Wings Over Scotland

Absolutely superb! 🙂

If he doesn’t know, it shows he’s not worth it. 🙂

Possibly he’s a lying toad?

Love it.
Commendable how Greg has avoided using the word SHITE in there. Truly commendable.

Just Brilliant.

(Are you trying to make us feel sorry for him or something?)

@ Greg Moodie – You have excelled yourself. I will never ever hear that tune again without thinking of your toon. I hate you. 🙂

I did think for minute I felt sorry for him but then realised it was just beans I had for tea last night,
PARP!

Disappointed you didn’t slip in “Help me Rona”. How could you?

link to news.channel4.com

You have to hand it to him, he is fabulous liar. Or was it rock solid trust that a certain leakster would NOT phone Daily Telegraph clowns from the office?

Credit to @tommyreckless too for the song. He’s been doing this sort of thing for years (ask Tommy Sheridan!) and maybe teaming up with Greg and Wings will help get him the fame he so richly deserves. Do I get my fiver, Tam?

brilliant

love the camel

Quite funny and hardhitting, but if Alistair Carmichael were to die unexpectedly would he suddenly become semi-deified like Charles Kennedy and achieve posthumous greatness?

Judging by some of the posts I have read from several of the commentators on the previous thread, if Charles Kennedy is anything to go by then all Scottish unionists are well meaning fellows who are good at heart and deserve our respect.

A swift reality check for some wouldn’t go amiss. Unionists have been screwing this country for over 300 years and they intend to continue.

OMG, that is just superb. Tears running here…

‘Why-is-there-a-fundraiser-to-get-rid-of-me?’ 🙂

P.S Just to make sure the ‘Orangfest’ petition is appearing regularly via latest threads. Now at 18,155:

link to change.org

BBC r4 lunchtime news has Andy Coulson lawyer explain that Coulson was found guilty of phone hacking in England, plead not guilty to phone hacking in Scotland and got off with that.

Carmichael needs to get that exact same lawyer and judge.

It has all been said above except I’d like to point out one teeny, weeny mistake, the rain in our much loved Northern Isles tends to come horizonitaly rather than verticaly, LOL.

Auld Rock

😀 Yip – best yet.
Where can you hide in Orkney? I know MaesHowe.
link to historic-scotland.gov.uk

@heedtracker
So is Lord Burns saying that a guilty verdict in England has no bearing in a Scottish court.

The best yet,keep it up,it brightened my day right up.

Thanks.

Is he just getting on with the job, holding meetings with his electorate and furthering the wellbeing of the people of Orkney and Shetland?

Or

Is he still in hiding and not at westminister today? Of all days for a liberal mp!

Frankie Boyle’s piece for the guardian today.

I dare you not to fall off your chair enjoy 🙂

link to t.co

But what’s the idea of the elephant?

Scot Finlayson says:
3 June, 2015 at 1:54 pm
@heedtracker
So is Lord Burns saying that a guilty verdict in England has no bearing in a Scottish court.

Looks like it. Carmicheal’s a lawyer so no doubt he will be working out the same route Lord Burns takes and be “cleared” as the nice BBC r4 lady said Coulson was.

Or the slob could do the honourable thing and quit. And that £60k fundraiser could go towards actual need but its all about those good old fashioned LibDem values, that we’ve come to rely…

I LOL’d at that – specially the last verse.

Well done!

8=)

Really actually ROFL & PMSL. No advance warning (You suggested burning breeks – no wringin’ wans). Youse owe me big time! 🙂

Brilliant. Some kind soul should really send him some lucky white heather——-complete with adder!

jackie g

Cameron gets away with it because very large numbers of people in England and an uncomfortably large number of people in Scotland, believe he is talking about somebody else, and not them.

They think it will happen to some other person, not them, because they are the OK people that Cameron approves off.

Ally, “I know Nuzzing” Carmichael. Thank goodness for the Brit Nat legal system cronies.

tartanarse excels himself; if abuse won arguments, you’d be way ahead.

I didn’t realise Alistair had such a lovely singing voice, aw bless ;-D

We’ve found out today that it’s ok to lie in a court of law as long as your lies aren’t deemed to materially affect the outcome of a trial.

My prediction is that, following a very long and very expensive legal battle, we’ll eventually be told that it’s also ok to lie about your opponents during an election campaign so long as your lies aren’t deemed to materially affect the outcome of said election.

Might it now be a good idea to donate what’s left of the £55,000 fund to foodbanks rather than use it to further line the pockets of the legal profession?

Got it! It’s an Orkney coo. right?

ALANM says:

Might it now be a good idea to donate what’s left of the £55,000 fund to foodbanks rather than use it to further line the pockets of the legal profession?
===========

I’m thinking there might be something in this.

Another worry is that if Carmichael is forced to resign, there’s no guarantee he wouldn’t be re-elected in a by-election with an increased majority.

Charles Kennedy’s sad death seems to have brought out a bit of sympathy for the Lib Dems, and you can be sure there would a a huge tactical voting anti-SNP campaign.. going on about a one-party state etc

Tactically, it might be better going into the next Holyrood elections with a disgraced Carmichael.

Cracker Greg, best one yet!

@Barontorc

It’s a dromedary as it only has one hump.

To continue Petra’s O/T comment.

Distinct absence of Scottish voices on the Kennedy tributes on the main evening news on BBC.

Subliminal message – will you “Sweaties” get back to the rear of the bus out of the way.

@Ian B –

I still haven’t tracked down a vid of Donohoe’s demise but there is a wee glimpse of his big beetroot coupon on the panorama episode the other night… at 8:20 I dunno whether he’s gonnae clap his hands or say a prayer but eether way good fuckin riddance…

link to bbc.co.uk

@ Petra 6:19pm

There were many tributes today.

Angus Robertson’s was one of them.

It was shown on BBC Parliament.

HTH

Yes and Socrates more than anything it sends out a message to those who don’t access the Internet that members of the SNP had nothing to say about Charles Kennedy at all.

I’m bl**dy raging (again). Charles Kennedy, a Scot, being paid tribute to by Cameron, Harman, Clegg and Abbott only, it would seem, as per STV.

I can’t access BBCi player for some reason and there is a version on youtube that shows Cameron, Harman and Clegg only. Can anyone post a video or whatever of todays PM Questions / tributes on here?

As we see today Alistairs Pal Cameron delivering his Tribute for Charles Kennedy. Ah thought his leader wiz Clegg, Colour me Tory eh Alistair.

Will Podmore at 4.47

Mr Will

I know that unionists like to ignore the truth and try to lie to themselves and the public at large.

However, I think that it is just possible that you do indeed know of the outcome of the GE in May 2015.

A resounding and record breaking 56 seats out of 59(soon to be 57). Amazing.

Now forgive me, as I am a Scot(a real one) and to me that says to lying unionist MP’s, FUCK OFF.

Now I can’t say that I talk for the Scottish electorate, that is what elections are for and they seem to agree with me.

You may have noticed that over the last few days Lords have said it’s fine for MP’s to lie, even going as far as to say they all do it all the time.

Well it isn’t alright for public servants to lie Will. That’s another reason that there are 56 SNP MP’s.

Horrible lying bastards, even the dead ones.

Pointing out facts is not abuse btw Will, even if sweary words are used.

Fuck off Will. There’s a chap.

Barontorc @ 5.42
“Why the camel? Sheep, geese, elephants are all native, right. I’m ok with that and rain, also, but now perplexed about the camel.”

I think you’ll find the geese were Dodos,
as in dead as a. 🙂

Great cartoon from Greg. Best laugh I’ve had in ages.

O/T I’m not much into petitions, but here’s another that could do with more support.

link to change.org

Just watched C4 news explain probable Carmichael defence in court. Sometimes lying under oath or as UK.gov minister isn’t an offence, says the Judge that let Coulson with not lying under oath in Edinburgh today.

Scotland feels a lot like an non existent English region this evening.

Just catching up after work on the events of the day.

Watched the Daily Politics on Sky+

The BBC’s supposedly impartial James Lansdale was on discussing Charles Kennedy:

James Landale “When a politician dies occasionally you get people you know being polite cos’ they don’t think that it’s a very English thing not to speak of the dead”

Andrew Neil: “and even British too”

James Landale “And even British too”

So a Scottish politician dies and the BBC’s Landale comes out with a bizarre “quality” of the English.

Kudos to Andrew Neil who instantly picked up on Landale’s faux pas.

@John King
“onwards says @ 6.03pm
“Tactically, it might be better going into the next Holyrood elections with a disgraced Carmichael.”

I’ve felt that all along, we don’t want to make a martyr of THAT!”

Guys, I am absolutely certain there is far more benefit to the SNP and indy by keeping him there.

But!… there is a principle at stake here, unfortunately.

Michelle Thomson maiden speech.

link to youtube.com

Alex Salmond’s performance just now on select committees was awesome. Must see TV 🙂
He gave a wee rebuke to Anna Soubry (Minister for Small minds Business) on good manners and decorum, owned. Hope someone can provide a link so I can save it.

@Almannysbunnet –

That Tory b’stard Menzies was an ignorant shit, well he knows why the SNP didn’t take their chair on the Scottish Select Committee in the last parliament. Shaking with anger at the sight of him..

From Bellacaledonia:

Beyond Orangefest By Mike Small

‘This is a Freedom Of Information request to Police Scotland (thanks to @lordanthony23). There were 608 Orange marches in Scotland (from April 2013) to 5th April 2014, 500 in Strathclyde alone at a cost of over half a million pounds of public money.

This puts pay to the argument that stopping the Orangefest would be somehow an act of censorship. It would not.They are hugely over-represented in public life.

By banning this event we would give a challenge to the idea that one group should be given free reign in the city centre of our largest city, with their track record, their already huge public presence, the likelihood of disorder and the massive cost to the public purse.

As we wrote last year: “Nobody asks why an event with 4,500 marchers and 4,000 spectators needs 3,000 stewards. A ratio of 2.8 participants to a steward? For context the ratio of primary school children: teachers is 16.5 to 1. The real sadness here should come from the fact that this will be forgotten by tomorrow. We’re used to seeing this on our streets, in our lives, every summer. It’s become one-of-those-things. Nobody’s in a rush to change it.”

The problem is that we have normalised and legitimised this culture. We are inured to sectarianism.The debate is cynical, weary and knowing. I write this on Wednesday, the event is on Saturday, the likelihood of it being stopped are slim but we can at least have a massive show of dissatisfaction and rejection of bigotry and make a stand for accountability from GCC.’

Age?

From The National today – 99 years old…

“The politically active great-grandmother and keen reader of The National campaigned around her home town of Musselburgh, East Lothian, for a Yes vote in September’s referendum by leaving copies of the Wee Blue Book, which gave reasons why Scots should back independence, in various places around her town.”

Louisa (Babs) Johnston (age99) says –

I was quite active in the referendum. I would leave copies of the Wee Blue Book in the hairdressers, on the bus, in the doctor’s surgery, in fact anywhere I could.

Roger Knox (SNP Musselburgh branch) said –

Babs is a truly remarkable lady and great example to us all. She was very clever leaving copies of the Wee Blue Book around during the indy campaign. Dear knows how many people she helped win over to the independence cause.

SO

Babs honey if you are reading this – you are a STAR

Yes for all ages (no more silliness about age certain people).

IvMoz says:
3 June, 2015 at 8:08 pm
@heedtracker 6:57pm

You are entitled to your opinion about Unionist MP’s. Murray, Carmichael & Mundell.

You’re very kind. But I took two opinions, compared and contrasted.

Before sermonising, have the decency to read stuff before shooting from the lip.

When people drink themselves to death, its a form of suicide or it’s an illness.

Either or and come the day, will the repulsive britnat unionist Steve Bell badly draw a fantasy landscape with the SNP logo floating over the Scottish Highlands and with some weird gargoyle visage of you know who?

Thanks to the UKOK unionist creep show, the blast zone of teamGB nukes like Trident easily covers Lochaber from Faslane. Its ok though, our imperial masters will keep us all safe in teamGB.

Sláinte

Age? From The National today – 99 years old…

Good on her! Pensioners rule. Okay?

link to grousebeater.wordpress.com

@TJenny (9.20)-

‘Huddlefund’

🙂

Nice one. That puts you in the running for Neologist of The Year Award. The current favourite is, of course, Jim Murphy.

If memory serves it was your good self who broke news of ‘fundilymundily’ to the WOS community before most of us had even seen any footage of that ill-fated ‘debate’.

The wonderful 99 year-old pensioner who joined the SNP – can anybody link me to a photograph? Thanks in anticipation.

As expected, the MSM blithely ignore the event.

Ian Brotherhood – ;-), but am I not also in the running for a NOTY (award) for ‘sniggles’? 🙁

I am wondering if carbuncle will get his just deserves especially in the light of that arsehole cuntson getting off,
I am so fecking angry.

IvMoz: Anyone who uses the C word has already lost any argument.

I believe Heedtracker was quoting another poster but didn’t put the offending sentence in quotation marks.
Heedtracker is a seasoned fighter for Scotland. He pays little attention to sentence construction concentrating instead on dedication and passion and Guardian claptrap.

@ grousebeater hope this works.

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@ K1 says ”That Mark Menzies, Tory MP for Flyde, doon sooth, is a right wee angry nyaff wi a pole right up his a***, isn’t he? Y’d think it wiz his playgrund and naebdy else wzi aloud to play their ain games…he can giruhimself as far I’m concerned. Of course the Socttish Affairs committee should be populated with a majority, if not all Scottish MP’s, tough shit if he doesn’t like it. Some mithers dae huv them right enough! W**ker.”

It’s a real eye opener don’t you think? You can see they’ve been getting away with murder for years (with the Scottish Labs) and I don’t think they’re one bit happy about facing Alex again plus his 55 colleagues.

I get the impression that the Scots are now educating the House. Too bad most ordinary people wont get to see this.

@ronnie anderson

SNP latest recruit.

heedtracker,

“Sometimes lying under oath or as UK.gov minister isn’t an offence, says the Judge that let Coulson with not lying under oath in Edinburgh today.”

As I have been saying, the Scottish justice system is rotten to the core.

And the vast majority of lawyers, especially judges, are the lowest of the low.

That Menzies character would make you ashamed to be a Scot. An Establishment arse licking knob head

@jock mc X (10.26) –

Brilliant link. Many thanks. Here it is again for those who can’t be bothered scrolling up – Alex Salmond revelling in winding-up the Tories.

You can tell the guy is having the time of his life – the big fish finally escaped from that wee Holyrood pond, and he’s wagging his tail big-time.

A superb wee snifter of things to come…

link to youtube.com

Thanks Grouse Beater and Balaaargh.

Scotland’s Highland’s and Islands belong to Scotland but they’ve been destroyed by UKOK unionists, from super rich tax dodging City elitists, land owner neo fascists, mass unemployment and emigration, to their catastrophic environmental damage for blood sports quick buck economics.

But a LibDem that may have drunk himself to death, is a now a UKOK angel in the sky over Lochaber and the last blatant liar LibDem Carmichael wont quit.

Everyone, did you notice Gove standing at the back of the commons watching Alex? 4mins 50 secs in. He looks amused at Alex taking his pals tae task…ah think he was enjoying it as much as we were. They don’t know whit’s gonnae hit them as time goes on!

Aye Petra, Menzies, stupidly, in berating Alex about not letting him intervene and snidely referring to his time as First Minister, then goes on to do the exact same thing (not letting SNP intervene) as a ‘fuck you’. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Alex didn’t let him in, as he quite rightly said, because the front bench was ‘moving him along’, whereas he didn’t allow an intervention, because he’s a snidey petty minded twat.

The intelligent ones (I know oxymoronic for a tory), will admire and love it, in spite of themselves and the stupid ones will just reveal their complete lack of debating skills, and get angry.

I’ll be watching out for that little prick gettin’ eaten for breakfast by the SNP. We will be running the Scottish Affairs Committee, for all the reasons that Alex, rightly, pointed out.

link to youtube.com

Would’ve been nice to get this to 25k by midnight. It’s not going to happen, but still, 22,814 people telling GCC what they can do with their ‘Orangefest’ isn’t bad going.

The GCC will, no doubt, roundly ignore this, as will the MSM, but many folk are deeply appreciative of the effort made – will Julie Philp come in here to take a bow?

link to change.org

Heedtracker
Please give a rest to your unnecessary and cruel comments about Charles Kennedy.
I agree with Thepnr , we don’t bring new recruits to our cause by calling the 50% who voted for other parties “cunts”.
I bet you wouldn’t do it to their faces in a pub!

@Tjenny

Like the huddlefund idea for a WBB for Babs. Count me in.

Calling anyone a liar or a cunt will get you nor the Independence any further forward.

Sorry, can’t agree. Sitting back and being a verbal punchbag for Unionist MPs, Westminster, the Brit Establishment, the UK MSM, fuckwits on Twitter and facebook and trolls on here and all over the internet as they deliver below-the-belt lies, smears, fearbombs, abuse, offense and all the other dirty tricks they get up to attacking *my* (our) country, *my* (our) countrypeople, *my* (our) hopes for independence, *my* (our) government, *my* (our) culture, etc. should *not* be an option.

Sitting back and saying, “Tsk! That’s terrible! But whit can ye dae, eh…” might be the action of some… but not this one. Being all nicey, nicey is fine, but independence – especially from the UK and all its devious actors – will not be won this way. NB: the Scottish independence referendum – the Yes campaign lost. Who were the ones who played nicey, nicey again…?

I’m not saying we should all be screaming, shouting, abusing, lying, smearing, etc when posting BTL. That can be left to the Unionists. What I am saying is, if some posters want to give like-for-like then go for it, and who can blame them?

As for not bringing independence any further forward, sorry, I don’t buy it. Personally, I want to see more of us who want independence to stick up for ourselves more often, show some balls, give as good as we get. If that means calling someone out, deservedly, as a fucker, a cunt, or whatever then so be it. Respect comes from standing up for yourself and what you believe in.

We are in a ‘soft’ war whether we like it or not. We are seen as an enemy. Our independence will have to be won one ‘battle’ at a time. Being too nice and soft will end up in a crushing defeat. Give these bastards as good as they give out. Don’t give them an inch. Stand up strong… and independence will be ours.

@tartanarse

Good moniker and well named. Am arse is what you are.

Fireproofjim says:
3 June, 2015 at 11:53 pm
Heedtracker
Please give a rest to your unnecessary and cruel comments about Charles Kennedy.

I haven’t done, cant be any clearer, only expressing an opinion, creeps like Bell are nauseating nationalists and this union is great for England but stinks for Scotland, in the round.

This is a long read but check out England’s unionist red tory failures grapple with, well people like me

link to archive.is

“Alastair Campbell – who was increasingly involved in the final weeks of the campaign, even attending meetings with Miliband’s inner circle – wrote a punchy “one nation” speech for Chatham House. “Taking Britain to the edge of Europe and firing the flames of Scottish Nationalism, as Cameron did the morning after the referendum, are desperate acts of survival,” the speech was to have said. “He is a man that cares more about a few more years in power than a few hundred years of a union that has served our country and served the world so well.”

Alexander thought it would work. Others feared it would simply provide another day of media headlines about the SNP. But Baldwin thought it was essential to tackle the issue. “The strategic justification was obvious,” he said. “We had to lance the boil. Walking down Whitehall naked assaulting random passersby would have been better than having another day on whether we would do a deal with the SNP. It was murdering us. We knew it was murdering us because we could get another story up. But we blinked and chose not to do it.”

Another aide explained why the Campbell speech was axed: “The rival view was that our vulnerability on English nationalism was really very severe and anything that sounded like we were defending the Scots would be music to the Tories’ ears, and just make the problem worse. So the two arguments cancelled each other out.”

That’s Dougie Alexander in there, now replaced by a 20 year old woman but must not let Scots near their English Westminster eh? So vote tory and lance their Scottish boil, with English bigot vote.

heedtracker says:

Either or and come the day, will the repulsive britnat unionist Steve Bell badly draw a fantasy landscape with the SNP logo floating over the Scottish Highlands and with some weird gargoyle visage of you know who?

Absolutely correct!

If you’ve been paying any attention to the lying, hypocritical “left-leaning” (ROFL!) Guardian and its hardline stance against Scottish independence, Scotland and Scots in general; its rabid support for Jim Murphy (halo pics and all); its constant rubbishing of Salmond, Sturgeon and the SNP and etc., you’ll then be well aware of their ‘fair’, ‘balanced, and ‘impartial’ “Scottish correspondent [sic] Severin Carrell, their deputy-editor, Carmichael-must-stay-and-Scots-are-inferior Michael White, and their “Do you believe Scotland should go and fuck itself?” and Sturgeon-is-a-Nazi propaganda cartoonist Steve Bell.

Two out of the three of Carrell, White and Bell are definitely cunts. Which two? Aha! Now that would be telling… You’ll just have to make up your own mind!

This delay in post appearance is annoying.

DerekM I nearly agree, Edinburgh is nice but for it’s British Red zone. Other than that I like it.

While we snarl away at each other here, the faithful ‘brothers’ are doing their rehearsals for the ‘Orangefest’, which, so far as I can tell, is pretty much the same as any other major Orange walk, only it’s been ‘branded’, and given the imprimatur of GCC. ‘Ooooh, it’s a cultural event dontcha know?!’

This is Gordon Matheson’s swansong. He’s toast.

Mike Small, on BellaC, has already outlined how much this is costing the people of Glasgow. A Google search of ‘Orangefest’ will also throw up the disruption to normal traffic being endured by commuters – the bus services, so vital to impoverished elderly, are threadbare on the day. The companies involved are doing their best to inform citizens of the cancellations, but we all know how traumatic even minor changes can be to those dependent on such facilities – and not all of them can be informed, even by mainstream media.

That any major city in a civilised country can allow such inconvenience to a major sector of its most vulnerable people is, in itself, utterly damning.

But, hey, let’s wait and see what happens on Saturday, eh?

GCC is not going to call this off. Police Scotland is not going to call it off. Anyone who turns up in George Square bearing an SSP banner, RIC, Green, Saltire, whatever-else, will be carted off by police for ‘their own safety’. If you want to exercise your ‘civil liberty’ to hoist an SSP banner or Saltire in George Square on Saturday, go ahead, but don’t blame the cops when they cart you away. If you are detained for twelve hours you will be mightily pissed-off, but at least you’ll be able to go home with the same number of teeth as you had in the morning.

Let them have their ‘Orangefest’ – let it be witnessed, filmed, monitored every step of the way, in and out. Let ‘citizen journalism’ prove what it can do by documenting what this is all about, from early on the Saturday morning, when they get on the busses and trains, to when they board those same busses and trains home, after having caused Scotland’s largest city to evacuate it’s own centre through fear and loathing.

Give them enough rope and they will do it – they really are that daft.

But we’re not – if any blood is shed on Saturday, let it be amongst themselves, through frustration that they didn’t get they rammy they always, always crave.

There will be trouble on Saturday. No doubt. But it needn’t have anything to do with the pro-indy movement. Let the ‘faithful’ do it all by themselves – then, on Sunday evening, as GCC workers are still clearing up the mess, we launch yet another petition – to get rid of whoever in the GCC permitted this retarded nonsense in the first place.

I trust my wifes’ instincts on all matters to do with interpersonal behaviour so I showed her the posts with all the c@@nts and she asked if i was sure the writers wished Scotland to be independent because she thought they were written by people who were either stupid or actually were in the other camp but pretending to be supporters.

The usual suspects will get all het up but just think about it! Hearts and minds are rarely won with a kick in the rollocks.

Derek M , Ref Visit Edinburgh .

Good idea .
I had to go to Hollyrood recently and utilised the “Park&Ride” from 1 stop down from Airport .
Free parking and Tram was £3/3.50 . It was a very enjoyable visit , quite relaxing . 10/10

@ tartanarse , I have not read the thread completely but understand your point .
We perhalps do require reminding about some of the crap them @unts said last year . Scaring the $hit oot o the Auld folk about the Pension . I am aware of some o the older folk who were very worried about it being a YES and their life would be turned upside down ! Poor souls dinnae expect the @unts @ BBC to be liars FFS
So for that alone you are right yon Onionists are @unts !

That said the C word would not be my choice word , am a bit Al Fashint !
All other expletives together would be just fine !

I should add that an Onionists is not the No voter etc , I refer explicitly to those on MSM etc who are elevated to a position whereby their opinion is to be considered by the population. Those who should have been imparting FACTS .

talking athletics 70/80s

steroids–East Germany weren’t shy

I remember the lass who looked like my dad

Lol @ bookie from hell

I think more will come out in the following days n weeks.

I do remember that when they introduced new dopeing laws and ways to find the cheats after London 2012, suddenly there was a LOT of “retirements”.

I think more so in cycling than any other sport.

Might be down to hazy recollection, but Im sure a few very well known cyclists and coaches suddenly retired, after promising to be at the commonwealth games, after the new rules and testing came about.

Sorry if I missed it further up
But can anybody tell me what the Scottish Select Committee is actually for.

Paula Rose @ 8.36pm
“So many wonderful first speeches by true real beautiful people of Scotland – the word ‘proud’ has real value now.”

Since we’re no allowed tae clap
HEAR HEAR. 😉
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Ian Brotherhood says @8.42PM
“In the meantime, his website really needs an update. (It would be nice if he did it in a similarly zany style.)”
(Brain Donahoe)

HE HAS!
link to tinyurl.com
🙂
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Paula Rosae says
“Age?

From The National today – 99 years old…

“The politically active great-grandmother and keen reader of The National campaigned around her home town of Musselburgh, East Lothian, for a Yes vote in September’s referendum by leaving copies of the Wee Blue Book, which gave reasons why Scots should back independence, in various places around her town.”

My wife used to deliver leaflets with an elderly neighbour who was a lifelong supporter of independence, his name is Jimmy Sinclair and he’s well over 100 years old and still living, he was feted by Alex Salmond during the YES campaign and has been entertained by Nicola Sturgeon in Bute house
_________________________________________________
Ian Brotherthood says
“Now at 21,755 – ‘…ramming speeeeeeed!!!’”

In amungst ye
link to tinyurl.com

Thedogphilosopher says @3.42
“Sorry I’m late. Is this the right place for the Derek and Clive auditions?”

3.fuckin 42 are you fuckin serious

Yer too fuckin late these two fuckers got the job
link to tinyurl.com

@ ME 🙂

Paula Rosae?
Latin name. 🙂

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

liz Gray says:
Sorry if I missed it further up
But can anybody tell me what the Scottish Select Committee is actually for.
link to parliament.uk
This is what it’s supposed to be for. The SNP are about to try and make it work and the Tories are doing their damnedest to stuff the committee with a majority of their MP’s. Alex was getting right up them about it last night.

John King says

“My wife used to deliver leaflets with an elderly neighbour who was a lifelong supporter of independence, his name is Jimmy Sinclair and he’s well over 100 years old and still living, he was feted by Alex Salmond during the YES campaign and has been entertained by Nicola Sturgeon in Bute house”

John are you in Edinburgh and is Jimmy an ex postie?
I’m sure m6 mum and dad were SNP branch member’s along with him in the 50’s and 60’s.

If so such a learned man and a true gent.Wonderful story!

The Isolator @ 6.57

I don’t know where Jimmy was from originally but during the 60s and 70s he lived in Cardenden in Fife but he may very well have lived in Edinburgh I don’t know, I do know he spent several years living in Germany, if that helps. 🙂

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