The Hills Of Far Away
Anyone seeking to make a compelling argument for the proposition that Scotland’s politicians and lawmakers are simply too farcically incompetent to ever be trusted with running an independent country had a gift-wrapped Godsend delivered to them last week by the idiot student children of Edinburgh.
But we can’t really put the blame on the colourfully-haired, keffiyeh-clad cretin kiddies of the capital for that, because it’s their elders and betters who opened the door.
The law that enabled a queer trans non-binary Indian poet (trans: layabout) with a PhD in “narrating anti-authoritarian resistance” to become a Holyrood MSP was passed unanimously in the Scottish Parliament in December 2024 and became law in 2025.
It did so despite numerous warnings, which were all ignored.
(India does not allow dual citizenship.)
All of those warnings have immediately come true in the case of Q Manivannan. Trina Budge of For Women Scotland did an exhaustive check of visa regulations, and found that there is essentially no route which Manivannan can take which will enable him to complete his Parliamentary term while residing in Scotland.
– His student visa does not allow him to work more than 20 hours a week* or to hire staff, which all MSPs have to do.
– A graduate visa, which he does not yet have, would only allow him to remain in the country for a maximum of three years and cannot be extended.
– He cannot apply for a Skilled Worker visa, as that expressly excludes MSPs.
– That only leaves a Global Talent visa, which Manivannan appears to believe is the solution. However, GTVs are also not available to politicians.
But it’s even worse. It is all but certain that Manivannan is already working illegally. MSPs are regarded as engaged as soon as their result is declared, which was last Saturday, and there is zero chance his graduate visa had been granted by then.
Indeed, Manivannan says himself that it hasn’t, and that he’s merely “in the process of applying” for it.
And by law, any application that is lodged late automatically fails.
Which also means that Manivannan’s student visa is no longer applicable (even if it still has some time to run), because by being in a full-time job he is clearly breaching its conditions, as noted by solicitor known to Wings readers, Ian Smart.
In law, Manivannan now has no legal right to be in the UK and must leave immediately or be deported. But as Smart notes, there’s a twist.
So we’re now in a situation where a current MSP is an illegal immigrant with no right to remain in the country, but he could nevertheless continue perfectly legally to go home to India and make Scotland’s laws for the next five years by Zoom meeting.
And if one, then why not all?
Under the 2025 rules, every single MSP in the Scottish Parliament (except for the Presiding Officer) could be a foreign national living overseas and conducting all their business remotely by laptop from 5,500 miles away.
Suddenly being ruled merely from London doesn’t sound so outrageous.
Not one single MSP voted against those rules, despite having these exact problems carefully and patiently explained to them by experts beforehand. And that, readers, is just about the level of legislative competence that we’ve come to expect from the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament over the last decade.
It’s not a one-off. It’s the norm, from the Named Person act to the Gender Recognition Reform Act to just about any other piece of legislation drafted by the Parliament since Alex Salmond resigned.
Run a country? These people couldn’t be trusted with a chimps’ tea party.
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*As alertly noticed by Mark McLaughlin of the Scottish Sun, a 2022 change to UK immigration law in fact exempts Manivannan from the 20-hour rule.
However, that still doesn’t allow him to employ staff and therefore do the job to any acceptable level, it still doesn’t extend his student visa, it doesn’t affect his application for a graduate visa, and it still doesn’t make him eligible for a Skilled Worker or Global Talent visa which would enable him to serve his full term.
The underlying point, then, remains true – under the 2025 Act, Holyrood could be exclusively populated by foreign nationals with no right to live in Scotland.
Looks like it’s going tits up for the Queer Man.
It used to be the case when on holiday people would ask me if I was English or British and I reply proudly “No I’m Scottish” Now? I’m embarrassed to admit to people I’m from a country that has elected these absolute clowns to our shitshow of a parliament. Scotland is now a world wide laughing stock and it’s well deserved.
I’m beginning to think Johann Lamont was absolutely correct when she prophetically declared “Scots are not genetically programmed to make political decisions”. Voting this shambolic bunch of weirdos and unhinged wired to the moon lunatics just proves her point.
“Now? I’m embarrassed to admit to people I’m from a country that has elected these absolute clowns to our shitshow of a parliament. Scotland is now a world wide laughing stock and it’s well deserved.”
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I doubt that this matter has reached a World wide audience yet – or even ever will.
MAGA Americans are having a laugh at this: link to zerohedge.com
It has been on Australian TV, agentx. They were laughing their wee heids aff at the stupidity of the Scots!
“Scotland is now a world wide laughing stock”
What rock have you been living under, Heather?
It’s now several years since Scotland became a world wide laughing stock. Beats me how you could have failed to see it lang syne.
I’d say it started when we fitted up the wrong boy for Lockerbie. Anybody who disagrees can still find plenty of other episodes since then that have had the world splitting its sides.
You really couldn’t make it up…
As you point out, the real scandal is that the law was actually passed and probably nobody bothered reading the draft or the warnings, and if they did they probably waved them away (see GRR).
What about Lorna, what is her status? And Maggie’s?
Aye, ye dinna hear sae mony Scots vices in thon Mickey Moose pairlament noo.
Wha’s like us? Gey few an thay’re aw independent!
It will be educational to see a student of “anti-authoritarian resistance” insist on his right to rule us.
And next time you see dinghies crossing the English Channel, be kind, they are potential MSPs. They are only on their way to register a list party.
Oh. And in case you haven’t noticed, the Greens really hate us plebs.
If Reform don’t raise objections during the swearing-in they’re missing an opportunity.
Object to this guy on grounds of eligibility and Iris the man for lying to parliament.
Reform have nothing to lose by doing this. It makes the news and, when the Presiding Officer overrules them, it shows how out of touch from the people our politicians have become.
Even if you leave out the visa issues and ignore the trans bit of their personalities there is a bigger issue.
For both candidates the greens selected, but particularly the Indian one we now have members of HR that are not familiar or knowledgeable about scotland, have never worked in a real job, are not engagegd with the people outside a university and are wholly unrepresentative of the majority of scots who know are part of the process of making scots law and governing the rest of us.
Even without the visa and trans issues this is enough of a problem.
India does not allow its passport holders to stand in foreign elections. In certain circumstances they can votebht they can not hold office. There is also no dual nationality status in India.
The India High Commission needs to act in a timely matter to protect its name and constitution.
Fantastic piece Stu. I am outraged at this clown getting a whopping salary whilst we have people using food banks and struggling daily. The queer Greens have taken a half decent party and turned into a menagerie of sexual misfits. What has he done for Scotland, what does he know about Scotland! Everyday we are further removed from elected politics in this madhouse. The other banger in London has apologised for not paying council tax, hes only apologised cause he has been caught. I feel devolution has failed , looks like Joanne Lamont was right after all. Stu, I feel we are probably gonna need you, Robin and the likes more than ever in the coming years.
Too stupid for independence? Yes we are.
Imagine the carnage the current incumbents comfortably ensconced in Holyrood could cause if let loose with the full powers of an independent Scotland. If we ever manage to aspire to the heady heights of self determination, we must insist on fresh elections with all candidates thoroughly vetted and reserve the right to sack them as soon as they screw up.
Scotland is already run by 600+ MPs from other countries….
And unfortunately our lot make them look like paragons of virtue, and that’s a pretty difficult ask.
I am frankly embarrassed by Holyrood these days and all they demonstrate is that we currently don’t deserve to be independent because we are currently incapable of running out own affairs.
I think you missed my point, Rob.
Whit wis, hit disna maitter wha sits in Holyrood sae lang as aw the muckle deceesions affectin Scots an Scotland are takken in anither kintra by anither fowk.
Moreover, postcolonial theory confirms that colonial institutions tend to be limited by a ‘mediocre meritocracy’ (Memmi).
“postcolonial theory confirms that colonial institutions tend to be limited by a ‘mediocre meritocracy’ (Memmi)”
You’re a one-trick pony, Alf, I get that, so to expect something new from you over the next 5-year election cycle is wasted effort.
Other people will see clearly enough that the scribblings of Memmi and the rest of your over-worked crew were never intended to apply to a case such as Q Manivannan.
But that’s all you’ve got to use, so use it you must.
You forgot the over 800+ Parasitic Lairdies in House of Lards as well there.
I’m not sure about too wee or too poor, but I have to conclude we’re definitely too stupid as both voters and so-called leaders to be an independent country. I say that as a strong believer in independence.
I truly despair. I can’t decide between averting my gaze from politics for the sake of my sanity, or continue watching the multi vehicle crash develop into something so spectacular that fiction simply cannot compete.
The best could yet be to come, Keith.
If Labour can’t get Burnham for PM, they’ll go for the Ginger Growler instead.
If anybody wants to crowdfund her campaign, I’m in.
“He cannot apply for a Skilled Worker visa, as that expressly excludes MSPs.”
You could have stopped there
I think Q (a big clue that they are really an English secret service plant in disguise, by the way) should be First Minister of Scotland and conduct the business of governing Scotland from another country much as Scotland is governed by English politicians in England currently, many of them bald or balding.
Q has a luxuriant mane of head-hair befitting a Tamil Nadu lion, and that alone makes Q a more fitting candidate for First Minister than what Scotland has the noo.
They are young, they are intelligent (intelligent enough to piss-take our piss-take-parliament, anyway), but most appealing of all, they have a lot of hair.
Sea Otters have less hair on thair heids, and they are the most luxuriantly thick haired mammals on Earth.
I say we keep Q in ‘Scotland’s Parliament’ governing us Scots from afar, they can’t be any worse than Sturgeon, although she, too, had hair on her heid, but certainly wasn’t as pretty as Q.
He could be the next William Wallace
The Scottish Parliament gaslighting its citizens yet again with poorly constructed legislation whilst ignoring legitimate concerns raised at the time ( business as usual then) and the insidious Scottish Greens harnessing the Edinburgh student vote to advance their ideology.
What’s that ? “delivering for Scotland , John .” I cannae wait.
It should be pointed out that the ‘wierdos and unhinged wired to the moon lunatics’ sussed out how to use the system immediately.
I’m reasonably certain that Manivannan comes from a family which had politicians in it. Remember that Sturgeon was a graduate in law and must have stepped down just before this new document was proposed for legislation. The whole thing reeks of sabotage
This was meant. After Alex all his hard work was laughed away by nicoliar. So much to say but little words. Disgusted once again. Twilight zone. Folk of the Fare Away Tree was pleasant to read as a child in the 60s. This tree is a nest of vipers of the human kind. Jesus fucking hell. I can’t laugh atm. Too fucking embarrassed and shocked. Get them all gone. Every last parasite. Get the dehont….nah.
I am OUTRAGED…
I am OUTRAGED that Scotland has the English for neighbours.
I am OUTRAGED that Scotland is a colony.
I am OUTRAGED at the plundering of Scotland by the English.
I am OUTRAGED that the Scots leid is not funded or taught in Scottish schuils.
I am OUTRAGED that Creative Scotland isn’t the least bit creative… except with its accounts.
I am OUTRAGED that Scotland’s First Minister is a shiny-heided-man embarrassingly representing the Scots.
I am OUTRAGED that I am not six feet four inches tall instead of being five feet seven and three quarter inches – although I do have a magnificent mane of hair… like a playfully re-introduced wild Scottish lion.
I am NOT REALLY AW THAT BOTHERED that yit anither yin wha isnae a Scot is joining aw the ither grifting non-Scots in the ‘Scottish Parliament’… wi Scots sud aw be well-used to haein the piss taken oot us by noo efter thrie hunner year o the Inglis takin the piss oot us, shuirly.
And besides, THEY have hair.
Muive alang, fowks. Thare’s naithin tae see here… it’s juist anither day in the colony – and only another 1,821 (2028 is a leap year, mind) of them to go until the next piss-take-parliament election circus.
Maybe having entirely foreign MSPs wouldn’t be a bad thing. Like that time the referees were on strike in Scotland and the foreign refs that came in were far superior 😉
It is a certainty that the Greens will circle their wagons around this man, crying about how unfair and dastardly it is, that if you dare to question about his eligibility….then you MUST obviously be from the far-right.
Friends and family who are in Edinburgh are mortified that he’s been selected…what an embarrassment!
“…if you dare to question about his eligibility….then you MUST obviously be from the far-right.”
And THAT is why the legislation passed unanimously.
Not because the MSPs believed in it (or read it or understood it) but because they were afraid of the outcry in the press if they voted against it.
Too many people think that their elected representatives legislate based on beliefs, or knowledge. They don’t.
Indeed, CC, we are living in a dystopian world where fear rules all. What it means in reality is that the very worst elements of society (and, often, they pretend to be the opposite) ensure that everyone is herded like cattle and have little autonomy to complain or anything else. We are being ruled by narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths. The Green party appears to attract more than its fair share. Speak out and you are branded a bigot and a right-wing fascist while the real bigots and right-wing fascists are kings and queens of the midden. Those who voted for this cesspool should be thoroughly ashamed of their stupidity and complicity.
The post needs to go to the next person on the list. Sorted.
This was something passed by the Holyrood administration, not Westminster.
So, if I’ve got this right, that means…
Someone has a bright idea & brings this to parliament.
They all have a wee confab about it.
They invite ‘experts’ & Organisations to have a wee look at it to see any potential problems/hazards. (As per Stus post one did exactly that)
A committee sits & has a confab about proposed amendments.
It then goes to the debating chamber, again for any amendments.
After a few hours sesh, they all vote unanimously in favour.
Now here’s the bit that just doesn’t pass the sniff test..
There is a ‘reconsideration stage’ where the Secretary of State for Scotland & The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, have a wee look over everything & either passes the bill into law or rejects it.
It then goes for Royal Accent & the bill becomes law.
So this has passed through several layers of shit & not a single person seen anything wrong with being remote controlled from fck knows where in the world….
As far as I have time to Google – it appears this was one of the Smith Commissions Mickey mouse recommendations & no one in Holyrood was bothering their arse pushing for it but suddenly, ten years later, someone decided to go into the crypt & pull it out a dusty drawer??
Can they find the folder that’s marked:
“It is agreed that nothing in this report prevents Scotland becoming an independent country in the future should the people of Scotland so choose”.
Cause that was the only bit that was worth a shit… To
What kills me is the 77,000 salary, just like dat. I worked here for 40 years and the most i ever earned as a professional after 7 years of study was 40,000. Being a non-christian land, the parable of the vineyard workers is not applicable.
I believe some of the new MSP’s also want to keep their current Councillor jobs going!
Would be interested to know whether someone could arrive on a tourist visa and stand for election? The Greens would no doubt be the first to complain about people based abroad providing funding for candidates (not an unfair complaint), but somehow are very relaxed about temporary visitors themselves standing for election!
Far fetched of course, but certainly a route for Elon Musk to become the new king of Scotland. Get a few senior execs to come across on skilled worker visas, use the huge power of X to campaign for the “X party”, then they can all fly back and run the X Kingdom of Scotland from San Francisco. That would be fun wouldn’t it!
Although MSPs are technically officebearers rather than traditional employees, but does the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body not still need to comply with immigration and employment law? I’d think it’d be at risk for paying someone whose visa explicitly forbids working.
Organisations like the NHS have to check nationality, visa requirements and eligility to work before employing anybody.
Can’t see how MSP’s and the government would be any different.
Beyond the point the article makes, is the takeaway here that you can be ‘signed on the Broo’ and still be an MSP? Seems so, or did I miss something?
There may of course be the caveat of declaring ‘any other income’ which would affect yer Broo Money.
However, what is eminently risible here, is that MSP’s are effectively ‘Unemployed Broo-Wallahs’ – if they are not considered to be in employment.
That their income is not directly via the Broo, does not mean that they are not receiving ‘Broo Money’ they are, it’s just from a different source.
On top of risible, is irony, as many of these unemployed Broo Wallahs actively rail against people on the ‘Other Broo’ and seek to curb their rights, and income.
Laugh? Tears are blinding me.
I think we can probably forget about independence for the foreseeable, not because it’s a faulty proposition, Scotland should be an independent self governing sovereign state, but it never will be so long as virtually the entire Scottish political class consists of control freaks, grifters and perverts.
I’m now more concerned about the global (more specifically Western) threat of lefty “progressive” wokeist totalitarianism which of course the Scottish “government” is fully in step with, than I am about being an English colony.
I never thought Id see the day when I’d say that being under a so called “right wing” government in Westminster, by which I men something like Restore Britain, would be a far better option than what’s currently being shoved down our throats, and finding myself wishing it would happen.
A parliament of fools,ruled by dodgy ideologies and a rampant desire to be “progressive” in all the wrong ways. They make Scotland a laughing stock.
Is this really the fault of the incompetents in the Scottish administration?
Where was our illustrious overlord, the Secretary of State for Scotland, in all of this? Was he off having doughnuts with the entire Holyrood civil service & it’s legal advisors?
I can’t help but see this as another “give ’em enough rope to hang themselves & look bat shit” set up just like gender reform was.
Not sure when this legislation came in. Might have been under Labour at Westminster, so they would have done nothing to change it, would they?
It seems my reply went to the wrong bit..lol..
Anyhoo…
This was something passed by the Holyrood administration, not Westminster.
So, if I’ve got this right, that means…
Someone has a bright idea & brings this to parliament.
They all have a wee confab about it.
They invite ‘experts’ & Organisations to have a wee look at it to see any potential problems/hazards. (As per Stus post one did exactly that)
A committee sits & has a confab about proposed amendments.
It then goes to the debating chamber, again for any amendments.
After a few hours sesh, they all vote unanimously in favour.
Now here’s the bit that just doesn’t pass the sniff test..
There is a ‘reconsideration stage’ where the Secretary of State for Scotland & The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, have a wee look over everything & either passes the bill into law or rejects it.
It then goes for Royal Accent & the bill becomes law.
So this has passed through several layers of shit & not a single person seen anything wrong with being remote controlled from fck knows where in the world….
As far as I have time to Google – it appears this was one of the Smith Commissions Mickey mouse recommendations & no one in Holyrood was bothering their arse pushing for it but suddenly, ten years later, someone decided to go into the crypt & pull it out a dusty drawer??
Can they find the folder that’s marked:
“It is agreed that nothing in this report prevents Scotland becoming an independent country in the future should the people of Scotland so choose”.
Cause that was the only bit that was worth a shit… To
Good post, Geri.
I’ve summarised your argument below.
Some big, bad, English bursturds didn’t do it but then ran away anyway, leaving us Scots who did do it to take the blame.
The thing is, either this young man himself, or the Greens party machine went so far as to research this stuff to enable him to stand and to be elected. Let’s be frank: he wasn’t elected for his ability because no one knows what that might be. He was elected because he fits a certain profile of who should be allowed to have a job and advance in our society, i.e. one/several of the protected ‘characteristics’ that usher people through the door while others stand outside.
It is becoming increasingly evident now, that those who are expected to stand outside, cap in and or at the food bank, are the Scots themselves. Being middle-class and having had an education in one of our DEI-infested universities and a CV that includes marching on behalf of another people’s putative rights, but definitely not your own people’s (black mark against you there) opens doors, but ordinary Scots, the ones who do have jobs but do not earn enough to survive decently and those who are on benefits of one kind or another, need not apply.
I think it was The Herald that unearthed the fact that potential job applicants at Edinburgh University can forget being allowed through the doors for an interview if they do not sign a compulsory DEI-compliant form first. That this is illegal seems not to bother anyone, and certainly not the future lawyers who pass through its hallowed portals. More and more stories are appearing in the press all over the UK where ‘indigenous’ people with perfectly good qualifications have been refused interviews for jobs because they do not fit the preferred profile of ‘characteristics’.
We have been in the Twilight Zone for some time now, but it is getting worse and there appears to be no appetite for either Holyrood or Westminster to change the prevailing ethos and orthodoxy. I had thought that the Tories at Holyrood had not signed up to the legislation that allowed foreign nationals to vote/stand in our elections, but I appear to be wrong. How could such cretinous legislation be passed? Are the parliamentary lawyers themselves indoctrinated in DEI? Our have the elected been unusually moronic way past their normal level? All of this can have been achieved only with the compliance of the MSM. So few journalists seem to bother to question anything these days.
We need a citizens’ committee dedicated to overseeing legislation and pinpointing all the drawbacks for Scottish people – men, women and children. Any potentially adverse effects that any piece of legislation might have for any particular group must be highlighted in the press/MSM. DEI looks after the few and leaves the rest to flounder and sink. It is uniquely devised to help the most self-serving, selfish and self-obsessed.
I completely agree Lorna- we currently have a parliament who acts in a way that is contemptuous of ordinary Scots. It could not be more obvious.
That’s a really fair point about the Edinburgh students, it’s easy to get frustrated when things seem so chaotic.
Scotland is fulfilling it’s destiny to be the last progressive freak show in Western Europe.
Only people born in the country or legal permanent residents who have become citizens should be allowed to stand for election.
And should have no other citizenship or nationality from any other state nation or territory.
Not what good has he done for the country but what good will be do.
If there are complaints about engendering so.
Error meant to say misgendering.
And so it came to pass…. that after fixing the Independence referendum of 2014, Scotlands politicians were compromised, blackmailed and bribed to turn the Scottish Parliament into a shambolic mess!
ALL done on an SNP watch! and it aint a smart watch at that.
Nobody needed to “blackmail or bribe” Scottish politicians to be incompetent.
They are quite capable of being incompetent on their own. Especially the SNP ones.
You’re not thinking this through. We could outsource the parliament to somewhere sensible like Switzerland, Catalonia – we’d be independent tomorrow, or even Poland – they’d at least show up on time and work hard.
I didn’t vote in this Holyrood election, first time, because this is not the Holyrood I voted for in 1997, and tbh it’s not a Holyrood I would vote for today. I’m not sure most Scots would vote to continue with this shitshow…
It would be great if this guy got huckled/perp-walked out the of the chamber; would pay money to see that.
Things that don’t happen in other countries :
… so I was backpacking through Goa on my gap year and – I got elected to the national congress …
Turns out “Q Mani” is a tamil – and I think : can he properly represent the Sinhalese “new Scot” community? Do we not detect a whiff of anti-sinhalism here; zero tolerance I say.
Makes me think of some kurd who got in as a councillor down govanhill way – interesting canvassing around all the turkish barbers.
See folks, there is no BAME identity – its a non identity; while there are plenty of other identities all squashed together in it, they all hate each other, and such fragile alliances tend to fall apart; useful enough for hosing down the “white man” i.e. the stupid kind, the middle class liberals, but it won’t last.
The tamil tigers had an insurgency in Sri Lanka – even had an airforce and a navy, of sorts; hardcore, they were using young women as suicide bombers before it become fashionable. Some say they had training from the oz-nonreal people (to what end?), but eventually the sri lankans got hold of them and wiped them out; the tamils whine internationally about atrocities committed against them, but it was just the ordinary awfulness of lost battles.
When you think of it, it is really the middle class who are the real-racists, the way they lump all of the “brown” into one category; they don’t think of themselves that way. Many examples, a recent one, a vicious war, atrocities from all sides was the somalia, somaliland, eritrean thing – no european can reliably tell east africans apart, but they don’t see it that way. It’s just like “white people” – there is no such thing – there are Scots, Irish, Danes, Anglos, Germans, Franks, Spaniards … and we all hate each other and kill one another. Which is why “white identity” is fucking stupid.
The dynamics of infiltration – or “where you find one cockroach, there will be many … ”
– someone whines to get “let in” and eventually they do (guilt, well meaning ideas, merit); once in, they “hold the door open for others like themselves”. With sufficient numbers you then prevent any normal people getting in after you, you “kick the ladder over”. And thus, dangerous minorities, can control important bodies and thus control mass movements (even though on paper, they do not have the numbers – but local superiority is what counts).
The SNP are, essentially, a “gang” by now, a woke cabal, if you will, and it is fronted up by Swinney, the old-timer, to make it look less mad than it is. Sweeno will go at some point, then the young team will take over, all vicious ideologues who will make Sturgeon seem nuanced, reasonable. Sturgeon systematically destroyed internal democracy within the SNP, it killed the party; never mind bottom up, it was all top down from then on – and this is why it is unrecoverable.
And going back to the greens, there must at some point have been all these old crusties on selection committees, obsessed with “loss of natural habitats” and “greenhouse gases”, and one day someone turns up with a rainbow badge, who seems more interested in gay rights than thevironmen … ach, let them in, what harm will it do? We need more recruits, more young blood …
People who run nightclubs will tell you “control of the door” is crucial – once you let people in, it is very hard to police their activities, and chucking them out if you need to, near impossible. And what applies to venues, applies to organisations and applies to countries.
“once in, they “hold the door open for others like themselves””
Sounds just like most university departments in Scotland nowadays where Scots are also intentionally excluded, much like oor parliament it seems:
link to strath.ac.uk
They do say the colonized become ‘bystanders in their own land’ (Memmi).
Shocking, but not at all surprising, Alf. It no longer surprises me that few jobs in any sector, except on the lowest rungs, now go to Scots. The odd person from abroad is welcome and will add something to the mix, but when you have wholesale replacement across the board, you are on a hiding to nothing.
What happens, I suspect, is that the students who graduate do not stay in Scotland, but move abroad to do whatever they do because they know they will not be employed here and because so few industries remain. Eventually, we will have no one who can do anything at the higher echelons of Scottish society – particularly in engineering, ship building, nautical, the sciences, etc., but also on the cultural side of things because, there, too, Scots hold few of the top jobs.
As I have said many times, it is one thing to have people from elsewhere come to study and come to fill vacancies for some of the top places, but when people come from abroad to fill them all, a sickness has entered society. Please don’t blame the English people for all of this because they, like us, are also under siege.
The difference is that they are fighting back against it. It is the political class who have brought this misery on us. The only thing that is left to us, because even independence will not fix the rot, is not to vote any of these barstewards in at all – completely disengage from the political system by refusing to vote until they start to fix things. Better still, occupy Holyrood and refuse to let them in to wreak their havoc on the rest of us.
Not long a guy from Bellshill won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. I think his trajectory was Strathclyde, Princeton.
Just swap some of the proper nouns, Confused, and you could be talking about Lebanon.
But I bet you’re an enthusiastic cheer leader for the cockroaches who have infiltrated and taken over that formerly great and beautiful country.
Is Lebanon yet another of “subjects I know sodall about”? You are proving to be something of an inverse-polymath.
– I knew a guy who fought there in 82, for the IDF; emigrated from rusha.
Oz lacks water, the Litani river a long time goal. S3ttlers need their swimming ppols.
As for cockroaches, we all know who that would be –
link to x.com
Whose job is it to check out potential MSP candidates? Surely, someone or some committee is required to do this. I find it hard to believe that no-one holds responsibility for vetting?
MaryB: I suspect that they would let them pass even if vetted and discovered not to match the criteria. It matches the mindset. Someone let me know that they almost all voted for this, including Ash Regan, believe it or not. Even most of the Tories voted for it, just they, too, voted for ‘trans’ everything.
What is going to happen is that the real ultra right will start to appear and attack all of this stuff because the centre people have let it all happen and overreach has infiltrated all of the parties.They are all going to rue the day they let this happen – but, unfortunately, so are the rest of us.
These fools can’t conceive of anything even more right-wing than Reform, but they are going to find out the hard way that bad reaction answers to bad action. They haven’t a clue about how taking the p**s ends up politically because they never learn any history or learn from it. The pendulum is going to swing back and when it does…
If he were actually to be deported and were to choose, in protest, to take no part in any Holyrood business from afar, could he still collect his MSP salary and expenses?
And if that were to be the case, would his ill-served constituents have access to any formal mechanism to remove him?
One N.Sturgeon conspicuously failed to turn up for much Holyrood business while self-identifying as an author on the more lucrative and ego-massaging book festival circuit.
There appear to be no consequences for non-participation in what, so depressingly, has lived down to its “pretendy parliament” reputation.
Anyone got insight into the Sir Keir Starmer’rent boys’ ongoing trial.
Suggestion is that reporting restrictions are not goingbto be held post the conclusion of the trial. And if so, one wonders to what extent this almighty rush to bin Starmer may be connected.
Quite why two Ukraniam and one Russian male models came to be charged with multiple arson attacks on properties and vehicles associated with Sir Keir is of huge question of interest.
Maybe we are about to find out.
Tell me does being an effective MSP depend on your sexuality?
No, but your ability to represent the folk you are there for requires some knowledge and understanding of what they need/want. And you need to actually to be able to legally live/work in the place you want to represent.
I suspect the Greens knew of this screwup and it was deliberate, try to create an immigrant crisis cos they are all for no border controls at all and let everyone in.
Because everything ‘trans’ is about them. Everything anything is about them. They are the most victimised group ever in the history of the planet, apparently, even more victimised than millions of gassed Jews.
He, with his activists mates whom the truly deranged have just elected will not concentrate every ounce of energy on passing ‘trans’ friendly laws that will be all about them.
You have no idea, Izzy. It is not about his ethnicity, his race, his colour or his sexuality; it is about his total lack of empathy for anyone who is not ‘trans’. You’ll find out, I promise you, being a woman. You will not even feature on his radar. Not at all.
None of the Greens except Andy Wightman, who was booted out, gives a flying whatsit about anyone who is not ‘trans’, not even the gays – and, even then, it is usually about one ‘trans, in particular – him or her self..
That should read: now concentrate…
I read online this afternoon that Conservative MSP Stephen Kerr has written to the Home Secretary to complain about this situation… Well Stephen, you were a member of Parliament in the previous 21-26 session and this Bill passed on your watch, so what were you doing when it came to the vote? Propping up the bar in Holyrood?
And I wonder how many other completely worthless & unnecessary pieces of “legislation” were passed previously which haven’t come to light yet?
We need to talk about something more interesting than new Scot, Tamil o’Shanter… apparently, it’s common in Tamil naming traditions for folk to adopt a single?letter given name or chosen name.
Who knew? No me.
Who cares? No me, anaw.
We need to talk about colonialism… and how much it sucks.
Let’s *talk aboot hou the internal colonialism that’s afflicting the Scots (of which thon new Scot, Tamil o’Shanter is wan o the symptoms) and how the decolonisation of Scotland has effectively stalled since 2021.
* Yous aw ken that A’ll tak aboot it onywey… e’en if naebody else does,
Think you might like this, Northcode.
link to digitscotland.com
sam says:
“Think you might like this……“
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Thanks for that excellent link. All the better fir being in high register Scots
Ma fowk, the Picts, thank ye , Sam, fir yon link whit ye hiv brung tae us in this place.
Tho where thaim folk that made yon website got that picture of me whin a wis a younger Pict a’ve nae idea.
A nice stane beast pic tae.
The latest poll (IPSOS, May 4) shows only 42% of Scots would vote “yes” in a second Indy referendum. 46% would vote “No,” with the rest undecided.
Anybody any speculation that the reporting restrictions suspected to be in place in relation to the trial of three young men might be due to be lifted on conclusion of the court case.
The background to the widely under reported case is said to be of huge national interest.
And could said court case be reason for the terrible stushie at the top of government these last days. Or is it a secret.
Yes.
Well Hatey if you have background as to what may be likely to emerge is our man compromised.
Plenty of senior people compromised through the Jeffrey Epstein sexual predilection ring. Young women, young men, its all in play and it captures senior people. Kompromat the Ruskis called it. The honey trap another expression.
So is something ready to break on the three young male models trial. What was their connection. Mandelson was an influencer of many. Epstein was too.
Or like Prince Pandy did he never meet the boys.
FFS!!!! You have to be fruckin kidding me?
Looking on the bright side, we now have an Indian Scot in HR, to go toe-to-toe with the Pakistani Scots.
We can perhaps expect lots of heated debates about Kashmir, maybes the odd exchange of insults in Scotland’s newer minority languages, and if we really luck out, flying fists and spilled blood.
Happy days. Who will still be able to say that politics is boring?
[Yes, I’m quietly confident our new MSP will take his place at HR. It will be “against his human rights” if he doesn’t, and in the grievance hierarchy game, to quote President Trump, he’s playing with some strong cards.]
If he gets kicked out, does that mean a by-election or just that the next fruitcake on the Green list takes his seat?
Does Mannivanan actually translate to “man in a white van”?
Lots of issues going on here as yet lacking discussion..
He’s Green (of sorts lacking a proper visa) so what about:
-Driving (presumably diesel): tut tut..
-Man; ooh err! Unless of course it was born with / assigned at birth with a clit0ris!!!!
-White van! Really!!!! Shouldn’t be allowed according to the Khmer Vert cycle crusade, and don’t even go there on the heterosexual white overload issues in that whole title!!!
-White van! What’s he doing in a white van. That’s for tradesmen!! Shock horror!! Only performative dance participants and perpetual university students can utilise white vans, albeit painted up to look like the Scooby- Doo mobile..
-White van!! The very thought is objectionable, colourist, non binary, racist, colourist again (apart from teens with hair dyed parti-white) and of course objectionable (again).
Unacceptable!
Shouldn’t it be “cosmic latte” coloured?!!
Man in a white van; clearly doesn’t have a sanitorium-fringe haircut..
Ha!
Fraud!!
Need I go on?
Welcome to the world of Hatey..
Well we’ve had King Kubala of the Forest so Prince Pirrianha of the Pansys seems a natural step in post-colonial theology.
Scots, English, Irish and Welsh need to come together in one important project, which is to fix politics and governance on these islands.
There should be sensible qualifying criteria for who can enter any parliament. Political parties who now seem like a conglomerate of narrow activist groups, need their hold over democracy curtailed. The world has changed and unless we want our lives increasingly under the tyranny of the shouty and careless fringes of society, we need to find our way back to government that reflects the actual consensus.
Sounds like a sensible suggestion!
Looks like the SNP intervention in the Commons today is going to be chucked out.
Apparently, according to one senior Labour politico its not the job of a ” Third Party ” to raise a motion since this should be restricted to only the opposition.
That’s it chaps. Just fuck off. You are a third party good for fuck all Jock with no part to play in the Big Boy parliament. Ah well at least there’s a a wage in in for our third party boys and girls. Trouser the money, sell Scotland out.
I dunno why they sit there like retards still playing this pantomime.
It’s only daily reinforcement yer a clown & provides that shithouse of degenerates some legitimacy.
Remove yerselves, ya eejits.
That goes for Wales & NI too.
Let’s see the *Mother of all parliaments* tank on the international stage of having any legitimacy at all when England is just sitting there by itself with the Only Freaks in tights crew tae keep it company.
I dunno why they sit there still playing this pantomime.
It’s only daily reinforcement they’re a clown & provides that shithouse of degenerates some legitimacy.
Remove yerselves, ya eejits.
That goes for Wales & NI too.
Let’s see the *Mother of all parliaments* tank on the international stage of having any legitimacy at all when England is just sitting there by itself with the Only Freaks in tights crew tae keep it company.
It serves no purpose. It’s undemocratic. It’s a rigged system.
This is a comment by SeamusM to a blog post on Slugger O’Toole.
“It is probably more accurate to describe the Scottish and Welsh electoral systems as more proportional than to call them simply proportional.
The Senedd’s list system and Scotland’s Additional Member System are indeed forms of proportional representation. But describing them as “proportional” without qualification can create the impression that they produce genuinely proportional outcomes – which is not necessarily the case, and isn’t in this situation.
A useful measure here is the Gallagher Index, which quantifies the gap between vote share and seat share. The higher the score, the more disproportionate the result. The 2024 UK general election, under First Past the Post, recorded a Gallagher score of 23.7 – the most disproportionate result in modern British electoral history.
By comparison:
2025 Dutch Tweede Kamer – 1.3
2024 Irish general election – 7.2
2022 Northern Ireland Assembly – 8.3
2024 Senedd election – 9.3
2024 Scottish Parliament (regional vote) – 13.7
Canada’s electoral reform committee argued that systems regularly producing scores above 5 should not really be considered proportional. On that basis, both Holyrood and the Senedd fall some way short of the standard – and depending on which ballot measure is used, the 2026 Scottish Parliament election produced a more disproportionate outcome than the 2019 UK general election, despite Scotland’s being conducted under a form of PR.
That disproportionality is visible in the seat allocations. Labour and the Conservatives combined won 22% of Scottish seats despite taking 28-31% of the vote; in Wales, they won 17% of seats from 22% of the vote.
None of this means Scotland and Wales lack proportional elements – they are clearly far more proportional than Westminster. But by broader international standards, particularly against countries using highly proportional list systems or STV, they remain relatively disproportionate.
This matters because looking only at seats won, while ignoring vote share, gives an incomplete and often misleading picture of electoral performance. By that logic, the TUV’s 2017 and 2022 Assembly results would appear identical – despite its vote share rising from 2.6% to 7.6% between those elections. Clearly that would be absurd.
The same caution applies to the constitutional reading of these results. The symbolism of three pro-independence First Ministers is politically significant in its own right – but that symbolism should not be allowed to obscure the underlying picture. Unionist parties collectively won a majority of the vote in both Scotland and Wales. In Scotland, support for pro-independence parties fell by 7%; in Wales, it rose by 17%. Taken together, that is a mixed and geographically uneven result – not the straightforward nationalist surge across Britain that some coverage implied, and far more complicated than either side will want to acknowledge.”
Don’t forget Murrell is due to appear at Edinburgh High Court on 25 May 2026.
What would youbelieve are the chances of a plea in bar of trial to reduced charge/charges, agent ?
And so little or no background information is ever released which could prove embarrassing to Ms Sturgeon or the upper echelons of the SNP administration.
After all, they do have a “friend at court” so to speak in the firm of Ms Bain.
Operation Branchform has been so weird I am not going to try to guess what will happen at Court.
I wonder how many of the 67,877 people who voted Green on the list actually knew that Q Manivannan was one of the candidates?
I wonder how many of the 67,877 people who voted Green on the list can count above 10 without taking one or more socks off?
I think most green voters can get to 12 using their fingers alone.
Cause maybe 67,877 ppl didn’t vote Green at all.
But just to check, every vote should be traced to its address & paid a wee visit to that property just to double check the occupant is real & that’s how they voted.
It’d also be a good way to restore public confidence in elections cause they’re looking more & more rigged with every election that passes.
This guy has USaid written all over it/them/ziga zig ah.
Not many, I should think. This was a Green party scam from beginning to end that the Scottish Electoral Commission allowed to happen, as did every party in Holyrood. The SNP is taking the kicking abroad, but every party voted for this grifting opportunity in order to ‘look good’. Even the Tories voted for it. That they understood absolutely nothing of its implications is evident now, just as with the GRRB, another Green grift. Did the legal eagles who are supposed to serve the parliament actually understand the implications? Did they try to explain to the MSPs?
In the end, iIt is our fault that grifters from abroad, counting Mags and Lorna among them, enabled this to happen, because they absolutely did. We voted them in instead of out, like the bams we are. No point writing to the SNP about this. Write to the Speaker who should not allow him to open his gob (bet he/she will do nothing that is remotely legal) and carry on this illegal scam. Write to the Electoral Commission because, even with the stupid law change, this is still a scam. It will require to be overturned in court.
STATE OPENING OF «PARLIAMENT»…..boom, boom, boom….
ruritanian & mega super hyper creepy….mothballs too.
What century is this?
Jings, and here was me sitting back with a strongly brewed ‘wet’ thoroughly enjoying watching the Household Brigade doing what (my view) they do best in the world.
But then, it was the 20th century that I last wore uniform, so perhaps I’m also superannuated in today’s world.
“ What century is this?”
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Maybe you should email that question to Peter Mandelson protégé, Wes Streeting.
Beth Rigby of Sky News quotes a Times report
that Wes Streeting to resign tomorrow.
I wonder why he would do such a thing?
Wes Streeting leaving his post won’t be an “unreported removal” though he knows all about unreported removals.
“Thank you for your recent news article (1) highlighting the misleading indicators used to evidence NHS waiting list reductions. The joint Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation analysis (2)[Nuffield Trust, Health Foundation. A closer look at NHS waiting lists. London: Nuffield Trust; 2025.] challenges that these figures evidence the service’s ability to meet demand, and instead warns that the figures risk being misleading, as they have been disproportionately driven by ‘unreported removals’.
The BMJ reported (1) that an NHS spokesperson described unreported removals as having a ‘small impact’ on waiting lists and hailed success that the waiting list had reduced by 260,000 since June 2024. However, it must be considered that there are on average 244,578 unreported removals per month (2), amounting to nearly three million in one year alone.”
link to bmj.com
Since being introduced to postcolonial theory by Alf Baird in this place a couple or so years ago I have delved deep into the subject.
Even so, I am still a novice.
Nevertheless, here are my novitiate thoughts on the current state of Scotland’s journey towards liberation.
Alf Baird is the international authority on the colonisation of Scotland and will correct me if he thinks I’m wrong, I’m sure.
Bad news, everyone (on the surface, anyway); since 2021 the decolonisation of Scotland has stalled.
I know, I know, it is a tragedy. . . or is it?
We know the decolonisation of Scotland has stalled because of this:
“political structures freeze while cultural identity continues to rise among the indigenous population.”
According to postcolonial theory this phase is endured by most, if not all, peoples seeking their liberation from colonial oppression and it seems us Scots are no different from the majority in that respect.
The markers below describe a few of the symptoms common to a stalled decolonisation process:
Postcolonial theory reminds us that these markers are not accidents but are the familiar tremors of a decolonisation held in suspension… a pause that, paradoxically, signals the deeper shift already stirring beneath the surface.
And now, in a tense and anxious Scotland, cultural self-belief and constitutional reality lie so far apart they feel like they belong to different countries entirely.
In postcolonial terms, this is the pressure-cooker phase… the point at which cultural identity and the constitutional reality forced upon Scots pull so far apart they can no longer coexist.
In the next phase the pressure in the pressure-cooker builds (already happening) – the stall does not kill the movement, it deepens it; cultural revival continues regardless of politics; and younger generations reject narratives of inferiority.
This is the quiet, subterranean phase before the next shift in the decolonisation process.
” cultural self-belief and constitutional reality lie so far apart”
Indeed so, Northcode. Scots think o oorsels as a nation but we are so often held back by our oppressor – plunder, forced brexit, dragged intae foreign wars etc. We also see this in so many ways in our everyday life where the anti-Scots meme has been normalized and institutionalized.
We will surely witness oor ain wee bit o cultural liberty and contrast again in next months World Cup with Scotland the only colony among all those ither independent states in the finals.
As Bono said: “Culture is always upstream of politics”
Jesus H. Christ. Enough with this post-colonial horseshit. I you see yourself as a victim, and behave like your a victim, then a victim you will always be. Grow a pair, and stand on your own two feet.
Baird is an instrument of oppression. Telling you that you will always be worthless.
Colonialism is not really that difficult to understand:
link to salvo.scot
So if I just stand on my own two feet for independence our colonial overlords will give us *permission*?
I dunno if you’ve noticed this but Scots are worthless in this Union that’s not a union. We’ve no say on anything at all. Even blow-ins are treated better as they’re ushered into the Scottish administration on a tidy salary.
Calling something “horseshit” isn’t an argument.
It’s a way of avoiding one.
Exposing the mechanics of abusive power is not victimhood.
Pretending those mechanics don’t exist is not courage.
If your definition of strength is “don’t think, don’t question, don’t name what shapes you,”, then you’re not defending resilience. . . you’re defending ignorance.
“Calling something “horseshit” isn’t an argument”
Hark at Northy!
Only yesterday he was calling people “thick cants”.
Ken fit sane, rational, normal fowk think, Northy?
Calling people “thick cants” isn’t an argument either.
“Calling people “thick cants” isn’t an argument either.”
Correct, but then again insults aren’t meant to arguments… not directly, anyway.
Argument persuades by logic; rhetoric persuades by effect.
Arguments rely on structured reasoning; rhetoric relies on emotional appeal, credibility, or stylistic force.
Rhetoric is the broader category; argument is a subset.
Rhetoric can include arguments, but also includes speeches, emotional appeals, storytelling, and stylistic flourishes that may have no logical structure at all.
Rhetoric might even include ‘bad language’ for emotional impact or to shock.
You omitted to say where bare-faced lying fits in, Northy.
“… insults aren’t meant to arguments…”
To be or not to be, but where is the ‘be’… I forgot to add it between ‘to’ and arguments’ is where.
So here it is:
… insults aren’t meant to be arguments…
Rhetoric shapes meaning; a lie hollows it out.
A lie is the crack in the stone not a carving… as the Picts also say.
Havers, Northy, you’re confusing meaning with interpretation.
The Egyptians, demonstrably the finest stone workers who have ever graced this planet (think enduring, monumental artworks sculpted from granite, with bronze tools) rejected any unworked stone that had a crack, or that cracked whilst being worked.
Typical that the Picts were not so fussy.
To S. MacKay: firstly you need to learn how to express yourself, even at the level of punctuation. Secondly, constructing genuine sentences is necessary to convey meaning without ambiguity. Where a more advanced level of conceptualisation is required you fail absolutely: you are probably an example of the output of a low-grade colonial education system but maybe also of poor perinatal nutrition (all too common in colonies). Alf is obviously correct to identify post-colonialism in Scotland and you are an idiot to be insulting to him, or you are a colonialist ‘troll’. It is you who are in need of establishing your own self respect which, in the first instance requires a proper apology to Alf but you probably lack the necessary “pair” to do that.
Regardless of the whys and wherefores, Jay, one thing is certain: you’re a pretentious, obnoxious, insufferable wanker. 🙂
Yup. Deffo prefer “jay” to “Jay”.
Of course people living in a rich and prosperous country cosplaying as victims is one thing you missed from your (otherwise excellent) summation of “woke” CC.
@Geri – the thing you’ve got to understand is that even if Scotland was as rich as Norway, you’d still be fucking loser. The fact that you enjoy the privileges of a free, democratic state with good public services, yet fluff for the repression and subjugation of others in repressive dictatorships is nothing short of a disgrace.
@Aidan
“Of course people living in a rich and prosperous country cosplaying as victims is one thing you missed from your (otherwise excellent) summation of “woke” CC.”
Absolutely, in my defence it was a non exhaustive list, but a fundamental omission indeed. Nauseating isn’t it, and actually quite offensive to those peoples who have actually suffered. (A much parodied and highly mocked characteristic too; see Southpark et al for further details lol).
AI Dan “fluff”?
Yer sounding more & more like Franchise Fanny by the day. You just can’t help yersel.
As for free & democratic.
Fck off. We’re handed pocket money, refused what we vote for, we only have fair public services BECAUSE WE FUCKING PAY FOR THEM & I’m sure Assange would agree the UK is anything but free. Yer government is run by paedophiles & bought by foreign fascist states.
The UK is a shite hole. An energy rich, resource rich country shouldn’t be putting out threats it has to cut services.
You really are a pathetic thieving bastard.
“refused what we vote for”
You’re refused what YOU vote for, Geri, because the majority of Scots vote for something else.
Deal with it.
I fully understand you won’t deal with this point until the day you choke to death on your own splenetic vomit, Geri, but if the UK really is the shithole you claim it is, why do the masses of grifters and benefits seekers continue to pour in here, sometimes hundreds of them in a single day?
You won’t deal with that, will you.
SNP had various mandates.
How do you know they vote for something else? An election isn’t a referendum. The Yes movement isn’t the SNP.
“why do the masses of grifters and benefits seekers continue to pour in here, sometimes hundreds of them in a single day?”
Yes, we really should have our own immigration policy & stop the English crossing the border, living it large on our dime.
Do you need a hand to pack?
Awww. Poor little [capital J] Jay! 🙁 Naughty Cavey, calling you rude names!
Let’s just take a quick refresher on what you said to garner such a response:
“To S. MacKay: firstly you need to learn how to express yourself, even at the level of punctuation.”
Literally your 1st sentence in pure, obnoxious ad hom. As ever, you don’t address any point(s), merely troll/abuse/belittle. I don’t believe I have seen “S. MaKay” post here before, and I’m pretty certain you and he have not had any past interaction, so that’s all in keeping with your trademark charm.
“Secondly, constructing genuine sentences is necessary to convey meaning without ambiguity.”
S. MaKay’s sentences were perfectly “genuine” (whatever that’s supposed to mean), whose meaning was indeed conveyed without a single shred of ambiguity. (Ambiguity! Hilarious. How much clearer do you think he could’ve been, pal?)
Also worth mentioning here that, for a guy who routinely (and lamely) hitches his bandwagon onto quite the most illiterate, ignorant posters here like “James” randomly farting responses like “Prick!” to every other post he drunkenly disagrees with, it’s just a tad ironic to then criticise other (vastly more lucid) posters, without a shred of irony? Your credibility is zero at this juncture mate.
“Where a more advanced level of conceptualisation is required you fail absolutely: you are probably an example of the output of a low-grade colonial education system but maybe also of poor perinatal nutrition (all too common in colonies).”
I mean seriously, is any comment even required here? Pretentious, obnoxious drivel, doesn’t even past muster as weak ad hom (which is the entire content of your post at this juncture).
“Alf is obviously correct to identify post-colonialism in Scotland and you are an idiot to be insulting to him, or you are a colonialist ‘troll’”
You assert “Alf is correct…” but offer precisely zilch to justify this (i.e. a bare, unsubstantiated claim), then quickly follow up with yet more insults/ad hom. Ironic indeed to see you criticising anyone for trolling, when pretty much that is all you have done here (and is all you ever do). For someone so scathing of others’ supposed lack of abilities (as according to your own subjective and vastly inflated sense of self-worth in comparison), you add no value whatsoever here. Just another “me too” blowhard.
“It is you who are in need of establishing your own self respect which, in the first instance requires a proper apology to Alf but you probably lack the necessary “pair” to do that.”
Just more baseless claims and crass ad hom. FYI it takes a “necessary pair” to come on here with your OWN ideas, without rather pathetically trying to curry favour with the undesirables who are quite clearly all the things you accuse others of. A man is judged by the company he keeps eh.
Well, that just about wraps it all up [capital J] Jay. 🙂 Have a pleasant morning.
Meanwhile back in Sleazy Corrupt Westmidden Tory Blair’s Daughter in Law gets a Govt AI Contract for £500 million.
Blair & all his demonic spawn should be removed from every government office.
He’s a war crim, not once, not twice but thrice.
The UK government, past & present, really is the fucking dregs.
Had Blair been tried and found guilty of being a war criminal, or even indicted?
@Aidan
There’s a war crimes tribunal in permanent session atween Geri’s lugs.
In the interests of efficiency, she volunteered to “man” Confused’s portable gas chambers too.
I’d tread warily if I were you. The Scotland she yearns to birth isn’t gonna be a good place for anybody showing the slightest dissent.
So environmental protections and climate rules only apply to Scottish oil & Gas within UK territories.
I’ll just leave this here,
Israel’s Navitas Petroleum has locked in the increase of its oil and gas footprint off the coast of the Falkland Islands by firming up a deal to get a lion’s share in a license within the North Falkland Basin.
Well, well.
So the Falklands now has an outfit backed by a state with the determination, skill, technology and balls to defend what rightfully belongs to the Falkland Islanders against the Argentinian would-be thieves.
Great news.
I can see why this story will cause a total absolute meltdown in the warped heids of the usual suspects.
Boo fucking hoo!
Commander-in-Chief Caveman,
I’ve no idea whether you will read this..
What is pretentious in my comment? I do not pretend, what you read is straight-forward and simple. Do you regard my comment as insulting, if so, then what of yours? Do you think have a special, unique entitlement to type insults, or deliver them in person? Regrettably, I haven’t time to meet you to respond directly, with words.
Get well soon….
“Do you think have a special, unique entitlement to type insults”
Does not compute.
Re-type and re-submit.
Correction for Jay’s comment @6:17 13 May: “Do you think you have…”, adding the word ‘you’.
Thanks for the clarification, Jay.
Speaking for myself (obvs), then no, I don’t think I have any special, unique entitlement to insult on here.
But (obvs again), I do have a uniquely rare skill for it, a skill verging close to transcendental genius.
A skill that the incoherent, semi-literate users of potty-mouthed, primary school playground name calling will never be able to comprehend, let alone appreciate.
“I do have a uniquely rare skill…”
How very… earnest of you.
Although, I have always felt that if one has to announce one’s genius, it is already in doubt, and one is working much harder at it than one might believe they are.
All that noise just to say, “I’m good at insults,” really?
How… charming!
But my, the courtyard gets quite loud at times… does it not?
How industrious the ground?level seems today.
Let the noise rise if it must. It never reaches this height.
I might be inclined, however, to come down and spread some of my own, unannounced, genius around the courtyard later if the mood takes me, we shall see.
“Let the noise rise if it must. It never reaches this height”
Unaccountably, Northy, you have failed to explain how you are therefore aware of the noise.
Being charitable, arguably to a fault, I’m going to let you off by assuming you labour under the difficulties of having to post in what is your second language.
Perhaps even your third.
Leave Northy alane, fowks. The loon done braw.