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The Great Burning

Posted on November 16, 2022 by

Good heavens, readers. We’re afraid we’ve rather been forced into yet another post this month on our decreasingly-dormant website.

As many of you have already noticed, just a week after being unsuspended by Twitter (to surprisingly unanimous approval in the media from friends and enemies alike, and from some startlingly unexpected sources), early this afternoon the @WingsScotland account was kicked out again. According to the only email Twitter have sent us the reason for the sanction was “ban evasion”, which is perplexing since they’d just lifted the ban and there was nothing to evade.

But the plot subsequently thickened as a procession of SNP types claimed to be responsible, all triumphantly waving completely different supposed offences, none of which we’ve heard anything about.

Naturally we’ve enquired of Twitter what’s going on, and will update you as necessary. But to be honest with you, folks, if the SNP are this desperate to silence our voice, maybe it’s time we thought about returning for good.

Is it time to blow three-and-a-half years of dust off the old Fundraise-O-Tron and get back to work properly? Or should we stay in peaceful retirement and just stick a post up once in a while when we feel like it? What say you, chums?

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Dan Watt

FUNDRAISER! FUNDRAISER! FUNDRAISER!

Sorry to break the caps lock rule, but if you think you can focus your energies tearing down the british state and not scuppering the indy movement from within as has seemingly been your wont lately, then please start another fundraiser!

Tam Norrie

Stu, start rattling the can. I am certain we will all provide the readies. Get intae these useless twats where they cannae ban you, your own blog.

Hopalong

Indubitably it is time. SC decision next week requires your complete attention and naturally as there’s no ifs or buts you’ll have 11 months to increase support for a Yes vote in October.

Eddie3dugs

Please come back !!!!!
I miss the truth in my daily inbox,

Anonymoose

I fully support a Wings fundraiser.

Scotland needs you, now more than ever.

thomas

Fundraise. Come back to work , and do what you do best.

Luxybob

Come back please

Scott

Was that Karen Adam doing a bit of safeguarding, or gatekeeping, or both?

Fiona

I would be very pleased to have wings back and fully functioning. Happy to contribute to any fundraiser. But if you can’t be bothered because the outlook is so bleak, I could understand that.
However, the maximum annoyance value is not to be sneezed at and they certainly do like stifling opposition by any petty means available. So there is that.

Eck Muir

100%, go fer it.

sarah

I think you know the answer, Rev!! We devoted, brainwashed followers know no greater pleasure than a Wings fundraiser.

Liz

Come back. Both unionists and nuSNP seem apoplectic that you are back on twitter so you’ve obviously touched a nerve. We need you now more than ever.

Iain Gray

Fundraiser Stu.
Get it up them.

Rab Davis

Go for it Rev.

Even Kevin McKenna has your back now.

Sturgeon and the SNP have been strutting about unchallenged for too long.

Ian

Fundraise-O-Tron Now.

ClanDonald

Well, given there’s no chance of an indyref any time soon, there’s not much point in returning to expose anti-independence media shite.

However, I’d be definitely up for chucking in a few bob if you were to focus on the insanity of the GRR bill to bring the horrors to a wider audience. Yesterday the SNP and greens voted against amendments that would have stopped sex offenders and paedophiles from being able to apply for a new identity with a gender recognition certificate; which would have made it more difficult to put men in women’s jails and which would have guaranteed that women could refer to their male rapist as “he.” This stuff needs to reach a wider audience as the mainstream media’s not doing much about it.

Graeme

Would be a welcome return. Get a fundraiser on the go.

Jim Tadgercock

As I am no longer a member of the SNP you are more than welcome to the cash they ain’t getting.

stuart young

Get off your arse and get back to work

Mike

Get back into the fray Stu.

Cath

Come back! You annoy all the right people.

David Holden

I would like to see you back full time as aside from giving all the right people the vapours we could do with your skill set. Whatever you decide I thank you for your past efforts.

dan macaulay

about time;

fundraiser;

let the FUN begin

Republicofscotland

If you come back to full-time that will really piss them off…good.

The friendley sassenach

Duty calls Wings!!!!

Andrew Morton

There has been insufficient vileness around recently. Get your arse back into gear.

Tinto Chiel

Sounds to me like a rhetorical question 😉 .

If you mean battle rather than the damned semi-suspended animation of recent times, then “Lay on Macduff” and funds will be provided.

Still smarting that my Motherwell scarf was mistaken for a Gryffindor one by some Jobsworth at Holyrood.

These times gotta change.

Big Jock

I am drifting away from active participation in online politics. I feel like I am doing the same thing every year in this quagmire.

I think having you back may re light a lot of fire in people’s bellies. It will also scare the shit out of Sturgeon and Wishart. So it’s necessary!

fillofficer

back to work, rev
expose these grifting imposters
SC on 23rd should be a kick start, mibbe

BTW was the heated jacket a success

Jill

Absolutely a fundraiser! Come back please! ???

Imacg

Get on your high horse rev….

P

Oh for heavens sake, Stu – get on with it!!
You’re rattling a lot of cages

Graeme Hampton

Oh please: Nicky Nocks is about to run out of excuses, The SNP (still the main indy party whether we like it or not) will need a new leader so there is a chance to get things back on track if the right person can get the job. Quality articles from Wings can only help. Dust off that machine and lets get going.

Argentocoxos

You’re needed more than ever Stu, we need a place to dissect the machinations of those who would machinate against us.
May the force be with you!

Anonymoose

Dan Watt says:
16 November, 2022 at 7:31 pm

Sorry to break the caps lock rule, but if you think you can focus your energies tearing down the british state and not scuppering the indy movement from within as has seemingly been your wont lately, then please start another fundraiser!

Wind your neck in, your accusation of “scuppering the indy movement from within” equates to giving the Scottish establishment (for the avoidance of doubt that is the SNP) free reign to do whatever the hell they like without anyone being critical of them in any way and is exactly how Scotland is in the mess it is in today, all of which can be traced back to 2016/17 when Sturgeon and Robertson deployed a coup d’état on the internal structures of the SNP and routed the party out from under the membership.

I say No, we will not have anymore “Wheest for indy” shite, it’s casting a blind eye to extremely damaging policies and actions that have been deployed by this SNP Scottish Government:

1. Women & girl’s rights are being decimated before our very eyes.

2. Our ferries aren’t fit for purpose & we’ll be lucky to see a tenth of the ships we require to replace our fleet by the time this decade is out and the ships that we do get will be expensive, inadequate, inefficient and burn twice as much fuel as they should as well as requiring £millions in harbour modifications to accomodate and fuel them.

3. Our offshore wind capacity has been sold off for tuppence to foriegn hedge funds and foriegn state-owned energy companies and all we’ll see after the £700M one-time auction fees is £1 per MWh, we could have been returning vastly over £700M EVERY SINGLE YEAR if they had followed through on a Scottish Energy Company and legally mandated that we revieve 50% of the revenues as part of the licence agreements.

We’re not even seeing a single job from all of this, it’s all going to foriegn companies from as far afield as Oman and Malaysia.

4. Our health service is massively understaffed, mostly due to the SNP ineptly failing to capitalise on the umpteen opportunities to retake our independence from the UK, but also due to the incompetent serial-failures of ministers they have put in charge of the health brief.

I could go on, but surely you get the point, by being quiet, wheeshting and letting the SNP Scottish Government off by turning a blind eye to everything and not holding them to account, it is THEM who are destroying not just the indy movement from within, but Scotland as a whole.

If we want to build a better nation and leave our children with a better place than we inherited then we have to hold everyone to account, both allies and opponents.

MuttersUWS

Vital WoS is in full voice again. All political parties, influential sectors and individuals should be subject to rigorous fact checking and BS detectors. Nobody does it better!

Iain More

The Brit Spook Bots will be able to go to their bosses and say – He is back don’t sack me.

AlbaPartyTime

GO GO GO!! Get the fundraiser up and running pronto!

John Main

You’ll have had a braw holiday.

Back tae fucking work!!!

AlbaPartyTime

Get onto it ASAP! Scotland needs you!

clemfandango

I’m waiting patiently, to smash this hammer, into my piggy bank. PLEASE bring a fundraiser….

Colin McKenna

Get that fundraiser up and running and you can guarantee my donation ?

John White

If you fundraise. I will pay. We may not get Independence, but we can do what we can to protect women and kids, and bear witness

Caroline Wilson

Do it, do it, do it.

Ebok

No brainer: sock it to ’em, nobody does it better.

Black Joan

Yes please. And is holiday boy available?

Fionan

It would be great to see you back in the saddle, Stu, your excellent dissections of news and views have been sadly missed. And I do think your return would re-ignite the passion and also anger required to renew the fight for indy which has so sadly petered out over these last few years when the NuSnp policy of ‘making devolution work’ (while finding any excuse to avoid even a mention of indy) became clear.

I am not at all well off but I would gladly contribute whatever I am able to, to get you back up there, using your razor-sharp logic and wit to fuel the indy fire. In these dire times, it will be great to see the elites who are rubbing our noses in it, being exposed for the self-centred, self-seeking, brutal egoists that they are. I would have mentioned sc*m but I have a feelign that is a banned descriptor.

ScotsRenewables

Yes please Stu…

Checks notes

Come back Stu, we need you now more than ever! Apart from being the best at what you do, a proper comeback would annoy all the right people. Do it!!

Derick fae Yell

Get back to work.

After all we have a referendum to win ?

Keith Hynd

Get that fundraiser started.

Scott

We need you back rev!

Look at the amount of feathers you rattled in a week without even really trying. Pete Wishart might even have an aneurysm if you returned full time!

SandyW

Doesn’t this behaviour break their code of conduct? Can we mass report them for that?

But, yes, you should come back. Time we took these f*ckers on.

prj

You have a legion awaiting. Go for it.

James

Get it on

Tinto Chiel

Fogot to add: #Musk’s a husk.

As Bugs Bunny said, “What a maroon!”

George Ferguson

Fundraiser Stu. Critical time on the policy front. And the Independence movement needs fresh momentum. Besides the ducks won’t feed themselves. Bring back the holiday boy if he is available too.

Tinto Chiel

Forgot, dammit!

And Spouse

John Wick
“People keep asking me, am I back and I’m thinking yeah I’m back”

AlbaPartyTime

Hurry up! We’re all waiting!

wattland

Come back and go toe-to-toe with every last one of them.

jimmy mac

even if this just pisses of james kelly fuck it just do it

George Malone

If you’re up for it Stuart, I’ll be in for a few bob.

Confused

at first I thought this –

they’ve got the rev …

youtu.be/QEv3zzKyiFQ?t=97

nooooo

then I thought this –

no one likes a quitter

link to youtube.com

in it to win it

Is the REV “putting together a team …”?

Breeks

Yeayyyyy!

And while we’re on the subject of the good ole days, and getting the band back together, what about that fella Cairns? What’s he doing with himself these days?

Ken

Fund raise away.

Re the banning reports, it says a lot that they are happy to get by with a block for some people, but have an insatiable urge to get you banned. Seems pretty hateful behaviour to me. Can I file a report with the police that you are being subjected to hate? ?

OyveyMaria

Long past time for you to return to the fray, good sir…so please start rattling that can and the SNP/Green cages

Leanne

I’m pretty skint but ill donate to any fundraiser that will bring you back! You’re needed more than ever

Smitty

Never has there been a greater need for your involvement in Scottish politics. Your presence is greatly missed, and while you have been away, the SNP has been in decline with total chancers such as Roddick, Harper & Adams stealing a wage. Apart from the GRR rebels, there are none there who should feel safe in there seats. There needs to be a campaign to get members back into SNP and take back control. Get candidates in to challenge for the internal candidate selections of those grifters who put themselves first before Indy. Organise, challenge and win. I just give the minimal amount for membership and I would rather give the money I would previously donate to SNP to you. Please get back to work. We have your back as we know you have ours.

Aulbea1

Licence fee (at least) waiting ?.

And Spouse

Ben Kenobi
“You cannot win Vadar, if you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine”

Ruairidh

Once you see the truth, you just can’t unsee it. The problem is opening our eyes. You have done that for countless of us. Ever grateful for what you have done and always glad to support a tourettes sufferer.

PhilM

Make it so…

Alex Stewart

Ohh, please come back. I’m sure we can scrape together a few pennies for the fundraiser, it will be nice to see it race past the NuSNP fundraiser ammount quickly.

gregor

We don’t lose faith…

Willie John

I’ve just donated, what are you lot waiting for – an invitation?

Ken Lowson

Please return, we miss you.

Scaredy cat

Welcome back!

Neil Mackenzie

But.. but.. but surely you must need permission from the UK government … or have we been misinformed?

Hatuey

Thou art made of light, and to the light thou shalt return…

It’s a good time to come back, with the war in the east about to end. (Yes, that’s right, another prediction… remember where you heard it first.)

KathyT

Looks pretty unanimous.

Frank

Please do, for so many reasons, not the least being to make sure that the referendum fairy tale isn’t allowed to be delayed further, or quietly forgotten. As it becomes clear that it isn’t going to materialise, then will be the time to bring pressure for a change in the SNP. I’ll go and dust off the cheque book.

Johnny

First comment ordering Stu what to do.

Under pretence of “scuppering Indy movement”, Dan Watt demands no criticism of SNP.

Get lost, Dan.

Stu should criticise anything he sees fit to criticise, be that unionist politician or SNPer.

Jim Scullion

Fundraiser right now, please!

Studhog

Can you put the ‘fun’ in fundraiser again by allowing names and comments like last time? I believe it was for your sweetie fund. That alone was worth my donation.

Thomas

In the interests of democracy and the common good, surely EVERY Scot should be participating in debate, publishing information and articles, discussing politics. Unionist and Nationalist, right and left, monarchist and communist, no?

Ian McLean

Wings restarting would be great news for the Independence movement. Please do!
Might I suggest a section for short, pithy, attributable comments (Tweet sized) which your many followers could paste into Twitter and other platforms? They can’t ban us all

John

Take my money.

Get it dun!

Daisy Walker

Nothing would please me more, during this long, drawn out, dreich November, than to visit my poor, overstretched bank account, and put £100 your way.

FUNDRAISER.

And this time call it the BIG BLUE FO BOOK FOR FREEDOM (just a suggestion).

Sick of this Union nonesense now. Let’s just get it done.

Haud

Stu. Ffs get back to the game. There is so much shit, terrifying shit, flying about that we desperately need you and craig and others to step back into the game.

It’s time to win orfukkiibg give up forever.

Margaret L

Come back ffs. The SNP are the biggest threat to women and children i’ve seen in my lifetime, not to mention free speech, and I lived through Thatcher’s reign. At least with her you knew your enemy.
Btw, the wee cretin you highlighted ( not Karen Adam, though she fits the description, got away with this belter of a tweet.
link to twitter.com

Frank

I would be delighted, and would resume my modest contributions.

Lady Lyon

Nip on, with the most incompetent elected officials the SNP has ever had you could have enough material to write daily!

Jeanette McCrimmon

Please do. It’ll certainly wipe the smirks from the Sturgeonistas

Paul Garbett

Fundraiser please – it looks like you will be needed and sharpish

Monica Worley

With the Supreme Court ruling coming out on the 23th, it’s time. We need you back whichever way it goes. Please?

shiregirl

Get shakin’ the scran cans!

Awkward Westie

Well the tactical geniuses at the NuSNP with their determination to silence you, have angered you to the extent you are prepared to re-open your website … sounds like the NuSNP kiddies may finally have done something to further independence (even although that wasn’t their plan)

If you have the energy to get back into the frae, get the fundraiser open and I’m sure all of us that aren’t (yet) blocked on twitter can spread the news

Smitty

SNP has become a career and pension filler for most SNP MSPs. We need to expose them and root them out. Sturgeon’s time as leader is coming to an end and she has achieved nothing despite having the Covid bounce, Johnson, Truss and Brexit.

We are no further towards Indy and there are too many opportunistic fuckers taking the piss. The thought of Gucci shoed arsehole ‘Air Miles’ Angus Roberston,the backstabbing, failed-hack-fuck Neil Gray by name gray by nature or the serial bedwetting Ben ‘I cry when I come’ Macpherson being FM fills me with rage. Get rid of all of those blue-haired, pronoun cunts off the NEC and every other woke as fuck pressure group which has any form of influence over the party. And no more gerrymandering selections and prevent likes of Enema ‘rocket’Roddick and her fictitious, bullshit, poor-fucking-me trauma stories (they are all lies), to be allowed anywhere near parliament again. Fuck New SNP! Come back Stu!

Kenny

We’ll surely need Wings back full time before next year’s referendum.

Craig Elliott

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your perspective, your truth. So write, build and live as only you can.

Scot Finlayson

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

George

You’re upsetting all the right people so haste ye back.
More than happy to contribute a few quid.
Irrespective of whether you start a crowdfunder, I look forward to your take on next week’s Supreme Court decision.
Nicola and the many career SNP MP’s and MSP’s must be desperately hoping that the court say No to a referendum. She will then be able to indulge in faux outrage, which to be fair she is very good at, without having to worry about campaigning for a Yes vote. Imagine her panic if the court says Yes to a referendum!
Come back Stu, Scottish political discourse needs you.

Lynn Fraser

Come back permanently. Fundraise.

Cameron Lochiel

Then I say fight! Better dead than smeg!

Robert Hughes

Fuck Twitter

Make way for the return of Judge ( all the frauds ) Dread & let’s hasten the Twilight of the Pensions

Roger

Get back to work.
saw this a sec ago on Twitter and fully agree:

“Phantom Power
@PhantomPower14
·
9h
Hard to take but good for the constitution. Wings Over Scotland – cod liver oil of Scottish politics.”

Geri

What kind of special fcked up are they?

They’re mentally ill.

Set phasers tae malky, Captain!

Derek Rogers

Get real, Stu. Scotland is going to explode soon, and if you’re not there exploding with it, your name will be Tractor. And it’s all about the slow build-up of consensus. You did a first-class job on that in 2014, so get back in the saddle.

Brian

I’d say about time, how much do you need and welcome back.

Doug

It seems like the gods have arranged the fast-moving circumstances perfectly. It’s a sign I tell ee! Too good to miss. Fundraiser.

Brian

Ready and willing to pitch in.

John from Fife

Time to start the Fundraiser.

Shug

Fundraise
Get back to what you do best

Merganser

The truth needs out.

You are the one to find the way to do it.

For Scotland.

Alibi

Definitely. They are trying to silence you. That should be enough reason to convince you to re-awaken the site. Apart from anything, worth it just for the seethe.

Muscleguy

Since I am now full time employed and pulling in weekly extras from my tutoring I can now well afford to donate to a fundraiser. So go for Stu.

I have lost track of the number of your twitter accounts I have followed now.

Heather McLean

Yes Yes Yes!! You are needed now more than ever – please come back!

Peter Stark

I would say that both, your return to twitter and the reaction to that return, was frankly startling. The new ban is just bloody ridiculous. It is totally up to you whether you come back to posting on your web site again. It strikes me that you of all people understand the level of the task of taking these people head-on entails. Should you decide to continue, then I will quite happily contribute to your fundraiser.

Roger

Then along came a Karen (Adam) and demanded to speak to the Twitter manager.
It’s what Karens do.

jimmy mac

people are always going on about the SNP being the only route to independence and all that.
so by the same token, journalists are the only route to keep the bent politicians straight, and ned kelly and paypal paul areny going to do that are they? we have a lot of blatantly bent politicians, so we need wings back. hes like our fuckin batman.

MAKING INDEPENDENCE GREAT AGAIN!

Yee haw

LaxardalrNeil

This would be the best news o the year.

Wings over Moray

Do it. I have my “Let’s upset Cllr Jérémie” donation all ready to go.

McDuff

Brilliant news!!!!
Welcome back Stu, fundraiser here i come.

MR Robert Wiseman

YES Please come back, money ready to send.

john mcphail

Back to work and a fundraiser please.

sarah

The Supreme Court’s decision is known already!! Roddy Dunlop says it will have been issued to the parties but it is death – sorry, contempt – to spill the beans before the court’s official issue next Wednesday.

So that means the Scottish government and SNP have a whole week to work out what to say to us, the sovereign people of Scotland.

What a rotten, lousy system.

Julie Scott

Anything that makes Karen Adam’s head explode is fine by me ? You know what to do, Stu ?

Dorothy Devine

Oh yes please! Ready and willing to contribute.

WhoRattledYourCage

Let’s see.You start off campaigning for Scottish independence (anybody remember that?), and end up trolling and handbag-fighting American-zealotry-copying SNP halfwits, like teenage girls having an online hissyfit spat.

It’s all going very well.

Craig

To think if those heid cases just kept quiet and just allowed Rev back on Twitter and kept quiet about their disgraceful conduct, they wouldn’t be “Forcing” Rev to come back from his hiatus, now they’ve just went and done it.

I want you, Stuart, to come back and raise absolute fuckin Hell and rip the absolute shite out of the Nu-SNP, Nic and the GRA nutters big time.

We need you back and this is the perfect opportunity to hammer it home.

Paul

Oh go on then. Happy to pony up when the call comes. The independence movement needs a Wings in full flight, shitting all over the fakers and the takers.

steve ellwood

Already sent you £10 for sweeties.

Fundraise, and I’ll send more

Kevin Kennedy

Only you can make that decision.

But I for one (of many) do hope you get back to doing what you do best.

K Campbell

Fundraiser!!
Please come back Stu, Scotlands’ women and children need you to dissect and highlight (again) the utter madness that has overtaken the part(ies)y of government. They are running rampant with no-one to tackle the absurdity as ££ to the media keeps them silent, besides that, the party of government are doing a great job keeping the union together, so let’s get them and their deluded supporters telt!!

Votadini Jeannie

Come back, it’s been too long already. Can’t donate much but will spare what I can.

Scotspine

F@ck aye!

James U

No doubt about it, with the added bonus of knowing it will send old ‘Comfy Slippers’ Pete Wishart into a meltdown.

Alwi

Get into them!

Ruby

Ho! Ho! Ho!

A Christmas fundraiser.

Better get on with it there are only 39 days to go.

I’ll be putting money and a couple of tangerines in your stocking.

Scott Shaw

Yes,Yes,Yes.

Geri

Question

Can you report this to the police?
It’s targeted harassment & stalking that needs nipped in the bud.
The amount of times your site & social media is attacked is beyond nuts & we all know that can escalate. Maybe contact twitter to find out who exactly is behind these attacks?

Did you have a blue tick when you returned?

I dipped onto twitter yesterday over scarfgate & the ranting lunatics were in full force branding everyone who wasn’t a Nicola bootlicker as far-right fascists & he gloated he had reported my account FFS. These lunatics need stopping.

Get back in the saddle & expose this bullying, poisonous madness please.

Things are gonnie get ugly.

Gregory Beekman

Even Sam Slade, robo hunter, had to come out of retirement. Wake up your Hoagy and Stogie and get blastin!

Morag

I’m in, as always.

Higgy

Time to get back in the saddle Stu, never let the bastards think they have won. Fundraiser? Fuck Aye!!

Iain Hamilton

I am reminded of the Cairns toon from 2014 with the candle being snuffed out.

You have just shown up with a king size box of matches. Lets have some flames. There are plenty of feet need held to them.

Buckle up, Buckeroo!

And welcome back, Sir.

Red Squirrel

Now seems like a good time. Get a move on before the buggers implode all by themselves. Be a shame if you missed it.

Peter Glasgow

Do it!

Linda McFarlane

Oh yes please Stu.

Debit card at the ready. Can’t wait to read the brainless twats moaning about how much you can raise. (Jealous B’stards)

Lady Gaga

Please get back to work Stu. You’ve been missed. Nobody else will speak truth to gnasher Nicola and her cult of evil, incompetent harpies.

Ruby

It looks like Twitter operate like ‘The Scotsman’ if enough people complain you get banned no matter what you’ve done.

We suspended @WingsScotland’s account for breaking our hateful conduct rule. We found they broke our hateful conduct rule through different reports we received about their behaviour.. Twitter.

Twitter say OK this guy has been reported 20 times he must have done something wrong ban him.

David Hannah

You are the best man for the job. The biggest most read Scottish political blogger, and the best. You are a genious mind that has kept the flame of Independence alive. An agitator. The working class resistance to the Edinburgh elite. We need you.

A straight talking, truth teller. Stuart Campbell. There’s nothing in the imperial armour of the British State that can break the will of a man who refuses to be broken. That’s you. Unbreakable. Unbowed. Undefeated. For the cause of liberty!

MarkerPost

Absolutely, go for it

fran

Crack on with the fund raiser, it will wind up all the right people

Holymacmoses

Get back to work properly Mr Wings. You are needed.

Anne Johnston

Return Return!

Jwabz

Yes please! Charlatans need exposed. We can’t go on in limbo like this.

Geri

I read the pampers brigade gloat the other day to Elon..

We’ve taken your daughter
We’ve taken your wife
& now we’ll take twitter

The zoomers are on a mission.

Hatuey

Can anyone else hear it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPhqU–Mq1A

This time we win.

Jim Bo

The sooner the better Stu. We’ve all clearly missed your more regular posts from back in the good old days.

Jim McIntosh

Depending on your response from twitter it might be time to leave that place in the main to the unionists, SNP cultists and the TRA nutters.

Go for the fundraiser. In the unlikely event of a referendum next year we’ll need you firing on all cylinders doing your usual excellent deconstruction of unionist lies.

In the more likely scenario of no referendum, we need somewhere to point to with forensic proof that the blame is squarely down to the incompetence or cowardice over the past 8 years of the current SNP leadership. Hopefully causing multiple resignations.

Ironically both these outcomes are good for the independence cause.

Rogueslr

The silent majority of lurkers who made the BTL a forum worth reading when their voices were heard have spoken. Get back in the saddle.

Astonished

Fundraiser.

Mainly because I’m certain you won’t spaff it on cocaine, rent boys or Alyn Smith.

dodecostanza

Stuart we need you back exposing the frauds who have derailed the Indy cause so we can get back the hope we all felt in 2013/14. If there’s a fundraiser coming, count me in.

Wullie B

Get back to work you yah lazy bugger, surely after three years your batteries are fully recharged, time governments were held to account and you are just the man to do it

Lenny Hartley

Fundraiser, you have been skiving too long.

Confused

in hilarious irony, smalltown boy is looking for money for his bruto maledonia (shome mishtake shurely) travesty vanity blog

– gimme some of that old time navel gazing windbaggery and cringe-ology … OR …

the rev, kicking them in the nuts

Graham fordyce

Haste ye back!

Derek

As the man said…

“prod some righteous buttock”

Graf Midgehunter

“….if the SNP are this desperate to silence our voice, maybe it’s time we thought about returning for good.”

For God’s sake Rev, if that alone isn’t a huge enough reason to get back on the warpath, then what is?

It’s Nicola the Coward and her cabal of say nothing, do nothing sycophants who are standing in the way and blocking ANY, ANY of the golden opportunities to strike for Independence.

Your reader statistics will go through the roof… 🙂 🙂

Kcor

I would urge you to return and to make it your number one priority to force the biggest tractor in Scotland’s history to depart the scene in total disgrace.

Expose her every single day.

Fiona Brown

YES.I’m happy to toss a bit of cash in NOW.

msdidi

Yes – please come back full time Stu. We need you and I want a Wings badge!

Kenny

Have money, will send.

StruanBorn

Come back mate, not been the same without you. Time to obliterate the hijacked yes movement & show the snp up for what they are, pension collecting non nationalists.

Kevin Cargill

Do you really need to ask mate? Get on with it. We’ve waited far too long for this come back! You’re the best at truth, facts, incisive comment, research, satire, common sense and irony. We fucking need you NOW!!

maureen

Happy to throw a few quid your way for the fundraiser or just for a bag of sweeties, up to you!
Would enjoy seeing you posting regularly again.

twathater

@ Anonymoose 8.08pm , very well said and a good wee list of CRIMES that sturgeon and her morons are responsible for, but that list is not exhaustive by any means as you have said

@ Stuart Campbell it is nice that you have eased yourself into being bored with your rest period with your few articles that derided and exposed , but it is even better that these arseholes are too stupid to realise that they have poked and reawakened the wrong beast

Fundraiser please and get back to work

And as previously requested can you do an opinion piece on SSRG and SALVO to highlight their existence

Skip_NC

There is no need for you to come out of retirement. In less than a week, Diana Ross and the gang will have sung Dorothy Bain’s praises for the most excellent prosecution of the Scottish Government’s case and declared that the draft referendum bill is lawful. By next Friday morning, the Independence Unit will have been found space at Bute House and by Monday afternoon, Marco Biagi/Angus Robertson/Keith Brown or an amalgam of all three will have produced the first comprehensive Wee Blue Paper arguing the case for independence. On the back of this, I predict that 102% of the Scottish electorate will swear fealty to the SNP, which is pretty much the same as independence.

I suppose having a Plan B couldn’t hurt, though.

DaveL

Definitely!

Yuddah ho Yuddah hee…

Come ye back Rev Stu!

It’d make my day and and the same for a lot, a veritable horde even, of other folk.

Do it.

Lekraw

Yes, yes, yes.

We NEED Wings back, doing what it does best.

Currently, nobody is holding these people to account.

There is a giant, and obvious, hole in Scottish governance that should be filled by a competent, impartial, and effective media.

We absolutely need that hole filled, and I can think of nobody better to do it.

Fundraise away, I am in.

MR John King

Make it so Rev,
Im in.

Luigi

So, the haters attempt to silence WoS on Twitter ay result in their worst nightmare? A delicious irony. What’s not to like?

Willie

Dear Mr Campbell.

You have a penchant for detail, thoroughness, deadly accurate reporting, timely comment, foresight, judgement and an absolute commitment to indepence.

Your journal,and I do not wish to swell your head, was extensively read by supporter and foe alike. It still is, even in your retirement.

And boy have you been a flea in a few ears.

And so, all of that said, if you would be prepared to return then please, please do.

And a fundraiser. That would be just the ticket. Journalism, research, commissioning polling, running the site all costs money. Its very much needed. Essential in fact.

I hope you return. Really do. Wings is very much needed.

Andrew Davidson

I’d love to have you back and active fully but Jesus man, do you really want to step back into this cesspit? Is there actually any hope right now coz all I can see is Sturgeon et al crucifying women and gloating about how women are invalid and…. independence? Oh yeah munch your indy carrot and shut up.

But if you do decide to brave it again then you’ve got money from me in any fundraiser.

Mikel

Even if I have no direct beef in this fight of yours since I´m Basque, I read this blog often and recognise it as one of the very few forces of good and purveyors of truth in this treacherous world. So I´ll contribute some Euros if there is a fundraiser.

Oscar Taime

Yes. The Cult of Sturgeon may seem all powerful right now but she’s clearly preparing her exit strategy so we need you back to have the best chance of getting some traction once she bails
link to web.archive.org

Robert Louis

Yes, yes, yessity YES!

I do not agree with all of what Rev Stu thinks (e.g. he talks mince about Gaelic), but his voice in Scottish politics is extremely important. At present Scotland, and by extension the independence movement in the guise of the SNP, is being run by an utter fraud and a bunch of ‘hinger-oan’ careerist chancers. This needs called out, over and over again.

No matter the ruling from the supreme court next week, every sane Scot now knows Nicola Sturgeon has ZERO intention of holding an independence referendum next year. It is, quite simply, baloney.

If we want independence we cannot wait for the liars in the SNP hierarchy. To coin a phrase, they DO actually lack the ability to organise a p*ss up in a brewery. Chance after chance after chance to go for independence. Mandate after mandate, with the weakest most inept and universally hated ‘uk’ English colonial Government in history. Yet still they witter on, finding excuse after excuse to do nothing for independence, whilst obsessing over gender freaking pronouns and such tosh. They keep getting very, very rich, and Scotland is still run by England.

Wings restarting will get them feart. And rightly, rightly so. Make it happen.

christine

Bravo Stuart, this is wonderful news and fair cheered me up. The more they try to silence you, the more I will happily donate to your fundraiser. Scotland is in a very dark and dangerous place. Enough of this “ be kind and understanding “ bullshit, a smokescreen for all the lies, deception and concealment. The critical queer theory underpinning Sturgeon’s dancing to the drumbeat of “transgender” , “transgender” will destroy the family and basis of society, will erase women in language and law, will medicalise and mutilate our children and legitimise the fetishes, misogyny and deviance of men who believe they can change sex.

We need you now more than ever to shine a light on Sturgeon’s appalling regime, to help us move away from the darkness and hold the bastards to account. Bring it on.

Turnbulldrier

I only popped off the internet for 1 day.. *sheesh*

Ok, welcome back. But, you gotta get that email post notification working. I’m not chuffed at being behind the curve.

Dave M

If for no other reason than it would annoy the SNP and James Kelly, please get back to work ?

Nana

Hell Yes

Susan

It would be great to have you back Stu

Andy Ellis

The light to some is an unwelcome friend.

We have many such in the movement, but only one Stu Campbell.

Let’s do this….

scottiedog

Abso-piggin-lutely!

Ruby

Would you be prepared to test out my theory that if enough people complain to Twitter you get banned?

We could maybe start with Pete Wishart he’s known to spout a fair amount of hate speech.

ie
Pete Wishart
@PeteWishart
·
Nov 13

What a pathetic husk of a one time almost credible journalist. Now reduced to trading in childish Alba insults. Don’t worry @kmckenna63
your new audience of Alba, Salvo and the rest of the 0.7% will all be lapping it up.

Geoff Anderson

Fundraiser

We have never needed you more!

StevieC

Absolutely – please, please do return!

Long time reader, but first time poster – felt it was time to finally put my head above the parapet, just so I could plead for your return.

Long have we needed you back in the arena! Kick open the fundraiser – I will more than happily contribute! (Especially seeing as the SNP are getting no more money from me!)

Nitimur in vetitum!

Isstatue

Stu, please come out of retirement, Scotland needs you, Independence needs you, I miss your intelligent, factually sourced articles and humour.

Rab Davis

Let’s hope the “Three Names” are drowned out by the shear volume of returning contributors to Wings.

With the return of the Rev, it would mean the “Three Names” disappearing up their own arse holes,,, never to be heard of again.

No more meaningless abusive posts.

What’s not to like about the return of the Rev?

Annie R

It’s a yes from me. Let’s do this!

Xaracen

Time to light the Wee Blue Touch Paper and set the fireworks off!

gordoz

Get up and running bud. Anything that gets under the skin of our useless current FM is worth a donation IMHO.
Your diligence in establishing facts is sadly missed.
Sorry I doubted your pinpointing of current FMs failings. I got there in the end.
Really wish we were both wrong about her, but I know we are not.

Angela Fitzgibbon

Please come back, we need you.

Calum

Take my money now!

Viridarius

There’s a pony in my wee financial stable needs exercised. Ride on!

Wullie Halliday

The absence of your fact based blog has led to a drought of info and analysis, come back get stuck in and yank the covers off these scoundrel MSPs guising as indy supporters to further their own agendas.

Vivian Smith

Yes, you bloody well should. It’s desperate times out here. We need our best warriors to fight the good fight.

Corrado Mella

Remember: you will never win freedom respecting the rules set by the oppressor.
Go straight for the jugular, Rev.
Chop the monster’s head.
Take our money and forge the sharpest sword.
Your army is right beside you ready for your call.

Andy Ellis

Let’s hope the “Usual Suspects and Bonnie Purple Heather Brigade” are drowned out by the shear volume of returning contributors to Wings.
With the return of the Rev, it would mean the “Usual Suspects & BPHB” disappearing up their own arse holes,,, never to be heard of again.

No more meaningless abusive posts.

Fixed that for you! Anyway….I thought the general moonhowlers consensus was all 3 were one person?

Interesting that all the other posts are celebrating the Rev’s return, but the usual suspects can’t resist the atavistic urge to other folk. Still, good to know it’s so easy to trigger them and live rent free in the empty space between their ears! 🙂

yw/hth

Stuart MacKay

As much as I want to say yes, I dunno. There’s little point in returning to do the same thing over and expect different results. If the lock that the SNP have was going to break it would have done so by now. As for more outrage, the world has plenty available, but to what end?

I’d strongly consider doing something else with that time energy and whatever monies you’d raise. I’d certainly back you.

If you do return then consider spreading the load with more people involved. It’s too much for one set of shoulders. If you burnt out on this before then your limit will be dramatically reduced before it happens again.

Alternative media are fighting an uphill battle all the way. I’ve no idea how to deal with this. Some way of reaching out to the general public would be one way of breaking out of the echo chamber but again without a vast piggy bank I’ve no idea how to do this outside of a fundraiser for torches and pitchforks.

What about a network of local “reporters”? There must be more than a few people with some time on their hands. A monthly post with the likes of photos of queues outside of food banks – that might generate enough anger to create some change.

More of the same is not going to make the slightest bit of difference.

Brian Doonthetoon

Hi Rev Stu.

We need you back in the saddle – and Chris Cairns’ regular Saturday offering.

As a bonus, it could be that more regular input from yourself may ‘tidy up’ the btl comments.

Eilidh

An unequivocal “Yes” to coming out of retirement

Darren Mcdonald

I’m still waiting for wings to return, you should never have retired.

arch stanton

Yep, fire up yer keyboard laddie.

Rab Davis

You will note that I said the “Three Names”,,,and NOT, “Three People”.

Do pay attention!!!

Anyway,,, your days are numbered.

Tick Tock!!!

Chas

I would be delighted to see you back.

Whilst not a criticism, my only concern is how many Scots actually read your blog on a regular basis? If you could combine your return with say a weekly column in a couple of well read Scottish newspapers, if such a thing exists, doing a precis of what you forensically and accurately write here, this would be even better. More exposure to a wider audience is required.

I do realise that you cannot force yourself on any newspaper owner or editor but it would do no harm in simply offering offering your services. If you don’t try you will never know.

One bit of caution, your physical and mental health MUST come first.

Alf Baird

Your colony needs you.

The colonial “condition is absolute and cries for an absolute solution, a break and not a compromise” (Albert Memmi).

Chas

Rab Davis

You do realise that the ‘censorship’ of individuals who do not share your rather simplistic views, often shared by your fellow members of the BPHB, is EXACTLY what the SNP have done to the majority of their membership?

Anyone who regularly boasts of ‘How much they hate the English’ cannot be taken seriously. I have shoes that probably have a higher IQ than you…………possibly cleaner as well!

Andy Ellis

@Rab Davis

I can’t speak for the other two names, but I won’t be going anywhere. In fact I’ll probably post more. Sorry, not sorry. 🙂

I suspect the influx of more ordinary folk not prone to conspiracy theorising, nativism, insisting Scotland is a puir wee colony or shilling for Uncle Vlad will be a huge benefit. Diluting the endless screeds of some of the usual suspects on their hobby horse issues can only be a plus.

Patsy Millar

You surely know the answer to that question. We’ve only been begging you to come back ever since you ‘dormantised(?’ your blog. So in case it’s not clear enough – YES; you’re needed now more than ever.

matt

Reports of your demise are exaggerated.
The handling of GRR, leaky ferries, the festering sore without a ringfence, theres plenty to get stuck in to.
To support this, would you prefer one off donation(s) or a regular modest pledge?

James Gardner

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Liesel.

I’ll buy extra jumpers and give ye the leccy money if ye come back!!! Not on your own though, sweetie. Ye need tae get a team on board, share the load. There’s too much work for one person. However, that’s just my opinion & opinions are like assholes, everybody’s got one.

Sandra

We need you, Stu. Even Kevin McKenna says it, so it must be true.

I don’t know why Twitter banned you but I have had some odd messages from them lately suggesting poor Elon is not yet on top of the admin backlog.

dramfineday

As Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto probably never said – but is nonetheless very apt,

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

Well done the SNP woke brigade you should congratulate yourselves (oh, you have) you’ve probably managed to do something that no amount of pleading from us, his readers, could have done.

Ho,Ho,Ho!

Ella

Get back to work you lazy B*****D!!
Remember “Who dares Wings”

Rab Davis

Tick Tock!!!

Andy Ellis

I don’t know why Twitter banned you but I have had some odd messages from them lately suggesting poor Elon is not yet on top of the admin backlog.

It does seem odd that you were “unbanned” and then banned again? It tends to suggest Uncle Elon hasn’t really got moderation and the staff / algorithms directing the bans under control?

I’m sure there is an element of “if enough people report someone, there’s no smoke without fire”, but if we’re to take Musk at his word, then surely only those inciting violence or illegality should be banned, not those causing hurty feelz or having the temerity to disagree with someone’s belief system?

Maybe the game isn’t worth the candle with Twitter if it’s going to be like the hokey-cokey being in one minute and out the next?

The return of “full on” Wings Over Scotland should set the cat amongst the pigeons I reckon!

scozzie

The swans, ducks, foxes and squirrels must be well fat by now…time to get back on the horse!

ghostly606

Would ban evasion not be related to the fact that you started a new Twitter account with a different handle despite already being banned? That would be my guess but who knows. The ban(s) are completely nonsense of course.

And of course you should come out of retirement, although I rather suspect that my blood pressure won’t thank you. I’ve spent the months since your retirement in blissful ignorance of what a complete and utter shambles the SNP have become.

Patricia Spencer

Where’s the fund raiser? ??

Anne Johnston

“Gimme Some Truth”??

Ian Brotherhood

From the latest Salvo newsletter:

‘After the signing of the Treaty of Union in 1707 people across Scotland publicly burned copies of the Articles of Treaty. This year, people around Scotland responded to the call from Salvo to replicate the actions of our furious ancestors.

November 5 marked the day when we stopped playing by the establishment’s rules because we’re all tired of being nice. Being nice and playing by someone else’s rules never won any country its independence

People burnt the articles of Union on beaches, in fields and in their gardens. It infuriated the establishment, especially the Daily Express, which delighted in being able to refer again to the ‘Sinister Salvo group’, their pet name for us. They even, in their fury, printed the full text of the Edinburgh Proclamation in the hope – we suppose – that it would somehow ‘expose’ us. Perfect! The Courier joined in the fun with a front page splash; ‘Pro-independence group in Fife condemned for burning the Act of Union’. Condemned, eh? By whom?

Oddly, it wasn’t just the establishment that was infuriated. So too were some of our elected representatives, in particular a Mr Wishart, MP, who tweeted that the Union burnings were ‘some sort of protest about colonial oppression’ and that everyone who joined in was nuts. We’re all wondering if that’s now an official SNP position.’

Chris

Get back to work…. the time is now

Jockanese Wind Talker

Aye, time to get back to work Rev.

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato.

There are a lot of dark corners in Scotland and beyond needing your forensic light shone into them.

We also know that there a lot of men and women afraid of being caught very publicly in your spotlight.

You know you want to!

🙂

Fiona

Subscribe. Yup. I just cancelled 2 direct debits to enable me to pay hiked electric costs, but happy to syphon a few quid to your subscription. I was absolutely disgusted to find my local SNP MSP crowing about having had you shut down. Where’s the equality or freedom of speech displayed in she/her/it doing that? Someone else used the phrase “full on Wings” in their comment, yeah, I like the sound of that. Bring it on. Do a Little Green, White and Purple book, call them out, show the public what’s really going on.

Dervheid

You’re clearly putting the fear of exposure into them.
Good.
Definitely time to seriously reconsider reactivation

Mark Griffin

Your hand has been really forced this time. I think you have to go for it, and again show up these ghouls for the bunch of utter charlatans and shisters that they are. I’ll certainly chip in.

David

A fundraiser it has to be.

Neil

Yes please, we need Wings to keep the flame alive.

Hackalumpoff

I’m all for a fundraiser but I’m way behind here,as I stopped getting emails about new posts. Time to spend some money updating the site for the final battle. Get yourself a couple of mods as well.

Luigi

“If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” Whatever you decide, may the force be with you Obi Wings Campbell. 🙂

Arthur Martin

The SNP need smashed before we can proceed, so it’s a fundraiser for me.

DJFC

Where do I send the money?

sarah

Prize for the best comments?

Xaracen: “..light the Wee Blue Touch Paper..”

Ella ” “Who Dares Wings”

Ruby

Hackalumpoff says:
17 November, 2022 at 11:31 am

Get yourself a couple of mods as well.

I would be happy to do a shift as moderator!

Breeks

Fingers crossed for the Barbara Streisand effect…

I think that may be a credible likelihood now…

ceann cinnidh

Yes please

Nally Anders

Oscar @7.20
Thanks for the link.
“Polishing her CV”- Polishing a turd more like.

Come back Stu, you’re too young to retire.

Dai4Scotland

Your return to the fray will be most welcome.
I’ll chip in some £und$.

JoyousHate

Fundraiser.

You don’t have to post as often as you did and calling it a return to form from retirement will give us the pleasure of anguished hand-wringing from grifters and ideologues alike.

Andy Ellis

I would be happy to do a shift as moderator!

There are truly not enough LOLZ in the world.

Neil

Yes please! 🙂

Scotsrenewables

Hackalumpoff says:
17 November, 2022 at 11:31 am
I’m all for a fundraiser but I’m way behind here,as I stopped getting emails about new posts. Time to spend some money updating the site for the final battle. Get yourself a couple of mods as well.

I don’t mind the format of the site, but I worry how such an outdated version of WordPress is kept secure.

I have offered Stu my professional services free of charge before, and am happy to do so again should he decide to update the site software.