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Ooft! Brutal.
Yes gender ID the SNP own it fair enough, but pass Independence to someone else that wants to delivery it.
You’ll have to dip your hand into the pants to get it.
Not so keen on it now?
He was all over the telly news last night, kept thinking : what did Pitlochry do to deserve this? How much buttsex can the retired rural types take?
Tremendous actor though, what a range, all the way from camp to mincing and then to screaming; he is odds on for Frank n Furter if its ever remade
– but he never topped the artistic zenith of “the high life” for me.
Alan has never topped anyone, for he strictly a bottom darling.
“How much buttsex can the retired rural types take?”
Belter ;-))
A heck of a lot less than Confused, hunched over his keyboard, can think about and take the time and effort to post about on here.
Of that we can be certain.
The Pied Piper of Pitlochry in all his glory .
The first poster rough, Rev.?
Will the second be the Andrew formerly known as Prince?
I *was eating my lunch…
Gonnae no da that!
I like Mr Cummings promoting independence and hope for voters from all orientations
but I believe that poster will not attract the majority of potential voters.
How frustrating that no one at SNP can see the finely detailed explanation of both votes SNP automatically gives the Unionist Parties extra seats.
It actually puts the brain dead conservative Annie Wells a stake in your future.
Have one more go Mr Swinney at reading the Rev’s explanation of why we don’t give both votes SNP. Please.
“all orientations”
Ooft!
Such dry wit.
Not a patch on James Kelly’s efforts on Gaza Goes Pop. He seems to have developed a new obsession though and is stalking Farage instead.
Well Done David!
SAS has reallt let herself go! And she a diplomate in public relations from QMU!
Good god Shirley Anne Somerville has let herself go.
Needed cheering up and your comment has certainly done that!
Shirley Anne Somerville is enough to make a hetrosexual white male pick up his bat and cross the court to the dark side!
“Shirley Anne Somerville has let herself go.”
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Don’t be unkind.
She’s having a bad hair day.
I wish Shirely Anne SHIT FOR BRAINS Somerville to have every day as a bad day
Both scrotes SNP
🙂
I see he’s secured 3m for Pitlochry FT(not a bad thing in itself to be fair) so that he and his pals can straddle the boards.
Meanwhile actual Scottish based Theatre companies with a fantastic creative track record are forced to (unsuccesfully) prostrate themselves at the feet of Creative Scotland due to being insufficiently diverse.
This one is from Patrick Harvies collection.
The terrible reality may be that the SNP actually reflects modern Scotland.
Work those heels Jimmie rather than wha daur meddle wi me….
Meine Dame und Herren…….tho’ without the caustic political satire.
The terrible reality is the SNP reflect themselves and nothing else. The real Scotland is all around all the time.
And yet most of the polls are predicting a narrow SNP win at HR in May 2026.
Looks like the “real Scotland” continues to love the SNP.
Perhaps we Scots are simply in love with failure and the SNP satisfies that deep urge in us to right royally fuck things up.
Oh come on, Mark!
They reflect the Greens too. 😉
You even said it in your previous post.
It’s a rare-ish day when I find myself in most certain disagreement with Turabdin.
Excellent mock up Poster.
“We’re tired.” say the SNP.
Yes, you are very, very tired and as Mr Kipling might say, exceedingly tiring.
Bring on the demolition squads, the wrecking balls, the monster trucks with mechanical grabbers, the dust suppression hose . . . until this entire rotting edifice is levelled, nothing else can be built in its place.
Only then can the architects, cement mixers, shuttering experts, scaffie crews, brickies, plumbers, joiners and sparks roll in to the site and start the painstaking rebuilding.
*I’m sure I’ve missed out a few trades there, but you get my drift.
“missed out a few trades there”
Also missed out the stipulations there are to be nae Polish cants or any other race – Sovereign Scots only.
And nae meritocratic selection or promotion based on the “alien value systems of the coloniser”.
All communications on site, whether verbal or written, to be in the Scots language.
Policed and enforced by Professor Baird and his enthusiastic gestapo of otherwise unemployable headcases.
Sure, none of us will ever live to see its completion, but we can’t stint when ideological purity is the primary consideration.
“I have never heard anybody contend that Scottish Independence can be achieved through the United Nations without support for it in Scotland. That is a ludicrous Aunt Sally that is used to denigrate what I am doing at the UN in combination with Liberation Scotland and Salvo.”
link to craigmurray.org.uk
“I have never heard anybody contend that Scottish Independence can be achieved through the United Nations without support for it in Scotland.”
Eh… me neither.
Although at one time, before I knew better how the UN works, I did hope that Mr Murray might just nip over to New York in the morning (at his own expense, of course), hand Scotland’s petition to be recognised as a non-self-governing territory tae the nice wee lassie at the United Nations front desk, and hae Scotland declared independent afore he got aff the plane back hame that same nicht.
I’m struggling to find a point, any point at all, that might be woven through this cryptic comment.
“how the UN works’
Have you tried the elevators or the speakers prompt?
Nothing works in the UN they’re all on benefits. That’s why kranky wanted to join.
“I’m struggling to find a point, any point at all, that might be woven through this cryptic comment”
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There is nothing remotely cryptic about it.
Anyone who doubts you are struggling need only refer to your comments in the previous post.
“But once Scottish Independence is declared in Scotland, we are going to need the support of the international community.
I have never believed that London will willingly relinquish Scotland’s resources, and I still do not believe it.
Independence will have to be achieved in the teeth of London opposition, through robust assertion and control at home and recognition abroad.
Here the work at the UN is vital.
link to craigmurray.org.uk
I have never believed that the UN would deliver Independence at a stroke, BUT, there is a silver bullet of sorts, and that is an international legal interpretation of Scotland’s Constitutional Sovereignty.
If Scotland can demonstrate the Treaty of Union is unsound in law, and always has been, that transforms UK Sovereignty into “disputed” UK Sovereignty, and becomes a major pain in the arse for the UK to navigate around.
The UN don’t need to recognise Scotland as an Independent state in order to recognise there is a major, existential flaw with the UK’s formal constitution, and by implication, a history of colonial exploitation.
For example, if there is even a question about sovereign ownership of Scotland’s oil, there are Day 1 implications for those who habitually buy, sell, and profit from Scotland’s oil.
Disputed UK Sovereignty becomes an existential crisis for the UK, because the UK will be required to pit the UK’s jerry-built version of constitutional sovereignty against Scotland’s own constitutional sovereignty.
Scotland can be traced back to it’s origin with centuries of formal and undisputed recognition as one of the oldest Nations on earth.
The UN won’t deliver Independence, but it can and will provide the boxing ring where we can fight for it, with rules, on the strength of recognised legitimacy of legal principle.
To my eye, Scotland’s long and well documented history as an honourable sovereign Nation will do very well against the Ye-Olde-Worde royal fag packet which the Treaty of Union was worked out on.
Scotland’s sovereign constitution can and will survive minute scrutiny and trial by test case. Do you think the UK’s will?
If Scotland ever was a Nation where the people, (as averred in the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath and subsequently recognised by the Pope in 1328), could replace a rogue or dud monarch with a better one, then the people are sovereign by definition, not the monarch, and the all powerful Church formally recognised it as so.
So, if you want to combine the sovereignties of Scotland and England into one, then the instruction book says you need to join Kingdom “A” where only the Monarch is sovereign, with a Kingdom “B” where everbody EXCEPT the monarch is sovereign, and pretend you can’t see the join. Err… how do you physically do that?
Show me the instrument, the proof, the document, whereby the sovereign birthright of every Scottish citizen both alive and yet to be born, was somehow removed.
Spoiler alert, it never was.
This from an article on Craig Murray’s website:
“At the UN Security Council, the UK permanent seat was already on a shoogly peg.
Scottish Independence gives it a tug.
The world is cheering.”
Thanks to Cynicus for posting the initial link.
I’ve repeated it below with the title of the piece.
UN Reform and Scottish Independence
Sounds like the ground is being prepared for shipping the surviving ham assholes here.
Give them ten years to dig a network of tunnels under Glasgow and then the campaign can start in earnest.
Don’t let them see pics like the one above. They might start to question just what kind of “lassies” will be entertaining them underground.
“UN Reform and Scottish Independence”
I have long been cognisant of the carpet baggers who have “embraced” the cause of Indy only as a preliminary stepping stone en route to the implementation of their own personal agenda, but as an outstanding example of brazen chutzpah this one sweeps the board.
Was there ever a people so cursed with useful idiots as the Scots?
“Dogs get more information from sniffing another dogs arse than humans get from BBC news”
True.
Unfortunately.
The United Nations is the Titanic of gravy boats that just hit a Trumpberg! and there’s not enough lifeboats.
Didn’t take long for the low rent trolls to come out today.
But back to topic the headline, the photo reflects very much how the pantomime dame party operates. But here’s a thought to rumble through one’s napper.
Imagine the above picture depicting a certain Mr Cummings and then picture who else could dress like that, or even surreptitiously dress like that under the suit shirt and tie.
John Swinney, perish the thought came to mind. Black suspenders and stocking under the suit whilst performing at Hollyrood.
Or what about his predecessor. White sussies, white stocking, white high heels, he does have a history in matters female and of course white, white, white might not be his Bette Noire. And then of course there is one Angus Robertson. Could it be possible to picture him in the leiderhosen and jack boots.
Ah, just a bit of grim mockery that could well be applied to many of them in our esteemed Scottish Nonce Party.
Off to lie down, before I think of Herr Sturgeon, Starting to feel quite ill.
Ma napper IS rumbling.
Oh, my internal eyes.
I canny NOT see that now.
Those in power are usually SUBS, are they not?
I picture Angus in a nappy.
Hummy in a gimp suit, a la Pulp Fiction basement.
You could be right about John. A secret AGP.
Photo of a Reeperbahn reject ?
The film “Ship of Fools” comes to mind and one of the songs in it “Heute Abend geh’n wir bummeln auf der Reeperbahn”, sang by José Ferrer and Christiane Schmidtmer
As opposed to the film “Cabaret” The Emcee, the Master of Ceremonies and he ain’t no Joel Grey…..
link to google.com
Ship of Fools aptly describes NuSNP…..
I’m hearing you, Fearghas.
The 1950s film “I am a Camera” based, like Cabaret, on the Isherwood novel Goodbye to Berlin, was broadcast in Talking Pictures 2 or 3 nights ago.
I apologise Stu to your post, so my interruption will be brief to ask a question,
In Salvo and liberate Scotland, it was noted that the Charter for BBC was under (English Law ) not UK law, which I found strange if Scotland is to pay a licence fee.
Today in the AA insurance details, it also states that the insurance is also under ( English law ) not UK law,
So what is happening behind the scenes to Documents covering Scotland?
And is anyone else aware of these subtle changes to other important documentation papers?
Finally does (English law ) not (UK law) apply to Scotland?
“it was noted that the Charter for BBC was under (English Law ) not UK law, which I found strange if Scotland is to pay a licence fee.”
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AI Overview
The statement is inaccurate;
the BBC Charter is a UK-wide legal document, not solely based on English law. While the Charter is granted by the monarch and is a matter for UK-wide law, its constitutional basis applies to the BBC’s operations across the United Kingdom.
Legal Framework: The Charter operates within the legal framework of the United Kingdom. Its rules can be subject to change, and the BBC’s operations are also subject to specific UK legislation, such as the Communications Act 2003.
SCOTLANDSHIRE: BBC SCOTLAND COVERAGE OF THE INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM
By David Cromwell (Media Lens, 24 March 2014)
« The BBC’s ‘Amazing Litany’ Of Bias.
« Coverage of the Scottish independence referendum, due to be held on September 18 this year, is a compelling example of the deep establishment bias of the corporate media. Some critics have characterised the BBC’s coverage, in particular, as though Scotland is merely a region or a county of the United Kingdom called ‘Scotlandshire’.
« The establishment, pro-Union bias of ‘mainstream’ coverage emerges clearly from a careful analysis by an experienced media academic, and by the BBC’s reprehensible attempt to rubbish both the study and its author. The year-long study was conducted by a small team led by Professor John Robertson of the University of West Scotland. Between 17 September 2012 – 18 September 2013, the team recorded and transcribed approximately 730 hours of evening TV news output broadcast by BBC Scotland and Scottish Television (STV). The study concluded that 317 news items broadcast by the BBC favoured the ‘No’ campaign (i.e. no to Scottish independence) compared to just 211 favourable to the ‘Yes’ campaign. A similar bias in favour of the ‘No’ campaign was displayed by STV.
« Overall, there was a broadcaster bias favouring the ‘No’ campaign by a ratio of 3:2. In other words, there was 50 per cent more favourable coverage to the ‘No’ campaign.
« Professor Robertson told Media Lens that ‘more importantly’, there was also:
« ‘undue deference and the pretence of apolitical wisdom in [official] reports coming from London – the Office for Budget Responsibility and Institute for Fiscal Studies, for example; but, also, Treasury officials [were] presented as detached academic figures to be trusted.’ (Email, March 18, 2014)
« There was also a deep-rooted personalisation of Scottish independence by the broadcasters in their systematic conflating of the ‘wishes’ of Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister, with the aims and objectives of the ‘Yes’ campaign. This was not the case with media coverage of the ‘No’ campaign. The objectives of the ‘No’ Campaign were not routinely portrayed as the ‘wishes’ of Alastair Darling, leader of the ‘Better Together’ group campaigning to keep Scotland within the United Kingdom. »
Full (March 2014) MEDIA LENS article still online here:
link to medialens.org
One for the Harvie wank bank.
How much blustering are the SNP and the separate English parliament laws going to act out to ask for our vote,
We Scotland, simply do not appear to be in a treaty of union at all, and the SNP could leave the pretence.of the union,
The English laws being applied to Scotlands documents are out of sync with the treaty of union that is supposed to be a set of (united kingdoms laws.)
The BBC charter can take a long jump in Scotland while under English law surely.
We could, James Cheyne.
But we NEED a democratic implement.
We need a Political Party in Power who is behind the Manifesto For Independence, or something similar, in order to implement this.
We don’t have this.
We have squatting cuckoos in the nest.
All fat and feathered.
Until the cuckoos are turfed out the nest, the nest is of NO use to us.
SNP with a fast track abortion policy based on the gender of the child. What idiot is behind this?
Humza. Just another part of his progressive islamic takeover of Scottish Law.
The BBC Charter is a contractual agreement between the State, in this case the State of England, as it is under English law, and the BBC.
The BBC is one that charges a contract fee to the people of Scotland although it has to follow the behaviour regulations of England law.
What if Scotland stated No Contract due to it not being under Uk state law,
This is where the laws of Scotland need clarification. Just like abortion laws, Hate crime laws, euthenasia laws, gender laws, our laws V sharia laws, womens rights, men rights, police laws of policing by consent, full juries at trials, and the Scottish law of the right to privacy and data protection laws, the right to self defense,
Long term the SNP, the devolved government and the parties within are changing the laws of Scotland to foreign laws or English law.
It may start with the English laws on documents like the charter for the BBC or the AA documents, however what distance will it go prior to England allowing Sharia law to control the State/ Country and parliament of England.
Or before Scotland is taken down and curtailed by the SNP lack of free speech laws.
Are they Scots laws at all if passed by the Devolved governance under the (Scotland act ) from Westminster.
This needs a much wider lens to view the changes shifting the political and personal landscape of Scotland and its people.
So long as colonialism is allowed to continue, “the colonized are out of the game”, they are made into “bystanders” (Memmi).
Just imagine, Alf, if we proud, Sovereign Scots were to look outside the parochial borders of our own, wee, rather undistinguished country, and identify an exemplar of the anti-colonialist fight.
A country, nation and race of free, independent people striving with might and main to resist their rapacious, colonialist, imperialist neighbour next door.
Just think what we Scots could learn from their fight. Just think how grateful they would be and what staunch allies they would make for Scotland in our own struggle for Independence.
But naw. The usual suspects have never wavered in their fervent wish for their complete annihilation and the total victory of the imperialist, colonising aggressor.
Makes you think, eh, Alf?
Very true, Alf.
Hatey, I’m NOT going to ‘ignore’ the snideyness . . . why DO you have to be snide and disingenuous so often?
Anyhoo, Hatey, do you think the people of Hungary feel like mere bystanders because of their rapacious, colonialist, imperialist neighbours (in the EU)?
I don’t think they do because Orban has their back against the EU (which lost its way a long time ago and is no longer a trading block but a corrupt, globalist, colonialist power) onslaught of threats, manipulation, power plays etc.
Bring on the Hungarys.
Oi Scotland!
Jim Rogers on Capital Cosm today bemoaning the downfall of the American Empire & convo strolls into the collapse of the British Empire for the same reasons – bankruptcy.
0:59
“Margaret Thatcher was elected because Britain was bankrupt. Margaret Thatcher saved Britain. But what really saved Britain was the year Thatcher took power. 1979 was the year North sea oil started flowing. But Danny, IF YOU GIVE ME THE LARGEST OIL FIELD IN THE WORLD I’ll give you a very,very good time & all your friends too, everyone you know will all have a good time. That’s what happened to Britain. Thatcher took credit for saving Britain but it was NORTH SEA OIL that saved her & Britain”
FFS! God must really hate Scotland. Not only was Thatcher & her minions knts to Scots – but we bailed them out to keep this torturous Union going too! Smashing!
…& Then the maraschino cherry on top – we’re lumbered with the fecking feckless SNP & TRAs who’ve blown through mandates arguing about pronouns & the mentally ill.
In other news, these Eppy files are exploding all over the shop too. Rich wankers killing weans, satanic rituals, incest, ppl trafficking, pedos, drag, beastiality & blackmail & all through Freemasons, nobility & secret societies. The more corrupt politician you are the sicker they get & there’s apparently a tier system to elevate to the next level of depravity. Even Lords & Ladies trafficking their own children. That’s those “Western values” I guess. That “International community” We’ve all to pay homage to or we won’t get indy with bells on. It puts sleepy cuddles into fucking perspective amongst the yoons eh? Given what these freaks are doing on the daily.
They picked on the wrong Jurnos when they took out Charlie Kirk. Candace Owens is on fire destroying Tipping Point & all of its pretendy Christian Fundamentalist pastors who all have an uncanny link to the military who are surprisingly not MAGA after all. More MIGA lol & it’s all unraveling. I think we can add arranged marriages to that long list of depravity above. Innit strange – the Anglo & American & their forever wars in every country teaching values LMAO! They’ve always projected.
Check out Heretics – Anneke Lucas & the Elites Network too. Also chimes with what Whitney Webb has been saying for years. They’re normalising freak shows amongst the masses to pave the way for normalising sex with kiddies & every single institution is involved.
Anyhoo, when Jim Rogers can say we have one of the biggest oil fields in the world we should listen. While we’re living like the skint neighbour, austerity max & with a begging bowl – we’re busy funding their lavish lifestyle of shagging dead pig heads & fiddling with Lord & Lady Snots grand weans.
Oh, praise the skies, it’s back…
One way to ruin a pleasant Sunday morning.
Au contraire, CC.
To read Barbie conjuring one of the “biggest oil fields in the world” out of thin air at 1:41 AM on a Sunday morning is a source of intense delight.
The usual suspects have been a bit tired lately. The lunacy quotient has been flatlined for a while. It’s like even they recognise Indy can’t be found in crowdfunding grifters free tickets to the UN, or making common cause between Scotland and the ham asshole lassie torturers.
Good to see Barbs back and firing on one cylinder. It’s a good time for Wings BTL to bring us some pre-Xmas tonto cheer.
Keep em coming, Barbs! Gie’s a few posts aboot jenny side!
Oh there it is. The usual limies turning up spreading their toxins on a Scottish Independence forum.
No comments on the actual content of course. You should be mortified yer ruling elite, that you scumbags continually vote for, are a bunch of depraved, corrupt, Satan worshipping kiddie fiddlers with a posh accent. Whit kind of Eton pish is that? You’d think you’d get yer own house in order. Great news tho – yer bankrupt again. A run at two empires & still failed..lol Every cloud….
Hatey, projecting there again, it was nice of Trump to give head choppers a welcome at the White House & Starmer at Dowdy street eh? You can pipe down now about wee lassies & pedo rings. The English come top of the class. As for jenny side, here’s a good one for ya, China just torpedoed it’s funding…awwww…
“Limies”
You do realise, idiot, that the term “limies” also applied to Scots, right?
Unbelievable “fking” idiocy. I see your (no doubt enforced) period of absence hasn’t improved matters for you.
Cappy or from now on Yappy…
“I see your (no doubt enforced) period of absence hasn’t improved matters for you.”
Hate to disappoint you, Yappy. I’ve not been forced out of anywhere. I have a life outside of the Hatey & chums 24/7 yoon show.
I’ll bet in all that time I’ve been away tho – that you still can’t think of any benefits of the Union for Scots.
We all know the English benefit tho. Scotlands LARGEST OIL FIELD IN THE WORLD cause if anyone knows about oil & the markets it’s Jim Rogers & he’s never tired of telling us about Scotlands true wealth & most of it untapped.
Tick tock. Soon you’ll be enforced to pack up & leave just as you were everywhere else you colonised. The UN can’t stand you & there’s no free seat at the new World order for war criminals. BRICS don’t want you either. They don’t accept countries who illegally sanction others.
“I have a life outside of the Hatey & chums 24/7 yoon show”
Indeed, Barbs, and well done you. I’m sure you’re a great favourite at HMRC and nae cant has ever heard of you at Cornton Vale.
It’s a life where things start to quieten down for you around 3 AM. That defo reduces the options for any alert reader idly speculating about what your life might entail.
“I have a life etc”
Yeah, course you do. The kind of life that involves typing deranged mince at the void, well into the small hours of the morning whilst normal people are tucked up in bed.
Also, Brits don’t use the term “limey”, mate. Perhaps you’re lost?
Also, Brits don’t use the term “limey”, mate. Perhaps you’re lost?
I’m not a Brit, I’m a Scot… pal.
And from my foreign, Scottish, viewpoint of England and the English (also known as Britain, Brit and British) “limey” is a slang term for Brits and Brits is short for British and British is just another name for English.
Therefore, the English are also known as limeys.
England’s “you are all British – even if you aren’t” con-trick has been uncovered.
This is a forum on a website that is primarily about Scotland and the Scots.
Perhaps it is you, being a limey and all, who is lost.
I’ve decided that the term “limey” as slang for the English is too 19th century for modern eyes and ears.
The word also carries a faint whiff of insult about it and insulting the English is beneath me.
So instead, I’m going to use the term “Ugli Pomellos” (two very nice tang and tasty fruits which being likened to should be considered a compliment not an insult) as an affectionate verbalized or scribbled doun embrace of all that is English.
Yawn. Look, here’s Northcode flouncing about, inventing his own class of facts to anyone who’ll listen (i.e. no one), despite all the evidence to the contrary.
The term “limey” is AMERICAN slang for BRITISH people – including Scots – all as per bona fide online resources within 5 seconds reach to anyone with a brain. (Note the use of the term “bona fide” – which doesn’t include “Northcode” off the internet). So y’know, as insults go, it’s a massive self own, which should surprise precisely no one, and also likely indicate from whence such a comment hails from.
Your continued doubling down just looks more and more pathetic each time, which again, should surprise no one. Buzz off, troll.
“This is a forum on a website that is primarily about Scotland and the Scots”
Indeed, Northy, very well said.
And it’s never better, as you demonstrate over and over again, than when articles and posts are couched in the King’s English.
Keep them coming.
Incidentally, but related to correct, some would say competent, use of the King’s English, what are “very nice tang and tasty fruits”?
“buzz of, troll
In the eyes of God we are all trolls – aye, and sinners, tae… ugli pomello.
When I lived down there with our great illustrations leaders, Limey was an English insult & boy did they go aff it when it was ever mentioned, usually in response to someone being referred to as Taffy or Paddy. The English eh? Always great at the name calling. Not so great at receiving it.
It seems to have hit a nerve with you too. Well done me.
Off ya pop now, Limey…I’m sure you’ve other random words to go Google. Oh what joy!
“Tangy and tasty” has an extra syllable which I didn’t feel worked well in the sentence.
So I, very creatively, knocked the “Y” off tangy to get tang which I felt worked better in the alliterative line “tang and tasty” whilst retaining the essential root meaning of the word “tangy” in the single syllabled “tang”.
Anyway, “tang” is a real and dictionarified word (unlike dictionarified):
Tang (noun) – a strong taste, flavour, or smell:
e.g. “the clean salty tang of the sea”
Also, I was just trying to be a bit tang in cheek with my “tasty” comment.
*Illustrious.
Well, would you look at that, Google isn’t all that after all. It’s shite at predictive text as well as English insults.
Ah, c’moan noo, Geri.
I’m sure you’ve spent your entire life surrounded by illustrations. I’d wager big money that’s the only kind of printed matter you ever look at.
“So I, very creatively, knocked”
And the sprinklers have just gone off again. Must be the new conflagration in your breeks.
But congrats on another excellent post in the King’s English, Northy. Your contributions are coming on by leaps and bounds.
Ignore the ignorant cant shouting “Not before time!” at the back.
You take all the time you need. It’s not as if there is anything happening in Scotland that could interest the denizens of a place like this, eh?
“When I lived down there with our great illustrations leaders”
Er, what? Stick to “corn dogs” and Bud Lite mate.
For those putting their hopes into 2026 Local Elections being a plebiscite, be aware, that the work must be done before the ballot.
To stand a chance of success and have the result recognised, every Independentist candidate needs to stand on a single issue “a vote for me is a vote for Independence”. Full stop, nothing more, nothing less.
As soon as there is any more that that on their manifesto, then the ballot can no longer be considered as a specific and express desire for Independence; the intention is not explicit.
Separate parties isn’t really an issue, but if you want the vote recognised as a mandate for Independence, then that has to be made crystal clear to the voter well in advance. It should actually be happening already, before candidates are even announced.
Otherwise, I reckon there is zero chance of anybody recognising the result as a plebiscite. There is too much ambiguity about who or what people were voting for. The best result achievable will still be “inconclusive”.
6-7 Months out from the Local Elections, we have parties which won’t even speak to each other. Do you really expect a wave of unity to emerge in the time available?
Furthermore, the SNP is a prime example of a Party riding high on support for Independence, which has suffered no sanction or penalty for squandering and abandoning mandate after mandate, which begs the question, what does your vote actually mean in the UK, if it isn’t even respected as a binding contract for your candidate?
This contempt for the voter, and a fuzzy mandate that is subject to change or “open to interpretation”, is an everyday feature of a potentially corrupt top-down UK style democracy. The voting “subjects” are just marbles to be counted, not listened to… Once their cross is on the ballot in the ballot box, – fk the lot of ’em.
Any Scottish Referendum or Plebiscite on Independence should not demean itself with any dependency or exploitation of the rotten UK “system”, but stand apart, and be true to the principle of a Scottish ballot to determine what the sovereign people of Scotland want.
Why should we wait until May, or sync our Independence campaign to the UK’s schedule of elections? Why? Are we capable of independent thought but not action?
The terms “limie” and “limey” are very often confused, but, in fact, have very different meanings.
The nickname “limey” has its roots in the British – British is effectively another name for the English; although the Welsh, Northern Irish, and Scots are includied under the term when it suits English propoganda purposes – Navy during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Sailors on long voyages often suffered from scurvy due to a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables; essential sources of vitamin C.
However, in 1757 Scottish surgeon, James Lind, conducted experiments that demonstrated the effectiveness of citrus fruits, particularly lemons and limes, in preventing scurvy and so ‘British’ sailors were given citrus fruits as part of their diet leading to them being referred to as limeys.
Yet again Britain was saved from disaster – as has been so often the case throughout history – by the Scots.
The Scottish term “limie”, plural: “limies”, refers to those English colonialists (unionists if preferred… same thing) who inhabit a virtual land known as WoS.
The term is often used in a derogatory way owing to the infamous simple-mindedness and abrasive rude ‘wit’ of the “Wosingles” or “Woscolons” or “Wosonions” (emphasis on the Wos prefix) as they are also sometimes called due to their obsequious subservience to their master; the creator of WoS known by its colonist inhabitants as “The wizard of WoS”.
Geri used the Scottish term “limies” quite correctly in an earlier comment on this thread.
I shed no tears for the clapped out US of A. The future is Eurasian. Scotland? McCrone. Don’t get me started on monied evangelicals. One of them was at my door yesterday. Needless to say he got short shrift.
An odd situation, Marie.
He perhaps being aware that you are named after the Mother of God would have been receiving mixed messages.
As indeed is any educated Scot reading here, who will be only too aware of our long Scottish history and rich culture steeped in and inspired by the Christian religious tradition.
Hi Geri I see the fuckwits are lining up to bemoan your return of posting truth and EXPOSING their vile hatred of Scotland and Scots
I would say they are even coming out their caves in panic but the reality is the weeee corporal has fallen in love with James so much so that he keeps sending him love notes
The city trades in paper, “claims on wealth” which has to ultimately relate to “real wealth”; there has to be a link.
consider the US prints up paper dollars and goes around the world buying up real wealth; why does anyone put up with this? (BRICS see the scam and have their own solution.)
– 2 reasons; oil is priced in dollars (a long story I will skip over), i.e. pure energy is the collateral for the paper and also, and it’s not a small point, the US can provide you with vast applied violence if you don’t want to accept its money. And so the dollar is the world’s reserve currency. But the UK is not the US, it’s not the empire anymore.
A small amount of “real wealth” (like oil) can collateralise a much greater number of “claims”. And everything goes just fine until confidence is lost in the system and there is a financial crash.
The city boys create nothing – it is a skim, as well as a vast dirty money laundry and a conduit to the tax havens, where the high end thieves operate; speculation took over from productive investment a long time ago. Bankers aren’t going to loan you money to setup a flat screen TV factory in the midlands. It is too risky and bigger profits lie elsewhere.
Scotland has a lot of “real wealth” (you can do things with it, like oil/gas/leccy), which acts as a capstone to the iceberg of “paper” underneath it, first the pound, then everything priced in pounds i.e. “claims on wealth”. An english only pound would be worth 80 cents, and england would blow up; it imports 40percent of its food.
Going back, the oil was what allowed the neoliberal program to “work” (as far as it did) – the country, the north, Scotland, could be deindustrialised, labour power broken, leaving at root the oil and the city, and what lies between merely low grade service sector industry (pizza deliveries, taxis, cleaning) and boutique engineering (F1 cars, the rolls royce engine). And tourism of course, all those foreigners coming over just to see the queen and buck house, that alone was worth hundreds of pounds to the treasury, every single year.
Oil was no “bonanza” for us, it was the biggest disaster of modern times. The “thatcher boom” being down to the oil and not “city deregulation” is openly acknowledged in economics circles (I posted a link a while ago); farage now promises “boom times” with more “deregulation”, but since everything in the city is already deregulated to fuck and I don’t see another oil jackpot (or any other kind), then the golf club halfwit is going to look a right fud when he gets in, does his thing and fuck all happens, apart from it all keeps getting worse. But the english morons will vote for him in 2029 and – “democracy” aka the tyranny of the stupid and the consensus of the lowest common denominatory, will drag us along, as usual.
“Oil was no “bonanza” for us, it was the biggest disaster of modern times”
Sure, if by “us” you mean the kind of oxygen thief whose contribution to the world never got better than crying, blootered, into his dram in the middle of a working day.
But for the hundreds of thousands of Scots who were prepared to put in a modicum of graft and expend a smidge of initiative and ambition, it was the key that opened the door to material comfort and long term economic security.
And by Christ, how you whiny, cringy, hopeless, hands-out-for-freebees saddoes hate them for that.
They’ll vote for him cause ….MUSLIMS! MUSLIMS everywhere. Coming over here, stealing all their fat slags & opening up convenience stores or saving lives. How very dare they.
Meanwhile, Frog Face will be in power to flog off the last remaining piece of silver that the Yanks want so badly. The knuckle draggers will cheer cause fck ten grand for cancer patients…its MUSLIMS!
& The kiddie fiddlers back at the City will have an orgy of farm animals & live it large for another day. The knuckle draggers duped again by another pack of lies politician for another five years. Yay! Jam today…skim everything cause it’ll be some other sad saps problem later. Hurrah!
Zzzzzz
Good post, Geri.
Good to see you back.
I’m hoping on MIA showing their face soon.
“You do realise, idiot, that the term “limies” also applied to Scots, right?”
Naw. It wasn’t Scots spreading their diseases around the world.
I see AI is rewriting history again & referring it as a “British” insult. Naw, it’s an English one. There was never any Scots hob knobbing in the scummy City of London where the thieves hatched their plans to plunder around the world. Even today questions are arising at where all the missing kids from U have been trafficked. Modelling agencies are also a particular hunting ground. & There’s you racists projecting intae brown people.
BTW, can someone tell Shitface that white ppl can follow Islam too? He’s frothing again.
Yes, Geri. the term “limey” refers specifically to English sailors in the ‘British’ navy of the 18th and 19th centuries.
“Limeys” subsequently became a term for the English generally.
It has just struck me that the English sailors of the 18th and 19th centuries (and subsequently the English in general) might just have easily been referred to as “Lemons” or “Lemoneys” had fate decided differently.
Or…
So many possibilities… I’m going with the Uglis.
Uglis LMAO!
Marie, yes me too. It can’t come soon enough & take the English with it. Never to darken the door of the new world order.
The fundamundalies are mental. Especially those Mormons. They’re always in the thick of true crime, either annihilating their own families or someone else’s. You’d think the penny would drop by now that Jesus didn’t preach a good slaying & a plundering while the limies were friggin in the rigging around the globe spreading the clap. I guess there wasn’t a fruit for that condition. LOL
5 second Google enquiry:
‘… The term “limey” was a nickname for British people in general, which includes the Scottish, rather than a specific term just for Scottish people.’
Usual crass revisionism. Idiot.
How dare you call me an idiot… even if it IS true, ye rude ugli pomelo, ye.
Ye tangerine, ye clementine, ye orange, ye grapefruit, ye yazu, ye… ye… YE LIMEY, YE.
my apologise to those on here who might find my fruity language offensive.
“my apologise to those on here who might find my fruity language offensive.”
I apologise for my grammatical error in the italicized sentence above taken from my last comment… “my apologise” should, of course, read as “my apologies”.
Once again I apologies for any psychological harm my shoddy scribbling doun might have caused any grammar pedants lurking aboot this place.
*italicised
It’s bad enough having one misinformed Yank who doesn’t know how to use Google, let alone another (faux) one with similar issues.
*italicized versus italicised – colonized versus colonised
It really just comes down to preference… I, for instance, prefer the much more robust American spellings – as with colonized – than the weak, limp-wristed rather affected and overly refined Anglo spelling – esses (Ss) are SO soft whereas zees(Zs) zing.
Although it has to be said that on those occasions where one’s mood might lean more toward a light and airy gayness of spirit the flimsier English spellings of English words are perhaps more appealing – despite American spellings certainly being more easily tolerated.
Standard Anglo-English is being gradually phased out of popular use anyway now that England has become the 51st American state.
We speakers of Anglo-English (even we indigenous Scots who have English as our second, or even third for some, language) would be wise to abandon the outdated Anglo spellings and embrace American-English if we want to be accepted into American society as new Americans.
Aye, Northy, you would have us believe it’s a personal preference. But alert readers ken fine it’s an artefact of the default configuration of your electronic device. A configuration whose existence you are unlikely to be aware of. And impotent to modify even when notified of its existence.
But by all means you pretend to be making a conscience choice. The stench and fug from your smouldering breeks tells us the truth of the situation.
Speaking of devices & the gumption to use one – I’d have thought you Reform peeps would be crying into yer beer at Trumps latest revelation. Turns out Britain & the US of A doesn’t have talent after all & they need immigration. See what happens when yer not a Sovereign Nation? Yer up shit creek without a paddle.
So if the leader of the “free world” can’t fix it – what hope does it’s vassal state with frog face at the helm?
What’s the point of them now?
“There was never any Scots hob knobbing in the scummy City of London where the thieves hatched their plans to plunder around the world.”
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I suggest you do some simple research on that false statement.
No. Why don’t you provide the proof that they were involved . Were you there?
The City of London decided which countries they’d invade & plunder. Westminster is just the side show full of puppets & the minions are the cannon fodder.
Nothing has changed, even today, Scottish politicians aren’t privvy to “National Security” & it’s unintelligent agencies snooping around the globe & doing a spot of jennyside. Scottish MPs are just for show, same as the Welsh & the Irish. It helps keep eejits like you to think we live in a democracy. We don’t. We live in a one party state ruled by narcissists & psychopaths who serve the not so secret City of London parliament & it’s kiddy fiddling relatives.
Geri has a valid point, for once.
McVitie’s didn’t invent the Hob Nob until 1985, long after the sun had set on the British Empire.
Although McVitie’s, as the name suggests, was a Scottish concern back in the 19th century.
“Racists projecting intae brown people”
Giggity! 🙂
Dear, sweet Geri. If you didn’t exist somebody would have to invent you.
What a perfectly hideous photo – thanks for ruining my wee lunch!
At least the weather is very beautiful here and for those of you not suffering light pollution of an evening enjoy the asteroids display tonight/tomorrow – and remember you can wish upon a shooting star. I know I shouldn’t tell you what I’m going to wish for but the eradication of some posters is high on my list.
Maybes Santa will bring you some Zyklon B.
Because your post is such a thoroughly unpleasant one, I’m going to wish you get your heart’s desire – an asteroid all to yourself in your own back garden. It’ll fractionally increase the collective IQ of the human race when it vapourises you.
Everybody else enjoy the meteor shower if that’s your thing.
Seriously?!
WTF is wrong with you, Hatey.
Diabloandco _ yes, it’s been beautiful, and I’ve been walking the Shire on my days off. Loving it.
She claimed to be wanting an asteroid – I gave an example of what would happen if she got one.
Of course, she really wants a meteor and a tiny one at that, but why didn’t she make the tiny effort to get her facts straight before posting?
It’s the curse of this place and the curse of Indy in general – over-opinionated not-very-brights bumping their gums about things they don’t understand.
And all built on a foundation of proud ignorance and the belief that education and achievement are “colonialist, alien impositions”.
But, bottom line, NN, nae cant should issue calls for the eradication of posters if they can’t handle the same calls coming back at them.
On the way up to Inversnecky to collect a new car on Friday we passed through Pitlochry (known to our Gaelic cousins as Baile Chloichridh “the township at the stony place” or more anciently as Pit Cloich Aire, which also means “place of the sentinel stone”), one wonders what the puir wee teuchtars in yon benighted one street town have done to deserve La Cummings being appointed Pied Piper of Pitlochry and supremo of their theatre?
Between a rock and a hard place perhaps….or is that just the lighting in the picture? [insert boak emoji here].
Needless to say we gave the place a wide berth on the return trip down the A9 in gorgeous weather.
Inversnecky seems quite nice. A local place for local people on the whole from what we could see, which should suit the cabal of Trumpian nativists in here down to the ground I imagine. The natives seemed friendly though (whisper it) the car salesman had a Portuguese name and the sales manages was a Sassenach.
You have to be hardly to live there I suppose: there had been 2 inches of snow on Friday morning, which had disappeared by the time we arrived. Edinburgh would still have been a disaster zone the day after a ight dusting of snow, so they must be doing something right by the banks of the River Ness?
Incidentally I’ve also been in Inverness this afternoon, quite a fun city but also one with its share of problems. I would hope that should the blood and soil nationalists decide to migrate, they head further north into the flow country – preferably to an area not covered by mobile internet.
agentx says:
16 November, 2025 at 2:42 pm
Geri says
“There was never any Scots hob knobbing in the scummy City of London where the thieves hatched their plans to plunder around the world.”
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I suggest you do some simple research on that false statement.
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Geri says:
16 November, 2025 at 3:14 pm
No. Why don’t you provide the proof that they were involved . Were you there?
Ok. Here is one documented example of Scottish involvement, not in London but at the sharp end in New South Wales. Far from typical, I’m glad to say, but I would suggest conclusive. We were there.
Massacres led by Angus McMillan
Angus McMillan, a Scottish explorer and pastoralist from the Isle of Skye, was a key figure in the violent dispossession of the Gunai (or Kurnai) people in the Gippsland region of Victoria (then part of the NSW colony). He led a private militia known as the “Highland Brigade” in a series of retaliatory raids and massacres in the 1840s.
Notable events associated with McMillan include:
Warrigal Creek Massacre (1843): This was one of the most notorious massacres, in which an estimated 60 to 150 Aboriginal people were killed in a single day in retaliation for the death of a fellow pastoralist.
Other sites: McMillan’s group was also involved in killings at Nuntin, Boney Point, Maffra, Butcher’s Creek, and Skull Creek.
McMillan was long celebrated as the “Father of Australia” by some, with place names honouring him, until his violent history was more widely acknowledged, leading to public campaigns for renaming.
These events highlight the significant, often brutal, role that Scottish settlers played in the Australian frontier wars and the massacres of Indigenous Australians.
The Ego has Landed. The return of the site oaf after his safari to darkest Jockistan to buy a car. I am sure the puir wee teuchters were sorry to miss the great man on his return journey as like a latter day Boswell and Johnston he returned to his lair. He managed to disparage one city, one town a European citizen who had chosen to make Scotland a home and a man from South of the wall who had moved here. Not sure what he stands for but perhaps we should make him supreme leader of our country as at least the trains would run on time.
Brilliant, David; excellent relief from the endless Yoonzzzzzzz garbage.
David please don’t get the Franchise Fanny started on the spittle flecked moonhowling , nativist ,trumpian Scots voters or we will be entertained (naw we wullnae)by his ever superior knowing what everyone in the world thinks about anything and everything
The Franchise Fanny moved back to his birthplace with his extended family to avoid the HOARDS
(Is “Aidan” a FF love child?)
“to avoid the HOARDS”
You are funny, Twat H.
I bet you meant HORDES.
James says:
16 November, 2025 at 6:44 pm
(Is “Aidan” a FF love child?)
🙂
Let’s just say YES for the hell of it.,
Och David yous could do worse. My rule would be firm but benevolent. Given the búrach that passes for governance in Scotland over the past decade, it’d be pretty hard to do too much worse either than the benighted SNP or the yoon alternatives.
If you haven’t discerned what I stand for you’re either just new here or just not very bright – both is also an option of course. Thankfully the beneficent rule of my party would at least ensure that the regressive blood and soil intellectual dross in here would be relegated back under the rocks they slithered from under.
You certainly seem to lack any discernible sense of humour, which is probably why you fit right in with the usual moonhowling claque who continue to soil BTL commentary in here. You lot must be a blast at parties.
Bingo!
“Thankfully the beneficent rule of my party would at least ensure that the regressive blood and soil intellectual dross in here would be relegated back under the rocks they slithered from under.”
Yet it’s your party that’s relegated. Funny that.
Mibbies you need tae change tact. We see a time waster deliberately throwing election outcomes when we see one.
A classic trait of the coloniser is to water down the voting pool, something you don’t seem too eager to challenge the English to do the same. 15 years residency is their motto & there’s nothing wrong with Scotland adopting the same restrictions, so go pound dirt.
I’m sure you’ve written some stern letters to the UK government but probably not. Go blow Whistle Dixie waiting on yer election results…
While I’m here & just for info…
Was listening to a rather interesting convo by Col. Jacques Baud a month or so ago. Turns out Crimea was never U. During Us independence settlement they refused to sign the terms provided by the UN. Something about Rs warm water ports. Even gave the case reference numbers. You know, that international community you revere so much never officially signed off. So the territory never passed ownership.
Interesting eh? The things you find out outside of yer wee Western media generated bubble. You can update yer Russophobie bot now – yay!
Oh so this has started up again 🙁
Which despotic state or war crime will you be supporting this month?
Starmer?
What war crime would that be then? The one the leading prosecutor at the ICC finally admitted he didn’t actually investigate – that one? He just took an Unelected dictators word for it that children were missing from an orphanage. (later found alive & well & merely relocated from a war zone)
I bet U were pissed. Those weans were probably set for trafficking & he missed his kickback. Plenty of weans missing in U long before it became a war zone – but as per usual the West does a lot of projecting onto others exactly what they are guilty of themselves.
Isn’t it surprising tho that they could issue that warrant on hearsay but delayed the one about an actual fucking genocide beamed live around the world. Don’t speak to me of despots ya eejit.
Given that the Nazis never really went away & what we all know now about the 46 American bio labs in U – I’ll hazard a guess they’ve either been experimented on, botch Transed, trafficked or had their organs sold. Funny, they unearthed mass graves of Palestinians with their organs missing too. Whits the chances?
There’s already a dossier from R lodged at the UN of all the illegal skulduggery & war crimes that’s gone on in U. The English terrorists blew the author of it up. That tells us all we need to know. Too late tho – it’s already on someone’s desk. Funny, I don’t see one logged from U tho.
Aye, Barbs, to the likes of you, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, particularly when it’s in the form of illustrations.
You should try to find pictures of the Crimean Tatars, the Islamic people who owned and occupied the Crimean Peninsula from at least 1441 until it was annexed by the R Empire in 1783.
Check out the surviving photographs of the cattle trucks deployed by Stalin to forceably ship them all out to Central Asia in 1944-45.
You like to pose and virtue signal as a defender of the brown people, don’t you, Barbie. How are you going to weasel out of this one?
Haha, just my little joke. Deploy the ‘N’ bomb – N@zis, and you’ll be grand. At least, in the picture of yourself ye carry aboot between yer lugs.
For those who don’t know, Inversnecky is a nickname for Inverness and not the very popular cakes and car sales Inversnecky cafe on the Sea Beach Esplanade in Aberdeen.
worked there when I was a kid – happy days!
I seem to recall Inverness being voted as one of the best places to live in the Yookay for a few years not just a place to buy a second hand Lada. It takes all types.
After an excellent weekend of rally cars in the Celtic fringes of Anglesey, Wales, I’m thinking living with dragons would be a better option than living in a nation full of neutered poundshop lions.
I can highly recommend Anglesey, Dan. Mrs Caveman and I particularly enjoy our holiday home overlooking Red Wharf Bay. Can recommend the Boathouse for seafood chowder and a cheeky chilled Chablis.
Inversnecky seemed nice enough as smaller towns go. There must be a decent amount of money around given the dealer turned up to pick me up and give me a lift to the dealership arrived in a Land Rover Defender Octa. He said they’d sold a couple: they go for over £150K.
Doubtless the nativist contingent will insist it’s all the fault of colonialist settlers increasing the cost of living for the hard working crafters.
I didn’t see any Ladas on my travels. Seems like the quality of your chat has aged about as well as Muscovite automotive brands Davey?
They do that so all the Blow-ins snap up all the properties.
They film a TV show & suddenly it’s on the map. Happened in Skye too.
They’re on a mission right now to empty England. Property channels are always advertising how cheap it is & all those new builds to fill on the con of leasehold. It also fudges the figures of GDP to make it look like UK renters actually add some sort of product..lol
Just ordered my hardback copy of The end of Woke by Andrew Doyle.
Mountbatten – prime mover in colonially partitioned India/ Pakistan; demise in colonially partioned Ireland.
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History Exposé 15 Nov 2025
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Just caught last 5 mins of bbc jockostan pod where Donald MacAskill chairman of elderly care homes was bemoaning the miserable money the SG gave to care homes to LOOK AFTER the elderly and infirm
I think he said the SG ONLY gave them £1100 a WEEK to look after the auld yins where it cost £1500+ a week to do so
That is disgraceful these POOR elderly care home OWNERS will end up in the POOR HOOSE is there no justice
What the SG could do is buy these poor care home owners out and return them to public ownership, I am sure poor Donald MacAskill would bite their hand off
I notice none of these so called journalists or reporters ask Donald or his fellow care home owners to produce a breakdown of costs that explains the £1500 PER WEEK tariff
Gerald Celente calls them (Jurnos) prostitutes. They’re paid not to ask questions & just stick to the job in hand – the narrative they’re pushing – ie, Scottish Government = bad. Scottish Government = Fail. SNHS = Shite.
I dunno much about nursing homes but don’t these old folks pay from the sale of their property? They won’t break down the bill cause they can’t justify £1500 a week. The Holiday Inn would be cheaper & it has a bar LOL
Imagine Scotland with Indy. Every OAP would have free healthcare & nursing homes cause we’ve one of the Largest oil fields in the world.. instead, the yoon rockets living here give it all away to our neighbour cause we’re too stupid to manage it ourselves but giving it all away for free is a really bright idea apparently!
Aye, Barbs, and with Indy, you’d get that op for the DD free on the SNHS. Sadly, not all the free health care in the world could fix what’s between yer lugs.
Off topic, but that was a long absence you had. We’re all gasping to know what it was you posted to cause it.
Why don’t you tell us now?
With the 75% surtax in place, the taxation revenue from North Sea oil and gas (including in the English sector) is around 1/5th of the annual cost of providing social care in Scotland, so I very much doubt that somehow Geri.
Oh do feck off.
Every country in the world lives large on its oil revenues. Europe is crying out for 100 year deals. Except Scotland of course. Ours is worthless shite. Said thick yoons. Funny that they don’t pack up drilling & fuck off tho eh?
Limey Colonial Leeches. Never can stop coveting everyone else’s goods. Thank feck yer wee reign of terror around the world is coming to an abrupt end.
We cannot be expected to trust a single bytesworth of the digitally generated drivel dribbled doun in this place by AI Dan – its programmers are Yanks, and although they are probably Yanks of the wholesome kind their algorithmic biases favour American interests and not those of Scotland and the Scots.
The U.K. is about the 20th largest oil producing country in the world. Ahead of us is Iran,
Venezuela, Angola and Iraq, and not to forget your precious R. Are those countries “living it large”?
“Funny that they don’t pack up drilling & fuck off tho eh?”
Oh Geri, you are a tonic.
The all-Scottish government at HR has committed Scotland to Nutt Zero 5 years ahead of the date the WM virtue signalers have set for the UK. We Scots are packing up the drilling fastest of anybody.
I bet you won’t be wishing them in HR fuck off tho, eh?
As for telling people to fuck off on here, I’ve tried every permutation and there’s just no way I can re-arrange the letters of Geri to make Stu. Barbie neither.
Sorreee.
“the SG ONLY gave them £1100 a WEEK to look after the auld yins where it cost £1500+ a week to do so”
Not looking good for coffin dodgers like yersel, eh, Twat H?
The cost for just putting an end to your misery won’t top £50.
Of course, with the miraculous discovery of the BIGGEST OIL FIELD IN THE WORLD just this weekend, money won’t be a problem. Hallelujah!
But let’s get real. We’re still all grippy Sovereign Scots at heart. That will never change. We’re still gonna have much better things to splurge that luvverly lucre on – ourselves, for example.
Sorree, Twat H!
I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you, but more because private care homes blossomed under a “privatise everything that moves” Tory philosophy which was repugnant. Back in the 80’s and early 90’s, there were struggling B+B’s everywhere putting sinks, wc’s and emergency lighting into rooms so they could call themselves Care Homes.
It was big business for some, but like all Tory ideas, once the cream is skimmed off and the assets have been stripped, suddenly the emaciated business model left behind has no substance. It typically needs investment to replace all the stuff that’s just been stripped out.
That’s “why” it was traditionally a public venture in the first place, and everybody except the greedy Tory spivs understood it. It wasn’t meant to make a profit because that particular criteron would inevitably drive down quality of service. Aye, remember those heady days when quality mattered?
While it can sound a lot of money, and I dare say there are sharks out there exploiting the system, but if a person is in 24 hour care, breaking down the £1,500 a week bill works out a just under £9 an hour – straight.
The system we had wasn’t perfect by a long way, but important pillars of a stable and secure society should NEVER be left at the mercy of Tory profiteers, who run them into the ground through underfunding and zero investment, and declare holy privatisation as the miraculous answer.
That doesn’t just apply to care homes. These Tory shits will help themselves to anything that isn’t nail down.
Scotland in general “gets it”. It doesn’t vote Tory instinctively. (I’ll just ignore the Toffs as a different subject).
England? Schooled from an early age that greed and self interest is good. Entirely different outlook on life.
There are exceptions in both above cases, of course.
Furthermore, don’t get all starry eyed about the public sector either. Not giving them a free pass. It was often their gross inefficiency, hubris and complacency which made them such an easy pushover for the parasites in suits. Takes two to quango.
If you want worthwhile emploment, as a right, then there’s an obligation on you to make your employment worthwhile.
But the real point for me is Scotland just doesn’t fit this polarised left and right UK system of doing things where the Yin and Yang, left and right, pull each other apart until we’re the ones left fighting over scraps.
That discredited philosophy needs purged from Scotland and replaced with something much better. It’s not just a swing to the left. It’s a breaking of the mould that’s required. Get rid of Westminster and invasive UK doctrines. Start again.
Only pedantic boars correct the grammar and/or spelling of others on what is essentially a digital Post-It note throwaway comment area of a website where such things are generally unimportant.
Anyway, a quick reminder:
Ther scarce be a wird pit doun here fae colonialists that’s onythin’ ither than abuise, threit, lie, errure, afftak, diveesion, diversioun, distractioun, logicale fallace, or hatesome antiScot rethorik.
And again… in Ingle tongue:
There’s barely a comment posted here by colonialists that is anything other than insult, threat, lies, error, mockery, division, diversion, distraction, logical fallacy, or hateful anti-Scots rhetoric.
Hi Northcode, I wouldn’t dream of correcting your spelling. ‘Pedantic boars’ is up there with, and worthy of, Nigel Molesworth and Hyman Kaplan, and, as enny fule knoe, they were both best sellers. Please keep up the good work, it brightens my day.
You spotted my boaring trap, Charles. But in doing so you have neutralised it.
A price worth paying, however, in return for your Molesworth comment.
Thank you for your kind compliment.
I’ve been flouncing aboot this place this morning amusing myself reading the witless warbling, occasionally vicious, verbiage crapped oot here by thon colonialists wha ponce aboot this place.
They ponce, I flounce – but which intellect is the mightier… that of the Ponce or that of the Flounce?
I might well be a thick and lowly brief spark of a flouncing mortal… but they are so, so, so much thicker…. and they saddle their Ponce with much rudeness, anaw
Anyway, enough talk of those boaring onionists – their ignorant dwanging has entered the realms of hyper-tedium and opened up a wormhole leading directly to the lowest depths of monochromatic mediocrity.
I’ve made another, slight, modification to my standard warning for the unwary who wander this place.
A warning for those Scots who visit here and who might not realise what psychological harm their mental faculties could suffer if they treat the comments posted in this place by unionists as anything other than the confused spluttering utterances of the last few misfiring synapses in a dying empire’s rapidly fading consciousness.
Ther scarce be a wird pit doun here fae colonialists (unyonists if preferryd… baith be alike) that’s onythin’ ither than abuise, threit, lie, errure, afftak, diveesion, diversioun, distractioun, logicale fallace, or hatesome antiScot rethorik.
And again… in the Inglis tongue:
There’s barely a comment posted here by colonialists (unionists if preferred… same thing) that is anything other than insult, threat, lies, error, mockery, division, diversion, distraction, logical fallacy, or hateful anti-Scots rhetoric.
Northcode correct.
Every single indy site is polluted with these roasters. They add absolutely zero to any discussion & all they reply with is insults or play spelling police. Two traits that I’m positive are listed in the rules.
Hatey seems to fancy himself as some sort of milk monitor/parole officer & speaking clock on when ppl clock on & off on here.
Whit a bunch of saddos.
I heard a funny thing about the Limeys the other day. Speaking of dumb down Britain & China excelling in tech & innovation in REAL qualifications rather than diplomas in underwater basket weaving.. LMFAO!
If wee cannie write correctly noo then that’s just another failure of this yoonion. Even those posh schools churn out psychopaths, narcissists & kiddie fiddlers to run the country. Thick as mince but obviously excel at bending over. All the good little soldiers are hand picked & groomed to be leaders. Plucked from obscurity – no qualifications required. Now they wonder why they’re bankrupt…
Meanwhile, back to the photograph of Alan Cumming.
My head tells me to be tolerant, my stomach tells me to throw up.
Is it a hate crime to boo a pantomime dame?
Oneliner @ 11.25
“Is it a hate crime to boo a pantomime dame ?”
Only if “they’re behind you” … which, believe me, is one place you most certainly would not wish to feel them !
I remember the good old days where this nonsense was a crime, period. Massive red flags & warning sirens going off everywhere. “If you see this, Children – run. Do not approach ‘
Now they’re reading wee porny stories in schools with their porny names telling weans to keep secrets from their parents.
What a fucked up world this Union continually forces on Scotland. This pish wouldn’t see the light of day in an indy Scotland – where public opinion would count for something. Especially through its own parliament.
This nonsense is World Bank & IMF. Cause the UK isn’t a Sovereign nation. The Tories sold everything & now we’ve all to suffer.
THIS IS YOUR LAND – but the anglos and the BAMs are coming; long read time
link to archive.ph
– I don’t think this chick should bother applying for a postdoc; this kind of work is the academic equivalent of a massive eggy fart in a packed lift
and nigel farage won’t save you, he luvs em all as long as they are “legal” and “pay taxes”
it would be very easy to fix all this, first of all tax the shit out of the english; we can always invent new taxes, property purchase tax, increased council tax, land tax, foreign worker income tax, an anglo jizyah … when they can’t make a profit here, they fuck off – it’s all about the money for them; we also need to remove the infestation – every fucking quango! – every leadership position in any body you hear the fucking anglo tortured vowel yak yak – remove them all from our public life (- mind that once inside they open the door for others like themselves); one way to do this is simply make the jobs pay less, like 2 grades lower on the civil service. They won’t want it. Lower pay and much higher taxes, it doesn’t “work out” anymore.
link to archive.ph
similarly with folks who really shouldn’t be here – make it illegal to rent to them, or employ them, or give them benefits, no free medical treatment – and you really need to e.g. bang up dodgy landlords for 10 years or so, just to make an example; these are capable people, I mean they did a lot to get here in the first place, I am sure they can find their way back. Once a week you can run several flights to various countries, and it’s first come first served, free and no questions asked. We could also empty the jails, for the LOLZ (- it’s mostly muslims anyway).
link to archive.ph
You also need to end birthright citizenship – JESUS was born in a stable, does that make him a horse? And chain migration or getting married to a native – that Kemi Badenoch, “badenoch” – it’s a fucking scottish name – I’d deport her arse back to nigeria, along with her husband, just to make an example.
Someone told them, on the streets of nairobi or khartoum, europe is a land of milk and honey, you get free housing, 1000 euros a month pocket money (and e.g. Kenya’s GDP per capita is 2000USD), white women are all whores and their men are soft as shite homosexuals … if you are 20, and making 2 bucks a day selling chewing gum and sim cards, why would you not try it on? I don’t blame them for trying, I blame the people who let them and the folks who thought it up to begin with, you need to dig into this more deeply.
– first cunt who says JOCK TAMSONS BAIRNS gets a virtual internet boot up their virtual internet arse
Fits this then, Confused, nothing aboot the Jews?
They’ve got tae ye, haven’t they? An ye the last man standing, tae.
Ochone! It’s all ower.
Jock Tamsons bairns are car thiefs and pickpockets.
Thier mother’s are second rate junkie drag queens and
Jock Tamson is a deserter from the Iranian revolutionary guard.
Doe this qualify for a virtual seeing to.
Yum yum.
OH FFS Doctor Ellis OR the Franchise Fanny will have to change their surnames , the FF cannot be associated in any way by this egregious assault and BLATANT wacism on the virtuous progressive movement established to make Scotland the TRANNY, GAY and migrant capital of the world
Surely Doctor ELLIS must be exposed as a blood and soil , moonhowling nativist who should receive a monumental FISKING from STUEY for these despicable anti progressive books which the whole world disagrees with and calls for them to be burned in case people read and agree with the author
Absolutely off your head mate. Suppose you’re applying for the post of communications Director in a newly independent Scotland.
On the flipside you need to SUPPORT OUR YOUNG WOMEN to have their kids early and healthy (less autistics and speccy bams etc), and then let them go off to be brain surgeons and fighter pilots etc. We have a lot of MISSING SCOTS and you can’t simply replace them with “generic equivalents”. Again you do this with the tax and welfare system. The phrase “having it all” was always a con-trick, but this way, they can actually have it; this is “hyperfeminism”.
Some dumb cows don’t seem to get it though.
“let’s make abortions easier” to get since its really hard to get one and you have to go to ireland, or somewhere?!
link to archive.ph
– since we’re not having enough, these are amateur numbers
link to archive.ph
we do this, then they say “demographic crisis” and idiots like Brian Wilson say “we need 20000 BAMS a year”
– do we fuck.
BTW it struck me as being very odd the “outcry” about changes in the law meaning babies could now be “aborted for being the wrong sex” – so … it’s alright if it is “gender balanced”, one for one, or it is okay if the woman makes up another -bullshit- reason for doing so; people can give any reason they want, you can’t tell them otherwise. Also note it would likely be “racist” to scrutinise “women of south asian ancestry”, about “the real reason” they want to have an abortion. Feminists love abortion, it’s their holy sacrament, until its baby girls getting it.
People have to face up to the reality that abortion without dire medical emergency, is just plain wrong. Of course, these days, if you don’t want to kill babies, you’re a fucking nazi. Makes me wonder why Lucy Letby is in jail – surely a feminist icon; at least she could have got a job at an abortion clinic and got her jollies – wazzing up the bairns like a fucking smoothie – all legal and above board.
And that’s a superb observation about Letby.
What I like to do with woke young couples who “are pregnant” is to say (to the woman) “So I hear you are growing a foetus”.
For some reason that always seems to cause offense. Yet these are the kind of people who will categorically claim, when arguing about abortion, that it’s not human before it is born. And with the more extreme examples of the woke breed, not even afterwards.
Life begins at conception. It’s simple biology. There’s a shit load of action going on the moment an egg is fertilised. It ain’t dead & suddenly spring to life nine months later.
I’ve never been an advocate for abortion & the NHS shouldn’t be funding it unless there is a genuine life or death emergency. Just another invention from the Great Satan on population control while they send out their NGOs & charities to castigate other countries – but while we’re here, “educating yous”, we may as well set up a military base or ten & colonise you intae the bargain. It was always a slippery slope with everyone joining the bandwagon & assisted dying has gone the exact same way. Same with removing fuckwits from the gene pool by convincing them they can change sex. Here, fry yer insides voluntary – we’ve invented a pill for that too.
If only they could’ve invented a a way to actually run a country instead eh?
AI will probably give couples an IQ test in the future. Name every war & battleship in the Anglo American death fleet between the years of 1700 to present day or something equally as ball aching to everyone not English like the incestrius family tree of the Royals & can you name ten dick heads in the HoLs. A fail will emit a sterilising gas from yer device. Kindly brought to us by our bezzie mates fae Mossy.
Oh Barbie, so close.
All you needed for the complete set was something about biolabs.
Never mind, there’s always 3 AM tomorrow.
Loving “incestrius” BTW. I’m guessing it’s doing it with a family member but really going at it enthusiastically – hammer and tongs if you like.
But you tell us.
??Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh
16 November, 2025 at 10:55 pm?
“Mountbatten – prime mover in colonially partitioned India/ Pakistan; demise in colonially partioned Ireland.”
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The asymmetry between the two partitions is almost delicious.
Who was the “prime mover in colonially partitioned Ireland”?
The prime mover was Prime Minister, David Lloyd-George, at the height of the Empire’ s victorious post-war pomp. What a contrast at that same Empire’s fag end!
I think you rather flatter Mounbatten, a mediocrity whose highly privileged social milieu propelled him to professional heights no small-town Welsh lawyer could dream of.
But the arrow of time in 1922 passed through the Empire’s heart a mere generation later, with the loss of India. After this she shed colony after colony in the ensuing two decades.
This should have been great news for subscribers to the ‘ colonial’ model of Scotland’s polity. We should have been free by ‘63. Why weren’t we? Why aren’t we now. Will we be by 2063?
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Lack of subscribers, perhaps?
People expect free stuff these days, and as with all things to do with cold, hard cash, we Scots are in the vanguard.
Oh, do behave.
“Mountbatten, a mediocrity whose highly privileged social milieu propelled him to professional heights…
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I shudder at the thought of him as an antetype to a more recent Mounbatten. Did our less deferential age spare the Royal Navy a First Sea Lord, an Andrew formerly known as Prince?
Apologies for both dislocation and baffling question marks to Fearghas to whom my previous post is addressed.
Hi Cynicus,
On India I would draw people’s attention to this powerful oration by Dr Shashi Tharoor –
LOOKING BACK AT THE BRITISH RAJ IN INDIA (Edinburgh University 2017)
link to youtube.com
Regarding Lloyd George and Irish partition in imperial context (with some reference to India) the following essay by Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh is well worth perusal:
THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND ACT: MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR HYPOCRISY (BLOSC, June 30, 2021)
« The 1920 Government of Ireland Act [GOIA]… exposes the imperialist, reactionary agenda that underpinned Ireland’s division, a reality with significant implications in the present day.
« […] David Lloyd George, freely admitted he had ‘absolutely no doubt’ that ‘an emphatic majority’ in Ireland would demand ‘independence and an Irish Republic’ if granted self-determination. Nevertheless, the Empire would never consent, as it threatened its self-interest.
« […] By the time the Government of Ireland Bill received its second reading in March 1920, the Conservative leader, Andrew Bonar Law, gave an unambiguous public account of the real motivation for partition and the imperial considerations underpinning government policy. Law furthermore scolded the ‘childish mistake’ of ignoring Ireland’s centrality ‘to national security’. In short, self-determination for imperial possessions had ‘never been adopted by any nation in the history of the world except after defeat and under compulsion.’
« […] In May 1917 Lord Curzon, the former Indian viceroy, partitioner of Bengal and future foreign secretary, drafted a scheme that counties could vote themselves out of an Irish parliament on a fifty-five per cent majority ‘for the transparent purpose of enabling a minority in Tyrone and Fermanagh to decide the issue’. The British coalition government’s 1918 election manifesto contained home rule with six-county exclusion.
« […] Sir Edward Carson Carson then outlined the wider imperial implications behind six-county partition, which rested on ‘not merely local or personal interests’ but Unionists should ‘take a wide view of in regard to the pride we feel and doing our best for the United Kingdom and the Empire as a whole.’
« […] At every step, the coalition government matched the supremacist coercive instinct of Ulster Unionism. Lloyd George gave expression to the wider imperialist rationale, when he confided to Churchill on 10 May 1920 that ‘we cannot leave things as they are. De Valera has particularly challenged the British Empire and, unless he is put down, the Empire will look silly’. Kenneth Morgan has described the coalition’s conduct in Ireland as ‘the blackest chapter of the Government’s policy in any theatre, a monument to ignorance, racial and religious prejudice, and ineptitude.’
« While defencing such conduct in parliament, Churchill refused to grant a republic to ‘a miserable gang of cowardly assassins like the human leopards of east Africa’. The Irish were in good company; Churchill advocated the use of chemical weapons in Mesopotamia, ‘against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment.’ Any objections appeared ‘unreasonable’ as the secretary of state for war remained ‘strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes [to] spread a lively terror.’ Such assumptions underpinned a very hot summer in Belfast in 1920.
« […] Partition sought to subvert the very concept of ‘Ireland a Nation’. The North’s first prime minister, James Craig, viewed the six-county area as ‘an impregnable Pale’, which other leading Unionists visualised as ‘a bridgehead for the re-conquest of Ireland’, if southerners declared a Republic.
« After the Free State bombarded the Four Courts with British artillery the following June, thereby igniting a vicious intra-nationalist civil war, Winston Churchill felt confident in assuaging Craig’s fears regarding ‘Ulster’s’ security, now that Michael ‘Collins had definitely drawn the sword against the enemies of the British Empire’. »
link to blosc.wordpress.com
Cheers Fearghas
Sorry to be so late back especially given this fascinating material.
I make only two brief points tonight: to compare the UK’s top political players in these tumultuous years for Ireland with the desperate nonentities on today’s political scene : Asquith, Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and even Balfour and Bonar Law for the Tories. The sophisticated Dubliner turned Ulster unionist, Edward Carson, is by no means a pygmy among such company. Whatever one’s personal views of him or even Balfour, each of these contemporaries made decisions that reverberate down to the present day, not least on this website!
One minor player the time was Lord Louis Battenberg, First Sea Lord, who had vessels stationed in the Clyde ready to move on Churchill’s order against the. UVF in Belfast should Carson declare an Ulster UDI. Never happened- Curragh incident etc.
Oidhche mhath. Or, given the hour, madainn math!
The bio labs was in a post that didn’t make it.
The Nazis never actually went away & they’re also the Anglos bezzie mates. Something fishy about missing weans & viruses going on there..
Stay tuned…R has it lodged at the UN.
“R has it lodged at the UN”
Naw, Barbs, that cannae be richt.
The UN is busy arranging Indy for us. You must have missed that while you were “away”.
But why nae dae the biolabs noo? It’s getting dark on a dreich November day and we all need a wee chuckle.
The UN will implode. Everyone knows it.
It’s been bastardised & corrupted by the Americans who’ve manoeuvred & infiltrated every single organisation associated with it, including the courts. It won’t survive. Its coat was already on a shoogly peg over America just inventing its own version of International laws, sanctions & banning countries from entering neutral soil before the Dews stepped up the anti by broadcasting a live jennyside while acting like a bunch of methadone NEDS at the UN with their drawings.
Now everyone is confused at what a jennyside actually means & everyone is also confused at what the UN charter actually says too.
Countries will walk & already threatening to do so. Two dud yaps on the SC too who shouldn’t even be on it. It’s long past reform.
Shanghai may be it’s next location. With the new world order starting again & chaired by countries upholding international law. R has a soft spot for Scotland & it’s history. He’d be first to recognise an independent Scotland. Besides, Karma is a bitch. It always comes back to seek it’s revenge & who better to break up than the UK. The instigator of all that is wrong with the world.
Tick tock..
“everyone is confused at what a jennyside actually means”
Naw, it’s just you and a few other fuckwits.
Human history is hoaching with jenny sides. A couple of hundred K dead over two years is barely even a real war. To call it a jenny side is farcical.
Educate yersel, Shiteface.
It’s not how many have died. It’s the eradication of an entire population. They’re even on telly bragging that is exactly what they plan to do. They’ve even issued death threats to UN staff, UN aid workers as well as kill a whole bunch of them already & issuing death threats & illegal sanctions on Judges.
It’s really not that difficult.
There has been many jennysides around the world. Isn’t it amazing that only one has the power to run everyone else’s government all around the world along with everyone’s judicial system & censorship laws? Where else has this ever happened.
It’s coming to an end now tho. The MAGA Americans are pissed along with the Bible belt. Trump is plummeting in ratings & America isn’t paying for this shit any longer. There’s a new pac in town. It has a pretty powerful ad doing the rounds. A*ZPAC & it’s about to kick some ass.
Take away the $billions & this shit stops overnight.
On the bright side. It has hastened the demise of the American Empire. No one is prepared to buy their bonds to fund this shit.
Nae bonds & fast approaching nae currency reserves either.
According to Michael Hudson that paid the 800 bases around the world. Imagine that, countries paying for their own occupation. It paid for itself. Not anymore tho…
Something like 60,000 companies went bust yesterday. Banks are next.
It’s quite the car crash… Trump is in meltdown LOL
Reminds me of that scene in Game of Thrones when the Mother of Dragons demanded to see the vaults & there was feck all in it but dust… Trump has stopped mentioning it now. LOL
Oh deary, what will Perfidious Albion do without it’s dumb enforcers. I’m gonnie forget Christmas Telly this year. This is far more entertaining.
What population has been eradicated, Barbs?
We need to be told. Somebody should do something.
If you’re writing about the Picts, then dinna fash. Northy is still with us.
Mrs Northy too, unless he has some racist, bigoted prejudice against miscegenation!
Cesaire’s ‘colonial facism’ was essential in forging a ‘one-nation Britain, the indigenous Scots, Irish and Welsh conquered, their languages suppressed, allowing for an Anglo cultural hegemony; cringe, colonial mindsets,’an under-developed Celtic Periphery within the internal colonialism model’ (Hechter), and independence movements are the ongoing legacy.
Those still in denial need to get on board the Liberation train.
Could Professor Baird please provide a date by which the indigenous Scots were conquered, and the name of the nation that conquered them?
He will already be aware, of course, that the suppression of Gaelic was initiated by the Scottish Parliament well before the Act of Union, and presumably endorsed by the people of Scotland, since they were sovereign.
The culture of domination may be seen over and over: in the hoax of ‘Union’ in 1603 and 1707; in the battles of 1715 and 1746; in the Great Tyrant Dundas and other various Governor Generals enforcing direct rule; in the colonial administration setup of 1999 inflicting ‘indirect rule’; and in many acts of Westminster including sovereign Scots enforced EU exit.
New evidence has shown that the Picts were black.
The great thing with MacWoke colonial theory is you can make it up as you go along.
Iran’s whole reason for being is to blame colonialists for everything.
“Iran’s whole reason for being is to blame colonialists for everything.”
Cause they are to blame for everything. There was no such place as I. It’s a colonial enterprise. As evidenced by their continual expansion.
I was only ever a ppl, the followers of Abraham, it wasn’t a geographical location. The Zzzs invented a story. Before the Colonialists turned up everything was tickety boo but now they’re there they must control everything to get their mitts on the trade routes.
There’s Dews happily co existing in Iran. Yous knuckle draggers really should learn some history instead of listening to colonial yarns from the BBCs story hour.
“it wasn’t a geographical location”
So true, Barbie, love, you tell em.
They bided in AirBnB’s and worked fae hame on their iPhones.
Digital nomads is the term we use today.
But fits wi the early post (11:28 PM)? Ye dinna really hit yer stride afore 3 AM. Ye’ve a special talent, Barbs, dinna ye be abusing it.
Our esteemed maritime professor claimed that the indigenous Scots were conquered. Challenged on this, his shifts his ground, changes his terminology and talks of ‘culture of domination’.
He was also reminded that the orchestrated campaign to eradicate Gaelic was a Scottish initiative dating to the century before union, presumably endorsed by the Scottish people as they were sovereign.
He has no answer to this except to talk of Brexit.
Alf Baird says:
17 November, 2025 at 8:04 pm
The culture of domination may be seen over and over: in the hoax of ‘Union’ in 1603 and 1707; in the battles of 1715 and 1746; in the Great Tyrant Dundas and other various Governor Generals enforcing direct rule; in the colonial administration setup of 1999 inflicting ‘indirect rule’; and in many acts of Westminster including sovereign Scots enforced EU exit.
He might like to consider the earlier true colonisation of Scotland through invasion by the Scots(from Ireland), the Northumbrians and the Norwegians, to name a few. The eradication of the indigenous culture by the Scots is of course celebrated in the Declaration of Arbroath.
I would welcome from him a few examples from history of the people of Scotland expressing their sovereign will which was then followed by the monarch and parliament. Preferably before the twentieth century.
Yer right, Scots are Sovereign. We were never asked if we wanted to join the Union. We didn’t. We were forced. Against our will.
That looks conquered to me.
“We were never asked if we wanted to join the Union. We didn’t. We were forced. Against our will.
That looks conquered to me”
So that referendum stramash in 2014, Barbs. Remind us again what that was all about. Pretty please with sugar and cream on top.
And please take your time to allow a full head of tonto steam to build up before you start typing. Thanks in advance 🙂
2014 was always going to be rigged. There was nothing legal & binding to say they’d actually enact the result. Just to respect it which Perfidious Albion would’ve had a field day dismantling if it had been a YES. Then there was the Blow-ins & hundreds of thousands of late to register votes – aye, right!
The UK doesn’t do democracy. That’s why they won’t allow another one. That’ll not be in their power for much longer. Praise be. I expect there’ll be a load of new referendums after the USA falls.
I actually don’t believe they can even be described as a superpower these days. They’ve feck all weapons that work, no manpower & military strategy run by eejits. All they could ever do is bomb fuck out of defenceless civilians & claim that as some sort of a win. They’ve never actually faced a real war.
They’re fast becoming like the Great Oz. Full of shit.
I also forgot to mention the most important bit.
2014 didn’t come about through the kindness of the UK government. They were forced into giving it. They’d zero choice.
Now they even admit they’d never have agreed to one or to the devolved parliament either.
Both will soon be out of their hands.
@Geri – Many of us would love to see some evidence to back up any of your appalling swivel eyed rants so I am delighted to hear that you’ll keep us posted.
I see we now have to call the Queen Elizabeth’s favourite son Andrew Mountbatten Windsor after his fall from grace. Perhaps he should drop the Mountbatten bit given the cloud hanging over uncle Louis and the Kincora home scandal.
It keeps the pedos branded together.
The Irish reminded him of his disturbingly dark secrets just before the *kaboom*
It’s believed that’s why Chucky & his father never bonded. They were both competing for battens affections. Ewwwwww – what a fucked up family. Imagine having a Da more upset at being dumped for the younger model than he was about his own son being abused.
Who reminds the Irish of the dark secret committed by the state and the catholic church on Irish children in Ireland?
Ummm, the good people of Ireland.
I think you’ll find it was the Catholics who were the whistleblowers.
I’ve mentioned it before on here but to understand the TRA playbook would be to go read “Goodbye, good men” cause they tried it there first. (Also Written by a Catholic Journalist who exposed the American Catholic church abuses too)
Exact same tactics & methods.
It explains how the radical liberals brought corruption & manoeuvred themselves into positions of power & authority to expel all the good guys out of seminar whilst rewarding & fast tracking the more deranged up the hierarchy – Especially if they were openly gay, open to changing doctrine, open to orgies every night, open to gay marriage, open to abortion & open to all the other vices that goes hand in hand with that “community” cause the kiddie fiddlers are never far from it. Even the Lesbian Nuns were involved.
The Vatican put a stop to it.
The proddies didn’t tho. That’s why they can adorn holy alters with their gay pride flags, have female & Gay/ TRA clergy whilst claiming they’re Christian.
& Before anyone starts on the ‘Oh that’s cause Catholic priests are celibate’ Naw, being celibate is a discipline – it’s not a doctrine of the CC.
& Before any femanists take issue too regards female clergy. Jesus never chose women as his disciples despite being surrounded by them & none more worthy than his own mother. He personally chose twelve men. That’s tradition.
“Before any femanists take issue too regards female clergy”
Even before that, you’ll have to define “femanist”. Nobody is going to take issue about anything if nobody knows what you’re wanging oan aboot.
Chop, chop, Barbs.
“We know you’ve got nobody else”
This is what has kept that smirk on Sturgeons face for over a decade.
Naw. Six years.
By 2017 she was a busted flush for many. By 2021 indy was begging her to just feck off already.
On the bright side, at least they’re registered in Scotland & she was elected. Unlike the dross that pollute the other seats in the colonial outpost who serve another country’s government.
Foreign agents need to fck off from everyone’s parliament. Take a leaf out of Georgia’s book. Declare donors & exactly whose interests they’re working for. Problem sorted.
Yir on fire Geri even Hatey MacFuckwit canny keep up wi ye , and Adie is too lazy to look for evidence , and fuckchecker as usual posts mince
LMAO at fuck checker
& I read Adie as Aldi LOL
About right tho. Middle of the aisle special buy.
Let’s see, it’s approaching 3am on a Tuesday morning. Most members of society who lead productive lives are sleeping, but not you two, you’ve stayed up to the wee hours so you can treat us to your own brand of Scots phonetics waffle about a whole range of subjects nobody wants to hear from you on. I particularly like the fact that you’ve congratulated each other on this behaviour, I think most normal people would be absolutely mortified if they had posted any one of the posts you’ve made above, but not you ey?
Does Stu periodically ban you from the site or does your internet get turned off? If the latter, is there anyone we could speak to about keeping it off.
As a nightmare poster himself – Stu has been known to admonish posters who continually keep watch on everyone’s timekeeping like yer some sort of fucking prison guard or something. Fuck off.
That’s how you might behave in yer own hoose. Don’t bring it here. You’ve absolutely zero idea why ppl post at whatever time they choose.
There’s a contact button. Go cry to Stu like a big lassie. Just don’t be surprised if it’s you on the end of ban. He has no time for wankers like you who can never play the ball.
Anyhoo – what astounding insights from YOU have we missed? Yer just another bore, boring us all at how bored you are while keeping tabs on time. Get a life!
*night-time…
“As a nightmare poster himself”
Very unkind to Stu, there. You’re in a class of your own.
I think “nightmare poster” is a very good description of your input here. It’s just that the timing and the content of your posts suggests you are a very strange individual, It’s not my business when people are awake of course, but I am surprised at the motivation of someone to be up at 3am writing all of this.
As you know I’m quite prepared to have a sensible evidenced based discussion on whole range of topics. Normally however, when you’re confronted with data or information disproving whatever crazed monologue is your flavour of the week, you just set off rambling and ranting in another direction. Of course if Stu doesn’t want me posting on his site all he has to do is say.
I’m also sure prison guard is an occupation you’re very familiar with.
“He has no time for wankers like you who can never play the ball”
Such Olympian levels of self-unawareness cannot be genuine.
I mean, it just can’t be. Credibility is stretched way beyond the snapping point.
So, once again, alert readers ponder:
Who is Geri?
What is she?
With apologies to The Bard. Naw, nae Burns, the ither ane.
I seem to be the highlight of yer sad day, sweet cheeks.
Mwah…mwah…
“…the timing and the content of your posts suggests you are a very strange individual…”
and
“As you know I’m quite prepared to have a sensible evidenced based discussion on whole range of topics…”
Oh, ma sides. Stop it!
Are you two married? You’ve clearly got nothing going on, why don’t you meet up and hang out?
Should we come visit you and Chazzzzzzz? When youse two aren’t spooning?
2/10 James – if you’re going to be an irritating pointless troll why don’t you at least try and be a bit witty.
@Geri says: 18 November, 2025 at 11:21 am
“I seem to be the highlight of yer sad day”
Course you are. Haven’t you been paying attention? Your posts are consistently hoaching with humour, much of it far beyond your limited comprehension to even recognise as such. There are plenty of mornings when you light up my breakfast.
Still though. I won’t be posting on here at 3 AM trying to get your attention.
Whereas you …
I read in the Guardian that the MoD is thinking of blessing Scotland with a few new munitions factories and dumps – so glad we didn’t get independence or we might have missed out on these delights.
1652-1660
Scotland was invaded, conquered and incorporated into the Commonwealth of England via The Tender of Union.
(Aye they also called it a Union ).
No doubt, even then, there would have been “Proud Scots” that supported England’s conquest of Scotland arguing England was doing a favour subsidising Scotland, giving us forts and boosting the economy with thousands of soldiers’ wages.
In Ayr, near the harbour, there remains a bit of one of the five large Citadels built to garrison Scotland. (There were many smaller forts too).
He isn’t a very good Factchecker is he?
Even the media released a report that even included a map.
There were over 400.
link to scotsman.com
“The eradication of the indigenous culture by the Scots is of course celebrated in the Declaration of Arbroath.”
I am afraid the assertion that the indigenous Picts of Pictaviia were slaughtered out of existence by the Irish Scotti is absolute mega-pish.
Below I have set out the order of real events as I recall them from the memories o’ ma lang syne ancient youth.
The Scotti arrived in Pictland, or Pictavia if preferred, from Ireland bringing their awful and foreign and incomprehensible Gaelic lingo with them.
Then, after a while, the Picts joined with the Scotti – a big mistake in my view (and I said so at the time) – out of a perceived necessity to combine forces and fend off the Vikings.
The Scotti and the Picts both changed their names to the “Scots” and the name of the country from Pictland to Scotland – I argued for “The Picts” and “Pictavia” as names for the freshly combined peoples of Pictland, but, once again, my wise counsel was ignored.
The Scotti-Scots got a bit pushy with the Pict-Scots insisting the Pictish nobility and high up heid yins learn and speak the Gaelic anaw.
The Pict-Scots eventually aw forgot they were Picts and thought they had always been Scots – but they never really took to thon awfu Gaelic and they eventually gied it the boot, preferring instead to luxuriate in their ain braw ‘Pictish’ language – noo cawd the Scots leid.
The colonialists who rudely ride their saddled Ponce aw ower this place do talk a lot of smelly pische aboot the history o’ a land that isnae e’en thair ain… whit arrogance.
Needless to say my version is the truth… because I was actually there and, unlike the prancing of unionists when they get their Ponce on, I never ever ever… mak fause and twistit shapes oot the truth.
This colonial blame game is pathetic.
Everyone knows the Picts came from southern Sudan in the 4th century B.C. They rowed their dinghies up the North sea and landed in Dundee. They defeated the White Supremacists at the battle of Epping and colonised Aberdeen in 506 A D. (Custeria). King Kubala Og of Texas was crowned at Govan castle in 1407 by the druid trans priest Ofleg the Awkward. Them ruled Scotia for long long time.
I see you’ve been watching that new BBC documentary on the history of Scotland 😀
During the period of liberation an oppressed people made ignorant of their own history by successive colonizers inevitably search for their ain roots; which in oor case is indisputably Pictish, and neither Gaelic, Norse or English.
Yet the language you and Northcode promote is “indisputably” NOT Pictish.
Regarding the origin of the eponymous Scots (ie the Gaels) I would direct attention to the following academic article:
WERE THE SCOTS IRISH?
by Ewan Campbell (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
« To summarize, if there was a mass migration from Ireland to Scotland, there should be some sign of this in the archaeological record, but there is none.
« My reading of the archaeological, historical and linguistic evidence is radically different from the traditional account, but much simpler. I suggest that the people inhabiting Argyll maintained a regional identity from at least the Iron Age through to the medieval period and that throughout this period they were Gaelic speakers.
« In this maritime province, sea communications dominated, and allowed a shared archaic language to be maintained, isolated from linguistic developments which were taking place in the areas of Britain to the east of the Highland massif in the Late Roman period,.
« In conclusion, the Irish migration hypothesis seems to be a classic case of long-held historical beliefs influencing not only the interpretation of documentary sources themselves, but the subsequent invasion paradigm being accepted uncritically in the related disciplines of archaeology and linguistics.
« I believe that none of the evidence is capable of supporting the traditional explanations, and that closer dialogue between historians, linguists and archaeologists can lead to a better understanding of the construction of identity and processes of social change in the early medieval period.
« Indeed, merely by re-labelling the supposed ‘Irish settlers’ as ‘Gaelic speakers’, following the practice of contemporary writers such as Adomnan, the whole issue can be studied in an atmosphere free from the colonialist implications which have distorted the study of early medieval western Britain. »
Calum MacWoke from the clan MacWoke
Who’s moto is;
CLAMO ET IGNORARE.
CURRENT ACADEMIC VIEWS ON GAELIC HISTORY
1. Extract from ‘THE HIGHEST APPLE / AN UBHAL AS ÀIRDE: An anthology of Scottish Gaelic literature’ (Edited by Wilson McLeod and Michael Newton, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2019) —
« The conventional view has been that the Gaelic language was brought to Scotland by settlers from Ireland in the early centuries of the common era, but it may actually be most appropriate ‘to imagine Ireland and Western Scotland as a single linguistic zone in which Gaelic evolved’ (Márkus 2017:79). It is therefore not entirely clear how and when Scottish Gaelic came to evolve separately from Irish. It was once thought that no significant distinctions between the two varieties emerged until c. 1300 but, more recently, scholars have challenged this model, arguing that differentiation probably began as soon as Gaelic speakers began to settle in Scotland.»
2. Extract from tIntroduction to ‘DUANAIRE NA SRACAIRE: SONGBOOK OF THE PILLAGERS, ANTHOLOGY OF SCOTLAND’S GAELIC VERSE TO 1600’. (Edited by Wilson McLeod and Meg Bateman, Birlinn Ltd, 2019 ) —
« Gaelic is often described as Scotland’s oldest living language […] The early history of Gaelic and Gaeldom in Scotland remains less than entirely clear, but the once-dominant vision of a straightforward migration from Ireland has been increasingly questioned in recent decades.
« […] With the coming of Colum Cille (St Columba) from Ireland in 563 and his establishment of the immensely influential monastery at Iona (Í Choluim Chille), the consolidation of Dál Riata in western Scotland, and the spread of Gaelic culture in North Britain more generally, received an important boost.
« […] A new stage began in the middle of the ninth century when the king of Dál Riata, Cináed mac Ailpín (+858), took control of the kingdom of the Picts in 843. The process by which this political transformation took place is by no means clear, although the disruption and instability brought about by Norse incursions, culminating in a catastrophic defeat of the Picts and their allies in 839, seem to have played a critical role; the traditional notion of a ‘Union of the Picts and Scots’, achieved by reinforcing dynastic claims, has been jettisoned. Cináed and his immediate successors were styled Rex Pictorum (king of the Picts), but from the turn of the tenth century onwards the form rí Alban (king of Alba) came into use, and Alba emerged as a distinctive kingdom.
« […] Gaelic culture reached its zenith in Scotland during the eleventh century, when the borders of the kingdom were extended southwards, reaching the Tweed and Solway, and Gaelic was the language of the court and government, of the aristocracy, clergy, and intelligentsia, used throughout the royal territory.
« […] New trading centres from the early twelfth century onwards…were populated largely by speakers of of Germanic speech varieties — Scots/English, Flemings, Germans — and Scots eventually became the predominant language of commerce.
« […] By the early thirteenth century, Gaelic had probably disappeared from the core of the kingdom in the Lothians and the Forth valley; by 1400, the language shift seems to have extended to the entire east coast, including Buchan and the Moray littoral. At the same time, Gaelic probably remained in use in some upland areas of Fife well into the fifteenth century and in Carrick and Galloway until some point in the seventeenth century. As late as 1500, Gaelic was still spoken by about half the population of Scotland, a proportion that has dropped steadily since, especially since c. 1750. »
I find it hugely frustrating that while any amount of stream of consciousness twaddle about Gaelic and Pictish seems to get freely published here, my two responses featuring corrective extracts from highly creditable academics have instantly disappeared into moderation limbo.
Here is a minimalist post. One title. One link. Maybe it will squeeze under the wire…
WERE THE SCOTS IRISH? by Ewan Campbell, 2015
link to electricscotland.com
you’re using “facts” and all that Fergus; that’s how the madness starts, how they get you, thinking about things, with logic
as John Ford says “print the legend”
talking of which : englands religion – worship of the mythic (and I mean MYTHIC) past was a bit low key at the cenotaph this year, and with some shocking omissions : TQ+ vastly under-represented
Gracie Fields was queer she used to sing
TRANNY, WITH THE FAKE FANNY
to all the troops on d-day just before dunkirk
the trannies won the war for us, never forget, and 6M of them were misgendered in specially built misgendering chambers at Hachsen-Belsen-PorFavor-o-witz (misgendering leaves a purple residue on the walls, which can be tested by chemical analysis)
link to youtube.com
this is my truth, it’s a different way of knowing
Douglas Badger-Meinhof lost his legs after a botched bottom surgery, but it was suppressed for the war effort by D notice, in case Lord Haw Haw would try to demoralise the troops
The truth, well… your truth, is awesome, Confused. I was never taught any of this at school.
Although I did know about Douglas Badger-Meinhof – apparently his real name was Kenneth More – after watching that old 1956 black and white documentary about his life called “Reach for the Sky”.
“…stream of consciousness twaddle…
If it was good enough for the famous Scot (sorry, Scotti), James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, it’s good enough for me.
“WERE THE SCOTS IRISH? “
Duh!
I just earlier today posted an extremely accurate historical account PROVING beyond any possible doubt that the Scots (nee Scotti) were Irish and spoke in the Gaelic tongue.
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh @ 12.32.
If it helps any, Fergus, yours remain some of the few, reliable, fact checkable posts BTL here which I do consistently peruse with interest. (And to my greater knowledge, for which I thank you).
I can only suggest scrolling on past the wilder ravings of imaginary Pictish and other pasts, not to mention the racist tirades about other nationalities which so frequently appear from either the terminally bored (and boring) or the terminally silly.
It’s always nice to see posts on an independence site for Scotland which do genuinely comment on our history, culture and real historical language.
“It’s always nice to see posts on an independence site for Scotland which do genuinely comment on our history, culture and real historical language.”
Which site is that, then?
You might have shown us the courtesy of providing us with a link.
Thanks Sven.
“It’s always nice to see posts on an independence site for Scotland which do genuinely comment on our history, culture and real historical language.”
I don’t see many contributions on our history , culture and real historical language from yourself Sven , I don’t even see any comments from yourself defending our language or culture from the lies and misinformation EXCRETED daily by the yoonionist Scotland hating HORDES infesting this site , perhaps you don’t see them or you are comfortable with their daily tirade of derision or denigration of Scotland and Scots or maybe you just agree with their lies and misinformation
Or maybe you fall into the category that believes that they are only having a larf and it’s just a bit o banter jock
I’m sorry that some of us are not as comfortable as yourself in our country and our nationality being maligned and insulted on a daily basis and tend to respond in a way unacceptable to your standards but as you have stated you can always scroll on by and ignore these persons
According to the owner of the site there is nothing happening in Scottish politics and he considers that all the ancient GUFF is meaningless anyway, so posting anything about Scots history or our culture just bores him
And here is another, Fearghas:
“ Was ‘Scottis’ the accepted homogenous literary language of Scotland in earlier times? Once the historical dimension to that question is opened up and one looks at origins, it becomes clear that the answer is ‘No’. The dialect known as ‘Scottis’ has no claim to be the original national tongue. In fact, if there were any politico-linguistic ‘treachery’, it was that which resulted in ‘Scottis’ gaining dominance over the native Gaelic. At the end of the thirteenth century Malcolm Canmore and David 1 had intentionally ‘driven Gaelic back to (virtually) the present highland line’. Scots originated as Northumbrian English and only grew later into proud distinctiveness, because of the positive sociolinguistic forces inherent in nationhood.
Unsurprisingly, therefore, lowland Scottish writers from the fourteenth century until the seventeenth almost always claim to be composing in ‘Inglis’ and seek their poetic origins south of the border. . .*
Source: The Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature, 1376-1707 edited by R.D.S. Jack and P.A.T. Rozendaal (2008)
If we’re Northumbrian English, then surely we only grew into “proud distinctiveness” because we’re racist, colonising, thieving, lying, Anglo cants?
I think your idea has legs, Cynicus, but it’s beyond ironic that every accusation hurled at the English on here should be true for us as well, because we’re the same people!
So what’s next? Justified calls for the Gaels to rise as one people and hurl the Scots colonists into the sea? Sounds good. Bring it on 🙂
Wokism is the political arm if paedophilia.
let’s fucking see it then …
link to archive.ph
– very easy way to fill that hole : tear up the treaty of union – England goes solo
according to GERS England subsidises little old us to the tune of 26B a year, that’s a lot of haggis
Filled the hole, in a onner. Done. See ya later you freeloading jocks !
(tumbleweed rolling through the deserted town) … nah didnay think so.
Other methods – 12B is being shovelled to the yookies, who will either steal it or pish it up a wall; then there is the 12B welfare bill on cunts who shouldnay be here
If you really want to have a surplus, shutdown the tax havens, most of which we control, and force the money back onshore, to be taxed; allow an amnesty for anyone who wants to submit “updated accounts”
– with the tax haven money onshore and taxed, I can then set tax rates to zero for everyone else for a couple of years at least
More savings – get out of nukes, both weapons and power stations and that F35 program needs to die a death; this will save ? no one knows, but a trillion over the decades is likely.
Vote for me you ROSBIF gammon necked hotpot eating CUNTS – and on day one you will see me dragging Kemi Badenoch onto a flight to Rwanda. Then I send all the trannies to broadmoor.
But the “treaty of union” doesn’t exist. You haven’t been listening.
“set tax rates to zero”
Oh my aching sides, indeed.
When did you last pay any taxes, eh? None of you hands-out-for-freebees boys are ever so fucking daft as to find yourselves subbing any of the other boys with their hands out for freebies.
“china crisis”
they’re on LINKEDIN FFS, shut it down, shut it down
schizo attitudes abound in the upper echelons of the UK
china threat
link to archive.ph
but we be in the bizness of doing bizness
link to archive.ph
there’s a general 2 facedness about this – trump exempted orban from tariffs and sanctions on rushan oil so orban could get his cheap energy since he is a “bro”
link to archive.ph
now the UK want to stop the wind turbine factory getting built up here “because of the chinese” – I bet they wouldn’t block it if it made being done in england
That’s the intelligence clown that said R would fall in a few weeks LMAO! Then it’d crash it’s economy, oh wait, then they’d run out of ammo. Nah, the ppl would rise up & demand P steps down…He also seemed completely unaware R now has super spectacular weapons in it’s war chest.
He should be renamed as ‘D’. D for DUNCE. He’s about as intelligence gathering as an OAP is at gathering gossip at the local post office.
Sure, but it’s “its”, not “it’s”.
How many times does this have to be pointed out before the penny drops?
DOWN THE SLOPE….I regret to say in my experience of Scots a surprising number appear content with their marginal, effectively powerless, provincial status. As the backward looking British state itself sinks deeper into the sludge of global irrelevance i fear to contemplate where Scotland stands in that context.
A subject for satire with rich themes to cut into. Mac Abre!
In Tehran the main key government buildings are situated on a street called Pasteur Street. A bit ironic that they name a street after a colonial woman.
Oops I’ve just mis-gendered. In for it now. The Hate police are kicking in my front door as I type. In my defence it’s this bloody auto spell checker.
There is a meme on Wings these days regarding the Declaration of Arbroath’s claim that the Scots wiped put the Picts. Here is (the English translation of) the original passage:
“The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since.”
The overall context of this entire preamble section of the Declaration has been compellingly covered by Professor ALEXANDER BROADIE (sic) in his 2010 lecture Royal Society of Edinburgh. In short, it was simply propaganda (how contemporary is that?)
THE PAST AS PROPAGANDA IN THE DECLARATION OF ARBROATH
link to youtube.com
Professor Alexander Broadie FRSE is emeritus professor of logic and rhetoric at Glasgow University. He is top authority on the history of Scottish philosophy with many go-to books on the subject.
Might I say that it defeats me why SALVO has not picked up on Broadie’s conclusively argued case that JOHN DUNS SCOTUS was the key constitutional thinker behind the Declaration of Arbroath. Broadie writes elsewhere:
« The Declaration of Arbroath…repeats the message that a king does not rule except by the consent of those who are ruled, for it states that Robert [The Bruce] was made prince and king ‘by the due consent and assent of us all’ […] My conclusion is that while Wallace was fighting for Scottish independence, Scotus was developing precisely the intellectual framework that the Scots within a few years would deploy in the chief documents that defined that independence. I also believe it possible that the documents in question were compiled with Scotus in mind. » (From chapter by Alexander Broadie entitled JOHN DUNS SCOTUS AND THE IDEA OF INDEPENDENCE’, in ‘The Wallace Book’ (John Donald Short Run Press, 2010)
@ Fearghas MacFionnlaigh.
Thankyou, Fearghas, my apologies for misspelling your name on my previous post. (Old man moment).
The man who killed first ruled. The Victors write history. I dispute the claim Wallace was fighting for independence. I believe that tag came later much later. In today’s terms they were all psychopaths.
So what you are saying, Fearghas, is that the bits in the D of A you don’t like are lying propaganda, whereas the bits you do like are gospel truth.
You don’t like the statement that we Scots exterminated the Picts – so that’s all lies.
You do like the statement that we Scots are Sovereign – yay – some incontrovertible truth.
Thanks for clearing that up, to your own satisfaction at least.
Alert readers may choose a different conclusion and why not – your belief in Sovereign Scots empowers them to do so.
In every school in Iran the children must stand and listen to the voice of their leader repeat the same message that the colonial west are evil and that a certain country and its people must be destroyed. Very similar to the Labour party.
O/T Another dedicated independence fighter has died – Henry Ferguson.
Henry, having lived in Switzerland for over 50 years, saw that Scotland’s cause can be helped by incorporating the UN Convention on Civil and Political Rights into Scottish law [this would allow Holyrood to hold referendums without needing Westminster permission] and by making our democracy a direct democracy i.e. the politicians be subject to direct instruction from the voters.
Holyrood has the power to incorporate this UN Convention so Henry submitted a petition to Holyrood – Petition PE2135. Naturally it received no support from the SNP and in fact Angus Robertson tried to stop its progress by denying that Holyrood has the power.
Fergus Ewing persisted and the petition is therefore still under consideration by the Petitions Committee. It has 7500 signatures but obviously the MSPs are more likely to act on it if there is a much larger number of signatories. All Wingers should be signing, sharing, and talking about this petition – the link is on the Respect Scottish Sovereignty site.
Link to Henry Ferguson’s PE2135 petition is also on Leah Gunn Barrett’s article which was included in the Voices for Independence list yesterday 17th November.
This from “The Picts” by Dr Tim Clarkson:
And then Gerald of Wales shows up later and says:
“Now we shall tell briefly how the very powerful Pictish race disappeared after so many victories – Gerald of Wales, c.1190.
Gerald writ doun a tale of conflict in which Cináed defeated the Picts in battle before annexing their land.
However, I think Gerald of Wales sensationalised his tale with a good deal of fiction to increase book sales:
Because Tim Clarkson tells us: “…many modern historians interpret rex Pictorum as meaning that Cináed arrived in Pictavia not as a conqueror but as a legitimate candidate for the Pictish overkingship.”
Clarkson also says this:
I suspect the history of Scotland and the Scots and Pictavia and the Picts as set out by Tim Clarkson is closer to any ‘truth’ history revisionists might inflict upon us Scots/Picts for thair ain gain.
The history of my people, the Picts, is a convoluted tale. A tale hauf visited through a fog that fadit awa tae naething mony centuries aby and teuk maist o’ the truith aboot the Picts alang wi it.
Here’s another extract from “The Picts” by Dr Tim Clarkson:
The mystery fronting the truth of ‘Scotland’s” history deepens!
I’m beginning to suspect that everything we think we know about Scotland and the Scots is fabricated nonsense.
Thanks for the quotes. Some mental congruence there. Not sure if anyone has ever managed to compose a sentence in actual recovered Pictish. That would be sensational. If you do come across such in your reading, please share it. Meanwhile I hope you might now desist from your (and Alf’s) incoherent head-stirring insistence that Germanic Lowland Scots is the Pictish language. In terms of living languages, apart from perhaps learning Welsh, our own Scottish Gaelic is as close to speaking Pictish that any of us are likely to get.
You should know, Northy.
You fabricated much of it.
Yet another extract from “The Picts” by Dr Tim Clarkson:
Nobody alive today knows what language the Picts spoke before the Gaelic-chuntering Scotti rocked up in Pictavia and ruined it.
However, the living language of us descendants of the Picts – known in these modern times as the Scots – is the braw Scots leid that, although is not our very ancient first tongue – for that was extinguished long ago, is nevertheless the language us Picts created anew and made into our own over many centuries.
Gaelic was never the language of Pictavia (the original ‘Scotland’)… it was introduced by the Irish Scotti.
Less than one quarter of one percent (0.23%) of Scots stll speak Gaelic today whereas a whopping 43% of Scots claim some ability with the Scots leid – not bad for a people whose language was suppressed and beaten out of them over the course of three centuries.
Totally O/T. Scotland 4 [FOUR] Denmark 2. Wow!
Scotland suddenly awash with 90 minute nationalists. again.
However…
Well played the Scotland squad, an outstanding and thoroughly deserved result and one to savour. And well done the Tartan Army for lifting the whole team. Bravo!!!
I believe in Scotland.
4-2 how did we manage that.
“mens world cup” from the BBC.
Like no one knew that. The woke agenda wants DEI in football.
They need to be dismantled like the quangos before they do any more damage.
Great result to qualify. How we go who knows. But after a long hiatus we are now back on the world football stage.
Great result, well done to all. Let us hope that we can progess and achieve much more.
Not a fan of football, except when the Scotland team plays and then I hide behind the couch and watch from there.
Delighted for the team, the Tartan Army and I saw Steve Clarke SMILE – an occurrence to melt the hardest heart!