This week the Scottish media went in quite heavily with the news that Ruth Davidson had signed up “Scottish fishing industry leaders” to back the UK government over the Scottish Government, after the latter had warned that Westminster planned to sell out the industry again during Brexit negotiations.
To be honest we didn’t pay it a lot of heed, assuming that “Scottish fishing industry leaders” just meant Bertie Armstrong again – a longstanding ultra-staunch Unionist and Leave supporter with a track record as a reliable anti-independence rentaquote – and nothing in the coverage led us to believe otherwise.
But then we saw a picture:
![The guy at the extreme right as we look at the pic is Banff & Buchan general election candidate David Duguid, and the guy at extreme left is Ian Gatt, who's another fishing spokeman type.](https://i0.wp.com/wingsoverscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fishyruth-1.jpg?resize=460%2C307&ssl=1)
Mr Armstrong is the white-haired and bearded chap standing immediately to the right of Davidson in the photo, with his hand on the top corner of her pledge. But who’s the fellow immediately to the left of her?
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Because the party is still stuffed with braindead cockroaches like this:
![gallagher](https://i0.wp.com/wingsoverscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/gallagher.jpg?resize=460%2C414&ssl=1)
People of North Ayrshire, you’ve got a real prize there. Well done you.
The next Scottish council elections are in May next year.
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We know it’s early doors, but we’re going to state with some confidence now that this is the Tweet Of The Night:
![timst](https://i0.wp.com/wingsoverscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/timst.jpg?resize=460%2C217&ssl=1)
Yes, that really is Tim Stanley, leader writer of the Telegraph, complaining about being up against the British establishment in a referendum. (In which Leave was supported by, among others, the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, and the Daily Express – the #1, #2, #4 and #6 best-selling newspapers in the country – along with around half of the MPs of the governing party.)
For extra fun, we might collect some of his indyref tweets later. But to the very best of our recollection, he didn’t consider the Yes campaign’s 45% – which really WAS achieved against the entire British establishment, without a single daily newspaper’s support – as a “moral victory”.
But, y’know, we’ll check.
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We’re a bit behind, but we only just saw this.
![toady](https://i0.wp.com/wingsoverscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/toady.jpg?resize=460%2C537&ssl=1)
Suddenly a 70% Remain vote in Scotland looks like a conservative estimate.
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Over the past few days, readers, we haven’t been able to avoid noticing a recurring theme among Unionist types on social media – namely that the Holyrood election results are proof that support for independence is declining.
![We're really not sure what timescale you have to be working with to make this true. idiotkipper](https://i0.wp.com/wingsoverscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/idiotkipper.jpg?resize=460%2C212&ssl=1)
![Suspiciously vague, there. is1](https://i0.wp.com/wingsoverscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/is1.jpg?resize=460%2C88&ssl=1)
But it’s not until you ask them to explain that it gets completely mental.
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I know he’s a figure of comedy and pity, but this is something else.
![At least spell the guy's name right, you loathsome old dick. foulkeshaker](https://i0.wp.com/wingsoverscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/foulkeshaker.jpg?resize=460%2C190&ssl=1)
Someone glue the cork in the bottle, eh? For his own good.
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A serial offender.
![As ever, please do NOT do anything stupid with the information on this link. The moral high ground should be retained. mccaskill4](https://i0.wp.com/wingsoverscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/mccaskill4.jpg?resize=460%2C218&ssl=1)
We’re sure Ruth Davidson will act with her usual decisive swiftness.
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Party member. We’re sure Ruth Davidson (who follows him) will take prompt action.
![Wouldn't it be strange if she said and did nothing, readers? leary](https://i0.wp.com/wingsoverscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/leary.jpg?resize=460%2C339&ssl=1)
She will, won’t she?
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The website of the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland says:
“The Protestant ethic is one of tolerance of other faiths and ideals. It is this tolerance and liberty that the Orange Order promotes and defends.”
So who’d like to see the Order tolerating and defending other people’s ideals in a double-page spread from the latest edition of their house journal, The Orange Torch?
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