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.
Geri on The Pit Of Vipers: “They don’t even live in Scotland so what would they know? Absolutely nothing. They’re just nosepoking trolls.” Apr 23, 12:22
Aidan on The Pit Of Vipers: “What a great comeback, that’s me telt ? Sad little man.” Apr 23, 12:03
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Pit Of Vipers: “I imagine the DVD version you mention has become the following YouTube. However punchy and immediate, it remains but a…” Apr 23, 12:01
Geri on The Pit Of Vipers: ““material change in circumstances” Brexshit was the material change. Nawbags cried their remain vote didn’t count. The UK is not…” Apr 23, 11:59
James on The Pit Of Vipers: “But…..but….”Adrian & Wilma” say everything was fine, none of that happened; nothing to see here…..who should we believe???” Apr 23, 11:36
James on The Pit Of Vipers: “LOL Making it up as they go along now as usual. Typical Yoon behaviour. What a pair of numpties. (Adrian;…” Apr 23, 11:31
Geri on The Pit Of Vipers: “I have it on DVD so an excellent watch too. I think it came free with iScot magazine at the…” Apr 23, 11:30
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on How To Get Away With Crimes: “The parents of the “botched circumcision” child were advised by tragically misguided psychologist John Money, whose story features from about…” Apr 23, 11:28
Aidan on The Pit Of Vipers: ““R” observers – lol, tell us more. The SNP did not stand on an IndyRef 2 ticket in 2015 though…” Apr 23, 11:20
Aidan on The Pit Of Vipers: “Lol Geri – to be called thick by someone like you, just wow! The idea that you can’t make “new…” Apr 23, 11:07
Nicky T Naquetti on How To Get Away With Crimes: ““Spitfire Cannon”, huh… Does this dude/dudette even have his cannon anymore, never its spitting function?” Apr 23, 10:51
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Pit Of Vipers: “The opening paragraphs of G.A. PONSONBY’s book: « Chapter 1 – TURNING YES INTO NO « The 2014 independence referendum…” Apr 23, 10:39
Geri on The Pit Of Vipers: “Jeez you’re as thick as pigs shit. It doesn’t allow you to introduce new offers. Devo Max & the vow…” Apr 23, 10:30
robertkknight on How To Get Away With Crimes: ““It is possible to bring a private prosecution for harassment in England and Wales under Section 6(1) of the Prosecution…” Apr 23, 10:26
Geri on The Pit Of Vipers: “Scotland was so pro Union do you know what they did? They returned 56 Nationalist MPs for the 1st time…” Apr 23, 10:25
Alf Baird on The Pit Of Vipers: “Aye, if only we had nationalists instead of colonialists leading the national party, we wad be hame and dry lang…” Apr 23, 09:53
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Pit Of Vipers: “And fulsome tribute still to G.A. PONSONBY for his watershed achievement in meticulously compiling irrefutable evidence of the BBC’s default…” Apr 23, 09:49
Aidan on The Pit Of Vipers: “Purdah rules restrict the use of official government functions like official communications channels or the civil service to announce major…” Apr 23, 09:40
TURABDIN on The Pit Of Vipers: “«SCOTTISH NATIONALISM» the love that dare not speak its name without a paroxysm of cringe.” Apr 23, 09:27
100%Yes on How To Get Away With Crimes: “Seats projection for Holyrood election in latest poll. SNP 59 down Greens 23 up Reform UK 17 up Liberal Democrats…” Apr 23, 09:21
Geri on The Pit Of Vipers: “The broke the rules, continually. The broke rules on Purdah. They continually abused the state mafia TV who were not…” Apr 23, 09:07
Aidan on The Pit Of Vipers: “See there we differ CC, I actually think Geri and “James” do live somewhere in the UK, likely in a…” Apr 23, 07:59
Captain Caveman on The Pit Of Vipers: ““Of course in this dystopian dictatorships Geri sings the praises of none of those things would be possible, the ballot…” Apr 23, 07:31
Aidan on How To Get Away With Crimes: “Eventually his time will come, he has and is continuing to commit offences which go beyond the summary only offence…” Apr 23, 07:06
Aidan on The Pit Of Vipers: “Geri’s latest rant is that: – the No campaign was allowed to campaign – people were allowed to donate to…” Apr 23, 06:35
Angus on How To Get Away With Crimes: “Today’s Scotland, legacy of the biggest betrayer in Scottish history, has become the worst banana state in the world. Rotten…” Apr 23, 00:47
Geri on How To Get Away With Crimes: “Bilbo It was shown to be a nonsense by the tragic case of David Reimer decades ago. Accidentally castrated by…” Apr 23, 00:08
Captain Caveman on The Pit Of Vipers: “Ah, the cringeworthy late night meltdowns are in progress once again I see; another day, another dollar eh. Most amusing.…” Apr 22, 22:40
Bilbo on How To Get Away With Crimes: “With AI translation, people from non-English speaking countries can now access English western social media content and from the below…” Apr 22, 22:30
Bilbo on How To Get Away With Crimes: “There was a YouTube video that had come into my feed about Norah Vincent, a female journalist who had lived…” Apr 22, 22:22
