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The final meltdown

Posted on April 08, 2016 by

Poor old Daily Record.

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What a distance to fall.

It can’t be easy to be the declining tabloid’s Westminster political correspondent these days. Accustomed to decades of spoon-fed stories from tame Scottish Labour MPs, the SNP landslide of 2015 has left Crichton’s contacts book barer than Kezia Dugdale’s talent cupboard.

The resentment has been building up for the last 11 months, and Torcuil just hasn’t been able to hold it back a moment longer, exploding all over page 25 today in what isn’t so much a column as a last desperate cry for help.

It bears a close examination, so buckle in, readers.

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It has? Since April 2014? Five months before the independence referendum and seven months before Sturgeon was even the leader of the party? That’s some impressive forward thinking.

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The post-referendum bloom that nobody saw coming? Or is Torcuil suddenly telling us that he foresaw the SNP more than quadrupling its membership and going from six MPs to 56 in one leap? We don’t remember him mentioning it at the time, but maybe we’ve just forgotten.

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Absolutely no “deal” has been signed, of course. There’s not a shred of evidence that SinoFortone, the Chinese company involved, is “shady” – UK civil servant Sir Richard Heygate, who advised on the talks, says they’re “squeaky clean”. And we’re not sure why Brian Souter’s opinion is relevant to anything, but shouldn’t EVERYONE be “delighted” if it turns out that £10bn investment does come to Scotland?

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A deal so “secret” there are photographs of the signing ceremony all over the internet, because the company put out a press release about it on its website the same day and it was reported in the Scotsman a few days later:

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We can only assume that to Torcuil, anything not whispered to him by a Labour MP over gin and tonics on the terrace of the Strangers’ Bar counts as a secret.

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Oh well, if permanently, comically bitter anti-devolution ex-Labour MP and nuclear power fanboy Brian Wilson said something, it MUST be legit. We do hope Torcuil tries to make the phrase “infamous Sino-Souter memo” stick.

(We’re also impressed by his esoteric use of punctuation. Full stops at the end of sentences are for squares, daddio. And HAS Sturgeon been under pressure to explain? We keenly await the answer to that apparent question.)

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We’re not sure in what sense the explanations are “flaky”. There’s nothing to report, just talks about talks. Had the Scottish Government made a song and dance about it, the opposition parties would have screamed about an announcement of no substance being used as an election tool. But the details of the memorandum were promptly released in full for maximum transparency.

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This is spectacular. The “cash for honours” enquiry wasn’t undertaken because the SNP complained. It happened because the Metropolitan Police decided there was a case to answer. When the matter came to light the Labour Party had to pay back “loans” it had been given by people who were subsequently awarded titles. And the conclusion was hardly a resounding proclamation of innocence:

“After a long review of the police file, it was reported on 20 July 2007 that the Crown Prosecution Service would not bring any charges against any of the individuals involved.

Their decision stated that while peerages may have been given in exchange for loans, it could not find direct evidence that that had been agreed in advance; this direct evidence of an agreement in advance is what would be required for a successful prosecution. 

Notwithstanding the lack of any charges, some considered that the investigation had severely undermined Tony Blair’s position, and possibly hastened his resignation as Prime Minister.”

It was a case not entirely unlike most of the expenses scandal or the more recent one involving Alistair Carmichael, in that pretty much everyone agreed there had been some enormously dodgy goings-on, but in the strictest technical sense there was no absolutely definitive proof that the letter of the law had been breached.

It’s an odd wound for a hyper-partisan Labour hack to reopen, let’s put it that way.

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We’re almost at maximum froth now. Apparently “the machinery of government is prostrated” means “there wasn’t a press release”. There’s not the slightest suggestion that Brian Souter stands to gain in any way from any deal that may eventually happen – talks have apparently focused on clean energy projects and building affordable housing, fields in which Souter has no business interests whatsoever.

(His companies deal in public transport and insurance. But the prospect of major investment in renewables does at least suggest why Brian Wilson is so angry.)

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Next we get a festival of weasel words which amount to “there is no actual evidence that the company has done anything wrong”. And frankly, we’re not even sure why Scottish people should care if the company had paid a few bribes in its lifetime anyway. Bribery is how things generally get done in China.

“Among the white paper’s key findings is that a startling 35 percent of companies in China pay bribes or give gifts in order to operate. One CFO went to so far as to describe the practice as ‘an unspoken rule.'”

Torcuil also didn’t mind when SinoFortone was investing in the UK, not Scotland:

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The company’s name has never featured in the Record until the last few days. At this point Torcuil loses his last few marbles.

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We don’t know what to do with that, frankly.

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“The propaganda output of Communist China”? It’s not the first description we’d come up with for The Scotsman, but each to their own, we suppose.

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The SIC is an independent role not controlled by the Scottish Government. It answers for its own decisions. But sod it, let’s pin it on the First Minister anyway. SNP BAD!

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Torcuil’s got at least five tinfoil hats on now as he works himself into a frenzy, pointing at the sky and shrieking about chemtrails and spiders and probably lizards. We’re not exactly sure how much power he thinks the Scottish Government wields over Qatar’s human-rights records, but we’re moved by his sudden concern for poetry.

We don’t recall the Record lambasting Qatar overly much about the fate of its poets until there was a chance to attack the SNP over it, mind you. Again, as far as we can make out this is the first time it’s ever mentioned them.

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Nor did Torcuil or the Record voice any qualms about Qatar’s human rights record when one of their political heroes was doing its ruling royal family some favours:

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And then we’re off onto Torcuil’s inexplicable obsession with Brian Souter again. His bloodied stumps of fingers are now hammering so frenetically at the keyboard that letters are just going anywhere, with Souter’s name swapping an A and an E with the word “altar” as the details of Souter’s business schedule seemingly become the concern and responsibility of every SNP MP:

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And then we get a spectacular final flourish in which at the last minute the whole thing suddenly and bewilderingly becomes about the steel industry:

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So to recap: there’s been no deal of any kind with anyone, none of it involves steel, as far as we can tell Brian Souter had absolutely nothing to do with it anywhere along the line but there are unanswered questions about the colour of his shoes, somehow the poets of Qatar are implicated along with diplomatic spiders, but it all proves that you can’t trust Nicola Sturgeon.

We’re going to have a bit of a lie down now, readers. If any of this starts making any sense at any point, we’ll get back to you. The one thing that DOES add up, though, is the rate at which the Daily Record’s sales figures are vanishing down the toilet.

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Tick, as we’ve been heard to say, tock.

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Marcia

Well done young man. You should take over his space on that newspaper and let readers see what proper journalism should be.

Grouse Beater

Read that article this morning in my favourite eatery over a BLT and an Americano coffee. For the life of me, outside his glaring animus, I could not see why he drags in Souter.

Torcuil Crichton, another back-slapped shill of British imperialism tells Scotland that if it thinks for itself, if it dare make a decision that benefits its citizens, he will ensure it is stopped in its tracks, personally. And by any sleazy means in his sweaty grasp.

Some much for the much trumpeted ‘free markets, and ‘healthy competition’ the very lie of neo-liberal economics that protects its monopoly market.

That tragedy for Crichton and his lickspittle like is how swiftly and without warning the British Establishment will dump him unceremoniously when it suits them.

Neil Cook

Lets hope Brian Souter sues him for deformation of character, wonder what his Boss would say if there was a law suit going its way?

Mans a tool and preaching to the stupid who believe his pish !

Peter Mirtitsch

Err…Wasn’t Qatar one of the countries involved in bailing out the UK banks?

Jim Finlayson

I am genuinely wondering if Torcuil Crichton was sober when he wrote this stuff.

heedtracker

OMGod. How the mighty go mad. He’s also double up with hard core UKOK toryboy Kevrage. Why would Start Voting SLab You Morons Daily Record pay a toryboy unionist to waffle away UKOK style, shock?

link to twitter.com

Bit disappointed Keverage left out all his amazing excel graphs of Scotland’s a shithole.

Stravaiger

I feel like I wandered into an alternative universe for a wee minute there.

Auld Rock

Hopefully his self-inflated idignation will now blow-up into millions of unrecognisable pieces.

Auld Rock

Andy Murie

More to be laughed at than pitied

Fat boab

Psst, Torcuil, a wee bird told me that Nicola owns an expensive coffee-machine. Why not write a story – – – oh, you have.

Betty Boop

This tripe passes for “journalism”? Ye gods. What a bitter and mangled waste of words.

His spelling, like his punctuation,isn’t too hot either, hence “…kneeling at the same alter.” Hope his parents didn’t pay too much for his education.

Anyway, the DR piece was pathetic, but, Stu’s comments provided a lot of entertainment. 🙂

They’re feeling the fear…

John Walsh

SNP ministers STUMBLE into diplomatic spiders webs .FFS! Is he setting the scene for his new novel . ” Prostrate on the Altar of truth”
Should have just typed I must find the SNPBAD 100 times.

One_Scot

That’s the thing, the more bizarre the Yoon media becomes in their attempt to put people off of the SNP, the easier it is for the voting public to see how full of shit they are.

Scotland is only heading for one destination. Roll on May and let’s make sure we put a few more nails in the Yoons coffin.

Not Convinced

I think I can see why an ex-Labour MP (and isn’t it interesting that’s described as “former minister” rather than “former MP”?) would bring up the Cash-for-Honours scandal …

You see that was old-new-Labour who did that, whereas under the wondrous Corbyn they are now new-old-Labour. New-old-Labour are completely different to old-new-Labour who did that scandalous thing, and thus New-old-Labour would never do such a thing! Plus if we bring it up and mention the SNP at the same time, maybe some of the mud from that will stick to the SNP?

G

“Ordinary punters won’t have heard much about gas-rich Middle Eastern dynasty accused of corruptly buying the 2022 World Cup while building football stadiums in the desert on the sun-bleached bones of immigrant labour.”

“Ordinary punters” clearly means ignorant Record-reading oafs.

heedtracker

Ajami was initially jailed for life in 2012, but the sentence was reduced to 15 years on appeal in 2013.

link to bbc.co.uk

Its nice that Torcuil and the Record care so much about a poet in Qatar but he’s released now. The Daily Record ran an incredible campaign for its poetry loving readers for the release of this poet too, didn’t they.

Dan Huil

Poor wee Torcuil. Desperation sweats out of every pore in his britnat body. With declining sales of britnat “newspapers” maybe Torcuil is fishing for a job at the bbc?

Mikewr

Torcuil please don’t give up the day job. I don’t think you’ll cut it as a journalist.

Luigi

Wow, what a rant. It looks like old TC had years and years of bitter pain and frustration to get off his chest before he finally exploded. TC and his fellow yoon reporters have completely lost the plot. They have always made things up, but they used to dress up their alcohol-fuelled SNP BAD narrative with a bit of reality spin for respectability. Now they are getting careless, and they don’t seem to care any more. It’s as if they know nobody believes them anymore anyway so they may as well have a big ugly rant and fire off as many SNP BAD volleys as they can. The yoon reporters are caught in a corporate death spiral and they cannot seem to get out of it. My heart bleeds. 🙂

Donald Anderson

Wot about the millions donated to Labour by aspiring Peers, etc.? Does the Torque ever give them a menshie?

Torque verb (used without object), torqued, torquing.

to rotate or twist.

Macart

Oh good grief! That Crichton fella’s gone tonto surely?

He does know that just throwing out words in no particular order, without any quantifiable evidence of any kind mind, makes him look completely mad?

Having said that, we are talking about a representative of Scotland’s Chumpion.

Dcanmore

‘Daily Record’ sounds and feels like something I remembered in the distant past, all seems vague now. Had a wee splutter of my drink when I saw K***n H***e’s blank-outs on the opposite page, f**king hilarious! 🙂

As for Torcuil? The phrase ‘ever decreasing circles’ comes to mind. I heard vinyl is making a comeback so maybe Torcuil could start a new career in recycling the Yoons broken records.

ScottishPsyche

What frothing nonsense that man Torcuil writes.

Brian Souter and his trademark red kickers? Eh?

On a more serious note, if the DR is your only source of ‘information’ you are being completely misled on all aspects of this MOU with the Chinese. I would not be surprised if they pull out of any further talks due to the attacks by the Scottish Press.

On any level this is poor journalism.

Also, doesn’t Kevin do business with the Chinese?

Big Jock

Oh dear poor sod. He can’t hide his bitterness in the red mist of bile.

All I will say is this:” Never trust a man in Brown shoes and Navy trousers”…..and he salgs Souters red shoes.

GrahamB

Dan Huil at 11:46
I suspect he is already writing for the BBC website link to bbc.co.uk For the hard of reading they even emphasise their inuendo with quotation marks.

Disco Dave

Surely Torcuil has now earned his place in the “Zany Comic Relief” section with such luminaries as Cochers and Michael Kelly he will fit in well.

Helpmaboab

Call me a soft-hearted old duffer but I’m starting to feel sorry for die-hard unionists like Torcuil.

Such people are innately deferential and hide-bound. Yet they can feel their cause slipping away. No matter how hard they rage and bluster the SNP continues to prosper and their cherished established order unravels further. The result is ever more unhinged and self-defeating outbursts like these.

We owe them a duty of care. If you ever encounter poor old Torcuil or Kevin buy them a pint and don’t be TOO harsh…

Luigi

Betty Boop says:

8 April, 2016 at 11:37 am

His spelling, like his punctuation,isn’t too hot either, hence “…kneeling at the same alter.” Hope his parents didn’t pay too much for his education.

How sober was he when he wrote it? 🙂

Dr Jim

In China as in Japan the giving and receiving of token gifts is indeed how business is done, these gifts are not bribes, they are ritual hand shakes which mean exactly the same as a handshake here (depending who it is) nothing

Torcuil should acquaint himself with other customs from these countries, a popular one used to be when someone disrespected you, you killed them, nowadays in business they don’t do that they do things like buy your company and liquidate it

Doug Daniel

What an odd man he is. I love that he’s still gurning over the SNP highlighting the Cash For Honours scandal though. Mustn’t blacken the name of his beloved Tony Blair, eh?

Almannysbunnet

The SNP governing Scotland properly is bad enough but having the audacity to explore the world outside these shores and start talking and dealing with overseas governments? They’ve really gone too far this time. The Scottish Nicola Party have clearly driven him over the edge. It’s almost like the woman is behaving like she runs an independent country. Can’t be having that.
The Daily Record will sort her out you just wait and see.

Meanwhile the people of Scotland go about their business, proud that Nicola and her team have got their back.

The Daily Record? The King Canute of newspapers. Trying to hold back the Scottish sea of change. Delusional to the end.

Dougal McAllister

What a ramble from the man, a different perspective from me on something else that Scotland benefited from China.

Didn’t they give Scotland two panda bears on a ten years long deal for an annual fee in return?

Apparently Edinburgh and Scotland is benefiting by tourists flocking to Edinburgh Zoo – link to scottish-enterprise.com

I wonder if that nutcase will be demanding that Edinburgh Zoo returns the panda bears to China anytime soon!

dramfineday

And so the drip, drip of poison goes on. May the DR have a short and unpleasant future.

Jim Mitchell

He’s got to feel better now after getting all that off his chest! let’s here it for Torchy boy.

Giving Goose

And this is supposed to be journalism?

The Daily Record would be better off without this idiot.
If the Daily Record is ever after a reason as to why..

a) The Scottish electorate abandoned Labour?

and…

b) The Daily Record’s sales volumes have decreased?

Then I suggest that Torcuil’s sad attempts at writing definitely have something to do with it.

He definitely comes over as all bitter and twisted.

Torcuil, you are not important in Scotland any more (if indeed you ever were), so do yourself a favour and give it up.

Go away and reinvent yourself as a…I don’t know…a floating turd or a smelly used fish n’ chips paper.

FFS what a tube!

Valerie

As I read, I just thought, this is why we crowd fund WoS.

No one in possession of a moderate IQ wants to trawl around in sewage of this volume. Or be a voyeur in the mental breakdown of fellow man.

I like the Mars bar over Mr H+++e’s peepers.

Dave McEwan Hill

He must have caught and infection off his brother-in-law. Or was it the other way about?

carjamtic

Brilliant Rev. LOL

But seriously this lad needs help…..funny as fcuk,but strangely moving :-j

#twyner
#snasher

Cazador1885

“A company with a record so dodgy other countries wouldn’t touch it with a bargepole”

Like the UK or wales for example?

link to telegraph.co.uk

link to walesonline.co.uk

TD

Is there something infecting Labour and its gang of sycophantic press hacks these days? If they were putting over legitimate arguments, but we as independence supporters disagreed with them, that would be fair enough – we could debate it with them. But what is quite astonishing from Dugdale, Baillie, Crichton et al is the sheer incompetence of what they say. There is not a rational point that is capable of being engaged with coming out of them. It really is a quite remarkable collapse of a one time proud political force.

Scot Finlayson

Seriously the guy sounds like he is on the verge of going total tonto,

his boss or some friend should keep an eye on him before he flips and hurts himself or someone else,

there is definitely a hate filled obsession with Nicola,like he blames her for all that is wrong in him,

Souter and his red shoes, Quatari poetry,Norway , Communist China,sun bleached bones,East Germany,Turkish steel,mayonnaise and chicken sandwiches,barge polls,

he`s goin Tonto a tells yi.

Inverclyder

Very few of their “readers” will get to that page or even read it due to the true blue, hand on heart, we are the peepul, god save the queen, bloody foreigners coming over here stealing our jobs, benefit expert, bigoted, where’s my sash, orange ordered, knuckle dragging inbred, paid up season ticket holding nature of their life.

That and they don’t know anything about China except the phone number of the local carry out shop and Qatar is something they only get when they have a cold.

Torcuil Crichton? Aye, Yer Maw.

gerry parker

Perhaps we should all contact the Chinese Embassy and let them know we have read Mr Chrichton’s article and are disappointed to learn that shady Chinese conglomerates are colluding with the Scottish Government here.

link to chinese-embassy.org.uk

Almannysbunnet

Maybe Torquil would be happier if Nicola signed a MOU with Tata Steel?
Oops maybe not. It transpires that they have made a profit of over £700 million selling carbon emission permits which were issued to them for FREE by Westminster. Now they are upping sticks and heading for pastures new. Nice little scam that should make a green see red.

What about it Crichton, surely Nicola is to blame for this too.

link to archive.is

Quentin Quale

Mmm, you know that story about the swan that sings only once, as it nears death? Think we’re hearing the death song of journalism in the MSM political pages.

hector

Sad to read the above as a young Torcuil wrote some reasonable stuff many moons ago at the west Highland Free Press. At least he got Brian Wilson a mention so he will get a pat on the head.

Marie Clark

Oh dear. NURSE!! NURSE!!, bring the screens and some calm doon meds.

For heavens sake, it’s another world isn’t it. I find myself wondering ” is it me”?, but somehow I don’t think it is. I better just go and check the back o’ the heid and see the zip is still okay.

Ah well, just another four weeks o’ this bilge to go. Roll on 5th May. Sheesh.

Peter McCulloch

Given the standard of the article penned by Torcuil Crichton, the Scottish education system must have been in a really bad state when he was at School.

Because I don’t believe any decent journalist, such as the late Ian Bell would even consider putting their name to it.

James Westland

I love that bit at the bottom of the graphic – Monday: Dont Miss Kezia Dugdale.

Why? Going to be an absolute belter is it? I’m trembling with the excitement…..:)

Marcia

The DR editor let that through?

Jack Murphy

Crichton and the Daily Record spreading themselves aboot.
………………….English News……………………..
…………………United Kingdom…………………….

“It might be an election of trust,but can we trust Nicola Sturgeon”

link to archive.is

Daisy Walker

In the style of mCGonigle

So pity the lowly poet in the jails of hot quatar
Who knew a humble sonnet
Could make you fall so far
But fear ye not you ancient rhymer
As you jail the test of time
Here’s a feather in your bonnet and quill abin yer hand
There’s a poem in every nook of your hot and dusty cell
And with Torquill in yer corner ye know your not in hell.

he’ll shout it from the roof tops, from Perth unto Baghdad
Scotland’s really shit ye know and the SNP are baaaaaad.

Takeourblueback

Oh the vision of this…. “His bloodied stumps of fingers are now hammering so frenetically at the keyboard that letters are just going anywhere”

… I’m sure a little bit of pee escaped when reading this 🙂

Almannysbunnet

Maybe Torquil was having a Basil Fawlty moment.

link to youtube.com

NeoconNat

I stopped reading the Record when they got rid of page 3.

We should probably reserve judgement on Torcuil until Sutherland gets here here though.

Brian Powell

DR sales at 160,000 now.

Fred

Time was when a non-entity like Crichton would be reporting sheep prices on the Stornoway Gazette, such is the parlous state of the so-called Scottish media.

As for Brian Wilson I’m only surprised he’s still alive. How can they tell? 🙂

charles

I used to know Torcuil quite well, and it makes me laugh to see him dominating the piece with a giant picture of himself…typical Cravat wearing, wee free, pretentious eejit.

Still sad to see anyone have a complete and utter mental breakdown in public.

Lollysmum

What a formidable dissection Rev-well done

It’s ‘apologies for absence of journalistic integrity’ like this that explains why many of us still have the Record blocked on Twitter after months of taking a stand against the rag. Makes for a calmer read when you’re spared rubbish like this.

Highly recommended-blocking that is-definitely not the DR 🙂

gordoz

WTF ? There is no deal FFS.

Transcript from how to be a journalist class

“Now listen up at the back! Tomkinson .. that includes you”

“A memorandum of understanding (MOU or MoU) is a formal agreement between two or more parties. Companies and organizations can use MOUs to establish official partnerships. MOUs are not legally binding but they carry a degree of seriousness and mutual respect, stronger than a gentlemen’s agreement”

Crumpled class notes found discarded later by one T Kryton

“Memo of understanding = deal”

Aaaarrggghh ????

Marcia

This should make one of those blooper programmes;

link to twitter.com

Begging hand out – can you spare a pound or more for our Health Minister’s election fund.

link to tinyurl.com

HandandShrimp

There are recurring Yoon themes in poor Torquil’s rantathon.

Populist leader tick
Cult followers tick
Evil attacks on opposition tick
Brian Souter tick
Smear by association tick
Deranged hyperbole tick

The only things missing are Trump and they are all blood and soil Nazis anyway…but Torquil may have fapped himself into a quivering pool of journalistic grease by that point and had nothing left to give.

The above themes seem much loved by the Yoons and form the basis of most the more strident criticism on the interwebs…or are they all sock puppets of Torquil?

Proud Cybernat

“It’s a question of trust.”

Two words – ‘The VOW’.

How’d you like them apples, Crichton you fecking hypocritical moronic fud-face.

GYTF.

Hugh Barclay

“bloodied stumps of fingers ” Lolz, Great piece Rev, Aye the Twisted Testicle has finally lost the plot….. Superb 🙂

SteveW

My respect for yoon journalists always goes down another notch with every article like this, but this one calls for bonus notches.

Doug`s dad

Has anyone got a copy of `Red` Ken McIntosh`s latest election leaflet to upload? I did get one but unfortunately it ended up in the bin in 100 pieces 5 minutes later.

One section is astonishing in pledging to protect the BBC from `strident attacks` and `agendas`. Think it could do with a wee bit of deconstruction by the Rev.

Derick fae Yell

I think I’ve hurt my side laughing at that review

Yoonatics!

Proud Cybernat

I guess Crichton’s writing talent has found the perfect platform at the ‘Daily Ridicule’.

Robert Louis

The strange thing is, I suppose, Torcuil is actually GETTING PAID to write such rubbish. It isn’t journalism, it contains no facts, just near hysterical piffle. He really should be embarrassed with such nonsense. It is all very well, being anti SNP or whatever, but to actually put your name to a piece of silly, childish writing like this beggars belief.

To help Torcuil, and the unionist anti-Scotland nutters who may read this;

1. The China agreement wasn’t secret – pictures in the press, documented by Scottish Government, full details made public etc.

2. Brian Souter wasn’t there, and has nothing to do with it.

Unionists really are starting to sound quite, quite mad. Seriously.

Fiona

If people do not know about Qatar it is not because the information is not available.

link to thosebigwords.forumcommunity.net

But that, of course, is different.

Derek Morison

The only company currently listed on Norway’s investment blacklist as excluded for corruption is ZTE – who make phones for O2 (Telefonica)

link to nbim.no

Ian

The MSM is pretty much driving older folk nuts. New documentary about this in the US is just as applicable here –

link to alternet.org

Fiona

link to ft.com

Last post link did not work. But Qatari investment in UK well known and very widely reported, and the example is accessible above

dakk

What a rubbish journalist is that wee weed Crichton.

And I don’t like his stupit wee beard neither.

Nice demolition job and great journalism Stuart.

And your beard is much nicer too 🙂

Craig MachAonghais

I know I keep saying this but just when I think the Unionist Labour rag that is the Daily Rancid can’t sink any lower they produce this – I feel even Goebels would have been ashamed to produce such bilge, but apparently Torcuil Crichton is happy to put his name to this. Is he aiming for Cochrane levels of insanity?

Dave M

I’d love to know what grades Torcuil got for his English exams at high school. His prose is so bad, it would barely scrape a 4 at Standard Grade.

Robert Louis

Oh, and following on from my post above, here, for comparison, is an example of REAL journalistic opinion output;

link to derekbateman.scot

In this excellent piece of writing by Derek Bateman, when talking of ‘Scottish’ journalists’ obsession with saying the SNP Scottish Government isn’t radical enough, he writes;

“If one of the 99 per cent of hacks says they’re not radical enough, discount it immediately as they’re programmed to find complaint and would like nothing better than a chance to paint the Nats as socialist extremists ‘after your money’. Kenny would commission Alex who would commend David who’d be flattered by Stephen and they’d all tweet JK.

You see, Torcuil, that’s how a REAL writer does it, full stops and all.

Chitterinlicht

Full
Metal
Jacket

Tam Jardine

The better together UK hacks and their political brethren are meaning to go into battle waving a memo and the named person scheme. It’s like an episode of the A-team except instead of them finding a combine harvester or a forklift truck to turn into a tank they have a toaster, a bunch of grapes and an occasional table.

Never mind- onward! They can turn anything into a weapon it seems. Investment and children’s welfare are all they have so the election strategy to defeat the SNP is to highlight their commitment to investment and children’s welfare.

It is poor hand to play. I wonder how they think the ordinary voter is reacting? Do they really think most folk are talking in hushed tones in the workplace or the pub about their concerns over an investment deal from China?

We’ve been bombarded for years with the capitalist mantra- investment: good! Foreign investment: double plus good! How do they turn that round? We are supposed to think Hinkley Point is good Chinese investment but SNP Chinese investment is bad because….

The wilderness beckons for Torquil and his colleagues. They are now simply ridiculous.

scotspine

Chinless prick

Dorothy Devine

Well done Rev for giving us all a laugh.

Could this bloke have made himself look even more stupid?

I never have read the Daily Record and looking at the level of intellectual analysis supplied by Mr Crichton ,I don’t think I am ever going to be tempted.

Craig , I think he has surpassed the drivellings of Mr.Cochrane and for that he deserves some sort of accolade – suggestions please!

G. Campbell

China, Qatar corruption = SNP BAD.

BAE Systems corruption = BRITISH JOBS SECURED.

“Ordinary punters won’t have heard much about gas-rich Middle Eastern dynasty accused of corruptly buying the 2022 World Cup while building football stadiums in the desert on the sun-bleached bones of immigrant labour.”

Presumably this means the Daily Record will be boycotting the event (unless The Rangers declare themselves an independent state and qualify, of course).

“Right now we need a guarantee that the Scottish government will only use British steel, to protect British jobs, in all future procurement contracts.”

Briitsh steel for British construction projects. How very nationalist.

“But what would Sturgeon’s £10 billon infrastructure investment Chinese partners have to say about that?”

“Why is that weird man with the beard so xenophobic?” most likely.

David Wardrope

The whole “policies wouldn’t matter, steady as she goes with a dash of populism…” part is a bit strange to me. If the voting public decide that the SNP record in government was working (and generally is doing so), then steady as she goes is exactly what we would be looking for. And by the same logic, if SNP are seen to be serving the people of Scotland competently then popular is a fair description and in no way a bad thing. Can’t see how Torcuil thinks he’s putting the boot in with that sneer.

Can we expect a similar obliteration of the bold K***n H***e’s vomitting of words Rev.?

Dr Jim

I really really hope there’s a complete and total landslide SNP wipe out of every Yoon in the country at the election if only to demonstrate to these terrible people Scotland isn’t listening and Scotland doesn’t want them or their media

BTW Just finished listening to Radio Scotland Gordon Brewer drivel where David Coburn shouted that all the other panelists were “Creatures”

He should have his own telly show he’s a scream, he’s like a cartoon man off the Simpsons

Also heard a speech by David Cameron where he said if we leave the EU we’re all going to die
Vlad the impaler Putin will invade and all the terrorists in the world will come to the UK and kill us in our beds

Positive campaigning there

The Man in the Jar

I’m reminded of this short extract from Pink Floyd’s song “Brain Damage” from the album Dark Side of the Moon.

“The lunatic is in the hall.
The lunatics are in my hall.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
and everyday the paper boy brings more.

K1

I wonder what the likes of Torqued Too Tight are going to write about after the elections?

These last minute’s gasping desperate attempts to conflate China/steel/Souter/cult/red kickers/nicola/corruption/SNP/Baaaad…before, whit they gonnae write about after?

Oh that’s right: they’re fucked.

Tally ho.

Cuilean

I note in the pictures, the two Yoons are wearing the same brogues! Wee shame.

Personally, I prefer Nicola’s tartan stilettos, which will impress Chinese triads.

katherine hamilton

A couple of things.
Where was the DR and its invective when the Chinese president was given the run of Buck House, when a deal was done for them to finance Hinckley Point? Ah that’s UK business, so OK then.
Does the silly man think we can’t make links for ourselves?

Secondly it’s not even very original insulting, just a rehash of old themes he’s bleated about before, on many different occasions.On the matter of trusting Nicola Sturgeon. Do some journalism. Check her approval ratings UK wide, never mind in Scotland.

Thanks Rev for reading this for us. It is truly awful. If Mr. Crichton, and by extension his employers, the Labour Party and especially their Leaderene think clunking, insulting verbiage will bring the lost sheep back to the fold,well good luck with that.

As Yoda Orbison says “I’ts oooooveeer”

Grouse Beater

If his editor had scruples he would dispense with Crichton’s services before spiking the article.

But then, we know his editor encourages his crapology.

Socrates MacSporran

People, people, get a grip. The purpose of the Daily Record, as the official newsletter to the Scottish branch of the Labour Party has always been, to keep the plebs onside.

Sadly, the plebs have by and large stopped listening, so, the DR is becoming ever more strident in trying to call them to heel.

Torquil’s piece isn’t news, it is opinion dressed-up as news. It’s largely his opinion, so, we are free to ignore it.

In any case, I have long considered the front two-thirds of the Record to be any old shite designed to even-up the number of pages supporting the two bits of the paper which are its (not-so) Unique Selling Point.

These are Scotia in the racing pages and the latest hot gossip for the followers of the Bigot Brothers.

As long as the three Ps – Punters, Proddies and Papes continue to buy the rag, all is well.

G H Graham

Torcuil, H***e, Nelson and the rest of their type (there’s a sad, long roll call of these B-list cringers) are only fearful of one thing; getting dumped by the British Establishment once Scotland votes for independence.

Apart from the odd foreign correspondent’s sortie into Dumfries & Galloway, there won’t be any need in London for grovelling, proBritNat Scots willing to earn a living off their own self loathing.

There will be plenty of Middle England neocons to lob the occasional jingoistic racist jibe just like today, except they won’t have anything like the competition they have now.

FFS, let’s have our independence & be done with these brainwashed clowns.

Footnote

Since this is only my opinion of course, you can assume it to be journalistic fact, right Torcuil?

Socrates MacSporran

Cuilean wrote:
“I note in the pictures, the two Yoons are wearing the same brogues!

Brown brogues – the footwear of choice of the UKOK, true-blue, sash-wearing, marching, succulent lamb-eating Unionist.

Returnofthemac

As I leave my local newsagents with a copy of the National under my arm, I watch in dismay the number of people who almost automatically pick up a copy of the Daily Rag without thinking. I have to stop myself screaming ‘are you feckin mental’
Thankfully, I have not purchased this shit for a number of years.
I don’t think Torcuil Crichton likes the SNP.

Albantawe

“UK civil servant Sir Richard Heygate”
Is Richard Heygate a civil servant? He appears from the link to be an adviser to the two Chinese companies.

Bugger (the Panda)

Having done business in China and several other Asiatic countries, Japan and South Korea excepted, you don’t get anywhere without some Lucre being pushed around. In Japan a gift from the home country to the head honcho, in my case always Malt, was deemed respectful but, bought no favours.

China is the Wild East and the engagement of a family member of the Party or Company owner, as a consultant, before doing business is often useful.

I seem to think that the Company with whom the ScotGov did the MOU also signed one with the ConLib UKGov some years ago.

As for T C, I remember seeing a video of doing an interview with the last Labour Leader in a minibus whilst Miliband was going between venues in Scotland. The man had a ponsy scarf wrapped around his shoulders and was theatrically replacing it as it fell off the shoulder.

He really loves himself.

Maybe that is all he has got going for him apart from being smitten by Brian Wilson’s visceral hatred of the SNP. Or, maybe he knows the game is up at the Daily Record.

Bugger (the Panda)

The Dishonourable Crichton

schrodingers cat

unionists in melt down

they can see the polls same as us
their trumpets are being retired, bit by bit, some make a come back, like sarwar, but most are gone for good. this process will continue through the electoral cycle. nothing can stop that now.

slab activists are a thing of the past and slab voters have dropped 10% since the referendum.

how much further can slab support fall? even the tories are eyeing up the cadaver of that mighty political jugernaut.

if TC is foaming at the mouth at the moment, he will need a straight jacket by the night of the results….lol hope he is on the bbc election night programme.

HandandShrimp

For al that Torquil and Wilson hate the SNP just remember that the hate is directly proportional to the depth of crap the Labour Party is in.

This level of frenzy suggests that things are bleak indeed for their favoured rosette.

yesindyref2

As I posted the other day, I found this about the China Railways Group, the GPFG and the Norweigan Council of Ethics.

link to etikkradet.no

Note this from the report: “At the end of 2013, the GPFG owned shares in CRG worth NOK 306,000,000, equivalent to a 0.47 per cent stake in the company.”

So the GPFG had already invested in CRG, a relatively small amount of less than £30 million (45 million USD), a drop in the ocean compared to the total fund.

So much for “other countries won’t touch it with a bargepole – Norway had ALREADY INVESTED.

What they were doing in 2014 was checking out all GPFG investments after the event to see if there was corruption involved in the companies they were investing in.

They asked questions, including about internal workings of the CRG. If they had had an MOU – a Memorandum Of Understanding – in place with CRG, which included, as in the Scottish Government one, setting up a “Framework of Confidentiality”, then perhaps CRG would have been more willing to answer their questions about matters which would probably be, in any normal company, classsified as “For Internal Use Only” – a fairly low level of congidentiality, but a neccessary one to avoid competitive oversight (basic industrial espionage!!!).

The SG “Deal” with CRG was no more than setting up an MOU.

Alba 46

Chrichton needs to go and lie down in a darkened room and when he has calmed down get an appointment with a shrink. This guy genuinely needs help. What a rant and even by the Retards non existing standards its totally over the top.

He has difficulty in understanding what an MOU is. The poor deluded naval gazing buffoon is happy in his own SNP hating world. He is so bitter and twisted he has lost all sense of reality and objectiveness. He wouldn’t know balanced journalism if it landed on his SNP hating head.

Just listened to the “Big Debate” on radio shortbread. Listening to Jenny Marra she is like a clone of Chrichton. If the SNP hadn’t been invented she would be speechless. It didn’t matter what the question was it was always the SNP’s fault. She is being touted as the next leader of SLAB. God help them.

They think they are winning votes by this non stop slagging of the SNP. They seem to forget that the SNP are the democratically elected majority government in Edinburgh and currently have most of the Scottish MP’s in London. H’m wonder why that is? could it be that they are popular and SLAB are not. If they would spend more time telling the people of Scotland what SLAB stand for and less slagging the SNP they actually might get somebody to vote for them.

Pathetic

Norrie McCormick

It is a shame that Brian Souter has thicker skin than others who have contributed to political parties and causes. I can think of others near to Perth who frequently bully others through the threat of courts. Learned of course from labour’s whiter than white sword of truth, Robert Maxwell.

I would be interesting to see Chriton facing Mr Souter in court and defending his comments. I dare say Mr Souter has the wealth and clout to put the record out of business.

As for use of Brian Wilson as a weapon, this is not a yesterday’s man, Wilson is a last century’s non entity parroting John McTernan.

David Wardrope

On a lighter note, I take it this is the same Torcuil Crichton that appears every so often on ‘An La’ on BBC Alba as Westminster correspondent then?

Training Day

Heh, that was a great laugh, Rev. You can picture the Record’s core demographic of the benighted grappling, albeit fleetingly, with the notion of Qatari poets. Then thinking that Sino Soutar is Soapy Soutar’s brother on flu medication.

Utterly unable to ‘unnerstaun this pish’, they will turn quickly to the sports pages where yet more Warbs will salve any intellectual difficulties!

Dr Jim

STV news

The hand over of Tata steel took place today and all the negotiations were down to the hard work of the Unions apparently

Here was me thinking the Scottish government had something to do with that, I was clearly completely wrong eh

Tam Jardine

The online Record is just a dream to navigate, isn’t it?

You find yourself trying to read an article by Kevin Hague. As if that is not strange enough you are prevented from doing so.

Before you are able to read an article you have to answer some seemingly innocuous question like ‘how often do you plan meals- every day, every second day, once a week, once a year, never (yes never!) or prefer not to answer.’

Once you have clicked on the answer, and no matter which answer you click on you are transported to an Arnold Clark site advertising motors where your only option is to either buy a car or close the site and try another option in vain. Bizarre AND crap.

Macart

@Dr Jim

On Sky News however, the FM had a fair amount of air time dedicated to both Mr Cameron, regarding the the Panama leak and latterly what part the Scottish Government played in saving those jobs. The FM, quite generously I thought, offered to pass on any lessons learnt from our own experience on the matter to both the Labour administration in Wales and Mr Cameron’s government.

Which was awfy nice. 🙂

Hugh Kirk

In whom do we trust? Nicla Sturgeon, One of the most capable, trusted and popular politician ever or Torcuil Crichton a jorno what writes pish for the Daily Retard?

steveasaneilean

Let’s not forget that Torcuil cut his journalistic teeth in the West Highland Free Press, Brian Wilson’s baby and long-standing mouth piece until he was unceremoniously chucked by the them.

Brian initially joined the SNP before switching to (Not)Labour, at time when they were still Labour. He stood for and lost in 3 Highlands and Islands constituencies – in 1971, 1979 and 1983 – before discovering that actually his true heart lay in Ayrshire.

He led the campaigning in Scotland in 1979 against a Scottish Assembly and has never accepted the current political and constitutional reality in Scotland.

He voted in favour of the Iraq War and foundation hospitals and tuition fees at university and for introducing ID cards and for stricter asylum laws. But he din’t vote in favour of a wholly elected House of Lords. Way to go Brian!

He simply comes across as a bitter and angry man is everything he writes and says. It’s quite sad really and even sadder that Torcuil thinks Brian is someone whose views matter in Scotland in 2016 and that they should somehow be respected.

Robert Graham

A shorter version of torn arses rant was posted by ALF on a piece by Derek Bateman on newsnet , innuendo filled ,fact free Junk, are they related ? just asking .

Giving Goose

That’s not a beard.

It’s a fanny pulled up to tight.

Bit like Torcuil, really.

Brian Powell

If the TATA works being saved was down to the unions, why haven’t they saved them in Wales? I wonder.

Ian Brotherhood

We were wondering, earlier, what Willie Rennie’s up to today…

Well, guess what, he’s down on the farm.

Now go on – imagine what might possibly go wrong when WWR turns up at a farm…go on…aye, you’re on the right lines…aye, it does involve pigs…yep, they do…aye, right behind him…

Please check WOS Twiter, scroll down a bit. It’s just too good to be true.

Anyone able to get that clip over here so non-Twitterers can see it?

Seriously, it’ll make your day.

boris
Truth

Mr T had it right: “I pity the fool…”

Whenever I see our Torcuil or have the misfortune to read his “journalism” I feel nothing but pity for him.

Where did his life go so wrong?

Fiona

It is laughable that someone who supported labour should get aereated about reliance on the leader. That is a regrettable trend in modern politics, but it is the MSM who led the charge to a presidential style. This is because they have more power if we vote on personalities not policies. They determine how the personality is presented and so have much more control. It really took off with Thatcher and Blair was positively messianic, as was noted at the time. Now we like someone they decided we should hate and they have gone off the idea. Well, that is not true. They just don’t understand their control has diminished and so they cry crocodile tears about their preferred model when it isn’t working for them

I think he is truly muddled and resentful about loss of power for MSM. But not bright enough to really analyse what happened

galamcennalath

Torcuil really should consider a career in writing, fiction of course. He shows promise.

Perhaps romantic fiction? All that passion needs an outlet. Any openings with Mills and Boon?

People Carrier

Daisy Walker says:
8 April, 2016 at 12:28 pm
In the style of mCGonigle

Genius.

What about one describing the collapse of a structure; a sociopolitical structure per chance?

[…] Scottish independence Scotland politics referendum  […]

BrianW

Good luck with trying to make any sense of it..

The only place in seems to make any sense at all is in Torcuil’s frantic rabid brain.

Roll on polling day, hopefully then Torcuil will suffer a breakdown..lol. Think Chief Inspector Dreyfus in ‘The Return of the Pink Panther’.

call me dave

The voters will have the opportunity to cross out Torquil and his labour cronies on their to do list on May 5th and beyond!

Meanwhile elsewhere:

Sturgeon annoys Dave.

link to archive.is

Ardent supporters take over at Rennies photo op!

link to archive.is

Patrick Roden

Not Convinced says:

I think I can see why an ex-Labour MP (and isn’t it interesting that’s described as “former minister” rather than “former MP”?) would bring up the Cash-for-Honours scandal …

You see that was old-new-Labour who did that, whereas under the wondrous Corbyn they are now new-old-Labour. New-old-Labour are completely different to old-new-Labour who did that scandalous thing, and thus New-old-Labour would never do such a thing! Plus if we bring it up and mention the SNP at the same time, maybe some of the mud from that will stick to the SNP?

oh Nooooooo!

Just when I thought Labour couldn’t get any more confusing, along comes Not Convinced with this insight!

Old New Labour or New Old Labour, and what about Kez, surely she’s New New Labour?

I’m away for a lie down.

Taranaich

Can anyone come up with a reason why Brian Souter’s being named in all this? So far as I can see the only sources are from the Other Party, who make great hay from pointing out Mr Souter’s personal politics and business dealings while ignoring the giant Vitol-shaped planks in their own eyes.

Also:

“The Scottish Government, which press releases if the First Minister had mayonnaise on her chicken sandwich, said nout about it.”

“Nout?” “NOUT?” The hell is “nout?” Is he so obsessed with “No” and SNP “Out” that he’s just portmanteaued the two words?

(He means nowt, right?)

findlay farquaharson

uckin brilliant, this is precisely why i donate to this site

Brian Powell

Daily Record sales now below 160,000

David Graham

Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad …

yesindyref2

Half OT
I see OBE is back on the Herald. Or at least someone calling hinself J McI OBE.

That’ll increase the thread sizes by a factor of about 20.

Jock Scot

Fortunately for Torky the Twat(copyright YEW CHOOB!!), the untrustworthy Nicola has made mental health issues a priority so despite his protestations, he may be saved from himself. !

cearc

Ian B, here it is on Jamie Ross’s twitter –

link to twitter.com

Willie Rennie,’ We like to organise our visits to send a message in pictorial terms…’

It has to be one of the best ever political video clips!

Karmanaut

Isn’t that the guy who draws miseleading graphs for the Tories? I suppose it was only a matter of time until the Record went after the combined Labour and Tory unionist vote.

Mikewr

They have mad Kev as a columnist! A man carving out a niche in showing how poor scotland is in the union. FFS, I despair.

Capella

Brian Souter made money after Thatcher privatised public transport thus creating private monopolies which are licences to print money as Adam Smith pointed out.

Labour were in power for 13 years and refused to renationalise transport.

link to archive.is

If Scotland had been independent decades ago, Brian Souter would not be a transport millionaire. But he might still buy red trainers.

If TC dislikes people making fortunes from privatised public services he should vote SNP and advise his readers likewise..

cearc

Warning! You would be well advised to empty your bladder and put coffee cups out of reach before watching the Willie Rennie clip!

Phil Robertson

HandandShrimp says:
8 April, 2016 at 12:44 pm
The only things missing are Trump

Don’t worry, Richard Lochhead seems to have supplied that!

Phil Robertson

Taranaich says:
8 April, 2016 at 2:42 pm
Can anyone come up with a reason why Brian Souter’s being named in all this?

Yes and you don’t have to look far.
The possible developments from the deal include “transportation infrastructure”. Now go and look up which business Brian Soutar is in!

shiregirl

Torcuil has apparently gone ’round the pipe – a well known political hazard common in Yoons. His command of grammar and general punctuation was also pretty dire. But then, this is the Record.

And what’s this? Dog chow man H***e writing for the Record?…scary fact that Record readers will probably believe his nonsense…

muttley79

@Grouse Beater

That tragedy for Crichton and his lickspittle like is how swiftly and without warning the British Establishment will dump him unceremoniously when it suits them.

It probably is going to happen at some point. Shame 😀 😀

Jack Collatin

Socrates MacSporran @ 1.38 pm.
I cannot imagine your average Daily Record habituee stopping in their tracks as they flick through the pages en route to the Racing Section and fitba’news of the Mighty Two in World Football, just to read two full pages of ,frankly, pish. All those feckin’ words.

If it were a piece in the Sun, there would be a tantalising photie of a former child star posing provocatively in a bikini on a satin cushion to celebrate her 16th Birthday.

That would get ‘the lads’ attention.

They still wouldn’t read this pish, though, but, mind.

I am delighted that this scribe has produced this big bag of Doodoo so close to the polls..

It tells us that Ruth, Kezia, and Oor Wullie have nothing to offer.

From now on in, it will be Better Together carping on the sidelines, name calling, lies, and ultimately threats.

I am unfamiliar with this man’s work since Elvis Presley was landing at Prestwick Airport on his way to Germany to do his military bit, the last time I even glanced at this ‘Working Class’ Thunderer.

IT is clear that the author has lost it completely, and is to be pitied..strike that..laughed at.
I’m sure it will be the talk of the steamie in my watering hole tonight.
‘See they Chinese. See that Brian Soutar. See That Nicola Sturgeon. Bastards.’

That’s as terse a synopsis that I can manage.

Keep up the good work, Torcuil. No really, churn out more of this nonsense, please. But remember a bums and tits photie the next time.

(No not a group snap of the Scottish Labour Executive on their Spring Away Day.) Real bums and tits.

Proud Cybernat

“Mr Rennie explained: “We like to organise our visits [to the farm], to send a message in pictorial terms, exactly what we’re asking for.”

A humping!?

Genius pigs.

ronnie anderson

I would have liked to have seen the 1st draft of that story TeeHeeHee. The Daily Redcoat will soon have Elbow patches same as Torcuil.

Marcia

Is it a coincidence that ray of sunshine, Phil, always appears just before an election.

Clarinda

cearc – 3.12 pm

Should that not be pigtorial terms?

Sassenach

The Wee Wullie clip is one of the funniest, already forwarded it around friends!!

Lollysmum

Just in 🙂

The art of the possible

Dear ???,
Today I attended the handover ceremony for the Clydebridge and Dalzell steelworks.

The sale is good news for Lanarkshire, and for Scottish manufacturing.

Of course, this isn’t the first time that we have stepped in to protect a key national asset.
With our help a new buyer was found for the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow. Under that new ownership, the yard is winning public contracts and expanding its workforce.
We also took Prestwick Airport into public hands – protecting over 1,300 local jobs and an asset which contributes more than £60 million to the Scottish economy.
And let’s not forget that when the Tories tried to cut Scotland’s budget by £7 billion, we saw them off.
That’s the benefit of having a government that stands up for Scotland.
Share these achievements to persuade your family and friends to re-elect a Scottish Government that works for Scotland.
Remind them to vote SNP on both ballot papers.
Only the SNP has the strength, the unity and the vision to keep Scotland moving forward.

Nicola Sturgeon
SNP Leader

Kenny

“How far can we trust Sturgeon to get cosy with Qatar and China?”

This headline sentence does not even make sense.

It suggests that the writer WANTS the FM to “get cosy” with Qatar and China…. but can we trust her to do it?

Once again, the unionist press scores an own goal and Scots with working brains are driven into the YES movement — if they were not there already!

cearc

Proud Cybernat,

It may be the pigs using ‘sign’ language to express their feelings about being visited by Willie?

ronnie anderson

@ cearc Wullie Rennie,s Libdems, it could,nt be more graphic.ly demonstrated

LibDems Getting Hump’d

ronnie anderson

@ cearc forgot to add PMSL

yesindyref2

Good campaigning idea for the LibDems though.

“The Liberal Democrats make you randy”.

That would be a vote winner.

Proud Cybernat

Willie Rennie: “We’re in the middle of an election camppaign. These things happen.”

#shaggate

Marcia

yesindyref2

Oh dear. Shan’t show that to the other half.

Ian Brotherhood

Where ‘willie’ go next?

Has he been to a baker’s shop yet? Or a candlestick-maker’s?

Doesn’t matter where he goes, it’s aye ‘Carry On Down The LibDem Lavvy’ with WWR.

Pure gold…

Fireproofjim

Willkie Rennie and his porcine pals!! Great clip.
He was on the news last night with some Eagles. I think he said that if the Lib Dems form the next Holyrood parliament everybody gets a free eagle, or something like that. He was making more sense than usual.

Breeks

Ach, that’s a tough one. Who can we trust?

Don’t trust Nicola Sturgeon because she made a deal with China, or don’t trust the Westminster Government responsible for the McCrone Report, all that the McCrone Report entails, and keeping it secret for decades and costing Scotland billions upon billions and having the solid brass neck to deny it?

Maybe the BBC will have a reliable, objective perspective on the issue… I’ll never know. I don’t visit the Westminster propagandists anymore given the risk of radioactive contamination. Just can’t be too careful with toxic pollution.

Jeez, I just can’t decide… Should we toss a coin? The pound coin maybe? Let’s see how far we can toss the UK pound.

Mind you, if my first name was Torcuil, I think there’s a chance that I might have been simmering at gas mark 3 for my whole life too. I think you’re done Torcuil, I think you’re done…

David Smith

What a lovely graph that is.
Going by the dynamic displayed there, the Record should flatline just about the time the first SLAB ex-councillors are making their court appearances. 🙂

Proud Cybernat

Erratum:

Willie Rennie: “We’re in the middle of an election camppaign. These things humpin.”

#humpgate

yesindyref2

@Marcia
Maybe the one I came up with for the herald?

“Who needs viagra when you have Willie Rennie?”

Dr Jim

@Lollysmum: The art of the possible

The disgrace is, we have to share it because the media in Scotland won’t report Scottish Government achievement as a good thing

This alone displays the commitment and patience the SNP have to the end game
They could waste their time and energy fighting against the status quo but they just keep getting on with the job

For tenacity 10/10…. SNPx2

ronnie anderson

Declaration of Glasgow.

link to scotsman.com

Loony Tunes still on the go.

Albaman

It just shows you what the Record was able to print, pre Internet,without anyone able to publicly questioning the article, and I don’t think that even now, the “Record” has realised just how much the Internet has been the form which holds such published misinformation to account.
And they certainly did not recognise just how influential Stew, and his “Wings o Scotland” would become, and remain the dominant blog which would, and can hold the printed press to account .
You’ve got them by “the short hairs” Stew, now—-squeeze!!!.

Marcia

yesindyfer2

WR/LD’s give you instant headaches. 🙂

michael diamond

That beard hides a weak chin, like the man.

Capella

@ ronnie anderson
That video was so funny I had to stop watching after the first sentence. The Daleks are coming. Exterminate!

ronnie anderson

@ Capella James Scott questioned me at Dundee Demo as to why the Rev had a go at Scottish Resistance

Sharpen up yer keyboard Rev an kick erse.

Valerie

2 hilarious vids in one thread.

I’m sure the Scottish Resistance frontman was wishing he had the foresight to laminate his speech, thereby resisting the Scottish weather.

I was impressed that the 4/5 behind him were well prepared with laminated pics of some helmeted type of old.

And then there’s Mr Sheridan, a long way from those packed halls in the run up to the referendum.

I tried not to laugh, and failed. I have a sneaky regard for their adventures, cos they believe in what they are doing. Bless.

yesindyref2

@Marcia
LibDems stuck in a rut?

ronnie anderson

Declaration of Glasgow.

Caw me ah Pedant, should that statement not read as We the People of Glasgow.

Thank fek they didnae go tae Ecclefechan

Luigi

cearc says:

8 April, 2016 at 3:12 pm

Ian B, here it is on Jamie Ross’s twitter –

link to twitter.com

Willie Rennie,’ We like to organise our visits to send a message in pictorial terms…’

It has to be one of the best ever political video clips!

LOL this could go viral! Well it would if Rennie was actually well known. :):):)

Valerie

Wee Rennie going viral.

Huffpo circulating it now.

ian

This guys a walking ,talkin livin clown.

Scot Finlayson

I remember there was a BBC hack that went tonto when shrieking at Nicola during the start of Frenchgate,

I think it was the lickspittle James Cook,

it was not long after, that the BBC prudently shipped him out of the country,

it is time the editor of the rag DR sent poor mad Torcuil away from Scotland for a couple of years until he hopefully regains what little sanity he had.

call me dave

Radio shortbread visits the Steel mill in Scotland for the handover to new owners as it waves goodbye to TATA.

Interview with the new owner from Liberty and a ‘commutiny based’ employee with some hazy background with a (reference to a task force set up) etc etc.

That’s all folks…the SG were never involved… funny old world!

Init! 🙁 Good old auntie.

Luigi

Just watched humpgate again – oh ma poor sides! LOL

You have to give Mr Rennie credit, what a star – talk about perfect timing. 🙂

Clapper57

FFS scraping bottom of barrel, shows BT mob just cannae let go they are soooooo Yoonited .

DR will definitely not ‘Winalot’ of favour using one of Ruth’s wee helpers why I never knew KH was a wee ‘Pal’ of DR personally I think with his ‘Pedigree’ I certainly wouldn’t want to be his ‘Chum’ fir sure . The tail wagging the dog ??

Kevin Hague’s diary :

Monday : Graph for the Tories
Tuesday : Graph for the Lib Dems
Wednesday : Graph for the Labour party
Thursday : Graph for Graph’s sake
Friday : Column with graph for Daily Record
Saturday : Graph for next appearance on BBC Scotland 2016
Sunday : Graph for next week’s graphs

Think they’re both graphing at straws …again.

Socrates MacSporran

Jack Colatin @ 3.28pm

Good post, just one wee thing, Elvis popped into Prestwick Airport on his way back to the USA after completing his military service.

My late wife took the afternoon off school to see him – we still have the photograph. She got all Hell from the school after her picture was in the Daily Retard.

Lollysmum

Clapper57

Very good especially the last line 🙂

MJS Dundee

It isn’t ‘nout’, it’s ‘nowt’ – the loon’s an eejit an’ cannae spell.

That aside, please oh please someone revive Spitting Image and have them do a spoof music video “The Final Meltdown” starring SLab and their hangers’ on.

Kezia, Jabba, The Torquill, The Burd etc. all in stripey 80s spandex wi’ perms and pointy guitars … . [They do the heid-bangin’ bit anyway].

… Ach wait a tick, that one’s already taken – The [Tories in] Final Meltdown by Europe. Or over Europe. Or something like that.

Do porkers like/wear spandex? Cameron in spandex …, no, that’s too much, aaaaaargh. Ok, I’ll just go shoot myself, it’ll be less painful. [Except I can’t, because the SNP-bad govt has banned all the guns].

Macart

@Ian Brotherhood

Oh, that’s brilliant. 😀 ROFLMAO

Timing is everything.

Stoker

Marcia wrote:
“You should take over his space on that newspaper and let readers see what proper journalism should be.”

NAW! NEVER! We don’t want that rag to survive.
_________________________

BTW, there’s a massive difference between this article and the one by Tory Quill, this article will get read. I wouldn’t let my polecat waste its urine on BUM rags never mind me reading them.

Taranaich

Yes and you don’t have to look far.
The possible developments from the deal include “transportation infrastructure”. Now go and look up which business Brian Soutar is in!

The answer: not transportation infrastructure. Stagecoach are bus and rail operators. Transportation infrastructure means building & maintaining roads, railways, terminals and parking spaces, not the vehicles that use them. Or are you going to suggest Harley Davidson builds bus shelters and pipelines?

Jimbo

No wonder the Daily Record’s sales are going down the tubes – they have a political correspondent who types with his forehead.

Doug`s dad

Ruthie Tank commander is on Clarkston High Street now with a trusty band of followers, maybe 9 or 10 , no members of the public just followers so when the inevitable crowd shot appears thats who is in the picture. Strangely enough loitering about at the bus stop are a pair of police officers, don,t remember seeing that for other parties, maybeshe and they`re not quite as popular as they think

Returnofthemac

O/T just heard the 4.30 blah blah c news in the car should have turned off but I was waiting to hear the praise being heaped upon the Scottish government for helping with the steel jobs in Scotland. Well, it did get a mention. Then it was toodle oooo the noo. Talking about the 4 parties and what they were up to today. 1st Ruthie 2nd oor Wullie, 3rd kez. And then last and least the first minister of Scotland. FFS.

SNPx2

Nana

Jimmy Carr tweeted

link to twitter.com

Returnofthemac

Re my last post, forgot to mention the greens were number 3 kez in at number 4 and Nicola last. Just where the British Biased Corporation want her.

SNP x2

Nana

Meant to add to the above post, Jimmy should be asked if he has altered his tax affairs in order to pay up,

More on Cameron’s dodge

link to politicalscrapbook.net

Brian

Brilliant, just brilliant. A Pulitzer, surely?

Robert J. Sutherland

Oh nicely dissected, Rev Stu. I also couldn’t help laughing (though one shouldn’t mock the obviously afflicted).

I’m almost sorry that the Daily (Broken) Record has such a declining readership, since the more normal people who read this sort of yoony ranting, the more I reckon they are likely to vote the other way!

Ian Brotherhood

Up to today this was my favourite-ever Rennie clip. Seems he has a stimulating effect on everyone he encounters…(45secs)

link to youtube.com

Flower of Scotland

My LibDem/Tory friends are getting more bitter by the day! They can’t understand where I get all my information from and why I’m so upbeat.

I’ve told them to read Wings but they read the Scotsman, Herald and Courier. “You’re not doing well they tell me” (my windows are a beacon of SNP posters) with a growl.

I’m not sure why they are so miserable. They, the silent majority, won the Referendum! Ha,ha!

Bob Mack

Smacks of desperation frankly. When you think irrationally,you write irrationally.

Alan McHarg

If you can’t play the ball, play the man. The MSM did this, with some success, to Alex Salmond during the referendum campaign.

Ian Brotherhood

…and here’s Willie going down the zipwire t’other day.

Strangely, he doesn’t say a single word so there’s not a shred of solid evidence that it’s actually him…

link to youtube.com

Gary45%

Typical Yoon journo, no facts, make up the story, then cry foul when the truth comes out.

This will be the same shady Chinese company that have been proven not to be shady.
Message to Torky,” If its in the Record it can’t be true”
TICK TOCK.
SNPx2

HandandShrimp

Loved Willie’s clip…to be fair to him I think he realises that the pigs have upstaged him and he rolls with it.

Nice distraction for Dave though…take his mind off all those bothersome overseas investments.

Robert J. Sutherland

Re Cameron’s financial dodging, I heard a curious little snippet on the radio news yesterday lunchtime – the German Green MSP Sven Giegold revealed that Cameron manoevered successfully in the European Parliament to block offshore trusts from being made open (unlike companies), leaving a nice little loophole. And his bagman for the job was [Sir] Graham Watson MSP. The LibDem. Now ex-MSP.

Should someone tell Willie…?

Legerwood

The Chinese [no] deal is going to rumble on therefore the more information we have to counteract what has been some very most unbalanced reporting (understatement of the week) the better. The possible outcome if this Chinese investment going ahead is more jobs and housing just for starters both of which are badly needed. Has anyone asked any of the other party leaders how they are going to attract jobsand investment to Scotland? Has Ms Dugdale said how she is going to finance her 60,000 houses?

At least one of the companies, Sinofortune, has quite a few billions worth of projects on the go with a wide range of partners in the UK. Below is a post, not by me, from an earlier thread that has lots of good info in it to counteract what has been said elsewhere.

“”” stewartb says:
5 April, 2016 at 5:30 pm
This fuss in the media over the MOU with Chinese investors is just downright silly. Although there are always important strategic issues to consider over the nature of inward investment facilitated by the public sector, the Chinese parties to this MOU seem serious and interesting players. What follows is just for background – apologies for length. (By the way, it was assembled in less than 30 minutes research online – so no excuse for even resource strapped journalists!)

According to its web site: ’SinoFortone (UK) Group is a multi-cultural Joint Venture (JV) between Sinolinks Group and Fortone Group’, two Chinese corporations. Based in London, the SinoFortune UK web site lists amongst its current UK “partners”:

University of Cambridge
Kirklees Council
Birmingham City Council
Nottingham City Council
City of Stoke on Trent City Council
Kent County Council.

Existing SinoFortone investments in the UK include:

Crossrail 2 – new rail line linking London, Surrey and Hertfordshire

Waterside Luxury Village, Cornwall – part of SinoFortone’s stated intention of investing more than £250 million in the tourism infrastructure of the UK, focusing on historic refurbishments and new buildings based within close proximity to London, Edinburgh, The Lake District and Cornwall

London Paramount – major new theme park in north Kent: Sinofortone intends to invest £3.2bn

Cambridge South – science park plus 1,200 new homes and a country park, with Jesus College, University of Cambridge

The HD One – Huddersfield – mixed use urban development combining leisure, entertainment, hospitality and sport with additional specialist retail, office, and residential elements

Smithfield – Stoke-on-Trent – new commercial business quarter comprising 1.2m sq ft of office, retail and hotel space.

SinoFortone Group is also investing £2bn in two innovative biomass plants and associated food production facilities in Wales, at Holyhead and Port Talbot “that will create 1,000 jobs and thousands more during the construction phase”. The investment commitment from SinoFortone was confirmed at the start of the recent official visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the UK.

SinoFortone’s delivery partner in these biomass plants is the Orthios Group. The latter’s web site describes the Holyhead development as follows:

“We are creating a 299 MWe Orthios Energy Centre and Eco Park in Penhros, Holyhead, which will comprise:

-a 299 MWe biomass power station within the existing consented scheme

– the world’s largest on-land prawn growing facility (aquaculture)

– a large soil-less indoor vegetable growing facility (hydroponics)

– the world’s first home compostable food packaging facility

– the Combined Food and Power Centre of Excellence, with Bangor University

– research and development

– a deep water port jetty for bulk import.

The energy centre forms the core around which each of the Orthios Eco Park businesses will operate. There will be 5 independent 60 MWe power modules and we will gasify approximately 1.5 million metric tonnes of biomass per year. It is expected that we will be able to provide 650 thousand homes with electricity by 2020. The excess heat and CO2 will be recycled into the Eco Park to be reused for enhancing the cultivation of fish and vegetables.”

With SinoFortone as a key investor, the longer term aim is to roll out the technology developed in the two power plants in Wales to China and developing countries.

And notably, the BBC reported in 2015 a spokesman for the Labour-controlled Welsh government stating: “We welcome any further progress on these two projects, which have the potential to create hundreds of jobs and provide a major boost for the local economy.” (link to bbc.co.uk )

SinoFortone is also involved in developing new metro systems for both Kuwait and Abu Dhabi.”””

Robert J. Sutherland

Oh, correction to my last posting, I should have (twice) written MEP, not MSP. I’m too focussed on the upcoming election, it seems…

Jack Collatin

Socrates Mac Sporran @5.11
My Everlovin’ is an Elvis nut, also. Word perfect on all the tunes…Don’t tell her that I got it wrong !

I’m more an American Songbook kinda guy.

I repeat; things must be desperate in the Better Togteher Communications Room if they are reduced to churning out this drivel dressed up as fact.
I doubt anybody’s interested in Crichton’s pathological hatred of Nicola Sturgeon & Co.
Independence : I just can’t help believin’.

Torcuil has left the building.

Nana

@Robert J Sutherland

Here’s a link to the letter Cameron wrote re trusts.

link to uk.businessinsider.com

Tinto Chiel

“Brown brogues – the footwear of choice of the UKOK, true-blue, sash-wearing, marching, succulent lamb-eating Unionist.”

Hey, Socrates, they can be a valuable addition to a gentleman’s wardrobe, particularly when combined with blue jeans with turn-ups. Don’t diss my vibe, man (don’t know what that means either).

“But we’re moved by his sudden concern for poetry.” Classic: oh, the banter!

Silly Cringer Crichton should be made to write a hundred times: Nicola Sturgeon saved the Clydebridge and Dalzell works.

I love that graph of the DR sales. The same graph is now being used to track Willie Rennie’s credibility after Gammongate. Hope Cams didn’t see it, we don’t want him overstimulated just now.

Robert J. Sutherland

Nicely linked, Nana!

Judging by what I heard, a lot of MEPs were very pi**ed off!

ronnie anderson

@ Ian Brotherhood Ah,ll send wullie ah wee song Slip Sliding AWAY

HandandShrimp

Ledgerwood

Of course the fact that SinoFortone are a sound company will be ignored by the press.

The parent company of CR3EG did get embroiled in Chinese politics and bribery and a number of high ranking individuals, mainly civil servants, were given death and jail sentences and I think the company chairman committed suicide. However, the parent company itself is huge and has 20 or more subsidiaries including the one party to this agreement. I am not convinced that the CR3EG have been involved in any wrong doing but perhaps Crichton would like to stick his neck out and accuse them of something.

Morgatron

Squeal little Willie ,squeal. Not quite Ned Beattie , but loved seeing that wee dick shoveling up his his verbal shit. Just wish that rampant pig managed to get his trotters wrapped round him.

Ruby

Why are these two goons dressed up in identical outfits?

Ian Brotherhood

Here’s Willie Rennie on top of a mountain…

link to youtube.com

JLT

It must be some place to work at when it comes to the good old Daily Record. Conspiracies theories must be literally writing themselves on the Record‘s Laptops and PC’s these days, while it must be one almighty punch up in the Editorial Room whenever it comes to what should dominate the front page; SNP Baaad v the Rangers!

But we must be wondering how long the Daily Record will last. When, why and how? And when it does …I think many of us will celebrate with a wee dram.

JamesCaithness

I wonder no I’ll be willing to bet that Torquil Crichton will be on some politics programme before long (within a few days) seeking revenge for being shown to be the fool that he is.

galamcennalath

Re Record circulation. From the graph at the top it will reach zero around 2021. However, it will cease to be viable before then. Dead in 3years? No tears!

Robert Louis

Tonight out of curiosity, I decided to watch the blatantly biased and propagandist BBC ‘reporting Scotland’, for their coverage of the saving of the Scottish steel works, achieved by the SNP Scottish Government.

They covered it, yet somehow failed to mention these words AT ALL ‘Nicola Sturgeon’, or First Minister’. For those who are unaware, it was the Scottish Government who worked tirelessly since January to secure this new deal for Scottish steel.

In the report, no mention was made of the role of the Scottish Government, other than once, in passing, saying a support package had been backed by the Scottish Government. Nicola Sturgeon was present at the ceremony today, yet was not seen or heard at all on the BBC report.

This was then followed by a journo to journo chat in the studio, with Douglas Fraser, who came across as a man whose glass is really half empty. Not one good word to say about the takeover, nor anything positive to say about the work the Scottish Government had done to secure the deal. Indeed he even questioned the role of the Scottish Government, saying ‘it is not yet clear why the Scottish Government had to be involved’.

That, if we ever needed proof, is clear as day evidence, that the BBC in pacific Quay Glasgow, is totally biased against the SNP, the Scottish Government and is merely a London run propagandist outfit. The BBC is a wholly disreputable organisation, that is an affront to democracy.

You really should watch it on iplayer, just to see how awful the BBC has become.

ahundredthidiot

Just wait until the DR get their hands on the Panama papers leak where miss sturgeon made 623 billion quid from dodgy off shore company dealings.

Even the yoons in my work now regard the DR as an embarrassment.

Croompenstein

@Legerwood –

Listen to manifesto ripping crazed yoon loon Glenn Campbell rewriting history and trying to keep the China story going. Listen to Sir Richard Heygate’s incredulous responses to the ‘crazy speak’ of the mad ukok yoons..

Starts at 01:36:00 to 01:42:06

link to bbc.co.uk

Folk must see me in the car shouting and banging the wheel I really need to stop listening to this horse piss..

gordon ford

Sorry to be O/T .But did you see Rennie in the pigstye on RS.
He was wittering on about how the Fib Dems to things differently when just over his left shoulder two pigs started to become romantically inclined…………….
At the end of the clip Sally Magnusson said “Im not saying anything”
Have a look at it guys…………….

ScottishPsyche

An amusing and wry Brian Taylor commentary taking the P out of Willie Rennie on Distorting Scotland tonight.

However, yet again the unchallenged assertion is made by Ruth Davidson that 150 000 vocational College Places have been cut.

The SNP really have to get the truth out on this one soon.

Andy-B

Does anyone pay attention to Crichton or the Daily Record anymore?

Clegg and Crichton lost any little credibility they had left during the independence referendum.

The unionist gutter rag that they work for, the Daily Record sold Scotland out, the sooner it folds the better.

starlaw

Good old Wullie Rennie “we like to send our members a pictorial message off what we are about”
Two pigs humping in the background.
Could not have made this story up {-8

neil bruce

Ruby @ 6.48

I suspect they are dressed the same way because they are about to change into their alter egos, pet shop boy and the chinless wonder.

Tinto Chiel

On reflection, I apologise for suggesting at 6:38 that Willie Rennie had ANY credibility.

That was just silly.

ArtyHetty

All O/T

LOL! I did a search for, ‘willie rennie and the two pigs’ thinking nothing would come up, but no, it’s gone viral!

Well so far, had two tory leaflets through the post, must be costing them a bit.
The Electoral Commission ‘Scottish Parliamment voting guide’, however was well hidden inside junk mail..hmmm.

Macart

@Robert Louis

Beeb being predictable as ever then.

As for why the Scottish Government got involved? They do know google is their friend surely?

I seem to recall both the media and political opponents DEMANDING the Scottish Government do something, anything to prevent the loss of steel jobs in Scotland.

Well? They did. Just as they did for Prestwick airport, Grangemouth and Ferguson shipyard. They are the party of government and acted accordingly. Now perhaps if the SG had the full powers over taxation, energy, coal and oil devolved, the north east may not find itself in such a dire employment situation currently. How and ever we were assured some nineteen months ago that only with the broad shoulders of the union would something, something, something… etc.

Croompenstein

Oor Alex interviewed on Canadian TV.. he has a wee dig at Trump but further down the page is the full interview…

link to cbc.ca

Ruby

Ian Brotherhood says:
8 April, 2016 at 2:20 pm

We were wondering, earlier, what Willie Rennie’s up to today…

Well, guess what, he’s down on the farm.

Now go on – imagine what might possibly go wrong when WWR turns up at a farm…go on…aye, you’re on the right lines…aye, it does involve pigs…yep, they do…aye, right behind him…

Please check WOS Twiter, scroll down a bit. It’s just too good to be true.

Anyone able to get that clip over here so non-Twitterers can see it?

Seriously, it’ll make your day.

Ruby replies

I’ll give it a try. Finger crossed it will work!

link to tinyurl.com

robert esquierdo

When I read these two this morning I immediately thought of the Rev. I knew he would be onto it like a ferret on to a rabbits neck./ These two must think that the Scottish people are all as thick as sh-te on a weans nappy. What a pair of idiots

Almannysbunnet

@ Scot Finlayson says:
I remember there was a BBC hack that went tonto when shrieking at Nicola during the start of Frenchgate

Yes and James Cook was duly punished by being sent off as the BBC overseas correspondent in California. Harsh punishment that, bound to discourage others from doing the same. NOT!

ArtyHetty

The link works Ruby, it fills the while screen, be warned!

The worrying thing is, what on earth was he actually talking about? ‘Someone somewhere’ will work it out ‘somehow’. Oh my god, how much is he paid to spout such utter pish? He is living in the land of oz, or somewhere, somehow, someone, anyone?

Was J.lamonty partly right? Not programmed and all that? :-)(

call me dave

O/T

link to myp2p.ec

Lots of choice: Hearts V Aberdeen is mine KO now.

stewartb

To emphasise the point made by someone in an earlier post, the China Railway Group (CRG) does NOT appear on the current list of excluded companies from Norway’s ‘Government Pension Fund Global’ (see: link to nbim.no ). So the exclusion recommendation in 2014 seems to have been rejected.

The Council of Ethics that made that recommendation has in the recent past made similar recommendations about companies such as Alstom and Siemens, neither appear on the current list of excluded companies.

Notably, CRG subsidiaries are involved with major contracts internationally. Two examples of infrastructure projects follow.

As reported by Bloomberg in September 2015 (link to bloomberg.com), a China Railway Group-led consortium and XpressWest Enterprises LLC have formed a joint venture to build a high-speed railway linking Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the first Chinese-made bullet-train project in the US  “The project comes after four years of negotiations and will be supported by $100 million in initial capital.”

As reported in China Daily in November 2015 (link to europe.chinadaily.com.cn ), the China Railway Group Limited has announced one of its subsidiaries has won the Hungary-Serbia rail contract with another Chinese company and a Hungarian peer. The consortium will jointly construct the Hungarian section of the railway, which links the Serbian and Hungarian capitals. The contract is estimated to be worth about $1.57 billion. As part of this, a formal cooperation agreement has been signed between the Chinese and Hungarian governments.

Brian Doonthetoon

Well done Ruby!

I tried umpteen ways to download it with no success but your link let ‘Video Downloadhelper’ capture it.

Thank you!

Undeadshaun

Sorry to post this again, but must be the most hilarious clip in ages.

link to mobile.twitter.com

Willie Rennie “we like to send a message in pictorial terms exactly what we’re asking for, and I think this does it very well today, somebody , somewhere, somebody will work it out at some point.”

Yes Willie it does send pictorial message and its not hard to work it out, the Lib dems are f***ed!

Grouse Beater

When I worked at BBC Scotland you gathered in the office of any member of staff who got allocated to BBC London and congratulated them.

He or she got applause, slapped on the back, congratulated, given a bunch of flowers, or taken to the pub for a celebratory drink.

BBC London was seen as the ultimate goal, promotion.

Ask Ken Bruce.

You applauded your colleague because you unconsciously accepted BBC Scotland was a backwater province, and only a stint at BBC Tweed or Orkney could be worse.

Without anybody’s help, well, perhaps STV, BBC Scotland repackaged the ‘Scottish Cringe’ as an indelible national characteristic.

And that’s been its role in emulation and honour of Harry lauder since its inception.

Colmat

@ Rrobert Louis,

STV went one better, on the 6.00 news they managed to report the Scottish Steel developments without mentioning the Scottish Governments involvement or negotiations.

Ian Brotherhood

@Grouse Beater –

Can’t help wondering to what extent such cringe informed BBC Scotland material like this:

Gregor Fisher, Naked Video (early 80’s?) –

link to youtube.com

Effijy

Mr Roadkill Crisison must live under a rock somewhere dark.

After the Rev’s Revelations, he must want the earth to swallow him whole. (Willing helper available)

What a miserable way to earn a living.
Distort, Lie, and Confuse the facts for the gullible.

He originates from the Piles of Lewis too.
Such nice people there, I can see why he had to relocate.

Does anyone know if one of Brian Souter’s buses knocked him down when he was young?

His constant bickering about the man, on unrelated matters, is really quite pathetic.
Roadkill obviously doesn’t have an editor, or at least one with an interest in journalism.

Every bit as pathetic as the Slab Accounting Unit he supports.

Ruby