Steadying The Ship
Posted on
May 15, 2026 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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‘Nuff said.
Swinney definitely isn’t Salmond!
With a collapsing vote like that, they should exit stage left at the next HR election – hopefully never to return…
The SNP accomplished its main goal in the 2026 election–maintaining power. With all the perks that go with power.
Imagine: you govern hopelessly incompetently, and the voters nonetheless return you to government leadership.
From the perspective of the SNP leadership, the 2026 election was a resounding success!
The Captain always goes down with the ship.
‘Nearer my God to me’. Was the tune the the band played as the Titanic was sinking.
The band should start rehearsing.
Does the Laurel & Hardy theme have a name, other than the “Laurel & Hardy Theme”?
They’ll have to order the score.
The Dance Of The Cuckoos is Laurel and Hardy’s theme tune.
The Dance of the Cuckoos is the tune you’re looking for. What about ‘The Band Played On’ would be more appropriate.
Probably better with the Benny Hill tune
I don’t know about anyone else but can you imagine JS running a country what a freighting thought, thank god the Scotland office is running Scotland.
He’s in the same league as Starmer they both have no appeal and are totally boring.
I can’t wait for next month when he meets Starmer and tells the faithful Independence has to wait until England elects a new PM.
When it comes to failing JS is contestant. I once wet Salmond and I got the impression he thought JS was a tit, he knew his stuff did Alex.
Personally speaking, both Swinney and Starmer’s voices send me spiralling into a coma out of which I have to be resuscitated by my nearest and dearest.
To be honest, Salmond was the only good thing about the SNP. Margo & Jim too.
If I remember correctly ( cause it was before my time) the ’79 rebels were because the SNP WAS sleepy, safe & boring. Full of part time Nationalists that liked to talk a good game & it looks like it’s gone right back to its safety blankie.
Salmond didn’t come right out & say it but he hinted plenty they were all fckn useless. Safe John & Only good for opposition Sturgeon.
Anyone interested should watch “Alex Salmond – a rebels journey” (available on YouTube) Where he even says they’d no belief in themselves (when he strategized how to win Holyrood & pulled it off)
I’d love to have spoken to him in private. I bet he ripped Squeaky (Ian Blackford) a new one on a daily basis as can be seen by his face in that documentary when it was his time to speak LOL! Definitely giving off the *keep that fuckwit away fae me* kinda vibes.
Have hankies at the ready if you do watch it cause it covers indyref.
The SNP is finished. I don’t ever see them coming back & certainly not for any indyref. If they did it would be with the aim to deliberately throw it, imo. I don’t trust a single person within the SNP. Sturgeons intake of Unionists.
Even the Ewing’s were a fckn disappointment. They sat back & watched Sturgeon completely destroy the party.
It needs put out to pasture permanently & we start again removing all wasters & spoilers from the get go.
Lorncal & Geri,
All of our politicians have no interest in politics its carer and money driven and your both correct there are totally void of what is happening in a person life and are totally boring to the point they turn people off.
I look but never read, The Rag “Sinn Fein MP on Celtic Alliance, Scottish independence and Irish unity” JS and the SNP will betray these other celtic nations make no mistake, they’ve done it to Scotland England is their preference.
Two by-elections next month should perhaps show whether the SNP is, as I suspect, on the up.
What colour is the sky on your planet, Ozzie?
But there has just been an election where the SNP lost seats and had fewer votes!
FFS, are you enjoying a holiday in the Southern Hemisphere or doing a headstand?
Because that’s about the only way you could look at that bar graph and think NuSNP vote share is on the up.
Mind you, reality denying roasterism does seem to be a factor in NuSNP support these days.
Izzie, STOP putting party before Country!!!!
I can see your plan has merit. If in fact JS was going to act on the mandate he’s just been given which he won’t. But I’m afraid after he meets KS, never else will happen with regards to Indyref2 and those who do support the SNP will have a decision to make ignore that the SNP has conned them again for the eight mandate or just not vote for the SNP any more in these up coming two SNP MSP elections. There is no doubt in my mind if Mr Salmond had taken over from Sturgeon, he’d have obtained a Super-majority in the Holyrood election which would have included all Indy party’s and not just the SNP and with Super-majority behind him no PM could or would have ignored it.
John plan was I’ll thought out and probably taken from the back of a cereal box.
Damn these tiny phone Keyboards.
IZZIE
Yes, no one in sight has the skills of Alex Salmond but do we wish Swinney to be replaced by Farage or Starmer or Kimi.
These 3 would just pull the strings of their Holyrood stooges and remove the tranch of benefits SNP?
Not on your life
You can take oor freedom but you’ll never take oor benefits!!
? You’re government is run by paedophiles….?
I don’t think I’ll ever tire of that tune…
Joke Time!
When is a resignation Not a resignation?
When it’s a Wessignation!
There has been article upon article about a £5 billion deficit over the course of next Holyrood parliament. There is no deficit. If it happens, it is £5 billion of cuts to the Holyrood budget imposed by Westminster.
Even if the SNP had won a majority, they will not stop this proposed £5 billion of cuts but if they recognised it as such rather than accepting this deficit narrative then they can fight to try to lower the level of cuts which and highlight where the cuts come from so that the unpopularity of these cuts are switched to the Labour government, not them.
However, a loser like Swinney and his cabal of SNP dummies won’t do that and don’t have the talent to do so. The Greens won’t lift a hand as well to help Scotland. They are junior partners and won’t feel the effects of these unpopular decisions.
I just hope those SNP 1/SNP 2 & SNP 1/Green 2 voters start to wise up.
If all the years on the chart from the latest WoS post (bar 1999) are added together we arrive at the total, 12,084.
If we divide 12,084 by the number of chart columns, six not including the N/A column, we get the year 2014.
If we subtract 1999 (the year from the first column) from 2014 we get… 15, today’s date.
If we add together each of the digits in the total of added years 1+2+0+8+4 we get… 15, today’s date.
The title of the previous WoS post has my ethnic name translated from the Scots leid… Breuk Rainbowe.
If we convert the text ‘The Breuk Rainbowe’ to numbers we get 20 8 5 0 2 18 5 21 11 0 18 1 9 14 2 15 23 5.
If we add those numbers together we get 177 and if we add the digits of that number together we get… 15, today’s date.
If we convert the most recent WoS post to Scots, ‘Steaidy The Ship’, and in turn convert that text to digits we get 19 20 5 1 9 4 25 0 20 8 5 0 19 8 9 16.
If we add those digits together we get 168 and if we add that number’s digits together we get… 15, today’s date.
Not only is 15 today’s date, but it is also the exact number of hair folicles remaining on Swinney’s heid.
How Spooky is that?
What can it all mean?
What dark magic is at play here?
I think it’s time fir me tae dig oot ma Pictish symbol patterned ghost shirt and start ghost dancing aboot the place juist tae be oan the safe side.
Seek help.
“Seek help.”
Why even comment like that?
What do you believe your twa wird sentence achieved beyond making you seem a fool?
What help did you seek?
Was it a Prefrontal Lobe Lobotomy?
Look beneath the numbers, look beneath the symbols, and see the real meaning… otherwise go back to your morning papers and full English breakfast and absorb your world through a medium that saw a thousand beautiful trees die in vain.
I think what Chas is drawing attention to Northcode is that with James Cheyne now (sadly I fear only temporarily) not posting, you are the biggest contributor of irrelevant, pointless drivel BTL.
“you are the biggest contributor of irrelevant, pointless drivel BTL.”
Wow!
I’ve just realised you’re right… I’m a bore, you’re a bore, and this place is a bore.
Cheerio!
A picture really IS worth 1000 words.
The chart above illustrates perfectly what I’ve often said.
Swinney was a dud in 2003.
In 2026 lSwinney is a dud with 23 years compound interest.
Excerpt from CONTACT podcast hosted by Montréal-born STÉPHAN BUREAU.
Here he interviews Louis Sarkozy (son of Nicolas Sarkozy).
Louis Sarkozy speaks:
« Oui, alors le conservatisme, pour moi, c’est quelque chose qui est cette définition d’un professeur exceptionnel qui avait écrit un livre qui s’appelle Common Sense Nation, sur l’influence des philosophes écossais, sur la déclaration d’indépendance, sur la constitution américaine et sur la pensée révolutionnaire américaine des pères fondateurs. L’influence que les écossais ont eu là-dessus, de Burke, etc. Et il y a cette phrase du professeur Robert Curie qui dit le conservatisme, qu’est-ce que c’est ? C’est très simple. D’abord, un constat, le monde est rempli de mauvaises idées et de gens bêtes. Donc une conclusion, on avance lentement. »
[« “Yes, so conservatism, for me, is something that is this definition of an exceptional teacher who had written a book called Common Sense Nation, on the influence of Scottish philosophers, on the declaration of independence, on the American constitution and on the American revolutionary thought of the founding fathers. The influence that the Scots had on this, from Burke, etc. And there is this sentence from Professor Robert Curie who says conservatism, what is it? It’s very simple. First, an observation, the world is full of bad ideas and stupid people. So a conclusion, we move slowly. »]
From CONTACT – avec Stéphan Bureau:
Entretien avec Louis Sarkozy, essayiste et chroniqueur (14 May 2026.)
link to podcasts.apple.com
ON AVANCE LENTEMENT, festina lente…’c’est revolutionaire ça?
& who decides who the gens bêtes are what constitute mauvaises idées.
Scottish «common sense» aka übercaution may be responsible for the current constipation in the national body politic.
Mr Swinney is currently totemic of the condition.
There is of course another common sense aka realism that says what the hell, enough of this nonsense, en avant!
I understand that Mr Swinney did make a move, contra mundum, over the Magrahi affair, so he is not entirely lost.
«révolutionnaire»……stupide spelletchequeur…
If Swinney had been a football manager he would have been long gone by now along with his coaching staff too !
Aye, and if Scotland had a legal system, Sturgeon and the Alphabetites would be in jail, soon to be joined by her ex, but hey-ho.
Banana Republic anyone?
I rose early this morning and writ doun a poem in the Scots leid.
Guid mornying tae yous, a howp ye aw hae a braw EuroVision weekend.
And dinna be Westminster’s wee Scottish * “Puppet on a String” like aw thaim new MSPs.
* A 1967 hit song by Sandie Shaw that won the Eurovision Song Contest
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:
16 May, 2026 at 12:42 am
“Excerpt from CONTACT…
professeur ….. Robert Curie…”
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For ease of search, the name of the author is Robert Curry. Not Curie. Has the Québecois author Scotticised or Frenchified the spelling? Or perhaps both, showing that the Auld Alliance endures on the other side of the pond.
Even educated Americans who know about David Hume and Adam Smith are often ignorant of the Scottish school of, “Common Sense“ philosophy espoused by Thomas Reid and Francis Hutcheson- although they may have heard of Tom Paine‘s eponymous pamphlet,“ Common Sense”. The Founding Fathers were greatly influenced by the school.
Although published about 10 years ago, Curry’s book is still well worth a read. It is good to see a review of it today and in the French language forbye.
Cynicus: « the name of the author is Robert Curry. Not Curie. Has the Québecois author Scotticised or Frenchified the spelling? »
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Many thanks. Highly important correction well made.
It was Louis Sarkozy who was speaking that passage. It is an audio podcast in French with (automatic generated?) scrolling French text (by simultaneously reading which my comprehension greatly benefits).
For my Wings post I just blocked the relevant French text and pasted it into a French-English translator.
I have no doubt at all that both Louis Sarkozy and Stéphan Bureau would know perfectly well that the correct spelling is “Curry”.
I confess that I (in embarrassing ignorance of Robert Curry’s work) must share the blame with the automatic French transcription.
Very glad you intercepted this.
Initial link to ROBERT CURRY material:
link to americanmind.org
Paragraph by Curry:
« At the age of sixteen, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton were all being schooled by Scots who had been educated in Scotland before coming to America…Jefferson was the architect of the Declaration of Independence, Madison was the architect of the Constitution, and Hamilton was the architect of The Federalist Papers. If we want to understand their thinking, we need to start with the fact that the Scottish Enlightenment provided their teachers. »
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says:
16 May, 2026 at 10:33 am
“Cynicus: « the name of the author is Robert Curry. Not Curie. Has the Québecois author Scotticised or Frenchified the spelling? »?
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Many thanks. Highly important correction well made.
It was Louis Sarkozy who was speaking that passage. “
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That is typically generous of you.
In my innocence, I excluded the vocal element and assumed that Sarkozy fils had, in good faith, assigned to the author the surname of the double Nobel laureate, Mme Curie, very well known the in the Francophone world and beyond.
Is there profit to be quarried here by the SNP and other denizens of Holyrood? Indeed, by the political class of these islands?
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were greatly influenced by this Scottish school and owned copies of their books.
Can we say the same of would-be founding fathers (and mothers) of an independent Scotland? The application of ordinary common sense by Swinney, Flynn et al. to their business might save them – and us – much social grief down the line. It would certainly have done for the absurdity of GRRB and the preposterous electoral strategy of SNP 1&2. Not to mention lesser lunacies of the Greens.
Do history teachers in Scottish schools teach the Scottish Enlightenment and its importance in shaping the modern world? The Holyrood class of 2026 could do worse than read Curry’s book.
We have to accept that the Scottish school of enlightenment failed even to ascertain Scotland’s colonial capture, much like Paine and others who confused the supposed liberation of European ‘Americans’ whilst tending to ignore the rights of the indigenous natives.
Of course, modern postcolonial theory did not really appear until after WWII. But Curry might have picked this up too, and the realisation that fascism aye sits at the very root of colonial societies, which includes the USA as well as UK, much as history and ongoing events confirm.
Which is probably why my own Doun-Hauden framework was and remains necessary if we are to really understand the colonial condition of Scots, and other peoples too, and find the path to the only remedy, liberation:
link to cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com
Another word salad. Saying nothing.
THIS IS THE PREAMBLE TO AN ACADEMIC WORK.
HUME IN AND OUT OF SCOTTISH CONTEXT
by James A. Harris and Mikko Tolonen
1.1 David Hume was a man of letters intent on erasing all trace of his Scottishness from his books. He was acutely sensitive to the differences between Scots and English, and sought tirelessly to ensure that each new edition of his works was more ‘correct’ than the last. From the first, he wanted a British, not just a Scottish, readership for what he wrote,
and he was always keen also to have his books translated into French, the language of the international republic of letters. After the success across Europe of the Political Discourses of 1752, Hume wrote with an international audience in mind. At one point in his life, in
fact, he thought of Paris as his natural home. When his friendship with Jean-Jacques Rousseau collapsed into acrimony and slander in the spring of 1766, Hume’s first concern was for the consequences that Rousseau’s lies might have for his reputation in France. He had his account of the affair published in French first. That Hume had been in Paris as de facto secretary to the British ambassador is evidence of the status his
writings won for him in the British state, as is the fact that he was soon afterwards appointed to an important position of the Northern Department. He came to move easily in the highest circles, in London and abroad. Unlike most of those who took part in what we now call ‘the Scottish Enlightenment’ Hume had no investment in any of the
institutions that had been identified at the time of the Act of Union as impossible to merge with their English counterparts. He never had a position of any kind in either the Scottish church, the Scottish universities, or the Scottish legal establishment. He showed little interest in the great practical projects of improvement that so concerned men like the Earl of Ilay, William Robertson, and Lord Kames. When an attempt was made to
alleviate the dire financial circumstances of many of Scotland’s ministers, Hume’sresponse was to write a mocking pamphlet (see Stewart 1997).
1.2 Even so, Hume lived out of Scotland for fewer than ten years out of sixty- five. He was educated there, and, so far as we know, did not leave the country until he was twenty-three. He returned to North Britain with relief in 1769, resolving never to go south again. All of his closest friends — the friends to whom he wrote the most letters over the longest periods of time — were Scottish. He knew almost everyone who was anyone in Scotland, especially in Edinburgh. He repeatedly found himself involved in
Scottish party politics, and in a struggle between religious traditionalists and their modernizing antagonists. He shared drafts of his books with Scottish friends, hoping for comment and criticism. Some of his books seem to have grown out of papers presented to Scotland’s numerous discussion societies. Most of his works were published in London, but, after the Treatise were always printed and sold by Scottish publishers. There
is a question to be asked, then, about the extent to which, despite his effacement of his Scottishness from his writings, Scotland imprinted itself on his books.
Scottishness & AngloBritishness struggle in Hume. Scots were intensely disliked in 17&18 century England. He felt intellectually more at home among the French and was concerned with his reputation there after his falling out with Rousseau.
England is the existential millstone around Scotland’s neck.
Did he realize that but sociopolitical circumstances prevented fully giving voice to such a realization? As those circumstances still do among the many intellectually anglicized in Scotland who whinge that Scottish Nationalism is bad.
Bad for whom is the obvious retort.
Certainly for the British/English establishment, left, right and middle.
TURABDIN says:
16 May, 2026 at 1:11 pm”
“THIS IS THE PREAMBLE TO AN ACADEMIC WORK.
HUME IN AND OUT OF SCOTTISH CONTEXT?by James A. Harris and Mikko Tolonen
1.1 David Hume was a man of letters intent on erasing all trace…”
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Are you sure the last 4 or so sentences are part of that preamble?
Even today Hume’s self-hatred of Scottish culture looms large among assimilated native intellectuals and elites who ‘mimic the colonizer’ (Memmi) and who ‘crave dependence’ (Cesaire).
Postcolonial theory confirms that colonialism is always ‘a joint venture’ with native elites and other ‘most pampered native groups’, bourgeoisie etc (Fanon). Scotland’s anti-independence meritocracy confirms this.
There is certainly more saltires at today’s Unite The Kingdoms rally. This is what happens when a government holds the people in contempt. The Left are finished.
Well named?
The surname Beggan is of Irish origin and is derived from the Gaelic word “beagán,” which means “little” or “small.” It is often thought to have been a nickname used to denote a small, short, or little person. The surname was historically concentrated in the region of Monaghan in the northern part of the Republic of Ireland.
Correct but it was Beggins. Changed when my grandfather came to Scotland.
Mark Beggan translated means Brave of the small.
So what about your name Sam?
Samuel that’s a good Jewish name. Means prophet, heard by God.
Neu terminologie fir auld….
United Kingdom/United Kleptocracy?
Westminster/Wastaminster?
WASTA is the cronyism that oils government & everything else in the Arabophone world, its in the blood, but no longer just there it seems as 24/7 participatory & accountable real democracy in Europe struggles for breath in the slough of slimy Americanism.
Holyrood/Mollierood?
Pretender Burnham has called Scottish Nationalism «toxic»….nowt new there Andy!
The «UK» is on its deathbed only the life support from «Mollierooders» keeps the necrotic subject lingering on.
The Brit, Ottoman & Austro-Hungarian empires are history….O People, do get over it & MOVE ON.
You have been eating too much sugar again.
If your name is your destiny Turabin then you are a reference manual with incorrect spelling!
Tur Abdin
Mountain of servants ?
Sven meaning: Norse, boy, lad, young warrior.
Mark Beggan says:
16 May, 2026 at 4:19 pm
“Sven meaning: Norse, boy, lad, young warrior.”
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Its actual Old Norse meaning is very different and much better than it sounds.
It is cognate with Gaelicised Suidhne or Suibhne, from which are derived anglicised variants like Sweeeney, , Sween, MacSween, and -wait for it -Swinney!
It is also related to the English word, “swine” but is by no means derogatory. The clan MacSween coat of arms features three boars on its heraldic shield. This derives from its Viking heritage in which the boar is a highly prestigious animal, representing strength, bravery, and fertility.
There was, apparently, a Viking battle formation, Svinfylking meaning “swine array” or “boar snout”). Its roots go even further back to the Germanic iron age where I discover, Schweinskopf” or ‘Swine’s Head’ to describe the same ancient military attack formation.
It’s nice to see the gross stupidity of the engerlish electorate publicised daily on broadcast and media , I thought the Scottish electorate were stupid but the engerlish voters are excelling themselves in clamouring for Burnam’s return
The same Burnam who ditched his voters unceremoniously as a mp when a more lucrative position as a mayor in Manchester became available , if I were a voter of the liebour clown who stepped down to enable Burnam his wee shot at the PM grift I would be incandescent with anger , WTF does he think he is DONATING his seat to another FAKE socialist, the voters elected HIM not some greasy pole climber
The engerlish fuckwits that infest this place to denigrate our attempts to free ourselves from this VILE fake union should take a look at the absolute moronic dross fighting like RATS in a sack to replace the head moronic zi on ist PUPPET
The English electorate are far from stupid. The arrogance of the Labour party passing seats to their mates so they can become prime minister. They treat the English electorate the same way they used Scotland as their fiefdom.
Socialism died in the early 90’s. They knew it couldn’t work so all they have done since then is cling on to power. The English will finish off the Labour party as their Scottish neighbours did.
Anybody that has met John Swinney knows he has the Charisma of an ex Insurance Salesman of course prior to his political appointment that was exactly what he was. Nothing wrong with that but hardly the political class we hoped for. I feel I am living in a Groundhog Day movie. SNP won the election and Celtic win the league ad infinitum. Meanwhile nothing changes for the better.
@CYNICUS.
no they are not, they are my «construct.
Hume was very «antisyzygic». We syriacs/assyrians know the schizoid condition well. We have been living with it for a thousand plus years. However, we have survived.
The punishment has begun. After watching fitba all day. We are listening to Take the Floor. Apparently the second half is a tribute to Ally Bain. Ah well I guess that’s why we have lasted over 40 years. Fair Do’s. But now in an unrecognisable Scotland. Progressive Scotland will end in tears. Their inclusive but not for people like us.
” We syriacs/assyrians know the schizoid condition well.”
And ditto for us schizoid Scots.
As David Purves wrote:
“Since the Treaty of Union in 1707, generations of Scots have had to come to terms with a situation in which they were taught English at school, and where the way of speech natural to them was officially regarded as wrong by definition, or as a dialect unworthy of use as a serious medium of communication. The dilemma involved introduced a schizoid element into the national psyche, for with many people, the ‘true self’ associated with the complex of feelings and attitudes acquired at home in childhood had to be denied in the interests of material advancement, in favour of a false persona.”
Scottish antisyzygy is probably nearer the truth, Alf. Almost every Scottish writer, poet, artist, playwright, philosopher and political commentator displays this in his or her work, and it reflects the society we live in, and have lived in for a long time.
Stevenson’s ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, although reflecting on a genuine mental state, also reflected Scotland’s antisyzygy, as did his ‘Master of Ballantrae’. Our situation is genuinely paradoxical. Whether this would change with independence is a moot question; although, to a great extent, our political situation must account for much of it.
The real paradox arises when Unionists claim that we were subsumed, and so many Scots do not accept that at all, but still see themselves as a separate nation with separate aspirations, showing that we do, in fact, hold two contradictory, but, nevertheless, valid senses of ourselves.
” that we do, in fact, hold two contradictory, but, nevertheless, valid senses of ourselves.”
You might, Lorncal, tho A hiv nae dout aboot ma Scottish identity.
The problem with your perspective is that one of these identities, the ‘British’ or ‘English’ persona that imperial unionism fashions for us, and which tends to be ‘obscured by assimilation’, is as much a cultural illusion for us native Scots as it was for the Irish, the Indian, the Kenyan and many other colonised peoples.
OTT
Jambo says that “There are only three inavoidable rules in life –
death, taxes the Scottish Football Establishment based in
Glasgow”.
OTT
Sorry mis-type above. It shouls have said:
JAMBO says that “there are only three inavoidable rules in life –
death, taxes and the Scottish Football Establishment based in
Glasgow”.
O/T Turning away from the topic of being stuck with the most embarrassingly incompetent bunch of MSPs ever, there are people trying to bring some of them to book.
Mark Hirst is seeking to prove that he was maliciously prosecuted due to political influence with the Lord Advocate, police and COPFS. He has had two hearings which seemed to support his view BUT, because he was not imprisoned, he is not allowed to pursue the Lord Advocate etc – a breach of his human rights under the ECHR.
The court case rolls on. FUNDS are needed by Mark – he has issued an appeal on 11th May for the crowdfunder on civillibertyscotland.com. It says that he has raised £2,212 since then. Clearly he is going to need an awful lot more than that.
@Sarah
You are positively the most positive person on this site. But for over a decade money has gone into the coffers of the Independence movement to no avail and now after everyone is scunnered yet more appeals for money. I have no doubt Mark Hirst has a primae facie case. But Dorothy Bain is getting punted up to the bench. As is the way of the Scottish Establishment tainted though she is.
Sarah and anyone else interested in donating to Craig Murray’s blog I would advise them to check out his latest blog where he supports the election of the DROSS rejects from everywhere and anywhere to sit in the gayest wee parliament in the world to REIGN over NORMAL Scots, and if you don’t support the election of these parasites you are a RACIST
link to craigmurray.org.uk
Sarah you sent him books and tapes to support him while imprisoned, you donated to his crowdfund as I did, I voted for the ATLS who supported his inclusion in the party whilst alienating ISP members and a founding member of ATLS Allan Petrie who I disagreed with in relation to immigration and was rewarded by being called a racist
IF I had been aware of Craig’s support for a situation similar to manivannan’s before the election I would most certainly have done my utmost to dissuade people from voting for ATLS as they were eager to have Murray on board , so much so that they insisted that Petrie accepted him or leave
His post is aggressively accusatory and derisory claiming that For Women Scotland are a RADICAL ANTI TRANS CAMPAIGNING GROUP
He wrote
” This argument was first adopted by the radical anti-trans campaigning group For Women Scotland. This group was founded in order to oppose self-ID for trans people. 99% of its output is anti-trans rights argument.”
He also asserts that all the alternative independence supporting parties that opposed the GRA and trans rights including ATLS almost NOBODY voted for them
Whilst the Greens who were fully indoctrinated in the woke lunacy received many more votes
So effectively Craig is claiming that the electorate is supportive of the GRA and Woke lunacy, that is why they vote green , and the alternative indy parties are NOT getting votes because they oppose the GRA and trans lunacy
Thank fuck he did’nt get elected , IF ATLS defend his or any similar position I will vehemently do my utmost to encourage people to vote AGAINST them , FFS we have had 12 years of this BIOLOGICAL LUNACY ruining Scotland, Craig can fuck right off
Murray received 174 votes, finishing 7th. He was even outpolled by joke candidate “Bonnie Prince Bob.”
That’s the reality of the ATLS. And Murray.
“Dr Manivannan has done nothing wrong and is by all accounts a very pleasant and gentle soul.” – Craig Murray.
Also, they have hair, and lots of it… something sadly lacking in Scotland’s politicians and is most likely the main reason Scotland is still an English colony after 300 years of being forced to put up with whigs.
Love, not hate!
And definitely love, not football!
I hate football – as does the Lord our God… He telt me so in a dream.
Northcode: that was funny. Such fine epithets have been said before now about psychopathic serial killers. Not saying that Dr Manivannan is anything like that, just pointing out that Craig Murray can be naive. Mannivanan may not, personally, have done anything wrong, but the feckin Greens did by allowing him to stand as their candidate. They knew exactly what they were doing. They also knew the controversy this would create. They did it deliberately so that the naive will clamour for the extension of his visa by a year means, fair or foul.
What we need is someone nice and steady like a family undertaker……oh wait.
I’ve already contributed for Mark, Sarah. I hope many more will do so.We can’t let the bastards win.
Why does nobody in the Scottish Parliament care about the industrial scale rape of Scottish children by Muslim colonists?
Is it cowardice, or treason?
COPS took down a huge asylum seeker grooming gang in Glasgow – but kept it secret.
The gang preyed on vulnerable young girls in the city, and had at least 44 victims, including a core group of six youngsters who were all known to each other.
It’s believed one may have been abused by 28 men, with another linked to 23.
55 suspected members of the vile group were identified by officers, with 46 positively identified.
All were asylum seekers from the Kurdish, Afghani, Egyptian, Moroccan, Turkish, Pakistani or Iraqi communities
Got any links, Red?
If you try googling that caveman you get a Scottish sun page which says its source is the Express but just links to the front page. It’s also 6 years old. There’s no other info on it other than melts reposting the sun article verbatim.
Other than that seems entirely legit.
James MacMillan: THE GALLANT WEAVER
(I am well aware he has been against independence, but let’s enjoy his music)
Robert Burns: The Gallant Weaver (1791)
Where Cart rins rowin’ to the sea,
By mony a flower and spreading tree,
There lives a lad, the lad for me,
He is a gallant Weaver.
O, I had wooers aught or nine,
They gied me rings and ribbons fine;
And I was fear’d my heart wad tine,
And I gied it to the Weaver.
My daddie sign’d my tocher-band,
To gie the lad that has the land,
But to my heart I’ll add my hand,
And give it to the Weaver.
While birds rejoice in leafy bowers,
While bees delight in opening flowers,
While corn grows green in summer showers,
I love my gallant Weaver.
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PAPAGENA SINGERS (2024)
link to youtube.com