defeated the Tory amendment all by himself, it was better instead to not only focus on Kezia’s distress, but look accusingly at the SNP and begin the insinuation game.

James Kelly in a giant huff, stated ‘Every Scottish Labour MSP voted against the government today’, while Iain Gray decided to just ignore the facts altogether when he said that Ms Dugdale had cast a vote and that it had apparently registered with the system.

Well …no, it hadn’t. And all the stamping of feet in frustration won’t change that fact.

No technical fault has been found, and anyone working in IT will tell you that a faulty system will be tested at least half a dozen times to see if the fault can be re-created. I would bet a month’s wages that the IT staff in the aftermath stood at Kezia’s console and pressed whatever that was supposedly ‘faulty’ a good dozen times while others at the main console and the presiding officers desks watched lights go on and off successfully. Simply put …no fault has been found.

Almost as soon as the accusatory story broke, it died a death within the hour. Why? Because there was no fault and the mistake actually lay with Kezia. She either

(1) Did not believe in the Tory amendment and therefore abstained
(2) Did not press her button firmly enough to vote
(3) Was not paying attention and thus missed the moment to vote
(4) Quietly agreed with the SNP proposals but still abstained.

And since then …tumbleweed. Nada. Hee-haw! If this had been one of the main SNP Cabinet members (let alone Nicola Sturgeon), this story would have ran and ran.

But instead, the BBC and Scottish Labour have taken the big cream puff and gone off to sulk in the corner. And Kezia …not a peep. In fact, she’s vanished again …just like she did after the Brexit result. This is a woman you just know, should not be allowed anywhere near the levers of power …let alone a voting button at her desk.

Pushing it !

Great cartoon Chris.

Would anyone actually be surprised if that happened again ?

Nae, nor would I.

Morgatron,

Not so much Daphne Broon, more the Bairn. Like the Bairn, she is always getting things arse for elbow, doesn’t check her facts/sources, has everyone running to see what she’s talking about and then rolling about the floor pissing themselves with laughter.

A typical Bairn Kez example would be, “Quick Ma and Pa, Granpa’s having a fight”. They all run to Granpa’s with coats tails flying to find Grandpa in the Cludgie reading the Sunday Post with his troosers at his knees and bog roll sitting next to his feet. They say, “Ho Ho Kezia, Granpa’s no haeing a FIGHT, Grandpa’s haeing a SHITE”.

Baby Kez replies, “Opps” and they all laugh at her. True story, (probably).

Stephen.

Good front page story in The National this morning.

link to thenational.scot

Amazingly this is not covered in the local Edinburgh papers and yet another reason to support The National.

Cole-Hamilton is a chancer and Lib Dems who hounded Michele Thomson and attacked her throughout Cole Hamilton’s election campaign do not apply the same standards as they demand of others.

@X-Sticks

Hi mate, I knew Ken had ‘resigned’ from his party once he became Presiding Officer (PO) hence my stating of the ‘former’ part in my dialogue above.

But although the PO does not take part in any debate or vote, and that they only do so when it come to tie breaks, you are definitely right when you state that the convention is that the speaker casts the tie-breaking vote in favour of the status quo.

The convention states that it is expected, but it is not sacrosanct. Ken could have, if he wished (though as you rightly state, would have led to serious growls from the SNP benches), voted with the amendment if it was that serious. After all, the media used to look upon Tricia Marwick with suspicion simply because she was a former SNP MSP. Everytime she chastised a non-SNP member, the media at times reported it as though the SNP were determined to have the final word in heated parliamentary debates.

Now we have a former Labour MSP as PO, but rather than state Ken’s name or his previous affiliation, the BBC instead glossed over it with ‘the presiding officer then used his casting vote to back the government’. Call me paranoid LOL, but the BBC article did skirt around the overall subject matter, and it did leave an accusatory tone aimed at the SNP, even though Kezia screwed up, the final word came from a former Labour MSP and that no fault was found at all with any of the systems.

Anyway …enjoy the weekend mate! Hope all is well.

Nice one, Chris.
Your crowd scene turned out just great. It would have been nice to see the crowd filled out with former SLAB leaders, just for old times sake.

If JC wins the election today and Kez gets hoofed at least she can look forward to the panto season where she will be a shoo-in for the role of Buttons.

Is that Richard Nixon at back row second from right? Kezia’s “shining” nightmare.

Poor lassie, only value she has is comedic value.

Those who vote for her must have loyalty, but loyalty to what?

To see Ian Gray being used by Kezia to validate she voted, that must be a new low for any Scottish politician.

To those in labour who wish the best for Scotland, come and join the independence camp.

Labour’s attack between now and next May will be on Council underfunding and Tony Blair’s lapdog Brian Wilson leading the charge in to-day’s Hootsman.

link to archive.is

With 127 MSP’s in the chamber Thursday Morning, I was wondering who the odd man out was? After all, not including the PO of course there should be 128 MSP’s in the chamber, not 127. So step forward Douglas Ross, Highlands and Islands Regional MSP and Moray Councillor.

Where was he, in his sickbed perchance? attending a family funeral? at his wife’s side as she gives birth? Nope to all. He was, wait for it…….at a World Cup Referee Training Course in Switzerland where he is expected to earn around £40,000 from his “Extra Curricular Activities”.

Step forward with an explanation Ruthie?…..tumbleweed and silence…

Stephen.

Cracking cartoon

With Kezia no longer leader of the opposition, I think she may have been distracted by her ‘SNP bad’ colouring in book.

Kezia really ought to just chuck it, and she won’t get a better opportunity than today.

At least she’d be able to resign as a matter of ‘principle’, but that doesn’t seem to count for much these days anyway. She’ll be remembered, if at all, for Buttongate.

Jockanese Wind Talker:

I owe you an apology I was posting to Liz g this morning on the last thread and was referring to yourself as Japanese W.t.
Sorry about that I wasn’t too bright this morning.

Peace Always

@ bugsbunny reply on last thread 🙂

Maybe we should send her some chocolate buttons as a consolation prize instead?

Stephen.

Heh heh! Autonomy of a blunder.

Great cartoon Chris. Says it all.

I wonder who will accept the “poisoned chalice” of leader of the monotonous, autonomous Labour Party in Scotland, when Kez stands down?

Maybe she was day dreaming about her latest biography of her old pal George Foulkes, titled “Diary of a Nobody?”

I suppose it’s better than George’s booklet on toilet etiquette on how not to miss the pan, written under his pseudonym I. P. Squint.

Stephen.

On what could be Holyrood Barbie’s last day in the job, rancid The Graun puts the UKOK boot in SNP wise, again. Did anyone NOT know, all the UK press hate the SNP yet?

link to archive.is

UK bust you Scotland, don’t even think of running your own economy.

The controversy’s better for Kez at least more folk will be talking about her instead of ignoring her so it might well have been deliberate…. poor soul, more than half the country doesn’t know or care who she is, they think she’s Jeremy Corbyns Nanny in England

Anyway, (spoken in very slow motion) Alex Rowley’s got his chib ready for between Kez’s shoulder blades anytime now

Defo agree with the Ken McIntosh bit, everybody chose to ignore that one

Anybody noticed the FM gets called just “Sturgeon” a lot now while Ruth Davidson gets her full moniker as does Kezia Dugdale or even warmly, “Kez” that might just be because folk feel sorry for her though I suppose, like the little lonely kid at the back nobody plays with

Its getting exciting! 5 minutes to go. If a red tory coup like this one is “bickering,” well maybe bickering means something very different to red tory yoonsters like Dr NO!

Scott Arthur ?@DrScottThinks 4h4 hours ago
Yes, the bickering stops at 11:45am

Burnham urges MPs to “engage constructively” with whoever becomes leader:

HandandShrimp

You mean the KGB?

Thanks Mike C at 9:56

Picked up another link of interest from the same site:

link to euractiv.com

EU summit in Malta post Brexit.

Come on Scottish Government movers and shakers, that’s the kind of thing we want to happening here. Wee Malta’s quicker off the mark.

Super cartoon Chris. Poor Kez the pressure must have gotten to her. Did her finger slip or did Anas sabotage the button. Questions questions

Well she’s under pressure now
61.8% Corbyn
38.2% Smith

Bugsbunny 10.43

Buttongate was funny enough –

but to learn they wouldn’t have needed her vote if all the tories had been present just adds extra laughter.

I wonder if the opposition worked out that his vote wouldn’t be needed, and he could go on his lucrative training course.

Tee Hee!

Je suis Duncan.

Duncan Hothersall Retweeted
David Clater ?@SpawnofJustice 18h18 hours ago Edinburgh, Scotland
It isn’t the PLP. It isn’t MSM. It isn’t the “coup”. It isn’t MI5. Or Blairites. Or aliens. It’s Corbyn. Corbyn.

Heedtracker posted this guardian piece..
link to archive.is

My God, that ‘illustation’ by Matt Kenyon is a Primary 7 – ‘learning to use Paint’effort. Wonder how much the Guardian payed him for it.

Kezia Dugdale on Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election as Leader.
TWITTER:-
“Congratulations to Jeremy. We must all now harness the energy and enthusiasm of our movement into real change for people”.

She must be feeling kinda sick——-her man lost.

Well, well, well.

link to twitter.com

Oh dear looks like Kez may have chosen the wrong button [candidate]

link to twitter.com

It is going to be interesting to see what Kez and Ian do after politics.

link to labourlist.org

End of Kez era approaches but probably not. JC’s not the messiah sadly. Ulitimately, JC’s win is another catastrophic failure for our relentlessly ghaaaaaaaaaastly tory BBC, who will as usual, pretend to be mere reporters.

News UK News Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn says Tony Blair should be tried for war crimes
23:08, 4 AUG 2015
BY MIKEY SMITH
The Labour leadership frontrunner says the former Prime Minister should “deal with the consequences” of an “illegal war”

Aye, it’s been a nightmare week for Buttons.

Don’t worry, Buttons. It can only get worse. 🙂

Aye Mumsyhugs,

It makes you wonder what exactly Kez learned during that expensive trip to the states:

How not to push buttons?

Dipity Dug has more faces than a Swiss Watch Factory!

Congratulations the man I hoped to put out of leadership
as I don’t agree with his policies. Can I keep my job? lol

On the topic of Switzerland, a Tory MSP had the choice to put his country and party first, or his own personal finances and his more important job.
Who can be surprised that money always comes first with the Tories. More a Swizz than a Swiss miss!

O/T Read someone’s Daily Hail today, but missed out checking that SNP are bad on every page, to read the Emma Cowing Column.
She is a bright star in blatant anti-Scottish Establishment, and finds the most random drivel to write about with great regularity.

Today we have our Bard, Rabbie Burns, who it seems wrote poetry for the middle classes and not the working classes? (That will be the end of his career then Emma) lol

Another stoater is the stupidity of the council refusing to allow a Burger Van to set pitch next to the Kelpie Horses in Falkirk. It seems we ungrateful Scots are going to starve the tourists who have travel to visit the Kelpies

You can just hear an English family discussing the benefits of seeing this magnificent piece of art, but delaying any decision until they can confirm the presence of a Burger Van????

Sorry Emma, Scotland must pay more attention to these vital historical and economical guidelines that a silly wee lassie has laid down before an inferior nation. NOT!

Louise Ellman, Liverpool MP, is unhappy with the Corbyn re-election. She feels that the result is corrupt and will be fighting the decision.

Looks like that Red Tory MPs still have a hand on the self destruct button while Kez isnae worth a Button.

If Labour insist on wasting £180 Billion on Trident, could they put Kez in charge of Button pressing? lol

Her actions could explain why she does so badly on the door step.She only thinks she pressed the door bell Button

@Capella

Aye I heard a wee bit of Riddoch on GMS earlier not singing the praises of Shortbread coverage.

All murder,fitba and polis she says, time to get the finger oot!

I must agree, Auntie Scotland’s coverage is akin to the ‘penny dreadfuls’ of bygone days.

…that’ll be ‘won’. Naturally,

@Heather McLean
Yeah, that’s what I mean!

Kezia says…a bit like Simon says… but really it’s Jeremy says!

link to archive.is

Jim Murphy ?@GlasgowMurphy Sep 1
I believe in Labour as a party of government. We can’t win by sacking the voters but we can by changing leader. Today I voted for Owen Smith

And lo, it can came to pass.

What’s his idiot side kick Macternan saying

John McTernan ?@johnmcternan 1h1 hour ago
John McTernan Retweeted Carl Dinnen
It is Corbyn’s way. He lies about MPs knowing that they will be trolled on Twitter

Red tory hatrick? His Blairness cant be arsed saying anything on Twitter. He RT’s on Syria a lot, very noble obliges but its a horrifying fact that red tories Labour under these guys, caused all the middle east civil wars, and then they destroyed the Labour party too. And that’s just the start of a catastrophic red tory list. But then they do rage away at how they won 3 elections, what have you ever done etc, via BBC tory gimps. Its all we’ll hear for the next decade.

Blair McDougall Retweeted
Alan Roden ?@AlanRoden 5h5 hours ago
Happy 30th birthday to my brilliant colleague @HigginsKieron. Nice quiet day for it..

Pack up your troubles Kez

link to indyref2.scot

Kezia backed the wrong horse during the race, but now the race is over and the winner declared, she is now going to back him instead. Meets with the BBC to read her scripted interview.

Meanwhile 172 Labour MPs, who would like to see Jeremy Corbyn rest in peace, have yet to give their response to the result.
The PR is about the Labour Family re-gathering and making peace/wiping the slate clean, after the summer war between the members and the MPs/NEC, but as most people will know, peace after war is often merely a ceasefire. Actual peace is a very different proposition.
Labour now has a socialist Leader and a socialist majority of nearly 2:1 among the members, and a neo-liberal/tory parliamentary group plus supporters.
Peace? I’ll believe it when I see it.

Buttongate is pretty funny but it’s really just a symptom of the more general incompetence within the Labour party – and these are the people who would lead us!

Owen Smith won in Scotland with 58% of the votes, so Kezia’s support not out of tune with the Scottish branch.

Probably because Labour in Scotland consists of right wing members, the left wing having departed to the SNZp.

Kezia says that Labour can win under Corbyn

Kezia is either planning to administer a full lobotomy to all of us or she thinks we have the memory capacity of carp.

Whether Jeremy can win is moot but that is not what Kezia believes.

Someone was missing from the Scottish Parliament vote on Thursday – Douglas Ross, Tory MSP, who was abroad with the SFA.
I thought the arithmetic was one short. Poor Kezia might have been saved the embarrassment if the Tories were held to account.
Andy Wightman tweeted this Daily Record article:

link to archive.is

Re the missing tory in the Buttongate affair.

link to archive.is

You’ve got to love that quote at the end – even if he never made it to Westminster.

“Moray needs more than a machine politician representing us in Westminster. Douglas would probably be a Whip’s nightmare, but he will be an excellent MP for Moray.”

Thomas,

What was she say to her now?

Stephen.

And lo, a new dawn of peace and consensus blossomed in the Labour party.

Blair McDougall ?@blairmcdougall 2m2 minutes ago
Blair McDougall Retweeted Blair McDougall
A fundamental contradiction in the space of about 10 words.Blair McDougall added,
Blair McDougall @blairmcdougall
Paul Mason’s strategy: Scotland is key to Labour recovery across UK so Labour should stop sending MPs to House of Commons. Genius

annie says:
24 September, 2016 at 4:06 pm
@heedtracker, He thinks it makes him sound intelligent, he works for the Times don’t you know.

Times ain’t what it used to be. Blue tory Yoon insults need to at least make sense but existential nationalist is not exactly hurtful.

Scans of though. My next placard at the YES rally

“I am the very model of an existential nationalist…”

I am the very model of existential nationalist,
I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;a
I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I’m teeming with a lot o’ news, (bothered for a rhyme)
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I’m very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a existential nationalist.

Wiki:D

Capella says:

Someone was missing from the Scottish Parliament vote on Thursday – Douglas Ross, Tory MSP, who was abroad with the SFA.
I thought the arithmetic was one short. Poor Kezia might have been saved the embarrassment if the Tories were held to account.

Oh Dear, Ruthie probably did do the voting arithmetic in advance but was not expecting Dugdale to miss the button. The cunning yoon plan fell apart the moment Buttons missed her cue. Yet again both blue and red tories make themselves look stupid. The Buffalo Rider will be raging. 🙂

Bloody hilarious, Chris.

I was having a rather unproductive and depressing day. Then you made me laugh until my sides hurt.

@ Luigi
Nicola can’t help it if she’s lucky!

Not that we should feel pity for her, but how on earth can Kezia get up in the SP next for FMQs, or anything else?

It’s just ludicrous – she really has to go.

It’s all well and good Jeremy Corbyn being magnanimous to Labour MP’s, when he has just won a vote, but more to the point, does the result improve things for Labour?

The truly fundamental issue that has been at stake throughout is simply this, Corbyn is guilty of the most cack-handed p*ss poor management of a political party. Policy issues are something that ALL political parties sometimes disagree on, but a good leader exhibiting GOOD management practice, finds a way around such issues, whilst causing as little upset and dissent as possible.

From day one, Corbyn and his ‘henchman’ John McDonnell, have set about being as divisive and stubborn as possible. They saw the Corbyn selection first time around, as an opportunity to give blairite MP’s a (to use the Labour party phrase) ‘doing’. That was his trouble. It wasn’t about policy or indeed any other substantive matter, it was about Corbyn, his momentum allies and nefarious ‘supporters’ who had just joined the bandwagon that were at fault.

That is why Corbyn is simply not fit to be Labour party leader. It isn’t because of his policies, it isn’t because he is a bit of a leftie (or whatever), it is simply because he has not from day one behaved anything like a leader. Petty grievances from the distant past dug up, and stirred, merely it would seem to cause discomfort for the existing Labour MP’s.

In industry he would be sacked for gross incompetence as a manager.

Fundamentally, you can say what you like about the membership voting, but at the end of the day, if a political party leader cannot or in Corbyn’s case, WILL not, try to find ways to work, and reach agreement with their MP’s, then they have failed. It does not matter one jot how ‘engaged’ your membership is. It does not even matter how big the mandate is you have from those members. If you simply cannot gain the support of your MP’s, then you may as well go home. Westminster, to put it bluntly, is quite literally about bums on seats, and that means MP’s. Without MP’s you can have the most amazing wonderful enormous radical left wing political membership ever seen, but you can NEVER enact a single policy as you cannot form a Government. It is to use the vernacular, stating the bl***y obvious.

At its most basic level, it is not about policies, it is about bad management by Corbyn, and he and McDonnell, have indulged in the most petty minded ‘student type grievance’ politics since day one. Of course some other MP’s have done the same, that is true, but they are not party leader – a VERY fundamental difference.

As such I cannot see how Corbyn’s election today will help Labour. Corbyn (and McDonnell) comes across as grievance personified, bitter at the years of ‘new Labour’ and blairism, hanging on to Labour in hope of a radical socialist revival.

Corbyn is a source of division, and has been from day one. He will never unite the Labour party, indeed I think things are just about to get even worse, since he still refuses to condemn brexit – missing an open goal, since half the UK voted against it. He is simply not Prime Minister material, and that at the end of the day is the test he must pass, for Labour to form a Government.

Aye, the Labour party, I could almost envisage re-writing the Monty Python parrot sketch, replacing the word parrot or Norwegian blue with Labour party. The Labour party really isn’t just resting, it actually is dead. That is how bad it is.

Meanwhile, the Tories still have complete freedom to carry on privatising the English health service, removing England and Wales from the EU and shafting Scotland in true Tory style.

Robert Louis ….I think I have for the first time on wings (bar trolls), ever read anything in which I didn’t agree with one single word.

O/T,

We often get told how much the Scottish deficit is, or the Welsh deficit or indeed, the UK deficit, but does anybody know how much the actual English deficit is? I assume it can be calculated?

Not that we should feel pity for her, but how on earth can Kezia get up in the SP next for FMQs, or anything else?

It’s just ludicrous – she really has to go.

It all begs questions like, what exactly was their judgement in going after JC like they did.

Red tories like Kez and Ian Murray MP all piled on the JC bad campaign but at no point did JC even look like losing. Kez even promoted Murray into some silly non but anti JC job, after he stuck the knife in.

Could red tory Scotland have been taken in by the sheer power and glory the get Corbyn tory BBC led media campaign? BBC gimps especially seemed confident they could get JC but when they kicked off that insane antisemite stuff, you could see they were as desperate as they were in that last 2 week Scottish ref 1 run in, of shrieking tory BBC Project Fear hysteria.

Idiocy doesn’t come close to whatever Kez and Ian were up to.

Robert Louis

No such thing exists as England is not a unitary state. It is not calculated and even if it were it would be mere guesswork. Exactly like the Scottish deficit except the Scottish one is definitely a thing, a black hole no less…

@ mumsyhugs – Oh I hope she stays too. But what a pickle SLAB are in now. I’ve lost count of how many leaders they’ve had. Now she’s backed the wrong horse and is staring Local Election defeat in the face next May (I hope).

Former Labour voters might have been tempted to go back to Labour with Corbyn’s victory. But knowing that the SLAB membership are right wing Blairites will kybosh that.

Mirrror says that an exit poll shows women backed Corbyn by a “landslide”. So much for all the bullying hype in the MSM.

link to archive.is

Presumably the England deficit

is the UK deficit

minus the Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland deficits.

Or is there a deficit in my thinking?

@heedtracker –

‘It all begs questions like, what exactly was their judgement in going after JC like they did.’

Maybe we’ll never find out for sure, but the simplest explanation is maybe the best – that Corbyn is serious about getting Blair’s baws in a mangle and is not squeamish abut turning the big handle.

If Blair ends up in the Hague he’ll make sure he’s not alone, and even those exonerated by Chilcot will be bricking it e.g. Alistair Campbell.

Who knows? It’ll all come out in political memoirs, but most of us will be dead by then.

🙁

As mentioned before: In the Hootsman.
Looks like both sides of the unionist coin were a dollar short!

Tory MSP slammed for missing Holyrood vote for Zurich trip

link to archive.is

Oh my goodness, these tories are bonkers

link to holyrood.com

@Nana
Just read that on Twitter. I actually find it quite sinister. Why would May take time out for this given everything on her plate?

Why does she name our biggest assets? I wonder if it’s a threat. I personally think these assets are being lined up for use as negotiating chips, under the guise of making Brexit a great deal.

Then when the jocks object, we are the nasty ones condemning Brexit, and not playing the game.

There are chess pieces being moved here. You don’t make a point of seeking out this conduit, without ulterior motive.

@Nana
Yes, May’s off her bonk. Scotland voted 62% Remain.

So I think I’ve worked out Labour’s timetable for the next 4 years.

Nov 2016 – Labour’s NEC (?) decides frontbenchers should be elected
Dec 2016 – nominations for frontbenchers opened
Mar 2017 – elections for frontbenchers
May 2017 – frontbenchers resign
Jun 1017 – nominations for leadership election opened
Jul 2017 – NEC decides Corbyn can restand as leader candidate
Sep 2017 – Corbyn re-elected
Nov 2017 – repeat

yawn

Hamish 100 @ 5.41

I thought the Corbyn supporters in the pub looked pretty glum.

The hall where the result was announced was not exactly brimming with people either.

I felt sorry for Ms Dugdale. She looked on the verge of tears.