Wings Over Scotland

I’ve run out of things to say about the SNP Humza and LGBT.

It’s only so often you can say ‘this is bollocks’

The so called Minister for Independence wasn’t at the Independence March in Ayr today either.

I unfortunately caught that dreadful Anne McLaughlin MP on Talk TV. What a cringeworthy embarrassing creature trying to represent Scotland. I had to switch off after 60 seconds.

Get this crowd of idiots off the stage sharpish.

How is it possible that the First Minister of Scotland can be so closely associated with such people !! Unbelievable.

The guy’s a fanny. The sooner he’s chased, the better.

I first met HY many years ago. I made two clear judgements about him:

1) He was a footsoldier, never a leader. He was a rather mediocre footsoldier to boot

2) He lacked any commitment to independence. He never talked about it; and I do mean NEVER not RARELY

Those who voted for him are either effective unionists or just very, very stupid!

A picture paints a thousand words.

Youseless has taken over Sturgeon the Judases mantle, and continues to run with it the way she did, which means anything to do with Scottish independence (such as AUOB marches) that the SNP doesn’t control from the top to the bottom are snubbed, and they are snubbed because, the likes of the AUOB really does want to see an independent Scotland, and that frightens the current SNP heirarchy.

Anything to do with the LGBTI+ community comes first and foremost, infact everything comes before Scottish independence in the minds of this current SNP heirarchy.

Tell me Barbie about the evils of patriarchy….

Yousaf at this point clearly doesn’t want to associate with the wider independence movement outwith the SNP, assuming of course the SNP actually still stands for independence which it doesn’t. He’s playing to his activist supporters as I assume that’s the advice he’s being given because right now the activists are running the show and doing what they can before the SNP loses the power it has now.

However things are turning against Trans ideology the more the general public are exposed to the realities of it, and I do think we’re in the beginning of the end, especially as more people realise that young people are being carved up to keep the pipeline going because like any cult, they need to convert them while they’re young.

“I would rather be dead …”

Naw, that’s a rare lapse into hysterics from you.

Under SLab in HR and WM I doubt anything will change very much. The problems are too big and entrenched, and the politicians are too puny, clueless and powerless. It’s managed decline from here on, and one colour of rosette is as good as the next.

I carry no torch for SLab, but how can they be measurably worse than the current lot?

Heck, at least their electoral success won’t be flawed and fraudulent. Legitimacy still counts for something, even today.

LGBT Youth Scotland is not only dealing with current allegations that its staff were involved in child sex abuse, its previous CEO James Rennie was convicted for 13 years in 2009 for some of the worst child sex abuse crimes imaginable. What is useless doing associating with this organisation, given the above? More insanity from the SNP.

see-https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/snp-government-criticised-fail-answer-28848017

HY is wholly owned by the SNP which is wholly owned by the U.K. establishment

Instead of Love Not Hate the shyster’s t-shirt ought to bear the slogan Devo Not Indy.

This electoral fraudster isn’t even the nominal head of the indy movement. The true movement has moved on and left this punk and his band of troughers to await the verdicts of the voters.

Without wanting to bring any sectarian divisions into the independence debate, I’m just curious as to why the media and establishment won’t challenge him on the fact he professes to be a practicing Muslim (and has played this card many a time) but also an ally of the Alphabet Mafia. The two are mutually exclusive, unless his hatred of White European culture is deeper than his rant in Parliament suggested and he is pushing the latter on us, whilst ensuring none of it for those who share his strictly conservative faith.

The NUSNP has been sticking two fingers up to the Yes movement for the last nine years, Sturgeon never went to one single AUOB and now Yousless is doing the same, the leadership couldn’t be any plainer about there feelings towards us Scots.

The certain idiots on here where stating Kate Forbes was the next messiah, but she another Tory who’s no interest In marching or Independence.

What a disaster the Next Westminster election is going to be, the Tories should call it now, so we can all have a laugh.

I had a personal run in with this little fanny some years back. I should have sorted him out then. Now, he’s a big little fanny.

aw, wordpress doesn’t do arabic; you need to read the original to get the nuances, still, you get the gist.

point is, humza is down the mosque saying

– don’t worry about the tranny shite imam, that’s just for the kuffar and stupid
WHITE
WHITE
WHITE
WHITE
WHITE
WHITE
WHITE
WHITE
…
liberals

and I don’t see any muslims getting screwed over for hatecrimes about “transphobia”

is he too dumb to notice the contradiction or think no-one else does?

remember the shi’ite(!) kate forbes got for her (dangerous) “christian” beliefs?

DebzoHighland says:
29 July, 2023 at 7:07 pm

Exactly what I though earlier when I saw a clip of him speaking.
Glasgow AUOB…..other engagement.
Stirling AUOB….arranged other engagement!
Ayr AUOB…..at a pride do.
Skye AUOB…..NOT FUCKING WELCOME (Sorted that for you)

I was at the AUOB march in Ayr today, and all of the other marches so far this year. Humza definitely wasn’t there but . . . there were lots of SNP members there, albeit without SNP banners – so there’s a serious disconnect between what the members are doing and what the leadership are doing and saying. It is time to reconcile these 2 positions – and the members’ views need to prevail

Just seen the latest news that useless has declared that the new saltire will be fully blue , with the ….. Cross removed for race reasons

@ Shug at 11.08pm:

I can certainly believe that Sturgeon is likely to have been subject to blackmail by the British state, given that there are said to be certain issues and incidents concerning her that are covered by gagging orders. But surely, if she ever had any firm principles or truly believed in independence, she would have resigned and let someone with fewer skeletons in their cupboard take over? That she carried on paying lip service to independence while doing everything to wreck the movement leads me to suspect that she was always a secret unionist. Also, did Salmond really not know about the skeletons in Sturgeon’s cupboard? Given his evident people-skills, I’d have thought him to be an excellent judge of character. Is Sturgeon such a skilled liar that she had him fooled all along? Was Salmond not aware of Sturgeon’s record in the legal profession? Did nothing strike him as fishy (no pun intended!) about Sturgeon’s relationship status?

How very disappointing.

I see LGBT Youth Scotland have deleted their Twitter feed now.

link to tfn.scot

The SNP won’t see sense. They’re completely captured by Sturgeons yrs long equality drive of fuckwits, yoons & perverted deviants in equal measure & stuffed in every orifice of Holyrood & the MSM.

There is no saving them. They’re not indy.
They need totally eradicated from all manner of public office.

Dumbza is deliberately trolling the YES movement & AUOB. I dunno his motives. Maybe Westminster will rig the election to keep him in place as the obvious shoo-in of leadership was. There is some reason he is being so brazen. He thinks he’s fckn British Royalty now & if we thought Sturgeon would never go, buckle up! We’d need to physically prize his dead cold fingers off his shiny new British title as FM one by one..

Holiday rep moron, Robertson (it wisnae my idea) & Daddy bear perv used to take to the MSM after an AUOB march at how cybernats were evil, vile & stupid looking. They’ve grandiose notions of themselves.

I’m not really conflicted by any of this total nonsense by Yousaf – and it is all total nonsense – because the longer it all carries on, the more destructive of Indy, in practical terms. It’s a fact that the SNP are in HR government, and that the useless one is the FM.

Long may it continue.

The hypocrisy of this moronic clown (NOT my FM) knows no bounds , if you look at the t shirt he is wearing it says “Love Not Hate” yet he is the self same loonball that stood up in HR and uttered his WHITE hate rant, so is that “Love NOT Hate” reserved for everyone apart from WHITE people

I try not to waste any breath/thought on political trash like Sturgeon these days ; but if – as has long been mooted- she waltzes into some lucrative ” look at me , Ms Hick from Hicksville schmoozing with the top globalist playas – O Queen Hilary , please allow me to be your footstool ” gig , the suspicion of treachery will be confirmed , surely ?

You don’t get jobs like that without having shown total compliance with the worldview & political aims of the global elite/s ; to whom all Nationalism – even the so-called ” Civic ” variety – is anathema . A sense of national identity being the last line of resistance to the homogenising intent of Globalism

She shat on Scotland in order to further her personal ambitions.

As for the patsy Yousaf , he was clearly shoe-horned into position to ensure the poisonous legacy of his predecessor continued , act as the punchbag when the inevitable collapse of the SNP vote occurs , when he’ll thrown aside to make way for some other , more – superficially – credible crypto-Unionist placeman …….

Heeeeeeere’s Angush ( sic ) , or – god NO ! – Hammer of the Goldfish ..ie.. slouching Drag historian M Black .

At the end of the nuSNP * rainbow * a crock of shit awaits

Humza’s T-shirt, in that picture, is surely missing a key word placed between “LOVE” and “NOT”? That word being MYSELF.
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John Main says on 29 July 2023 at 8:26 pm:

“I carry no torch for SLab, but how can they be measurably worse than the current lot? Heck, at least their electoral success won’t be flawed and fraudulent. Legitimacy still counts for something, even today.”

You’re wrong! They repeatedly attempt to masquerade under a totally autonomous “Scottish” party banner free of any control from their London masters. Sure, they’re allowed to introduce policy that doesn’t fly in the face of headquarters’ policy but they’re as far from “legitimacy” as Sturgeon’s Nonce Party. They also have the backing of a huge BritNat propaganda machine to help them achieve that deception. Legitimacy may still count for something but Labour in Scotland certainly don’t posses it. Just ask the Electoral Commission, LOL!

A Scot Abroad says on 30 July 2023 at 1:44 am

“I’m not really conflicted by any of this total nonsense by Yousaf – and it is all total nonsense – because the longer it all carries on, the more destructive of Indy, in practical terms. It’s a fact that the SNP are in HR government, and that the useless one is the FM. Long may it continue.”

Correct! And every bit as corrupt and useless as the scum who masquerade as your beloved UKGov, all shades of red, amber or blue included. The only difference being Yous have been at it for hundreds of years longer than the current Scottish administration. And btw, the SNP are not in “HR government”. They have proven to be nothing more than an administration the minute they sat back and allowed the UKGov to take a load of powers that didn’t belong to them when we were taken out of the EU.

Stoker

I didn’t factor in what you have just written about SLab.

Sometimes it’s just too difficult to keep up.

Does this mean the Tories are the only big, legit party left in Scotland? I’m ignoring the glib dumbs and the greeps for obvious reasons.

By legit, I mean not under investigation for various criminal or civil infringements of the laws.

Stoker

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The sad fact is that many in the SNP are more disgusted by Mrs Forbes support for family values than the views of Stonewall and their deluded followers.
I was heartened by Salmond’s address at Winnie Ewing’s funeral, it appears that a little of the old fire and confidence may be returning.

We must keep reminding ourselves that “conservative” does not necessarily mean “Tory” and without a portion of conservatism, the independence movement will fail.

A bit more on Salmond, Ferrier and Youseless.

“The Alba Party leader said: “The reality is that Margaret Ferrier was thrown to the media wolves by a then first minister anxious to divert press attention from the other public health failings of her administration and sentence pronounced by those with a vested interest in a by-election.

“The current First Minister has carried on this disgraceful lack of compassion to a woman who has devoted her life to furthering the cause of Scottish independence.

“If SNP members need to understand what has gone wrong with their party they need look no further than this totally depressing display of disloyalty.”

Salmond said Labour were “like political vultures” and called for pro-independence parties to put forward a single candidate under a “Scotland United” banner if there is a by-election.

However the SNP leader said it is right that the recall petition goes ahead.”

As if the millionaire knight of the realm Starmer will take any heed of Flynn, who heads a group of SNP MPs that have absolutely NO power at Westminster.

Of course everyone and their grannies know that Westminster is sending millions in aid and weapons to 404, and is spending billions on renewing Trident.

Yet the bedroom tax and the two child benefit cap along with the severe cost of living crisis is hurting families but it looks like under Labour and the Tories, (two cheeks of the same arse) they’ll remain in place.

Flynn is a gadfly, a mouse squeaking at an elephant, trying to score points for his party he knows it, we know it, and the opposition knows it, Scottish MPs are insignificant at Westminster they always have been.

Vote Alba, Join Alba.

Down with the union.

TURABDIN says:
30 July, 2023 at 9:43 am
In the context of Scotland’s projected population decline how might you positively engage with the problem?

Like everything Scotland needs, none of it can be achieved outwith independence. How might you positively engage with that overarching prerequisite? Aspirational bullshit, reassuring though it may be for some, will go the way of all the abstract blathering of this administration and be quickly forgotten about, due to its absence of real-world substance.

Johnlm says on 30 July 2023 at 10:25 am:
“Ron Clark jailed for pixieporn.”

LMAO! 🙂

On the last train from Glasgow last night, a loudmouth from Lancashire doing the full ‘deep fried mars bar’ routine, trotting out all the cliches for the amusement of his pals. He wasn’t even very good at it, kept repeating the same line about the mars bar disintegrating.

Imagine any of us going on public transport in say Preston and shouting our heads off about how shite their hotpot is, why the people are so fat and unhealthy and hard to understand? How long would it be before we got a well-deserved slap?

Johnlm

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Johnlm

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Obviously, I wouldn’t want to reprise Ron Clark’s sordid history on this site.
Feel free to use google – just type in his name plus favoured perversion.
Probably since abusing pixies online, he is blocked from such sites and has to cum here.
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You have been offered the independence of Scots on a printed platter,
But your colonised mind refuses the offer.

@Ian Brotherhood

On Wednesday night, 10.45pm, whilst a block from my house I overheard a conversation. A woman, on the verge of tears, was talking to a man in a 4×4. The man spoke heavily accented English, clearly not his first language. The woman was clutching a bag to her chest and said “please, please tell me that he is in there” to which the man replied “when I give the order he will be released.”

All part and parcel of living in New Glasgow in Govanhill.

TURABDIN says:
30 July, 2023 at 9:43 am
In the context of Scotland’s projected population decline how might you positively engage with the problem?

Give young folks somewhere to live would be a start.

Kinda hard to start a family when you’re sleeping in a van or on a pal’s couch, or shelling out a kings ransom on fuel and transport instead of rent or a deposit.

Put a crucifying tax burden on second home ownership and Air BnB, and take control over housing away from the corporate house building racket.

Encourage Social Housing and cheap tenancy rents, and deliberately undercut the housing racket by an over supply of housing which brings the eye watering price of a home clattering down to an affordable rate, and takes away all the incentive to be a property developer or buy to let speculator.

If we were really clever about it, this non-NeoLiberal approach to housing might throw a lifeline to Scotland’s traditional Trades and Crafts, and provide these young Scottish families with a conventional skilled trade and means to earn a good living as part of the package.

There’s a saying that refers to Architects, Planners, Engineers, Surveyor’s, etc; that if none of them existed, you wouldn’t need any of them, but because one of them exists, you need all of them.

That’s how I feel about Corporate House-builders, Corporate Banks and Lenders, Estate Agents, and Local Authorities who make a fortune from the racket. Remove them ALL from the housing equation, and get back to reality when we’re tackling the scandal of Scotland’s crippling shortage of accommodation.

“Find” a way to make it work in Scotland, and start treating our younger generations as our valued future.

If a Town needs more Common Land for the purpose of building Social Housing for the Common Good, then that’s what should happen. Not be held to fkg ransom by Toffs with more land than they know what to with, and more property than they can afford to maintain.

Hopefully we stop filling our kid’s heads with shite like all this Transgender bullshit too, and reclaim the traditional values of common sense and rational intelligence, and objective tangible rewards for working hard to make something of themselves.

Give Scotland’s kids some hope of a future that doesn’t involve fkg off to Australia. Let’s focus on colonising our own Nation, and introduce a points based immigration criteria on incomers to Scotland, which includes English retiree’s.

Then, in the second week after Independence… lol

Women are not considered important, even in their child bearing role, to the religions. Why is masturbation considered a sin? “Spilling the seed” by men, the progenitive factor, while women are simply “vessels”. This underpins all organized religions and explains women’s subservient status. While religion is a protected characteristic women will never be seen as equal

Breeks,

from where are you going to get the finance to build this over-supply of new housing? And from where are you going to get the builders? There’s not enough as it is, ditto the roofers, sparkies, plumbers and so on.

Breeks,
Excellent common sense,
Nice to see someone thinking of solutions instead of constant critecism.
Second home owners are bound to baulk at the idea,
Yet they are part of the problem in Scotland,

Good point Dan, it appears also that its only certain ones that are targeted such as Ferrier, Joanna Cherry etc, I recall Sturgeon the Betrayer bumping her gums over perceived threats to the trans community and that punishment would we swift, and all the while her own party staff were threatening Joan McAlpine and Joanna Cherry online of which Sturgeon the Judas ignored, whilst bleating that she was a protector of women’s rights.

James Che,

have you done the sums on how much second home taxation would raise, and how much that’s a drop in the ocean as to what is needed to solve the housing crisis? It’s just gesture, it’s not a solution.

Alf Baird,

grow up. Do the demographics. Scotland as a native population is already fucked. Immigration is the only way out of the mess for an iScotland. If you don’t want that, then there is only non-Indy open to keep Scotland as a functioning society from 2050.

And I can guarantee that Scotland would lose another half million productive taxpayers between referendum and Indy day. So iScotland would be doubly fucked.

@ Alastair Naughton at 3.03pm:

It so happens that I read The Enemy Within by Seumus Milne quite recently, and it was indeed quite an eye-opener. I think most ordinary people are blithely unaware that governments do not represent and protect our interests, but actively seek to undermine and disempower us and keep us in our place by any means necessary. I’m reminded of the old anarchist slogan, ‘Whoever you vote for, government wins’. With regard to Scargill, perhaps he was too honest and principled a man to suspect that such a close and trusted colleague could be his nemesis. Perhaps the same was true of Salmond, too.

As for Sturgeon, so many things have been done under her watch to harm the cause of independence that I began to suspect quite a few years ago that she was actually working for the opposition. I remember thinking at the time of the Brexit referendum that there would never be a better moment to demand and campaign for independence, yet Sturgeon did nothing. If she wasn’t prepared to seize the moment then, she was never going to. Everything that’s happened since then suggests to me a deliberate plan to destroy the SNP and undermine the cause of independence.

ASA.

Time you grew up enough to understand as a adult,

It might not have been suggested by myself that that main purpose was to collect just taxes, but to penalise those who own two or three houses preventing Scots actually having a home at a very reasonable price,
As Breeks says these second home owners are pushing up local housing prices.
Receiving tax revenues is a added bonus,
I thought you would be one of the first to protest the loudest on the idea, seeing as you are in that category of multiple home ownership in Scotland.

What is that smell coming from that second home,….Hypocracy.
Here you were suggesting today where would the money come from to build house,

1: you do not have to build homes that already exist in Scotland as second holiday homes,

2: revenues from higher taxes on empty Council buildings that could be changed into flats, revenues from second, third, B&B, holiday and empty homes would increase the ability and possibility of higher House building finance % within the Councils, thanks for that suggestion

3: Heavy fines imposed on those who deliberately and needlessly tear down houses that could provide Housing for single parents or houses for the homeless at lower rental prices.

Regardless of how you feel about SALVO/Claim of Right/Stirling Directive etc, it’s plain that the people involved stand for something and are prepared to act on their principles, not just pay lip service to them as and when it suits.

Here’s the text of Sara Salyers’ resignation letter to Alba, as published on Iain Lawson’s blog.

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A lot of the carnage that is happening in Scotland could and would dissolve pretty quickly. And old morals of true equality would resurface

The housing situation,
The gender wokery.
The oil revenue and licencing permits
Unequal Council tax,
Womens hard won rights.
Climate change ideology..
Political parties.
The Barnett formula,
The lack of Scottish media.
Big Corporations running government
Police Scotland. And the justice system. Or lack of.
A halt to rewilding Scotland ideology.
Safer and better education for our children.
Free speach,

The first problem is that we not seeking a independent Country as the first and most important Criteria.
The second problem is not having a peoples Scottish parliament,

At this moment We are being run and managed from outside Scotland, by politicians often on the payroll of the likes of Stonewall, big banks, big pharma, and big corperation shopping facilities,
Along with all the problems that the fallacious treaty brings to Scotland overseeing and changing the laws and family morals in Scotland,

It can not be said often enough, that Westminster cannot sue a extinguished old Scottish parliament any longer for leaving the treaty of union.
That Scottish parliament does not exist to sue,
Any Scottish politician with a slight modicum of intelligence that avoids this reality is not a politician that really believes in a Scotland becoming independent,
How often can they dangle carrots before the truth comes out.

We need to walk away,

@Alf Baird 5.00pm
I am not buying it Alf. Genocide means to me people and their wholesale slaughter as an indigenous people. Now we have listening ears in the Scot NHS. The increase in avoidable deaths and excess deaths is a function of mismanagement of public policy and not genocide. If we want to win Independence we need to temper the rhetoric.

@ Ian B 4.41pm I commented on Iain’s blog that Sara resigning from Salvo (what she is NOT doing) only ALBA would be a travesty , she has singlehandedly given real independenistas more hope and other avenues to explore routes to independence

I was one of the ones on here vociferously begging Alex Salmond to return to the independence fight which gratefully he has done, BUT he does not own independence, his insistance that any convention would consist of the great and the good rather than a cross section of Scots is anathema to me, as again his insistence that the 2014 franchise would be the one used in any future referendum , I have had it with politicians TELLING us what will happen rather than ASKING the electorate what they want to happen , I don’t want an independent Scotland run on the mirror image of the corrupt clusterfuck of WM , SCOTS are SOVEREIGN not just some Scots I want politicians to LISTEN not just to do their own thing

Adam Tomkins was a decent parliamentarian as was Ruth Davidson. Both driven out of Holyrood because they found themselves outnumbered 20:1 by numpties from the SNP, Labour, Greens and Lib Dems. I’ve read Sara Salyers name from time to time, probably on here, but her letter was a fuss over nothing. It looks to me as if the Nationalist movement is directionless and all that Labour need to do is shut-up, say and do nothing and they will be forming the next Holyrood government. If that prospect doesn’t scare you then nothing will. There was a time when Scotland voted for the Liberals and that changed overnight when they got into coalition with Labour. The same will happen to the SNP because 1. They have been crap and 2. Because they are in coalition with the Greens.

Labour so good for the ordinary citizen then way did they steal 6,000 miles of Scottish water for England before Indy Ref one.
Why is the no Scottish Labour Party just England’s North Accounting Unit that cannot fund itself or make its own policies.
Why did Blair take the U.K. to an illegal war in Iraq costing Billions and destroying lives.

Why did Labour uphold Thatcherism?

Why did Blair, Brown and Kinnock become Labour multi millionaires?

Why did Labour Council in Glasgow spend £100’s Thousands to stop equal pay for women.

Why after 24 years in power at the Welsh Parliament have they the worst performing NHS on the U.K. mainland?

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“Adam Tomkins was a decent parliamentarian as was Ruth Davidson.”

They are a couple of treacherous b*stards doing a foreign country’s bidding, good riddance to them, hopefully their branch office at Holyrood will follow suit on independence.

@sarah, twathater and Republicofscotland –

Thanks for the feedback, we all seem to be in general agreement that Sara is a good ‘un and what she’s doing is important.

Alex Salmond was a student of Scottish history, right? I don’t understand what his beef with Sara is. Scots are sovereign or they aren’t. It must be one or the other.

If it’s the former then what possible harm is there in stating it loud and clear and repeating it until the electorate cannot say they weren’t aware of that fact. How we’re supposed to act on it outwith the current constitutional/electoral constraints isn’t something I have any answers to – that’s why we need these high-profile figures to get their heads together and simplify it as far as possible.

A statement that Scots are sovereign seems like the most obvious and simple starting point. If that can’t be agreed then it’s hard to see how any further movement is possible. Denise Findlay has been having an interesting exchange with Sara on Twitter about her resignation and has admitted that she misunderstood Sara’s position. That kind of openness is a refreshing change from the obfuscation and secrecy of the SNP heid yins.

Lorna Campbell,

(and I’m a MacDonald, so we may not see eye to eye ?)

There’s a trope on WoS that states that if only true Scots were counted in the last Referendum, not incomers or migrants or people with brown skin, or whose forebears hadn’t fought at Bannockburn, then Indy would have won the day. No doubt about it.

Well, that isn’t how democracy and the franchise works. You have to go with what you’ve got. Narrowing the franchise to achieve a result isn’t going to be accepted by the grownups in the world.

Looking to the future, given demographic trends and migration, Indy is getting less and less likely.

George – I’m surprised it’s as high as 8%. I would have guessed at a couple of percent. For example, I don’t know any and only 2No live locally to me. However, it’s no use blaming it all on that. There’s much more wrong with the SNP than just that.

By the way, talking about the Greens, did you know we have wasted over £80m on Slater’s DRS. That’s exactly the type of issue that will drive voters away for ever from the SNP.

About 30-years ago, it used to cost £1m per mile for a new motorway. It is probably 4 or 5 times that now. But, the point is, that £80m could have paid for duelling a large part of Fergus Ewing’s A90.

People in the Highlands will see that for what it is and will vote Conservative. That’s what I reckon will happen now. By the way, the Conservative Party are the only party that I have never voted for; I have voted for all of the others. But, when’s all said and done, they are the most competent at Holyrood by a mile.

ACH lies….A LibDem so not a surprise!

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@ A Nu English aka A Scot Abroad

Aye, but the trouble is your beloved UK does disenfranchise some folk, presumably with good reasons that you could please explain and justify.
Would “Brexit” have happened if EU Nationals that live, work and pay taxes here in the UK had been enfranchised.

@ Ian Brotherhood

Cheers for bringing up the reminder to politicians that really shouldn’t need to be done. I recall the matter Sara has resigned over rearing its head back end of last year.
Politicians are meant to represent their electorate. If they somehow think once elected it’s cool to do something else which is at odds with their electorate then they can get to feck with that.

I’ll keep repeating that anybody worthy of standing for election should do so on a manifesto that states a straightforward declaration that they will vote as instructed by their constituents, and that they’ll step down in a simple recall procedure should they ever fail to represent the expressed wishes of their electorate.
Party politics and whipping is what has got us into this sorry mess. Begone with it aw and start afresh.

Dan

Define “as instructed by their constituents”.

Humza Chamberlain, the arch appeaser who voluntarily marched in ridiculous, self-conscious pomp behind the Stone of Destiny as it left on its journey south for a rendezvous with English power. This union jackass, this fraud, is presiding over the destruction of the last vestiges of the SNP as the party of liberation. Completing the dirty work started by his evil mentor Sturgeon.

Love Not Hate he proclaims. But we know what he loves. Money and status. We know what he doesn’t hate. Scotland’s subjugation and humiliation.

Ian Brotherhood,

Scots aren’t sovereign. Haven’t been since 1707, and in reality, they weren’t for hundreds of years before then. Prior to 1707, it was the Scots aristocrats and lairds who made the decisions within the scope of what the King allowed, and they didn’t bother with consulting the people.

And now Scots are citizens of the UK, and there’s no exercisable “Claim of Right” in the UK.

The Claim of Right is nothing but meaningless pageantry for meaningless ceremonies. People can bump their gums about it all they like, but they are fools, and bumping their gums doesn’t affect anything whatsoever.

George Ferguson @ 5:19 pm

“Genocide means to me people and their wholesale slaughter as an indigenous people.”

That might be what it means to you, but it is not what it means to the UN or to international courts who understand that it is perfectly possible using a range of different techniques and policies for a state to obliterate ‘a people’ and their culture without exterminating them.

George – I was watching Scotland Speaks there. The difference between Alex and Humza cannot be put into words, can it? The Nationalist movement need him back in the saddle. He has work to do because he’s not as popular as folk on here think but is a renewed SNP possible under Salmond? Yes, I think it is.

@ASA (9.28) –

This is – yet again! – the last time I’m responding to you.

Don’t address me directly on here. I have no interest in what you have to say about anything.

As and when the franchise is tweaked to become fair, you and your ilk will have no further say in Scotland’s affairs and if I ever have the chance I will gladly tear up you and your friends’ ‘ballots’ in front of you.

@Ian Brotherhood 9:34pm
Hi Ian, you cannot plan and organise public services without Census information. We have a new local school that’s too small for the new intake and another school needs to be built. We have a nursery that has places available but SNP shenanigans are preventing uptake of places. And so it goes on.

Interesting that today BBC2 showed the cup final of the Ireland Senior football final live from Dublin. It was networked across the UK including England. Its interesting in that despite Scotland being part of the UK and Ireland not, Scottish football cup finals are never shown in England. And its odd because the Irish type of game is not played in the UK. And we in Scotland are also forced to pay a licence fee to the BBC unlike the Irish, yet they seem to have preferred treatment to Scotland.
It reeks of respect for Ireland and contempt for Scotland. Ireland left the UK giving England a bloody nose and it has been afraid of the Irish ever since.
As with our national team games, no UK coverage and pay to view while England free to watch on BBC/ITV. Why.
When you think of Denmark , NZ, Norway, Finland you automatically think country but not so Scotland which has been industrially, financially and culturally raped by England leaving it a nothing region.
This land is rich yet we own nothing ,our acres of soil bought by the thousand and owned and controlled by foreigners, and the saddest part is so many Scots don`t care. England spits on us and all these proud Scots do is wipe the spittle from their faces and walk away, indifferent.
What will it take???

IB

Fighting talk!

You looking at ma ballots?

[chuckles]

Ooh, how not unexpected that a devout contrarian and ever so keen “Brexiteer” now chooses not to comprehend or envision what “taking back control” means when it’s expressed in more than three words… and also lacks the ability or is just too lazy to use a search function…

hard numbers destroy all false rhetoric and weasel sophistry … I’m a numbers guy

A helpful citizen put the 2011 CENSUS DATA online, displayed visually as a collection of heatmaps.

link to ukdataexplorer.com

– the first and most serious matter is to look at

ethnicity
WHITE OTHER BRITISH

country of origin
ENGLISH

national identity
BRITISH

and contrasted with WHITE-SCOTTISH/SCOTLAND/SCOTTISH-ONLY

you do this by selecting from the drop down menu on the top right

shown like this it tells you everything you need to know and also annihilates a lot of stupidity

“independence fur orkney cuz we’re aw the sons of ragnar lothbrok”!

???

– my fucking arse.

Look at orkney then do the white other british/ white scottish switcheroo – and what do you see?

IT’S A LOT OF ENGLISH-BASTARDS WHO MOVED UP THERE CAUSING TROUBLE

so get them to fuck. Honestly.

Now, I know what you will say – WHERE IS THE 2021 DATA – it’s a good question; I reckon they are trying to sit on it while they work out how to fuck with it in various ways to stop people doing web apps like this one, which tell you in obvious terms, what you need to know. For example, they may simply merge certain categories – white, scottish, british – so you wouldn’t be able to see, in certain places in the highlands and borders, even in 2011, its already 30% english (which means political power if they bloc vote, which they do, at least on indy – its 80:20, about as unanimous as political questions get); they may do data scrubbing in england too, but for different reasons, e.g. “we can’t break down the data in certain ways as it will be MISUSED BY THE FAR RIGHT”.

This should unnerve you, these english people saying – we sold up for a better life and to enjoy the scenery, we’re “new scots” too …

back in the 30s over in palestine I expect there were a lot of jewish s3ttl3rs saying things like – we just want to be in the land of our faith, study the torah and grow oranges … sure thing shlomo we cool … (60 years later)

Point is, the anglo is an infestation, and more are on the way. And it is worse than you can know, later than you think.

Anyway, never mind all that serious stuff, there is also fun to be had – there are about 100 other things you can look at, sometimes spelling out the obvious, or throwing up some mysteries

– there’s a lot of catholics in coatbridge

– west of pollokshields east station, it is 60% muslim

– just south of Giffnock it is 16% jews; this is interesting – everyone knows these guys are great at lobbying with an international reach, so why not tell the world “scottish indy is GOOD FOR THE JEWS”, and stop hiding in the attic; once we have support for the union included as an instance of antisemitism under the new rules, all our enemies become hate criminals. There is even a stupid book, full of delusional interpretations, called “when Scotland was jewish”. Use what you got, we need all the international friends we can make, especially if they have influence.

– mental illness is very high in Govan, i.e. Rab C Nesbitt country; but also mental r3tardations is very high in a ward west of tullybelton and the isle of mull – there may be a reason for this, lead poisoning, an old chemical works, who knows. But once you have the data you can investigate.

There is even a category for central heating and type of, if that floats your boat, dan, dan the offgrid-man …

also, speakers of Scots/Gaelic/English

a good dataset, especially a novel one, can open your eyes, but when you start to merge them, truth appears unvarnished; when the EU put up a geomapping satellite with a fancy camera (hyperspectral) it identified, for one thing, the crops being grown … and with the subsidy receipts in the accounts dept, in doing so identified a massive amount of agricultural fraud going on, all that CAP, guaranteed prices. Farmers, will always tell you they are skint and when on telly, looking for “compensation” – while one or two might be having it hard, as a collective, they are all just lying bastards on the take and should be ignored, and audited to 10 times their current levels.

getting good data and visualising it properly can be amazing, but the next step up in analysis is looking for correlations – how one thing is associated with another (not necessarily directly or causally). The simplest example is 2 things, plotted an an XY diagram; if its a random cloud, then there is no connection, but patterns can appear – can you put a line through them, are there clusters, outliers. Correlative analysis is more commonly known as “noticing things” and “seeing patterns” or “being a conspiracy theorist” – the woke bureaucrats are currently trying to ban this as it leads to e.g. “racial profiling” and “tropes” and also “canards”.

– then at the next level, you add in the full spectrum machine learning goodstuff.

another good map, rich, poor and inbetween
link to simd.scot

people are always trying to fiddle numbers, hide them, lie with statistics – companies, governments, anyone – but when you combine data from different sources, fiddling is very hard; you get these “anomalies”. Mismatches, crazy outliers, or violations of well known statistical properties.

Watch and learn, people – once you know this stuff you can get a job for 70K a year as a “data scientist” drawing scatterplots for chinless twerps in stockbridge, the kind of folk who went to fettes and got one U at A level (100 grand well spent, but at least they know which way to pass the port)

We need people to be proud of where they come from.

We need new sporting heroes. Like Quigley the cyclist.

We need to Bring the commonwealth games back to Glasgow. Back the bid.

We need an all Ireland final, football is in our DNA.

The very least we need our government to get it on television and make accessible so kids are wearing the Scotland jerseys and wanting to emulate their success.

@Confused 11:39pm
Good stuff but what is the percentage of LGBQT+++ and the trans lobby?. The Census figures will provide the evidence.The entire Scottish Government and policy resource is based on the unsubstantiated evidence of the lobbying of minority groups. Ordinary parental Scots know this. A reckoning to be had. I am watching World War Z or some such movie. Appropriately made in Glasgow. Unrepresentative of Scotland.

Confused

I knew it!

There was no way they were vikings Lol at the crops..

McDuff at 1019pm

You make a good point about the Irish football shown yesterday all across the UK, yet Scottish interests in sport are almost or completely NEVER shown in England.

It shows the utter contempt shown to Scotland by those in positions of authority in England. They will show an Irish sport from Ireland to all across the UK, yet Shinty is relegated to BBC Alba, and just shown in Scotland.

Of course the reason WHY Scotland is getting such sh*t treatment by England and Westminster, is because under Sturgeon, London came to realise they could do anything they pleased, and all the Scottish government would do is whine.

If England can, upon a whim, forcibly remove all Scots from the EU and strip them of their citizenship wholly against their wishes, then of course they treat us with contempt.

Their was a time, when Alex Salmond was leader, when London was feart to do such things, but now under the wishy washy current SNP, London KNOWS it can do anything it wishes to Scotland.

We have a supposedly pro Scotland SNP government, yet WHERE is their strategy to push Scottish culture and language, where is the drive to push ALL Scottish hisotory to the top of the agenda, and to ENSURE that Scotland national sporting teams can be seen on TV?

The current SNP seem to think it is ok to just drip on, business as usual. They have forgotten what England has done (and still is doing) to Scotland with brexit, they have forgotten the endless snears and insults against our country.

Today an unelected English Prime Minister will come to Scotland to wank about, and basically piss all over the people and government of Scotland. I do not doubt that Humza and his coteris of ‘green’ nobodies will happily greet the wee Tory sh*t. The Scottish Government should be furious. Like seriously angry as hell, but they won’t. They just won’t.

Their is an old saying, ‘if you are not attacking, you are defending’. Under Salmond we were attacking, but Sturgeon and Humza have just defended. No fight. Day after day, we are treated to headlines of ‘SNP outraged at Westminster interference’. Yet they do nothing. They have no political guile whatsoever. None.

It is a fight, and the SNP sit on their hands, pretending things are just OK.

Having said all that, and as pathetic as the Scottish government now is, those in London, the wee unelected tory sh*te coming up today, and all his English Tory and LABOUR chums who despise Scotland, they should take note. People in Scotland are sick of them, they despise them, and do not want them. I despise the unelected English colonial government.

Scotland really needs a champion right now. We really need a leader with fight and guile. Humza is not, nor ever will be that person. A good start, would be to get the Scotland football team on the telly.

FFS . Here we go with another dumb plan by NuSNP and Green loonies.

link to msn.com

Hey Dan

Brian DTT has taken a stab at answering the question, so you can stand down.

Make sure you read his post so you will know the answer if anybody asks again.

2 snacks is in Scotland to announce hundreds of new oil and gas licenses.

I bet Scotland gets fuck all from the deal.

I despise the Tories.

Dan

link to dailyrecord.co.uk