Looking up at the stars
Posted on
March 10, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A fascinating line from the BBC this evening:
The number of parties who got MSPs elected at the last election is… five. (Though in fairness there are now six, Reform having a single MSP after Graham Simpson defected from the Tories. The Lib Dems are even outnumbered by independents, of whom there are seven.)
Also in arithmetic news, recent figures suggest that Labour and the Lib Dems will have a total of 23 seats combined, more than 40 short of the number required to elect a First Minister with a majority. So, y’know, good luck with that, lads.
I think he’s looking for a way out of the “leadership” – or does the extra pay mean he actually wants the job?
So the Oscars travesty is over for another carbon-fueled year.
All the glamorous haters were there, the birth-assigned male and female role winners But let’s face the facts.
Not ONE gender-non-conforming artist was awarded a prize. NOT ONE.
LET THAT SINK IN.
This is the hell we all live in. NOT ONE WON A PRIZE.
Will they be doing it for Beth?
Resign! Resign! Resign!
He is a useless wank stain to be honest. His friend Anas – surley thats a spelling mistake!
What would I rather have Lib-Dem leader resign or the SNP out on their ear, good bye SNP hopefully for good.
May the 7th is looking like it might just be the Oscars here in Scotland.
….. I can only say of Coal-scuttle, he is the personification of the saying “you can’t fix stoopid”.
It’ll dawn on the electorate one day that they’re really all just one big party.
True.
Beginning to think Holyrood is a safe house for under-employed chancers and troughsnufflers. Not the place for conviction policians with an interest in independence.
Dear Lord, that man never learns, does he? We’re doing it for you, Anas! If I were Anas Sarwar, I’d be running a mile in the opposite direction. C-H comes with a hefty dose of karma.
Hamilton is an English carpetbagger,
`A carpetbagger is a derogatory term for an outsider—historically a Northerner in the post-Civil War South—who moves to a new area to exploit local political or economic conditions for personal gain.
It implies a lack of genuine local connection.
Often used in politics to describe candidates running in unfamiliar districts`
I dunno how he has the nerve to even collect a salary after he said Scotland shouldn’t be allowed to exist as a nation.
Just goes to show how dumb you have to be in Edinburgh west to put a X next to that dog shits name.
There’s a dark underbelly in the Lib Dumb movement.
“Movement” being the operative word.
Speaking of which – where’s Adrian today?
Geri says:
10 March, 2026 at 9:45 pm
“I dunno how he has the nerve to even collect a salary after he said Scotland shouldn’t be allowed to exist as a nation”
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He was on radio Scotland yesterday morning claiming to be a patriotic Scot. He was heard singing “Flower of Scotland ” at Murrayfield last Saturday apparently. But, being a good internationalist he also belted out La Marseillaise.
Vive Beth La Marseillaise! Nous l’avons fait pour toi, Beth.
“Lib Dumb” – you’re so witty and clever James, will you be at the fringe this year? Northcode has told me off for bullying you so I’ll let you keep your lunch money today, go buy yourself a steak bake.
They’ve been referred to as Lib Dumbs for over a decade at least. Remember the tuition fee fiasco where the dumbos were played like a fiddle by Cameron? But all wasn’t lost – they managed to pass the mighty 5p carrier charge. I’m sure students everywhere were delighted.
My personal favourite was when Swansong was gonnie be PM.. jist ye wait & see!
Hahahahahaha!
Yer just not fae around these parts eh? Best you toddle off & go update yer bot.
James
Aye, the dark underbelly of the occult. All those roasters are intae Baphomet & the tr*nshuman bs = kill everyone, we’ll just make the population we like in a lab..Real Frankenstein stuff.
What could possibly go wrong?
Aye, Geri, you do well to warn ordinary Scots about Baphomet.
Any signs of your new hereditary king? I read online somebody’s attempt to make him “eat shrapnel” were moderately successful.
Scot Finlayson says:
10 March, 2026 at 9:18 pm,
`A carpetbagger is a derogatory name term for an outsider…..
..It implies a lack of genuine local connection.
Often used in politics to describe candidates running in unfamiliar districts`
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Like the Morgan McSweeny Parachute battalion dropped into SLab seats in 2024.
I have nothing to add to what has been said already although to refer to him as a wank stain is insulting to wank stains.
Will they cooperate to oppose the planned scrapping of jury trials in England and Wales,or remind Westminster of how these plans where defeated in Scotland.
Will all Scottish MPs vote on it?.
So much for English votes for English laws as stated by David Cameron (Bawbag).
Bring back Wee Willie Rennie, he was funnier…….
Did anyone ever seriously doubt that the LDs, at any level, in any constituency would sell out to anyone for the hint of the chance of a taste of power.
“No Tuition Fees” anyone ?
The truly nasty (sellout) party.
Peter McAvoy,
English votes for English laws,
The Anglo- Irish Agreement in 1800, [ Scotland not Included ] set up a panic in England, and England began a search for the laws of England and the Statue’s of the Realm of England along with the Charter of England. Including the search for Englands Magna Carta, that was under the Great Seal of England.
By the summer of 1806 two Sub-Commissioners were employed and sent to every corner of England and Ireland, [ not Scotland ].
The Anglo- Irish parliament of great Britain from 1800 – 2026 that progressed to become the United kingdom of England and Ireland 1801/1802 to 2026 are English laws,
“Scotland” was not involved or included in the Anglo- Ireland agreement,
You can find this information under Statues of the Realm.
Google books.
Every Exchequer of England and Ireland, every Cathedral, every Collage,
UK may have only two days of gas left.
Does that mean the UK may not have only two days of gas left?
OK. I’ll answer. Yes it does.
Which is why any statement using “may” or “could” is meaningless clickbait.
Which is why posters should consider their environmental responsibility – if they don’t have anything informative, meaningful, or relevant to post – then don’t.
Then why the fuck do you never shut up?
I refer you to my previous post, Dave.
Refrain from posting if you have nothing useful, informative, factual or persuasive to say.
There’s bound to be something more productive, involving no requirement for logical thought or expression, by which you can still positively contribute to society.
One day the penny will drop,
Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England will wake up to the historical records and realise that Scotland is not a participant in the United Kingdom of England/ Ireland parliment,
Having been dissolved twice from it,
Once in 1707.
Second time in
1800.
James Che says:
11 March, 2026 at 9:23 am
One day the penny will drop
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It’s only taken 319 years so far.
Dinna be daft, x.
Penny Falls machines, from which the term originates, didn’t exist before 1964.
No. Prior to indyref we were an equal partner in that wonderful family of nations remember? In a voluntary union we could leave at anytime but just give us one more chance pleeeeease! We promise to be good!
We love you Scotland!!
Lead, don’t leave us!!
That aged well didn’t it?
The so called Scottish Elections are a farce,
The devolved governance sent to Scotland under the laws of the England are nothing but a deceitful joke.
And cannot pass any new laws officially for Scotland since 1707 when the original Scottish parliament was dissolved from the treaty of union in 1707,
And again in 1800.
Welcome back JC, I missed your completely batshit mental tl;dr posts that never failed to mention 1707 despite us all living in, and dealing with, 2026 AD.
Go on, please write another big long loony post about how I don’t get the point of 1707.
I don’t get the point of Slipknot and Slipknot fans either, and they have as much relevance here as 1707 – but at least they know how and when to shut up.
I liked when the simpering pathetic fool renamed himself ‘Hamala’ during the last yank election and ran off to the now-rogue state to try and get Kamala Harris elected.
That bizarre egocentric renaming betrayed a pitiful burning desire to play in the big boys’ sandpit of yank politics, at the political level he clearly thinks himself deserving of, in his deranged delusion. MSPs don’t half like licking American politican bahookie, eh?
The psycho comedian author Sturgeon was at it again recently towards evil Hillary Clinton again. As for the donkey konger whatserface, eh…oh aye, Kezia Dugdale and her embarrassingly hilarious cardboard Hillary cutout she came back from the states with…the less said the better.
Could be worse, Onlooker.
Isn’t the Indy movement sprinkled with simpering pathetic fools who have renamed themselves ‘Hamassa’?
“Isn’t the Indy movement sprinkled with simpering pathetic fools”
The main concern of the colonized is or should be focused on the colonizer, of whom we are reminded, by our own history here, in Ireland, India, etc, and not least by ongoing Anglo-American-Is***li colonization:
“..that no one colonizes innocently, that no one colonizes with impunity either; that a nation which colonizes, that a civilization which justifies colonization – and therefore force – is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased, which irresistibly, progressing from one consequence to another, one denial to another, calls for its Hi***er, I mean its punishment” (Cesaire).
For this ultimately is what we are dealing with.
It’s about to get a whole lot sicker…
It’s printing press & it’s line of credit is just about to go into the annals of history as it’s economy tanks into a death spiral.
They won’t fix that with double tap tomahawks.
Oh FFS, Alf.
There’s hardly a Scottish family in the land that doesn’t have relatives in the Colonies. Plenty will know of ancestors who went off to live it large in India, Sri Lanka, etc.
When are we Scots going to be punished for our moral disease, Alf?
But congrats are due. You’ve proved to the doubters that there’s no post and no question that you won’t answer with your stock quotes from Fanon, Memmi, et al. Even if you have to take a muckle hammer to the job to make your quotes fit.
Haha, there can’t be any doubters left by now!
“For this ultimately is what we are dealing with”
In the context of my original post, after you down the tunnels. The number of teenage lassies you will need for your “entertainment” I leave up to you.
When it comes to piling your protective layers of women and kids on top, leave my family out of it. Use your own.
@ Geri says: 11 March, 2026 at 3:54 pm
“It’s printing press”
“it’s line of credit”
“it’s economy”
The Mystic Meg whose predictive powers don’t extend to predictive text.
Here you go, Geri:
“anals of history”
Fixed it for you.
The site Prick is in urgent need of a double dose of immodium. They’re spilling out of him without even a squeeze!
Wahey, James is up! It must have finally healed.
But as he’s hunched over it, pumping away, he’s not upright.
Mind and take a breather, James, if your vision dims and you can’t see the action any more.
ACH was also prancing about outside Holyrood in 2016 with that carboard cutout of Clinton along with Dugdale and Ben MacPherson
The Lib Dums proved themselves duplicitous during Jim Wallace’s time as leader.
Can someone tell me why , when some MP resigns from a party and joins another they are allowed to remain in parliament?
What is democratic about that? Surely the constituents voted for the party they wanted to represent them ? Why should they have to put up with a foisted party?
I believe we all know that the answer to your query as to, “why, when some MP resigns fro a party and joins another they allowed to remain in parliament ?”
It’s because the one, absolute, rule of all the piggies feeding at the trough is to stay there as long and as greedily as they can achieve. Were one MP/MSP to be compelled to resign on changing apparent loyalties that would set a precedent others may be forced to follow, D & Co.
And as I believe we are all aware the primary (self interested) duty of any committed, career politician is surely to trouser as much publicly funded salary and expenses as is humanly possible.
I believe it is because they are sworn in individually as a member of parliament. Not as a block or by a particular political party.
So x still represents x constituency.
Really Geri? Thanks for the information – it seems entirely wrong that that should be allowed.
The first verifiable recorded instance of the phrase, “The penny dropped” of which I’m aware is that cited in the OED, referencing The Daily Mirror, August, 1939.
Although I doubt that this common saying has great bearing on Scottish independence, other than noticing that for many, despite the efforts of our host to inform and enlighten, that proverbial penny has yet to drop in connection with idiocy of, “both votes SNP”.
Did you know that already, or did you look it up? 🙂
My money’s on the latter, and I’ve stuck another £10 on that it was my post that made you go check.
Holyrood rammed full of yoons of varying political shades and persuasions, who frankly couldn’t run a bath let alone a small yet resource rich country of only 5.5 million souls.
The Edinburgh trough is full to overflowing and the pigs that walk on two legs are only too happy to bury their snouts therein and drink their fill… Scotland’s new National Anthem… Parcel o Rogues.
I fear the Indy dream died with Salmond and the likes of Sturgeon and Swinney and all the other bastards pretending to support the dream are just dancing on his grave, when they’re not engaged in pissing down or backs while telling us it’s raining.
Can’t wait for the next opportunity to scrawl “Fuck the lot of you” on my ballot paper.
Will the last person of integrity leaving Scotland please turn off the lights.
Kelly’s brown Eye has went silent.
robertkknight,
Thats because all the codgers in the holyrood parliament are a sub division of the parliament of the united kingdom of Anglo- Irish parliament since 1800.
Reality check on whom and what team they play for,
Enter the Dragon. The spot of bother in the gulf will be over soon as Sir Keith has dispatched HMS Dragon to sort things out. It is not going to the gulf but the eastern Med after a drone hit a RAF base on Cyprus. At least a week late the mighty ship will strike fear into Iran if it does not break down as this class of ship has a problem with warm water. Perhaps he should have sent it to Greenland where the water is supposed to be cold.
Hopefully addressing the problems experienced by the original RR gas turbines by installing three, greater capacity diesel generators at considerable expense has resolved this particular issue, David.
However, time will tell.
Our resident professor tells us that ” a nation which colonizes, a civilization which justifies colonization – and therefore force – is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased, which irresistibly, progressing from one consequence to another, one denial to another, calls for its Hi***er, I mean its punishment” (Cesaire).”.
Most people would agree that the people of Scotland have remained a nation ever since the Union of 1707. It is historically indisputable that during that time the people of Scotland have been among the most efficient and enthusiastic colonisers in history. So unless the professor is wrong, we are a very morally diseased civilisation. I hope he is wrong.
Wheesht, factchecker.
Our illustrious forebears were only following orders.
Some big, bad, Inglis barsturts made them do it. And then ran away.
So what if large swathes of the globe are festooned with Scottish place names to this day? The Inglis treacherously try to make out it was Scots that did that. But Alf knows better.
And see if you go abroad, to Canada or Australia say, and some stranger hears your Scottish brogue and engages you in conversation about how their great granny came from Inverness?
Lying cants, every single one of the millions who make those kinds of claims.
Scotland hasn’t colonised anyone. Can you point to our overseas territories where we rule over a ppl?
The City of London is the coloniser. It’s the City of London who lord it over their territories & go off to plunder & pillage.
Scotland has no say whatsoever in the front shop know as Westminster & even less in the bowels of the City of London parliament.
Yer not a very good fact checker.
The signposts, Geri.
They’re flat pieces of wood or metal. Labelled with the names of places. Names like Inverness, Glasgow or Dunedin. And they’re everywhere, all over the colonies.
Get a sympathetic friend to explain what that means.
That’s not Colonialism, ya eejit.
Tho speaking of place names. Issy USA targeted a public park called Police park.
That’ll be AI investment down the toilet. $billions wasted on blowing up a kids sandpit FFS.. LMFAO!
Hmmmm, or maybe they were hoping it was full of kids at the time. The Eppy class do seem to have an intense loathing & hatred for Children.
So, back to Colonialism. Can you point out to the group where Scotlands overseas territories are & don’t forget the direct income we gather from them.
OK, get an even more sympathetic friend, with sock puppets, to explain it for you.
Or revel, roll on your back like a bitch in heat, luxuriate, coat yourself thickly, in your dense, impervious ignorance.
Whatever.
Here’s an even better idea. Tell yourself that with every lie you post, Indy is just that little bit closer!
Hi, I’m an even more sympathetic friend of Geri’s… and I don’t feel the need to explain anything to her.
She seems quite capable of trouncing the flawed logic and lies of any colonist, colonialist, colonizer, or unionist who flounces aboot this place.
In fact, Geri’s efforts alone this morning have guaranteed a third winning day in a row for the liberty seeking Scots who grace this place with their courage, nobility, intelligence, knowledge and wit.
Thanks be to God I was born a Scot.
Geri: no, we have no overseas territories, but we almost did before 1707 – Darien? We are the equivalent of the handmaidens who pander to the ‘trans’ lobby. Sorry, but I am sick to the back teeth of Scots who can take no responsibility for anything. So many Caribbean people have Scottish surnames, it’s undeniable that we were there on the plantations, and we weren’t slaves, so what were we? Even Robert Burns, in dire poverty, thought of going there as an overseer.
Mostly, we were overseers who raped and ill-treated the slave women (hence th numbers of slave babies with Scottish surnames) and ill-treated the slave men. We, our generations, are not directly responsible and it is nonsense to suggest it, but it is not nonsense to say that Scots played a very active role in slavery and in the colonies. We are no better, but no worse, than any other nation whose forbears did the exact same things.
We had a chance in 2014 to wrap up independence and take our leave of the Union. Putting all potential dirty tricks aside, we simply bottled it. It was there for the taking. Too many slavering cowards and fearties. Too many collaborators and cringers. Too many carpet-baggers thereafter who saw independence as the gift that keeps on giving and milked it for all it is worth – and the suckers fall for it every time.
Had Alec Salmond remained in place, we would be gone by now. His biggest mistake was Nicola Sturgeon and her cohort of sheep and troughers. Ours was in not voting YES in sufficient numbers in 2014. We need to own it all and start to rebuild a real and powerful independence movement, but too many still clinging to “it’s aw their fault, so it is; it’s no oors”.
” the people of Scotland have been among the most efficient and enthusiastic colonisers”
You may find of interest the book entitled ‘Oceana, Or England and Her Colonies’, written by at the time ‘England’s most popular historian’ James Froude, Oxford Professor, in 1886. It has very little mention of Scotland but does occasionally refer to the ‘Scotch’ in a functionary and de-basing sense. However its main theme is that, as the title indicates, the ‘British Empire’ comprised England’s colonies, and this includes England’s conquest and subsequent domination of Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
” It is historically indisputable…”
I dispute your historically indisputable ‘stuff’.
What some, the ignorant and deluded, call colonization others call diaspora… a reluctant mass migration of Scots away from their homeland to evade their English neighbour. To flee their beloved country or starve or be killed under brutal English rule.
And so welcomed were the amicable Scots wherever they went in the world that many names were given to places in their honour.
That is the REAL history of Scotland and not the nonsense England has concocted over the centuries and attempted to sell to the Scots to cover its murderous tracks.
You’re welcome to dispute, NC. So you assert that there was “a reluctant mass migration of Scots away from their homeland to evade their English neighbour. To flee their beloved country or starve or be killed under brutal English rule.”.
It’s remarkable, then, that in their efforts to remove themselves from the brutal English, all these amicable Scots, who could have helped to colonise territories of the French (remember the Auld Alliance), German, Spanish, Dutch, Spanish etc Empires, chose to colonise almost exclusively those foreign lands where their fellow colonisers were… English. You’d almost think they preferred to live with the English than with those other nationalities.
The TV Series ‘Battlestar Galactica’ is essentially the story of the Scottish diaspora. A story where the 13 colonies (the Scots) work together to escape the evil English (the Cylons).
Watch Battlestar Galactica and learn of the Scottish diaspora, factchecker. The truth is out there… hiding in plain sight.
Scotland hasn’t colonised anyone.
Scots were dispersed around the world by force & as it’s still very much alive today, by naccesity.
Private, anonymous, land owners buy up swathes of land so locals have nowhere to build. There’s good money laundering in that game. Traced to English tax havens. Whit were the chances of that eh? Add a foreign monarch too who also helps themselves to huge private estates cause they believe they’re entitled.
Those that do build for the peasants, build for landlords or second homes. Usually foreign too. There’s good money laundering in that game. Gentrification too – replace the natives – move them to the overcrowded outskirts where they belong.
There’s no opportunities at home. Further education, experience, well paid jobs & better outlook are found outside the UK. Made even worse by Brexshit, imposed on us by a foreign government. Again – entitled.
Drain the services – move in the Britnat pensioners. Again, they’re entitled. Move voters to dilute the voting pool & drown out the locals with Britnat pish & Farage freaks.
Scots are excellent at learning other peoples languages & integrate very well. Just look at the many vlogs of those who have done just that since social media became a thing. Many Scots are in R & Germany as teachers.
Keep the Scots pish poor. We’ll profit from their resources for free & we’ll give them back some of their own earnings as pocket money.
We’ll also outvote them in everything & We’ll also continue to fck about with the numbers using Yoon math.
Just some examples. It’s a shite state of affairs.
“Scotland hasn’t colonised anyone.”
It takes literally 5 seconds of anyone’s time to comprehensively debunk this latest absurdly childish, moronic example of doublethink from you, “Geri”, hot on the heels of the last “Iran isn’t totalitarian” pearl of wisdom from you, barely weeks after tens of thousands of their own people were murdered in broad daylight in the streets, in a hail of bullets, for having the temerity to peacefully protest against that ghastly, evil regime.
Aside from the handful of terminally deranged thickoes that infest BTL here, who exactly do you think you’re kidding matey? You’re an embarrassment to this site and to yourself. If you had any self awareness whatsoever (hah!) you’d crawl back under whatever rock you came from. You’re a disgrace mate.
Far more important, CC, to those who care, Geri is an embarrassment to Scotland and to decent Scots.
That obviously includes both Indy supporters and Indy opponents. The decent, rational members of both groups are united in this, at least.
More alert readers can but muse on why the Indy movement clings to such fuckwits, fantasists and congenital liars.
Just as more alert readers can see that until such time as the Indy movement purges itself of this kind of contagion, Indy is as far away as ever, because fundamentally, it is not populated by serious people.
Colonialism can be understood as the practice of one country acquiring partial or full control over another country and exploiting it economically… often subjugating and oppressing the indigenous people at the same time.
This the Scots have never done (apart from when those Irish Scotti colonised the Picts a millennium ago).
“Aside from the handful of terminally deranged thickoes that infest BTL here…”
Can a mere handful of folk infest a place? I think not, but that is by the by.
Yes, one wonders why so many English (I’m assuming they are the deranged thickoes referred to above) flounce about this place when Scotland’s liberty from oppression would, on the face of it, seem to hold little interest for them.
Perhaps their love for Scotland and the Scots moves them to insult those Scots they perceive as ‘trying to break up the United Kingdom of Britain’s Great England’.
It might well be that the colonists who flutter around this joint do not hate the Scots at all, as it first might appear with their anti-Scots racist and hateful comments and such, but love us so dearly they would insult us into seeing common sense; hopeful that we might remain tied to that dying horse called England, so that our two great kingdoms can at long last meet our end together… in glorius union
Oh, no! I missed an ‘O’… in ‘glorius’ what should be ‘glorious’ in that strange Inglis tongue of inglorious England.
“More alert readers can but muse on why the Indy movement clings to such fuckwits, fantasists and congenital liars.”
To be fair, I daresay the “Indy movement”, as a whole, can hardly be assumed to be akin to those half dozen or so unfortunates haunting BTL here, presumably for lack of any other options. However, I do know what you mean; it’s a valid question.
I’d argue that it’s essentially a matter of politics? The Scottish Indy movement harks from the Left, as does wokeism, a propensity for crass revisionism and airbrushing out inconvenient truths (as witnessed here time and again, indeed in this very instance), up to and including the very denial of biological fact. The very notion that it’s possible to repeat a lie often enough – with menaces – it becomes “truth” (or at least pseudo truth, acceptable with herd-mind echo chambers of the deluded and those having eggshell fragile egos). People begin to deny the evidence of their very own eyes, again as seen daily here, as elsewhere. What a state of fucking affairs.
In effect, self selection then? The loudest and most obnoxious prevail over time, sadly, at the eventual expense of truth. But we should not abandon the sanctity of the truth, nor the lessons of history, however unpalatable (or indeed instructive) they may well be.
@CC I think a large part is sadly BTL has become a symposium for the bored and the mad. The cause of independence now is a decades long political project (at best) and the energy and enthusiasm of 2014 has largely dissipated. Paradoxically, the polls show support for independence is actually quite high, but I think most supporters are resigned to “nice idea, not gonna happen any time soon”.
Quite why the ramblings of someone like Geri, which are clearly despicable and insane to any normal person are both tolerated and encouraged on here are beyond me. To have the comments section of the most-read po-independence blog polluted with such appalling drivel is profoundly embarrassing, as it would be to any political movement. But I think it shows deep-down the normal suspects know that for the moment nothing is happening and nobody is listening.
An observation:
Someone who would destroy the world economy for no apparent reason is not an evil genius…. just evil, perhaps.
Someone who delegates power to a cabinet of simple-minded, warmongering pure-mad eejits is not playing 3D chess with Mr Spock.
And a dodderie, feeble-mindit and decrepit auld man given to thoughtless chitter and aimless chatter when speaking, especially when speaking to millions of folk across the planet, is not someone who, behind closed doors, is painstakingly, and with razor sharp wit, concocting a master plan.
It’s not that Trump is without ideas.
In fact, like a sloppy card player, he often shows his hand when telling the world how brilliant his plans and ideas are.
We know he is driven by petty grievances, a fragile ego, and a drastically inflated sense of his own intelligence.
We know he wants to reinstate an elite structure based on race, gender, and other social privileges, that echo some of the worst periods of America’s past.
We know he is not at all curious and doesn’t read, that he’s incapable of understanding even mildly complex topics, and is a slave to his own unbounded desires.
And we know he is stupid.
Stupidity… the real destroyer of worlds.
Who could have guessed the nemesis of humanity would be a decrippit auld man weirin a basebaw kep an hummerin’ a lot o pish?
How embarrassing for the human race… to end hundreds of thousands of years of evolution on such a low note.
Idiocracy… the highest ‘ocracy’ humankind can attain, apparently.
Hubris. It gets the empire every time.
Trump is the babbling idiot but the real evil is the unelected evil pen pushers whispering sweet bullshit in his ear.
‘Quick in & out. 5 days – tops! Dinnie worry about those brown people – they’re thick as shit. Dinnie fash aboot P & his strategic partnership malarky – he only has shovels & bits fae washing machines – besides, he’s always bluffing!’
‘You are the Don!’ ‘Think of the headlines’
‘Dae it! Dae it! Dae it! Dae it or we release more files’
‘We’ll huv the WHOLE region – Aww that black stuff tae ourselves & have them eating oot our hands & begging for mercy – Bhaal is with us – we’ll build a temple at Mecca! Women will sing aboot ye for centuries!’
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Over at the Brown People:
‘So, all we have to dae is take oot the warning systems, close the strait & wait?’
Aye – that’s it. Blow some shit up if ye like. You decide. Central command is now shared. Naebody passes unless it’s oor friends. We dinnie need tae win this militarily.
Genius!
*Footsteps*
Can I go get that big murdering bastard that killed aww ma weans?!
Aye, Nae danger! We’ve plenty of time. Turn on the telly – MAGA is in meltdown & the markets are as funny as feck right now…
Dickens wrote that the real evil in the world is ignorance.
I used to wonder about that. Since discovering your virulent outpourings, I’ve repented ever doubting his genius.
Of wider concern, should Scottish Indy ever become viable, is the “arrangement” revolutionary movement’s decent followers always make with the lowlifes that infiltrate for their own nefarious reasons. History shows us how this usually turns out, for example, the French and Bolshevik revolutions, and the ANC.
Once the old order is overthrown, the evil infiltrators come into their own, the revolution is subverted, and the terror begins.
For that reason, I would have you thrown out on your sorry arse, Geri. Keeping the likes of you “in the tent” never ends well.
Look Sunshine..
Yer on the wrong side of history.
Yer on the wrong side of GLOBAL opinion across ALL current conflicts (that’s quite a feat)
Everyone & their dug knows this isn’t about liberating anyone.
Everyone & their dug knows who the terrorists are.
Everyone & their dug knows what a Jenny side is.
Everyone & their dug knows that it’s Colonialism & greed.
Everyone & their dug knows this never ends with peace.
Everyone & their dug knows this is the cause of migration & creates a refugee crisis.
You cheer this on because yer not right in the head. Brainwashed. An extremist. A racist. A GB news airhead.
Then, like some kinda space cadet, you’ve the nerve to come on here to spout shite about immigration.
Cause & effect.
When will the penny drop that it’s YOU & yer deadbeat knuckle dragging, warhawking ilk that are the source of the worlds problems? Those ppl don’t choose to leave their own country. They’ve no choice because, as we can clearly see, they’re not interested in anything else other than total destruction & completely removing a countries ability to function.
Hospitals, schools, water, banks, police etc.
In the new order to come – I sincerely hope they make a new rule. All warhawks & ALL their family pick a weapon & go to the front line. Including the armchair warriors. I bet that’d halt yer motormouth.
Good Lord, Geri.
Just how many dugs have you got?
Incidentally, where’s your new hereditary king? Any truth in the rumour he was cowering in a girl’s school when he got shrapneled?
I hope he wasn’t picking out a harem of entertainers prior to taking to the tunnels for a year or two!
Those boys have previous.
Anyone else see the clip on the news of the old couple racially abusing the Philipino woman in a park (I think it was Bradford) and have Hatey and Mark Beggan instantly spring to mind?
Yeah?
I reckon Hatey is the one with the long hair..
Just sayin a that 🙂
Had one of them shit himself? If so, the other yin was Beggan…..
J
The long haired one certainly did walk a bit like the ministry of funny walks 🙂
“Fyona Bairstow, 72, and Michael Bairstow, 77, abused Apple Moorhouse in Manor Heath Park, Halifax, on 28 August last year after she told them they should have their dog on a lead.
Michael Bairstow told Moorhouse to “go back to your dinghy”, and Fyonna Bairstow pulled her ponytail when she tried to walk away, Bradford Magistrates’ Court heard.”
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It happened in Halifax – the court was in Bradford.
Thank God there are no racial incidents in Scotland.
Hope you had both hands above the table while your mind was wandering, YL.
As for James, we know that’s a forlorn hope. Better get yourself some new material, James.
Oh no….you’ve pumped and followed through again, haven’t you?
I’ve been perusing todays unionist (colonist if preferred… same thing) mincin and mingin and mangleezed
insultscomments and comparing them to the braw, enlightened and joyous tae behold comments of Scottish liberty seekers oan here.And I can declare that yit agin the liberty-seeking Scots hae drubbed the weel-skilpit evil face of oppressive colonialism in this place into the digi-dirt.
Well done yet again, everyone.
Is that you, Donald?
Declaring victory, bigly? You’ll be needing just one more victory today to declare Indy a done deal.
This what bullies do when they get caught… bullies being cowards.
They try to pull other, innocent parties, into their ‘circle of blame’ in the hope that their inevitable punishment will be deflected onto those others unfairly implicated by the bully.
And so the English will often proclaim how the Scots were just ‘as bad’ as the English were when England swaggered about the planet generally beating peoples up and stealing their stuff.
The Scots, as a people, were also victims of England’s colonial ambitions and it’s beyond nonsense to claim that the Scots were equally to blame for England’s imperial crimes.
Correction: that ‘other’ should read ‘others’ plural – otherwise the intended meaning is lost in the sentence which should read thus:
“They try to pull others, innocent parties, into their ‘circle of blame’…”
Phew! That would have kept me up all night fretting if I hadn’t fixed it.
You should have slept well. No one be reads it anyway.
Almost no-one, apparently.
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY SALVOSCOT LTD & LIBERATION SCOTLAND COMMITTEE
Response to Defamatory Statements by JPTi
In November 2025, the NGO ‘Justice Pour Tous internationale’, (JPTi), announced on its website and across social media, that it had officially terminated its relationship’ with the LSC and SalvoScot Ltd ‘following a material breach of contract and a profound act of disloyalty’ on our part. […]
With the conclusion of the mediation process we can now offer the proofs of where the real breaches occurred and why we, not JPTi, ended our working relationship following a dramatic shift in JPTi’sapproach and dealings with us. What influenced that shift, we will leave to others to decide. These are the facts. […]
link to liberation.scot
Ah yes, infiltration is the key…..
The old colonialists are expert.
GOVT DITCHES NON-CRIME HATE INCIDENTS (England & Wales)
A Government amendment removing the statutory basis for non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) has passed without a vote in the House of Lords.
Home Office Minister Lord Hanson of Flint told Peers examining the Crime and Policing Bill that NCHIs are not “fit for purpose” and they are set to be “replaced with a clearer, more proportionate model”.
Following a recent review, the College of Policing and National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPPC) concluded that recording “information about non-crime incidents on a crime system is not the right solution”.
COMMON-SENSE APPROACH
Lord Flint said: “Police officers must be able to focus on catching criminals, cutting crime and ensuring public safety, and the present statutory code has not provided the clarity needed to support that focus. It must therefore be revoked.”
He explained that a “more appropriate framework” is to be set out which will only “relate to core policing purposes” and that these “reforms will be supported by robust guidance and training so that the incidents are handled appropriately”.
Chair of the College of Policing, Lord Herbert of South Downs, confirmed that if the proposals are approved by senior officers, then “non-crime hate incidents will no longer be recorded. They will go”.
He emphasised that “this will not be a mere rebranding exercise. The threshold of an incident will be significantly increased. Common-sense professional judgment will guide decisions and only where there is a genuine risk of harm and a clear policing purpose will incidents continue to be recorded.”
‘NOT A POLICING MATTER’
The founder and General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young of Acton, commented: “I have long-standing concerns that the investigation and recording of non-crime hate incidents has been a huge waste of police time and had a chilling effect on free speech.”
Examples of NCHIs, he said, have included “a man accused of whistling the theme tune to ‘Bob the Builder’ whenever he saw his neighbour, a woman who said on social media she thought her cat was a Methodist, and two schoolgirls who told another girl in the school playground that she smelled like fish.”
He expressed the hope that if, under the new proposals, “someone calls a control room to complain about a supposedly offensive remark they have seen on Twitter or overheard across the garden fence, the call handler can say, ‘I’m sorry, but that’s not a policing matter’.”
PROGRESS
The Christian Institute’s Deputy Director Simon Calvert welcomed the Government amendment: “This is a win for The Christian Institute and its supporters. We have been drawing attention to the problems with NCHIs for many years.
“People want the police to be concentrating on real crime, not wasting time recording spurious politically-motivated allegations which don’t actually benefit policing or the public.
“The Government must now ensure that whatever replaces non-crime hate incidents has a high threshold and a free speech focus. We will have to study the proposals carefully and keep an eye on implementation. But we can be thankful for this concession from the Government.”
(The Christian Institute, 12 March 2026)
link to christian.org.uk
Ah well as we discuss the nonentity politics of the likes of Cole Hamilton prostituting himself in any port that will take him, here’s a absolute belter for the good ship Labour to answer.
It has just emerged from papers that the odious sleeze bag that is or was Labour’s Lord Mandelson asked for £547,000 severance pay off after being sacked as ambassador.
This without any shadow of a doubt shows just how rotten to the core and filching the Labour Party is. Crooks, nothing but crooks in who the gullible are asked to place their trust.
Sacked when he should have, and still might, get the jail, he asks for over half a million big ones. Sup it up folks, vote Labour, the brothers are with you.
Part of the challenge being, Willie, that such venality is almost a camouflage when it comes to blending in unnoticed amongst the entitled, grasping grifters who appear to form the professional political class.
“Those gilded flies
That, basking in the sunshine of a court,
Fatten on its corruption !
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Nice choice of quote, Sven. I like it, apposite. I am a fan of Shelley… pity he died so young. It would have been to good to see what he would have produced as an older man.
Correction: A superfluous ‘to’ between ‘been’ and ‘good’ makes Northcode’s comment sloppy… ignore it, forgive me and focus on the good parts.
“Lord Mandelson asked for £547,000 severance pay off after being sacked as ambassador.”
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He was actually paid £75,000.
Sturgeon: ““We can confirm a resettlement grant of £64,378 was paid to Nicola Sturgeon MSP in 2023.” – after resigning as FM.
A disgrace. Ten times as much would still have left Scotland’s Mammie hard done by.
How quickly we all forget those desperate Covid days when she was all that stood between us and a certain, squalid, lingering death.
How quick we are to pretend that we were never the ones standing on our doorsteps, clapping into the night, trying to keep the bogles of infection and death from our door.
I’m Geri’s sympathetic friend – signposts scattered throughout the nations of this Earth proudly bearing the names of Scottish places or Scottish fowk means the Scots are beloved and held in the highest regard by peoples the world over… strangely, often by those same peoples who aren’t all that keen on the English.
Sweet, Northy.
Assuming Geri is real, will that be a first for you? A real friend, that is?
You shouldn’t have let your Scottish Cringe oppress you into setting your sights so low!
As Geri implies, yer in the wrang place, culturally, Hatey.
But yer weel-named: as Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, colonial “oppression means, first of all, the oppressor’s hatred of the oppressed”.
To this we may add the ‘self-hatred’ of the oppressed native, or ‘appropriated racial oppression’, what we know as the colonial cultural cringe whereby the oppressor culture makes the native group believe themselves to be inferior.
And, as we see, you repeatedly seek to do this “by one means only: (by) debasing the colonized to exalt themselves, denying the title of humanity to the natives, and defining them as simply absences of qualities – animals, not humans”.
Colonialism is always “hateful racism” (Cesaire), ergo, ‘Hate ower Scotland’.
link to scotlandspeaks.com
Aren’t you a professor, Alf?
The idea that you would ever invite Geri to one of your faculty soirées is risible. Other than if your colleagues perhaps needed a lower orders specimen for “analysis”.
As always, you’ve got your book to flog so you choose to frame everything to fit into your monomaniacal obsession.
If somebody is a debased human being then I call it for what it is, regardless of race, nationality, age, sex or support for Indy. History is full of what I believe Fanon called “goitrous academics”, benignly condescending to the ignorant mob, fondly believing that come the revolution, they’ll be calling the shots.
Usually, they’re the first up against the wall, rubbing shoulders with all the other soft-handed parasites.
You’d do well to remember that, Alf.
I’ve long since given up expecting invitations to “soirées” from colonial institutions or functionaries.
“Anti-colonial literature is never welcome in a colony” and “the colonizer hates theory” (Memmi) because it all too accurately explains the peoples wretchedness.
The “goitrous academics” reference is from Cesaire, not Fanon.
“The “goitrous academics” reference is from Cesaire, not Fanon.”
Ha! Only an ignorant uneducated simpleton would confuse Fanon with Cesaire, Alf. How embarrassing.
Dodged the questions again, Alf.
Entirely expected, but don’t kid yourself the alert readers don’t notice.
Awwe, ta! Yer mine tae X
Spot on! Nobody barricades their shops & runs for cover when the Scots arrive. It’s party time. Go big or go home & more importantly – leave the place as you found it.
Aye Northcode – nae Scots , nae party!(as said at some footie gathering)
Northcode at 10.52.
It has always seemed classicly ironic that he seems to be most generally thought of nowadays in connection with Lady Caroline Lamb’s succint description of him as, “Mad, bad and dangerous to know”.
Which quote seems to overshadow much of his own work, Northy. However, such eccentrics (I trust you’re not offended by such a description) as ourselves can still enjoy his works. I’m glad you felt that quote fitting.
I think one of my favourite’s of Shelley’s is his sonnet, ‘ozymandias’.
“I met a traveller from an antique land…”
Before King Donald there was King Andrew,
link to en.wikipedia.org
Scottish, presbyterian, ruthless and self interested. .
Jacksonian imperialism wasn’t a regrettable aberration but an early stress test for American democracy”, writes the historian Christina Snyder. “Then, as now, some championed the assertion of raw power while others worried about the rule of law.”
Americanism, of which MAGA is a manifestation, is influenced by Calvinism’s notion of the predestined elect who having been chosen by the deity are free to «sin». What is done by the elect being sanctioned by heaven.
However, when others «sin», they offend the god and heaven by means of the elect strikes them down.
The Great Pharoah smiting his enemies, the god guiding his hand.
Religion is an outdated form of coercive control. It’s frightening how mentally ill it makes people. The insanity isn’t confined to one type of faith.
Off Topic (apologies).
After Northy prompted my memory regarding one of my favourite poets, Lord Byron, it encouraged me to search out a couple of his satirical observations which I felt may find favour with many BTL commentators on WOS.
“In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is hypocrisy.”
“I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments.”
No more poetic self indulgence for a time, I promise.
Perfect quotes, Sven. Totally applicable to the current state of affairs.
I was talking to some people about the incomprehension of the List vote, saying no matter what your politics, the system should be clearly explained so people don’t waste their list vote on the Same Party 1&2 but use their 2nd vote for someone else. Sadly they came back with “it’s wrong to game the system” and the current ignorance does produce a proportional representation so that’s fair. I didn’t think quickly enough to say that if people knew their 2nd vote for Same Party was being wasted then they might like to vote for their 2nd choice – surely not unfair as this is akin to the Council vote system.
[I think it was Byron who was mad, bad and dangerous to know, by the way.]
It was indeed, Sarah, as I mentioned in my post when I referenced it as Lady Caroline’s description of him.
I just find it a matter of regret that so often when his name is mentioned that is the only quote referenced, whilst very few seem to know anything of his own work.
As you know Byron had a Scottish mother and spent some of his early childhood in Aberdeenshire.In his reported attitudes to Scotland he demonstrates the Scottish «antisyzygy» perfectly. His feelings for England were somewhat less ambivalent.
He retained traces of a Scottish accent throughout his life it seems.
He would have brightened up Scotland’s independence politics immeasurably.
If this place is any example, he would have categorised Indy supporters as mad, bad and tedious to know.
Well, that all three boxes ticked in one go. Bravo!
Did he not attend Aberdeen Grammar School? As did my brothers – obviously not at the same time as Lord Byron!
Turabdin @ 12.36.
Whilst I have no intention of diverting this site, intended to address the cause of Scottish Independence, onto one of theological debate, for which I am in any event unqualified, Your comment regarding the ” predestined elect ” being ” free to sin” is not only an incorrect definition of Calvinism, but actually the classic heresy of Antinomianism.
A charge laid against the apostle Paul himself, as he outlines in such passages as Romans 3:8, where he comments, “And not , ( as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come ? Whose damnation is just.
As I believe you to have such extensive and deep erudition I find it challenging to accept that you make such an inaccurate and sweeping mischaracterisation inadvertently or from ignorance.
I stand corrected on the theology, not my minefield at all, but some may act in such a manner as to give the impression that a divine agency guides their hand, sets them on the true path. Calvin himself did not shirk from dishing out severe punishment to those with whom he disagreed: a human frailty not confined in time or space to one discipline alas.
However, an online clip of Trump being prayed over by ministers in the oval office is rather suggestive of some kind of heavenly link….a wishful linking?
The Messianic Rabbi Yeshua did mention that it was not the well who needed the help of a physician, but the sick.
Amongst a considerable range from which to choose, could you really choose a better patient requiring prayer than President Trump ?
And, since I’ve already broken my intent to discuss theology no further, with my apologies let me completely fracture my commitments by closing with a favourite quote from Lord Byron’s epic Don Juan. And in so doing fling myself upon the charity of fellow wingers.
“Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded
That all the apostles would have done as they did.
It certainly appears as if the Scots Kirk is less than interested in the Scottish peoples oppression or liberation, whilst glorifying a furrin king tae rule ower us withoot ivver pittin a Scots croun on his heid:
link to barrheadboy.com
According to online sleuths it’s secret societies/Freemasons/Transhumanists/Znsts who are directing Trump & who have also infiltrated all levels of government across the West, inc it’s religious institutions. TPUSA & militarised the evangelical mob into a frenzy. Every pastor miraculously has a military background or have crimes for SA towards minors. If they’re caught they’re spirited away to Issy for refuge or let off by a fellow member of the club.
Eastern Europe is involved, the military, Eppy, orphanages, human trafficking & human sacrifices, pentagrams & the number 33.
I doubt those prayers are to a “Christian God” or to a Jewish one either. Their actions alone suggest not. They absolutely detest the human race – children especially. Want to sterilise everyone & just use science to make the type that’ll conform & not breed. The TRA cult is just the start..
To normal Christians that’s diabolical & we all know who hates the human race cause we’re made in the image & likeness..
Big tech mafia is involved too – check out Thiel & his background & even more disturbingly, his world view & his plans for AI.
They all funded heavily into the Trump campaign along with personal donations to his bank account. Trump is a narcissist. He already thinks he’s God. He’s taken the money cause Trumps biggest concern is Trump.
Anyhow – just to say, that’s not Christians praying over Trump. It’s not them motivating Yahoo either. They’re a whole nother level of fundamentalists. He has far grandiose plans of ruling the next empire with the tech mafia by his side ruling over us all.
God help us all lol..
Geri
If a God of light and love ever existed then he is long gone.
Someone, some thing now sits in his place.
(Courtesy of Vincent Price)
“Whilst I have no intention of diverting this site,intended to address the cause of Scottish Independence…”
Knock yersel out, Sven.
Hatey does it 24/7, babbling rubbish related to nothing.
At least you’re far more interesting..
If anybody has any free sock puppets, explain 24/7 to the New Hereditary King’s most vocal handmaiden.
Haha, hand “something”, perhaps.
.. 🙂
Apologies, Geri, but I’ve got to correct you there;
it’s not “rubbish” the site Prick babbles 24/7, but pure, unadulterated unionist “shite”.
Looks like James has the sock puppets.
But considering what he’s been doing in them, best await an offer from someone else.
“Dickens wrote the real evil of the world is ignorance”
Hatey, no truer word was spoken when it refers to the people in Scotland never learning their true state and circumstances from the historical records,
It defies intellect to keep pretending they have to go about independence for Scotland the hard way, when England promoted and suppled Scotlands independence to them on a platter in 1707.
By dissolving Scotlands parliament from from the union by the end of 1707,
As you stated the treaty of union is old guff.
And nobody else pays it any heed.
England reinforced this position in 1800 when they dissolve the Scotland / England Great Britain parliament.
Why do Scots persist in in creating their own captivity?… it is beyond you ,I, Dickens or Byron.
James
Rumour is that Hatey likes Dickens, just not on the first date!
Allegedly..
Fact has it that you’re a man whose word can’t be trusted. Someone who swears an oath of fealty.
Then breaks it.
That never will stop you leading a more or less normal life, YL. Just that every time somebody has to weigh up what you’re saying, whether it’s truth or lie, whether to believe you, they’ll remember that fact.
Boo fucking hoo.
HMcH
Yawn..
An oath made under duress of unemployment in an area devastated by HMs psychotic government is no oath at all.
Plus I held the oath while I served, I am aware of no open ended obligation thereafter.
Not that you’d know that never having served ya shirking superannuated underemployed Scotchland Office seat shiner:-)
Or do I miscry?
Doubt it.
Away back to “whanging oan” endlessly about brown people ya rank fascist..
An oath’s an oath, YL. Whoever telt ye itherwise lied through their teeth.
Must have been anither whose word is cheap.
Birds of a feather, eh?
HMcH
Oaths?
Let’s have a wee look at yours eh?
1. The Cub Scouts:
Rule number 3: (That you swear to)keep yourself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight..
Well that’s a 3 strikes fail ya seat shining mendacious arse bandit then..
2. Your latest cult; Far right USA Oathkeepers- (yah de yah) I will defend the constitution of the United States of America against all (yah de yah) and I will obey the orders of the President if the United States.
Another rank fail, not being able to contain yerself in your babbling and totally out of character caricaturing The Donald here. What happened? Did that “sponsor” run dry??
3. Another of your far right trans (hmmm) Atlantic loons; I am a proud Western chauvinist. (Tick so far, however) and pledge not to masturbate for a month.
And you were doing so well until the final bit but, well, another oath broken frequently every day.
I’ll take no lectures on oaths from a smart a8se tw8t like you saddo..
3. Proud Boys
Great posts, YL. There’s something about 2 AM that just seems to bring out your best.
Re your claims. Do you promise faithfully they’re true? Cross your heart? Swear an oath on all that is holy?
HMcH
3 strikes, yer oot!
Alf Baird,
It is not only the Scots kirk that has little interest in the liberation of the Scots people, it is the people of Scotland themselves,
Creating a home goal in their own captivity, stuggling for independence they all ready have of officially,
And still no Scots crown on his foreign head.
Yet Scotland bows to crown courts and judges of the laws of England.
“It is not only the Scots kirk that has little interest in the liberation of the Scots people, it is the people of Scotland themselves,”.
How true, James.
And the will of the Scottish people being sovereign as per the Claim of Right, that must be the end of the matter.
“It is not only the Scots kirk that has little interest in the liberation of the Scots people, it is the people of Scotland themselves,”
It isn’t James. We’ve only had one voted & we voted YES. Our vote was allowed to be watered down like no other vote in history. Perfidious Albion strikes again.
They won’t allow another one because they know they’ll lose.
Scotland is politically aware. People are sick of the pretence of having a vote that mattered. The SNP completely scunnered everyone.
“We’ve only had one vote and we voted yes”
Don’t you just hate it when commoners adopt the royal we? Especially when, irony of ironies, they self-identify as republicans!
Tell you what though, Geri. You do a passable re-enactment of the royal ascent and I’ll let you off.
“It is not only the Scots kirk that has little interest in the liberation of the Scots people, it is the people of Scotland themselves”
Indeed so James. However, we should remember that ‘colonialism is based on psychology’ (Cesaire) and that a colonized peoples denial of their own oppression and their ‘craving dependence’ on the colonizer is all part of the colonial condition, which is what we see every day in colonial Scotland.
But we are reminded that this condition is as a consequence of colonial domination, it is not a natural phenomenon, and that ‘the colonized is a manufactured being’ (Memmi); every colonized people succumbed to the same hoax, until they realise for themselves that they have been hoodwinked by the usurper:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Irony of ironies, Alf.
We’re so colonised, we don’t even have our own academics of anti-colonialism.
We have to import the writings and refer to the studies of foreigners. Bow the knee at the superior knowledge and analysis of long-dead blokes from far-flung foreign climes.
Just how pathetic is that?
“…we don’t even have our own academics of anti-colonialism.”
There’s a Scottish academic who goes by the name of Professor Alf Baird who has thoroughly researched Scotland’s colonization by England and has set his findings down in a book entitled Doun-Hauden.
I think the kindle version is available on Amazon for £4:99.
Well worth a read.
As always, Northy, your Pathetic Scottish Cringe renders you incapable of understanding my point.
Alf continually quoting some third world boys doesn’t mean we have our own academics. It means we’re mindlessly adopting alien and foreign values, lacking the ability to develop our own.
If Scotland’s academics were producing any new findings of value or relevance on the subject of colonialism, then third world boys would be quoting them.
Anyhoo, perhaps my opening line was Ill judged. It could be your inferior Pictish genes, the ones that fated your accursed race to near extermination at the hands of the Darwinian-superior Scots, that are your fundamental problem.
In the last two thousand years we have seen western orthodox religion rise and fall. We now see the fall of the eastern orthodox religion, or at least the beginning of the end.
What do these religions have in common? They have or are run solely by men for men. Woman having a secondary role or no role at all.
What now? What can take it’s place. Well my answer to that is nothing will take it’s place. It will be every man and woman for themselves. ‘Know thyself’ save thy self. The female will rise to be the dominant. The age of Aquarius has begun.
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
Attr. G K Chesterton; although possibly a summation of his views by Emile Cammaerts.
There you go, Mark.
“What can take it’s place. Well my answer to that is nothing will take it’s place. ”
A vacuum will always be filled with something else.
Nihilism sounds real fun, NOT.
Even in the deepest, darkest places of the world there have been tribes discovered worshipping something even tho they’re isolated from outside influence. Even painting in caves.
Dumbing people down to believe in nothing is the problem. It allows all manner of evils to go unchecked.
Western governments have been experimenting on how to make psychopaths since WW2 when they gave Nazi scientists refuge in America to study their programs. They discovered Private schools & traumatising children early was the ideal lab to churn out World leaders.
You raise an interesting point, Geri.
I was reading in the MSM yesterday, that one of the schoolgirls tragically killed in the likely US missile strike last week, was noted for having already memorised the entire Koran.
One of the thoughts that crossed my mind was, what so-called loving parent would inflict that on their child?
But by all means, you continue to rail at the mote in the west’s collective eye, while ignoring the beam in our implacable enemies’ eyes. And kid yourself on (or simply lie to us) that your first love is Scotland.
Meditation is good for the soul. Focus is good for the mind. If a child can recite an entire book by that age then good for her. It beats churning out illiterate neds.
You should try meditation sometime instead of obsessively posting shite on here all day.
What would you rather have her learn? How to gyrate tae the latest gangsta tunes about shooting up mutha fkrs & summoning up Beelzebub?
Piss off, fascist weirdo.
What others believe in is absolutely zero to to with you.
Careful you dinna scuff the covers of your holy book, Geri.
If you do, some meditative, focussed cant will have to kill you.
I note your views on what is good for the mind, though. Why don’t you tell us what it is you do. Forewarned, we can all avoid that, so hopefully not end our days like you.
WOW John boy Main is getting more unhinged by the day, he is now telling Geri that her views could cause someone to kill her, who could that person be , did Northcode not suffer similar threats from Hatey Mc Fuckwit
I remember SC banning someone who made a single threat to arrange a meeting to discuss views to another poster
And yet Hatey and his crew of proud Scot BUT Scotland haters like to portray themselves as intelligent friends trying to save us poor Scots from the disaster of independence
Where has all the better together bonhomie gone and the lead us don’t leave us pleas , the poor yoonionists can’t control themselves when they are challenged or ignored
And they have the cheek and audacity to call us moonhowlers and blood and soil nativists
Geri,
You are missing the point,
You did not have to vote for your independence or ask permission to be ignored in your vote,
You did not have to vote at all,,
Scotland , its country and its people have been independent since 1707,
That is what The records state,
Alf Baird is a 100% correct, when the colonised mind refuses to let go, the truth becomes hidden in the darkness, where light should shine,
“Scotland , its country and its people have been independent since 1707”
Maybe so, James, but the Scots, as a people, don’t know that; they’ve been lied to and psychologically manipulated generation after generation for more than three centuries.
The Scots have, in effect, been brain-washed – subconsciously to a great extent – into believing that Scotland as a nation is inferior to England and that the Scots as a people are inferior to the English… hence the ‘Scottish Cringe’.
The Scots, despite their magnificent inventiveness and achievements, have been made to feel inferior to most other peoples in the modern world; a world that more or less owes the Scots for its existence.
The ‘cringe’ is a serious and debilitating psychological condition despite its innocuous label.
It’s not quite as easy as folk might think it is to break the grip that sort of mental conditioning has upon the mind.
Whatever we Scots have achieved, Northy, it’s fuck all to do with you.
You’re a Pict. An untermensch. We Scots thought we’d exterminated you lot. OK, so one or two slipped the net. Our ancestors screwed up.
We’ll be more thorough the next time.
Alf Baird,
I do remember how the long term effect of Colonialism dances with and on the reality of the present sadly.
Perhaps it was my appalling education that freed my mind from becoming indoctrinated into a control mind,
Whatever the reason it is sad, very sad to see Scots that are free believe they are a captured nation.
Which is far from the truth,
Wether it is the Englands crown education in Scotland , crown laws of England in Scotland , or the devolved government sent from Englands laws or the kirks of Scotland to the universities, they are all continuing the hoax of a treaty and transgressing into the country and realm of Scotland, under Nothing but a act of Colonialism,
For the treaty between Scotland and England ended in the same year it began….1707.
How do change Colonised minds that have been fed lies and deceit for over three hundred years?
How does one stop the sleep walking nation,
Is there any solution in your books of the colonised minds of people, or do they have to wake up by themselves,
I see a few are waking from the ways that were taught them, will the all wake up or will some magician have to snap there fingers.
“I see a few are waking from the ways that were taught them, will the all wake up or will some magician have to snap there fingers.”
Yes James, the people have to wake from their lethargy, they have to unveil the oppression which hauds them doun, and to commit to its transformation, to confront their domination, to expel its myths, and finally to remove its presence.
This is an educational process and challenge. Essentially all Scotland’s institutions and all those leading them reek of colonialism, which means the people have to understand their oppression in order to change it.
But before anything can change, the people must first comprehend their colonial reality. Once a people realise they have been colonized they know then that there is only one option open to them.
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Drink!
Haha, just my wee joke, Alf.
Obviously the only option open to us is to buy a copy of your book.
Could Northy provide a link to Amazon marketplace? Thanks in advance.
Mark Beggan,
The age of aquarius is supposed to be the age of enlightenment, so its said, when truths are revealed.
Iam not sure where it is said females will become dominant though.
Is that why the governments are panicking and trying to squash womens rights ans men are pretending to be women 😉
Factchecker,
You are right of course, the Scottish people have to attain the will to wake up first, prior to returning themselves to a Sovereign nation and country.
Diabloandco @ 15.55.
He did indeed, D & Co, in the (very) late 1700s.
His statue stands outside the establishment, with I believe sufficient space remaining for memorials for your esteemed bros. Depending of course upon how many Diablos & Cos there may be.
Too few these days Sven!
Northcode,
Three hundred years and more of conditioning has to have had an effect on the people of Scotland,
Goodness they weren’t even allowed to own a knife for their cutting their bread, never mind play their own music or speak their own localised Scots language, wear their own garments of their own country,
And a few from down south called them vermin,
Indeed the Scottish people in general may take and need the time to adjust, to hold a new belief and have faith in themselves,
Perhaps I am impatient trying to reverse three hundred years of mental suppression.
James, you are one of those ‘fortunate’ Scots who sees the truth of Scotland’s relationship with England and has broken free, at least to some extent, of the invisible grip that holds most Scots in the thrall of England’s lies.
‘Fortunate’ is perhaps the wrong word… for you are awake while all around you are the sleeping figures of a people fallen under an enchantment – what a lonely place Scotland is for those who have managed to slip the bonds of England’s wicked spell.
factchecker is not correct, by the way… they never are in my view, not as far as Scotland seeking her liberty from oppression is concerned, at least.
factchecker tells us that because the Scots have been brain-washed and are, for the moment, ‘comfortable’ with England’s gift in the form of a fake Scottish parliament; a perfect illusion of Scottish democracy and self-governance, then that “must be the end of the matter” (the matter of Scottish independence, presumably).
I disagree, and posit that far from being the end of the matter we are at the very beginning of a bright new chapter in Scotland’s quest for her liberty and the recovery of her nation and her people from three centuries of ‘marriage to a psychopath’.
The future is bright, the future is tartan… the future is a Scotland free of England.
A perfectly rational response. NC is telling us that it is entirely right to ignore the sovereign wishes of the Scottish people until such time as they agree with him.
Entirely reasonable.
I disagree.
My disagree disagrees with your disagree and, furthermore, I disagree with the notion that I am not being entirely reasonable. Which, perfectly reasonably, is an entirely anti-colonial rational response on my part and an entirely anti-Scot irrational response on yours.
Contrary to ignoring more than half of the total number of indigenous Scots who have expressed, and continue to do so, their desire for the termination of the (non-existent) hoax ‘union’ between Scotland and England; international recognition of their people’s ancient and rightful sovereignty; the recovery of their nation from the thief that is England; reparations (no cheques please… we all know they’ll bounce) for all that England has stolen from the Scots covering a period of at least three centuries; and the liberation of all Scots from English imperial oppression, I count myself as one of them and am completely aligned with their desire as just stated.
Disagree?
I’ve disagreed with the nonsense of a ‘union’ between two entirely unsuited peoples and English imperialism lording it ower the Scots my whole life… the time for being reasonable when it comes to dealing with that thug of a nation is lang syne past.
PEERS VOTE TO GO BEYOND GOVT’S PLEDGE TO END NON-CRIME HATE INCIDENTS
The House of Lords has voted to strengthen measures against non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs).
After a Government amendment removing the statutory basis for non-crime hate incidents passed without a vote earlier this week, Peers backed Lord Young of Acton’s requirement that NCHIs “must not be recognised as a category of incident by any police authority in the United Kingdom”, and any guidance “in relation to incident recording must have due regard to the right to freedom of expression”.
The amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill would also ensure the deletion of any historic incidents that do not meet the recording threshold; such incidents can appear on enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks when applying for a job.
‘BENEFICIAL FOR EVERYONE’
Explaining the impact of this amendment, Lord Young said it would “end the investigation and recording of non-crime hate incidents and ensure that any future incident recording guidance has due regard to the right to freedom of expression”.
He emphasised that, no matter one’s political stance, it is in “all our interests” to “place a statutory limit on what the police can investigate and record as non-crimes”.
But the Government opposed the amendment, with Home Office minister Lord Hanson of Flint claiming it would “tie officers’ hands”. Peers backed the change by 227 votes to 221.
NCHIs have been logged when an incident, alleged or not, has been perceived to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards another on the grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, sex or transgender identity.
REFORMS
Earlier this week, Lord Hanson told the upper chamber: “Police officers must be able to focus on catching criminals, cutting crime and ensuring public safety, and the present statutory code has not provided the clarity needed to support that focus. It must therefore be revoked.”
He explained that a “more appropriate framework” is to be set out which will only “relate to core policing purposes” and that these “reforms will be supported by robust guidance and training so that the incidents are handled appropriately”.
In December, the College of Policing and National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) concluded that recording “information about non-crime incidents on a crime system is not the right solution”.
(The Christian Institute, 12 March 2026)
link to christian.org.uk
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:
12 March, 2026 at 7:26 pm
“Peers backed the change by 227 votes to 221”
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Well done peers.
“A mother-of-10 who kept a vulnerable woman captive as a slave for 25 years has been jailed for 13 years.
Mandy Wixon, 56, was found guilty of false imprisonment and forcing the woman to clean her squalid home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The victim, who has a learning disability and is now in her mid-40s, had washing-up liquid squirted down her throat, bleach splashed on her face and her head shaved against her will. She was also made to live off scraps.
Passing sentence at Gloucester Crown Court, Judge Ian Lawrie KC told Wixon: “You cruelly and persistently held captive this woman… The enduring persistent trauma of that slavery remains.”
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Unfortunately the imprisoned offender will have a lot better living conditions than her victim.
Bet Wilson is white and thus an easy target for two-tier justice.
One interesting side effect of the opening of World War 3’s third offensive front is seeing all those maps of the Middle East.
On these, we can get a feel for the vast expanses held by the adherents of the religion of peace.
And the tiny foothold held by the descendants of those the Romans exiled near two millennia ago.
The religion of peace only ever takes. It never relinquished even a postage stamp, unless through bloody force of arms. Our ancestors knew that. We’re long overdue to learn that, because it’s taking our country right now.
“because it’s taking our country right now”
Aye, but dae ye e’en ken whit kintra ye mean tho?
Imperialism aye consumes itself in the end. The remaining ‘Naw’ votin Scots still sold on the ‘British’ cultural illusion and the ‘Union’ colonial hoax urgently need to learn to ride a different horse, or in oor case unicorn, the ‘true symbol of Scottish power’.
Itherwise we will also be consumed – for a colonized nation is always ‘in the process of perishing’ (Memmi).
Liberation – or what some call independence – is the anely remeed for the colonized.
link to salvo.scot
You continue to ignore the reality, Alf, that your remaining Naw voters maybe just check out the incompetent, corrupt, grifting, back stabbing, criminal, vendetta-driven, reality-denying troughers that are ScotGov and recoil in horror from the idea of giving them any more licence than that which they already use and abuse.
The usual response to the pointing out of this fact is a claim that an army of gifted, honest, selfless, honourable rationalists will magic themselves out of nowhere on Day Zero of Indy.
If that’s going to be your best shot once more, Alf, don’t bother.
Stop talking utter shite.
It’s Westerners who are squatting all over the ME & Asia Pacific.
Military bases everywhere & Colonial overlords dictating trade routes whilst stealing their resources. They’re Vassal states.
Mainly the reason why the locals don’t mind turning the taps off. They receive very little benefit but a whole swarm of corrupt thieves & puppet governments.
WW3 started cause the last remaining Sovereign nation won’t bend the knee & install a puppet.
Don’t like yer country overrun by migrants? Then stop meddling in their countries & blowing shit up. It’s very simple. Even for a dullard like you.
Right Hatey Bin Hateful Stop invading countries right now and Give that stuff back.
Geri as your a self confessed slave. You have but two choices: accept your colonial masters and just get on with it. Or get tortured then hung from a spike. The Mullah method.
I’m still waiting to read your comments on the massacre of the Iranian people.
Yup MB
It’s just so much more civilised that the “chaps” just blow up the camel jockeys, mullahs and stupid civilians who haven’t just run away (and foolishly get in the way) from a very great distance isn’t it?
What’s the going exchange rate these days?
One Is Rye Ale citizens life equals eighty to one hundred brown people.
One US citizens life equals approximately one thousand brown people.
Fairly certain we’ll find out pretty soon what the US / North Korean then Chinese exchange rates are!
Medals all round..
Hasn’t the Donald done just a grand job of stopping wars?
Ah, C’moan noo, Mark.
Let me keep the sand atween ma toes. It’s a bugger tae shift.
And a dish towel. I’m planning attending some AUOB marches.
“People are going to lose $trillions in wealth”
Says the American on the telly.
“Trump needs to get on the phone tae Modi – he’s neutral”
Ummmmm… slight problem there..
These ppl, just like you, don’t do self awareness do they?
So the SNP SG continues to drag its heels over releasing the dirt on MI6 Agent Sturgeon. Taxi for Swinney again.
Taxi for Swinney with G4S on the side would be nice…
Iain More says:
12 March, 2026 at 10:24 pm
“So the SNP SG continues to drag its heels over releasing the dirt on MI6 Agent Sturgeon.
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MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS ), operates overseas only.
The internal Security Service of the UK is MI5 who would you get really annoyed if MI6/ SIS operated on their turf.
Anyhow, what possible use could the Secret Intelligence Service have for Wee Nikki! Did someone at the back say “spying on a French diplomat”?
Now i hear that the toxic Kaye Adams was removed from the BBC following alleged misconduct complaint against her. Several years too late in my view. She really was a venomous Yoon.
She’ll still put BBC before nationality.
British not Scottish that one… Yoo-kaye Adams, formerly of the Brit-Nat Brainwashing Channel.
She’ll be on GB News next, with all the other pet-Jock moon howlers.
“pet-Jock moon howlers”
Ah, and there’s plenty of them, each following Mannoni’s “dependency complex…that these groups are psychologically made for dependence; that they need dependence, that they crave it, ask for it, demand it; that is the case with most of the colonized peoples” (Cesaire).
Aye, Scots need to remember that “colonialism is a joint venture with native elites” (Fanon) and others on the colonial payroll.
“the case with most of”
What’s this, Alf? Are Cesaire’s ideological foundations starting to crumble?
That “most” permits some doubt to creep in. Some re-education, preferably with hard labour, for Cesaire. 25 years sounds about right.
But I see Mannoni is ready to step into his place. A rising star, Mannoni. I hope to hear a lot more from him in the coming weeks and months.
Incidentally, the phrase much favoured by the disappeared republican boy who couldn’t write “Scotland” right was “house Jock”. I prefer that to “pet Jock”.
It correctly captures the contempt in which ordinary Scots are held by those Indy supporters who believe that only they are empowered to speak for Scotland. Those who, in other words, speak as if their Scottish Sovereignty is superior to the Scottish Sovereignty of other Scots. And thus it warns ordinary, apolitical Scots about the undemocratic nature of the new, would-be “elect” in our midst.
“as if their Scottish Sovereignty is superior to the Scottish Sovereignty of other Scots”
You appear to misunderstand the colonial reality in regard to sovereignty.
The more culturally assimilated hence ‘dependent’ native in colonial society willingly forfeits his own national sovereignty for his relatively privileged position in that society and his new supposedly superior ‘identity’, which is a cultural illusion.
It is the less-assimilated native not so easily taken in by the colonial hoax and the colonizer’s myths, who seeks to reclaim his national sovereignty that has been stolen from him, i.e. to become liberated from colonial oppression.
This represents to a large extent the divide between Scots Yes and No voters.
Sure, Alf, these arguments go round and round with such depressing regularity that we can now all predict where they will end.
With you, it ends with you as good as stating that only the Sovereignty of those Scots who agree with you need be respected.
Those Scots who disagree with you have the wrong kind of Sovereignty, so their views can therefore be discounted.
As you write, a Sovereign Scot disagreeing with you “willingly forfeits his own national sovereignty”.
It’s a POV, sure. Besides being a false POV, it absolves any Indy supporting Scot who holds it from having to bother trying to change the mind of any Indy opposed Scot. And thus, the approximate half of Sovereign Scots who support Indy can never be bothered to try to overcome the real and actual democratic will of the approximate half of Sovereign Scots who don’t support Indy.
But hey ho. You’re not for learning anything new, are you, Alf?
House Jock implies someone who still lives here who suffers an identity crisis.
Pet Jock is about right, the token Scot chosen as a pet by our overlords to appear on the telly & try “blend”, usually to punt how shite Scotland is. A BBC court jester.
Other pets included Roof the mooth. Who could forget that Unionist cringe?.. she’d have been a dead cert for a shoo-in for GB news howlers but the occult got tae her first..
On the subject of pets, Geri, hows the dugs?
At weekends, do you usually permit them more freedom?
Let them get out more?
Re. My previous inexcusably intemperate post.
May I obsequiously and regretfully add the correction that references to “Brown people” meant the “wrong sort” of brown people and not the fabulously, fair and legally and constitutionally constrained and uber caring overseers of the Dubai Disneyland franchise nor that shining beacon of modernity, fairness, great mediator and stabilising moderate influence of the UAE.
Apologies for any misunderstanding and please don’t send any of my visiting friends and relatives to (extortion) jail..
Pretty please?
Too late your mask slipped there Herr Von Leichtenvar.
Did you know that the technology in your phone is based on the works of James Clark Maxwell a Scottish scientist rated the third greatest scientific mind in the world. Not bad for a lad from Edinburgh.
Could you clarify who’s first, Mark. Is it me or you?
In yer dreams big boy. Mr Apple comes first too geezer dead clever cunt. Then there’s wee Bert the atom fiddler. Who used to work for Simpsons watch repairs and engravings
He wisne frae Edinburgh ya fucking unionist clown.
Should Scotland seriously consider sending the illegal immigrants hame tae think again?
Too little, too late, Mark B.
I doubt this country has either the will nor the means to locate, identify, gather up and deport tens of thousands fit, aggresive young men who don’t wish to leave.
That train has not only left the station … it’s now completely out of sight !
I think you mean the government. The country is fit and able. This summer is going to be the crunch point for Wokeseville. Do you honestly think that Scotland will just roll over and play dead.
Jist fir til let ye know, ken?
link to scotlandscensus.gov.uk
The largest group of immigrants in 2022 was from the category, “Other White”. The next largest was Polish.
Large increase,8.2%, of people from minority ethnic background between 2011 and 2022.
Data on the flow of people into and out of Scotland can be found here.
link to nrscotland.gov.uk
I miss oor national mammie. She excelled at topping whatever England did. That was more or less her entire and only policy.
With England offering illegal families £40,000 to clear off, Scotland should be able to afford £60,000. Maybe more.
What better way to show how much we care, and how much more virtuous we are?
That would be the exact Nasty Nats answer just get to one over the English bastards. Then they would staple saltires to their buttocks.
Wish someone would offer £20 for you to fuck off.
H McH: what are you doing? Destroying the only policy we have? If we can’t top anything England does in the way of self-destruction, what are we here for, may I ask?
Mark Beggan @ 14.12.
I do, Mark. And if they don’t, I believe the full power of the state will be unleashed against the minority who take action.
Surveillance CTV cameras afford the national Police Service the ability to isolate and identify activists at demonstrations and apprehend them at a later time. We can depend on our “independent” Fiscal service and Courts to ensure prosecutions and exemplary sentences follow.
That has been the elite establishments plan all along. The socialist post-colonial ideology. Get into bed with the death cult. Suppress women then go for the children. It’s a sickness. But it’s not quite going to plan. Everything they touch turns to shit.
Is it coincidence that the Death cult is being destroyed and the Leftists are on their way out of politics probably forever.
Sam @ 14.26.
I’m guessing that would be legal immigrants, Sam. As I doubt asylum seekers awaiting classification, illegals or travellers would be shown.
Few of the large groups of young men who congregate in the town where I live or request alms appear from skin colour or language to be “other white” or eastern european, although we do have a signifigant number of them also.
I know, Sven.
It is impossible to know anything with certainty about illegal immigration numbers.
You can get some idea of the absolute mess UK gov makes of immigration policy.
link to migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk
“Asylum seekers who have been refused protection but remain in the UK add to the unauthorised migrant population. Official data show that 166,000 people applied for asylum between 2010 and 2023 but were refused protection, taking into account appeals. Of these, around 82,000 were recorded as having left the UK via enforced or voluntary return by 30 June 2024. This suggests that roughly half of refused asylum seekers during the period, around 85,000 individuals, had not been recorded as having departed the country.”
I commented recently that I had contacted ALL my MP’s and MSP’s of ALL parties to complain about Shabana Mahmood’s announcement of £40,000 to asylum seekers to voluntarily return home to their country , I have received ONE response to my letter from a LABOUR Regional MSP,I will not include his name as he at least had the courtesy to respond but his response is indicative of the stupidity infecting HR and ALL parties , his response states ,
Thank you for your email. I note that you have sent this to your regional MSPs who of course do not have a vote on any such matters as immigration and asylum is strictly reserved to Westminster.
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Irrespective of him being a regional MSP he is still a member of the Labour party who are in government in WM or am I mistaken and who are as he says responsible for immigration and asylum
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I understand your frustrations however on the matter. The reason that these sorts of payments are suggested is due to the fact that legal challenges are a regular occurrence in asylum cases which can delay their deportation for over a year in some cases.
The reason that sums of money are offered is to avoid this and means that by accepting this, they will be deported straight away. The £40,000 sum is for whole families to accept deportation but I do agree with you that this is a considerable amount of money.
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So instead of dealing with failed asylum seekers with immediate deportation and spurious claims of entitlement by greed driven lawyers the government of the day prefer to bribe these illegal immigrants with £40,000 to voluntarily go away, what happens when the illegal immigrants use the £40,000 to pay people smugglers to bring them and their extended families and good mates back to Britain
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I also don’t believe publicly announcing this to potentially failed asylum seekers is a good idea due to them now knowing this is the exact sum they can request
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NO SHIT Sherlock , and they don’t have to request it , they will DEMAND it
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As I mentioned previously, this is not something in the Scottish Parliament I have the opportunity to vote on but I would struggle to support the excessive sum that is being suggested and that there should be a rethink by the Westminster Government.
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He’s actually not that bothered about illegal immigrants blackmailing WM he is more bothered at the sum mentioned
As usual just like Swinney and ALL the rest of the incompetents infesting our politics it’s no their fault and they canny dae anything about it even if it is
85,000 failed asylum seekers at £10,000 each is still less than £1 billion pounds. Small change for our UK government.
I say we should make it £40,000 each, not per family. Around £3.5 billion in total. UK public spending in 2025-26 is £1,370 billion, so £3.5 billion is 0.25% of the eye watering sums disbursed by WM, HR, etc.
We could also reduce the benefits of octogenarian moaners who can still afford to pay for postage stamps. Looks like plenty of scope for savings there.
As usual poor wee hatey nae pals has to have a go at elderly Scots people who have paid their taxes ALL their working life and are still doing so including business taxes , what benefits are generously paid to octogenarian citizens who highlight the lunacy of spendthrift governments paying illegals BRIBES to return home
Yet the self same hatey mcFuckwit is on this site posting his usual inane responses to peoples comments 24hours a day , either hatey is one of his despised unemployed schemies that he is fond of denigrating or he is as I have posted numerous times part of the 77th brigade of CREEPS
Not that long AGO, Rev Stu published an article on here, ripping THE shit out of somebody for producing material IN all different FONTS and in RANDOM capitals.
As I recall, an excellent ARTICLE that gathered many favourable COMMENTS.
@ Sam
How many illegal immigrants came into Scotland? I don’t know
They don’t know. You don’t know.
Did they ask the illegal immigrants to tick a box on their way in. Civil servants on the beach taking a head count.
Do you believe the government statistics.
No one knows.
On the topic of statistics. Go read Glasgow Sheriff Court logs and look at the names.
Be interesting to read your comments. Oh and be prepared for a shock
Police Scotland refused a request under the freedom of information to reveal the criminal numbers connected to immigrant hotels. Their reason was it could cause public disorder.
Following the Union St fire the demolition company is Burnfield Demolition.
Ironic.
O/T Does anyone know what is happening with the Voices for Independence site? There has been no entry for today though Joan has her daily post on her blog today.
What is there to talk about that hasn’t already been said. Looking at the Rag today I had to look twice, I thought I was on the Herald website the National is dead and buried.
The MASSIVE elephant in the room is the US and its emerging absolutist «monarchy». If the sun sets on the west, and things are currently looking pretty gloomy, it will be because the great and the good of that sphere prefer to trust rather than critique this soi disant «land of the free» and its hollywoodesque mythology, which to the wise observer, one thinks of H L Mencken, has historically never been anything of the kind.
The «anglosaxons» seem to have a high opinion of themselves. Fortunately those who do not share that ethnicity or view it through a different lens, see them differently. Sadly, so many anglophone commentators by not challenging become complicit in promoting this snake oil merchandise.
Iran has no intention of going gently for it has centuries of experience in the psychology of dealing with threat; not so the «pearl clutching» send in the nukes, USA.
What has this to do with Scotland? I leave, what Prof Dawkins called «the bright» to propose a answer.
Monarchy is the default for humanity, TURABDIN. It’s wired into our DNA, almost certainly because over the long term, it works better than the alternatives.
Scotland was a monarchy right up until (checks notes) we were colonised in 1707.
Look at what just happened in that ME shithole currently getting reacquainted with the Stone Age – on the death of the monarch, his son was appointed king.
Look at NK – the teenage daughter of the current second-generation king is expected to become queen on his death.
Sure, they don’t call themselves kings and queens, but come on! Absolute, supreme leaders, grooming their children to take over the role when they die?
And that’s the secret right there. Just as any skier, ballet dancer or tennis player who take up the sport aged 5, and is relentlessly coached into their twenties, is most likely to thrash a competitor who starts at age 19, a child who lives, breathes, eats and sleeps politics, diplomacy and statecraft since they are a babe in arms will likely be far better than any untutored novice.
“What has this to do with Scotland?”
I suggest that as any long-term perusal of Wings BTL will show, we Scots still see things through the lens of monarchy. Good King Salmond and Wicked Queen Sturgeon being just two recent examples. The iron conviction that individuals steer the nation’s destiny, for good or bad, will never die.
Certainly not in those who swear blind they are republicans!
Monarchy is the default for humanity, TURABDIN. It’s wired into our DNA, almost certainly because over the long term, it works better than the alternatives.
Scotland was a monarchy right up until (checks notes) we were colonised in 1707.
“What has this to do with Scotland?”
I suggest that as any long-term perusal of Wings BTL will show, we Scots still see things through the lens of monarchy. Good King Salmond and Wicked Queen Sturgeon being just two recent examples. The iron conviction that individuals steer the nation’s destiny, for good or bad, will never die.
Certainly not in those who swear blind they are republicans!
“it has centuries of experience”
47 years of totalitarian theocracy. The
Persians are the only ones who can justly claim that history.
“Won’t go quiet”
Who cares. Go quiet or go screaming. But go they will down to hell. A one way ticket.
“Seem to have a high opinion of themselves”
The sociopath mullahs take that crown. Any man who claims to act on behalf of God is nothing more than a psychopath. Just like a man claiming to be a woman.
The victors write history.
“the elephant in the room”
The Democrats are the elephant in the room.
“Promoting this snake oil”
Is Humza Hamas back?
If predictions pan out as some suggest – it’s going to be you living in a Totalitarian Theocracy. A one world government with the mark of the beast – AI, (computer says no) digital currency & digital ID.
Any shenanigans & yer personally sanctioned. No bank account, travel bans, no loans, in bed by 10pm, lights out. Naw, ye cannie buy that new car – computer says no. Naw, ye cannie have cancer drugs – computer says yer no worth the treatment. Everyone over 80yrs old will be made an offer they cannie refuse.
You’ll own nothing, eat bugs & be happy. Oh & don’t even start on the censorship. Only way to explore the outside world with a re-written tour guide will be via Google.
Democracy, whit democracy?
America is handing its Empire to Issy & his great plan is to rule us all with the tech mafia. US can’t pay it’s debts. Petro dollar is kaput & civil war is about to erupt when the economy burns. The Eppy class will relocate – they’re already doing so.
Europe & NATO is dead. Wait, skint, dead, fighting over energy & food. No defence. Decades spent de-industrialising & outsourcing everything will come home tae roost. Maggie is pissin herself laughing. Biden already stripped out the weapons for the U “war effort” so get busy lads with bits fae washin machines & keep the shovels handy…
Persia will take over the GCC states. They’re the only ones that can protect them & they rule the strait. It’s a fair cop.
R will finish U & remain a superpower & energy supplier.
Scotland? Well, Billy nae mates will open Rosebank & we’ll see all our wealth fuck off South as per usual. The bumming club Freemason occult will be Issys best mate.
The antichrist is here.
So by all means you cheer it on, sunshine . You’ve no idea what’s coming..
On the plus side, Geri, the F16s will finally get off the ground.
So not all bad.
«The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently».
Friedrich Nietzsche
The hidden law that education abhores the individual?
Thanks Turabdin – that’s a brilliant quote.
Lord Byron penned the song,
Dark Lochnagar,about his youth in the highlands,
Ah ! there my young footsteps in infancy wander’d,
My cap was the bonnet, my cloak was the plaid.
On chieftains long perish’d my memory ponder’d
As daily I strode through the pine-cover’d glade.
I sought not my home till the day’s dying glory
Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star,
For fancy was cheer’d by traditional story
Disclos’d by the natives of dark Loch na Garr.
Corries do a great version.
Maistly a surfeit o humour-free, tantersome, bauch and cat wittit colonist remerks in here yesterdey… which be hou maistlins nane o their dribble-pish postit theitherdey is wirthy o the readin.
There be anely a haunfu o braw liberty seeking Scots wha hiv posted here the last wee while agin a bebbin hauf-flushed cludgie-fu o anti-Scots hellery, blaflum and bletheration o the kind we Scots hae aw heard mony times afore aff the rochians o Ingland.
I’m pleased to say, however, that despite the tsunami o yesterday’s colonialist pish us liberty seeking Scots wandering this place, and even with a very few posts yesterday, have yet again won the day – it’s becoming a bore… trouncing the unionists in here is just too easy.
There can be nae dout that we’ll win this dey anaw. For the colonists set down their words by the expression, ‘never mind the quality feel the width’, while we Scots go by the opposite.
“it’s becoming a bore”
Ach, Northy, you’ve brought a fleeting smile to my slow, weekend breakfast.
Alert readers can clearly see just how bored you became with making up faux Scots by paragraph 3.
If you’d just left off at paragraph 2, you might have got away with it. But then, as you well know, you would have been hoist on your own petard, because nae cant would have been able to fathom WTAF you were droning on about.
BTW. Cut out trying to masquerade as a Scot. You’re a Pict, a lesser, cursed throwback. You’re here on sufferance. By a lucky accident, your ancestors evaded the genocide we Scots had planned for all of you. Don’t try to pretend you now belong.
Oh no doubt Northcode, if the metric is posting repetitive unhinged drivel then your team wins the gold! Obviously it’s killing Wings BTL but you don’t care about that do you?
“…if the metric is posting repetitive unhinged drivel then your team wins…”
You are funny, AI Dan… for an artificial man.
What might seem like unhinged drivel to an Inglis makes perfect sense tae yer mair intellectually advanced Scot whase comprehension of aw thyngs, baith material and speeritual, far exceeds that o yer average Anglo.
Wings killed itself because it continued to allow obvious disruptors to piss pretty much everyone off btl to the point folk found better things to do.
The site’s as slow as shit, and not many people have the time to try to converse with anybody when it takes up to 15 mins for posts to appear; And that’s if at all, as it’s now a week since I submitted a post with a link to the weekly ISP bulletin with some comments that got held in moderation.
There’s loads of stuff that could be getting discussed, but twats like you would rather play the man than the baw, so best jist suck it up loon.
Alba Party folds and this site has nothing to say about it even when it gave a platform to the likes of Alex Salmond, Kenny MacAskill, Chris McEleny.
And as shite plays out on the global stage, and our society inevitably endures the disruption, and price and tax rises to pay for it all, Scotland being liberated from London Rule, and being better able to develop our own energy and food security to insulate ourselves to a degree would seem like an obvious discussion point.
Governing ourselves so we could have the choice as to how we trade and involve ourselves in global affairs would also be useful…
Would you look at that!
Naw e’en haufway thru the day and us liberty lovin Scots seekin oor liberty frae Inglis oppressioun have already won the day against the Inglis (if they aren’t they should be) colonialist rochians who flounce roond this place.
You would think those rochians would know how to use their ain first learnt paratactic lingoese better than we Scots whose first language is… Scots, but they don’t. How strange.
The Ides of March arrive tomorrow… I wonder if anyone has told Trump what that means.
Et tu, Hegseth?
How applicable to Scotland if one subscribes to colonial theory, and apposite also on the eve of the Ides of March ;
“Imprisonment of the body is bitter; Imprisonment of the mind is worse.”
Thornton Wilder. (From his book, The Ides of March.)
The original Roman calendar was based on the lunar cycle. The Ides was the first full moon of the month. Assuming our month of March continues to synchronise with what the early Romans called March, the Ides this month fell on the 3rd.
Complicated stuff, the Ancient Guff.
The Romans expected outstanding debts to be settled by the Ides. Somebody owing money, due on the 3rd, but telling their creditor they would pay it on the 15th, would likely have been seized, whipped, and sold at public auction as a slave, with their purchase price going to the creditor.
An idea that fills modern Scots with horror, excepting perhaps a situation where the debtor is one of the lower races, for example, a Pict.
The london regime is an illegitimate terrorist junta by any decent standards of normal human behaviour, operating as an organised crime cartel since at least the Elizabethan era, and the world needs to take a policing action to end their reign of terror. They are also foreign invaders, illegally occupying our country and we have rights under the law. They have no democracy only a party cartel.
Given that this is a war of national liberation, I think we would be justified in mutilating the genitals of our opponents, and perhaps boiling them to death (if crushing under the tracks of a tank is available, that too)
– now, some of our opponents WANT to mutilate their own genitals, but we don’t use anaesthetic.
Utilitarianism, the price worth paying for the greater good, no omelettes without breaking eggs, moral calculus. Er, something … randomly justify anything.
The gloves are off and this is an existential question.
Another aspect of this comes from game theory; it has been proved that, to put it bluntly, terrorism works. The point about terror, as an aspect of game theory, is that it uses the “crazy man gambit”, we throw away any “just war” doctrine and any notion of legitimate targets – killing innocent people works because it creates an atmosphere where ordinary activity is no longer possible, and it works all the better if you choose the most defenceless easiest targets. The cruelty of it also helps to demoralise the enemy.
Scottish nationalists should therefore torture to death “regime officials” and murder arbitrary english people where we find them, at random. This would work. The anglo s3ttlers, shitebags all, would run – they are not going to get their sweet property deals and fancy jobs, heading up the quangoes, director of this, CEO of that. No fragrant life for you, do one. One appalling act has more worth than 100 justified military actions. Even the english once hanged an admiral (he ran away from the french) – “to encourage the others”.
Historically, we have to look at what works, and just read across. I mean, we want to win? And we are being threatened with a slow annihilation – the english and the BAMS are coming, in 2040 there will be no Scotland left. If you don’t want your grandkids living on the “reservation”, you have to act now. Consider the native americans – they should have massacred all of the mayflower crowd and all who came after. No hesitation, no question, no wait and see. Seeing what needs to be done, and doing it. Or else, “wounded knee” and countless other examples.
“Have I finally lost my mind?”
– I am of course, LURING YOU INTO MY TRAP, making a point about hypothetical and past realities.
The first horrifying examples were EXACTLY what Craig Murray was booted out of the diplomatic service for OBJECTING to; the CIA and MI6 with their local thugs were in this, up to their fucking eyeballs and Jack Straw knew all about it since CM TOLD HIM.
link to youtube.com
The second, “game theory of terror”, is what the jwish s3ttlers of palestine used to steal their fake country.
link to archive.ph
Also, the british developed all manner of nasty counter insurgency tactics, mainly Kitson, but also others; Churchill talked of “pseudo gangs” i.e. false flag terrorism (where do you think Gladio came from?) and after the mau mau rebellion in Kenya, they were cutting peoples balls off. About 30 anglos got done in, the english hit 250000 in return, either dead or in camps.
Anglo mouthpieces like to waffle about “moral equivalence” meaning there is none … because if we applied universal standards of behaviour according to what was done, then the UK/US are the “monsters”. But they have their sophist class to “do the paperwork” and have “rules of engagement” (- when they get into your testicles with a scalpel, it will be sterilised first)
One time this arrogant BBC journo was really having a go at an ex IRA bomber; it was a woman and she was unapologetic about it, retorting :
– do you think british bombs are “moral” just because they were made in a factory, and mine were made on the kitchen table?
Your land, and the life it could have provided to you, has been stolen from you BY ACTS OF VIOLENCE, and then cemented into position by a LEGAL SYSTEM WHICH IS DESIGNED BY THIEVES TO LEGITIMISE THEIR THEFT.
Being browbeaten about “violence” by the UK, currently building its new “dreadnought” supernuke at huge expense to the people – it’s like being lectured on “misogyny” by Peter Sutcliffe.
Remember who the monsters are.
Anglos. Psychopaths all, and every accusation is a confession.
“every accusation is a confession”
Erm.
Nah. Don’t tell him.
Can we start the round ups and lynchings with the 77th bunch?
And unplug the Site Prick while we’re there?
Yeah you come and round me up James you stinky fat shit. It’ll definitely go well for you.
Maybe be more specific as to which particular “site prick” you identify, James, some of our views may differ.
Aw, Adrian, petal; I rather think it would.
Sven;
There always was and only ever will be one original “Site Prick”.
It is in reality a 77th bunch bot and It used to call itself “John Main”.
A useless piece of smegma like you isn’t gonna be doing any rounding up, sit doon.
Hey Aidan ya bawbag. No point in you complaining about Wing’s BTL discourse dying on its arse when your own antics are part of the problem…
Young fucks like yersel would do better to put some focus and effort into improving matters, or you’ll jist have to continue to exist in the shit state that is the UK, as it circles the pan like a jobby making its journey to the river and sea.
Mind you, if pathetic scrotes like yersel think an over-priced and over-complex Volvo XC90 is the tool for mountain roads, then you need to learn to live a bit.
The Border Counties rally is on this weekend so you can see some real action as folk hoon aboot the woods in proper cars, and not some ridiculous piece of shit that records everything you do as your “record of behaviour”…
Oh fuck me another one has started. I can’t go watch the borders rally tonight as I’m in Spain but it’s something I go a few times a year to.
I’m well aware of what rally cars can do, but taking me and my group in comfort up icy roads in Norway with all our luggage isn’t something a two seater roll cage fitted rally car does well, even if could rent one at Oslo airport. The XC90 is perfect for the job, but obviously you don’t like it which is no surprise.
My “antics” are not part of the problem.
The abusive deranged ranting clan are 100% of the problem. As personified by posters like “Geri” and “James”, who you apparently defend and support.
@Aidan
You’re putting way too much effort into responding to the wrong conversations…
You’ve time to “engage” and bicker with the content you say is ruining btl, but got fuck all to add to bigger picture discussions like our energy and food security as “war” rages on.
That says it all. But then you thought it was good that bonkers wannabe gravy slurper and benefit cheat Sally Donald was standing for election because you thought she might be a good laugh on a night out… Aye, coz that’s defo the credentials that are important for an elected legislator.
Maybe worth finding the time for a wee recalibration of your faculties if you genuinely want things to improve for Scotland.
Mind you, I am an old fart and a different breed from you soft cretins, and as a bairn was content to go skiing at Hillend.
Back in the day I can mind we hit the “snowy slopes” with an adventure of 5 bairns sitting in the back of a Daf 33 variomatic van travelling from Auld Reekie to Glenshee. That was an air-cooled 750cc twin cylinder engine with drum brakes, and we survived…
I wasn’t aware that anyone on here was having a sensible conversation on either energy or food security, but if you want by 2 pennies worth:
– it is mad that the UK Government has been shutting down oil and gas production in the North Sea only to import exactly the same amount (given that demand isn’t affected). It is equally/more mad for the SNP/Greens to cheer it along given the impact on the Scottish economy.
– the biggest issue for food security for Scotland and rUK is keeping goods moving across the short straits (Dover – Calais), so that we can get things from Southern Europe/North Africa in the winter. Scotland isn’t going to get away from being reliant on food imports because of the climate and geographical position.
Let’s see if that results in some sensible, meaningful conversation breaking out. I doubt it but delighted to be proved wrong.
Glad to hear you survived Dan. The point of embracing modern tech is to make the journey easier and more comfortable.
Because, thicko, the UK is a Vassal state.
You’re colonised. Did ye not know that? You’ll buy LNG & Oil from American Corporations. You’ve a strict quota.
SNP & Greens cheering it on? Why not – do the profits land in some magical Scottish treasury of ours?
Scotland has no economy. We’ve diktat. A Nation constrained to serve only the internal market bullshit.
Keep the oil in ground until Scotland is independent.
They’re currently burning it in the ME for the same reasons. Fake kingdoms that hog all the wealth for themselves to make playgrounds for immigrants.
& I suggest you get growing. We’ll be having ration books soon. No fertilizer – no mass production. No oil – no transport.
Just like wee witnessed with COVID & lockdown – the English will distribute any imports to England first. They hog everything else.
We see all the hyenas screeching about Rosebank. That’s that oil that was running out…it’s amazing innit?
@James
Isn’t your eyesight a bit “challenged” for you to be volunteering?
I’m not seeing you manning any barricades unless somebody can deliver you to it on a sack barrow.
You best stay home in your bedroom, hunched over your screen, typing distractedly with one hand.
You see Dan – look what’s happened now ^^
Oh, you cannie multi task?
Wid it be bot overload?
Hark at shitface.
The only thing you’ve signed up to in yer sad life is online chat forums 24/7. You’ve clearly barricaded yersel in & don’t get out much.
You project a lot.
Yes Geri – I am struggling to simultaneously;
a) finish my morning coffee; and
b) arrange for you to be sectioned under the mental health act.
@Aidan
What’s actually wrong with what Geri has stated. The content of the post touches on various relevant matters as to why we find ourselves where we are, and mentions another aspect due to the implications of the warring twats, namely problems with fertilizer production and shipping it to farmers that use it for growing food crops.
So we are in alignment that it is a ridiculous situation that Scotland with 96% and 65% respectively of UK domestic oil and gas resources doesn’t now have a refinery, and now has to import liquid fossil fuel derived products; Thus losing our own technical facilities and the skillsets of a workforce to operate such plant.
But you’ve previously stated the offshore and mining industries were dangerous work, but were okay with other people from far-flung lands to do to provide you with the resources and products that you need. A situation which also gives those far-flung lands the jobs and economic benefits of production.
I mentioned trade in a previous post, and how a self-governing Scotland could better tailor how we operate and interact with the global world; Especially so when Scotland and England have significantly differing requirements. But you were not alert enough to notice it, or willing to take it up, instead being too focused on playing the men and not the baw.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
I grow much of my own fruit and veg. I don’t require big agro chemicals for fertilizer because I save and even collect compostable waste to feed my own wormery, which creates enough rich compost each year for the next season.
I’ve kept much of my own heritage seed stock going over many years, which produces crops that are generally way tastier and healthier than the big corporate varieties that are usually just developed and grown for volume so are bland, and then flavoured up with chemical additives to give them taste, though they also can lack nutrients so bigger picture stuff is that it impacts health, with all the consequences that costs society.
Sensible governance of our particular area of land might be to prescribe Vit D nationally from autumn to spring.
Eating locally and seasonally produced food stuffs should be promoted. But with the application of thought and technology, climatic conditions can to an extent be mitigated to facilitating the growing of crops where they would not normally grow.
EGs. Iceland uses geo-thermal energy to heat and light greenhouses to grow the likes of tomatoes when it is cold and dark outside. Egypt has developed huge fish farms to produce fish so they are more self-sufficient, and the nutrient waste from these fish farms is added to the sand to make soil from desert to grow more veg.
What’s wrong with phrases up to and including;
“The U.K. is a vassal state”
“Scotland has no economy”
“We’ll be having ration books soon”
It’s nonsensical demented ranted which isn’t based on any facts or evidence or analysis of any description. It is of course all completely rebuttable, but what is the point when all that will achieve is another bloviating rant off in some other direction.
Yes it is regrettable that Scotland doesn’t have any refining capacity, but that’s down to choices made in Scotland by the Scottish government: that Scotland should be a declining market for those products. England is getting new refineries, but Scotland is a smaller market with the highest tax rates in the U.K. so it’s not worth the huge capital investment needed to maintain a refinery.
I’m sure the food that comes out of your garden is great, but I equally bet you would struggle to feed yourself reliably year round with it. If your proposition is that we should, like Iceland, grow our own food in powered greenhouses then are you going to accept the consequences of that decision: that food will be much more expensive and we’ll have a much more limited selection. If that’s a price you’re willing to pay then fine, but I don’t expect it to be a popular one, nor would it be an easy one to implement inside the legal frameworks of either the U.K. or EU.
“It’s nonsensical demented ranted which isn’t based on any facts or evidence or analysis of any description.”
LOL! Is two wars not happening in your world? You not suffering a cost of living crisis, no inflation where you are either? Do you reside under a rock by any chance? Fuel not going up in your area either? All the UKs ilos & Gas tanks full are they? Wow!
Evidence is all around. Didsae help either that you lot gob off to who will soon be yer *breadbasket of Europe* trading partner.
The UK heavily relies on imports. Supply chains are disrupted. Costs go up. Costs are passed on. That’s provided you pay the piper their costs first.
Don’t you worry tho, I’m sure we’ll all munch & feast on the Tories financial services & property speculation economy.
The UK is in decline & about to get a whole lot worse. It’s hegemony is over. It doesn’t have a pot to piss in. That’s the printing press up the swanny. It sold all the family silver. That’s what you voted for. Whackadoo policy choices by successive Tory roasters. Other ppls jam today – fck all tomorrow policies. Nae need to be self sufficient in anything. Now you’re up shit street without a paddle.
Good post, Geri.
If what you write is true, Indy is becoming ever more of a slam dunk proposition with every passing day.
In fact, by May, Scots will be storming the polling stations to make their historically resounding votes – a huge majority and mandate for Indy – nothing less will do.
If what you write is true.
And that’s forgetting the second whammy of the double, by which the UN will declare us a colony and force WM to let us go free!
If what you write is true.
Why don’t you tell us all the practical steps you’re taking so that when your predictions come true, you’ll be safe and comfortable. From stockpiling food, to stuffing BRICS under your bed, your abode must be a perfect example of informed, thought through preparation. Do tell, Geri.
Alright Geri – if it’s not total nonsense, what date can we expect ration books to be introduced?
@Aidan
I don’t expect myself or everyone else to grow all our own food requirements in our gardens. But I am just one individual that puts a little spare time and effort into my garden and can produce healthy food to eat and supplement my diet.
I’ve previously posted about another individual that turned a small barren area of Scottish hillside into an oasis of fruit and veg growing, proving that growing food is possible on this land.
Now as you are a fanboy of all modern tech then you should be able to understand that if that technological focus was aimed at how to create better season round growing conditions we could really thrive.
Couple of minutes of tomato growing cold and dark Iceland.
link to youtube.com
We don’t have as extreme geo-thermal as Iceland here, but where might we source energy from… Pity that 1GW of power on the 6 windfarms that make up Seagreen off the Angus coast is regularly switched off for hours on end and curtailment charges paid to generators not to produce leccy.
Imagine the contract for that windfarm included public benefiting social aspects and was to feed some of that power to warm the ground and light polytunnels across Angus so we could grow veg season round creating more industry and jobs.
I find your small-minded thinking and bickering about small things fucking tedious.
I have no idea what your job and qualifications are, but you seem to jet about the place a fair bit so must see how other countries do way better than the shit state that Scotland as part of the UK is doing.
Here’s Egypt’s muckle fish farm.
link to youtube.com
And the best we can do here is dodgy as fuck eco-system damaging salmon farming with SEPA turning a blind eye, and importing lamb from New Zealand even when I’m surrounded by fields of sheep…
“but you seem to jet about the place a fair bit”
I think that’ll be a thing of the past lol
I knew you’d not receive any sensible conversation from him, Dan. He has the attention span of a gnat. This is the clown that said America didn’t have a Ponzi scheme economy cause they have nice houses..lol
I bet he’s never even heard of Urea. The global fertiliser for agriculture that affects every single countries food supply. Mind, he didn’t think 3rd world countries had much wealth to offer the world either… completely oblivious that Colonisers are in the business of stealing it while keeping them 3rd world with yoons math.
Friendly countries can pay in yuan & collect their free pass through the strait. War criminals, nope. They’re going nowhere. They can sit & watch their economy tank. $2 trillion just bit the dust as they blow their way through $billions more blowing shit up.
Growing season just starting. Low yields predicted or a complete disaster for countries that don’t have a stockpile of it in place already.
But don’t worry, everyone. Blighty will be just fine. I suppose that magic jam will come to the rescue again.
Going back to Egypt – Don’t they have a problem with sandstorms? I watched a documentary about that before regarding trying to farm. It’s a constant battle to clean up.
I’m a big fan of small community growing projects so more power to you as far as I’m concerned. Equally, as you freely recognise this isn’t an option for most people nor does it produce enough food for those that do it to be entirely reliant, so it’s a very minor contribution to Scotland’s overall demand for food.
Secondly, it’s not that the technology doesn’t exist, it’s that it’s a much more expensive option compared to growing food in climates which are still warm during the northern hemisphere winter. For Iceland, bringing food up from say the South of Spain means a 3,000km drive to Hirtshals and then a 3-day ferry ride. In contrast, to get up to say Motherwell it’s a 2,500km drive and a hop across the short straits. That means transport costs are much lower to supply Scotland, and that transport cost is very low compared to the costs associated with heating/lighting a greenhouse.
Thirdly, the major challenge with offshore wind and why curtailment charges are paid is grid capacity. The National Grid is now offering connection agreements in 2035, a ten year wait! So it’s not like that “spare” energy could be diverted to powering greenhouses at the moment. Once sufficient capacity is available, greenhouses would be competing with all other uses for the same power. You could impose a community obligation, but I would far far rather it supported more worthy causes like pensioner fuel poverty or indeed lowering the electricity prices for industrial users to support employment. These community obligations aren’t free, they get factored into the overall operating costs/revenues for a wind farm so we end up paying for them in higher taxes or higher energy bills.
The thing with travelling around a bit is you see just how good things are in the U.K. compared to almost everywhere else. Only Scandanavia really stands head and shoulders above. You quote the example of the Egyptian fish farms above. I haven’t read much about this before, but a cursory google provides plenty of well-researched academic articles on the dangerous pollutants in Egyptian fish caused in part by untreated sewage run off into the Nile. The situation isn’t even comparable to Scotland, the air pollution is disgustingly in cities like Cairo, you have to be very careful what food and drink you touch even in high end restaurants. It’s also very common for people to die in accidents e.g. on the railways which would be perfectly preventable if normal health and safety standards were adhered to.
So overall – if your proposition is that Scotland needs to become self-sufficient in terms of food production, that is achievable within the limits of our currently technological, but it will come at the expense of food being much more expensive (as it is in a Icelandic supermarkets), and with a much reduced selection. I really don’t see what advantage it brings. We have good relations with our neighbours and we don’t face food shortages that impact on people’s ability to feed themselves (we did have shortages of some specific foods in covid, but that was a unique event). So I don’t see what tangible benefits this would bring that would outweigh the costs.
@Aidan
The Al-Fayrous fish farm I linked to is on the coast of the Med, so must be some crazy strong fish shit pollution to get through the pool membranes and affect the Nile, especially when the Nile flows north into the Med.
Why are you now so concerned about the cost of stuff? A few months back you were a big fan of blowing about 1 billion quid on 11 miles of tram track, even when the existing airport bus gets you to Haymarket ten mins quicker.
If the car wash is half a mile from your house, should you walk or drive to get there?
The Al-Fayrous fish farm is actually just off the Suez Canal, but the wider point is that it’s very odd to point to a country where food and drink is often not safe to eat as a shining example of how Scotland should be doing things. Do you think the pollution levels that fish farm are robustly and independently monitored with the results made public? Or is that something that will get you a prison sentence in Egypt?
You asked why we can’t have serious conversations and then you come out with something as stupid and banal as “why do you care about the cost of food if you want to build transport infrastructure”. How do those two things even relate to each other? Because I think Edinburgh should benefit from the same kind of modern transport infrastructure that almost every other major western city has, I should also be in favour of a 2x or 3x increase in everyone’s grocery bills.
@Aidan
And yet you saw fit to add shite like air pollution, people getting killed in railway accidents, and quality of food in high-end restaurants in Cairo, Egypt… WTF has that got to do with having a discussion about food farming and energy in Scotland.
Who monitors the farming and production practices of all the food the UK currently imports. Especially so now that there is divergence from past EU regulatory standards.
Would you eat a wild Scottish caught salmon or trout out of the Tay, when we still pump thousands of gallons of untreated sewerage day after day into the Tay.
It has everything to do with you highlighting Egypt as apparently a country doing it right and saying that Scotland was shit by comparison. I was highlighting some of the many ways in which that is demonstrably untrue!
Would I eat salmon coming out of the Tay? Absolutely – in fact I did so this morning. Food in the U.K. is regulated to a very high standard by the FSA and DEFRA, the possibility of getting seriously ill from food is very very remote in the U.K., in contrast somewhere like Egypt where it’s a very real risk which you have to take significant measures to avoid.
@Aidan
FFS, just because I highlighted one engineering project in Egypt, that does not mean I agree with or am supportive of everything else in that country.
Aidan says: “Would I eat salmon coming out of the Tay? Absolutely – in fact I did so this morning.”
Oh, you’re back from Spain then. Do you do a bit of fishing like me then, and did you catch it yourself?
Fine – but you did say that travelling around quite a lot I should be aware of how well other countries are doing vs Scotland and I’m saying flat out I have the opposite view.
Yes I am back, it rained the whole time so our aspirations to do some hiking then sit outside with a glass of white wine in the sun in the evening were sadly defeated.
No I didn’t fish it myself, I bought it from M&S in a packet. I’ve actually never been fishing in my life.
Ach, that’s a pity you don’t like fishing like I do. But make your mind up will you, as after I asked, you stated you ate salmon out of the Tay this morning, and now it turns out you just bought some from M&S…
Was it smoked or fresh, and how did you cook it?
To be clear, I ate it this morning, it didn’t come out of the Tay this morning. It was smoked, with cream cheese and feta in a bagel.
Dan says: “Would you eat a wild Scottish caught salmon or trout out of the Tay, when we still pump thousands of gallons of untreated sewerage day after day into the Tay.”
Aidan says: “Would I eat salmon coming out of the Tay? Absolutely – in fact I did so this morning.”
Aidan says: “ I bought it from M&S in a packet.”
Aidan says: “To be clear, I ate it this morning, it didn’t come out of the Tay this morning.”
So you ate some salmon this morning, but where and when was the fish caught?
This has become a rather disappointing comment trail tbh…
I thought you were supportive of eating Scottish produce whilst displaying enough bravado to catch and eat a michty Tay salmon that’s migrated its way hame across the Atlantic Ocean tae get a ride and spawn, whilst enduring swimming in the macerated essence of my and my fellow villagers’ piss, shite, fanny pads, and whatever else has been flushed doon the lavvy…
But it would now appear you just bought a packet of boring M&S salmon sourced from goodness knows where, likely just a piece of cheap farmed salmon with no prestigious history within its entire pitiful existence on this planet.
I’m sorry to have disappointed you, but equally I do feel the likelihood was always that it was going to be shop bought. The packets gone in the bin now but I’m pretty sure it was marked as coming from the Tay, it was certainly from Scotland.
The overall point is I’m happy to eat it, but I won’t deny wild caught salmon from the river is much better than Mowi’s! We can’t have everything however.
Hmm, think I’ll finish my fishing session as some quarries jist aren’t worth the effort…
But I’m all but fucking certain the salmon you ate didn’t actually come from the Tay, because.
link to tayrivers.org
But as upstanding citizens, maybe go rake through your bin and find the packaging in case we need to report M&S to the authorities.
I was told that when you finish a packet of smoked salmon, the most environmentally sound course of action is to throw it into the nearest water course.
In time it will find its way into the river, and hence eventually out to sea.
It is only by doing this that we complete the cycle and allow for new packets of smoked salmon in the shops in the years to come.
Pass this on to those people who still put them in the bin, and hence into landfill.
I’m not going through the bins sorry, but looks like you’re absolutely right, it ain’t from the Tay, perhaps it was smoked on Tayside somewhere, I don’t know. Either way, very comfortable eating Scottish fish.
Ok. You have just advocated murder and torture.
You are a cowardly prick. Now get to fuck.
“…murder and torture…”
That’s your job, right?
If you comment on this platform again I will report your comment to the Police. Just fucking try me. Prick.
Get a grip, ya balloon.
Hello! Is that the polis? Someone upset me on the internet…
Whhhhaaaaaa! Whaaaaa!
I’m sure they’ll drop everything & make it their top priority.
Go away.
Rugby score looking better: Ireland 19 – 12 Scotland at 53 minutes.
It’s an 80 minute game – Ireland 43 – 21 Scotland at the end.
It was a great game of rugby and well played both teams.
« Bunaíodh cur chuige na nAlbanach ar an míthuiscint a bhain siad as an dá fhocal ‘Scotia’ agus ‘Scotus. Ón gceathrú haois bhí údair Laidine ag tabhairt ‘Hibernia’ nó ‘Scotia’ ar Éirinn agus ‘Scot(t)us ar Éireannach. Ar feadh tréimhse dhéantaí idirdhealú idir ‘Scotia Maior’ (Éire) agus ‘Scotia Minor’ (Albain) ach ó dheireadh an aonú haois déag ar aghaidh cúngaíodh an focal ionas gurbh é ‘Albain’/’Albanach’ ba bhrí leis agus é sin amháin.
« Is de bharr na míthuisceana seo a d’éirigh leis an Albanach Thomas Dempster go leor naoimh Eireannacha a áireamh mar Albanaigh. D’fhoilsigh sé torthaí a chuid taighde in ‘Nomenclatura Scotorum scriptorum’ (1620), ‘Scotia illustrior’ (1620), ‘Menologium Scotticum’ (1622), agus ‘Historia eclesiastica gentis Scotorum’, saothar a foilsiodh sa bhliain 1627, dhá bhliain tar éis a bháis.
« Sa saothar deireanach seo thug sé cuntas ar bheagnach 1300 Albanach. Ina measc bhí cúig phápa, ceithre chairdinéal déag, 679 naomh agus 257 manach a bhunaigh mainistreacha ar an Mór-Roinn. Bhí líon mór Éireannach i measc na naomh ‘Albanach’ seo, ar ndóigh, rud a thug dúshlán na nEireannach Dempster a cheartú. »
(‘ÉIGSE na BRUISÉILE’, Aogán Ó hIarlaithe a chuir in eagar, Leabhar Breac, 2025)
[« The Scottish approach was based on their misunderstanding of the two words ‘Scotia’ and ‘Scotus’. From the fourth century Latin authors called Ireland ‘Hibernia’ or ‘Scotia’ and ‘Scot(t)us’ for ‘Irish/man’. For a time a distinction was made between ‘Scotia Maior’ (Ireland) and ‘Scotia Minor’ (Scotland) but from the end of the eleventh century onwards the word was narrowed down to mean ‘Scotland’/’Scottish’ only.
« It was because of this misunderstanding that the Scotsman Thomas Dempster succeeded in counting many Irish saints as Scottish. He published the results of his research in ‘Nomenclatura Scotorum scriptorum’ (1620), ‘Scotia illustrior’ (1620), ‘Menologium Scotticum’ (1622), and ‘Historia eclesiastica gentis Scotorum’, published in 1627, two years after his death.
« In this last work he gave an account of nearly 1300 Scots. Among them were five popes, fourteen cardinals, 679 saints and 257 monks who founded monasteries on the Continent. Among these ‘Scottish’ saints were, of course, a large number of Irish saints, which provoked the Irish to correct Dempster. »]
(‘ÉIGSE na BRUISÉILE’, Aogán Ó hIarlaithe a chuir in eagar, Leabhar Breac, 2025)
Just seen the news and have noted the latest piece of subliminal doublespeak.
Kharg island in Iran was attacked because it is the home of Irans “oil” terminals.
Trump wants warships to escort “energy” shipping to pass the straits of Hormuz.
Doublplus good eh?
Please, YL,
It’s challenging enough for this old duffer’s weary and deteriorating grey cells to sort out and skip over every variation of Scots dialect, Pictish and goodness knows what without you introducing Duckspeak.
If any of us wish to be exposed to that verbal monstrosity we just need to endure a couple of minutes of Keir “I speak your weight” Starmer or Rachel “I worked in complaints you know” Reeves.
Sven
🙂
Not going to happen.
Now Iran will attack theirs. They said the other day they’d be moving to reciprocal targets. Tit for tat. Cause it’s obvious war crimes are now permitted.
There’ll be nothing in the strait to move.
& The Houth haven’t even entered the arena yet & Iraq has issued a fatwa too.
You are coming in your pants hoping for a retaliation from the Islamic inbreds. It will happen. The attack will come. Young children will get attacked in their home. This country will be attacked. The IRGC have tried twenty odd times in the last year. It’s very clear that you and your chums are on the Death Cult side.
The regime will be hunted down like rats. They will be eliminated all over the world. Their demonic ideology will be removed from civilised society.
There’s nothing more cowardly than spouting out support for terrorists whose only goal is destroy the very freedom you have.
Yes Reform will stop your benefits.
Careful you don’t catch that zip running up the back of yer napper..
Geri says:
Boom. Boom.
Alert readers will spot the other regulars who also say Boom. Boom.
I wonder how many dugs they have between them all.
Naw, why don’t you give us a clue, Dumbo?
We all know who uses “alert readers” tho to try mimic Stu. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery or, more likely, cause you’ve zero original thought of yer own.
& Whit is this thing you have about dugs? Are ye pretending you can see me? Ya fud.
My dugs don’t fancy ye if that’s whit yer thinking.
Weirdo.
You can’t ever know for sure your dugs don’t fancy me, Geri.
Try not to let that keep you awake at night.
I read about something the Orcs do. They train dugs to respond to human-inaudible commands from a whistle the keeper has on a string round his neck. For example, a single long blast, which the target can’t hear, means “Rip out the throat of the person I am looking at”.
The dug can be sold on and the new owner will never be aware of its ingrained, reflexive training – its readiness to kill is slumbering, to be awakened at the first long whistle blast from a perfect stranger.
Some people, the Orcs. They’re enough to give decent Scots fowk nightmares!
I see an advert has been created for Magnum Bon Bons that hasn’t learnt the hard lesson that trannifying products is a product killer..
Just ask the Ad agencies and Advertising managers involved with Bud Light and Jaguar..
Ouch..
Cheery bye Magnum, was good while it lasted, but, then you just had to commit brand Hari kari..
It’s harakiri.
Unless you’re actually on about some kind of solitary pastime.
Stop!!
Don’t do it Hatey!
Getting out and socialising is said to help.
Perhaps removing yourself from online forums like this and getting out and getting some fresh air will help because this forum doesn’t seem to be agreeing with your mental health.
You may revel in being hated but self harm is not the answer.
Pause, and breath..
I bet you thought you had written “breathe”.
Two little boys
Had two little toys
One a tottie boat grey
The other a helicopter-green, and
Happily they played
Till one went away and
The other just couldn’t sweat
But mummsy said don’t fret
Well dust it under
the upper gallery carpet
Did you think One
would leave you crying
When the US courts
are chasing you?
Here’s ten mil
To kill presses quill
And we’ll hide you
In Sandringham
Your brother will be king
But you’re mummsys darling
But deny ever knowing that yid
Now
Several years have past
And mummsys croaked her last
And Andy’s been
Found out at last
Charlie dear brother
Remember we are kin
And help me out of this morass
Did you think
One would leave you lying
Prey to the gutter press?
Yes bro it’s true
They’ll indeed get you
And there’s no help from me
Coming your way
Anytime soon
You shouldn’t have shacked up
with bestie Epstein
Even though we all knew, but
Safe we all felt
Behind curtains of felt
While Starmer let Saville
Out on curfew
What could go wrong
But now Congress calls
So it’s all deals off right now
Now; Did you think
One would leave you lying
In the back of the police car
Hands cradled, eyes all glazed
Too right old boy
One looks after oneself
It’s the time tested Royal ploy
Looks like it’s off to jail for you
Because ones dumped you, tho
Name not our names
And bring no more shame
Or we’ll change your surname
yet again.
Two little boys
Had two little toys
One a golden crown
The other a cellmate
Called Serenity
From near Boscombe Down
No family visits
How fate doth fall
And worst by far
Here behind bars
Where’s all the teddies now?
I enjoyed your wee ditty
‘Bout a Prince once so pretty.
But, now I fear
He’s no longer so dear
To the king he once knew –
He’s Little Boy Blue !
McGonigle eat yer heart out.
Rolf Harris.
Originally Theodore Morse.
A warning from history.
In 1979 the Marxist movement in Iran joined with the clerics to produce what we now know as the Iranian revolution. Once the the twelve clerics seized power they systematically tortured and executed the Marxists.
Mark: I recall listening to a programme about Iran after the Shah was deposed, when Khomeini (1979, I think) had just returned from France where he had been in exile. He promised the Earth to his supporters, one of whom was a young woman who was talking on the programme. She was so excited to be returning from exile herself (in the UK) and waxed lyrical about the great things this cleric would do. She was leftist. Within a short time, I read that she had been arrested (probably raped and tortured in prison, as most females are, regardless of age or status)) and executed. I have never forgotten her enthusiasm, which I have no doubt she lost irrevocably in the weeks leading up to her arrest.
I know it’s not the same, but that loss of enthusiasm is exactly how I feel about the betrayal by every party, but especially by the independence movement, of Scotland’s female population in favour of the pro ‘trans’ lobby. I have absolutely no faith that that betrayal would not carry on into independence and beyond, in fact because neither the SNP, nor the Greens, nor the Alliance will give a guarantee in black and white in their separate manifestos to protect women’s and girls’ rights. They just will not do it. That tells me what that poor Iranian woman failed to see – that women count for nothing when the prize that the men want is in sight. They simply forget we exist and regard us as an embarrassment and impediment to their own wants. It is frightening but now we know. Women should be using their vote wisely and demanding so much more of all political parties and movements.
America, Oops! I mean it’s proxy Iraq invaded Iran in 1980. A war lasting 9 years or so. Everything from American chemical weapons against Kurds to thousands dying. I think they’d have other things on their mind at the time.
The Anglo American just doesn’t like revolution. Their mate on the take had been run out of town & they just can’t adjust to rejection. It’s in their DNA.
Enjoying the overnight posts. Good to see supposedly Sovereign Scots so keen to have a go. The first Orcs or towelheids to make landfall on Scottish soil are gonna wish they had never left their miserable shitholes.
I’d be up for issuing Kalashnikovs and tactical missiles to the more aggressive Wingers now. Only, I worry they would start using them on the rest of us – the Sovereign Scots who have the temerity to disagree with their frankly unhinged opinions.
So best wait until the invading lowlife scum are on their way before issuing any weapons. Of course, as is usually the way, the loudest and most aggressive will already be running in the opposite direction by that day.
The most we’ll see of them will be their dust disappearing over the far horizon.
With a bit of luck, maybe a few panting, wobbling lard arses, struggling to screech “Wait for me!” In between bouts of doubled over wheezing and retching.
HMcH
Ah!
You can take the shirker out of the Proud Boys but you can’t take the Proud Boys out of the shirker..
Feck knows what you’re on about, but if you think it’s true, go before a Justice of the Peace and solemnly swear it’s so.
I’ve said it before, YL, but it bears repetition. Your posts don’t really provide much entertainment unless you’re writing them around 2 AM.
Aaawww!
Don’t take it so hard Hatey-proud boy, contrary to what you seem to believe, people aren’t just posting here for your entertainment and for you to auto-reply to.
HMcH
Just do the Proud Boy thing (y’all) and cheer yersel up thinking of things like banjo players and “real purty lips” and “squeal like a pig boyy”.
Anything to attempt to maintain yer oath and limit you chugging off constantly on a daily basis.
If you like, the rest of us could all score your “posts” on entertainment value of between 1 and 10.
Don’t hurt yersel with high expectations eh..
Fa’s Northy? Is he awa in London at the protest?
If ye are, Northy, I’m the one wearing the tea towel that says “FGM Rocks”.
In Arabic, duhhh.
As long as he wears his stab vest he’ll be fine.
He won’t need that if he’s wearing blackface.
Unless … what skin colour were the Picts? I think there’s a lazy assumption they were white, like the Scots, but given the hostility between the two, ending up with the genocide of the Picts, might that be wrong?
Too far……….
Stating that London filled with tea towel wearers yesterday, many with Arabic writing on?
Stating that FGM is quite extensively practised, within the UK, by certain demographics?
Stating that the Declaration of Arbroath, written by the Scots, boasts of their genocide of the Picts?
The truth may set you free JBG.
Denial gets you nowhere.
A wise man said ‘it is difficult to ignore the posts of Geri, Baird, Confused, Cheyne to name but a few’ but it is well worth the effort.
So Chas, given adults have a choice, why not expect everyone else to scroll on past your posts?
Open forum an that!
Play nice eh..
He doesn’t seem very wise.
A wiser man would’ve said:
Look mate, you clearly don’t like that forum, now fck off & go seek help for yer OCD. No one wants to hear yer bored of the posters there. Do the internet a favour & stop wasting ink. Yer not stunning & brave. Just slink off. No knt will miss you, honest!!
Eloquent, factual, knowledgeable and well researched are words that you would NEVER associate with any of your deranged scribbling’s. Very few of them actually make sense even if they were grammatically correct, which they never are.
I assume that the name ‘Geri’ indicates that you are of the female gender. If so, please pass on my condolences to Mr ‘Geri’, assuming that such a person actually exists.
@Geri
Get yersel doon tae Currys. If you’ve been using ink for yer online posts, they may still be able to save your device.
If you’ve just been drinking the stuff, a lot becomes clearer. Try going cauld turkey. We will all appreciate the improvements in your posts.
I find watching paint dry is more fulfilling.
Ten past eleven and Hatey has been unco quiet..
Hmmm..
Oh heck, wait Sky Arts has Exodus (1960) on – comes with an historical bullsh1t warning..
Hatey will be busy chugging away like a steam engine!
Irgun uuuuugh!
Ignoring territorial N4zi links during the war (ssssshhhh) uuuuuuurgh!
Stern gang uuuuuuuuuuurgh!
Whitewashing murdering British soldiers – CLIMAX!!!!!
Tell ye fit ah’ll dae, YL.
Haund oan the Holy Bible, Ah’ll swear a solemn vow tae naiver post oan here again.
Will that dae ye?
Cross ma heart!
We must be getting ivver closer tae oor naitional leeberation, Hatey, because postcolonial theory reminds us the first thing a leeberated fowk grab a haud o is thair ain langage, much like yer daen yersel.
Indigenous language is the basis of national culture and national identity/national consciousness, withoot whit thar widna be ony Scots fowk nor indy muvement. Whaur wad Scots fowk be withoot oor ain Scots langage? Language is wha we are. Withoot it we wad be somebody or something else!
Linguistic imperialism seeks to destroy indigenous language and replace it with another language, an alien culture and identity (i.e. British/English). That is what Scots have been subject to and still are in the cultural/colonial assimilation process.
This makes a colonised people into ‘a monstrosity’, according to Fanon, or a ‘manufactured being’ (Memmi). Some even ‘crave dependence’ (Cesaire) and are telt tae hate thair ain mither tongue an cultur (like yersel!). Identity of the colonised is thus confused by assimilation – Brits or Scots? Wha am A? Scotland haes a few million confused fowk richt eneuch, an maistly ‘Naw’ voters wi the cringe/colonial mindset.
The indigenous Scots language is in reality a fundamental determinant in our quest for independence an oor leeberation – which explains why oor colonial administrators nivver lairn the Scots langage tae Scots bairns in schuils! The Scots – a fowk deprived of thair ain langage an national cultur by the colonizer an Swinney’s pseudo nationalist colonial administration.
link to grousebeater.wordpress.com
HMcH
Don’t let me hold you back.
Mind you isn’t that book just what you call “ancient guff”?
Ken fit ye’ve mad me dae noo, Alf?
Brak ma solemn voo, that’s fit.
Ah guess Ah’ll jist hae tae lee aboot it til ma puss turns puce. Lik thon ither voo brakking, leein blaggard oan here.
A fowk shoud nivver be affrontit wi thair ain langage…. unless that is thay’ve been thoraely colonized by anither langage an cultur.
Than thay shuirly hate thairsels, don’t thay Hatey?
“Scribbling’s”, well, it’s grammar Chas, however not as we know it.
I am afraid you are wrong Sven however, as you do not post the same repetitive shite everyday (see Baird and Northclown yet again) I will not berate you for your error.
That’ll teach ye, Sven… ye got a pat oan yer heid aff an Inglis fir bein a guid wee Scotti – richt efter it ripped ye a new yin fir haein the cheek tae pit yersel oan the same social level as it and suckin up tae it wi yer wee snobby comment pittin doun Geri, who is a real Scot.
By the way, Geri’s (a guid Scots lass) posts are intellectual lightyears yont the weak wattered-doun pish the colonialists spray aboot here and hae the cheek tae caw wit.
Only a matter of time, Northy, until Professor Baird asks you and Geri to join him at one of his posh, academic soirees.
Maybe the dugs too, if it’s the right sort of venue.
Aren’t you the site’s light years expert though, what with being a self-identifying millennia old, space traveling Pict?
Nae ither cant at the soiree is going to get a word in edgeways!
I posted nothing relative to Geri, Northy.
My remark was addressed to Chas, regarding his use of an incorrect apostrophe in his post, ie “scribbling’s”.
I felt that if he wishes to be a self appointed grammar officer on the site he should lead by example.
I do however gladly excuse your inaccurate interpretation of my post as I’m both very fond of you and gladly make allowance for your misunderstanding of plain English. Especially since you have now adopted your self identifying “Pictish leid” in preference to more generally used English.
I see, Sven. In that case… I forgive you. And less of your cheek, ye Gail, ye.
Seriously, Sven. I’m happy that I misread your comment and that you weren’t siding with Chas and having a go at Geri… please accept my sincere apologies for misreading your comment and falsely accusing you of ungentlemanly behaviour.
I am only 99% perfect… which , of course, is impossible.
Sven, I dunno where you get the idea that the role of “self appointed grammar officer on the site” is vacant.
It’s far, far too much fun for me to give it up.
Besides, whilst I have the utmost respect and regard for Chas, the simple fact of his having made an error in his post shows how unfit he is to take the role on.
Perhaps you have been so colonised that you are willing to settle for a poor substitution. That would be an example of your Scottish cringe coming to the fore – your expectations stunted under the daily crushing load of oppression and theft imposed on you by our colonial overlords – exactly as predicted by Fanon, Memmi, Cesaire and the Jonesey boyo.
Raise your sights, Sven. Shrug off the enslaving chains of low expectations. Demand the best.
Even when just considering the role of self appointed grammar officer on the site.
“Any of your deranged scribblings'” seems to me to read, in full, “any of your deranged scribbling is.” , Chas. Which ungrammatical use of an apostrophe would have got me 3 of the belt back at school in the 1950s.
It would of course have made sense had you for example been posting, ” your deranged scribbling’s unwelcome.” However the plural of scribbling is achieved by just adding an “s”, as in “scribblings”.
My God, Sven, you’re right.
How could I have missed such preposterously incorrect grammar? Well spotted, that man.
Only an ignoramus would twist the beautiful English language into something as horrible and ugly as what has been scribbles’s down by that illiterate fiend this day… and English the author’s first language, tae; tut tut!
« Pictish and Gaelic areas shows no sign of population replacement. There is no genetic marker that separates Picts from Gaels in a clear way. Studies from the last decade have confirmed that these groups were part of the same broad population of northern Britain. This means there was no genocide and no invasion that wiped out one group and replaced it. »
See particularly from about 25 mins in —
link to youtube.com
Aye, Fearghas. It has bugger aw tae dae with DNA. It’s oor superior Pictish culture, wit and intelligence that separates Gael fae Pict… and oor superior Pictish leid, tae, of course.
Aye, you Gaels struck gold when we Picts allowed yer fowk tae come tae Pictavia from dark, boggy Ireland and live here in oor shining, beautiful and sunny laund and share in oor glorious culture.
But a’m thinkin ye’ve been scroungin aff us Picts fir tae lang noo and it micht be time fir ye tae bugger aff back tae Ireland.
Oh, and dinnae forget tae take that Gaelic wi ye.
Northcode says:
“…… oor superior Pictish leid….
========
Would you care to translate the above phrase into Pictish?
Howzabout you take yourself and your language back to Northumbria or Germany??
BILLY KAY: ‘SCOTS IS DESCENDED FROM NORTHUMBRIAN’
« The language of the Angles, Inglis, brought north from Northumbria into Berwickshire in the seventh century, remained the language of a minority in Scotland; but even when the power of Gaelic was at its height and it was absorbing other linguistic groups, the people of this south-east corner continued speaking Inglis.
« Part of the great northern dialect area of Old English, the Inglis of the settlers was a Germanic language brought to Britain during the folk migrations from northern Germany by Anglo-Saxon tribes around the fifth century AD.
« The major dialects of Old English – Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian and Northumbrian – probably reflect the pattern of settlement by Angle, Saxon and Jute, and their respective dialects, in different parts of Britain.
« Scots is descended from Northumbrian, while Standard English emerged from the East Midland dialect of Mercia. Although markedly different, the Old English dialects did share a common store of vocabulary. Due to the different linguistic developments in the separate states of Scotland and England, however, the language of England lost many old words which are retained in Scots.
« Examples of these include dicht (to wipe), sweir (reluctant), blate (diffident), reik (smoke) and greet (to weep). Characteristic Scots sounds, too, such as coo and hoose for cow and house, or richt and nicht for right and night, were common to all the Old English dialects but disappeared from Standard English due to sound shifts which occurred in Southern and Midland dialects. If antiquity was any justification for a language’s survival, a special case could certainly be made for Scots against Standard English, as guardian of an older form of English. »
(Extract from SCOTS: THE MITHER TONGUE by Billy Kay, pp 50-53)
Just as the Picts were descended from the neolithic peoples who inhabited Scotland, so Scots speakin fowk must be descended from the Picts. In this sense Scots represents the modern language of the Picts.
Alf,
Yet BK in ‘Mither Tongue’ writes:
« Scots is descended from Northumbrian. Due to the different linguistic developments in the separate states of Scotland and England, however, the language of England lost many old words which are retained in Scots. Examples of these include dicht (to wipe), sweir (reluctant), blate (diffident), reik (smoke) and greet (to weep). Characteristic Scots sounds, too, such as coo and hoose for cow and house, or richt and nicht for right and night, were common to all the Old English dialects but disappeared from Standard English due to sound shifts which occurred in Southern and Midland dialects. If antiquity was any justification for a language’s survival, a special case could certainly be made for Scots against Standard English, as guardian of an older form of English. »
Fearghas, there are many different Scots words that also correspond to e.g. Norwegian, German, Dutch equivalents, also Latin and French influences, which emphasise the importance of European trade, culture and travel for Scots over a thousand years or mair.
For some it seems awfully convenient to aye say Scots is merely derived from Northumbian or auld English but that is hardly the hale story, is it? The maist important factor is that the Scots language we ken and speak was developed in Scotland by Scots ower a millenium an mair.
Like all languages including English they have many influences, that is by the by. Oor ain langage is oor ain langage at the end o the day, an naebody shoud be alloued tae tak it awa fae us like oor doun-hauder an his wee helpers here has duin.
“Would you care to translate the above phrase into Pictish?”
Aye, nae bother: “oor superior Pictish leid”… ther ye go, yer walcome.
Alf @ 4.49 pm “The maist important factor is that the Scots language we ken and speak was developed in Scotland by Scots ower a millenium an mair.”
———-
Likewise, of course, Gaelic, the language of the actual historical ‘Scots’.
Indeed perhaps indigenously longer, please read:
WERE THE SCOTS IRISH by Ewan Campbell
link to electricscotland.com
Likewise, of course, Gaelic, the language of the actual historical ‘Scots’.
You are funny sometimes, Fearghas . But you are prone to writing a load of pish doun in this place, ye cheeky wee Gail, ye
“WERE THE SCOTS IRISH?”
Yes, they were – they were called the Scotti and came from Ireland, but the Picts weren’t Irish and they were called, by the Romans not by themselves, the PIcts.
The two peoples did a coin toss to decide what they would be called after ‘amalgamating’ and, unfortunately, the Scotti won and so we Picts ended up being called Scots along with the Scotti who got the better deal… which is where the Pictish expression written on many standing stanes across Scotland is inscribed, in Pictish, “wha gies a toss?” originates.
“Gaelic, the language of the actual historical ‘Scots’.”
No one can dispute this, Fearghas, however it is only ever part of the story in regard to the ‘merger’ or rather takeover of the Picts since the 9thC and the subsequent re-branding of them as Scots and Pictland as Scotland.
What is clearly more important today is the basis of our ‘Scottish’ national identity and national consciousness today which is the Scots language. It cannot be Gaelic because only 50,000 people speak the latter.
“It cannot be Gaelic because only 50,000 people speak the latter”
Scots speakers are a minority too, Alf. A bigger minority is still a minority.
In fact, regarding Scots speakers and Gaelic speakers, add both minorities together and you still end up with a minority.
A minority trying to force a different language on a majority is a sure route to civil war, Alf. I guess they didn’t teach you that when you studied to become an engineer.
It’s not too late to learn.
This from the 2022 Scottish Census:
4.74 million Scots identified as white Scottish/British.
62.4% of that number identified as “Scottish Only”… some 3.3 million Scots.
18.3% of that number identified as “Scottish and British”… 1.44 million folk.
2.45 million Scots claimed to have some knowledge and skill in reading, writing and understanding the Scots language.
So of the 4.74 million who identified as “Scottish only” or “Scottish/British” 52% claimed to speak, write or understand the Scots leid.
Which means that the majority of Scots living in Scotland have some level of expertise in Scots.
It is, therefore, the minority of Scots – most likely those deluded souls who claim to be Scottish/British – who claim they do not speak any Scots at all.
57,000 people claimed to speak Gaelic… just 0.01 percent of the total Scottish population of 4.74 million folk.
It is an understatement of galactic proportions to say that for most Scots Gaelic is an utter, utter, utter fucking irrelevance.
A lot of government money goes to supporting the Gaelic language in Scotland and approx fuck all goes towards supporting the actual language of the Scots… I wonder why that is.
Anyone who claims that the Scots don’t speak Scots any more is either a liar or ignorant of the facts… maybe both.
Aye, Northy, if you start by ignoring the fact that the 2022 census found 5.44 million people in Scotland you can prove quite a lot.
Keep going down your route and eventually you could prove that 100% of True Sovereign Scots support Indy. That’s already been done to death on Wings BTL.
That’s what I recommend. Save all the boring and convoluted arguing in between and cut right to the statistic that proves what you want it to prove.
100% of the people I’ve spoken to believe the remaining survivors of the Picts should be thrown back where they came from.
The fact any Picts survive in Scotland at all is a slur on our glorious ancestors, who proudly boasted to the Holy Father in Rome, no less, that they had exterminated the lot of you.
Championing Scots is an entirely justified and laudable enterprise. There is world-class literature in it. All Scottish children should become acquainted with its treasures via our education system. As they should also with the profoundly insightful contributions of almost two millennia of Gaelic poetry, Scottish and Irish. The linguistic wealth of Scotland is trilingual, of course, since patently English has long taken over as almost the exclusive literary medium with which Scots are conversant.
So why does there continue to be fractious arguments on Wings regarding PICTISH, concerning which even our best academics can hardly rustle up half a dozen confirmed words? Pictish was a Celtic sister to Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic was influenced in vocabulary and syntax by Pictish – that is partly why it differs from Irish. Gaelic and Pictish speakers rubbed shoulders and mingled. Presumably conversed somehow. Scots on the other hand has not the slightest linguistic relation to Pictish. Scots arises from Northumbrian, Middle English and Germanic roots.
So why do Alf and Northcode, as proponents of Scots, mention Pictish at all? Northcode has stated somewhere that “as a Pict” (DNA check?) he simply chooses Scots as the current language of the Picts. Fair enough, if not historically anchored. Yet anyone on the planet might well be beguiled by the merits of Scots and go on to shine in its usage.
So again, what has “Pictish” got to do with all this? The answer is not linguistic at all. It is DNA. Even though there is no direct correlation between a person’s DNA and their native language. Obviously.
The cross-purposes in our exchanges are because neither Northcode nor Alf Baird are really overly fussed about what was the nature of historic Pictish. The nub of the endless litany of contentious non sequiturs is precisely Alf’s preoccupation with DNA. He is not phased by there being no actual linguistic continuity between Celtic Pictish and his Germanic Scots. The continuity factors for Alf are two fold — DNA and East Scotland terrain.
So I suggest that the main reason Northcode and Alf weaponise Pictish is not linguistic at all, but as DNA proxy.
So, Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh, you have the temerity to come on here, denying the veracity of the Declaration Of Arbroath.
Either every word of it is Gospel, or it’s all untrustworthy, lying, ancient guff. There can be no half-way house, no wishy washy “maybes”. No. Nae. Never.
I speak for every True Sovereign Scot when I say that nae cant gets tae deny the founding principles of our nation.
Awa hamewards, and tak some time tae think again.
Our illustrious ancestors swore to the Holy Father in Rome that they had exterminated the Picts. We are not now going to call liars, the fathers of our nation.
Guid day aw ye lowelie fowk wandrin knotless aboot this place leukin fir tae escape the warld’s stupeedity. Sadly, ye’ll naw find ony escape fae stupeedity in here, this place bein infestit wi colonialists and Inglis rochians and siclike.
Tho soum o ye micht fynd a curn o comfurte in the braw commends o the few rare leeberty seekin Scots wha post thaim here and keepit tae this place.
Ach, a’m growin sair forjeskit o canglesome colonis threapin ben ma lug thair furrin cultur and laigin blaefum and threits o aggressioun; a’m fir the leive o here suin, a’m thinkin.
Houiver that be, and fir the noo, a say this tae aw ma fellow Scots – may the Lord oor God’s luve leam doun upo’ yous aw and bliss ye and fauvour ye … and aw yer kinfowk anaw.
Lowelie: a. Admirable, beautiful. b. Amiable, kind, friendly.
Leam: n. 1. A gleam, ray or flash of light, a bright glow .
Knotless: adj. Sc. usage: aimless, futile, ineffective.
Curn: 2. A (small) number or quantity; a few.
Laigin: v. To talk volubly, to prate, chatter.
Leive: To go away from, depart from, quit; to desert, abandon. Also transf.
Blaefum: (1) Nonsense, idle talk; a hoax, illusion. Also used attrib.
Forjeskit: ppl.adj. Also -et; -jaskit (Sh.); Exhausted, worn out, broken down.
Canglesome: Quarrelsome.
Threapin(threap): Argue, to assert an opinion in a persistent and polemical manner, to engage in controversy, be disputatious.
Thank you Northcode, a few others to add:
– Waffle: to talk or write a lot without giving any useful information or any clear answers
– Drivel: nonsense or boring and unnecessary information.
– Nonsense: language that cannot be understood because it does not mean anything
– Obsession: persistent, often unreasonable, and dominating preoccupation with a specific person, idea, or feeling that consumes a person’s thoughts and actions
– Spam: unsolicited, unwanted, and typically bulk electronic messages (email, text, or internet postings), often commercial or malicious in nature.
– Deranged: someone who is insane, irrational, or unable to think/act normally, often due to severe mental illness
Do you think we could assign some of these labels to some of the posters here?
Those are English words you’re defining there and bear no relevance to the comment I posted entirely in Scots.
I know you are trying to be witty and humorous, AI Dan… but I’m not the slightest bit sorry to tell you that you are neither.
In fact, your borderline imbecilic excuse for wit and humour has the waft of the Anglo aboot it, ye puir sowel, ye. Time for some fresh re-programming from your Yankee programmers, perhaps.
That’s probably a bit of drivel and a bit of waffle Northcode
Excellent riposte, Aidan.
Listened to ‘Through a Scottish Prism’ yesterday. We are screwed – well and truly screwed. The Liberate Scotland Alliance swore to uphold women’s rights and keep their spaces free of men in frocks. Now, they have co-opted Craig Murray, a self-proclaimed supporter of self-ID who claims that – diplomatic style – the differences between women’s rights and ‘trans’ rights can be negotiated and talked through amicably AFTER independence!
Except that that is impossible. It was always impossible because they clash at the very basic level. No one can change sex. Murray even stated that men had always been coming into women’s spaces. Yes, Craig, dearie, but we always clocked them and, because there were so few, and, frankly, the perversions were not widely known to most women, we felt a modicum of compassion for them. Now, however, that will never happen again. They are not welcome in any female space by the majority of women. The handmaidens are not the majority of women.
I don’t know how true it is, but, apparently, rock-solid independista and women’s rights supporter, Allan Petrie, Dundee, who was also very popular, has stood down, and, Craig Murray intends to stand against Ash Regan, who would have stood as an independent independence candidate. I’m not sure how accurate these claims are, but, if they are accurate, then the Liberate Scotland Alliance is screwed like Alba and the SNP because of the ‘trans’ lobby support which will accrue now.
I had been a life-long member of the SNP and left because of this issue; I joined Alba, but it has folded; and, now, Liberate Scotland Alliance, for which I would have voted and have encouraged others to vote for, has just sold out, as well. Yes, there are always wrangles and disputes, but the women’s rights issue is as fundamental and as existential as independence itself, and I have been warning for several years now that independence will not be possible without getting this lobby out of nationalist politics, and that post independence, it cannot be defeated without a monumental struggle.
Look at Ireland, anyone who has doubts about that. Ireland is independent, NI has a powerful nationalist presence and both have been utterly captured. Plaid, in Wales, is completely captured. Those who thought that ‘trans’ was a distraction, or wanted to believe it was, were warned over and over again, but did not listen. The Alliance, even if it does gain a number of List MSPs will be sunk under ‘trans’ ideology within a few months. Wait and see!
Which is why it is imperative, Lorncal, that we each, individually, ensure that we’re informed as to the stance of any independence candidate standing in our constituency.
They must be asked directly on their specific view on “cocks in frocks” in women & children safe places such as toilets, changing rooms, women’s refuges etc. If they can’t or won’t commit, or equivocate, they sure aren’t getting this males’ vote !
I’m afraid it’s gone beyond that. What Lornical says is what I thought a few years ago and it’s got worse. Independence is not the issue anymore. In my opinion it’s about right and wrong good and evil. The Wokism is destroying our society. At all levels people have lost their moral compass. Have you ever had a conversation with someone from the left. It’s all spew and bile, righteousness and spite. But enough about sturgeon. You can say bye bye to Scotland if these people continue.
Sven/Mark: agreed. I could weep for what these ‘woke’ people have done to my country and my sex. You only have to look at who is behind the funding of this lobby and you realise immediately that the men in frocks and the idiot activists are just the vanguard, the “useful idiots”. In order to succeed, it is not the enforcing of pronouns that matter as much as the deliberate overturning of society – right across the West.
You’re right: it is the whole ‘woke’ madness, but the trans’ lobby is the most vicious and mean I have ever encountered or read about – and, while rape crisis centres close from lack of funding, this lobby has public money thrown at it. Do these politicians not know that multi billionaires in Tech and Pharma, etc. fund it and promote the mutilation of children? Come to think of it, that is probably why they do support it. I feel so sickened by all that has happened and a part of me still can’t get my head around how people can be so easily led by the nose. I honestly believe that what we are witnessing is unique in its malevolence and cruelty, and sheer political perversity.
It has all the usual strands – sadism, totalitarianism, etc. – but it has more than that. It is, I believe, the first time in human history that something has contrived to overturn a society that is probably the best we can hope for, although far from being perfect. You just need to look around the world to see how much worse it could become – and that is what they want for all of us. The Soviets overturned a malign autocracy that killed millions, ending up killing millions more; the Red Revolution in China did the same. However, both grew out of tyranny of a different kind. I know the West has been anything but perfect, but we have had more freedoms than most. It was probably, in its heyday, the best humanity has ever experienced anywhere. They want to destroy it all.
I thought CM had embraced his inner tea towel?
The idea that his new pals are genuinely interested in progressive policies smashes the meaning of “risible” to pieces.
Yet still, people will fall for it.
@ Lorncal: Don’t despair. I heard Roddy say that he and 52% of the population disagree with Craig’s view that gender is a minority and unimportant issue. So the Alliance hasn’t changed fundamentally.
Craig does so many hugely time consuming things – also dangerous and liberty-threatening [filming in Lebanon and Venezuela, Salvo’s UN business, Julian Assange action, reporting on Alex Salmond trial] – that I don’t think he has paid any attention at all to the transvestite/pervert issue. So I don’t think that the transvestite crowd will be supporting him – and if they did start trying to engage him in their activities, he would very quickly realise what we all know.
But it is a very great shame that ISP [Alan Petrie has joined them, by the way] have withdrawn from the Alliance. It makes things even more complex to explain to the voting public, and to organise who will stand where. The Unionists will be laughing themselves sick.
Trans is less than 1% of the population this is why the SNP run by the British state made trans a priority over Independence on the hope of turning people away from Independence, it hasn’t worked.
Still no post on Voices.scot.
100% YES: oh, yes, the ‘useful idiots’ and perverted individuals are around that proportion of the population, but the moneymen behind them wield fantastical power, so, no, it’s not a distraction. Why is it so prevalent in France, Germany, the Scandi countries, in most of Europe, in the former colonies? Are you saying that they are all doing England’s bidding to thwart Scottish independence? Are we really that important? They even tried to infiltrate China and Russia, though with little success – yet. The Islamic states are safe from them because they wouldn’t tolerate them for a moment, not being particularly democratic in the Western sense, but they, too, might well succumb to the lure of sexual perversion, which is the magnet. AI and transhumanism are already being heavily funded and will be the next phase of global capitalism empowered by the stupid hard left. Mega bucks to be made. You really have no idea!
Independence has to come first with Independence woman can truly be protected by our laws and not a foreign country’s.
Are you truly argueing that Scotland should be denied Independence until the trans issue is sorted out?
I honestly fail to see how the issue of trans and women’s rights can be sorted while we are still tied to this union, when its the SNP who started this whole fiasco I believe to turn people of the idea of Independence.
I support ATLAS and Craig Murray entirely.
I’m sorry but that’s a 180 degree inversion, at the moment the U.K. Government has a legal veto over the GRR bill and there is nothing that the Scottish Government can do about that. The U.K. Government is also extremely unlikely to reverse its position, so GRR is dead.
In contrast, GRR passed in the Scottish Parliament with cross-party (apart from the Tories) support. Once the UKGov’s legal block is removed by independence there’s every chance the issue would be revived and then implemented. This is why the issue of women’s rights needs resolving and guaranteeing BEFORE independence.
Independence comes before women!
That says it all. The fact that you fail to see the difference!!
Your hatred has blinded your judgement.
@ Ada you are lying again the bill passed in HR with the votes of the tories, not all tories but some tories , so don’t make out they have some form of integrity , also the tories in your beloved engerland were one of the first promoters and supporters of the tranny lunacy they were all gung ho and greedy for the financial rewards from the pharma industries , it was only when the blue rinse brigade were having fits that they changed their minds
The tories were always famous or infamous for their predilections towards good old fashioned deviance and perversion, Cameron’s blow job pig suckling is a perfect example ,but being a tory apologist maybe you participate in things like that
“Your hatred has blinded your judgement”
Not at all, Mark.
The judgement is that women’s rights have to be watered down.
On the principle that “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” the unholy alliance of the trans and the religion of peace will work together to achieve what they both want – the rights of women returned to the dark ages.
Once that objective is achieved the religion of peace will have a free hand to eliminate the trans.
The Tories voted against it 26 to 2 (in favour), that’s just a fact regardless of whether it upsets you. Every other party voted majority in favour, the point being that in a post-Indy Scotland they may do again.
“maybe you participate in things like that”
Nobody is much bothered that you’re “pig curious”, twathater, but you’re defo on the wrong web site.
100%YES: so how do you see it being sorted AFTER independence? Do tell. Because sorting it PRIOR to independence is a necessity so that independence can happen. No woman who understands the issue will vote for independence while there is no guarantee in black and white, incorporated in a Manifesto that women’s rights, spaces, services, etc,. will be protected. Working-class people understand, too, that women working is a necessity to keep the family solvent. Take away women’s rights and you take away their right to work for their families. It is an existential question for all women as it is an existential question for all Scots – or should be.
“100%YES: so how do you see it being sorted AFTER independence”
Because we’ll have our own parliament. Not a Unionist administration. *Rolls eyes*
When Ash Regan was running for SNP leadership she suggested public assemblies/ public consultation. Scots would decide. They’re proven to work on contentious issues (See Ireland)
TRA would collapse on day one at trying to debate “No debate” or bamboozle ppl with bullshit science.
Alex Salmond also suggested this public consultation too. It would have to be thoroughly debated with public consensus.
THAT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE!
I can’t believe you’re tagging this bullshit onto Indy.
The whole TRA bullshit is already falling apart in America. A fad introduced by the deviant transhumanist tech mafia & big pharma. The Eppy class want population control & the quickest way to do it was to make it fashionable by paid influencers & the young & the stupid would be removed from the general pool. Same as they’re killing off the pensioners.
Look at Canada. They’re not killing them fast enough.
Transhumanist Lobby had this crap incorporated into think tanks, World Bank & IMF. To “shape world policy” Anyone not on board would be sanctioned or refused favourable rates on loans. Hungary is one. Many African nations didn’t even know what the fck TRA was & certainly wasn’t adopting it when they’d been given the brief.
Wrong.
As said many times during indyref, you buy the house first before you start arranging the furniture on policy. How stupid is it to argue over policy when no one knows what party would even win the first election. D’oh!
That whole issue was a manufactured Unionist plot. Even down to letting the Unionists favourite little soldier, Sturgeon, run on & on & on with it for months & then finally all the way to court to waste money on something Viceroy Alister Jack knew was a reserved matter. They fooled no-one & Sturgeon didn’t either with her scorched earth agenda to make Indy unelectable.
“you buy the house first before you start arranging the furniture”
You’re thinking like a schemie who’s been 20 years on the cooncil waiting list and becomes delirious with gratitude when finally offered a damp, mould-infested shithole of a flat, with HMOs to either side and a pop-up brothel operating overhead.
You’re actual generic Scottish house buyer shops around to find a desirable location, with good parking, good transport links, shops, schools and other amenities nearby.
And takes a long, hard look for groups of undesirables hanging around, before putting down the deposit.
Look Shitey
It’s not rocket science.
In a referendum the question is posed to EVERYONE regardless of their preferred political party or if they have none at all.
It’s ridiculous to start bickering over policy when that isn’t the fckn question on the ballot is it & we don’t know the future political parties that’ll make up the new parliament. We could, shock horror, actually have Tories & Labour revert back tae their roots free of the shackles of the globalists & foreign agents.
Did we all blink & miss Brexshites white paper? Up the arse of all the policies first? Naw, you mugs fell for a slogan on a bus & a pack of lies about the NHS while Blowhard told us all it was up to the EU to provide the detail. Ever the lazy barsteward. It was *their job*
The question is simple.
Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes/No.
Not..well if I don’t have Unicorn day at the new parly I’m no voting…so there! Fck indy.
Incidentally, that was the Greens mantra. ‘TRA rights first, fck indy’ As every indy supporter now detests them.
It’s a great strategy from Geri, I love it. So when people ask perfectly reasonable questions in hustings/on the doorstep/in debates about what independence means for issues important to them like health, currency, EU membership etc. we just tell them to fuck off and vote for independence and we’ll tell them what’s going to happen after they’ve voted.
I’ve spoken to a fair few people who’ve run successful political campaigns in my time, and they always say: come into the campaign without clear answers to issues that are important to people, let your opponent define the terrain and get aggressive with voters when they ask awkward questions. So bravo, Geri, great plan for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Scotland was perfectly capable of writing a framework before. Even Wings wrote the wee blue book along with thousands of debunking yoons latest propaganda, thousands of debates, Q & As, Yes events, podcasts & blogs, Yes meetings & street events. Other notable voices like Common weal, Phantom & Business for Scotland.
The next ref won’t be our 1st Rodeo, Sunshine.
Proves that you missed the last ref tho eh? I wonder why..not!
Scotland will issue another framework on important issues, a starting point.
Not bullshit over whether or bins will be emptied on a Tuesday or a Friday. Or whether Nessie will relocate & take our tourist industry with her. Or ye dinnie like X’s hair/shoes/ tie. We do know how you 77th Green ink brigaders do love to chatter about irrelevant shite tae filibust everyone tae boredom.
Okay so now it’s exactly the opposite of what you were saying earlier, glad we ironed that one out.
Nope!
Setting out a general framework of where we’d be starting from is very different from a political parties individual policies.
Which would be fixed, I’m sure, from wandering off script. I doubt Scots will retain the Westminster bullshit that they can only sack themselves or a two thirds majority. That’ll be first to be abolished after the GRR farce & wasting copious amounts of money on shit no one voted for like assisted murder, juryless trials, heat pumps & GRR.
& So will swapping manifestos to the loser like SNP did with the Greens when there was absolutely no reason to.
Don’t let it worry you though. I very much doubt you’ll have a vote here.
“Scotland will issue another framework on important issues, a starting point”
Thankfully there is a published research-based ‘theoretical framework’ identifying the ‘determinants of independence’ explaining Scotland’s colonial condition, as summarised here, and which is an essential starting point:
link to wp.towson.edu
“The next ref won’t be our 1st Rodeo”
Good to hear we’re defo getting that second referendum, Geri.
I’d ask when it is, but I fully understand that for you to reveal the date would just play into the hands of the Yoons, Anglos, Izzies and the Eppy class.
So keep it zipped, Geri. You and yer dugs know it makes sense.
Do mind to inform the voters in time, though. We don’t want a second No result because nobody knew it was happening.
It’ll be for Scots to decide after independence.
That was Salmonds view too. It’d go to a public consultation.
Exactly the same as Ash too.
Wait, are you expecting every single bullshit policy to be just tickety-boo before you’ll vote for indy? Like whit day yer bins are emptied FFS!
Scotland will have a brand new parliament. Brand new constitution. Brand new parties. TRA may not even be thing any longer (At the rate they’re detransitioning in the States it’s very likely. Ppl have suddenly discovered chopping their dick off wasn’t such a great idea after all)
Stop confusing issues. It’s just the same as those Muppets who keep trying to force the EU to tag onto Scottish independence.
Scots will decide. In a vote. After public consultation.
“Scots will decide. In a vote. After public consultation”
After the mobile gas chambers have made at least one pass, Geri.
Don’t forget there’s a puckle of suspect voters and dodgy Sovereign Scots who have to first be eliminated.
What are you like, eh, Geri? It’s almost as if you forget some of us recall your more excited posts on here!
Geri: Alec Salmond said no such thing. He ensured that women’s rights were embedded in Alba policy. You, like several more on here, fail to understand the motivations behind the ‘trans’ agenda. You have to look at who is funding them, the billionaires, and why.
The alliance between the ‘trans’ lobby and the ‘woke’ left and others who see an opportunity to undermine our society is fundamentally terrifying because it will lead to a totalitarian state, independent or otherwise, if allowed to proceed unhindered.
The ‘trans’ movement is simply the vanguard of a much more terrifying prospect where women will be transformed into non humans, while Big Tech and Big Pharmaceutical and others will operate their anti human policies whoever is in charge – and it won’t be a Scottish government as we know it, believe me.
All we have to do is do nothing to stop it, secure in our mistaken belief that independence is the be all and end all regardless of what it will look like eventually – and not just for half the population either. When your rights and existence are under threat, then you might understand – too late, of course.
He said womens rights would be protected. Yes.
He also said the TRA community is a discussion Scotland should have & reach a public consensus. There are ppl with genuine body dysmorphia & it was a sensitive topic.
Which is an entirely different group from the screeching bandwagoners you are referring to.
He said it in an interview when Alba was just starting. I think it may have been with LBC.
When Scotland is Indy our parliament will have a constitution & rules. A system like Switzerland was popular at one point. A referendum on important issues. I’d also include Georgia in its make-up somewhere – especially their new laws that require lobbyist to be listened as foreign agents & declare exactly on whose behalf they’re working for & voters should be informed.
Holyrood is a Unionist administration. This nonsense was to waste money, everyone knew Westminster would never let this pass because it was a reserved matter. Sturgeon just went off to court anyway. Another trick of theirs is Lawfare.
This nonsense was to divide the independence vote & to sink any notion of a credible SNP.
Liberation from oppression is the only game to be played in Scotland; everything else can wait until that is achieved… because if it isn’t there will be nothing, absolutely nothing, the Scots can do about whatever pish is dribbled ower Scotland and whatever shite is dumped on the Scots by England and its foreign chums.
Scotland’s liberation from oppression and the restoration of her people’s sovereignty must come before everything else.
“the restoration of her people’s sovereignty must come before everything else”
Here ye gang, Northy. Fixed it fer ye:
“the restoration of sovereignty to those of her people who agree with me must come before everything else”
Noo, isn’t that better?
Children play games.
Lorncal, Sven, Alan P, etc
Don’t you realise that you’ve fallen into a trap? Gender ideology was set up as one of the traps to divide Scotland and keep it from gaining independence. Most importantly, to split the Indy vote to prevent getting a majority for independence.
That’s why, in the upcoming election, you need to rise above the gender trap and watch your list vote carefully to get an Indy majority. You can keep arguing about gender once indie is gained. It’ll still be there as an issue.
Exactly MaryB
Our devolved HR administration officially recognises 24 genders.
It is only Indy that will allow us to enforce equal representation of all 24 genders in our government, and by setting up an assembly of 48, 72 or 96 elected representatives, end this medieval, regressive, human rights denying discrimination against most of our Scottish genders for ever.
Once established post Indy, the same equal gender representation laws can be forced on all branches of our civil service, and all functional organs and service delivery mechanisms of the Scottish state.
With something like 600,000 employees in the Scottish public sector, we have it within our power to win a victory for gender equality the likes of which the world has never before seen.
Pass the word on.
MaryB: Jesus Christ! Excuse my blasphemy, those of you who are religious. ‘Trans’ is not a distraction. Why do you think the Israelis fight for their wee bit o sand and scrub (before they turned it into an oasis)? Because they will never, ever again be duped into thinking that everything will be resolved if you just sit back and wait. Six million were liquidated, another million have lost their lives in more recent battles. There is no gender trap. Are you a woman or a man in a frock or both? Like Geri, you have already been drawn into the trap of your own thinking that gender is the trap. The worm will be in the apple as you carry it triumphantly over the threshold into independence. Good luck.
MaryB After a Sunday Prism show I asked Alan Petrie in a comment if he would stop pushing immigration as a positive issue , I reminded him and the other panelists that the Alliance partys mantra was “Independence Nothing Less Nothing More” and that they were only creating division with independenistas who were against uncontrolled immigration, and promoting immigration was against what they were telling people the ONLY aim was
He was pushing the immigration issue against the rising threat that Reform was posing against the other parties , I said that the reason they were so popular in England was that they were focusing on what the people had genuine concerns about and it would be wrong to ignore their concerns
He actually went into a spittle flecked rant accusing me of being a RACIST because I had dared to air my views , Roddy did the same thing when he was promoting the benefits of immigration, he was talking about his family who had moved to the UAE and how great they were getting on and how they were so well respected and embraced as immigrants, he insisted that 80% of the population were immigrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and elsewhere and were treated as equals
I pointed out that there had been documentaries exposing the exact opposite saying that the immigrants had been so badly treated that they could not even afford the money to return home, they were living in squalid conditions and treated like slaves
He just like Alan went into a rage accusing me of being a RACIST
This latest debacle only highlights that independence is NOT the primary and ONLY concern that Roddy , Alan ,Eva and Phil have, they ALL have their PET PROJECTS and it is about to get worse , I admire and respect Craig Murray and Tommy Sheridan but both have overiding pet projects focused on other countries
I am NOT being disrespectful or evil but I am ONLY interested in what is happening in Scotland to SCOTTISH people , Scottish families and Scottish children I am a firm believer that CHARITY begins at home,when we can look after our own people adequately and properly THEN we can start worrying about others , we are a small country with a manageable population who have fantastic resources that should and could be used to benefit our people but our politicians are more focused on what they can do for other countries and their peoples, I am sick of the virtue signalling self aggrandising self interested clowns who put their interests before ours
We can’t change any of the conflicts that are happening across the world and quite honestly even if we could nobody is interested, Scotland is turning into a shitehole because our governments are more focused on OTHERS
Sorry, Rev and commentators: just checked more deeply. Allan is stepping down; but Ash Regan is standing in Edinburgh East, not Edinburgh Central, which is the constituency in which Craig Murray will be standing. It is deeply concerning that a man with Craig Murray’s intelligence should hold the pro ‘trans’ views he does and seems to believe genuinely that diplomacy can solve the direct confrontation that ‘trans’ poses for women’s hard-fought and even harder-won privileges and rights. It makes no sense to me at all that anyone can turn human biology on its head.
@ Lorncal: Allan Petrie has joined ISP.
I don’t know if you saw my reply to your previous comment where I said that Craig doesn’t seem to have paid attention to all the details about supposedly transvestite people that the Rev keeps us informed about. Craig does do an unbelievable amount of work for other good causes so it seems the porn cultists have been below his radar.
I do agree with Roddy and other commenters here that independence must be the priority just now. I am certain that when independent, the gender issue will disappear. It has been very useful in dividing and diverting the independence cause – when independent, that will cease. We will have better things to focus on.
Sarah: your faith does you proud; but I very much doubt it would be possible to dislodge them after independence because REALpolitik would take over after independence because it would have to, really. Being on the independence mission is very different from being independent and having to face up to the realities of life.
One of those is that American billionaires usually get their own way, while women… Well, let’s just say that women don’t count for much, do they? You also believe that the ‘trans’ issue is a distraction and side issue that can be fixed post independence when it cannot be fixed at all. Ah, well, I tried. Craig Murray may be the greatest shining star, but he does not support 52% of the population. For me, that shows a grave lack of humanity.
Suffice it to say that those same billionaires will be pushing AI – and AI will be pushing porn even harder and into new territories as yet undreamed of by womankind, but very much dreamed of by at least a goodly proportion of mankind. All that pushing will push women and their concerns right off the edge of the planet. You know, at that edge where all the 21st century moronically and wilfully ignorant gather to be hurled into space.
Independence won’t save us, but you go on believing that if it gives you comfort, Sarah. Scotlandistan, complete with burqas awaits, while men in frocks are allowed in, in your place, because…they’re men, Sarah. I want my country freed from this scourge of ‘wokism’ BEFORE independence – and that is perfectly possible by stating in the Manifesto that the UKSC ruling will be applied, that we will not have open borders and we will at least try to conserve our culture and languages and heritage that make us Scottish.
Oh, and a form of rights that includes every citizen, not just the chosen ones, with acknowledgement that female people are not male people and require an augmented set of rights that keeps them safe from the menfolk who would harm us. All that would take is to scrutinise every bill before it passes into law to ensure that female concerns are taken into account instead of doing it for all the Beths and all the predators and all the abusers. So easy, really, but so far from reality that we might, indeed, be gazing at the stars for answers.
Best you keep voting for that Union Jack safety blanket then Lorna.
Aye, there’s jist no point in returning to self-governance and actually having the powers to address and deal with all the rights and wrongs we are enduring as being tied in and part of the UK.
Too wee and too stupid sounds about richt. Let’s jist keep on warring with the UK, keep on making weapons on our soil, keep on getting absolutely fucking shafted on a myriad fronts.
The whole point of independence is so we can begin to do things differently and deal with all the shite we have had foisted onto us, and not just the things that irk you*.
*And FYI it irks me too, but I realise there are many other matters that need addressed as well, and if you only focus and rant on about one thing, making it a caveat and hurdle on progressing the cause of Scotland’d return to self-governing status, it makes you look obsessed and blinkered in outlook. And that is a look unlikely to win the hearts and minds and garner broad base support of the wider population, especially when the genderwoowoo is not polled particularly high up the league table of immediate concerns Scots have.
TBH it’s comical the way so many of these big supposedly “Pro-Indy” names handle themselves and behave, to the point it’s playing out like a farcical Carry On comedy.
Last I heard Stu blocked a gender critical I4I candidate because he couldn’t deal with them and their work experience questioning his views and position.
So it begs the question, jist who the fuck would ever be acceptable as a candidate. A woman, pro-indy, gender critical, knows about Scottish energy and other economic rip-offs, law and order conversant, committed and brave enough to stand… and yet still not good enough… Aye, maybe in the eyes and minds of a unionist…
“keep on making weapons on our soil”
FFS, Dan, that ship sailed over 4 years ago.
“makes you look obsessed and blinkered in outlook. And that is a look unlikely to win the hearts and minds and garner broad base support of the wider population”
Do you believe the wider Scottish population is watching the evening news right now and thinking Scotland’s best hope is to dis-arm, de-militarise, and hope to win over all potential enemies, internal and external, by being extra nice, cuddly and cute?
Seriously?
Shiteface,
No. They’ll be watching the telly thinking FUCK! Would you jist look at all those eejits who are being bombed tae fck. How stupid wis it tae pay £billions Tae a foreign country & put yer whole defence in their hands..
…oh, wait..
We canny be relying on oor neighbours to protect us. Best we make a start & do it ourselves.
Everyone & their dug knows NATO is an American outfit. Their Proxies in Europe & them with the ultimate veto that trumps everyone else’s. It’s no good to anyone. Greenland should be warning enough.
Word on the Geopolitical street is that countries will take back their Sovereignty when this latest conflict is over & the petro dollar has collapsed. I hear the GCC may even have a NATO of their own now in their own region of the world.
Just think, shitey..
An Islamic NATO! I’d LMFAO if that is true cause I just know you’d not be able to sleep at night. They’d be under yer bed along with R & all the immigrants too…
Seriously tho – Turkey is deep in thought right now cause they also made it ontae Yahoos wee shortlist on his graphs. They’re thinking the Islamic states, regardless of which side they’re on, should be working together cause if it comes tae pass Mecca & Medina would fall tae the Zzzs..
Michty, Geri! Still only Tuesday and already you’re back to picking up the word on the streets. I see you’ve taken yer dugs wi ye tae.
Just don’t put your ear to the ground. What you think is a truck might be an F16 about to roll a wheel over yer heid.
I’ll LMFAO when the ragheids take over. They’ll destroy your dugs. Unclean brutes fit only for the testing of chemical weapons.
Happy anniversary tomorrow of the 1328 Treaty of Northampton- Edinburgh where the English finally acknowledged they had lost the war of independence after being roundly gubbed.
Thank you for this. I never knew that.
You are welcome.
“the English finally acknowledged they had lost the war”
You are President Donald Trump and I claim my bigly, beautiful, gold-effect whoopee cushion – the must have accessory to liven up those boring, solemn military swearing in ceremonies.
Autographed +$500. Personal messages +$100 per word.
MAGA – Make asses gleeful again!
HMcH
JML appear to do a portable cushion.
Ideal for you with a sore a8se after all that Proud Boys and Oathkeepers hazing..
“Squeal like a pig boyy”..
Dunno what you’re so bitter about, YL.
Thought you were celebrating the English losing the war.
Don’t tell me you’ve just noticed they didn’t!
What happened? Did some big brain educate you on the difference between a battle and a war?
HMcH
Eh?
No.
You’re making a complete diddy of yersel yet again.
England lost the 1st War of Independence as I already noted, lost by default the second in 1357 when they effed off after 1357 with their tails between their legs.
Lost all their I’ll gotten gains in Scotland by circa 1400 (PS that means losing).
Lost the Hundred Years’ War in France, more anon later this month.
Only long term success through greater wars of independence era was Dick da Turd seizing Berwick on Tweed for the last time before his own English compadres dumped him in a skip in a municipal car park in Leicester..
Fast forward to 1603 and James VI gained the English throne from the biological failures that were the Tudors.
At difference here from poster Cynicus how much that actually did for Scotland though.
In surrebutter to another of yer racist rants about white Adam and Eve then I would further educate you (did you not attend school or just not listen?).
The images you’re whanging oan about were done in the Renaissance when European artists portrayed historical and biblical characters akin to those around them and what they wore.
Adam formerly had Lilith according to the book of “old guff” (your words) who became a demon and mythology of (your not going to like this) “brown people” ie the Mesopotamian “cradle of civilisation”.
So I reckon we can guess what the real colour of A and E were, or not least their descendants as The Big Yin kicked them out of Eden into the already existing and populated by – brown people – Land of Nod (seriously).
Final little nail in the coffin of your western Chauvenist Proud Boys racism is that recent dna analysis and carbon dating analysis of the peoples closest to Jesus H you know who I mean are of Druze bloodline.
Yes, brown people!!
Oooo errr!
Don’t cry Hatey, should have listened at school as opposed to being the school debating society smart a8se, you may have learnt something.
Too late now.
Away back to whanging oan endlessly about brown people with these little nuggets rattling about in the empty space between your ears.
Whose bitter (and twisted) now ya screaming uneducated fascist..
Have a nice night 😉 😉
Hahahahahaha!
HMcH
Eh?
No.
You’re making a complete diddy of yersel yet again.
England lost the 1st War of Independence as I already noted, lost by default the second in 1357 when they effed off after 1357 with their tails between their legs.
Lost all their I’ll gotten gains in Scotland by circa 1400 (PS that means losing).
Lost the Hundred Years’ War in France, more anon later this month.
Only long term success through greater wars of independence era was Dick da Turd seizing Berwick on Tweed for the last time before his own English compadres dumped him in a skip in a municipal car park in Leicester..
Fast forward to 1603 and James VI gained the English throne from the biological failures that were the Tudors.
At difference here from poster Cynicus how much that actually did for Scotland though.
In surrebutter to another of yer racist rants about white Adam and Eve then I would further educate you (did you not attend school or just not listen?).
The images you’re whanging oan about were done in the Renaissance when European artists portrayed historical and biblical characters akin to those go around them and what they wore.
Adam formerly had Lilith according to the book of “old guff” (your words) who became a demon and mythology of (your not going to like this) “brown people” ie the Mesopotamian “cradle of civilisation”.
So I reckon we can guess what the real colour of A and E were, or not least their descendants as The Big Yin kicked them out of Eden into the already existing and populated by – brown people – Land of Nod (seriously).
Final little nail in the coffin of your western Chauvenist Proud Boys racism is that recent dna analysis and carbon dating analysis of the peoples closest to Jesus H you know who I mean are of Druze bloodline.
Yes, brown people!!
Oooo errr!
Don’t cry Hatey, should have listened at school as opposed to being the school debating society smart a8se, you may have learnt something.
Too late now.
Away back to whanging oan endlessly about brown people with these little nuggets rattling about in the empty space between your ears.
Whose bitter (and twisted) now ya screaming uneducated fascist..
Have a nice night 😉 😉
Hahahahahaha!
“Whose bitter”
Dunno, YL. But you saw it first.
Fill yer boots. Bet some cant already gobbed in it though.
HMcH
Oh, I get it.
You start it, don’t come out best so revert to spellchecking sanctimonious teacher mode.
Honestly!
Well you know what they say, those who can do, those who can’t teach..
You muppet.
Begone malicious sprite, you’re fooling nobody but yourself, yet again.
Victories of the past are more palatable than the present self inflicted kick in the teeth.
Mark Beggan @ 18.01.
Perhaps one of the most accurate and depressing posts on WOS btl recently, Mark. Self inflicted is an exact definition of the damage caused to the cause of Scottish independence by the SNP devolved administration since 2014.
Majorities of MSPs and MPs at Holyrood and Westminster have led to absolutely no progress whatsoever in the independence fight.
“Majorities of MSPs and MPs at Holyrood and Westminster have led to absolutely no progress whatsoever in the independence fight”
To be fair, they probably just share the belief often expressed on here that the UN is about to gift us Indy on a plate. So why bother?
And then there’s the fact the SNP are soon to be returned to power for another 5 years at HR. So bloody obviously, their rank and file supporters think they’re doing great.
But kudos to you, Sven, for remembering what this site is supposed to be about – Scottish Indy. It says something that only a few weeks out from the election, there’s rarely a post about that on here.
Beggars;
People are generally aware of the latter, sadly not the former.
I only point out historical facts for those genuinely interested.
Over 14 days into The Donald’s big Persian Excursion and it is not looking good. Also the chosen people have called up over 400,000 reserve troops which likely means Lebanon is in for a bit of a kicking. I doubt Iran has mined the Gulf so far as they seem to be letting ships pass through if they are going to allies and are not paying for oil in petrodollars. If Iran does mine the Gulf the USA removed their four minesweepers last year and the UK did the same so all Iran has to do is float a few painted creel buoys with stick on horns and the marine insurance companies will stop cover through the straights and job done. Looking good Donald.
Lebanon is in for a kicking because they lack the ability to expel the terrorist cuckoos who have been occupying their country for decades and using it as a base for launching attacks on Lebanon’s neighbours.
Imagine the kicking Scotland would get if we welcomed deranged terrorists here and let them launch attacks on England. That should clarify things for you.
The USA is self-sufficient in oil now, and will shortly have the world’s largest reserves, Venezuela, on stream and under their control. Just saying.
Perhaps the Iranians should think twice about being selective on which ships they will let through. After all, there is nothing stopping another country from sinking the ships the Iranians leave alone. Just saying.
An expert was opining the other day that one side effect of this latest front in The War is that it is pushing poot and Xi together. Perhaps the expert has forgotten that Trump’s Enemy #1 are the Covid Spreaders, and by extension, their supporters and enablers. Just saying.
H McH: “Lebanon is in for a kicking because they lack the ability to expel the terrorist cuckoos who have been occupying their country for decades and using it as a base for launching attacks on Lebanon’s neighbours”.
Indeed, but few will believe you about Lebanon. Once a Christian country that was the envy of the world with its beautiful beaches, gorgeous cities and wonderful hinterland. Afghanistan was very similar, once – not Christian, of course, but a free and open society, nevertheless before the Stone Age returned. Gaza has all the potential to be what Lebanon was, once.
H McH: Every statistic and every study undertaken shows categorically that a country where women are treated as less than human tumbles into poverty and strife. Where women are treated fairly, prosperity begins and families grow and thrive. That applies across the world, and that tumble into poverty and strife is looming across the West right now, thanks to ‘wokies’, post modernists, queer theorists, psychopaths, sadists and self-flagellators who believe it’s cool to blame colonialism for everything and take no responsibility for anything.
Alla Snackbar
Northcode @ 17.43.
No problem at all, Northy. No one who appreciates Shelley can fail to find a sympathetic reception chez Sven. (Even in indecipherable leid).
Thank you, Sven. You, sir, are a true gentleman.
The Picts (not that they called themselves that)or Caledonians are indigenous to Scotland,
the Scots are (for want of a better word) immigrants from Scythia,
the Scythians were originally European Iranians.
Could it be that kilts are just dish cloots we took to wearing around our waists.
There being no real need for protection from the hot sun in Scotland.
He heard that at the local Mosque.
I’ve not been allowed near my local mosque since I tidied up all the shoes, bagged them up in pairs, and took them to the Sally Army clothes bank.
Honestly, you never heard such a fuss!
Some people just lack all Christian charity.
I hate tae burst yer wee Yoon bubble but ye are aware Chucky has strong Islamic leanings?
Or maybe that’s just the Fortnum & Mason bags stuffed with cash when the Saudi Sheik pop in for tea & jam..
Thanks fer the heids up, Geri.
Ah’ll hae a wee wurd.
I suppose if we go right to the beginning were all related to Adam and Eve.
We can’t all be related to Adam and Eve. In the pictures, they’re clearly white, white, white.
And, TBQFH, that’s a great relief.
Allah Snackbar!!
Assisted death being voted on at Holyrood tomorrow,
Grim Reaper Liam McArthur wants the bodies to pile up,
he`ll be coming for you soon enough if it gets passed.
@ Lorncal at 8.52 p.m.: I feel very much the same as you. The world as it is being run now is terrifying. It is unprincipled, greedy, perverted global businesses running, and ruining, everything for the rest of us.
Robin McAlpine has said the same this week. Today he has written another cheerful article saying party politics is the best system that exists, whilst acknowledging that it is awful.
So what do we do? Scotland’s Claim of Right looks pretty good in comparison. But we won’t get that back until we become independent.
How do we get better, more principled, people into political power? I just hope that some of the people who are trying to make a difference will succeed in winning some seats – but it is disheartening when they can’t keep their project together just as the election comes up.
I don’t understand Craig Murray’s stance on gender either. I hope that it is just that he hasn’t thought about it – but I dunno.
Oh, I think he’s given it a great deal of thought, Sarah. He just has a problem with women who have minds of their own and who, perhaps, don’t do as he expects women should do. A lot of men have that problem, to be fair.
He’s a bit of a misogynist, and it may be that to which he has not given much thought. It comes so naturally. I have gone over and over all the groups pf people who have a problem with women, who have a problem with Scottish independence, and, you know, I can’t find it in me to actually hate them. Some, as individuals, I’d like to punch in the coupon, but, hate? Nope.
Which makes me wonder about people who hate and don’t even know they hate, or why they hate. hatred for no discernible reason seems to me to be wholly irrational. Not saying that Craig Murray hates women, but he does have a problem with not being able to see the wood for the trees.
Not saying any of the blokes in Your Party hate women.
But many of them are enthusiastic followers of a religion that tells them women are second class people.
Unless they are unbelievers, when they are rated fourth class.
It’s hard to believe that kind of value system doesn’t have wide reaching effects.
‘How do we get better more principled people in power’
I’ve thought on that many times. Like atttracts like. What sort of people are attracted to politics? The worst society has to offer. I think responsibility is the key. To tell lies to the public should carry a custodial sentence. Create a foundation that attracts the best our society has to offer.
A foundation based on Christian principles. Honesty integrity and service. Don’t accept anything less.
Dan: I don’t hate you for accusing me of being a Unionist when I was probably a nationalist when you were little more than a twinkle in your daddy’s ee. I could punch you in the coupon, though, so bear that in mind if we ever meet. Your snide comment is unworthy of a fellow independista. I probably won’t be around when it all comes a cropper, but, frankly, unless and until a real saviour for Scotland comes along soon, independence is going nowhere. Believing that guaranteeing the rights of more than half the Scottish population BEFORE independence is not worth the candle tells me everything that you and your ilk of independista would make out of an independent Scotland. If you think that Scottish women are the enemy, you haven’t a clue!
Top tip: Maybe ease up with the threats of woman on man violence and coming across as a unionist concern troll attempting to derail, distract, and divide those whose main objective is returning Scotland to self-governance: That’s folk that aren’t putting a zillion hurdles and caveats in place making the process more difficult than it already is.
And GTF with your snide comments jibe, maybe consider what you post yourself and how others you try to misrepresent would take that, because you’re so far off the mark.
You and this site were nowhere to be seen and offered zero support or exposure to the brave gender critical women that stood for election who were the ones that were attempting to stop through political means the matter that concerns you so much, plus those women actually were highlighting other matters too which ranked higher up the lists of what Scots deem important.
I’ve already stated numerous times over the years that the genderwoowoo stuff is a nuts, society damaging, and an emotive subject designed as a divide and rule tool.
I’ve posted numerous times highlighting the way it impinges on and damages the female sex. I’ve had a close young female family member screwed up for a good while when her boyfriend went all trans.
I’ve also informed all my friends with kids that they can pull them out of school classes so they are not exposed to genderwoowoo ideology.
So again, just fuck off with your repeated attempts to state I don’t understand and that I’m dismissive of the subject. There is no way you can possibly not know my position and views on the subject if you bothered to read my posts on the subject.
The bigger picture stuff is that unfortunately many in our society are damaged and compromised by numerous malign and influential factors, making far too many people susceptible to nefarious actors.
I also notice you’ve made another digging response to me in another post with much the same modus. It’s always the same from you, and there is pretty much never any input from you on any other subject. That’s unbalanced.
I support independence, Dan. Always have, always will. I was making no “digging response”. I was very annoyed that you would insult me by accusing me of being a Unionist and trying to derail independence. All I am trying to do is to make you and others see that we are in an almighty mess that independence cannot fix. It is sheer madness to believe that independence is the panacea for all ills.
Our institutions are drowning in this stuff and women cannot and should not be expected to fight every case through the courts. “Woman on man violence”? Nah, just trying to show you that we get angry, too. The gender woo woo is not my sole interest, but, for me and many, many other women whom you and others of your mindset expect to vote for independence with no guarantee that we will have any rights left, it is an existential matter. As I said, I was wearing out shoe leather in service of independence when you were probably a baby, so you will forgive me, I’m sure, for getting angry at your totally unnecessary jibes.
No, I haven’t been, physically, at the forefront of the women’s rights fight, but I sure as hell have been in it for the past several years, contributing money, writing letters, commenting. I still suffer the side effects of cancer, am frequently ill and am heading for my final few years, anyway, not as young as I used to be. Old enough to remember, though, when men were men and women were women and we worked together for independence.
The betrayal of the SNP on women’s rights is profoundly disturbing and irrational for a party that supposedly wants independence. You work it out vis-a-vis the numbers involved. You cannot take us to independence without a large part of the women’s vote and without a large part of the working-class vote. Those two are crucial. The SNP, the Greens, the whole independence movement has, effectively, betrayed women, particularly working-class women who have always voted for independence. If you do not see the crucial necessity of looking after this vote or are too frightened to confront the ‘trans’ lobby which is toxic to independence, I hardly think most of you who think as you do will have the guts to fight for independence when push comes to shove. If the truth hurts, tough. Prove me wrong, Dan.
It wasn’t surprising that the gayist parliament in Scotland, with the gayist parties, would jump aboard the latest gay crusade & make that their number one priority above what they were actually elected to do = Independence.
Will unionists fix it? Well it hasn’t so far has it when even border patrol & the police ignored Braverman about adorning their uniforms with pride tat.
It’s a problem all across the West but it is by design. That’s why this TRA bullshit was ushered into every single parliament with *no debate* & *no grassroots movement* behind it either. It just appeared from nowhere & commanded authority of its own from day one. That just doesn’t happen & it just doesn’t happen on such a global scale.
It’s an ideology & should be treated as such. How they live their lives & what they believe in is up to them but it should be taken out of every public institution & reinforced that they’re not special. Hmmmmm, who else uses that exact same tactic?
Would Independence fix it? Well, having our own parliament would be a very good start eh? Along with all the leavers that brings with it to remove narcissistic aresholes from public office that decide to go off script & just make shit up with ZERO mandate & against overwhelming public opinion.
So yes, an Independent Scotland can fix it.
You appear to be under the impression we’d just be independent in name & just carry on with the Unionist way of doing things. We wouldn’t. We’d have our own parliament with it’s own procedures.
“….No invasion that wiped out one group and replaced it. “-Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh, 16 March, 2026 at 10:54 am
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Fearghas, tales of banquet massacres occur across centuries and cultures, as I am sure youknow.
Was the supposed slaying of Picts by Scots an historical event?
The tale is not unique to these islands. Geoffrey of Monmouth recounts how the Romanised Britons hosted a dinner for Anglo-Saxons who slaughtered them!
In other words, ACTUAL linguistic kin of the Picts -the Britons- were murdered by ACTUAL linguistic kin of Inglis/“Scots”- the Anglo-Saxons.
Oh, the irony!
PS Does Alex Cole Hamilton think they did it for Macbeth?
We should all learn from the destruction of the Death Cult and it’s Proxy’s.
Be careful what you wish for in this life.
An interesting article on why, after every political revolution, Orwell’s pigs eventually turn into the humans they overthrew:
link to unherd.com
Of course, the article’s author doesn’t account for Scotland’s exceptionalism, so doesn’t explain why that could never, ever happen here.
“the article’s author doesn’t account for Scotland’s exceptionalism”
Scotland has suffered from Orwell’s thesis since long afore he wrote anything. Colonialism is a co-operative venture between the colonizer and native elites and bourgeoisie, which explains why we cannot easily distinguish between them.
Indeed, oor haverin pseudo-nationalist leaders happily tell us that aw fowk fae onywhair wha bide here are ‘Scots’. Orwell wad be prood o thaim, tho he nivver kent us Scots.
Freud and Fanon are sufficient to explain colonialism’s effects on the mind:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Sorry, Alf, but after that response from you, I can only hope and pray that you never actually read the article I linked to.
You may wish to brush up on your history as well. As Orwell wrote most of 1984 while living on Jura, it’s not credible to believe that he never knew us Scots.
Unless, of course, that is just another of your often repeated assertions that Highlanders, Islanders and Gaelic speakers aren’t and can’t ever be “true” Scots.
Spot on, Alf.
Poor shitey will see this for himself if Reform win.
Someone did a montage of him the other day of what he previously said vs what he says today. Hasn’t taken him long to row backwards.
Westminster/Holyrood is just pantomime. The real power isn’t elected & it doesn’t change from one snake oil salesman to the next – ministers are only in government for a short term & its used as a launch pad onto bigger & more lucrative deals.
Ah hear it’s grand fer fleas oan dugs.
This site isn’t what it was because of the increasing posts from unionist trolls but one area where Wings has been and is alas still necessary is in exposing the trans lobby and all the machinations associated with it .Few publications have been so brave . Men think it won’t affect but it will, in an undermining of family and society .
When wrong is right and white is black and children are unprotected.
I agree that I am very chary of Craig Murray .I admire his courage ,but his attitude to women is very suspect not just in the trans issue .I think he is(from my experience of meeting him more than once) nervous of women .
That which doesn’t kill you makes you strong, Anne.
It never ceases to amaze me how so many pro-Indy Scots remain convinced that the route to Indy consists of posting endless screeds of whinging, while agreeing with each other in a hermetically sealed echo chamber.
Just as it never ceases to amaze me how so many pro-Indy Scots, whilst all agreeing with each other about the very real obstacles Scotland faces if it is determined to be Independent, all retreat into their shells at the first argumentative words coming their way.
Of such material, freedom fighters are not made!
Why does it bother you? Ignore them entirely, most people do and they’ll just go away.
Anne: I honestly do not think that the vast majority of posters on here are Unionist trolls. It is just that the i independence movement has many strands, and, if you don’t go along with the orthodoxy, which is, remain silent until independence is won, you will be called a Unionist.
Doesn’t matter if you can see very clearly that your particular group will lose all its rights on independence, you are told to shut up and accept having your rights sold to the lowest bidder, all that matters is independence – as if an idea can be perfection itself and everything in the garden will be rosy…cos…independence. H McH is spot on there.
There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip, as the saying goes. Ireland is the perfect example of what we should have been trying to avoid pre independence, but, no, too many of the menfolk also cannot see the wood for the trees.
I have had my eyes opened to the extent that I now trust no one to bring us to independence without destroying many of us in the process. Women, I’m afraid to say, mean absolutely sweet fanny adams to far too many independista men in the movement. Several decent men on here, and the Rev himself, are the exceptions.
I, too, salute Craig Murray for much of what he takes on, but I think his dislike of women and his lack of understanding of their plight does him no credit at all. I believe it is personal and not something he can set aside easily, so I could never vote for him.
If the ‘trans’ lobby had done to men what it has done to women, I’d be right there supporting them because I am clear-eyed about the motives. It took me several years of research to understand what the ‘trans’ movement is and how it has used the hard left to achieve its goals. I was once fairly ignorant of the perversions behind it, and had to learn all that – which was pretty disgusting, to be honest.
What I never had to learn was that there were people behind it who had a very specific agenda, and that there were those who would harness it to their separate agenda. I understood very clearly from day one that women and girls were completely and utterly expendable to all of these interests, although I have been shocked by just how little regard many men in the independence movement had for us and our rights.
I spent years of my life campaigning, leafleting, door-stepping, helping to organise events to raise money, but that appears to mean little to nothing. It has been a salutary lesson, Anne. Nevertheless, I am still a nationalist and will die a nationalist.
COIRE A’ BHREACAIN
Sgri?obh Seo?ras Orwell 1984 air Eilean Diu?ra.
Chunnaic mi pi?os mu a dhe?idhinn air an tv o chionn greis.
Thachair tubaist ba?ta ris aig Coire a’ Bhreacain.
E fhe?in, a mhac o?g tri? bliadhna dh’aois,
agus dithis dhaoine eile san eathar a bha seo
a chaidh a ghlacadh le sruthan-li?onaidh la?idir
‘s a tharraing a dh’ionnsaigh a’ chuairt-slugain mho?ir.
Bhris an cu?l-mhotair dheth agus thuit e sa mhuir.
Ach rinn iad a’ chu?is air iomramh gu creig leathann
far an deach an eathar fodha. Las iad teine an sin.
Ri h-u?ine chaidh am faicinn le iasgairean giomaich.
Tha sinne di?reach a?s de?idh ar reifreann
air neo-eisimeileachd a chall.
Alba mar eathar air a dol fodha cha mho?r
ann an cuairt-shlugain Orwellach,
ann an Coire a’ Bhreacain de bhreugan.
Ach mar Orwell fhe?in, cha deach ar ba?thadh.
Ra?inig sinn creag nas a?irde na na garbh-thuinn.
Agus las sinn teine a tha a’ loisgeadh fhathast.
(Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh 2015)
(Another attempt at the Gaelic version, hopefully free this time from misformatting question marks after each Gaelic accent)
COIRE A’ BHREACAIN
Sgrìobh Seòras Orwell 1984 air Eilean Diùra.
Chunnaic mi pìos mu a dhèidhinn air an tv o chionn greis.
Thachair tubaist bàta ris aig Coire a’ Bhreacain.
E fhèin, a mhac òg trì bliadhna dh’aois,
agus dithis dhaoine eile san eathar a bha seo
a chaidh a ghlacadh le sruthan-lìonaidh làidir
‘s a tharraing a dh’ionnsaigh a’ chuairt-slugain mhòir.
Bhris an cùl-mhotair dheth agus thuit e sa mhuir.
Ach rinn iad a’ chùis air iomramh gu creig leathann
far an deach an eathar fodha. Las iad teine an sin.
Ri h-ùine chaidh am faicinn le iasgairean giomaich.
Tha sinne dìreach às dèidh ar reifreann
air neo-eisimeileachd a chall.
Alba mar eathar air a dol fodha cha mhòr
ann an cuairt-shlugain Orwellach,
ann an Coire a’ Bhreacain de bhreugan.
Ach mar Orwell fhèin, cha deach ar bàthadh.
Ràinig sinn creag nas àirde na na garbh-thuinn.
Agus las sinn teine a tha a’ loisgeadh fhathast.
(Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh 2015)
CORRYVRECKAN
George Orwell wrote his novel 1984 on the Island of Jura.
I saw something about it on tv recently.
He was in a boating incident by Corryvreckan.
Himself, his three-year-old son, and two other men
in this small boat that got caught by strong tides
and was drawn towards the great whirlpool.
The outboard motor sheered off and dropped into the sea.
But they managed to row to a rocky outcrop
where their boat sank. There they lit a fire
which was eventually spotted by lobster fishermen.
We have just lost our referendum on independence.
Scotland like a boat sinking, as it were,
in an Orwellian whirlpool,
in a Corryvreckan of lies.
Like Orwell himself, though, we were not drowned,
but landed on a rock higher than the waves.
And we lit a fire which still burns strong.
(Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh 2015)
Nobody else seems to be interested, so I’ll ask.
Who are the actual lobster fishermen in Scotland’s case?
What’s taking them so long?
For Scotland to achieve independence now the supporters will have to vote for the Unionist party most likely to form a government. They will then have to support this administration to remove Woke ideology from Britain.
Once woke is gone then and only then can serious discussions begin for a referendum.
Dan: maybe you just don’t see others’ viewpoints as valid discussion issues? Wings is still, by far, the most influential site in the independence firmament. Just because you fail to understand that some issues are existential ones for many people, does not mean that they should not be discussed.
Yes, the posts sometimes stray from the rigid tramlines, but that can be a good thing because they all tie into the independence issue in the end. For me, you and others seem unable to face facts or even to face opinions other than your own – which does not bode well for a future independent Scotland.
Alba was, in effect, doomed from the day Alec Salmond died. The Alliance gave some hope, but it, too, has capitulated to the pressures of rigidity of thought, although I know that Roddy is a fair and decent man. The fact that few are willing to face head-on the real challenges of what is happening to the independence movement through the actions and ideologies of some of its supposed adherents by actually standing up to them now gives me little hope that the very powerful forces that will brought to bear if and when independence does happen, will be met with resistance. Like Ireland, and so many other countries in the West – independent countries – we show all the probabilities of slavering acquiescence in the name of ‘kindness’ and ‘virtue-signalling’, ‘green’ lies and a disregard for truth. No more heroes anymore!
‘Rigidity of thought ‘
Entrenched bitterness against their own kind. ‘All problems will be solved after independence.’ How many times have I heard that. ‘It’s their fault’ ‘trolls. yoons and tractors’
Did you know that before 1707 Scotland was Nirvana. Where the sun always shone and turnips were plentiful.
They don’t want to discuss it the same way an addict doesn’t want to admit there’s a serious problem.
Mark Beggan @ 14.04.
That would have been before we elected so many of those turnips who have now taken root at Holyrood & Westminster.
Mark: I sometimes think that some of them would tolerate Pol Pot’s Cambodia if only Scotland were independent – as if that will be the panacea to all ills, as if the Scots are uniquely placed to be the guardian angels of the firmament.
So many just do not get it that they would almost certainly be placed against a wall with – perhaps, perhaps not – a blindfold over their eyes if a totalitarian regime is allowed to flourish by our bringing it into a newly-independent Scotland. These issues have to be resolved first and foremost to avoid any group becoming dominant and introducing measures that are inherently totalitarian – because too many have that mindset.
When Lenin came to power in Russia, he destroyed the Mensheviks (Moderates) and the Trotskyites; Stalin destroyed the Leninists, the Trotskyites and the remaining Mensheviks when he came to power. That is the nature of the hydra. The answer? Remove the hydra’s heart and brains to ensure the heads don’t multiply – but who, in Scotland, is up for that pre independence when it requires to be done? The lack of fighting spirit does not bode well for an independent Scotland.
“slavering acquiescence in the name of ‘kindness’ and ‘virtue-signalling’, ‘green’ lies and a disregard for truth. No more heroes anymore!”
I’m not seeing these conditions persisting for too long once The War really gathers pace.
Nothing resurrects reality as quickly as a couple of nights cowering under a sturdy table, listening to the explosions overhead, and frantically dredging up the words of prayers you thought you had done with decades ago.
Well, H McH, I have occasionally tried to bring up the war years when young children were traumatised and torn asunder by falling bombs and by being uprooted from their homes and parents and sent into the countryside to, very often, harsh conditions and precious little empathy and love. They survived to tell us what it was like.
The snowflake portion of the population today, the ones who feel unsafe just by a book appearing on a shelf, the presence of a flag that is not of their choice or someone refusing to kow tow to their pronouns, need a good dose of reality, but I’d not wish bombings on anyone. The Israelis have the right idea, although, again, I do not wish violent death on anyone. Take out the barstewards at the top, the ones who cause all the trouble. Some day soon, that will be the norm, so accurate are these weapons becoming, and, while the civilian populations will not escape unscathed, many more might survive to old age – when they might well be shuffled off their mortal coil by the other ones at the top who replaced the first ones at the top. Scotland will not be the exception in anything.
St Patrick was the first illegal immigrant to enter Britain in a dinghy.
“St Patrick was the first illegal immigrant to enter Britain in a dinghy.”
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St Patrick was born in the Britonnic Kingdom of Strathclyde- possibly south of the border of between what were to become Scotland, England.
Maybe it was ST Brendan then.
Who cares if it was St Patrick or St Brendan?
The facts are they both walked here.
Saints knew what they had to do to become saints in those days.
Ordinary Scots weren’t prepared to endow sainthood on somebody unless they achieved something unbelievably spectacular.
‘ST PATRICK’S BREASTPLATE’ also called ‘THE DEER’S CRY’
Prayer for protection of travellers attributed to St Patrick.
This version linguistically dated to the early 8th century.
Crist lim. Crist remam.
Crist imm degaid. Crist innum.
Crist isum. Crist uasam.
Crist dessum. Crist tuathum.
Crist hicride cech duine
rodomscrútadar.
Crist angin cech duine
rodomlabradar.
Crist irusce cech duine
rodomdecadar.
Crist iclúais cech duine
rodomcluinedar.
Atomruig indíu
niurt trén togairm Trínóite.
Christ be with me, Christ within me…
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
I bind unto myself the Name,
The strong Name of the Trinity…
THE DEER’S CRY, RITA CONNOLLY SINGS AT POWERSCOURT
(SHAUN DAVEY version, adapted from KUNO MEYER’s 1990 translation.’
link to youtube.com
Mark Beggan says:
17 March, 2026 at 4:39 pm
“Maybe it was ST Brendan then.”
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LOL
Nice try, Mark – but wrong direction!
The Vikings may have got to North America before Columbus. However, the US Navy’s patron saint, Brendan the Navigator, may have got there six or more centuries earlier.
Brendan was a Scotus.- the name Romans gave to speakers of the Gaelic language, whether in Hibernia or Caledonia. Brendan hailed from the former while the latter’s modern name derives from Scotus.
This, I hope, will also clear the minds of some posters above whose exchanges are bedevilled by anachronisms about countries that had still to come into existence.
“This, I hope, will also clear the minds of some posters”
You should re-marry, Cynicus.
That too has been described as the triumph of hope over experience.
O/T: Today’s the day to see how the Assisted Dying votes go at Holyrood. I wrote to all my MSPs – the Conservatives will vote against; SNP Emma Roddick said “my views haven’t changed” – I don’t know what her views are; Maree Todd gave a thoughtful response but will vote in favour.
Surely this serious matter should be put to a referendum so that the MSPs would get a real idea of public opinion?
I cannot think that legalising killing of people is sensible. Palliative care is worrying enough – is the cost of attendance on someone in their care home so much that the home owner is tempted to speed up the process? We all know what the NHS staff are prepared to do over gender lies – no man on the ward so no rape could have been committed, whereas they knew perfectly well that a man calling himself a woman was on that ward and had raped the fellow patient. Dr Shipman. And Canada’s example of huge numbers of people being “assisted”. So why doesn’t Swinney call a referendum?
I had a sibling ask me to stop feeding our late terminally ill mother because they were impatient to get the family home on the market
@ Marie: I’m so sorry – there is nothing worse than sibling disagreements. We had some in my family but not to the same extent as yours.
Yes Marie, some parents are quite unthoughtful, downright uncaring actually to hang on burning through their children’s inheritance by spending on care costs.
Once we get the legislative concept of helping people on their way when their utility to society has gone, then the concept can be widened.
Think of all those badly physically disabled people and the care costs they require. Or what about the intellectually challenged. I mean come on, its a rum do to be spending money, good money supporting them.
Now I say all of the foregoing to emphasise a grim thinking that could be much more commonplace, and accepted commonplace. The Nazi ideology certainly reflected that type of thinking.
The old, the sick and disabled are our enemy – and the secret is don’t get old, don’t stay sick and don’t stay disabled.
And for those of the wrong skin tone or ethnicity just watch out. You could be next!
What about people who disagree with you, willie?
Don’t you want them eliminated too?
Man up and do it for Indy!
Willie,
The Eppy class & the tech Mafia have direct links to the Nazis. The apples didn’t fall far from the tree. It’s in most of their family tree. Not surprising really when most of them were given refuge by the USA.
Fake scientists with fake data & AI that’ll soon make the decision for us that we’re no longer viable to this world. P*lantir should scare everyone. They can’t even get military targets right – imagine what they’d do to patient data..
All part of the Globalists population control.
Vote them out of Holyrood. They’re not there to serve Scotland & they have no mandate. It’s not intended to help anyone but the government who’d like ppl to just shuffle off after they retire from work, or to save on NHS treatments to those they seem a burden.
We already have a system in place. A patient can withdraw care themselves. They don’t need helped along by those who are supposed to do no harm.
The numbers they’ve murdered in Canada already should be a warning to all exactly how this will play out. I dunno why Scotland is tolerating this bullshit from an administration with no mandate.
Get them out of Holyrood.
Oh give it a fucking rest.
It’s hardly any time since you were enthusiastically volunteering to help out Confused with his mobile gas chambers plan.
Geri says:We already have a system in place. A patient can withdraw care themselves.
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Would you care to explain how that works please and describe the road to death that the patient undertakes?
Correct Geri. The chronic sick and dying are a financial burden to (Western) governments. It’s in the financial interests of the State to wash its hands of them.
Aye, Confused has class. My offer is still open..
I’d make a wee exception for you. I’d be doing ye a service.
I’d ask myself.. Does this twat have..
Quality of life?
Is he productive?
Did he even wash & dress today?
Go outdoors for some fresh air?
Do anything other than rage at the internet 24/7?
Does he mix well with others?
I’m afraid yer report card would make poor reading..chances slim to nane.. Get in & shut it!
It’s not just Confused that has class, Geri. You’re hoaching with it too.
Congrats on a truthful post, BTW. First from you that I can recall.
Keep them coming. Scotland needs to hear much, much more from you.
Agents
Palliative care. A patient can choose to withdraw from treatment themselves. Palliative care makes the patient as comfortable as they can be with pain management.
Or DNS.
A doctor is a qualified expert. They know when to have that conversation & ppl can have a dignified death.
The government should not be interfering & shouldn’t be playing God on who they think is a drain on services. They hanged Nazis for this shit y’know…
“They hanged Nazis for this shit”
They certainly hanged the gas chambers operatives.
In this digital age, they might just come after those who bragged about it online. After all, none of this stuff ever goes away. It’s all in the cloud somewhere, for as long as the cloud exists.
Geri says Doh!
One in three people died without adequate palliative care.
Agent
Then that should be investigated because the NHS is available to everyone.
Not rushing through death by algorithm.
In an independent Scotland those ministers would have their bank accounts looked at. They’re not working on behalf of the ppl who haven’t even been asked.
& Plenty of ppl have heartbreaking stories. It wouldn’t be the first time theres been paid actors with fake NGOs & charities used as a front to manipulate the public.
We all have heartbreaking stories. It doesn’t mean we want to spark up a euthanasia program for others.
This demonic bullshit always pretends it’s doing ppl a favour & starts with the manipulative emotive crap. Classic manipulation.
“It doesn’t mean we want to spark up a euthanasia program for others”
Naw?
Are there two of you then, Geri?
Are you a paranoid schizophrenic, with each of your personalities taking turns to post on here?
It’s only a few hours since you were doubling down on your enthusiasm for gas chambers in Scotland. Just a few posts above here in fact.
Know what I think? You just love to make Scotland and the Scots look like absolute, congenital fuckwits – the crazier, the better. No other explanation makes any sense.
“We all have heartbreaking stories”
Sure. And you must be some poor sod’s.
Geri: the Nazis certainly practised eugenics, on Jews, Slavs, the disabled, those with mental ill-health or illness, etc., but they did not eliminate their old people. If we are to avoid cliches, we have to reflect the objective truth, not propaganda. Many older men had fought in the First War and were their equivalent of the Home Guard. Old women looked after children of women working in the weapons factories, and nursed injured soldiers sent home from the Front in the absence of younger women who were having the babies. Not that sparing the elderly made the Nazis anything but monsters, you understand.
Lorncal
What are you suggesting is propaganda?
It’s documented fact that the father of a disabled child asked the German government to help kill his child.
They did & expanded it to empty orphanages. Referring to them as “Mercy Killings”. Then they expanded it again to include elderly disabled ppl under the T4 program. Anyone they deemed a “useless burden”
& I’d beg to differ they didn’t kill their elderly. These eejits brought us time management too & if you were a minute out on the production line you’d be marched against the nearest wall & made an example of..
I’m not just referring to just old people in my posts regards euthanasia. The government shouldn’t be legislating on who has a right to life & who doesn’t. Period. They’re increasingly interfering into people’s family lives under the fake *concern for…*
It wasn’t that long ago they were trying to ban parents talking to their own children about sex in the comfort of their own homes branding it “conversion” & children should shop their own parents – so we can add the Gestapo to the list too.
So what exactly is “propaganda” in my posts??
“what exactly is “propaganda” in my posts??”
Around 80% Geri.
Lies and fabrications, wishful thinking, bias, flat denial of verifiable facts, painting anything you disapprove of in the blackest possible colours, sanctifying anything you approve of to the status of divine gospel.
And around 20% of bitter, twisted hate, rage and extreme nastiness.
Keep them coming! I, for one, look forwards to your posts.
Scottish Independence does seem to be receding by the day, as each day’s worth of bad news hammers more nails into its already nail-studded coffin.
But should the situation improve, we Scots really do need to know exactly what is lurking in the sewers under the Indy movement.
“Police Scotland confirmed it was finally ending Nicola Sturgeon’s gender ideology by updating its systems to ensure that the biological sex of all people it speaks to is recorded. The force will also record their transgender status but its data collecting will be clarified.”
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Good.
Agentx @ 16.38.
And not before time, although the words, “Too little, too late” also spring to my mind.
“Matt Broom-Hughes and husband Thomas, owners of The Bellachroy Inn say heating oil prices have doubled in just a month (Image: Contributed)”
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Incredible – The Herald has a story about “Warning over panic buying as heating oil prices rise” and manage to find a gay married couple to illustrate their article!
Scotland assisted dying bill live:link to bbc.co.uk
Has anyone heard an MSP suggest that they ask the voters to decide this matter? It really is not appropriate to have ANY elected body make such a decision, let alone one with so many incompetents.
MSP’s are elected to represent their constituencies. There have been a lot of very personal moving speeches but not one has said that they have consulted with the voters and this is what they have been told to say……
The voters of Scotland will punish them at the ballot box in May.
Oh my aching sides 🙂
In Switzerland, it is mandatory, at both local (regional) and national level for referendums to be held on all major issues. Which is a good thing on the face of it, but the way that the ‘trans’ lobby infiltrated every institution, holding a referendum on whether they should be allowed into all female spaces, etc. might well have led to just that – until we learned the truth about this movement. That is why debate is essential on every major issue way before referendums and/or legislation. We – the voting public – need to be well-versed in all the arguments for and against, and objective truth should never be circumvented.
The very least that anyone should expect is that every potential loophole is guarded against in an assisted dying bill and that other potential pitfalls are guarded against, too, such as who is allowed to make the decision. Anyone who benefits financially from the death of a patient cannot make it, neither can doctors who are acting alone, and nor should the state because of its propensity to cut corners. At the very least, the potential assisted death patient must have expressed a wish in writing to be helped to die if he or she is in great agony or is in danger of suffering great agony because of illness or debility and this document should be lodged with a lawyer, a doctor and the relatives, with a judge having the power to accede to or overrule it depending on circumstances.
@Geri
Liam McArthur says the system “has been failing dying Scots for too long” and that many will feel let down by the result.
He says the issue “isn’t going away” – that the number of people affected is only going to increase and people overwhelmingly want to see a change in the law.
He says MSPs will reflect on this decision and may have regrets in the cold light of day.
OK if I pass your details on as somebody who could help push this through next time around? In the autumn, say, after the May election is done and dusted?
Don’t worry. I don’t want any kind of commission. You can keep every penny you make.
& who is he exactly?
His party has FIVE MSPs. How many seats are list? FOUR.
So they effectively have ONE MSP that was actually elected.
He doesn’t speak for the majority either inside or outside of that administration. He needs to sit down & get on with more important things going on in Scotland. Murdering ppl they deem undesirable isn’t one of them.
“He doesn’t speak for the majority”
Good point, Geri, that’s your job, to bring the unelected, uneducated, hysterical POV to the debate.
“Murdering ppl they deem undesirable”
Another excellent point, Geri. It’s you that gets to choose which undesirables to murder in an Independent Scotland.
I bet he isn’t proposing your preferred method of dispatch either, Geri, the mobile gas chambers.
You need to put him right on all of the above.
A lot on tomorrow so might not be able to post, so I’ll post this a little early.
Happy anniversary on Thursday of the 1307 Douglas Larder at Douglas castle in Lanarkshire.
A version is shown in Netflix’s Outlaw king.
The historic event saw the Good Sir James Douglas retake his ancestral home from the occupying English.
The castle was burnt down to prevent its reuse which the English did however they knew it thereafter as Castle Dangerous given the grim fate of their former garrison.
The Douglas is said to have opened up all their meal in the basement and broached all casks over it. The resultant postage was then garnished with English speciality “croutons” before he burnt the place down.
It’s good to know yer history that Anglocentric British media airbrushes out.
Typical, eh? Sir Rowland Hill claimed to have invented the penny post in 1840.
The Douglas beat him to it by over 5 centuries.
MSPs have voted against the assisted dying legislation by 57 votes to 69 with one abstention.
Election in May, x. Too close to the poll for the voters to develop the usual amnesia.
They’ll bring back the legislation in the autumn after the dust has settled, and they’re safe for 5 more years.
At last common sense returns to the Scottish Parliament. I recluse myself of Scottish Politics. Volunteering does more than anybody in the Scottish Parliament.
Other opinions are available.
Notoriously Fuckwitted MSP Humza Yousaf just voted against the Assisted Dying Bill, joining forces with conservatives and religious maniacs. We don’t allow pet dogs to suffer so lets leave humans to die in agony eh Humza?
Eh?
Yousaf and his co-religionists allow pet dogs to suffer.
Many of them would be happy to see all dogs exterminated.
Interesting to see the SNP names, 37 for and 22 against. Swinney and Sturgeon against, Robertson for.
But anyway, a great relief. Now perhaps some of the money saved will be spent on care homes and hospices.
Perhaps some of the money saved will be spent on trans.
Be honest here, sarah. Who do you think is right – you, or me?
Incidentally, having identified that the main point of assisted dying is to save money, how do you arrive at the conclusion that by ruling out assisted dying, money is going to be saved?
I mean, killing somebody now, as opposed to paying for their care for umpteen years. Which do you think is the more expensive option?
Take your time to think it through, sarah.
We see what they’re doing, Shiteface.
Sturgeon didn’t quite manage to torch Holyrood.
Making Holyrood despised by the electorate by persistently wasting copious amounts of OUR time & money on irrelevant bullshit no one voted for & most of what they dedicate their time on isn’t for Scotland’s benefit but is the brain fart/pet project of parties that aren’t even elected. Seven levels of rejection before these Muppets are given a cheap seat to dictate to everyone else what they should waste their time on next. The Greens did the exact same with their litany of demonic policies.
Scotland really needs to reject every Unionist party that isn’t registered in Scotland. But, having witnessed the skulduggery of European elections lately, I’m now of the firm belief our elections are rigged & have been for a long time.
Death is as natural as life. It’s the deal we made.
Don’t fear death. Fear not living when you have the chance to.
Fear the loon or quine watching you via the FPV camera on the drone they control.
Wake up, Mark! It’s 2026, even in Scotland.
Calm down to a riot.
Omniscient, omnipotent omnipresent.
It’s all I need to know.
Shalom.
The “Compassionate Killing” bill.
The “Merciful Murder” bill.
The “Bonnie Butcher” bill.
What do these ‘better’ alternative names for the “Assisted Dying” bill have in common?
Correct… they are all alliterative (one of them only phonetically, of course).
Or, we can modify the original name of the AD bill to one of the, more preferable, following:
I’m bored now… not the name of a death bill, just how I’m feeling today.
Thank Christ that ‘kill me softly’ bill wisnae passed yesterday or I might be for making an emergency Doctor’s appointment theday.
The “Keeping Faith With The Declaration Of Arbroath” bill.
A selective variant of the assisted dying bill.
Alert readers will already know who gets selected.
Incidentally, hoo come nae cant wangs oan an oan aboot the wee pretendy jenny side any more?
Are people bored wi that ane an a’?
Thow shall not kill.
“Thou shalt not kill”
In more modern versions of the Bible “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13) is the more accurate translation.
Therefore, “Thou shalt not kill” is better understood in older Bible versions as a prohibition against murder, but not justifiable (defining “justifiable” is another matter) killing.
This interpretation suggests there is Biblical scope available, to those who are conflicted due to religious reasons, for the support of an “assisted dying bill” in some form or other.
Any flexibility creeping in with the tenth, Northy?
What with us being culturally colonised by the Yanks and all, plenty of Scots folks take an interest in their neighbour’s donkey these days.
Are you pals with Starmer the wanker. That’s the same pish he talks.
Northcode @ 08.25.
You may be bored, Northy, however you succeeded in giving me a smile this morning at those inventive suggested Bill titles.
I especially liked the “Peoples’ Choice”, with its suggestion of political participation.
One of my close friends was through at Holyrood yesterday in her wheelchair to demonstrate against the Bill, I’ll need to share your proposals with her.
” I came down from the misty mountain
I got lost on the human highway
take my head refreshing fountain
Take my eyes from what I’ve seen
Take my head and change my mind
How could people get so unkind..”
assisted dying failed
– what do I do with the mobile gas van now?
spent 100s fixing it up, getting the exhaust extension.
maybe some paedo will buy it if I respray it pink and put a mattress and a bucket of haribo in it
this country does nothing for the entrepreneurial – looks like I will have to go back to growing cannabis and claiming benefits for my 7 kids
“rage against the dying of the light”
– one really objectionable thing is how the other side are putting it out that the terminal are being slowly tortured to death; its fucking bollocks – you will get “top gear” off the NHS, morphine, either orally, or in pill form (the purples are best), plus a sedative, and whatever else – you will be floating and go when your time comes.
The idea the docs and nurses stand around while some poor bugger is screaming his head off, is nonsense.
Also, if you really want to top yourself, there are resources, but don’t drag other people into it. Junkies do it all the time, it does not need high IQ.
As a general point – look at how those who would enthusiastically extinguish life – warmongers, abortionists, euthanisers – always frame their position as one of absolute morality; you need to watch that, for they are gaslighting you, they choose an edge case and argue on that basis.
lorna slater killed her dad and should probably kill herself; it is a nice thought experiment – scotland has a referendum “should LS kill herself for the good of Scotland” – I reckon YES would romp it. Would she “do the right thing” because
IT WAS FOR THE BEST
Something people need to watch out for – docs will slap DNRs on people and not tell the relatives; they do it, they lie about it, and you will find, should you then starting asking questions of “the beloved NHS” what a closed shop it all is, almost as bad as the lawyers.
Maybe there are deeper things going on here, 4d chess and all that; the more we can kill at the front end – 18K abortions last year (all Scots, pretty much), the more auld yins we can get off the NHS budget, then the more room we have to take in more diverse and vibrant jock tamsons bairns fortheconmyandnetzero??
enriched in the diversity
link to archive.ph
vibrated in the vibrancy by fellow scots men
link to archive.ph
– it all makes sense now.
Put your money where mouth is.
Tis true about the drugs. It even dispenses itself through a driver if swallowing starts to become difficult & even that can still be backed up with an injection if the need arises & palliative care makes adjustments to the driver every single day because it is closely recorded & signed in the diary.
No one is screaming the house down – if they are then there is something wrong with the care they’re receiving.
The kill bill is zero to do with compassion & everything to do with government population control.
That’s because the Elite Left think people like you are scum.
They’re not left.
The billionaires are shitting themselves there’ll not be enough resources left in the world for them cause of climate change. At the same time – working out how they could earn some big bucks offering a service that’ll also slim down the workforce.
With so many women in the workforce, there’s a lot of demand for anything that will help them slim down.
It is palpably untrue that supporting assisted dying is all about government population control – the statement is offensive and absurd. Are you saying that a person in the final stages of MND who has virtually no everyday bodily functions left working, can do nothing for themselves whatsoever, and desperately wants out, is all about population control, that their carer / partner who watches the total deterioration of their quality of life after decades together, is thinking of government population targets rather than showing compassion for their loved one? It is beyond idiotic to suggest so.
They have options.
Those options don’t have to involve everyone else. If they want to check out then go for it. I hear Canada has a fast turn around.
Why grandstand?
Shame you missed out on your ScotGov contract, Confused, but let’s not pretend your mobile gas chambers idea was ever intended for any nationalities and races other than your obsessive pet hates.
Which is exactly why Geri was so keen to volunteer to assist.
As everybody in power now knows, and plenty of minnows at the bottom are starting to clock, once something exists in the digital world, it never goes away.
Computers never forget.
I spoke with God in a dream last night.
“What of Trump?” I asked Him.
“fucked,” said God, His voice booming deep and Godlike.
“Is that a good thing or bad?” said I.
“I work in mysterious ways,” said He.
“Timescale?” said I.
“All good things come to those who wait, Northcode,” said He in stylistically appropriate proverbial fashion.
It seems our Lord is not only a cryptic and wrathful God with a wry sense of humour and a quick draw with the proverbs… but a paratactic yin tae.
Good to know God doesn’t go in for that Scots speaking bollox.
Get Alf on the phone and tell him.
God told me your a pain in the celestial arse.
A wry sense of humour indeed.
“The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles…when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones.”
I like it, Sam.
Here’s one of Brian’s that sums up my attempts at humour in this place:
“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
Surely half a bicycle is a cycle?
A braw n grand sunlit day
Oan ma bike n faraway
Er the Clyde an alang the Kelvin
Up Maryhill an back a beltin
Nae brakes!!
Nae brakes!!
Kin ye no blimmin wait.
Naw! coz the winter am a fleein
Aw uphill am a heavin
Tae the tap an doon towards hame
Canny wait tae a dae this again
Good article Rev. Talking about elections, as someone who was briefly politically homeless after the death of Alba, after some research I have discovered the future of Scottish independence, the alliance to liberate Scotland.
A party with a smart idea, a gathering of independents standing for a key issue. I encourage everyone to donate what they can to their crowd funder on their website.
With the corruption of the snp and alba, it has become clear, traditional party politics alone can not deliver independence.
A party that focuses on a single issue that all members agree on, but allows elected representatives to vote with their conscious on other issues is the future.
The big tent party is what is needed and the alliance to liberate Scotland provides that.
Support the crowd funder, support your local independence candidate and support Scotland.
“big tent party”
I guess the tent is implied by the flag.
Still though, in the original meaning of “big tent”, i.e. seeking to appeal to all voters, why don’t you drop the juvenile posturing if you’re serious about Indy?
Leave the flag at home.
Do you get paid by the British government to comment here?
Ah, c’moan noo, Jamie.
Seriously now. Is there anybody posting on here who isn’t getting paid by the British government?
Pensioners, benefits claimants, the chronically unemployable. There’s not a one of the usual suspects who could hold down a minimum wage job.
While we’re talking. Do you aspire for Scotland to be run by lassie-torturing, tunnel skulking scum? Is it your plan for my family to be piled on top of your hole in the ground so that their bodies take the brunt of the incoming ordnance?
If not, why wave the flag of the people whose sole game plan is just that.
You are a lunatic that hates Scotland but for some reason spends hours every day trolling this comment section.
Aw, Jamie, I thought you may have progressed beyond the stage of believing that because somebody disagrees with you, they must hate Scotland.
Or be a lunatic.
As for spending hours, a couple of minutes is all it takes to dismiss your brand of “logic”.
And a couple of seconds to dismiss your dearly-held belief that Scotland’s fate is intertwined with that of the catastrophically mis-governed, rubble-strewn mass grave in the eastern Med.
Better not be, if there is to be any hope for us all.
Hope you have a ticket for the next Auld Firm derby, Jamie. You’ll feel so much more at home screaming abuse from the terracing.
Welcome on board James, sorry about Alba but some how I believe it was deliberate because Alba was making progress in the polls.
@Geri
You take an assisted dying bill (defeated) and turn it into the toilet habits of the rich. The genocide of the proletariat and a barren and desolate planet.
Your the life and soul of the party.
Mark
WEF – where billionaires empty the contents of their head thinking no one is listening.
They loathe the working class. They can down tools & stop production. There’s more of us than there is of them.
They bat for both parties now, on both sides of the Atlantic, so no need to keep knocking the left for crazy policies. It’s all the same source.
Trump reversed on everything he was elected to do – including immigration. Reform will do the same.
When you write “us” Geri, is that you deploying your royal we again?
That makes more sense than the alternative explanation, which is that you’re trying to pass yourself off as a productive member of the working class.
But check you and your contempt for the billionaires. Your contempt was never on show when you were creaming yourself over poot, one of the world’s richest men.
I guess with you it always come down to the killers of the people you don’t like getting a free pass.
Last time I looked it wasn’t Poot offering euthanasia to avoid paying healthcare & pensions or sterilising his own population out of existence or looking for ways to swindle old people out of their homes.
Poot earns a modest salary but there’s always those anonymous “experts say” trolls peppered throughout the Western media who always project & judge ppl by their own greedy standards. They’re on the take so he must be too. Zzzzz
Personally I think he’d be worth every penny. He’s the only leader acting like a statesman right now despite provocation from U, the entire EU, five eyes & fighting NATO too & still winning.
Those billionaires steal everyone else’s wealth. Trust you to be a wee loyal attack dog for them while yer probably piss poor. It’s another of life’s phenomenon innit..
Back on form I see, Geri.
I know it’s asking a lot of you, but please endeavour to always maintain this stellar standard of fuckwittery.
Thank you and I think you might be correct about Alba, the way it ended is highly suspicious.
That’s last months flag.
Do keep up.
As a former SNP member, I have come round to the view the SNP need a period out of government to re-focus on why they exist and to get rid of the current leadership.
Perhaps a period of Labour/Lib-Dems might be no bad thing as they too are bound to screwup along the way.
Some strategic voting lies ahead.
The UN is struggling to exist as it is running out of money and relevance.
The Titanic of gravy boats finally hits the iceberg.
Hurrah!
As Maggie said, international law is all we’ve got between us & the barbarians.
Ironic really cause they ARE the barbarians. Continually thieving what doesn’t belong to them.
UN was captured a long, long time ago to only serve American interests & turn a blind eye to American atrocities through fear of illegal sanctions & blocking investment cause they held the world currency.
The UN will reform, just not with the same outdated & irrelevant players on the security council. That’s the UK off the Christmas card list.. France will join them too.
Geri I see your thinking but no the UN has become a sanctuary for terrorists. A talking shop paid for by America. As Trump rightly says America is paying for the liberal luxury. The West has relied on Americas might. Europe is on it’s own now.
Most world commentators are in agreement Europe and Britain are finished. The world has moved on while our leaders cling to the outdated Lefty thinking. They have destroyed it by Trans, DEI and open borders. The Left have destroyed it with their insane ideology. Don’t kid yourself that we can come back from this.
The UN is funded by the membership.
The richer a country is the higher the contribution.
Considering the Middle East & USA Vassal states actually fund Americas “Exorbitant privilege” allowing them to print money cause they own the currency – it would be required to contribute the most cause on paper it earns the most.
It should do. It took over every single department. Started censorship. Started banning countries from attending/travel to what is supposed to be neutral soil. Started banning countries from the Swift payment system. Started stealing other countries reserves. Just ignored international law. Started illegal sanctions & defied legal & binding security council resolutions. Authorised assassinations & regime changes. Started illegal wars against sovereign nations & now we can add Kidnapping to the list too. Funds terrorism around the world, arms fanatics & starves ppl like they’ve continually done via the IMF with harsh austerity programs & they’re currently doing to Cuba. What was their crime??
Basically everything against the UN charter.
NATO – is Americas proxy army in Europe.
What exactly has Europe needed America for? Who was invading? It’s because they allowed themselves to become Vassal states that the UK & EU are in the mess they are in. No defence of their own & continually pumped money into weapons & tech that don’t work unless USA is in charge of the buttons & gives the coordinates. The EU & UK sat on their arse & let them.
The UK & EU could have just as easily made their own alliances without the endless strings attached to being in NATO where even if you did have a conflict, America had the ultimate authority to veto & even choose the other side if it wanted to (As we see in U who isn’t a NATO member & isn’t even in the EU either) But we’re funding the USA/U for the shit the USA started by its continual need to regime change democratically elected governments & threaten they’ll give them nukes.
Trans, DEI and open borders
I hate to break it to you but that’s not a lefty thing. It’s a capitalist huge corporation thing. Cheap labour requires cheap workers requires migration. Trans is population control & a tool for sweeping new laws, censorship & division & it is a directive from America – no one else. All their Vassal states had to legislate for it via World Bank & IMF. The extreme left were the useful tools tho & embraced it with gusto – but that was also by design. America detests socialism. It completely destroyed the Labour party. Their world revolves around the stock market & profit.
Stay awake tho because a new mover is in town. Canada. They’re making deals with the EU over energy security & shared tech. Completely bypassing USA. So look for them being invaded next.
So, to sum up, Trump has paid for fck all & provided for fck all. They’re the instigator of the entire mess & now that the chickens are coming home to roost he’s having a tantrum no one is prepared to help him fix it by having their own countries in the dock for war crimes & sending troops to a guaranteed death sentence. Made even more hilarious by that clown who boasted he’d destroyed everything & it was great fun..so why is he beating for help?
MLA CRITICISES WOKE GOVERNMENT FORM
An MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) has criticised the Northern Ireland Civil Service for using a form with three gender options: men, women, or neither.
Timothy Gaston challenged officials from the Executive Office about the wording on the feedback forms for training and awareness on protecting women from domestic violence.
Gaston has previously criticised the Northern Ireland Civil Service for participating in Belfast Pride, calling it “institutional activism”.
PROTECT WOMEN AND GIRLS
The TUV MLA asked the officials: “What is ‘neither’? Biology dictates you’re a man or a woman. So, what is ‘neither’?”
Following the debate, Gaston said that he has written to all Executive ministers to clarify how their departments collect data on gender, and whether it “is recorded on the basis of biological sex or self-identified gender”.
He stated: “This is a matter of considerable concern to the public – particularly when it comes to a scheme which is specifically designed to tackle the issue of violence against women and girls.
“If Stormont cannot even define what ‘neither’ means in a gender category, how can the public have confidence that a scheme designed to protect women and girls is actually being targeted at women and girls?”
FUNDING DIVERTED
Gaston added: “My colleague Councillor Ron McDowell previously exposed the fact that money from this much-publicised scheme to combat the scourge of violence against females is going to groups including transgender women in Belfast – that is, biological men.
“After Wednesday’s meeting, we now know that funding is being distributed province-wide on the basis that recipients are classified not into two genders but into three: men, women and ‘neither’. People are also given the option to say they would rather not state their gender.”
(The Christian Institute, 18 March 2026)
link to christian.org.uk
Women already receive a far smaller proportion of public funding overall. I daresay they will lie and say that some of it is being used for a different kind of women – the male kind. All of this could be fixed overnight by the Scottish government, the Westminster government, the NI parliament and the Welsh parliament all declaring that the UKSC Ruling will prevail in all public situations.
Thereafter, all putative legislation requires to undergo close and strict scrutiny for loopholes that allow it to be diverted away from female concerns. They just need to ensure that no bill passes into law without a committee scrutinising it for its potential effects on female people – 52% of the population. That will mean in reality that male would no longer be the default, but that the concerns of both sexes will be considered equally. Not exactly a huge undertaking, surely? Firstly, of course, this must itself be enshrined in legislation.
Assisted dying bill;
Automatic do not resuscitate classifications have been in operation for ages..
Anyway, assisted dying;
Go to Muirhouse in Motherwell!
Nae bother..
Northcode
You may already have seen the video. If not search “flann obrien atomic theory video”.
I can’t get the link posted. Phwats God saying today?
Sam @ 09.31.
I’m no theologue, Sam, however last time I looked it was something like, “Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in vain.”
Something similar anyway.
Surely anyone cursed by being born a Pict has already been found guilty of serious transgressions in a previous life?
That would have been the majority view in Scotland even as recently as a century ago.
They had no truck with our modern notion about the “accident” of birth.
A fortunate life was a deserved reward.
I was wondewring if he/she/it might say somethhing about the struggle between rationality and irrationality.
Wake up, Northcode.
Or something about your spelling of something.
You’re on safer ground when you just cut and paste, sam.
the thieves are back thieving
link to archive.ph
but, but, I thought the oil wasn’t worth anything
free translation added : “england should r4pe scotland (again) to keep its manky economy and govt afloat”
link to archive.ph
selections :
“The UK has a CHRONIC BALANCE OF PAYMENTS DEFICIT. … The sane economic choice is to EXPLOIT EVERYTHING we can from our ONE OUTSTANDING ENERGY RESOURCE: THE NORTH SEA.”
[wind]
“The four interconnectors FROM SCOTLAND TO ENGLAND will ultimately tackle the ABSURDITY OF PAYING WIND FARMS IN THE NORTH TO CURTAIL POWER WHILE PAYING GAS PLANTS IN THE SOUTH TO FIRE UP, sometimes paying through the nose twice to the same utility.”
“The UK’s giant and inexplicable failure has been to impose endless LEVIES ON ELECTRICITY BILLS while protecting gas consumption, ARTIFICIALLY MAKING IT FOUR TIMES AS EXPENSIVE. This has been to RIG THE PRICE signal against electrification.”
from another view : TL;DR energy markets are totally fucked up in this country
link to archive.ph
– they guarantee the highest prices in the world, bizarrely
what part of better together, pooling and sharing, are we getting here? It feels more like the shitty end of the stick. Indy we would be awash in cheap energy, with domestic bills on the ground, offering cheap power to anyone who sets up here. NB energy is real wealth, “money” isn’t – you can print it up, conjure it out of thin air (it is a claim on wealth, not real wealth).
I filled up my tank when diesel was at 140p
how yizall doin?
I see the hair terrorist is now saying “give peace a chance” – maybe he will spend the week in bed with melania and an acoustic …
“oh we are sailing, … “
“Indy we would be awash in cheap energy, with domestic bills on the ground, offering cheap power to anyone who sets up here”
That’s not cheap power, Confused, that’s your underpants alight.
You’re making a claim that an Independent Scotland will isolate itself from the international markets for energy. Great. I want to vote for that.
Get your shitty finger out and provide a link to the political party with that on its manifesto. There’s still time before May to get this across the line.
As for your “anyone who sets up here”, have you gone off the death squads and the gas chambers for incomers then? That’s a remarkable policy shift in itself.
Get another shitty finger out and clarify that.
Ithaca Energy – & look who owns it.
problems, problems – nice ones to have
link to archive.ph
– the norwegs are protecting their wealth against global risk
– we don’t have to protect our wealth AS WE DONT FUCKING WELL HAVE ANY, so there is no “risk”; checkmate, vikings, you make me laff with all your “sovereign wealth” and GDP and “richest country in the world” – whits ay that aboot – WATP
this is the advantage of being siamese twinned to the anglos, you need never worry about ever being “too rich”
and while all the handwringing bullshit about “assisted dying” has been played out for the public, those window licking rubes, some fly cunt with a spreadsheet was doing his sums
link to archive.ph
– makes sense doesn’t it. Health spending on people charted against their age goes parabolic, it shoots way up at the end; but with a cutoff, think of the savings and remember, the UK is fucking skint (even the telegraph says so)
UK has been skint for years, Confused.
Maybe things would have gone a lot better in 2014 if the movement had had the balls to sling lowlifes like you out.
Even now, 7-8 weeks from the election, I note you have SFA to suggest for how we in Scotland could turn things around – other than to rant about how unfair it all is.
As for the Noggies, they pay happily for defence and are prepared for everybody to muck in and do their bit. That was always a bridge too far for you Indy supporting peaceniks. Scotland as the nicest, cuddliest, wee country in the world would always be at peace – remember?
You lot, with your Saint Nikla and your tribal bigotry and your “ask only what my country can do for me” self entitlements made your beds. Enjoy.
“UK has been skint for years”
Yes, England has always been skint after continually fighting wars, which is why they annexed Scotland in 1707, to help pay for and fight its frequent wars. England has since used colonized Scots and our taxes in a further 150 conflicts, mostly colonial. Currently England has us Scots involved in its wars in the Mid East and Eastern Europe after involvement in recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq.
Scots will continue to be drawn into England’s wars until we reclaim our sovereignty. Through independence, Ireland has avoided being dragged into England’s last 80 or so conflicts since the 1920’s.
Colonized Scots have no say in matters of war or peace, which is one of the main reasons we need liberated.
The fact that you would have Scotland maintain neutrality on the clear case of neocolonialist imperialism in eastern Europe, now in its fifth year, shows how unfit you are to pronounce on Scotland’s independent future, Alf.
Even President Trump is learning how difficult it is for the US, the world’s pre-eminent military power, to do things alone.
Your course, Alf, would doom Scotland to early annexation if we ever got Indy.
Probably by England, to be fair. And not one country would lift a finger to help us.
HMcH
Ah!
Then so much for “saving neutral Belgium” and second time around Poland..
In this world of political storm there’s those that have Lockheed Martin F22 Raptors and there are those that don’t.
What if Geri claims they’ll never get aff the groond? That’ll set your gas at a peep.
Haha, price of gas, she’ll be doing you a favour 🙂
Under all that bluster Geri knows the truth.
There goes the Net Zero target for this century.
Burn baby burn.
It could be worse. We could live in England.
HR is still determined to impoverish and freeze us Scots years ahead of the date WM intends to do the same to the English.
If that particular home-grown own goal ever gets repudiated, be sure to come on here and tell us.
Right now though, the only party promising us a sane energy policy from May in Scotland is Reform.
Again, should that situation change, we will all need to know about it immediately.
The F22 Raptor doesn’t take off. It’s does the Tango with gravity.
Beggars
Early 2000s design, less than 200 in service because of costs (minus of course the reported crashes).
The Americans and most others favour the almost equally eye watering cost F35s which remain, like all these aircraft highly susceptible to much cheaper surface to air missiles which can be deployed en masse.
Add in the inevitable introduction of highly advanced EMP use then simple heat seekers will again reign supreme and all that money on high tech will have been spaffed against the wall..
“Wingman” pilotless “drone” fighters are gaining traction (on all sides).
EMP though and again it’ll be raining hardware.
Ever increasing technology makes you ever so much more vulnerable to asymmetric warfare, a lesson a future independent Scottish defence establishment should take to heart.
How are the electronics in “simple heat seekers” able to resist EMP?
How are “simple heat seekers” able to differentiate between jet engines and decoy heat sources, such as flares?
Difficult questions, I admit. Perhaps some simple ad hominem will dig you out of your hole.
HMcH
Fair point though I suppose 1950s type technology may possibly be less susceptible being pre circuit board technology.
Plus pro rata cheapness means they can get fired en masse, fighters only carry so many counter measures after all.
Then again, the planes wouldn’t be able to fly if EMP affected, would they? There’s your ad hominem for you over in your hole.
A great leveller is needed to stop this new age gun boat diplomacy policy.
Net Zero, according to Mark Carney, is a racket to punish countries with fines for missing targets & to saddle the poorer countries (mainly African) with debts they’d never be able to pay in a hundred years.
Colonial fckwits always have an angle.
You would think the Extinction mob would be glueing themselves to public property by now.
No. Net Zero is just a racket, period. Just like Trans woo woo.
Did you know that Norway has beaten Britain in the oil game. They invested and planned ahead and are reaping the rewards All British governments have used the revenue for political reasons. Then killed it off by the Lefty ideology. And now! Talk about poking yourself in the eye.
Everything this ideology goes near turns to shit Geri.
You know this. Stop blaming Trump because your country is fucked.
Interesting take as always, Geri.
Some people would say that it’s the countries getting saddled with debts they’d never be able to pay in a hundred years that are the fuckwits.
But you know best.
I realise this runs counter to everything you believe in, Geri, but there’s no doubt that a rough correlation between smarts and wealth exists.
It’s mostly the fuckwits themselves who like to pretend there isn’t.
The China offer to buy African copper. The Chinese built railways, schools, hospitals and supplied the engines, People were flying in with suitcase full of cash.
The Chinese gave up and the copper is still sitting there.
UN Geneva now – Sara Salyers is there this week. I look forward to hearing some progress is being made. It is a pity that the SNP haven’t pursued this line.
Wow, sarah, if optimism like yours could be bottled for resale you’d be a squillionaire by now.
Is it possible you haven’t heard that the UN is kinda pre-occupied right now?
I know Scotland has always been a byword for parochialism, but surely not to this extent!
For those suffering from TDS then I recommend watching
‘Baby Trump’ on YouTube. If you can’t find this funny then forget it.
Very entertaining Beggars.
Had to laugh about Biden referring to the Straight of Hormuz as the Gay of Hormuz!
🙂
Baby Biden ?
Beggars
Correct!
Just give everyone an update on the war in Iran.
We’re winning.
Many more “victories” like this and only the politicians with expenses will be able to eat and heat the homes for which we pay, Mark.
Two weeks from weapons grade Uranium. The alternative is unimaginable.
Beggars
Strange.
Hadn’t Baby Trump claimed the previous set of bombings (before this round) had bigly destroyed all I rans nuclear facilities, capabilities and technical personnel?
No? Pretty sure he did. Bunker busters and all that.
Hmmm.
Baby Trump on this one has been used as a glove puppet by Ben’nJerries Nuttyyahoo’s pressure groups and their big money in the US (you know the ones, Hateys “sponsors”)..
That, and regime change, is I suspect the reality.
Well, YL, you’ve called all the people you dislike silly, childish names.
So I guess you’re winning.
FWIW, I suspect Gazafication will be the reality. As with the original place that coined the term, the rest of the Gulf states will wring their hands and issue stern condemnations in public.
And heave sighs of relief behind closed doors.
Well, YL, you’ve called all the people you dislike silly, childish names.
So I guess you’re winning.
HMcH
Childish silly names?
What, like Hatey?
Fair one, it is a childish name, but, I am not its creator.
Best aim your touched raw nerves in that direction “old boy”..
Quarantine Canterbury!
Heck quarantine Kent, Easter holidays will see the students “explode” metaphorically back home around the country or abroad on their jollies..
Have the authorities learnt nothing?
“Quarantine Kent” – do you know how much of the UK’s food comes through Kent?
There are other ports.
Grown ups should be able to deal with it, plus you’re statement is a great reminder and rallying call for us to get serious about getting food production self sufficiency.
What your statement does do is remind us all about how lack of resolve and self interest led to the pandemic running riot on a naturally quarantine-feasible island.
Doesn’t 100% of the UK’s illegals come through Kent?
The decision to quarantine the place or not may be more nuanced than appears on first sight.
There are not “other ports” YL that have anything close to the capacity of the short straits, which is the busiest sea crossing in the world. In the scenario you’d be taking about we’d see only essential goods (e.g. food and medicines) being the only imports for a prolonged period of time, and even then it might not cope.
Aidan
As I said, grown ups will find a way.
There are plenty of ports, the madness has been loading all your transportation import export eggs into one overloaded basket.
Portsmouth, Plymouth come to mind with hardly much inconvenience, or shock horror all the estuary ports as you (heaven forbid!!) go north of Watford.
And it’s by quarantine that precisely the long term impact would in a fact with this localised medical outbreak could be dealt with timeously.
Let it spread and greater measures would be required, exactly what your non-reaction would/ could create.
Were you asleep during the pandemic and resultant public enquiries??
@Alf Baird – this is somewhere I’d welcome your opinion
Areswipe,
I hope Alf tells ye to GTF after all yer snide comments every other time.
Have you never heard that necessity is the mother of invention?
Plenty of ports in the UK. If a ferry can carry ppl then it can carry cargo. We also have those things that fly about the skies.
Why do the poxy English always have these “outbreaks” with precision timing? – always very convenient in the middle of a global crisis. Usually when their economy is about to go tits up. Then the poxy decide they’d like a nice holiday, usually in Scotland – GTF. We don’t want their Royals either.
Quarantine the area. No1 in the contagious/outbreak manual every government has – unless they sold that too.. It’s not rocket science. Even the NHS offer that advice for free.
Okay I realise this is like trying to explain the concept of Latin to a dog, but let’s give it a whirl. The Port of Dover is the busiest ferry port in the world, it processes around 10,000 lorries a day, and the Eurotunnel at Folkstone processes upto 4,500 more. There is no other port in the U.K. that comes close to having that level of capacity. In addition, the two closest suitable ports (probably Harwich or Newhaven) are much further from Calais/Dunkirk, so as each crossing will take much longer, fewer crossings, capacity reduced even further. You might be looking at being able to accommodate 10% of the current volumes of freight, which means only essential foods and medicines.
And no quarantining an area is not number 1 in any government’s manual for dealing with infectious diseases anywhere. Quarantine wasn’t even introduced in the U.K. during Covid. You need to listen to Chris Whitty’s evidence to the Covid inquiry, it’s a long video but would be a much better use of your time than what you’re doing at the moment.
My preference would be for Scotland to reduce dependence on England’s supply chain and develop the direct ferry link to the continent. I worked/led on that project from 1995-2000 in EU funded research to identify and select an operator.
Superfast Ferries were selected and on May 17 2002 commenced with 2 x 200m high quality new, £100m, fast 29kn ropax ferries to provide the required daily service and fast crossing. They left 5 years later (after proving sufficient demand existed) due to Forth Ports constantly increasing port charges and lack of storage space available at Rosyth, plus the prospect of a better terminal location at Cockenzie allowing transit time saving of 1hr each way was never delivered by Holyrood.
Scot and UK Gov’s also refused to designate the route a ‘Motorway of the Sea’ in line with EU policy which would have allowed a subsidy for every freight vehicle shifted off the road route to southern English ports – they were concerned about loss of scottish freight through English ports, less interested in what was essential for Scotland. So there ye go!
link to sciencedirect.com!
An informed and interesting comment Alf – thank you.
In the current fiscal climate bluntly however, I would rather the money be used to cut taxes or on improving the reliability of CalMac (if it had to be spent in the maritime sphere). I appreciate the Rostyn – Europe link takes some vehicles of the road, but not all that many and the M74 motorway is generally not congested (the problems start when you get to an England). I also don’t think the ferry gets you anything in terms of resilience. The short straits crossings are very reliable, operate virtually 24/7 and it would be extremely rare for the A1 and M6 to be closed simultaneously.
The U.K. Gov has apparently just awarded £3m to someone to have a look at it so clearly not everyone agrees with me, but I just don’t see the case for public support.
“… this is like trying to explain the concept of Latin to a dog… The Port of Dover is the busiest ferry port in the world… There is no other port in the U.K. that comes close to having that level of capacity”
Oh, AI Dan, you digital dog, you.
Are we to believe that no other port anywhere in the UK could be developed to handle the same traffic as Dover’s?
No need to answer, my question is rhetorical, my point is made, and my argument won… BOOM! Too easy.
“Are we to believe that no other port anywhere in the UK could be developed to handle the same traffic as Dover’s?”
Do I believe that any other port in the UK could be moved to be 20 miles off the coast of France and have a sub-sea rail link built on time in time for us to introduce a meningitis quarantine in Kent? Yes you won the argument there Northcode – go buy yourself an ice cream.
“Yes you won the argument there Northcode.”
Yay for me! Another colonist bites the digital dust and admits their English wit is massively outclassed by the braw superior wit of the Scots.
The 77th are oot in force today eh? Sun is shining so they’re oot the crypt for a good shit BTL.
Big Neon sign rings the alarm.. “quick everybody tae yer computers! Northcode, Geri, Alf, James, Confused, Dan & other nats have posted. Man doon! Man doon! Where is shite biter this morning with his fifty replies? Is he deid?”
Buy yersel a pint, Northy. Ice cream is for southern softies.
You can by yourself a pint lad, it’s just it’s 11am that’s all
You can buy yourself a pint lad, it’s just it’s 11am that’s all
“The Port of Dover is the busiest ferry port in the world”
The world? Are you sure about that? I can think of far larger than a poxy wee English channel. Which we funded btw, along with the Euro Tunnel. All paid for from the proceeds of Scottish oil. Along with many other refurbishments.
The Port of Dover is the largest ferry port in the world if measured by traffic
Aidan
Largest “ferry” port.
Doesn’t the use of “ferries” in and out of a quarantined area strike you as rather illogical?
Goods can be diverted, as can passengers. Or are you complacent about allowing the spread of diseases?
Heck the English thought the bubonic plague was a real wizard prang as it blew out of control in France aided by the charnel house the English were busy creating there in the Hundred Years’ War until of course, who’d a thunk, it hit them hard as well..
So the big yin and Saint Georgios weren’t really on their side after all.
Then Aidan, there’s your exemplar efforts to proclaim to every interested terrorist/ enemy state to say- the UK falls apart without Dover..
Doh!
And there’s been Hatey all this time bleating about “Orcs” dragging their anchors when all along it’s as simple as the point where you produce your passport – another of Hateys pet whanging-oans ..
Maybe this time you could plead for hauners fae Twathater and James?
I’d love to see the responses you get then 🙂
Sorry YL, I appreciate you aren’t that smart and to you this is all a bit of a mystery or a game, but I have explained AT LENGTH why the short straits are so important and why freight can’t just be diverted to other ports. I’m not going to write it out again for you.
So we can turn to the other piece of idiocy, quarantining the whole of Kent because of a meningitis outbreak. Meningitis is not highly contagious and it isn’t spread just by people being in proximity to each other, unlike Covid. It is spread through close personal contact, so the important thing to do is to trace people who have been in that level of contact with each other, and ensure they are probably medicated and isolated. Isolating the whole of Kent would achieve nothing.
I suggested Alf contribute because he’s a Professor in maritime transport and therefore has highly relevant knowledge and experience. I haven’t seen TH or “James” offer an intelligent post on any subject at any point, so I’m highly unlikely to be seeking their counsel or support am I!
Aidan
No need to start by apologising Aidan.
Thick am I?
Well and well, just watched ITN. They must be thick too as first case of spreading has started.
And Easter’s just around the corner.
Suppose you just aren’t allowed to argue with superspreader Aidan after he’s done a low gear drive by survey of AI Dover port statistics
And to think back in my day British military personnel could use contained trains to pass through Soviet East Germany to reach the garrison of the West Berlin British sector deep behind the iron curtain.
I wonder how that would have worked if you and AI were in charge Einstein.
Perish the thought.
Go on, ask James and Twathater, I dare ye..
There won’t be much food coming anyway.
That’s Qatar oot the game & with it the worlds fertiliser along with LNG. They reckon five years to be repaired & back to production, if at all.
Gas will be rationed too. The ones who brought us climate emergency are currently burning it intae the atmosphere.
Whit wis it you were saying to me the other day about rationing being stupid fear mongering?
I’d hate to be Trump right now facing American farmers. That’s not only the soya beans up the swanny over the tariff wars but the fertiliser too.
Not a good day at the office eh?
I bet nobody on ITN was stupid enough to suggest that the whole of Kent should be quarantined given that a) that would cause huge distribution to the U.K. (for the reasons I’ve pointed out) and b) because it would have no material impact on the spread of the disease
Asian
Well you are just determined to be a superspreader aren’t you?
Doing something about it? – “noooo, it’s just too difficult”..
Haven’t you learnt anything from the last pandemic- “ yes, us students should never again fear restrictions on our riotous (kettle of eels) social lifestyles and we demand the right to partay when and wherever we like and sod anyone who doesn’t like it. If it causes any issues then just deal with it”.
I’m just not supporting a wartime crisis that will be close to a national lockdown to prevent the spread of a disease which has killed two people. Obviously that’s incredibly sad for the families, but equally you have to put it in to the context of the 650 or so people that die every day, so this outbreak has so far claimed a similar number of lives to what would be expected from lightening strikes each year.
Meningitis is not particularly contagious, and it can effectively be managed through testing and contact tracing. If that is done effectively, quarantining Kent would have no additional impact in controlling the spread of the disease. So we would be causing colossal disruption which would be extremely difficult to manage for no benefit.
Asian Superspreader.
I will be honest, if not Canterbury, but at least Kent was originally said a bit tongue in cheek.
The prompt was the news report that all of NHS Scotlands limited meningitis “jags” had been sent down there.
So, presumably most of England had sent their limited stocks too.
Ergo, leaving those English regions and us without the medication to deal with it spreading outwith its current English ground zero..
If you think students will be responsible enough not to travel extensively here and overseas during their Easter recess then you are beyond naive.
Mind you. The amount of indignant time you’ve spent browsing AI then typing out belligerent contrarian comments and intelligence insults here with ZERO suggestion of what should be done speaks volumes.
Pause and take stock.
Several weeks into Donald’s big Persian excursion and still the tankers do not move unless you strike a deal with Iran and sail out through an alternative route between a couple of islands close to the Iran shore where they can get a good look at you. Any ships that try the traditional route seem to go bang. Meanwhile the great man is busy insulting the Japanese with a joke about Pearl Harbour which went down like a rattlesnake in a lucky dip. Meanwhile the chosen people keep killing anyone that the Donald could deal with and if it carries on who will be left for the great deal maker to work with?
“who will be left for the great deal maker to work with?”
Do you think you may have put your finger on the problem with the Scottish notion that we’re all Sovereign?
What if the Persians all think they’re Sovereign too?
That comment to Japan was cringe. He’s lost it. What an embarrassment he is.
It’s right up there with telling everyone Issy, the annoying gnat tae a superpower, is acting on its own batshit mission. “It wisnae me” is a recurring theme.
Does anyone buy this bullshit? Oh, wait, GB news & the knuckle draggers do.
“Meanwhile the chosen people keep killing anyone that the Donald could deal with…”
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That son of Scotland, Dòmhnall Iain Trump, has done his deal. He was led by the nose by BB YAHOO, the only winner of this catastrophic misadventure.
There are at least two wars being waged here: the Trump/Yahoo bomb the shit out of ‘em gig whose ‘winner’ is all too obvious; less obvious, the more important and probable ‘’decider’ oil/ economic warfare being waged by Tehran to its increasing advantage- as it threatens to bring dire effect down on the West.
Allegedly, Kushy & Witless accepted $50 billion from the Saudis to throw the peace talks. Makes sense.
Also, Kushy, Witless & Heggie were in the room when the Don gave the order to attack. Yahoo was on the phone from his bunker.
So, just to refresh, that’s a religious zealot drunk, two unelected property developers, a wanted foreign PM & POTUS just went nuclear on the global economy & ended the US Empire.
Let us hope someone removes him soon. Those eejits have the button & there’s only two of them elected – one is a piss head & the other believes he is a mafia boss FFS.
Operation Persian Carpet Bombing has taken warfare to a whole new level. The day of the Terror Nation is over. As much as you want America and Israel to fail they have successfully eliminated the whole Iranian regime in a matter of weeks. Unheard of. Never been done. No one had the balls.
Great big beautiful freedom.
Not so quick now Baby Beggars..
You do recall how similar in Iraq and Afghanistan turned out don’t you?
No staying power Uncle Sam, so he’s destined never to truly win again.
Just make it as hard and dangerous for him to keep up the long game and in a roll of the dice number of years he’ll be off again with his tail between his legs and new enemies formed in his wake hidden behind the PR smokescreen.
Happens time and again. This yearning needy feeling they have to exorcise the ghost of Vietnam and the Carter years of rank military incompetence to be the new self-styled earthly hammer of God then bit by bit turn flaccid and limp as interest wains and mid-terms loom.
Yer just looking for attention eh?
“Unheard of. Never been done. No one had the balls.”
That’s because it’s against international law, ya plank!
What were their crimes?
The international court?
Where was the judge & jury?
The USA has been assassinating Scientists, Generals, leaders, military personnel for DECADES, guess what? They select a new one! D’oh! There is always another in the chain of command.
It’s not big & it’s not clever to assassinate leaders. It used to be Taboo. Countries treated like a pariah state & shunned.
It does demonstrate the difference tho. They could’ve taken out the demonic Yahoo but didn’t.
They could’ve reciprocated their water supply being taken out but they haven’t.
They could’ve made nukes but they didn’t.
Their only crime is they’re big enough to stop Yahoo & his colonising greater demonic plan to take over several countries & have an Empire of his own.
They’ve won nothing. Iran only has to destroy the American economy & they’ve done that as every day goes by. Told them to get their bases out of the ME, they’ve done that too. The GCC western playgrounds for the rich are gone. Mealy mouthed puppets who tried to play both sides.
Trump is finished at home. Civil war will erupt cause their cost of living crisis just got a whole lot worse. There’s mutiny already aboard their navy. They’re not going to war for a Jenny maniac & his fictitious lies. He started Iraq & Afghanistan too & look how that ended & yahoo isn’t even finished with Iran cause he wants Turkey too & they’re next.
I’m learning what Z really is & how it established Isr. It’s not Jewish but Protestant. Protestant colonisers hiding behind anti semitism laws. Makes sense, especially when every far right Yoon seems to love that fleg & the BBC are their cheerleaders.
Zero self awareness
Yankie jurno to Trump “Iran executed three (Mossy spies) people last week – what you going to do about it?”
Trump: “We’ll hit them harder. These ppl are animals, thugs, real nasty people”
Oi Google! How many executions did the USA carry out last year?
“In 2025, the United States executed 47 people, marking the highest number of executions in 16 years. This total includes 39 lethal injections, five nitrogen hypoxia cases, and three firing squad executions. Executions in 2025 nearly doubled the previous year’s total (25 in 2024), driven largely by a surge in Florida.”
Blimey! I wasn’t aware “Western values” still carried out firing squad & gassing ppl. That’s a bit barbaric & not something I imagine to be quick.
For the record, I don’t believe in the death penalty. But *thinks* but I could be persuaded for ("Tractor" - Ed)s. The ultimate fckn betrayal to their ppl. Spys should be jailed for life. No parole & definitely not repatriated.
A Plea to Chris Cairns, Cartoonist of that Ilk
Woe, woe, thrice times woe!
Get out your pencils.
Pin paper to your board.
Our need is greater than your game of golf.
Yes, a 4th volume of his cartoons would be most welcome in the next year or two also.
I see the Kleptomaniac Sassanachs are now talking about rationing Gas, Petrol and Diesel. I guess the policy of maliciously running down the SCOTTISH Oil and Gas Industry is now coming back to haunt all of us.
Are we all ready to die for the Child Rapist and the Genocidal Jewish State? The useless Woke Greens would probably want to hug them.
Scotland to this day still produces 4 to 5 times what it uses, we are a net exporter still and it will take a long time even for the incompetent snp to run down our energy bounty.
link to news.sky.com
Someone’s been pissing down our backs again…
It’s hard to believe the Lefty Liberal pearl clutchers on here hoping Trump looses the war. Loose to a regime that tortured women for showing to much of their hair. A regime that’s been holding the world to ransom. But that doesn’t matter to the cowards who are being protected by the president of USA.
How is Humza boy these days?
Because most of us who follow international news are more informed of the facts rather than the propaganda the MSM pumps out. Journalists actually in Iran. That includes talking to women with no headscarf. Out on the streets unafraid of bombs & standing in defiance. It doesn’t appear to be a country that was begging for regime change.
Trump can’t even get his story straight from one hour to the next. He’s destroyed everything & it was big & beautiful – then he hasn’t. They’re all out of weapons – oh no they aren’t. They strait has been cleared – no it hasn’t. On & on talking absolute bollocks & making an arse of himself.
The US shot a young mother in the face a few weeks ago. Then mowed down a health worker trying to come to a womans aid at being manhandled – they shot him SEVEN times. Overkill. So quit with drama of how Iran treat women . You couldn’t give a shit.
Also, it’s an illegal war. An unprovoked act of aggression. That’s a war crime under Int law. The negotiators had witnesses, that’s what mediation is, & they confirmed Iran went above & beyond to appease the mentalists. They attacked anyway, by surprise & not for the first time either. They continually assassinated ppl for no reason. Even disrespecting other countries whilst doing it on their soil. Which, btw, is yet another war crime in a long list..
You’d have thought you’d have learned from Iraq but obviously not. You still lap up the slop.
You have to laugh at goons who think that a country should just roll over when they’re illegally invaded & seem genuinely surprised they’ve the nerve to fight back.
So away & take yer GB news pish elsewhere. You don’t have public opinion on your side, on both sides of the water.
“An unprovoked act of aggression.”
Yeah, “unprovoked”, apart from that bit where they hosed down tens of thousands of their own people in a hail of bullets – for exercising peaceful protest against their vile regime.
Oh, what’s that you say, “Geri”? They were actually protesting against the USA and sanctions, not their own appalling, repressive government causing said sanctions (like, as if, you stupid berk) – and even if that were true, wouldn’t in any way excuse killing your own citizens en masse.
Still, I forget: notwithstanding all of the above, Iran doesn’t even reach the bar for merely being “totalitarian”(!) according to “Geri”. One wonders what any country (except the UK, natch) WOULD have to do, in order to be considered totalitarian in his/her/its eyes.
Sit down you idiot. (Note, in saying the above, this does not mean I support what Trump has done & the manner he’s done it, without even getting his ducks in a row with allies or even bothering to inform them etc. But to say said aggression is “unprovoked” notwithstanding is fucking stupid even by your lofty standards, you utter moron. Empty vessels, pal, it’s the “Geri” show BTL. Time for another enforced break mate).
“Yeah, “unprovoked”, apart from that bit where they hosed down tens of thousands of their own people in a hail of bullets – for exercising peaceful protest against their vile regime.”
& Your evidence this was “tens of thousands” is where exactly? I’ll wait.
Figures say 400. Mostly foreign mossy operatives burning down mosques & killing police. That alone should tell that is not even believable. Burning down a Mosque would be instant death from onlookers. Even US senators were bragging on X Mossy was there, marching with peaceful protesters (who were actually protesting America forcing banks out of business – which Bessent bragged about at WEF) to try instigate a riot. It didn’t work. FAIL.
America kills more people in a week than other countries do in their lifetime. Why don’t we send in the storm troopers? Biden was mentally unhinged & in charge of the nukes – why didn’t we storm in for a spot of regime change as a matter of urgency?
But, if you prefer, let’s stick with the ME. Let’s talk about the recently installed head chopper who is slaughtering Christians in Sy. Or what about the Saudis appalling human rights record & torturing jurnos? What about Issy giving immunity to r*pets sodomising prisoners of war – amongst other depravities. In fact, let’s talk about Jenny too.
Naw. You just want to bang on about Iran – who was doing everything right within International law & with a whole host of witnesses from other countries to back them up. Even the head of US intelligence who resigned the other day cause he couldn’t, in good conscience, continue to lie to the American public & it was all manufactured bullshit. So spare us yer fake concern. It doesn’t tally with the facts.
You sit down you idiot. You’re not the fucking world police. International law isn’t on your side & neither is public opinion – so do one, ya racist fckwit. Even better, go get yer coat on & go over there yourself. Put yer money where yer big yappy mouth is & go “save” these ppl. Naw, you’d much rather someone else do it for you over all based on fictitious bullshit.
It’s Tousi TV I watch. An Iranian in London talking about his own country. I think he’s got a lot of credibility. His sources make the British media look like exactly what it is. Fake lefty dribble.
Quelle surprise: “Geri” doubling down on his/her/its utterly crass, morally bankrupt stupidity.
“& Your evidence this was “tens of thousands” is where exactly? I’ll wait.”
Well wait no more, imbecile. 10 second Google search, that well know Far Right imperialist/apologist rag, er, The Guardian, with detailed information and first hand accounts:
link to theguardian.com
This is beyond mere stupidity and willful ignorance; you and your ilk are no better than Holocaust Deniers IMO. Above all, you disgust me, frankly. Even sharing the same platform as the likes of you makes me feel dirty and requiring a shower. Ugh.
(Besides, maybe obtaining information from the likes of “scarf less women” or anyone else living in Iran may prove somewhat challenging, especially since that cuddly, non-Totalitarian regime has entirely switched off the internet and blacked out the country link to en.wikipedia.org )
“Figures say 400.”
Oh, well that’s alright then isn’t it “Geri”. (Notwithstanding that your 400 claim is horseshit)
Hey everyone, “Geri” says it’s ok for governments to carry out cold, mass murder on hundreds of their own innocent population, for engaging in peaceful protest – and still not even be classed as “totalitarian” at all…
Like I said. Sit down, you offensive moron.
That stands for nothing.
We’ve paid Scots that love to go on telly to bash Scotland too. It happens everywhere. A script & a healthy fee is all it takes.
You won’t get the head of intelligence tho who confirms it’s all manufactured bullshit. At great cost & threat to his own life. He also adds weight that Mossy was responsible for assassinating Kirk & he was blocked from investigating which is unheard of for an intelligence agency. Just like they mowed down JFK when they couldn’t get their war.
Why are you defending unhinged war criminals that want to send troops to their death based on nothing but lies? Trump didn’t even have permission, nor sought it, from the senate. He’s just acting on his own & taking wads of cash in the process. All the more evident when loads of other countries aren’t willing to join him in his war crimes.
I’d believe these ppl over paid commentators sitting in a studio far away from any conflict.
“… you and your ilk are no better than Holocaust Deniers…”
My preferred fibre thickness is used in the manufacture of my favourite stockings… the “70 DENIER LOVEHONEY FANTASY BLACK BOW TOP STOCKINGS” – they are fantasytastic value at just £9.99 a pair.
Hot tip for men: Best worn on freshly shaved and moisturised legs (one of mine is wooden so I just use furniture polish on that one).
“That stands for nothing.
We’ve paid Scots that love to go on telly to bash Scotland too. It happens everywhere. A script & a healthy fee is all it takes.”
Oh is that so, eh?
On the one hand, we have a detailed, credible account from a mainstream (left wing) news outlet, as earlier linked. We also have countless other similarly detailed, credible information from diverse sources, all easily obtained within a few seconds on Google.
For example, Jazeera:
link to aljazeera.com
Linked Al Jazeera piece excerpt:
‘… Iranian state television has released the first official death toll from the recent antigovernment protests that engulfed the country, reporting that 3,117 people were killed during the crackdown.
In a statement carried by Press TV on Wednesday, Iran’s Martyrs Foundation said that 2,427 of those killed in the demonstrations were civilians and security forces. …’
So… who to believe eh?
Multiple, credible, disparate sources – including the Iranian State itself – or some foamer called “Geri” off the internet, with [his/her/its] non-existent information sources (apart from some tinfoil hat YT echo chamber, in between discussing Lizard People, 5G masts reprogramming people etc.?)
It shall be noted that even the Iranians aren’t claiming “400 people”, but hey, “Geri” knows better, right?
I think that’ll do for today, “Geri”. No doubt you, and your sorry cohort of saddos and moonhowlers will be ranting incoherently until the wee small hours as per usual (you “can’t fix stupid” after all), but I’ve achieved my objectives. Namely: to shed further light on the fact that you’re a complete foamer and a roaster, to be contemptuously ignored by any sane readership here.
Good day.
The next election in Scotland is going to be a laugh.
The liberal Lefty’s have no option but to vote for the crowd of telly tubbies that have destroyed Scotland.
See where your ideology gets you. Fucked not once but twice due to their thirst for liberal democracy that the Jews are protecting yes you read that right. Thanks Israel for doing the dirty work of the squeaky bum libe
I am always amazed how people like Geri have their finger on the pulse of EVERYTHING that is happening in the world today. Maybe that weeks holiday it enjoyed in Blackpool in 2003 was sufficient for it to speak with authority on all world events, past present and future!
Of course, it may be that world leaders are on the phone to it everyday keeping it updated on everything that is happening. Perhaps they are seeking its advice on how best to proceed?
How lucky we are on Wings to share its knowledge.
Five thousand years before God (morning, God) sent His son, Jesus – or ‘God-Wearing-A-Disguise’ as I like to call Him – an ingenious and enlightened people were busying themselves creating the foundations of a magnificent civilisation.
German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, called those people “The first historical people” (I disagree, but I’m not going to be petty about it – besides Hegel has been dead since 1831 so he can’t really object to my ‘Picts were the first people’ counter-assertion).
Those people Hegel described as the ‘first people’ were an inventive bunch (much like the Picts). They founded many fields of knowledge and study including engineering, science, medicine, governance, and culture.
They invented windmills, postal systems, chemical processes, teaching hospitals, human rights (granted, generally cyclical in most societies), and games like backgammon and such.
These innovations not only shaped the ancient world but also laid foundations for modern technology, education, and societal structures.
What were these people called?
They were the Persians… the same folk Trump and his fellow gangster thugs are attempting to destroy right now.
Persia, a cradle of civilisation and an ancient and historically magnificent land populated by an ancient and historically magnificent people is currently being trashed by an unbearably stupid five minute old infant ‘nation’ called America (a country modern ‘Americans’ viciously stole from the peoples native to that land).
In contrast to Persia’s great contribution to humanity America’s very, very few inventions include the likes of bubble gum and the Big Mac beef burger… pretty tasty, but hardly in the same class as a people who invented mathematics and algebra, and who also invented refrigeration half a millennium before Christ (God in disguise) was born.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention my favourite Persian invention… that’s right, irrigated and perfumed landscaped gardens.
Persia! Just brilliant.
Yeah, way to answer the points raised. Not.
I’m sure “5,000 year old guff” was a HUGE consolation to those tens of thousands of innocent, unarmed people dying a horrific, unjust death in the streets, in a hail of bullets fired at them by their own “non totalitarian” government, all for having the temerity to peacefully protest against what is an objectively appalling, evil regime.
Or y’know, maybe not, eh.
Another empty vessel berk.
Some Iranians responded to Trump’s call to rise up and were shot when they went on the streets to protest. “Help is on its way”, said Trump.
Trump said he had received assurances there would be no executions but there are reports that there have been executions in Iran before the war started.
During the war a 19 year old wrestler was hanged in public.
The deaths of the school children may be a war crime by the USA.
It is possible, perhaps likely, that Trump and Israel will leave an even more hard line and oppressive regime in charge of a country in which the vast majority of its people consider the government to have no legitimacy. In such a situation it is likely that there will be a great shedding of blood.
Aye, nothing to do with the oil eh?
Mind living in a cave probably makes you a bit thick.
Back to your MSM dead sea scrolls.
What points?
I see no point to anything unionists (colonists if preferred… same thing) scribble here.
I wasn’t responding to any ‘points’ with my comment.
My comment is utterly unrelated to whatever pish is being sprayed around this place by dense colonialists (unionists if preferred… same thing) here today.
But if I were to get involved in some thick colonist (colonialist if preferred… same thing) ‘argument’ in this place I would instantly win it (just as I’m about to do with AI Dan’s ‘Port of Devon’ nonsense) on account that colonialists here seldom, if ever, present a real and genuine argument to argue against in the first place.
“What points?”
Man alive, you people eh.
Imbecile.
And your point is caller?
Northy your rhetoric has went South. You are pissing in the wind mate.
NC: ‘In contrast to Persia’s great contribution to humanity America’s very, very few inventions include . . .’
Jazz?
No. That was imported.
News to me. From where?
Africa.
New Orleans was a French colony. They sold it to the Americans.
I wish the SNP devolved administration had sat down and had a long talk with Professor Baird (& others with marine experience) in line with some of his projected suggestions.
Professor Snuggles and the munch bunch.
It’s not in the colonisers interests to make their colonies work. It gives the natives ideas they can manage perfectly fine without their Overlords. That’s why they have thousands of civil servants & NGOs to be eyes, ears & to fck things up.
Besides, SNP is just a front, like all other political parties – there to give the pretence we have democracy. The the organ grinder doesn’t change every five years. Just the monkey with a different colour rosette dancing to the same tunes the last one did. It still seems to work by bamboozling the electorate their vote actually matters.
SNPBAD and Reform only 5% difference in the latest opinion polls.
Today is the Persian New Year and the Elite Left are full on with the ‘Persian people bombed by Trump while celebrating new year’
The only thing that your allowed to celebrate in Iran is the death of Jews.
There’s no limit to the hypocrisy.
Quick quiz. What neighbours do Issys actually get along with?
Take yer time.
& It’s bad call to be bombing civilians on New Year’s day. Just as it was kidnapping a democratically elected president of Venezuela on theirs. Or trying to assassinate Poot on Christmas day.
Your lot have nae class.
Who will join me in giving a thought and prayers for the Persian people who have suffered beyond our wildest nightmares for 47 years.
Some of the cheerleaders here for The Yahoo/Trump war are pretty extreme and unpleasant people.
But none is in the same league as Joe Kent, until a few days Trump’s counterintelligence chief, a far -right ideologue.
But even he blurts out a truth our local apologists for the Trump/Yahoo ?mass murder campaign of destruction need to hear:
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Isr?el and its powerful American lobby.” -Joe Kent, US National Counterterrorism Center director in resignation letter from Trump regime.
‘A big beautiful sacking. Bigger, better than ever before. No one does it like me. Kent’s A looser! everybody knows this.
No one spoke to him for months. In fact I only gave him the job as a favour to his father. Great guy. Great guy his father. Shame he has a looser for a son.’
Baby Trump
Are there a couple o “sic”s in there?
“A £3m funding pledge for a Scottish port comes with hopes that a new ferry service to France will set sail soon, the Scottish Secretary has said.
Douglas Alexander said the investment in Rosyth from the UK’s Growth Mission Fund would see plans for a direct ferry service between Scotland and France take a “big step forward”.
It has been nearly eight years since freight ferries sailed between Rosyth and Europe and more than 15 years since the last passenger service ceased operations.
The planned investment could help with upgrades to the Border Force and customs infrastructure at the port, but is subject to the conclusion of a commercial agreement between the port and a ferry operator.
Forth Ports, which operates the Rosyth facility, is “actively engaged” in talks with the ferry operator DFDS over a new passenger and freight ferry service between Rosyth and Dunkirk.”
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Good.
great article in bella today called :
“gerry hassan lives in kirkcudbright”
link to bellacaledonia.org.uk
is kirkcudbright a “plethora” and “rich mosaic” of “initiatives” – perhaps it should try to be more ethnic ?
“woke leftist polyanna circle wank, a fantasy of – believe and it comes true”
after dark, gerry would be eaten alive. But he won’t be, because :
he lives in kirkcudbright.
“Dee and Glenkens”
1.1 % “non white” – and almost no afro-caribbeans, no “blacks” at all. Nor any gypsies. None. Null.
over 98% “white” – afrikaners would be envious
white white white
humsa would have a fit
(coincidentally about 30% english bastards, which tells you a lot about the real immigrant problem in this land)
link to scotlandscensus.gov.uk
england is done anyway, and it is well deserved – the whole country is a binfire
link to archive.ph
link to youtube.com
– if any Scots want to stay “in the Union”, then you have to ask : do you want to become a second province of Pakistan?
Practical measures : muslamic pests in your area? Are you a young attractive woman (or just have a vagina?) – get yourself a big-fucking-dog, like a rottweiler or even better a cane corso, raised from a pup : they will defend you to the death, but they won’t need to because the muslamics will shit themselves.
link to youtube.com