Now, it hasn’t come as any surprise to us that “Bonnie Prince Bob”, who is this week’s darling of the Scottish media and is running for the Edinburgh Central seat against Angus Robertson, is a deeply tiresome faux-revolutionary Bella Caledonia-type poseur straight out of the most insufferable kind of student drama society.
We were already aware of the fact because he’s been morbidly and creepily obsessed with Wings (and in particular my sex life for some unfathomable reason) for years.
Bob is a dedicated self-publicist to whom the election is just an opportunity for a bit of attention-seeking and grifting. He’s raised over £8,000 for unspecified purposes in a campaign that’s being conducted almost entirely online at next to no cost.
But hey, everyone’s got bills to pay, so good luck to him on that. There was a gap in the market for a cross between a slightly less clever pro-indy Neil Oliver and the oblivious wearing-outdoors-accessories-indoors bombast of George Galloway, and he seems to have cornered it with a modicum of aplomb.
Our always-alert readers will probably have noticed that Nicola Sturgeon’s constant catchphrase this week has been how Yes supporters still need to “build the case for independence”, rather than actually do anything to achieve it.
But the thing is, she’s the leader of the SNP. Building the case for independence is literally her job, and she’s now been doing it for six and a half years. So how much progress have we made?
Holiday Boy is on holiday. But remember in 2018 when Nicola Sturgeon was going to use next week’s election as a de facto referendum if the UK government hadn’t given her permission for one by now, readers?
It’s almost like you can’t ever believe a word she says.
It’s pretty stark when you see it laid out like this.
In just four months, the SNP – because if you aggressively assert sole ownership of a political campaign, there’s nobody else you can blame when it goes south – have turned a 10-point lead for independence into a seven-point lead for the Union with the same polling company.
And while that’s pretty brutal in itself, it’s not even the real fly in the ointment.
Remember when we’d had 20-odd Yes-majority polls in a row, and all the courtiers of Queen Nicola Of Trans were telling us that it was solely down to her personal strategic genius and cunning masterplan of gently persuading soft No voters by, um, not actually taking any steps to achieve independence in case it scared them?
Hi lads. This website has, we’d be the first to admit, made some pretty strong criticisms of you fellas in the last week or two, but we’re pleased to note that you finally HAVE actually manned up and released your “minifesto” tonight.
We’ll let readers judge it for themselves, but we do have one question.
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It really is quite uncanny how similar some SNP supporters have become to the most frothing, abusive blood-and-soil Yoons of 2014. But we can live with this company:
Insider on Yelling at the tide: “Christ ! What an utter clown you are “Northcode” Give up son ! You’re a total embarrassment to the Indy…” Jan 21, 15:15
Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “Here’s anither yin taken fae the online “Dictionars o the Scots Leid”: SIN, adv., prep., conj. Also syn, sen, san(e),…” Jan 21, 14:58
Alf Baird on Yelling at the tide: ““the Scottish Legal System operates in a context free vacuum” The basic principle of any colonial justice system is that…” Jan 21, 14:51
lothianlad on Yelling at the tide: “stick with it warrior Stu! Thank you for all you do for truth and justice” Jan 21, 14:49
Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “” We knew you would not disappoint us…” I wonder who the “we” and “us” are. Must be aw its…” Jan 21, 14:32
Andy Wiltshire on Yelling at the tide: “In reply to your letter, we undertake to give a response immediately after the conclusion of Operation Branchform.” Jan 21, 14:16
sarah on Yelling at the tide: “The plot thickens. Very well done, Rev, and thank you once again for trying, directly, to improve public standards in…” Jan 21, 13:53
Ian Smith on Yelling at the tide: “Bear in mind that AI can be prompted to agree with the type of query it is presented with. If…” Jan 21, 13:50
sam on Yelling at the tide: ““I would bet money that is at the heart of the Kemp fiasco.” Me,too. And “correspondence”? What part did this…” Jan 21, 13:35
Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “God Almighty the colonialists on here are thick. And their reading comprehension of the English language appears to be wanting,…” Jan 21, 13:26
Cynicus on Yelling at the tide: ““If you are satisfied that Judge Kemp did not derive them from generative AI, are you equally satisfied that the…” Jan 21, 13:12
sam on Yelling at the tide: “Scrutiny of the tribunal findings from Genspect. “The Tribunal maintains on the one hand that “having the protected characteristic of…” Jan 21, 13:10
Confused on The Secondhand Amendment: “let’s remember the facts of our own situation; historical interlude … the union, when you look into what happened, is…” Jan 21, 13:00
Ian Smith on Yelling at the tide: “Surely Judge Kemp must have read these landmark rulings by himself and noticed that his judicial colleague was talking nonsense.…” Jan 21, 12:57
Confused on The Secondhand Amendment: “no iranian cleric ever stole your country’s oil, resources, made you second class citizens/white n1ggers, spilled your blood for nothing,…” Jan 21, 12:57
Confused on The Secondhand Amendment: “it’s called the speculative society and its a drop your keks, grab your ankles and bite down on this ……” Jan 21, 12:56
Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “sin [s?n, s?n] adv. Since, ago, from now, from that time. prep. Since, from the time of, after. conj. Since,…” Jan 21, 12:43
sam on Yelling at the tide: “I think it likely that the matter of correspondence with a judicial colleague will be raised in the EAT to…” Jan 21, 12:43
Dave Hansell on Yelling at the tide: “Sadly, for the poster known as Northcode, an award claimed immediately by a post which implies, if not effectively argues,…” Jan 21, 12:30
Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “Sure about that, Alf? My innate knowledge of Scots, backed up by a check in the Scots dictionary, shows “sin”…” Jan 21, 12:16
Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “Given that Shona is to be replaced by Susan, it would be interesting if some forensic journalist were to dig…” Jan 21, 12:05
Lorna Campbell on Yelling at the tide: “Strangely enough, for a nationalist, and a Scottish nationalist at that (though not SNP) I do not believe that this…” Jan 21, 12:04
Lord_Humblecroft on Yelling at the tide: “Stu, The judicial colleagues are in all likelihood the lay members of the tribunal: Court docs show: Employment Judge A…” Jan 21, 11:54
jim Thomson on Yelling at the tide: “I gave up holding my breath for such results a long time ago. The Establishment will, undoubtedly, close ranks again…” Jan 21, 11:52
James Cheyne on The Secondhand Amendment: “Sam, Indeed this did go on, if the pay was right and rewards of land or titles could be Acquired…” Jan 21, 11:48
Hatey McHateface on Yelling at the tide: “Wow, Northy, Off Topic by comment # 11. Surely a new Wings BTL record. As for self-identifying as shit, that’s…” Jan 21, 11:47
100%Yes on Yelling at the tide: “What was I written here, Lets see what they come back with as a reply.” Jan 21, 11:47
James Cheyne on The Secondhand Amendment: “What matters with the governance sent to Scotland and the judicial system along with the SNP is that they are…” Jan 21, 11:33
