Learning Insanity
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
Because we were naturally somewhat curious about who Jenny-Anne Bishop, the very obviously male “community rights activist” (and who according to his LinkedIn page is also a “Transgender Advisory Boar”) that they interviewed for much of the piece was, and how he came to have an OBE.
So we did our thing.
He got his gong (which is not a euphemism) for “services to the trans community” a decade ago, but we were more interested in the first line here:
What has this chap been telling over 150 organisations on 800 occasions in just a few years, as the UK’s institutions have been captured by a bizarre cult ideology?
Luckily, we were able to find out.
Oh, we can already tell this is going to be amazing.
Buckle in, folks, here we go.
You may wish to have the emergency phone number of the Grammar Police on hand before we really get down to it. But at the end of this course you will have learnt, understand, be briefed, increased and to produce things, so that’s good.
That is quite a lot of fonts.
We’re not sure quite how you establish whether, say, a Siberian tiger is transphobic or not. And where did “homophobia” suddenly come from?
“Same-sex behaviour”? What, like going to the pub with the lads to watch the football, or doing a Zumba class with the other mums after you’ve dropped the kids at nursery? If so, those figures seem a little low.
If the burning trainwreck of random capitalisation above makes you wince, go and fetch yourself a stiff drink right now, because it infests the 110-page document to an absolutely comical degree. Do NOT even attempt to make any sense out of why, for example, “Interacting” and “Assuming” suddenly Get capitals despite Being in the Middle of a sentence, because Trust us, there is absolutely no Logic whatsoever at Play and you’ll just end up Gouging your own eyes Out.
(eg why does only one of the two instances of “course” there get a capital?)
We met Brian Dimorphism once. Lovely chap. Bit confused.
Ah, the well known prefix “bi-“, famously meaning “an unspecified number higher than 1”. But what’s interesting here (other than the incredible amount of work being done by the “+” in “LGBTIQ+”) is that the T, I and Q have all been very conspicuously left out of the definitions of sexual orientations.
So the mystery of why the earlier pic suddenly brought “homophobia” into a definition of “transphobia” remains an active question, but now we’re forced to wonder what the “LGB” and the “TIQ+” are doing lumped together at all. Perhaps we’ll find out in a bit.
(Remember, “NO QUESTION IS A SILLY QUESTION”.)
Always remember, readers, that sometimes “Q” stands for “Agender”, and that while it doesn’t stand for a sexual orientation, sometimes it stands for a sexual orientation.
Everything goes a bit fuzzy on the next page and bits get haphazardly cropped off it, which seems somehow appropriate.
We love the idea of a “current” definition of female and male, words whose meanings have been unchanged and universally understood for approximately 100,000 years.
Now, this is interesting. “Male and Female are the Biological sex categories, Masculine and Feminine are Gender categories” is a statement we agree with completely (other than the capitalisation issues, of course). And they’re VERY clear about it.
So again we’re forced to wonder why LGB people and TIQ+ people are being lumped together at all, since the former are only linked by sexuality and the latter only by gender, which we’re told is a completely different thing. But let’s put that to one side for now and see how well it holds up on subsequent pages.
We all know you only have a gender expression on the right-hand side of your body. But then things get a lot more complicated very quickly.
On the “Genderbread Person” sexual orientation was located in the heart, but now it’s been relocated to what appears to be an attack of acid reflux somewhere above it, with the heart resuming its more traditional romantic role.
(“Biromantics” are of course people who really love pens.)
But wait a minute.
This is a right old mess, and we’re not even talking about the basic “assigned at birth” nonsense. Having just been told in the starkest possible terms that sex, sexuality and gender are different things, we’re then presented with this bombscare of a sentence:
“Assigned gender/sex at birth is different than sex, which is based on many variable factors.”
You can’t say that gender and sex are completely different things and then casually toss in a “gender/sex” as if they WERE interchangeable terms after all. Who’s going around assigning babies genders as well as sexes? What are the “many variable factors” that determine sex, and how can it change after birth?
Most of this is the usual bollocks, but “metagender”, apparently meaning “neither cis nor trans”, is a brand new one on us. How does that even work? Either you identify with your birth “gender” or you don’t. What’s the middle ground there? Are you “semi-binary” or something?
(And again, if gender isn’t sex, who’s assigning babies genders rather than sexes? Who decides you’ve had a little Neutrois or Abimegender or any of the hundreds of other genders? Nobody gives birth to a “man” or a “woman”, women give birth to babies who are boys or girls. Newborn infants have no social roles.)
But phew! None of this drivel has to make sense anyway! Just make stuff up!
Because nobody can ever tell.
We think the Right Time & Place is that vegan community cafe just off the High Street, round the back of Superdrug. Ask for Starsprinkle, she/they does afternoons there.
In more primitive, less progressive times, we simply called this a “person”.
We don’t introduce ourselves with pronouns when we meet anyone, because we’re not completely insufferable narcissistic tools, but in fairness we’ve found the last sentence on that slide invaluable when being attacked by bears.
Let’s pause here for a short moment and think of just some of the situations in which the words “Name doesn’t match paperwork” would constitute an EXTREMELY LARGE RED WARNING FLAG WITH FLASHING LIGHTS AND GREAT BIG LOUD BLARING KLAXONS GOING OFF ALL AROUND IT, and which definitely shouldn’t be blithely ignored by some simpering dolt in the name of politeness and inclusivity.
Can someone bring us a non-binary person immediately, please? We are DYING to call them an “Inbetweenie” or “Gender Bender” and see how that goes.
This is a jawdropping mess. “Butch” and “femme”, for example, are terms generally used to describe lesbians, and “lesbian” and “transgender” are not synonyms, as the presentation itself has repeatedly made clear.
We’re told that SOME intersex people (how many?) don’t want to be called trans, but they get lumped in anyway.
The word “crossdresser” intrinsically means that someone isn’t trans at all – if you’re dressing in the clothes of what you regard as the opposite sex, you can’t think you ARE that sex, or it’d just be “dressing”. (And the same thing goes for drag, which is crossdressing for money.)
And if anyone ever introduces themselves to you as a “Gender Outlaw”, we’re pretty sure you’re legally allowed to shove them into the nearest canal.
Having just pointed out that intersex people are not the same thing as trans, and many of them strenuously object to being lumped in with trans people, why would you keep inventing new terms that insist on doing exactly that?
Being intersex is a definable and verifiable physical condition, not a mental disorder, so what would it be doing in the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition)? It also has nothing whatsoever to do with gender – you can have an intersex condition (properly called DSDs), and be trans or not trans or non-binary or whatever. There is no link of any kind between the things.
Why are your poor employees being subjected to this wildly inaccurate drivel?
Why does the “Cis woman” only have one arm? Why are “Trans people” only one person? (And “Gender diverse people”. How many people are in there?)
Is the first one “WHAT in the name of CHRIST have you done to your EAR?”?
All aboard, all aboard, woah-oh!
(As with most trains nowadays, you may experience significant delays, or be redirected to a Bust Replacement Service. Thanggewverymuch, try the fish!)
The above provides an opportunity for Jenny to execute a neat segue into a lengthy personal section about himself and his equally-male wife, who like all women share an abiding love of steam engines. We’ll restrict ourselves to a few highlights.
Our favourite is the appearance of (we assume) the proud dads at the wedding.
Attendees were treated to no fewer than 20 pages of these thrilling snaps.
But eventually we get back to the story.
Interestingly, there’s no claim here that all or indeed any of these articles are ANTI-trans, only that they’re “on trans topics”. Most campaigners would be delighted with such a sharp increase in media coverage.
Also, “16 articles a day” sounds like a lot until you consider how many newspapers there are in the UK – we can’t find a definitive list anywhere, but there are around 50 dailies alone, including both national and regional titles, and obviously any sizeable story is likely to be picked up by multiple outlets, so 16 is actually a pretty low number.
Crocs: when diversity goes too far.
Honest to God, the single most surprising thing about this entire presentation is that they manage to spell “harassment” correctly the whole way through. (Alert readers who spotted the spectacular “Ones own personnel sense of Gender” earlier will doubtless be as shocked as we were when they dodged the “harassment” landmine.)
But normal service is swiftly resumed.
As is the majestically arbitrarily deployment of capital letters, whereby Trains, Aircraft and Clubs all get one but the things that SHOULD have them, like Ladies and Gender Recognition Certificate, don’t.
There can’t be a single font, point size or formatting type anywhere in Microsoft PowerPoint that hasn’t been utilised at some point in the presentation. Check out this unexpected punch to the eyeballs.
We’re pretty sure you can’t ban disabled people from disabled toilets. But exactly how many toilets were IN this bus?
We have SO many questions here.
Whatever clothes you might be wearing, by definition only female people ever need gynaecological treatments. It’s literally what “gynae-“ means, you maniacs.
If you’re being treated in the Gynaecology Department, YOU ARE A WOMAN, or you’re about to get a very uncomfortable surprise.
We’re nearly done, folks. Hang on in there.
Well, yes, in that it’s a brain.
AIEEEEEEEE! It’s a FONTPOCALYPSE!
But thankfully, other than the obligatory links to Mermaids at the end, that’s it. We’ve shown you fewer than half of the slides, and remember, almost EIGHT HUNDRED groups of poor beleaguered employees – amounting to thousands if not tens of thousands of people altogether – with better things to do had to sit through the entire thing for hours, all just to end up hopelessly confused and ill-informed.
It’s hard to even begin to estimate how many productive labour hours have been wasted by just this one ridiculous man. And there are legions more just like him gallivanting around the country, many of them being paid hefty sums of taxpayers’ money to fill people’s ideas with this incoherent, abysmally-written woo-woo mindrot.
It’s no wonder the country’s going down the tubes, if we’re still allowed to say “tubes” without it being either sexist or ableist against the neurodiverse. We don’t know about you, gang, but we’re impatient for the end.
i’VE Got A hEaDAcHe++++++++!!!!
Once again thanks Stu for going through that bollocks so we don’t have to. If I were you I’d book in to specsavers for a quick eye test, that thing was a visual assault.
Sorry the only thing I’ve taken from this is that it’s harder to get propper Dental treatment than Gender affirming care.
So, the gender controversy is done and dusted. If you just make it clear your referring to people using their biological sex then everyone will be happy and not be at all upset that you failed to get their gender correct.
M(r/s). Bishop should get the Nobel Peace Prize, before the fat, orange clown puts his paedo paws on it.
I was holding it together until “Biromantics are people who really love pens” and then saw the little graphic at the QR code going “Aaargh! I surrender! Make make it stop!”
Oh ma ribs.
These people are often told to ‘bring their whole selves to work’.
May I not so cordially suggest that they leave their whole selves at home?
Sorry to go off topic but that post reminded me of a tattoo parlour shown in a TV series I was watching last night. The frontage sigh said “Tattoos while you wait”. EH?
LOL!
I’m not reading that for fear of a migraine.
So thanks for taking (another) one for the team
Thank fuck I’ve retired.
I agree that yesterdays Scottish budget is not worth any attention!
Phew, lots going on there. I usually just say how’s it going lad? when i encounter one.
Question: Who voted to have our taxpayer money fund this mentally-ill nonsense? Who put him/her/it on the HMPPS Board and other government Boards?
Answer: Anyone who voted Labour, SNP, LibDem, Plaid Cymru or Green. The Tories may not have liked it, but they did little to stop it.
They’re all guilty, to one degree or the other.
I’m glad I never bothered learning the vocabulary of this particular area of delusion.
Oddly and quite unusually he does seem to use the singular/plural of woman/women correctly.
Is “bollox” an acceptable term for “bollocks”?
I think bollocks is the only acceptable spelling. To spell it bollox would definitely be bollocks.
“I think bollocks is the only acceptable spelling.”
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Derived from “bullock”, meaning a castrated male calf.
“Bullock” and “ non-bullock “ could be useful descriptors of different types of trans “women”: the fearties and those with the courage of their convictions.
@Cynicus: I use “female impersonator” and “castrato”. The latter is a bit approximate but, as the Yanks say, good enough for government work.
I think bollocks is the only acceptable spelling. Anything else would be bollocks.
Mod in the heid..
Why seek or expect sense from the clinically confused?
Are you seeing if you can bag yourself one last NCHI before they get rid of them Stu? I feel the subject of this article fits the character of “serial reporter” ?
What a lot of money and status is lauded on these individuals.
They are afforded a respect they don’t deserve.
Reading that just made me feel really tired.
Back in the day I knew a few local folk who had fried their brains with too much bad acid, weed and super strength lager. Small town syndrome. Most towns and schemes had their own ‘heid cases’ stotting about the place, gibbering utter pish.
Upon reflection, and in direct comparison, these rather damaged folk were actually managing their relationship to reality quite well, they were harmless, and that’s, in part, because they weren’t on the presentation circuit payrolls.
I know Wings serves varied constituencies, but I do so enjoy these more than the ones about the list vote.
On the random capitaliZation, Mx. OBE at least has the consolation of having an ally in the White House.
“Free speech should have its limits…” – attributed to Jenny-Anne Bishop OBE by an ITV reporter.
I agree.
Far too many folk with no Latin or Greek – many of whom routinely, and quite shamelessly, use prepositions at the end of a sentence – feel quite entitled to publish their ignorant opinions, or worse, their poorly structured and frequently misspelled scatterbrained monosyllabic peasant speech, on any old public forum they happen to stumble upon.
The common folk need to be educated in the proper use of grammar and should at the very least have either fluent Latin or passable Greek before being allowed to inflict their wild notions of what they believe in their woeful ignorance is the acceptable character of free speech.
The right to free speech must be safeguarded at all costs… but only for the classically educated.
Should there not be commas between the adjectives? or hyphens somewhere? 😉 (Sven has already pointed out “upon which they happen to stumble”?) Regarding the topic of the article – as Wullie McCulley frae BarL was heard to say “away and bite ma semmit!”
How very correct my old friend Northy is in suggesting that folk posting upon public Forums upon which they happen to stumble should beware of the dreaded preposition trap.
Though charitable allowance should always be made for native speakers of the Scots “Leid”.
“who like all women share an abiding love of steam engines” almost made me spit out my drink.
I’ll thankfully be leaving management extremely soon but consistently being able to nix this twaddle when offered almost made it all worth it.
Don’t all women experience a tiny frisson of excitement when they think of those mighty pistons thrusting in and out?
Why was it that back in the day every loon wanted to be an engine driver?
Because he’d have the pick of the birds, that’s why!
This article reinforces, if reinforcement be needed, just how how huge anounts of scarce resources like money and time are squandered on nonsense.
It everywhere you look. The Sandie Peggie case will have cost maybe five or six million pounds when you add up all of the resource time of NHS doctors,personnel and administration staff, and lawyers involved in pursuing Sandi Peggie, suspending her on full pay, pursing and defending her legal action and ultimately having to her compensation and court costs. And like the loon ball woo woo here that’s just one incident.
But of course its bigger, much bigger than that. All our public services be it police, the NHS, our schools estate, council services have been turned upside down with huge effort to rewrite policies to facilitate the micro minority wacky woo woo gender freaks.
Isla Bryant is another example of the nonsense. How much money was expended in the sad sorry saga of this rapist criminal who demanded after conviction to be put into a women’s prison.
Just another example of a broken country on its knees squandering money and resources on nonsense it can’t afford. More taxes, produce ever less, recieve ever less service for the ever reducing buck be it health care, council service or whatever. That’s where we are. It just goes on and on.
Not difficult really to realise just how broken we are. Indeed over the last few weeks one only need read of how a new fleet of electric ferries and three new tug boats for Faslane are going to be built abroad. Indeed coming on top of other ferries being built in Turkey, one realises just how broken and country we are. But outsourced shipping is only the thin end of a much thicker wedge when you look at what else we dont produce but rather outsource abroad. All facilitated through by our rotten SNP government and others who have no end of resources to spend on woo woo nonsense instead of helping us produce real good and services.
But the day of reckoning is coming. This squander and willful mismanagement will not last for ever. The cull is coming.
So enjoy the Scottish government’s latest tax increases, the impending further council tax rises, and the ever increasing outsourcing of procurement of things we need and could, but dont manufacture ourselves and enjoy the woo woo waste.
Poverty is Jock or is it Jaquie’s birthright. Long live the woo woo and the comfortably heeled woo woo focussed politicos who take much and deliver nothing.
And meanwhile down in the West Midlands it has just been announced that the chief constable has retired an steeped down.
Forced to step down is the reality for doing his job, and it more than clarifies how, rif the police do not do whatever it is that the political masters want, then they are toast.
On assesing that Macabbi fans coould present a real risk of disorder, like happened in Amsterdam, this did not suit the Zionist supporting Sir Queer Starmer and his ministers, and hey presto, chief constable Craig Guidford is gone.
Personally, I believe Mr Guildford should have pursued the matter through due process, irrespectve of public cost. But ghe took the deal, and the messsage from a rotten vicious government is clear. The Police will be a political or else.
And that is where we are both in Scotland, in England and across the water in NI – ergo the recent coordinated arrest of perfectly peaceable predominately older citizens in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland as terrorists for expressing political comment.
Interesting too how Sir Queer Starmers diktat on this was extended to Northern Ireland, an area who understands only too well what rotten abusive political policing is. But Starmer decided to give the citizenry of NI the message,and this message will not have been missed by a population who only too well and has bitter experience of political policing.
But then again we in Scotland are now become aware of political policing. Salmond, Hirst, Murray, and the just how the police decide to pursue or not as their political masters instruct.
Thanks for the KLF link. That was a fine start to the morning.
As for everything else, “Woo Woo” seems appropriate.
Great analysis of utter bollocks. Sort of off-topic but I’ve just watched a clip of proceedings in the Scottish parliament and it struck me Fiona Hyslop seems to be morphing, or perhaps transitioning, into Mrs Fox from Dad’s Army.
The John Smith Centre, at the University of Glasgow, announce an upcoming, relaxed conversation, debate format between Deputy First Minister, Kate Forbes MSP, and Fraser Nelson of The Times.
Kate is bowing out of Holyrood this year, to spend more time with her young family (a truthful statement for once). It will be interesting to see if she can secure perhaps a part time position, working from home. Someone of her standing, and experience would be a shoo-in for many of the managerial positions in the plethora of QUANGOs, and Scot Gov, funded third sector, and charity outfits (see predatory pederast, Patrick Grady, and other nonentity, political has-beens too numerous to list).
I fear Kate’s ultra traditional, social beliefs will exclude her from such rewards.
The legions of middle class functionaries, who prominently display their pronouns next to their signatures, would rise in revolt at being asked to interact with such a LGBTQI+ phobe.
Perhaps her contacts in the British American Project will prove more promising?
Paid activist, from tax payers money, that no one voted for,
Political Phonexology comes to mind. = political evil.
This was a study carried out by a polish gentleman if anyone wishes to look it up.
And I do have a questions,
1: Are the bodies who push this able to define if they were born in the wrong body, and if so which part do do they identify as being in the wrong body?
2: If the wrong body, does that mean the Brain as well if it does not accept the body it was given by nature?
3: Who decides if it is the wrong brain or the wrong body.
4: As the use of the body is activated simply put, by the mechanisms and thoughts process of the brain and mind, is it the brain that is being suggested here, to be in the wrong body.
5: The body does not receive its instructions for daily tasks, thinking process etc directly from the body itself, but from the brain I presume. Should Scientific and medical surgeons therefore not alter the body which seems to be a innocent victim in these cases, but remove or alter the Brain that is in the wrong body.
Recent studies have found a large correlation between brain and body, James, so it would seem that they are interlinked in reality. If that is the case, then those with a gender problem probably have both brain and body out of sync.
The problem for the believers is that, if your body (with its brain) is not yours, whose is it? Where is your body and brain? Is someone else occupying it against all the law of physics and nature? Have these people found a new law of science or are they just clinically insane?
I think that, if ever any real deep studies are done on ‘trans’, we would find that sexual feelz are at the bottom of it all – at least, for the men. The women and children appear to be in a different category from the adult men and in a different category from each other, with different pressures being brought to bear, and I suspect most of them – perhaps not all – have been subjected to the men’s sexual psychosis for reasons of disguise.
I read a clinical psychologist’s piece a few years ago, and he was adamant that heterosexual transvestites (fetishists and AGPs) were different from homosexual ones, and while most of the women were lesbians, some ‘transitioned’ to escape the constraints of womanhood. Young children only, displayed dysphoria which manifested as ‘gender dysphoria’ but which was part of the wider dysmorphia phenomenon, and, often; they simply grew out of it.
Another, a child behavioural psychologist, stated that children recognized the two sexes as being different from each other at the earliest ages, as if evolution had required such a knowledge to be fundamental to human development.
As to the waste of taxpayers’ money spent on this movement, look upon it as governments investing in the future, as they see it. The giant, global tech, pharmaceutical, AI and other industries, situated mainly in America and Canada, will be pouring investment into those countries where their technology is welcome.
That technology, in the future, will be ‘transhumanism’ and what we are seeing now, with hordes of useful bams running around, soaking up funds to create confusion and lies, as the vanguard. Don’t worry; they will become a nuisance that cannot be allowed to exist once they have achieved the goal of undermining society enough to make it pliable for the next phase. This is just the initial experiment, and women and girls are both the target and the impediment. Follow the money and the sexual feelz, often to be found together.
Lorna,
You are right. Some studies do find that some children with gender dysphoria grew out of it. In Ireland, some time ago now, it was found that gender dysphoria was associated with children who and been in Romanian orphanages and children who were autistic.
With support to treat their mental distress and not to push them in any direction over their dysphoria many desisted on reaching puberty.
For others, there are problems.
link to irishtimes.com
In the future scientific world I could envisage the removal of the brain from its wrong body to replace the brain in the appropriately correct body. Whatever that may be,
It may be one of those animals that Jenny mentioned.
There are enough mentally ill mad scientist around to go down this route and be funded by government,
IN DEFINING SEX AND GENDER, it seems hormones and a thing called brian dimorphism are involved…maybe also a touch of dyslexia or the alter ego maybe?
Brian or Briana.
Not so far fetched a scenario as the Scientist and government already consider experimenting on children, babies in the womb, and murdering the elderly or those no longer useful to society that over populate the planet,
I would be wary of sticking a non binary or LG+++ head above the parapet in public nowadays.
ONE DAY AI might provide the means to be anything or anyone you choose in a cyberpunkish universe. No need for surgery, you can BE neuronically, tweeking your parameters as the fancy of the moment takes you.
Of course that would take away all the angst and the self referencial hurt which might not entirely suit all subjects with an identitarian grievance to massage.
The Jewish American author, Ira Levin, wrote “The Stepford Wives” in 1975. On one level, it can be viewed as an allegory on the Holocaust, with women being the victims. On another, Levin was putting into words the antipathy that is aimed at women with brains and mouths who demand more than Kinder, Küche, Kirche, the Nazi Hochpunkt for the female of the species. The Germans – many of them – wanted to eliminate the Jews because, as a race, they are clever and resourceful.
‘Transhumanism’ will almost certainly be aimed at producing children without females, thereby eliminating females entirely from the human species. The ‘new’ women will be AI robots who will perform any sexual act at any time or place, at the will of the men. At least, that is the theory; that is what Levin was trying to highlight, and, if you consider the ‘trans’ phenomenon to be a sexual revolution entirely for men, to do what they want, when they want, wherever they want, then, perhaps he was on the right lines and his horror book was meant as a warning.
Writers, poets, musicians, artists of all kinds are so often the lights that shine in the darkness of human endeavour and help us to understand ourselves. It must, therefore, be a huge relief to all womankind that humanity is so prone to making mistakes and being too smart for its own good.
Regardless of my own dyslexia and appalling education I still would not want to be sticking my neck out claiming that I am in the wrong body if at all wise,
It just begs to be funded by government as experimental re-placement for the brain to become compatable with the body.
Frankenstein surgery mixed in with learning from WW11 has never really faded away for scientist, politicians and the wealthy.
When you see how far they are taken these experiments today that are funded by governments, things have changed, restrictions lifted, people are now the lab rats outside the labs,
Much more progressive and lack of safety regulations, wether that is with big pharma, the food industry, or creating useless people to Society on universal credit, euthenasia, and disabiled and mentally ill patients, traumatised veterans, are all projects for the future governing bodies,
Nothing or no one is of the table metaphorically speaking.
These issues have all been in the news publicly across the board,
So advertising you think you are in the wrong body I foresee a problem arising for these people in the not to distant future.
OT,
I see Italy is to change their rules based to indigenous populations preference, as France and many other Countries are doing or have done already,
Britain is backward and falling behind with regards and relationship to politics of other Countries around the world.
STONEWALL REPORTS ‘SPECTACULAR FUNDING IMPLOSION’
Stonewall’s annual report reveals its income has fallen by 40 per cent in four years.
Accounts seen by The Daily Telegraph indicate that the LGBT lobby group’s income was £4.7 million in 2024-25. It reported a total gross income of £7.85 million for 2021-22.
A number of tax-funded organisations – including the Office for National Statistics, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Government Equalities Office – have ended their relationship with Stonewall in recent years.
INTO THE RED
The Telegraph reported Stonewall spending of £5.6 million for the tax year ending March 2025, leaving the group with a deficit of more than £906,000.
Income from its highly controversial ‘Diversity Champions’ scheme fell from £2.4m in 2024 to £1.8m last year. Corporate donations also fell significantly during the same period, from £348,636 to £143,149.
The registered charity received £454,645 in grants from ‘government sources’ in 2024-25 – down on the previous year’s £618,757.
GLOBAL COLLAPSE
Welcoming the lobby group’s financial difficulties, TaxPayers’ Alliance Director John O’Connell said: “This is a spectacular implosion of a taxpayer-propped woke racket that is finally running out of other people’s money”.
Writing in The Spectator, Joanna Williams observed: “Unless there’s a dramatic change of fortune, it seems the charity really could be one legal case or redundancy payout away from bankruptcy.”
One source with experience as a trustee in the charitable sector told The Guardian that the story “is much bigger than Stonewall”, admitting that “LGBTQ+ charities across the UK are struggling”. Trans-activist group Mermaids’ total gross income also fell from £2.34 million in 2022-23, to £1,337,662 in 2024-25.
A Stonewall spokesman told The Telegraph: “Globally, the LGBTQ+ movement is experiencing a period of significant turbulence”. He added: “There are significant reductions in funding for the movement.”
(The Christian Institute, 15 Jan 2026)
link to christian.org.uk
World’s smallest violin.
Excellent piece again Stu. Without you, we would be rudderless. An SNP Scottish Government has been corrupted and controlled.
“SNP Scottish Government has been corrupted and controlled”
Yes indeed, as Fanon wrote: the dominant national party is ‘co-opted by colonialism’ and thereafter its stance is ‘neutral on independence’.
But all is not lost provided the people and movement find unity, as their colonial oppression is ‘unveiled’:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Seeing as how Rev Stu has inspired us all by his article to look closely at the real meaning of words, and to question everything, can you provide some clarifications, Alf?
Is “colonised” the same as “co-opted by colonialism”?
Is “people and movement finding unity” the same as everybody being forced to read, write and speak Scots?
How can our colonial oppression be “unveiled” by people such as Fanon and Memmi who not only belonged to alien nations and cultures, but never spoke or wrote a word of Scots in their lives?
Following on from the Rev’s title above (‘Learning Insanity’), we are reminded that the definition of insanity is ‘doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result’, words usually credited to Einstein.
All we really need do, then, is apply this definition to those intending to vote SNP at the upcoming election and expecting them to deliver independence, when we know that all we can really expect from any SNP colonial administration after a decade and more and several elections where they have won most seats is more colonial rule and colonial oppression.
Postcolonial theory also confirms that the pathology associated with colonial oppression results in elements of the colonized group developing a psychological ‘condition’ where their mental faculties are rather messed up, making them deny their (colonial) reality, ‘crave dependence’ (Cesaire), and thus reject their own liberation; which helps explain the situation of the Scots ‘No’ voter.
In summary, what we are dealing with in any colonial society are psychological conditions and consequences which are due entirely to colonialism and especially the domination of one culture and people by another culture/people:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
“Postcolonial theory also confirms”
“what we are dealing with in any colonial society”
If you intend to invoke the words of history’s greatest physicist, Alf, you would do well to remember what you must have learned in earlier life about the unidirectional characteristic of the Arrow of Time.
From that we clearly see that no society can be simultaneously both “colonial” and “postcolonial”.
I’m sure this kind of muddled thinking doesn’t affect your day job, Alf. If it does, you’ll be installing superstructures before the hulls are started. Perhaps even launching ships after only laying down the keels!
“helps explain the situation of the Scots ‘No’ voter”
Hmmm. There have been no formal No voters since 2014. Which raises an interesting question. Did you, armed with those alien, foreign boy’s theories, predict the victory for No in 2014?
That’s something else physics teaches us. No theory is worth the bog roll it’s printed on if it lacks predictive power.
That’s the fundamental qualifier that separates science from superstition.
Site Prick;
Jeezo, cunty, can’t you get ANYTHING right?
“..If you intend to invoke the words of history’s greatest physicist, Alf..”
When Einstein visited the University of Cambridge in 1922, the English academics cried “..you achieve great things because you stand on the shoulders of Newton..”;
Einstein anapped back: “No I don’t. I stand on the shoulders of Maxwell.”
But you won’t have heard of James Clerk Maxwell as he was Scotch, eh cunty? [Hears search engine firing up]…
Prick and cunt, eh?
Puir James. Every bit at sea with gender as the hairiest, biggest-bollocked bloke cramming himself into a little black dress.
But I guess that’s how you end up when everything you know has been gleaned while hunched over glossy mags and dark net sites, frantically flicked through with only one free hand.
Sorry Stu, someone (James) has come and done a massive turd all over your latest blog post BTL.
Some insane rambling that bears no relation to any topic under discussion.
Really? That’s all you two losers have got?
The great Unionist debaters. LOL.
Mass debaters maybe.
The great thing about the Burqa is that no one can tell what you are or what you’re hiding or even what you’re saying.
I suggest that article of clothing for the gender fluid person with dangly bits but do be alert for bothersome body searches at airports.
I await the appearance of the first ScotGov minister to wear one.
The minister for the promotion of good and the suppression of evil, foreign affairs, culture, media and sport maybe?
Nah, TURABDIN.
Wearing a burqa should obviously fall to the minister with responsibility for postal deliveries.
BTW, why your capitalisation of burqa? Have you learned the hard way the advisability of treating everything to do with the religion of peace, however tangential it may seem, with exaggerated respect?
Do tell 🙂
I see Swinney’s been complaining that the UK gov did not tell him about the massive oil tanker.
“Scotland’s first minister said he was “deeply concerned” to learn from media reports that a Russian flagged oil tanker seized by the US is in the Moray Firth.”
Did nobody notice it sailing round the coast and entering the Firth?
Order of the Bollox Expounders (OBE)
NI UNIVERSITIES ACCUSED OF CENSURING GENDER-CRITICAL STUDENTS
Universities in Northern Ireland risk “silencing” students who uphold the reality of sex, women’s rights campaigners have warned.
According to the Belfast News Letter, Ulster University has outlawed “offensive or derogatory” social media comments relating to sex and gender. Queen’s University Belfast, likewise, forbids students from expressing “homophobic or transphobic views” and anything that could be “considered as negative, derogatory or offensive in terms of a person’s gender identity/expression”, “sexual orientation” or “marital or civil partnership status”.
Sex Matters and Women’s Rights Network NI have criticised the universities for placing transgender ideology above freedom of expression.
‘DISCRIMINATION’
Women’s Rights Network NI stated: “While we support the need for respectful online engagement, these social media policies may restrict lawful expression and risk discriminating against students who hold gender-critical beliefs.
“In Northern Ireland, our beliefs are protected under Fair Employment and Treatment legislation, and universities must ensure that students are not penalised for holding or expressing lawful views.
“Universities should be places of learning and discussion, not of silencing those we disagree with.”
‘NO FACTUAL BASIS’
Helen Joyce, Director of Advocacy at Sex Matters, said the policies “place far too much importance on whether someone takes offence”.
She noted that “the Queen’s policy puts the belief that some people have special ‘gender identities’ that override their sex beyond criticism. In fact this belief has no factual basis, and most people do not believe it.”
Queen’s University Belfast states that its policy “does not intend to restrict the freedom of speech of students”. In addition, Ulster University said that “there is no intention on behalf of the university to restrict lawful speech” and it is updating its guidelines.
‘SELF-CENSORSHIP’
Last year, it was reported that university staff and students across the UK have suffered “extreme personal consequences” for upholding the reality of biological sex.
In an analysis of 130 responses to a call for evidence, a Government-commissioned report cited barriers to research including “self-censorship and chilling effects” (58 per cent), “bullying, harassment and ostracism” (42 per cent) and “institutional policies and training” (32 per cent).
The analysis, ‘Report 2: Barriers to research on sex and gender’, urged universities to “prioritise the pursuit of truth as the core principle underlying university education and research” and “help students to develop the ability to deal with robust disagreement as an opportunity for intellectual growth rather than a threat”.
(The Christian Institute, 15 Jan 2026)
link to christian.org.uk
I think it was channel 4 news I overheard (not 100% sure though) tonight that NHS England was quoted as having over some 500,000 “people” awaiting gynaecological treatment.
“People”, not “women”!
The world has gone 100% stark raving mad!
Degeneracy leading (yet again) to the collapse of societies comes to mind!
I’ll never forgive the SNP for abandoning their core aim to muck about in this human excremental mire at the expense of the former.
Sturgeon has so very very much to answer for.
Big Ecks greatest error..
Never mind; Swinney won’t be around forever to hide their joint decisions and policies.
“Frankly”, I don’t know why Sturgeon doesn’t just “come out” and be done with it..
Not much intellectual rigour from Ulster University and Queen’s Belfast then if they restrict speech.
Woo woo wacky is certainly the cult of the ignoramus and these two universities most certainly proclaim that like a badge of distinction.
Best avoided for tuition and research I’d say with a policy of stilled debate.
IN ENGLAND, it’s all hooray for the Blackshirts whereas in Scotland it’s rabbits caught in the headlights of a clapped out English built automobile with a lord in it.
Opportunities, they come and they just go…..
This is where we are failing ourselves here in Scotland on all these issues,
The SNP and the devolved governance placed in Scotland are based on legislation from the Westminster parliament perception from a three hundred year old treaty.
These issues can all ended and put the the parties in the devolved governance to an end in one fell swoop, and perhaps the hoax of a Scottish parliament to be replace by a real one,
Because the SNP and other political parties in Scotland are in obvious breach of a treaty that Westminster and the devolved governance believes binds Scotland to England.
That one article in the faux treaty could hold strong possibilities to return Scotland to the Scots.
Return law to Scots laws,
Turn the woke green energy matters around.
Return privacy rights to Scots,
wether in parents choice for education,
Transport and vehicles choice to Scots ,
Separate private spaces for women and children,
Scots choices on how we vote, the system we use and where those votes are counted.
A strong choice for Scots on wether we give out our private data to corporation or public bodies.
The list is endless over private matter Vs public matters in Scotland, and we have always had this ability to use and contest many government laws it for as long as Westminster and the faux Scottish parliament believe in a union.
Because it states it is- unalterable by the Westminster parliament.
It is the one article in the hoax treaty that that the politicians and commissioners of old did is a huge favour in, and makes the treaty of union Great Britain Constitution irect contention with the Scottish Constitution of ” Private Rights ” laws in Scotland. which they cannot alter.
It separated Scots law from the laws of England, for the use of the people in Scotland,
Learn this and Scotland will become independent a lot faster and more direct while staying within the law in Scotland. And strangely within England.
Learn that one law / article of the treaty of union ( if the union is to hold) and knock the spots of the SNPs Hate crime Speech laws covering Scotland
Rebuff and make void the SNPs gender policies covering Scotland.
The Green energy policies covering Scotland.
Data and I D collection requirements disappear in Scotland,
The BBC ability to enforce entering your home with any other public body,
That One article, while stuck begging for liberation and independence of Scotland has great potential for doing just that.
link to crowdjustice.com
The trade union are public bodies, and often supported by government also a public body.
She could use article XV111 to legally class the Trans funding as legislation from a government body,
This interferes with the laws in Scotland on Private Rights of herself and the Private Rights of children in Scotland and other Women in Scotland to add to her case thus strenthening it,
The Trans funding is important here,
Because you can hold a private right in Scotland in your own home in a believe that one may come under the category of Trans,
However it cannot be imposed on the [ Private rights ] of all the other people living in Scotland from legislation of and as public governing bodies
Because it would breach article XV111 of the treaty of union on laws in Scotland on Private Rights, Vs public Bodies.
A test that the unions and Courts may be more likely to back down on.
Re:Darlington nurses victory – no muddying of the waters there. Thank you Judge Sweeney. Listen and learn Kemp.
If the treaty that England states still has any legality to it, then it can be tested by all the people in Scotland,
Using Article XV111 ” Scots Private Rights” within Scotland Vs Public Rights.
I am about to use these differing laws in Scotland on “private rights” within Scotland again for a second time,
To test wether the union treaty can actually with-stand the test.
The first occasion was over data collection, where I drew attention of the “public body” to article XV111,
And asked were they the ones willing to breach the 1707 treaty,
Months have passed and they have not replied. and have not requested for any personal data either.
And as I am not on public forums other than a friends old technology here on Wings, and do not do internet banking etc etc.
But this also applies to doctors sharing you’re information with pharma companies or your boss sharing your personal information without your consent. Or public body police intruding on your private right of your home with your right to freedom of expression and speech in Scotland.
They are the laws of Scotland,
Not the laws of Great Britain or England.
The two opposing Constitutions between Scotland and England cause a rift in differing Laws that are [unalterable] by the parliament of Westminster-Great Britain if the treaty is to hold as binding on Scotland.
And Scotland does not hold a 1707 treaty with the Westminster parliament of Great Britain.
It is up to the people here in Scotland to become a little bit more legal minded and astute lawfully.
Fit like?
or
Foo’s yer doos?
Does anybody know if one of these people convinced they are in the wrong body has ever claimed to have found the body that was actually rightfully theirs?
And how the resident occupant of the body claimed by the “wrong body” person felt about it?
Surely that would make gripping reality TV?
[To clarify, TV stands for television]
What an excellent idea, H McH.
The Darlington nurses have won (most of) their claims against the health authority, but the fragrant (not) ‘Rose’ has been let off, as thy usually are, as not founded, when the proper term should be ‘not proved’.
Anyone with a functioning brain and nervous system must be living in a bubble inside a laboratory inside a cave to have missed all the recent cases that have shown that men are not automatically allowed access to female spaces anywhere, at any time, for any reason.
In a good number of crimes, no knowledge of the law is not applicable and will get you nowhere. These cases are not criminal cases, but they should be b because these men are practising voyeurism and exhibitionism, both crimes under sexual crimes legislation. Just because some limp brain tells you it’s fine and dandy for you to enter female spaces as a male, no matter how you identify or what you wear, does not mean that you do not have personal responsibility to bone up on the law in such a contentious area.
The law, whether criminal or civil, should attach to the space and not just the person violating that space or those who allowed that person to violate that space. Make it illegal for any man whatsoever, unless a cleaner or tradesman or policeman (all exemptions to be specified) to enter a female private space, and vice versa, with strict liability. That way there can be no arguments and no need for prolonged, costly and contentious litigation – and no government can sidestep the law either.
People with absolutely NO self-control who demand total control over others. Singular dictatorship
O/T: a delightful few minutes watching the livestream of the Craig Murray initial hearing [has he standing or not re proscription of Palestine Action]. From 27 minutes Joanna Cherry’s arguments – very impressive to see her at work.
link to scotscourts.gov.uk
Fear not Sarah, all will be well in the M.E. now that Teflon Tony and (super) Mario Rubix (cube) are on the peacegame..
As the Donald would say; “The bigliest bestest ever peace programme in the history of creation- FACT!”
I see you’ve done that authentically Scottish thing, YL, come up with a couple of disparaging names. How very productive.
You should get yourself down to the primary school playground. Try chanting them in a sing-song voice. You’ll have yourself a ball.
Let me take a wild stab at guessing where you’re coming from. Because you support the lassie torturing, tunnel skulking scum, you would far prefer that the desperate people these despicable lowlifes claim to represent spend another 75 years squatting in rubble than that anybody you personally disapprove of should try to improve their lot.
Now tell me I’m wrong.
H McH
You’re wrong.
FACT!!
Whoops, YL, my bad.
I now see that by coming up with a couple of playground names for the characters you mention, you have left them no alternative to ignominious and total withdrawal from public life, surrendering all positions of authority and responsibility as they depart.
And I now understand that by torpedoing the only serious international effort to sort the cancer that is G@za, you will have immeasurably helped and improved the lives of those miserable survivors currently squatting in the rubble heaps.
It’s a fantastic and wonderful power you have, YL. Alert readers can only pray you will use it responsibly and wisely.
H McH
Another your “bad” to add to your count.
Wrong again.
FACT!
H McH
No other incorrect accusations to throw about?
Confused as you’ve been asking the wrong questions?
You are so very yesterday; as I pointed out in a recent post it’s all about freeing themselves up for focussing on the pacific rim, which “Einstein” the artic forms the north bounds of.
Not my fault if you didn’t read it or more probably didn’t understand it.
It’ll be the Antarctic eventually, heck they may even want the Falklands for monitoring purposes just as they use Iceland in the north.
Heck, the Donald is even boasting about building 2 biggliest and best “aesthetic” battleships (his words not mine). Seriously, where do you think they’ll be deployed if he gets his way, the eastern med?
Grow up.
Your AI bot is not up to date. Time to get your hate focussed on “orcs” and “slanty eyed people” and eventually back to you’re 1slama8hobiac trait with I-ran from the east next time around if he gets his way.
Anyway;
Strange you just don’t get the irony of Teflon Tony being involved in peace initiatives.
Funny if it wasn’t so sad.
You’re not as bright as you think you are, H McH.
Just blinkered..
If I was you, YL, I’d be taking steps. There can be little doubt “the Donald” will be coming for you soon.
After all, once he’s seized Greenland, Canada, Antarctica, the ME, the Falklands, Iceland (have I got them all?), he’ll be scouring the world for the brightest and the best to help him keep his spoils and fight against the inevitable push back.
That’s where you’ll be needed. He’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse.
I hope you won’t forget your friends on Wings BTL once you’ve been plucked from obscurity to gold-plated greatness!
H McH
Oi vey y’all!
I reckon your poster boy will have given himself an aneurism long before that!
What’s going to happen to yer world view then eh?
Or do you just change tracks once the Democrats are back in power?
I suppose it’s all down to who pays the wages and how up to date the AI programme is with you! ?
Anyways;
PS, it’s past bedtime when I posted this; deal with it milk monitor..
What Lorna Campell says.
Absolutely spot on . Nothing needs to be added to her statement.
Regards.
Marie says:
16 January, 2026 at 11:38 am
Re:Darlington nurses victory – no muddying of the waters there. Thank you Judge Sweeney
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For the hard-of-seeing , Judge Sweeney is NOT John Swinney.
The Judge delivers truth and justice; Swinney redacts, dodges and covers it up.
Scots law does have the ” Not proven ” judgement applied to it in Scotland, it also has trial by Jury in Scots law.
What we have to deal with is the corrupt judges whom do not apply Scots law to cases while in Scotland and the corrupt legal teams either not knowing the laws of Scotland,
Which is a criminal offence in itself not to apply the usage of Scots laws to Scotland cases.
As I mentioned on many occasions Scotland is not in a treaty of union with the Westminster parliament of Great Britain.
Only with an old 1707 treaty with Englands old parliament.
For the Scotland Act to apply to Scotland there has to be parliament of England in existence in 1998 and a parliament of Scotland in Existence in 1998 as the Scotland act 1998 alters the terms, condition and articles of the 1707 treaty of union between Scotland and Englands original treaty,
The parliament of Scotland ceased its activity as legal entity in 1707,
The parliament of England continued its activity and legal entity and also as the parliament of England and doubled as the parliament of Great Britain.
But with no union with the ceased parliament of Scotland after 1707.
Any laws or legislation coming from the parliament of England still in existence and the rebranded parliament of Great Britain endorsed by the parliament of England do not apply to a ceased and dissolved parliament of Scotland As it went out of existence in the treaty of union since 1707.
The political and parliamentary union does not exist and ceased to continue into a completed union,
So where is the Scottish Parliament in the union?
It existence ceased in 1707.
Those that enter Westminster parliament from 1707 onwards from Scotland are entering the parliament of England and the parliament of England Great Britain.
Why does no one question the small details as they would in any other contract agreement.
Because Scotland as these events unfolded in records is not in a parliamentary union with England, nor does it have a treaty with the Great Britain parliament,
This has serious effects for acceptance of a completed union between the two Countries,
has serious ramifications on Scotland retaining Scots laws,
And on the sovereignty of the Scots not coming under parliamentary Sovereignty of the parliament of GB or England.
And on Scotland as a released Country to a union that was never completed .
Because the chronological dates is that the Scottish parliament ceased to exist in early 1707 prior to the creation of Englands Westminster parliament of Great Britain existed at Westminster.
Sorry to say that the Not Proven verdict was abolished wef 1.1.26 by our hugely learned [ahem] SNP government.
“For the Scotland Act to apply to Scotland there has to be parliament of England in existence in 1998 and a parliament of Scotland in Existence in 1998 as the Scotland act 1998 alters the terms, condition and articles of the 1707 treaty of union between Scotland and Englands original treaty,”
Not so, James. The British parliament (i.e. the one instituted by the Treaties of Union (Scottish and English) has no rights in law (international or domestic) under the Treaty Articles to change, unilaterally, the Treaty terms. Neither Scotland nor England has any right to do so without prior agreement. Prior agreement means agreement reached before the Scotland Act was introduced. The full implications of the Act also needed to have been agreed upon prior to its implementation, instead of which, it was negotiated with Scotland having had one arm tied behind its back and Westminster British) parties dictating the terms.
This has been the form that every policy change and law has taken: the British Unionist parties dictate everything in the UK’s (i.e. England’s) favour even when a SNP government and majority pertains in Scotland. The Treaty came about because England required its back door to be shut and bolted against incursions from the Continent (and beyond, now). That will not change any time soon.
The Empire required that Scotland should be brought under complete control and nothing has changed that position. If anything, we are in a far, far worse position now that we would have been in, in 2014, had we withdrawn from the UK when Cameron allowed – yes, allowed – the referendum. That chance, once in a lifetime, was squandered and the Unionists shot themselves, and all of us, in the foot, head and chest for good measure. We have been shown by the Greenland Affair just how fragile small independent (or semi independent) countries and territories are when their resources and geopolitical position are important to the big boys when they flex their geopolitical muscles.
The law – both domestic and international – is flouted daily by the big players in every sphere, and that is just a fact of life. The SNP government, in Scotland, leads the vanguard in the UK for flouting the law so is hardly in any position to complain when others flout the law against Scottish interests. Hypocrisy is alive and well in Scotland and too many are rushing to take to the streets on behalf of others when they should be more circumspect about their own deficiencies and lack of nous.
The name of the game is survival, and we refuse – yes, refuse, wilfully – to understand the game because we are – many of us – blinded by suicidal empathy for people who would trample us into the dust tomorrow. To be a Scot now is to be disappointed and second-rate as a way of life while others strip us of our assets and push us aside – and I’m not talking about the English-as-British. They are the least of our worries.
A good post, Lorna.
My view is that those of “us” blinded by suicidal empathy are a lot less numerous than the media coverage suggests. As any cursory glance shows, the media has been hijacked by incomers whose continued success, influence and acceptance depends on telling us they are where they are on merit. In many cases they are not – affirmative action programmes, however they are titled, explain how they got where they are.
Another cursory glance clarifies it’s not “us” marching up and down chanting in Arabic. Or on (now bottled) hunger strike.
As for Scots being disappointed and second-rate, I doubt Scotland has any shitholes significantly worse than the worst of the English shitholes.
There are so many issues on incorrect chronological dates alone that I am surprised that they have never been questioned by Scotland over the Centuries,
England has 11 missing days in its side of the treaty of union in 1752.
No one questions this lost time events of England that breaks the continuation of a treaty either in Scotland.
No one questions that the treaty between the parliaments agreement of Scotland and England ended in 1800 when the parliament of Great Britain was dissolved.
Not so, James, I pointed out to you the first time you stated this assertion that it was nonsense, and I wasn’t the only one.
The 1707 Treaty was not revoked by the 1800 Irish Treaty.
As for the missing 11 days, they did not break the continuity of the 1707 Treaty either.
It was merely a calendar adjustment that became necessary to re-align the calendrical year with the seasons, due to an accumulating error from a slightly inaccurate calculation of the length of the year many centuries earlier. It has no more constitutional significance than a leap year’s extra day in February every fourth year.
It wasn’t, James, it was added to with the joining on of Ireland, then reduced again when Ireland left, leaving NI, without affecting the Treaty of union between Scotland and England – which is the very linchpin of the Union itself and of the UK of GB. Nothing has changed the Treaty at all. Its is still extant.
It is in never challenging the breaches of the Treaty that our real problems lie. No matter if we had independence tomorrow, that Treaty will still have to be negotiated out of existence and resiled. Our future prosperity depends on getting a good deal by way of the Treaty negotiations, but you would not think so by listening to our so-called constitutional experts. Nah, far better to not have a bloody clue when that day comes and end up handing everything away like eejits.
Same with American aircraft and ships in Scotland. We didnae ken, sir! Swinney and his cohorts make no effort to find out what is going on with Westminster and with the White House. Political advisers are there for a reason! They should be playing political chess with information that have gathered. Squealing about Greenland is not going to help the Greenlanders, or us.
Taking to the streets about a Gazan ‘genocide’ helps no one when the facts are not even known yet, and the one fact we do have is that there are more Gazans today than there were three years ago. No matter whether we are independent or otherwise, we will always have to take the big powers into account because of our geopolitical position. Sure, we can protest at perceived wrongs, but the hysteria has to stop. Where are the protestors over Iranian slaughter? Over Boko Haram slaughter of Christians and the kidnap of young girls? Over the Yemeni civil war casualties? Over Sudan? Could it be that Israel is not involved in those?
We need to be on top of this, and, with all due respect to Craig Murray, his political stance is too left-wing and ‘woke’ to be practical and realist. To survive, and survive well, as a small nation state in the 21st century, will require political acumen such as we have not seen in many a long day, but which, I am sure, is out there somewhere. Also, demanding that we rejoin the EU is pointless now. We are where we are and the EU has moved on (and not too well) without us. I despair of those Scots who purport to be our leaders and thinkers ever using their noddles for the good of Scotland instead of making suicidally empathetic leaps of faith or latching on to errant nonsense that ids of no practical benefit to anyone.
The true devastating effects on Scotland has been over three hundred years of opression and suppression of its people and the stealing of its land mass territory by ignoring simple questions,
Aye, thats not right,
Or
The dates don’t add up,
Or
Were we and our parliament dissolved from the parliament of great britain before it came into being or wa created.
Or
How can the parliament of England and Englands GB parliament pose a question to Scotland that was dissolve from the 1707 treaty be asked a referendum Question in 2014.
Simple questions that should be automatic in Scotland- if independence of Scotland is the aim,
Could it be that the sword is mightier than the pen?
Another simple question.
The dates do add up, James, as long as you remember that for more than a century the two kingdoms of Scotland and England began their New Years on different dates; in 1707 Scotland’s New Year’s Day was January 1st, while England’s was 25th March. England didn’t come into line with Scotland and the rest of Europe until 1752.
I’ve explained this more than once already.
If you are spared, Xaracen, plan to explain this many more times in the future.
Meantime, why not explain what “kingdom” means. That should bring out the carpet biters!
There are many possible routes to a independent Scotland, some of the more obvious ones are being ignored.
But aligned with the other routes they become a forceful legal argument. While Staying within the laws required.
One route is growing realization that the British State is in deep trouble with future in the hands of English opportunists and chancers. The smart money is not on the thing surviving in its present form. The SNP should now be preparing to put the boot in to the structure.
Rumours of a hyper unionist, anglocentric new state emerging sometime soon are circulating.
Scotland’s geographic position is significant, not exactly Greenland but the mindset for external control is the same.
Scottish territory is a strategic asset.
The dichotomy Scotland first or England first has never been plainer.
Scotland’s geographic position is indeed significant, not just for England but for Europe too.
That makes independence less likely, not more, as we move to a new era of might is right.
And before any eejit counters about the EU, naw, Independence In Europe always was and still is an oxymoron. Even more so now, given the existential threats to the EU that just keep on growing.
Another thing, TURABDIN. Britain’s future is not in the hands of English opportunists and chancers, not when for about the twentieth year in a row, half a million or more young, aggressive, ethnic minority immigrants are arriving.
Britain’s future is increasingly in their hands, as any close look at the reality of what is going on will tell you.
@Hatey McHateface
You might have seen this,
link to archive.is
The west has more to concern itself with this type and the contemporary equivalents than young immigrants.
The systems that have developed in the region are strangers to civil society, dissent, and any democracy except the managed kind.
Yet the west seems to be moving in the managed and the might is right direction.
Maybe Foucault would have approved of that? Given his inclinations perhaps not although pederasty has a long history in Iran.
Romantics ought to keep away from politics, they only rarely appear to be aware of the whole picture.
Khomeini, Persia’s answer to J Knox?
Aye, TURABDIN, no fool like a progressive, pseudo intellectual, lefty fool.
As we sometimes observe on Wings BTL!
TURABDIN@3:08pm “Khomeini, Persia’s answer to J Knox?”
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Maybe let’s not be so quick to knock Knox…
John Knox’s plan for universal education was stymied by nobles and delayed by the Scottish Parliament. Following is from online article ‘JOHN KNOX AND EDUCATION’ by Graham Duncan, University of Pretoria —
« John Knox the 16th century Scottish reformer made a lasting impact on the Scottish nation in the fields of society, politics, church and education.
« […] Knox’s national educational system provided for schools to be ?nanced by the accumulated wealth of the [pre-reformation] church and monasteries, which were being overthrown in Scotland, but the nobles refused to approve this ?nancial scheme because they wanted to divide the spoils among themselves.
« […] It is interesting to note that GENDER ISSUES DO NOT FEATURE in his educational design.
« […] Poverty was not to be a determinant in access and success in education: ‘The children of the poor must be supported and sustained on the charge of the church, till trial is taken whether the spirit of docilitie is found in them or not.’ (?Book of Discipline? 1560). In this scheme, universality emerged as a fundamental principle allowing for the education of the ‘lad o’ pairts’ [ie gifted child from a poor family who has the ability (ie docilitie) to bene?t from it]. Universities were to be upgraded.
« Thus, the poverty of the Scottish nation and a difficult political situation militated against the successful implementation of this project until the Act for Setting Schools was passed in 1696, which required all parishes to provide a school, a schoolhouse and dominie (schoolmaster). The Kirk was instrumental in the provision of this scheme, which was the origin of the high regard in which Scottish education came to be regarded by having the highest standard of literacy in Europe.
« Knox offered no detailed curriculum, perhaps because he felt the existing trivium and quadrivium would suffice as they had done hitherto; these would include Catechism, grammar, Latin, philosophy, languages and arts – in sum a broad-based liberal education. Apart from the outcomes-based nature of the educational process, Knox’s support of the liberal arts also acknowledged the value of education for its own sake and as a basis for further professional studies, for example, in medicine or law. In larger schools, classical languages, rhetoric and logic would be added. Then, learners might proceed to universities that were to be upgraded. »
link to researchgate.net
“Maybe let’s not be so quick to knock Knox…”-Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh
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Is it OK to knock Knox provided there is a balancing voice?
“O Knox he was a bad man
He split the Scottish mind.
The one half he made cruel
And the other half unkind.”
That is from Alan Jackson’ s poem KNOX, which features on the Scottish Poetry Library website. As also does the work of a certain Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh! ?
@James Cheyne perhaps you could set out what you think those persuasive legal arguments are and what precedence in case law they are based on. That last part is the critical part, unless these arguments are based on established and recognised case law which you can cite then they enjoy no more standing in law than the ideas of any private citizen (I.e. none).
@Turabdin – catastrophe is just around the corner, I have no evidence but it’s true, now there a familiar story!
CATASTROPHE is always round the corner, it pays to have a mirror on a stick.
sadly such a simple device is beyond most in politics,
James needn’t bother, Aidan. Your appeal to ‘established and recognised case law’ is indefencible on the matter of ‘the’ constitution and Scotland’s sovereignty.
1- Declaration;
Scotland’s unceded sovereignty makes it immune to any English presumption of authority over it, and over Scotland’s formal representatives.
England’s MPs are the hammer that bludgeons that sovereignty into submission, yet the Treaty contains no clause granting them such power.
That is the only case that matters.
2- Exposition;
The case is simple;
To authenticate the current legislative arrangements, the 1707 Treaty requires a formal unambiguous statement of Scotland’s agreement to subordinate its sovereignty to England and her MPs. Absent such a statement, the UK’s legislative arrangements lack constitutional authenticity and have done so for over three centuries.
Does the Treaty contain such a statement? No, it does not, nothing in it comes close to doing so.
Conclusion;
The current constitutional arrangements are a constitutional fraud lasting more than three hundred years.
Case closed.
Let the legal games begin!
Metagender is obviously people who are attracted to breaking the fourth wall during sex, turning to the camera with a knowing wank.
Am I getting the hang of this..?
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if america imposes 25% tariffs on carlsberg special brew, it represents a direct attack on the jakey community and the drink based collective. Many will switch to purple can superlager, but could put undue stress on supplies; UN humanitarian aid could supply the shortfall, many street dwellers in danger of sobering up entirely for the first time in years. Many face the terrifying prospect of experiencing the full horror of reality, which is an atrocity.
one thing about trump is how he brought “shitlording” into the arena of international geopolitics; while this has always gone on, rampantly, rancidly, in the background, most leaders want to be seen as “statesmen”. Trump breaks the mould.
– but you know, the biter bit and all that … he could have it turned round on him. What would Ragnar Lothbrok do?
If I was Danish PM I would just say – “fed up with this shit” and SELL Greenland – half of it to Rusha and half of it to China, for the price of 1 euro each. Not my problem anymore. (- we have a secret future exploitation clause which gives 10% off the top of mineral revenues) Get the documents signed at the UN, handshakes and photo opportunities. If the americans try to call, put them on hold, indefinitely, with a horrible scratchy recording of vivaldi on loop.
Now would be a good time to leave NATO and tear up the F35 contracts.
Then get the popcorn out. Submit a bid to the americans to buy Alaska, for a dollar. Just for the bantz.
See if the yanks are prepared to invade a vast swathe of nothing, risk a hot war 3 ways between nuclear armed opponents. Maybe this is the way the world ends – not with a whimper. To my mind, if I can’t get what I want, no one should get anything.
– it could make for a good “straightener” – the international equivalent of a “square go” in a pub car park after closing time.
swinney wants to send our lads to fight for somereasons or something
link to youtube.com
international diplomacy would be a whole lot better if done in the style of “pikey callout videos”
link to youtube.com
maybe AI could do a mashup; trump would rock this
Good one, Confused.
30 seconds cursory internet search reveals that poot has been ramping up Orc presence and claims in the Arctic since at least 2017.
And it was actually 2007 when Orc subs planted an Orc flag on the sea bed at the North Pole, symbolically claiming everything from the Orcland northern coastline to the pole itself.
But sure, let’s make out President Trump and the USA are the bad guys here, when in actual fact, they’re just playing very belated catch-up.
And let’s maintain the other fiction – that poot isn’t just a puppet being manipulated, supported, armed and financed by the Covid Spreaders as they seek to destroy the west and turn us into their vassals.
Cue some shite about opium wars.
John Main, the real reason that the USA want power over Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine, to name but a few is because they understand that China is the new master of the universe and this is a pitiful attempt to regain the crown.
It matters not a jot whether the Democrats or the Republicans are in charge, they understand that China holds all the aces as well as the rest of the pack and they don’t like it.
This is the demise of the American Empire in slow motion.
The last throw of the American dice was to force regime change in Russia in the years after the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Ukraine which has now backfired spectacularly, forcing Russia and China into each other’s arms creating an even bigger problem for the West as they see it.
What we have now, is a USA that has backed itself into a corner and is striking out at anyone and everyone, looking for a fight and incredibly dangerous to the rest of the world.
It’s failing domestically and it’s failing internationally and they are the biggest threat to world peace, not the Russians or the Chinese, they’ve already won this game of geopolitical chess.
I already know that you don’t agree.
Wow! Welcome to 2026 – same as 2025!
Post “Orcs” and up pops Implants with some “Great Satan” sophomoric drivel.
Meantime, ICE forges onwards in its efforts to remove all those millions of illegals who, not reading Wings BTL, are blissfully unaware of the USA’s demise.
A bit like the UK perhaps. 800,000 legals and 40,000 illegals last year, every one of them passing up the chance to go instead to where the future is supposedly at – Orcland and Covid Central.
If only they knew, eh?
WIN FOR DARLINGTON NURSES IN CHANGING ROOMS PRIVACY CASE
Nurses in Darlington were unlawfully discriminated against by their employers when they were forced to share female-only changing rooms with a man who identified as a woman, an Employment Tribunal has ruled.
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust’s policy ‘Transitioning in the Workplace’ asserted that if female nurses were uncomfortable getting changed in front of a man, they should find alternative changing facilities.
But the Tribunal found that the policy ‘violated the dignity’ of the nurses by creating “a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment”, which was compounded by the Trust not taking seriously the nurses’ concerns about the policy.
‘NOT LAWFUL’
The judgment highlighted that the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 require employers to provide changing facilities which “include separate facilities for, or separate use of facilities by, men and women where necessary for reasons of propriety”.
While the Trust argued its ‘Transitioning in the Workplace’ policy was lawful, Employment Judge Sweeney and Tribunal members Denise Newey and Malcolm Brain disagreed.
They stated: “We were unclear what was meant by the submission that the policy was ‘lawful’ and deeper consideration of the argument led us to conclude that the policy of permitting biological males who identify as women to use a female changing room was not ‘lawful’.”
‘DIGNITY AND PROTECTION’
Bethany Hutchison, President of the Darlington Nursing Union, and one of the claimants in the case said: “This is a victory for common sense and for every woman who simply wants to feel safe at work.
“Women deserve access to single-sex spaces without fear or intimidation. Forcing us to undress in front of a man was not only degrading but dangerous. Today’s ruling sends a clear message: the NHS cannot ignore women’s rights in the name of ideology.
“We stood up because we knew this was wrong. No woman should be forced to choose between her job and her safety. This ruling is a turning point, and we will keep fighting until every woman in the NHS is guaranteed the dignity and protection she deserves.”
‘EXTREME GENDER IDEOLOGY’
The nurses were supported in their case by the Christian Legal Centre. Its Chief Executive Andrea Williams said: “This judgment exposes the extent to which the NHS hierarchy has been captured by extreme gender ideology and its willingness to sacrifice women’s safety and dignity in order to uphold it.
“Allowing a man into a female-only space because he claims to be a woman violates human dignity, common sense, the law of the land and biblical truth.
“The NHS and the government should now give up their sabotage of clear judicial decisions and abide by the law which acknowledges that men are men and women are women.”
(The Christian Institute, 16 Jan 2026)
link to christian.org.uk
And coming up in April in Hungary, as my good pal Laci says, the democratic choice is to vote for shit or shit, and i’ll be votin for shit which wil put Hungary back to where Scotland was ten years ago. Ah well, back to the future. and I’ll be signing out. Watch yer parkin’ meters y’all hear now.
I let the usual unionist have there rant,
The information that I provided came with links over the years as to which parliament the information came from.
As to reference of Changing Englands Calendar date and altering treaty of union dates it was more than seasonally correction,
Having read the multiple reports from historians with regards the missing 11 days and the effect it had causing disruptions to trade, missing accounts, wages and disruption it caused to England in 1752 and the complaints and numerous protests over the missing 11 days, it was much more serious to England and continuity than you attempt gloss over.
Anyone and everyone can research this for themselves today,
This was an error and alteration that England made on their signed treaty of union and had to correct the Error to make the treaty with Scotland become a legal document corrected after the event.
Besides Scotland being correct in timeline and not recording any such protests as England had, in Scotland,
Scotlands parliament had been dissolved in 1707 and could not and did not make any alteration to its side of 1707 treaty
It was England that altered the dates on their side of the treaty of union.
And it went down in history as 11 missing days in England.
You’re bringing me back fond memories of Hogmanays of yesteryear, James.
Although none of them ever amounted to 11 missing days.
Perhaps 3 at most.
Reference to the dissolved united kingdom,
It States in UK parliament and on records, that Great Britain Parliament end in 1800.
It is there for anybody and everyone to go look up and research easily.
The Great Britain parliament Was created by the parliament of Scotland and the parliament of England.
The parliament of Scotland was dissolved in 1707 and strangely again for a second time in 1800. As in the Great Britain parliament.
This left the parliament of England acting as the parliament of Great Britain to make any and all deals after 1707 and 1800.
Which it did.
As the Scottish parliament had been eliminated on two occasions from the treaty it had made with England,
And I made references that can be looked up by anyone and everyone to the Where the parliament of England had made agreements and trades agreements as the parliament of England.
The parliament of Englands Great Britain made the agreement with Ireland in 1801/02 as the Scottish parliament had been dissolved twice in 1707 and 1800,
Englands Great Britain parliament with Ireland in that capacity on their own could not legally recreate the Parliament of Scotland.
Again the explanation given simply glosses over the details
Scotlands parliament was dissolved 1707 . No longer part or participant in the treaty of union. And no longer a participant in the parliament of Great Britain since 1800.
@Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh
The great matter regarding history and its interpretations is that the victors usually write the «official» versions. Versions repeated without much question.
The Protestant Reformation was a major disruption in Scottish life. A period of political and religious anarchy according to some; an old order disappeared within a lifetime to be replaced by something not so easy going.
Knox, an ordained Catholic priest educated at Catholic foundations which had already assimilated features of the new humanism, is variously and negatively described as fanatical in the pursuit of his world view. First Lutheran then Calvinist, he had contact with English protestants and served as pastor in England before fixing his gaze on his native land.
His harsh perception of a Scotland cleansed of the «filth» of Catholicism and its practices laid, unknowingly maybe, the groundwork for the politico-cultural rapprochement culminating in the personal and later political Unions.
I own to certain bias, i am not culturally protestant, the Catholic church in Scotland of the time had indeed become prey to some of the negative aspects of the Renaissance, Cardinal Beaton/Bethune sired offspring, ecclesiastical offices were traded for their wealth and some priests just garbled the latin of the liturgy, but the elements Knox engaged with in his ideas on education were pre existant and not a few Catholics, e.g. William Elphinstone the founder of one of Aberdeen’s universities, were aware that a change of internal habits and customs and a reevaluation of the relationship with the secular were necessary. The fundamentals of Church doctrine, however, were not up for change.
Elphinstone’s tomb was probably destroyed during the 17th century, on his 20 century memorial this is written, Àite-laighe ar n-oide naoimh, am fear Elphinstone, sgoilear nan Gàidheal …
Scottish nationalism is considerably more than mere politics & economics it is about intellectual reaquaintance with the country, its cultures, languages, its regions, its contradictions, its cherished myths, its geography, its «essence» without that the exercise is built on «intemperate» emotive quick sand.
Scotland interests, I do have distant Scottish cousins (distant but to our «oriental» mindset still family) because in numerous respects it has affinities with my own stateless state: except that Scots are in a much better place to do something about their destiny.
TURABDIN, thank you for your thoughtful and informed contribution. My essential gripe is that few Scots seem to do any such research about ex galley slave Knox. It is embedded in the Scottish psyche that Knox was a “Rank Bajin” (to reference a cartoon-strip character by the brilliant Bud Neill). Scots malign him by mindless reflex. No fear whatsoever of push-back. Free punch, free lunch.
I link below an informed critique from within the Reformed camp. The talk is by the learned late Professor Donald MacLeod (“Donaidh Foot”). I have transcribed some of it, with the video link below for those who want a fuller discourse:
« JOHN KNOX: ‘A MAN WELL HATED’
« At the Reformation, Knox’s plan was that the enormous wealth of the medieval church, a wealth consisting, to a large extent, of land ownership — lands bequeathed to the pious over many centuries were in the [medieval] church’s possession. And Knox wanted these lands to be dedicated to those great objectives: to maintain the ministry, to build a school in every Parish, a university in every town, to educate the children of the poor, and to provide for all the nation’s poor – that was Knox’s vision.
« But the nobles, the lords and the barons – they had their eyes on the land. And they took the land. And they kept the land. And not one acre of it did they ever give back. The lands of the medieval church fell into the hands of the progenitors of Scotland’s great families of the present day. They showed incredible rapacity and greed. And for a whole century after the Reformation the church was bankrupt, impoverished.
« I want to say last of all that Knox was a revolutionary. And this again might take me into troubled waters. Because many Christians have argued simply (and they did this in Knox’s day as well) ‘the powers that be are ordained by God and we must be subject to those powers that be’. Now Knox was of no such mind, and had he been, there would have been no Reformation. Knox was of the view that in some situations it was justifiable to engage in what is called civil disobedience.
« Knox said: ‘if the church persecutes my Christian brothers and sisters and hounds them to death, I am bound to resist that government. Knox said: ‘if government policies subvert the common weal (the well-being of the Commonwealth) then the Commonwealth may resist that government. Knox said: ‘you must not engage in rebellion lightly, wilfully, or for personal ends, or for your own advancement but for those reasons you may’.
« It is a precious, precious doctrine without which there would have been no modern democracy. Knox was not its inventor: it could be found also in the medieval theologians. It was a doctrine which frankly made our Scottish, Victorian, churchmen shake and shiver like nothing you have ever saw. Thomas Chalmers and William Cunningham trembled at these Knoxian ideas.
« But you khow they were a very important part, and are still, of our Scottish heritage. George Buchanan on ‘The Right of the Kings among the Scot’s’ – that was a subversive document in the Knoxian tradition. So was Rutherford’s ‘Lex Rex’ – ‘The Law is King’ – which argued that kings reign not by Divine Right but by popular appointment.
« That was revolution for you in 1630. And in the 1650s and 60s Alexander Shields and the Covenanters devoted hundreds of pages to the idea that it was right for us to resist tyrants. And that is part of your genetic inheritance – theologically. You are the heirs of people who respected government as a divine appointment but who would not stand idly by when government became ungodly.
« In one of his famous altercations with Mary Queen of Scots they discussed this subject at great length – whether subjects could resist their monarchs – and Knox was adamant, to Mary’s horror, that they could. […] That’s why by 1688 in this country, in advance of any other in Europe, we had constitutional monarchy, we had limited monarchy, we had an infant democracy. And because those Reformed doctrines that made men bold before God also made them bold before men. »
link to youtube.com
Scotland has a rich intellectual history, dissident and questioning. That i respect, particularly valuable in a time when information is too often taken on its surface value.
For a «small» country it produced remarkable people, ignored by the current cultural dispensation.
However, Knox reminds me in his intensity, an intensity to be gauged only from commentaries, of some online Muslim clerics. No prisoners, if you are not with me you oppose me etc.
I am intrigued by the many north Europeans who went south to Catholic and Muslim countries, the latter paradoxically given the current state of things, over the centuries to escape the straitjacket of the «sola scriptura» bookish orthodoxy.
Father John would be appalled at the mysterious «pagan» things Syriacs get up in their worshipping, bowing, prostrating, standing for hours, fogs of incense, images and squiggly script books.
I am an agnostic, but if you got rid of the above you’d tear the heart from the nation turning it into just another colorless place. We have rather too many of those blandlands under the global directors.
What can I say, TURABDIN?
If Scottish nationalism is indeed about intellectual reacquaintance with our immensely rich heritage, then the words of an Englishman as uttered by a fictional TV character pass sentence on the movement:
“We’re doomed!”
Maybe not quite……
Seeing as I don’t drink alcohol at all I obviously cannot make a comment on how alcohol has an effect on you,
Breastplate @ 12.49pm. Correct.
Fearghus MacFhionnlaigh,
The difference between policy and law.
Law has precedence over policy. As policy is a proposal to becoming law, but is not actually gained or reached that status.
Law itself has already passed and gone through all the completed processes that is required to become law.
And no longer just an idea policy of proposal that may become law,
link to archive.ph
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getting young folk off the fucking internet is now seen as being a good thing – unless its iran, who must keep it on
numbers? I am reading 50, 500, 5000, 20000 people have been murdered by the iran police
– when numbers are “all over the place” then they tend to be “made up, on the spot” (many other examples, when you think about it, also round numbers, quite suspicious)
I wonder who would do the making up, who would have a vested interest in demonising iran?
“babies in incubators”
“weapons of mass destruction”
“45 minutes to armageddon”
– try and remember what has gone before, it might stop you making the same mistakes, over and over again; who owns the media corporations?
the people on the streets in iran before, were the same kind of people who would be on pride marches in the west (plus foreign provocateurs)
iran has no tranny problems, they also hang paedophiles
link to archive.ph
FAFO – this is the kind of justice all right minded people should savour; but in this country if you’re a paedophile you get a job with MI5 or take tea with the queen and go on camping trips with phil the greek and leggy mountbottom, telling “war stories” … there was this lad in tangier … split him in two … had to burn the polaroids …
issy’s attack on iran was facilitated by a large scale, put together over a long time, infiltration operation; sabotage, diversion operations, even direct targeting data. After they hit back, the persians started rounding up this operation. It’s not something you can put up with – if I was on a hillside in Faslane, lighting up the sub pens with a laser designator for the drones, I would be banged up in belmarsh till the next millenium.
So, they are rounding them all up – and then all these protests start, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
The food prices thing? It makes people pissed off, but unless you are actually starving, taking to the streets is not a thing – have you seen the price of good chocolate and prime beef of late? Shocking, but I am not petrol bombing the local cop shop over it.
If protests are “peaceful”, why are there buildings on fire? If protests are “peaceful”, how do policemen get shot? If it’s all grassroots why does it need starlink terminals supplied by the CIA? – will the CIA give me some starlink terminals for when I start my lone wolf attacks on critical infrastructure in the posh parts of London? Turning the leccy off in Mayfair in protest at their theft of our energy resources?
Now it seems these “popular riots” were preceded by a massive (coordinated) short selling attack (financial warfare) on iran’s currency, which would have made anything imported more expensive.
Remember, by any objective standard, anyone who works for the CIA or Mossad is an enemy of life and humanity itself, and the least punishment they deserve is slow hanging. Every single one of them. Its an organised crime outfit, the most dangerous in the world.
“the most dangerous in the world”
Yet you not only claim to know details of its inner workings, but you regularly publish them online too.
Bet you haven’t even set your own personal affairs in order!
I’m gonna take you at your word, Confused. I’m gonna keep myself on the right side of your most dangerous organisations in the world by stating I hope they burn the entire shithole of medieval misogyny and theocratic primitivism to the ground, before blowing it back to the Stone Age.
Can’t be too careful!
Alf Baird has written an open letter to the church of scotland.
Hmm. I keep thinking of that old tom nairn crack about scotland will never be free “till the last minister is strangled with the last copy of the sunday post”
Indy should be such an easy sell, a unifying idea, that we really shouldn’t be bringing religion into it. Not in Scotland.
I try not to say too much on what I really think about protestantism … most “prods” don’t think about it too much, it’s just a type of christianity (is it?) and that is just “there was this guy called jesus who told everyone to be nice to one another … ” – yeah, okay, just believe in that. Better than reading the bible yourself, deciding only you understand it properly, have a direct line to God, form your own church and that you are one of the elect and so can do whatever you like … and 1500 years of scholarship doesn’t matter; being a prod means “everyone gets to be their own pope” and there are over 40000 varieties of prod worldwide to choose from.
where I live you still get these wee memorials to covenanting (“taliban”) martyrs who died “for religious freedom” (??) – point is, its a can of worms we dont need to poke around in. The whole aspect of it all, MQS, Knox, was a disaster that weakened Scotland, and getting involved in the english civil war (- a faction tried to turn england presbyterian) … ach …
John Knox, a riot with every sermon, and a man who didn’t do nuance; one case where assassination would have been a positive political move. But what of the rest of them? Martin Luther, an autisitic german monk – 95 theses(!) – who wanted to fuck nuns. Knox only wanted to educate the youth so he could indocrinate them in his heresy.
The reformation was a looting operation which allowed anyone with a gang of lads to steal what they like as long as they quote random bible verses as they do it. The church gives you a chapel, a school, a hospital, the welfare state and a local enterprise hub, and you lost all that. When we transplant this to the new world, while the catholics want to convert and build, the prods give you a bank, a masonic lodge and a slave market. It’s all OT, the juicy parts of it – the sex and violence – plenty faith, no hope and certainly no charity.
That no one goes to the kirk anymore, is largely a good thing. But but but … an english, indeed yorkshire saying comes to mind :
those who believe in nowt, will believe in ‘owt
– I think of rational, intelligent, people who will sneer and tell you how they left behind all that “jesus stuff” and then 30 minutes into the conversation you find they have e.g. joined the moonies, harry krishnas, or scientologists or, in our current climate we have this replacement of religion, a new dogmatism we are plagued by
“wokeness” – which is in psychological terms, a form of NEO-PURITANISM based on a new set of holy scriptures (sola scriptura) called critical race theory and gender-queer theory, and now we have a generation of blue haired “john knoxes” and matthew hopkins wandering around, denouncing us all as unbelievers
Good one, Confused.
There is no more pernicious religion than zealous antisemitism.
Take a look in the mirror.
As for Baird writing letters, provide a link, why don’t you.
I can’t be the only reader dying to discover if he wrote it in Scots.
“Indy should be such an easy sell, a unifying idea, that we really shouldn’t be bringing religion into it. Not in Scotland.”
Indeed, but its not simply a matter of ‘religion’, is it.
Here we have a national institution, a ‘national church’ given special position and privilege within the Treaty of Union itself, as the founding document of the ‘United Kingdom’ itself.
Yet this is a national church that arguably does not protect and value the nation or its people. A national church that blesses monarchs fae anither laund, cries thaim as ‘oor Keeng’ yet nivver pits oor Scots Croun onywhair near thair heids.
An aw oor institutions aye gie thair allegiance tae thon furrin Croun, nae tae oor ain Scots Croun whit means the soverane Scots fowk thairsels, an no ony soverane Englis Keeng an Pairlament.
Its aw pairt o the ‘colonial hoax’ (Fanon) deceiving the people.
Which just goes to show that in a colonial society the institutions are aw colonial in nature and in terms of their values:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
The resulting evidence is that one half of a two country (duel international treaty) [ England ] cannot apply new dates to an International treaty in retrospect of its previous date errors.
It would be acting as the parliament of England in doing so,
If Treaty of union stands, it Stands in Scotland from when Scotlands parliament existed and signed it. And the pre- terms, condition and articles of Scotlands side of the treaty have to apply from that date.
If the Treaty of union Stands in England, it stands from when the parliament of England existed and signed it originally.
And those pre- terms, condition and articles have to apply from the original date they signed.
Not the altered dates made in 1752. Because it was only the parliament of England that was out of synchronisity with other Countries.
Not Scotland, thus Scotland did not need to alter or re- date its side of the International treaty of union in 1707. Or at any time since, Retrospectively.
So although the importance of this issue has been down graded ( by unionist ) to something as lesser as simple seasonal changes, it did something far more serious when it altered the dates on an international treaty after the treaty had gone forward as a signed, agreed and dated document as a international treaty.
It is understandable why the unionist wish heartily to down grade this event on time line to nothing to see here, move along please.
It altered Englands dates on a International Treaty,
If religion came into it at all, then king Charles and the present governments would be in breach of the treaty of union they harp on about,
Because it specifies in detail the religion of Scotland and of England. And that of the monarch as is head of the church of England and its government,
Not monarch of all faiths,
The church of England is not the church of all faiths either although its wobbling from the treaty of union as well.
The conflict of imposed faith in 1707 is about to come and bite them in the bum as tractor- eds.
Strange though it may seem, The 1707 treaty of union for and of Scotland only refers to two gender biological sexes, it does not mention or refer to any other sexual determination of trans – gender. Or them being allowed to share womens spaces.
The treaty between Scotland and England either stands or it does not,
IF it is claimed it still stands as original then it was binding on England 1706 , Scotland 1707 and the parliament of that Great Britain parliament 1707 until it that Scotland/ England – Great Britain parliament ended in 1800.
But it didn’t end, James. Had it ended, there would be no Union. It simply expanded to include the Treaty with Ireland which was with the British parliament, not the separate Scottish and English parliaments of the pre Union. All the Treaty with Ireland did was to append Ireland to the pre existing British polity.
“there would be no Union”
More astute observers now realise that the so-called UK ‘Union’ is of course a charade, a fraud, a ‘colonial hoax’.
Whilst Scotland’s parliament was dissolved, England’s parliament continued unbroken, merely re-branded as occasion demands as the ‘United Kingdom’, as Professor Black and Salvo research confirms, and analysis of Scotland everyday reality verifies.
And as James has reminded us, the charade of any similar ‘Union’ with Ireland was similarly only with ‘England’, and with the latter nation’s parliament remaining dominant and sovereign afterwards.
this funny picture sprung into my head of unionist very busy on keyboards trying to..delete.. all the old available information and records before it is viewed by everyone else.
Best copying it out just in case these places that hold this info go on fire like they did in the past.
“James” Cheyne
That is absolutely hilarious “James” !
I can’t remember this particular halfwits name but I do recall that he was known for constantly ‘flouncing’ off twitter. He was supposed to be a journalist but apparently gave it up.
His next move was to start work in the Westminster library. I wondered at the time what his qualifications were and what damage he might get up to in there being rabidly anti independence.
Quite a while later I was listening to Sarah Salyers talking about her work. She stated that she’d viewed one particular government held document online on it’s own page but when looking for it later she’d been unable to locate it. She stated that she eventually found it again but it had been added to a page that held another document.
Not a big deal perhaps but I thought immediately of the bearded bespecled flouncer mentioned above.
Are any normals allowed yet!
I’ve found Alf’s letter to the Moderator of the Church of Scotland.
It’s written in English.
…and I’ve found the letter in reply from the Moderator to the Professor:
“Dear Alfie,
TL;DR.
Lots of love,
Rosie.”
So Trump is now at war with Great Britain. 10% tariff on all goods from 1st February and 25% tariff from 1st June.
And that’s what you do to a supposed ally. And GIRFU the Scottish whisky industry too.
So what next for Trump. Iceland, Norway, or perchance Scotland to be annexed next along with Greenland and Venezuela. Or maybe just to give Sir Queer Starmer a kick in the fanny-baws the overt intervention into Scotland to detach them from being an English colony to an overt American protectorate. That certainly is an interesting thought not utterly without merit.
And all the while our big John Swindle and his flying squad of spin monkeys, the establishment’s Trojan Horse in Scotland spend their time focussed on wacky woo woo policies.
And the US European allies their hard negotiated US – EU trade deal is now up in the air.
Ah well, today I resolved not buy any American whiskey, or for that matter any other US products that I can avoid. In fact MSGA I will be doubling my resolve to buy where I can only Scottish produce and products.
Time we thought about MSGA. And we do that by focussing on autonomy – and maybe a sup with the devil to achieve that.
Professor ALF BAIRD’s commendable letter to the MODERATOR of the Church of Scotland is on BarrheadBoy’s site here:
SCOTLAND’S COLONIAL CONDITION AND ROLE OF THE KIRK
(13 Jan 2026)
link to barrheadboy.com
For an overtly Christian articulation of the case for Scottish independence I would direct attention to the seminal 2009 book referenced by Alf Baird In his letter, ie
‘SCOTTISH IDENTITY: A CHRISTIAN VISION’ by WILLIAM STORRAR
« Scottish Identity – A Christian Vision is more than a tract for the times. It is a solid piece of historical and cultural analysis, looking at contemporary Scotland and the roots of the current debate over self-government. It is above all a solid piece of Christian theology. The book challenges members of all churches to take the future of Scotland seriously; and it holds out to members of no church the prospect that Christian faith is the one piece needed to make sense of the contemporary jigsaw. » (Amazon)
Another key volume is:
‘HONEY FROM THE LION: CHRISTIANITY AND THE ETHICS OF NATIONALISM’ by DOUG GAY (2014)
« Doug Gay explores the ethics of nationalism, recognising that for many Christians, churches and theologians, nationalism has often been seen as intrinsically unethical due to a presumption that at best it involves privileging one nation’s interests over anothers and at worst it amounts to a form of ethnocentrism or even racism. Gay argues that there is another tradition of thinking nationalism, which can be related to state formation in early modern and modern Europe and North America, decolonisation in the 20th C and the reshaping of Central and Eastern Europe post 1989.
« This tradition represents a political response to various forms of ’empire’ and an assertion of a desire for self-determination in opposition to domination by an imperial or colonial power. This trajectory has not yet been adequately recognised within political theology and Christian ethics, which remains suspicious of the language of nationalism, while quietly acquiescing in its acceptance of the political legitimacy of most existing nation-states.
« The book offers a clear challenge to this approach, suggesting it lacks self-awareness and moral authority and proposes a critical rehabilitation of the discourse of nationalism, as necessary and helpful in relation to creating an honest and transparent discourse about the legitimacy of state boundaries. What makes any nationalism – whether regnant or aspiring – ‘ethical’ for Christian theology? »
– Doug’s book is available as paperback and kindle edition on Amazon.
– And also available at SCM here:
link to scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk
Back in May 2014 I wrote replies to negative reviews of Doug Gay’s above-mentioned ‘HONEY FROM THE LION’ book by two high-profile commentators. I am not sure if their original reviews are still accessible online, but my responses are:
RESPONSE by Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh to ‘SWEETNESS and POWER’, being a CARDUS BOOK REVIEW by DAVID T. KOYZIS of ‘Honey from the Lion: Christianity and the Ethics of Nationalism’ by Doug Gay. SCM Press, 2013. 192 pp.
link to gobha-uisge.blogspot.com
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RESPONSE by Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh to ‘INDEPENDENCE WILL DO NOTHING FOR SCOTS’, being a STANDPOINT article by NIGEL BIGGAR:
link to gobha-uisge.blogspot.com
I’m so glad I’m retired ’cause if I was still in the workplace and had to go on one of these training days I’d be sacked.
FYI, The ‘Metagender’ status is specifically fluidity within identity.
The technical term is ‘Schrodinger’s Twat’.
Lorna.
It did not simply expand Great Britain parliament. It dissolved the parliament of Great Britain in 1800,
You will find that information records in the UK parliament if you research it,
And in the Irish parliament you find it under Anglo- Ireland agreement,
And you also find mentioned in ebsco.
It is a illusion that it was expanded whilst including Scotland after the Great Britain parliament ended in 1800,
The time line events tell you the story.
Its also helpful to remember that the Scottish parliament was dissolved in 1707.
The parliament of England Continued in the parliament of Great Britain and as the stated by the monarchs speech transferring members of the parliament of England without election into the parliament of Great Britain to represent England,
So many people want to believe in the perfect union completed in 1707 or was that date 1706
Lorna,
The need to research the accumulated information under one roof would not go amiss, which is something that not many people do,
The monarch of England tranferred the parliament of Englands members into the Great Britain parliament at the last minute to represent England in her Declaration.
So the parliament of England sat continued alive and active in the parliament of GB.
Whereas the Scottish parliament was dissolved.
James, that is not what her speech to the newly-created British parliament states, and nor is it the majority view of constitutionalists. What was the point of the English Commissioners who job was to negotiate the Treaty on England’s behalf. The Scots agreed that London should house the parliament, but they should, perhaps, have insisted on somewhere in the Midlands as a half-way house. Agreeing to London, with the HoC, HoL and Whitehall was a huge negotiating mistake. Frankly, I’ve lost count of the number of mistakes that the Scots politicians have made in relation to England over the years. They have no a clue about strategy, playing the game. None. Acquiescence is our downfall every time.
A very surprising moment on GMB earlier this morning…there were two of the Darlington nurses being interviewed (approx 0730am) by Susanna & Ed….and pinch me, but GMB actually came across as sympathetic to what the nurses have had to endure, being bullied, smeared, etc, by their NHS Trust….for having the audacity to stand up to the man in their changing room.
These nurses were told (by the Trust) to “get re-educated” and “broaden their minds”…for simply knowing that a biological truth is a fact.
An interview that wouldn’t have usually aired (until very, very recently) without it turning into a demonising of these nurses…maybe, just maybe, the blinkers are dropping?
Lorna,
Do not confuse the two separate speeches the monarch made as they were on two separate chronological time lines.
One for ending the closing session of the parliament of England,
The second speech for opening of the parliament of Britain.
The first transferred the Parliament of England and its members into the GB parliament. As representatives of the Country of England.
The Scottish parliament was dissolved in 1707. Thus so were its representatives.
The result follows that the parliament of England continued in and as the parliament of Great Britain,
The two separate speeches by the monarch of England cannot be ignored or blended as only One speech.