This is so freaky I had to check they weren’t quoting each other. It’s like a game show.
Just a couple of nice well-brought-up Hutchesons’ Grammar boys in smart suits, there, thinking the same, speaking the same, saying the same, and angling for the same job. (Which one of them now has, and the other may have soon.)
If there’s ever been a (branch office of a) political party that could somehow manage to blow it in Scotland against the burning trainwreck in a ditch full of sewage that is the SNP right now, it’s definitely Anas Sarwar’s hapless Scottish Labour.
Honestly, this stuff is comedy gold. But in a winner-takes-all dumb-off with Humza Yousaf’s SNP, it’s way too close to call.
One year ago today, Nicola Sturgeon suddenly resigned as First Minister. And what a spectacular 12 months it’s been for the Yes movement since her departure.
As Twitter followers will have noticed, we’ve been busy this week with an extensive remodelling of Wings HQ, which involved the main computer being out of commission for several days while the office was basically torn down and rebuilt from scratch. (It seemed a good time to do it, given that there’s nothing remotely of interest happening in Scottish politics.)
Unfortunately the lack of activity on the site caused the comments on the last post to degenerate into the most wretched playground shrieking match, so let’s see if we can’t distract the children and talk about something else for a bit.
Particularly alert observers will have noted that Kezia Dugdale, the most spectacularly inept and unsuccessful Scottish political leader in history, this week demitted her role as Director of the John Smith Centre, which she was handed as an incentive to quit Scottish Labour after dragging it to 14% in the opinion polls.
We long ago ran out of words to express the magnitude of the contempt in which the SNP now hold the people of Scotland. Which is unfortunate, because this probably calls for the invention of a whole new scale.
Shall we go through just a few of the more crassly insulting holes in this pitiful excuse for a cover story, just to pass the time while we wait for the former First Minister to appear before the COVID inquiry? We don’t know about you, but we’ve got nothing better to do.
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Looking up at the stars: “GOVT DITCHES NON-CRIME HATE INCIDENTS (England & Wales) A Government amendment removing the statutory basis for non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs)…” Mar 12, 00:47
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “J The long haired one certainly did walk a bit like the ministry of funny walks 🙂” Mar 12, 00:34
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Looking up at the stars: “PUBLIC STATEMENT BY SALVOSCOT LTD & LIBERATION SCOTLAND COMMITTEE Response to Defamatory Statements by JPTi  In November 2025, the…” Mar 12, 00:33
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Hubris. It gets the empire every time. Trump is the babbling idiot but the real evil is the unelected evil…” Mar 11, 22:17
diabloandco on Looking up at the stars: “Really Geri? Thanks for the information – it seems entirely wrong that that should be allowed.” Mar 11, 22:09
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “” It is historically indisputable…” I dispute your historically indisputable ‘stuff’. What some, the ignorant and deluded, call colonization others…” Mar 11, 21:52
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: “” the people of Scotland have been among the most efficient and enthusiastic colonisers” You may find of interest the…” Mar 11, 21:18
Sven on Looking up at the stars: “Hopefully addressing the problems experienced by the original RR gas turbines by installing three, greater capacity diesel generators at considerable…” Mar 11, 21:17
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Scotland hasn’t colonised anyone. Can you point to our overseas territories where we rule over a ppl? The City of…” Mar 11, 21:03
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “Correction: that ‘other’ should read ‘others’ plural – otherwise the intended meaning is lost in the sentence which should read…” Mar 11, 20:10
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “This what bullies do when they get caught… bullies being cowards. They try to pull other, innocent parties, into their…” Mar 11, 19:59
agentx on Looking up at the stars: ““Fyona Bairstow, 72, and Michael Bairstow, 77, abused Apple Moorhouse in Manor Heath Park, Halifax, on 28 August last year…” Mar 11, 19:33
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “I’ve been perusing todays unionist (colonist if preferred… same thing) mincin and mingin and mangleezed insults comments and comparing them…” Mar 11, 19:29
James on Looking up at the stars: “Had one of them shit himself? If so, the other yin was Beggan…..” Mar 11, 19:27
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “Anyone else see the clip on the news of the old couple racially abusing the Philipino woman in a park…” Mar 11, 19:13
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “An observation: Someone who would destroy the world economy for no apparent reason is not an evil genius…. just evil,…” Mar 11, 19:05
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Wheesht, factchecker. Our illustrious forebears were only following orders. Some big, bad, Inglis barsturts made them do it. And then…” Mar 11, 18:22
factchecker on Looking up at the stars: “Our resident professor tells us that ” a nation which colonizes, a civilization which justifies colonization – and therefore force…” Mar 11, 18:03
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Wahey, James is up! It must have finally healed. But as he’s hunched over it, pumping away, he’s not upright.…” Mar 11, 17:58
David Holden on Looking up at the stars: “Enter the Dragon. The spot of bother in the gulf will be over soon as Sir Keith has dispatched HMS…” Mar 11, 17:47
James on Looking up at the stars: “The site Prick is in urgent need of a double dose of immodium. They’re spilling out of him without even…” Mar 11, 17:05
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “robertkknight, Thats because all the codgers in the holyrood parliament are a sub division of the parliament of the united…” Mar 11, 17:05
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “@ Geri says: 11 March, 2026 at 3:54 pm “It’s printing press” “it’s line of credit” “it’s economy” The Mystic…” Mar 11, 16:12
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Oh FFS, Alf. There’s hardly a Scottish family in the land that doesn’t have relatives in the Colonies. Plenty will…” Mar 11, 15:56
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “It’s about to get a whole lot sicker… It’s printing press & it’s line of credit is just about to…” Mar 11, 15:54
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: ““Isn’t the Indy movement sprinkled with simpering pathetic fools” The main concern of the colonized is or should be focused…” Mar 11, 15:38
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “I believe it is because they are sworn in individually as a member of parliament. Not as a block or…” Mar 11, 14:32
Sven on Looking up at the stars: “I believe we all know that the answer to your query as to, “why, when some MP resigns fro a…” Mar 11, 13:48
