We were rather startled to learn this morning that Brian Donohoe, the former Scottish Labour MP for Central Ayrshire, had been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s latest Birthday Honours List.
Not by the award itself, but because we assumed he must have done a lot of unsung charity work in his community or something. But no, the title was conferred purely for “services to Parliament and politics”.
We all know how enthusiastically newspapers love to cover any celebrity story relating to Scottish independence, and this is actually quite a dramatic one.
Because Dan Snow’s not just some hasbeen pop star or rando off Big Brother.
This should definitely work. Because as we all know, nothing weakens the resolve of Scottish nationalists like having the Union Jack rammed in their faces every minute.
The modern world is an ideological minefield, readers, and is increasingly almost as dangerous as a real one. Having the wrong opinions about things can easily get you fired, ostracised from polite society, arrested or beaten up, and nowhere is this more the case than in the sphere of gender politics.
The extremely brave intersex woman Claire Graham (aka @MRKHvoice on Twitter, her latest account after a series of arbitrary bannings for upsetting the wrong people with statements of biological fact) recently compiled a list of things which are now deemed “transphobic” by trans activists, and given the transience and vulnerability of anything published on Twitter, we thought it was a good idea to preserve it here, with some additions of our own and from others.
[EDIT 9 Dec 2019: Claire has of course now been permanently banned and her original list deleted by Twitter.]
We’ve previously noted how alarmingly this sort of extremist, intolerant and openly violent male bullying in the guise of progressive political correctness has been used in recent months to silence all sorts of people (mainly but not exclusively feminists).
Politicians, police and numerous other authorities in both Scotland and the UK have been complicit – whether intentionally or not – in enabling a terrifying “woke” culture of censorship and intimidation in which the wishes of the vast majority of the public are about to be simply ridden roughshod over, resulting in the creation of laws which could have (and are already having) absolutely horrific consequences.
Anyone raising issues, however, is liable to find themselves at the centre of a vicious storm of outrage, abuse or worse. So if you’re concerned about the imminent abolition of sex but want to stay out of trouble, here’s the stuff you need to avoid.
The Daily Record today carries a piece by Scottish Labour MPs Ian Murray and Martin Whitfield (no, us either) bitterly attacking their leadership over the Euro election results.
The two men complain that Jeremy Corbyn and Richard Leonard won’t listen to them, and insist that the party must “heed the people” if it ever wants to wield power again.
So it’s a bit ironic that they won’t take their own advice.
We thought you might enjoy watching Sarah Smith just about remembering to mention the European elections while conveying to a watching nation her amazement that the dastardly SNP still want independence, from tonight’s Reporting Scotland.
We’ve watched in growing amazement this morning as some Remain supporters have tried to spin last night’s election results as somehow representing a Remain victory. Much of it has been based on this batshit-mad graphic from the BBC website:
Mark Beggan on The Land Of No Laws: “Child to parent: When I grow up I want to be a socialist. Parent to Child: You can’t do both.” May 19, 11:17
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of No Laws: “Calm doon, Geri. If you’re carrying poot’s love child, working your way up to high doh can’t be doing the…” May 19, 11:14
Captain Caveman on The Land Of No Laws: ““ “All you have is shit propaganda that has already been debunked – even by the perpetrators.” Yeah, apart from…” May 19, 11:14
Captain Caveman on The Land Of No Laws: ““You don’t have permission to use any of it.” How much “permission” does one need to bundle a MIRV (which…” May 19, 11:10
Geri on The Land Of No Laws: “Cave Dweller All you have is shit propaganda that has already been debunked – even by the perpetrators. You’ve no…” May 19, 10:54
Southernbystander on The Land Of No Laws: “You do know that with your hatred of ‘socialism’, your characterisation of it as a parasite, you sound as mad…” May 19, 10:38
Geri on The Land Of No Laws: “Cave dweller You don’t have permission to use any of it. Period. Even Starmer had to grovel to Trumpton to…” May 19, 10:36
Captain Caveman on The Land Of No Laws: “Yeah, great response “Geri”. Hark at you, cheering on a despicable, despotic, dystopian, theocratic, totalitarian regime that mere weeks ago…” May 19, 10:18
Geri on The Land Of No Laws: “Tsk! I forgot to mention Englands financial services is up in smoke too. No longer the king of Insurance on…” May 19, 09:56
Aidan on The Land Of No Laws: “Meanwhile in the real world, “Irn” has maybe 4 months left before it runs out of basic supplies. Doesn’t seem…” May 19, 09:53
Captain Caveman on The Broken Rainbow: “@Aidan Well, Geri does seem to be a little quiet in responding re: “Operation Hee Haw”, huh. Maybe this is…” May 19, 09:47
Captain Caveman on The Land Of No Laws: ““Little England isn’t a nuclear power.” Oh do piss off, you embittered, demented little twerp. Not a nuclear power -…” May 19, 09:44
Mark Beggan on The Land Of No Laws: “That’s why the future of Scottish children depends on these God given resources. The future is bright if Scots in…” May 19, 09:44
Geri on The Land Of No Laws: “Little England isn’t a nuclear power. It needs permission to use weapons. They’re parked here, rent free, on behalf of…” May 19, 09:18
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of No Laws: “An interesting article, touching on the realities of politics, economics, independence, colonisation, and their interdependence with natural resource extraction, in…” May 19, 08:15
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of No Laws: “Jeezo, YL. It’s Clachnacuddin. Fit a fraud ye are.” May 19, 07:59
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of No Laws: “All true, Mark. But fit aboot the wee, pretendy jenny side? Wasn’t wanging oan and oan aboot that going to…” May 19, 07:51
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of No Laws: “Awww, another cry for help, eh, Young Lochinvar? There’s charities you can go to. Ask a friend. Mind and dinna…” May 19, 07:44
Mark Beggan on The Land Of No Laws: “International Law. Who comes and arrests you if you break it? Where’s the International Law prison? Who decides what is…” May 19, 00:37
Geri on The Land Of No Laws: ““Football clubs that pay exorbitant transfer fees for prima donnas then complain that they are skint andhave to up their…” May 18, 23:54
Young Lochinvar on The Land Of No Laws: ““Homo” Sacer.. Bound to have peeked Hateys attention that one, and then right on cue.. 🙂 Votes for Reform peeps…” May 18, 23:53
Young Lochinvar on The Land Of No Laws: “I hope Undertaker John Swinney* has read this and actually understood it before going off on one on yet another…” May 18, 23:43
Young Lochinvar on The Land Of No Laws: “Fair point Dan However.. Enjoy driving west on the M8 when a Knockhill Sunday has just wound up? Not really.…” May 18, 23:19
Young Lochinvar on The Land Of No Laws: “TH Sounds like a sound analysis there. What about footie in Engerlund! Engerlund!! Engerlund!!! though? Isn’t that the definition of…” May 18, 23:11
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of No Laws: ““its collapse is expected to set off a domino effect in the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, ultimately resulting in…” May 18, 22:43
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of No Laws: ““offshore tax haven colonial corporates” Do you reckon their boardrooms have libraries of the collected works of Fanon and Memmi,…” May 18, 22:14
Alf Baird on The Land Of No Laws: ““the city is finished” The port certainly is, done in by Westminster privatisation and offshore tax haven colonial corporates, much…” May 18, 21:30
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Land Of No Laws: “BMA U-TURNS ON CASS REVIEW OPPOSITION The British Medical Association (BMA) has backtracked on its opposition to the Cass Review,…” May 18, 21:23
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of No Laws: ““Correspondences with the plight of Scotland (though far less stark) will be obvious to any reader of Wings” Crivens, Fearghas!…” May 18, 19:11
Hatey McHateface on The Land Of No Laws: ““being a colonial nation of porridge wogs has internalised angst, violence and sectarianism” Sure. When we look at former colonies,…” May 18, 19:07
