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.
Mark Beggan on Cowering From Destiny: “The Ministry of Truth War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Fear is Hope In the end the…” Sep 25, 19:56
Hatey McHateface on Cowering From Destiny: ““in more savage, feudal times preceding modern borders, democracy and government” Hmmm. I don’t quite see what was more savage…” Sep 25, 19:44
Spartan 117 on Cowering From Destiny: “We obviously disagree, however your response is to call democracy and views different to yours as “stupid”. I’m not feart…” Sep 25, 18:54
Hatey McHateface on Cowering From Destiny: ““Sovereignty is an absolute. Its restoration ought to be the aim” The unicorn believers are convinced individual Scottish Sovereignty never…” Sep 25, 18:40
Spartan 117 on Cowering From Destiny: “Sums it all up pretty well to be honest, Hatey. It’s easier to sit back on your taxpayer-funded meal ticket…” Sep 25, 18:30
Hatey McHateface on Cowering From Destiny: ““Our interest starts and ends at our borders” What can I say? Irrespective of whether the borders you write about…” Sep 25, 18:28
Hatey McHateface on Cowering From Destiny: “I guess you won’t have sussed why Swinney, Sturgeon and co are petrified of Indy support rising. Hint: It’s the…” Sep 25, 18:09
Hatey McHateface on Cowering From Destiny: “@Marie says: 25 September, 2026 at 10:08 am “The future is Eurasian” You’ll be able to get surgery to sort…” Sep 25, 17:57
Spartan 117 on Cowering From Destiny: “Yes, I do have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about it. I’m not ignorant of what Ru**ia…” Sep 25, 16:40
Spartan 117 on Cowering From Destiny: ““When Scotland sorts out the underhand economic plunder from our land we too will have a very positive and valuable…” Sep 25, 16:24
lothianlad on Cowering From Destiny: “Swinney and co are petrified of Independence support rising! They are captured by the british state! Make no mistake, Sturgeon…” Sep 25, 15:50
Spartan 117 on Cowering From Destiny: ““Reform have the capacity to be highly authoritarian” Another one asleep since 1997. Were you in a coma post-9/11, during…” Sep 25, 15:40
sam on Cowering From Destiny: “You might be interested in this, published on Sept. 14th. Yougov survey. ( Both online.Pollcheck did not include Yougov in…” Sep 25, 15:03
Frank Gillougley on Cowering From Destiny: “you’d have to submit an FOI request, mate.” Sep 25, 14:23
Southernbystander on Cowering From Destiny: “It stands to reason that a Westminster government even more unpopular in Scotland than present would boost support for independence.…” Sep 25, 14:15
Captain Caveman on Cowering From Destiny: “As a matter of interest, just how “sovereign” do you think a small country with no military to speak of…” Sep 25, 12:46
TURABDIN on Cowering From Destiny: “Maybe time to stop talking about independence and speak of sovereignty instead. A country may be notionally independent but does…” Sep 25, 12:24
Aidan on Cowering From Destiny: “About 5,000 people a year die from tuberculosis in your beloved Ru**ia. More than get pushes out of windows for…” Sep 25, 10:11
Marie on Cowering From Destiny: “Correct Professor. “freefall and rapid socio-economic decline”. The future is Eurasian.” Sep 25, 10:08
BLMac on Cowering From Destiny: ““The party also regularly tells us that to actually achieve independence, support would have to build to an overwhelming consensus…” Sep 25, 10:06
Hatey McHateface on Cowering From Destiny: “Bullshit, Alf. After 40 years of deliberate destruction, these industries, jobs and added value chains aren’t coming back in our…” Sep 25, 09:59
Hatey McHateface on Cowering From Destiny: “They’re already telling us that AI will render millions of us unemployed and unemployable. Seems that most of us aren’t…” Sep 25, 09:49
Alf Baird on Cowering From Destiny: ““That used to be a big thing for Scotland and the UK, back in the day. Did we export more…” Sep 25, 09:41
Hatey McHateface on Cowering From Destiny: “Bit of a bee in your bonnet about “banging the drum of war” there. It’s not your insistence that “if…” Sep 25, 09:36
Alf Baird on Cowering From Destiny: ““Like spies fleeing when discovered” This is what postcolonial theorists tell us: that native elites and other groups who collaborate…” Sep 25, 09:31
Captain Caveman on Cowering From Destiny: “It’s an interesting observation, for sure. Underlying “metropolitan lefty-ism” is most certainly a rich seam of misanthropy, (together with the…” Sep 25, 09:22
Hatey McHateface on Cowering From Destiny: “Guardian reporting that for the second year running, balance of trade between USA and the Covids is running at one…” Sep 25, 09:20
Captain Caveman on Cowering From Destiny: ““Engages in fossil fuel-burning libertarian hobbies – check” OH MY DAYS SAVE US FROM THIS HERESY… YOU BEAST!!111 😀 Oh…” Sep 25, 09:13
Spartan 117 on Cowering From Destiny: “Acht, I’ll be fine, Minceheid. I’m a 7ft 2 genetically-enhanced space marine clad in Mjolnir armour. I’ll survive. In all…” Sep 25, 09:06
