The 2010s end in a matter of hours, and everyone and their genderfluid dog is writing retrospectives of the 10 years just past. This site, which came into existence in the second year of the decade, has very little interest in following suit – we’ve always been about the future.
But a cursory glance over the shoulder does reveal one immediately striking fact that’s worthy of passing note.
We got blocked by LBC’s James O’Brien today for very gently and politely challenging him over this tweet:
And while this site most assuredly carries no torch for Jeremy Corbyn, it’s a reframing of reality that merits a bit of investigation for what it tells us about the UK media.
It sucks being right all the time. But at least now, as we asked for, the lie is over. So that’s a good thing. We suppose we should celebrate, but we don’t feel much like it.
Yesterday we posted an article noting that hardline trans-rights extremists, among whose number we must regretfully count the Scottish Government, were engaged in a determined and alarmingly successful attempt to abolish the scientific basis for reality.
We did not expect such a striking illustration of that assertion to arrive this soon.
It really is quite the remarkable feat of timing that concerted mass reporting by SNP activists managed to get the Wings Twitter account (and several others) closed down this week of all weeks, isn’t it?
They’re also trying to get my personal account banned, and reporting scores of others, in an open attempt to purge any sort of dissenting opinions from public dialogue at exactly the same time as opening a “consultation” whose outcome has already been predetermined, and which in another remarkable coincidence is due to close just a few days into the four weeks scheduled for the Alex Salmond trial.
As some alert readers have already noticed, our Twitter account has been suspended again, three and a bit years after the last time. The ban is supposedly permanent. To save a lot of repeated explaining in emails and direct messages, a brief record of the pertinent events follows.
Last night a bomb went off in British politics. It utterly destroyed the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, and may have fatally weakened the foundations of the UK itself – Northern Ireland now has a majority of nationalist MPs for the first time in its history, and over 80% of Scottish seats went to the SNP.
As this site had been warning for months and months, the patience of English and Welsh voters with Parliament refusing to implement their 2016 vote to leave the EU finally snapped. Some wildly improbable Labour seats – including the constituency of Grenfell Tower, for God’s sake – went to the Tories, especially in Wales and the north of England, in order to “Get Brexit Done”.
The Lib Dems, the only UK party with a clear (okay, fairly clear) Remain position and with a minimum of 48% of the electorate to target, somehow contrived to LOSE seats, not only compared to their 21-MP starting point (bolstered by defectors since the last election) but compared to the 12 MPs they won in the 2017 election itself.
And the SNP? Well, the SNP failed too.
Because having expressly told voters that the election wasn’t about independence but about stopping Brexit, they won 13 more seats, but seats which have zero leverage at Westminster and will be able to do absolutely nothing to prevent the UK leaving the EU seven weeks from now. For all Scotland’s renewed “STOP BREXIT” message, Brexit will not be stopped. The UK, and Scotland with it, will depart next month.
We can’t help but note at this point that if the party had taken our advice and done a deal with the Tories in October to let Brexit pass in return for Section 30 powers, we’d now have an indyref in the bag (which we’d win) and as a parting gift to our southern kin we’d also have saved England from having a thumping great Tory majority for the foreseeable future.
agent x on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Harold Wilson (Labour) closed 253 pits as against Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) 115, more than twice as many. However because there…” Aug 13, 23:08
Lorn on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “When I said New Labour were Tories by any other name, that is what they were but in a mirror…” Aug 13, 23:02
Alf Baird on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: ““UNIONISM is more than political, it is an exceptionalist worldview, more gut instinct than brain.” Yes, that might also be…” Aug 13, 21:51
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: ““the chances of England succumbing to a tyrannical dictatorship are virtually nil” They may not yet be high, but to…” Aug 13, 20:56
agent x on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: ““Nicola Sturgeon knew she would lose independence court case – but still spent £250k of public cash on proving this”…” Aug 13, 20:50
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “French is the language of diplomacy – the Lingua Franca in fact. The reason is that it permits ideas to…” Aug 13, 20:45
Nae Need! on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Spot on Sally for the first 3 paras. Personally, I don’t believe a word of her PERSONAL account. She’s a…” Aug 13, 20:41
Southernbystander on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “I have lived here all my life and I can tell you England is not collapsing. Of course I understand…” Aug 13, 20:35
Hatey McHateface on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “@ James says: 13 August, 2025 at 6:42 pm You’ll need both hands free to check this out, but the…” Aug 13, 20:35
Southernbystander on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “I can assure you the chances of England succumbing to a tyrannical dictatorship are virtually nil. Where do you get…” Aug 13, 20:31
Nae Need! on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Dan says: 13 August, 2025 at 7:44 pm Hmm, as stated several times already, I’m fairly sure that’s a different…” Aug 13, 20:28
Nae Need! on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Dan says: 13 August, 2025 at 7:44 pm Hmm, as stated several times already, I’m fairly sure that’s a different…” Aug 13, 20:27
Southernbystander on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “I think Beckett wrote most if his work in French, then translated it into English. I think he liked to…” Aug 13, 20:27
Nae Need! on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Hatey McHateface says: 12 August, 2025 at 10:38 pm Perhaps more true to the actual, lived reality: Frankly, My Queer,…” Aug 13, 20:23
Dan on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Hmm, as stated several times already, I’m fairly sure that’s a different Liz Lloyd. https://archive.is/RaImG” Aug 13, 19:44
Andy Wiltshire on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Perhaps the little blue men who live in Fearghas’ radiator all speak French.” Aug 13, 19:31
George Ferguson on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “@Dan Thank you for enquiry previously into my health. I am doing great, a brilliant operation done by the SNHS.…” Aug 13, 19:31
Nae Need! on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Indeed. LL working for Starmer? I didn’t know that. Makes sense. She’s a good fit.” Aug 13, 19:17
TURABDIN on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “should have read…BESIDES it is for Scotland to reclaim her sovereignty rather than for England to relinquish it, however unwillingly.” Aug 13, 19:15
Nae Need! on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Interesting. I don’t think they are yet divorced, but I can guarantee you they WILL be, with plenty of time…” Aug 13, 19:12
agent x on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Was there a reason to give a French translation as opposed to Mandarin Chinese, Swahili or evens Scots?” Aug 13, 19:08
Nae Need! on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Indeed. And government disrupting society, in this way, can in some instances be called treason.” Aug 13, 19:08
Nae Need! on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “That’s it. From now on it shall be called ‘The Book of Lies’. No more apt a description yet exists.” Aug 13, 19:03
Nae Need! on The Endless Evil Of Everyone Else: “Straight answers . . . you only get a straight answer from a narcissist when it’s a categorical denial of…” Aug 13, 18:53
