As Twitter followers will have noticed, we’ve been busy this week with an extensive remodelling of Wings HQ, which involved the main computer being out of commission for several days while the office was basically torn down and rebuilt from scratch. (It seemed a good time to do it, given that there’s nothing remotely of interest happening in Scottish politics.)
Unfortunately the lack of activity on the site caused the comments on the last post to degenerate into the most wretched playground shrieking match, so let’s see if we can’t distract the children and talk about something else for a bit.
Particularly alert observers will have noted that Kezia Dugdale, the most spectacularly inept and unsuccessful Scottish political leader in history, this week demitted her role as Director of the John Smith Centre, which she was handed as an incentive to quit Scottish Labour after dragging it to 14% in the opinion polls.
We long ago ran out of words to express the magnitude of the contempt in which the SNP now hold the people of Scotland. Which is unfortunate, because this probably calls for the invention of a whole new scale.
Shall we go through just a few of the more crassly insulting holes in this pitiful excuse for a cover story, just to pass the time while we wait for the former First Minister to appear before the COVID inquiry? We don’t know about you, but we’ve got nothing better to do.
We thought this was overdue an update. It’s got about 16 new front pages on it, one whole new row and a handful of newly-rediscovered replacements. It really is worth taking a few minutes to peruse it properly (click on the pic to enlarge it) to get the full effect of eight wasted years of deja vu disappointment.
It’s not even The National’s fault. They’re a business, they’re simply trying to sell a few papers to a diminishing audience of endlessly gullible eejits. The real fault lies with the halfwitted SNP members who just keep on doggedly failing to learn a single lesson, and repeatedly vote to carry on doing what they know doesn’t work and never will.
So… his job is to get a legally binding referendum (something which doesn’t actually exist), but he knows that if we’re likely to win it we’re less likely to get it, so… we need to look like we’re going to lose one if it happens?
So presumably with support for the SNP already plummeting through the floor, the next phase of his grand strategy will be to drive support for independence down too? We suppose that’s a more rational explanation of the party’s actions in recent years than anything else we can think of, right enough.
Or of course, it might be that the guy’s just a complete gibbering idiot. You tell us.
We’ve seen some hilarious demands for “unity” in the independence movement in the last couple of years, almost all of them from the most divisive figures ever to wave a wee plastic Saltire (Pete Wishart, Neil Mackay, Wee Ginger Dug etc etc).
But this effort from the SNP’s new airhead mascot takes the shortbread.
Alf Baird on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Whilst it invariably does seem to be mainly those on the left or centre-left who must support independence/decolonization from a…” Jan 9, 21:13
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Love the flag mate. Are you talking about the Alba Party? I do agree with on the idea reform will…” Jan 9, 20:57
Scot Finlayson on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “@Hatey McHateface, USA doing what your Great Brutish Empire used to do, going round the world knocking heads together. Very…” Jan 9, 20:55
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Sarah, I hate to bust your bubble, but you need to learn and learn the hard way. Scotland will never…” Jan 9, 20:49
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “THE ORIGINS OF GEORDIE AND NORTHUMBRIAN DIALECTS « An exploration of the origins of the Geordie and Northumbrian dialect. In…” Jan 9, 20:39
Jamie on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Change is coming, the people might be sleeping now, but the noise and “populism” that reform will bring to the…” Jan 9, 20:10
agentx on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “In this fantasy land who would be First Minister of Scotland?” Jan 9, 19:58
Willie on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Sanction Starmer, sanction Britain. Surely not. The UK is in a special relationship with the USA. Great Britain is a…” Jan 9, 19:49
sarah on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “O/T but a very good piece of information. Alert readers will remember how Joanna Cherry won an important constitutional case…” Jan 9, 19:06
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Anna Paulina Luna, a US Republican congresswoman and ally of Donald Trump, warned she would bring forward legislation to “sanction…” Jan 9, 17:44
Scot Finlayson on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Europe needs to wake up. Too long expecting USA to protect them and have gone soft. Make Europe Great Again.…” Jan 9, 16:49
Chas on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “It used to be mince from 300 years ago. We are now going back 800 years for FFS. Do you…” Jan 9, 16:40
Young Lochinvar on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “H McH @ 9.53 We are in rare agreement. I revert to my original “beef” then, the fact this site…” Jan 9, 16:00
Alf Baird on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: ““English speech which is harsh tae the ear and is mair thick gruel than sweet liquid.” Aye Northcode, Englis aye…” Jan 9, 15:56
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “GEORGE STEINER: LANGUAGE AND SILENCE (Essays 1958-1966) « Languages are living organisms. Infinitely complex, but organisms nevertheless. They have in…” Jan 9, 14:51
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “They’re having an exciting day of rest in Tehran. Looks like the experts who wrote off the Domino Theory may…” Jan 9, 14:41
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “It’s taken you a while to get there 100% Yes. Not a few people said at the time that the…” Jan 9, 14:31
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Homer will speak Gaelic just as soon as Matt Groening decides he does. Perhaps in a scene involving Willie the…” Jan 9, 14:24
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “All parties pass their failures on to the next failing manager that does not actually manage until they achieve the…” Jan 9, 14:19
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Snp are as shameful as those down south, no different no better. I saw the vacant glaiket look on Starmers…” Jan 9, 14:09
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “John Swinney not informed of US using Scottish airport in military operation. Why would John care he’s just the caretaker…” Jan 9, 13:49
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Traitors from the SNP membership to councilors, MPs, MSPs, Business for Scotland, Believe in Scotland, The National, and the scroungers…” Jan 9, 13:23
McDuff on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Yes you are tired, very very tired which explains the bilge you believe to be a remotely accurate post on…” Jan 9, 12:45
Northcode on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: ““…to an extent that English does not do.” Aye, if only mair than hauf a dozen fowk roond the wirld…” Jan 9, 12:38
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “The story and law of Treaties is such that they stand until they don’t Stand. When one half of a…” Jan 9, 12:21
TURABDIN on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Never trust a search assistant, on anything. The Ai trolls everything, including the non fact checked with which the internet…” Jan 9, 12:20
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “The treaty of York, 1237, It was agreed in that treaty that the laws of Scotland would not ever go…” Jan 9, 12:12
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “I have no hash with the people of England themselves in England, Wales or Ireland they are pretty much like…” Jan 9, 11:59
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “The following quote is from TRANSLATING HOMER, John MacLean’s foreword to his Gaelic translation of Homer’s Odyssey (ODUSSEIA HOMAIR, Gairm…” Jan 9, 11:46
