Wings Over Scotland

Brilliant, sums uk up.

Excellent Cartoon.

Mind, whilst Boris the clown is popular among the rank and file members, isn’t it the case that only Tory MP’s get to vote on all the leadership candidates, whittling it down to just 2, and then the rank and file party members get to choose from just those two. So, my questions is, would enough Tory MP’s vote to ensure Boris the English clown gets through to the final round?

Either way, their really is no solution coming in any of this soon. Even with a new leader, the Tory and Labour MP’s would still remain divided.

This is why a strong vote for the SNP would be good in the EU elections next week to ensure the message is once again clear, that Scotland does not want England’s racist brexit.

I guess the only upside of all this, is that if Boris the English clown does become Tory leader, and chose to hold a general election, it would be a great chance for the SNP to make the result about independence for Scotland.

At the end of the day, however, the UK overall, is on a daily basis sliding further and further behind other nations of the world, lack of infrastructure, lack of innovation, lack of investment in education. Outside of London, the entire nation is being starved of investment and allowed to deteriorate.

The UK is being dragged down by an inept and incompetent English political class. While other countries have political parties committed to development, investment and growth, London is obsessed with doing the exact opposite.

Will self identifying BritNats in Scotland get on the bus? Probably.
Union Quackery is a peculiar thing.
Proud to go over the cliff, the BritNats probably equate it to the Charge of the Light Brigade.
A greater act of ignorance and self harming has never before been witnessed.

The farce is that the Tories will be having focus groups to see how the new drivers will be accepted by the passengers.

Then there will be the infighting as the lucky few who pass the first test scrabble for advantage and votes from their fellow Tory MPs. But still they will neither consult the passengers nor reflect that they are still falling.

Then at last they will have whittled it down to two who they will present to their members. And for the sake of the analogy it will only be the pensioners on board who get a say and not all of them either… just the “right sort”.
By the time our new and fearless leader slides into the drivers seat and loges in it will be too late.

It sums up the whole sorry mess we are in!

The Tories could not make a bigger mess. They are an absolute disgrace. It doesnot matter who they appoint they are going down big time. Out of Downing Street soon. Never have their been such a group of incompetent useless unionist fools in Westminster and local Gov. Appalling mess and apalling people. Wasting public money like there is no tomorrow. Ruining people’s lives. Causing mental health problems,. Killing people. Just despicable.

Vote SNP/SNP to save the world fro these wicked, totally incompetent people. Vote for Independence to save the world. The power is in the people’s hands. Use it.

Clootie

The Lib Dems will be singing Rule Britannia.
I see the Lib Dems in Scotland as nasty enablers of BritNattery who have attempted to disguise their true intentions.
BritNats to the core. They would be first in the queue for jackboot fittings.

A pity the destination was covered over in 2014.

Yeah, but hope remains. I’m beginning to understand what Dame Vera Lynn was on about…

Those “blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover” might be Pantone 300 blue birds escaping the red bus catastrophe because we have Wings, and capacity to fly independently.

Where’s the Kelty Clippie when you need her?

If only Hamish was on the cliff edge waving cheerio, but we are still strapped inside 🙁

@giving goose

I stand corrected. Rule Brittania would be the LibDem choice. In the 2014 Independence campaign they were the most aggressive Unionists I encountered.

Best summation of Tory Brexit in an image I’ve seen.

Some of these idiots are still talking ‘no deal’. Let’s just just drive of the cliff, they say. They therefore think putting a loony committed to that in charge is good idea.

The EU has made clear that any re-launch of talks after a ‘no deal’ (disasterous) exit will have prerequisites which equate to the current Withdrawal Agreement! The Tories have to accept that it’s not the 19thC and they have international obligations and responsibilities.

This will be news to many in Ukania, not much media coverage.
link to newsweek.com
This is the point of the European Union, independence for countries like Scotland and independence from foreign interference whether US, Russia, China or ‘Anglosphere’ for all the nations within it. In fact the actual raison d’être of the whole project. Small wonder the Brits never got on board. Scotland, ex colonial possession, must.
Vive l’Europe libre…..

@Hamish100

During the indyref I was told by those in the know that none of the care homes would allow either Yes Scotland or RIC inside to talk to people. However we knew BT was in there regularly.

As a RIC activists I had lots of good, polite, nuanced conversations with elderly in the community. I once had a multihand discussion after one woman I’d talked to came out to continue while I was talking to a neighbour then others joined in. It was a hoot and we all laughed like drains while disagreeing. Kind of sums up the indyref for me and when others say it was awful I wonder where they are coming from.

Sadly excellent!

I see farage is giving it big licks in the Guardian with
Scotland won’t be free in the EU”

How he thinks Scotland is free now is beyond me, I hope he is on Chris’s bus.

There is a large element of “we’re in charge, ok!” endemic in BritNattery. You see it with the BBC & QT, where the BBC are quite simply going through an exercise in rubbing our noses in it by what they see as an exercise in power.
Same with the bus over the cliff. Mighty Brits sacrificing themselves come what May (pun intended) and taking us down with them because..er they can.

Great cartoon, the bus falling into what might just be a bottomless pit of despair. The thing is though that those in charge of this disaster aren’t on the bus, they’re the ones pushing it off the cliff. The consequences of this state sponsored debacle will be felt by those least able to defend themselves, that would be most of us. Maybe a mob headed by the queen and may, corbyn, hol and the establishment and media cheering as the bus falls into the black hole might focus minds on just who are responsible and who benefit most.

So apt.

That’s a very well drawn ravine.

Great again Chris.

Last night I heard a snippet on some news or other that Hundreds of Tory Mp,s councellors etc had been caught with Islamaphobic comments on their media postings, and how this was another public humiliation for Theresa May. . . This morning . . . Nothing on any news ive heard.

Re. comments on Lib Dems. I don’t get them. Once upon a time they looked quite progressive and had politicians you felt you might vote for. However they got in bed with the Tories and just seem to have been ‘useful idiots’, betrayed everyone’s hopes before Clegg sailed off into the sunset. If there are any progressive LibDems left in Scotland I just can’t see why they would vote for the party as they still have no chance of getting into power. On the other hand in an independent Scotland they might have a bit more influence…

The comedian Norm Mcdonald states there are only two categories of cliff diver.
1. Grand Champion.
2. Stuff left on a rock.

Guess which ?

starlaw says:

Hundreds of Tory Mp,s councellors etc had been caught with Islamaphobic comments on their media postings,

link to itv.com

Can someone explain the LibDem policy if we get a people’s vote and through an English majority a leave vote is repeated. I have yet to hear or read an answer to that simple but very possible outcome.

It is a straightforward question. Do we stay on the bus as it shoots over the edge OR do they support a Scottish solution.

Tory Leadership latest.
The Times Poll:

“Boris Johnson crushes leadership rivals in poll of Tory members……”

link to archive.is

ronnie anderson says:
18 May, 2019 at 10:18 am
All aboard for ah free ride tae the Cheddar Gorge nae return

Ye micht jist cum oot at Wookey Hole if yer lucky !

Calls for Scotland’s First Minister to stop using the word *Scotland*

For the second day in a row I have received (via the postman) the same election leaflet from the “Welsh Labour” party! I’m in Perth, Scotland. Big picture of Jeremy on the front (1/2 page) and the message in English….’Vote Welsh Labour to bring people back together’ then repeated in Welsh. Have they sent the Scottish ones to Wales? Not that it would sway me from my SNP vote anyway!

Watch the bbc and press as the change in driver comes to fruition.

Johnson (or another of similar ilk), the media will unite behind him / her. Peoples choice, facing up to those nasty Europeans, they need us more than we need them, precious union, uk is exceptional and of course, Dunkirk spirit.

The past will be glossed over, the brexit predicament will be down to the EU, immigrants and other undesirables, such as those wanting an independent Scotland. Those not on the bus will be termed subversive, malcontents, destructive and not one of us, etc.

Both independence cause and SNP will be drowned out in a storm of british nationalism as an election is called. Corbyn won’t be at the races, the press have him in a box with anti-semitism and his dodgy pals. The tories will have a clear run.

I have no doubts how low the tories / brit nats and state will sink and how solid the support will be from the state broadcaster and media will be for them.

We have a fight on our hands, independence will not be gifted to us by the uk ship going down the pan, it’s down to us to make sure we jump ship before it’s too late. This will only be achieved by a unified movement with common disciplined purpose!

Meanwhile in Glasgow, a tiny number of sad, pro-English colonial rule orange folks have turned up for the anti independence ‘march’.

The propagandist, lying BBC where you are, have ‘estimated’ numbers attending at around 10 million, possibly higher.

Honestly you would get more folk at an orange walk in Dublin, FFS. What a bunch of diddies.

Just get out and vote folks, Vote SNP/SNP. Vote for Independence. Save the world from the Westminster unionist imbeciles.

The Brexit affair will be as nothing compared to the fight to ‘save the Union’.
It is evident that England needs Scotland. Without Scotland the UK does not simply cease to exit but the residual element may well lose international face and prestige with consequences impacting on the direction of domestic politics.
Brexit has ‘harrowed’ the establishment heart of English politics. In the self-styled Brexit party we have indicators of what the future may hold.
In Scotland, remain or leave now has a different reference.

To be fair to the BBC (although why should we) they have ignored the Force for Good march….perhaps to spare their blushes.

There is surely, something wrong with the system whereby, the next Prime Minister of this country, is decided by the members of the Conservative Party.

geeo, or at least floating above with a parachute called Independence…

and throwing a life line to Wales and North of Ireland =)

And I would like to think our Scottish Government, backed by the good folk of Scotland, tying a huge sling across the canyon for the good folk of England. Please do not let them perish because of bad choices engineered by a malignantly controlled media.

Peace and Love folks.

Calum McKay says:
18 May, 2019 at 11:54 am

We have a fight on our hands, independence will not be gifted to us by the uk ship going down the pan, it’s down to us to make sure we jump ship before it’s too late. This will only be achieved by a unified movement with common disciplined purpose…

I kinda agree, but differ a little. I think there will be brief moment of opportunity when Independence actually will be a gift for the taking by virtue of our Constitutional Sovereignty, but the big question is whether we will have the clear vision, confidence, and single-mindedness to seize the opportunity, or squander it. It’s my old drum beat I’m afraid. I fear we might easily come unstuck if we squander our chance trying to hammer the round peg of democracy into the square hole of Constitutional Sovereignty.

I believe in Democracy as a principle, but not an inviolable principle. In fact, it’s a very delicate and vulnerable principle, and I absolutely do not trust any democracy that is so clearly compromised and violated by the BritNat Propaganda and long term systemic indoctrination that we see all around us in Scotland.

If our Indy movement is to be unified and prepared to move as one, and yes I agree it must, Nicola MUST give the people CLEAR and decisive leadership, and present all of us, with an uncomplicated and binary choice which everybody across the Indy spectrum can slot right into and get behind. DO NOT over-think it, and please, please, please, do not proffer any more unforced compromise.

Am I anxious? Yes. Absolutely. We have stood at this crossroads before, on 24th June 2016, when our inalienable Constitutional Sovereignty was irreconcilably at odds with the will of the UK majority, but in my opinion, on that occasion we chose the wrong path and forfeited our unassailable Constitutional winning hand. We CANNOT afford to do that again. Such chances are simply too rare, fleeting and valuable to be missed.

If Westminster would force Scotland out of Europe on a flawed and unconstitutional mandate, then Holyrood properly has no choice but to defend Scotland’s Sovereign Constitution, and stand up for our legitimate sovereign mandate to remain.

If any Scottish MP’s or MSP’s harbour doubts about it, I would have them read out loud the Declaration of Arbroath…”Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King…”

If we can dethrone a King who abandons Scotland, you can be damn sure we can similarly exert ourselves to dethrone an elected Government which would sell out and abandon Scotland’s Constitutional Rights and integrity. (You listening Ruth Davidson?)

A determination of Brexit based upon precise Constitutional protocol WILL give Scotland the gift of a Brexit prison break, but we must be ready to go for it, and be sure our courage doesn’t fail us when the time comes.

Sadly, I do not feel like we are anything like ready, but must hope against hope that we are.

The ONLY words of substance and consequence I have heard these last three years were Ian Blackford’s, declaring Scotland would not be removed from Europe against its sovereign will. Everything else we have heard, however flowery and engaging it might sound, is inconsequential. Sovereignty is the only show in town, and we, the people of Scotland OWN IT.

link to twitter.com

The ‘Maintain the Union’ march took place today. Judging by the absence of any wide-angle photographs, the turnout was a couple of dozen.

manandboy, I loved the tweet: ‘All under one brolly’ 🙂

I say , I hope that assembly in freedom Square was given permission and adhered to the rules and regulations laid down by the police with a plethora of marshalls etc .

Not to mention adhered to the minute of time laid down by the GCC.

Lib Dem’s are opportunists riding on someone else’s back at all times they have been like that ever since the Gang of Four departed from labour and transformed into Lib Dem’s sometime later and beyond that partnering up with the tories.
You cannot trust them.
They will change their red line policies to whatever is most likely to win.
A bit like Ruth Davidson .

In Scotland the lib dems stronghold is Orkney Shetland with a fair gathering of them in Sutherland Fife and moray too , places where you have had a large number of English people moving in because of the HM Forces and farming and the oil and fish industries.
It appears strange at first that nowhere else in Scotland votes Lib Dem but then you realise it’s the britnat contingency that gives them numbers in these areas as was seen clearly on question time in Elgin the other day.

Make no mistake about it nine out of ten English people will vote for whatever party has best chance of defeating SNP in their local, every election is a Scottish independence referendum to an English person living in Scotland.
Labour Tory and Lib Dem actually import English MP,s to contest elections in Scotland that’s why there are so many English MP,s in holyrood ,most,of them list MP,s and some don’t even live in Scotland .
I can’t wait for the day when HM Forces are sent packing from Scotland along with their Union Jack flags
I can wait for the end of Union Jack flags on all our Scottish produce
I can’t wait for the deportation of BBC and the introduction of a Scottish broadcasting service
that will show Scotland’s World Cup qualifying matches live on tv home and away

I’m tired of BBC and STV showing England’s football matches home and away live on tv in Scotland whilst they only show the Scotland’s games live if at home with just highlights if playing away from home

And why should we have to pay a tenth of the cost of the Olympics in London and a tenth of HS2 high speed rail

England is a big neighbour for us ,twelve times as big, with a terrible crime record across the planet and an arrogant expectation and lack of respect for Scotland ,how did we ever get ourselves into this ? Who in their right mind would team up with them ?
Betrayed by the same kind of people that betray Scotland now, Brown Darling Davidson and the rest
Sure some English people in Scotland vote YES for Scottish independence but they are a small percentage ,many of them are actually married to a Scottish person or partner one or have a parent or grandparent who is Scottish and would qualify for Scottish nationality anyway but the bulk are britnats make no mistake about that.

Back to your rabid anti english claptrap callachan.

Presumably you can prove all that bollocks ?

Farage and Brexit Party Conference in Edinburgh is on YouTube.

I couldn’t post the link for some reason.

It’s cringeworthy, embarrassing, hypocritical, and Farage says some great words about how a country deserves to govern itself.

Otherwise, it looks suspiciously like Rent-a-crowd, bused in especially for the event.
It’s just too much like a set-up.

I feel quite sick after watching.

If the people in Scotland own it. The people in Scotland need to vote for it. No one else can. Get out there and play their part. Do not leave it to someone else. Join, donate, campaign. Do everything they can,

Vote SNP/SNP. Vote for Independence.

Mac 3.47pm. It must have been what it was like with the same sort of mob in a munich beer hall pre 1939

“The loyalty of the military to the status quo, whatever that might be, is never in doubt.”

There are plenty of former (and present) military who support Scotland terminating the Treaty of Union and, once again, being an independent nation.

@jfngw says at 5:13 pm

Nah, word on the street is there were auditions being held in Glasgow today for The Walking Dead. Apparently after 9 seasons they’ve now run out of zombies in America…

#zombienation

From the Maybot to BoJo, that would be one hell of a delusional and illiberal dead-end for Scotland.

What can we do? A philosophical analysis
of individual self-determination

Abstract

The principle of self-determination, as commonly established, is based on a formal and individualistic view of liberty rights. This perspective, however, is inconsistent with the needs of a community and particularly with the necessity to promote integration between subjects and a relatively stable social order. I propose a different perspective, the one that not only takes into account individuals but also relationships.

In particular, what I propose is: 1) that any community is aware of a specific social order, which consists of a set of practices, 2) that these practices express specific values, 3) that these values are the result of historical and cultural circumstances, 4) that they are subject to a permanent public debate, and finally 5) that the individual praxis can lead to recognition of rights only if it is consistent with these values. In this perspective there is no general liberty for self-determination of the subject outside specific relationships. It only could be stated that one has a practical liberty (not a right) to do and behave as one wants, but one’s rights depend on the relationships in which the person is engaged.

Keywords
Self-determination, relationships, community, values, rights, liberty, individualism.

link to scielo.org.co

@Proud Cybernat
Somehow, can’t visualise Scottish military personnel staging a coup d’état in support of independence. They will do as they are bidden by their seniors.
Remember reading somewhere that the military in Scotland are unquestioningly ‘loyalist’.
After three centuries of programing hardly surprising.

Frank Gillougly@5.27
If the TV boycott is what I hope it is, many thanks for the support.

Anna Soubry declares Scotland Independent in a speech in Glasgow today

*Scotland had the good sense to vote remain in the referendum but the UK voted differently*

Even when they’re pretending to be on our side they’re ignorantly stupidly not

Breeks @ 13:42,

Here’s the framework of 2016:

+ Constitutionally speaking, the Claim of Right together with the Treaty of Union means that normally our soverereignty rests with our MPs in WM.

+ However in a referendum, WM explicitly transfers sovereignty directly to the people, at least in the case of an non-advisory referendum. Although the way the UKGov has been behaving, even in the case of a supposedly “advisory” referendum as well.

+ The consequence of that transfer is different in England and in Scotland. In the case of Scotland, because sovereignty is vested in the people, there can be no “advisory” referendum. For us, sovereignty is indivisible.

+ Having explicitly ceded sovereignty from our representatives in WM to the people in a referendum – any referendum – in the particular case of the EU referendum, the result of a 62% win for Remain is binding. The Unionist argument that “it was an all-UK affair only” is untenable, precisely because of the abovementioned constitutional difference.

+ Taking Scotland out of the EU against that vote therefore creates a constitutional crisis. (And that is actually the case irrespective of the existing SG mandate.) Tory posturing about shutting-up and meekly “respecting referendum results” is thus an egregious inversion of the truth, at least in their reaction to the 2016 EURef.

So your basic take on the 2016 referendum is quite justified. And it rather disappoints me, as it also apparently does yourself, that the SG hasn’t (as yet anyway) made any legal move in that regard.

However, there are two cautionary aspects to this:

+ We are not out of the EU yet. So maybe the SG are necessarily “keeping their powder dry” for that event. And presumably are frustrated that the event keeps getting delayed by the chaos in London.

+ In the end, this is British-style politics. There isn’t a tradition here of heavy-duty advance litigation over political issues, nor a proper Supreme Court with a constitution behind it. Instead we have a court with little apparent learning in, or understanding of, the unique constitutional position of Scotland within the UK. And above all, little understanding among the general population of the constitutional niceties as they affect them, fundamental to their interests as they may be.

This is the main difficulty that the SG must labour under. Some of us may think that by bringing it into play, it might raise public awareness and act as a rallying-point, but it might instead be seen as a theoretical nit-picking exercise in futility and thus flop. Hence the irritating apparent lack of action on that front. It’s not an easy call to make.

But maybe it’s still on the cards, awaiting its due time.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

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British nationalism is an expression of expansionist English nationalism. Or to put it another way, it is an expression of Tory cultural chauvinism. Or to look at it another way, it is an articulation of authoritarian, racist, misogyny.

Reconstructing Self-Determination: The Role
of Critical Theory in the Positivist International Law Paradigm

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the third annual LatCrit conference’s panel on Race, Nation, and Identity: Indigenous Peoples and LatCrit Theory. As moderator of this panel, I will undertake two tasks. First, I will introduce the panelists and provide a few words concerning a common theme that this illustrious group will address. This theme revolves around the role that critical race theory may have on, what I will, call self-determination movements.

In addition to making these introductory remarks, I will follow the theoretical framework of this conference by undertaking an innovative critical analysis of another common thread that weaves through all of these discussions, namely, the acceptance of the liberal international law doctrine of self-determination. In particular, I will critique the purportedly universal norm of self-determination in order to expose and explain its inherent subjectivity and the incoherence that results from its arbitrary nature.

I will undertake this task by assessing the positive legal paradigm that exists for addressing international law. In addition to pointing out the flaws of the paradigm, I will engage in a deconstruction of the right of self-determination. I will conclude with a brief reconstruction of this right.

I. SELF DETERMINATION DEFINED

Whether discussing the movements of indigenous people, the neocolonial plight of the people of South Asia, or a comparative analysis of Eastern Europeans, this panel is addressing what traditional parlance describes as a people’s quest for greater autonomy and for a separate state.3 In other words, we are describing various forms of selfdetermination.4

Self determination is recognized as “the right of a people or a nation to determine freely by themselves without outside pressure to pursue their political and legal status as a separate entity.”5 The principie of self-determination is dichotomous. It is boldly radical and progressive, yet it is also deeply subversive.6 The principle as such has egalitarian underpinnings and is theoretically universal in its intended applicability and scope.7 “perhaps no contemporary norm of international law has been so vigorously promoted or widely accepted as the right of all peoples to self-determination.”8

Self determination is grounded on human rights precepts that recognize that all peoples are “equally entitled to be in control of their own destinies”. Self-determination is based on principles of human freedom and equality. As such, it
is at odds with colonial rule or similar forms of foreign domination.9

ecollections.law.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1315&context=faculty_publications

Arghh, apologies, dodgy mouse button failed to collect second link.

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British nationalism illiberal? British nationalism denies Scots the potential for “internal self-determination” (see the full-English Brexit).

@Scottland In Union
GIRFUY!

Internal self-determination

It is generally agreed that peoples have a right to self-determination. The principle is present in UN and other legal documents as a moral1 or as a legal right (see also Chapter 17). But we must immediately distinguish between the right to internal self-determination and the right to external self-determination.

The right to external self-determination is the right to own a sovereign state. It can apply to a population that already owns a sovereign state, but also to peoples that do not yet have one. In the latter case, it involves the violation of the territorial integrity of the encompassing state. It can take the form of secession when the people creates its own state, or association if the people associates itself with a neighboring state.

Internal self-determination is in general defined as the right for a people to develop itself socially, economically and culturally within an encompassing state and to determine its political status within that state. This is how the notion is defined in the UN Charter (UN, 1945) and in the Declaration on friendly relations among states (UN, 1970). This is also how it is defined in the Declaration on the rights of Aboriginal Peoples. (UN 2007)

In this paper, I focus essentially on the right to internal self-determination and its connection with secession. It is relevant to issues of external self-determination, because one of the main reasons for allowing unilateral secession to take place is the violation of the right to internal self-determination. If the encompassing state is not willing to grant internal self-determination to its component nations, this for the UN can count as an injustice and seems to justify a unilateral remedial right to secede.

So in general, UN documents assert that peoples have a primary right to internal self-determination and have a remedial right to secession or external self-determination. And unilateral secession can be justified in the case of colonies, oppressed peoples and when the state does not secure internal self-determination for its internal minorities.2

link to researchgate.net

“It not easy being a Brexit supporter” – Louis Stedman-Bryce

@StedmanBryce
Being a racist bigot is part of the human condition, so supporting the full-English Brexit comes naturally to the “old-fashioned personality”. You are selling authoritarian, xenophobic, English nationalism to Scots you tit.

Breeks at 1342

Excellent post. I totally agree, in particular about no more unforced compromises, and CLEAR leadership, with no more overthinking things. I do hope the Scottish Government has this all in hand.

As regards eurovision, I can’t watch it, as a country actively involved in mass, barbaric genocide and illegal land seizures from poor people over a number of decades is hosting it. It is ok to say politics shouldn’t be mixed with things like singing contests, but does their not come a point, where the degree of inhumane barbarity indulged in by a country really means it is not fit to be hosting such an event?

Let us hope that it is a civilised country which wins and hosts next year.

Denying Scotland the right to self-determination, is in accordance with the “rational paternalism” of racist, colonial patriarchy. As such, British nationalism is well past its’ use-by date. Remember, the English school of International Relations tends to articulate a gender-blind and positivist interpretation of international law. Just one of the many reasons why the international community is wary of the British.

A New Handbook of Political Science
International Relations: Post?Positivist and Feminist Perspectives

Questions the optimism for international relations cited in the 1975 Handbook of Political Science. Unprecedented global change has divided international relations, and optimism for consensus has eroded. Through a diversity of viewpoints, feminism provides optimism for the broadening of theory and of empirical base. Using a post?positivist methodology, feminism challenges ethnocentrism and state?centrism, and rejects universalism and claims of objectivity. Feminism’s appreciation of difference provides realistic optimism for the future of international relations.

Keywords: difference, ethnocentrism, feminism, global change, international relations, objectivity, post?positivism, state?centrism, universalism

link to oxfordscholarship.com

Dr Jim @ 22:02,

Another example of Brexist paranoid anti-logic. We would be in the thrall of the other 27 countries, but each of them somehow magically escapes being in the thrall of the others… oh, including us!

It’s hard to be level-headed in the midst of this latest outbreak of mass psychosis. History will look back on this episode and assign it – and its main protagonists – to the same category as the Salem witch trials.

@ Mac – I watched a few minutes of the intro with the sound off. Looks creepy. Will have a proper look tomorrow when I feel more up to it.

I think the problem is that people lack the information they need to form a proper opinion on “populist” rhetoric. The media completely fail to present the facts. The BBC promote BREXIT and does anyone have a clue what “populist” actually means?

How can any referendum work in the UK when a few oligarchs have such a stranglehold on information.

Robert J. Sutherland – “Which is why it’s absolutely crucial for all Remainers to get behind the SNP on the 23rd, whatever their individual reservations may or may not be.”

We can all make guesstimates of what factors induce “the electorate” to choose one party over the others. I wonder how many normally SNP inclined voters feel that the Party is becoming more like a Trojan Horse packed full of European Federalists and blind adherents to whatever doctrine of he day is in vogue with the Middle Class Left.

For my part I find it impossible to convince myself that the future well-being of the Scottish masses is more at threat from British/English Imperialism, than it is from Globalism and wonder how long I can continue to vote SNP while holding my nose.

More on populist politics.

Populism as an Expression of Political Communication Content and Style: A New Perspective

Abstract

In this article, the introduction to a special International Journal of Press/Politics (IJPP) issue on populism, we articulate and define populism as a communication phenomenon. We provide an overview of populist political communication research and its current foci. We offer a framework for ongoing research and set the boundary conditions for a new generation of research on populist political communication, with an aim to push the research agendas and design toward a more interactive, systematic, and in particular, comparative approach to the study of populist political communication.

Keywords democracy, editors, comparative research, journalism

link to journals.sagepub.com

Capella
Britain is an “ambiguous democracy” (see Scotland’s democratic deficit), fast on track to becoming a “failed-state” (see the full-English Brexit).

Well well england last.sorry britain.

I’m off on one again, more on populism. Remember, though the indy movement could be described as “populist”, it is progressive in nature and supportive of multicultural tolerance. Contemporary British nationalism is characterised by racism, xenophobia, and a disregard for the rule-of-law. ;(

Regrounding Populism: Moving Beyond Questions of Definition and Content

Abstract

While conventional studies of electoral populism acknowledge that such mobilizations are linked to significant economic crises, their preoccupation with defining what exactly populism is often leads them to downplay the unified structural roots of different sorts of populistmobilizations.

This essay presents the beginnings of an alternative framework for the study of electoral populism that draws on the neo-Gramscian theory of political articulation that links studies of global economic crises with conventional theories of populism. While crises are an endemic feature of global capitalism, their political manifestation is shaped by the varied institutional structures and legacies in which they are translated.

Keywords
Political articulation; Gramsci; Strategic depoliticization; Economic crisis

link to jwsr.pitt.edu

RE: the discourse on Dick Gaughan.

I have this album on vinyl. I like how he used a unionist tune to promote Scottish independence. Satire, ur whut?

The lyrics are below the video if you scroll down.

link to youtube.com

Col.Blimp IV at 10.57

Another false friend appears. Getting very boring.

Street stall today in Dunoon. Met some real dafties. The usual – I want independence but I wont vote SNP because I want out of the EU. So you’d rather be governed by Boris Johnson than be independent? Puzzled silence.
Answer. An independent Scotland will be able to make the choice about EU membership.
Or, what was a very persuasive point. The EU will support Scotland’s right to independence. Look at the support they are giving Ireland.

BTW: did anyone else notice that Madonna was singing slightly flat in her Eurovision “performance”?

Dave

Was chatting to one of our SNP peeps who took part in a street stall today. Said the response was encouragingly positive. It does help having a clear message on the EU without having to triangulate all over the place.

Lib Dems can’t open their mouths without a whole load of unnecessary pish about Scottish independence and why the SNP made David Steel brush Cyril Smith under the carpet (no easy task).

@HandandShrimp

“Who knew Farage was ultra Vegan and all dairy products have to banned within a two mile radius of his vicinity.”

TBH I never thought he was really from this planet anyway.

If however, he turns out to be deluged by said product, his innate blatant vitriol risks turning the ensuing coverage into cheese, a la halloumi, although the squeaking from that might cause cross communication issues with his own pronouncements.

Perhaps he could be renamed Nigel Fromage?

Hi Col.Blimp IV at 12:52 am.

You typed,
“Back in the day I had an Alisdair MacDonald LP that had that song on it. That was when Dick would have bitten his own tongue off rather than sing anything that might get him accused of being pro independence.”

Can I refer you to this?

link to wingsoverscotland.com

Some knowledge tools to counter the voodoo sold by the Fromage Prince.

Expert discusses definition and effects of populism
link to phys.org

Col.Blimp IV @ 01:28,

Well, that was then. And your point is, exactly?

The earth-shattering revelation that aware people change their views and political preferences as circumstances reveal previously-hidden realities, or that diehards refuse to change no matter what, or what…?

You sound like a (small-c) conservative. (Hence the moniker, I suppose…)

Oh look..a new ‘concern troll’

Wonder how long this one will last ?

Gone in the ‘blimp’ of an eye, or gone in a ‘dusty bin’ ?

Is it coco maybe in new clothes ?

Is it Henry, the mild mannered janitor?

Does anyone have a Scooby ?

Or perhaps Officer Drivel at your service ?

Another day, another faux indy disruptor.

The British Leyland of Britnats, not built to last long.

Seriouslly geeo, would a Troll make up a story like that and to what end?

Imagine if Scotland went into Eurovision trash with the cool pipes and kilts swinging it. Scotland would win it, The Europeans and Astrasians love it, The diaspora voting for it.

Scotland pro rata won the Olympic Games.

Tennis. Murray having to take a Knighthood he did not want for the fans. Forced to see politicians trying to cash in after matches. Boring. Andy would rather try and beat Jamie at table tennis the next day, and visa versa. Scotland loses out tennis funding from the UK Treasury. UK Tennis gets £60million of funding. Scotland get £800K of it. It should be £5Million pro rata.

So much for the cringing knighthood. Scotland. been cheated out again. The Murray’s bring £Millions/Billions into UK sport. The Westminster Treasury undermines Scottish funding once again Scotland loses out, Westminster unionist imbeciles and vacant coupons. Brexit fools and chancers.

The unionist Press trying to keep the non existent feuds going. Non existent spokesperson. Fake quotes that never happen. Pathetic.

@ gus1940 – there is obviously a fatwa against mentioning the SNP unless SNPBad.

I’ve been listening to RScotland GMS this morning to hear what they have to say in this week before the EU elections. They have so far managed to keep the SNP out of almost all discussion. The politics review was focused solely on the “two main parties” plus the LibDems. The SNP were briefly mentioned but only because of their effect on the LD election leaflets.

There is now a lengthy discussion on the Church of Scotland and Christian Aid. Interesting though this is, it sounds like a huge diversion to get the presenters off the hook of having to do any real politics.

In the purdah period before an election, I wonder how the Electoral Commission justifies the clear breach of rules practised by the BBC.

Their extended media review coming up next.

BBC GMS neatly dodges the Sunday National front page from discussion. Let’s spend 5 minutes or so on the next royal wedding and discussions over what some royal clothes are being worn by some worthy.

Re comments on “Scottish Breakaway” :
First published I believe by the Bo’ness Rebels Literary Society who met in the now demolished Learig bar. Author is credited as “Thurso Berwick” (see what he did there?). This was a nom de plume often used by Maurice Blythman, who apparently was one of the many “Nationalist” literary figures who attended the Learig sessions.
As well as the book I have a compilation LP with the song sung by the late Hamish Imlach, dating back to the late 1960s. (The unmistakable voice of Matt McGinn can be clearly heard in the choruses.
The Learig bar was owned by Charles Auld, a great Nationalist stalwart, who always flew the saltire. A bit less common back then!

@ Capella and gus1940

Pretty much. Mibbies me, but the narrative of Betterthigitherness looking fairly thin gruel ’bout now.

Given that the SNP are the party of Scottish government, the third party by mandate of the Westminster parliament and the second party by membership of the (Not Very) United Onion? You’d think that they’d rate a bit more of a meeja presence.

Who knew?

Scotland is the elephant in the room as regards the current political landscape.

Despite the backstabbery, the twists and turns of Ms May’s government, the contortions of the Labour party to square its own circle and the sheer brass necked hypocrisy of the Libdems which have extended this process for everyone. The UK is headed precisely toward the political and societal place (carnage) it was always headed.

Cameron got ambushed by his own electoral successes and arrogance. The nanosecond he won that election and found himself in a majority government, he was hoisted by his own manifesto pledges on the EU. The clock was ticking on constitutional crisis from then on.

Cameron’s gamble/Tory pissing contest. A smidge of idiocy (OK… A barrel load). And the usual helping of that institutional arrogance and ignorance mentioned earlier. The rest is a directors cut of a process with an inevitable conclusion.

Capella says:

A Panelbase poll has the SNP way out ahead in the EU election

SNP 38%
BREX 16%
LAB 16%
CON 11%
LDEM 10%
GREENS 4%
ChUK. 2%

That would probably give SNP 3 and Brexit, Lab, Con 1 each.

Great outcome for SNP.

However, that’s 3 pro Brexit winners which doesn’t reflect Scotland at all. I would prefer to see an addition anti Brexit winner – ideally Greens, but LibDem would be appropriate.

I do hope the Tories get none, so we can shove failure in Davidson and Mundell’s smug faces.

Jings! Tory triffid plants in the audience as usual but shurley in the book only the visually impaired were caught.
Do the BBC think the Scottish folk are daft?

Farage balloons in Scotland discuss Brexit amid shortages of milkshakes and now reported sightings of blimps!

Shortbread radio …anything /anyone except the SNP don’t mention any EU polls.

Woo hoo , Oban’s Johm Mcphee wins French Motorcycle moto 3 Grand Prix,
Sadly he had to endure an Anti Scottish song on the top step of the podium.

Keith fae Leith there are 2 electoral registrations , 1 private & the other public , if your on the Private register then there has been a breach of Data protection act , all councils sell information from the Public electoral register or they can your information from the Public Library .

I think we have to remember what happened last time since last time there was only tory and labour sharing the unionist vote this time Nigel is grabbing a big chunk of that.

That is why Nigel is desperately trying to get us indy Scots to fall for his after brexit pish so vote for me then we can talk about indy yea right!

He knows all he has done is hand this to the SNP and split the british nationalist vote up here ,the lower percentage each of the 3 parties will get effectively makes them fighting each other for 1 seat each lol

Nigel tell you what you want to talk okay lets talk about English independence it is going to be happening, you want to be PM well guess what while we Scots are still in the UK that will never happen because we will dig up all your skeletons and expose them to the English people,but hey if we were indy we would be to busy having a pint and enjoying ourselves to bother and hey you might be able to come up and have a pint as well without McDonald`s having to ban milkshake.

If by chance you are one of those Scots indy people who want out the EU as well remember we will be asking this question to the Scots people when we are indy but it would be a good idea for us to keep our allies if only for protection against westminster and the tories which Nigel happens to be as well ,he is an ultra tory a very rare breed of psychopath the tories are not tory enough for him.

Marr to Rory Stuart on Brexit, let’s talk about migratory birds because they’re very important

Eh? whit? did I? Eh? I thought I’d nodded off and was dreaming for a minute there