When you’ve been watching Scotland playing football for 50 years of your life, you become accustomed to disappointment. You expect disappointment. Anything better than disappointment becomes a bonus.
Having solved cat hunger in Greece, the tireless Holiday Boy has now turned his hand to addressing Scotland’s crippling golfing shortage, so we’ve got a different sort of cartoon again for you this weekend.
The clip below is from a 1981 arcade videogame called Venture, by Exidy, in which you play a cheerful character called Winky on a mission to loot treasure from a series of monster-infested dungeons.
For the purposes of this article the treasure in the room above, which takes the form of a castle tower, represents Scottish politics. The room itself is the Union.
The SNP released their general election manifesto today. We’re not going to link you to it, because we don’t want to be responsible for wasting your time. This is everything it has to say on the party’s (cough) strategy for achieving independence.
It deserves much, much less respect than we’re giving it. Tomorrow, ice lolly reviews.
I’m a professional community organiser, and a tenant and housing activist for some 20 years. I saw the old Scottish Tenants Organisation get smashed by Jack McConnell’s government to make way for council housing privatisation, which in Glasgow created the Glasgow Housing Association.
I’ve long wanted to rebuild a national body to give housing schemes a political voice and to push to end the housing crisis. That’s why I got involved with Living Rent, organising my community to become their first branch. Little did I know that would lead to a brush with crazed gender ideology, and see Queer Theory used to try to destroy it.
We’re still trying not to pay attention to the election because it’s so tedious and awful and pointless, but this is worth putting on the record because it’s in The National and otherwise nobody’s going to read it.
Holiday Boy has of course chosen the general election campaign to spend the next three weeks feeding stray cats somewhere sunny, so here’s a cartoon by the brilliant webcomicname that summarises the Baillie Gifford story for anyone joining us late.
January 2018, with no general election due for four and a half years: “I very rarely talk about Scottish independence in the chamber, because I talk about things that matter”
June 2024, with an election in four weeks and a £91,346 salary, expenses and pension at stake: “ROBERT THE BRUCE! BANNOCKBURN! DECLARATION OF ARBROATH! FLOWER OF SCOTLAND! FREEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOMMMM!”
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Barnett thought his Formula was “grossly unfair” due to inequalities in public spending. He thought it would be a temporary…” Aug 25, 10:48
James on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Aw, Adrian’s trying to post in Scotch. Bless. Give it up. petal.” Aug 25, 10:40
James on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “We need a unionist troll, quick; post something disingenuous to refute that “100%Yes” post above, in case any Scotch get…” Aug 25, 10:36
Alf Baird on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““Scotland hasn’t got the highest energy prices in the world” We’ve been though this before Hatey yet you still appear…” Aug 25, 10:31
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Good post, Jay. Now, inch yourself to the very edge of the precipice, look boldly over the vertiginous, sheer drop,…” Aug 25, 10:28
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Barnett Formula according to Caithness Business Index 1. It ignores Scotland’s needs The formula does not consider:Rurality; Island geography; Higher…” Aug 25, 10:26
Hatey McHateface on Before Action: “Thought you were already done. But I was wrong – you’re back again. Seemingly you want a Block function alongside…” Aug 25, 10:20
Jay on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Effijy, you suggest that the SNP people making the fish and chips video have played into Unionist hands but you…” Aug 25, 10:06
WhoRattledYourCage on Before Action: “Of course I knew you would reply. You reply to EVERYTHING, morning, noon, and nightmare. Everything-replier is your shut-in self-appointed…” Aug 25, 09:47
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “I was going to say Hatey – for the land of make believe this is incredibly unoptimistic. If Scotland had…” Aug 25, 08:44
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Meantime, out in the real world: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/25/never-seen-this-level-of-objection-scotland-pushes-back-against-datacentre-boom All that “free” leccy. All that water. All that empty space. Looks like…” Aug 25, 08:28
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “That’s some inflation, Alf. I can mind when it was only £150 billion PA. How long before it hits the…” Aug 25, 08:21
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “UKGov also turns a blind eye while random boys, lacking all certificates of authenticity, ponce aboot in tartan and kilts.…” Aug 25, 08:13
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Non-viable options also exist. G@za and Ir@n are popular role models for some people. It would be up to the…” Aug 25, 08:08
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “We’re not sitting on centuries worth of oil and gas. Another easily verifiable fact (excluding onshore shale gas, for which…” Aug 25, 07:59
Alf Baird on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““Lets be honest Scotland gives more than it gets, fact.” Yes, ‘let them eat cake’ is aye the imperialist advice…” Aug 25, 07:57
diabloandco on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “All the patronising guff we have had to endure ,all the propaganda and downright lies , all the dumbing down…” Aug 25, 07:55
ScottieDog on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Did she mention that the U.K. government steals our tatties?” Aug 25, 07:54
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““Alex should have stated the UK debt will remain with the UK but he didn’t” So what are we to…” Aug 25, 07:45
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Aye it’s like “you’re tae fucking thick to understand numbers, but this fish is bigger than that fish ya daft…” Aug 25, 07:45
Gerry parker on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “And the other side of the Barnett formula, if spending on the NHS or Education in England decreases, then the…” Aug 25, 07:41
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “The U.K. might face some difficulties in having to cut spending to accommodate the debt repayments on a smaller economy,…” Aug 25, 07:26
Arthur Martin on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “The state of that! What a patronising pile of guff! I’m more disappointed by the lazy attitude shown by the…” Aug 25, 07:21
BH on Before Action: “They nicked the money. The man said we spent it. All this I have seen.” Aug 25, 06:54
100%Yes on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Lets be honest Scotland gives more than it gets, fact. The sole reason Scotland cannot leave this voluntary union is…” Aug 25, 06:44
Ian on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “‘She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in human resource management’. SISO.” Aug 25, 06:41
100%Yes on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Just because we have someone with a severe intellectual disability its not fair to involve the fish and chips in…” Aug 25, 05:16
Peter McAvoy on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Just seen the video at the top of the article. We are fucked.” Aug 25, 02:05
Rev. Stuart Campbell on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““This video featuring the party’s MP Melanie Ward”” Aug 25, 01:42
