Between recesses and the mourning period for the Queen, the UK Parliament has been sitting for just four weeks since the 1st of July this year.
In that time the government has somehow managed to lose three Chancellors Of The Exchequer and is about to engage its fourth in the alarming form of Jeremy Hunt, a man whose primary claim to fame and utility to the UK is as rhyming slang.
Sometimes even fools and liars and charlatans speak the truth.
Thing is, we rather liked it when the horses south of the border were frightened. Things happened in those days. But to coin a phrase, those days are past now.
Honestly, readers, swear to God, all joking and sarcasm aside, when we saw this tweet yesterday we were wondering how on Earth some clever satirist had managed to hack Anas Sarwar’s account to insert the screenshot into it.
Because we didn’t believe that even Scottish Labour’s low-watt-bulb of a branch manager would willingly post something that made him look so much of an imbecile.
Because the SNP are now openly, publicly telling you that they’re never going to achieve independence for Scotland, nor even make any meaningful attempt at it.
Robert Burns was well known for liking a wee dram. He grew up in the aftermath of the failed rising of 1745, living through the harsh and brutal consequences inflicted on Scotland by the Act of Proscription.
In “Earnest Cry and Prayer” the Bard was responding to the UK Parliament’s Scotch Distillery Act of 1786, a protectionist act aimed at supporting London’s gin industry by hiking duties on whisky sold in England and by taxing Scottish still capacity. It was a call for action to Scotland’s 45 members of Parliament from a man who understood the destructive power of such acts.
He asked which Scot would not feel his blood boil at seeing the resources of the nation’s stills destroyed and its wealth plundered, roaring to the MPs:
“God bless your Honors! can ye see’t, The kind, auld, cantie carlin greet, An’ no get warmly to your feet, An’ gar them hear it, An’ tell them wi’ a patriot-heat, Ye winna bear it?”
As the UK Parliament is set to return from its summer holiday it is hard not to see continued parallels over the ages and again today.
For anyone with the slightest remaining grip on their critical faculties, the cat was truly let out of the bag on the day of the First Minister’s infamous “broom cupboard” video last January, in which she abjectly grovelled at the feet of a tiny handful of adolescent transactivists who’d left the party in a loud and choreographed public tantrum because it still hadn’t burned Joanna Cherry at the stake for believing in human biology.
One of those she was abasing herself to that day was the repulsive and now mercifully deceased drug dealer and abusive racist misogynist Leeze Lawrence (above, left), but he was only the tip of a filthy iceberg.
Willie on Faces In Sand: “And for those Scots licence payers complsining about.thei BBC Scotland being cut here’s a headline from BBC Pidgin news piece…” Oct 21, 05:11
Willie on Faces In Sand: “And meanwhile you have to laugh the laugh of the luckless sucker BBC licence payers. Here we have in Scotland…” Oct 21, 04:52
Geri on Faces In Sand: ““Ah, c’moan noo, Geri. Surely you mean “shagging & eating”? Doing if the other way around seems quite infeasible.” Shagging,…” Oct 21, 01:11
Geri on Faces In Sand: “Nonzi – I like it! The Nonzis are off to Saudi to get their arse kicked. Imagine having the front…” Oct 21, 00:06
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““Nonces & Nazis everywhere” Of course, Geri. Look out behind you! Crivens, Geri, that ane might be a Nazi AND…” Oct 20, 22:52
Geri on Faces In Sand: “The West is dripping with nonces. Why else would they give them immunity from prosecution & give them a wee…” Oct 20, 22:01
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “How do you know what size mine is? Or how effective a weapon it is? “Why else would blighty &…” Oct 20, 21:00
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““eating & shagging weans in their spare time” That’s what Indy’s been missing since the female hating medievalists cut of…” Oct 20, 20:53
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “@Lorncal In “No Country For Old Men” the author writes that back in the fifties of the last century, the…” Oct 20, 20:49
Geri on Faces In Sand: “They’re well & truly kicking yer arse eh? That’s what you call gubbed. It’s delicious that it’s on all three…” Oct 20, 20:36
Geri on Faces In Sand: “Those shite stirring bastards are in every single country, fae the Balkans tae the Middle East, noising up the locals,…” Oct 20, 20:21
Lorncal on Faces In Sand: “Northcode: you are right up to a point. We would have had Darien had it been successful and we would…” Oct 20, 20:05
Lorncal on Faces In Sand: “H McH: yes, I agree that the circumstances were a bit different in the past, but even in the relatively…” Oct 20, 19:53
Northcode on Faces In Sand: “Sam, none of my comments referred to slavery — my point was about co-opted elites, imperial agency, and national sovereignty.” Oct 20, 19:28
MaryB on Faces In Sand: “Watching the Covid enquiry report on C4 news. I’m reminded that Nicola behaved similarly to England and the care homes…” Oct 20, 19:13
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““Neither would it have been abolished” Let me just fix that for you, sam: “Neither would it have been made…” Oct 20, 18:44
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “Well known that the LNM supports the SNP. Her pic is all over some of the merchandise. So yes, as…” Oct 20, 18:31
sam on Faces In Sand: “The Scottish people, outside the elite, participated in slavery as sailors,dockworkers and plantation overseers. Doctors worked on plantations. Many in…” Oct 20, 18:14
Aidan on Faces In Sand: ““Rev, David Henry suggests at 3.28 hours in the Sunday 18th October youtube of the SSRG conference that MI5 blocked…” Oct 20, 18:03
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “Woohoo, Geri’s back! I guess this means the Ir@nian medievalists have restored some internet connectivity to the citizens of that…” Oct 20, 17:41
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““private or chartered projects that lacked the institutional, diplomatic and military structures that define colonial sovereignty” I’m sure that fine…” Oct 20, 17:38
sarah on Faces In Sand: “Rev, David Henry suggests at 3.28 hours in the Sunday 18th October youtube of the SSRG conference that MI5 blocked…” Oct 20, 16:34
Geri on Faces In Sand: “It’s not such a bad idea to self delete themselves fae social media until the adults are back in room.…” Oct 20, 15:31
Captain Caveman on Faces In Sand: “”… modernism/neoMarxism/oppressor-oppressed nonsense that, if they had one critical braincell, they would question and refute. However, so powerful a hold…” Oct 20, 15:26
Northcode on Faces In Sand: “Sam, yes — the Knight case is an important moment in Scots legal history. It’s just not related to the…” Oct 20, 15:23
sam on Faces In Sand: “Northcode, For your information. Posted earlier further up the thread. In 1778 Scots law rejected slavery. The Court of Session…” Oct 20, 15:00
Northcode on Faces In Sand: “I’m not debating intent or moral responsibility. My point throughout has been purely structural: participation by elites is not the…” Oct 20, 14:41
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““I daresay, this is actually quite amusing in its own right” Hmmm. Aren’t you an “outsider” though? This requires prior…” Oct 20, 14:27
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: ““Something has happened to the last two generations” There’s a world of difference between destitute people who emigrate to make…” Oct 20, 14:24
