Wings Over Scotland

Let’s not forget life expectancy in Scotland has gone back to the lowest in Western Europe under her watch.

We’ve got another four years of her terrible tenure left; God only knows how much more damage she’ll do to Scotland by then.

The worse FM since the Scottish parliament recommenced but yet her sycophants continue to support and defend her!

#WrongerForScotland

Ach, but at least Scotland wasn’t taken out the EU against our will… and recall at least retaining single market access was a red line for she/her… Oh!

O/T.

I wonder if this was political, and will it make the unionist news in Scotland.

“AN Alba Party candidate and solicitor was allegedly attacked at his office in Glasgow, the party have said.

Muhammad Shoaib, 69, is currently in hospital but his condition is not known, Alba have told The National.”

link to 12ft.io

Unlike Sturgeon and Blackford, ALBA Party MPs have confirmed they will not take an oath of allegiance to King Charles.

link to albaparty.org

It all seems a bit hopeless so long as she’s still in post but that doesn’t mean we can’t prepare for post-Sturgeon Scotland.

For those who haven’t yet seen it, or doubt the potency of the ‘Claim of Right’ arguments, here’s the link to the Scottish Prism gig on Sunday.

link to youtube.com

This fairly made me laugh – you have to laugh or you’d cry!

The best wee apologist in the world.

Has a certain ring to it.

Something we can all be proud of.

Stu I know you rightly despise her for the hollowed out mess she’s made of the indy movement we all do. But we need you. Not to focus on that vile ("Tractor" - Ed) but to come help us tie the threads back together. Gene sharp

@Republicofscotland says:22 September, 2022 at 8:28 pm

“The latest from Grousebeater, are we slipping into fascism in Scotland.”

Sure we are. Of course, there are about 5.5 million personal definitions of fascism, cos it is basically anything we don’t like, when we can’t be arsed to rationalise our reasons for that dislike. So diss the opponent as a fascist – job done.

30 years or so ago, the school class would have been overwhelmingly pro-monarchy, with maybes just one kid who DIDN’T accuse the teacher of anti-monarchy views. So the story could be easily spun to ask the question: Are we slipping out of fascism in Scotland.

Must be a quiet day on the grouse moor.

But a much easier story to argue about than the one about the English teacher south of the border, who is in hiding with a fatwa on his head, for trying to look at the two sides of that story.

I doubt that any Scottish teachers will be willing to enter that mine field.

I can hear her fanbase now – “Aye, but we’re better than England”. I wish they would stop comparing us to that failed state.

Good book.

How to hide an empire. By Danial Immerwahr.

How to hide an empire is spoke about on Democracy now, on youtube.

@”Scott”

I’m in favour of a Norway style deal in the first instance and a post indy referendum on full EU membership. I used to be solidly pro-EU but cooled somewhat after the treatment of Greece and later their failure to stop Spanish action against the Catalans.

No idea what the 2016 tweet relates to without any context. Sounds like you’re just getting desperate again “Scott”.

Andy Ellis: When Theresa May became PM, I thought she would cement herself in power for ten years by delivering a Brexit that was just like being in the EU, without actually being in the EU — ie, the 4 freedoms. (I also thought that this might unfortunately detach enough Scots from Yes to put paid to independence in my lifetime). Obviously, the first of these thoughts, at least, was wrong, but:
Might not membership of the single market and the customs union form the basis of a satisfactory compromise between (Pro Indy, Pro EU) and (Pro Indy, Anti EU)?

@Frank Waring

Might not membership of the single market and the customs union form the basis of a satisfactory compromise between (Pro Indy, Pro EU) and (Pro Indy, Anti EU)?

Yes, I suspect so. I’ve long thought that when push came to shove most Pro-Indy, Anti-EU types will still prioritise indy even if it means membership or close association with the EU.

She was a useless solicitor, is a useless FM, useless.
This women never intended to pursue independence but if she did can you imagine her in separation negotiations dealing with the snakes of Westminster.
I still don`t get her in that she is prepared to betray her country and its people.

Andy Ellis

I have lately become less keen to scoff at the “Scotland as colony” theory because the theory predicted the outcome of the Brexit referendum.

The colonies voted to Remain.

The coloniser voted to Leave.

The odd one out is Wales, which voted to Remain, but that can be explained by Wales having substantial inwards immigration from the coloniser.

As Alf Baird explains, a clear indication of the colonised state is when the local elites persuade the rest of the locals to vote against their own best interests.

That is an exquisitely ironic realisation when you hear Indy enthusiasts eternally banging on about how Scotland was dragged screaming and kicking out of the EU against its will.

But to look to the future:

“I’m in favour of a Norway style deal in the first instance and a post indy referendum on full EU membership. I used to be solidly pro-EU but cooled somewhat after the treatment of Greece and later their failure to stop Spanish action against the Catalans.”

Really difficult to argue against any of that.

An iScotland will have to be eternally on its guard to avoid allowing its valuable resources coming under external ownership and control. An iScotland won’t be able to act in its own best interests if subject to EU “level playing fields” and EU “free movement of people and investment capital”.

The last thing anybody should want is for the kids and grand-kids of Wings BTL to be on a site much like this one, 30 years from now, posting much the same complaints, but with “Brussels” substituted in place of “WM”.

I’m old enough to remember the situation before the UK joined the Common Market, as the EU was known back then, in the 70s.

We were a member of EFTA and had the Commonwealth as trading partners.

My Mum always bought Golden Emblem New Zealand butter but, suddenly, on joining the CM, it was no longer on the shelves. WE, the UK, had shafted our long-term trading partners.

Post-independence, I would like to see iScotland arranging trading partnerships with our former partners. It can be a more two-way relationship than what is being currently negotiated by the UK government.

The future of Scotland under an SNP government really depresses me.

Hopefully, ALBA can make the breakthrough, against the tide of MSM blackout.

@John Main (10.35) –

‘Pragmatists will already be well aware that the majority of our trade, post-Indy, will continue to be with the only country we share a land border with.’

Is that right?

Even when oil/gas/whisky revenues are assigned properly?

@ Brian Doonthetoon at 10:29 pm

It also screwed over the New Zealand Lamb exporting for NZ,and near destroyed that,It came about with the Joining UK had to cancel the UK/NZ agreement,
Think that’s about right

…. But they’re doing it deliberately.

Huge Jarse 11.58pm

Sturgeon has always went for the women’s vote.

Baby boxes.
Free Tampax/Pons
Increase child benefit.
Free child bus pass
Her one woman fight against a notorious sex beast.

Always looking for the female angle.

I would say that the majority who still support her are females with kids and who could take or leave Scottish Independence.

And of course her Trans “Female” following.

Millions lost in VAT that the Police and Fire Brigade couldn’t claim back from Westminster due to SNP error.

The attempt to build ferries on the Clyde had good intentions but Para Handy could have done better.

Refusing to open the SNP accounts sent me packing.

Of course, from Sturgeon’s standpoint she has succeeded where it matters, in elections.

That’s the sort of inane point an East Kilbride taxi driver would make, but it’s also what equally thick defenders of Sturgeon say.

We all know it’s a bullshit argument since the BBC is supporting her and the opposition is basically unelectable and non-existent, but, as long as she keeps winning elections, they’ll keep saying it.

I particularly like the thrust of this article though. She should be judged on her record and failings; that’s possibly the one thing I agree with her on. And if more emphasis was given to those failings on here and elsewhere, I don’t think she’d win elections so easily.

Who better to systematically go through those failings, one after the other, week after week, than Wings? Nobody could do it better.

“Shane, come back…. Come back, Shane…”

Someone who made a success of themselves in the ‘real world ‘ before entering politics Neil?
Maybe a non-narcissist, with any sort of empathetic ability pal?

At the height of the mania, a picture of her, arm raised to acknowledge the adulation of the crowd, you probably know the one, gave her real character away.

Never mind all that!
There’s going to be an Indyref2 on 19 October 2023!
The First Minister promised…

Sturgeon is just about what some of us expected :

link to theoccidentalobserver.net

Neil says:
23 September, 2022 at 1:19 am
Who would have done better though, that’s the point.

After Brexit, a crash test dummy with a sign around it’s neck saying the Scottish people are sovereign would have done better, the Union would not have survived Constitutional crisis thus created, and Scotland would have stayed in Europe and been Independent in 2016/17, or at minimum, have entered EU holding pen status while negotiating the end of the UK.

Turn your question around Neil, who could have handled Scotland’s affairs any worse? Who else could have done so much damage to the cause and destroyed the unity and common purpose of the YES movement? Her failures and inactions, even if “somehow” well intentioned, are so close so as to those of an MI5 stooge deliberately trying to wreck Independence that the difference is indecipherable.

Sturgeon is an utter fraud, and that is her only accomplishment. Scotland’s Lords in 1707 live in infamy as a Parcel O’ Rogues. Sturgeon in my opinion has earned herself similar accolade all by herself. Damn her to Hell.

The signs of megalomania were there right from the start of her reign. A disaster hidden in plain sight.

link to archive.ph

@”Scott” 10.55 pm

Still scarily obsessed with me I see. Face it Scott, I’m never going to go out with you. Moonhowlers aren’t my type. If it weren’t so peculiar that I live rent free inside your (thankfully empty) head it’d be comical. I’m not sure what it is you *think* posting a link to BTL comments from another place, on a different topic in (checks link) 2013 proves…? Apart from the depths of your scary obsession with me.

It all seems “of a piece” with your output and MO of course, there doesn’t seem much point to most if it, and it’s generally only tangentially related to the point at hand, or indeed the real world.

Has your carer mixed your meds up again?

Ian B , thanks for the links – both are impressive!

Stu, can you do an article of all Ms Sturgeons achievements over the same period?
Real, popular and novel policy delivery of any true SNP objectives that have bettered the lives of all Scots.

Andy Ellis

I’m not advocating a cunning plan for indy. Instead I’m merely pointing out that the question of independence for Scotland doesn’t sit in isolation from the rest of Europe or the rest of the world. The circles that Sturgeon moves in or aspires to move in don’t look kindly on nationalist aspirations. As a result it’s no surprise there’s little movement on the question.

The current trend is still globalisation and integration, an independent Scotland is neither here nor there in this system. In fact, from the West’s point of view, maintaining the integrity of the UK is probably seen as a good thing for the foreseeable future given the instability in Europe.

That might all change in the next few years, precipitated by the economic crisis. If the doomsayers are right then the EU will be mortally weakened and maybe the current crop of leaders will be replaced. That’s the opportunity for Scotland to act and break up the UK without incurring the wrath of the likes of the USA.

Meanwhile the new English Tory Chancellor is having an emergency budget sort of.

It looks like we are going to have to bail out the fuckin greedy English Tories yet again. Thanks for nothing no Referendum Sturgeon. Thanks for nothing you nah voting c!!!s.

Republicofscotland @ 8:28 pm

“The latest from Grousebeater, are we slipping into fascism in Scotland.”

link to grousebeater.wordpress.com

Postcolonial theory predicts the major ‘rupture’ in an independence movement which is caused by the co-operation (and ‘petrification’) of the dominant national party with the imperial power. Holyrood/Scottish Gov is a colonial administration efter aw, which as we see enacts ‘mystifying’ policies to make it look busy, behaves ‘like a gang’, builds up its pensions, and persecutes so-called ‘radicals’ who seek more urgency towards liberation, all of which moves us ever closer toward the root of colonialism, which is fascism.

Grouse Beater as ever calls it right. SNP Ministers are acting much as they were appointed and give oath of allegiance, as ‘agents’ of the Crown.

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

#NGE

…good enough?

Its all just so sad.
Self inflicted Death by 1000 cuts continues at home and for the Indy campaign.

Its like a game of chess slowly playing out when everyone knows its checkmate in 20 moves.

Had a good open chat on Twitter the other day where everyone was remarking on how there is now no-one in SNP who we could view as an Indy Champion. There is no one we could see as emerging talent who can take the Indy case forward and lead us to the promised land. Its all Estabishment expenses and talking in empty Westminster halls or on comfy London TV studio couches.

Get prepared for staying as slaves, as McMoses disnae exist!

The thing now is to keep things positive, engage constructively and keep persuading our fellow Scots. The tipping point in Scottish public opinion isn’t far away.

@sarah –

It’s hard to guess how and when the full truth will emerge but the surge of interest in what SALVO has been doing will surely embolden someone to do the decent thing.

Rab Davis says:
23 September, 2022 at 12:13 am
Huge Jarse 11.58pm

“Sturgeon has always went for the women’s vote.”

Well she’s screwed that because women are not going to vote for someone who gives their rights away – and transwomen are men – so not quite going for the women’s vote, is she?

Ns is a globalist, the policies that she has followed and introduced into Scotland are all those that are swimming around all the other countries these past few years,
even our police in Scotland under NS devolved government are turning out to be politically bias, inept at chasing down real crimes like missing money, or street crime.

The people she associates with are either union flavoured or pals of globalists like Gates, Clintons, Even pals of Epstein, and the royals, the very circles she moves in are globalist and unionist.
Talk about getting in with the wrong crowd.
As Alf Baird says, and it is the same conclusion I and a few others have come to here.
The devolved government is Colonial, with a strong union flavour.

Any or all parties sitting in the Devolved government could have stopped the direction the Snp were taken towards ideology of globalism and war screams,
Any one of them could have protested a lot louder over miscarriages of justice and failed hearings, etc etc.
Or over the mishandling of the Scottish economy,
Nevertheless no past efforts have made from any other parties in the devolved government to stem the tide of the SNP or the direction they have taken, other than token gestures they don’t shout out to loudly or persistantly in case they are heard.
Simple because they are all going in a planned one track direction, the colours of all the parties blend very well behind a false front of the devolved government.

They work as one unit within that devolved government system to prevent Scottish independence, even the msm whom are opposed to Scottish independence are paid for with our taxes through the devolved government.
A system that has no checks and balances.

If NS was outed, what would we get? , one of the other wet blanket Snp members, or one of the other chocolate teapot parties that also do nothing for Scotland and its people,
We are dealing with a Colonial system that lords it over Scotland, changing Scots Law and manipulating the mythical treaty to the advantage and new ownership of a Westminster UK government that we have no Treaty with.

Seems she has had several red lines—- most of which have been crossed numerous times. Politicians!!!

Alex Salmond handed her an Independence movement moving like a Ferrari which only required a service. Instead she has turned it into an Austin Allegro which is heading towards the scrappy.

We need a new vehicle.

Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.

Writing on the wall for Sturgeon’s NuSNP hopefully.

But what replaces it/her? Private Fraser sums things up eloquently…

“Wur all doomed! Doomed, ah tell ye!”

It has taken the yes movement, myself included a long time to realise that NS is closer to the union in her heart and actions than any association to a independent Scotland,
If it had not been for STU over the last year or so pointing out the duplicity of the NuSNP it could have gone on a lot longer.

It is with this in mind that it becomes more and more obvious the major tool that has been of great assistance to the NuSNP has been the devolved Colonial Government place in Scotland.
This is the ” Yes for independence’s” second ( blind spot) that is keeping us from progressing forward.

It is time for the Sovereign people of Scotland to chose a new method of governance, under the Claim of Right and self determination.

I cannot foresee the devolved branch office of Westminster in Scotland contesting itself back to london main office as it would be wrestling its own arm behind its own back,

The establishment that runs both governments will not say yes to anything it can simply ignore including not recognising a referendum or election basis for independence from the devolved government.

“A Scottish sovereign people” meeting has to be held to by pass the hinderence’s and blockages from the devolved government.

This devolved government and the NuSNP been the YES for a independent Scotland blind spot.

Waiting for something magic to happen from either of these two sources takes a lot of believing and a strange kind of faith.

Andy Ellis says:
23 September, 2022 at 7:49 am

@”Scott” 10.55 pm

Still scarily obsessed with me I see.

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Not in the slightest, you’re just scared of exposure beyond the here and now.

Mind that time I said I had the receipts for your bullshit? I wasn’t lying.

“As one of those outed as issuing “vicious broadsides” (really?… I couldn’t say it was my usual MO, tho’ granted I’ve certainly been known to dish it out when I felt it was justified!) I can only echo the sentiments expressed by many fellow pro-independence supporters online. I won’t be intimidated by the forces of darkness directing the gutter press and their cowed fellow travellers in the No camp. My thoughts on it are expressed in my first blog, which no doubt anyone interested in the rantings of a vicious “cabernat” will be able to find!”

link to wingsoverscotland.com

It is your usual MO, despite the Daily Hitler being reluctant to paint you in the same light as the others in the so-called ‘Cybernat 7’, as highlighted by Rev Stu in his article ‘The bully pulpit’

“The Edinburgh- born former politics student appears to be one of the more temperate cybernats.

What’s he doing in this article, then?” – Rev Stu

You wrote a scene-setting blog in an attempt to head off any questions about why you willingly engaged with a journalist from the Scottish Daily Mail, who’d allegedly managed to doorstep you in Sussex just in time to chum you to the station to catch the 0840 train to London.

“Confessions of a “cabernat” or how to behave when doorstepped by a Scottish Daily Mail journalist.

He even asked me if I’d ever thought about being a politician (to which of course the answer is “Hell, No!).” – link to archive.ph

Now, why would someone study Politics at two universities if they’d never considered becoming a politician?

Is it because they’re a lying narcissistic cunt?

“The thing now is to keep things positive, engage constructively and keep persuading our fellow Scots. The tipping point in Scottish public opinion isn’t far away.”

Y’know, the above is just exactly what Wishart would say, a lying wee toady. However, I doubt the real Wishart would have the balls to comment in here.

Nice try, but no cigar.

@”Scott”

For someone who denies being creepily obsessed with me, and insisting I’m a narcissist, you certainly spend an inordinate amount of time increasing my exposure on here. Indeed you scarcely seem to post about much else. It’s pretty pathological behaviour and I’m not the only one to think so as others have called you out for it in the past.

You’ve made the frankly rather weird claim before that there was somehow something suspect about me “willingly engaging with a journalist from the Scottish Daily Mail (in fact I had no idea where the random hack was from as he was a freelance, it only emerged later it was the Daily Heil) and that I felt the need to head of questions about it. Why on earth would I need to do that? I had – and have – nothing to hide, unlike snivelling anonymous creepy online stalkers like yourself.

Lots of people study politics with no intention of “becoming politicians”; the fact you think it’s in the least bit odd suggests you need to get out more. Sitting in yer kecks in yer mammy’s spare room, eating Frosties from the box, and obsessively researching me online isn’t healthy “Scott”: ask you carer.

Far from having receipts for the bullshit fruits of your creepy obsession with me “Scott”, your mouth is still writing cheques your intellect can’t cash. Give it up mate, you’re making yourself look even more of a creep than most folk already had you marked down as.

@Stuart MacKay 8.58 am

The current trend is still globalisation and integration, an independent Scotland is neither here nor there in this system. In fact, from the West’s point of view, maintaining the integrity of the UK is probably seen as a good thing for the foreseeable future given the instability in Europe.

I think you’re right: in the general scheme of things Scotland is a drop in the bucket looked at from a systemic level. The west / USA/ EU would of course prefer a quiet life and no distractions like Scottish or Catalan independence to complicate matters (particularly in current circumstances), but in the end they’d all adjust if either of those things came to pass. Post brexit the UK is short of friends, particularly in Europe and even the supposed “special relationship” with the USA is far more special to us than it is to them.

That might all change in the next few years, precipitated by the economic crisis. If the doomsayers are right then the EU will be mortally weakened and maybe the current crop of leaders will be replaced. That’s the opportunity for Scotland to act and break up the UK without incurring the wrath of the likes of the USA.

Who knows…? The future isn’t ours to see, but I have my doubts about predictions of the EU being mortally weakened. I’d lay money on the EU emerging stronger once Vlad and his mates are defeated, and expect to see the EU members of NATO becoming much more cohesive in security policy, particularly as the US looks more towards China and the Pacific Rim.

What a post-independence Scotland does or doesn’t do probably isn’t that important to most of them in the final analysis though they’ll all have preferred options of course. Most will assume/prefer that Scotland will become part of the EU and NATO, but none of them will lose any sleep if we took the Irish option or the Icelandic option. They’ll accommodate whatever events dictate.

I suspect that even if the current slew of leaders are replaced with others, they’re not going to represent a sea change, however hard those on either extreme of the debate wish it were otherwise: globalism and neo-liberalism aren’t going away, and the Great Reset remains the wet dream of a coterie of the super rich. Both alternative futures soon come apart at the seams when they come in to contact with realpolitik.

“The fact it was the Daily Mail only emerged after the doorstepping when Graham Grant of the Daily Mail contacted me before the piece appeared.”

“Whether the piece ever sees the light of day remains to be seen…”

Andy Ellis

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In 1989, I shared a flat with someone studying journalism who now works for SDM…just saying

😉

Andy Ellis says:
23 September, 2022 at 5:02 pm

“Away, ye scum, That still rise upmost when the nation boils; Ye mongrel work of heaven, with human shapes, Not to be damned or saved, but breathe and perish, That have but just enough of sense, to know The master’s voice, when rated, to depart.” Dryden.

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‘Nobody cares about things written in 1689…’ – Andy Ellis on Claim of Right Act 1689

Just when you thought things couldn’t get much worse after the mini-budget:

Employment Law – Changes are Afoot

Of course, much can happen between the publication of a Bill and eventual enactment as legislation. We will continue to monitor developments as they occur but this is an early warning that major changes to UK employment law may be afoot.

https://www.wjm.co.uk/news/employment-law–changes-are-afoot

In other news the pound fell 3% against the US Dollar on news of the first Trussonomics budget. I wonder how much of that £150 billion got set of fire as a result. That declaration on a price cap for energy is rapidly starting to look like a blank cheque!

There are many laws changing with the new bill and many being abolished.
Nows the time, after Brexit, so J R Mogg says.

Nows the time for us to leave more like it, with bad workers rights, with a distinct lack of forward thinking for food and water quality,
And a unprotected existing wildlife safety gage.its not looking good to stop fracking effecting water table levels,

We have no treaty with the UK parliament, time to say goodbye.

Wasn’t one massive army always on the table to batter the hell out of smaller defenceless countries that won’t do as they are told by the boss of the one world order.

Dangerous road to go down for all Countries, one army, imagine if you had a different opinion for your Countries peoples welfare,

Too late your dead.

I suppose the one good thing that can be said from all this is that she does actually apologise (sincerely?), which is more that anyone from other parties around the UK seem to do these days.

@ sarah

Vid link here.

link to youtube.com

That was a quick read through today’s posts.

As I never read a word posted by ,,,or a post relating to,,the pedant dildo Andy Ellis,,it took just a few minutes to read what was left of today’s comments.

Because all I see above is the name Andy Ellis on just about every post today.

Can’t we crowd fund a six month holiday for this guy Ellis,,,, preferably in Outer Mongolia.

As has been said on many occasions,,, he’s a bigger plant than Nicola Sturgeon.

@ Dan: many thanks for the vid link of Sara Salyer’s very informative speech about Claim of Right and the strategy of taking a question to the UN that the UK must answer i.e. is Scotland in a voluntary union or are we a colony?

Whatever the answer, Scotland is empowered to regain independence.

I recommend everyone to listen to this speech and then sign the Edinburgh Proclamation on liberation.scot or salvo.scot, if you haven’t already! Sara says they need about 100,000 signatures before the matter can be sent to the UN. Calling all SNP members to sign – this UN strategy will help put extra pressure on the UK government to comply with SNP’s referendum demands.

Budget today is a final top up for the rich as the Tories know it’s game over at the next election.

A worker on £20K saves £93 per year with this supposed income tax cut.
A Tory voter on £100K gets £1093.

The lower paid person is looking at a gain of around £1.80 per week.
So with the most basic foods having risen by over 20% a food budget of £10 per week would see that the tax break means that they are worse off.

Never mind your home energy costs having doubled in a few months.
Never mind the mortgage rate having risen 6 times in 9 months
Never mind petrol prices hitting an all time high.

The most powerful bank in Europe, Deutsche Bank advised the Bank of England to again interest rates again next week if they hope to see anyone invest in the U.K.

I love how not increasing National insurance or tax on alcohol is presented as some sort of saving?

You can’t eat, you can’t heat so buy the kids a bottle of whiskey that stays as expensive as ever.

The Pound is heading a level less than 1 for 1 for the first time.
Idiotic expert on radio says it will be easier for U.K. manufacturing to export to the US?
What does the U.K. manufacture that the US or China don’t already supply?

Any Engineering Co here is likely to pack up shop when the 6 month energy subsidy goes.

Give the rich more money and they can have more foreign holidays, buy foreign sports cars
drink more French Champagne or invest it off shore in Panama or the Caribbean.

It seems by removing any barriers on obscene bankers bonuses they are going to pack their bags in New York and head to London leaving their $10 million annual earnings behind in search of more?

Just how hard a job is banking?
Most no longer give out any interest
Most are closing down a multitude of branches and cutting jobs
and when interest rates go up the pass a fractional interest rate on to clients.
Charge £50 for a letter to say you over spent by a fiver.

Corruption and immorality never paid out so well

The Tories blame everything on P***n. The SNP blame everything on Tories.

Some folk seem capable of supporting both positions with a straight face, expecting others to take them seriously.

Anyone under, say, 60 years of age will struggle to remember a time when ‘Fuck The Tories’ wasn’t a well-known slogan. We can repeat it until we’re blue in the face but how many decades have to pass before it starts sounding a bit hollow? Tories don’t lose sleep over nasty slogans.

And anyone who gets their information about the blue-and-yellow ‘war’ from pretty much any source outwith Western MSM knows that the ‘bogeyman’ script, tried and tested in so many countries, is being relied upon yet again. What’s different about it this time?

We should be well beyond the influence of such crude propaganda – it can only work when there are individuals prepared to prostitute themselves at all levels of discourse, be it on MSM or alternative media. It has become impossible to state a simple empirical truth without someone instantly contesting it, often citing ‘fact-checkers’ who happen to be in the pocket of the usual suspects, all paths leading back to Blackrock, Vanguard, the US/UK intelligence nexus etc.

The shills enabling the constant misinformation should be utterly ashamed of themselves – they know who they are and so do we.

@Effigy

Petrol prices are not at an all time high.

I didn’t read the rest of your post.

Let me try to help you here. It doesn’t matter what point you are trying to put across, or how justified your point might be.

As soon as you deploy a lie in an attempt to bolster your case, sane and informed readers give up.

It really is simple. If your point is valid, and your argument is sound, it needs no lies.

Just noticed a wee reference from Hatuey at 1:24 am.

I’m flattered, Hatuey, honest. To think that as I drifted dreamless in the arms of Morpheus after a long day educating my fares, I was in your thoughts. I’m welling up just thinking about it.

But if you are going to be selling your shoes in atonement for historical colonialism and exploitative larceny, why not go large and sell your laptop/iPad/moby also?

You owe it to those long-died victims.

And it’s a win-win for us.

Like many millions of others, I managed to avoid most of the flummery and pish last week, but this very brief video has to be seen.

(Well, it doesn’t have to be, but I just watched it and would like to invite you to share the pain.)

Nicola Sturgeon meeting her new king.

If you have toes prepare to curl them.

link to youtube.com

@ John Main

Could you link back to some of your past efforts (from say around 2014) highlighting your concern and standing up for those same ordinary, decent patriots who were prepared to fight for their nation, culture, freedom and right to self determination, whilst their country was in turmoil.
I jist can’t recall there being anywhere near the “concern” and chatter about yon place back then as there is now.
Just seems some are awfy late to the party on this subject as there’s been folk blowing each other to bits out there for many years.

The Axe Wielding English Nationalist I referred to earlier was of course Thatcher.

Ms. Sturgeon should maybe get some advice from her sister Gillian, and their deceased grandmother, about running Scotland:

link to sundaypost.com

Dont think for a second FM does not want independence