As Ofcom require any complaints about the BBC to be directed to the Corporation first, I’ve sent the BBC the letter below today (by physical mail, as the online complaint form is comically inadequate), which I expect to be a waste of time and energy. If I don’t receive a satisfactory response – and I’m sure that I won’t – I’ll take it up with Ofcom.
Right then. Our 2019 crowdfunder is officially over (the page is actually still live at the moment because several readers have asked it be kept open until the weekend so they can make their own donations, but it’ll be finally closed down on Sunday night).
And good heavens.
The main page alone narrowly beat last year’s all-sources total (ie including donations made via other routes like direct bank transfers) by nearly £600, and the actual final figure for 2019 [EDIT: updated 24 June] is, jawdroppingly, this much:
A crude clip of this segment from Shelagh Fogarty’s LBC show yesterday is doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment, and it deserves both better audiovisual quality and a wider audience. If features Regan Morann, a rather confused Tory from Scotland who has quite an opinion of himself.
An incredulous Fogarty, speaking for just about everyone listening to the show, asks “Where’s your self-respect?” as Morann burbles about debasing himself desperately in front of his English colleagues who don’t want him or care about him, and his eventual answer was enlightening, in a tragic kind of way.
The UK’s political commentariat is afire with shock today over a new poll.
The poll showed that Tory members would by margins of around 2:1 willingly sacrifice Scotland and Northern Ireland – along with the UK economy and their own party – to make sure Brexit happened. Which is all very interesting, unless you read Wings in which case you knew it a year ago.
You could actually weep for some of the people in our country.
But the point Yes supporters understand and Unionists don’t is that it’s everything to do with the question – because “who is or might be Prime Minister, or which party is in government” is never our choice. It’s the choice of England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland together. One of those countries outnumbers the others by 8 to 1.
More than that, it isn’t just who is Prime Minister now, or who may be in the future – it’s every single Prime Minister in my 35 years of existence on this planet.
Our 2019 crowdfunder now has just 24 hours to go, and to be honest it’s exceeded our wildest expectations. Despite the moribund state of Scottish politics over the last two years we’re currently around £3200 beyond the previous all-time record, and that’s just phenomenal. You never stop taking our breath away, folks.
But we’re going to rattle the tin one last time by repeating something we said last year.
Well, they do say a day is a long time in politics, etc. But just like David Cameron did on the day after the indyref, it’s nice to be reminded once again that Tory “respect” for Scotland has an average lifespan of less than 24 hours.
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “Northcode, Three hundred years and more of conditioning has to have had an effect on the people of Scotland, Goodness…” Mar 12, 19:06
Sven on Looking up at the stars: “Diabloandco @ 15.55. He did indeed, D & Co, in the (very) late 1700s. His statue stands outside the establishment,…” Mar 12, 19:00
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “Factchecker, You are right of course, the Scottish people have to attain the will to wake up first, prior to…” Mar 12, 18:48
James on Looking up at the stars: “Apologies, Geri, but I’ve got to correct you there; it’s not “rubbish” the site Prick babbles 24/7, but pure, unadulterated…” Mar 12, 18:46
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “Mark Beggan, The age of aquarius is supposed to be the age of enlightenment, so its said, when truths are…” Mar 12, 18:32
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “James Rumour is that Hatey likes Dickens, just not on the first date! Allegedly..” Mar 12, 18:31
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: ““Scotland , its country and its people have been independent since 1707” Maybe so, James, but the Scots, as a…” Mar 12, 18:30
James on Looking up at the stars: “Oh no….you’ve pumped and followed through again, haven’t you?” Mar 12, 18:28
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “Geri If a God of light and love ever existed then he is long gone. Someone, some thing now sits…” Mar 12, 18:26
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “Alf Baird, I do remember how the long term effect of Colonialism dances with and on the reality of the…” Mar 12, 18:19
Sven on Looking up at the stars: ““When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of…” Mar 12, 18:11
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “Geri, You are missing the point, You did not have to vote for your independence or ask permission to be…” Mar 12, 17:54
Aidan on Looking up at the stars: “@CC I think a large part is sadly BTL has become a symposium for the bored and the mad. The…” Mar 12, 17:35
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: ““It is not only the Scots kirk that has little interest in the liberation of the Scots people, it is…” Mar 12, 16:27
Mark Beggan on Looking up at the stars: “In the last two thousand years we have seen western orthodox religion rise and fall. We now see the fall…” Mar 12, 16:05
Geri on Looking up at the stars: ““It is not only the Scots kirk that has little interest in the liberation of the Scots people, it is…” Mar 12, 15:59
diabloandco on Looking up at the stars: “Did he not attend Aberdeen Grammar School? As did my brothers – obviously not at the same time as Lord…” Mar 12, 15:55
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “According to online sleuths it’s secret societies/Freemasons/Transhumanists/Znsts who are directing Trump & who have also infiltrated all levels of government…” Mar 12, 15:47
factchecker on Looking up at the stars: ““It is not only the Scots kirk that has little interest in the liberation of the Scots people, it is…” Mar 12, 15:35
Captain Caveman on Looking up at the stars: ““More alert readers can but muse on why the Indy movement clings to such fuckwits, fantasists and congenital liars.” To…” Mar 12, 15:24
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: ““The “goitrous academics” reference is from Cesaire, not Fanon.” Ha! Only an ignorant uneducated simpleton would confuse Fanon with Cesaire,…” Mar 12, 15:20
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “Alf Baird, It is not only the Scots kirk that has little interest in the liberation of the Scots people,…” Mar 12, 15:18
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “Oh, no! I missed an ‘O’… in ‘glorius’ what should be ‘glorious’ in that strange Inglis tongue of inglorious England.” Mar 12, 15:14
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “Colonialism can be understood as the practice of one country acquiring partial or full control over another country and exploiting…” Mar 12, 15:09
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: “I’ve long since given up expecting invitations to “soirées” from colonial institutions or functionaries. “Anti-colonial literature is never welcome in…” Mar 12, 15:00
James Che on Looking up at the stars: ““Dickens wrote the real evil of the world is ignorance” Hatey, no truer word was spoken when it refers to…” Mar 12, 14:57
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: “It certainly appears as if the Scots Kirk is less than interested in the Scottish peoples oppression or liberation, whilst…” Mar 12, 14:40
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “If anybody has any free sock puppets, explain 24/7 to the New Hereditary King’s most vocal handmaiden. Haha, hand “something”,…” Mar 12, 14:38
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Far more important, CC, to those who care, Geri is an embarrassment to Scotland and to decent Scots. That obviously…” Mar 12, 14:33
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “A disgrace. Ten times as much would still have left Scotland’s Mammie hard done by. How quickly we all forget…” Mar 12, 14:22
