Wings Over Scotland

“Ever get the feeling you’ve been ad? Mugs.Fantastic as always Chris.

Nice touch with the wee photo from the 1930s on the bookshelf ?

Well, they are from the German branch of the Scottish diaspora; so they need to act uber Anglo-Saxon, or the Tories might deport them as illegal immigrants.

I like the photo on the bottom shelf, with a young Lizzie giving ‘that’ salute.

Another cracker Chris.

What do you suppose the gamekeeper & bug-eyed deer sees reflected on the tv screen.

The Queen doing a ‘Sharon Tate’?

I thought this was a bit of artwork by Chris Cairns – who knew the good reverend was so talented?

You can see the tip of what appears to be a pickelhaube helmet under the cover over Uncle Willie.

Thank-you John H. (The original one)

Paul McRae
The Rev is very talented he just has a different style. 🙂

Anyone got a link to the Rev’s masterpiece?

Nice one Chris, the Queen and her parasitic brood are working at unionism for their own benefit, not for the benefit of the Scots or the Welsh, or dare I say it even the English.

An interesting wee snippet is that not one royal has been to a Scottish or Welsh national football game, this century, but they’ve attended England’s national games.

Visit Edinburgh? I wonder they can put up with the wee

Ruby,

Is it your aim in life to try and exceed the total amount of posts in one day that dear old Cameron B Brodie achieved?

And is “Reply” really your second name?

So we have Mhairi Black in the National y’know the one that took a drag queen into a primary school and thought it appropriate to do so, even though the drag queen had very lurid pictures on a social media account.

Anyway Black is whining that Johnson is slowly privatising the NHS in England and that this will have a serious knock-on effect to the funding that comes to Scotland’s NHS.

Surely it must’ve dawned on Black and a whole host of other SNP MSPs/MPs that if Sturgeon the Betrayer of Scots and EU citizens had stopped trying to save England from Brexit, and focused on saving Scotland, its people, and their businesses from this rancid union via a indyref, she wouldn’t need to have penned her pointless comment.

But I suspect like many SNP MSPs/MPs Black already knows this and is just playing to the gallery with her meaningless column in the National.

Dave Somerville says:
3 July, 2021 at 10:48 am
Ruby,

Is it your aim in life to try and exceed the total amount of posts in one day that dear old Cameron B Brodie achieved?

And is “Reply” really your second name?

Reply

I’m being stalked again by “Dave the Mental Misogynistic Bully Boy”

Jeez oh the SNP really know how to milk a situation that they themselves have created, we have Mike Russell now going on about what will happen to EU citizens, how their expulsion might weaken Scotland home and abroad, and jeopardise the future of some of our fragile communities, damage Scottish businesses and cause a shortage of labour, Russell even has the chutzpah to mention that their expulsion might impoverish culture in Scotland.

Firstly on culture the SNP apart from promoting Gaelic, the SNP government appears to be quite content to allow Scotland’s history and culture to be superceded by that of Englands. As for the quandary that EU citizens now find themselves in, in Scotland, well Russell knows fine well like Black does, that Sturgeon the Betrayer of Scots and EU citizens, had a golden opportunity to ditch this putrid union and save us all including EU citizens from a lot of pain and suffering that’s coming down the Westminster pipeline, via rotten trade deals and the Internal Market Act to name but a few hammer blows that Scotland will suffer in the coming years at the hands of Westminster.

Russell, is just another mouthpiece for the now personality led cult and once independence minded SNP.

isn’t funny how the British monarchy are the British most of the time, until it comes to sporting events that involve England football team then they become silent but waving their St’Geroges flag bless them for being who they really are.

I honestly believe that Scotland journey to Independence (if it happens) could be less hassle if a referendum had been held to remove the queen as head of state before we become Independent.

The Great Satan aka the USA has left Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, after twenty-years of using it as a staging post to murder innocent Afghanis, and to allow US firms like Halliwell to make huge profits from exploiting the country’s natural resources.

Under the tenure of Hamid Karzai the US corporations had a free hand to plunder Afghanistan’s rare earth elements for twenty-years, oh and there was the search for Osama bin Laden, the US invoked Article Five of Nato’s charter to hunt him down, of course there’s no real evidence that he committed the 9/11 atrocities, and the Great Satan’s 6th fleet was already poised to enter Afghanistan weeks before the 9/11 attacks occured.

Who appointed Sturgeon as the Scots de-facto judge and jury on anything to do with Scotland sovereignty, this self appointed President of Scotland is openly standing in the way of the Scots being Independent and joining the EU. It time for the Murrells to be told straight along with there mob of friends like Mike Russell that the people are sovereign not the elite in Holyrood who actively have no idea what democracy is or they have forgotten it entirely, Scotland’s fight isn’t just Westminster its Holyrood as well. It’s time for the Scots to waken up before those who pretend to serves us are actually our destroyers who hope to destroy our history and our culture and our nations Name and will seek to give our land to our neighbor when we are trying to take it back.

C’mon Ukraine,

Do the World a favour,

The whole of Scotland is behind you, in your endeavour to defeat the most detested Nation on earth.

A 93rd minute winner will do me just fine.

If Mike Russell doesn’t like what’s happening to EU citizens (remember how we used to be such) perhaps he should speak to that blow hard Blackford. He of the “we will not allow Scotland to be dragged…” speech fame.

It would appear there are are more arseholes in the SNP than you’ll find on the sausage production line in a meat processing factory.

Superb Chris. All that’s missing is an effigy of our Dear Leader in her top pocket.

`Happy 50th Birthday Julian Assange
Born 3rd July 1971
Now being held without charge and tortured by the British government for exposing US and UK government criminality`

Happy birthday, to the man in the moon, and happy birthday to everyone I don’t know, that covers everybody I think

Heh Heh Heh

Republic of Scotland

The slow privatisation of the NHS has been going on for MANY years down south.
My understanding is that Richard Branson took over quite a few contracts but to help changeovers run smoothly, the staff kept their NHS uniforms.

It has been mentioned on this site a few times and of course there is the constant worry that American interests will be encouraged as part of any trade deal.

And with Covid powers and contracts being doled out to friends and family, it is even more rife.

Maybe someone can archive this article.

link to theguardian.com

Scott Finlayson @1.41pm.

Yes what a way to spend your 50th birthday locked up in a maximum security prison without charge for telling the truth. What must make it unbearable for Assange a good friend of Craig Murray, is that the prosecutions star witness has been found to have told a pack of lies.

link to stundin.is

Nevertheless this judge who appears to have an agenda, and is unwilling to set Assange free, simply because the great Satan aka the USA desperately wants him extradited to America, where he’ll be locked up tortured and he will eventually die or be killed to set an example for other journalists who might want to pursue reporting the Great Satan’s machinations via its foreign policy.

link to wikispooks.com

There’s more arseholes in the SNP than at an Old Firm game.

$100,000,000 per day ? of our birth right going dan saff to subsidize and modernize the cities of England,

`Goldman Sachs sees Brent prices averaging above $80 in the third quarter, with potential spikes “well above” that level as demand comes roaring back. JPMorgan, meanwhile, expects crude oil prices to “decisively” break into the $80s during the final three months of the year.

Analysts at Bank of America are even more bullish. They argue Brent prices could see $100 in the summer of next year. That would mark a return to triple digits for the first time since 2014.`

Its interesting to note that as England and Ukraine are about to play in the Euros, that there may be a competitive streak between the teams to win, that in reality England and Ukraine are about to embark on a an adventure that might have consequences for both parties.

As the teams get ready to kick-off on the pitch, in the not so distant future thing might be kicking-off in a more serious manner, as England, the MoD and Westminster have decided to beef up Ukraine’s military especially it navy in the Black sea.

I think we can all see where this is leading to and I’m reminded, of UK/USA proxy fought wars, such as the Iran, Iraq one, we know how that ended for Iraq. The idea of course is to goad Russia and place nukes as close to its borders as possible using the Ukrainian navy as a patsy. it usually doesn’t end well for the patsy.

“Contractual work will now begin to implement the following projects:

Missile sale and integration on new and in-service Ukrainian Navy patrol and airborne platforms, including a training and engineering support package.

The development and joint production of eight fast missile warships.

The creation of a new naval base on the Black Sea as the primary fleet base for Ukraine and a new base on the Sea of Azov.
Babcock will participate in the Ukrainian project to deliver a modern frigate capability.

A Government to Government sale of two refurbished Sandown class mine countermeasure vessels.”

link to gov.uk

I agree entirely with Republic of Scotland’s comment above, and would cite the recent incident involving the Royal Navy vessel and Russian forces in the Black Sea. It would not surprise me in the least if part of the military deal between England and the Ukraine involves a bribe or incentive to let England win tonight.

Wow.

link to euronews.com

I think it’s a bit of an understatement to call these statues ‘defaced’.

Must check diary for the dates of Canada’s “Royal Week”.

Hi ROS.

There are three things I remember from 1962.
(In order of importance for a 10-year old…)

1. The Chancellor, Selwyn Lloyd, increased the tax on sweets. We had a wee rhyme we would chant:
“Mr Selwyn Lloyd
is a naughty boy.”

2. “Telstar” by the Tornadoes got to #1.
link to youtube.com

3. The Cuban missile crisis.
I was a bit perturbed until it was sorted.
link to en.wikipedia.org

Anybody care to comment on the wonderful Engerland fans booing the wee greetin’ German lassie at Wembley against Germany?
The ‘Metro’ ( Daily Mail’owned) had some dolt saying that although that wasn’t great, England’s fans had wept plenty of tears etc. blah blah blah over the years.

The Engerland ‘supporters’ followed up with tweets that were beyond belief using foul slanderous language about a child and Germans in particular. They are a rotten, cowardly and despicable lot. I witnessed their cowardice at Wembley in 1981, when the English F.A. stopped us getting tickets. The so-called ‘firms’ ..Millwall , Chelsea etc saw their opportunity to strike back at the humiliation of their ground being levelled in 1977.

They came up with the ‘Sock a Jock’ slogan in those far off pre internet days. Canvassing the English club grounds to organise and give the Scots a doing. Needless to say, even though we had less support, the ‘nigels’ got a bloody deserved hiding. I well remember a large group howling for rescue from one section to the MET polis and getting hauled out unceremoniously. They were handed their sorry arses on a plate that day and we won1-0!
It made the Russians skelping of them in Marseille look like a tea party.

Their football support is scabrous and always causes problems because they are racist and entitled and anti-foreigners. To sing about ‘winning two wars’ to the Germans is a fucking joke. 1/5 of the British war dead is Scottish, twice our population’s ratio. That does not include Welsh and Irish war dead. The English won fuck all until our trait*rous leaders sold us out in 1707. The conquests of India, Canada etc. the Thin Red Line..all came about because of Scottish blood shed for ‘Mother England.

Yet we still have people in our country who will support England instead of their own teams. We invented modern football, the passing game, the Scottish ‘professors’ brought down to show them how in the 1800s, not them. Even their F.A. was founded by a Scotsman as were Millwall ( hee hee, don’t remind them!).

C’mon Ukraine.

Get right intae these Bastards.

Your essential weekend reading: Former SNP supporters express their disillusionment with progress.

‘Count Me Out’: link to wp.me
‘Covid and Justice’:link to wp.me

Mist001
Dunno about anyone else but I’ve just magically transformed into a Ukrainian this very minute.

Does that make you a loser?

Why don’t supporters of independence focus on having a working non incompetent Government, to show Unionists and undecideds that independence would be a good idea?

But how good does that make Scotland then? Scotland are the only team in this tourney so far, that England couldn’t beat.

@Lochside 8.18: “Yet we still have people in our country who will support England instead of their own teams.”

The most bizarre experience I had canvassing pre-referendum in Hamilton in 2014 (including meeting a couple of transvestites in their goonies, at separate addresses) was a local man in one of the Citrus Fruit areas of the town who answered the door in a sour face and an England top, three “lions” and all.

I say “local” because he answered my polite initial question, “Are you thinking of voting in the referendum, sir?” with a brusque response which revealed him to be Lanarkshire like myself.

I then attempted to mask my shock at his appearance by asking him jocularly, “Could you not get an Accies’strip?”

His wee phizog would have curdled milk as the door was slammed and I was left shaking my head at the strange psychosis of The Scottish Cringe.

Three hundred years of brainwashing and political chancers masquerading as liberators can have a terrible effect on the national psyche but the Norwegians managed to wake up from their “four-hundred-year sleep” eventually, although they had a free press and a country determined to fight on the relatively trivial issue of embassy representation (at least, on the face of it).

Twisted as corkscrews, these Scottish Unionists.

@Tinto Chiel (10.32) –

I don’t recall you ever disclosing details of encounters with transvestites in their goonies.

Are you sure they weren’t in their ganzies?

Were any of their protuberances clearly visible?

On the face of the scant evidence you have provided here I believe you may have misgendered one or both of those ladies/gentlemen, in which case, representations will have to be made to the appropriate authorities.

And I bid you goodnight sah!

Ukraine were knackered. The game against Sweden took a lot out of them. That said England did manage the game well. I don’t think the next game will be so easy.

Must001 8.01

….. ooops! Wrong again!

Mist001

“Dunno about anyone else but I’ve just magically transformed into a Ukrainian this very minute.”
—————–

A few days ago you were German, they lost. Now you’re Ukrainien, they lost.

Any chance you might be feeling English next week..? 😉

“We are red
We are white
We are Danish dynamite” 🙂

I won a few shillings, no point backing against england just cause your a bigot lol

Ukraine where knackered lol

They where kicking a bag o wind about , not working down a coal mine
Outplayed by the better team on the day, as simple as that, scottish people making excuses, and now instead of making them for themselves they actually start making them for other countries football teams

When will the madness end !

IMO England are a very good team and are certainly capable of going all the way. That said Ukraine were a spent force last night and there is no getting away from it. England can do it but they have two very strong teams to deal with if they want the prize. They can do it but it’s a funny old game. As a neutral I wish them well. May the best team win.

@ Davie Caledonia.

You dont half troll this site by talking some absolute pish.

If its no politcs or pseudo science , you are now onto the fitba. You sound like some baby boomer geriatric pining after the days of his lost glory of post war britishness.

England in footballing terms arent a bad side , but still in the shadow of the world greats of international football. I would say they are no where near as good as bobby robsons team of the early nineties.

Lets face it , its a sad day when the hardest game the english have played was against us , and here they are in the semi finals of a major tournament having played has beens and nobodies on the way except the mighty scotland.

This is yet again reminiscent of the world cup in 2018 , where yet again the tournament opened up and apart from one group game against belgium , it went to the semi finals before they played half decent opposition.

Remember they beat those footballing icons of world fitba costa rica 6 – 1 and were proclaimed world champions in the group stages?

Am beginning to hink someone at the english FA is throwing bungs around to those pillars of honesty and decency at UEFA and FIFA.

England might win the tournament , personally a couldnae gie a feck. I bet you are gutted though davie that your nation….that mythical country known as “Britain” , isnt playing.

Btw: just noticed it’s Independence Day (except for viewers in Scotland).

I’ve been having a wee think…. I know, I should know better by now.

However.

The Indy cause was rotted from within, quite cynically, with the use of the GenderWoke madness.

And that now presents a problem for them.

Males cheating women out of sporting places, in the Olympics!!!

That’s the biggest stage in the world.

We know that they wanted to slip their policies through on the quiet, without scrutiny. Doh!

Male Rapists in Womans’ Prisons. Wicked and Stupid. And no amount of sophistry and dancing on the head of a pin wins that argument round.

One would have to take a shed load of cocaine to get one’s brain into a gear that made even trying to do so, seem like a good idea.

And its all over the world, not just little old Scotland.

When Japan bombed Pearl Harbour, one of the Japanese Generals refused to celebrate. Instead he voiced concern, I fear we have just woken a sleeping giant.

An Independent Scotland is nothing without its women. And in fairness to the posters on this site, most of the guys here would be the first to highlight the contribution the wimmen have made and continue to make.

We have a chance to take back control of our movement, on an international stage, and do so by using one of the tools that was used against us.

Women Won’t Wheesht.

The grumpy one has a good article today.

link to grumpyscottishman.wordpress.com

Here’s just one quote from it [quoting Euan McColm (frothing unionist)]:-

“‘Nicola Sturgeon has promised her nationalist followers that a second independence referendum is imminent. Fired up by these promises, excited Scottish nationalists stay loyal to Sturgeon and keep the SNP in power at Holyrood. I wonder when the penny might drop. I wonder when they’ll realise they’re being taken for a long ride which won’t end at their preferred destination.”

@ sensible dave.

While the French and Germans judge their sporting prowess by the trophies they have won , its always amusing and flattering the englishman judges his against how far the mighty scotland have got while hanging on the edge of his seat at a scotsmans good opinion.

I was exploring the links at the grumpy one’s blog (see my 10:16am comment here) and found another, rather good, article. Worth a read…

link to duncanspence.blog

Some academics are beginning to realise that Sturgeon the Betrayer of Scots and EU citizens has no intentions of trying to free Scotland from this noxious union.

In time the penny will drop for some, but for others, the penny will never drop.

link to archive.is

Vladimir Putin has been invite to COP26 held in Glasgow later on this year, it will be the first time Putin and Johnson will have come face to face (If he attends) after the English staged Skripal event took place in Salisbury, which no one with an ounce sense actually believes happened.

Chinese premier Xi Jingping, has also been invited to the COP26 climate summit, but its thought he’ll wait and see if Putin decides to attend or not before making a decision whether to attend himself.

English, Welsh, Irish or any other nationality living or moving to Scotland should take a long hard look at what new laws and rules are changed or changing under the Tory and labour government down south for uk.
There is a major cockup with DVLA at the moment, it will help take motorists of the road, suggestions in the papers this morning that 70% of most motorists do not know their Highway Code will mean resitting of tests. This will take more motorists of the road,
BBC are being allowed the financially steal from OAPs under charges of imprisonments for license fee.
NHS is further down the line in privatisation than in Scotland as yet.
Women who were never on equal pay during their working life’s, have had their pensions stole by the back door.
Miners pensions are now being stolen,
Private pension pots are being got ready for the big steal.
Prescription charges for OAPs are to be changed.
Present Owners of their cars will become penalised under green agendas,
You will need a license to travel, eat out or go to theatre and eventually to shop or mingle in society, sorry meant to say passports, (Pass-port).
Elderly and those passing middle age are now and will become second class citizens.
Chosen sections of society only are be allowed freedom to protest, freedom to speak, and freedom of movement under emergency rules,
Campers and camper vans are possibly to be banned in future according to this mornings headlines will take more motorists of the roads.
Human rights altered after Brexit.
Many people now unemployed.
A New labour force will take your place under immigration.
Personal choice for saving will be overseen by goverment,
Under education your Children are to stop learning their A B Cs and start learning gender issues, climate agendas that mentally will confuse them, in later life.
No one will have the return to face to face contact with doctors, with shopping. with work colleagues.
Ownership of private property is to be eliminated through inheritance laws, taxes and regulations. Especially if you should you need looking after when you retire, the sale of you’re property, will fund this instead if government.
Under covid health emergency laws new restrictions on personal movement will become permanent and extended,………etc
Ridiculous expenditure on new and unwanted bridge.
Ridiculous expenditures of war machines,
News papers and broadcasting gone to the dogs.
Politicians that do not follow the rules imposed on us,
Where is Great Britain?
All we need to do to separate ourselves from the madness is get rid of the snp and go independent as a country,

RoS 11.00

You wrote: “Johnson will have come face to face (If he attends) after the English staged Skripal event took place in Salisbury, which no one with an ounce sense actually believes happened.”

Wow! Just wow! Wanting independence for Scotland is one thing, being an apologist for Putin is just something else. Wow.

Surely the great and the good within the YES Movement can organise a mass Rally to coincide with this COP26 Summit in Glasgow.

Why aren’t we hearing from bodies such as the ALBA Party about such gatherings?

Our problem is, we are just too fuckin nice.

The world is watching, you couldn’t pick a better time to spread the word about Scottish Independence.

Just tell me the time and the place and I for one will be there.

Meet in Freedom Sq, and then march to their summit through the streets of Glasgow.

A win win for the YES Movement.

Did anyone else hear Gary Innes’s show last night? He didn’t sound right at all. Thought it was just me, then saw others on Twitter remarking on it.

Gary Innes eventually cleared it up – he was trying to present the show in the style of a 1966 BBC presenter. He even replied to the tweets asking what on earth he was doing, with smiley emojis cause it was all ‘just a laugh’.

Aye, it is, if you’re an overgrown schoolboy who’s landed a plum production job in a regional radio station.

“So what I did then, I had the presenter of the traditional Scots music show imitate a BBC presenter from the year we won the World Cup!”

What a wheeze.

There is the loudest silence from the independence movement that hurts my ears.

Mist001

If you believe that the cause of Scottish Indy is advanced by defeat of the English football team then the biggest defeat and hence the biggest boost of the Indy cause is if England get gubbed in the finals.

It follows that thinking strategically, all Scots Indy supporters should be cheering England as far as the finals, then cheering for the other finalist on the day.

Bit of a waste of time pointing this out though. Most SNP “strategists” just voted SNP1 and SNP2, so I guess strategy is not their thing.

Dave @11.49am.

I’m not an apologist for Putin, I’m just stating the bleedin obvious Dave, that anyone with a brain cell knows.

@Tannadice Boy – Regarding the school that’s sinking; I received a letter from the new Education Minister via my MSP on Friday which I will relay to you. It said: ‘The Scottish Government take your allegations very seriously’…’The Council continue to monitor the building’…’There’s no evidence of subsidence but there is an area of ponding in the school playground.’ …’The contractor will carry-out remedial work to the filter trenches within the school and he will pay for that’…’The Council trust that this demonstrates that they continue to monitor the school.’

One of the opinions from an engineering expert dated 3rd October 2017 stated: ‘However, a couple of things are certain at this stage: the soil is settling and proper drainage has to be laid quickly.’ When he said ‘quickly’, he meant within weeks. Another said that ‘the subsidence that we are seeing should be expected’. I sent these opinions along with 40-odd other expert opinions to the then Education Minister and he told me to stop wasting his time. (It has always appeared to me that this is a chap who will do or say anything in order to save his own neck)

You wondered some time ago why the teachers and parents weren’t assisting me. I’ve wondered that too, many times, and I still ask myself what they find so complex about this and why they are so reticent? Can they not Google the words ‘subsidence’ and ‘settlement’ and look out of the window to see if it is actually happening to their school? People on here have done it just out of their own curiosity and so why can’t they do it? Do they not have a Union they can call upon for expert guidance?

The Engineering Institution that I contacted a couple of months ago has made a noticeable difference. My opinions come from the American Society of Civil Engineers and I reckon the UK Engineering Institutions will advise, but they won’t actually issue anything or carry-out checks. So, the only checks we have are the ASCE checks and it doesn’t look to me as if anyone is arguing with them. They said that the school contained a design fault and needed fixed immediately and that was in 2017 and it doesn’t look like we have anyone in the entire country disagreeing with that.

Not quite the benign situation that Holyrood would have us all believe then.

Anyway, The Scottish Government told me in their letter that they are ‘carrying out remedial work to the filter trenches’. That’s not true as there are no filter trenches, but we have heard from many expert engineers who have told us to get many of them installed as they are now a necessity. The problem is they need to be 5m deep and that is not easy and it will not be quick either. Will it work?…Most said it had a good chance of working, but not all of them said that. Some were fairly pessimistic and if they were pessimistic in 2017, they will be more pessimistic now.

So, it seems that I was right all along and that the Scottish Government and Aberdeen City Council were wrong. Does that surprise you?…and what happens to those at the Scottish Government and Aberdeen City Council who have lied to us all these years…nothing? Well, they’re all still there and, as I understand it, some have even been promoted and so ‘nothing’ is indeed the answer. I did ask the forensic MSP for Dumbarton some time ago what Holyrood stood for and she didn’t answer. On the basis of this example, what Holyrood stands for is the protection and self interest of its members and those vested interests around them.

I mentioned several weeks ago that the approach many overseas countries take when it is found that the public are being misled by officials or lawyers is to collect these folk at their homes in the early hours of the morning and take them to Mallaz Jail for a 6-year stretch. It’s something to think about isn’t it because it definitely works. You need a properly functioning judiciary of course and we are miles away from that here in Scotland. What we have here is a bunch of vapid £300/hour lawyers who’s only function is to deliver to Holyrood Ministers what they think they want without speaking to anyone.

So, the Deputy First Minster and his team of legal flunkies are due us all an apology…would you not agree? By the way, the first thing they do to folk when they arrive at Mallaz is shave off their hair and it appears to me that the Deputy First Minister has already done that and is therefore ‘good to go’.

I’ll let you know what I find-out tomorrow. This has been going-on for 7-years. Just have a think about that in the context of the Miami building collapse. I’m sure everyone ‘took these (Miami) allegations seriously’ too, but the building still collapsed. Anyway, work is now starting and that is good news.

into Chiel says:
4 July, 2021 at 11:29 am

…And I look at my grandchildren and fear for them.

I have some optimism, but not much.

I hope that people are beginning to see how barren and impoverished their local communities become once contracts are determined by price, and neither expertise or quality gets a look in. The people who thrive under those criteria are those who can manipulate a price… the very people who cannot thrive when expertise and quality are stipulated in the brief.

Sadly, there won’t be much indigenous light / cottage industry left at all by the time the lessons are learned, and local vernacular will become meaningless.

I can’t lie, it’s a big component of my desire to see Scottish Independence. Things do not have to be this way, but the window of opportunity to change our bleak destiny is closing.

Say for example Ravenscraig hadn’t gone, but was still hanging on, teetering on the brink, I still don’t think the prevailing business philosophies would have saved it. Independence however, and a new Scottish first philosophy almost certainly would have.

When I say Scottish “first” that might sound right wing, blood and soil stuff, but what I mean is just a philosophical Scotland first, the way Norway thought of Norwegian interests and Norwegian communities when developing it’s economic future.

‘When I say Scottish “first” that might sound right wing, blood and soil stuff, but what I mean is just a philosophical Scotland first, the way Norway thought of Norwegian interests and Norwegian communities when developing it’s economic future.’

I’ll tell you an ugly truth breeks:

We cannot count on anybody to discriminate in favour of we the Scots (actual Scots). We have to do it ourselves. Nobody else will. If we won’t, if we are too nice and accommodating, then its curtains for us.

It doesnt matter how much we think black lives matter. Or how Muslims deserve a place in all our communities and a mosque on every corner. It doesnt matter how many candles we light and fictional movies we watch about the holocaust. It doesn’t matter how innocently and naively we want to interpret corporate internationalism as being a global ‘Jock Tamsons bairns’ type of effort. Neither does it matter what we think the outcome of our democratic will should be.

Only the Scots will protect the Scots and keep our children with a nation, a heritage and some kind of security. No other people give a damn, and in fact some of them consider us worthy of elimination.

I am happily and proudly discriminatory in favor of my nation and let the slurs fly my way.

MaggieC.
I am not surprised they are leaving,
Throughout the history of war the generals always stayed safe in bunkers or left to be a safer distance from the blood toil and smell of death.
The foot soldiers were always ordered to stay and fight to save the country, or die trying,
It is no different here in Scotland,
The Scottish generals have turned tail.
We are left on our own in the trenches. And the generals will talk themselves silly and celebrate the needless war, others are simple following the fashion of Danial de Foe.
When we need good Scottish support from our leaders you will find them in the safety bunkers doing deals like ("Tractor" - Ed)s with the enemy, and joining ranks with the other side,
Foot Solders were always cannon fodder,
And yet without them no war has ever been won,
Perhaps some of the foot soldiers should become leaders and make the charge.

Does anybody seriously expect that the Brit State dominated as it is by Chicks with Dicks would beat the Russians in a War? Get Real!!!!!!

Oh and I am not going to fight for the right of any anti Indy sicko bloke to wear a frock and fanny pads.

Horrible news….

Maybe Rev Stu, Roddy, Jeggit, and all the other online bloggers except WGD should be sitting having a POW-wow with ALBA, to see if we can pull strands together and bring an official ALBA blog into existence.

I get my ALBA updates from Alex Salmond, but it strikes me an ALBA blog would be useful for disseminating information from ALBA to the public, and without stepping on peoples toes, try to fill in the voids being left for the YES community online.

I’m guessing Rev Stu will be central to this, given that cyber security needed will not be for entry level amateurs.

But can we do it?

It seems clear “our” bloggers are feeling isolated and exposed, and if we, the YES community, want them to keep going, we need start giving them more support, and insulating our good people from the toxic bog trolls making their lives a misery.

Is it possible we can arrange another day out in the beer garden for Rev Stu, Alex Salmond, Barrheadboy, Martin Keatings, Jo Cherry, and get some top level plotting done?

Pull strands together, like ALBA, like causes, like individuals, like formats, like blogs… and all the strands which are vulnerable and weak individually, turn themselves into rope.

Can we make an ALBA online hub that gives our bloggers some support and breathing space, and gives the YES community somewhere to hang out?

Special mention too for Voices for Independence… link to voices.scot

Breeks.
That is a good idea, I am surprised some of the names you have mentioned have not put that foot forward to bring every one back together,
An independence blog full of the mixed community of the yes movement is to craved for especially when all have no where to go if lockdowns rear it’s head again in future,
when the size of the YES marches is remembered, it can be seen there are thousands of us, but not commenting,
When the other half of Britain continues to show deterioration with biased laws and rules for some, but not for the politicians and royals it becomes more than obvious that those that rule are not working for the good of citizens including the Holyrude government.
It becomes a missing part of the jigsaw puzzle that is urgent.

Just thought id share something. The highest quality of commentary I can find on global politics and other issues in my opinion come from a couple of guys who call themselves The Duran. They along with the UK column offer a very broad look at things mainstream media often wont touch and have pretty insightful views.

The Duran:
link to youtube.com

Alexander Mercouris:
link to youtube.com

J.O.E.
As usual you react to anyone showing up your idiocies with personal abuse.
I don’t do that. I merely point out the facts.
The GRU operatives ADMITTED on Russian TV that they were in Salisbury on the day of the attacks. You have to be naive to the point of mania to believe they had nothing to do with it.
Why otherwise would they be there? I guess you believe their sightseeing story. You are daft enough.

Captain Yossarian 5:10pm
I will check in tomorrow. Irrespective of who wins the Euros it has been a great tournament. I have thoroughly enjoyed it.

Breeks that’s a great idea but after looking at the comments under Maggie c’s link I don’t know if anyone would actually bother, there are DEFINITELY 2 CAMPS now for indy, 1 camp of paypal Paul mindset where nikla can do no wrong and she is the Messiah where no dissent will be tolerated and anyone who dares object is denigrated , demonised and ostracised, some of the comments against Roddy a guy who was a SNP stalwart for 30 years and probably done more than most to further independence is unbelievable

Camp 2 of the WOS mindset where independence for Scotland is the one and only goal by real indy supporters ,no celebrity worshipping of deviants , no making excuses for FRAUD , no lying about dates for refs , no lying about draft legislation , no pursuing legislation against Scots wishes , no alienating 50%+ of the electorate with lunatic policies , no making lying excuses for inaction , no challenging WM against anything but continue to blame them as an excuse

Fireproofjim.

Read these two threads then you’ll have a better idea on the staged event.

link to craigmurray.org.uk

link to craigmurray.org.uk

This is intolerable, the UN has declared more resolutions with regards to the occupying force that is Israel than any other country, yet the systematic removal of the Palestinian people from their homes businesses and lands goes on.

“Palestinian owner of a butcher shop in Silwan is beaten senseless by israeli occupiers for not obeying orders to erase himself”

link to twitter.com

Apologies for the rant, above but honestly some people need to wake up and gain some common sense.
When old people are being treated as the new criminals,
When some dodgy blokes wish to pretend to be women, instead of finding their own niche.
When governments lock their people down, but not themselves.
When people are forced to give up the cars they paid for, without reimbursement due to green new deals.
When you’re body becomes government owned instead of sovereign and private,
When you’re children are being taught division of people at school instead of reading writing and arithmetic.
When the home you scrimped and saved for can be taken from you to pay for Home care, in which you’re taxes were supposed to pay for.
When you see masses of people newly unemployed due to the covid economy crash,
When you see the DVLA crumbling,
When you see Brexit happen and then ministers all going on holiday,
These are not flat earth neurotic headlines, but if any one here had suggested these things were about to happen in their near future way back in 2007 we might just have called them cranks, not the full shilling, the village idiot or some crank that was gullible when listening to outside news like the Duran or RT,
The new trend is everyone should have a covid passport if they have had a vaccine in 2021, But some here may be totally unaware that the Labour Party tried to do this in 2005 before covid and not associated to covid.

Breeks,

I think the bloggers can be aligned with a party such as Alba which also wants independence and as soon as possible, but it’s a mistake to get into bed with them.

Clearly with link to voices.scot I’m biased since I want to see more bloggers and less duplication of posts. Replicating Alba press releases would be rather sterile in comparison to the rather robust set of opinions that we have today.

Having a summit to consider a strategy would be self-defeating as everybody could be tarred with the same brush as just being an shill for Alba.

I’d rather we built the network of bloggers into some sort of antidote to the mainstream media. Taking a pro-Alba tack would put us right back into he-said, she/her-said hell, which is getting us nowhere.

Alba should definitely be blogging but it should do it itself on it’s own terms, have a good think about content – the message should be inherently positive – and keep the “grumpy, old men” at arms length. Apologies Bruce and certainly to Karen at The Wee Detour – I really wanted to use that phrase.

The Queen is actually Scottish as her mother was a Scot.

The fact that the independence movement is reduced to petty and pathetic bullshit like this when we have a known criminal squatting in Bute house and no one in a position of power or influence has the guts or moral fibre to do anything about it shows what an utter joke Scotland has become. The media, politicians, police, crown office and the courts all know what Nicola sturgeon has done and none of them do anything. Alex Salmond the supposed hero of the Scottish people has run away and will do precisely nothing. He’s a busted flush. Alba is a joke. Kenny McCaskill seems to be humiliating himself a different way every day now. All they’ve got is marching about waving flags and telling lies.

Scotland is not independent because the Scottish people have not been convinced of the merits of independence and said no. That is the uncomfortable truth for those of you who drone on about sovereignty. Get a grip of yourselves.

Untill Scotland turns into a normal functioning democracy and Nicola Sturgeon and the test of her corrupt cabal are behind bars we do not deserve to be independent as we clearly are incapable of having a country where the rule of law means anything. We are no better than Belarus, our media is corrupt and broken, many are little more than government propaganda officers, political opponents are silenced by the courts of jailed and the police and justice system are corrupted beyond repair and need cleared out. What an absolute joke scotland is.

The Queen Mother was actually only 1/32nd Scottish by blood. Queen Elizabeth has very little Scots ancestry, being only 1/64th Scottish on her mother’s side.

@James Che

I enjoyed your rant. Keep it up

We already have a national identity card, its called your national insurance number
I have my very first card with that number on it, and I have had it since I first started work, and that wasn’t fecking yesterday
I can tell you

Now, what the feck have I done with that zimmer frame !

Thomas dear boy

Old chap and all that, I do not mind you talking shite about me, but please at least have the brains to know when somebody is at the wind up
You seem ok, but not very smart in the ways of the world old boy, seems some scottish people are not doing so well in that dept, and you old boy, are certainly one of them

Just had to reply, a person that’s a nipple cannot go unanswered

Football betting is a mugs game ( but ok for a little interest )

I do not troll this site, I have better things to do with my time than hang about here all day , that poor chap thomas, he has not read all my post with his brain in a functioning state, if he had he would have noticed that, most of my posts having absolutely nothing to do with what the latest ranters are on about

As a scot and a betting man

I have made it my aim over the years to research what works and what doesn’t as far as betting is concerned, I and a few others treat it as a business, we are not gamblers
This is not me being big headed, I have helped people to be winners in the betting world, but only those that can keep a secret, if everybody new how to win all the time, then I would not have as many shillings as I have now

Do not even ask me the secret of betting and winning, cause you will be told feck all from me
I have been told on here that I am a clown etc etc etc, that kind of comment gives me a fit of the giggly whoopsies, retired at 40, never done a decent days work since, apart from renovating my house, on my own btw, built so many fences for neighbours and friends that I have lost count how many I have done over the years

Sorted out all their fecking electric problems, plumbing problems, anything to do with a house I have done it and for free

A clown, Not I dear boy, not I

Politics is a kind of game

Alex Salmond and others know how to play that game
I voted SNP 1 and 2 as Alex told us to

WHY

Cause its a means to and end, the SNP are eating themselves from the inside out, its just a matter of time before they destroy the party

Alba is the only alternative to achieve independence
underestimate Alex Salmond and others like him, for
awe that and awe that, its coming for awe that

Independence is coming
…………………………..

Just a matter of time !

link to archive.is

Everybody who supports Scottish Independence should back this initiative to the hilt.

It is YOUR sovereignty. Use it, or lose it.