Everyone’s having a lot of fun with the farcical Hate Crime Act that will finally come into operation in Scotland in just a couple of weeks’ time, fittingly on April Fools’ Day.
There’s a Calvin And Hobbes cartoon we like to post on social media when someone’s got themselves in such a pickle that they’re just flailing around desperately firing off every slogan, argument or insult they can think of to get themselves out of it.
Many things about the session are disturbing, not least the incredibly one-sided nature of both the witnesses and the committee, none of whom seem to have even a token interest in challenging the claims of the witnesses, however absurd or contentious (eg that praying for someone is basically a form of torture).
The Scottish Government have just launched yet another nanny-state “healthy eating” intervention, and to be honest, readers, the cheap-shot open goals just queued up.
Our first instinct was to do a simple picture gallery of some of the insatiable pie-hounds squeezing their expenses-fed backsides onto the groaning, creaking benches and chairs of the Holyrood and Westminster parliaments, such as Kirsten “Elbows” Oswald (pictured above, slumped back under the sheer weight of her neck) – so known to other MPs because you get between her and a buffet at grave peril to your ribcage.
(And no, we’re not telling you which ones told us that.)
More than three months have passed since Alex Salmond launched a lawsuit against the Scottish Government for its grotesquely botched handling of false allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
With Scottish politics currently in a completely moribund state, as the party of government disintegrates shambolically and the main opposition party keeps its mouth shut and its head down in an attempt to not destroy its newfound and extremely fragile status as a credible alternative, one might imagine that the political media would be desperate for the case to get under way and provide them with some juicy content.
So it’s slightly surprising that none of them has noticed the latest development.
We’re reluctant to even mention the farcical, embarrassing goings-on in the House Of Commons last night, but the very short version is that the SNP somehow contrived to save Keir Starmer from an embarrassing mass rebellion of Labour MPs.
And in so far as anyone cared about them at all, the people of Gaza were the losers.
As the long-running police probe into SNP finances continues, Wings received some slightly surprising news today in the form of an FOI response.
Based on reports from various trustworthy sources we’d expected to hear that the police side of the investigation was by this point winding down somewhat, with most matters of fact already established, detectives assigned to other duties and the ball now largely in the court of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).
Hatey McHateface on The Ace Attorney: ““May all those cowards still burn in hell” Hmmmm. Just because you disagree with it, doesn’t mean they weren’t implementing…” May 20, 22:08
Mia on The Ace Attorney: ““Apparently all complete nutters” I do not know if they were nutters or not. What I do know after reading…” May 20, 21:41
Hatey McHateface on Just a couple more shots: ““does not tell you which door to open when standing in front of a row of toilet doors” A rule…” May 20, 21:19
Hatey McHateface on Just a couple more shots: ““a difficult choice going for a piss” Nah. Piece of piss. A smear test is the real biggie.” May 20, 21:06
diabloandco on Just a couple more shots: “Agent x thank you for that erudite observation.” May 20, 20:33
Scot Finlayson on Just a couple more shots: “The uni educated middle class white woke virtue signaler , after destroying thousands of lives,will move on to some other,…” May 20, 20:31
Bilbo on Just a couple more shots: “The idea that the Trans issue would disappear after the Supreme court ruling seems to be unfounded. There is a…” May 20, 20:21
agent x on Just a couple more shots: “Gender Fluid A person who is gender fluid may always feel like a mix of the two traditional genders but…” May 20, 19:59
Hatey McHateface on Just a couple more shots: “I see Ash Regan is all over the MSM today, although for reasons unknown, nobody has seen fit to mention…” May 20, 19:52
agent x on The Ace Attorney: “The following commissioners were appointed to negotiate the Treaty of Union: Kingdom of Scotland James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield,…” May 20, 19:42
Hatey McHateface on The Ace Attorney: ““Technically we are NOT IN A UNION! It’s an ILLEGAL piece of flummery that none of us should even be…” May 20, 19:42
Mia on The Ace Attorney: ““How does the Union of the Crowns 1603 fit into this?” There never was “a union of crowns”. The two…” May 20, 18:39
Dunx on The Ace Attorney: “The Act Of Union With England was passed in the Scottish Parliament by 110 votes against 67. Thus ratifying the…” May 20, 18:34
Skip_NC on Just a couple more shots: “Twenty-four genders? The very idea is quite absurd. I believe the true figure is about 8 billion. Of course, most…” May 20, 18:27
Mia on The Ace Attorney: ““The treaty was ratified by the Scottish Parliament when it passed The Union With England Act in 1707” That is…” May 20, 18:16
Lorn on Just a couple more shots: “She seems to be incapable of putting 2 and 2 together not make 4. If you allow someone to change…” May 20, 18:09
twathater on Just a couple more shots: “I wouldn’t celebrate too soon, irrespective of what a SPOKESPERSON says the snp deviants and perverts are still there in…” May 20, 18:01
katielass42 on The Ace Attorney: “Didn’t you read Mia’s comments? It doesn’t matter how ANY party concentrates on ANYTHING! It’s NOT ABOUT NUMBERS OR REFS!…” May 20, 17:03
Lorn on Just a couple more shots: “Frank: that was one of its main struts: the destruction of families. Post structuralist, post modern new Marxism. Once you…” May 20, 16:52
Lorn on Just a couple more shots: “100%: it’s not over by a long chalk. If it is not utterly routed, it will follow us into independence.” May 20, 16:43
Aidan on Just a couple more shots: “By “poking the bear” you mean being a successful liberal democracy with a growing economy having transformed itself over the…” May 20, 16:43
Mark Beggan on Just a couple more shots: “They are on their way out granted. The extreme Lefty Gravy train now needs to be dismantled. We know who…” May 20, 16:35
Kuttykit on Just a couple more shots: “Well live here from PCS Conference in Brighton. This union conference is being stopped from going ahead by a cohort…” May 20, 16:01
Hatey McHateface on Just a couple more shots: “Mind and tell us about the Gen O’Cide sometime. Rev Stu is against people “wanking on and on” but I…” May 20, 15:47
Kirkgate on The Ace Attorney: “How does the Union of the Crowns 1603 fit into this?” May 20, 15:41
Frank Gillougley on Just a couple more shots: “Nevertheless, one cost of the trans ideological mass indoctrination that to my knowledge has never really been mentioned is the…” May 20, 15:01
Ken on Just a couple more shots: “Right! Now that’s sorted, can we do the census properly next time?” May 20, 14:39
100%Yes on Just a couple more shots: “Stew, I stated that the Tans carry on was dead buried and that would now seem to be the case,…” May 20, 14:17
Captain Caveman on The Ace Attorney: ““I will let you work that out” So basically you have nowt. Imagine my surprise. (It was, of course, a…” May 20, 14:14
