Wings Over Scotland

Very good, Chris.

Nutshells come to mind.

Chris has the scowl down to a T.

Can someone clarify for me…are these tax credits equivalent to the old family allowance?

Was wondering how you were going to handle this one Chris, subtly or full metal jacket.

Problem solved; both.

Time to stop pussyfooting with this lot”

Bits on, steel toecaps and get in there. No more Mr Nice Guy.

For the record Anas Sarwar, I was speaking metaphorically about the footwear
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Your cartoon says it all Chris. Captures perfectly the brutality of this terrible policy.
I reckon RapeClauseRuth already knows that the continuation of the Union is a lost cause especially with the realities of Brexit becoming clearer.
She is a careerist and is dutifully making all the right noises in the hope that her Tory chums recognise her heroic efforts to keep Scotland subservient, and offer her a job in a cosy wee Tory seat after Scotland becomes Independent.
She cares nothing for ordinary folk, it’s all about Ruth. I personally can’t wait till she vanishes from the Scottish political scene as so many have done before her.
A horrible despicable party filled with the dregs of society.

I’m just glad that people in Scotland are getting to see the true nature of Ruth Davidson. In some ways, reflecting the way in which the Tory party has become an extreme right wing organisation, intolerant of other cultures, obsessed with punitive hurtful policies against the poor, and keen to insult and denigrate other countries including Scotland.

When the last Tory Government was in power under thatcher and John Major, before David Cameron, they were universally known as the nasty party. This was accurate. Thatcher did things which served no good purpose apart from punishing poor, homeless and disabled people, to the benefit of the rich.

David Cameron, tried to change the Tory party, and moved it away from its petty minded, dogma-driven vengeance politics, but now here in 2017, we have incompetent, second-rate people like Boris the clown, Theresa May and Ruth Davidson, literally enjoying punishing poor people, disabled people, and women who have been raped.

My instinct is that this support for the hideous rape clause will backfire on Ruth. You see, Tories like her, when they think of rape victims, they envisage a single mother living in a flat on a housing scheme. But people in all social classes experience rape, and so do their families and relatives. They know the pain, rich or poor.

Of course people in higher social classes are not affected by benefits, or the rape clause, but those who know of rape regardless, will still be utterly appalled by Ruth Davidson. It matters not if you are on benefits or not, or indeed for that matter whether you have been raped or not, it is obvious this rape clause and associated benefit changes are punitive, will save little money overall, and are utterly, utterly devoid of one shred of humanity.

Just as the poll tax brought down that witch Thatcher, so I think we will see the rape clause hung around the neck of Theresa May, and her second rate, fawning poodles like Ruth Davidson.

I checked through the London-based papers this morning, no mention of Ruth the Mooth and her incredible efforts to get “SNP Baaad” out there with regard to the odious “Ruth Clause”. Not even the allegedly “left wing” Guardian is having a go at the Ruthsfuhrer – it is, within the M25 bubble at least – a non-story.

But, I bet they will be all over Pete Wishart like a rash, once the news of his hilarious tweet gets as far as that there Lunnun.

Socrates @8.13 am.
Another CTF skit comes to mind. Newcomer being shown around the office by an old lag who labels fellow workers as ‘Cans’ and ‘Cant’s.’
Davidson, Dugdale’ Rennie, Mundell, Murray, and Carmichael, and their ugly little band of Unionist gravy trainers are right bunch of ‘Cant’s.’
Do you think that I’ll make the front page of the Hootsman tomorrow. Oh, please, if there is a god.

Brutal! Good job!

@ Ruglonian

Alison & Mhari both made good speeches , its the 1st time I’ve had a chance to speak to Mhari since HOF, also Brendan O Hara attended , many of the would be candidates for the Glasgow Local elections were conspicuous by there absence, one notable candidate Mr Graham Campbell late of SSP & RISE or any of the other shoe ins of the NE Glasgow for SNP .

Hi K1 & friend Rose & CrazyCat Bob Sinclair.

Ruth the Mooth is a bully and indeed has a very big mooth. She does not do decency nor compassion of any kind, and that is coming to bite her in the ass. She just verified how nasty her party really is.
Some Scots were forgetting the earlier days of Thatcher but Ruth, personally has brought them back from the brink of voting for her.

I can hear them now saying ” what the hell was I thinking! these are the stinking Tories, phew!”

Everyone seems to be concentrating on the women concerned but not a lot of attention is being given to the children who will have ‘conceived by rape’ on their bureaucratic record for life.

This is surely a much greater breach of their privacy. Also, probably, a fact that their mother wouldn’t want them to know.

Me Bad re my post at 8.44.

Jacqueline McLaren SNP prospective candidate for Canal ward was in attendance at the R***Clause protest .

O/T.
Quell Surprise Kelvin McKenzie ( SUN ) has been reported to Police for printing Racist Slurs in his column by Jo Anderson ( mayor of Liverpool ) & not before time on that Mouthpiece.

Alison Thewliss is like a dog with a bone. She discovered this nasty piece of legislation tucked away in a much bigger parliamentary bill.She had continually raised this issue both in westminster and in Scotland for well over a year. Initially she was a lone voice in the wilderness but she wasn’t deterred.

She has never given up her absolute determination to keep this disgusting bill in as high a profile as possible. It has gained substantial traction more recently to such an extent that even Dugdale and labour are on board, for them a road to Damascus moment perhaps?

I genuinely believe that the profile of this bill has been raised to such an extent that when we look back, it will turn out to be a defining moment on the road to independence.

These people go to war “with god on their side”. I am not a Christian but I have read the bible, this, from the New Testament.

(Matthew 19:13-15; Mark 10:13-16)

“And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God”.

What god are these people worshipping? (Genuine Question)

Thank you, Chris, for showing that all cartoons are not meant to be funny, this one should make any compassionate human being weep.

Peace, Love and Compassion for the sake of all Humanity

Phydaux – I’m also in the Edin Leith Walk ward and didn’t know Ruth lived here. Having looked at the list of candidates, I think I’ll rate the ‘indy’ candidate, Alan Gordon Melville, 4th from bottom above the 2 Slabs with the Tory at the very bottom. Even though AGM stood as a UKIP candidate in both Holyrood and Westminster elections – and lost both times, natch. 🙂

This is the tories and davidson’s true colours shining through.

Can you imagine the out cry from fraser, davidson, may, express, telegraph or mail if the SNP had come up with policy, far less enacted it?

The tories rowed back tout suite on nat insurance tax for self employed, but not this.

Some are stating this policy is huge for women and politcal, I agree, but this is more, it’s about decency for all and what kind of society do we wish to live in!?

Cartoon shows explicitly the horror that is the Tories.

Perhaps voting should be …
1 SNP
2 SNP
3 Green
4 UKIP Lite
5 UKIP Cherry
6 UKIP Classic
7 UKIP Max

And will Truthie be advocating removing charitable status at Lorretto and Fettes forthose hard pressed families boarding young Torquil, as Henrietta and Farquar are already there ?
Simply not on !

Brilliant. These cartoons say more than words. We need them plastered everywhere. Any ideas as to how? Maybe if national prints a selection we can all buy and laminate them then post round towns etc

Great toon, Chris. Really sums up what awaits children of the future.

Right wing types actually arguing that if you have a two child policy the rape clause is a legit mechanism. It truly beggars belief of how we got here.

Remember, this is population control, social engineering, not to mention pure filth.

The cap at two children is heinous, each child should be awarded benefit, it’s to feed and clothe.

Alison Thewliss has been tireless, and has kept this up for months, she deserves a medal.

We must keep using this now and beyond local elections. We can’t let Ruth get away with saying Scotgov can redirect our money into mitigation. We know it means another area suffering, and the view is, it might not work, as extra money to cover it, might get clawed back.

…I’m surprised she is LEFT handed!

Judge them by what they DO. The Tories can never hide that indicator.

If that grotesque creature was alive in the early forties she would be goose stepping around some concentration camp torturing the poor inmates.

TJenny 9:17

I will check out the other Independent candidate Harald Tobermann before I decide where to place him. broughtonspurtle.org.uk covered the recent Leith Walk hustings and is well worth a look… informative and witty to boot.

Chris missed the bit about evicting them from their home.

There is still family/benefit allowance? The first child gets the most. Then subsequent children. Now restructed to household income and now only the first two children.

Households above gross? £50,000 do not get it all. It was cut Tax credits are different depends on how high a salary/household income and how many children. It is calculated on a certain scale and then tax is rebated. (Net or gross?) It encourages people into work. Gives the incentive of tax refund (qualifying condition). To boost income often especially for lower income, (PT?) one parent families so they can manage. Instead of having to rely entirely on benefit payments. It give self respect and incentive. It also cuts Gov costs.

Cameron now retired and 6 jobs Osbourne (who destroyed the Oil & Gss sector in Scotland) Came up with this. Along with wasting £Billions on Hinkley by the sea, HS2, Heathrow and Trident. All a total waste of money of little value, with more credible alternatives. Cutting NHS/Education and sanctioning and starving the vulnerable, mostly women and children.

Now Brexit which will affect the most vulnerable disproportionately. Ruin the world economy. The Tory/Unionist ingnorant incompetents.

@Robert Louis says: 15 April, 2017 at 8:01 am:

“In some ways, reflecting the way in which the Tory party has become an extreme right wing organisation, intolerant of other cultures, obsessed with punitive hurtful policies against the poor, and keen to insult and denigrate other countries including Scotland.”

Very, very true, Robert Louis. In truth it was Tory Government policy that first made many of those they now seek to punish poor in the first place.

Their own statistics prove beyond doubt that Tory Government policies are deliberately killing old, sick, disabled and poor people. Every one of such punitive policies has seen a corresponding rise in deaths in those selected groups they punish.

These Tory policies are every bit as efficient as gas chambers in killing what the Tory party apparently sees as a drain on their supporter’s greed for personal wealth.

Yet the gap between the rich and the poor has never before been so wide in my over 8 decades lifetime.

And by God the poor in pre-WWII Britain were very poor indeed.

While Stu, Chris, Paul over at WGD are dealing with the real political issues, as illustrated today, and always, Tom Gordon, described as ‘political Editor’ over at Herald Britland, writes a re-heated piece of EU membership nonsense today.
Don’t mention the systematic destruction of Civic Scotland by the Arch Right Better Together Unionist Fascists. I did, but I think that I got away with it.
How do these Porn Propagandists sleep o’ nights?

@Clootie says: 15 April, 2017 at 9:42 am:

“…I’m surprised she is LEFT handed!”

You shouldn’t be, Clootie. You may not know it but, in heraldry, the left is known as the, “Sinister”, side.

Heraldry archaic:- of, on, or toward the left-hand side. However, on a coat of arms, from the bearer’s point of view, that is depicted as the right.

Chris – you made me cry.

These are kids. They already need our support or the family wouldn’t need tax credits. We’re part of a rotten country that’s taking even that pitiful support away unless they have even more violence in their lives – and apparently that’s “compassion”.

Illness, age, disability and kids – all those we should cherish are targets of rabid right wing press and rampant capalist elite.

Enough. It’s time we stood up.

Very well done Chris, excellent cartoon. Nail, hammer, wallop.

Ruth Davidson was someone that I have never liked, she used to annoy the hell out of me when she was employed by the BBC on GMS. Always giggling like an idiot. It has become clearer that she is an idiot, quite a dangerous one, but an idiot.

She seemed to con a lot of people at the SE with her Ruth Davidson not the Tory, stop the referendum party. She sure as hell is showing her true colour now.

I actually despise, and that’s not a word I use very often, but I really, utterly despise that creature. I’m glad that their true colours are on view ahead of the council elections.

I will vote till I boak even though I have to hold my nose and put the tories last on my paper. I think that there are 3 seats and about nine candidates in our ward, but number 9 will be the tory.

Another wonderful cartoon which says it all, Chris.

What a condemnation of a wicked and morally bankrupt party.

Ruth Davidson is worrying because there is NOTHING she won’t say or do to advance herself at our expense. The false bonhomie mask is gone now and one of the Lizard Folk is poking through. I once described her attention-seeking behaviour as resembling a Duracell bunny with the skitters but now I see she is a really repellent person and not remotely funny. I can see her burning a £20 note in front of a beggar in Full Bullingdon Mode, and enjoying the experience.

For those who haven’t yet heard a compassionate politician speak on the topic…..

link to youtube.com

Hope lies with our youth and brave, principled women like Mairi.

Sorry, Mhairi. I keep forgetting she doesn’t pronounce it that way.

And what Marie Clark said @10.21.

Well and truly nailed.

@paul gerard mccormack says: 15 April, 2017 at 10:26 am;

“I saw Janey Godley on youtube do this Ruth Davidson piece of evil (please see it).

Did you mean this one, Paul?

link to youtube.com

It seems that Ruth Davidson’s stance here is the same as it was on the Bedroom Tax, i.e. that the Scottish government should mitigate the worst effects. In this way, she’s trying to make the Scottish parliament subservient to Westminster, reactive to the policies coming out of there to try to protect the poorest in Scotland. Who was it that said something about judging a society by the way it treats its poorest individuals?

And what also of these people in England, Ruth? You’re happy for these Westminster policies to be imposed on them? Such sheer hypocrisy in relation to your soundbites in the first referendum about “caring as much for the people in Newcastle as the ones in Glasgow”.

Wonder what Rooth the mooths response is to the shenanicums of our special relationship with the USA bringing us to the edge of the cliff with the fool endorsement of the Westminster cabal of idiots,will tri-dent save us or damn us.

Great toon Chris.

Davidson of course isn’t really the organ grinder though. She’s the monkey. She’s the apologist, the messenger girl… white noise.

The organ grinder lives in No. 10 Downing Street.

Ruth Davidson’s sole purpose in Scotland is to act as her master’s voice and run interference. It’s proven beyond any doubt at this point, that Ms Davidson is about as shallow and disingenuous as they come. She is a political lightweight whose conviction politics begins and ends with party and career.

There is NO Ruth Davidson party. She is NOT the cuddly, cheeky, presentable face of Conservatism. Her media persona is just that. A molecule thin veneer and media creation. What you find when that veneer is scratched or removed is someone willing to deliver anything Tory central desires. Ally herself with the most questionable elements of our society in pursuit of a vote. A person who misrepresents the words and actions of others in every public forum accessible. Undermines public trust in our institutions and services. ALL regardless of consequences for the public.

She does what she is told to do and accepts her orders without question.

If people want appalling Tory legislation to end, there is only one source to tackle and only one way to ensure it never has impact on their daily lives ever again. You remove the source of your pain at the ballot.

People should be under no illusions on the upcoming referendum. The choice is the union, extended Conservative government and Westminster politics. Or it is independence, the government of YOUR choice and a Holyrood system of politics you can actively help to shape.

Tory rule? Or your independence? Them’s the choices.

Another point about the rape clause worth considering is that there must be some forms of decision making about whether what you have claimed, is true,. A bit like ATOS or capita I would assume. Will people still be refused having subjected themselves to this demeaning process?

Scottish Gov

EU Ref Parliamentary Channel

I got the message of doom today from the local tory candidate, he says, the SNP has cut the council budget by £4.6 m over the next year, it is unjust and if re-elected as your councillor in may David will fight vigorously for a better deal for Inverclyde.
This guy has never been to my door to speak to me, or any other person that lives here, he is a complete stranger to any of us, my town does not vote for him, his own little tory area must be the reason he gets elected, he is of course against the referendum and anything good or bad to do with the present scottish government, he never talks about foodbanks, local unemployment, nuclear weapons, 10 billion pound aircraft carriers, westminster cutting the scottish budget, you know, the usual unimportant things to a tory, yes a vote for him will be good, yes good for his bank balance, but good for nobody else

These are the same people that employed a company to cut the welfare bill down, a man dying with terminal cancer told he is fit to work and his benefits stopped
Blind people told they are fit to work benefits stopped, it goes on and on, who votes for these people, they must be mad whoever they are

Cant remember any of Gordon Browns rants being cut short

The bbc still loves her of course. One of their own an aw that.

Far as Ruth is concerned, these Scottish kids are just going to grow into people who can’t join a polite gathering without breaking stuff and stealing things. What a classy thing to say about your own people.

Imagine how humiliated she’d feel as the future First Minister of Scotland. At least that’s one delusional humiliation that Scotland will thankfully be spared.

She’s not just a modern Toom Tabbard, she is worse. At least John Balliol grew tired of his denigration at the hands of the English, and allied Scotland with the French instead. History remembers his name unkindly, but Ruth Harrison’s name isn’t even remembered by her own party today, and that kinda tells you all you need to know about her AND them.

Child Tax Credits, it needs to be remembered, was Gordon Brown’s method of trying – back when he still had a social conscience – to offset the low wage economy which Thatcherism had brought in.

He knew so-many firms were paying low wages, that he at least tried to limit the damage.

The spirit seemed to be right, even if the measures introduced were, and still are, flwed.

The frightened wee boy says it all.

The is what is in store for us all if the Tories and the state press and broadcasters persuade Scotland to remain with the right wing tories/EDL when brexit comes in.
What a future.Thankfully we don’t have to put up with the right wing racist party.

@Wee Alex – well done for shining some light. I don’t blame the English voters – they are fed the lies through the media and what choice is left?

Labour is nearly as right wing and their left wing is pilloried by the same media so they are unlikely to form a government. Then there’s LibDems who have lost their soul.

The Greens are still too small and under-funded – and of course the media barons will ensure they don’t get a fair hearing either.

Sigh.

Tinto, this business will haunt her!

Speaking of Arnold, Arnold Clark’s funeral is on Wednesday, he was born up a close in James Nisbett Street in the Garngad? & started his business career as a bar-man in the Wee Man’s pub next to the Cattle Market in the Gallowgate, Arnold supplemented his wages by buying cars at the market & selling them oot the back door. So literally from humble beginnings to the biggest private car dealer in Europe with 11,000 employees at present. On one occasion when strapped for cash, the only sympathetic ear was the bank manager of the branch at Parkhead Cross who he repaid by transferring the company funds through that small branch. He found time for 11 of a family plus his charitable stuff. It can’t have been easy being near the only kid called Arnold in the Garngad.

The funeral is at Glasgow Cathedral near his birthplace. Another shining example of Scotland being too wee, too poor & too stupid. What a contrast between him & failed car-salesman Jackson Carlaw.

‘Early childhood education and care (ECEC) can bring a wide range of benefits – for children, parents and society at large. But the magnitude of the benefits is conditional on “quality”…

A growing body of research recognises that early childhood education and care (ECEC) brings a wide range of benefits, for example, better child well-being and learning outcomes as a foundation for lifelong learning; more equitable child outcomes and reduction of poverty; increased intergenerational social mobility; more female labour market participation; increased fertility rates; and better social and economic development for the society at large’
link to oecd.org.

Support for children and families in the early years is an investment in human capital that benefits us all. It is not the Conservative way however with their grandiose ideas of freeing the market and reducing the role of the state in generating well-being for all. Instead their structural adjustments are pushing more children and families into poverty- deliberately.

They do seem rather perplexed about the concept of economic return of investment in breaking the intergenerational transfer of poverty. Perhaps the electorate should insist for the purposes of clarity that every policy has a children rights based agenda which would ensure that the ‘rape clause’ as well as other conscious political choice to deconstruct any investment in human capital and decades of development of a progressive child rights agenda is halted. That demand can also be expressed at the ballot box.

Re. Yoons. They be mad. Re. Tories. They be evil.

The ongoing upsurge in English populism is a symptom of the global resurgence of fascism. Also, the Prime Minister speaks with an Anglican God.

link to nytimes.com

It has all been said. Every angle to expose Ruth Davidson and her insidious party must be used. Hurry up for Indy to be rid of her and her kind of politics.

Yes, Dirty Henrietta time, Chris.

The Tories have begun the war early on ‘holding onto Scotland at all costs’.

I can’t see what they can pull out the arse this time around, – see essay ‘Westminster Repeater’ – except the false promise of more vague powers – which has already been mooted – so maybe we will be allowed to name Scottish roads after Scottish people, that sort of thing.

Holiday weekend, so political polemic later.

Your weekend reading:

The perfect Easter subject, lesbianism: link to wp.me

Ruth Davidssson & the Tories.. there’s no give, it’s all take, take, take!!!
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This story was on the latest front cover of The Extra:
link to glasgowsouthandeastwoodextra.co.uk

Here’s the maplist for all:
link to en.wikipedia.org

It says mostly there is ‘no overall control’ in the Scottish councils, therefore…

…it’s time to take back control.

With pro-Scotland / pro-indy (majorities)

its good to see she has been given a makeover , lipstick on a pig dosnt make it a princess does it ? . My sincere apologies to Pigs being linked to this eh person .

Great cartoon as always. Captured the venom on that Tory FM wannabe.

Ruth Harrison reminded me of Billy Bunter for a long while. But after she did ‘The After Dinner jokes about BJ she put me in mind of a character from Bridedhead Revisited. The jolly plump cousin who enjoyed dressing up in dinner suites,telling loud schoolboy smutty jokes whilst swilling back the brandy and puffing on a cigar. Just an awful woman.

Smallaxe great to see you back posting 🙂

Thanks Robert, I meant if there are 6 candidates and you put 1 against your first and then 6 against your last but didn’t number the others.I didn’t make it clear.

I am not surprised by the lack of quality in the other candidates who are all much of a muchness but I wanted to make the point of putting the Tory last. Guess I’ll have to rank them all to make it clear!

Love the accuracy of this cartoon. He’s even got the kids looking they are from different fathers! Good job.

This is a really good example of the cognitive dissonance of those who claim from positions of extreme wealth that they understand and have empathy for those with less. This is Steve Hilton former Cameron pal and architect behind detoxification of the Tories unravelling when asked if he and his family ‘deserved’ their wealth.

‘David Cameron’s former blue-sky thinker says the rise of populism is due to the super-rich’s inability to put themselves in the shoes of those less well off – before accepting a free cab ride and becoming lost for words about his own wealth’

For once, a journalist that knows ‘how’ to interview his subject and get right tae the heart of the story by uncovering the hypocrisy at the core of Hilton’s philosophy:

link to archive.is

Does her partner feel the same way?

Horrified if she does

@ScottishPsyche says: 15 April, 2017 at 2:47 pm:

“Thanks Robert, I meant if there are 6 candidates and you put 1 against your first and then 6 against your last but didn’t number the others.I didn’t make it clear.”</i?

Furthermore, the fact that so many bright and alert people are at a total loss as to the political leanings of many of the lower ranked choice, and the fact the system requires all the candidates to be in preferred order to accurately reflect the wishes of the electorate, make the outcome a farce.

The Media hiv never thought this is a way tae throw shit.
link to facebook.com

This is a nice SNP council election video what is NOT mentioning independence. Google SNP council election tv ad, and my monitor melts with the sheer weight of the SNP bad fury raging away, just from Severin Carrell too.

Its a bit disorientating watching ads like this and the relentless howls of vote NO to indy ref2 poured over us all.

link to youtube.com

Will it be different from last time and if it is, where next for yoon culture in Scotland?

link to theguardian.com

Archive is, blocked on this pc, sorry.

May the fourth be with you, fellow Jedi vile seps:D

Lenny Hartley:

Thanks, Lenny, good to be back but a lot of catching up to do. Hope everything’s good with you.
🙂

Peace Always

@ Mr Peffers ROFPMSL

Well as confusion continues on STV, The simple solution in my area is all Nationalist supporting groups are ranked, SNP No 1 and so on until they are all ranked, all Unionists are left blank.
Please tell me how my non vote can be, sliced, dissected, split, or otherwise Transferred to a Unionist candidate, if it ain’t there it can’t be counted .
As I have previously said it’s a bloody stupid way of voting , but I suppose i am just stupid in not understanding a simple system the general public so obviously have mastered so easily .

A fellow winger must have been in Morrisons Arbroath The National was placed on top of the Daily Mirror and Express I bought 2 one \i put in the cafe the other on the 73 to Dundee. Off topic can anyone enlighten me to what is the menage?

@David

He’s even got the kids looking they are from different fathers! Good job

Oh David in Holy Week as well..

Judge not lest ye be judged

John Thomson says:

15 April, 2017 at 3:02 pm

Does her partner feel the same way?

Horrified if she does

Who is her partner she wears no ring now??

OT the Irish population is 4.6 million.

They have received 250,000 passport applications from the UK this year already. They expect around a million in 2017.

I am not one of them. Mind you, I expect a Scottish one in the next few years.

I am hell of a glad everyone will now be seeing Ruth Davidson’s true colours. Of course, you will get the hardcore ones who use any excuse to despise Nicola Sturgeon or the SNP and who will stand by Davidson no matter what.

She is a vile excuse of a human being – the only thing that gives me comfort is knowing that this will all come back and bite her on the fat arse one day.

If Davidson thinks this is going to win some votes her way then she is mistaken, as I would like to think that voters who back-up this Rape Claus are in the minority and the majority of people are good, decent human beings who truly want the best for their country. Just hopefully what this bint has done will give them food for thought and they will vote in anyone but the Tories.

As far as I’m concerned, anyone who votes Tory is now voting for this ‘Rape Claus’ and should be ashamed of themselves.

And of course, nice piece of art, btw. 🙂

izzie:

I hope this helps.

Menage = a sort of savings club having several of the characteristics of a lottery, at one time very popular among certain of the working-classes. Weekly payments of a fixed sum were made, and, in the order in which the names were extracted from the hat, each member received a full period’s total subscriptions. Thus the owner of the first name had the advantage of receiving a lump sum straight away.

Peace Always

@ Robert Peffers Ah was in various unions as a shop stewart the nearest I came to personal intervention was to get a Gaffer to speak to a Minister about a alcohol dependency , glad to say the whole family were released.

Mind Robert dont be giving up the day job fur comedy lol , we have more than enough undergrun comedians on here .

5.51 & the word should read Relieved , ah wiznae promoting ah Gerry Dorsey song lol.

OT
It does annoy me what the MOD spends our money on, and how the mass media like the telegraph report things.
The Telegraph reports the Royal navy is ‘escorting’ some Russian warships through the channel when what they are doing is monitoring these ships.
The definition of ‘escort’ is ‘Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion’ but hey ho the MSM like to big up our forces on all occasions; just irritates me these inuendos of how grand and powerful we are…sorry had to get that off my chest.

WOS archive links for the remainder of October 2013 now on O/T.

link to ayemail.scot

@ Marie Clark at 10.20

If there is only one Tory, you don’t have to actually vote for him/her.

Once you’ve ranked all the other candidates, the one you don’t rank is last by default.

@ anyone wanting to vote for first and last only:

That doesn’t work. Once your first preference has been elected or eliminated, and only then, your lower preferences will be looked at. If you don’t have one marked 2, the tellers would either have to treat your 6 (or whatever) as 2 – which is not what you want – or discard your ballot for not having a second preference. I would expect them to do the latter, though it might end up in the “invalid” pile, to be discussed at the end.

Thanks to everyone who answered.

Like some others, our SNP candidate said not to vote for anyone else as there were no other Independence candidates. This obviously contradicts the ‘vote till you boke’ stuff which until then I was planning to do

It did occur to me though that I didn’t particularly want to transfer my vote to the others after the election (hopefully) of my single preferred candidate but I did want to rank the Tory last, hence the question.

Anyway the consensus is to rank everyone so that is what I’ll do.

They say a picture paints a thousand words, Chris your cartoon paints 10,000.

truly shows the real tory party.

@ Robert Peffers Did U hiv tae gon an done that mention billy conerly , spit. lol

@Thepnr

Something the Yoonitariat and their chain tuggers should take heed of. Never mistake endless patience and empathy for peaceful acceptance and conformity.

Being the good guys doesn’t mean we endlessly turn the other cheek. Sometimes you need to make a stand and say ‘enough is ENOUGH’!

It’s well past that time in my view. Unionist politicians and their meeja have used the Scottish public as punching bags, lab rats and whipping boys for years. We’ve turned our ‘other cheek’ so fucking often we’re suffering from whiplash at this point.

I think we’re done with the ‘mushroom principle’ at this point. More folk need to get angry and then use that anger clinically and constructively at the ballot.

Robert Graham at 4:47How many seats are there in the ward?

Ronnie , it is a great programme and shows such beauty.

Paisley pattern abounds.