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).
MaryB on The Interests Of The Many: “Count Binface is really Jon Harvey, a Corpus Christie, Cambridge graduate.” Jul 8, 13:59
Hatey McHateface on The Interests Of The Many: “Football’s all very well, TURABDIN, and some people are enjoying Wimbledon, but the greatest televisual spectacle of the moment is…” Jul 8, 13:37
Hatey McHateface on Search And Replace: “At least nobody’s popped up to say there was a boy developed a car that ran entirely on water, but…” Jul 8, 13:33
TURABDIN on The Interests Of The Many: “OVERHEARD in a shop today. Old Man…….Trump just wants to set the world to right. Young Man…Yeah, but he should…” Jul 8, 13:05
Captain Caveman on Search And Replace: ““The irony of you popping up when people are complaining about things that weigh too much isn’t lost on me…” Jul 8, 12:54
100%Yes on The Interests Of The Many: “Its a common name in Scotland but not so common in Bath.” Jul 8, 12:53
Captain Caveman on Search And Replace: ““ – the “safety” of the big fucking stupid car only applies as long as there are no big fucking…” Jul 8, 12:53
Aidan on Search And Replace: “The irony of you popping up when people are complaining about things that weigh too much isn’t lost on me…” Jul 8, 12:24
Karen on The Interests Of The Many: “How amusing that the current SNP treasurer is called Stuart Campbell McDonald. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_McDonald_(Scottish_politician)” Jul 8, 12:04
Aidan on Search And Replace: “Let’s just ignore all the data showing the huge improvements in vehicle safety attributed to vehicle design in favour of…” Jul 8, 11:54
James on Search And Replace: “Aw, you’re insulting horses arses, Confused. Poor cut’n’paste Adrian is just trying to join in. The other one is dribbling…” Jul 8, 11:54
Confused on Search And Replace: “Hey Dan, the practical man, hope you are having a great time. How stupid are these fucking tits, determined to…” Jul 8, 11:23
100%Yes on The Interests Of The Many: “The Nasty party (SNP) isn’t going to be able to USE the public purse to fight this one.” Jul 8, 11:01
C MacKay on The Interests Of The Many: “Today,8 July the Herlad (sic) reported the donors are going to sue demanding repayment.This looks good” Jul 8, 10:47
C Mac Kay on The Interests Of The Many: “Today,8 July the Herlad (sic) reported the donors are going to sue demanding repayment.This looks good” Jul 8, 10:46
Southernbystander on The Interests Of The Many: “Anyone know what Count Binface’s stance on the Union is? Looking through his election materials I can find nothing, but…” Jul 8, 10:37
Cynicus on The Interests Of The Many: “I supported Count Binface in the Makerfield by-election. Although he didn’t win against the Establishment candidate, he came a mere…” Jul 8, 10:28
robertkknight on The Interests Of The Many: “Thanks Rev for posting on X… https://archive.is/bv9J5 TBH I’m surprised Nicla’s fanzine had the guts to publish such heresy.” Jul 8, 10:26
Cynicus on The Interests Of The Many: ““I doff my hat to the Rev…. chapeau ?“ ======= Any bareheaded readers should don a hat so they can…” Jul 8, 10:16
Captain Caveman on Search And Replace: “Yes absolutely, there’s a world of difference between personal choices affecting only you, and making sweeping (objectively misguided, misconceived and…” Jul 8, 08:41
Aidan on Search And Replace: “Of course there’s nothing stopping Dan driving a Hillman Imp if he wants to. There’s one for sale on the…” Jul 8, 08:12
Captain Caveman on Search And Replace: “Yes, precisely Aidan: such enormous strides in road safety and crash survivability are the (priceless) dividend of research, progress and…” Jul 8, 07:48
Aidan on Search And Replace: “I’d point out that the basic Mini weighs 1,160kg, the higher 1750kg weight is probably for the countryman which is…” Jul 8, 07:16
Captain Caveman on Search And Replace: “Ah, impotently throwing insults around, blatantly ignoring points raised and refusing to address them – and posting more mince I…” Jul 8, 06:25
Peter McAvoy on The Interests Of The Many: “I thought it was worth mentioning the Daily record Tuesday 7th July. Humza Yousef warned Scotland can no longer pretend…” Jul 8, 01:53
Dan on Search And Replace: “Aye, Sam, the dickhead troll jist has to try to find an angle to kick off and create discord and…” Jul 7, 22:07
100%Yes on The Interests Of The Many: “Carol, I don’t need to read the book to know. Take a look at the picture of Swinney and then…” Jul 7, 22:01
100%Yes on The Interests Of The Many: “Alf I totally agree and support the work Salvo and yourself is doing but de-colonization isn’t going to work alone.…” Jul 7, 21:49
Alf Baird on The Interests Of The Many: “If national independence is not decolonisation, Hatey, then pray tell us and all those former colonies that are now UN…” Jul 7, 21:47
Hatey McHateface on The Interests Of The Many: “I guess once you’ve ruled everybody else out, Twat H, that’ll just leave you. You can count on my vote…” Jul 7, 21:16
