Kirsty Blackman’s Genitals
Some of you still won’t have seen them, er, we mean “this”:
While it may have been the funniest – and Joanna Cherry silently spoke for every sane person in the nation as it went on – remarkably it wasn’t even the stupidest or most offensive part of her speech to yesterday’s Parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall about the definition of “sex” in the Equality Act.
It wasn’t very long but like Blackman herself it packed an awful lot of crazy into a small space, so let’s put on our tinfoil hats and lead body armour and walk through it.
Literally every human on Earth is a “potential predator”. Being trans does not make you magically “safe”. The very limited evidence available suggests that if anything the reverse is true – which is logical because not knowing what sex you are is a mental illness and mentally-ill people are very broadly more likely to have other anti-social characteristics which can often result in criminal behaviour – though it’s not conclusive.
But it CERTAINLY isn’t true that being trans in any way impedes your being a “potential predator”. Predators don’t wear t-shirts or badges saying “HELLO, I’M A PREDATOR”, and some of them hide in plain sight. Handing out free all-areas passes, no questions asked, is a generally bad idea.
Blackman then proceeded to provide those assembled or watching on live TV with a list of words she plainly doesn’t understand the meanings of.
The word “ordinary” is not judgemental. It does not imply any sort of superiority over that which is not ordinary. It simply means “that which is commonplace or standard”.
The 2021 census suggests that just 0.5% of people in the UK fit under any definition of “trans”. That is quite plainly NOT commonplace or standard. In fact it’s the literal exact opposite of commonplace or standard – it’s rare and unusual.
That doesn’t mean it’s bad. But it does mean it’s definitely not ordinary.
Kirsty Blackman is a woman married to a man with whom she has two children. Since she provides us with no reason for her “immense” frustration at people describing this as “straight”, it’s unclear what point she was attempting to make.
But Blackman later implied on Twitter that she’s “queer”:
As far as Wings is able to ascertain, that word now means “has slightly unconventional hair”, in which case we’d like to bravely (and stunningly) “come out” and announce that we ourselves were deeply queer for most of our 20s and 30s.
Next up came the bit you’ve seen in the video:
Wings Over Scotland can EXCLUSIVELY REVEAL to Kirsty Blackman that she does in fact have XX chromosomes, not XY. This fact was witnessed by experienced medical professionals who twice observed as babies came out of her womb via her vagina, body parts not possessed by people with XY chromosomes.
As for the definition of biological sex, it is in fact fairly straightforward. All the pertinent and necessary information is contained in the three paragraphs below:
It would be simple to include them in the text of any revised Equality Act.
The reason the room was full of “cis” people is that being trans is rare and unusual, so there are very few trans MPs. (In fact only one claims to be, and he didn’t turn up.)
We found this anecdote filed under “Didn’t happen”. But even if it did, “gatekeeping” in this context is simply another word for “safeguarding”.
Humans gatekeep all the time. We gatekeep the doors of our own homes with locks and keys. We gatekeep cinemas so people can’t walk in without paying. We gatekeep pubs so that eight-year-olds can’t stroll up to the bar unaccompanied and order a few pints of Stella. And we gatekeep single-sex spaces so that they only contain people of one sex, because otherwise they cease to be single-sex spaces, and the vast majority of people want them to stay that way.
Keen observers of transactivist politicians will be wondering if it wasn’t time to play the suicide card by now, and of course it was.
At this point Joanna Cherry exasperatedly rolled her eyes towards the heavens, like the weary parent of a tantruming toddler who’s heard “GIVE ME WHAT I WANT OR I’LL KILL MYSELF!” one too many times.
But thankfully we were nearly done.
But nobody is trying to exclude trans people from public life. Trans people are explicitly protected by the Equality Act and not one living soul is attempting to remove those protections. Nobody is trying to stop them from going shopping.
All they’re asking is that trans-identifying males don’t go around showing their penises to women who don’t want to see them (nobody cares where trans-identifying females pee, because men are not afraid of having women in their toilets).
And while Kirsty Blackman may only have a “fair idea” of what her own genitals look like, far too many women are all too well acquainted with the appearance of men’s that they never wished to see, and wish that Kirsty Blackman cared about them as much as she apparently cares about the penises.
Dear lord! The level of stupidity and the pride with which it is displayed is quite incredible. ( am I allowed to use the word ‘pride’?)
Nobody says all trans people are predators any more than all men are predators . But, for the few who are women have their safe spaces and men respect that. Trans people however demand to infringe on these rights and that’s a line that must be defended .
The hair man…..the hair 🙂
There are lies, damned lies, and whatever Kirsty Blackman said there! By definition, since the daft bissum has been delivered of two children, she clearly is, was, and will always be female. That doesn’t mean to say that people without external genitalia who haven’t had children aren’t female (almost all of them are), but she is in an ideal position to say so with no doubt. (For more, have a look at link to realityslaststand.com)
I genuinely don’t understand women who go along with this nonsense. Is she just incredibly stupid? I’m struggling to think of an alternative explanation but no one is that thick surely?
She gets £86,584 per annum. Plus expenses, subsidised meals, booze, accomodation, travel, free jollies overseas.
An honest person couldn’t do what she does.
I suppose talking about trans issues saves her from talking about other issues that she doesn’t have the first clue about.
Blackman once looked vaguely normal, then a bit dyke-ish, then full on.
Trans is the new elect; a cabal now runs things, and its internal behaviour like that of a cult.
Fanatical loyalty is expected; you need to actively demonstrate your credentials, and if this means talking absolute shite in public, then so what? – that she knows it is nonsense is part of the thing, she knows, but she still obeys.
Absolutism is a feature of modern life; this oldstyle “agree on some things, disagree on others” is gone – nowadays you get all your beliefs in a package, and you have to “eat everything on the plate” – so it is Biden, uk-raine, pride, trans, queer, abortion, pornography, mass immigration, NATO, corporations as long as they have the rainbow, and there is no a la carte, picking and choosing, no nuance, no working things out yourself from logic and first principles – and anyone who fails in this, even slightly, is cast out by these “tolerant” people.
Jobs are handed out, not on merit (racist) or competence (white supremacy) but on who scored highest on the diversity questionaire, with highest victim privilege, or who simply is closest to the power centre.
How much are we betting that this expose will result in a complete transformation in all political and public circles and acceptance of biological reality?
This woman is quite clearly bonkers.
Oh for the love of God! Please, someone tell me her seat’s on a knife-edge.
Just shows the standard of argument on the trans side. Absolutely pathetic
As chance would have it I just finished the Netflix documentary on Savile last night. It was ‘good’ but didn’t even scratch the surface of what that bastard did.
If this airhead hasn’t seen it then perhaps she should, then think twice about ever again opening her gub on the subject.
She managed to offend just about everyone – calling someone a ‘cis’ man or woman is every bit as offensive as ‘misgendering’ her pals or using the wrong pronouns.
The idea that we’ve been paying for this surly child and her gibberish for years and – worse – that anyone believes she represents ordinary Scots, is boak-inducing.
On the upside, cheers Rev for the best blogpost title ever.
It will live in the memory long after she’s taken the rest of her body out of the public eye.
😉
“Queer” is just the new word for “totally boring conformist who goes along with every new trend and fad, esp if backed by authority and the biggest bullies”. It’s not even a sub-culture because the vast amount of materialist shit that goes along with it – bags, T-shrts, flags, pens and anything else you want rainbow branded – can be bought in Ikea, Asda and everywhere else on the high street, or found in McDonald’s happy meals. It’s an entirely corporate, state and government backed trend, at a time our states and governments are the most far right, oppressive and divisive as they have ever been.
In short, the entire queer “brand” is becoming a kind of fascist – state and corporate together usually is – bullying. And its key targets, as always, are women, children, LGB people, elderly people and anyone else the equalities act was designed to try and give protections to.
In light of this are you going to edit yesterdays post about Anne McLaughlin being the biggest cretin out there 🙂 🙂 🙂
I mean…..At the very least it’s a draw
Impressive hair there, Rev. – It really has to be said.
Kirsty Blackman obviously went to the same school of rhetoric and secondary school debating intonation as what was her name? – Can’t remember. Went on a quiz show thingy in the jungle once.
Also very noticeable the deep shame and embarrassment felt by Joanna Cherry there with head in hands and saying to herself, No, No, No. This person is in the same political party as me? What on earth are you still doing there Joanna?
Kirsty Blackman is the kind of person that should be in a glossy magazine musing about her long-term relationship with a haunted tree and not anywhere near politics.
Oh dear..its back…just when you thought it was safe to go back in the store toilet…
If you walk past the Jamboree pub in the Saltmarket you will see an ANTIFA sticker on the lamppost directly outside it. The Jamboree is where the placards calling women who are standing up for their own hard fought for rights TERFS are produced for the Glasgow demos. ANTIFA have been showing up at demos around the world to terrorise women because anyone who disagrees with them in any way is clearly a fascist and must be met with force. The Jamboree was awarded cash by the Scottish government, whilst that area is struggling having political connections to the Left of the SNP/Labour appears to be an in to the gatekeepers of public money and not just for the Jamboree but for other locations in the same area.
Re mental health, last year I attended a lunch which had been put on for people suffering with mental health problems. I did a head count of the service users attending and found that forty percent of them were presenting as the opposite sex to that which they had been born.
No, they are not being excluded from public life, but they are desperately trying to exclude biological females from public life, Kirsty, m’dear.
This woman – can I call her that, or is ‘it’ non-binary, that catch-all term that, logically excludes ‘trans’ – is a moron of the highest level. She has no idea what her chromosomes are, yet she is a mother and a heterosexual woman or, she gave a fair impression when having her children by a male – which, let’s face it, is the only way that is natural and not via intervention. So, she’s queer. What is that? It used to mean ‘gay’ and was not a very nice term to use. Now, it’s the panacea for all ills – especially, mental ills. Does she mean she’s into kink? Oh, gosh! My gast is well and truly flabbered – not – as someone else once said. Who cares, Kirsty? Not me, probably not anyone else on this thread and certainly not the REV. Grow up, lassie, and stop trying to shock. You really are not fit to be an MP if you believe the c**p dreamed up by sexually fetishistic men.
Listened to that awful creature, Robin Moira White, spinster of some parish, a barrister at law and all-round chancer and sexually-driven man. He appeared against Maya Forstater on Politics Live yesterday. He breaks the law every day and just shrugs. No GRC, affording him legal sex for some issues, but definitely not in order to access women’s spaces. Wonder why? According to Maya, there are only 5000 people in the UK with GRCs. I can make a stab at the reason the number is so low: very few actually manage to convince the panel of medical staff that they suffer from gender dysphoria (body dysmorphia, in reality, but ‘trans’ do not do reality) and these medical people know a larping man when they see one, especially one who is panting in his ladies knickers and bra to be let loose on real women and girls to practise his wee hairmless fetish.
Calum: Jordan Peterson, clinical psychologist, gives an excellent explanation of this phenomenon: females are simply more negative emotionally and are easier to indoctrinate – certainly not all by a long way, but young ones, in particular. Societal expectations/stereotypes also make them more amenable to male behaviours that leave much to be desired. They look at older females and see themselves in years to come – generally earning less, having much less power, tied down with kids, etc. – and say: I’m not having that. It is why there are so many ‘trans’ men – they are females fleeing womanhood did they but know it.
Exceptional work sir. Thank You again for ALL you do for i-Scotland, politics in Scotland and for journalism, EVERYWHERE
Wow! If anyone is “stunning and brave” round here, it’s a certain S. Campbell for publishing the mad hair-do snaps from his photo album. They provided a laugh almost big enough to offset the grim idiotic awfulness of Kirsty Racist-sexist-surname.
Robert Gordon’s and Aberdeen University School of MEDICINE!!!!*
* But not for long. Did not so much drop out as plummet, it appears.
Ian Brotherhood
Its clearly a Half-Man-Half-Biscuit songtitle
Right up there with ‘Joy Division Oven Gloves’
Elegantly dissected Stu. So glad Joanna was sitting behind her.
Another great article but especially because of those pictures of a young Stu in full new romantic bloom.
I can’t believe after seeing that performance that any ‘ordinary’ person would vote for this fool. No wonder Joanna was in disbelief when she came out with such nonsense about her genitals. These SNP woke are all fannies (that’s what we call your genitals Kirsty). I’m absolutely disgusted that my votes for the SNP have led to this quality of representative for Scotland. A pure riddy.
I’m sure her shit is worse than anyone else’s shit.
What a load of nonsense this demented thing spouts. This is what people in her constituency voted for. This is a pervert guising as an MP.
Bet you a pound to a penny she’ll be cleared out come the next election. And not a moment too soon.
It’s not surprising that Blackman dropped out of studying medicine at Aberdeen Uni if she thinks her chromosomes “are probably XY”.
A wee while back I was doing an internet search on the Trans issue. A comment on ones of the articles caught my eye in which the poster compared the current Trans/Queer/Gender issue with the counter culture of the Sixties.
In the way, it does sound right. The hippies perceived they could have a better world for themselves using drugs and Trans people want to create a better world for themselves via surgery and in a sense drugs.
Putting all the debate to one side, if a person is of legal age and sound mind they can do whatever they want with their bodies but now it has reached the point where these individuals rights are impacting on others. The other thing is that they are being enabled by what I’d put charitably is by politicians who are not informed of all the details as seen in this article.
I have no doubt that there are certain individuals who want to live as the opposite sex and are no danger to other people. However, how many are being deluded in thinking their problems will be solved by changing sex as much as these hippies in the sixties thought they could solve the worlds problems through flower power and suchlike?
The real danger is not as much people who want to be Trans but these politicians who are enabling it and have either no idea or doesn’t care of the consequences.
link to irishtimes.com
In ireland it is autistic children and those who have already experienced trauma e.g. Romanian orhanages.
The auld snaps from the 80s show that Rev Stu was already a stand up guy back then.
Being straight or LGB is so boring and vanilla these days. But ‘queer’ or ‘non binary’ or ‘questioning’ is so cool, edgy and indicates your general all round superiority to us tedious S+LGBT people. Sam Smith, Emma Watson, Lilly Cole and KB are interesting in a magical, mysterious undefined way. No effort required. Pink/blue/green/purple glitter in your hair and a few selfies.
To be frank I am fed up with these opinionated, science denying narcissists. And it is your ‘get out of jail card’ if you get into trouble. So Jamie Wallace MP goes from being a drunken, dangerous driver to being ‘brave’ and ‘celebrated’.
JS would have loved this. Turns up at the hospital as a volunteer. “Today I ID as a girlie – point me in the direction of the women’s wards.”
This article’s title suggested to me the epically sad story of how her genitalia somehow gained sentience and, after separating from their host body, set out on a quest to find their creator.
I briefly wept, for various reasons, at the thought of her genitals wandering aimlessly through some wilderness, unloved and unwanted, in the vain and forlorn hope of finding meaning to their pitiful existence.
Why are we paying these people to discuss this tripe when there is SO many important issues
Like
Cost of living
War in europe
Etcetcetc
Outrageous
Should be shot with balls of her own shite They walk amongst us BTW Stu, Brilliant Blog Well Done!!
Why am I suddenly thinking about Rik from the young ones?
I take it that if she is identifying as a man, that has the consequence of making her husband a gay man. Has anyone told him?
An MP should represent the interests of all his or her constituents, not just a tiny minority.
Kirsty Blackman has clearly demonstrated that she is unwilling or unable to do this, and has revealed that she has an axe to grind which makes her incapable of objective thought on this issue.
The honourable position for her should be to resign as she will not carry out the job she was elected to do. If she won’t, people should turf her out at the next election.
If they don’t, they are complicit and have no right to complain.
Did she stand on a platform of putting trans people before ordinary people at the last election, or has she taken this line after being elected?
There is clearly something driving this which is very unhelpful to the existance of the human race as it has always been known. It almost seems like aliens have secretly taken over politicians all over the world with a plan to breed out humans and replace them with something else. Tragic.
And to think all those decades ago, unrecognised prophets the Who sang, “My name is Bill, and I’m a headcase”.
How very true that life imitates art.
Be trans, bi, uncertain or whatever you choose to be, I couldn’t care less and I wish you a happy and fulfilled life.
Just don’t, if you are a biological male, invade women and childrens’ safe spaces.
And no politician who is unable to say what a woman is should be in any administration, of any political colour, anywhere at any time.
Wings, I was hoping you would give stats about suicide of trans folk. A subject folk like Blackman talk about a lot. I can only find 1 Trans suicide in Scotland in last 5 years. Hundreds die in this way every year, being trans doesn’t seem to be a driver.
“Wings, I was hoping you would give stats about suicide of trans folk. A subject folk like Blackman talk about a lot. I can only find 1 Trans suicide in Scotland in last 5 years. Hundreds die in this way every year, being trans doesn’t seem to be a driver.”
As you note, it’s very hard to provide stats for something that essentially doesn’t exist. The person Blackman was quoted was well-known nutjob Heather Herbert, who’s about as likely to kill himself as he is to chop his dick off.
So brave of KB to so unambiguousy self-certify like that!
Please tell me that people in white coats removed KB from the chamber after having helped her into a straitjacket — or whatever kind of jacket was deemed acceptable.
Mike Cassidy.
I think you’ll find that ‘Kirsty Blackman’s Genitals’ was a song by The Adverts.
Her poor kids. – Probably future politicians.
I second all those others who have thanked the REV for his hard work on our behalf. All the bloggers do a tremendous job in keeping us sane throughout what has been one of the worst periods in modern history for Scots and for females. Lang may their lums reek. Not environmentally appropriate, I know. Thank you, anyway, from this ‘non-woke’ Luddite, and thank god for decent men.
PacMan: it is interesting that you make the comparison with hippies in the 1960s. That, too, turned into a free-for-all sex fest where females were raped and brutalized by larping men practising ‘free love’ and pretending to care two hoots about them. One of the American universities of the time was so rife with sexual assaults that it became a no-go area, without escorts, for females. Every civilization that has fallen, has fallen in the same way – disintegration through ravening sexual licence. I’m no prude but there’s a lesson there somewhere. There is no such thing as a free lunch and no such thing as free love – not for females, who always suffer the consequences. Free ‘trans’ is proving to be just as expensive for females and children.
You used the Queen of all the Cretins headline too hastily.
How don’t these people have access to dictionaries. Their wanton mis-defining of words is obsessional and delusional.
Why can’t people like Blackman get it into her thick skull that, as Stu so eloquently puts it;
“nobody is trying to exclude trans people from public life. Trans people are explicitly protected by the Equality Act and not one living soul is attempting to remove those protections. Nobody is trying to stop them from going shopping.
All they’re asking is that trans-identifying males don’t go around showing their penises to women who don’t want to see them”.
As I have no idea how to address the SNP MP in the clip, is Ms Blackman OK? (I mean, she’ll clearly be offended at whatever language one uses to neutrally address her while twisting all meaning out of clearly defined existing words), gonny shut up about the trans stuff and deliver F****N independence!!!!!!
Nice choice of dress for the occasion though! Rockets and other planets….very appropriate.
Blackman states ‘that it is entirely up to me what my sexual orientation is’, and that she’d be very annoyed if others called her straight.
She’s saying, then, that sexual orientation is a choice.
That’s very Fred Phelps.
Ian Brotherhood: I always found Savile a creep, and many others have said the same thing. It is instinct, honed over millennia, that protects us from creeps. What is happening to children in our schools, and the lies being fed to women, is a deliberate attempt to overturn and undermine millennia of honed instinct.
The sight of a man in a dress in any situation that does not involve pantomime – where the joke is that he IS a man – is disturbing for very good reason. It is not normal. It is a blip on the radar, and it is telling us, at an instinctual level that something is not right.
We bring up children to beware strangers and never to get into a car with a stranger or go anywhere with them, yet parents are happily taking their toddlers to Drag Queen Story Hour, while schools allow older ones to change ‘gender’ without parental consent. These are the very antithesis of safeguarding.
If the hairs on the back of your neck rise at the sight of a cross-dressing man and your instincts scream, creep, you are very likely to be right to be wary. He may be harmless, but he will always be a sexual fetishist.
Having watched, and despaired at the loss of my valuable time to the exercise, I’m still of the opinion that “stupid is what stupid does’… or says in this case.
Always reassuring to know whose salary the taxes from my gainful employment go to fund… not!
I’m genuinely baffled by the SNP. How on earth does a party set up to campaign for independence somehow lose itself promoting a cause that affects only a tiny minority of people, and which the vast majority of people have no sympathy with? Whatever the rights, wrongs or uncertainties of the matter, it’s just dumb politics to squander your prime cause for something that’s going to turn off far more voters than it attracts.
“Hate crime” time… link to news.stv.tv
I wonder how many of the reportedly anti-trans comments stemmed from women at demos having to shout “get your hairy paws off me, you brute” and the assailant thus addressed then claiming he was upset at being misgendered.
God in Govan!
If that’s the best candidate the nasty party can find to represent a constituency then they are doomed. Jeeez, what a eejit.
Loved JC’S silent comment.
Maybe when she said she was queer she meant she was a quine though given this mother of two assumes her chromosomes are XY maybe she’s a loon.
Hey she’s an Aberdeen MP!
@A Scot Abroad 2:08
That was exactly the purpose of the gender/trans issue. Focus on an incomprehensible and clearly deranged issue over which you can point and scream (like Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Bodysnatchers) if anyone expresses any doubts or questions about it, and essentially destroy the SNP and therefore Scottish independence (for now anyway). It has an evil genius to it.
@ Wingsover France at 12.10: “please God tell me her seat is on a knife edge”.
Sorry – 33.9% margin, 12,670 majority.
On the other hand if Kirsty Blackman’s Genitals hits the viewing charts in Aberdeen North the voters might decide that this er person [am I allowed to use that vile, bigoted term?] does not any longer match their idea of a suitable representative.
The more I think about it, it’s like she has a sort of ‘word dysphoria’. Is there such a thing? Dhe doesn’t understand the meaning of words.
It’s not hate you get online Ms She/Her/They/Them Blackman, it’s derision. It’s not abuse, it’s criticism. To avoid criticism and derision, you need to stop talking such utter nonsense.
She thinks she has XY chromosomes? WTF? We’re going to have to introduce intelligence tests before people are allowed to stand for parliament once we’re independent!
@Lorna Campbell (2.05) –
That Netflix documentary about Savile raised many more Qs than were answered. At one point the producer of Jim’ll Fix It was shown, after the scandal started ‘breaking’, being interviewed by Phil Schofield and Holly Willoughby.
Now, history’s repeating itself and it will just grind on. Every few years there will be another ‘scandal’, more likely than not when the criminal is already dead or has fallen foul of those who need a distraction.
Two decades ago it was folk online, people who were and still are dismissed as ‘conspiracy theorists’, who blew the whistle on JS and they kept doing it until they were heard, despite the best efforts of The Establishment to shield him.
And he’s just the very tip of the proverbial.
Have you heard about what Mel Gibson’s working on?
It is hard to imagine why Nicola would promote such a person with so few relevant skills.
To promote someone without any knowledge of themself to such a position can only be an act of sabotage.
This can’t be about promoting somone you can control, it is an act designed to weaken the movement and any response to activities in Westminster.
I am afraid the SNP has been so heavily infiltrated it is possible to promote the most unsuitable to positions of influence where they can bring their incompetence more fully to bare.
The trans MP did turn up. He just didn’t stay for the whole debate. But judging by the quality of the speakers on his side, that’s hardly surprising!
Allowing trans persons- sans penis – into men’s toilets puts men at risk of false accusations of assault. Trans toilets are the solution.
Yousef should expel Blackman. Set her free to find a group/ campaign that reconciles with her views. The Scottish Greens?
Blackman knows exactly what a woman is. She knows that safeguarding is a thing, and she knows completely that self-id opens the door for predators. She knows everything she’s saying is bullshit designed to placate a small, yet powerful minority. She’s doing it because she’s now so deep into an ideology that if she backs out now then she’s going to lose these new Trans friends she has.
It’s a reversal of the Tyranny of the Majority. The Tyranny of the Minority as it were. The entire suicide myth is obscene and goes against everything we’ve learned of in order to reduce suicides. Never has a minority group used suicide as a weapon in this way and never has a group so wished for a myth to be real. That’s the tyranny we’re seeing here along with the increasing violence and Orwellian legislation from Trans people and their supporters.
So when people like Kirsty stand up talking shite like yesterday she knows she’s lying. She doesn’t care. This is why the question ‘what is a woman?’ is such a good one. If you can’t say a variation of ‘adult human female’ then you’re lying. And that’s what Blackman needs to go. If she lies over this, she can lie over anything.
Regardless of the younger generation’s desire for Scottish Independence, it’s far from inevitable. The next generation of voters, will be robbed of democracy by the next generation of blood sucking politicians. It’s pathological.
The indy debate is only useful, to maintain the current divisions, far into the future. Otherwise, the polling stations, in Scotland, would become redundant altogether.
The next set of politicians will be no different, than today’s. I’d expect the electorate to eventually wisen-up to the same fruitless promises.
It turns out the ‘I nearly killed myself’ that Blackman read out came from Heather Herbert; a fairly infamous Trans activist who is clearly an AGP. link to twitter.com
They’re one of this inner core of activists who have a hotline to power in Scotland. They’re a friend of the delightful Beth who Stu has covered in the past. I wouldn’t trust them one single bit as like many a TRA, they’re horrendously manipulative.
Shug says @2:42 pm
“It is hard to imagine why Nicola would promote such a person with so few relevant skills”.
I have a mental image of Sturgeon, sat in the dining room of Bute House, wearing a light grey Mandarin-collar suit, saying to her audience of acolytes…
“I’m going to promote the idiots, then hold Scotland to ransom for…
Six… Hundred… Thousand… Pounds!”
She’ll then raise one eyebrow and touch her pinky to her lips.
At this point, Ian Blackford, decked from head to toe in tartan, enters through a side door and starts screaming about eating babies.
(I think I may have ‘caught the sun’…)
The “WOKIST MIND VIRUS” is an out of control epidemic from Disney to Blizzard Activision to the SNP and just about very Political Party and Press and Media outlet in Western Europe.
“Queer” is just the new word for “totally boring conformist who goes along with every new trend and fad, esp if backed by authority and the biggest bullies”. It’s not even a sub-culture because the vast amount of materialist shit that goes along with it – bags, T-shrts, flags, pens and anything else you want rainbow branded – can be bought in Ikea, Asda and everywhere else on the high street, or found in McDonald’s happy meals. It’s an entirely corporate, state and government backed trend, at a time our states and governments are the most far right, oppressive and divisive as they have ever been.
In short, the entire queer “brand” is becoming a kind of fascist – state and corporate together usually is – bullying. And its key targets, as always, are women, children, LGB people, elderly people and anyone else the equalities act was designed to try and give protections to.
Very much so. It’s a corporate backed way to widen the market of LGB people to include fetishists and some incredibly dull, conformist straight people who’ve discovered coloured hair dyes and piercings. It’s taking the trappings of alternative cultures and firmly ramming them into mainstream late capitalist circles.
Every single person I’ve met who calls themselves ‘Queer’ tend to be people with clear mental health issues, young people desperate to belong to something and adults who are looking to join a group for oppression points. i can have some sympathy for the first two, but adults know exactly what they’re doing and what they’re trying to get out of it.
Ah, given the confusion over chromosones, it’s easy seen KB flunked out of her Aberdeen medical degree very early, probably while still on ‘foundations of primary care’.
@A Scot Abroad
The “dumb politics” causing your bafflement is a phenomenon well noted in the writings of the likes of Albert Memmi and Frantz Fanon, Policies of ‘fascination’are the typical stuff of colonial-administrations, all of which masquerade as National parties.
The sight of a man in a dress in any situation that does not involve pantomime – where the joke is that he IS a man – is disturbing for very good reason. It is not normal. It is a blip on the radar, and it is telling us, at an instinctual level that something is not right
One of the things about Trans ideology is that it’s wrecked life for non-conforming men. I know a couple of men who will occasionally wear dresses. They’re not AGP’s or TRA’s. They’re married happily but just don’t want to conform to what roles and dress gender imposes on them. Now they’re called ‘Trans’ even though they’re heterosexual men in settled long-term marriages. They’re being dragged into an ideology they don’t believe in & recognise as being incredibly rigid in terms of how it imposes gender roles on people who believe in it. The idea for example that if a woman or girl wears trousers it means she’s actually male is so regressive that it drags us back to the days before WW2.
Hence why TRAs are so keen to Trans people like Bowie and Kurt Cobain who were straight/bi males who never once pretended to be anything but male but liked wearing dresses at times. They’re intent to say Trans has always been a thing & that they’ve always been here but they haven’t. Trans is 25 years old, give or take, and it’s transformed so much over that time. Especially in the last 6 years or so. Now Trans is basically a men’s rights movement dressed up as ‘progressive’. An abuser’s charter. A movement designed to groom and ‘Queer’ kids from conception.
But it’s also a movement that crumbles when light is shone on it. It’s a movement that has no music, no radical culture. It’s more of a cult than a youth movement as it’s been driven since Day One by adults pushing a form of postmoderism. Most youth movements have a shelf life. Punk for example started in 75/6 but by 79 it’d been absorbed by the mainstream and as a mass movement was over. The next thing had come along.
Trans has no music or discernable culture to speak of. It’s only got cultish followers rushing hard to pass laws because they know at some level, this has a shelf life. Imagine in a decade when all these late teens/early 20s women hit their 30s and it dawns on them that for the rest of their lives, they have to live in the body that they have and that body has been wrecked and their lifespan has probably been reduced by 10-20 years. We’re seeing the start of this now with the first wave of kids who transitioned in the early 2010s and it’ll build up as the years pass.
In a decade people like Kirsty Blackman will have to answer for why they supported a movement that abused so many people. This is why we need to keep the receipts now.
When people talk of gender you know you’re on a trip to lotusland in a gay frock.
The small amount of imagination some politicians seem to have might be better employed in «queering the pitch» of the British state’s operations in Scotland.
Otherwise, for what purpose are these people elected? Certainly not for fashion sense or rhetorical skills.
Isn’t it amazing that nature can tell the sex of a creature without the need for a «definition». Could that explain Scotland’s declining birthrate?
Too much lucubration?
The nutters in the party are doing what’s intended.. Killing the party. The financial debacle, the final nail in the coffin.
The only transition that matters is SNP’s shedding if its skin, to emerge as ‘Party of Independence’ (Mk II), all in time for the next election.
New Party name, usual non-existent Indy policy, same idiots voting for them!
Like many a good citizen of the Weimar Republic in late 1932 I am wondering how many steps we are away from becoming a totalitarian state.
No doubt the unfaithful will have to wear a yellow ♂ or ♀ on their coats so they are easily recognised and shunned.
I wouldn’t buy a used car from this woman, all that’s missing are the long sideburns – what a true dunce she is?
As most of genuine pro-indy is aware of how bogus her stance is, I’d say she’s great for independence?
Do another one, Krispy, please..
If I call her a qunt, does that make me a sexist?
If I call Abu Humza Youseless a qunt, does that make me a racist?
If so, then so be it.
“If women refuse to validate my delusions and submit to my fetishes, I’ll kill myself.”
Your terms are acceptable.
We are continually told how smart and charismatic Joanna Cherry KC is.
Then you view clips such as that at the top. Sure, she realises she is in the same party, but not as highly thought of by the High Heid Yins as total numpties such as Blackman.
So, why doesn’t she quit? If she cannot bring herself to commit to ALBA, she could at least do a Margo Macdonald in Westminster and sit as an Independent. She might even have the personal following in her constituency to hold her seat.
As things stand, she could well go down with the SNP numpties.
Some years ago (late 90’s) I worked for a charity as a project worker, in a well known but small highland town. I had an office upstairs in the building with a charity shop on the ground floor. It was often mentioned by the shop staff that a transvestite cruised the clothes selecting his latest lady outfit. I must confess to being curious(small towns in remote places are not really the natural habitat for tranvestites). At the time the Bangkok ladyboys were frequently featured in the sensation seeking press and I had formed the impression that was how transvestites presented -high heels , short skirts, elaborate hairdo’s/wigs and other paraphernalia of glamour-such as lipstick/makeup
One day I got a call to say he was in the shop so I went down to have a look. To my astonishment there was no highland ladyboy. He had chosen to fashion himself as something like my late Aunties-Ena, Norah and Anne, doing their housework-blouse and skirt and Pinnie, flat shoes and Norah batty tights.
It was very incongruous because it was so obviously a large male frame with knobbly knees and male shoulders. I don’t know what he did about a bosom. His selection of jewellery was disappointing- obviously cheap and gaudy tat. His facial hair was shaved but not disguised very well. His hair was ordinary and a bit like what you might see on a not too fussy middle aged woman. As far as I know he was ‘normal’ – he worked somewhere and lived quietly. He didn’t seem all that bothered by the occasional cat call and I had the impression he was well integrated and well known for his unusual hobby within the community.
I am not acquainted with the motivations of such a person or what mental disposition had led him to his lifestyle.
Another curiosity- Kirsty Blackman’s dress choice. I recognised it immediately because I had bought my 5 yo grand daughter a Christmas present of leggings and overdress made with that design. I had bought it online from a small children’s clothing company through the online marketing outlet ETSY. I chose it to possibly trigger interest in planets/space etc in my g/daughter. I had no idea it was available in adult sizes. I am not sure of my women’s dress sense and please correct me if I am mistaken, but the design seems ‘youthful’ to me. I have no reason to criticise Ms Blackman’s clothes choices but it seems somewhat whimsical for a mature woman in a serious job. (I am assuming that legislation is a serious job). I just wonder what message she is communicating with her clothes choice.
Phwoar at old Stu pics
That this woman has the gall to patronise others by saying they “had a go” at cogently defining sex as if the seven year old whose dress she nicked couldn’t do it.
Inappropriate! Completely lacks insight . I have to say I feel for her children . I am embarrassed for her .
Kirsty blackman, is one of those people in life, who really, really, thinks she is intelligent, but isn’t. That she even thinks for one second that anything she said yesterday did not sound incredibly stupid speaks volumes around her own quite immense cognitive challenges.
Revstu is quite correct to assert that Kirsty does indeed have XX chromosomes, given that she has borne children, and is a woman. This is mind bogglingly, obvious to even the dimmest soul on planet earth. No person with XY chromosomes has ever given birth. Ever. Why? because they are men, and don’t have a uterus or womb.
This really is not difficult, Kirsty.
But, it is worse, much worse. According to Kirsty, despite being heterosexual, married to a man and being in a straight relationship she is indeed what she calls ‘queer’. WTF? I mean seriously, WTF.
Gay men and lesbians are rightly sick and fed up of the likes of the eminently stupid Kirsty blackman. She is clearly an airhead, and an utter fool.
Here are some actual gay and lesbian organisations
link to gaymensnetwork.com
link to lgballiance.org.uk
Perhaps Kirsty should speak to them, instead of listening to the homophobic (but deffo pro ‘trans’) Stonewall nutters.
“…get out of the way, we’re the wreckin’ crew…”
Did she wear a space dress so she could make a NASA herself?
Is there a difference between believing Scottish independence is a pipedream and a being unionist?
Is it possible to pursue independence while recognising that futility, knowing politicians would sell their own granny, for your vote?
Do only Unionist politicians tell lies?
Do you trust SNP to govern Scotland, in a devolved parliament or otherwise?
Reality sucks!
The SNP MSPs group have agreed to send flowers to Sturgeon it has been announced by Keith Brown. Jeez.
Re all of the letters being added to LGB, this could be due to the B being seen as problematic as it acknowledges that some people are attracted to both sexes, those born with XX and those born with XY chromosomes.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
It’s also because of me and my support for that party in the past decade that we have imbeciles like Blackman “representing” us.
It’s high time to make these inadequate ignoramus aware that their time is up and our patience is out.
If anyone has a solution that doesn’t include pitchforks and torches, please move forward.
Otherwise, away to the next DIY shop to buy your kit.
There should be quite the stock of tiki torches and gardening tools there.
Wait for your assignments by pigeon mail.
Wear comfy shoes, it’s a bit of a walk fae here doon tae that boorach.
Jeez Stuart, much as I want to, I can’t unsee those images of your youth.
You definitely weren’t ‘ordinary’
Kirsty Blackman appears to have many issues.
These issues should exclude her from a position of authority.
She’s a menace and a danger to the vast majority of the public.
Many accounts on twitter, not a reflection of the majority I accept, are saying loads of their teens are turning against the whole trans schtik.
Most of them are keeping their heads down but they’re sick of it.
KB might find herself as an oldie, past it, no longer down with the kids so not just JC will be exasperated by her.
SNP has now jumped the shark. The franchise is broken. Erase and rewind, In time for the next election.
Sturgeon always wanted to change the party name.
@ douglas Leighton says:13 June, 2023 at 4:57 pm
seems somewhat whimsical for a mature woman in a serious job
Indeed, no argument there, but you have the wrong end of the stick, and that’s where your confusion comes from.
She is neither “mature”, nor is she doing a “serious” job.
I know nothing about the woman, but if she has not materially re-invented herself since she presumably went around her constituency canvassing for votes, then her constituents must have been complicit in choosing to elect an immature eejit to a pointless place at the trough.
It’s an indictment of the caliber of voter who have been keeping the SNP in power this past decade.
A toxic mixture of the “Boaty McBoatFace” effect and tribalism.
Oh well, Scotland is a rich country. Rich enough, certainly, to sustain hundreds of drones at the taxpayer’s expense indefinitely.
Wondering how this woman persuaded enough people to vote for her to be elected: not at all obvious. Her faux-supposing her chromosomes are “probably xy” does her no credit as a former medical student, nor as someone paid £84k+ a year to know what she’s talking about, nor as a serious politician: on a contentious issue where her attempted mind-games are inappropriate — including the suggestion thrown in that she might be “queer”.
Where is her responsibility towards her female constituents, and to children being harmed by indoctrination at school, failure of child mental health services, and medical abuse?
Unfit for her job.
@Ebenezer Scroggie says:13 June, 2023 at 4:38 pm
You can call Humza Yousaf a fraudulently elected pretender to the offices of SNP Leader and First Minister of Scotland and be a shining beacon of truth.
Noti
TBH Mr Wings, that youthful hair looks like a
‘stand up and be counted ‘
statement rather than
‘queer’
The leather jacket completes the statement – very chic:-)
My real problem with the gender’ amender/emender is that I can’t work out whether they truly are idiots in the departments of language, logic and science who are otherwise sensible folk who have been endowed with an over-inflated propensity to ‘mean well’.
OR
Whether they are truly wicked liars who would say anything in order to achieve a personal ambition and/or destroy the livelihood of anyone who gets in their way.
I genuinely have no answer to the simplistic stupidity of the trans ‘legal’ argument.
John C: I agree with most of what you have written, but I think you are being disingenuous when you say that these men are not ‘trans’ in today’s parlance – or, rather, they are being disingenuous with you. Every psychologist’s reports and studies that I have read and listened to are very sure that these men are motivated by sex, and some of these were by ‘trans’ women themselves. Mostly, they cannot admit that they are AGPs/fetishists. If they were truly not interested in the sexual element, they would dress as normal women, in neat trousers and shirts, and not as 1950s tarts. They would still be in touch with their feminine side. It is not that they want to be like women – that is the mistake that most make. They want to experience the humiliation and submissive aspects of being a woman. That is what gives them their kicks, and is why they impose themselves on females of all ages. Take what they tell you with a pinch of salt.
Ian Brotherhood: no, I have no idea what Mel Gibson is working on. I think he is a good director, though.
I think you may be right that those barstewards who have enabled all this will disappear into the night and not have to pay for their evil actions. When politicians and other officials in positions of influence are held to account for the gross errors/deliberate actions they take, then stuff like this might stop. I don’t mean that they should be held to account for everything, only where they have quite deliberately ignored the law or advice from expets and lawyers and ploughed ahead. The SNP/Greens have a great deal to answer for, as does Stonewall and its poisonous arms in Scotland. Making them personally liable for their own idiocy would be a step forward in reducing said idiocy.
Corrado Mello,just what is wrong with torches and pitchforks??
I watched the debate live, and began waiting for this post from the point when Kirsty declared her xy chromosomes. It does not disappoint.
Dear me does it matter? Does it make an independent Scotland less likely? Is she a good constituency MP?
I am wondering if KB was trying to say that chromosomes don’t matter. She can call herself anything she likes- man or woman or any variant she dreams up regardless of her chromosomes.
That is an ideological position and conflicts in a number of ways with science.
Likewise her sexual orientation.This would fit with KB’s position regarding gender politics and her insincere gay self attribution.
People do not ‘choose’ a sexual preference.Most accounts suggest the sexual preferences ‘choose the person’.
The science is quite disputed and there may be differences in male homosexuality compared with female homosexuality. It’s probably mainly genetic but there are also environmental and developmental factors. Obviously sexual preference has close connections to reproduction. In a very general sense characteristics which relate to reproduction(due to the close association with species survival) are not very ‘heritable’.If they were very selectable, or variable that might impact on species survival so natural selection favours less variability. Characteristics with a loose, or no connection to sex tend to be more variable or less fixed in their expression.
An expression that troubles me is “trans rights”. Does this mean that people who declare their personal sexual identity as different to their external anatomy/sexual characteristics are denied rights which others, who are content with their sexual identity, are granted without question? So trans identifiers must have their rights specified in some way, such as in legislation, to counteract the unconscious or societal disapproval that places them at a disadvantage.
I am very unconvinced by this perspective.
I am not aware of a selective denial of rights in relation to ‘trans’ people.
I know that medical treatment is an area where particular treatments for trans people are provided only with great care and might appear grudging, but the idea that functional males or females can be engineered surgically is completely unsupportable.This is
a false notion that has grown out of the greatly improved surgical techniques of recent decades which more correctly might be thought of as allowing survival of the radical surgery. Despite the great risks these mehods can only achieve a crude simulation of the opposite sex.
The film from about 2015 which starred Eddy Redmayne, called(I think)’The Danish Girl’ created a popular sense of a surgical and or chemical/hormone process, to satisfy the wish of the Eddy Redmayne character to be transformed into a female. The film was based on the work of the same name written by an Ameruican gay activist called David Eberschoff.
The death of the main character seems to me to be a distinctly unattractive outcome but there is a huge clamour among certain activist groups for very risky treatments for people who declare their sexual identity as at odds with their physical attributes.I think it is in this sense that certain politicians (many SNP) have opportunistically attempted to acquire some bogus credibility as ‘freedom fighters’ for the cause of personal fulfillment or freedom as an extension of the movements for gay rights. It is the height of political dishonesty to claim this, on the basis of those individuals for some of whom there are no easy answers, and for others who are simply narcissistic imposters.
I despair of politicians such as KB who propagate the idea that there is a simple mind adjustment to achieve the transformation of sexes but who minimise the huge risks and potential loss of life in attempting to achieve this.
A woman’s genitals have been taken to a local police station in the Westminster area after being found – clearly disoriented and confused – sheltering under a bridge close to the river Thames .
The distressed anatomical items were unable to provide any identifying information and appeared to have been abandoned by their owner .
A Police spokesperson later stated . ” We appeal to the owner of these genitals to come forward to explain the circumstances that led this unacceptable dereliction of duty ”
He further added .. ” The owner may find urinating via the mouth nothing exceptional , but we would remind her this practice is only acceptable in certain circles – mainly political ” .
@Izzie says:13 June, 2023 at 7:37 pm
Dear me does it matter?
Yes.
Does it make an independent Scotland less likely?
Yes.
Is she a good constituency MP?
Not as good as she could be.
Sorry to break this to you Izzie, but all that stuff people told you about equality of outcomes was lies.
In the real world, how you present yourself, the sense or otherwise of how you speak, and basically, do you come across as a raving eejit, all matter a lot.
I know, I know, Izzie, neither you nor I would ever be so ignorantly bigoted, but the majority of other Scots are. It’s a crying shame, but it can’t be helped.
genuinely lol’ed at:
(sorry!)
not the pics, which were entirely “ordinary” at the time
Brilliant! Spot on..
And a rare photo of you post punk standing in front of Bob..Classic! What a treat?
Izzie
The answers to your questions are: yes, yes, and no in that order.
@douglas leighton says:13 June, 2023 at 7:54 pm
I despair of politicians such as KB who propagate the idea that there is a simple mind adjustment to achieve the transformation of sexes but who minimise the huge risks and potential loss of life in attempting to achieve this
There was a list of “trans rights” published on here a few months back. One of these “rights” was for unlimited, free, surgery and hormonal treatments for all transitions, including reversals, for when the novelty of the new sex wore off.
This at a time when tens, maybes hundreds of thousands can’t get treatment for life threatening diseases, and/or disabling injuries.
So that’s another “right” the trans lobby would like to assert over the rest of us – the right to priority access to the SNHS.
Basic Biology lesson for Ms Blackman
Dear Ms Blackman, you claim,” not one person has been able to explain what ‘Biological sex’ is”. Well, have you actually ever bothered stepping out of that trans-obssessed echo chamber where you appear to be and asked ordinary people what it is?
You would be amazed to find out just how much more than you the ordinary people actually knows in the subject.
If I may make a constructive suggestion, perhaps it would be advisable for you to lift your eyes for a moment from the parrot script you were given to regurgitate and, instead of making a complete fool of yourself and embarrassing us at the next parliamentary session, you could proactively grab a biology book and read about it.
You will be surprised to know that the concept of “biological sex” has been known for an awful long time, well before you were even born.
Let me try to explain it to you in a simple way, so even a child would be able to understand it.
You should know by now that the word sex has two different meanings. But just in case you didn’t realise of that yet, let me tell you:
a) sex is a set of biological attributes that determine if an individual is a male or a female. Because just in case you did not know, sex is binary. Humans are either male or female. Just like the majority of mammals are. You do not choose to be male or to be female. Your chromosomes make that choice for you before you were even born.
b) sex is also intercourse. The action of having sex.
What do those two different meanings of the word sex have in common?
You can use the genitals you have naturally acquired thanks to your biological sex which is determined by your chromosomes, for having sex.
Let’s go back to a) and the set of biological attributes.
Those biological attributes are ultimately determined by your chromosomes. Males have a chromosome Y, Females do not.
Your chromosomes determine both, your primary sexual characteristics and your secondary sexual characteristics. Examples of your primary sexual characteristics are your reproductive system of which your genitals are a fundamental part.
If you are a male, you have a penis and testicles. If you are a female, you have a vagina, an uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries. Each and every one of those parts of your primary sexual characteristics are required for natural reproduction.
You will be fascinated to find out that the reproductive system in males and females is complementary. It may come as a surprise to you, but humans are not hermaphrodites. However, and unusually, sometimes during the embriology process things go wrong and the new baby might end up having an incomplete or undefined reproductive system. This is not a third type of sex. It does not negate the binary character of sex in humans to create an spectrum. It is simply the result of something going wrong during meiosis and embryogenesis. More often than not, individuals with an undefined reproductive system are sterile.
Humans are bipedal. However sometimes things go wrong during embriogenesis and people are born with just one leg, three, or none. Complications with certain diseases mean that surgery is required to remove one or two legs. But none of these means the number of legs humans can have is part of an spectrum. Well, the same applies to sex.
You will also be fascinated to find out that males’ and females’ reproductive systems are self-maintained and selfsufficient. For instance, females do not need to constantly stick things in their vaginas to keep them open. Also, natural vaginas have self-lubrication and have muscles that contract. Natural vaginas are not like inverted gloves. They communicate to the cervix, another part of the female reproductive system. Most males have funcional penises which do not require artificial pumps to lift them up.
For a baby to be conceived, you need two special cells to combine into one. These special cells are called gametes. Males produce one type of gamets, called spermatozoa, and females produce another different type, called ova.
Now these cells are special for many reasons, but the most significant one is that they have only half the number of chromosomes. Without entering into too much detail, this is designed to increase genetic diversity, so roughly half of the genetic material of the new baby will be from the mum and the other half from the dad. During meiosis, which is the process that generates gametes, there is frequent genetic recombination, which means that segments of DNA are swapped between chromosomes. This also increases genetic diversity.
Because only males have the chromosome Y, it is actually the sprematozoa who will determine if the new baby will be a male or a female.
Then there are the secondary sexual characteristics. You acquire those during puberty. Examples are breasts and pubic hair for females, and beard, pubic hair for males. Another secondary characteristic for males is a higher propension to go bald.
Both, meanings of sex are biological, so the word “biological” in the expression “biological sex” is redundant. But it is used for clarity. It is unbelievable that in this day and age, people feel the need to use the term “biological” when talkng about sex. But they are justified by listening to your speech, which suggests three are still far too many numpties out there insisting sex does not exist or has nothing to do with biology.
So, we use the term “biological” when talking about sex to
1. distinguish that you are talking about the biological traits that define you as male/female and not about the action of having sex.
2. reinforce the fact that what define a male and a female are NATURAL biological characteristics. There is nothing natural in butchering your body, pump it full of hormones or mutilating it beyond recognition to make it look like the body of the opposite sex.
Making your body look like the body of the opposite sex does not change your sex no matter how much you wished it to. It simply changes your physical appearance. Your sex remains the exact same as your chromosomes, which determine your sex, remain unchanged. Pumping your body full of hormones will change your secondary sexual characteristics, but not your primary ones, hence transexuals seeking surgery.
Needless to say that your sex remains the same if for example you have cancer and your breasts and ovaries have to be removed to prevent the cancer to spread or to prevent it from appearing. Surgery does not change your sex. It changes your appearance.
Now, the processes of mitosis (cell division) and meiosis (process to produce gametes) are very complex, so sometimes things go wrong and gametes with the wrong amount of chromosomes are produced. This is not frequent and it is an error in the process, just as genetic mutations that impare the production of a particular protein or the function of a particular receptor are errors during DNA replication. These genetic mutations or the errors during the process of meiosis do not define the process, they do not transform it into “an spectrum”. They are exceptions, not the rule. In many cases, these “mistakes” lead to sterile individuals, so there is no continuity of it.
A completely different biology chapter is the concept of sex attraction. In other words, to which sex you are attracted to. You can be attracted to people of the same sex as yours, to people of the opposite sex, to both or to none.
Your sexual attraction does not determine your sex in the same way your sex does not define who you are sexually attracted to. There is an awful lot of genes, molecules and receptors of different types playing a part on who you are sexually attracted to. In other words, just because you change your physical appearance by mutilating your primary sexual characteristics or by adding some artificial ones, you do not immediately become sexually attractive to those who are not sexually attracted towards individuals of your biological sex. You cannot command on your own will only who other people are sexually attracted to.
Claiming somebody is a bigot or discriminatory because they do not find someone sexually attractive despite the latter having mutilated their body or dressed up to look like the opposite sex is in my view a form of sexual harassment and psychological abuse. I do not see how somebody being coerced to have sex under those false pretences can ever be considered consensual and not a form of rape.
I hope this was clear enough, Ms Blackman. The bottom line is, please refrain yourself of attempting to insult our intelligence by playing dumb or by making your own embarrassing ignorance extensive to all Scotland. You may be happy to portray yourself as a complete ignorant and a fool in front of others in a parliament, but the rest of Scotland are not and do not suffer gladly watching those who are expected to represent our interests, wasting our time and our seats with biology-denying ridiculous nonsense.
Thank you.
Merganser @ 8.09 Sorry can you explain how does it make Independence less likely?
Izzie,
Surely by now you have noticed an ever diminishing number of SNP members?
If you have, would you be kind enough to tell me why you think the SNP have a mass exodus?
You may already have the answer to your questions without knowing but let me know if I can be of help.
Breastplate @855 Thanks I believe that the membership is 75000. Don’t know how this compares to other parties e.g.Akba .I know my branch has over 400 members including new recruits. But how does this article advance the cause?
Re all of the letters being added to LGB, this could be due to the B being seen as problematic as it acknowledges that some people are attracted to both sexes, those born with XX and those born with XY chromosomes.
No, not at all. Everything from the T onwards is about identity born out of Queer Theory. Bisexuals had to fight for generations to be accepted even by gays and lesbians even though a lot more people than thought were actually bi.
Mind in Only Fools and Horses when Uncle Albert with a bushy beard and bald head appeared on the scene and Delboy or whoever joked about him having ‘their head on the wrong way up’.
For so long seeing SC with a shaved head and beard, this is a reverse similar effect seeing these young SC pictures. It is like your head is upside down. Amazing pictures.
@Izzie says:13 June, 2023 at 8:27 pm
can you explain how does it make Independence less likely?
Here you go, Izzie, my final attempt to simplify it for you:
Most people instinctively distrust weirdos.
Hi Izzie.
You are the archetypical SNP Follower. I used to be one of those but my eyes were opened in early 2021, when I emailed my MP and MSP about the state of the party and got no response.
The SNP,as a pro-Independence party, is no more. It has gone before. It is bereft of pro-independence life, It has gone to join the heavenly choir. It is a dead party.
Please, wake up!
Izzie @ 8.27.
The SNP/Green policy (only in the Greens manifesto, not the SNP manifesto) is anathema to a large majority of voters. It will cause a large reduction in the SNP vote, the so-called party of independence. Many ordinary (see definition above) people will not vote or spoil their ballot papers rather than vote for the SNP, because of their position on gender issues as promoted by Kirsty Blackman. Others will hold their noses and vote for the only party which can properly define a woman.
The decline in the SNP vote will be regarded as a decline in the support for independence. The SNP are not happy to pursue a route to independence without the settled will of a majority of the voters.
By pandering to a tiny minority of the voting population (0.51% I believe) they are alienating, and squandering, the votes of a substantial majority of otherwise independence voters.
Can you explain why they are doing this?
Hi Brian. You are right I am. I will just get on with delivering my leaflets going to the conference on Saturday 24th . There’s no other option but hard work if you believe in the cause. Don’t listen to reports of the demise of the Party it’s wishful thinking on the part of the Unionists.
I think you are being disingenuous when you say that these men are not ‘trans’ in today’s parlance – or, rather, they are being disingenuous with you
Not at all. I trust them and their wives. It isn’t motivated by sex at all, just (at worst) old schools transvestites not wanting to conform at times. Like Eddie Izzard did before he had a midlife crisis, became an out and out AGP and decided to try to reach out to a new audience by pretending to be a woman which is where the difference lies here. These guys never pretend to be women.
I’ve known AGP’s. They wear big skirts to try to hide their erections and will be incredibly aggressive so you’re constantly walking on eggshells with them. The people I’m talking about are doing it for aesthetic reasons and one no longer does it purely because he’s scared of being tainted as an AGP.
I grew up with Bowie in a dress and spent my 20s admiring men like Kurt Cobain and Brett Anderson who’d laugh at conforming to male stereotypes. That’s where these people (and others like them) are coming from and that’s what the Trans movement has now destroyed like so much else it’s destroyed.
Just reading the massive scale fraud police investigation into the missing 600k, has cost more than 600K.
That’s £1.2 million the SNP has taken out of circulation of hard pressed Scots.
Vanished. Into thin air. Woven through the accounts that no one is allowed to see, in the party that hides the membership numbers. And was caught lying about them.
With MI5 voice voting systems built in and leaked email lists for the continuity candidate Yousaf.
I do hope we get the answers to where the ringfenced Independence referendum fund has disappeared to.
As for Kirsty Blackman, she’s obviously asked the shop keeper if he can transform her into a space cadet. It’s almost as bad as the time she dressed up as an impoverished Scot unable to switch on her heating bills on her £84,000 salary + 100K expenses.
There was a list of “trans rights” published on here a few months back. One of these “rights” was for unlimited, free, surgery and hormonal treatments for all transitions, including reversals, for when the novelty of the new sex wore off.
This at a time when tens, maybes hundreds of thousands can’t get treatment for life threatening diseases, and/or disabling injuries.
So that’s another “right” the trans lobby would like to assert over the rest of us – the right to priority access to the SNHS.
There’s three things an adult has to go through. Birth, puberty and death. We all have these three definites that has happened, or will happen as humans. What the Trans movement wants is to remove puberty from this so we have people never quite becoming adults but never quite remaining children. Now one of the reasons for that is to have a class of people they can access sexually (there’s an incredible amount of inter-dating in Trans circles as most ordinary people reject them as sexual partners) and to continue the cult as the best way to keep it going is to have new converts.
Hence this inane argument about bodily autonomy. We all have autonomy up to a point where we should be prevented in harming ourselves, however these restrictions are things the TRA’s want removed. And if they can get surgery on the NHS even better. If they can get preferential treatment (which is what their campaigns are actually about) with no questions asked so any comorbidities are ignored then that’s the end goal.
Izzie,
I know the SNP have lost large amount of the membership and you know the SNP have lost a large amount of the membership. You answered a question that wasn’t asked and didn’t answer the question that was asked.
The reason you didn’t answer the question on why you think the SNP has lost a large amount of the membership is either because you don’t know or because you are unwilling to talk about it.
Och, while we’re at it, can you give me the year we were closest to gaining our independence?
We all know the answer to that but are you willing to admit it?
Izzie, at 9:49 pm
I think that most people on this site think that the SNP are a busted flush. 90% of commenters (maybe even 95%) because the SNP appear to have retreated to some level of Devo as opposed to full Indy, and the minority of us because we think that the SNP are continually talking nonsense on stilts about an iScotland.
Either way, and given the brutal mathematics of both the Westminster and Holyrood electoral systems, the SNP are indeed a busted flush.
The trouble is there is more to this movement than delusional men and daft handmaidens like Blackman. This movement is, under the surface, inhabiting far more than the body politic, its tentacles going everywhere in the connected labyrinth of all the institutions of society.
Ninnies like Blackman may mouth all the doctrines of their new religion without question just because they want to be part of it. Despite being an airhead, though, I think Blackman understands that this movement – despite the daft antics of its followers – is about power.
As Lorna Campbell has pointed out, the Denton’s playbook had already set out the route of travel before most of us knew it had got off the ground. The plan was to infiltrate all the institutions of society but at the top layers. From the start this was about achieving power and influence by stealth without the knowledge or co-operation of the electorate in each country.
It’s the very opposite of democratic. Its intentions are sinister and authoritarian.
Unfortunately, it was launched at the time of deep malaise in politics in the western democracies. Political classes gave the impression that they were bored by traditional politics and unsettled by ‘populism’. Politics was becoming unmoored from the interests of their own electorates and globalism seemed like a more attractive international consensus to them than their own unruly electorates. In fact, some in the political class ( like the SNP) gave every impression that they actually disliked their voters.
Jennifer Bilek has written extensively about the fabulous amounts of money some billionaires are using to fund their favoured projects – like the Pritzkers and the Strykers, the Arcus Foundation etc. They are principally interested in pushing transgenderism through clinics, educational establishments and research. They have great influence in politics through their funding and donations and have been the main drivers of this movement.
However, it isn’t just the huge amounts of money made available to the transgender movements via billionaires and the pharmaceutical companies (who will also benefit financially from this) but also the enablers already ensconced within all the institutions of civil society who will help impose this on an unaware public.
Within these structures are those at the highest levels who have little empathy with the people they are supposed to serve. Recently, for example, with the imprimatur of the BMA, it has been proposed that a patient’s right to be examined by a health professional of their own sex, should be set aside in favour of a trans person’s rights. It has been pointed out that this is not legal but again something is being proposed that would need legal challenge. Those at the top of the medical profession and the NHS are demonstrating the same contempt for the people by setting up a situation where the recourse is legal action. This seems set to wear down opposition by having them fight on many fronts. ( Where have I heard that before?)
How many ordinary people actually know their rights? This is like a war of attrition where management within institutions seem to be set on using the trans movement’s ever-increasing demands to bolster their own sense of power. The greatest aphrodisiacs are power and money and what is the use of either, if you can’t make people do what they don’t want to do or make them accept the unreasonable? That is bullying on a grand scale and more intoxicating by far than simply serving the people.
Think what illicit glee these people in high places might get, for example, from making the victim of a rapist refer to her attacker as ‘she’ and to stand in a courtroom as a legal counsel and po-faced, talk of ‘her penis’. It is like sick humour being perpetrated (mainly)against women. I don’t believe for one moment that educated men do not know what they are doing when they say that or write that in a newspaper report.
This deep vein of misogyny hitherto concealed beneath the surface in polite society is bubbling to the surface and is also what is enabling this quite extraordinary delusion to be imposed on a bewildered public. It is a dictatorial and baleful takeover of society – a coming together by powerful interests in an unprecedented suppression of hard-won rights in modern democracies. Welcome to the intolerant orthodoxy of an artificial religion.( Oh, and by the way, the Humanist Society is also lobbying on behalf of the transgender movement.)
(I often think of Alice being confronted by the Red Queen in Through The Looking Glass and pronouncing something is impossible to believe, to which the Red Queen retorts that she really should try, since by the time she was Alice’s age, she could believe six impossible things before breakfast. Blackman is already through the looking glass.)
Well said Mia
@Alf Baird
I’ve finished my second run through your book, Alf.
And I have to admit its left me feeling a wee bit disheartened.
So disheartened that I’m going to vent some of my frustration here in this place. So if you don’t want to listen to a Scotsman on the edge’s (some might say donkey) rant, I suggest you scroll on by.
Us Scots have been sold out and let down for centuries and it’s getting worse it seems.
Another twenty years and the indigenous Scots will be pretty much gone.
Maybe just a few stragglers left and corralled into the spaces where ‘new Scots’ don’t want to live.
Our politicians bought. Our institutions corrupted, Our land stolen. Our resources plundered. Our culture trampled. Our people diminished, both in numbers and in spirit, and our place in the world reduced to a few areas of Scotland where the ‘tide’ is rapidly coming in.
I watched an episode of ‘countryfile’ the other day – I wish I hadn’t.
The awfully nice but awfully dim presenters were in Argyll marvelling at its beauty; completely oblivious to the fact they were actually in another country. Another country separate and distinct from their own. And out of all the ‘locals’ they spoke to only one had a Scots accent that I could discern- and he was basically a labourer.
I don’t often use expletives, but it was a fucking depressing thing to watch.
Indigenous Scots are looked down upon by some folks moving here who think Scotland is the northern-most part of England and the locals are backward – useful only as servants, labourers, or local ‘characters’ for their amusement.
And it seems the ‘pampered’ Scots don’t care; as long as they can have their two cars, their private healthcare, their expensive hobbies, their two or more holidays a year, and maybe even two ‘homes,’ they’re happy. They don’t give a damn about their ain land or their ain folk. I’m related to some of them so I know what I’m talking about.
They tolerate me and I, mostly, can’t be arsed with them.
I sometimes think us Scots don’t really belong on this planet. That maybe our ancestors crash-landed here millennia ago and we’ve been waiting long ages for the mother ship to come and take us home to oor ain world – because this one sure doesn’t feel like it half the time.
There’s no doubt about it, Alf. We’re down and the fight has almost been kicked out of us.
And a lot of us are asleep, preferring to live in a dream rather than face the reality of our predicament. And I can’t say I blame them.
All we have between us and oblivion are the most twisted, greedy, selfish, stupid, deranged, demented, degenerate, perverted, infantile, least and worst of us. The worst of us that have the nerve to call themselves our leaders.
Prancin’ aboot and thinkin’ their above us when they are, most of them, almost literally functioning at the most basic level a human being can function before returning to the mud for evolution to try again.
I’ll be honest. I don’t see a way out unless us Scots get some massive hauners fae the rest o the world.
I’ve included this excerpt from your book, Doun-Hauden, because it seems to offer a glimmer of hope and I don’t want my comments to be totally negative.
But by God, when I look around and see what’s going on – it’s hard to stay positive:
The men who would like to be ladies are a very small number of males who are:
Mentally ill
Have some fetish
The first group should be offered specialist care.
The second group should have the tackle removed without delay.
Neither group should be told that they are ladies, because they are not.
This whole area of discussion can be described as madness.
I just see the likes of Blackman as a toe curling embarrassment for Scotland, and the fact she can “thrive” as an MP despite such chronic inability is an indictment of UK politics, which in turn, reflects badly on Scotland. We could do so much better than this circus of corrupt incompetence.
Ireland can elect MEP’s like Clare Daly and Wick Wallace who stand tall, a credit to Ireland, putting the EU on the spot over their attitudes and hypocrisy towards Palestine and Eastern Europe, while Scotland has to listen to the deranged wittering idiocy of charlatan gravy slurpers like Blackman and her ilk.
A school would be in trouble if it had Blackman on it’s payroll as a teacher, so how and why she’s risen to any height at all in politics is a troubling mystery to me and indictment of the system. She’s somebody’s useful idiot, but certainly not Scotland’s.
There is something deeply flawed when the likes of Joanna Cherry has her abilities arbitrarily curtailed by incompetent and vindictive SNP “management”, while imbeciles like Blackman can make utter fools of themselves yet “fly” and never be held to account.
Cherry is discriminated against because she’s apparently not a team player, but the corollary of that is Blackman is… Which leads you to despair about the calibre and integrity of the team. Who would want to be on the team beside so many duds, charlatans and grifters?
Yet, it’s a feature of human compassion to make allowances for somebody’s shortcomings, but even so, assuming Blackman wasn’t an imbecile, and had some personality and ability, she would still be rightly derided and condemned for selling out every single supporter of Scottish Independence, who elected these douchebags to prise Scotland free of this accursed Union. Fraud’s and grifters the lot of them. Hell mend them.
Northcode at 1149pm,
In your comment, you touched on something which truly irks me, and it is this (quote)
“I watched an episode of ‘countryfile’ the other day – I wish I hadn’t.
The awfully nice but awfully dim presenters were in Argyll marvelling at its beauty; completely oblivious to the fact they were actually in another country. Another country separate and distinct from their own. And out of all the ‘locals’ they spoke to only one had a Scots accent that I could discern- and he was basically a labourer.
I don’t often use expletives, but it was a fucking depressing thing to watch.
Indigenous Scots are looked down upon by some folks moving here who think Scotland is the northern-most part of England and the locals are backward – useful only as servants, labourers, or local ‘characters’ for their amusement.”
THIS point, times 100.
I too see programmes such as that, where some southern english person comes up to Scotland to visit some English folk who have ‘made the brave move’, and decided to live in the (add your own ott adjectives) wild, untamed, harsh, difficult, challenging, remote – oh so very remote – highlands . It is typical lazy english patronising, colonial guff.
It is worse than that though, as you rightly say, some who move up here, DO look down there noses at actual Scots. Their was a report suggesting those with Scottish accents at one of Scotland’s universities were sneered at by english students because of their accents.
Like you and many other Scots I am heartily sick of it. I watched a programme recently with that posh English guy, Ben fogle, up in the remote harsh, wild, difficult (etc.. etc..) highlands. The entire programme pretty much consisted of him talking, as an Englishman, to some English folk who had moved up. Nae actual feckin Scots to confuse their English viewers.
People like Fogle have no self awareness as to just how f****ing patronising and colonial he is when in Scotland. He does it in other countries too.
Do we really need, yet another English oxbridge type, coming up to explore the ‘wilds and remote parts’ of Scotland. Can we not get somebody who actually was born here to talk about their own feckin country, Scotland?
I do not doubt we shall see more telly programmes with posh English types up in ‘remote Scotland’, or else just in ‘the highlands’ without ever mentioning the word Scotland, and rarely actually speaking to anybody with a Scottish accent.
The point is, however, that most Scots hate such patronising crap. Sadly, under English colonial rule, we should expect more of it, especially now the SNP have completely given up on independence
The Covid Enquiry begins just as I feared a very long and expensive nothing.
We have the Tories refusing to hand over all evidence requested.
I see this morning that the U.K. “May” not have been prepared for an epidemic?
The Cygnus exercise was designed to show how prepared the U.K. was face such a crisis.
It unequivocally demonstrated that the U.K. was not prepared by any means.
The Tories decided not to invest in the recommendations made.
I want the names of those behind the decision as this was negligent to the degree it cost many thousands of lives.
Will the be named, accused, or punished.
No they won’t as they hide safe in the heart of the Westminster mafia.
Truth and justice in U.K. politics either died a long time ago or more likely never existed and has no possibility of manifest itself in parliament.
@Breeks says:14 June, 2023 at 5:44 am
Ireland can elect MEP’s like Clare Daly and Wick Wallace who stand tall, a credit to Ireland, putting the EU on the spot over their attitudes and hypocrisy towards Palestine and Eastern Europe
Never heard of these people, but I’ll keep a look out for their names, in case they ever achieve anything worthwhile.
Like a change in the attitudes, policies and actions of the EU, for example. There has certainly been some fundamental changes in the past 18 months, but not anything that can be attributed to Irish MEP’s, quite the opposite.
Checked Google Maps, and I can’t find Palestine anywhere.
Eastern Europe is easy enough to find though. Most of the EU, particularly the Eastern European nations, are busy trying to push back an old-fashioned, imperialist, aggressor, occupying power. Such a shame that many in the Indy movement don’t seem able to pick the right side in this existentialist conflict. What with its implications for Scotland’s fight against her very own old-fashioned, imperialist, aggressor, occupying power.
Honestly, support for the non-existent country of Palestine, hatred for the very-existent country of 404! Where’s the rationale and rationality behind that kind of pretzel logic?
Best stay out of the sun today, Breeks.
Robert Louis @6:57 am
Fogle of course was one of the 200 celebrity fools who sent the open letter to the Guardian in 2014 protesting their love of Scotland and how we must stay in the precious family of UK nations etc etc.
@Effijy 7:02
Covid came from a lab in China. It is a genetically engineered (man-made) virus, a naturally-occurring virus originally, modified in the lab specifically for increased human infectiousness.
If not a bio-weapon itself, it is a precursor to a bio-weapon, to allow studies on the best approaches that will lead to an ultimate human-killing virus.
I want the names of the people responsible for that, and sanctions against the government and economy of China, because they aided and abetted its world-wide spread.
BTW, Congratulations on a post not name-dropping Boris. See? It can be done.
Robert Louis, at 6:57 am,
what utter tripe. Total nonsense. All of it.
I’ll tell you what. I have colonised that poor country down south. Taken an English woman, given her my bairns, and we are all of us in the business of extracting as much of England’s resources as we can.
Get a fucking grip, man.
Another day and still no one in the media asking the question, ‘why did those lawyers, including the presiding judge, resign from the Scottish Government’s Covid inquiry?’ I am beginning to suspect a cover up which will dwarf the current scandals.
@Northcode says:13 June, 2023 at 11:49 pm
All we have between us and oblivion are the most twisted, greedy, selfish, stupid, deranged, demented, degenerate, perverted, infantile, least and worst of us. The worst of us that have the nerve to call themselves our leaders
It’s an objective fact that any English person living in England can say the same thing about England.
When are indigenous English scheduled to become a minority in England? 2050-2060 I believe.
It’s debatable which nation will lose its indigenous majority first, Scotland or England.
Ignoring that massive herd of elephants in the room doesn’t help IMHO. The people colonising England want Scotland and Wales too.
And BTW, that estimate of 2050-2060 assumes no massive climate destruction or nuclear war in the meantime. Go figure.
I remember well the time when even in the country areas being populated by incomers from the South AND prosperous retirees from the central belt, a thriving community existed. Socially rich, though poor by today’s inflated monetary standards.
Where we get it wrong, is in the view that the incomers caused the social collapse. The social changes in family life, the lack of families with children, the mad attraction to media, social media to replace human interaction, all these things created a social vacuum which has been quickly filled by drones of all nationalities
Scotland has changed and bitterness or blame laying wont bring back the times when everyone had a sense of purpose, when our kids were educated not indoctrinated, when we all knew that the country did not owe us a life and contribution was the order of the day, not self-obsession.
@A Scot Abroad says:14 June, 2023 at 7:30 am
I’ll tell you what. I have colonised that poor country down south
Of course you have. You and about 20 million other colonists. Numbers rising by 600 thousand PA.
And here’s the thing. You still think of yourself as “A Scot”, just as all these other millions think of themselves as of wherever they came from, not English.
This colonialism lark is everywhere you look. It’s unstoppable. The trick, IMO, is to engage the colonists to support what the indigenous people actually want, because the numbers of colonists are so high that they can’t be fought.
So in Scotland, Show Us (& The Colonists) The Fucking Money!
Concensus?
Link to Hansard transcript of the debate, (Blackman’s effort at 7.00PM) :
link to hansard.parliament.uk
I think if we could see exactly who protected Jimmy Saville his whole life and enabled and covered up all his abuse then we would see who really holds power in the UK.
They literally gave him the keys to hospitals and furnished him with his own bedroom for his personal use… to rape mentally disabled people.
Even as kid I could tell Saville was an absolute creep. Everyone seemed to know yet he was allowed to carry on untouched. He was obviously protected at the highest levels.
Look at the access he had… Thatcher writing gushing letters repeatedly to get him knighted. Her cabinet stuffed with paedos, Leon Brittan who buried Geoffrey Dickens’ “explosive” paedophile dossier.
bbc.com/news/uk-politics-28141531
It seems like paedophilia is an integral ‘tool’ in controlling people who are allowed to rise to powerful positions.
Apart from being able to reliably control them forever think about the psychological profile of someone who is capable of raping children, babies… pure psychos, you’d have to be to do that (and not kill yourself afterwards).
It sure does explain a lot when we look at the ruling elites running Western countries.
There should have been a judge led public inquiry into who protected Saville and how. He was even outed on live TV by Jonny Rotten and yet nothing happened… he just carried on. Saville was an untouchable for some reason.
The fact the BBC was probably his greatest abuse enabler is not a coincidence either…
Britain is one fucked up country underneath the wafer thin veneer of respectability.
Those who would deny Scotland’s status as a «last colony» might consider the manner in which the country is presented to the world, it is never direct, never straight from source always almost unexceptionally through filters/prisms manufactured elsewhere.
International reporting about Scotland comes from journalists based in London. Scotland’s history is rarely «indigenous» but constructed to fit a narrative ideologically promoting a land rated inferior to its neighbour. The notion that the neighbour is truly interested in its supposed partner is easily verified by the glazing over of the eyes when the S word enters the discourse. Check it out it.
Of course if you choose to be somebody’s toilet tissue you know where you end up.
Trouble with using nonsense on stilts as an argument against indy is that its arguably the British state thats paying the salaries of those promoting it – seasonal flu related nonsense on stilts from 2020 (going on eternity) being a prime example.
This falls into the same category imuo (from a/the previous justice secretary no less):
“It’s perhaps not as well understood that arrest is just a way of making sure that the interview and information gathering by the police is put into formal footing.”
ie Arbitrary arrest and detention is standard procedure, and can be justified by something as pernicious as internal document control & sanitisation.
The worst example of minor abuse and even Paedophilia which I recall recently was by Stonewall Youth Scotland.
WRT Kirsty Blockhead not really knowing whether she has XY or XX chromosones or not. She doesn’t really need to know.
Nature (and parents) have already done everything for her..!
She is obviously an adult human female who likes to shag with her adult human male XY and produce children (nature sends its regards) who also possess XY or XX chromosomes.
Providing that those kids don’t end up in the fangs of the Trans nutters, then they in turn will pass on the required chromosomes.
One thing I would bet money on is that the powers that protected Saville are the same power that is pushing all this transgender poison on us and vulnerable children.
Encouraging vulnerable children to self mutilate themselves. What is that if not evil? It is completely indistinguishable from evil so therefore it is evil because evil is what evil does. It does not matter if you believe in evil. What matters is that they clearly do. And that should make you think… What was the greatest trick the devil ever pulled again?
This blog was way ahead of the game on this subject. Look at what it has all morphed into. Talking kids into taking drugs that are used to chemically castrate them.
It is obscene and blatant child abuse. The law suits coming out of this trans era of insanity are going to be monumental…
The people involved in promoting and encouraging it all are sick evil b@st@rds who deserve jailing.
Morons like Blackman above don’t even know what ‘side’ they on.
Why do some believe SNP is a threat to the Union?
Put that threat into words.. What exactly is SNP gonna do that threatens the Union?
Good luck, with the answer.
John Main,
This is you 250 years ago;
“Where the money is to come from which will defray this enormous annual expense of three millions sterling, and all those other debts, I know not; unless the author of Common Sense, or some other ingenious projector, can discover the Philosopher’s Stone, by which iron and other base metals may be transmuted into gold. Certain I am that our commerce and agriculture, the two principal sources of our wealth, will not support such an expense. The whole of our exports from the Thirteen United Colonies, in the year 1769, amounted only to £2,887,898 sterling; which is not so much, by near half a million, as our annual expense would be were we independent of Great Britain. Those exports; with no inconsiderable part of the profits arising from them, it is well known, centered finally in Britain to pay the merchants and manufacturers there for goods we had imported thence—and yet left us still in debt! What then must our situation be, or what the state of our trade, when oppressed with such a burden of annual expense! When every article of commerce, every necessary of life, together with our lands, must be heavily taxed to defray that expense!
—Charles Inglis, 1776, Pennsylvania”
I think it was Breeks that, about a week ago, was kind enough to give you a link with John Jappy telling you exactly where the “fucking money” is.
Be a good chap and enlighten yourself.
A propos, well nearly, the capabilities of members of the Scottish government, I note that a schoolgirl called Màiri McAllan now has such a pile of portfolios in her remit, that she can stand on them to see over her desk.
Here she is extolling her love of the legal profession and bewailing the fact that most lawyers are men. “The legal profession is still largely based on traditional hourly-rate billing and so success in the industry remains intrinsically linked to working long and unpredictable hours”*. That was five years ago, and her love of the legal profession apparently deserted her shortly afterwards. She became an advisor to Ms Sturgeon and then an MSP in 2021.
Some 40 years ago our family lawyer was a female. The last time I spoke to a lawyer the fee was £500 per hour. I’d have thought that even working part time that would be enough to live on?
What hope is there?
*https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/100years/100voices/mairi-mcallan/
Effigy,
Now that you have the benefit of hindsight, how would you have proceeded with the pandemic?
Now that we know we were lied to at every juncture, I’m curious to know if you are still willing to trust the untrustworthy?
@ Stuart MacKay
A new site that may have articles voices.scot may on occasion link to.
link to offtopicscotland.com
‘Dearie me’ seems to be an expression used before by another singing the Nicola and co praises.
It is almost unbelievable that there are folk still voting for what is a disintegrating party who think devolution is the best option for a nice salary for themselves and independence can go hang.
John Main 7.50am
You get locked up for having a conversation with yourself.
Troll tosser.
AKA as the puppet master, operating all his puppet Trolls.
What a fuckin clown.
@Breastplate says:14 June, 2023 at 9:36 am
I know exactly where the money is. It’s in other people’s and other organisation’s and other government’s bank accounts.
All I am asking for is a plausible process by which the money is transferred into my bank account. And the bank accounts of other Scots. And the accounts of the masses of new Scots, without whose agreement and support, Indy ain’t gonna happen at all.
You can tell me ScotGov will seize all assets without compensation. That would work, with a few decades of poverty first.
You can tell me ScotGov will be lent money from China in BRICS currency to buy out the owners at fair market value, with China taking ownership of all assets, as per standard practice for African ex-colonies these days. That would work too, after a fashion, but in that model, Scots at the bottom will get nowt, as per Africa.
You can tell me some half-way house compromise. Maybes Brussels will sort it out for us, providing we chip in big-time into the EU budget. Which is only right for a rich country like Scotland. But then, what will be left for me?
You just can’t tell me “After Indy, Rodders, we will be millionaires”. Because I don’t trust the likes of eejits like Oor Kirsty with the money or ability to go to the chipper on my behalf.
Over to you.
@Ron Clark says:14 June, 2023 at 9:58 am
You get locked up for having a conversation with yourself
FFS, that means I’ve just conjured you up from my imagination! Now that is concerning.
Nah, just my little joke Ron. Crack open your bedroom curtains for a mo and have a keek. Once you have adjusted to the unaccustomed brilliance of daylight, you’ll see it’s a stoater of a day.
Tell yer maw yer aff oot fer some fresh air, and ye winna need yer scarf.
Local to me there was, a while ago, a subtle news blackout on teen suicides. I assume those-who-knew feared an outbreak of copy events driven by the publicity.
One would hope our politicians could be equally aware. It seems not, since they use the threats for leverage,.
An innarestin article on Unherd this morning: “South Africa’s infinite humiliation”. It gives plenty of detail on what happens to aspirational independent countries with completely corrupt ruling elites that decide their future lies with BRICS.
Breeks and his supporters better stick their fingers in their ears now:
“La la la la”.
OT.
Just learned the Daily Telegraph has been put up for auction as it’s gone into receivership. Also, according to Indy Car Gordon Ross, the Daily Record has but 3 (three) news reporters, of which only 2 live in Scotland. Furthermore, the Record is moving to smaller offices, as a direct result of the doomed ship’s sinking.
Driving across Glasgow’s Kingston bridge and you couldn’t miss ‘DAILY RECORD’ ‘SUNDAY MAIL’ emblazoned across the gigantic building in Finnieston. Changed days, I’m delighted the utterly destructive, toxic, murderous British rag is going to Hell.
John Main @ 7:42 am
“It’s debatable which nation will lose its indigenous majority first, Scotland or England.”
History and postcolonial theory tells us that a colonised nation is always in the process of ‘perishing’ (Memmi). Once the ‘indigenous majority disappears’, so does the momentum for independence which is dependent on ‘the solidarity of the oppressed ethnic group’ (Hechter).
The clue was always there in wee crazy Kirsty’s last name: BlackMAN. She’s just finally goosestepping out of the closet. And I wish she would fuck off back in there and close the door. Permanently. Wonder how the father of her children feels now that he knows he knocked up a man without his previous knowledge…twice. Must be a headfuck.
The newest adhetent to any religion is always the most militant, zealotic, OTT…and fucking stupid. Look at the shite-havering BlackMAN to see the incontrovertible truth of this statement. She’s what happens when you finally let dim, slightly unstable people have knowledge of previously fringe activities, and, like Sturgeon, they want to appear cool and hip and trendy. Whilst being none of them. Ever.
Wee FakeMAN needs to make up for lost time being straight or gay or bi or trans or whatever she is saying she is today. As for her partner, I would be bailing and taking the kids. Cos the chromosome-based shite she blethered is like a tacit subconscious admission of being an unhappy, confused person in an unhappy marriage. As well as her just being just plain horrendously embarrassing in general. Poor guy and kids. Imagine having to put up with that in public.
Fiction and post-colonic operations tells us that a colon is always in the state of motion (Meh). Once the disgested matter disappears, so does the peristatltic motion which is dependent on the solidarity of the about to be extruded material (Heathcote)
Alf Baird
The comments section of this article were, up till now, refreshingly free from the 300 year old crap and the ‘colonialism’ shite.
Then up pops Baird with the same drivel he has posted 948 times. Unfortunately, this time he has failed to include some couthy Scots phrases and words but he has of course, added some quotes/words of wisdom from the usual sources in a failed attempt to impress. Of course the BPHB will love it………….again!
The bill to Scotland, for removing the Stone of Destiny to England.
The national,
Personally it might be recommended those two need a proper crowning by Scotlands tax payers,
Trying to persuade soft No’s into yes, has been a slow process since 2014,
However we have seen that it rises a lot faster since the unionist have started the “Colonial othering” of Scots who want their independence.
A similar resulting parallel is Also happening in America,
The more they try indict trump the more popular he has become,
This scenario of making martyrs from the opposition has a repeated history, everyone starts fighting for the underdog,
A quirk of nature in human psychology.
@James Che 12:04pm
Once again you have raised my spirits, James 🙂
Us Scots might get hauners yet.
SNP deserves everything flung at them. They should be paraded and pelted with balls of shite!
That’s what happens when Devolution is adopted as the core principle of Scottish politics, with no intention of putting Westminster in the bin, as is our democratic right, to do so!
And we are supposed to give two fucks whether WM closes Holyrood!
When can we expect a vote, to end Devolution, simultaneously binning the Scotland Act?
John Main,
It seems to me that you’re saying that the London government has gotten Scotland into a bit of a pickle with large dollops of incompetence and at the same time Westminster is falling over itself to fill up your bank account, you must be that Jack that’s alright. Well done you.
As the only person on this site whose family has had a long history of engagement with colonialism whether Arab, Ottoman, British or American it does surprise me how often the people «colonized» are unaware of their bondage in their «best of all possible worlds».
At the moment Scotland is adrift in a sea of existentially predatory sharks picking off plump prey at will, something which once again people are not encouraged to recognize
«Woke» killed the drive for independence but this cult is still being promoted by Scotland’s mainstream.
Who gains? The «theys», the false friends, carpetbagging «sympathisers» et al. not the real us by the look of things.
Sturgeon and her moles did a good job for old mother Britannia.
dasBlimp/Chas
It is unfortunate that at the very term, “post colonial theory would indicate” or a switch from understandable written english to some form of dialect this old pensioner’s attention is lost.
I say unfortunate, because essentially I have great respect for Prof Baird and have, on occasion, been profited by his insights and information.
I now retire to my bunker to hide from the accusations that I’m really an AI bot, J Main, AsA or an operative of the 77th Brigade.
Dan
Thanks for the link. They don’t have an RSS feed so I’ll have a look through and add any articles of interest by hand. The article you linked to puts them firmly in the “impatient-wing” of the independence movement. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.
@John Main 14th June 7:42am
I can’t disagree with you there.
In many ways England’s elected representatives are just as bad as Scotland’s
The difference, of course, is that English politicians have all the powers they need to make life better for the peoples of all of the countries that currently make up the UK – the political leaders of Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland don’t.
And you may well be right; climate destruction might just motivate our planet to simply scratch away the irritating itch that is humanity.
@ Alf Baird says:14 June, 2023 at 10:59 am
“It’s debatable which nation will lose its indigenous majority first, Scotland or England.”
Thanks for your reply.
I have re-quoted my statement (which you yourself quoted) because it seems pertinent to me.
Once somebody becomes “sensitised” to colonisation, that person starts to see it everywhere. I certainly see far more in-your-face evidence of England’s colonisation than I do of Scotland’s. And then there’s the openly available numbers to back up my position.
England is being colonised at a speed and scale unprecedented in history, and to the extent that well within the lifetimes of many readers here, English people will become a minority in England.
“Woo hoo, bring it on”, I hear some of the knuckle draggers on here say. Yet the fact of England’s colonisation is probably the biggest driver of Scotland’s colonisation.
And the people colonising England have their sights on Scotland too.
So people need to be careful what they wish for.
And/or learn to appreciate and understand the bigger picture outside of Scotland’s borders.
Where has all the money gone Mr Main ?
Huv yersel ,the chas wan and A Scot abroood goat it awe? Jist asking.
And when are you going to pay it off-and to who?
link to ons.gov.uk
I should have looked this up, before. Cath Ferguson had a few articles on Wings back in 2013-14, link to voices.scot
If some of the authors from around the time of the indyref are dusting off their keyboards then Off-Topic Scotland seems like a very welcome development. A couple of sites like these and a burgeoning pool of contributors would go a very long way in taking off the pressure on the solo bloggers and the attrition that creates. I’m looking forward to see what appears in the next few months.
BTW Ian Brotherhood, a very belated Happy Birthday.
@Breastplate says:14 June, 2023 at 12:58 pm
It seems to me that you’re saying
Then I am not writing as clearly as I think I am.
@Sven says:14 June, 2023 at 1:07 pm
I now retire to my bunker to hide from the accusations that I’m really an AI bot, J Main, AsA or an operative of the 77th Brigade
Any chance we can swap shifts tomorrow?
I’m down for tomorrow night, but I have a weekend pass and rail warrant valid from 9AM friday.
I’ll do the same for you when your next leave is due.
John Main 7:50am
‘This colonialism lark is everywhere you look. It’s unstoppable. The trick, IMO, is to engage the colonists to support what the indigenous people actually want, because the numbers of colonists are so high that they can’t be fought.’
The thing is, calling this colonialism is false. Very few on here seem to know what colonialism actually is (including one Alf Baird) and one thing it is not, is people simply moving or trying to move to another country, even in large numbers! It is not an occupation and English people living in Scotland, for example, are not ‘colonial occupiers’, a crassly stupid and hugely divisive perspective. But then I notice the word colonial is now used like so much confetti for all sorts of stuff and is rapidly losing all meaning.
But I agree with your sentiment on the whole but in order to help the incomers to support the locals, they need to be made to feel they have a stake and to also feel part of what is going on. In the end their offspring *will* become Scottish or English or whatever so calling them colonialists (fake but also pejorative) will have the opposite effect to supporting what ‘indigenous’ people want (and that also assumes we know what the latter is and is agreed on; a different argument though).
But what people also have to face up to is that in that process culture changes, influenced by the new people but that does not the culture becomes alien. In England, black music like grime, dnb and certain types of rap now has quite a distinctive English twist (English as drawing on broadly English cultural heritage) and so is unlike its American equivalent. This is a good thing.
Colonialism. Alive and well and flourishing at different times in Kenya, Aden, NI and Iraq.
England isn’t being colonised, it is suffering a backlash of its history as an imperial power. It also suffers as a culture from a grand dose of xenophobia and look! – the outsider at the gate, while the elite syphon off all the money and blame the poor wee bastard in an inflatable fleeing war and looking for a better, safer, decent life (it must be a real shithole they left to want to come to “the UK”). As far as Scotland being overrun, I think that’s a wee bit doom and gloom pessimistic – there’s plenty of us left. So, heads and chins up and let’s all work for our liberation. We can’t leave it to politicians as we’ve seen what they have become. We also need to give them a good hosing down and out at the earliest opportunity.
@ John Main 13.37
Oh dearie me, now you really have dropped me in it. If we only had a “Like/Dislike etc” option I could just have popped up a laugh emoji.
Now I’ll likely be accused of talking to myself (in truth, I’m at the stage of life I do occasionally find myself doing that). I don’t, however post to myself.
I should probably close by adding, “lang may yer lum reek”, or “mony a mickle maks a muckle” or some such Rabbie Burns soundalike phrase. However, conversant though I am in my native weegie, learning (actually having it belted into me in the 1950s) basic english grammar, syntax and spelling it’ll probably be with me until I die.
Alf Baird being attacked by the arsehole brigade (whatever it is, the best and brightest of british intel, or an unemployed fanny with a vpn) is a good thing; it is a very sad thing to write a proper book and not upset anyone. UN Decolonisation is a viable solution, and that panics them; also notice the way they go after anyone who wants to check the fine print of these dusty old documents that shape our lives.
– the new census has been mentioned, seems to have fallen down the memory hole, but I came across some old data with an interactive interface, the moneyshot category being –
WHITE OTHER BRITISH
– whoever could that be? Is it one of those abominations of word-torture like “biological front hole, front feeding non-male humans”? A definition borne of sophistry, designed to hide the truth? – must be a posh word for such a literary device, maybe NorthCode will tell us.
In that available data (can’t find the link), you can see quite clearly what we are dealing with :
W-OB are an infestation, an invasive species.
They rob the Scots several ways, first of all the unearned wealth they receive from being in the trickle down zone – the golden triangle of the UK, powered by the real wealth of the oil, which is collateral for the city to print paper and do deals in funny money; then the wealth from the benefit of the southern property bubble, inflated deliberately by the bank of england (only stupid anglos could pay more for housing and think themselves richer), which they then cash in at retirement (or earlier) and then move to Scotland, which they think is some district of England. This then prices young Scots out of the property market as prices rise, so its a quadruple screwing.
– people who rob you repeatedly, disrespect you, then hector you and expect you to be grateful about it all – are really walking on very thin ice and fail to appreciate the true power dynamic, gas lighters and toilet roll being cheap.
The demographic change in Scotland that is relevant is actually nothing at all to do with the asylum seekers and all that – it is “white” people, who think they are better than us and it is their right to be here. The highlands and borders are already getting to the point where the incomers can dominate politics if they bloc vote, given the fuckedup system. Now see if you can get them out. The danes don’t let the rich germans walk in and buy them out neither should we.
All anglo history written by anglos is a fabrication – the truth is almost exact opposite; here is the central fact for you
THE ANGLO HAS BEEN BOOTED OUT OF MORE THEN 50 COUNTRIES ALL AROUND THE WORLD – no one ever wanted them back, or had a good word to say about the experience. Most folks can’t stand them.
– this is not a people, it is a destructive virus. Every evil piece of shite for the past 1000 years has had anglo fingerprints all over it, but the Scots – “let’s not be racist” – are frightened to point this out; it’s like palestinians being worried about “antisemitism”.
It is a shame William of Normandy wimped out, treated the Anglo-Saxons with too soft a hand, a lot of problems would be nipped in the bud.
Now someone will say “not all english are like that”/”my ma is english”/”my english pal supports indy” – outliers mean nothing in these matters; incomer support for the union is at least 80:20 – which is as unanimous as political opinions get. Focus on the enemy and stop being shy about it. Also remember the class element – our middle class is half anglo, half anglophile – and they punch above their weight because they are the people who run things, and this is why almost every politician is into devolution; this is how the mentality goes
“I’ve got a nice job … ”
-THE SYSTEM WORKS
Being in the union denied every Scot a better life (often a much better life) he could/should have had. Anger is more than justified.
Ultimately, the best revenge will be to live well – a prosperous Scotland economically insulated from England, as well as culturally, politically; I hope we build a big wall with razor wire and machine guns. Then, like a man on lifeboat on his own, full of the finest food and drink, watch as a ship of fools slides beneath the waves. SE England is destined to become either a desert, or to fall beneath the sea, the midlands some Children of Men dystopia, and the remnants looking for a lifeboat that isn’t there.
– our day will come, for tomorrow belongs to us.
@JockMcT 1:57pm
Just like James Che you, too, have lifted my spirits.
SOUTHERNBYSTANDER.
When does a curious visitor, become an immigrant, a settler, a colonist, an occupier?
This is a matter in which generously welcoming the stranger willy nilly may become self defeating, an act of national folly.
The Romans, Arabs, French, British, Americans knew the score.
Scots have so much to learn on this not over complex subject should they ever manage to get their heads out of the clouds of «not us» exceptionalism.
Knowing you’ve been taken for suckers is a move in that direction.
This is the kind of idiotic and pervasive attitude that’s now prevalent within the current SNP, MSPs/MPs with a low moral standing and IQ’s to match, as long as they toe-the party line and don’t make waves their place at the side of the taxpayers trough is secure, whilst the country (Scotland) circles the plug hole.
The only way to arrest the decline is to vote this lot out of office, the current SNP MSPs and MPs bar one or two need to be voted out of office this includes the disgusting Greens they must go as well. Both the Greens and the SNP have no interest in Scottish independence.
It will get worse before it gets better, as Sturgeon the betrayer has done untold damage not just to the indy cause but to Scotland as a whole and Yousless will continue this decline.
Vote Alba, Join Alba, get the SNP and the Greens out of office
Unbelievable.
“A TWEET which appeared to threaten the life of an SNP MP was not criminal, police have said.
Joanna Cherry reported a tweet in which a Twitter user – who appears to have since deleted their account – threatened: “I’d kill her with my bare hands if I saw her [in real life]”.
The Metropolitan Police have now said they reviewed the post and concluded it “did not meet the criminal threshold for an offence”.
A spokesperson for the London force said: “On Tuesday, June 13, the Met was made aware of a tweet received by a serving MP.
“The contents were assessed and it was deemed this did not meet the criminal threshold for an offence.”
“SNP MSPs sent flowers to former First Minister Sturgeon as a mark of sympathy following her arrest.”
If the above isn’t proof that SNP MSPs aren’t worth saving I don’t know what is. I don’t recall those b*stards sending flowers to Alex Salmond when he was falsely arrested.
Vote Alba Join Alba.
JockMcT @ 1:57 pm
“England isn’t being colonised, it is suffering a backlash of its history as an imperial power.”
An astute and accurate observation, which is also changing the populations of other ‘Imperial Powers’, notably France, and USA. As colonialism was/is ‘a cooperative arrangement’ with native elites/collaborators, there is the inevitable exodus of such ‘elites’ from former oppressed territories upon their independence/decolonization. We saw this most recently with Afghanistan.
The colonized elites who initially sought and craved for the national identity of their oppressor, necessary in order to hold their own people down, are often dismayed upon their ‘rejection’ within the mother country (Memmi).
And on the fickle ferries fiasco, which itself is likewise inevitably connected with our colonial reality and a ‘mediocre meritocracy’:
link to barrheadboy.com
SNP appoint a complaint Chief Constable to oversee Police Scotland, Jo Farrell ex-head of Durham police failed to question Dominic Cummings on his jaunt to Barnard Castle during the Covid Pandemic.
@Stuart MacKay (1.29) –
Thanks very much!
😉
Humza pulling strings to help out Nicola with appointment of a female chief of police straight from the Durham beergate ‘nothing to see here’ backing of NewLabour.
Nice little thumb to have on the scales of justice, or am I being cynical, perhaps she will be relentless in standing up for the small scale donor and party activists betrayed by leadership malfeasance in office.
@Alf Baird 3.08 pm
“The colonized elites who initially sought and craved for the national identity of their oppressor, necessary in order to hold their own people down, are often dismayed upon their ‘rejection’ within the mother country (Memmi).”
For example, Ulster Unionists.
John Main@1:30pm,
Perhaps you’re not.
You seem preoccupied by an independent Scotland paying money into your bank account, one of the reasons you don’t want self determination for Scotland is that you don’t know where you’re going to get this money from. This can only be a bone of contention if you are already getting this money from a Westminster government, otherwise it is an unfair parallel, is it not?
So are you getting money shovelled into your bank account by Westminster or are you not?
If you aren’t, then why demand of Scotland something you’re already not getting.
If you are, why can’t an independent Scotland produce the equivalent?
I suspect your reasons are the same 250 year old reasons as that of Charles Inglis that I have previously posted for your perusal and as a reminder that the British government were lying then to the Americans as they are lying now to the Scots.
Ian Smith @ 13.13.
No, you are being neither cynical, nor yet even sceptical. You are being absolutely realistic in your recognition that the once greatly respected and emulated Scots legal system; Courts, Judiciary, Police and Prosecutorial service are now widely accepted as just being manipulated without comeback by our political rulers.
As I was told many years ago in regard to professional, career politicians … “They do not wish to do good, they are content if they can look good”. Although, our present lot don’t even seem able to accomplish ‘looking good’.
If we are talking appropriate then the flowers the party sent ought to have been a big bunch of narcissus. Given the lack of funds though it was likely some petrol station roses.
What an insult to the honest officers of police Scotland that the corrupt SNP Government hire some outsider to be their chief of police.
After the last one trashed the entire reputation of police Scotland on his way out.
We’re living in a bannana kingdom with unicorns.
@JockMcT
“fleeing war and looking for a better, safer, decent life”
You are talking about mainland Europe and bad timing after what happened in Nottingham.
North Code.
Nae bother, keep smiling, hope and determination are always the best options, it overcomes most issues;-)
I’d like to make clear that, although Prof. Alf Baird’s book is a disheartening read at times, it is at the same time a must-read for all indigenous Scots.
I am grateful that he has gone to the effort of exploring, researching, and gathering together the facts that clearly identify Scotland’s Bane into a single accessible text.
In an earlier comment I expressed how finding out about the true condition of indigenous Scots has, on occasion, negatively affected me.
I’m coming to the realisation that this is part of the process of recovery. Recovery from the aberrant condition created, over many generations, on the Scots psyche by an oppressive coloniser.
I think perhaps it is a process a few on here are familiar with. I know James Che is and his words of encouragement have been most helpful.
It isn’t a pleasant experience to be roused from a stupor to find yourself a victim of calculated and deliberate and malicious oppression.
Discovering the truth about Scotland’s Bane has induced in me a process of recovery which is enlightening and dispiriting and liberating and maddening, all in equal measure.
I suspect it’s a process most indigenous Scots will have to endure.
Westminster parliament think Scotland is a Colony,
The proof is in the Colonial Stock Scotland Act.
It identifies Scotland as a Colony in “their” eyes
It is not recorded as the Colony Stock UK Act.
Nor is it recorded as the Colony Stock England Act,
Nor as Colony Stock Great Britain,
It is very specific which Country it (Westminster) identifies as a Colony within the isles of Britain,
Another reason to take ” Stock” in Scotland with regards the fallacious treaty of union 😉
@David Hannah 14th June 3:46pm
Every breath they take
Every move they make
Every bond they break
Every step they take…just confirms Alf Baird’s theories on colonisation
You might have noticed that I’ve paraphrased some of the lyrics from a song by “The Police” from their album “Synchronicity” (1983).
Confused says:
‘It is a shame William of Normandy wimped out and treated the Anglo-Saxons with too soft a hand, a lot of problems would be nipped in the bud.’
Have you heard of the harrying of the North? I don’t know what you have against the Anglo-Saxon who was invited into these islands to fight the ever-invading Vikings. They then settled. It is the Norman/French that are the bane of all Scotland’s ills – and of the Anglo-Saxon English that exist today.
David Hannah @3:46
Guess she knows whats expected of her with the (ahem) continuity FM promising to throw everyone that doesn’t support the camping car 3 off the gravy train.. no pressure!
NCA/IACC to ramp up the humiliation (or not, which risks being even more suspicious!) with arrest of FM in 3,2..
@Northcode 14 June 4:47 pm
Clever and blindingly obvious. What can an Officer from a foreign legal jurisdiction possibly bring here?
correction:
“..arrest of *ANOTHER (SNP)* FM..”
Bright side, encouraging episode of Prism earlier regardless:
link to youtube.com
Northcode @ 4:19 pm
“I suspect it’s a process most indigenous Scots will have to endure.”
Thanks for these insights. Some readers of ‘Doun-Hauden’ have referred to it as being ‘a lightbulb moment’ as, among other oppression’s they recollect hivvin thair ain braw Scots mither tongue beltit oot o thaim in schuil.
The ‘colonial condition’ does require better understanding and a problem here remains a pampered native bourgeois and political class wha aye taks awfu weel tae meemickin the colonizer’s tongue an cultural vailyies, i.e. thair wey o daein awthing.
Of course, as we can readily see btl here, such anti-colonial literature is seldom welcomed by the colonizer group; the latter depends on the Imperial myth continuing and seeks to ensure that any prospect of independence (and hence liberation from oppression) is made to seem impossible for the native.
James Che at 4:29 pm
Westminster parliament think Scotland is a Colony,
The proof is in the Colonial Stock Scotland Act.
Not found by Google. Does it exist? There’s a Colonial Stock Act 1877.
This from SNP MP James Dornan, smacks of desperation, poor wee sweet innocent Nicola.
link to twitter.com
Vote Alba, Join Alba and get as many SNP MPs and MSPs out of office as possible, the current SNP/Greens cult, makes Ron L. Hubbard’s Scientology movement look group of amateurs.
North Code,
Alf Baird.
Scotland has been Colonised for a long period of time,
And until Alf put two and two together many Scots never realised they were a colony of Westminster,
Although the fact that “we” have a comparable styled devolved government sent to Scotland under Westminster appointed management and British level legislation under the Crown should have been a clue,
It rocks and rolls its way to being as close to the system that was put in place in India by the old British empire in its heyday.
That is system of one sided Colonial control into and over Scotland was extended, when the decision was taken to extinguish the Scottish parliament in Westminster/England and by the Monarchs proclamation that followed close behind also in 1707.
Then in the 1800s the records from Westminster recording Scotland as Colony in the Stock Scotland Acts, which covered everything from railways, to land and sea aquisitions for many.
This is still going on in a more subtle way,
It is carried out under public land and housing laws by Council’s ,and then the selling of public halls, public libraries, schools and even public toilet buildings
All these were maintained by public amentities purse strings through taxation of the public.
What once was public servants and public Council are now amalgamated into Corporations/Councils part private, but still lingering onto the attached name of public on the surface,
On closer inspection you find the shared housing stock of this corporate body for profit since it began has been depleted through sales
The Councils are now part of the of that grab, from old tracks and rights of way, to common ground that was swallowed up by the Councils. Under a devolved government, under uk legislation, under the Scotland Act, under the Crown,
Many other once public now privatised amenities such as Scottish hydro, Scottish Water, public licences for fishing, oil have all gone the same way,
Scotland is still being sold for Westminsters gold,
Under the name of Colonisation,
For there is no Scotland in a treaty once extinguished from that treaty,
Someone mentioned the BBC’s Countryfile sending posh boys to patronise the locals. They do that all over the UK so don’t fret about it. There’s more rural and farming info in The Archers. Adam’s Farm is a theme park where there’s no mud and no animal ever dies.
Alec Salmond on Radio Scotland with John Beattie (around 17:45) saying continuity won’t cut it, something more purposeful is needed to take control again and a unified slate of independence candidates from independence-minded parties should be drawn up for the general election.
Meanwhile the SNP cults puppet FM Yousless has come out guns blazing and backing Sturgeon the betrayer.
“Humza Yousaf told his MSPs they should quit the SNP if they refuse to give their full backing to Nicola Sturgeon following her arrest by police investigating the party’s finances.”
No doubt all the SNP cults MSPs and MPs will be ringing up Interflora and sending a bouquet of flowers to Sturgeon to show their undying loyalty, and to keep their seats on the taxpayers gravy train the latter being the goal.
@ Effijy 7.02am I agree with your scathing comments repeatedly about the WM govt and their gross incompetence and corruption , the covid enquiry as you say will just be another whitewash as has so many other enquiries
As you also say operation Cygnus was supposed to be a PLAN for the uk govt to prepare and organise policies to deal with a pandemic but as we all know the uk govt only used those plans to increase their corruption to benefit themselves and their pals
If I remember correctly the Scottish government ran their own pandemic preparedness exercise to PROTECT and SERVE Scots interests and citizens, can you tell me how that preparedness resulted in so many deaths and the resultant incompetence and failures we witnessed and still face to this day
I will NEVER stick up or make excuses for a shower of openly corrupt disgusting incompetent scum politicians from WM but I will also NEVER stick up or make excuses for a shower of openly corrupt disgusting incompetent politicians from Holyrood, sturgeon had the results of the pandemic exercise in Scotland YET she blindly followed EVERYTHING the clown Bozo and WM done
HER incompetence and FAILURES are NOT the FAULT of WM they are HERS, EVERYTHING she blames on WM can be sorted in a heartbeat by independence YET she has DONE NOTHING to promote or further independence
I despise the crooks and liars in WM but I hold even more contempt for the trai tors SQUATTING in Holywood for they are the ones who are BETRAYING Scots
Confused at 2:12 pm.
“”
Wow! That post took some considerable time to write (or maybe it was a stream-of-unconsciousness splurge) yet you didn’t stop to wonder if it made you look like a public threat. If you finally go over the edge there’ll be blood on Alf Baird’s hands.
Decolonisation starts with recognition of the Condition,
Just like being in a doctors Surgery sometimes it is difficult to grasp all the ramifications of the virus condition, only as it is explained in detail,
Does acceptence of the condition happens,
Then comes the fight for recovery,
Then the anger,
Then the operation to remove the condition.
Then we see the light, healing is often a slow but necessary process,
But heal we do,
Human beings are amazing on there capacity to overcome many of the illnesses that plague us, such as the first false diagnoses like a treaty of union or the mental illness Colonialism,