To be honest we didn’t pay it a lot of heed, assuming that “Scottish fishing industry leaders” just meant Bertie Armstrong again – a longstanding ultra-staunch Unionist and Leave supporter with a track record as a reliable anti-independence rentaquote – and nothing in the coverage led us to believe otherwise.
But then we saw a picture:
Mr Armstrong is the white-haired and bearded chap standing immediately to the right of Davidson in the photo, with his hand on the top corner of her pledge. But who’s the fellow immediately to the left of her?
She’s currently contesting Edinburgh West, which the party has some credible hopes of winning, having held the seat for almost 20 years prior to 2015. And it seems that her former employer has decided to try to give her a helping hand.
And, y’know, they’re really not allowed to do that.
Something really quite strange happened yesterday. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was caught red-handed in the act of telling a bare-faced, unarguable lie in the middle of a general election campaign, and nobody cared.
Reacting to the Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute dozens of Tory MPs who’d broken the law in getting elected in 2015, the PM offered up a quote, which was reported in most of the newspapers:
Nice wee bit of snark on “all the major parties, and the Scottish nationalists” there. But there’s a slight problem with the statement, which is that it’s an absolute lie.
In the last few days we’ve been talking a lot about the bizarre perversion of arithmetic that now seems to dominate political campaigning in the UK, and which has the media so tied in knots that the poor Telegraph now thinks nothing of saying the SNP gained council seats, lost them and gained them again in the space of four paragraphs.
But numbers are confusing and we’re very hungry at the moment after some major dental surgery made eating difficult, so we weren’t really paying attention until Ruth Davidson started talking about pies.
Most of the papers today are full of stories screaming hysterically about a (real, but somewhat exaggerated) decline in Scottish educational standards. But if the contents of those papers are anything to go by, Scotland’s schools have been disgorging idiots into the general population for a lot longer than the last 10 years.
He’d very kindly sent us a copy of the same article he’d sent the Beeb. We attach it below. We’ve highlighted in bold the only bits that didn’t make it into the BBC piece.
When our dear old pal the Scottish Labour super-goon Duncan Hothersall tweeted this earlier today, we just couldn’t resist a wee fact-check. We love to see people take the moral high ground, but numbers are fluid these days and you can’t be too careful.
Andy Ellis on A matter of class: “@ Dan 11.13am In the unlikely event you’ve ever been able to convince a woman to let you near enough…” Dec 27, 14:22
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “TURABDIN, Indeed a matter optics, He speaks of England as it it were all of Britain, but that Britain has…” Dec 27, 14:07
Andy Ellis on A matter of class: “The thing is Turabdin, it’s not that he’s wrong exactly it’s just that the progress his own country country has…” Dec 27, 13:55
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “The parliament of Great Britain lasted between the years from / for Scotland and England 1707 – 1800. That is…” Dec 27, 13:43
TURABDIN on A matter of class: “A MATTER OF OPTICS, a Spectator message from the former Polish ambassador «to London», https://archive.ph/bG0Qa Should have gone to spec…” Dec 27, 13:26
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “The irony that both the sets of politician in Scotland and England disclaim king James as nothing but a pretend…” Dec 27, 13:25
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “Colin Alexander, If you go into the Irish parliaments old records you will find the Anglo- Irish treaty 1800. That…” Dec 27, 13:00
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “Colin Alexander. The UK constitution is that of the parliament of England and Ireland, not Scotland. 1: because there is…” Dec 27, 12:26
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “Nice neat Dicey theory, Except the Monarch of England was the Monarch of England passed by the laws of parliament…” Dec 27, 12:04
factchecker on A matter of class: “James says the UK Parliament says ”We did not ask the Scots to join, because in all probability they would…” Dec 27, 11:56
Alf Baird on A matter of class: “….and consequently, (as we see in Peggie v NHS Fife and in so many other instances) all institutions in a…” Dec 27, 11:56
Northcode on A matter of class: “” It is certainly not something that the international community would either welcome in a newly independent Scotland or accept…” Dec 27, 11:45
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “Scotland is a Colony by deceit, not Due to it actually being a Colony, but because the propaganda knew Scottish…” Dec 27, 11:33
Colin Alexander on A matter of class: “ChatGpt: “Dicey’s claim of unlimited parliamentary sovereignty rests on long-standing judicial obedience to Acts of Parliament, not on any explicit…” Dec 27, 11:28
Northcode on A matter of class: ““Civic nationalism DOES represent the silent majority” If it’s silent how can it possibly be known if civic nationalism forms…” Dec 27, 11:23
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “Due to the many records wrote down to make a Union puzzle theory fit the narrative that they wished to…” Dec 27, 11:17
Dan on A matter of class: “Franchise Fanny says: “Just like the troons and their allies in the TWAW debate you’ve actually convinced yourselves somehow that…” Dec 27, 11:13
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “The people in Scotland need to pay more attention to research and records of what has passed behind closed doors…” Dec 27, 11:06
Aidan on A matter of class: “Indeed Andy and as far as I am aware there isn’t a single example of a country anywhere in the…” Dec 27, 10:49
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “Westminster parliament in England is fully aware that their actions in Scotland over Centuries wobble on a axis and pivotal…” Dec 27, 10:45
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “And all this going on while Westminster parliament Hansard records in the Select Committee make Statements like the following in…” Dec 27, 10:36
Andy Ellis on A matter of class: “So what values would you prefer Scot? You’d prefer to live under the benevolent rule of Uncle Vlad or Chairman…” Dec 27, 10:16
Dan on A matter of class: “Stuff going on in Scotland. https://www.isp.scot/december-20th-december-26th-2025/” Dec 27, 10:00
Andy Ellis on A matter of class: “@Bilbo 8.02pm Civic nationalism DOES represent the silent majority though Bilbo. No amount of self referential posting by Professor Baird…” Dec 27, 09:47
Bilbo on A matter of class: “The third article was excellent and a lot I agree on, particularly Covid being used as a sort of ‘Jubilee’…” Dec 27, 08:27
Bilbo on A matter of class: “Ah, the one referred to as Franchise Fanny. You paint two extremes then push your narrative under a voice of…” Dec 27, 08:02
willie on A matter of class: “Absolutely Scott Finlayson. Germany. like in the 1930s is in absolute full swing rearming to the absolute hilt. The white…” Dec 27, 01:57
Saffron Robe on A matter of class: “A trio of very interesting articles, well worth reading – if a tad depressing!: www.ronpaulinstitute.org/europe-is-about-to-commit-financial-self-immolation-and-its-leaders-know-it/ www.brusselssignal.eu/2025/12/the-eu-could-be-gone-in-four-years-a-revolutionary-eruption-is-coming/ www.off-guardian.org/2025/12/23/land-of-confusion-the-great-reset-in-motion/” Dec 27, 00:12
Northcode on A matter of class: “I’ve opened all my pressies. I’ve had my Christmas meal. I’ve watched some Christmas telly, But now I really feel.…” Dec 26, 22:21
Northcode on A matter of class: ““I’m not a colonising colonist… I’m a civic nationalist,” said the colonising colonist.” Dec 26, 21:18
