As all alert readers will know, this site likes to keep a watchful eye on the shady and disturbing activities of paedophilia-plagued charity LGBT Youth Scotland. So we were naturally intrigued to hear that they’d hired a new convenor last month.
And if you’re sitting there thinking, “Blimey, AI Christopher Walken looks very very ill”, well, stay tuned, because this story gets more and more interesting.
Alert readers will have noticed something of a minor furore in recent days around a boneheaded Scottish Greens candidate (as if there were any other kind) calling for the complete abolition of prisons.
So far Kate Nevens – who on the latest polling has a very reasonable chance of being elected on the list – has resisted calls to step down, which is probably for the best as, incredibly, her replacement would be even worse.
With the implosion of Your Party concentrating the nutter vote firmly in Green hands, the next term of the Scottish Parliament is set to feature the worst array of MSPs in Holyrood’s history, with almost everyone in the SNP with any sort of ability or experience resigning to be replaced by hyper-obedient young party drones, while the opposition are mostly putting forward the same old faces who’ve been such utter failures for the last 20 years.
It’s a grim prospect, but we do have a solution to propose.
Because the truth is that we should all be quietly sending BBC Scotland bouquets in appreciation for doing the independence movement a favour for once.
We think the lads at The Scotsman might have gotten a bit confused and/or carried away when it came to putting the clocks forward at the weekend. At 6am on Sunday morning they tweeted this:
But the link was a 404. We checked the print edition of Scotland On Sunday but there was nothing there either. Finally, though, the article has shown up in today’s paper and on the website, and to be honest with you, readers, we still think it must be some sort of mistake, because it’s two days early for April 1st.
The turnout at the “independence march and rally” yesterday was so abysmally poor that it seems almost unfair to pick on any of the scores of SNP elected representatives who didn’t bother to show up.
But dear old Cosy Feet Pete Wishart had the most chef’s-kiss excuse of all.
The reason he didn’t fancy getting his wee Billy Whizz quiff blown about a chilly Calton Hill was that he had important business “taking on the far right” – who were of course nowhere to be seen – with “half a million” (50,000) of his British besties, a convenient short Tube ride away from his London residence, at a pretty openly anti-Semitic protest called, with a double layer of delicious comedic value… UK Together.
If events in Edinburgh today are anything to go by – when a march and rally announced with great fanfare seven months ago, backed by both the “independence” parties in the Scottish Parliament and featuring the First Minister as main speaker, attracted perhaps 1,500 people at the most to Calton Hill on a bright and sunny day – the independence movement faces an imminent final apocalypse.
So here’s how to prepare yourself for when the SNP win a landslide with 35%, Keir Starmer says “So what?” and then a deathly silence descends for another five years.
Even Kelly Given and Iona Fyfe didn’t show up for this one. That’s how bad it is.
The last faint hope of any remotely positive or at least interesting outcome of May’s election just left the building.
It wasn’t MUCH of a hope, and it’s absolutely no surprise in the wake of the comically shambolic, belief-defyingly inept farce that has been the birth of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s fringe-of-the fringe party, but all the same its extinguishing means the next two months will be even more of a waste of time than they looked like being.
Frankly, readers, we may as well not bother having an election at all.
The number of parties who got MSPs elected at the last election is… five. (Though in fairness there are now six, Reform having a single MSP after Graham Simpson defected from the Tories. The Lib Dems are even outnumbered by independents, of whom there are seven.)
So Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News got herself a scoop last night.
And to be honest, readers, we were a bit confused. “Gender critical views” are not only lawful things to hold and express, they’re one of a small subset of opinions that are explicitly protected as such in law. And why would a man very occasionally airing some lawful and protected views on social media be a news story? You might as well run “BREAKING: Premiership footballer discovered to enjoy cheese-and-ham toasties”.
Which is handy, because today is also the day of the Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester (fun fact: a seat we’d very likely have lived in ourselves if not for Osama bin Laden, but that’s another story), and that throws up some interesting parallels.
sarah on Faces In Sand: “Sorry to see that Stu will not be on the SSRG panel today due to technical issues. This is a…” Oct 18, 15:25
factchecker on Faces In Sand: “Well done, Confused. A perfect example of Hatey’s last sentence.” Oct 18, 14:02
sarah on Faces In Sand: “Alf Baird spoke and provided the data on the wreck that is currently Scotland’s economic and social state compared with…” Oct 18, 13:49
J Robertson on Faces In Sand: “I hear what you say but Candidate selection in all political parties is obviously gerrymandered to the profile they want.…” Oct 18, 13:40
sarah on Faces In Sand: “SSRG conference is now talking about the media problem. The youtube is very clear and the talk knowledgeable. Are Wingers…” Oct 18, 12:34
Nicky T Naquetti on Faces In Sand: “Well, the pedophile SNP finally have what they always wanted – a legal mechanism whereby they can turn kids into…” Oct 18, 12:21
Spartan 117 on Faces In Sand: “I’d rather see you deported just for being an ignorant, bigoted, hate-spewing fud. That’s assuming you don’t drink yourself into…” Oct 18, 12:17
Captain Caveman on Faces In Sand: “Meh. Well, Confused, this particular “Rosbif” was watching with not inconsiderable schadenfreude those pesky “schoolchildren” in France burning the place…” Oct 18, 12:07
Captain Caveman on Faces In Sand: “Prick.” Oct 18, 12:03
Bilbo on Faces In Sand: “Part of Britian’s soft power throughout the world is tolerance, playing fair and playing by the rules. That newly elected…” Oct 18, 11:57
Confused on Faces In Sand: “Good ideas are often simple, though difficult. https://archive.ph/XCt7C FARAGE in the telegraph : deport them all immediately … I like…” Oct 18, 11:52
Bilbo on Faces In Sand: “Apologies if the previous comment gets repeated posted. I had got a Back-end error when posting a few times so…” Oct 18, 11:52
Confused on Faces In Sand: “France I thought there on last nites 10pm news I was going to enjoy the live spectacle of a bbc…” Oct 18, 11:51
Bilbo on Faces In Sand: “I believe that the Scottish government stopped all advertising on X/Twitter a few years ago. If correct, that action hasn’t…” Oct 18, 11:51
Confused on Faces In Sand: “it’s england that brought Scotland down, ya fuckin tit” Oct 18, 11:48
James on Faces In Sand: “That didn’t take long eh? One day in and the usual suspects are posting shite trying to convince ony gullible…” Oct 18, 11:48
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “It’s all doom and gloom here. I’m gonna repeat what I’ve said before. All over the democratic world, and in…” Oct 18, 11:03
Captain Caveman on Faces In Sand: “Possibly you’re right, Hatey. As a child of the much hated (in Scotland) Thatcher, we working class kids were taught…” Oct 18, 10:57
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “50 years then, unless he does something daft like stating men are men and women are women. How long before…” Oct 18, 10:45
J Robertson on Faces In Sand: “Totally agree Willie but remember they commenced the Sturgeon era with a Westminster group insisting on voting as a block…” Oct 18, 10:39
Bilbo on Faces In Sand: “I believe Q got this his visa extended for the lifetime of him serving as a MSP.” Oct 18, 10:19
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “It’s not the “system” though, is it, CC? Democracy can’t and won’t outlast the majority conviction that you can just…” Oct 18, 09:57
Hatey McHateface on Faces In Sand: “All the severed body parts are put into a big hat. Then the attendees draw lots to see who gets…” Oct 18, 09:22
Captain Caveman on Faces In Sand: “Is it “just” the SNP though? The Greens have (rightly) also been cited, but what about the moronic Lib Dumbs…” Oct 18, 09:17
Minceheid on Faces In Sand: “You’re not wrong, Red. Not wrong at all. Mind you, the idea of a Green Party orgy has put me…” Oct 18, 08:36
Aidan on The fight about to come: “I see stinking fat shit is back posting again.” Oct 18, 08:11
Willie on Faces In Sand: “Here are two photographs from journalist Cris Mullin’s X account. One shows an apparently bursting full SNP Conference. The other…” Oct 18, 06:47
Willie on Faces In Sand: “Absolutely incredible that the SNP are going to ban all government and government agencies from using the media platform Twitter…” Oct 18, 06:35
Angus on Faces In Sand: ““16th century Scots would have driven them all into the sea by now.” Scots had real spines in those days.” Oct 18, 02:24
Cynicus on Faces In Sand: “Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat. Or- to mark the end of the Mòd, in the tongue of those called…” Oct 18, 01:47
