Wings Over Scotland

Spot on

Absolutely brilliant. Obviously the SNP carriages are the TRANS – Europe express? Yes movement engine us the Cannon ball express,driving forward choo choo.

Excellent cartoon.

Indy supporters have had enough of the lies from the SNP grifters. Almost one decade of unparalelled voter support, since 2014, and they have done NOTHING to advance independence. Their MPs living it up in auld London toon.

That’s the SNP gravy train coming to a halt in the cartoon. The indy campaign is moving on without them. At the next election Humza useless and his grifter chums are finished.

Such a powerful image. So true. It didn’t have to be like this, but the those currently running the SNP are doubling down. They want to control the entire Yes movement. An impossible task. Forcing everyone to choose. “You are either with us, or against us” is the current message. Well, the train is leaving the station, and I know which side I want to be on. As the image brilliantly shows, there is one side with all the power, about to steam ahead. Those who have deliberately uncoupled themselves are about to be left behind. I wonder how many decent folk will soon jump out of the yellow coach when they realise it ain’t going anywhere.

Oooooft back o the net Chris.

Brilliant as usual, Chris.

Excellent cartoon, Chris! Sums the situation up perfectly.

For too long now, 8+ years in fact, the charlatans and troughers have taken for granted their Holy Trinity of Sturgeon, SNP and Yes. I guess the writing is well and truly on the wall, given how desperate some of their rantings have now become. Newsflash for all the charlatans and troughers – You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting.

SNP out!

Oh very good.
The Yes engine staying on the mainline of course, while the SNP carriage is shunted into a closed branch line.

Another cracker. Says it all.

A great cartoon Chris. They’re conscious of what they’re doing alright. Unfortunately for Yusaf, he doesn’t have the skills of his predecessor Sturgeon, the consummate liar. His lies and contradictions are obvious to anyone who isn’t being willfully blind.

I would even go as far as to say, ‘The conscious/unconscious uncoupling’.

This is definitely happening.

Just the other day I was applying for a college course for my son and I could not believe the amount of questions about trans shit we had to answer.

I mentioned rant style to the wife who has always voted SNP, about all the trans crap, ‘where is it coming from, who is pushing it’, etc, etc and she turned round and said something along the lines, ‘that’s what happens when you vote SNP’.

I was a bit taken aback as she is not all that political.

So I tried to come back with a yeah well answer and said, ‘Yeah we need to vote for a party like Alba’.

Lol, I’m not even sure she knows anything about Alba.

Having said all that, looking at the Scottish political scene at the moment I do think Alba has got the most amazing opportunity to become a leading force in Scottish politics.

I really do hope they can get the right people and strategies in place to achieve this.

Well done Chris

The current status summed up in one cartoon

Fantasticus! Chris!
And they can all just fuck right off, and when they get to where they fucked off to, they can all just fuck right off again!
Ther. Grifters one and all.

What’s missing from Chris Cairns’s cartoon is the SNP/Alba warriors on the roof throwing lumps of metaphorical coal at each other.

And let us not forget that while all this infantile squabbling is going on, the British Nationalists are openly planting a bomb under Scotland.

100%Yes, thanks for that , the comments are wonderful – now wait for the ‘you should have archived that’ brigade to swat you!

Voters have no political levers? The so called pro-independence party.. SNP, has lost the plot, voters could care less, if the party crashes and burns!

The sooner the movement realises focus should be on alternative political agency, the better. Any additional time needed to replace SNP, is time well spent! The status quo, no longer tolerable.

In fact, the sooner SNP is taught a lesson by the electorate, the sooner this situation can be turned around! Holyrood would benefit from fewer SNP seats.

The Indy movement must oust and replace SNP with genuine pro-independence people!

@ One Scot

Re: Alba. What a propaganda gift Chris’s work could be for them. Whether they would see it that way and approach him on the matter is quite another question, of course.
A cartoon of that quality, strategically placed, is the equivalent of at least a million leaflets!

Peter Bell is right in the sense that the independence movement is best served by at least one large, organised and energised political party with representation in whatever political process the UK provides and an ability to turn out the vote.

However, the concepts of “large”, “organised” and “energised” are becoming harder and harder to square with the reality of the SNP. Throw into the mix that the current inhabitants are really only interested in being kept at the trough – hence the threats – and it’s starting to look past it’s shelf life.

Sooner or later push must come to shove. Either the SNP gets refurbished or rehabilitated or something else comes along. Given the current state of affairs and the learned helplessness of politicians across the board, “something else” is starting to look more attractive. The SNP have had many chances and failed to deliver. The only conclusion is that their unable or unwilling to deliver on their promises.

So, decoupling the Yes Movement, and that dreadful pastel colour scheme, from the SNP is a good next step as it serves as a reminder of who’s in charge of who and that support should never be taken for granted lest it comes to be expected.

As for the non-voters at the next general election? What better than a series of rallies demonstrating support for independence and decrying the failure of the political parties to enact the will of the populace. That would certainly be hard to ignore on the international stage.

Repeating the mistakes of the past 8 years with the hope that this time it will be different is insane.

Hi Dorothy D.

I think 100%Yes was flagging up the comments.

You can’t read the comments at an archived page.

There’s not one comment in support of Guigliano’s position!

Excellent cartoon Chris!

@Dorothy Devine

Everything the SNP has done since Sturgeon took over was for self preservation for their own careers with no regard of what damage was being done to Scotland and its people still being tied to this Union that only looks after the rich. The journey the SNP is on is of its own making and has nothing to do with the YES movement, Alba Party or ISP and the SNP started the firing gun by Sturgeon going on national TV and criticizing the former FM who was just acquitted by a jury the SNP now wants to do away with.

You can’t get Sturgeon out of the press now, everyday she finding something to talk about and what does she want to talk about herself. The problem is if we in the Alba party say whats is really happening we are called the bad guys, NAW the SNP modeled that image themselves they own it.

Looks like a steam loco to me.

Accurate, given Scotland’s poor record of rail electrification.

But fossil fuelled locos will be banned soon.

Time for the Yes movement to switch to a new motive unit?

Well, duuuh, as the yoof like to say.

Toni Giugliano says independence is off the agenda if the SNP lose the next election. Who is he or anyone else in the leadership to make such a pronouncement? That is for the members to decide, not the continuing cabal at the top, meant to be leading the party to the destination for which it exists – independence.

In any event a backbone is required. Throughout its long existence from 1934, defeat did not deter us – only made us more determined to reach our highest point in 2014,followed by undreamt of opportunities which were not seized.

BDTT, hello to you , yes I just realised if it is archived one can’t read the comments.
I have to say they were an excellent indicator of the ordure in which the SNP now wallow and hell mend them.

It appears that we are all out of step with that giant of the Indy Movement….Peter A Bell.
If only we listened to his instruction to stay coupled to the SNP for one more push!

Great pic!

We know it makes sense.

They’re just a dead weight to the Yes movement & only interested in Devo.
Ash had a chance to redeem it from its own act of self harm. It doesn’t want redeemed. Straight from the membership.

We’ve wasted enough time on them. I really hope they are wiped out at the elections. They’re only the deviants party now & all they care about is thier deviants charter. I’ll never put my x to sexualising & mutilating other people’s weans to fulfill their demonic fetish.

Great cartoon.

The image of the SNP getting ditched by the Yes movement, getting left in a siding is absolutely on the money.

It also evokes the image of the gravy train coming to and end which is also on the money.

I don’t think we fully understand just how the SNP vote will collapse. Resididual attachment is masking the polls and the true level of SNP support is yet to emerge. But with Alba on the rise, with the prospect of non SNP unity independence candidates emerging the SNP’s days are numbered.

Independence support is sitting around 50% without a campaign whilst the SNP support plummets to maybe half of that or even less.

With Sir Keir Starmer having visited Rutherglen this week it certainly seems that a by election might loom for the popular Margaret Ferrier now an independent.

And if a by election does arise and Margaret stands as an Alba / Independent Indy candidate who would be brave enough to put a bet on an SNP win. No one I would say. The SNP are toast.

Yes a very very good cartoon. And maybe not too long before Chris produces another transport related toon with lifeboats of folks ditching the SS SNP.

What is it with the SNP and Motorhomes?

link to bls.scot

“What’s missing from Chris Cairns’s cartoon is the SNP/Alba warriors on the roof throwing lumps of metaphorical coal at each other”

The SNP has morphed into a devolutionist party with no intention and no interest in delivering independence. Continuing to bury the head on the sand and refusing to accept this does nothing to progress independence. What it does is to help them continue stalling it.

The SnP has been, at all practical effects, deliberately sabotaging its raison d’etre and deliberately betraying the yes movement. For this reason, we own them nothing. We own them no loyalty nor consideration and certainly no seats nor our vote.

We do not have to listen to them either nor accept the bullshit they continue to churn on a daily basis to justify their wastage of our time, mandates and majorities. If that feels like being thrown “lumps of coal”, I am sorry Peter, but they are well deserved.

As today, there is a serious question as to how many of the members the SNP still has on its database are truly independence supporters and not pro Devo-max or FFA or simply see the SNP as the safest option to preserve the union.

As far as I am concerned, there is nothing left in the SNP that is worthwhile saving. It has become, at all practical effects, the biggest obstacle to Scotland’s independence and therefore that albatross must be removed from Scotland’s neck, by whatever means, and the sooner the better.

The yes movement cannot continue to be held to ransom by a bandwagon of cowards, charlatans, timewasters, political frauds and troughers. Time to give them the boot.

Nice one Chris….YES steams on while the SNP have the brakes applied and grind to a halt. NOW if we can just get the YES loco up to Shinkasen standard, we’ll be off

Interesting Nicola seems to be getting a few bookings.

Why would the MSM have permission to still give her profile

Hmmmmm

Let me think

Great cartoon! 100% sums up exactly what we have to do to get ahead! It quite cheered me up but I also agree 100% with Karen above, who said it should have shown our wee lion doing the uncoupling. (Don’t you just love armchair cartoonists, Chris)?

The Independence movement has the fuel. As for nusnp they’ve got a rickety auld carriage which will prang and collapse.
Good one Chris. Reminds me of when we used to jump on the coal wagons and throw big lumps of coal into our Grannies garden. We were young and knew we were on the right side. 11 years young. One of my best memories. The same week a single parent was done for stealing coal. In the Post…another one. Jesus I’m pushing 70 and nothing has basically changed inspite of the oil etc etc. It’s a disgrace.

Lorna Campbell,

Regards Snp, I gave up on them when they attempted imprisoning AS.

Right now standing back and quietly observing the situation with Alba they certainly do have to up there game,
They are not dissimaler to the Snp, it is mainly political party building with little interaction with the likes of Salvo/ SSRG,
The policies of all inclusiveness was the steps the SNP went down,
The cllimate change ideology was the green parties global whip, along with trans gender issues.

In the mix the Actual Scottish indigenous nation get displaced to second or third best. Fourth or fifth when you include hate speech policies and uptake of global fantasies.

AS and Alba alway promised there were many other roots to independence.
And I have held a few conversations with Alex personally,
He knew and spoke about things that were not right with the treaty of union way back, (we are speaking ten years or more)

And therefore This independence for Scotland could malarky issue could have been put to bed years ago.

But the Alba party if they do not engage more with the people and the other groups they will be dangling carrots to the Yes movement very similar to the SNP since 2014 referendum.
I look for the fire and see political sound bites where it should be.
The mantra of one party trying to gain one upmanship one another party is as old as the hills and as long as political parties have existed,

There is to much influence from old labour turned Snp turned Alba.

The slow road of carrot dangling and repeatedly waiting for the next long distance election is a great long term strategy if you want a good political party pension,
however not so good for those that have or have passed away, to be replaced with a different demographic population in Scotland.
Meanwhile the advertising in MSM continues to sell Scotlands Country to people outside Scotland at a alarming rate every day,

There comes a point when we can no longer turn a blind eye to those that delay for the sake of saving there own political selves no matter how much faith we have in their past history,
For the Snp once had a good reputation for many years, with many hard working supporters, but was taken down from the inside.

The faffing about of Alba will fall on the same Sword.

Livingstone’s attempt to distract from his own culpability in the misgovernance of this country has only resulted in pissing off the rank and file.

I wonder if Sir Ian Livingston is going to find himself pulled over by some unhappy PC.

Would be choice if he got a speeding ticket, and fines for broken headlight, and sundry other violations.

Has to be a script for scotsquad

I think Dorothy Devines comment regarding using this as a BILLBOARD is excellent , it would show the Sexual Nonce Party that we KNOW what their motivation is and how they are BETRAYING not only independence supporters but the SCOTTISH PEOPLE

It would also highlight to ALL Scots that the Sexual Nonce Party are NO LONGER an independence party but a party of continuous FAILED governance whose LYING PROMISE of a national energy company has led to GREED DRIVEN power companies raising prices unchallenged and causing increased numbers of hypothermia in our population

What would make the billboard even better if it were HAMISH driving AWAY from the PARASITES
BTW Chris another belter

To add to North Chiel @ 3.34, Humza hasn’t got any bottle anyway, has he?

Westminster are just reinforcing the point, that’s all. Making him – and unfortunately us too (or so they think) a laughing-stock.

“ Wull @0416pm “ No bottle & kicking the independence can doon the road ( as per the continuity candidate “ roadshow” to nowhere ).

Northcode @ 4:15 pm

“Do colonizers also suffer from any psychological affects caused by the colonization process?”

“Colonialism has destroyed many wonderful civilizations”, according to Cesaire, and “between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance”. In colonial societies “racism is built into the system” whilst “civilization helps us locate the origins of fascism within colonialism itself”. The colonizer may thus adopt these features, and “the crushing of the colonized” is included among his dominant ‘values’.

Albert Memmi is very good on the psychological effects, maintaining that: “Colonization can only disfigure the colonizer.” Memmi reflects on the “two main propositions” where colonization is permitted to continue: “extermination of the colonized or assimilation”. He argued that: “If colonization destroys the colonized, it also rots the colonizer”.

Which perhaps brings some meaning to Alex Cole Hamilton’s seemingly ‘odd’ perspective that the Scottish nation should not exist; from the colonizer’s standpoint this is not an odd view at all, it is arguably the main purpose.

I struggle with the practical applicability of the colonisation concept. So many questions, conundrums and contradictions.

The Highland Clearances for example. The source of much anger and resentment. Yet, almost without exception, every one of those cleared went to colonise indigenous peoples in America, Africa, Australia, etc.

So do we need to distinguish between “willing” and “forced” colonisation? And even if we do, why should we expect the colonised to either know, or care?

Then I hear of LeAndra Nephin, a member of the Omaha tribe from Nebraska, living in the U.K.

So, a coloniser then, and almost certainly not a “forced” coloniser either.

To be fair, perhaps a “reverse” coloniser, believing that because her ancestors were colonised, those indirectly related to the coloniser’s descendants deserve to be colonised in turn. I write “indirectly related” as it is obvious that the coloniser’s direct descendants mostly live today in the colonised lands. So it is mostly the descendants of the blameless – those who stayed where they were and never colonised anybody – who are on the receiving end of “reverse” colonisation.

Which is why I am so fervently opposed to it. That, and my knowledge of the scriptures, where it is written that the sins of the fathers will be passed on to future generations.

That nonsense was thoroughly revoked before my childhood. Nowadays, nobody other than grifters and grievance milkers believe anybody should be held to account for things that happened before they were born.

I have a friend who has lived in NC for many years, she says the US was never better governed than when under Donal-John.
The Democrat cities are a nightmarish jungle and illegal immigration running wild under Biden.
Perhaps a half Scottish DJ could fix the woke mess that the SNPLGBT preside over.

A picture worth a thousand words indeed, and puns are strong today, well done all 😀

I had mentioned on a previous post, that much of Independence support has been effectively de-coupled from the SNP for a long time – YES voters exist in other parties.

Much of the SNP losing voters, is an electorate self-correcting. The SNP were indeed ‘lent votes’ and the electorate are returning to their preferred political ideologies after one carrot too many.
Again, that doesn’t mean ‘Unionism’ even though they are returning to ‘Unionist’ parties, they are remaining Independence minded, or at very at least, not that troubled by the thought.

I suggested previously, that if Scotland woke up to Independence, most wouldn’t be that bothered; delving into recent polls, and surveys, I found the question had already been asked in a couple of Panelbase polls – seems 62% wouldn’t be that bothered at all (Pleased > Mildly Upset)*

As for “Whit aboot the White Setllers, and Furriners swarming native Scots?” Well half of English respondents, and three quarters of ‘Furriners’ wouldn’t lose any sleep over Scotland becoming Independent – that only reinforces my belief that ‘Hard Unionism’ isn’t the force we think it is.

*If Wings was commisioning another poll, the ‘Upset’ question would certainly make my list, just to double check.
Funnily enough it’s Lib-Dem voters just as much as Tories who would bubble into their teacups, a good 70% of them.

I also mentioned that the Scottish electorate (across party lines) support direct Scottish self-government (effectively Devo) at near 56%.
That was based on polling, however, plumbing the numbers from census surveys back in, the figure is closer to 75%.

I know the most recent polls seem to put Independence support at 50%+, but that is currently an outlier in polling this year, but may well signal another bounce. The last 50% bounce, was around December last year.

However much ‘Unionist’ parties garner seats, it may well be for Devo, but it’s certainly not support for ‘Hard Unionism’, because the numbers for Devo (specifically ‘more powers’ Devo) + Independence support, blows Hard Unionism clean out the water.
If ever there was a country ripe for Independence, Scotland is it, it just doesn’t know it yet.

Why the SNP chose this moment in time to abdicate all responsibility, and alienate the Scottish electorate defies belief. It is what it is – they may never again be in the driving seat -they may get an invite to ride along.

Gradualism was not a terrible idea, but it has a lifespan. The idea being that self-government, and almost all the powers (short of full independence) meant the next step would be a small one.
Gradualism’s lifespan ended as soon as Westminster said ‘thus far and no further’ It did so last year.

The ‘Unionist’ parties may get a majority in Scotland – then what?
Well they can’t deliver what their voters want either without ‘more powers’.
The great irony is; if they do manage to gain more powers (their voters certainly want it) they will have driven the gradualist goal of independence closer than the SNP this last decade.
If they don’t deliver, and attempt to walk back, or weaken Holyrood – to toe their London master’s ‘Enough is enough for Scotland’ line – their tea is out.

The future isn’t that bleak, but by the auld gods, we do need a coherent direction.
The SNP don’t do coherent, co-operation, dialogue, or direction – they’ve de-coupled themselves from all reality, far less political reality.

I left NZ in 1978, so have no idea what it’s like now, but the Police and Army were forcibly moving the Maori occupiers of Bastion Point off the land in 1978, which they’d been occupying for almost two years. It got pretty rough. I seem to remember that someone wanted to build high end houses on the land, and the Maori people objected.

The Maori Wars were pretty unpleasant, around 3,000 Maoris killed and about 800 British, as far as I can make out. They always used to say that the Pakeha and the Maori were pretty well integrated, but I’m not so sure about that, and I’m glad I didn’t stay there. I could certainly see things from Hone Hike’s point of view, put it that way. None of my business though, thankfully.

Margaret Ferrier MP not MSP. Pedant absolute surrender.

I’ll continue to contribute but I’m giving up looking at posts as it’s just same old same old
Nobody gives a shit about something that happened 300 years ago
I care about what’s happening now

I’ve just had a conversation with my next door neighbour, who called to collect some parcels I’d taken in for him yesterday.

He’s a Nigerian who has decided to settle in Scotland with his girlfriend. He told me that they’d had a Nigerian marriage that isn’t recognised in this country and now his girlfriend is pregnant. As he’s a Christian, I advised him to get in touch with the Minister of one of our local Churches.

He also told me that he’s just changed his job – he’s worked ever since he came here.

I then asked him if he was now settled here had he decided how to vote? He told me that when he first came that he joined the SNP but then started to have doubts about them and left to join ALBA! He knew very little about what Sturgeon had been up to but just had a feeling that all was not right with the SNP – those words came from a Nigerian who sensed that the SNP was not the right Party to fight for an Independent Scotland! It’s sometimes interesting to hear the views of people who come from other countries and want to settle in an Independent Scotland!

Incidentally, while we were having our discussion, I discovered that he knew little of our history. so sent him home with a book to read – I once made a joke about a “Jacobite” and he hadn’t a clue!

Here’s Xaracen, from the previous thread, in case some may have missed it:

A Scot Abroad said;
“Western countries try to follow a rules-based order, and react badly (by imposing sanctions and diplomatic freezes) to chaotic disintegrations of nations. Given that there are rules by which Scotland can leave the Union, Scotland trying to leave the Union by any other process than via those rules is going to end badly for Scotland.”

Your framing is yet again a dishonest representation of the truth. The ‘rules by which Scotland can leave the Union’ are only Westminster’s rules, and it is not entitled to constrain Scotland’s right to withdraw from the Treaty of Union precisely because Scotland is a fully sovereign Principal of that treaty. Westminster on the other hand is not a Principal of the Treaty but is instead a subject of it and so subservient to it, and therefore cannot command any authority over either Principal.

You are once again overegging the authority of the English establishment which runs Westminster while carefully ignoring the authority of the sovereign Scottish people, whose own sovereignty forms the basis of Westminster’s delegated authority over Scotland, two steps below that sovereignty. Sovereign -> Scottish Parliament and Monarch -> Westminster (via Scotland’s elected MPs). Scotland’s MPs are themselves one step above Westminster in authority as they are all elected directly by the sovereign Scots themselves, thus only one level below Scotland’s sovereignty. England’s sovereignty/authority is completely irrelevant in this matter.

All of the above is true and relevant, and neither you nor the English establishment is entitled to pretend otherwise.

At the international level, there is only one rule, that Scotland’s people democratically chose to reclaim their independence, and can demonstrate the democratic authenticity of their choice. Westminster has no legal, constitutional or democratic right of any kind to apply constraints deliberately designed to prevent Scotland’s people from carrying out that democratic exercise should they choose to do so, just because it fears the answer, and nor for any other reason.

As for “react badly…to chaotic disintegrations”, that is no more than unwarranted wishful presumption on your part, just more of your less than accurate framing; we would be dismantling a Treaty agreement which at root just formalised the sharing of a single parliament to permit jointly coordinated governance of the two Kingdoms under a written set of terms and conditions. The chaos will come from the fact that much of the UK Parliament’s governance of Scotland was ultra vires both under the terms of the Treaty, and in abrogation of its obligation to respect Scotland’s constitution and sovereignty, neither of which were ever given over to the new Union parliament. Untangling all of that is going to be seriously messy, and all of that is down to the English establishment’s utter lack of integrity. They are the ones that sowed the seeds of chaos, and they will reap the resulting whirlwind. Hell mend them!

“You know that every single lever available to Whitehall would be deployed to frustrate a non-rules based secession of Scotland.”

Oh, there’s a surprise, more disingenuous framing! Firstly, Scotland’s independence would not be a secession, because that presumes that the UK is Scotland’s mother country; it patently isn’t. Scotland and England together are the UK’s and the UK Parliament’s parents, courtesy of the Treaty that created them both, and neither ceased to exist. They merely ceased governing themselves separately, governing themselves jointly instead.

Secondly, it would not be non-rules based, it just wouldn’t be using Westminster’s rules, since all of those rules only encompass domestic legislation. Scotland’s independence is a matter of international law, as you well know, so Whitehall’s efforts, in full alignment with your own, are irrelevant, however strenuously they try.

somebody sang,

To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows…etc,etc…

Get these fucking snp slug’s out, they are of no use to anybody!

They are not even of any use to themselve’s..time will show them that!…money does’nt save you!…arseholes…it’s not your’s!

These bloody creep’s are not us! get them to fuck out of the way!

Are u a serious scottish independence politician,or prospective politician…,…,then get your arse in gear now…or shut the fuck up…and fuck off!

The Scot’s are not cunt’s…and will not be treated like cunt’s by
you or anyone else!

And your smart arse rhetotric count’s for fuck all…in the real world!…………………..
and…breaaaaaaaaathe!

but heartfealt!…enough shite!

and now for something completely differrent!
bloody sexy woman!…no not u nicky!
link to youtube.com

Mike Russell wants a woke Independent Scotland. Retired SNP pension present with no stamina for front line politics and awful vision says:

That is how you build a new country – by acknowledging what is wrong and collectively working to set it right.

“In other words, by being woke.”

23 seats down. And counting. Woke you say?

link to twitter.com

Mermaid’s lied in court. And that Suzie Green was on speed dial to Tavistock dictating to the medical profession to butcher kids.

Nicola Sturgeon. Snoozing with her with champagne last week. She was pictured next to this woman last week as she collected her award. “As long there is breath in me. I’ll be a trans ally.”

@ Carol Neill: “Nobody gives a shit about what happened 300 years ago”

Very funny, Carol – the Treaty of Union was about that time and it seems to be the reason that we on here are all het up and want to get away!

IB

I hope you and your lass got home safe and sound.

If it’s any consolation, the reality is that it is other groups who establish no-go areas, through which an unaccompanied lass would be most unwise to walk.

Ditto an unaccompanied bloke, or indeed, an unaccompanied police officer in full riot gear.

These other no-go areas are permanent too, not transient or seasonal.

That’s what I despair of.

You wonder in disbelief at how utterly out of touch with reality the SNP currently are, then you read this ill informed, (or wilfully blind), claptrap in the SNP fanzine…

link to archive.is

A five year old in Scotland could tell you exactly why support for the SNP is in a tailspin, while support for Independence remains resilient. Yet for Scotland’s current cadre of “journalists”, it’s all some unfathomable mystery.

Oh yeah, and FFS don’t mention the ALBA word…

Why does the bubble these arseholes live in get all the publicity, (and I’m talking ostensibly pro-independence mouthpieces), while the great work being done by ALBA and SALVO continues to progress unappreciated, in a virtual vacuum of exposure?

It’s a serious question. Are they afraid to step outside the comfort zone? They seem comfortable enough making a living with the edginess of Scottish Independence, but when it comes to actual Revolution and meaningful progress towards Independence, they’re suddenly every inch the lame conservatives, as comfy with the status quo as the damned Unionist propagandists.

Scotland needs it’s purge of weak and feckless Politicians to be followed up with a similar purge of it’s weak and feckless “journalists”.

Did I say weak and feckless? Substitute the words “weak and feckless” with SNP…. Same difference.

Scottish Labour wouldn’t need to bother whether Westminster agreed to Indy ref 2 or not. All they’d need to say is that they’d respect democracy and agree to a referendum. Of course it would mean division between Scottish Labour and U.K. Labour, so it won’t happen. ……. but what do they do with the Indy supporters who vote for them? A dilemma?

@Breeks 10:19am

Scotland needs it’s purge of weak and feckless Politicians to be followed up with a similar purge of it’s weak and feckless “journalists”.

One of the reasons WoS is so popular and widely read is that it’s creator knows how to write, and write well.

Lesser journalists (the so-called professionals writing for the MSM ) must be crying over their quills, kicking their keyboards, tearing at their tenses (past and present), and punching their participles in frustration over their inability to match even the poorest of the Rev Campbell’s alliterations.

The metonymic adage, “The pen is mightier than the sword”, is as true now as it has always been.

Or in modern terms, “The keyboard is mightier than the tactical nuclear weapon”, although that one doesn’t scan quite as nicely.

@John Main

I would advise you do that 30 seconds per day of research

You might agree with me but I have to say that no nation ever successfully gained its liberty or maintained it while half of them thought it backwards or racist to put their own countrymen first.

@Alf Baird 27th May 5:35pm

I started on your paper this morning:

Alf Baird: Determinants of Independence Colonialism (paper 4)

And the first few sentences of Memmi’s piece appear to give some indication of the SNP’s motives in its current state.