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Great news, readers! After years of requests, it’s now finally possible to possess and cherish your very own adorable cuddly toy version of Wings’ symbolic embodiment of benign and welcoming independence, Hamish the lion!

Admittedly you’ll have to buy some slacker’s book of cartoons to get one, but that’s surely a small price to pay.

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    • twathater on Live chat update: “Phil TBQH your first post says you are willing to discuss independence, your second post starts with you denying you…Mar 21, 17:42
    • Nae Need! on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Indeed.Mar 21, 17:41
    • Hatey McHateface on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Yet when you apply your same rule to the Brexit vote in Scotland, your forever wanged oan aboot “overwhelming support…Mar 21, 17:39
    • Sven on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “It’s nice to know that following Mr Murrell’s arrest on 5th April 2023 Ms Sturgeon stated that she would “fully…Mar 21, 17:37
    • Marie on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “I just LOVE that Mia’s excellent posts get under your skin!!!Mar 21, 17:34
    • Hatey McHateface on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “If you add up all the numbers in your post, convert the sum to octal, then break it into digit…Mar 21, 17:30
    • Mia on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: ““folk who don’t vote, don’t count” When over 50% of the electorate approaches the polls and cast a vote validating…Mar 21, 17:11
    • Nae Need! on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Correct, she wasn’t. She has indeed. It is. The stench of decay and corruption is all too real. Like walking…Mar 21, 17:11
    • Andy Ellis on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Mia, folk who don’t vote, don’t count. Nor do they get to whinge about the outcome. It you want to…Mar 21, 16:34
    • Mia on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: ““Not content with voting slavishly for “Scottish” Labour for decades to no appreciable end, they have moved apparently seamlessly to…Mar 21, 16:23
    • Old John on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “There is little or no chance of there being a trial.Peter has agreed to take one for the team. He…Mar 21, 16:08
    • Harry Dunlop on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Rev, this line “she simply turned her chair to face the wall and didn’t say a single word for seven…Mar 21, 16:07
    • Andy Ellis on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Sheesh….remind me which plague was first again: was it rivers turning to blood or raining frogs? I mean, I know…Mar 21, 16:03
    • Young Lochinvar on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Another day, another cushy sinecure to push preferred social engineering on others; Maggie Chapman voted in as rector of Dundee…Mar 21, 15:48
    • Andy Ellis on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Why? Because they appear not to have learned from their own history. Not content with voting slavishly for “Scottish” Labour…Mar 21, 15:33
    • Ian Smith on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Sridhar is covering for her own advise that tortured and killed the elderly, and messed up kids, for nothing.Mar 21, 15:18
    • Ian Smith on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “She was largely given a soft time in interviews my a media sympathetic to her lefty statist woke agenda, and…Mar 21, 15:15
    • Ian Smith on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “To claim against the leader and treasurer you would have to demonstrate a loss. Didn’t the party pay back anyone…Mar 21, 15:11
    • MaryB on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “100%yes, Devi Sridhar, professor of Public Health at Edinburgh uni, has been on STV saying that the Coronavirus pandemic showed…Mar 21, 14:57
    • Ian Smith on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Even if she had called her up once in a blue moon you would have expected the conversation to turn…Mar 21, 14:55
    • Lorn on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “The Yes movement as a whole, then. Splitting hairs, Robert. The money was still raised to fight an independence referendum/campaign…Mar 21, 14:50
    • Ian Brotherhood on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “I’m reminded of Confused’s past comments, when he mentioned that so-and-so felt very sad and took a lot of pills.…Mar 21, 14:34
    • Mia on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: ““Maybe it was she who could clearly see that Indy would lose” That is irrelevant. If she decided not to…Mar 21, 14:05
    • Ian Brotherhood on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Well said. Sara Salyers discussed this with Roddy MacLeod on the recent TASP. Voter engagement is heading through the floor.…Mar 21, 13:57
    • Robert Hughes on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Quite so , Mia , though the difficulty at this point is envisaging a situation in which the ( ultimate…Mar 21, 13:53
    • ross on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “will we hear the intricacies of the embezzlement at court? This needs to be brought to court very soon. It’s…Mar 21, 13:46
    • Marie on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Your post from 9am is spot on Mia. Superb!!Mar 21, 13:23
    • Mia on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: ““It’s difficult not to conclude that the lumpen Scottish electorate is not just unutterably dense” Why? I actually think the…Mar 21, 13:17
    • Marie on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “Like you I have no belief in any of those compromised institutions. And I cannot take part in an electoral…Mar 21, 13:10
    • David Thomson on The Deep-Fried Banana Republic: “A local man, who admitted embezzling more than £134,000 from the post office where he was the manager to feed…Mar 21, 13:05
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