As the six-year fight for justice for Alex Salmond continues, we thought you might like to see this clip from this morning’s Mike Graham Show, interviewing Paul McManus, the businessman and drummer in Glasgow rock band Gun who’s stepped up to fund the Salmond family’s case against the Scottish Government despite disagreeing with much of what Alex stood for politically.
The Sunday National’s front page today elicited a sigh of “So what?” from most.
We’ve already GOT a “pro-indy” majority at Holyrood and have done for the last 10 years, for all it’s been worth. But to be fair there was a paragraph in the article that at least raised a quizzical eyebrow.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
My first ever real experience of politics was playing Dictator.
Originally written by Don Priestley for the Sinclair ZX81 in 1982, it was a simple text-based game which subsequently came to other formats including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Elan Enterprise and the ZX Spectrum, which is where I encountered it.
It’s almost – almost – worth voting SNP in May because of this:
Because it would be at least momentarily absolutely hilarious watching Swinney try to explain why his “100% guaranteed” second indyref didn’t happen if the SNP actually did get a majority on 30% of the vote (which is narrowly feasible on current polling).
Aidan on Sicknote Slippers: “@YL I mean that they aren’t showing up in the opinion polls, meaning they sit in the “Other parties” categories,…” Apr 1, 08:43
Young Lochinvar on Clocks And Calendars: “Baby Trump: Oh Lord, I’m only off the throne and Melanoma has come in for her Eastern European once a…” Apr 1, 08:27
Young Lochinvar on Clocks And Calendars: “Baby Trump; Uuuuurghhh! Squiiiiish.. Well good people of America- and democrats- latest update on truth social. All the Diet Coke-…” Apr 1, 08:01
Mark Beggan on Clocks And Calendars: “Baby Senator says Starmer fighting Trump is like a Crawfish having a fight with a lawnmower. Very brave and very…” Apr 1, 07:47
Young Lochinvar on Clocks And Calendars: “Baby Trump: Well, that’s it. Keir Starmer is no Winston Churchill – great guy, pity I never knew him -…” Apr 1, 07:21
Young Lochinvar on Clocks And Calendars: “I see militarily unaware Pete Hegseth is clawing the “big bad Royal Navy” should be pulling US and Is Rye…” Apr 1, 06:15
Young Lochinvar on Clocks And Calendars: “Baby Trump says it’s all going to be over in 2 or 3 weeks. So; strap in everybody for the…” Apr 1, 05:57
Peter McAvoy on Clocks And Calendars: “For how long and how often have you criticised others posting forthright comments about politicians and their perceived inability to…” Apr 1, 01:54
Derek on Clocks And Calendars: “Martial law? Or do you mean that everything is to be turned up to 11?” Apr 1, 00:24
Jamie on Sicknote Slippers: “Aidan, you miss the point. If winning elections was all that mattered I would still vote SNP as they are…” Mar 31, 22:56
James on Sicknote Slippers: “YL; ach, he/she/it’s only following the script. Only obeying orders….” Mar 31, 22:34
George Ferguson on Clocks And Calendars: “@Peter McAvoy Because you don’t get to tell others on this site they are bastards. So I am not your…” Mar 31, 21:08
Young Lochinvar on Sicknote Slippers: “Wet P1shfart says; “A vote for the SNP is a vote for my pension pot! Vote SNP, vote for comfy…” Mar 31, 21:06
Young Lochinvar on Sicknote Slippers: “Aidan @ 12.32 “Liberate not even registered in the polls yet”.. Wowser!! Curiouser and curiouser as there’s already both a…” Mar 31, 21:03
Young Lochinvar on Clocks And Calendars: “Malcolm Offord for comedian of the year award. It wouldn’t really be that difficult when you look at the rubbish…” Mar 31, 20:48
Peter McAvoy on Clocks And Calendars: “George How is contribution to you bank balance relevant about this issue? What is wrong with someone who opposed the…” Mar 31, 20:39
Young Lochinvar on Clocks And Calendars: “Yet another pedo pooftah caught out? They’re falling like nine pins at the mo.. And they were all supposed to…” Mar 31, 20:38
George Ferguson on Clocks And Calendars: “@Peter McAvoy I have checked my bank account and you are not a contributor. Dont you think we have been…” Mar 31, 20:13
Mark Beggan on Clocks And Calendars: “Let’s blame someone It’s obviously someone else’s fault. Let’s get together and dance around the crooked clock.” Mar 31, 20:09
Onlooker on Clocks And Calendars: “Look at these two clowns. Sarwar – parents paid for his shitty political career. Baillie – a pie-scoffing brain-flatline. And…” Mar 31, 19:42
Aidan on Sicknote Slippers: “Right so you are voting for Reform then are you? What is the point in voting for Alliance/Liberate. It is…” Mar 31, 19:30
robertkknight on Clocks And Calendars: “This has a familiar ring to it… “Former SNP candidate accused of sex offences” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yx8rdryr0o Otherwise posted without comment.” Mar 31, 19:14
robertkknight on Clocks And Calendars: “That’s a sweeping but entirely accurate assessment of Scottish politics in general.” Mar 31, 19:11
100%Yes on Clocks And Calendars: “James Kelly, has become part of a bigger problem we have within the Independence movement, it’s been happening since Sturgeon…” Mar 31, 19:11
James on Sicknote Slippers: “Ah, Adrian promoting the Scotch Yoon vote yet again. Jamie (& Geri) are spot on with their posts; only a…” Mar 31, 18:18
TURABDIN on Clocks And Calendars: “THE UNITED KINGDOM, united in homogenized banality. What’s not to like?” Mar 31, 15:54
Peter McAvoy on Clocks And Calendars: “Today on the BBC Scotland news website mentioned that the Alexander Dennis factory in Falkirk is to close and the…” Mar 31, 15:14
Aidan on Protest But Don’t Survive: “Do they really? If these regimes are so popular, then why do they need to imprison and execute people for…” Mar 31, 15:00
Captain Caveman on Protest But Don’t Survive: ““I live in Scotland” 😀 Yeah, course you do mate (lol). Along the same lines as “I’ve never been banned”,…” Mar 31, 14:52
