The world's most-read Scottish politics website

Wings Over Scotland


A happy new year for democracy 100

Posted on January 15, 2014 by

Whatever your political views, this is a very important year. The commentators, the politicians and the so-called experts will all be heard ad nauseam – but ultimately it’s you and me, the ‘ordinary’ people of Scotland, who will decide our nation’s future.

scotballot2

But however Scotland votes in September, what is even more important is that the people of this country seize this opportunity to take our democracy back. For whether we’re governed from Westminster or Holyrood is almost irrelevant unless democracy – real democracy – is reawakened.

Read the rest of this entry →

Tags:
Category comment, scottish politics, uk politics

  • About

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

    Stats: 6,750 Posts, 1,217,149 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

    • rob on We’ll make this quick: “The idiot that raised this issue is not any better or worse than other yahoos from many walks of life…” May 4, 23:02
    • Bilbo on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “You’re making quite an assumption there, he looks like a right angry dude. I don’t he takes if you catch…” May 4, 22:14
    • Bilbo on We’ll make this quick: “It isn’t only about the ones that you had mentioned but men who are involved in casual sex hookups and…” May 4, 22:11
    • Bilbo on We’ll make this quick: “It isn’t only about the ones that you had mentioned but men who are involved in casual sex hookups and…” May 4, 22:01
    • Bilbo on We’ll make this quick: “If the individuals shown in this and other articles presented by the Rev are representative of the Scottish Trans community,…” May 4, 21:55
    • Young Lochinvar on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “It’ll be back post-haste when it finds out it actually has to pay for its regular self inflicted anal prolapse…” May 4, 20:53
    • Yoon Scum on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “While you question if it knows Argentina I’m not entirely certain that reality is within it’s grasp of understandings” May 4, 20:46
    • Potace on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “Before I commit my ill gotten gain to this, will it be ring fenced and interwoven into your accounts if…” May 4, 20:44
    • Sven on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “YAY, I’m a winner already ! Either “Jen” stays in South America; or the Rev gets as much Irn Bru…” May 4, 20:33
    • Neil Anderson on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “£20 gladly donated. It’s such a relief that Jen can look forward, confidently, to safety and security in that land…” May 4, 20:31
    • Former President Xiden on We’ll make this quick: “In truth in the rumour that Swinney’s next distraction is to hold a conference on the rise of Sauron in…” May 4, 20:29
    • keviano on The Moral Vacuum: “Of course, having had their biological status recognised by those great minds in England’s Supreme Court, the next challenge for…” May 4, 19:06
    • TURABDIN on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “Does Jen actually know anything about Argentina? El Presidente Javier Milei is a sort of Donald Trump but mas loco.…” May 4, 18:28
    • twathater on We’ll make this quick: “Ah’ve goat it and I claim the tenner rev ,it’s a competition between the Sunday Fail and the NatANAL to…” May 4, 17:49
    • Andrew scott on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “Brilliant” May 4, 17:40
    • Effijy on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “I’ve sent a few quid to the Crowdfunder but I see the Gauchos do dozens of castrations per day at…” May 4, 17:38
    • Hatey McHateface on For Children Scotland: “Careful what you wish for, Willie. Not that many English people left in London. Your couple of million starved to…” May 4, 17:36
    • Hatey McHateface on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “The Sunday Mail has just published a correction online. There was a typo in the original text. What was printed…” May 4, 17:19
    • Hatey McHateface on We’ll make this quick: “Winged unicorns ingest carbon dioxide and fart an oxygen/ozone mix. They’re particularly suited to polar routes because their ozone effluent…” May 4, 17:09
    • Owen Mullions on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “There were some trans flags on the march but, like the Palestinian hangers on, they left once there was no…” May 4, 16:16
    • Tim on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “Could you change it so that in the event she doesn’t leave Scotland the money goes to FWS (or similar)?…” May 4, 16:12
    • Captain Caveman on For Children Scotland: “Nope, sorry mate, words have specific, intrinsic and well-defined meanings, ergo “left wing” and “right wing” politics (just as other…” May 4, 16:04
    • Young Lochinvar on We’ll make this quick: “Newsflash! Junk pulp boilerplate rag prints non sequitur word salad on behalf of incurable self obsessed attention seeker..” May 4, 14:57
    • Mark Beggan on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “So this is is the reason no Trans flags were at the National Flag waving competition at Glasgow Green this…” May 4, 14:41
    • Sven on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “I wonder if starting a Crowdfunder could count as “Hurty Words” if no one contributes.” May 4, 14:16
    • Andrew scott on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “Careful for what you wish for Rev Dross gear maggie(i voted for me)chapperson,loopy lorna and the green gnome might just…” May 4, 14:14
    • Mark Beggan on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “When you go will you send back a letter from South America. Take a look up the Railtrack from Miami…” May 4, 13:57
    • sarah on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “Laughing out loud! They won’t be able to say such nasty things about you now, Rev, as you are showing…” May 4, 13:53
    • Yoon Scum on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “I’m torn between pissing myself laughing at these loonies or Being deeply sympathetic towards them living their entire day terrified…” May 4, 13:42
    • Yoon Scum on Let’s Make Jen Safe Again: “You’re a bad bad bad man* * I’m in scotland and I assumed a gender Can I get a crowd…” May 4, 13:37

  • A tall tale



↑ Top