The two main centres of infection for the woke entryist poison currently disfiguring the SNP are Stirling and Aberdeen, where they coalesce around two Westminster MPs – Twitler Youth gauleiter Alyn Smith and the worryingly unhinged Kirsty Blackman.
In recent months Wings has documented numerous attempts by the faction (which is chiefly characterised by its hyper-extremist and fundamentalist version of transgender ideology) to gerrymander and fix the party’s internal election processes to ensure that its disciples – who are enormously unpopular among the grassroots membership and have repeatedly failed to win by playing fair – get selected as candidates.
It’s our sad duty to report this fact to you, readers: our experience of sending Freedom Of Information requests to the Scottish Government is basically that the more answers you get from them, the less information you end up having.
In an attempt to freshen up its usual panel of tired and tiresome politicians and pundits, last night’s Question Time (ostensibly from an oddly-vague location in “the North East”) featured moderately-known circus fortune-teller Gypsy Rose Petulengro, crossing her palm with silver for some analysis in a short break from one of her celebrated seances.
The clip above was her take on whether Nicola Sturgeon would resign if either of the current inquiries found that she’d systematically and repeatedly lied to Parliament and broken the Ministerial Code, and the strange thing about it was that for someone who was professing to be looking into the future, she didn’t even appear to know the basic pertinent facts of the present or the past.
Because while pretty much every journalist, pundit and legal expert reporting the case agrees that the amendment made to the Section 11 order protecting the anonymity of the complainers in the Alex Salmond case is an important and significant one, it hasn’t impressed the only person whose opinion actually matters: Andy Wightwash.
The Spectator’s application to the High Court for a variation of the anonymity order in HM Advocate vs Alexander Salmond has just finished. It seems to have been agreed by all parties that Lady Dorrian will now amend her order to read thus:
“An order at common law and in terms of section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981, preventing publication of the names and identity and any information likely to disclose the identity of the complainers in the case of HMA v Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond, as such complainers in those proceedings.”
We suppose this is a sort of compliment, in at least two senses.
The second of them, of course, being the sheer surprise of some people at discovering that not everyone is as cynical and devious as they evidently are themselves.
Once again we’ve clipped the entire question and “answer” so you can see nothing’s been taken out of context, but the important bit is from 2m 30s to 2m 53s.
Davidson’s question was quite complex but boiled down to why Nicola Sturgeon hadn’t properly recorded details and minutes of meetings on Scottish Government business, in direct breach of the Ministerial Code.
That’s a valid question in itself, to which there was no meaningful response, but it was what Sturgeon said right at the end that raised our eyebrows.
First Minister’s Questions was very interesting today. Ruth Davidson had some tricky ones which Nicola Sturgeon simply didn’t even attempt to look like she was answering, and we might come back to one of them in particular a little later on.
But Jackie Baillie’s were even more pointed, especially this one:
With our trademark scrupulous fairness we’ve included the full question and answer, and they raise a whole series of issues, but if you’re in a hurry the key part we want to talk about right now is between 0.18 and 0.26.
James Barr Gardner on Spot The Problem: “https://www.google.com/url?esrc=s&q=&rct=j&sa=U&url=https://handbook.fca.org.uk/handbook/fcg6&ved=2ahUKEwjtoueTz8GWAxWcWUEAHesdBM4QFnoECAUQAg&usg=AOvVaw0Uq372Zk8zIhKKGuz2zL81 Remember the SNP are a COMPANY !” Aug 27, 21:16
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““Certainly makes you think about ” drill baby drill “” All those folks with gas or oil heating, or petrol…” Aug 27, 21:11
gm on Spot The Problem: “I am no longer living in hope.” Aug 27, 21:03
robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Spartan… Well, if it was good enough for Burgess, Maclean and Philby to piss off to Moscow, then why not…” Aug 27, 20:57
Dan on Spot The Problem: “Spartan 117 says: at 6:13 pm “A good analogy, except for the unavoidable fact that it’s our own fellow Scots…” Aug 27, 20:48
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “C’moan, Marie! Spill the beans. Dinna be leaving us hanging. If they believed you were important enough to “neutralise” they…” Aug 27, 20:46
Saffron Robe on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Scotland will never flourish under the Union because it is an enforced dependency; a suppression of natural development. A country…” Aug 27, 20:30
willie on Spot The Problem: “To change the dial a tad I’ve just been watching the horrendous pictures of the Himalaya floods arising from melting…” Aug 27, 20:26
gm on Spot The Problem: “This thing we call a parliament needs to be closed down. It will deny the political class in Scotland and…” Aug 27, 20:25
Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “Robert @ 6:33pm I would not be surprised if the M25 omniclusterfuckpermashambles was involved in some way, even if they…” Aug 27, 20:19
Marie on Spot The Problem: “ALL of them are “crooks” Red. Any budding politician with courage or conviction is dispensed with long before the candidate…” Aug 27, 20:16
Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: ““You’re on speed, right?” Me or Alf? Can’t speak for the Prof but for me it’s worse. I’m autistic…” Aug 27, 20:15
Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “A good post Red, summing up why things are the way they are. It’s not “Colonialism” or “They Inglish” (by…” Aug 27, 20:14
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “Goalposts shifted again. So the Scottish Government could dismiss the Lord Advocate. But the Scottish Government would just appoint a…” Aug 27, 19:53
Northcode on Spot The Problem: “The Lord Advocate is also a government minister and serves as the principal legal adviser to the Scottish Government and…” Aug 27, 19:37
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “That’s a wonderful gift you have there, Bob. Stamp your foot, wrinkle your nose, and you can transport yourself backwards…” Aug 27, 19:29
Red on Spot The Problem: “If you didn’t laugh you’d cry Hayley 🙂” Aug 27, 19:22
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““the colonizer hates theory’ (Memmi), which means the colonizer hates the truth” “Theory and truth are not the same thing”…” Aug 27, 19:17
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “OK, Northy, so now you’re saying: 1. The LA is part of (an appointee of) the Scottish Government. 2. A…” Aug 27, 19:02
Andrea on Spot The Problem: “@Hatey, I am not an indy supporter 😉” Aug 27, 18:59
robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Adults you say, Hatey? Look in a mirror… You’ll not find one there!” Aug 27, 18:55
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““she achieved nothing in government except to make things worse” Ah, c’moan noo, Red. How can you have forgotten the…” Aug 27, 18:50
James on Spot The Problem: “You’re on speed, right?” Aug 27, 18:47
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “You need to grow up, Bob. The adults have forgiven far worse people for far worse things far more recently.…” Aug 27, 18:37
robertkknight on Spot The Problem: “Spartan… Back to the here and now, and irrespective of the useful idiots with Scottish accents, of which there are…” Aug 27, 18:33
Red on Spot The Problem: “You’ve got to ask yourself, why is Nicola Sturgeon being protected like this? She’s not clever, she’s not charismatic, she…” Aug 27, 18:29
Alf Baird on Spot The Problem: ““And we would have been forever denied my favourite, the “cheese” quote.” Dinna forget Fanon’s prediction that a national party…” Aug 27, 18:29
Northcode on Spot The Problem: ““It’s not the only option.” Legally, it is the only option. The Scotland Act 1998 provides for a single legal…” Aug 27, 18:26
Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “A good analogy, except for the unavoidable fact that it’s our own fellow Scots who are entirely at fault here,…” Aug 27, 18:13
agentx on Spot The Problem: ““James Che says: 27 August, 2026 at 3:20 pm The referral to the Supreme court is under the Crown of…” Aug 27, 18:10
