Wings Over Scotland

Absolutely brilliant Chris!

The bluff and bluster summed up superbly.

As we used to say

“Changed her mind more often than she changed her drawers”

Excellent, Chris. Love the slip note.

Not quite Brutus backing Caesar. But then, Ruth is much smaller fry than Scotland’s Unionist media make her out to be.

Wee Ruth is right behind her own behind.

Of course UK Media don’t want this exposed or
The two faced immoral liar would be seen in her
True nasty blue colours

All the tickets in the sweepstake bar one, and still loses.

Nice one…… Just for the record is Mundell away packing his bags to make way for a so called part time referee o something similar?

Effijy 8.08

Yes, with reference to the Wizard of Oz, now the transparent curtain of zero media scrutiny is drawn back, it reveals ruth (who) has actually been talking to no other than herself!

A beautifully illuminating cartoon, Chris.

Ruth Davidson , Alex Cole Hamilton and the Bettertogether mob were at the Royal Highland show together and taking selfies. They proudly put them up on Twitter.

Losers all of them!

If I was Sarah Smith, I’d be worried. Even BBC London must now realise, Labour in Scotland is finished, but, they will need someone with London’s best interests at heart as Scotland Editor.

With BoJo in Downing Street, Ruth is yesterday’s burnt toast as far as the Tories are concerned – so, a return to Pacific Quay, as a replacement for Smith, would seem like the best, next move for the good Colonel.

She’s a chancer, looking after Number One. Sarah, be afraid, be very afraid. I can see the next big BBC Shortbread production: Ruth’s Return.

Proud of the renewables industry in Scotland ?
I was , until I read this !

link to commonspace.scot

Biggest wind farm yet off the coast of Angus sold to a Chinese company
Can’t Scotland do this itself ?

Sad
I live in Dundee , heard nothing about it until reading this report on common space

link to commonspace.scot

BBC still hasn’t got the Scottish Front pages up so, of course, one checks The National to see why.

Here it is. Today they start their Independence Campaign. Buy a copy and use it to persuade one other person of the merits of Independence – which should be easy now!

link to twitter.com

Hahaha, her wee fat gerbil face is gonna blow up. Poor Dierdrie Mundell must be shittin a brick too – his fading star burnt out all too soon, oh my sides!

A one trick cuddie whose only real interest is preserving her precious union.

On other politics she says what she feels best for her union at that moment, but will u-turn on anything and everything.

Mind you, if she were ever to u-turn on the union, we know it’s definitely all over!

Now you see why the english conservatives dont listern to the likes of davidson thats why they pulled out the vow when she said not to as if they went her way we’d of won in 2014 and been shot of England and its london dictatorship.

Alex Smith @ 10.00am

You Sir are a cad and a bounder; to malign the fair Miss Daphne Broon, of 10 Glebe Street – by suggesting she bears a resemblance to Colonel Yadaftie.

Miss Broon is a lot fairer, and with a far-nicer personality.

I think that there is lots more potentially bad press about Boris, and too many people know about various things in his background that will upset even the Boris supporting Conservative electorate. Comments in the last few days about how Boris was spending fathers day and how many children does he actually have may be irrelevant to people prepared to forgive him as “a bit of a lad”. But the comments of “would you trust him with your wife?” may highlight issues of disloyalty which all but the most ardent brexiteers may not be willing to dismiss.

In June 2013, the press covered rumours which had reportedly shocked David Cameron about an affair between two senior members of the Conservative party. An announcement was then made that neither was a member of the cabinet and the matter was then swept under the carpet rather rapidly.

At that time, Boris was not in the cabinet as he was the Mayor of London. The question remains if it was Boris, who the other party to the affair might be, and why was Cameron so shocked?

The British press, constrained by fears over Levinson did not take the matter further but other countries had their own spin. The Jerusalem Post of June 19 2013 was able to speculate away.

Gove declared his cocaine use to avoid situations in the future coming back to bite him. I suspect he at least knew a bit of Boris’s past that could be highly damaging with the party faithful.

I met Ruth and her lovely baby in a restaurant a few weeks ago, we didn’t discuss politics, just the baby but she could see I was wearing a pro independence T shirt.
We don’t need to be personally insulting about her appearance, sexual orientation or even her personality, we just need to keep up the wonderful work on campaigning, persuading and convincing voters to back self determination.
Ruth probably already knows she on the wrong horse, sure it brought a narrow victory in 2014, and a Tory improvement in 2017, but she knows the handicapper has caught up and she’s now on the same horse that finished Johanne, Jim, Kezia, Blair and many others political careers.
She has her reasons for trying to defend the indefensible, if we keep working hard and feeding her out more rope….then we’ll all get what we want.
(i’m more worried about Arlene moving over here after Ireland votes to become united)

But, but, but, the British nationalist media, especially the BBC, think she’s infallible.

Norway has a Trillion dollars surplus in the bank in case of shocks to their country’s system and the world applauds their prudence

Scotland has a few million left over from their budget and Unionists in Scotland and England scream slush fund

Unionists scream Scotland must have a deficit to prove Scotland’s useless, but when the SNP don’t have that deficit they’re con artists rogues and don’t care about the poor

Labour Tory and Liberal Democrats all agree with each other on this yet when former Labour FM Jack McConnell returned hundreds of millions to Westminster unspent because he claimed he couldn’t think of anything to spend it on, these same parties supported that decision

The Tory party, all inclusively open to the other Unionist parties in Scotland who are all just as Tory as the blue one’s but they call themselves different names so you’ll think you’re voting for something else

You’re not!

“Aw forget it” indeed.
That should be Colonel flip-flop on the way out now.
Her reading to this whole pantomime has been very poor.
As former “Darling of the Party” she could make sweeping statements and be the talk of the Tory steamy. Cute wee Ruth telling it as she saw fit, slagging May’s rivals, towing the party line every time – and the great Tory hope of installing one of their number as FM of Scotland.
Well, good luck with that last ambition.
As for the rest of it, the Colonel is now experiencing a rebellion in the ranks – her position as party mascot has evaporated and her “wise” council is irrelevant.
What is it they say…
Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has revealed she was sent messages by a male Tory MP saying she is a disgrace who should quit the party. All because she had supported Rory Stewart in the leadership contest.

This, along with the video clip of Mark Field shows the new ever nastier Tory Party that is locked in a race to the right with the Brexit Party. All to win the votes of the reactionary hordes in England.

We don’t need a Yes version of Project Fear to win independence. We just need to say “look”.

Brilliant but I forlornly hope she would ‘FORGET IT’ in fact, I wish she’d get lost.

Pete@11.22am

Like a bit of violence do you?

In case you hadn’t noticed it was not Mark Fields house. The protestors just walked in – no one stopped them – through an open door.

So your analogy of them breaking into someone’s house is just mince.

Try and get your facts correct before advocating violence. Mr Hard man.

Kapelmeister@11.15am

“We just need to say look”

Great point.

“Tory tensions and keeping the UK intact” article on BBC Scotland website by Glen Campbell.

Campbell always refers to Scottish nationalists but never British nationalists – doesn’t see how biased that looks within Scotland.

Boris Johnson at the centre of shouting and screaming and pandemonium and police called to the house.

That’s not a report. It’s a prediction of when he’s PM and “the house” being the House of Commons.

The Tory week just gets worse. HMRC name the head Tory Fundraising honcho as a Tax Cheat.
This shouldn’t come as any surprise to anyone outside Tory Circles !
I think it surprised The Herald, who’s got the story up, right now.
Sorry, don’t know how to do archive !

If this cartoon was expanded to include every Ruth Davidson U-Turn Chris Cairns would have his next book wrapped up within the day.

@manandboy says:22 June, 2019 at 9:32 am:

… Perhaps too many SNP politicians in long-term cushy jobs, living the good life, have forgotten what it was like before they were elected. Money changes people. The more money, the more change.”

Yes, manandboy, and perhaps they have not, but I suppose that perhaps there are unionists who would perhaps want others to believe that perhaps they have.

” … Are our leaders now insulated from, and out of touch with, the reality of the vast majority of Scotland’s people?
Are they still motivated for Independence – or motivated just to keep their jobs and their seat on the Holyrood gravy train? Such a big temptation, as can be seen elsewhere.”

Indeed and despotism can also be seen elsewhere, dictatorship and warmongering also. Even those who were ready to attack and kill innocent people over a shot down unmanned drone.

” … Right now, it’s hard to tell. With some, like Nicola, it is clear to see she is putting in a shift every day, but what about the rest whom we rarely hear about.”

Well I not only hear about many of them working their socks off all the time but I post links to videos showing them doing so. Just the other day I posted a link to an Ian Blackford meeting on the Northern Isles. A very well attended meeting and an obviously well informed group of attendees.

Of course if you rely upon the SMSM, both dead tree and broadcasting, you are not going to know what these SNP councillors, MSPs, MPs and MEPs are doing, but then, perhaps you really do not want to know nor want others to know.

Now before you go crying like a baby because someone casts doubts upon your motives on an open independence supporting forum, manandboy, consider this – it works like this, if you perceive it is all right for you to cast aspersions about people not here to defend themselves then is it less all right to cast aspersions at you who is here to defend yourself.

Are you, perhaps a desperate sleeper now coming out of the woodwork to attempt to damage the only political party, or indeed the only actual path to independence, that exists in Scotland simply because you personally, “never hear”, about what they are doing?

Tories only manage to get into power by hiding their true attitudes, opinions and objectives. They wear a veneer of acceptability.

However recently, with the rise of the far right especially in England and increasing public acceptability of expressing nasty views, the Tories are letting their veils slip with increasing frequency.

In certain quarters, being seen as nasty is now an asset!

Scotland isn’t immune and Tories politicians here have some particularly nasty streaks – look at their WM voting record.

I know Tory voters who definitely aren’t nasty in their everyday lives. IMO those ones have to be gullible to not see true nature of their chosen party. Perhaps others remember a different type of Tory – ones willing to bring investment to Scotland. Or maybe Tories-of-old were just better at keeping their guards up – I remember the 60s Support Rhodesia stickers.

I do wonder if within the ranks of Tory voters, some might be offended by the ‘new nasty right’? I wonder how many are comfortable with a PM who has the sexual morals of a feral cat? Just how much lying does it take before some Tory voters see liars before them?

Clearly a lot of Tory voters don’t care as long as their wealth and privilege is protected. However, they aren’t all quite so callous.

link to bbc.co.uk

Glenn Campbell, any excuse to feature Ruth ‘Booming Bully’ Davidson in the BBC’s headlines, reminds Scotland of the inconsistencies and contradictions in Ms Davidson’s policy statements. She wants to stay in the Union in preference to
leaving the EU, a minority view in her party.
She also seems to want to ban Divorce altogether as if the Marriage between Scotland and England was agreed as being in perpetuity. Silly lassie.

“In response to the YouGov poll she said: “There are a number of people in the Conservative Party that need to take a long hard look at themselves.

“Of course we’ve got to deliver Brexit but not at the expense of breaking up the United Kingdom”.
She should brush up on her reading skills – the writing has been on the wall for ages. You can’t do both, Ruthie.

The Brexit avalanche continues to rumble and crash its way downhill sweeping away everything in its path.

Including the Union.

Spot on Chris. And, eh, Ruth actually agrees with you. Next up Ruth’s kiss of death for the Tories in Scotland. Bury them along with their Better Together Labour mates.

‘Tory leadership: Ruth Davidson apologises for Michael Gove ‘kiss of death”

..”Immediately after the result was announced, Ms Davidson tweeted an apology to Mr Gove for giving him the “kiss of death”.”..

link to bbc.co.uk

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Flip Flop Davidson video.

link to twitter.com

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🙂

Ruth Davidson and her MSP’s are actually now a sideshow, they hoped to make her FM so that Holyrood’s powers would be given up with consent. They have abandoned that plan and plan B is now in operation, this is to transfer most of Holyrood’s powers to David Mundell (or whoever replaces him). They have already started the process, even having their MSP’s calling Holyrood dysfunctional.

They are making it plain, there will be no independence through the democratic route. If you want it you will need to take it, Westminster has never given up its possessions voluntarily.

Maybe they will claim they are taking over to protect the majority they claim are calling for intervention, think Sudetenland.

Tories now complaining the FM is *hoovering* up voters from Irish Republicans, Muslims,Unemployed, Unemployable scroungers,Illegals,Sectarian bigots,Paedophiles,Thieves and Sex offenders which adds up to their 45% of the electorate, they say

I’m just amazed at the competence of the SNP to keep crime at a 43 year low considering the Tories say almost half the population of Scotland according to them are terrible people

It seems to reinforce the truth of who Tories think they are that being an Irish Republican, or a Muslim should be seen by them as criminal and or unworthy and as far as sectarian bigots is concerned I think the Tories have cornered the market in that regard, as for the unemployable category that sounds like a set of people who probably require assistance of some kind, ie: folk suffering from mental or physical health problems which again says everything about Tory compassion for the weak or vulnerable

As far as the *scroungers* are concerned, given that Scotland has only 3.4% unemployed, which is the lowest unemployment in the British Isles well there just aren’t very many of those folk in Scotland

We come to the last section of people the Tories complain about, the actual criminals, which once again brings us back to the crime figures in Scotland which are lower than any other country region territory of the British Isles, and those are not just SNP figures, those are Police Scotland figures

So by highlighting all of these people the Tories have once again demonstrated clearly to anyone who can read words and has a functioning brain that they are in fact a seriously set of very bad people who tell seriously bad lies and are prepared to lie seriously about anything that pops into their lying heads at any given time then share these lies with their sister parties the Lib Dems and Labour to spout all over again

One more thing must be pointed out, the Tories by these statements, feel that if you are NOT one of them you must therefore be ready to be hoovered up by the SNP making you, whoever you are and whatever you support *Unworthy*

So how do you like being *Unworthy* Scotland, because the Tories say you are

C’mon folks. Support the only newspaper that supports us. Buy it or subscribe (£1.53 a week).

link to thenational.scot

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‘Let’s have 10,000 conversations about independence in Scotland today.’

…”The National asks readers to pick up an extra copy to share our eight-page special feature with friends, family and colleagues over a conversation about the future. It is hoped that these 10,000 conversations will help address the questions voters might have about why they should choose independence, and that the fact-filled spreads we’ve created will deliver plenty to talk about.”..

link to thenational.scot

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‘Question Time woman praised for comments on knife crime in Scotland.’

link to thenational.scot

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QT Programme.

You tell them Missus. 45 mins in.

link to youtube.com

Mooth Davidson… more faces than a deck of cards.

Manandboy 1:12

It being a surreal kinda day, I remember talking to the dog in question afterwards. He explained that he tended more toward the Amish approach to life, eschewing all matters technological.

Ah now, i replied, ‘That would be an ecumenical matter, Duke.’

Subscribe to the National (reluctantly the Herald Groundhog Day).

Also buy it wherever it is available. One of the only Indy supporting MSM.

Wings is genius. Beats them every time.

The wheel chair tennis really is amazing. What a speed they go at. The strength and skill. So entertaining.

Boris looked to have this sewn up. I wonder if his stairheid rammy is going to scupper him?

His hope will be that Hunt is seen as Maybot MkII. Still it does beg some interesting questions. What will no 10 be like with those two lobbing plates at each other. Posh Eastenders?

Ruth is out on a limb regardless. She didn’t back either of them at any point in the race until it was too late to be credible.

Common Weal just do not understand business. In a green space paradise nonentity. Not in the real world. The cheap fuel and power, taxes and profits realised will outwith any concerns about about ownership. A great investment into Scotland. A win, win. Great clean low cost energy. A great investment in.

Farage’s propaganda leaflet arrived today with the usual junk leaflets. Returned to the printer who printed it with a note.

asked who i’d support, bojo or mike hunt……….. in truth, i dont care but it is very clear that the unionits here dont want bojo, ergo……..

also, the scottish conservative and unionist party but in england it wa only ever called the conservative part. recently i heard it frequently called the conservative and unionist party

If Johnson is PM I think the SNP may well have to change tack, if not upgrade the ‘craft’. He is an erratically manoeuvring HP power boat, enjoys making waves and does not care about the backwash. There are benefits to be had here. Readiness for attack, is always the best form of defence.

@Scott

Because their latest is to by-pass the SG and Sottish parliament to sow money into areas / projects that benefit the unionist agenda.

That is in Unionist voting areas where the have a foothold

It is called pork bellied politics (American name).

It is getting down to their last beezer ideas in the Tory bag of tricks.

O/T

Changes to franchise rights with regards to residency:

link to legislation.gov.uk

To Ken500..your post at 2.51 pm

You said

“ It is only because of SNP wise policy and investment that they are surplus renewables to sell off (to the Chinese) in an open market. The monies and profits raised can be set against further future investment. A win win situation. Good SNP investment policies. “

Honestly Ken , did you even read the common space report about this by Kenneth MacAlpine ?
I guess you didn’t because what you say just does not make sense

Here is the report

link to commonspace.scot

What robin MacAlpine is saying is that Scotland’s resources continue to be sold to the highest bidder the most recent being renewables which he says could be built engineered and owned by Scottish business but instead of that it is being sold off to China who will obviously give all the best well paid jobs to their own and will then sell our energy back to us making a hefty profit and forcing us to pay higher prices for what should be cheaper energy on our doorstep.

I love what the SNP do and think Nicola Sturgeon is absolutely wonderful
I do not know if they could stop this happening , I doubt it because it’s not devolved but they should be making a huge noise about it in Holyrood and Westminster

selling the rights to build renewables off the coast of Angus to a Chinese business , no less than the actual Chinese government owned company by the way , is absolutely crazy for the simple and obvious reason that Scotland loses control of how it’s done ,who is employed and that includes losing the ability to train local people and award jobs to them as well as the skilled people we already have.
Scotland is a world leader in this industry so giving it over to another country to develop what will be the biggest wind power and wave power plant in Scotland is just so wrong.

Sure let’s build up SNP and Nicola Sturgeon but let’s not make out that somehow the bad has to be good so we can praise them for something that they have little control over

Our oil and gas is sold to private business and we have no control
Now the same is happening with wind and wave power
As Robert MacAlpine says Scottish people might think they are socially minded
but our country is the most capitalist privately owned country in the world

Anyone but us owns our oil and gas
Anyone but us own our land
Anyone but us owns our wind and wave power
Same for many many other wealth producing assets

Get angry for heavens sake it’s the future of our children and grandchildren that is being stripped away

Read a piece from the Express today. They are griping that the EU is not democratic again. They want an EU wide vote for the President of the Commission. What they mean of course is one they can buy with dirty money and Facebook ads and ”news”feeds. We see how well that has worked out in the USA.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a President of the Commission at odds with both the EU27 council and the Parliament. Now that would really be democracy in action ~~~ NOT.

“LGBTQ+pride”
link to thenational.scot
Give ‘em an inch and they’ll want a mile.
Some people are just never satisfied.
We could do better without the socalled Greens and their social engineering.
A collection of odd balls, misfits and weirdos.

OT

Its a Saturday night.

So enjoy this young Fifer who has spent the last decade establishing his standup credentials.

I remember him starting out as a schoolboy.

Shared a stage or two but that’s another story

link to archive.is

link to youtube.com

Elsewhere in this shamocracy of the Disunited Kingdumb …

7% more in favour of independence for Wales

22 June 2019 at 12:20 Updated at 15:04

There has been a 7% increase in the number of people in favour of independence for Wales between 2017 and 2019, according to a new YouGov survey.

The 2017 questionnaire was commissioned by Yes Wales, an organization for the independence for Wales.

This time, 1,133 people were questioned, and they were asked to rate how strong they are for independence for Wales – with 0 making them totally opposed, and 10 meaning they are fully supportive.

0-4 is counted as opposition, 5 as neither supportive nor opposed, and 6-10 supportive.

There is no record of those who said that they do not know either way.

The questionnaire was completed online between May 10 and 15 this year, and only people over the age of 18 were asked.

Outcomes

14% stated that they were very strongly in favour of independence (10 on the scale), compared to 10% two years ago.

4% stated that they were number 9 on the scale, compared to 2% in 2017.

5% had identified number eight, while 6% had stated that number two years ago.

6% had identified number seven in both instances …

while 7% had indicated number six this time compared to 5% in 2017.

Overall, therefore, 36% put themselves between 6-10, compared to 29% two years ago.

Only 47% say they oppose independence (0-5 on the scale), compared to 53% in 2017.

Source: link to golwg360.cymru

Translation: Welsh Sion and Google Translate

What is the purpose of principles and why would anyone look for them in a Tory? Principles make life easier as they define a set of values and moral logic that have been tested through time. Subsequently, we don’t have to rely on our individual moral intuition to guide our actions, when we face a conflict of interest. It’s just a pity that British nationalist like (t)Ruthless, appear ignorant of basic principles of moral democracy and the rule-of-law. Then again, British nationalism is the practice of Tory ethos and tradition.

(t)Ruthless is a media construct designed specifically to maintain the Union, she has no concern for Scotland’s well-being, IMHO.

The Phenomenology of Democracy

Abstract

Human beings originate votes, and democracy constitutes decisions. This is the essence of democracy. A phenomenological analysis of the vote and of the decision reveals for us the inherent strength of democracy and its deficiencies. Alexis de Tocqueville pioneered this form of enquiry into democracy and produced positive results from it. Unfortunately, his phenomenological method was inadequate and he missed the essential core of his ‘associative art’. The frequent association of democracy with rationality misleads us about its nature and its requirements. The phenomenology of democracy aligns with the governance concept of democracy. Many attempts to reform democracy, or impose it on others, are misplaced because they do not attend to the essence of democracy.

link to researchgate.net

The wind farm would not be built without Chinese investment. It is investment that will bring unfathomable gains to Scotland. £Billions of clean cheap energy. Scotland is the best place in the world to invest in renewable energy. Wind and wave because of geographical conditions. Without the Chinese it would not be build. The monies needed to build and construction and being put up by the Chinese, it is Scotland that will benefit in billions when the cheap energy is harvested and sold, A combined effort, Either the Chinese put up he investment or it would not be built, That is the point.

The Scottish Gov does not have the necessary funding to invest, Either the Chinese funds help with the investment and funding. Or Scotland loses all the associate benefits, Loads and loads of benefit of cheap clean energy at the disposal. Providing jobs and profits in Scotland.. International investment. The way of the world for improved investment in loads of cheaper clean energy.

The greens should be delighted. Instead they find a way to turn the success into a negative, Do they not want Scotland producing loads of clean cheaper energy to the benefit. Just like Norwegian world investment. Clean cheaper energy production benefits Scotland and the whole world, The green negative arguments are suspect, The usual suspect negativity. Cutting off their nose to spite their face as usual. Total lack of business acumen. Trading and investment in good beneficial project. A win win all round. A success story. Inward investment into Scotland for a quality project, Creating monetary gain all round.

For anybody watching your cheatin heart im on in a min heid banging to a tune ???

Scotland has a right to roam. Anyone can roam where they like. The Scottish people are socially minded and care about others. Especially the SNP Scottish Gov. Especially when compared to others. The Scottish economy Gov raises £60Billion in revenues to disposed, it could be even more if Independent and the monies put to better use. £80Billion like Norway,

The Chinese buy plenty of salmon and whisky Scottish products, All 1.3Billion of them. International trade and investment. Direct flights. Plenty of Chinese tourists and students handing over their investment and monies. Scotland pro rata one of the most visited place in the world. Brings in £Billions.

Bugger after thirty years ended up on the cutting roam floor, was in the original honest!

Geeo ..really you shouldn’t post when you’re drunk
Drink and tablets together not a good thing
Keep taking your medicine
Lay off the sauce
I hope you get well soon

Geeo…trying to be anonymous , failed

Scottish independence is coming geeo you try and try to put people off but it’s pointless , only those who really care about Scottish independence come on to wings ,you accuse so many who come on to wings of being British nationalists you are such a busy bee for the britnat cause trying to put people off Scottish independence.

It doesn’t work

Our will to succeed is too strong for you

Ken500 say: at 9:41 pm

“Scotland has a right to roam. Anyone can roam where they like. The Scottish people are socially minded and care about others.”

Technically the right to roam is now covered in the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.
It’s not carte blanche to do as you want though, as there are responsibilities to adhere to when accessing the land.

link to outdooraccess-scotland.scot

Mountain biking is a great example of one of the benefits we have in Scotland with access to explore our amazing land and scenery.
Most folk are responsible but we still get the odd group of arseholes that dump their rubbish along the trails.
My local mtb groups organise trail maintenance days and occasional litter picks to keep the area neat and tidy.

Let’s show our appreciation for Paul Kavanagh, one of the most hardworking and influential of independence activists. If you can afford to please donate to his annual crowdfunder.

WGD:- ‘Bent bananas in the ears.’

link to weegingerdug.wordpress.com

OK, wwaaay O/T here – can any computer folk tell me why I have a Hewlet Packard security update dialogue box suddenly appear on my Toshiba pc screen? There seems no way to get rid of it other than click OK, which I haven’t yet. Would it be safe to click OK?

Capella – says it’s for my hp255g2 nottebook pc. don’t hhave one.

Sorry – Fn + F4

Capella – Fn + F4, brought up a project menu, but dialogue box still there. Haven’t got a printer but I did used to have an HP pc and a printer, does system maybe not know I haven’t for about 6 years?

@ T Jenny

Restart

Dr Jim – yippeee, restart removed it. A big thanks to you and Capella for your help. Everday’s a learning day on WOS. 🙂

Great. You should probably check your programs list and uninstall any old hp software if you have it. Tomorrow!

Capella, thanks, will do.

@ T Jenny

If you’ve uninstalled the programme previously you might have bits of broken registry left over so you need to look in your programme list and uninstall again, if you can’t find it to get rid of it then you need to clean the PC

If you don’t have a cleaner there are plenty of free ones online that’ll give you a free trial, these will remove some of what you want then you uninstall that once you’ve used it then find anothe free one and do it again otherwise you have to pay loads of dosh for the McAfees and the Nortons and to be honest they’re a lot of money for not very much protection when you can get Avast or something for free

Hope you get sorted before you throw it out the window
Computers eh!

OT from the Rev.’s twitter, re. Deborah Roseman and “It is impossible to overstate how inhumane and terrifying this is. The Trump administration simply doesn’t believe migrants are people.” That’s Anglo-American neo-liberalism that is, which is the domination of financial markets over humanity. Plus some good, old-fashioned, prejudice, I’ve no doubt.

This one isn’t for viewers in Scotland, our civil society is shaped by English Tories (see the full-English Brexit). We don’t really have a democratic say in the matter, frankly.

Launch of final findings – Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society

This two-year Inquiry has published its final reports into the state and future of civil society in England today.

Where is change most needed and how do we get there?

How can we put power in the hands of people and communities? How can we prevent an ‘us and them’ future, connect us better and humanise the way we do things?

link to cdn.baringfoundation.org.uk

Laughing at Tory on BBC news trying to defend Boris the Mistress Beater.

He is outraged that a neighbour contacted the Guardian to report the story. Why would someone do that he squeals?
They and the Guardian are just anti-Tory and Boris.

I think the neighbour had a few reasons for selling the story to the Guardian. First one is like the Tories money is everything and morality nothing. Secondly they may feel that the country deserves to know about the despicable character of the next English Prime Minister and thirdly who the hell would want to live next to Bojo The Clown?
Perhaps he will relocate to the country to hide his failings.

Many Tories claiming we have no right to ask Bojo personal questions about his personal life?
What even if he a violent thug?

I still laugh at the Tory Daily Hail condemning Scotland’s duly elected First Minister for having the funds to buy her own home coffee maker. Its her own purchase for her own pleasure and not a Tory Expenses fiddle but how dare she spend a couple of hundred pounds on a kitchen appliance when the money could be spent negating Westminster Austerity cuts. lol

Pathetic 2 faced B*****ds!

Johnstone caught out again. What a disaster. Wait until all the other lies come out of the closet. The Tories are toast. Into oblivion. They could not make a bigger mess. Shameless. An international embarrassment.

What does the First Minister do all day?
Well here she is out campaigning for Independence and in a sing-a-long “Caledonia”:

link to twitter.com

Brian Lucey@7.42am

“Decisive majority”

There you have it the raising of the bar. Not a majority but decisive. Shades of 1979. The Britnat idea of democracy:

52/48 EU ref = the will of the people.

52/48 Scottish ref for devolution = not the will of the people

There is only a faux democracy in Scotland as long as the UK exists.

To effijy..your post at 7.46am..

Do we know for sure that Boris is a mistress beater ?

Now , I don’t like his politics , the thought of him being PM is bewilderment that such a person could be PM .
But as I understand it a neighbour called the police who visited but made no charges.
I believe Boris has five children .,!
Left his wife last year and moved in with this new woman who used to work for the conservative press office.

Let’s face it we don’t really know much about his private life apart from this kind of thing.
We don’t know he is a mistress beater for sure , do we ?
Maybe I’ve missed something

More police per head of population in Scotland than in England and Wales

link to thoughtcontrolscotland.com

SNP and Scottish government doing so much to help people with housing and doing so with the restricted budgetary constraints set by Westminster

link to thoughtcontrolscotland.com

link to thoughtcontrolscotland.com

link to thoughtcontrolscotland.com

Anent Boris’s private life, referred to in posts by Effijy and Terry Callachan.

I recall the press outrage at HRH The Duke of Rothesay’s conduct in marrying the then Mrs Parker Bowles; one media commentator wrote: “When one marries one’s mistress, it immediately creates a vacancy.”

By moving-in with his “bit on the side,” Boris, a man once described in another newspaper article as: “A man who hasn’t required to have a wank since he left Eton,” will almost certainly already be looking for another.

“Once a shagger – always a shagger,” another popular belief.

He should maybe join the Lib-Dems, such conduct is more David Lloyd George than Winston Spencer Churchill.

@Ken and Terry

Re. Plastic rubbish

The cynic in me is just waiting on it being large scale monetised by the powers that be with subsidies being paid by the people to large plastic recycling corporations marketed as “cleaning up our world” who will then profit from processing what is actually a very valuable resource.
TBH I can’t believe it hasn’t happened already Black Mirror style…
It’d be easier to just collect a plastic tax at source from the companies that produce the stuff in the first place with that money going towards setting up the infrastructure to efficiently process the end source waste they originally created.
1p per item isn’t going to stop people buying a product.
There’s 5.5 million folk in Scotland so if we conservatively say we use just one item per day that’s 55,000 raised daily towards the running costs of a processing plant, which could ultimately be self fueled as it processes the waste.

Plastic packaging is something like 40 MJ/Kg calorific value which is pretty much the same as heating oil which as we know is expensive. Modern home oil boilers are efficeient in converting oil to heat, but they still pump out emissions without the exhaust passing through a catalyst.

People can have a word with their butchers and fishmongers and ask if they would consider adopting more environmentally friendly packaging.
I was chuffed to see and have a chat with my local butcher that has made the switch. Good on them for taking the initiative. Shame on others who continue to use un-recyclable packaging when alternatives are available.

A question which has arisen in interviews with Johnson is, how many children does he have?

He never answers.

4-5-6? Perhaps he doesn’t actually know!

Sorry about the typos. I think my post at 10:16 is still just readable though.