Wings Over Scotland

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Nice one, Chris! I spy Glasgow Uni….

Absolutely incredible Chris… the detail is amazing.

Chris,
Your artwork is sublime and the concept is terrifying for labour,but it’s just what Scotland needs…(probably all of Britain too)
Thanks…….

No more monkeys.

Superb.

Politics: which I think derives from the greek politikos ‘affairs of/for the citizens/cities’, though I prefer to shorten that to affairs of the citizens for obvious reasons.

Politician: noun – a person who is professionally involved in politics, especially as a holder of an elected office.

synonyms:legislator, Member of Parliament, MP, representative, minister, statesman, stateswoman, political leader, lawmaker, public servant, elected official, office-bearer.

By any measure a representative of the people or more accurately appointed by popular mandate to represent a collective will.

I think what I’m trying to say is that WE, shouldn’t be loyal to parties, they should be loyal to us. That monkey lying in the dust above is what happens when a party created by the people to fulfil a need, to become the voice and collective will of the people, turns its back on those it was created to represent. When that party attempts to direct and manipulate rather than serve and perform a duty of care, then by any definition they no longer serve and are no longer fit to serve.

What has happened both during and in the period since the referendum needs to be absorbed by all the parties and serve notice that the electorate are heartily sick of the tail wagging the dog. An electorate will support those parties which accurately and faithfully reflect and represent their needs and aspirations and so long as those parties remains loyal to them, they we’ll get on just fine. If they don’t?

The image above says it all.

Can’t wait for 7/5/15

Anti Celtic? Can’t say I’ve found that. Very slightly anti rangers due to some of their followers behaviour perhaps.

Epic! Chris Cairns presents Planet of the Japes

Followed Politics since late 60’s , I have never voted or supported Labour .

Macart , exactly as you say , they ain’t following up on the needs of their people .

That reminds me , has Skeletor told his constituent of his intentions ? Or did I miss it ?

Caution tho’, lets not be over confident , even the kitchen sink is gonna be chucked our way before GE 2015 . You heard it this week on the STV news ” I’ll always support Labour …. They are the only party that looks after yer pinchen, an the wurker “. Said the man on the street . FFS , Jamie that’s real ignorance and cluelessness . Not that I’m defending any post above , just saying .

A bit like Scrooge being shown the ghost of Christmas future! Mr Hi Jumpy be afraid, be very afraid – your Christmas is coming early this year! 🙂

What species is that skull? Oh it’s a monkey. Red rosette on a monkey. God I’m slow this morning.

@Rigmac7

+1

Cracker! Looks like our old view from Queens park southside. What a week, “Scotland stay with us and vote EXACTLY how we tell you.” A deflating giant BBC blimp hovering over Glasgow wouldn’t be out of place.

Its a cartoon. A stylised picture which is clearly of Glasgow. It is drawn looking North West across the East End from approximately Dixon’s Blazes. It is not meant to indicate anything other than the City Of Glasgow. As such the message is clear. I think a nice touch may have been Magritts spex on the skeleton.

I think the early comment on the two football stadia is most unhelpful. Skeletor is trying to whip up sectarian division, and there is no place for it. We are all Scots. So can we bury any further references to the difficult past our imperial masters used here, in Ireland, and in places as far flung as Fiji, Sri Lanka and Uganda to divide and rule her subjects?

Fantastic Chris. Glasgow did us proud in September, so lets have a repeat in May.

An excellent post on Munguin said that Scotlands’ poor had voted Labour for 90 years and are still poor.

Time to boot them into the Clyde.

WOW!!!

Good cartoon but let’s not be counting monkeys just yet. There’s a gang if very frightened simians readying to play every filthy trick we can imagine (and a few we can’t) as they fight for their lives. Beware cornered monkeys.

Great cartoon as usual! I certainly hope the depiction becomes reality in May!

Never has a political party deserved to be removed as much as Labour currently does, IMO.

My disgust with Labour goes right back to the Feeble Fifty just after a majority of Scots had voted for a parliament, but due to Labour’s treachery got Thatcher instead. Then illegal wars and a banking free-for-all. Then worst of all – BetterTogether and the DevoMax scam which Labour turned into Homeopathic Smith. Thwarting the democratic will of the Scottish people whenever they can.

How can anyone support these people?

Apologies to Grendel, Patrician and the Rev for the use of the ‘ T’ word last night. What I cannot accept is the defeatist attitude of , ” we canny win Airdrie cos it’s full o Huns”. Speaking as a Rangers man fae Airdrie I find this divide and rule rhetoric from our own supporters extremely annoying! The Labour majority over SNP in Airdrie and Shotts is 12000, and has been roughly the same since Helen Liddell was our MP, so a 6000 swing is Not an impossible task. We have Alex Neil as our Holyrood cabinet MSP. Our sitting Labour MP is one Pamela Nash who is widely derided locally, has one of the worst voting records at Westminster and scrapped through her Labour re-selection vote by 4 votes. Oh and she’s also Jim Murphy’s assistant, and a Lord Folkes protege! So if anyone out there thinks we are going to give up due to the British Establishments Media driven sectarian divide…..Think Again !!

A great cartoon Chris. Just how it jumps from the city skyline to football sectarianism from supporters of the two “old firm” clubs I don’t know.

These clubs are like everything else that has any influence in public life, they have drawn the self serving to them who have clawed their way to positions of power and influence. They then turn them into vehicles for their own personal ambitions. If we look a little at Celtic (trust me I’m not sectarian on this as I have equal contempt for the manipulators that run both clubs and both have more than their fair share of nut cases). This club was founded amongst other things to support the poor, yet when they vote on paying the living wage the spokesperson for the board gives a press conference complaining this is politicising the clubs business. Yet the club is stuffed to the gills with former politicians who forget who a living wage would benefit the most… the poor.

Any critisism of either organisation no matter how well justified seems to be taken as some sort of personal insult by a large proportion of fans from whichever side is involved. This completely ignores the fact that most of the decisions that are being criticised are being made by the self serving climbers that have forced their way to the top. Most of the sectarian nonsense could be stamped out on both sides if there really was a will to do so, however from my perspective this just isn’t there.

Witness Murphy’s attempts to divide and conquer by appealing to the lowest common denominators of drink and secatrian songs. Only the most blinkered can see either as anything but a recipe for violence and disorder, in particular the latter. This is not “friendly banter”, I have witnessed this on a train with young families getting more and more fightened as the “friendly banter” grew less friendly as each minute passed and the whole thing was balanced waiting for just one of the protagonists to decide his club and his personal honour had been impugned beyond whatever limit he had decided required justified a violent response. Fortunately for me my stop came up but I felt sorry for those left behind that had to continue their journey with these nutcases.

Look at who runs these clubs and the decisions they make and ask yourselves what do you really have in common with them and are they really there for the good of the club and supporters, or like the red monkeys, for themselves.

I’ll get my tin hat on now.

We shouldn’t be too hard on them, after all their DNA is almost the same as the rest of us
They are our nearest relatives
Except for Dolphins obviously which are smarter

Very intuitive Chris, very well done.

Neanderthal man (Labour) failed to adapt and slowly disappeared into history. ..

Very well put Chris, as usual your sketches hit the mark.

@ Rigmac7.

Quite right. I have met some Ranger supporters who are for Independence and I have also met some hardened blue noses who are fervently against it, but they seem to be the OO type who follow along with the crowd and their grandmaster.
It is people like you we need on board to spread the word amongst Gers supporters. Keep up the good work.

Some football/sectarianism issues have been raised on this thread. Let’s be quite clear, both halves of the Bigot Brothers have a considerable number of nutters in their support. To argue which side had the greater number would be to merely indulge in “whitabootery”, and serve no purpose.

When you look at the people at the top of both clubs, I would categorise them as “Rangers” being the Blue Tories, Celtic the Red Tories – neither is particularly interested in Scotland, but, very committed to the continuation of their life-style and with a strong sense of being entitled to rule.

Traditionally, the Rangers supporter was seen as a supporter of the old Scottish Unionist Party – I know my late father, even after he stopped going to Ibrox, continued to support the aims of that party. Then, when the SUP was taken-over totally by the Conservative Party, he continued to support them. This generation is dying out, thankfully.

While the “Hun” supported the SUP, “Tim” was Labour voting fodder, particularly in the party’s East End of Glasgow, North Lanarkshire heartlands.

Some SUP supporters, who couldn’t support the Conservative Party, became reluctant Labour supporters, but (anecdotal evidence suggests) found they were the wrong religion to get on in the Labour Party.

I might say, at this point – there are a few Labour fiefdoms in Ayrshire, where being in either form of “Ludge” is a distinct advantage when it comes to advancement in the Labour Party.

I would suggest, it has taken the SNP a long time to get there, but, now it is in a position where it offers a credible alternative to the Red and Blue Tories at Westminster – it became that some time ago at Holyrood.

Thus, the Red Tories – who have the most to lose, are panicking. They will try everything and anything to prevent the coming melt-down. What they will not do, however, is as much as twitch a muscle to better the lot of the people they have taken for granted for years.

The BBC, the mainstream media, particularly the Daily Record and the Catholic Church in Scotland will all be mobilised for this fire-fight. It will be nasty. It is, however, a fight which the SNP can and must win, for Scotland’s sake.

steveasaneilean says:
7 February, 2015 at 8:27 am

Epic! Chris Cairns presents Planet of the Japes

Yike! I just had an awful image of Margaret Curran wearing a monkey space suit (I’ve been reading too many Greg Moodie cartoons).

Fantastic cartoon. Evokes a real reaction seeing that splash of red where the heart should be!

Off topic, but related. Some English FB friends have this morning been sharing one of those daft quizzes which asks you how common your name is. It’s from the Labour party harvesting your email!!!

I’ve told them the begging letter will follow shortly.

Dem bones Dem bones

Dem dry bones

Blawn away on the Winds of Change

Great Toon Chris, Deeded & Unburied.

Should the hand not be clutching the Last Brown Envelope?

Fantastic detail, Chris, brill.

I think the ‘monkey’ looks more like a baboon; exhausted from displaying the red callosities on its buttocks to other baboons in order to attract them and hopefully follow it.

Life expectancy is around 45 years at most, which is just about right.

Goodbye to you Labour. You have been rotten to the core for decades and you are due for the chop. You won’t be missed.

I keep staring at the picture expecting to see oor wullie and fat boab, sporting their YES badges, come over the brow of the hill with their bogie kart.

@ Snode1965 re: pamela nash MP – I’m with you, Snode.

I have nothing whatsoever against PN personally.
But she is a fully paid up member
of the notorious Labour Mafia in west central Scotland.

They slept with the Tories during IndyRef.
Well now they can sleep with the Tories out in the cold.

Bye Pam.

“When the last monkey leaves the terracings of Parkhead and Ibrox Scotland will be free.”

The comment noted above from donald anderson comes across as lazy, smug, cliched, narrow minded and ill informed.

If you knew anything about the “monkeys” who visit Celtic Park, then you would be aware that there are many many thousands of these “monkeys” who dream of Independance.

You seem like a “two sides of the same coin” type of character (these types get their info from the daily record) and you do yourself no favours coming out with this nonsense comment.

This kind of tosh does nothing to engender a feeling of inclusion to the Indy debate.

Chris

Very apt and bang on the money as usual.

Love Saturdays with the toons. 🙂

“MajorBloodnok says:
7 February, 2015 at 8:52 am

Morag,

It’s certainly looks like an early hominid, possibly Homo glasguensis kleptomanii or more likely Australopithecus mctierniensis.”

It looks like a nasty “Hobbit” (from Flores)– One that’s just been kicked

Socrates MacSporran says at 10.20am

“The BBC, the mainstream media, particularly the Daily Record
and the Catholic Church in Scotland
will all be mobilised for this fire-fight.

Let’s convert to the facts shall we.

The Catholic Bishops in Scotland will not speak on Constitutional matters.

Nor, do they ever advise the Catholic faithful how to vote.

The majority of Catholics are Yes voters – and with a passion.

Where you find No voting Catholics,
you will find the exact same voter profile
as with any other group of No voters.

The idea that the Catholic Church will be mobilised
to support the Labour Party,
may play well in the Daily Record,
and in the amazing imaginations
of those who live only in the world of their fantasies.
But, it is a ludicrous idea and totally unreal.

Catholics are no different from the majority of the population –
they can think for themselves.
Unless of course, they are avid but uncritical TV watchers.

Independence is a serious business – but it is business.
It will be the better for it, if Independence is conducted
on a strictly business basis.
Allowing religion and football to mix with politics is a folly.
You end up with poisoned politics – and a poisoned society.

We are in the business of getting Scottish Independence.

If anyone sees anything else,
they should go to Specsavers –
at least twice.

Peer says polling is being “manipulated” and polling companies are being “corrupted” by money from newspapers intent on affecting the general election result. He called for polls to be banned in the weeks running up to 7 May.

Yup, Foulkes is the peer in question.

He is a slow thinker it appears, how many years has he been a Labour politician? Why has this revelation visited him now ? Bad polling results for Labour perhaps?

I wonder if in his revelation he saw Chris’s cartoon above?

Galloway protested in that One. Word. Over-Articulated. At. A. Time staccato delivery of his, saying England should not be dictated to by someone in ‘Monaco.’

Irony is wasted on him.

You’d think he’d be satisfied with that exposure. But no.

And now I hear him moan he was stitched up by BBC’s instant punditry panel show, Question Time.

He reminds me of fast-fading celebrities who exploit their health and anxieties to stay in the limelight.

manandboy – hear, hear! Let’s keep Old Firm rivalries and any type of name-calling off these pages. Our cause is noble – let’s behave that way!!!

@ Onwards,

Yes I noticed that Rangers fans from N Ireland/England were very vocal in on-line media about how Rangers fans should vote No, but the Rangers fans from Glasgow/Scotland, tended to say that it should be each persons own circumstances that determines their vote, rather than their football team.

Further to the comments about ‘old firm fans’ I think people who comment on Wings, need to stop using the facility to insult any group within our society, I am thinking of Christians, Celtic/Rangers, Catholics, etc.

We know there’s ‘black opps’ operating in this debate, so lets not give them an open door.

I see the Murphy McTearnan Galloway sectarian message is coming across loud & clear ( without the swally ) why dont you,s give it ah rest or better still take your comments on to a Unionist site.

Scotland has baggage.
It weighs us down.
Holds us back.
The worst of it is the sectarianism.

And you know what?
Westminster has no better tool
for division in Scotland.

Independence would be a chance for a fresh start for Scotland.

Think of the possibilities.
All our negative divisive energy channeled
into a positive national force for unity –
but with diversity.
As a nation, is it really beyond us
to accept the differences between us,
while celebrating our common humanity, nationality and purpose?

Better Together failed to make a positive case for itself.
I challenge anyone, to make a positive case for sectarianism.

Lay off the snakes – they have some very charming attributes.

Batten down the hatches, stormclouds are gathering for The Party Formerly Known As Labour.

Simple OT thought. The turnout at the referendum was, we are told, a record 84.59 percent.

Has anyone thought of asking a representative sample from across Scotland, “Did you vote?”

Any jiggery pokery, of which there has been much discussion, would show immediately.

A monkey skeleton with a red rosette would still get most of the Zombie Labour vote as has been written a thousand times Zombie Labour supporters would vote for a donkeys ass if it had a red rosette pinned to it.
Take a look at the `talent` that they have voted for,you would be better of with the ass of a donkey.

@Mealer

If it’s creepy you want, think of the gorillas in Planet of the Apes (original series/films). You could discuss things with the Orangs or the Chimps but not the gorillas and there were no gorillas in the resistance.

Nice one Chris?

The extinction of Homo Electus?

I noticed on Sunday politics N.I. beeb discussed SNP growth without SNP participation and beeb Scotland discussed SNP with a unionist place man “Academic” to degrade the SNP and scottish government

People insisting that football nonsense should stay off these pages. Much as I agree it would seem an odd stance given Stu’s own outpourings on the subject. Football is just football. If you want to mix it up with politics then you’re doing Jim Murphy’s work for him.

One other thing on the cartoon (which is great, btw). As Morag has already said, it’s a play on the long-standing idea that Glasgow was so Labour that a monkey with a red rosette would get in. It’s NOT suggesting that Labour candidates are somehow sub-human, an ugly notion that invokes some pretty appalling ideas from WWII.