The Golden Shot
As any moderately heavy internet user will tell you, it’s very easy to get into a situation where you have literally hundreds of browser tabs open at any one time.
Every now and again you’ll go to clean them up and find something that you’ve been meaning to write about in a quiet moment, and this certainly counts as a quiet moment in Scottish politics, so let’s do this one now.
Because the story above is from March, but we don’t think we’ve ever seen anyone anywhere talk about just how weird it is, or what it tells us about the 2024 SNP.
I’ve also believed in independence for as long as I can remember, and certainly since I was a small child. In May 2011, when Alex Salmond won an unprecedented (and never-repeated) absolute majority in the Scottish Parliament, I was noodling away as a freelance videogames journalist, writing features about retro games for magazines and for my personal blog Wings Over Sealand.
(Super-alert readers may have recently spotted that I’ve been importing some of those old pieces into Wings, as part of a general tidying-up of my internet presence and for something to do over the slow and rainy summer.)
But within just a few months, as an independence referendum became a reality, I’d all but given up writing about games and was focusing all my attention on this site as my contribution to the Yes campaign, because obviously some things matter more than others and the chance to restore Scotland’s nationhood only comes along – at the time of writing – once every 317 years.
And of course, I was (and still am) just some idiot. I had a couple of thousand Twitter followers and no reach to speak of. My personal blog had a readership counted in the hundreds, on a good day, and maybe 10% of them at the very most had any interest in Scottish politics.
But still, I wanted to try to do my bit for the cause I’d believed in all my life, however small that bit might be, so I got to work.
Murray Foote, who occupied a position of infinitely greater influence as the deputy editor of Scotland’s biggest tabloid newspaper, with over 300,000 copies sold a day at the time (he later became editor in February 2014, seven crucial months before the referendum) took a different view, however.
Rather than deploy his privileged and powerful influence in the service of the cause he professed to have always believed in – a perfectly legitimate thing for a newspaper editor to do, having no duty of impartiality, unlike broadcasters such as the BBC – the Record took a stance that it claimed was neutral, but which everyone else interpreted as Unionist, in line with the Labour Party the paper has backed for its entire existence.
Most infamously, it was under Foote’s editorship that the paper instigated “The Vow”, which by Foote’s own admission sought to deflect voters away from independence and to securing the “devo max” option that he claimed to believe most people wanted.
In the June 2018 Times column where he made that admission, Foote also strongly implied that Brexit had driven him to reluctantly CHANGE his position to supporting independence, even though his current claim is that he’d actually supported it all the time. Nicola Sturgeon herself noted that he “now” supported independence.
(He even put out a video saying that while he’d previously been “sympathetic” to the cause of independence – something he hid REMARKABLY well during his editorship of the Record – he’d “never considered it the universal cure for all social ills”, but that “events change and shape opinion”, again pointing to a switch of view, something supported by all the media reporting at the time.)
Indeed, echo-skulled SNP numbwit Kelly Given said in her National column a year ago that Foote had previously been “committed to the Union”.
Talking to the Herald in 2020, Foote even went so far as to suggest that he’d basically had no option but to produce “The Vow”, out of duty to Record readers.
But that’s not what a newspaper editor’s job is, on any level. In an idealistic world, it’s to bring them the truth, filtered through a prism of what the editor believes, and Foote tells us that he believed independence was the best thing for Scotland, yet guided his readers away from it.
In a more pragmatic world an editor’s job is simply to try to sell more papers, and in 2014 there was a huge gaping open goal for any Scottish newspaper to appeal to almost half of the population which supported a Yes vote but didn’t have a single paper reflecting their view.
But instead of trying to appeal to what would end up being 1.6m voters absolutely crying out for a voice on the newsstands, and despite the fact that even a substantial chunk of the traditional Labour voters who make up the Record’s audience backed indy, Foote doggedly stuck to “neutrality” even as the paper’s sales plunged.
Now, that fall wasn’t because the Record didn’t support independence. As the graph shows, it was part of a long-term trend and one that affected and continues to affect all printed news media. But Foote had the opportunity to, at the very minimum, try a cynical “Hail Mary” tactic that could have paid off handsomely.
The Sunday Herald more than doubled its sales by backing independence. The National, a dreadful newspaper from the off, leapt from a standing start to 50,000 sales when it launched shortly after the referendum – testament to the fact that there was a pent-up audience out there just waiting for a pro-indy daily, however terrible.
The Record now sells fewer than 50K, a drop of almost 80% from the 224,000 it was shifting when Foote took over in 2014. It’s certainly hard to see how the Record coming out for indy could have made things worse.
So Murray Foote followed neither his conscience, nor any journalistic principles, nor even the money. Instead, the self-professed independence supporter turned round in front of the open goal and hoofed the ball back towards his own keeper.
The Record wasn’t neutral. It launched countless venomous attacks on Yes voices, including this site, and it worked with the three Unionist party leaders on a plan intended to secure a No vote. Foote himself admitted in 2015 that it had been “on balance, pro-Union”.
Yet he also claimed that “we never wanted The Vow to sway the outcome of the vote”, which is an obvious nonsense. And again, we hear that from Foote’s own mouth, because in the same article he admits the famous Yes 51% poll was the catalyst for the initiative.
If you believe in independence and it takes the lead in a shock poll two weeks before the vote, you don’t have to do a thing. You don’t have to take a risky stance that might lose you readers. If the Unionist leaders are in total disarray, you just don’t ride to their rescue and help them come up with a “coherent strategy” for a No vote. One does not, famously, interrupt one’s opponents while they’re making a mistake.
You sit innocently on your hands, let the chips fall where they may, and trust the Scottish people to decide. You don’t get the baddies to pull themselves together and write a better manifesto at the exact moment they’re reeling and wobbling.
(Whether “The Vow” had any material impact is a matter of conjecture and opinion, but it certainly tried to. Why on Earth would Cameron, Miliband and Clegg have done it otherwise? THEY weren’t claiming to be neutral.)
So quite why the SNP felt he was suitable first to take over as their comms chief, and then their CEO, is a mystery that defies rational explanation. This is a man – a “wily old fox”, in the coded words of his media colleagues – whose word simply cannot be trusted on the matter of independence, supposedly the party’s defining aim. He can’t even get his own story straight. Did he always support it or did Brexit change his mind? Was the Record neutral or “pro-Union”? Which Murray Foote should we believe?
And anyone who thinks that THAT guy is going to lead the SNP or the Yes movement to the promised land probably needs their bumps feeling.
A case of Foot in Mouth!
Just the type of CV and Independence party would go for.
The guy who probably lost us the referendum with a whopping lie.
Is the SNP the only job in town now that the Record is on its death bed
Or are the Unionist powers that be paying a Mole to ensure that SNP follow the Record.
Foote sadly epitomises a considerable chunk of “proud Scots, but….” types who are so used to sitting on the fence that it would take a tactical nuke to force them off it. All too many insist that they *wish* Scotland could become independent but they demand every i be dotted and every t be crossed, or conjure up all manner of economic, social and/or security bogeymen scary enough to justify their lack of political cojones.
Many of those types are never going to be converted under any circumstances, however hard we try and whatever counter evidence we marshal. A percentage of them are however persuadable, and those are the ones that will propel us towards independence.
It won’t be done using the wedge issue the arguments of the usual suspects in here of course, or by pandering to those whose allegiances are essentially for sale like Foote.
Given current events it’s more and more likely that external events, uncertainties and the manifest failures of the British nationalist project will help convince more folks. The cost benefit analysis of the dangers of both versus the potential advantages of the alternative can shift for lots of reasons: only some of them need have much or even anything to do with domestic politics. Time will tell if course, but when the history of the movement is written it’s a racing certainty that Foote and those who share his general outlook will not be judged as anything else but a hugely negative influence.
A liar then, a liar now.
All the indications that the SNP have been completely compromised and STILL a large proportion of independence supporters give them their support.
Expect he will retire to the House of Lords in due course.
As Mariko said, in Shogun, ‘Once loyalty begins it does not have an end…otherwise it would not be loyalty.’
superb rev
never read such bullsh!t
a party of grifters
led by a lying duffer
devoid of vertebrae
deserving of ignominy
totally scunnered
I think that even the most informed of us have actually no real idea how comprehensively Scotland is sewn up.
If you want a picture of the SNP’s future, imagine Murray Foote stamping on independence — forever.
As far as I’m aware the Daily Record is a Labour supporting newsrag – and has been for donkey’s years.
As for Foote he’s a &%$£*&&^^ and then some, as is the current SNP – lets remove the treacherous SNP and Foote at the Holyrood elections if we can.
Foote is about as interested in ditching the union – as the SNP is interested in achieving independence, which is zero – nil -nada.
Some Scots believed Sturgeon was an international leader. So you can’t blame newspaper boy for trying.
What was the biggest whopper of a lie the Vow or Indy2? When the devil comes to town….
I wish you’d been in the audience for his talk in The Glens pub in Dundee a couple of years after the Indyref to put this to him.
Back in the day, someone in the Daily Record portrayed Alex Salmond as Jabba The Hutt.
I wonder whose idea that was.
We stopped the Daily Record in this household when we discovered Andrex
“I wish that the pain of betrayal was as easy to forget as the red flags that forewarned of it.”
Steve Maraboli.
PROJECT FEAR
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0rly0re72o
If ever a country needed to sever political links with its wayward neighbour.
A fine takedown of another careerist chancer who jumped on the SNP bandwagon after 2014. That said, did anyone genuinely believe in his Damascene conversion when he crossed over?
Foote exemplifies the FAUX independence party’s last 10 years , ONE LARGE GRIFT, of gullible, dreaming, ordinary people, a party of CON ARTISTS deliberately and willfully LYING and promising to make people’s lives better through independence
What makes it even more despicable is that INDEPENDENCE was there for the taking, ONLY having to use THE TRUTH, that the tories and Labour were openly corrupt and grossly incompetent as Brexshit illustrated followed by the debacle of Covid and the massive corruption that followed
BUT NO, instead sturgeon and her troupe of deviants and perverts set out instead to SABOTAGE any possible movement for independence by FORCING divisive and vile policies on the electorate and handing ALL POWER to england’s supreme court
Well he’s certainly in the right place to continue his work, surrounded by like minded people with a common purpose.
Colonial Foote on head. Sturgeon lauded him, as directed by her handlers. We were stitched up at least twice, shame on us. Now, as England burns, the rats are all deserting the sinking ship, at least one off to Pakistan, or other bastions of true democracy. Meanwhile, the rape and pillage of our Scottish resources continues, and Labour strips all our benefits away – the most helpless and vulnerable first. Ye couldnae write it.
Swinney’s useless July election strategy [let’s make Scotland tory free whilst ignoring Labour who were the real enemy] reeks of the kind of minging manipulation someone like Labour-loving Foote would employ. SNP are a joke. Tractors the lot of them.
There you are Ellis. You were totally absent from the debate on
‘How To Punch Women In The Face’ It has been noted!
When you talk about more folk who are you referring to. The only thing I can see current events doing is covincing more people from England to move to Scotland. Not sure if that will increase the number of yes supporters.
Ofcourse with Humza mouthing off about leaving white, white, white Scotland he’ll have discouraged Muslims from England moving here. No idea if they would be more likely to vote Yes or not.
“The Vow” was such a desperate trick, I am still heidsmacked at how some people fell for it. We could shee the Beasht, we had it in our shights. The Vow showed how feart they were, and what sleekit desperate chancers these people were and are. That was the signal to deliver a Brexit referendum style “Falkirk you, I won’t do what you tell me.”
Instead of bottling it like Stevie Clarke in the Euros.
The Reverend Stu, I sometimes skim through old copies of Amiga Power because I’m a middle aged geeky guy, and your reviews still give me a smile to read them. In a fight between you and Dominik Diamond, I think you’d probably break his glasses and make him run aff greeting to his Mammy. You’d beat him at Sensible Soccer as well.
I don’t expect to be told the truth by journalists or politicians.
My reaction to seeing the above article would have been ‘aye right’
The worrying thing is the number of people who are taken in by totally brass neck lies.
I don’t think this article would be aimed at the likes of me. That would be for the ‘soft noes’ or maybe I should say ‘the soft in the heed’
There was no devo-max option. My memory of Michael Moore is repeating over and over and over and over again when asked about the devo-max option was ‘it would muddy the waters’
‘it would muddy the waters’ ‘it would muddy the waters’ ‘it would muddy the waters’
60% supported devo max? So when that final poll showed they might lose they remember 60% supported devo-max suddendly it wasn’t muddying the waters anymore.
Michael Moore got the ‘heave-ho’ can’t remember why and was replaced by ‘the bruiser’ and what I remember of him is opposing full fiscal autonomy because he said ‘full fiscal autonomy’ would lead to independence by the back door.
Figure that one out!
PS When I was checking the spelling of ‘heave-ho’ on Google I spotted this
https://tinyurl.com/2deakh7f
and thought it was about giving the hate monster the heave-ho. It turns out it’s a video game and I don’t think it has anything to do with getting shot of the hate monster.
5 names that I will be glad to never hear of ever again, those 5 names are the biggest betrayers of Scotland’s independence.
1) Nicola Sturgeon
2) Gordon Brown
3) Blair McDougall
4) Murray Foote
5) Johann Lamont and all Scottish Labour leaders.
Why no Alistair Darling? He’s an Englishman so therefore can’t be accused of betraying Scotland even though he was the face of the NO campaign.
@Craig
Baroness Sausage?
She convinced EU citizen to vote against Scotland gaining independence.
And didn’t Kevin H%gue the pet food mogul and self-professed economist have a regular slot in the record?
A very long article explaining whey people should not need a very long article explaining what a massive and obvious piece of shite Murray Foote is.
It ASTONISHES me that people are still paying this sack of shit’s wages… Are you fucking mad.
The second he was made CEO should have seen a complete and total collapse of membership.
He is the living embodiment of the boiling frogs theory.
IF George Galloway was P@lestinian instead of Scottish he would be totally despised by the P@lestinian population as he is now by the Scottish population.
Because he would be sucking Isr@eli cock like he does now Unionist cock.
A rat is a rat is a rat.
“the chance to restore Scotland’s nationhood only comes along – at the time of writing – once every 317 years.”
These days it comes once every 634 years, and I can safely predict one in 2648 AD.
“And anyone who thinks that THAT guy is going to lead the SNP or the Yes movement to the promised land probably needs their bumps feeling.”
As 2648 AD is a wee bit away, it is safe for him to “come out”.
Lying scum.
We Scots most definitely produces our fair share of utter cunts!
so you need something to do ??? What about a review on Delta Force (only on steam)
Foote (The Vow) gaining a position as press secretary (or suchlike title) then CEO of the SNP and all my worst fears over the SNPs fall from grace solidified.
Glad I bucked a 4 plus decades habit and didn’t vote for them at the GE, I won’t be either on the next ones as I think they are fatally flawed now and beyond redemption.
Gives me no joy to say it.
Independence however is not beyond redemption, the movement is not beyond redemption, the political party that was supposed to achieve it is.
SNP; you are bankrupt in so many ways now; Move over and give someone else a go or the movement needs to back another approach, the political table is irredeemably loaded against us.
Aye sold out big time by ("Quizmaster" - Ed)s.
And talking about ("Quizmaster" - Ed)s how many have now read the comments from that racist sectarian bag of excrement Humza Yousaf who is now declaring that he is considering leaving to go and live in Pakistan.
Seems that he fears for him and his families lives in a pogrom against Muslims.
Frankly with his cries of white, white, white, and murderous racism against Muslims to the extent that he can no longer live in Scotland I honestly think it would be better if he just fucked off.
This guy was never one of us. He is a bigot who hates white skinned people – because he has effectively said so publicly many times.
Scotland might not be perfect but it is no murderous anti Muslim hell hole as Yousaf claims.
Truthfully, we do not need vile bigots like him. And maybe he’d do better in Pakistan playing the extra marital shagger of other men’s wives.
Seems Mr Anti White, White, White sees the country
Alasdair Darling was Scottish with connections to the isle of Lewis so a betrayerof his own people .I don’t understand when posters don’t do a bit of research before posting
It just saddens me so much to read this and how much it’s burned me for the last decade.I still can’t believe how so many were duped by this and the countless other Judas’s to Scotland. Fuckers, everyone of them.
I’m no conspiracy nut – but imagine, if you will, an extant connection between Foote and the Sturgeons *before* the referendum…
A reasonable person might conclude he is a grifting liar.
That he, of all people, is the CEO of the SNP tells me one thing, that I am entirely correct in thinking that the SNP is a sham. Only under Salmond did they actually try to gain independence, the rest of the time, they just talked about it.
I now believe the SNP is nothing more than a ‘lighning rod’ for pro indy sentiment. A focus for Scots who want independence. Under London control, always aiming for independence, but NEVER, EVER actually going for it.
This is how colonisers work. Make a focal point for independence supporters, that ultimately you control. It keeps them busy achieving nothing, and lets you KNOW who the really important people are.
Slightly related, is anybody else on here sick and fed up with the fact that almost every single major public role in Scotland now has an English person in charge? I lose count of how many times I see documentaries or news items of say a public charity or a museum or an arts body, and I say to myself before they even speak, ‘I bet they are English’, and, sure enough, I am usually right. It is NOT an accident.
THAT needs sorted. No other country in the world simply sits back and allows folk from one other country (England, which by and large despises our history, culture and languages) to take over their culture their history, their public bodies in this way.
The other trick that has been going on for many decades, is the removal of the word Scotland from any discourse and official titles. Either it gets changed to ‘royal’, or the name gets abbreviated, thereby ensuring the word Scotland never gets used. In their (appalling, parochial) olympic coverage, the BBC have been almost tripping over themselves, to never say Scotland. Instead they say ‘from Edinburgh’, or ‘from Aberdeen’ or similar. NEVER, EVER Scotland. Just sick of it. SSSh!, dinnae mention Scotland.
This all IS something the Scottish government can change, and it needs done ASAP. Maybe they really just don’t care anymore.
Nu SNP * MEMBER*SHIP – ” Our ( lol ) Nikla is the direct heir of Robert The Bruce – if the latter had read The Second Sex . YEAH !
Yousaf Islam ( wait….y’mean like Cat Stevens ? Aye , that too ) is Gandhi + MLK n is gonna Rock The WM Casbah . YEAH !
John Swinney is ………………….selflessly taking time out from his successful Undertaking business to , erm ….increase his already substantial salary/pension ? Shut it , ya bigot ! John is ……ok we’re not exactly sure what John is doing , but …YEAH !
Murray Fitt is the most committed Independence supporter that ever stalked the Earth . How dae ye know ? He said so . YEAH !
Alex Salmond ( boooooo ) the guy who actually presided over a ScotGov that was competent , won people over to supporting Independence and brought about a Referendum on that issue is the spawn of Beelzebub . YEAH ! I mean BOO !
What if he gets elected to Holyrood and starts making progress towards achieving Independence ?
YEAHBOOYEAHYEAHYEAHBOOHOOHOOYEAH . Fck …can someone tell us what to think please ?
Craig at 0750pm,
I think your list is correct. Scotland seems to have a new sport, producing tractors and utter conniving, lying sh*tes, all who happily betray their own country.
For baubles, robes, titles and money from London. ‘London’s gold, and all that..’.
You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.
But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there’s
no occasion to.
The BBC still bigging up race riots and refugees being scared to go out in Scotland.
One might think the police would gave an interest in a media organisation “promoting” civil insurrection, but no tents outside the BBC.
Funny that.
So Foote is the master of his own propaganda as are others. Reinventing, distorting the facts is a National pastime now. A homogeneous MSM and broadcasters acting as one. Look at the coverage this morning. Project Fear again. Government using nudge psychology on the population. Reasons to be cheerful. Everybody with a phone is a potential reporter. Dissenters are out there. Particularly liked Starkeys take on the consequences for the Labour Party. Thats the end of them.
@ Anne 10.24: “Alasdair Darling was Scottish with connections to the isle of Lewis so a betrayer of his own people.
His Wikipedia page states he was born in Hendon, London.
Also i see the BBC launching a programme on the relationship between Sturgeon and Salmond. I wonder if Kirsty Wark and Dannie Garvellie will be in it.
Good one BBC, my sides are hurting
For anyone watching, if the BBC support you you can only be working against independence.
One might assume that those riots, according to anglosaxon media, spreading across Britain/UK are a testament to Scotland not being culturally part of the «British entity».
The Golden Shot?
Once again being that I’m not very good on pop culture I need that one explained to me. I haven’t watched TV since you needed a licence to watch catch up on the iplayer & even then I preferred to read romantic fiction than watch TV.
Sometimes I watch romantic fiction on DVD. ie ‘Pretty Woman’
(Roy Orbison song going through my head now)
walking down the street. Oh shit I’m losing the plot!
One of the memorable quotes from that film is
Edward Lewis: “What’s your name?”
Vivian: “What do you want it to be?”
That sums up Murray Foote, most journalists & politicians. Basically they are ‘sex workers’.
If you don’t know who Edward Lewis & Vivian are just ask me and I’ll tell you but only if you explain ‘The Golden Shot’ to me.
Aye Shug I noticed that also that:
Audiences will also have another chance to see Yes/No: Inside the Indyref,
I wondered if that was the documentary in which Rory Bremner talks about ‘The Wee Blue Book’.
Is there a video clip of that on You Tube? If not there should be.
Nicola Sturgeon saying she’s not comfortable with the word ‘national’ in the SNP’s name.
Humza Yousaf saying he’s not comfortable with the word ‘national’ in the SNP’s name. (What a strange coincidence).
John Swinney saying independence must be achieved legally.
Stephen Flynn saying Westminster is sovereign.
Angus Robertson saying the BBC should be kept on after independence.
Do these people seem credible independence supporters?
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‘LONDON CALLING: HOW THE BBC STOLE THE REFERENDUM’
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Stu,
Then as now you have excelled at being the most honest journalist Scotland has ever been honoured to have,
Accurately reporting statistics and calling out the fabricated truths from dishonesty at the same time provided Scots with many news items that often miss getting reported here at all.
So much have I learned about Scotland, its economy, its, oil, franchises and contracts over these last years here on Wings that I was never taught in a Scottish School that only provided the history of Britain from the point of English history. And its constant wars.
I was a Cartoonist for two local papers ( non- political) when news of the referendum was announced.and boy, where my eyes opened so quickly on the bias of main stream media,
I was constantly pressurised create un- complimentary cartoons that ecitors put the Captions too,
Both papers and I disagreed We fell out, I got sacked from one for not towing their political agenda and I left the other as I began to observe a repetitive pattern developing.
Then I found Wings over Scotland and have never looked back since,
Absolutely delightful in its integrity and education of the Scotland that had been kept in the dark for many years regards its own history and what has been is conceived against Scotland in disinformation or obfuscation.
Nowadays I always try repeat as close as possible the informational records from Westminster old records, from Englands old newspapers that were of the time period required for good research,
Because Scotland has never been informed of what really went on in England with laws, statues, who’s they were and wether Scots even new they existed,
It is also a safety net to repeat or throw back what they themselves wrote down and recorded in Statues and legislation, or Media in England as it leaves Wings over Scotland free from attack because it is and was their own words and version of truth wether it fits the treaty of union or not,
And the other sources are lawyers, court cases etc, which would and could only be disputed with the lawyers themselves.
So I always try to keep such an excellent Scottish journalist site like Wings over Scotland free from any legal Challenges,
I hope you always add to the education of Scots, And lang may yer lum reek. Stu.
@Ruby Boringeveryday 7.08pm
There you are Ellis. You were totally absent from the debate on
‘How To Punch Women In The Face’ It has been noted!
I’ve been on holiday Rubes, seeing up close how a small independent nation with a population which had the balls to vote for its own independence compares with the bin fire that is present day Scotland.
My views on biological men being allowed to compete in women’s sports (or enter any other female only spaces) are no secret, and align closely with those espoused by Rev Stu and held by the vast majority of the population.
Doubtless I’ll now get pelters from the usual suspects for daring to suggest my views represent the majority, eh? Or maybe not since for once their views at least on this issue are generally pretty sound.
When you talk about more folk who are you referring to. The only thing I can see current events doing is covincing more people from England to move to Scotland. Not sure if that will increase the number of yes supporters.
More of the folk in the roughly half of the population we still need to convince. Of course we all know there’s a hard core of britnats and Scottish yoons who will never be reconciled to independence under any circumstances, but the polling evidence suggests there is a reasonable % who are prepared to switch. They’re the ones we have to convince.
From memory (it may even have been one of Rev Stu’s polls?) there are considerably fewer voters who have or would be prepared to flip the other way, from Yes to No, though I’m sure they do exist.
As for whether an increase in English people moving to Scotland would help or hinder the cause….how do we know? I know it’s something the nativists insist is a mortal danger, but I’m not that interested in making windows in to people’s souls as a condition for them being “allowed” to come here.
Given the international situation, and the relative number of incomers from England in comparison with other parts of the world, how do you know or any of the other xenophobic bigots know they’re not a nett gain to the cause? You don’t of course, not that it will stop you all spouting your bile.
Ofcourse with Humza mouthing off about leaving white, white, white Scotland he’ll have discouraged Muslims from England moving here. No idea if they would be more likely to vote Yes or not.
With luck the door will hit Humza in the erse so hard on his way out that he’ll be the first human to reach low earth orbit without the aid of a rocket.
Again from memory, I seem to recall that the overwhelming majority of Scots Asians voted heavily for independence: that was certainly what Alex Salmond seemed to think when he poured cold water on the idea of franchise restriction at an Alba meeting in Edinburgh I attended the other year.
Not sure if there are or were any actual polling figures broken down by religion, or if it was just Big Eck’s subjective view. I suspect he may have had some evidence, perhaps private party polling, to back it up even if it wasn’t in the public domain.
Perhaps there are detailed figures in one of the polls if it was broken down by ethnicity and/or religion, but I couldn’t be certain. The Scottish samples may not be big enough to draw any real conclusion, though I think Rev Stu’s polls are usually pretty robust.
Doubtless all the shameless racists like David Hannah et al who infect BTL comments here will be having an attack of the vapours at the thought of more
H Scott
They don’t need to worry about the word ‘national’ in the party name.
They have destroyed the party as it stood, reducing it to an unelectable stump.
I hear they are already trying to shut down open nd frank discussions at the conference while while the mire generously proportioned candidates argue iver who gets on the list for 2026.
They have not come to terms with, continuity is the last thing they need. They need to fillet out the plants, fraudsters, perjurers, conspirators and kompromats before they can rebuild.
Looks like the English propaganda machine (BBC) – will air another Salmond smearing documentary – a two-parter this time – just incase you don’t get the message (Salmond bad) in the first part.
I wonder if those two-odious shits Kirsty Wark and Sally Magnusson will appear in them.
“A new documentary series will examine how Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon built the SNP into an election-winning machine before later falling out.
BBC Scotland today announced Salmond and Sturgeon: A Troubled Union will be broadcast in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the 2014 referendum on independence.”
So that’s now six treacherous b*stards, vying for the position of leader of the branch office of the English Tory party in Scotland – they call themselves the Scottish Conservatives, but no such party is registered with the Electoral Commission.
One of the Fifth Column party’s candidates – Murdo Fraser has NEVER been directly elected to office.
Fuck off cunt face!
If you want me to read your mile long abusive post
(You’ve got the cheek to criticise Mia) maybe not start
with personal abuse. If I am so boring why are you reading & responding to my posts?
Probably just a means of sucking up to Stu!
Grovelling cunt!
I’m boxing again to-day ‘floating like a butterfly & stinking like a bee!
Upper cut! Upper cut! jab! jab! jab!
Fuck off cunt face!
If you want me to read your mile long abusive post
(You’ve got the cheek to criticise Mia) maybe not start
with personal abuse. If I am so boring why are you reading & responding to my posts?
Probably just a means of sucking up to Stu!
Grovelling cunt!
I’m boxing again to-day ‘floating like a butterfly &
stinging like a bee!
Upper cut! Upper cut! jab! jab! jab!
Ach my typos will give them something to laugh at. Even grovelling cunts need to laugh now and again.
Laughter is the best medicine! I’m even having a chuckle myself at my typo.
The Record was always one of the largest blocks to independence. At its height it had the second largest percentage readership of any newspaper in the world. It used its colossal power during the 70s, 80s and 90s to strangle any attempts for the Scottish people to move forward to nationhood.
Over the years the Record was always on the unionist side, and the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election was swung in Labour’s favour at the last minute by one of their headlines. When people complained to the party about this they were fobbed off, and told they could not react against a national newspaper.
Our YSN group took matters into our own hands by organising a ‘Real Scots Dump The Record’ demo only to be threatened with expulsion from the party by Alison Hunter (always be careful of those who spent a lot of time down south). Our organisation was then dismantled from within and those same folk went on to dismantle the SNP itself.
The fact that Murray Foote has such a prominent role in the NUSNP speaks volumes. In the same way the Labour Party became Blair (not the other way around), the NUSNP has become Foote.
Game over player one.
Googled “do bees stink”
Google says
When a bee stings, she releases an odor called an alarm pheromone to alert others to the danger. This alarm pheromone smells like bananas and attracts other bees to come to the defense of the hive. This pheromone stays on clothing, so if you are stung you should wash your clothing before wearing it again.
Interesting!
It’s weird but there’s always a song that pops into my head with each post. This time it’s:
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
What the hell Shakespeare? Is it more erotica?
Where’s Sam?
I hope ‘a cowslip’s bell’ isn’t what I think it is because I was taught that song in primary school!!!! FFS!
@Ruby Boringeveryday (passim)
Careful now, you’ll end up on the naughty step again. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing: it’d save a lot of action on the scrolling finger.
You replied to my post. I answered. That’s how it works. The fact you don’t like the responses and don’t have the intellectual heft or ability to respond other than call people cunts is no surprise to anyone.
We’re laughing at you, not with you.
Glasgow Cathedral, the city’s gothic masterpiece is to be used for a Netflix film, I guess money talks !
Whereas Scottish Patriots commemorating Bishop Robert Wishart of Glasgow Cathedral is worthy of being threatened with Police Action by the Cathedral Rev Mark Johnstone !
When people from England move to Scotland we can only presume they are trying to dis- associate and escape from the England that is overrun and is going down the tubes pretty fast, especially with the the new regime dictatorship over free speech of governance that is rearing its ugly head,
I am not sure we need to convince them to extract themselves from England if they have already done it by moving here,
Whilst under Scottish independence the SNP regime and the pretendy Scottish parliament would instantly end,
I am pretty sure they would not wish to emulate the Same Government of England that they moved here to get away From,
And the parliament of England Stole the Sovereignty of the English people when it passed the bill of Rights way bck in 1689.
I am not sure they would want to go back to being owned or subservient to the rich lords in Westminster parliament once they are Sovereign people in Scotland,
Scotland has a better starting point for a new political.outlook than overcrowded England,
And with other Countries (going as batshit crazy as England) perhaps many Scots will return home with their younger generation,
Once out of the rat race of Country of London rulers I could imagine very little of them would need much encouragement them to yes to a independent Scotland with a promise of a new start in life and a new fairer political government.
All it takes is to vote yes, wether you are returning Scots that are fed up with globalism aboard or someone from another Country that wants to dismantle globalism, wokeness, climate change agendas, reverse civic nationalism control of government, and be individual people again in their own right, with free speech,
It’s a knock out!
He’s frothing at the mouth and his eyes have rolled so far back in his head he can see his own arse.
How’s it looking for love-bites Andy?
Cheerio! Don’t forget to wash your pyjamas the stink of bananas might attract more stings.
I’ve done my boxing for today I’m off to buy some Manuka and get on book from the library on ‘The Secret Life of Bees’
Bye! C U later!
Och I think many people coming to Scotland will vote for Scottish independece,
Because they are trying to escape globalism and civic national governments that are becoming dictatorships squeezing the life of the people.
By releasing Scotland in a vote for YES for a iindependence Scotland, the people of England immediately also become a independent Country again and get their borders back from the EU and globalists.
It a win win situation for the people of Scotland England and Ireland.
When the people in Britain all vote for independence it immediately would cause agreat reset,….
But not the great-re-set the globalists had in mind,
Maxxmacc,
Labour had infiltrated the NuSNP very early on, in fact I would say there were some strong elements of labour waiting in the wings of the old SNP for the right time to pounce.
Alliances can be switched like a drop of a hat and often are, as Stu points out.
“This is a man – a “wily old fox”, in the coded words of his media colleagues – whose word simply cannot be trusted on the matter of independence”
Aye Rev, thon gadgie’s for shuir anither colonial gaird-dug an nae mair, as is ivery ane of thay deceitfu SNP heid bummers. Neoliberals mebbe, deceivers nae doot, but niver naitionalists in thair pluff.
Our problem is not Murray Foote!
It’s not the chancers and nest-feathering incompetents in the SNP.
The problem is our friends, neighbours and ‘countrymen’ who go about their days, blind to the reality of what’s been happening for (more than just) the past decade! They are the ones who put these people there. They are the ones who continue to ignore the wood for the trees.
Yes, they are spoon fed a diet of lies from all corners, but they still opt to accept the spoon rather than fend for themselves.
They don’t want to hear the truth. It has caused arguments in my close family and disagreement with close friends. They see no other avenue to further the cause and they see me providing a road block to that avenue.
I read a piece in the Telegraph today (I was pointed to it on-line before anyone thinks I’d buy any rag) about how Barnett means English tax payers are subsidising Scottish prescriptions and education. It makes me weep and has actually forced me to take a step back from activism in order to remain (slightly) sane.
My last ‘political outing’ was to park my motorcycle directly outside the door of Bute House and take part in a demonstration against Nicola Sturgeon’s continued residence there. As a ‘Yes Biker’, I’d hoped that there may have been others from that specific group there, but alas, no!
Somebody can maybe offer to waken me up when the other 80% of the independence minded polity actually waken up and smell the coffee too….
anglo brain –
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/477385928#p477389725
– it’s good to really get to know people, what they honestly think, so you can know for sure what nasty little bastards they really are
– and it’s universal, give these guys an education and a job in the city, they think just the same, but use more polysyllabic words to express it; anglos, whether its greggs and poundstretcher or harrods and gieves and hawkes, it’s all the same. Anglo exceptionalist narcissism as national character and worship of the mythic past (empire) as state religion.
the worst place ever is not 4chan, more like the comments at the telegraph. Vicious stuff. Jocks back in their boxes. All that.
trumpton riots, musings
Having fun is also part of it; since policing and pervasive cctv has almost eliminated football hooliganism, things have been a bit boring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvG3is7Bm1w
I think everyone should fight the police at least once before they die. Or a nice standoff, on your roof, stripped to the waist, wielding improvised weapons. Don’t pay that fucking council tax, last week they never emptied the bins coz it “had the wrong rubbish” in it. Cunts. They’ve crossed the line, and no mistake.
there is a global lack of meaning, of spiritual emptiness, and what presents is a desire to wage conflict against – whatever it is out there – that is causing this vacuum; you want it to kick off – see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaSVqgGrBVg
– classic scott walker … a song about torture, oddly.
just think how powerful the anglo rioters would have been if they still had their XL Bullies. If they want to really bring it to a head (chop), they could burn a few korans. That never gets old. We need to get the trannies involved, half of them are nonces. I reckon any planned pride marches have been postponed, which is nice.
If this goes on long enough the tactics will evolve – shieldwalls, phalanx, testudo, schiltroms, attack dog squadrons, cavalry on mopeds and quads. We shall see drones, squad leaders, battlefield commanders, can they get secure comms, will we see chess like strategies?
Rioting should be an olympic event.
“gold for team GB”
James Che 10:35
There was an opinion poll done last autumn on the question of immigrants voting for independence. The result was just over 32% would.
Not really – the Italian quine now says that she wants to apologise to her, um, opponent. Oops. 🙂
Tartan Tory
Don’t believe anything you read in The Telegraph.
Why do you think the Tory governments got its knickers in a twist at the possibility (or threat as they referred to it) of ownership and control of EDITORIAL being in the hands of some “Johnny Foreigner”..
The Telegraph, Spectator and the rest; bum fodder- fit only to wipe the nations arses.
Foote is a brit nat plant inserted into the SNP to decieve independence supporters in line with the controlled leadership who obey their brit nat handlers.
The death of the pro independence SNP was their goal! Now that this is achieved, we must expose these british infiltrators and make sure their likes, never again are allowed influence in a pro independence movement.
AGAMBEN: ITALY, GERMANY
« The problem of the ‘state of exception’ presents clear analogies to that of the right of resistance. It has been much debated, particularly during constituent assemblies, whether the right of resistance should be included in the text of the constitution.
« The draft of the current Italian Constitution included an article that read, “When the public powers violate the rights and fundamental liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, resistance to oppression is a right and a duty of the citizen.” This proposal, which followed a suggestion by Giuseppe Dossetti, one of the most prestigious of the leading Catholic figures, met with sharp opposition. Over the course of the debate the opinion that it was impossible to legally regulate something that, by its nature, was removed from the sphere of positive law prevailed, and the article was not approved.
« However, in the Constitution of the German Federal Republic there is an article (Article 20) that unequivocally legalizes the right of resistance, stating that “against anyone who attempts to abolish that order [the democratic constitution], all Germans have a right of resistance, if no other remedies are possible.”
« […] In a technical sense, the Italian Republic is no longer parliamentary, but executive [governamentale]. And it is significant that though this transformation of the constitutional order (which is today underway to varying degrees in all the Western democracies) is perfectly well known to jurists and politicians, it has remained entirely unnoticed by the citizens. At the very moment when it would like to give lessons in democracy to different traditions and cultures, the political culture of the West does not realize that it has entirely lost its canon. »
(Giorgio Agamben, STATE OF EXCEPTION, University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp 10, 11, 18)
Errrr….at the risk of a pile-on.
Comment above about ridding Scotland of the Tory party.
Disagree. The Scottish people must have representation whatever their political views. Those who want to preserve the union, likewise.
Our job is not to silence them but to generate the momentum to overcome their opposition through sound reasoning, evidence, and the demonstration of good governance.
Remember that it was only the Tartan Tories who opposed the gender reform debacle.
It was only Davied Davies who had the gravitas, integrity and guts to expose the Sturgeon cabal and their depraved actions against AS.
Russell Findlay is someone I respect despite his unionist views and we need more people like him across the political spectrum.
What is so despicable is not overt political conservativism but the behind the scenes operations of Sturgeon/Swinney and the civil service. Their corruption of the political and judicial systems has shamed this once-proud nation.
I am all for pluralism even if it means that we have a fight on our hands. The sense now is that that the fight has been lost on an uneven battle-ground where Sturgeon’s Trojan horse is still dropping its turds.
AGAMBEN: ENGLAND
« The only legal apparatus in England that is comparable to the French ‘état de siège’ goes by the term ‘martial law’; but this concept is so vague that it has been rightly described as an “unlucky name for the justification by the common law of acts done by necessity for the defence of the Commonwealth when there is war within the realm” (Clinton L. Rossiter, ‘Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis in the Modern Democracies,1948).
« This, however, does not mean that something like a state of exception could not exist. In the Mutiny Acts, the Crown’s power to declare martial law was generally confined to times of war; nevertheless, it necessarily entailed sometimes serious consequences for the civilians who found themselves factually involved in the armed repression.
« World War One played a decisive role in the generalization of exceptional executive apparatuses in England as well. Indeed, immediately after war was declared, the government asked parliament to approve a series of emergency measures that had been prepared by the relevant ministers, and they were passed virtually without discussion.
« The most important of these acts was the Defence of the Realm Act of August 4, 1914, known as DORA, which not only granted the government quite vast powers to regulate the wartime economy, but also provided for serious limitations on the fundamental rights of the citizens (in particular, granting military tribunals jurisdiction over civilians).
« The activity of parliament saw a significant eclipse for the entire duration of the war, just as in France. And in England too this process went beyond the emergency of the war, as is shown by the approval—on October 29, 1920, in a time of strikes and social tensions—of the Emergency Powers Act. Indeed, Article 1 of the act stated that:
« “If at any time it appears to His Majesty that any action has been taken or is immediately threatened by any persons or body of persons of such a nature and on so extensive a scale as to be calculated, by interfering with the supply and distribution of food, water, fuel, or light, or with the means of locomotion, to deprive the community, or any substantial portion of the community, of the essentials of life, His Majesty may, by proclamation (hereinafter referred to as a proclamation of emergency), declare that a state of emergency exists.”
« Article 2 of the law gave His Majesty in Council the power to issue regulations and to grant the executive the “powers and duties … necessary for the preservation of the peace,” and it introduced special courts (“courts of summary juridiction”) for offenders. Even though the penalties imposed by these courts could not exceed three months in jail (“with or without hard labor”), the principle of the state of exception had been firmly introduced into English law. »
(Giorgio Agamben, STATE OF EXCEPTION, University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp 18,19)
They gave him every opportunity. Every door was opened, every rule was broken, every petition to remove him was shouted down. His every failure forgotten every disaster airbrushed over and still he rose, against the overwhelming opposition he took the helm. When he kicked himself in the face and fell like a sack of tatties they still laid it on. Useless bastard. How far would he have gone if he was white.
Part of a conversation I had a couple of years ago.
Me: So do you know that Murray Foote?
Mate: Aye worked with him for years, sound bloke!
Me:Are you fkn serious he wrote the vow ffs!
Mate: Well what do you expect, he’s a yoon!
How can Scotland send Police officers to every part of the UK when Police Scotland is skint and on its knees.
Answers on a postcard please.
Attention all Criminals
Pssst…. there’s no cops.
Why did Glasgow City Council send it’s workers home when Police Scotland told us it’s safe?. Did they know something we don’t?
AGAMBEN: AMERICA
« The place—both logical and pragmatic—of a theory of the state of exception in the American constitution is in the dialectic between the powers of the president and those of Congress. This dialectic has taken shape historically (and in an exemplary way already beginning with the Civil War) as a conflict over supreme authority in an emergency situation; or, in Schmittian terms (and this is surely significant in a country considered to be the cradle of democracy), as a conflict over sovereign decision.
« The textual basis of the conflict lies first of all in Article 1 of the constitution, which establishes that “the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it” but does not specify which authority has the jurisdiction to decide on the suspension (even though prevailing opinion and the context of the passage itself lead one to assume that the clause is directed at Congress and not the president). The second point of conflict lies in the relation between another passage of Article 1 (which declares that the power to declare war and to raise and support the army and navy rests with Congress) and Article 2, which states that “the President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.”
« Both of these problems reach their critical threshold with the Civil War (1861-1865). Acting counter to the text of Article 1, on April 15, 1861, Lincoln […] in fact acted as an absolute dictator […]. On April 27, with a technically even more significant decision, he authorized the General in Chief of the Army to suspend the writ of habeas corpus whenever he deemed it necessary along military lines between Washington and Philadelphia, where there had been disturbances.
« It is obvious that in a wartime situation the conflict between the president and Congress is essentially theoretical. The fact is that although Congress was perfectly aware that the constitutional jurisdictions had been transgressed, it could do nothing but ratify the actions of the president, as it did on August 6, 1861. Strengthened by this approval, on September 22, 1862, the president proclaimed the emancipation of the slaves on his authority alone and, two days later, generalized the state of exception throughout the entire territory of the United States, authorizing the arrest and trial before courts martial of “all Rebels and Insurgents, their aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to Rebels against the authority of the United States.’ By this point, the president of the United States was the holder of the sovereign decision on the state of exception.
« […] The most spectacular violation of civil rights (all the more serious because of its solely racial motivation) occurred on February 19, 1942, with the internment of seventy thousand American citizens of Japanese descent who resided on the West Coast (along with forty thousand Japanese citizens who lived and worked there).
« President Bush’s decision to refer to himself constantly as the “Commander in Chief of the Army” after September 11, 2001, must be considered in the context of this presidential claim to sovereign powers in emergency situations. If, as we have seen, the assumption of this title entails a direct reference to the state of exception, then Bush is attempting to produce a situation in which the emergency becomes the rule, and the very distinction between peace and war (and between foreign and civil war) becomes impossible. »
(Giorgio Agamben, STATE OF EXCEPTION, University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp 19-22)
I haven’t got the foggiest notion what my post saying ‘It’s a knock out!’ has to do with some ‘Italian quine’ who wants to apologise. I’ll let it go for the moment because up until now I’ve quite liked you. However you should be warned that I’ve now got my eye on you pal.
You wouldn’t want to be stuck in your garden shed afraid to show your face on Wings again now would you. 🙂 I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
You seem triumphant that a woman for some strange reason wants to apologise. I guess it must be down to the old handmaiden syndrome but what do I know I don’t even speak Italian and I had to use Google translate to find out what quine meant.
PS You are a bloody tease! You call yourself ‘The Flying Iron of Doom’ but you haven’t got the foggiest clue what happened in the Balmoral on the night of the infamous crime passionnel and you haven’t even attempted to make something up.
Mark Beggan @ 17.00.
The Police Service requesting mutual aid pays the supplying force on a cost recovery basis. Police Scotland utilise the NPCC “Guidelines on Charging for Police Services: Mutual Aid Costs Recovery”.
So, essentially, the English service will reimburse Police Scotland in terms of a request which was probably made under the category of “Emergency or Spontaneous Deployment”.
OT
Ink isn’t dry on Huw Edwards deviant behaviour before the next depraved BBC creepoid slithers into view.
Brace yourselves people, this one’s a really sick fk.
https://archive.ph/KjB1E
“British” Zoologist, naturally.
@Breeks: getting an error message on that one, I’m afraid.
Do tell 😉 .
@ Sven
So it’s Police Scotland when it comes to having high crime unsafe streets a gangster free for all and no money to deal with it. When England is in need there’s pots of cash overtime and it’s Police UK.
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont – made an appearance in Spain today- Barcelona, to give a speech to his Catalan followers – the Spanish government sent 300 Mossos d’Esquadra officers to surround him and capture him – he’s wanted by the fascist Spanish state on trumped up embezzlement charges (a bit like Pakistan’s Imran Khan) – however Puigdemont made good his escape after his speech – with the aid of a friendly police officer.
Andy Anderson.
That 32% is interesting in of its self, do we add on that onto the 50% average that are already independence supporter.
As that would be considerable. , I may of misunderstood but hopefully you will set me straight.
My apolgies if late reply as been busy cutting grass and taking the washing back in.
If MF had a living Granny I suspect he’d be only too willing to sell her for glue, if the price were right.
In saying that, his employment by Sturgeon’s rancid SNP is on closer inspection a most appropriate marriage of convenience, which shouldn’t cause any true supporter of Independence to twitch so much as an eyelid in surprise.
For the avoidance of doubt, the term “true supporter of Independence” does not apply to members of that ever decreasing herd who pledge blind allegiance to all things SNP.
A quick peek at Scot Goes Pop or Wee Ginger Fud’s BTL will find them grazing quietly, making calming noises about Swinney being “the man for the job” in order to reassure each other that the abattoir lorry won’t be pulling into the yard some 21 months hence…
“Mint sauce!”
Mark Beggan @ 17.50.
Until Scotland is independent, that’s the position Mark. Any UK Police Service can request assistance from any other.
Fearghas MacFionnlaigh,
Another one of those anomalies for Scotland regarding the Crown,
Which Crown are you referring too, the Crown of England?
The Parliament of Scotland offered the Scottish Crown to England in the Claim of right.
What it did not do is offer the territory of Scotland of Scotland in the Claim of right,
And Westminster parliament whom claim there sovereignty of their parliament in England from the English parliament Act the Act of Settlement,
So when it comes to Scotland are you referring to the Crown Scotland gave away, that left Scotland a republic.
Or the Crown of England that would have no legal or monarchcal jurisdiction over Scotland.
Not forgetting that England parliament and Monarch did not share a Crown with Scotland until the end year of 1707 when The sovereign parliament of England passed an Act to EXTEND the kingdom of England and its laws into Scotland.
I have looked over and theough the fallacios treaty of union articles many times and have never read any Article that states England will “extend it kingdom and laws into the kingdom of Scotland after ratification
One wonders what the percentage of professors at Scottish universities – are actually Scottish.
“The number of international students studying at Scotland’s universities rose to a record high in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Overseas students made up nearly 29% of the total, with their tuition fees providing an important source of funding for universities.
The biggest proportion by far continued to come from China – nearly 20,000 students – but thousands more came from India, Nigeria and the United States.
The number of Scottish students, who benefit from free undergraduate tuition, was down by about 10,000.”
Tarten tory,
I see you’re point, people do not listen, and maybe because they do not want to hear.
There is no such think as the UK, the UK only began in 1801,
After The Scottish parliament was dissolved.in 1707, and Great- Britain parliament which had included Scotland in the terms and ratification ended in 1800,
Then the Anglo- Ireland treaty was made.
The sovereign Westminster parliament of England was the only parliament left to enter into the treaty with Ireland.
The Irish parliament records record it as the “Anglo-Ireland treaty”
I see the BBC front page for scotland has picture of a burning police van.
Of course it is in N Ireland but the framing is clearly designed to make the Scots think there are riots in Scotland.
Really amateurish stuff Beeb.
@Republicofscotland says:8 August, 2024 at 6:23 pm
One wonders what the percentage of professors at Scottish universities – are actually Scottish
One wonders the same thing about somebody who has yet to learn how to write “Scotland” correctly.
Is that why you missed out in academia, RoS? An inability to correctly write the name of your own country?
I doubt if there’s many Scottish eight year olds who can’t write “Scotland”, whether they’re of indigenous or immigrant stock.
Andy Ellis’
“Ruby Boringeveryday 7.08pm”
Ruby;
“Fuck off cunt face!”
Andy Ellis;
“We’re laughing at you, not with you.”
Ruby;
“Fuck off cunt face!”
Certainly made me laugh but I’m not sure why…..bit of slapstick comedy can work wonders….
@Fearghas MacFhionnlaig
Cameron Brodie, is that you?!
Didn’t Rev Stu ban you already for spamming the site with reams and reams of extraneous guff that you just needed to enlighten us all with?
@Hatey 7.53pm
I wonder what percentage of Scots lecturers there are in English, Welsh and Irish universities? Any more than i in 9 would presumably be tabu.
Such a narrow wee world these nativists inhabit. I imagine their Brigadoon version of Scotland post independence will have all the intellectual, social and creative diversity of North Korea. Sheesh…..
SOLARIS SCOTLAND
House perpetually
raining inside, yet
denizens oblivious.
SOLÀRAS ALBA
Sìor-uisge am broinn
an taighe, gun fhor aig
an luchd-còmhnaidh air.
Andy Ellis
The most recent mention I read of NK in the MSM is that NK is going to dispatch teams of specialist tunnelers to the War In The East to bolster Pres Poots imperialist efforts.
The intention is to tunnel under the defensive lines and either detonate titanic amounts of explosives, or release shock troops in the hinterland of U.
It’s all very 14-18, but who knows, there might be something in the story.
Now who else likes the tunneling life? Defo a pattern developing here …
@Hatey 9.26pm
Well, on the upside Pres Poots is achieving the aim of NATO being further away from his borders than before: I think the way it works is Peoples Republic of Kursk can now claim to be independent and insist it has invited help in from its neighbour. Sauce for the goose etc. 🙂
Ladies & Gentlemen ….It’s THAT time ! Live from The Armchair Theatre ……
It’s the Mainy & Ellisy Show !* tinned applause *
Mainy – Good evening boss , and how is your intellectual genius tonight ?
Ellisy – Your flies are undone , you dolt , tidy yourself up man
Mainy – Oh beg pardon your Lordship , it was , well , I was watching one my extensive collection of Zelly’s great moments , you know how I feel about him – such a hunk in those stylish combats – and …I…..got a little ex…..
Ellisy – Be quiet ! I have no wish to hear of your , frankly distasteful , carnal interests in that little oik , why the cad couldn’t even best an Orc !
Mainy – Yes , you’re right , as always , Sir . Can I peel you a grape ?
Ellisy – * sigh * oh if you must , then be gone . I’m working on my Magnus Opus , a magisterial – surely definitive – overview of the thoughts,feelings & opinions of every person in the World .
Hoping Mr Salmond will write the foreword .
You still here Mainy ?
Even if we took him at his word. That he always backed independence. His whole logic is bat shit crazy.
Because he did his best to prevent the thing he believed in from ever happening. Mind you , Sturgeon did the same. Two peas in a pod. There was method in her madness in signing him. They both made sure independence was screwed for at least a decade.
The mist is clearing, it actually all makes sense now.
Scotland is missing out on the rioting. We need to start our own.
Proposal : riot #1 against the Anglo takeover of the highlands, galloway and other nice bits.
– the first pogrom can take place at House of Bruar, with SUVs getting their tyres slashed and keys thrown in the river.
we can mock their accents and call them “cockneys”, that will send them ho – ome -ward, tae think again …
roadblocks and burning tyres all down the NC500, fortnum and masons hampers looted
once more, more seriously, with numbers; the ONS projection for 2030 is a 10% rise in UK population from legal migration (ONS are not far right conspiricists), which is 7M people, about another London. Suppose we take 700K – that’s more non-scots, another glasgow, and all of them “BAMS”. But also, suppose 5M end up in the south east, its going to be really shit down there and what will happen then? – anyone with money will hightail it to “whiter” areas, up “north”, ON THE RUN FROM THEIR “BAMS” (er, “quality of life”), and this could be, what … guessing here – say 2M of these southerners, all viciously bigoted little englanders and anglo supremacists who think they can come up here, buy it all up, and restore “the days of the raj” to live in their merchant ivory wank fantasy in edinburgh/highlands/borders/galloway. “make the case for indy to the soft noes?” It could even be worse than this given the south east has a serious flooding problem that they have no solution for.
2030 is not long away now, by the time the devo gradualists have got their arses in gear do you think you will have a country left worth living in?
Let’s get back to our reservations, bags first huff on the petrol.
Breeks
8 August, 2024 at 5:27 pm
OT
https://archive.ph/KjB1E
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I’d heard of “dogging” but used to think it referred to couples driving to certain locations to swap sexual partners.
This guy is something else. But surely he qualifies for membership of the rainbow coalition – LGBTQ….plus? Or at least the Q part and elements to its right.
I was in Glasgow City Centre today. Buying a wedding gift for my friend. Pishing with rain of course.
I stopped to talk to the anti-racism demonstrators outside of Buchanan Galleries – “Stop the far right.”
I spoke with them and told them they are on the wrong message.
“Scotland needs immigration.”
Where? I said?
Because if you look at the highlands and islands, the children of the local people can’t afford to buy a house because of the English invasion.
And it can’t be in the NHS either. Because according to the front page of the Daily Record.
“None of the newly qualified paediatric nurses from Glasgow’s Caledonian University had been given jobs within NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. But now it has been claimed that the lack of jobs available to young newly qualified nurses is across the board.”
This is absolutely correct. British nurses spend 3 years training on below minimum wage bursaries. Rental costs have spiralled 150 per cent. The bursary hasn’t increased.
The Scottish Government have recruited all of the Nigerian Nurses. Given them houses and put them up in safe areas in Glasgow.
In fact if you look at the NHS GGC workplace policy holders report 2023/24. You’ll see that they want to create 50 BME managers based on their skin colour alone.
Which is a racist recruitment policy. Costing thousands more instead of paying the British nurses the wages they deserve.
Bringing back nurses accommodation which were sold off.
It’s a disgrace what’s going on.
English moving up with cash offers. Driving out the islanders and keeping the natives living with their mum and dads into their late 30s and 40s.
This is a disgrace. Its not the far right. Scotland needs control of its borders.
To address staffing shortages in the NHS, we must focus on supporting local talent. Paying nursing students a living wage bursary during their training and offering competitive wages post-graduation will help retain professionals in Scotland, rather than losing them to other countries. Additionally, building affordable housing for NHS employees would provide stability and further incentivize them to stay.
We should prioritise policies that unite rather than divide.
Reducing rail fares by 50%, scrapping peak fares, and improving public transport during sporting events would benefit everyone, particularly the working class.
Cancelling plans to provide free bus passes to asylum seekers could prevent unnecessary division and resentment. Scotrail belongs to the Scottish people. This is an easy option for the SNP to show they are listening to everyone. And are for the many not the few.
Defend working class men’s way of life. Scrapping the minimum unit pricing of alcohol, reducing business rates to keep pubs open. Nationalising the buses so that night buses continue to run to support the nighttime economy.
and imposing radical rent controls on private lets would address the economic pressures facing many Scots.
Establishing a national housebuilding corporation to provide affordable council housing could restore a sense of pride and community, reducing social inequality.
These measures would foster unity and stability, benefiting all Scots and strengthening the social fabric of our nation.
There’s many more ideas. But they need to build houses. If we had control of our border with England we could ban CASH OFFERS from ENGLISH COLONIAL INVADERS. We could do all of these things with Independence. So that the Scots. And anyone with residency status of say 25 years – I’ll say that – that makes you Scottish with an affinity to Scotland. We need to support the Scottish people first otherwise there’s no country.
Ask these anti-immigration protesters? WHERE? WHERE? does Scotland need more immigration. Because I can’t see it anywhere? CAN YOU?
You will never unite the country. By going out into the streets of Glasgow. Shoving a leaflet in the face of someone walking out of the door of Buchanan Galleries and saying.
“Stop the far right.”
Fuck right off. The men of this country are sick of being treated like human filth. Left on the scrapheap.
How many more years will they have to wait to get the house they want?
But a cash offer from London comes in and BAM. Your flat has gone to the English couple. You’ll just have to live with mum and dad for another year.
And the people are not daft. Everyone is seeing their communities change skin colour. Everyone is seeing new arrivals getting given council homes. They can see their streets turning black and muslim.
While the men remain on the scrapheap.
Someone needs to blow the lid on this scam of healthcare immigration. Because it is an absolute scandal. It’s bring your granny to university.
Every care home you go into. the majority of the workers are now from Africa looking after your grandparents. How is this being allowed to take place?
The country needs to start listening to the men. The men are being left to commit suicide. They are depressed. They are forgotten about. They are an underclass to WOKE ideology. It is an absolute disgrace how they treat men in Britain. As human filth.
No I don’t support the riots or the far right. But It’s a disgrace to generalise everyone who is anti-immigration as far right.
This country needs a grown up conversation about the two biggest issues.
NHS. number 1.
and Number 3. Immigration.
This is what the country wants to talk about. Let Scotland SPEAK!
Starmer has already lost control. I’m deliberately not watching the news because it’ll insult our intelligence when he opens his mouth.
I know what I need to do. Direct my anger at the Government and not the foreigners. It’s not the foreigners fault. It’s the government that brought them in.
It’s neither creed, nor nationality that counts. But the man himself.
There needs to be an affordable homes movement. A march for affordable homes. WHERE the F is it?
The far right need to realise that the problem is the austerity government of the Tories for 14 years. No housebuilding. Something Labour didn’t do either in it’s time in Government.
We need a housebuilding movement. That is the common ground between the left and the right. We want more houses.
Want to bring the left and right together? Build affordable housing. Everyone knows. Even the old people in their mansions feel sorry for their grandkids.
To unite this country it is so obvious. Build the fucking homes.
Even bring the Commonwealth Games back to Glasgow. For some national pride. Some sporting pride and identity. It would reap the rewards.
And of course a Tartan Day festival. The minorities have their festivals all over Scotland. And we don’t even have one for the Scots? It’s a shambles! Sort it out SNP! Write to your politicians and tell them the voice of the working class man!
Last thing I’ll say about immigration. It’s like touching wet paint. A terrible topic to discuss.
The African healthcare workers are compassionate people. nurses are clearly the most caring people in the world. They are doing gods selfless work caring for others. So I’m sure the people working in the care homes are lovely people.
It used to be Romanians and polish people. Who no longer come because of leaving the EU.
So the Aficans have taken over and filled their place.
BUT that said.
How are they affording housing here? When the Scots can’t even afford to get on the housing ladder themselves? That’s the issue that’s causing grievance.
Why isn’t there a recruitment drive for young women and men from Scottish Schools to work in care homes?
They need to sort out the shambles of recruitment for NHS and Social care in Scotland. It’s Scotland’s number 1 priority. Pay the workers what they deserve and make it an attractive career option.
PAY on parity with Australia. Canada New Zealand etc.
And then of course.
The Londoners. If Sir Kier Starmer cared about England. He’d take back all of the empty homes. The hundreds of thousands of empty homes in London. And give it to locals. Bringing costs down.
But he won’t. Because the guy is absolute clown as we’ve already gathered. So he won’t stop the tide of English migration north. He doesn’t care. And neither does Sadiq Khan. Who is destroying London with the LEZ emission zones. He’s fucking destroyed London. Thank fuck I don’t live there.
My final thoughts. There needs to be men’s shed clubs in every town and city in Scotland. A place for men to go and socialise and learn new skills.
There needs to be men’s mental health groups promoted in every town and city on Scotland.
A man is taught to be a provider and there’s an expectation from many women for the man to look after them. And they can’t even afford a place to stay these days. Young men don’t stand a chance.
Think how bad it will be for the men of Grangemouth if the refinery closes.
But the SNP don’t care about those men. It’s just astonishing.
And now they want to bring in a juryless trials bill to terrify men from even asking women out. It’s no wonder the birth rate is declining. As women can lie and make fake allegations. Why would you want to go to prison for asking a girl out on a date?
Will she just use you and dump you after the baby? And expect you to pay child support? If you’re lucky you’ll get to visit on weekends.
It is horrible being a man in Scotland in 2024. They’ve taken our pride.
The plus will be replaced with a Z and then there’s the MAPS they’ll neeed a letter.
https://tinyurl.com/4avd47tk
Man’s pet dog ‘bites off his penis and eats it’
Dogs are amazing creatures and can do amazing things but fellatio isn’t one of them.
A few years back there was a documentary on TV about Zoophilia. There was a man featured in the documentary who was in love with his donkey and wanted to marry her. It was really sad!
The way things are going I would not be surprised of we see Zoophiles in Pride marches demanding equal marriage.
Spains left wing government recently made bestiality legal.
I thought I had posted most of the above earlier but that seems to be another post that has disappeared into cyber space. Apologies if this is a duplicate post. Still I think maybe the above is something you might need to read twice to fully comprehend it.
@ Confused says:8 August, 2024 at 11:43 pm
We’re all racists now, Confused. Of course, we always were,
but back when things were easier, there was a collective denial of reality. Our famous Scottish Exceptionalism – the existence of which is denied by most – Scotland as cuddliest, friendliest, wee country in the world.
What kind of racist obsesses about “fortnum and masons hampers”, “viciously bigoted little englanders and anglo supremacists” and “merchant ivory wank fantasies”?
Haha – rhetorical question.
Here’s the thing, Confused. Mass immigration is coming to us. ScotGov wants it. Hatuey wants it. Pres Poot wants it. Most importantly of all, the already critical mass of immigrants within our borders wants it. They’re the ones who won’t be denied. You have only to scan the news on any day to see them at work.
And here’s the other thing. Forced to choose between my grandchildren living in a “merchant ivory wank fantasy” and prostrating themselves facing east three times a day, it’s going to be elocution and table manners lessons for them until they can successfully carry off a country house weekend.
Grouse shooting and bridge too.
You mention 2030. That’s less than one HR term past the next HR election in 2026, the run up to which is going to be nothing but a long drawn period of Indy-movement greetin and hand-wringing impotent futility. Then in 2026 it’ll be Sarwar and SLab.
You don’t agree? Who do you see setting the Indy political heather alight prior to May 2026?
So face it. We’re going to be replaced and out voted. But we can still influence who will be replacing and outvoting us. Forced to choose, I choose the lesser of the two evils as I see them.
White, notionally Christian, basically secular people among whom my grandchildren will not stand out as obviously different in any way whatsoever.
“Let’s get back to our reservations”
That choice will always remain for you to take.
Would these ‘men’s shed clubs’ be a multi-cultural thing? Would it be men only?
I watched this last night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46rigtezr6U&t=1s
and I found it very disturbing.
I’m wondering if I should just stick to my romantic fiction with the happily ever after endings.
We talk a lot about immigration but not about multi-culturalism.
Personally I don’t think multi-culturalism works especially when you have cultures that are as different as night and day.
I fully admit to being a racist. Everyone is a racist but are just pretending they aren’t.
Morning Ruby
Changing the topic to the real love of animals for music. youtube has all sorts of posts about how cows love music. Brass bands, classical music, girls with accordions or guitars. Cows are entranced. So mooved they try to singalong.
Blind elephants in Thailand like Beethoven.
When it thundered with lightning (very, very frightening) at riding for disabled we played Mozart to calm the horses.
I’m confused! Oh yes I am.
bags first huff on the petrol?
Does that make you high like glue and lighter fuel?
I’m looking for something to calm me down.
I’m off to put some essential oil of lavender in my ultra posh Neom diffuser.
Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
After that I’ll be back to the boxing. I’ll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
BTW
There is no pride in a colony
I was going to send a message to Humza but fuck it let him carry on he’ll be in Pakistan soon and wont be our problem.
Shut the fuck up cunt face!
Nothing better than a bit of slapstick in the morning to get you going.
I’m floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee!
Mornin’ Sam
Is it top of the morning atm or am I too late for that? Bottom of the morning? Ach never mind. Why do I always look for problems?
Gotta say you do post about they most interesting topics. I haven’t thought much about animal’s love of music. That’s something new for me to think about.
I knew a dog who liked music (or maybe he didn’t) and would sing (howl) along every time the little girl practised her violin. It was quite funny but didn’t help the child’s love of the violin. She gave it up and took up ‘tick-toc’ instead.
Extract from US based «Compact» magazine.
…….much of Britain is poor. The country ranks above only New Zealand on both GDP per capita and disposable household income per capita. The average square footage of a British home is less than half the square footage of one in Canada and about one-third the size in Australia. Britain is also highly unequal geographically. In fact, by some measures it is the most regionally unequal developed country in the world. As the Financial Times observed last year, without London, the United Kingdom boasts a smaller GDP per capita than Mississippi. Taking the north of England alone, the comparison is closer to Puerto Rico.
London, as we all know is a gorged resource sucking leech but «stats is stats», to those that have more shall be given etc…
Make Scotland Great? Why ever not! What is to be lost other than psychological chains.
J Main appeared through the mirk
A Scotsman stabbed him with his dirk saying
Die well and die quick
Ya Tory prick
(Am a poet and a didnae know it).
TURABDIN @ 9:36 am
“…….much of Britain is poor. The country ranks above only New Zealand on both GDP per capita and disposable household income per capita.”
Correct, and the contrast in GDP-per-capita between Scotland and our nearest independent Nordic and Celtic neighbours demonstrates the price of our colonialism, which is at least £150 billion per annum. That is why we are much like a less developed country, we do not have access to our own resources, land, assets, utilities etc.
£150 bn is almost three times the Holyrood colonial administration’s annual budget, a good proportion of which is spent on ‘colonial functionaries’. This is the cost of the so-called UK ‘Union’ for Scots. Swinney should be shouting it from the rooftops, but he and the national party elite have become ‘part of the colonial racket’, as per postcolonial theory.
https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/the-real-economic-price-of-the-uk-union-for-scots/
The UK Committee, established in the time of Boris, strategy has a number of arms.
Destroy the party and jail its leaders.
Divert the party away from indy to devo max. Make it a potential replacement for labour.
Identify leading members with weaknesses, alcohol, sexual preferences, girl or boy friends and blackmail them.
Use controlled individuals to ensure the most flawed characters are promoted.
Delay all talk of independence and give time for events to unfold.
Use the security services control over social media to ferment key weaknesses and to undermine any benefit emanating from Holyrood.
Use the BBC to spread disinformation about political issues like ferries, NHS, riots, school performance.
The Committee has unlimited resources and Westminster parties will adjust their policies as required to align with the requirements of the committee.
The present universities in Scotland breach the treaty of union.
Top of the morning, If you will, Ruby. Though I was up at the screagh or screigh of dawn. a saying of me maw.
I dreamt of a summer long past just the night afore last. I don’t know if it’s fae this life or anither yin.
It was definitely set in Scotland, though. And I was definitely a Scot.
I think the lassie’s name was Minette (something like that onyway), but am no shure – it micht hiv been hunners o’ years ago.
I couldn’t quite see her face in my dream, but I knew it wis a bonnie face regardless. A face framed by an opulent crown of long red hair; and what a braw laugh she haed oan her.
Onyway, a quilled ma dream oot as a poem:
There’s a lot more to my dream, but that’s aw yer gettin’. I think I might still be madly in love wi Minette – whaiver she wis.
@Turabdin 9.36am
Interesting figures: of course it’s a decades old problem. tinkering around the edges and moving token amounts of civil service jobs to the regions was never going to be enough. The British nationalist state has never been serious about levelling up.
The necessary spending was never going to be allocated to improve infrastructure in the regions or in Scotland and Wales to the extent necessary. Persuading companies to locate outside the “Home Counties” (the clue is in the name folks!) needed decent transport links, infrastructure (housing, schools, hospitals, road and rail improvements) and a degree of positive discrimination to ensure people wanted to live where the jobs were created.
Of course lots of countries have similar issues with centralisation versus devolution. Doubtless post independence there will be debates about the central belt dominating Scotland, or just Glasgow/Edinburgh. Hopefully the answer will be ensuring that Scotland’s regions get a better deal than the regions of the UK currently get.
We already have examples from our Scandinavian neighbours of how it can be done.
But if we want nice things, we have to have the political balls to ensure all the levers of power are in our own hands.
sam
I was up at the screagh or screigh of dawn. a saying of me maw.
First hint of dawn ?
sgrìobadh – scratch.
the scratch of dawn -sgrìob an fheasgair.
Top of the Giorno ‘Oscar de la Senza Nespresso’
Is ‘Ane Simmers’ still selling knickers on Princes Street?
Have you been having too many cheese toasties before bed? I might give it a try. Do you think Philedephia would work?
Not sure if I want to recall past loves though. Jesus! No!
It’s a great poem which ‘I don’t pretend to understand at all’.
I often wondered how to spell ‘heuch’
Don’t worry about me not understanding I don’t even understand Shakespeare. I’m a total philistine.
Still trying to figure out ‘Where the bee sucks’ Got a feeling it’s not a song that I should have been taught in primary school.
There’s a lot more to my dream, but that’s aw yer gettin’.
PS Why do you always cut things off before the good-bits? Do you think we cant handle talk of love bites, slipping the mitt n rock & roll?
Northcode.
Morning Young man, how are you this fine morning.
Whilst your talking of fond memories from summers past, that is a topic my dear spouse and I were recently on.
Ahh what fond memories, we shared, not only romantic, but of the freedom and innocence of days psst, that has gone by the way it seems of todays youth,
I have fond memories of getting up to go to work in that very special early morning sunshine that is like no other in Its glorious sharp brightness and recumbent stillness of day before the rest of the world has awakened..
When the night time animals had not yet return home and merged gently with the birds beginning to sing their chorus,
And the dancing sparkling movement of the almost noiseless burn trickling going slowly through the edges of fields,
As I walked side by side with my brother to the nearest town we both worked in.
ALF BAIRD & ANDY ELLIS
this is the FT article referenced.
https://www.ft.com/content/e5c741a7-befa-4d49-a819-f1b0510a9802
You would think a politically explosive piece but Ukania is not France 1789.
James is getting into the old poetry!
Keep up the good work James!
I’m wondering if Sam’s scratch of dawn is Irish & James BG’s is Scottish.
Just had a though about scratch & scratcher?
Why is a bed called a scratcher.
I’ve noticed men scratch at lot at dawn! Why?
Could that explain this strange expression?
Scratch of Dawn?
Jesus! I might need to stop eating Philedelphia it’s causing me to have some weird thoughts!
“Is ‘Ane Simmers’ still selling knickers on Princes Street?”
Mornin’, Ruby – ye cheeky wee bugger ye. 🙂
Your comment made me laugh. No, more than that – it made me guffaw.
I hadn’t even noticed the ‘Ane Simmers’ thing. I can see I’ll have to be more careful about what I write in future knowing that you might interpret my scribblings in your own unique way. 🙂
“Why do you always cut things off before the good-bits?”
Because I think the the ‘good bits’ are better left to the imagination than delivered into the hands of mere words. But that’s just me – others might think differently. Each to their own.
You never know, though. Maybe one day I’ll write something more graphic
“Do you think Philedephia would work?”
I find that cheddar is best if the goal is amatorios somnia.
“Still trying to figure out ‘Where the bee sucks’”.
I will never again look at bees in the innocent way I used to. You’ve ruined the joy of bee watching for me, Ruby.
ALF BAIRD, ANDY ELLIS
a better link,
https://archive.ph/axL2r
Good morning, Mrs Che.
I’m fine this morning – had some really good dreams these past couple of nights. It’s the cheddar what does it. 🙂
I hope you and your spouse are having a good day today.
Visiting pleasant memories from long ago can be bitter sweet – but always worth it.
Your recounting of fond memories in your comment beautifully conjures up an idyllic image of times gone by.
TURABDIN, ALF BAIRD & ANDY ELLIS
obviously subscribe to the FT.
Here’s a link for you plebs.
https://tinyurl.com/2ynrp97b
Is Britain really as poor as Mississippi?
You might not subscribe to the FT but I bet you can all spell Mississippi.
Well that is if you are old enough to have gone to school in Scotland in the good old days when the spelling of Mississippi was very important.
Gotta say this is the first time since I left school that I’ve had to spell the word Mississippi.
But hey all knowledge is useful.
Another song popped into my head it happens with nearly every post. It’s a very weird thing. Gotta be the Philedephia thats doing it.
Where you can hear a country song from far
And someone plays the honky-tonk guitar
Where all the lights will go out one by one
The people join the song and the wind takes it away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZEPIpTpoPs&t=3s
“‘Because I think the the ‘good bits’ are better left to the imagination than delivered into the hands of mere words.’
Shakespeare did it and so did D H Lawrence & the thon guy who wrote the Decameron.
Although poor old DHs book got banned and I think the Decameron did too.
Shakespeare I don’t think got cancelled ever but you never know what might happen in future.
You should just ignore me I’m a bad influence. You could end up on the naughty step and that would be a tragedy. Eh no Mrs Che?
“Another song popped into my head it happens with nearly every post. It’s a very weird thing.”
Your subconscious is talking to you, Ruby.
The song lyrics you quote in your post @12:05pm could be interpreted as signifying the demise of Scotland and the Scots, for instance.
But who knows? The sub-conscious is weird.
“Shakespeare did it and so did D H Lawrence & the thon guy who wrote the Decameron.”
You’re right, of course. Many famous authors have written about such things.
It’s just me being prudish, perhaps. Writing about such intimate and personal activities in graphic detail would make me feel uncomfortable, I think. Although I’ve never tried.
I don’t mind reading the writings of others on the subject, though. Shakespeare and D H Lawrence did it very well.
You? A bad influence? Never. 🙂
Ruby Friday
Good afternoon Ruby, that is another memory just you jogged with the mention of that song.
My brothers and sisters had a family band and covered all genre’s of music from old to new songs, from rock and roll to Country and western, Scottish songs and their own songs they had wrote, but that was one of the many songs they used to sing.
@James B G
Scriegh or screagh in my Scots dictionary is to scream or shriek. It is also whisky.
In oor hoose Scots words were adapted to different meanings.
Pleugher in the Scots dictionary is to plough. At home it was to cough hoarsely. In our hoose there was a lot of coffin done.
Sam.
And my spouses family use the word pleugh to cough or herst up plegm.
That is the genius of Scots language the same words often had different meanings depending on the context it was spoken.
A wheen of us ken a bit of Scots still used.
Word of the day is sprachle. Clue is in the sound. And a big screagh for the one who can name “The sprachle from Ahoghill”. Without pleughering.
Ruby Friday,
Definately no, too many already gone and sadly missed from Wings.
Dic you know that Scotland left Cromwells commonwealth of England when they made king Charles king of Scotland, while the parliament of England was dissolved.
England later returned a Monarch to be head over England, and that was the already Stuart king of Scotland,
The commonwealth of Britain is a odd claim,
Just the sort of fellow you’d expect to be an SNP-She/her mouthpiece.
‘Oscar de la Senza Nespresso’
I meant to say earlier that I like this name.
I’ve held off on buying a Nespresso by the way. I’m waiting till my birthday on the 16th October.
Then I’ll change my Wings name to ‘Oscar con dos Nespresso’
Byline Times has a piece about the recent riots.
It seems Yaxley-Lennon is well placed. His online presence is heavily promoted by E Musk so that there are over 1 billion views.
It is said that Yaxley-Lennon is financially supported by someone in the USA who supports Trump and also is said to have contacts with someone who works in the Krumbling.
Another supporter is said to be a right wing Danish politician who is friendly with a Reform leader.
Whether this is true or not I think it is likely that the business group called Reform will profit greatly from the fallout of these riots whoever sponsors them.
https://nameberry.com/b/boy-baby-name-oscar
“Oscar has Irish and Norse roots—Norse Oscar comes from the Old English Osgar, a variation of the Old Norse name Ásgeirr. The Irish form was derived from the Gaelic elements os, meaning “deer,” and car, “loving.” In Irish legend, Oscar was one of the mightiest warriors of his generation, the son of Ossian and the grandson of Finn Mac Cumhaill (MacCool).”
Northcode @ 14.18.
A Libran then, Northy, and what a classic one ye be. Open, honest and loyal, full of good advice and a listening ear.
You also have a potential for psychic powers, responding to friends unspoken concerns almost intuitively. Not to mention being a bit of a daydreamer.
Now we may respect as well as admire you.
Aye Mrs Che it’s a good song!
Goodness knows what it all means that songs are popping into my head with each post.
I hope it wasn’t too cruel asking if ‘Ane Simmers’ still sold knickers on Princes Street.’ I’m not very good at Scots I just read Scots in what I think is a Scots accent and hope the meaning will become clear. I have no idea what ‘Ane Simmers’ means I just thought that would be how Scots speakers would pronounce Ann Summers.
Ah goat ma big knickers doon at Ane Simmers.
Not a song this time I don’t know any songs about big knickers. I thought of a Louise Rennison book this time.
‘It’s OK, I’m Wearing Really Big Knickers!’
her books have great titles
Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging
Knocked Out by My Nunga-nungas
Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers
and so on.
These books are what is described as ‘Young Adult Romance’ but I think you could read them at any age.
I have no idea why knickers are called knickers and why the word nick means to steal & also to be arrested by the police and also jail. Life is full of many mysteries.
Redactedis a big Knicker (£600K in total) he’s been nicked and now we are just waiting, & waiting & waiting & waiting to see how long he gets in the nick.I redacted……. you can’t be too careful these days.
As Police Scotland numbers begin to tumble in Scotland – and cons are released from prison willy-nilly, by the SNP government – over 100 Police Scotland officers are to be sent to the foreign country of Northern Ireland, to help the PSNI deal with rioters.
Oor ain colonial police force – has no business being in NI, and neither did Scottish troops from 1972 onwards.
Get the SNP out at every turn – they don’t have Scottish interests at heart.
Well – Sturgeon the Judas sold us out over Brexit, and its been downhill all the way for Scotland since then – however not everybody has suffered from the effects of Brexit.
The SNP are the roadblock that’s holding up indy – the sooner we get this bunch of treacherous b*stards out of office the sooner we can dump the illegal union forever.
“BARCLAYS has become the latest financial giant to allow top bankers the chance to earn eye-watering bonuses as part of a post-Brexit bonanza for fat cats.
The London-brd bank has changed its pay policy to allow senior bankers working outside of the EU the chance to earn up to 10 times their br salary in bonuses.
The move will include the UK bank, after financial regulators last year decided to remove a cap that limited the amount bankers could take home in annual payments.
The post-Brexit decision meant UK banks no longer had to follow EU rules.”
@Republicofscotland
I knew the x Catalan president made a surprise visit but I didnt know he made a short public speech and that the Spanish authorities made such a large manhunt and roadblocks around Barca and the French border at La Jonquera (30km from where I live near Perpignan).
It is sooo great that he managed to stick a virtual middle finger up to the authorities and get out leaving the Spanish embarrassed and getting help from Mossos into the bargain. Made my day when I read about it.
If only there were some radical non violent but amusing action in Scotland to Piss of the English Authorities aka British Authorities and into the news. Eg. even small things like – all road Signs with ‘Scotch Corner’ Put a huge sticker on it stating ‘Colony Corner’ instead.
Dream on ‘Oscar con dos Nespresso’
Why have you decided to be Spanish? If I were making you Spanish it would be
‘Miguel de Cervantes-Dos Nespresso’
There it is there’s the song it just popped right into my head.
Dream the Impossible Dream.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0uTz7uur8I
These are the lyrics for us independence supporters.
Forget ‘Mississippi’ and ‘Northcode’s’ doom & gloom about our demise.
I said earlier that Shakespeare hadn’t been cancelled but you just never know what could happen these days.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that ‘The Complete Works of Shakespeare’ had been moved to the damp basement of the ‘National Library of Scotland’.
Maybe it’ll happen when people discover where the bee sucks or more probably because he was found to be transphobic.
Was Shakespeare a bigot or not a bigot that is the question?
Not content with f*ckin over Scots – by helping the English Tory party force Freeports on Scotland – which we all know will be an utter disaster for Scotland, Kate Forbes and the SNP are giving almost a million quid – to help up an coming entrepreneurs- via the SNP’s Entrepreneurial Education Pathways Fund.
The SNP promised years ago – that they would give all school children in Scotland, free school meals – some of the kids are still waiting for them – with some actually going hungry during the Summer holidays.
Add in – that many Scots parents are struggling to buy expensive school uniforms – whilst trying to feed their kids, an heat their homes as well – yet millions have been wasted on years late ferries – and millions more wasted on fitting up Alex Salmond – the SNP government in reality don’t give a toss about Scots, for them its all about the money – power and influence – Scots – as Swinney once said when asked about independence on the agenda at a SNP conference by a journalist – who mention the membership, will ask about it at the conference – with Swinney replying the membership can go and whistle.
I’m not a footie fan – though I do like to watch the national team play – in which being a Scotland fan, you just never know what team will show up – the team that beat Italy at Hampden last year, or the team that got thumped by Germany recently.
Going on the last tourny that Scotland played in – in which they were dismal – I can’t say that I’m disappointed that Scotland Captain Callum McGregor, has announced that he is retiring from playing for Scotland – in my opinion he wasn’t that good a player for Scotland – I doubt he’ll be missed.
Sven
I believe you are an expert at taking the piss – in the nicest possible way of course.
“Ane Simmer’s Blinter”
Means ‘One Summer’s Haze”. Yer still making me laugh, Ruby.
For those who don’t know ‘The Colonel’s Bed’ is a place, a hidden gorge, near Braemar.
Colonel John Farquharson used it to hide from the Redcoats after the Jacobite rising of 1689 in which he fought on the side of the Jacobites.
Farquharson’s light o’ love, Annie Ban (Fair Haired Annie), brought him food. We can only guess at what else she brought him.
I, possibly in a past life (not the Colonel’s), used ‘The Colonel’s Bed’ when courting my light o’ love, Minette (Red Haired Minette). There was much love biting (or soukie blainin’ as I call it), slipping the mitt, and a fair bit o’ the rocking & the rolling, tae.
There, Ruby. Are ye happy nou? Would DH Lawrence approve dae ye think?
Maybe ye are a bad influence efter aw.
ephemeralDeception.
Carles Puigdemont – made one big fatal mistake when he declared independence for Catalan in 2017 – he didn’t provide the forces to defend that declaration.
Scots MUST be willing to PHYSICALLY defend their country on the dissolution of the union.
As Craig Murray has said.
“The UK Establishment will never agree to Scottish Independence. Scotland’s resources are far too valuable to them. Scotland has to declare Independence unilaterally, and take it.”
“At the time Independence is declared, immediate action must be taken to ensure all civil servants, judges, police and military take an oath of loyalty to the people of Scotland and its new government, and renounce any previous loyalty to Crown and to UK political institutions. Anybody refusing must be summarily dismissed from their positions.
We have the example of Catalonia before us. We also have the example of Egypt’s only ever democratically elected leader, President Morsi, who died horribly in jail after being overthrown by a CIA coup because he failed to take the elementary precaution of dismissing and imprisoning all the military regime’s corrupt judges. He should have learnt from Fritz Bauer.”
A Libran then, 🙂
Eg. even small things like – all road Signs with ‘Scotch Corner’ Put a huge sticker on it stating ‘Colony Corner’ instead.
Brilliant!
@ Ruby Friday says: 9 August, 2024 at 8:34 am
Shut the fuck up cunt face!
Awwww. Nae erse bites fer me the nicht.
Here’s a fun fact. Just this morning I did something that floated and stung (briefly).
See me, regular as clockwork I am.
Northcode @ 16.17.
Well, please rest assured that I am genuinely willing to accept that at some point in (one of) your past(s) you were indeedly a Kama Sutra 7th Dan & Master of the antient Scots Act of the “Coup & Wallop”.
@Republicofscotland says:9 August, 2024 at 4:22 pm
Here’s an idea.
Road signs that say “Welcome To scotland”, or “scotch Corner”.
Brilliant, eh?
Happy? I’m so happy I’m peeing my pants.
Stop making me laugh Miquel I’m running out of Tena Ladies!
Naw! I’m a good influence! An inspiration!
Sven 🙂
Very good.
@Ruby
“Why have you decided to be Spanish? If I were making you Spanish it would be
‘Miguel de Cervantes-Dos Nespresso’”
Spookily, one of my past lives, I think.
Fair enough, two is too many. I don’t want to be greedy – just get me the one for my birthday. You choose. Just make sure it isnae the cheapest ye can get.
@ Republicofscotland says: 9 August, 2024 at 4:22 pm
As CM has also said: “I support Humous”.
Sure, you still support him after that, but then you can’t even spell “Scotland”.
So, hard as it is for you to believe, outside of this echo chamber, naebody gie’s a fuck.
I’ve had a hoot on here today.
Thanks, Ruby. Thanks, Mrs Che, Thanks, Sam. Thanks, Sven. You’ve all made a bit of a driech day that much brighter.
The other folk in my nursing home lounge area (especially thon Nurse Ratched – she doesn’t like it when we’re happy) have been wondering what it is I’ve been reading that I’ve found so entertaining.
@Hatey 4.42pm
CM the ambassador of anarchism is also on record as calling for the abolition of the State of Israel, which even by his carpet biting standards seems somewhat outré.
I’m still waiting on confirmation of whether he’s still a member of Alba, having asked the question on the 14th of July.
Doubtless they’re still working on it….?
Almost 4 weeks does seem quite a long time to check, huh?
@Hatey 4.42pm
CM the ambassador of anarchism is also on record as calling for the abolition of the Jewish state, which even by his carpet biting standards seems somewhat outré.
I’m still waiting on confirmation of whether he’s still a member of Alba, having asked the question on the 14th of July.
Doubtless they’re still working on it….?
Almost 4 weeks does seem quite a long time to check, huh?
Re @1.24 pm
AHOGHILL is an anglicised gibberish version of the original Irish placename ACHADH EOCHAILLE (meaning Field of the Yew Woods).
… and the gibberish Ulster Scots version is AHAUCHILL
I’m changing the title of my poem ‘Ane Simmer’s Blinter’ to ‘Minette’ after being made aware of a fatal flaw in its construction by a conscientious fan of poetry.
There’s no particular reason for the title change other than the new title is less likely to lead to confusion in the minds of some folk who might not yet have a full grasp of the Scots language. Those folk who in their confusion might find the display, albeit poetic, of risqué underwear offensive and inappropriate on a public forum.
Thank you, Fearghas, for that piece of information.I am pleased to know it.
A pachle is in Scots someone who is clumsy or ineffectual.
The Pachle from Ahoghill was the name given to Ian Paisley Senior.
I posted the Sprachle from Ahoghill upthread.Field of the yew woods
Sprachle, I see now is sprauchle, meaning to make progress clumsily, to flounder about and the noun is a person who behaves such.
Like I’ve said before before – the SNP government doesn’t give a toss about Scots.
“The Scottish Government has been blasted after it cut cancer research funding by £850,000 in the most recent budget.
The total cancer research funding went down from £3,192,504 in 2022-23 to £2,345,703 in 2023-24. It comes as recent figures have shown that the Scottish Government’s key 62-day target cancer treatment target was missed in every health board in Scotland during the first three months of 2024.”
Get the SNP out of office – not only do they not give a toss about independence – they don’t give a monkey’s about Scots either.
Former Aussie PM – Paul Keating tells it like it is.
“So AUKUS is really about, in American terms, the military control of Australia,” Keating said, adding that the government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is “likely to turn Australia into the 51st state of the United States”.
Basically Australia is f*cked – the Yanks will use the Aussies as cannon fodder against China – if it comes to it – it will make Gallipoli look like a f*ckin day at the sea side.
Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles – and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, are Washington’s Aussie puppets – as is PM Anthony Albanese.
It was ex-US POTUS – Jimmy Carter who said, “Venezuela probably has the most excellent voting system that I have ever known,”
The US and its capitalist Venezuelan puppets are still livid that Maduro won the elections in Venezuela – like the SNP with Salmond – no stone, is to be left unturned in the search for any irregularities in the elections themselves – in the hope of overturning the result.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/venezuelan-president-maduro-presents-electoral-records-to-the-supreme-court/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuela-while-us-politicians-call-fraud-american-election-observers-endorse-results/288010/
re Sam @ 6.47 pm
_____________
There are at least a dozen placenames in Ireland based on EOCHAILL (“Yew-Woods”).
See for instance this short Wikipedia entry regarding OULEY HILL:
« Ouley Hill is 180m high and lies in County Down Northern Ireland between Carryduff and Saintfield. Its name is derived from Irish BAILE EOCHAILLE ”townland of the yew-wood’ or simply EOCHOILLIDH ‘yew wood”. It was the site of a battle in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. »
Like I’ve said before, it’s “Scotland”, not “scotland”.
I wonder how many billions of dollars are spent on research into the Big C every year. Scotland’s shortfall of £850,000 won’t be noticed. Other than by you, RoS, as you’re special.
As for Australia becoming the 51st state, write to them and tell them the position has already been filled. By the UK.
And Venezuela is yet another third-world shithole. It does have the advantage that ordinary people can make some cash (in $ US, natch), by smuggling petrol across the border to sell in neighbouring countries. Not an economic model any sane, rational Scot seeks to emulate, other than you, RoS, as you’re special.
BTW, soon be Day 5 of the U invasion of R. Cat got your tongue, RoS?
Lots of counter protests going on in Scotland this evening. Commendable except there are no protests to counter. But wait a minute a counter protest in Bathgate. I never knew Stu was Far Right. A recap there had been no riots in Scotland. There has been no attacks on Mosques. The only people that are wishing that, are the MSM with their unchallenged narrative.
” BTW, soon be Day 5 of the U invasion of R. Cat got your tongue, RoS? ”
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha !
Desperate , utterly futile last ditch farce by an insane , degenerate regime to delay the inevitable – all cheered-on by the same fucking idiots who instigated this disaster ; and pathetic , foreign flag-waving , warmongering baboons like the * author * of the above quote . ( actually , that is an insult to baboons , they are way more intelligent than the * author * of the above quote )
Here’s an excerpt from the recent post by clear-eyed , honest observer of U.S Global malevolence – Robin McAlpine …..
” Are we back on about Britain being invaded by *ussia or *hina or something? Are we really saying ‘well, for 30 years we’ve bombed anything the US told us to bomb so that in another decade’s time, when the *hinese come, the US will help us out’?
How do they get by, all those nations which didn’t invade Iraq and Afghanistan, facilitate torture flights, bomb Kosovo, Syria and Libya, turn a blind eye to war crimes by ‘our people’? They must be getting invaded by *hina every second day. It must be hell there. Thank goodness we killed all those people in the Middle East.
In fact, a very large part of our security concerns aren’t allayed by our geopolitical stance but caused by it. Our military security threats are negligible and very largely rooted in our hosting of a massive nuclear arsenal. Most nations don’t exist like this. The idea that this is our only option for peace is puerile. ”
https://robinmcalpine.org/another-way-to-exist-in-the-world/
Alf Baird,
With the recent knowledge that you delved into and started studying law quite seriously for a while, I presume you would have had to study a fair amount of historical text on statues and legislation / history regards laws of Scotland and England,
And that you may still have a mild interest in that avenue, Would you object or be offended to much if you and I could confer and consult on a few issues that are niggling away under the surface for me that may be of interest of others on here too, as Scotland seems to lack legalise and knowledge for their own utility,
wether this is deliberate pattern or not, as part of the Colonial management of Scots and Scotland is certainly up for debate.
Or if only to set me right where may it be advised if I am trundling down a dead end path with my ever increasing curiousity that first came to my attention and instigated with comments on The Law Society of Scotland, by David Walker in 2007,
I fully understand if you do not wish to venture down this path so openly and will not be offended if you gently put aside the suggestion, as I am well aware life is not static and we all move on to different and alternative careers and spheres in our lifetimes.
If there was ever a Trojan horse.
Fearghas
It took a while for the penny to drop but eventually I remembered something of the yew tree being sacred in Ireland.
Here is a link to a more general look at trees by RTE.
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/1215/1341968-trees-ireland-folklore-traditions-rituals/
There’s a poem by Yeats, Down by the Sally Gardens and though I can’t remember it there is information about Yeats doing a bit of pinching to make the poem.
“BTW, soon be Day 5 of the U invasion of R. Cat got your tongue, RoS?”
The 1000 man invasion of Kursk is all but extinguished – planned by N-ato and orchestrated by mainly French and Polish troops of which 600 died in the first day – their only achievement was damaging a power station – poking the Rushhian Bear with a stick will have dire consequences.
“And Venezuela is yet another third-world shithole”
What you really meant to say was – a socialist country under severe sanctions (war by other means) that won’t give in and allow US oil firms to steal its assets – and plunder other resources.
I wonder how the UK would look ( a shithole as you say) under severe sanctions – and add in the constant threat of the US trying to overthrow its government – taking that into account Venezuela is doing fine. The J-en0cid-e state – that just blew up a school killing 60 kids would collapse in a day – if US sanctions were placed against it – that kind of puts into perspective, the strength of Venezuelan courage -against the evil forces it faces right now.
George Ferguson.
9 Aug 10:54pm.
“The only people that are wishing that”,
And those two particular Anti- White racist whom are publicly and vocally (attempting to incite ) hatred of one set of people against the other in Scotland,
I am sure there will be arrangements being made in the pipeline, so an army can be sent to Scotland to breach and end the treaty of union once and for all,
Which would instantly and indirectly cause their own loss of employment.
We live in interesting times.
@Republicofsomewhere
Only 600?
Come on, if you have to lie, put your back into it!
French and Polish?
You’re slipping, Ros. You should be claiming N@tzis and Zonists. Much more of these luke-warm, half-arsed efforts and even your mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging fan base will desert you.
Remember the cardinal rule: if you’re going to lie, lie big.
Robert Hughes @ 9.06am.
Good link Robert.
Nat-o bills itself as a defensive bloc – but if you look at their history they are anything but defensive – its an aggressive warmongering bully boys club – that extended its grim reach as far as the Global South – though not in Central and South America – the USA’s Monroe Doctrine tells other nations – especially Old World European countries to stay-out of what is essential the USA’s domestic playground, where it murders and regime changes to suit US corporate needs.
Nat-o member countries have bombed the likes of Libya – Afghanistan and Syria – to name but a few – Nat-o countries have also used Depleted Uranium in Kosovo and Bosnia.
Very sad Iain was indy through and through – he’ll be sorely missed.
“TRIBUTES have been paid to the significant Scottish independence campaigner Iain Lawson who has died.
The former SNP man fought for Scotland’s independence cause for half a century and showed unswerving loyalty to the country’s steel industry.
Lawson has been described as a “warrior for independence” and “was a giant of the National movement” during the 80s and 90s as his successful business career helped the SNP form a sound financial footing as a party.”
@Republicofsomewhere 10:46
You’ll have to forgive me.
I’m quite unable to understand why if you poke one military power and get your kids blown up in response, then you had it coming.
But if you poke another military power and get your kids blown up in response it’s Jenny Side.
I’d ask you to explain, but let’s face it – no educated or patriotic Scot will credit an explanation from somebody unable to even spell “Scotland” correctly!
Republicofscotland
Ignored
says:
10 August, 2024 at 11:04 am
Very sad Iain was indy through and through – he’ll be sorely missed.
“TRIBUTES have been paid to the significant Scottish independence campaigner Iain Lawson who has died.
Yeah, I wasn’t expecting to hear this news… Another stalwart falls waiting for Independence to be delivered.
Curious there’s so little reference to SALVO and Liberation, where Iain’s absence will be profound.
A very sad day.
Hatey
Maybe it has a lot to do with one side calling itself as “the chosen race” with plans for expansion into areas that don’t involve the existing inhabitants.
@Stuart MacKay 11.43am
…..expansion into areas that don’t involve the existing inhabitants.
An adequate description of what Putler is doing in U right enough.
@Hatey 11.06pm
I’d ask you to explain, but let’s face it – no educated or patriotic Scot will credit an explanation from somebody unable to even spell “Scotland” correctly!
IIRC @Republicofscotland has form for making predictions which would make Hatuey blush for their innacuracy. He assured us that there were senior NATO officers in the Azovstahl complex and laughably parrots the vatnik line that there are Polish and French troops currently advancing on Kursk.
Still anyone who still spouts such disinformatsia way back to when Putler’s henchmen downed of the Malaysian airliner is already likely to be on the radar of the authorities…. that’s if they’re not just a sock account sowing disinformation. Always been hard to believe he’s legitimate of course, but not hard to see why he chooses to remain anonymous.
Also very sad and shocked to hear of Iain Lawson’s passing. His was the only other indy blog that was a daily read for me for the last few years.
He will be missed by far more than just his family.
Some light-hearted nonsense that might, hopefully, lift spirits a tiny smidgeon.
The Limerick
The limerick is the only indigenous English verse form. It is five lines long, and the dominant foot is the anapest.
Here’s an example:
I had a go at making a Limerick of my own in Scots (mostly). It was ultimately inspired by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; but was initially inspired by my Wings muse.
My finest poem yet, I believe.
Andy Ellis
Not yet he isn’t. Just wait until the rooskies get to the heartland of the ukronazis. You can be sure they’ll be given first class tickets to the western European capital of their choice, and their bags won’t be searched.
What do all the UK statues and legislation mean with the titles, ” To reduce Ireland, or To further reduce Ireland, do they have similar statues and legislation for other Countries or have I missed them?
Iain will certainly be missed. When he started his blog, it was very much a breath of fresh air, which touched on a lot of the issues that affected working Scots, even if they were self-employed, and slightly better off than many.
Yours for Scotland moved into the top 5 on https://www.voices.scot/ pretty much immediately and stayed there. Interestingly, Iain’s blog looked east, to Scotland’s connections around the Baltic, rather than west. For me, Pete Young’s, Letter from Denmark, was the highlight, showing how a small country could stand on its own two feet. Iain very much showed we could make our own way in the world, rather than sitting on the coat-tails of others.
This is about the 500th time you have posted the above. I’m not a special needs teacher so I might not be able to get through to you but here goes!
‘Republicofscotland’ is all one word. It’s the moniker ROS has decided to use.
There is no rule about monikers, some use upper case and other don’t.
I haven’t noticed anyone using camel case but they could if they wanted.
An example of camel case would be: ‘FuckOffCuntFace’ Got it?
You can’t have spaces in a domain name. If ROS wanted his moniker to reflect his domain name then it would have to be ‘republicofscotland’. If you don’t believe me look up and check the address bar you’ll find it says
‘wingsoverscotland.com’
Are you and Ellis going to start calling Stu uneducated and non patriotic?
http://www.nowaywearegrovellingenglishcunts.co.uk
http://www.wearestufluffers.co.uk
How’s that for an explanation?
PS I’ve started archiving Yours for Scotland, using archive.is, since we can’t be sure it will stay around forever. I started with the latest post, and will work back from there. If anyone else wants to help out, start at the beginning, or with the start of a year, or month and we’ll meet up in the middle somewhere. I’ll add all the archived links to voices.scot so even if the blog disappears there’ll be some kind of index available. The blog should also be archived to the wayback machine – though that’s a little harder to do.
Ruby @1:09pm is correct
There is no requirement in English to capitalise subordinate elements of closed compound words or closed compound monikers even if they contain proper names e.g. ‘MyNameIsJimmy’ can be written in lowercase with a capitalised first letter thus: ‘Mynameisjimmy’
Also, the first letters of closed compound words don’t need to be capitalised – ‘Mynameisjimmy’ can be written as ‘mynameisjimmy’; it’s more a question of style than a set rule of English grammar.
‘RepublicofScotland’ can be legitimately written as ‘Republicofscotland’ or even as ‘republicofscotland’ if that is preferred.
OMG I’m peeing my pants laughin’ again today!
Fact: When Miquel de Cervantes died he only had six teeth.
Although a love bite is called a love bite I don’t think teeth are involved.
Anyone know for sure?
Check yer erse for teeth marks!
Miquels de Cervantes’ ‘cumpleanos’ is on 29th September. I’d better ge checking Amazon Warehouse for rock bottom prices.
I couldn’t find the song I wanted to post. I’ll just post this again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tHLw8FHlCE&list=RDATlY&start_radio=1
Nothing to do with anything except that it’s poetry.
The song is based on a poem by Antonio Machado.
“Caminante, no hay camino/ Traveler, There Is No Road”
Machado’s birthday is on 26 July. Plenty time to find a bargain coffee machine.
You stop making me laugh, too, Tena lady.
I had to have my catheter bag changed 5 times yesterday – nurse Ratched is not a happy nurse.
She’s banned me from our annual ‘institutional’ ballroom dance tonight. She said she couldn’t risk all the sloshin’ aboot that might occur whin am dancin’ if you make me laugh too much; it might ruin it for the ither
inmatesresidents, she says.I was plannin’ on gettin’ aff wi thon
inmateresident fae room twelve (solitary confinementcellroom) tae – whit a stoater she is ( a bit o’ a nutter, tho), she’s no even 95 yit. No till next week onyway.This kind of patter always sounds better in Scots, don’t you think?
Just watched the youtube video you provided a link to yesterday. I’ve always loved that song and that might be the best rendition of it I’ve heard (I haven’t heard this version before now). What a great voice Josh Groban has.
“These are the lyrics for us independence supporters.”
They’re certainly inspirational; “To be willing to march into Hell for that Heavenly cause.”
“Fact: When Miquel de Cervantes died he only had six teeth.
I distinctly remember having teeth like stars – they came oot at night. So not entirely true.
What a lovely song…and a lovely poem by Antonio Machado.
I’ve decided that I like the ‘Miguel de Cervantes-Dos Nespresso’ moniker more than ‘Oscar con dos Nespresso’ – me being a bit of a dreamer and all.
Although since you’re too tight to get me two Nespresso for my birthday my new moniker will have to change to ‘Miguel de Cervantes-Un Nespresso’.
It’s okay, Ruby. I won’t hold you to getting me a Nespresso for my birthday.
Who knows when my real birthday is anyway (even I’ve forgotten)?
With all the past lives I’ve had my house would be filled to the rafters with Nespresso machines. Although I’m hardly ever there seeing as most of my time is spent in my nursing home room.
Breeks.
Iain Lawson, the chair of the Scottish National Congress Steering Committee – he was heavily involved with Salvo – work was going on in the background on something important – I’m always extremely suspicious when someone suddenly passes away – who is/was involved in the liberation of Scotland – Iain is a big loss to Scotland – and many Scots don’t even realise it.
I read the STUC supports higher taxation to support services.
The main problem I see is that the labour movement and most unions are working with and in the control of the labour party.
It was no coincidence binmen went on strike during the COP conferences when scotland is on the qorld atage and during the edin festival both allowing the BBC to frame their messaging.
The union movement will support more taxes but they support the UK union that has wasted 50years oil revenue. They are xontrolled from london.
Like the unions at Ravenscraig, shipyards and linwood they play for their masters.
If the SNP conference take them as their guide they are being led up a garden path.
No sign of Swinney and Sturgeon telling anyone what their plans are!!
I am open to suggestions as to how badly the SNP will do in 2026.
My guess is they have accepted they are goosed and have no plan no ambition and are ready to accept third place and indy is no longer in the ticket.
Will Swinney surprise me???
Like others I am saddened by Iain Lawsons passing and I send my heartfelt condolences to his family, Iain’s website was a bonus to genuine supporters of independence and to supporters and members of SALVO , SSRG ,and Liberation.Scot his contribution to the indy movement will be sadly missed
RIP Iain
This shower of grifting careerists, couldn’t even provide free school meals for all Scottish children – even though they promised they would – what chance then of them fulfilling the promises below.
The SNP government – and party for that matter, cannot be trusted – we must remove as many of these SNP leeches as possible – come the 2026 Scottish elections.
“John Swinney has been urged by leading charities to honour an SNP manifesto commitment and introduce a new human rights law in Scotland.
Third sector groups have today spoken out after they failed to secure a promise from ministers that the landmark legislation would be included in the next Programme for Government, which sets out Holyrood’s agenda for the year ahead.
The long-awaited Human Rights Bill would enshrine UN treaties and strong protections for everyday rights like access to safe housing, food and the best standard of health into Scots law.
Campaigners believe it could make fundamental human rights a reality for people across the country.
But SNP ministers failed to introduce the legislation to Holyrood in the first half of this year as expected – prompting more than 120 charities and civic organisations to share an open letter in May criticising the delay.”
I too am really saddened by this sudden death. Hiw work really must not be undervalued. Although I never met him in person, Like many others I felt I knew him through the blog.
My deepest condolences to his family.
Shocked and so sorry to hear the news of Iain Lawson’s death , he will indeed be missed by more than his closest family.
Iain’s informative discourse on the shenanigans in the SNP showed me the route to Salvo and a glimmer of hope for Scotland.
It takes some [ ] to reply to somebody that has embedded capitals and spaces in their moniker with the claim that it’s impossible to have embedded capitals and spaces in their moniker.
Yet both Ruby AllDayBreakfast and NorthToadie have so responded.
I have used [ ] as I am stumped for a word that does this level of denial justice.
It’s “Scotland” and always will be.
If I change my moniker to Hatey McHateface Of Scotland, will you still deny it’s possible?
Odds on you will.
Stuart MacKay
Beats me how you can correctly big up Scotland’s historic ties with the Baltic countries, yet be so enthusiastically supportive of the biggest threat the Baltic states currently face.
And be either so ignorant of, or so dismissive towards, the lived experiences of the people who live in that part of the world and know intimately the dangers of which they speak.
I guess it’s just another of the many conundrums that perplex any alert reader, struggling to make sense of Wings BTL.
Robert Hughes
Baboons are aggressive and competitive. They will defend their territories and their resources, not to mention their mates and their youngsters. You tangle with them at your own risk.
Interesting that you should find that laughable.
If we assume your “peacenik” attitude is prevalent within the wider Indy movement, we at least start to glimpse the fundamental reason for the SNP’s ten years of supine, non-confrontational, shoulder shrugging, hand wringing ineptitude.
It’s exactly what their supporters really wanted.
Of course, it didn’t deliver Indy then, and it won’t in the future either. Still, you know best, eh?
There has been an outcry about free travel for young people. Many attributing this to anti social behaviour. This could also be said about old fuddy duddies turning up all over Scotland looking for some where to wave a flag stinking of pish.
“Beats me how you can correctly big up Scotland’s historic ties with the Baltic countries, yet be so enthusiastically supportive of the biggest threat the Baltic states currently face.”
Do you mean the assassination attempt on the Slovenian president Robert Fico – an attempt by the EU and the US – or do you mean the EU/US Nato’s coming attempt to regime change in Georgia – because the Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili – and his party have introduced and passed a Foreign Agents Bill in the country.
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/31/robert-ficos-assassination-western-plotting/
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/26/us-eu-color-revolution-georgia/
Or do you mean the US coup in U – the latest one that worked in 2014 – that led to U now becoming a vile ran failed state – not to mention the multiple attempts to regime change in Belarus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNLhxKpfCnA
I bagsy being Bracket [] you can be Hinge Northtoadie.
Although if I remember correctly these parts have already been taken by other posters. Ask Robert Hughes to re-post the adventures of ‘Evadne & Hilda’ that he wrote sometime back. I don’t think they ever reached UKRain which is where they were heading. They got stuck in Redford Barracks.
Dr Evadne Hinge No Nespresso?
PS. You can’t go wrong with an AllDayBreakfast eh no?
Everyone in Scotland will be having Ruby’s or maybe Karen’s ‘AllDayBreakfast’ tomorrow.
PPS There’s nothing wrong with a ‘toadie’ either a lot of people have a wee hot toadie when they are feeling a bit under the weather and sometimes just because it’s cold outside.
I prefer a hot Cointrea myself even a Tia Maria. Not to keen on Scotch Toadies.
Did you know Miquel de Cervantes had a Tia Maria she married his Tio Pepe.
Neither of them had many teeth but they made nice liqueurs in the basement of their windmill.
“I’m quite unable to understand why if you poke one military power and get your kids blown up in response, then you had it coming.
But if you poke another military power and get your kids blown up in response it’s Jenny Side.”
Are you referring to U – which was all but carrying out a Jen0c-ide in the Don-bas for eight years, in which it targeted schools – hospitals and residential areas – until the RF stepped in – of course the West sees neither Jen-0c-ide as Jen0c-ide, which is unsurprising.
The other odious force is squatting on stolen lands – and it isn’t a military power – its propped up by a military power, and it minions in the West – remove them, and it would quickly collapse.
Ironically the West props up odious dictatorships in West Asia – such as Jordan – Saudi Arabia – Bahrain etc, these monstrous regimes would collapse very quickly, if the West stopped helping them suppress their own citizens.
Just a style point Rev but the Vow should always be prefaced by the Infamous as in the Infamous Vow. I recall a poll post dating the Smith Commission in which 70% of respondents said the Infamous Vow had not been lived up to. That is pretty much the definition of Infamous is it not?
Dimmy McDimwit
For the hard of reading it was Iain Lawson that was bigging up Scotland’s historical ties with the Baltic states.
And another thing. Just because the coffin dodgers won’t be around for the Independinata they don’t have to take it out on us.
Had a bit of Scottish Kulture by going to the Edinburgh Fringe today. A couple of shows. I went to the Andrew Pierce and Kevin MacGuire show. We enjoyed it. Good to watch the right and left debating in a civil manner. Both men were fair and honest in their responses. Take the ten million pensioners losing out on their Winter heating allowance. MacGuire put up his hands. A mistake by Labour. But interestingly also said if the Scottish Parliament has a mandate then a second referendum should be granted. The start by Andrew Pierce had pathos when he detailed Finding Margaret. Reminded me of Philomena. Overall an entertaining show. Although both men lacked nuance of the Scottish situation a couple of times. Worth the money as was the other show. All good at the Fringe.
Hatey McHateface said;
“It takes some [ ] to reply to somebody that has embedded capitals and spaces in their moniker with the claim that it’s impossible to have embedded capitals and spaces in their moniker.”
You are being your usual disingenuous self again, haTey! Nobody claimed it was impossible, merely unnecessary. Get over it, already!
“Not to keen on Scotch Toadies”
It would appear I’m a ‘Scotch Toadie’ according to some.
Ah well, the ‘partnership’ was fun while it lasted. I would have changed my moniker to ‘Dr Evadne Hinge No Nespresso’ if you would have changed yours to ‘Dame Hilda Bracket Two Nespresso’, but alas, it is not to be.
I’m changing my moniker to ‘NorthToad’. I’m using the capitalised camel style for the un-hyphenated closed compound ordinate and subordinate elements of my new moniker.
“Neither of them had many teeth but they made nice liqueurs in the basement of their windmill.”
I find the idea of that way of living quite appealing. I’ll need quite a few teeth removed to fully embrace it, though…and a windmill.
Oh, and there’s nobody out there – Nurse Ratched tells me they’re all in my head and aren’t real. And that means nobody on here is real either. You’re all figments of my imagination; which means I’m just talking to myself.
PS. I don’t really live in an ‘institutional facility’ I just made that up.
PPS. That means nurse Ratched isn’t real either.
PPPS (Look! I ‘ve done more Ps than you have today). So who actually is that woman in the 1950s sparkling white nurse’s uniform with accompanying hat wandering about my house giving me wee blue pills every night?
Wait a minute…there’s a label hanging on the back of her uniform. I’ll see if I can get a look at when she walks past. There she goes…the label says…can’t quite read it, hold on. It says…’Ane Simmers”.
“It would appear I’m a ‘Scotch Toadie’ according to some.”
Just re-read my post now that it’s up on the site and I messed up.
The second line reads like I’m having a go at Ruby when I’m not – sorry, Ruby.
That line should have had an emphasis on the ‘I’m’ and ended with ‘…according to some other poster’.
This changes the intended meaning considerably. It should have read like this:
“It would appear I’m a ‘Scotch Toadie’ according to some other poster.”
Glad I’ve sorted that out. It would have kept me up all night worrying about it.
Ruby Friday
9 August, 2024 at 7:44 am
Your link did not exactly make my day:
“….a sex accident or a crime.”-The German Polis
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I strongly advise my fellow penis-possessors of whatever gender, Q or non-Q, NOT to read it.
PPPS (Look! I ‘ve done more Ps than you have today).
You are so competitive Evadne!
It isn’t a fair competition. There’s been no drug testing.
Pretty sure Nurse Ane Simmers has been slipping quite a lot of drugs into your tea.
Diuretics give you an unfair advantage.
PS I called you a ‘Hot Scotch Toadie’ that’s a compliment.
We’ll see how hot the ‘lassies’ think you could be when you become ‘NorthToad’ and they start kissing you ( with all their fingers crossed.)
PPS Good News. A lot of ‘lassies’ don’t know the difference between a toad and a frog. Life as a toad might be fun.
PPPS Bad News You’ll need to watch out for those ‘Frenchies’ they could douse you in garlic & have you for dinner.
PPPPS When I say ‘Frenchies’ I mean them what likes to have ‘les grenouilles’ for dinner and not the type of kisses you might get from the ‘lassies’ who hope and pray you will turn into a handsome prince with a tight butt (peach emoji) and a ten bob note in your pocket.
@ Xaracen
disingenuous?
Naw! He’s no right in the heed.
@Cynicus
Sorry I’ll try to get a better link for you later today. Gotta go to my scratcher now before I turn into a frog or a big fat orange pumkin.
FYI
Scratcher = bed – apparently because set-tl-ers made them of sack cloth and they were itchy. I don’t know if this is a kiwi saying, if it is then possibly one that has been adopted by the UK forces as my bed in the army was always known as my scratcher, or sometimes my ‘pit’.
Why the scratch of dawn?
Xaracen
“Nobody claimed it was impossible, just unnecessary”
So let’s just check I have this correct.
Continuous disrespectful writing of our country’s name as “scotland” is A-OK.
On a site dedicated to Scotland.
On a site where every country, no matter how reviled and hated by the usual suspects, is routinely written correctly.
It’s just our country that must be continually disrespected and denied her proper name.
Even though it would take no effort whatsoever to elevate puir wee “scotland” to the same level of respect accorded to England, USA, RF, NK, China, the Zonalists, even the U country.
Every one properly capitalised when written on here. But not Scotland, because that’s supposedly not necessary.
Yet you expect the rest of the world to accord Scotland the respect and recognition you yourself deny her.
What the actual fuck is wrong with the whole fucking lot of you?
Dear Hilda,
Sorry I’ve taken a while to respond to you, Hilda – it’s been a busy day.
I have my doubts about that Nurse Ane Simmers. I think she slips Bromide in my tea along with those wee blue pills and I’m sure that’s why I’m up one day and down the next.
I missed your compliment – thank you for that :). I must have been more tirederer than I thought last night.
“PPS Good News…”:
That is good news. I’m relying on those ‘lassies’ not knowing the difference. I guess I’ll only find out once I change my moniker to ‘NorthToad’.
“PPPS Bad News…” :
I’m not sure if that bad news is as bad as you make out. But I’ll take your advice anyway – just in case.
“PPPPS When I say ‘Frenchies’…”
A handsome prince? Definitely – at least that’s what my mirror mirror on the wall tells me every morning (I wonder if it’s lying to me).
A tight butt? Not quite – nothing a week or two (probably two, or even three – or maybe a few more) at the gym wouldn’t sort out, though.
A ten bob note in my pocket? Possibly – but I’d have to do a fair bit of rummaging about to find it. It hasn’t been used since 1970; since it was replaced with a 50p piece.
I haven’t tried to compete with your P(eeing) today – but that doesn’t mean I won’t try again tomorrow (it depends on whether the nurse slips me a diuretic in my tea or not.
You’ve been quiet today, Hilda. I hope you haven’t been naughty stepped – that would be an unbearable tragedy, just unbearable.
Oh God of Wings please let it not be so!
Who knows what I might do in my despair if you have been NS’d?
I might decide to stop visiting this place. What would be the point?
I might decide to resume my quest and go looking for windmills to tilt at (or make nice liqueurs in) instead.
Or I might even decide to prostrate myself before the God of Wings and beseech him to restore you to me (I’ve heard he’s a tough nut, so it might not work. Worth a try, though, eh no?).
We shall see.
Your dear and loyal friend, Evadne.
It’s the glorious 12th of August today – the start of the Grouse shooting season; the slaughter for ‘fun’ of red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica), and to a lesser extent the ptarmigan (Lagopus muta).
But there’s nothing glorious about it, for a couple of reasons.
There’s no glory in the entitled rich swaggering across Scotland slaughtering defenceless creatures in the name of a barbaric ‘sport’.
The numbers of grouse are kept artificially high so their killing on a massive scale can be justified under the excuse of population control.
Apparently the ‘sport’ is worth more than £176 million to
Scotlandeverybody involved except the Scots.But there’s another reason today isn’t all that glorious – I hope I’m wrong, but I fear Hilda has been put on the NS.
Morning Hilda – I hope you are well. I’m already missing your wit.
I might send you a ‘letter’ every do or so like I did with my virtuous Violet when I was stuck in the trenches in a previous life back in 1916.
I’d often wait weeks, sometimes a couple of months, for Violet’s replies and I am wiling to do so again (not in a trench, though. That was awful) in anticipation of that truly glorious day when you return.
Yours, Ernest (that was my name back then).
PPPPPS (I think I’ve won the P(eeing). Or is that cheating?
Much ado about a ‘do’ that should have been a ‘day’ in my last post. Forgive my scribbling error – I am bereft of joy and sentient thought today.
My Dearest Violet,
It has been silent here for some time now, but the guns have started up again. I do not know why, my CO tells me it’s something to do with today’s date.
Thousands are being slaughtered and no-one knows why.
The birds tell us here in the trenches that there’s no reason behind it at all. We are in the grip of a kind of madness, it seems.
In contrast, the sound of your typing has fallen silent once more; but my spirit is maintained in the knowledge, in the hope, that one day I will again experience the joy of reading your scribblin’ douns.
I must leave you for now, dear Violet. A fresh batch of coffee is on the brew and I must take the opportunity to imbibe its bitter warmth whilst I can (there is no Nespresso here – so the coffee is shit).
I will write soon with more news from the Northern Front.
In the meantime, I send you this heartfelt verse:
Yours always, Ernest.
Yes Northcode I have been PMT’d
I can post but each post has to be approved by Stu that can take some time.
Some post will upload. Keep watching this thread.
Not sure if Stu will approve of posts about two piss artists discussion a pissing contest. 🙂
PMT = pre moderation time.
All Quiet on The Northcode Front
My sweet Violet,
I write in the earnest hope this letter finds you in good spirits.
It has been long weeks now since last we spoke and the guns have fallen silent for now, thankfully. I think it’s lunchtime on the moor.
Les grenouille for dinner again today, God help me.
I no longer have the legs to consume yet another frog’s legs.
How I yearn for some stout beef with a couple of hefty potatoes – as must you, my dear. Albeit mine is a culinary desire.
I have used up the garlic and cuisses de grenouille from the last ‘food parcel’ you sent me.
The Nespresso pods were a kind gesture. I look at them each day and dearly wish someone had bought me a Nespresso coffee machine for one of my birthdays to use them with – but it’s the thought that counts, I suppose.
I might chew on one later and try to soukie oot whatever caffeine I can get from it.
Autumn is almost upon us and I mourn the absence of those trees blasted into oblivion that once would have blessed the eyes with a stunning gold and russet equinox . It is desolation here – even the sky is interminably colourless.
Yet when I think of you I am enveloped by a comforting warmth – although that might just be my incontinence gaining the upper-hand.
A comforting warmth that foreshadows the glow of anticipation; the early stirrings of an eagerness to once more set eyes upon your inspirational scribblings.
We have a nurse who visits us here in the trenches from time to time. Nurse Naechaunce is her name (I think she’s French). She is less approachable than our previous nurse, Nurse Anesimmersdottir (who is Swedish, I believe), but a welcome sight nonetheless. She keeps we men here pepped up on pills and helps ease our suffering.
I must go now and prepare. For soon I must ‘go over the top’ and confront the ‘enemy’.
I will write again soon with more news from the Northcode Front.
Be strong, my dearest.
Yours always, Ernest.
Ruby Tuesday @7:19am
Just spotted this, Ruby. I thought as much but wasn’t sure. I hope you don’t mind my ‘letters’ and my muse hyperbole – I’ll stop if you want me to. I just thought they might give you a laugh. But unless you tell me to stop I might be tempted to post more on this thread.
Maybe I’ll conjure up another past life, Cervantes, perhaps, and have them write to you.
I don’t think he minds piss artists as long as they aren’t too disruptive. If he did he’d have PMT’d me months ago and wouldn’t have let me back on here. 🙂
Rab’s offered me a regular spot on offtopicscotland. I’m drawn to the idea so there might be a lot more of my ‘stuff’ showing up there if it all works out – we’ll see.
Oh, and If you don’t want my email address I totally understand and promise you I will not be offended. I just thought I’d make the offer is all – in case you were heartbroken at not being able to take the piss out of me.
Nice to ‘hear your voice’ again today.
Dame Hilda
I replied to you 7:19am comment (I only just spotted it a short time ago) but my reply went to moderation because it was addressed to your real moniker directly, I think – it might show up later. But if it doesn’t the gist of it was that I hope you don’t mind my ‘letter’ and muse hyperbole (I thought it might give you a laugh) – if you do I’ll stop.
In fact, I’ll stop anyway just in case you do mind. With your current restrictions limiting your ability to respond to my drivel, it seems unfair for me to continue with it.