Wings Over Scotland

…said he with tongue firmly in cheek…

It’s all right laughing but what will become of Dippy Dug.
Will need to live off her remnants of her Get me out of here money,
Sponge off her SNP girlfriends MSP money and please don’t let her
become an office manager somewhere or the company has had it.

Would you give her a job???

Chris a couple of weans depicted in cartoon under a double decker bus in the background would have been apt for this cretin

@Alf Baird –

Ha! Nice one.

Another Gray title is apt when it comes to Matheson’s excuses and the utterings of Nicola’s gang generally – ‘Unlikely Stories, Mostly’.

I think Matheson should be more worried about what his kids will do in terms of payback. Ha ha ha.

I’m surprised iPad man stood down, in this day and age there’s very little accountability left in politics.

Welcome back Chris – back of the net with that one.

The really farcical aspect of yr man’s ” it wiz the weans whit dunnit ” alibi is it would have been cheaper for them to fly to the location of the football match , pay to get in , and fly back to Morocco .

15k ” roaming charges ” ? aye , right . If you believe that Jackanory fable , I’ve got a credible SNP Independence strategy to sell you .

Top ‘toon , CC 🙂

“A Starmer gov might do what the Tories do with their ‘top people’ who are unable to get elected, bring them back to political ‘life’ in the HoL”
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My “vanished” post from yesterday claims, on good authority, that is precisely the script when Starmer gets elected. I assumed it was blocked because it might have legally compromised our host.

Still, the ascent, pre- 2011, of Hootsmon BTL poster FiFi La Bonbon to the ermine via SLab leadership in Holyrood and the John Smith gig should inspire those here rebuked by Rev Stuart recently.

We can all look forward, I hear, to “Professor” Baroness Dugdale contributing to that surefire cure for insomnia- a debate in the HoL – alongside her old boss, Lord Foo.

There is space in the political playground for a conservative party that is not Unionist. One that would be open to Scotland being independent if the people willed it.Few can really wish things to continue as they are.
It is an ongoing car crash of profligacy, secrecy, incompetence, weirdness, waste, and an endless squeeze on the population.

Robert Hughes @ 11:02am, you’re right, of course but then he wouldn’t have been able to claim it on expenses to begin with.

Does anyone else think this is the tribute act to the Tories in 1997?

That must be a BBC camera crew. Look at the viewfinder – it’s pointing at a blank wall!

A PARTING SHOT
truly amazed at the naiveté btl….England’s establishment is «nasty», only an equal nastiness can deal with it.
Scottish nationalism is seemingly all «piss and wind».
Your fight, not mine.
Adieu et bonne chance.

It is time to talk about something important.

“It was on the day that witnesses from Nicola Sturgeon’s private office were due to give evidence as to her own knowledge and involvement, that the Scottish Government suddenly conceded the case rather than have this evidence heard…”
(Craig Murray’s “Sworn Evidence on the Sturgeon Affair”, currently available on his website)

I’m slowly processing the statement as a whole, it’s been a busy week, but it struck me that the above contained new information and raised a few interesting questions. Correct me if I’m wrong;

1) we all knew the Government conceded the case at a time that was convenient for them, this had been suggested elsewhere previously, but doesn’t this give us a much more interesting and specific understanding of why they did so?

2) is this the first time we have heard of the existence of witnesses that could and were willing to implicate Sturgeon on the basis of her “knowledge and involvement” in the alleged conspiracy “designed to generate false accusations” against Salmond?

3) why haven’t we heard more about or from those witnesses? Couldn’t they have gone to a newspaper and made a lot of money with their bombshell information, what would stop them?

4) can we expect those witnesses to give evidence in any future court cases? And if or when they do, isn’t it going to be ‘game over’ for Sturgeon, the SNP, those directly involved, and those who must have known about this and said nothing or helped cover it up?

Hatuey @ 18.57

In answer to your question, I most certainly don’t believe you are wrong, Hatuey.
But then, this is Scotland, so I wouldn’t be holding my breath waiting for any of our MSM to express any particular interest in these events.

Sven, I get it, but there’s a massive scoop there for someone and they need not be working for any newspaper in Scotland.

@ Hatuey at 6:57 pm

You stated: “I’m slowly processing the statement as a whole, it’s been a busy week, but it struck me that the above contained new information and raised a few interesting questions.”

You’re referring to this article I linked to on the previous thread. But it isn’t *new information as the article and was originally published just over 3 years ago on January 27th 2021.
I only linked to it because it contained reference to Ian Blackford who was being mentioned in the btl discussion.

*Unless it has recently been updated.

link to craigmurray.org.uk

So there has been several years for aspects of the content of that article to be investigated and developed further, but it should come as no surprise that the MSM have little incentive to dig deeper.

Actually, Dan, I didn’t see or click your link, I saw people refer to it earlier in the week, though… the link to the article that I clicked is on Murray’s site on the right menu, quite near the top.

Regardless, that particular piece of information seems new to me. I probably read that statement when it was published a couple of years ago and was looking at things differently back then. Funny how time can change your mindset and perception of things.

It’s heartening to know that there were potentially witnesses who would have given evidence in this case. I’m surprised nobody has made more of that.

Was the article possibly published and removed for legal reasons? 90% of it is familiar and well known, but some of the detail seems new… maybe old age setting in.

Further to this post last week re. excess deaths.

link to wingsoverscotland.com

30 minute vid from Dr John Campbell speaking with a funeral director and what they are seeing.

link to youtube.com

Brilliant cartoon.
The art of great cartoonists is to capture those facial expressions and highlight them far more than any photograph would struggle to capture.

A classic example would be the look of total panic the great Chuck Jones managed to depict in Wile. E. Coyote’s eyes as he suddenly realises he has overrun the cliff and there is no terra firma under his feet. In real life you only ever see that look when a Tory politician suddenly realises he has inadvertently said something which was true.

Effijy

Hasn’t she been given some well stipend professorship?

WEF wants to kill us off. The excess deaths are a thing. Tell Sturgeon to jag up her own arm with the vaccine. She’s a Harry rag she wants to kill us all in biblical proportions.

May God have mercy on our souls.

I’m shitting myself. I want a CT scan. I suppose we’ll have to go private. How would you know if you had a blood clot?

I wonder if there’s some kind of blood test that would discover these white blood clots.

I believe everything in that video. I hope it’s shared far and white.

Sturgeon of course probably had a wee saline vaccine. Hilary Clinton is her handler. She’s only been following orders from Epstiens friends.

What a bunch of gullible twats people are.These ‘calamari clots’ form after death and are not previously unknown or even previously uncommon.

From link to factcheck.org

“If you look at postmortem clots just with the naked eye, they’re gelatinous and they’re rubbery. And if you listen to the embalmers on this documentary, that’s exactly how they’re describing these new, strange clots,” he said. “Postmortem clots typically take the shape of the blood vessel they’re in, and that’s exactly how these embalmers describe these newfangled clots that they’re finding. They’re pulling out these perfect casts of blood vessels.”

Other experts have come to the same conclusion when asked before by fact-checkers about such claims from funeral service providers, including Hirschman and O’Looney.

“The images look to me more like postmortem clots, mainly due to the color, the shape, and particularly because of the amount,” Nikolaus Klupp, an associate professor of forensic medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, told Health Feedback in September.

“The blood clots are from refrigeration. It happens to many bodies,” embalmer Monica Torres, of NXT Generation Mortuary Support, told AFP the same month. “It’s just that there were so many bodies to process, many of them sat in refrigeration for long durations so they got blood clots. It’s not a big deal and these people are trying to make it a thing.”

My thoughts of healing to the King at this time.

O/T Burns Supper

Alex Salmond gives a cracker of a speech, the gloves are off !

Alex is Coming !!!!!!!

….. It’s about time they grew a pair, found a voice and started holding Holyrood accountable, including the Unionists who have to serve their masters’ interests down south first, and Scotland last.

I agree, but English / Unionist style Conservatism is so toxic, it routinely “poisons the well” for the right of centre in Scotland.

I’m already falling into the trap myself by describing this as a Left vs Right phenomenon, and thereby adopting the blinkers Westminster Government likes us all to wear.

Scotland’s business orientated community needs to coalesce around something far more wholesome than a paler shade of blue UK Conservative ideology. To my knowledge, no such thing exists… something like a Common Weal trying to develop its own doctrines, but without a Union Jack in sight.

I wonder whether we are coming to the end of the modern insanity of dumbing down and squandering our traditional Trades and Crafts, and betraying our apprentices with anaemic and banal training regimes which leave them under skilled and greatly inferior to tradespeople of former generations.

It’s a tragedy to see what our nation was once capable of doing and compare it to now. We need “old school” competence and expertise to depose and replace “new school” amateurism and banal lack of competence.

Sadly, I fear we will need to witness the demise of NeoLiberalism greed and modern economics first, but I fear we have still got a long way to fall before that happens. Maybe it never will, and we will never again know what a Master Craftsperson is, nor witness the same pursuit of excellence, and love of excellence, the hunger for it, that once existed throughout Scotland.

Concoct a philosophy to resurrect our Traditional Trades and Artisans, and wean our nation off IKEA style garbage and the banal homogeneity of criminally overpriced modern housing, and you’d get my vote.

Breeks 5.44am:
It’s a tragedy to see what our nation was once capable of doing and compare it to now. We need “old school” competence and expertise to depose and replace “new school” amateurism and banal lack of competence.

So right, Breeks, and in many areas. It can’t just be down to chance or down to lack of money that so much creative expertise has become a thing of the past. Who benefits?

Is it all tied in with incompetence in politics where decisions are made and funding handed out by people with poor understanding of their remit? Is it tied in with lobbying and self-interest where funding doesn’t reach its target but is mysteriously diverted and swallowed up?

Is it down to neglect or deliberate destruction of the nation’s cultural heritage?

Whatever the reasons, there really isn’t time to lose because once the the chain of skill and practical knowledge is broken, the expertise is lost.

Your conclusion hits it on the head. It’s a job for whoever takes the reins politically, before or after independence. But it’s also a job at grassroots, that we don’t stand idly by. The knowledge is there (Common Weal) but it needs political will, determination and integrity and we need to demand these of our politicians.

If it’s a matter of controlling market forces and rooting out this parasitical self-interest that seems to be everywhere, then the right people have to be running the show.

So much that’s good has come out of the pursuit of excellence, and love of excellence, the hunger for it, that once existed throughout Scotland. To breathe new life into it requires us to see what’s going on, recognise the establishment’s tricks and do something about it.

@stoker
You are mistaking me for someone else. Some one who gives a fuck what you think.

link to wingsoverscotland.com

This is the most interesting post in the whole thread.
However it is ‘fucking playground shit’ / ‘bickering’

Also there is an over 2 hour gap between posts on this Sunday morning.

Just sayin’

@James Barr Gardener 1:02am
You have no seen the last of my blue bonnet and me. Another mauling in the Sundays for the SNP. Reminds me of people in coercive and controlling relationships. Some people bale early on whilst others lose everything because they continue in the relationship to the bitter end. If you still think the SNP have your interests at heart you are in the latter category.

Actually scrub my question above. None of my business. Was reading the twitter feed and my nosiness got the better of me.

ps if you can delete it please do.

link to wingsoverscotland.com

This is the most confusing post in the whole thread.
Also ‘fuckin’ playground shit’ which could potentially lead to a lot of bickering.

Is Stuart Campbell a Zionist or isn’t he.

Also is he a ‘fluffer for Vlad?’

Discuss.

Posts cannot be scrubbed. No edit facility.

Hatuey and Hughes, I repeat my previous statement

“what a bunch of gullible twats people are”

Are you also flerfers hot on chemtrails and climate change denial?

I for one am sick of tinfoilers hijacking this and other indy discusdion fora.

@ Mark Beggan

WOOOoooo! Get you, you can swear, aren’t you a hard c@nt?
LMFAO at the failure. LOL!

That’s a great post from Bob at 10:01.

And it’s a rare day indeed when I can write that.

I am reminded of the old saw about how people go mad in herds, but return individually to sanity.

I don’t agree with his conclusions though. Sure, the untested vaccines are knocking a few people off their perches (isn’t there a class action lawsuit about that going on in Germany?), but I believe the excess mortality figures are just the delayed spike in untreated fatal diseases working its way through the population.

During the Covid Years, our wonderful NHS gave up on the usual killers such as cancer, heart disease, etc. And our wonderful governments (Nicla to the fore, Yay), ensured much of the population was forced into unhealthy patterns of physical, mental and social behaviour.

Colour me surprised – that has detrimentally affected our collective health.

We still have a little way to go to get the collective insanity fully reversed at the individual level though. When everybody finally acknowledges that the Covid Spreaders cooked it up in a lab, carelessly leaked it, selfishly hushed it up, then criminally encouraged its spread throughout the world – then we will finally be getting somewhere.

Cos then we will finally be able to allocate the blame where it belongs, realise just what the world was dealing with and still is dealing with, and collectively wake the feck up.

In this country, we collectively twisted our knickers over BoJo knocking back a glass of wine.

Over in Covid Spreading Central, they unleashed their home made virus on the world, killed millions, impoverished hundreds of millions and stung the entire world for trillions of dollars worth of damages.

And nae cunt will even say “boo” to them.

Nakahara Report regarding the jab and heart function
link to pubs.rsna.org

check out bitchute –
DR CHRIS SHOEMAKER, CANADA & DR PAUL OOSTERHUIS – WHY YOUR HEART WORKS 46% FASTER AFTER THE JABS

link to wingsoverscotland.com

This one from Scotsrenewables is

Fuckin’ playground shit, bickering & name calling.

Just sayin’

Genocide John and Scotsrenewables are founder members of Wishfact.org

link to wingsoverscotland.com

More fuckin’ playground shit & bickering.

It just goes on and on.

My suggestion is those who are indulging (that’s almost everyone) in ‘fuckin’ playground shit & bickering’ should not be censored If you are going to punish posters for this ‘FPS & B’ then everyone should be censored and not just one person singled out for punishment. ie ME!

Just sayin’

Looking forward to the rules being changed so I can get back to the good old ‘fuckin playground shit’ ‘bitchin’ and ‘bickering’.

Let he who is without sin/the hypocrits cast the first stone.

I’m ready for you!

@stoker
Ok mate that’s taking this too far. My anger is focused at the SNP not you, not anyone here agree or disagree Whatever. IAM Scottish born and bred.

I can trace my ancestors back 200 years does that mean I can join the SS?

…Well MediaBias/FactCheck rates it highly on telling the truth.

The tragedy is, irrespective of whether the Establishment “played it straight” with COVID, public confidence in vaccinations, that is, vaccination protocols which nearly eradicated, or actually eradicated Smallpox, Diphtheria, Measels, Mumps, Rubella etc, have now become mistrusted and large parts of the population are now deeply cynical about vaccinations in general, and the medical industry which profits so much from making them.

It isn’t just medicine. I’m from a generation whose parents and grandparents were directly affected by World Wars, Home defence, and the defeat of “Evil”. These people, myself included, grew up with tremendous empathy for those most afflicted, whether those grieving lost relatives, sweethearts who remained spinsters forever, or those disfigured or maimed by injury or amputation.

My respect for Remembrance Day and wearing a poppy was a given. Yet after two, perhaps three decades of “British” warmongering and political chicanery, and our brave veterans misused as bully boys to force Western supremacy upon others, the British Establishment has utterly destroyed public faith in Remembrance Day, and seen it replaced with cynicism and in many places, outright contempt.

Worse in Scotland, because “their” poppy became tacit approval for Bulldog Britain’s nefarious obliteration of far away governments on trumped up evidence. “Lest we forget” the things we’re too ashamed to admit eh? Keep your poppy.

The same has happened to our News Media. Two or three decades caught shilling for the warmongering class or distorting the truth until it fitted the biased narrative, and suddenly public confidence in news is in a tailspin too.

Is nothing sacred to this rancid Establishment with a voracious appetite to consume all that is good and reputable in the world, and spit it out tainted, corrupted, discredited and reviled?

Stop it with all these amateurish quangos, ombudsmen and toothless inquiries, and bring back the days of professionalism, integrity, and career ending stigma for the rogues and parasites who once upon a time would have found themselves tarred and feathered, or hung from the battlements in gibbets for their misdeeds and t(reachery).

They’ve destroyed our Trades, our heavy Industries, our Education, our Health Service, our Local Authorities, our Public Utilities, our Transport, our Fishing, our markets in Europe… yet the BBC is there to convince us we did this to ourselves.

What’s that? The good “Sir” won’t resign eh? Then fetch the Messenger at Arms and a blacksmith with some shackles… Nobody is untouchable or above the law.

ScotRen, when I first read your post with the reference to factcheck.org, I actually thought it was intended as sarcasm. It works as sarcasm. Then I remembered your unswerving support for the SNP and Nicola and I realised you were serious.

Note, unlike the cheap insults your comments rely on, my response here is worded in entirely reasonable and factual terms. And, yet, I can’t think of saying anything worse than the above to anyone in Scotland today — are you still with Nicola?

Interesting that you appear when we start discussing the conspiracy against Salmond. Oh, is that another conspiracy theory?

Folks, there’s the perfect example up thread of something you need to be aware of. Just because someone is trying to get the personal details off someone on line, never, ever, assume
that person asking is using their own real name.

If Stuart Campbell doesn’t have a problem with it, and he knows who we all are, then it’s eff-all to do with anyone else. If they don’t like it, nobody is keeping them here. Don’t fall for their pressure and bully tactics. Stay aware!

Just ask yourself when did they show you their identification documents? It’s a well known tactic of nonces and scammers. Pseudonyms are allowed here on WOS so take note of the same
small group constantly bringing up this issue.

The same group who constantly badmouth WOS and its contributors at every opportunity. And there’s no guarantee they’re using their real names either.

I’m not sure about all this respect for our brave veterans.
Cheering on our boys when they return from killing people.

Without the soldiers there would be no wars. Our boys should stop volunteering and we should stop cheering when they return.

Then of course there would be UK National Service which might serve to waken people the fuck up!

I think it’s unlikely that we will solve the mysterious origins of coronavirus on this forum today when scientists all over the world have failed to explain it. There’s also the issue of trust which in a way is a much bigger problem. I don’t know about everybody else, but if I find it hard to trust a thing “experts” say about anything these days.

We live in odd times when those who rely on things like The Daily Mail and the Bible for “information” are the only ones that are confident in their opinions and sources.

It feels like the lunatics haven’t took over the asylum, but they haven’t. The rest of just stopped giving a fuck about asylum management. Who cares about asylums in a world that has gone mad?

So, yeah, it was all China’s fault.

My response is “whatever” with a smile.

Stoker has been drawn into the ‘fuckin playground shit’ with Mark Beggan.

I fully understand how that happens. Folk say don’t feed the ‘troll’/ don’t take the bait but that is easier said than done.

One thing I have to say about the ‘flame-baiters’ (wind up merchants) is they are very successful in what they do.

As for using your real name that is something Andy Ellis believes we all should be doing. Aye right!
I’m surprised that Andy Ellis is still advocating use of real names in view of the fact he claimed his daughter was being stalked. He was the one who gave out information about his daughter. Not a sensible move when one is making a lot of enemies online. Better to be an anonymous at least for the sake of your children.

Or a million former NI citizens?

Would that be the ones leaving N.Ireland because it would no longer be British? Your actual hard core BritNat bigots?

You should rephrase your options.

A million of Yousaf’s preferred cohort? – potentially Independence supporters

Or a million former NI citizens? – Definitely not Independence supporters.

Woo Hoo. More Orange walks and huge fires made of palettes.

Well, it looks like the old ‘brazen it out until they forget about you, then disgustingly continue on as usual’ tactic isn’t working as well as it used to. Such a shame. The state of Scottish politics right now is dire, utterly terminal and depressing. Where the Hell the country is going go from now, except even further downwards, is anybody’s guess.

“The same has happened to our News Media. Two or three decades caught shilling for the warmongering class or distorting the truth until it fitted the biased narrative, and suddenly public confidence in news is in a tailspin too.”

Breeks.

Its only going to get worse not better, by that I mean the clamp down on alternative news or opinions will dealt with harshly.

Look at Assange who faces his final court appearance this month on whether or not he’ll be extradited to the USA, where he’ll suffer a short painful death.

Assange’s crimes? telling the truth, his Wikileaks site has NEVER posted lies when it posted info, can we say that about the current global MSM? I say no.

Oh and there’s this, hang onto your hats.

link to legislation.gov.uk

“Welcome to the UK where it’s now official government policy that you CAN’T publish “misinformation”, but The Guardian, the BBC, Disney and Netflix CAN…

Yes, it’s true – the recently signed “Online Safety Act” brands the publication of “false information” a criminal offense punishable by up to a year in prison…

…unless you’re an MSM outlet, when it’s totally fine

Think even the corrupt & bloated criminal class that rules over us would never dare be that blatant?

Take a look at section 179 making it illegal to publish false information with intent to cause harm:

Section 179 – False communications offence

30. A person commits the false communications offence if they send a message conveying information that they know to be false, and at the time of sending it they intend the message to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience (i.e. someone who could reasonably be foreseen to encounter the message or its content) and they have no reasonable excuse for sending the message.

31. This offence is intended to replace the offence in section 1(a)(iii) of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and (for England, Wales and Northern Ireland) the offence in section 127(2)(a) and (b) of the Communications Act 2003, which have been repealed by section 189 of the Act.

32. If several or many people are the “likely audience” then it is not necessary that the person intended to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to any of them in particular (or to all of them).

33. Proceedings for the false communications offence may be brought within 6 months of sufficient evidence in the opinion of the prosecutor, and after no more than 3 years after an offence has been committed.

34. This offence extends to England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and is devolved. It is a summary only offence, which carries a maximum penalty of 51 weeks imprisonment or a fine (or both).

…and then look at section 180, which exempts all MSM outlets from this new law:

Section 180 – Exemptions from offences under section 179

35. This section sets out exemptions for the false communications offence, including an exemption for recognised news publishers and exemptions for holders of broadcast or multiplex licences, and providers of an on-demand programming service. This section also provides that the offence cannot be committed in connection with the showing of a film made for cinema to members of the public.

Welcome to the modern definition of “freedom of speech”, where the MSM are directly and explicitly permitted to “knowingly publish false information with intent to cause non-trivial harm”, and you can be sent to jail for a year for calling out their lies.

Oh, and it looks like our friends across the pond might not be far behind. The Big Tech Senate hearings started yesterday, and social media executives are already throwing their support behind the new “Kids Online Safety Act”.

With the EU’s own Digital Services Act coming into force later this month, and all the focus on “misinformation and disinformation” at Davos two weeks ago, we can see the real crackdown on internet free speech is about to kick into gear.”

Breeks.
11:35 am.

Hear hear.
Well spoken,…it is not us, the people that are failing, it is the leaders who are not leading that should not be in positions of government they cannot manage in the job description, a bad workman always blames his tool, (in both sense)

They are often there by whom they know, or by internal party selections without a peoples or citizens outside vote.
That is not a great display of democracy nor does it advertise very well the democracy of the western world Britain in particular, when it states it will push and enforce this democracy down the throats by war if necessary on other Countries.
Politicians in glass houses should never throw the first stone,

Turabin.

All you need to know about the character of that odious shit Gray can be found here.

link to archive.is

TURABDIN
Ignored
says:
10 February, 2024 at 6:30 pm

A PARTING SHOT
truly amazed at the naiveté btl….England’s establishment is «nasty», only an equal nastiness can deal with it.
Scottish nationalism is seemingly all «piss and wind».
Your fight, not mine.
Adieu et bonne chance.

I think this post might have been lost in translation.

“There are over 12,000 American troops permanently stationed in England—spread across 11 so-called “RAF” sites.

UK government is refusing to say if the Americans are using their English bases to transfer weapons to Israel for use in the Gaza genocide.”

link to nitter.cz

Recently Washington has decided to redeploy nukes in England again after an absence of them for fifteen years.

RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk is the chosen base.

O/T: I have put the details of Don Staniford’s crowdfunder on here twice already because I reckon that his defence against MOWI and others is something that all Yessers would agree is on behalf of all of us. Fish farms are damaging OUR environment [I know this from the one on my doorstep] and are cruel to the creatures encaged. And large companies trying to prevent public scrutiny is an attack on OUR freedoms.

crowdjustice.com/case/stop-mowi-privatising-public-waters-in-scotland/

8 days left and £20,045 is still needed. The crowdfunder will ONLY pay out if the target of £25,000 is reached.

No day of rest for me as just spent a couple of hours having to sort out more issues caused by substandard work by folk that should really know a whole lot better.

Neighbour’s car got new discs and pads fitted less than 6 months ago. Garage couldn’t be arsed removing the corrosion build under the stainless steel anti-squeal / wear shims on the caliper carrier that support the brake pads, so new pads seized up quickly in the carrier causing brakes to bind and pads to wear down excessively.
So stripped off both rear calipers with electric motors in them to actuate the handbrake… (guessing humans have become so fucking weak they can’t even muster the strength to pull up a cable operated handbrake lever), then removed all the corrosion build up and reassembled everything properly.
Forgot to mention the struggle to get the wheels off because the arseholes had clearly used a buzz gun to tighten studs when the wheels were off previously, had to get out my 3/4 inch drive ratchet as was going to break my 1/2 inch kit. Studs were also corroded and dry not having been properly cleaned up last time they were off, so I did that too.
All this was brought about because the car had had new rear wishbones fitted, but two garages and an alignment centre could not get the rear suspension geometry adjusted to factory specs and it was eating the inside edge off the rear tyres.
So I said I would have a look and immediately noted the rear camber on both sides was near 3 deg neg when it should be 1 deg neg, and that being so far out in the camber setting meant there was no way the rear toe setting would ever be able to adjust into an acceptable range.
None of the three business had even tried to adjust the top camber adjustment as there was no witness marks of a spanner or socket being on any of those bolts and nuts.

#ZombieNation

Breeks there’s also this to contend with.

Britain’s 2019 Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act, which Craig Murray knows about, he was detained questioned (you MUST answer all questions) and had his electronic devices taken from him, I think Mr Murray is currently out of the UK as he fears trumped up terrorism charges will find their way to him.

Also Max Blumenthal a respected journalist suffered the same fate on entering the UK.

Then there’s the National Security Act.

You can read about both on here.

link to thegrayzone.com

Dan 2:39

Good post.

If that took you 2 hours, then it might have taken the garage the same. Labour is running near £100 per hour in some places, and then there’s VAT at 20%.

It must be the case that some garages, if they quote to do a “proper job”, never get the work. So cutting corners is the only way to stay in business.

Callipers with motors in is a new one for me. I always assumed an electric handbrake used a motor to wind on a conventional handbrake mechanism. So what you describe is about as fecking daft as the ginormous light clusters with integrated LEDs that have to be thrown away when an LED fails. Replacement cost several hundred pounds for what used to require just the replacement of a blown bulb.

The Crown “extended to Scotland” in 1688 under the “parliament of Englands Coronation Act” prior to the fallacious treaty of union?
Did not make it a legal act in Scotland.
That was the crown Act of Englands parliament.

The Act of Settlement secures the protest-line to the throne of England.

James Che @2.31pm.

James, there’s no point in looking towards Europe to push our case to dissolve this union even though we are already de facto independent due to returning a majority of indy minded MPs to Westminster on a regular basis now.

The EU mask has slipped Gaza has shown that, and there’s no point in looking across the pond to the USA for help either, Washington wants us to remain under Westminster’s control to keep us in Nato and to secure the North sea Arc of defence that protects the USA, don’t go thinking that if Trump win the next US POTUS elections that he’ll step in and help us because of his Scottish roots that’s non-starter.

As Craig Murray has stated in his articles on Scotland ditching the union realpolitik is at play here.

“But UK domestic law is entirely irrelevant. The Kosovo Opinion of the International Court of Justice makes crystal clear that the domestic law of the state being seceded from, is not the determining factor as to whether a secession is illegal.

Whereas the reliance by the UK Supreme Court on the criteria of the Federal Court of Canada in the Quebec judgment, over fifty years old and superseded by the cold hard fact of over 23 non-colonial secessions since, is simply laughable.

But while the right of self-determination of peoples in international law is crucial in the case of Scotland, and while Scotland undoubtedly qualifies as a “people” because it is a long established historic nation with its own legal system, culture and institutions, there is one overwhelmingly important criterion for recognition grounded in pure realpolitik.

It was long accepted as the only criterion for recognition that a state had factual, practical control of its own territory. That position has become softened by more principled considerations since the second world war, but the actual control of the territory claimed remains the most important factor in gaining international recognition.

Why did Catalonia fail where Slovenia, Kosovo and the Baltic states succeeded?

Because realpolitik rules in practice, and the Slovenians, Balts and Kosovans had obtained actual control on the ground of the land they claimed. The Catalans had not.”

Salvo etc can show that we are indeed sovereign in Scotland, but realpolitik also shows that we’ll need to take our independence.

“Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK…”

When did that ever mean a thing? The ANC and Nelson Mandela were proscribed and called terrorists by the UK government. Sinn Fein were too, if I remember correctly, certainly in NI they were. In both cases they ended up being the Government.

For your own sake, stop doffing your cap at the British State. This isn’t the lodge, Mr Main.

John main at 3.32

Gosh turn down your union clack

When did it become illegal to disagree with london. If they pass a law saying it is illegal to be scottish should we really comply.

What about a law banning rain or saying Rwanda is safe. What about just gassing boat people. Yes as long as london says it is so.

Grow up

This one is for Geri.

Geri must be out giving her pup a good run.

Conversion Therapy Prohibition (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Bill [HL]

Parliament TV

link to parliamentlive.tv

Transcript:
link to hansard.parliament.uk

Lord Forsyth believes the world has gone mad.

Saw the name Lord Forsyth and though of this from way back in 2012.

Tuesday 18 December 2012
Michael Forsyth! This is what he said during the IndyRef Debate vis a vis EU membershp.

Michael Forsyth to Michael Moore
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean: You said that you wanted the debate to be as informed as possible. One of the things that Mr Swinney said to us last week was that they had a difficulty in establishing what the position would be vis-a-vis having to apply for membership of Europe or whether they would be allowed to remain in Europe because the Commission would only talk to Governments, and that the British Government were not prepared to engage on this issue. I find it a bit puzzling how you can reconcile saying, “We are not prepared to talk to the Commission as a Government about what the consequences would be”, with saying at the same time, “We want to have a fully informed debate”. Does Mr Swinney not have a point there?

Also video:
link to parliamentlive.tv

So much to say about all that. Right at the beginning Michael Moore says

If I were to claim that this is perhaps the biggest decision facing Scotland in 300 years you might be sympathetic to that idea.

What about the decision to actually join the Union? That was pretty major.

NB UK Gov not prepared to talk to the EC.

Republicofscotland @ 3:38 pm

“realpolitik also shows that we’ll need to take our independence”

Indeed RoS, national liberation is for sure never going to be handed to us on a plate by our oppressor.

Holding onto that reality, the Eva Comrie/Alba/Angus Brendan MacNeil proposal to collapse the colonial administration at Holyrood, hold a Scottish plebiscite election, secure a majority of seats and votes and then declare independence, still represents arguably the the most rapid route to independence.

I’m sure that would enthuse the independence movement somewhat. Sae whit aboot hit, Humza? Are ye for us or agin us? Leeberation noo, afore England taks us Scots intae mair o thair colonial wars.

link to grousebeater.wordpress.com

Well, I can’t see past Ireland winning the Rugby Six Nations tournament this year, Ireland is currently beating the whipping boys of the Six Nations tourney Italy.

Incidentally when is a try not a try, when its a ceasefire supporting nation Scotland (Scottish government) playing against a non-ceasefire supporting nation (French Government) France.

Hats & Shug

RoS at 3:38 claiming that “realpolitik rules”.

What I’m seeing are the facts as I laid them out in my previous post. The realpolitik.

What you’re both seeing is the imaginary world you would much prefer. But that’s only in yer heids.

For people who would no doubt claim to be Sovereign Scots, you ain’t half been colonised by Hollywood, where they tell tales of small but likeable groups winning mighty battles against overwhelming odds. Star Wars as a code for living I suppose.

In realpolitik, CM is overseas and has posted in support of a proscribed terrorist organisation. He now faces the reality of having to get through UK immigration, where he will rightly have to explain himself.

I say “rightly” because even though I believe him to be a man of peace, the law should apply to all. I want that law applied universally because I don’t want another Manchester Arena scenario, and the people CM supports have a solid track record of slaughtering daft, dancing kids.

Maybes you both want to claim you live your lives as free Scots, obeying only those rules, laws and regulations that accord with your own consciences, sympathies, and exquisitely fine tuned senses of fairness and justness.

I say that’s BS on stilts.

@ Ruby

It’s water under the bridge now but Re. Scotland and EU question.
There was this post about article 48 in response to a previous post by mr thms.

link to wingsoverscotland.com

Re. Self selecting sterilisation of folk to align with their trans identity. It certainly clears a certain type out of the gene pool.
Wish more folk identified as litter pickers though, but on the plus side at least I got some exercise in cycling 6 miles during two trips to the river to clean up the riverbank and field of rubbish deposited in the floods.
Maybe I can bill everyone upstream for my time and effort clearing their flotsam and jetsam.

Seeing as it hasn’t been mentioned today as far as I can tell – Badger

**especially amongst you people**

Oops!

That was supposed to say YOUNG people LOLZ!

Sounds good to me Alf, Yousaf will NEVER play along with it…

Seems to me there is very little ground between collapsing a colonial Holyrood and formally impeaching it.

The former would need Yousaf’s cooperation, and a majority of MSP’s. The latter not so much. In between there’s the third option of a Colonial Holyrood Administration being threatened with impeachment.

John main, eagerly speaking of Craig Murray being arrested: “where he will rightly have to explain himself.”

Fuck off, hunny-bunch, you’re a cowardly knuckle-dragging wanker for that.

And how dumb you are is to think that’s acceptable on here.

Time for the fuckwit to go.

Hey Hats.

You’re “cool” with people who carry out the unprovoked slaughter of innocents.

I’m not.

If Rev Stu wishes to announce that this site is to be reserved only for those people who are “cool” with the unprovoked slaughter of innocents, then he really should clarify that for us.

If the wider Scottish Indy movement wishes to get onside with the unprovoked slaughter of innocents, then it’s free to do so too.

So far, CM is the only Indy blogger I know of who has written of his support for Hamas. If there are others, let me know.

I’m thinking this stuff is important, Hats. I’ve never really seen the connection between Scotland and Gaza, Indy and Hamas, but if it’s real, and Indy supporters truly believe that the indiscriminate slaughter of several hundred civilians, who had no connection whatsoever with their government or security services, including 70+ people of different nationalities even, is “justified”, then I’m thinking we Sovereign Scots need to be crystal clear about this.

Cos I’m not cool with that at all.

For the first time ever I comment on things happening outside the UK.
Does anyone think that Israel should immediately halt their campaign in Gaza against the supposed good guys? You know, the ones who lobbed 5,000+ missiles into Israel and took hundreds of hostages.
If they did, would this give the supposed good guys time to regroup, re-arm and start the whole slaughter again. There will be plenty of Countries willing to give the good guys whatever weapons they need.
As can be heard in every school playground, every day ‘He started it but ah’ll feenish it’.
The cowards in Hammas need to be obliterated but it will never happen and the carnage will continue for years until BOTH sides come to some agreement. Do either of them really want to? Lots of people make lots of money out of wars. None of these people do the actual fighting but they do promote it. I wonder why?

Hatuey
Ignored
says:
11 February, 2024 at 5:30 pm

John main, eagerly speaking of Craig Murray being arrested: “where he will rightly have to explain himself.”

Fuck off, hunny-bunch, you’re a cowardly knuckle-dragging wanker for that.

And how dumb you are is to think that’s acceptable on here.

Time for the fuckwit to go.

More ‘fuckin’ playground shit, bickering & name calling’ from the child called Hatuey.

Explain yourself Hatuey.

@ Ruby

Aye, t’would be braw if more folk self-identified as being pretty much anything more useful and productive to our society than just the focus on some kind of the myriad gender crusader.
I grew up when you either had a bmx or skateboard to ride, an occasional nooky badge may have been acquired on the odd occasion kissy catchy was the chosen game in the school playground, but most energy was expended mastering how to wheelie or varial kickflip (many other tricks are available).
Mr Ben was on the telly and he could be anything he wanted and had quite the adventures in each episode.
Reckon a modern day equivalent might inspire folk to be brave and stunning litter pickers as they grub aboot along oor countryside picking up the seemingly endless supply of Red Bull and Monster “energy” drink tins. The episode could be called The Aluminum Millionaire as the cash rolled in for weighing in empty drink tins at the local scrap dealers.
TBH Red Bull and Monster really need to up their game and increase the the amount of sugar in those drinks, because it appears that 13 teaspoonfuls per tin isn’t sufficient to give the brain melted twats that drink that pish enough energy to put the fucking tin in a bin…

I’ll give litter picking at Pride marches a miss thanks, wouldn’t want to bend over to pick up a piece of litter and get WAY more than I bargained for from some deviant furry.
Hmm, thinking about that, maybe that’s why the Pride marchers drop so much litter…

@Chas 6:15

I’ll post this again cos I think it’s important.

Hamas has vowed to exterminate Israel.

Israel has vowed to exterminate Hamas.

If either side unilaterally stops fighting, then it gets exterminated by the other.

In plain logic, both sides have to agree to stop and abandon their vows. As part of that, the hostages and prisoners can be exchanged, and the millions of innocent Palestinians stuck in the middle can be helped.

What I continually see is that nearly everybody calling for a cease fire is being disingenuous – listen closely and they are calling for a one-sided cease fire. Thus, inevitably, the side that ceases fire will get exterminated by the side that keeps on shooting.

The simple fact that this is all about as far from rocket science as it is possible to get, yet it continues to be beyond the comprehension of plenty on here, confirms my long held opinion – these are not serious people.

Ultimately, it continues to be my view that neither Scotland nor Indy is helped by the support of people so out of touch with reality and realpolitik.

John main

As I recall the Manchester arena bombing was done by somone form Syria who was part if the white helmets terrorist group created by the uk.

Just Read that Edinburgh Castle has opened a Tea Room.
Would you believe it’s been call the Redcoat Cafe’?

No doubt some English Tory Toff Colonel Blimp came up with the idea to let English Tourist know they still own and control it.

No doubt the staff have to wear Butchers Aprons.

English Tea
Full English Breakfasts
Milton Mowbray Pies
Eccles Cakes
Jellied Eels.

They can stick the lot up their flagpole and salute.
I’d turn the Mid-Day Cannon on it.

Main logic.
If Israel stops fighting H4mas then H4mas will overrun Israel ???

Positively Bidenesque

Worth posting again ??? Lol

John Main
Ignored
says:
11 February, 2024 at 7:14 pm

@Chas 6:15

I’ll post this again cos I think it’s important.

The simple fact that this is all about as far from rocket science as it is possible to get, yet it continues to be beyond the comprehension of plenty on here, confirms my long held opinion – these are not serious people.

Ultimately, it continues to be my view that neither Scotland nor Indy is helped by the support of people so out of touch with reality and realpolitik.

More fuckin’ playground shit & name calling from John Main

One thing missing from John Main’s post is what he thinks the solution is.

Should they just keep on fighting until both sides are exterminated?

How about a nuclear bomb? Drop it in the middle & boom! All sorted.

What about you Chas you got a solution?

My response to Chas would be:

Since both side are highly religious maybe it’s time for them to consult ‘The Koran’ and the ‘The Torah’ and seek the solution there.

“Haven’t seen RoS deploy the “chinthe” word for a while. Still not understanding why he thinks I’m a Burmese lion.”

John Main.

Oh its to do with that little rat b*stard Orde Wingate the heid Chindit, who was an avid Zionist.

Zel has a piccy of Stephan Bandera on his wall, you lot have a piccy of Wingate.

One side in the Middle East war has the worlds most militarised nation per head of population.
It also has the USA 100% on their side handing them over nuclear weapons, iron curtain missile interception defences, Air Craft Carriers, Rockets, software, military intelligence.
If the USA takes military action the the U.K. in economic crisis must send everything they have other than troops while licking both hands.
Just to lend a little weight on the Israeli side countries like Italy, Denmark must give it their NATO blessing.

The other side of course have tunnels, DIY rockets made from water-pipes, well Israel has turned off the water anyway, and some basic armaments from Iran.

Israel has boasted each week about having killed several hundred Hamas fighters as hospitals and homes are obliterated.
After all there may be a freedom fighter among the children.

It is impossible for the Palestinians or Hamas to wipe out Israel
But Israel are very close to having wiped out Gaza.

The Israelis build on stolen Palestinian territory every day in the West Bank
Next they build their settlements in Gaza.

To bring this closer to home, when the IRA shot British soldiers in N Ireland
would it have been legitimate to bomb the homes of the Republican areas as a bomber must be in there somewhere. So what if the innocent and babies live there.

Hautey

Never heard of it. Googled to find out what it was.

First result said

Quova API anyone? it’s a complete disaster

Good luck with that!

No rush with your explanation for ‘fuckin’ playground shit’

Take your time!

In the meantime I’ll take a guess.