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.
Bilbo on The Queer Parliament: “With 5 years more years of the SNP/Green coalition, Scotland will make the excesses of the Weimar German Republic look…” May 20, 18:14
Bilbo on The Queer Parliament: “That’s the Greens elected, most likely from 2nd votes of SNP voters. Their job to fill the coffers of the…” May 20, 18:07
sam on The Queer Parliament: “There is a civil service “pronoun pledge” in Holyrood. It aims to encourage civil servants to use their “personal pronouns”…” May 20, 18:05
Lorncal on The Queer Parliament: “Mark: spot on. This is exactly what is going to happen. It is precisely what it is going to take…” May 20, 17:53
James Barr Gardner on The Queer Parliament: “The fake green party is an even worse toxin !” May 20, 17:04
Captain Caveman on The Land Of No Laws: “Characteristically verbose bollocks from you, Northcode; an awful lot of words – a meandering, trademark pretentious word-salad saying pretty much…” May 20, 16:39
Mark Beggan on The Queer Parliament: “SNP second vote, Mickey Forrester scene, ‘For all the good it done me I’d be as well sticking it up…” May 20, 16:22
Mark Beggan on The Queer Parliament: “The best scene in that movie was when Begby found out in the car!” May 20, 16:14
Northcode on The Land Of No Laws: ““…who believes he’s an 800-year old Pict, with Oscar Wilde’s mobile number…” Shall we dance? “To the rest of us,…” May 20, 16:09
bobo bunny on The Queer Parliament: “With this and the football, the whole world is laughing at us. I am ashamed that these people, and indeed…” May 20, 16:07
Mark Beggan on The Queer Parliament: “Just stumbled on a good British TV drama from 1973. The Fortunes of Nigel based on the book by Walter…” May 20, 16:06
Mark Beggan on The Queer Parliament: “If these chancers can get away with the second vote. What’s stopping a far right outfit on the ‘Trans are…” May 20, 15:59
Sven on The Queer Parliament: “Oh, they’re real enough, Mark. I just doubt that they are behind everything they get the blame for.” May 20, 15:52
MaryB on The Queer Parliament: “Perhaps the Stonewall funding shortfall has encouraged more trans activists to go into politics, so that they can keep up…” May 20, 15:49
Mark Beggan on The Queer Parliament: “That’s where the real battle will be fought. All those skeletons and missing children.” May 20, 15:43
Ian McCubbin on The Queer Parliament: “Well done both votes SNP and the let’s vote green cause they are for Indy sheeples. You have given us…” May 20, 15:42
Captain Caveman on The Queer Parliament: “This is nearing the logical conclusion of a heady combination of left wingers believing their own publicity and supposed moral…” May 20, 15:37
Al-Stuart on The Queer Parliament: “. Stu, I love your intro video. It puts me in mind of the stuff the SNP Sturgeon sycophant and…” May 20, 15:35
Alf Baird on The Queer Parliament: “Stonewall’s future now “depends on whether the public can fill the void left by fleeing sponsors”. So might we expect…” May 20, 15:34
Mark Beggan on The Queer Parliament: “I really don’t know how the Rev does it. Apart from taking me weeks to type that amount. I would…” May 20, 15:31
Mark Beggan on The Queer Parliament: “The seek them here they seek them there. They seek the 77 everywhere. They’re in the cupboard. They’re under the…” May 20, 15:29
Lorncal on The Queer Parliament: “Westminster has far too many problems of its own now, as does America, MaryB. Some would have it that this…” May 20, 15:28
Captain Caveman on The Queer Parliament: ““And it’s not just a Scottish problem. Wait until a UK Reform government meets the woke civil service.” I can’t…” May 20, 15:28
Alf Baird on The Queer Parliament: “If they were my ‘kind of people’ they would have declared independence after the first elected Scottish majority of ‘nationalists’.…” May 20, 15:22
Sven on The Queer Parliament: “And, every time this type of insanity occurs within our devolved administration it just becomes more challenging to persuade any…” May 20, 15:18
Lorncal on The Queer Parliament: “Alf: I like and admire you, but, please, please don’t keep on saying this is all about the uk, because…” May 20, 15:15
AntonDecadent on The Queer Parliament: “If you look it up it only really lists them as funding themselves.” May 20, 15:14
Cuphook on The Queer Parliament: “This action by the civil service in Holyrood should worry everyone. It is an ideologically driven bureaucracy which plays with…” May 20, 15:13
sam on The Queer Parliament: “After…. https://elearncollege.com/business-and-management/stonewall-funding-collapse-the-cash-crisis-explained/” May 20, 15:13
