Well well, look who suddenly believes in second referendums.
It’s fascinating to note how you can completely reverse Kezia Dugdale’s position on the subject simply by substituting the word “Scotland” for the words “the UK” in that second tweet, and imagine she was talking about the independence march in heavily-Remain-voting Edinburgh earlier this month instead of the (proportionately smaller) one in London yesterday.
The BBC’s Scottish politics website today prominently carries this story:
Our famously alert readers may recall as far back as five-and-a-half months ago, which was the last time the Scottish media tried to whip up demented scare stories about baby boxes, which have been given to every new mother in Finland for approximately 70 years and caused absolutely no documented problems.
So what’s fresh about the story to justify this significant new coverage? Let’s see.
Tory MP Kirstene “dumber than a box of” Hair is best known for being the member of the UK Parliament who didn’t vote in the Brexit referendum because it was too difficult.
The Scottish Daily Mail today has a big headline relaying the seemingly-unambiguous bad news that unemployment in Scotland has apparently risen by 11,000.
But cheer up, folks, because better times are ahead.
We’re pretty sure it was “Listen to you about being ‘better together’, so that they ended up with a Tory government they didn’t vote for but which was imposed on them by the people in a much larger country, and which has a long track record of imposing brutal, callous welfare policies on the poor for largely ideological reasons, and which has entirely predictably continued to do so”.
We’re blacklisted by the press regulator IPSO, but fortunately when we raise issues with especially blatant inaccuracies in UK newspapers alert readers sometimes take up the cudgel and file complaints with them because we can’t.
When indoor-hat-wearing uberYoon nutter George Galloway appeared in some of the madder corners of the gutter press this week after appearing on RT to extravagantly belittle last weekend’s indy marchers, we didn’t bother talking about it because who cares what that irrelevant old zoomer thinks, right?
But when an alert reader drew our attention to this spectacular clip of Galloway’s pre-indyref and post-indyref views on the EU we couldn’t let it go, because it so perfectly encapsulates not just what a huge buffoon George Galloway is, but the jaw-dropping, bare-faced, crass hypocrisy of so much Unionist argument.
We’re only sad he’s neither a politician nor in Scotland, or he’d be a shoo-in.
We knew this would be a fast-moving phenomenon when we created it, but we’re only just beginning to realise the magnitude of the rod we’ve made for our own backs. Because the supply of rock-headed clownshows sucking up taxpayers’ money on the opposition benches at Holyrood appear to be effectively infinite.
There’s only actually one “l” in “intolerable”, but that’s still the intellectual high point of the tweet. It really is hard to adequately convey what a brainless piece of idiocy this is without just swearing for a solid hour, but we’ll try.
We felt sure that our awarding of the inaugural Thickest Politician In Scotland title this morning would be taken as the throwing down of a gauntlet, and we weren’t wrong. Because within just hours, the Prince Regent had staked his claim to the crown.
Greene – who was rejected by the voters of Cunninghame North by almost 9,000 votes but sits in Parliament anyway – is in fact supposed to serve the people of the West Scotland region as a list MSP, not the whole country, and we’re not aware of any breakdown of how Scotland’s eight list regions voted in 2014 so we have no idea how many voted No in WS. But that’s by far the least idiotic part of the tweet.
Young Lochinvar on A matter of class: “Now Aidan You do realise don’t you that little admission would have your comrades here accusing others of being on…” Dec 24, 00:44
Aidan on A matter of class: “In my case YL, I had an evening with a good friend at a wine bar. I’m sorry if that…” Dec 24, 00:09
Young Lochinvar on A matter of class: “Aidan @ 5.49pm Wow! What a curfew on the Shingles List Yoon/Site Spoiler front! Since Aidans 5.49pm post (you Yoons…” Dec 23, 23:56
GM on A matter of class: “Got there eventually. Flynn/SNP WM group of lickspittles not worth reading about although point is taken.” Dec 23, 23:54
GM on A matter of class: “Cannae reach the webpage, Turacdin.” Dec 23, 23:50
I. Despair on A matter of class: “Brilliant! A second certificate of correction issued for the Peggie tribunal. https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sandie-peggie-v-fife-health-board-and-another-judgment-and-summary/ Looking forward to seeing analysis on here.” Dec 23, 23:02
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on A matter of class: “« Quand les mœurs s’effondrent, les lois se multiplient… » (Sociologue québecois Mathieu Bock-Côté) « When morals collapse, laws multiply……” Dec 23, 22:57
Northcode on A matter of class: ““… “Northcode” appears 63 times in this post [WoS article]… In not one of those comments do you make a…” Dec 23, 21:37
Young Lochinvar on A matter of class: “Can’t say I’ve given the colonisation argument (historically) much credence – modern monied blow-ins is however very evident. Anyway, currently…” Dec 23, 20:34
Dan on A matter of class: “Ha, talk of dance, and I see the algorhythm is working well, as this vid turns up on a feed.…” Dec 23, 20:00
Northcode on A matter of class: “Aye, Alf. We all know that willie was using the term “porridge wog” in his comment to make a point…” Dec 23, 19:37
Northcode on A matter of class: “Correction: “they’ll be” should read “there’ll be” I thank you all for your generous patience while this serious grammar issue…” Dec 23, 19:22
Northcode on A matter of class: “Whit a braw sight! A colonial “Flash Mob” spontaneously breaks into a colonial “Flashdance” routine for the amusement of us…” Dec 23, 18:50
TURABDIN on A matter of class: “COZYING UP, https://archive.is/BDjcz” Dec 23, 18:48
Northcode on A matter of class: “I 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Ellis posting more of his Anglo-centric ‘stuff’ on here.…” Dec 23, 18:29
Young Lochinvar on A matter of class: “A Ellis @ 4.04pm “Small wonder-that the nativist shock troops in here are -almost without exception so keen to preserve…” Dec 23, 18:25
Dan on A matter of class: “Sigh. Power over immigration is reserved to London Rule, and therefore not within the remit of the diddies in the…” Dec 23, 18:25
Red on A matter of class: “Latest population replacement news. That thing that never happens, happened yet again: An Afghan asylum seeker who raped a teenage…” Dec 23, 18:06
Aidan on A matter of class: “I would 3rd that Andy, more posts from you would be very welcome. It might help to dilute the howling…” Dec 23, 17:49
Andy Ellis on A matter of class: “@Capt. Caveman & Insider Thank you for your kind comments. I will make a determined effort to post more over…” Dec 23, 16:50
Captain Caveman on A matter of class: “I would also like to see Andy post more, and I’m a Yoon. 🙂” Dec 23, 16:14
Captain Caveman on A matter of class: “@Flying Iron of Doom “You never did explain to us what a fly press is, mate. I can’t be the…” Dec 23, 16:09
Andy Ellis on A matter of class: “@Hatey 2.01PM I’m with you mate on wondering what motivates the usual suspects in their all too frequent recourse to…” Dec 23, 16:04
Andy Ellis on A matter of class: “@Hatey 2.17pm So what’s your problem? I’m not sure we want to go there. If nothing else, you’d need more…” Dec 23, 15:47
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “Fearghas macFhionnlaigh, I also saw that snippet of news, And notable that both the civil Servants and the BBC have…” Dec 23, 15:32
Insider on A matter of class: “Andy, I wish you would start posting more regularly again ! You were one of the few posters on this…” Dec 23, 14:45
Hatey McHateface on A matter of class: “Just go all indigenous, nativist, Sovereign Scots on us, Confused, and refuse to acknowledge the alien, forced, cultural abomination of…” Dec 23, 14:25
Hatey McHateface on A matter of class: “But whit aboot the green shoots, Aidan? Ye hivnae conseedered the import o the green shoots! OFFS. Dinna tell me…” Dec 23, 14:20
Hatey McHateface on A matter of class: “You know what, Alf, “Porridge wogs” was a direct quote from willie’s post above. Tak it up wi him if…” Dec 23, 14:17
Hatey McHateface on A matter of class: ““centuries long proclivity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by arguing amongst ourselves” Too true, Andy. To which…” Dec 23, 14:01
