Wings Over Scotland

The SNP delivering shelf-government for Scotland.

Again a good and accurate cartoon.
Sadly the end of independence any time soon unless Alba can break through in 2024 general election.

“Sturgeon the Judas was willing to sink independence with all hands on deck for the sake of her ego and she did”

Sturgeon on her own would have never managed to set this trail of destruction. She is as responsible as each and every single SNP MP and MSP who, for close to 9 years now, have been enabling her and assisting her to betray the people of Scotland, to destroy women’s rights and put our children at risk, to destroy the party and to deliberately alienate voters instead of stopping her and send her packing.

Similarly, those same MSPs and MPs have enabled continuity candidate Yousaf to call a laughable Sgov cabinet who would not be out of place in a Benny Hill show, have enabled him to disrespect Scotland and make a complete mockery of its heritage by sending the stone down so an English king could put their arse on it, and have enabled him to shelf independence betraying each and every single mandate for a referendum we elected them with.

It is not just the actions of one person that have taken us to where we are. It is the systematic betrayal, collective action, or rather inaction of an entire party. And that is why this party is beyond redemption and has to go.

That giant, dusty warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark is where the SNP keeps their fucks.

The cartoon demonstrates exactly why the SNP have gone wrong. Most of these things should have been deferred until Scotland is independent.

The time, resources and money spent pursuing these vote losing interests “without the full levers of power”, should have been used to pursue independence even if it meant going bust in the process.

Many of the unique opportunities presenting themselves over the past 8 years will never return.

As always Chris – first class!

link to archive.is

” Hepburn described devo-max, which see significant powers devolved to Holyrood as “sub-optimal”, but added:

“It could be better than the position we are in just now because it would provide us with a wider variety of fiscal levers to deal with some of the challenges we face in the country”.

Dear SNP,
Fuck off and die you wankers.
That is all.

“Farewell and adieu to you SNP troughers,
Farewell and adieu to our national shame,
For I’ve seen enough to make my resolution,
That I will not vote for you ever again”.

The irony of the title …

Well Jamie Hepburn has let the cat out the bag.
Any deal with labour would give devo max which will be what ever they want to give you and they retain the right to remove it at any time.

What a bunch of con artists.

I heard someone say the Scots were like the Irish but without balls.

Sounds about right!

There are no circumstances I could vote SNP on this basis. NB was was the constituency chairperson for about 5 years. I am commited to indy but Nicola has turned the SNP into a blue labour unionist movement.

Postcolonial theory predicts much of what we see, and in particular: a compromised national party; that is co-opted by the colonial power and acts as a colonial administration; it passes laws which mystify the people, to make it look busy; it becomes a part of the racket; it becomes an instrument of coercion; it protects the interest of the colonizer; it spends most of its time looking over its shoulder; it feathers its nest and builds up its pensions; it attacks and holds back ‘radical’ elements of the movement; it leads the independence movement up a blind alley; it ruptures the movement.

As Frantz Fanon also noted, concerning perhaps the main weakness of a colonized people seeking liberation from oppression:

“That spectacular volunteer movement which meant to lead the colonized people to supreme sovereignty at one fell swoop…are now seen in the light of experience to be symptoms of a very great weakness. While the native thought that he could pass without transition from the status of colonized person to that of self-governing citizen in an independent nation, he made no real progress along the road to knowledge. His consciousness remained rudimentary.”

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Nicola wants her Diva Max. Tell her to stick her diva max up her diva arse.

Mr Salmond says:

“At a time when Westminster is refusing to agree to a referendum, a single pro-independence candidate on each ballot paper creates the opportunity for a Scotland United victory to provide the mandate to enter straight into independence negotiations with the UK Government”.

It’s time for a Scotland United for Independence, let by Alex Salmond.

The gaffer knows the way forward. Alex Salmond the leader. Right behind him.

Spot on as usual Chris!

@Dorothy Devine 10:26

Rare for me to agree with you but you’re right. It’s up to the good people of Rutherglen & Hamilton West.

The daft besom jumped on a train and sat on it for 8 hours or whatever while fu o Covid. Only right that she put her hand up, accept responsibility, and take her medicine like a, well, whatever the metaphor is these days.

If she’s as great an MP as some on here claim, she’ll be returned. If she’s just another trougher, flaunting her self entitlement to different rules for her from those that apply to the little people, she’ll be out on her ear.

Those who know her record in office best will decide. That’s democracy and it’s still the best system going.

It makes the blood boil that Labours Gordon Brown etc are in Scotland trying to save the mythical union at the same time as making decisions on how to divvy up and partition Scotlands land and territory.

LOL! You’re certainly a talented and gifted individual, Chris.

In other news: “Boris and Carrie Johnson’s DOG WALKER AND HAIRDRESSER given honours and peerages announced”

FFS! Words fail me. Not only is this further corruption, it’s a slap on the face to others who actually may have earned their peerage. What a corrupt bunch of parasitical imbeciles. At least one automatic benefit of indy, if it ever comes, will be the saving of billions if not trillions of pounds currently wasted on these parasites.

Alf Baird.

Did you work with the SSRG reminding Councils of their position in Scotland regards burghs.

We need to close or ignore the Colonial devolved legislated government to Scotland and open our own Scottish parliament,

There are no Articles of the treaty of union that prevent Scotland from doing this after the other 1707 Scottish parliament was extinguished from the treaty,

Just as there are no articles in the fallacious treaty of union mentioning a devolved government to Scotland,

Willie, thoroughly agree with your assessment of Salmond’s years at the helm, an excellent politician set up by the Murrells for obvious reasons.
Unfortunately their twisted game allied to AS’s personal flaws seems to have worked and a large section of women(and getting larger)believe the smears and have deemed Mr Salmond “untouchable”.
He has also lost the inspirational fire and gained an air of priggish pomposity in place of the jocularity of old.
A spent force. We require a young adept politician with a calm assured manner to lead, someone with a grip on economics and social reality. There may yet be a chance that a new movement can be set up under the leadership of Kate Forbes containing Alba and the decent parts of the SNP, A movement without the madness of the Greens, socially conservative to suit the electoral demographic and which will concentrate on building a strong work ethic for a healthy future, not dwell on the supposed wrongs of past centuries, no matter how comforting that may be for some here.

“SNP should ‘consider’ multi-option independence referendum, says Jamie Hepburn, Minister for Independence”

Go to hell, Mr Hepburn. The SNP can stick its devolutional considerations and dirty work on behalf of the British establishment up their jacksies.

Mr Hepburn: You should change your job title. You are the “Minister for Independence” in name only, ie, you are attempting to deceive the people of Scotland with a faux title. Your actions do not correspond to those of a minister of independence. You are acting as Labour’s mouthpiece for Brown’s devo max. If you are acting as labour’s mouthpiece for Brown’s devo max, you do not belong in the Sgov cabinet and I wonder why the hell it is us taxpayers who are paying your salary instead of labour.

Your party was elected on countless democratic mandates for a referendum ON INDEPENDENCE, not on devo max. How to deliver that effing referendum ON INDEPENDENCE, WITH A BINARY CHOICE is what you should be using your time and our taxpayers’ money that is paying your effing salary for, not to take us for fools.

It stands to the obvious what you are trying to do and it is frankly disgusting. Stop insulting our intelligence, please. It is beyond clear you are doing the dirty work on behalf of the establishment of establishing a legitimised route to force Brown’s devo max on Scotland against our will, and without a mandate, to halt independence, not to deliver it. Shame on you.

You have now totally convinced me the next GE and any future referendum will be rigged. And you know what I find the most digusting part of it all? Labour under the SNP false flag appears to be colluding with it from the beginning.

I now think we should all spoil our ballots writing something on them so they cannot simply swap them to fabricate the result they will try to sell as “official”.

This is a dictatorship and therefore a violation of our Claim of Right.

““Boris and Carrie Johnson’s DOG WALKER AND HAIRDRESSER given honours and peerages announced”

Could it be one of Johnson’s handlers, rather than the dog’s?

If I am not mistaken, this is not the first hairdresser seemingly receiving a royal gong after a succeesful comb over the bald patch of a PM.

But hey, the royal gongs have never been prominent for the level of skills required to get them.

The are now the SBNP – the Scottish British National Party.

Margaret Ferrier won’t stand again.
She is nearing retirement age and the Independence party she was in retired.
Even Boris is retiring.

“Quite possibly the hairdressers are amongst the very few to get a gong who actually performed a job of work”

Did they do that work for free?

Because if they didn’t, what exactly differences that particular hairdreser, with just one customer, to the very talented hairdressers one can find all over Scotland with thousands of clients?

What exactly is so special in the job that particular hairdresser has done that makes them deserving of a royal gong?

It seems to me these gongs are just another excuse to create division among people and to preserve the rule of privilege at a time when it should have been long gone.

James Che @ 12:28 pm

In addition to Andy Wightman’s five main land grabs in Scotland and related theft and legal trickery, we might add Westminster’s numerous ‘privatisation’ sales (i.e. theft) of Scotland’s ‘public goods’ and assets/resources such as in the various fields of energy, utilities, seaports, airports etc, which each involve extensive areas of Scottish territory.

@Alf Baird and James Che

“How corrupt is Britain?” edited by David Whyte.

There is, therefore, a growing, persuasive body of evidence which shows clearly that the seeds of corruption in the Global South are sown in the ‘neoliberal’ structural adjustment strategies imposed by key IFIs
including the World Bank. Corruption can be understood as part of ‘the neo-liberal harvest’,46 in which unrestrained self-interest and aggressive economic self-maximisation are constructed as the logical aims of economic policies. IFI structural adjustment strategies pursue such aims through the imposition of privatisation and so-called ‘open’ markets in forms that render developing economies vulnerable to predatory foreign corporations…

If we have corruption in British public life, we have always been told, it is only at the margins of our public and private institutions. Thanks to the daily reporting of major newspapers getting involved in phone taping and pay offs to police officers, the seemingly endless examples of the falsification of police statements in some of our highest profile cases such as Stephen Lawrence and Hillsborough, LIBOR rate-fixing, personal protection insurance mis-selling, horsemeat in our burgers, arms companies bribing foreign governments, drug companies illegally paying other drug companies to keep accessible medicines off the market, politicians being paid to ask questions and fixing expenses claims and so on and on and on, this whopping great myth is not longer plausible.”

The Rose and the Thistle
(a major Holyrood movie coming to ballot boxes near you soon)

There is no Scottish Government.

There is no Scottish Parliament.

There is no equal union between Scotland and England.

There is no major political party in Scotland which supports independence.

There is the colonised and the coloniser – that’s it.

That is the totality of the relationship between Scotland and England.

The Scottish Government is England’s proxy Scottish Colonial Administration Service, or the SCAS as I call it.

And don’t be fooled by the name. The Scottish Government is the English Government operating under cover(barely) in Scotland and flogging the illusion of devolved power and an equal partnership.

It’s a wizard wheeze, giving the Scots powers that have no real power at all.

‘Free’ Baby boxes. ‘Free’ prescriptions. ‘Free’ tuition (if you’re one of those lucky indigenous Scots who actually manages to be accepted into one of their own country’s universities).

‘Free’ in Scotland operates much in the same way ‘Scottish’ does when stuck in front of a political party’s name, or a newspaper’s for that matter – it just isn’t.

All major political parties in Scotland, and that now includes the SNP, are operated by a foreign power with the sole aim of maintaining its colonial grip over the Scots people and Scotland’s resources.

Us Scots occasionally get to choose between the ‘Scottish’ Labour party, the ‘Scottish’ Conservative party, the ‘Scottish’ Liberal Democrats, or the ‘Scottish’ National Party – everyone one of them owned by England, And yes, sadly. The SNP, too, now.

The Scottish Green Party is only interested in getting a slice of the colonial pie and will support any major party that gives them that slice of pie.

The ‘Greens’ are political prostitutes. Steer clear of them or you’ll end up with a dose of greeneria. A disease that kills the infectee’s ability to think rationally and destroys any semblance of intelligence.

As far as Westminster is concerned Scotland would be an even greater cash cow, golden goose, and colonial conquest if it were not for all those bloody Scots.

Any indigenous Scot who doesn’t yet see the true nature of Scotland’s bane, and that Scotland is a colonised(stolen) nation, within the pretence of a partnership, is still asleep.

It’s time for the indigenous, colonised Scots to wake up and smell the ‘Roses’.

Because the scent of the Thistle is fading fast.

Too much “colonialist” bullshit in these comments, I wish you would all grow up.
We are in a partnership which is failing in every department we could not even do Independence from Europe properly and are still ruled by the ECHR,
By the way what the F is that all about we strive for Independence from England and cant wait to throw our sovereignty under the EU bus…..are you all stark raving mad?

The West has been emasculated over the last twenty or so years and it has nothing to do with English Colonialism and everything to do with social policies like equality and diversity being applied without proper scrutiny. Our kids have become unthinking automatons, welded to I phones and a social media designed to engender the victimhood culture.
Look to the future and be very afraid, this goes well beyond Nationalism.

Alf Baird,
Sam.
Scotland has been Colonised, the minds of Scottish people are certainly Colonised,

But even those that realise Scotland is Colonised, just let out a breath from there lungs and accept it is so,

It occurs to me that acceptance of that state, that appealing to others for recognition of being in that state of Colonised is in itself the symptom of the mind that is Colonised,

It is evident that the 1707 Scottish parliaments ratification of the terms agreed to the union contain no legal bond once the Scottish parliament was extinguished.

The ratification was extinguished also in 1707.

The promise of future Scottish representatives in Westminster was extinguished.

The parliamentary Union was extinguished.

A extinguished Scottish parliament cannot be be held legally liable for breaching the treaty of union unless the original 1707 Scottish parliament is reinstated in Scotland and reinstated into the treaty of union again.

This is where Colonised minds in Scotland accept being Colonised, are happy to have come to the conclusion that they are Colonised and look for others to set them free,
In a way unionist are correct, and I hate to say this as a strong independence supporter for many years, Scots wallow in their own whingeing.

There is a door out, freedom of Scotland and instant decolonisation is there for the taking.

But most have already shut that door as a viable option, it is safer in their minds for someone else to free them, for someone else to lift the bars of imprisionment, discussion never goes no further than the mind allows it to.

And unionist ensure that Colonised minds must be reminded they are colonised and control the thoughts of Scottish people,

We see that in action regularly right here, by ” Othering others” as Sam so eloquantly said earlier in the week.
Those out the box thinkers must be isolated and returned to to box, must be ostracised.
That is how Colonialism works.

There’s a man and a woman standing close together and facing each other.

They’re standing on the tarmac outside a hangar at a small airport and it’s dark and the air is blowing all around them and in the background is the sound of the propellers of a twin engined Lockheed Electra 12A aeroplane spinning up.

It’s clear that they love each other. It’s also clear that theirs is a forbidden love. It can never be.

They’re about to part ways, probably for the last time ever.

The man says to the woman, “Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of.”

It’s the end of a love story, but also the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

And, after all, the man and the woman will always have Paris.

I like the movie, ‘Casablanca’. They don’t make movie’s like that any more, sadly.

Movies where the dialogue and the characters tell the story; unlike computer generated graphic movies where there’s barely a story in sight.

But I’m hungry now coming out of the cinema, so it’s time to:

Have a break. Have a Kit-Kat.

It’s a clever little line because it uses a figure to make two different things appear synonymous.

Or this one:

The future’s bright. The future’s Orange.

Clever stuff, too, associating a bright future with the name of a company.

Or this one, “Roses are red. Violets are blue.”

Here’s an extended version of the same trick:

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay
any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose
any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Politicians, at least the great ones, love that rhetorical stuff. It gives them gravitas and makes them seem…great and wise and more than mere mortals. Which of course they aren’t.

But JFK is certainly remembered as a great president by some, and was definitely superior to a few presidents who came after him. I name no names.

Winston Churchill (I know, I know) liked using this rhetorical figure, too:

Fill the armies, rule the air, pour out the munitions, strangle the U-boats,
sweep the mines, plough the land, build the ships, guard the streets,
succour the wounded, uplift the downcast, and honour the brave.

Winston did sail a touch close to the ridiculous on occasion, though. Like he did just there.

Isocolon, is a rhetorical figure which, at its simplest, is just two clauses that are grammatically parallel, two sentences that are structurally the same.

Isocolon is also spread copiously throughout the lyrics of pop music and the words of hymns:

Morning has broken, like the first morning.
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird.

The ancients were big fans of the sense of balance that Isocolon gave to writing, because it reflected the sense of balance that they admired in thought.

With Isocolon you can seem reasonable; without Isocolon you can come across as hasty.

With Isocolon language takes on a calm rhythm, it’s a figurative trick that can show emphasis through its gentle repetitions. You can see why politicians like to use it.

Isocolon can still be used in the calm Greek way, but usually isn’t nowadays.

Even when Rick tells ilsa that he’s about to do something she can’t be a part of, he doesn’t sound like Socrates in quiet contemplation, he sounds like a man in a hurry and a crisis with a gun and a girl at an airport.

So don’t be hasty; be an Isocolonist instead.

@Northcode

Smell the roses

Yup, it passes the T – shirt test!

Run off 10,000 and see how they sell.

If anybody asks what happens next, make sure you have good answers ready. In fact, hone them to perfection on here first.

So the dirty Judas Sturgeon has passed her Theory test on her way to gaining a driving licence, she certainly drove Scotland into the gutter.

Here’s hoping she fails her driving test.

Yes you are right Dan, I see it here in Argyll, tho’ it is usually retired or older people who have taken early retirement, not many children in our area.
On the positive side these people bring wedges of money and have really boosted the building industry.
The demographic is certainly changing quickly, old ways are going even amongst the farming community who are subsidised to the ears but cultivate very little. Should we achieve Indy and attempt to re-join the EU we shall experience real demographic change with the return of “free movement” and an influx of immigrants.

akenaton – I do hope we’re not still debating colonialism while we’re all shivering in the dark of a Net Zero winter.

Help ma Boab.

akenaton @ 5:03 pm

“We are in a partnership”

Do you have any concrete evidence of this ‘partnership’?

Much of the evidence I have found suggests Scots remain in a long-term colonial relationship, and that independence is decolonization:

link to grousebeater.wordpress.com

@Mia 6:40

Good post.

Great to see somebody reminding, or even telling, new readers on here, that Scotland’s current FM and official head of the Indy movement was fraudulently put in place.

Great to see us all being reminded that Scotland’s so-called “great and good” are quite content to pretend that Yousaf’s election was all above board.

Enlightening to consider how a cast-iron felony like that would be playing out in a “real” democracy, the USA for example. Imagine what Trump could achieve with something like this!

So why can’t we Scots?

How much longer will we wheesht for Yousaf?

Can’t see McNeil holding onto anything but his own dick after the next GE. They all have seen this coming.

Will Devo max allow us to run a scheme for returning ginger bottles?

That would be a great new significant power.

The SNP is so right in pursuing something that is achievable.

Mia @ 6.40pm: I totally agree with all your comments.

I have to wonder what the present membership of the SNP is as they’ve stopped telling us how their membership is increasing!

It has become quite obvious that the numbers reading “Wings” posts and watching “Through a Scottish Prism” are increasing weekly.

I bet Humza Yousaf’s prayer mat is looking a bit threadbare by now. The cheek of the man, who stood up in the Scottish Parliament and complained about everyone in authority being white! Did his father never tell him that Scotland was populated by white people? Poor old “Useless” – who the hell told him that he would have any authority over the Scottish people?!

Republicofscotland says: ‘ Sturgeon has passed her Theory test’

That’s quite an achievement for someone with such a bad memory. I’m surprised she managed to recall anything.