Wings Over Scotland

Sniff.

Happy New Year Wingers …. xxxx
And we can’t leave oor Hamish in such a state for much longer ….on that I think we are all agreed.
2021 must be the time to act however we must 🙂

Here is hoping nicola has a plan as I am embarrassed to call friends in europe

What a miserable fricken year,

think next six months will be worse with Brexit and the English strain,

thanks No voters,

anyhoo,

Happy New Year Chris and Stu and every other true Scottish patriot.

Were those amazing new blue UK passports that are made in Poland by a French / Dutch company included in the trade deal?
It’d be a right laugh if nobody in the EU could be arsed to transport them to old Blighty what with the extra cost and customs hassle of being out of their single market.

Hopefully “ the long retreat” is over this year and “ the tide turns “ in 2021 . Perhaps the “ fireworks” display at midnight from Stirling’s Wallace monument ( instead of Edinburgh castle) is a “ SIGN” of change for this New Year ? The “ dream will never die” .

Aw Chris, just brill. Also I wish.

NI with 56% of a remain vote and gibraltar get eu access. But Scotland with 62% remain vote get dragged out by their masters. Not one other nation in the world would put up with this shite scenario, get back to watching your corrie and eastenders you sweaty socks.

Ach i’m angry and just letting rip, but my heart goes out to all you true Scots (not the proud british scots) who yearn for indy.

Happy New Year. Here’s tae ye aw Wingers.

Thanks to you too Stu. You’ve kept our eyes open, sometimes in spite of ourselves. There’s no doubt you force me to think like no other blogger does. I thank you for that. Sometimes I do wish you were wrong, but you haven’t been yet. Remarkable.

Let’s just hope we can pull ourselves our of the fire. It sure ain’t going to be easy. I do think we can do it though. We must.

Let’s hope happy new year wingers.

This time last year we were going forward.

Time to start again get the negative out.

Out with all old…… and,
in with Cherry’s and Salmon’s…..

Oh, are we out? Blackford said that wisnae gonna happen like.

Never mind, it’s a New Year. Forget the whatifs and move forward.

MY new year wish , Alex Salmond’s evidence puts the Murrells and their Clique out in the cold and Hamish ignores their pleas for forgiveness , alongside Cherry our NEW FM making the HR election a plebicite election followed by a declaration of INDEPENDENCE

Westminster would shit a brick

Chris you are the best since James Gillray.

It’s such a challenging craft that you reign over so wonderfully well.
I have a contact with a wonderful and expensive collection of 17th and
18th century cartoons, a talented cartoonist himself but being a very rich
Chap who thrived under the Butchers apron refuses to see your own exceptional skill.

More power to your elbow. Again you have ensured your place in Scotland’s history.

This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

Here we go again, hurled into the unknown future looking backwards at the growing pile of shit we created. Being a bit of a morbid bastard, I could probably come up with quite an impressive list of reasons for us all to be rather depressed about our prospects in the year ahead. I’m not inclined to though, principally because I’m filled with a quite irrational sense of optimism.

If you look at what the smart money is doing, there’s a lot of reasons to be cheerful and positive about the vaccine and returning to something resembling normality in the next few months. So, hang in there, re-double your covid safety efforts, and look forward to stepping out into the summer sun with this damned disease behind us.

Brexit is over in many respects but it’ll continue to serve a useful purpose for us in any debates about independence. They treated us like shit and dragged us out of Europe against our will – nobody could seriously dispute that.

At some point people will wake up to the chronic uselessness of Sturgeon and she will be replaced with someone more authentic. Between now and then, stay safe, enjoy the show, and read more Walter Benjamin.

And to our good friends in London and the South East can I just say that Chris’s cartoon could be said to reflect the NHS in London which is now operating in disaster mode unable to cope with COVID numbers.

With oxygen shortages, critical care being reduced to one nurse per three patients as opposed to one, and with routine cancer, heart and other care being cancelled, the cartoon most certainly reminds us all of folk being cast out and denied medical care.

And all on our National Day of Brexit Celebration. Understaffed, underfunded, one does wonder where the big yellow NHS bus that was to be bringing in over £300 million a day has been this last year when we left the EU.

Anyway, here’s a copy of a report from today’s Independent reporting on the crisis. Something to celebrate and chortle on Prime Minister – especially when Jock gets his turn too when we disperse patients north.

INDEPENDENT 1 JANUARY 2021

“ Staff at the Royal London Hospital were sent an email by management revealing the dire state of the situation, amid rising pressure on the NHS as Covid cases continue to soar.

“We are now in disaster-medicine mode. We are no longer providing high-standard critical care, because we cannot,” the email said. “While this is far from ideal, it’s the way things are, and the way they have to be for now.

“Every hospital in north-east London is struggling, some with insufficient oxygen supplies, all with insufficient nursing numbers. Believe it or not, Royal London critical care is coping well relative to some sites. Kent is in a similar, if not worse, position.”?Medics were also told “things are going to get harder before they get better”.

Getting your moneys worth out of Holiday boy now ref!

Happy New Year 2021 to Stu, Chris and all the Wingers andYessers

But, but ,but Iain Blackford promised Scotland would not be taken out of the EU against its wishes…

We are where we are now, here on 1st January 2021, because of the SNP, not in spite of them. We gave them our votes, democratic mandate after democratic mandate, and they did nothing. Excuse after excuse after excuse.

Nicola Sturgeon is a fraud in my opinion. First she wanted us to wait to see how the brexit deal went, then it wass a case of we need to convince Boris to give a section 30. Next we need to get an SNP majority in Holyrood, then we need to beg again fopr a section 30, then we’ll need ANOTHER mandate, and so on. Nope, sorry, I have just had my EU citizenship forcibly removed against my wishes by England’s racist government, and those careerist barstewards in the SNP did nothing, but play silly political games.

They have their cosy careers and expenses, they have their nice generous pensions, but other Scots will suffer.

Nicola Sturgeon is a joke. The SNP is a joke. At least Boris did what he said he would do, the SNP promised lots and did nothing.

I despise the English and Scottish governments in equal measure this morning. No doubt the lovely Nicola will tweet about her fav book of last year or some other irrelevant sh*te, while Scotland is dragged under by England. Scotland is well and truly under the jackboot of an English dictatorship, and ALL our Scottish politicians have let us down. They should hang their heads in shame.

We tried the ballot box, perhaps next we need civil disobedience. How about blockading Grangemouth? That’ll really screw up England. It is time for Scots to rise up, and throw off England’s chains.

If Nicola Sturgeon is not going to announce some REAL immediate action towards independence today, then she should resign and take her waste of space husband, and her wokey friends with her. Oh, and we wnat OUR ‘ring-fenced’ money for a referendum back.

Six wasted years.

We want independence, not talk.

Yes Breeks, your sentiments will be those of many others too.

And to lift your mood a little more I under note a statement being reported today by arch Tory Sir Bill Cash in which in relation to Brexit he declares :-

“ It is a momentous moment which, by any historic standards, can only be compared in peacetime to what happened in the late 1680s and ‘90s,” he said…

“Which was the removal of the Stuarts, but followed by the new parliamentary constitutional arrangements which were enacted through the Act of Succession with the Hanoverians going on the throne”

So, knowing that we can all take comfort in the guaranteed success strategy that is Wheesht for Indy.

Otherwise, have a nice day – and don’t worry about the COVID super surge and collapsing health system down south. It’s not reached Scotland yet albeit that the London and SE surge now appears to be lapping Cumbria.

Just to be clear, I’m talking political consequences before anyone takes that the wrong way.

Willie@8.45

I read that crass remark from Bill Cash this morning. What an extraordinary statement – the insight it gives to the mind of such an intelligent man is frightening!

However, he talks about a time of huge change in England which had equally huge repercussions for Scotland so in that respect it is an accurate comparison.

However my thoughts quickly ran ahead from 1680s/90s to 1707. Perhaps it is a self fulfilling prophesy and as a result of this ‘huge change’ in England, it may finally be the catalyst to end this unequal Union for good – but hopefully not after a 17 year wait!

Happy New Year to all of you Wingers.

A Happy New Year to all fellow Wingers.

Gird your loins Rev. I sense we will need you at the very top of your game this year, it could be a very-bumpy ride.

Bob Mack
‘Instead of making excuses for her ,demand a plebiscite election in May. Thats a first step.’

If she doesn’t make a genuine effort this year she’s finished, people won’t put up with her inaction any more.

Best wishes to all wingers and the great man himself!

Rest well , then Get energised for this fight ahead Stu. We need you now like never before !

Happy New Year to all the Wingers and the blogs host and of course to Chris for his on the money illustrations.

Alas I don’t share the confidence of some that this year will see Scotland become an independent nation, though I hope I’m wrong about that.

Now that Johnson has concluded his rotten deal with the EU the Westminster Eye of Sauron will switch to point North to Scotland, and all the its forces will focus on crushing Scottish independence.

We won’t have our troubles to seek, as we’ll be fighting on two fronts, for its very unlikely that Sturgeon will do what we elected her for, and that’s hold an indyref this year she’s had years to do so, but she didn’t even attempt to find a way to hold one, nor does she look like she will, its all talk in an election year from her as usual.

Mr Keatings S30 court case might shine a light on whether or not we need it, and Sturgeon and hopefully her nasty wee hubby, might also find themselves out of a job this year, I do hope both result go our way.

Beautiful but heart wrenching cartoon, Chris. You look at it and immediately feel the contrasting warmth emanating from the EU building and the coldness and shadows outside. It is not just visual. It is a sensation that you almost can feel it in your own skin. Clearly you have been blessed with an amazing talent.

But sadly your cartoon is incomplete. You are missing some of the most crucial characters on it. You are missing the betrayers from the SNP who, for the sake of gaining political/gravy train or career points, or for the sake of stopping MI5 releasing their skeletons from the closet (chose the option that convince you the most), allowed that gate to close on Hamish after 4.5 years of prevarication and after giving legitimacy to this terrible deal by taking their seats in Westminster during a vote that Scotland should have never been part of.

Those are the same betrayers who are dragging out Hamish kicking and screaming and throwing him out in the cold because they deliberately chose to do absolutely nothing to stop any of it.

You are also of course missing the scene of those betrayers handing Hamish most precious belongings to John Bull so he can sell them at his own leisure ad for his own exclusive benefit.

Happy New Year to everyone. Here is to hope that those betrayers are ejected from their seats and replaced with someone who really has Scotland’s interests at heart rather than just a comfortable seat in the gravy train, and who really means to pursue independence when they ask for a mandate to deliver it.

Boaby
Yes Boaby we are a country with no rights and a rapidly disapearing identity.
When people around the world think of Denmark, Norway or NZ they think of them as countries with their own governments making the decisions, their own armed forces etc, and are respected as such.
Now with that in mind imagine replacing Scotland with one of these countries and consider how England would regard them in terms of treatment and respect.
Our status as a country over the past 300 years has been delibetately reduced to that of a mere region of the UK while England has relentlessly promoted itself especially since the advent of television and internet.
We have a very short time to change that.

Guid craic fae Angus.

link to twitter.com

The leader of Scotland says today to the EU ” well be back soon” when and how no one knows including Nicola Sturgeon, the woman who cried wolf to many times and to be honest I wouldn’t trust her with the keys to my home never mind my country. Scotland is the only nation within the whole of the UK state not to have got a single thing from voting No to brexit, every other country has gotten something out of Brexit even Gibraltar with an area of 6.7 km² and a population of 32,000 but I’m sorry the idea of Nicola Sturgeon for another 5yrs in may fills me with complete fear for my country. I’m sorry but I just don’t fell like saying happy new year because what is there to be happy about and we have nothing to look forward to apart from more broken promises and meaningless words from a woman I’ve come to despise.

Very apt Chris.

A good New Year to one and all

This is a very interesting tweet from Craig Murray.

“A (non-British) senior MEP, a friend for 25 years, just told me he has been approached to make a statement saying the EU would recognise an Independent Scotland, but only if the referendum process is agreed by Westminster.”

“He said he replied he would be happy with the first bit..”

link to mobile.twitter.com

“but only if the referendum process is agreed by Westminster”

Isn’t that in direct contravention of articles 2, 4 and 5 of the UN “Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples” charter?

“Article 2. All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development”

By demanding that Westminster agrees when they know Westminster will not agree is at all practical effects denying Scotland its right to self determination

“Article 4. All armed action or repressive measures of all kinds directed against dependent peoples shall cease in order to enable them to exercise peacefully and freely their right to complete independence, and the integrity of their national territory shall be respected”

Isn’t the demand of agreement by a foreign entity and their intrusion and intervention in the process itself a repressive measure?

“Article 5. Immediate steps shall be taken, in Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or colour, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom”

Demanding the cooperation of an uncooperative foreign entity with vested interests in Scotland is not taking immediate steps to demand the transfer of powers. It is imposing a condition and reservation that goes against our freely expressed will to have a referendum when we gave the SNP a mandate for it in 2016.

I do not think this is a question of either/or British state/ Sturgeon’s government. My bet is that it is both. I think they are both colluding in denying us our right to self determination. The political conspiracy against Mr Salmond and the response of Sturgeon’s government to the Keatings’ case is the best evidence yet.

Happy New Year Wingers.

A proactive 2021 will make a big difference to the indy cause. Our idea of proactive that is, not Sturgeon’s fake version.

Happy New Year Stu and all BTL.

2020 (and all the missed opportunities afforded The SNP by Brexit) is now behind us.

2021 is a New Year and all opportunities for Independence will have to be grasped by the Grassroots – 2020 has shown us this.

@ BDTT: thank you for the Corries link – wonderful to hear the truth and illustrated by film of real ordinary people [though mostly men!].

Happy New Year to all the decent, honest folk on this site – and to the Rev for persisting in telling the truth no matter what.

But we must work and force change on those in power in the SNP – shift those complicit MSPs who are too nervous to push the FM off her s30 route and all the other distractions and malpractices.

Britain isn’t a country its a state and Scotland is already recognized as a country even by our masters so for the British state to deny Scotland as a country they would have to deny England is a country as well and I’m sure the unionist wouldn’t even go there that would be the end of the Union for sure. SO it doesn’t really matter what the EU says I’m not that bothered, what is Important is what the Scots say and at the moment where being denied that voice by the SG and the UK government so the Scots are fighting two Unionist leaders Sturgeon and Johnston my bet is on a hero in my opinion Martin J Keatings winning his case in January just watch the disappointment on Sturgeon face if Martin does win.

” For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. ” .TS Eliot . Hoping this year will see less in-fighting and more collective fighting spirit , we must not let our internal disagreements destroy our external aspirations or the failings of our woeful ” leadership ” determine our future .

Breeks says:
1 January, 2021 at 8:14 am
“We could sit chewing the fat, and having online workshops teaching people to repurpose the voting slips we no longer have any use for. Nothing as seedy as wiping your arse with it. – There would be instruction courses in traditional paper doilies, aeroplanes and concertina snowflakes of course, but if funding allowed it, there’d be nothing to stop us inviting a Grand Master in Origami all the way from Japan to teach us how to make something spectacular and maybe even functional.”

I can fashion water b*mbs and ninja stars from squares of paper.

Interesting article on BBC news website. In 2005 the Scottish Government cabinet discussed the Ferguson shipyard. They had given a Polish yard a contract and therefore had to deal with redundancies at Ferguson’s. What is surprising (well not really) about the article is that they do not say which party was in government. No mention of Labour/Lib or McConnell.

@Dan says:
1 January, 2021 at 10:35 am
“And how come in Tier 4 lockdown we’ve not got the previous one way systems back in the supermarket isles. Has the new virus strain adapted and is now able to tae reverse.”

CO-OP does where I live, and people are following the arrows, probably because they lead to the booze aisles…

@Robert Hughes. You’re right. Whatever problems we have, we can overcome them with the right attitude. If leadership needs to change, it will.
It’s all in the hands of the people.
2021 is not like 2015. One year after the Indyref was too soon for the general public though not for YES campaigners IMO.
The dam will burst.
We need to keep our focus and stay united.

New Year

I see India is wanting as much of the english rat’s pish Oxford vaccine as it can sell them.

Well who’d a guessed that?

In my comment
MSM propaganda comparing Scotland with Albania should off course be with A.l.b.a.n.i.a.
Stu has a filter which caught me.

I fear it’s too late. The British State was weak for a while but not anymore. Stammer has Boris’s back and we have missed our chance for a long time. I’m beginning to believe I will never see independence. There was never a better chance to strike than while the UK was distracted and split on Brexit but the SNP did Nothing and are still doing Nothing.

What on earth is the strategy ?

All they care about is poll results and getting re-elected in May.

Johnston et al will be coming for Holyrood. They will have to destroy it because so long as Scots have their own parliament they know they are being run from the country next door. Destroy Holyrood and wrap Scotland in a Union Jack, that will be their plan.

Nicola is not up to the fight and as long as she is leader we are stuffed. And equally stuffed if she stands down and someone like Angus Robertson takes her place.

Do the SNP MPs and MSPs realise this? Are they putting party loyalty ahead of independence. Will any of them stand up and change the direction ?

We urgently need something to change. But even then whatever happens it’s going to be a much harder fight than it might have been and I fear we’ve missed the tide.

Surely Sturgeon has to make some kind of political statement next week regarding our dramatic change in circumstances.

She has to drop the “Queen Covid” persona for at least one day next week and update Scotland on this new world she has dragged us into

Here’s hoping the wee bastard catches a fatal dose of the very virus she loves spouting about.

The very virus that she says will hold up everything until it is defeated.

Or some shite like that.

Thanks to Brexit the Oxford vaccine has, among a host of other novelties, a Union Jack protein in its doubled stranded DNA.
All it takes is a wee prick…
and adopting an appropriately supine demeanor…
and before long you’ll be swinging from branch to branch with the best of them.
…Britons never will be slaves…Oo! Oo! Oooo!
See ya down the zoopark.

I was in George Sq last night for the Bells.

And I was looking over at the old GPO building, which got me thinking of the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin.

They were literally fighting and dying for their freedom from english rule in their Dublin GPO.

And I asked myself, how many Scots would fight and die for Scottish freedom in our Glasgow GPO???

And my own answer didn’t fill me with hope for the fight ahead.

Scots are just too nice, whether in life in general or in Holyrood or in Westminster.

We never fight dirty, that is why the english bastards find it so easy to roll right over the top of us.

And as for Sturgeon saying she couldn’t fight for Independence during a Covid crisis,,,check out the year of the Easter Uprising,,,it was 1916,,, I’m sure some other event was taking place around the world in that year.

So fuck off Sturgeon with your “can’t do two things at once” bullshit.

Sturgeon spouting Daddy Bears pish today, with the “Keep a light on for Scotland” aimed at the EU. She’s had four years to organise an indyref, Salmond left her on 45% all she needed was a 6% swing and Brexit gave her that but she failed miserably to act on it.

Instead she pursued her own devious goals, including fitting up an ex-FM, and attempting to prosecute an ex-British ambassador for exposing it, she also endorsed by doing nothing about it, the GRA bill, Self-Id, and the Hate Crime bill all very unpopular with the public and the renowned international community.

She’s cost the Scottish taxpayer over £500,000 pounds, due to her tainted process and a couple of million more on lawyers to cover her tracks which hasn’t managed and sacked no one involved in the fiasco.

Sturgeon and her sidekick the Lord Advocate have also attempted to hinder a private citizen (Mr Keatings) form discovering if we actually need an S30, a job the Scottish government should’ve done years ago themselves.

Then there’s the ringfenced indy funds, which the SNP swears blind are there to be used at a moments notice for an indyref, yet the very late published SNP accounts by the EC shows that the SNP are skint, with no indy funds in sight, all that was visible is the SNP grasping at Westminster Short money and small mediocre donations.

Finally we had Sturgeon and Murrell, and a few other in her clique, throw everything but the kitchen sink (Not the truth) at the inquiry to save their miserable lying hides. Now an election is on the horizon the usual dross is emanating from her and the other SNP politicians (not all) hoping to keep their hefty salaries keep coming.

Sturgeon and her clique even changed the rules to stop MP Joanna Cherry from standing in Edinburgh, incase she won and managed to forward the case for independence.

I’ve nothing but contempt for that woman now, and when we get shot of her I’ll remember her not for the competent policies that she brought to Scotland, but for her lying, backstabbing, sleekitness and hindering Scottish independence.

A link would nice eh.

link to thenational.scot

Ian Brotherhood says

What exactly is it that you are calling into question about the science behind vaccinations? There are several scientists on here that could possibly address your concerns? From my perspective, you seem to be getting very frustrated with some issues that might be fairly easily addressed?

@Hamerdoon (2.23) –

link to corbettreport.com

Ian Botherhood,

I’m not a fan of stuff like “covid is just an excuse to take away our civil liberties” ravings but if you can find stuff that takes the politics out of the science then more power to you.

That Pfizer is recommending the interval be weeks not months is really useful to know as the ability of politicians to fuck things up, even after nearly a year, knows no limits.

At last, one of our tinfoiled friends has put a couple of ideas on the table;

“it is being used to cow us into terrified obedience and divide us into ” Believers ” and ” Non-Believers” whilst filling the already overflowing coffers of corporations…”

The fact is the government tried to convince us that coronavirus was nothing to worry about for the vast majority, it was like the flu, and they were happy to let it flow through the herd with little concern for anything but the pace. Of course, that’s an uncomfortable truth for those here today who share a lack of regard for human life – it puts you in the same side as Boris and Trump, not to mention Leitch and Sturgeon.

The idea that corporations generally are making rather than losing money here is frankly as ridiculous as the idea that the earth is flat. Some are, of course, but the vast majority are screaming for government handouts to keep them afloat. Whole industries, aviation, oil, car manufacturers, to name a few, are on their knees.

I’ve noticed a shift of emphasis amongst our humanity-denying friends, away from questioning the dangerousness of the virus itself towards questioning the efficacy of the vaccine. I can see why.

Just two weeks ago they were quoting the crank Yeadon who was saying the pandemic was over and that London had achieved herd immunity… how foolish does Yeadon look today? Not the toast of London, I’d imagine.

Here’s the bottom line that you will struggle to find on the MSM or anywhere. Two of the new variants are hitting younger people much harder than the original strain. They’re also super infectious. The South African variant in particular is very serious.

There’s nothing to stop this mutating into a virus that kills all age groups fast, just like the mutant strain of what we call Spanish flu (misleadingly referred to as the second wave) which killed within 24 hours once symptoms appeared.

All we have going for us that they didn’t have in 1918 is our science, science that people on here are so casually dismissing and denying. Spanish Flu killed about 50 million people – have you any idea what percentage of the much smaller world population that was and what the equivalent would be today?

We have a resident blackbird, and a resident robin in our garden. My wife provides them with sultanas on a tray. The blackbird guards the tray to prevent the robin having a share.The wee robin uses it’s wits, is patient, and ultimately gains it’s meagre share.

As humans, endowed, arguably, with self-awareness we should be better in our behaviour than the behaviour of the blackbird, but no, we often share similar traits.

If I chose to knock the door of each neighbour in my home owner housing estate and asked their views on Brexit I feel sure I’d experience indifference.Why? Well my neighbours are doing quite well thank you. A few with uni-aged kids may be aware and vexed about Erasmus, a few who have regular European holidays vexed.

You see, just as our blackbird doesn’t want for sultanas, my neighbours are doing quite well. The robin? he has to use his wits to survive as best he can, like folks on universal credit, zero hour contracts.

The greedy blackbird doesn’t need the robin and so can ignore it’s hunger.

Westminster and the Tories behave as blackbirds.

Re. Talk on Pfizer vaccine. It is to do with the change in procedure of the timings between the first and second doses.
Effectively that is voiding or ignoring the delivery practice the vaccine was licensed under.
Potential can of worms as I understand consent was given by those that received the first jab on the basis that the licensed delivery terms would be followed.
Plus if anything untoward arises from deviating from licensed use guidelines, what would that mean in terms of liability for those that facilitated the off label use.

@Mia, I don’t know what kind of specs you were wearing when you viewed the Cairnstoon today but to me the EU building doesn’t look too inviting or friendly.

Ottomanboi said earlier up thread that today should be a day of rage and he’s right, it should be but Mr Cairns has portrayed Angus well as Scots personified. Angus isn’t being dragged out he’s not even on a leash in fact he’s following along quite complacent albeit with a wistful backward glance. John Bull isn’t even watching what he’s doing.

Go back, take another look and imagine a wee speech bubble above Angus, in it are the words ‘Ah well’ and I think that would just about sum up the scots reaction to today.

Something I learned about artists and cartoonists in particular is that a lot of things can be in their work without them even realising, I don’t know where Mr Cairns is at with the one above but if you’re reading this I’ll finish by saying that I enjoy your work, I like your style and don’t stop. Thanks.

Ah the hackneyed old ” tin foil hat ” dismissal Hatuey . I expected better from you . Believe whatever you like , I would just remind you of how WMDs were used to justify the invasion and subsequent destruction of Iraq , with zero consequences for the lying bastards that brought that hell to the people of Iraq , do you think the same bastards wouldn’t exploit this situation to their own advantage ?

Dave Somerville.

Wit? Like reasons? Wit has any post I’ve made praise NS?

If yir in a boozer soon, let me ken where and when and we can discuss it. If it’s too far south then am no coming.

@Hamerdoon & Hatuey –

The link I posted above, which has now appeared here several times, explains the difference between ‘this drug has been tested’ and ‘this drug is being tested’.

There is no ‘politics’ involved here.

AYRSHIRE ROB

Are you sittin beside yer burd as you type???

“A’ll show him hen”

Don’t die protecting your wee hero Sturgeon,,,it would be such a waste.

Now, put the wine gums away and go and play with the toys Santa brought you, Fanny Bawz.

I have the 1812 Overture running through my head from that. Must have reminded me of Napoleon’s Retreat From Moscow.

When he got back to Paris he found all his former European vassals had asserted their independence again and were raising new armies. His crowned relatives were turfed out as well.

Then he marched out to meet his Waterloo.

There’s an allegory waiting to be drawn from that I think.

the music in my head is nearly at the cannon.

Watched a video there of a celebration in George Sq when Thatcher died.

The crowd were singing,,,

“Ding Dong the witch is Dead”.

Looking forward to a repeat performance once Scotland’s very own version of Thatcher drops dead, accidentally or otherwise.

Nae hurry Nikla, but this side of May would be much appreciated,ta.

Ian, you might have expressed this simple point earlier. Nobody here or anywhere to my knowledge has suggested that the new vaccine has undergone the test of time that vaccines would normally require.

I suppose what you think of the vaccine is going to depend largely on how dangerous you think the disease itself is. I think it’s very dangerous and because I think that I’m happy to be more relaxed about the testing regime – most medical professionals think the same.

I’ve never been dismissive of deaths amongst older people either. Some day we will all be old and, assuming I have my faculties, I expect that I will still value living when I’m older. I think the way deaths amongst older people have been discussed and deemed acceptable throughout this pandemic has been shocking and disgraceful, the most disturbing aspect of all.

Just seen the words “WE ARE ONE” 2021
was Put up above the iconic Forth Rail Bridge?

We have a supposed Scottish Independence majority
In Holyrood and they don’t want to promote we are Two,
We are different, we want our independence!

To quote Queen Betty’s favourite song-
One isn’t the One, One wants- oooh ooh ooh!

Renewables

Death comes to us all , one way or another.

If an individual is holding up the process of my country becoming an independent nation, then I want that individual removed as soon as possible.

Whether they die of Covid19 or get knocked down by one of their own limousines, I don’t care, just as long as they are removed.

Wishing death on anyone is not a good look, Dave. Apart from anything else, it is a publicly accessible forum and you are offering our enemies an open goal with daft posts like that. If it was my blog any posts that could – no matter how twistedly – be construed as death threats or incitement to violence would be removed.

If Sturgeon has misled, dissemble or in any other way blocked our path then she may no longer be fit for office, but death would not become her!

@Scots Renewables,

Agreed.

Bill Gates on truth and lies.
link to gatesnotes.com
And the fantasy world of his mate Yuval Noah Hariri put under the microscope.
link to haaretz.com
But great vaccinator Bill simply loves it!
Wasn’t there a guy called David Icke who also went in for this stuff?

Muscleguy @ 3.38/Lochside @ 3.33

I have Finlandia by Sibelius rinnin throu ma heid, which interestingly is also linked to the matter of media control by an imperial oppressor:

“The piece was composed for the Press Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from the Russian Empire.. In order to avoid Russian censorship, Finlandia had to be performed under alternative names at various musical concerts.”

Ian Brotherhood says:
1 January, 2021 at 3:26 pm
@Hamerdoon & Hatuey –

Is it the length of the testing process that causes apprehension?
Is it the fact that it’s an mRNA approach?

Without knowing your specific issues it is difficult to see how anyone can address your concerns.

Happy New Year all wingers.

People still praising speeches, which mean bugger all.

SNP politicos, this is the year vote for us, get an S30, Boris won’t refuse.
They are either deluding themselves or are hoping we’ll fall for their promises again.

Unless there is a change of management, plebiscite election, I will not vote SNP for the 1st time in decades.

I will vote ISP on the list and consider any Independent candidate for constituency.

Dave Somerville
Your posts wishing death on anyone are stupid, vile and brainless in that they can be used by those opposing independence as as evidence of the malevolence of inde supporters.
Maybe that’s your plan.

Re Covid Vaccine ,

I don’t want to get involved in the discussion whether you are for or against the vaccine . I have it on good authority that the reason for delaying the 2nd dose of the vaccine by the English Government is that they don’t have enough medical staff to administer the vaccine .

Regards this vaccine shit.

For a start I will not be putting that english rat’s pish Oxford vaccine in me.

I’ll leave that shit for India to buy up.

The Pfizer makers have said a 12 week gap is too long and will probably make their vaccine as good as useless.

So summing up,,, I’ll give all this vaccine shit a miss.

@ cynicalhighlander

I was getting more of a Ronald Fraser vibe masel. 😉

Happy New Year to the Rev and everyone on here. Here’s hoping the coming year brings real progress towards Independence and a future full of promise.

Ho,shitface Highlander
Want to say anything to me cunt
Come on let’s fucking have yah wanker
And that’s being nice

Breeks says: at 1:50 pm

“Here’s another SNP tosser at it… “Now let’s move forward!” Now???

link to twitter.com”

Well, with the winter solstice not long past, we await the warming soils spring will bring, so “now” is indeed the time to be spreading their manure, for it will give fertility to the soil which will assist the germination of their soon to be proffered seeds for growing what has become the annual mandate crop.

Her cult followers believe she sells sanctuary.. others believe she’s merely punting carrots…

To suggest the SNP has let Scotland down is to badly understate the case, as they have done just about everything they could do to undermine the potential for justice in and for Scotland.

The emergence of intersectional disadvantage
link to eprints.lse.ac.uk

“Intersectionality theory explores the peculiar disadvantages that arise as the result of occupying multiple disadvantaged demographic categories. Addressing intersectionality theory through quantitative methods has proven difficult. Concerns have been raised about the sample size one would need in order to responsibly tease out evidence for the claims of intersectionality theorists.

What is more, theorists have expressed concern about our ability to formulate novel intersectional hypotheses in a non-ad-hoc manner. We argue that simulation methods can help address these, and other, methodological problems, because they can generate novel hypotheses about causal dependencies in a relatively cheap way, and can thus guide future empirical work. We illustrate this point using models which show that intersectional oppression can arise under conditions where social groups are disadvantaged in the emergence of bargaining norms.

As we show, intersectional disadvantage can arise even when actors from all social categories are completely identical in terms of preferences and abilities. And when actors behave in ways that reflect stronger intersectional identities, the potential for disadvantage increases. As we note, this exploration illustrates the usefulness of idealized models to real world inquiry.”

I would like to wish stu an every one here a happy healthy and prosperous new year. I raise a cup o kindness to you all.

Hi Dan says at 5:52 pm.

You typed,
“Well, with the winter solstice not long past, we await the warming soils spring will bring, so “now” is indeed the time to be spreading their manure, for it will give fertility to the soil which will assist the germination of their soon to be proffered seeds for growing what has become the annual mandate crop.”

That reminded me of this…

The Plan
In the beginning, there was a plan, And then came the assumptions, And the assumptions were without form, And the plan without substance,? And the darkness was upon the face of the workers, And they spoke among themselves saying, ”It is a crock of shit and it stinks.”
And the workers went unto their Supervisors and said, ”It is a pile of dung, and we cannot live with the smell.”
And the Supervisors went unto their Managers saying, ”It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, Such that none may abide by it.”
And the Managers went unto their Directors saying, ”It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide by its strength.”
And the Directors spoke among themselves saying to one another, ”It contains that which aids plants growth, and it is very strong.”
And the Directors went to the Vice Presidents saying unto them, ”It promotes growth, and it is very powerful.”
And the Vice Presidents went to the President, saying unto him, ”This new plan will actively promote the growth and vigor of the company with very powerful effects.”
And the President looked upon the Plan And saw that it was good, And the Plan became Policy.

And this, my friend, is how shit happens.