The world's most-read Scottish politics website

Wings Over Scotland


The pieces of the jigsaw 332

Posted on July 27, 2020 by

Late last week, Wings finally received a long-overdue full response to the queries we first made to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) in early April, regarding several matters connected to the failed prosecution of Alex Salmond.

(You’re supposed to get a reply in 20 working days. It’s been nearly four months.)

The unmappable fog-filled labyrinth that COPFS (under the Lord Advocate, W. James Wolffe QC), the Scottish Government and the civil service are attempting to construct around these matters is so tangled that it’s taken us a few days to sit down and make some sense of it, but the truth that’s being coaxed, painfully slowly, into the light is one that paints a truly disturbing picture.

We invite you to examine it for yourself and see if you disagree.

Read the rest of this entry →

Tags:
Category analysis, corruption, disturbing, media, scottish politics

  • About

    Wings Over Scotland is a (mainly) Scottish political media digest and monitor, which also offers its own commentary. (More)

    Stats: 6,696 Posts, 1,210,066 Comments

  • Recent Posts

  • Archives

  • Categories

  • Tags

    and finally and firstly arithmetic fail braveheart klaxon britnats captain darling cartoons Chris Cairns confused cringe crybabies dateline debates Devo Nano Douglas Daniel Federalists Unionists and Devolutionists flat-out lies foreigner watch from the archives fundraisers galleries Greg Moodie hamish hypocrisy liars light-hearted banter lizards memogate misinformation one nation perspectives poll project fear project feart qft Scott Minto smears snp accused soapbox the positive case for the union The Vow toldyouso too wee too poor too stupid unionist of the day vote no get nothing

  • Recent Comments

    • Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: ““Mutually beneficial”., Yer avin a larf guvnor!” Jan 26, 03:30
    • Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “Then gents, you are just not listening.. Horse to water and all that..” Jan 26, 03:27
    • Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “Regardless, priority no. 1 is no repeat of the Union! Ever.. No nay never!!” Jan 26, 03:24
    • Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “It’s Jeremy Clarkson folks, on a roll to wind up as many non English as possible. Best ignored.” Jan 26, 03:19
    • Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “Ah well. As an outsider looking in I defer to your lived experience then..” Jan 26, 03:05
    • Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “It’s fascism.. Just not her kind of fascism.. The banners don’t take kindly to being banned eh?!” Jan 26, 03:03
    • Young Lochinvar on The Silent Revolution: “A pseud and a poseur.. Probably takes it up the a@@e..” Jan 26, 03:01
    • Hal Martin on The Silent Revolution: “Loved the Black stuff. Perfect.” Jan 26, 01:16
    • Hal Martin on The Silent Revolution: “Kane is a hyper-PC fucking fanny, second only tae Billy Bragg in pompous self-righteous wankerdom.” Jan 26, 01:14
    • Hal Martin on The Silent Revolution: “Fuck that dumb careerist bitch n iviry word thit comes ootay her fake-working-class pie-eating gub. Annoyed ah goat taken in…” Jan 26, 01:12
    • Hal Martin on The Silent Revolution: “Nae bother tae rip the pish ootay semi-sentient probably-peyed unionist shite like yersel, fannybaws. Ye really need yer…ah better no…” Jan 26, 01:10
    • Hal Martin on The Silent Revolution: “‘Women, I think, have a natural empathy bred of biology…’ Really, aye? Tell that to Beverly Allitt and Lucy Letby.…” Jan 26, 01:04
    • Hal Martin on The Silent Revolution: “Piss off with your ‘men are always behind everything’ crap. manhater. The way you deign to show that women have…” Jan 26, 01:00
    • Hal Martin on The Silent Revolution: “Fuck off, unionist plant cunt. You’re not even worth saying anything sensible to.” Jan 26, 00:53
    • Hal Martin on The Silent Revolution: “Fuck the English ‘Supreme Court’, in existence for five minutes. Joke of an institution.” Jan 26, 00:47
    • Geri on The Silent Revolution: “I was about tae get triggered cause at first glance I thought #DragQueenSupper was actually a thing & trending LOL…” Jan 26, 00:46
    • Geri on The Silent Revolution: “Aye! In private tho. It wasn’t that long ago we’d the News of the World where the Tories would feature…” Jan 26, 00:40
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The Silent Revolution: “A good Northern Irish documentary on Robert Burns, personal, literary and political life. Commentary in mix of Irish, Scottish Gaelic,…” Jan 25, 23:57
    • G m on The Silent Revolution: “Done” Jan 25, 23:52
    • sarah on The Silent Revolution: “It is an outrage. Can you see even PMs as recent as David Cameron doing this kind of thing?” Jan 25, 23:23
    • G m on The Silent Revolution: “You should have a go at it Geri just for the craic. It’s feckin wild.” Jan 25, 23:13
    • sarah on The Silent Revolution: “I agree on the need for some visible resistance. Any normal person, male or female, must be sickened by the…” Jan 25, 23:06
    • G m on The Silent Revolution: “‘There’s massive potential to make political capital from the vacuum that has been forming for years, yet silence and /…” Jan 25, 22:46
    • Marie on The Silent Revolution: “I don’t want kid starver’s Happy Burns Day wishes. I don’t like grotesque ugly parodies of women either. #womanface.” Jan 25, 22:30
    • Ian Brotherhood on The Silent Revolution: “Thanks for that response. Much to chew over. After an initial chew I’m in agreement with most of what you…” Jan 25, 22:17
    • Geri on The Silent Revolution: “Listen Shiteface, If Westminster has billions of taxpayers money to send to the drug addled green t-shirt, stop whining about…” Jan 25, 21:59
    • Dan on The Silent Revolution: “FYI I don’t do and have zero interest in using platforms like twitter or facebook for political discourse. I don’t…” Jan 25, 21:53
    • Geri on The Silent Revolution: “You did better than me. I seen ‘The National’ & that was me done..lol” Jan 25, 21:41
    • Geri on The Silent Revolution: “What a crock of horseshit. She seriously needs to see the shite she’s been peddling for years if she wants…” Jan 25, 21:33
    • gregor on The Silent Revolution: “Wings is indispensable to Scotland.” Jan 25, 21:22

  • A tall tale



↑ Top