The Nobodies
Apologies for the slightly shonky quality of this video, readers, which is due to the fact that ITV are such monumental self-sabotaging clowns that it’s not actually possible to screencap any sort of digital broadcast of theirs – screw YOU, viral content! – so we had to do this by videoing our iPad with our iPhone.
Ouch. And speaking of monumental self-sabotaging clowns, Scottish Labour.
After the hilarious desertion of Anas Sarwar to the House Of Lords last week, just two months after he pinky-swore he’d never ever ever ever do such a thing:
…the Labour Party is once again searching for a heid bummer for what we’d ordinarily call its North British branch office, if not for the fact that its new leader, the new Prime Minister, has just determined that the “north” is in fact located several hundred miles to the south of said office. Far-North British, perhaps.
The Scottish press, short of much else to write about in the summer silly season, tried to stir itself to whip up some interest in the Sunday papers about who’d get the job – which looks increasingly like a runoff between Michael Marra and Monica Lennon – but you could tell their hearts weren’t in it.
The Sunday Mail ran a leader seeming to back Lennon as a “new direction”, but couldn’t rustle up a sentence to describe anything actually new that she’d represent.
Over at Scotland On Sunday, Euan McColm claimed Marra could “resurrect” the party, but once again any sort of detail on how that might be achieved was conspicuous by its absence, other than the quite abstract idea that he could somehow “quietly and effectively help Burnham deliver for Scotland”, in an unexpected and uncharacteristic outbreak of sunny Pollyanna optimism for the normally bad-tempered scribe.
Marra at least has a wee sliver of integrity, having ducked out of backing the Gender Recognition Reform Act, unlike his colleagues. But the truth, readers, is that nobody can save Scottish Labour. It’s a victim both of unlucky circumstances and its own utter bumbling haplessness. Remarkably, 20 years after the SNP’s first ever election victory the party is still in shock, unwilling and unable to accept there’s been a shift in the political landscape and still imagining that voters will realise the error of their ways and “come home to Labour”, begging forgiveness.
But there’s nothing to come home TO. We spent the whole election campaign asking Labour figures to name a single policy their party differed from the SNP on (save for the moribund issue of the constitution), and never got anything even approaching an answer, because there isn’t one.
Voters tired of the SNP have no interest in voting for the SNP but in red ties. Anyone seeking “change” is far more likely to look for it on the fringes of either the left (Greens) or the right (Reform). Switching to them is like moving house, whereas going SNP-to-Labour is like painting your front door a slightly different shade of the same colour.
Sarwar tried U-turning on gender after the horse had bolted, and he tried going out on a limb by knifing Keir Starmer, but none of it did him any good because the simple fact is that voters have stopped listening to Scottish Labour at all.
The episode of Tipping Point at the top of this article is from the spring of 2019 (though we saw it on a repeat on ITV Quiz yesterday). Ramsay Lundstrom had already been in charge of the Scottish branch office for a year and a half at that point, but neither contestant could even bring his party to mind, let alone him personally.
Scottish Labour has gone backwards in TWO successive Holyrood elections since then, its vote share dropping from 21% to 17%. The SNP’s support has fallen further – from 44% to 33% – in the same six-year period, yet Labour are no closer to power, or even to meaningful opposition. In the all-important list vote they actually came second to Reform, and beat the Greens by just two points. It’s wholly plausible that both of those parties (whose trajectories are pointing upwards) will overtake Labour at the next election, leaving them in FOURTH place.
Because the thing is, corpses can’t actually be revived. Anas Sarwar’s seemingly-uneventful reign as the regional branch manager was actually a fatal catastrophe, the nailing shut of the doors of the last-chance saloon.
With the SNP in unprecedented, shambolic disarray he completely failed to capitalise on the situation, missing every gaping open goal to put ideological distance between himself and the stumbling party of Sturgeon, Yousaf and Swinney, arrogantly expecting to become First Minister by default without doing anything to earn it, just as Labour had in the 2024 UK election when the Tories finally exhausted voters’ patience.
Scottish Labour have been anonymous and directionless and visionless for so long now that Michael McIntyre and Monica Bellucci couldn’t inject some energy and sex appeal into them, let alone their own Michael and Monica.
Who the party chooses for its next sub-leader is a matter of total indifference to the population of Scotland. They will have precisely no impact on anyone’s lives, and will be lucky to make it as far as the next Holyrood election at all, far less have any chance of winning it.
They don’t even get any extra pay for it (just an allowance for costs), and at the end of it no-one will remember their name. We only bothered talking about it so we’d have an excuse to print a picture of Monica Bellucci. We don’t actually care, and the voters of Scotland care less than we do.
I said this before, but I think it is worth repeating, who would want to be in the SP? OK, to start with it is good money for doing absolutely nothing, but it must be such a depressing place. Can one really be surprised if Anas got out at the first available opportunity?
Theirs a lot in the SNP who are envious that they haven’t been selected to go into the house of Lords, including Sturgeon.
For me I’m glad he’s their. I was sick and tired of listening to his bull about how Scottish he was and how poor the rest of us were at being British.
It’ll not be the House of Lords that Nicola Sturgeon will be going to with US detective Columbo on the case.
link to x.com
Looks like another Big House altogether.
Willie, I don’t have a X account so whats the breaking news?
It’s just an AI video of Sturgeon being investigated by Columbo. Quite funny but sadly not happening in the real world (but here’s hoping).
The X link is to a parody of the US police detective Lieutenant Columbo investigating Nicola Sturgeon. Peppered with real footage of statements by Sturgeon, and indeed David Davis speaking in the Commons it casts the message that Sturgeon could be heading for pokey. A rather entertaining piece that epitomises what is now being widely alleged Sturgeon and her clique.
Calm down. It’s just DEI. It won’t personally affect you.
Be much more concerned by the DEI appointments in your local A&E.
If the SNP actually wanted independence, instead of simply keeping their jobs for the next 4 or 5 years – if Labour actually represented the workers of the UK, instead of “the international community” and the boat people, if the Conservatives wanted to truly conserve our way of life, instead of trashing it for 30 pieces of silver, if the Liberals could truly see a middle path, instead of acting as a useful lapdog for those who actually wield the power – and if the Green Party went back to being “tree-huggers”, not “under-three-huggers” – if this was what was on offer, then the voters would be spoiled for choice.
So – which set of globalist pedophiles should we cast our vote for?
Excellent comment
Well put!!
Its a pity when the Redcoats went to their country’s they didn’t have an option.
Lets all turn a blind eye and watch Disney channel instead, thats not me if someone needs help then lets help one day it could be me asking.
Great picture, made reading the article much more interesting. ?
“Number 10 North” is a slogan, not a shift in power.
A new office in Manchester doesn’t rebalance the constitution… and it certainly doesn’t address Scotland, which lies hundreds of miles beyond what Westminster calls ‘the North’.
Real decentralisation happens through law, not branding.
If the structure stays the same, the postcode doesn’t matter.
Burnham might as well have called his rebrand “Number 10 Mars” for all the difference it will make in this world.
Who really cares about the mainstream “Scottish” political parties pissing about in the poundshop devolved Parliament, they just seem to be populated by a bunch of political careerists that jump ship as and when they feel the need and circumstances change to retain their seats at the gravy train.
A lot of what was Labour just morphed into the SNP when they ascended and became the electorally successful option.
If you actually want change you have to stop being a fly constantly orbiting around a stinking shite, and start looking at other new options and grow those seeds into something better.
And politics should be about policy, so let’s not put another caveat on any individual considering stepping up and add that they should look sexy too. I don’t give a fuck what a politician looks like, I jist want them to have integrity and to actually represent their constituents rather than serving their own interests or those of lobbyists.
Well said Dan.
I think this is the 19th Change of leadership for London’s North Accounting Office, sometimes referred to as Scotland not to be with Andy Burnham’s North in Manchester.
In just 26 years the newly appointed must realise that their average time in office will be a year and a few months but no worries as if you turn out to be a disaster you could end up in the House of Lords after swearing that you wouldn’t go there or like Dugdale who was judged not to understand what she is saying go into university lecturing.
Vote Labour to cut pensioner’s Winter fuel payment and attack the disabled.
Vote Labour and see them build 6 new homes for rent over a 5 year period like they did the last time the ruled over Holyrood.
Vote Labour to see Scotland’s only oil refinery closed.
Vote Labour to see you pay the highest price for electricity in Europe.
Vote Labour as your old Dad had voted for them in yesteryear or just because you like the colour red. What else is there?
Strangely enough I was trying to think of that Labour guy’s name the other day, I was pretty sure it was Rottcod Leotard. Ah well, not to worry.
I think any politician who could fix period poverty will find running the country a dawdle by comparison.
Of course, perhaps I’m lying.
Or perhaps I’m trying to get into the heads of the no doubt masses of Scots who will think exactly what I wrote in my first sentence.
Monica Bellucci was at my door again last night with a red rose. I told her to piss off.
Somebody defo told somebody to piss off.
“Scottish” Labour are irrelevant and will remain so forever more.
I remember Sarwar when asked to comment on his hypocrisy of fronting a party advocating the abolishment of private education whilst ensuring his own kids attended private school, responding by saying this was a decision he made in the privacy of his own home so should be off limits for discussion. I kid you not.
I think that his brother adopted the same attitude to VAT
A man with the courage of his convictions then. Respect.
After all, if the Treaty of Union does not exist, everything following from it, including VAT, has no legality.
You will never need an excuse to show a photo of Monica Bellucci..!
And anyway, it’ll help cleanse the site of Sarwar and the leftovers from Labour’s dismal puddle of “talent”.
“Hatey McHateface says:
27 July, 2026 at 8:03 pm
I think any politician who could fix period poverty will find running the country a dawdle by comparison.”.
Hatey – I think you meant doddle. Or a meringue?
You’re right, sam. Must be my time of the month.
The conclusion to be drawn, I think, is just how utterly spent, moribund and bereft the political Left is. As per article, comparing the SNP to Labour is akin to looking at two near identical turds next to each other, and attempting to glean any differences (let alone merits) between them.
I daresay, the grownups in the room are starting to wise up? Twenty years of empirically demonstrated failure (not to mention scandal and tiresome theatre) is a very long time. As a result, we can finally see the rise of the Right (although whether Reform is up to snuff is another question).
The pink hair brigade and 16 year olds will vote Green, those who’ve been round the block a few times will vote Reform/Tory (hopefully the former), with an ever diminishing, ever more moribund rump voting SNP. Labour is facing extinction without differentiation from the SNP, albeit Burnham – as echo-skulled and vapid as he is – may let pull off some “personality politics” move like a Poundshop Blair.
For me, UK politics is on life support now. In fact, the UK itself is, as is Scotland.
Hmmm.
Yet I keep reading reports that across Europe, support for what the MSM likes to call the “far right” is higher among the young than in their parents.
A bit like the Trump support base. Surprisingly high among legal immigrants and law abiding minorities.
My take on things is that the silent majority don’t get the same media coverage as the likes of the “look at me” TERF haters, tea towel wearers and ganja smokers.
In the U.K. we’re awaiting the catalyst that will precipitate the collective will for extreme measures. Might be the Orcs making good on their frequent threats. Could be a 3-day nation wide grid outage caused by the green lunacy. Perhaps one of our illegal jihadis will succeed in killing 100 and more white kids.
Whatever. When it comes, and it will, we’ll see the theory of political punctuated equilibrium in action as the tectonic plates shift.
The product of years of counter-reality, supremely naïve, black-is-white doublethink politics of the Left forced down our collective throats has left a veritable tinderbox waiting for a spark to ignite it – and there are those agitators who are more than happy to provide said spark. Not just here in the UK, but mainland Europe as well. 🙁
Well aye, but under whose watch were God knows how many millions of immigrants allowed into the country in the period from 2010 to 2024? 😐
Totally agree, Mincehead, red and blue rosettes both.
Mind, I think most would agree that incomers hailing from Eastern Europe were (by and large) readily assimilated and productive economically speaking.
“comparing the SNP to Labour is akin to looking at two near identical turds”
So you finally admit that the SNP are not nationalists, they are just another UK social re-engineering woke party?
I admit nothing of the sort, Alf. As Stu notes in his piece (assume you read it, emphasis added):
‘… We spent the whole election campaign asking Labour figures to name a single policy their party differed from the SNP on (save for the moribund issue of the constitution), and never got anything even approaching an answer, because there isn’t one. …’
So, there you have it: the sole (yet key) differentiator, as moribund as it might well be.
“save for the moribund issue of the constitution”
Its clear as day (except to colonialists it seems) that Swinney does nothing on independence, he never has and never will. Given that the SNP leadership are not nationalists, this begs the question, what are they?
Others have noted there is not a bit of difference between the SNP and the Labour branch office in Scotland. Both are Woke parties ‘specialising’ in implementing damaging social re-engineering policies that destroy national cultures and economies, and at least one if not both is run by T*l Av*v, much like the USoA.
The party political road to independence is ended, assuming it ever really began; which confirms postcolonial theory that there is no connection between colonialism and democracy, and the people must find a different path to liberation, which is what Liberation Scotland are doing via the United Nations etc:
link to liberation.scot
You’re trying to tell me things that are painfully obvious (and in keeping with what I myself have been saying for 15 years or more, including here, to much derision back in the day).
The SNP are useless and ineffectual, you say? NO SHIT SHERLOCK. However, irrespective of how demonstrably ineffective they have been, and are, doesn’t change the fact that there is a desire for independence, just not one clue as to how to deliver it. I’ve spoken at length here to explain the need for a credible economic blueprint and prospectus (again to much derision, with dark sentiments expressed of “Yoon trickery” 😀 ). Still, you can lead a horse to water, right Alf?
To my mind, the “path to independence” (from an iScot perspective) is far from “ended”, it simply requires the necessary nous, will, elbow grease, genuine talent (political, legal, diplomatic and economic) and TIME. Granted, that’s quite the shopping list, but not impossible by any means.
Still though, ever the search for either the “quick fix”, “cunning plan”, “magic bullet” – and someone else (e.g. the UN) to supposedly do the heavy lifting and hand it all to you on a plate. Not going to happen, though doubtless will ring quite a few bells, Alf.
Now that the approach to the UN has failed and been rejected, does that mean therefore that there is no path to independence at all?
The “desire for independence” as you put it is entirely negated since the national party leadership enters into ‘an accommodation’ with colonialism, and is thereafter ‘brought under colonialism’s wing’.
Hence the colonizer’s political process always ‘fails the people’, much as we continue to see, and where the movement must find a different path if they are to be liberated:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Whether you like it or not (and whether you can even comprehend the implications – unlikely), the SNP has to operate within a political, legal, international and constitutional framework, ergo “rules”. Regardless of how hopelessly ineffectual as they have been (which they have), there are hurdles to overcome – and that’s assuming you’ve genuinely convinced a sufficiently large part of the electorate (they haven’t, despite 20 years in government).
If those within the SNP could’ve waved a magic wand and achieved independence at any time over these last 20 years, they’d have done so. Sadly for them, that’s not an option – but doesn’t remove the desire, in much the same way my granddaughter desires a pet unicorn.
I realise you struggle with these basic realities, and honestly, I can’t be bothered. It reminds me of toilet training a toddler.
Having exhausted all other decent options, Professor Baird resorts to trying the historically most fruitful one – blaming the Jews.
Oh well.
I am surprised. I am disappointed.
But another lesson learned.
Gonna have to learn the Scots for antsemitism, pogrom and final solution next.
No connection between colonialism and democracy, Alf?
Doesn’t postcolonial theory also have something to say about the dead ends the colonised get led into by “goitrous academics”?
Remind us. Was it Fanon, Cesaire or Memmi who committed that one to print?
Indeed, “another lesson learned” is that fascist colonialism always has the ultimate method in its toolbox, if assimilation disna wirk, to eradicate or replace a colonized people – e.g. Ireland, Scotland, Palestine etc.
Racist yesterday, Alf, and now fascist today.
You academics don’t half like to throw the big, complicated words around.
How are you getting on with the Scots words to describe somebody who thinks Scotland’s problems can be blamed on the Jews?
“Racist yesterday, Alf, and now fascist today.”
Is he really expressing such sentiments and views? If so, that’s a disgrace and he should be ashamed to claim being an academic. How vile.
Hatey, you are on the wrong side of history and morality in your admiration for the mafia and its backers who run Isr*el, USoA, and England-as-UK, and who seek to dominate other countries and peoples creating unrest globally, as Francesca Albanese and others have demonstrated:
link to youtube.com
“on the wrong side of history and morality”
Oh, yeah, sure.
I’m not cheering on the people who want to exterminate nations, cultures, languages, histories, even races. That makes me, baaaddddd.
You’re cheering them on, Alf, and that makes you goooddddd.
Whatever.
The nations, cultures, languages, histories, I support in their existential struggles for survival don’t need or want my help.
They’re sublimely indifferent to your hostility too. They wouldn’t see you, or your fellow travelers, in their road.
If we’re going to talk about history, one day Scotland might be independent, despite your efforts, and Scotland will need international friends, allies, supporters, trading partners, etc. just like normal countries do.
If you want to play at serious politics, Alf, you need to stop parroting cliches like some kind of Scottish Student Grant.
The political union of blue labour and red tories , right being left and left being the end game,
To finish the GB parliament
It started with Tory lockdowns for residents of GB, as the movement of migration continued under the radar,
Very little checks done on heath or on dangerous criminals.
The blue and red colours working together, one started the collapse and the other increased it.
Only original residents of GB will always be on the wrong side of all laws.
One would think out of hundreds, possibly thousands of politicians some might think and regard ending Englands GB as mistake in history.
For I don’t foresee the Celtic nations trying to save it from its own imposed dissolution.
Small in- fights To distract and hide behind from the bigger picture of collapsing GB,
Every diversion has been used to occupy the minds of people from the “Me too movements” to gender bending laws and migration and immigration, climate change that has always happened to two tier laws.
One may question the purpose of deliberate wrong thinking by politicians across the board that is being implemented.
The sad thing is, all we get to dine on is moral indignation.
These carpet bagging charlatans get wealth, celebrity, and a career from their carpet bagging. They don’t even have to be good at it. Why should they care about our indignation?
Interesting / profound quote I heard second hand from John Stewart, Today Show… If Watergate happened today, it would be a news story for 12 hours. No impeachment, no resignations, no prison sentences. I think that’s probably true.
Politics and government in the UK / Western world is a racket. The occasional scapegoat, like Murrell, must rue their misfortune at being singled out for their culpability. We think he’s a scalp claimed, they think he’s a mere token sacrificed.
The fault isn’t the fraudsters who get elected, a grifter is gonna grift. The fault lies with the media, and the law courts, who have forfeited their gravitas and potency when holding the guilty to account. In this, the UK, (and in this context, I’ll include Scotland), the sociopathy still leads the world.
In fact, I get a sickening feeling in my gut, that the long term, in depth, subjugation and indoctrination of Scotland is seen by many as exemplary.
We Scots have sovereignty, actual sovereignty, well documented in our history with multiple sources of corroboration and providence spanning centuries. The fraud which bound Scotland into a false Union has farcical credibility and dubious origin, but yet we modern Scots can neither look after our interests, nor protest our exploitation, without first asking permission from Westminster. It is truly fucking pathetic.
Credit where it’s due, while I detest Trump, perhaps he deserves thanks of a sort, because his deluded excesses have done more to expose the extent of global sycophancy, corrupt and servile loyalties to a handful of murderous and insatiable “elites” which has undermined and bankrupted Western hegemony and good standing. He didn’t drain the swamp as promised, but he’s certainly exposed a good many reptiles.
While Scottish Labour elects another useless leader, there is a Burnham bounce for now.
“Voting intention, 26-27 July 2026: Ref 22%, Lab 22%, Con 21%, Grn 13%, LD 11%
27 July 2026
Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention figures
The latest YouGov voting intention poll for The Times and Sky News, shows an effective tie between the three largest parties, with Reform UK and Labour both on 22% of the vote, and the Conservatives on 21%.
Although these three parties are all within the margin of error of our previous poll, this is the highest figure for Labour recorded in our tracker since September last year, and is up six points from the 16% low recorded for the party as recently as May this year.
This is additionally the lowest share recorded for Reform UK since March 2025.
Reform UK: 22% (-1 from 22-23 Jul)
Labour: 22% (+1)
Conservatives: 21% (+1)
Greens: 13% (=)
Lib Dems: 11% (-3)
Restore Britain: 4% (=)
SNP: 2% (-1)
Plaid Cymru: 1% (=)
Your Party: 1% (+1)
Others: 2% (+1)
The Greens are on an unchanged 13% of the vote, which is down eight points from their February peak, while the Lib Dems have fallen three points since last week to 11%, the lowest share we have recorded for the party during this parliament.
“Burnham Bounce”
“Labour +1%”
If that’s a “bounce”, Sam, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. 😀
Well within statistical margin of error! You really do have a tenuous grasp on reality (as invariably based on wishful thinking) don’t you?
“Although these three parties are all within the margin of error of our previous poll, this is the highest figure for Labour recorded in our tracker since September last year, and is up six points from the 16% low recorded for the party as recently as May this year.”
Caveman needs glasses or somebody to read to him. Up 6 points in about 2 months and it is not a bounce.
I am not a Labour supporter. Wishful thinking on your part.
“there is a Burnham bounce for now.”
“Labour recorded in our tracker since September last year, and is up six points from the 16% low”
Wow, who knew that Andy Burnham has been PM “since September last year”, and is thus responsible for this “Burnham bounce” whereby Labour dragged itself off the unprecedented 16% flatline, all the way up to a derisory 22%? Good grief… keep digging 😀
(Also, I think you’ll find the term you are looking for isn/t “Burnham Bounce” but “Dead Cat Bounce”. HTH)
On May 14th 2026 the Labour MP, Josh Simons, announced his resignation in the Makerfield constituency in order to allow Andy Burnham to try to return to UK parliament and challenge Starmer as PM.
Since 14th May 2026 Labour has risen 4 points in the polls. That’s a Burnham bounce.
“Labour: 22% (+1)”
“Up 6 points in about 2 months and it is not a bounce.”
“Since 14th May 2026 Labour has risen 4 points in the polls.”
All taken verbatim from your posts of this morning.
Well, make your mind up Sam – one minute it’s 1%, next it’s 6% in “2 months”, now it’s only 4% since mid-May. One wonders what the next number off your Bingo card will be? Higher! Higher! Lower! Lower! 🙂
Btw, what were Labour polling during July 2024, merely two years ago?
No?
Well, I’ll tell you: 40%
So y’know, kinda takes the sheen off your trumpeting 22% – barely HALF – doesn’t it?
Yup. Dead Cat Bounce all day long, Chief.
I can only find surveys from 2023 about levels of trust the people in England and Scotland have in their respective governments.
In England in 2023, the level of trust in UK government was 35%.
In Scotland, in 2023, the level of trust in Scottish government was 47%. This is the lowest figure since 1999 and was down from 61% in 2019.
It appears Labour are shite. The SNP are useless. Lib Dems are nonentities. Tories are well Tories. Reform are the scum of the earth. Greens are loonies. The wee Mickey Mouse Independent parties are run by cranks and dreamers.
What are we left with?
Politics in most countries are infested with grifters who could not hack it in the real world. The only exception to this, in my mind, is Hungary. Peter Magyar, who previously was a member of Orban’s corrupt Party left and formed his own Party. He got off his erse and for two years, toured the country, towns, small villages giving his vision of how Hungary could change. He listened to people and gave hope to the electorate. It is early days but he has made an excellent start in changing things for the better. He is touring the country again, starting in August and is determined to stay close to the electorate.
Do you see anyone in Scotland even attempting to do something similar?
Excellent post Chas and (probably like yourself) I was thrilled to see Peter Magyar topple Orban in the recent elections, what a terrific result for people power & democracy. Congratulations Hungary! Meanwhile in Scotland we are stuck in a rut with the same old faces going through the motions and nothing ever changing for the better. I don’t see anybody making the superhuman effort to grow a new party from the ground up and putting in the hard work to connect with people (ie, in person and not just posting on X). I guess Scotland will just need to wait….
Apropos of nothing, Rev, what ever happened about Lynsay Watson? Was any kind of justice ever served?
The i paper ‘Burnham bounce’ puts Labour ahead in poll, but can it last? 18:44 Mon, 27 Jul
Yahoo News UK
https://uk.news.yahoo.com › burnham-bounce-takes-labour-top-105802191.html
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com › news › audio › 2026 › jul › 28 › burnham-bounce-lab
I am less interested in the Burnham bounce than in what may happen to Reform with current police investigations into funding. According to polling, support for Scottish independence would rise if Reform became the UK government.
“Democratic institutions inside a colonial framework cannot produce constitutional change”: Is a premise put forward by Alf Baird as part of his ‘Scotland is a Colony’ theory.
And as a premise it can be tested, challenged, supported, or refuted.
Mockery, however, cannot do any of those things.
It’s entirely possible to disagree with Professor Baird’s theory without diminishing him as a person.
What matters in any discussion of colonialism, democracy, or national structure is the quality of argument, not the volume of reaction.
Alf Baird has presented a structured claim grounded in postcolonial scholarship.
One may accept it or reject it, but it is coherent and offered politely.
If the theory is flawed, it can be shown to be flawed.
If the evidence is insufficient, stronger evidence can be offered.
If the definitions are contested, they can be clarified.
Mockery doesn’t clarify the theory and it doesn’t strengthen a counter-argument.
Mockery doesn’t illuminate the subject under discussion.
Mockery only tells us that Alf Baird’s argument has struck a nerve.
A serious claim deserves a serious reply.
And a serious reply begins with structure – the part of an argument that survives when everything that isn’t an argument is taken away – not sneering.
It had to be said, Northy, and you said it well.
Sometimes mockery is richly deserved and entirely apt.
Besides, sticks and stones eh? Maybe people need to have thicker skins (rather than thicker brains).
I still can’t get my head around anyone purportedly openly talking in antisemitic and/or fascistic terms, on a well read public forum at that? If true – that alone would be more than worthy of abject derision and condemnation.
Mockery and insults are different. Alf usually gets insults and mockery. Insults are unnecessary.The intention is to hurt someone who is usually a stranger.
It is noticeable that there are fewer women than men making comments.
Mockery is the act of making fun of someone or something, often through imitation or exaggeration, while insults are direct derogatory remarks aimed at hurting someone’s feelings. Both can be hurtful, but mockery often involves a playful or humourous element, whereas insults are typically more straightforwardly offensive.
“Mockery and insults are different.”
Your distinction makes sense at the level of tone, but my point was about their role in argument rather than their emotional flavour.
In discussion, neither mockery nor insult engages a premise, tests a claim, or advances clarity. They serve the same structural function: they replace argument with reaction.
So while mockery may feel lighter or more humorous, it still halts the conversation in exactly the same way an insult does. That’s the only sense in which I was using the term, and in that sense the difference doesn’t affect the point.
You’re describing mockery as a social behaviour.
I was describing mockery as a rhetorical behaviour.
These are not the same thing.
Mockery may be playful among friends — but in argument, it’s simply the absence of argument.
My point wasn’t about the emotional harm of mockery… it was about its structural uselessness.
“My point wasn’t about the emotional harm of mockery… it was about its structural uselessness.”
Well I daresay, Northy, if mockery is “structurally useless”, it does beg the question: Why do you endlessly indulge in it, week in and week out? In fact, that’s almost your entire output here.
Pot, kettle etc. springs instantly to mind.
This is Scotland, sam.
Why should we believe you know what a woman is?
The colonialism is not a serious claim, it is presenting obscure academic opinions as fact. While there are none so gullible as the educated.
The fact is that governments are taking larger and larger shares of public life, constantly increasing taxation and regulation, and simultaneously concentration political power and munificence wherever they are located. Currently in London, with independence Edinburgh.
Scotland did fine as a colony from 1750 to 1900, not asset stripped. It was only when big government arrived we have suffered.
“Scotland did fine as a colony from 1750 to 1900, not asset stripped. It was only when big government arrived we have suffered.”
It sounds good but it’s not right.
You’re raising points about government size and historical interpretation, but none of them actually engage the argument you’re responding to.
Saying a claim is “not serious” is a dismissal, not a rebuttal.
A dismissal doesn’t examine a premise or test its evidence… it simply avoids it.
Likewise, the remark about “the educated” is a status judgement, not an argument.
It doesn’t clarify anything about the claim itself; it only reframes the people who make it.
The shift to taxation, regulation, and centralisation is a change of subject.
Those may be important issues, but they are not the issue under discussion.
Replacing one frame with another doesn’t resolve the first frame… it just sidesteps it.
And the historical assertion that “Scotland did fine as a colony” is presented without evidence.
An unsupported claim cannot overturn a supported one, no matter how confidently it is stated.
None of this is meant as criticism — only clarification.
You’re offering a different argument rather than engaging the original one.
That’s a perfectly valid choice, but it means the original argument remains unaddressed.
“It sounds good but it’s not right.”
Spot on, James. The statement (“Scotland did fine as a colony from 1750 to 1900, not asset stripped”) is actually a complete contradiction not least because the primary ‘objective of colonialism is economic plunder’ (Memmi).
And, as Northcode points out, a crude ‘dismissal’ is insufficient basis to seriously question facts as presented.
I’m not sure what Ian means by “obscure academic opinions”? Academic papers published in peer-reviewed journals are always based on research evidence as presented. If other academics seek to question the plentiful evidence that Scotland is colonised then they should produce a paper presenting contrary evidence to papers such as this:
link to cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com
Here we might also consider legal opinion on the fact that Scotland is colonised, which of course involves a rather different approach, but is also based on evidence and/or precedent, of which plenty has been produced and presented to the UN and the Scottish people by Liberation Scotland:
link to jpti.ch
Alf’s work is fundamentally unserious for a number of reasons which I’ve pointed out length, but to summarise:
– Alf’s definition of a colony is so broad that it’s difficult to see how any area, sub-region, or country within a larger state anywhere in the U.K. or in the entire world wouldn’t meet the definition.
– the colonial markers and other such indicators used are really, in the overall context of world affairs, a collection of minor political grumbles and the compromises inherent to being part of a larger state. Not all are unjustified, but compared to the conditions people have to suffer elsewhere in the world and the atrocities of actual colonialism, these complaints are laughably minor in scale, which leads to my next point;
– Scotland is a wealthy and prosperous country with a high standard of public services and infrastructure, a comprehensive welfare state, strong adherence to the rule of law and protection for individual rights. There are poor people in Scotland, but in Scotland being poor means struggling to pay bills and afford beyond the basics, it doesn’t mean a family living on a mattress outside a shop as I saw in Buenos Aires, or under a bin bag next to a rail line as I saw in Mumbai, or in any of the numerous violent slums I saw in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Rio etc. It is comical and certainly highly insensitive to try and draw any parallel between what the Scottish people have and the suffering of the genuine poor and marginalised in the world.
– If the paper linked to above is so persuasive and academically robust, given its clear intention to go beyond simple analysis by convincing large numbers of people to view Scotland as a colony, why is it published in a minor undergraduate run journal in Maryland? Was it submitted to Chatham House, what did they have to say about it?
– Some of positions that the paper takes are eccentric to say the least, for example the low birth rate being attributed to Scots language not being taught. In fact, Scots not being taught in schools seems to be at least 50% of the complaint of the entire paper and is apparently the cause of anxiety and depression, drug addiction, incarceration and all other manner of social ills. It’s hard to take that argument seriously.
– Many of the supporting facts in the paper are outright false, such as the assertion that half of Scot’s live in or close to poverty (the actual figure by OECD definition is 13%), or that top jobs are advertised “primarily in London” (in fact all state jobs are advertised online).
– which brings me to my final point, Scottish independence is and always has been a widely held belief that Scotland would be better as a country if it was an independent state rather than a than part of a larger state. It is a view grounded in a range of different factors for a range of different people, for some it is more emotional and principled, for others it’s pragmatic, and in either case it’s a perfectly reasonable and well founded political viewpoint. It is not however, about the liberation of an oppressed people or some cosplay victimhood fantasy normally rooted in anti-English xenophobia.
Absolutely top post, Aidan.
The entire “Scotland as colony” and “let’s force abody tae spik Scots” tropes serve only as a distraction from the fundamental problem Indy faces – an inability to convert 10% of Scottish voters from No to Yes, and hence get Indy support to the lasting, clear majority needed to make it a political reality.
Precisely and definitively put, Aidan – which goes a very long way to explain the incredulous mockery that Alf is so often on the receiving end of, one imagines. At its heart lies a supreme credibility deficit.
For me, it’s the whole gross misappropriation of the (endlessly parroted ad nauseam) “Scotland is a colony” narrative/schtick, and (equally oft repeated) supposed citations of Memmi. In fact, Memmi wrote in the mid 1950s – fully 70 years ago – about French occupied Tunisia and Algeria, brutal regimes both (meted out by the same French colonial power). Institutionalised racism and extreme violence, apartheid, absolute segregation of indigenous and European peoples, zero say in government, 85% illiteracy, abject poverty, and arbitrary, summary imprisonment for crimes such as “offending the French”.
As you say, anyone claiming there are genuine comparisons to be made between Memmi’s subject matter and Scotland in 2026 is being absurdly disingenuous and misguided at best, downright offensive at worst. I mean, I’m not sure I can recall reading about Tunisian or Algerian French Presidents neither (unlike, say, Scottish PMs, both within the last 20 years).
For me, as you say, this all boils down to the endlessly bitter airing of comparatively petty grievances, and can be ignored as such. Also the slightest whiff of some rather dark undertones to it all isn’t very pleasant either.
Thank you both – and an excellent point on Memmi regarding the French occupied territories.
In fairness, the mockery doesn’t so much come from the flimsy and absurd case, it comes from the inordinate time the professor spends posting essentially the same thing, over and over again, on sometimes a nearly hourly basis.
The other thing that I didn’t reach touch on is the fixation and obsession with the events of 1707, and the belief that the UN would either have the power to or be interested in determining Scotland’s constitutional status based on an assessment of the events of 1707, or would somehow be capable of instating features of Scotland’s pre-1707 constitution such as the convention of the estates.
There is no principle or doctrine or treaty in international law that would provide for that or anything like that. In fact, respect for the territorial integrity of states is a key foundational concept in international law, which goes to the very heart of the purpose of the post-WW2 order: to maintain peace and stability and avoid conflict. If the UK’s borders can be opened by reference to a long-extant treaty, then so are other countries borders that have been established much more recently through violence. In turn, international law turns from being a stabilising force promoting peaceful relations between countries, to a destabilising force driving divergent interests and therefore conflict.
Your argument is built on a misunderstanding of the terrain.
You compare Scotland only to places that suffer more, as though injustice must reach a certain magnitude before it becomes legitimate.
This is not analysis.
This is minimisation.
Colonialism is not defined by the worst examples of its expression… it’s defined by the structure of the relationship.
A structure can be unjust even if another structure is more unjust.
You also shift the definition of colonialism each time it becomes inconvenient.
Sometimes you define it by poverty, sometimes by infrastructure, sometimes by human rights, sometimes by global suffering.
A definition that moves to avoid the argument is not a definition… it’s a defence.
You dismiss cultural suppression because it doesn’t resemble the atrocities of other nations.
But cultural suppression doesn’t need to be violent to be real.
It only needs to be effective.
You treat Scotland’s prosperity as proof of its freedom.
Prosperity is not sovereignty.
Prosperity is not self-determination.
Prosperity is not the absence of domination.
Prosperity is simply prosperity.
You ask why a paper is not published in a prestigious institution.
Prestige is not truth.
Prestige is not legitimacy.
Prestige is not analysis.
Prestige is merely the approval of those who benefit from the existing structure.
You call the argument ‘cosplay’ and ‘victimhood’.
Insults are not evidence.
They are a sign that the argument has reached a place you cannot follow.
You say independence is reasonable but colonialism is fantasy.
This is a contradiction.
If Scotland is not structurally constrained, then independence is unnecessary.
If independence is necessary, then Scotland is structurally constrained.
You can’t have both.
Your argument does not refute the claim.
In fact, it reveals your discomfort with the implications of the claim.
Understand this:
A nation does not become sovereign because its grievances are the worst in the world.
A nation becomes sovereign because its people recognise themselves as one.
And the recognition by the Scots that they are a distinct and unique people does not require your permission.
As usual Northcode, your response is vague and makes references to concepts at a very high level, without any contextualised analysis or attempt to link it to any specific point that is being made. Again as usual therefore, I’m left guessing within very wide margins what you mean.
My post simply responds to Alf Baird’s article and other works. If you have a problem with colonialism being defined and measured in respect of prosperity, legal rights and infrastructure amongst other characteristics, take this up with Alf. I didn’t choose to define it that way (although incidentally I agree with those metrics being appropriate).
Likewise I don’t really know what you mean by “constrained”, but it is a perfectly reasonable (and a vast majority) belief that the U.K. is a free and prosperous democratic country, but that nevertheless Scotland would be better of entirely governing herself as an independent state. That is also a view shared respectively by the Greenlanders and the Faroese in respect of Denmark, the populations of Quebec and Alberta in respect of Canada etc.
“A nation becomes sovereign because its people recognise themselves as one”
Oh aye, like in 2014.
Erm.
Cue “we wus robbed”, “the franchise was colonised”, “it’s no fair”, etc. etc. ad nauseum.
Still though, Northy. When all is said and done, you need to persuade but 10% of Sovereign Scots to change from No to Yes and Indy will be a slam dunk.
Or, you could spend the rest of your life pointlessly point scoring online about abstruse, irrelevant, academic hair splitting.
Have to say, all the evidence is pointing at the latter.
Sigh. Where to start eh?
“You compare Scotland only to places that suffer more, as though injustice must reach a certain magnitude before it becomes legitimate.”
It’s not the magnitude of suffering that is the main point of dispute (albeit it is still of relevance), it is the nature and definition of colonisation itself, as described by Memmi. His isn’t simply a “more unjust” version of Scotland, but a fundamentally and objectively different one that is founded on total non-representation, denial of citizenship, exploitation, summary justice and State violence. As Adrian has noted, you are rather crassly conflating what could be termed “ordinary” political grievance with colonialism – a gross misappropriation and the root cause of the mockery and incredulity you complain about. Can you honestly be surprised?
“Colonialism is not defined by the worst examples of its expression… it’s defined by the structure of the relationship.”
No, this is an absurd over-simplification and far too loose generalisation, again as noted by others. “Colonialism” requires certain markers and metrics to be satisfied – absolute (brutally enforced) control and disenfranchisment etc. By your (non) definition, Colonisation is absurdly subjective, tantamount to “any political relationship that I don’t think is fair”.
Again, I find this trivialisation most distasteful, grouping yourselves – with your relatively mundane grievances, as freely expressed from the comfort of your armchair – with the likes of 1950s Tunisia with State sponsored mass murder etc. Give it a rest.
“You treat Scotland’s prosperity as proof of its freedom.
Prosperity is not sovereignty.
Prosperity is not self-determination.
Prosperity is not the absence of domination.
Prosperity is simply prosperity.”
You can’t have it both ways. Economic subjugation and extraction are fundamental “must haves” of true Colonisation. Scotland cannot be a colony if its great prosperity is still present and correct. You are airily waving away your very foundational premise of postcolonial theory, which is actually quite funny when you think about it.
“If Scotland is not structurally constrained, then independence is unnecessary.
If independence is necessary, then Scotland is structurally constrained.
You can’t have both.”
Classic false dichotomy alert… Y’know, it’s perfectly reasonable for a country to desire independence for “normal” reasons that have bugger all to do with being supposedly colonised and/or similarly grossly constrained. It’s a perfectly reasonable choice and “colonial victimhood” is not a prerequisite!
“A nation does not become sovereign because its grievances are the worst in the world.
A nation becomes sovereign because its people recognise themselves as one.
And the recognition by the Scots that they are a distinct and unique people does not require your permission.”
Literally no one claimed that Scots are not recognised as a distinct people – straw man nonsense. However, being a distinct people doesn’t make a nation a colony.
Cut Northy some slack, CC.
He’s providing lots of reasons why the more prosperous regions of Scotland, e.g. the Northern Isles or the Borders, should cut loose from the Central Belt shitholes. “Structurally constrained” and that.
Perhaps the newly independent Scottish regions will one day want to commemorate his help with a statue or a sewage plant named after him.
We have serious claims from Professor Baird that I’m a racist and a fascist.
We have serious claims from Professor Baird that the root of Scotland’s “disfunction” lies in Tel Aviv.
I can but laugh at the former. I would like to see some evidence for the latter.
Oh, and Northy. Every former colony that has achieved Independence through democratic means utterly refutes that other claim of Professor Baird’s that democratic institutions within a colonial framework can’t produce constitutional change.
Sure you wouldn’t rather mock me than answer any of this?
Go on. You know you want to.
Nah, everyone here knows you’re just a Unionist “Prick”…..
Ah, Wally, as ever you show us why the smart money is on you still wondering, as the emergency services crane you out of your bedroom window for your final journey to intensive care, why Indy never happened in your lifetime.
If there’s any justice in this world, they’ll posthumously name a fatberg after you.
Well Burnham and most of his cabinet (and most Westminster MPs) are members of L-F-O-I and many accept donations. Westminster runs Scotland directly and indirectly via Holyrood. Simple really. Want me to describe how A-I-P-A-C owns and controls elected representatives in US House of Representatives and Senate?
“Want me to describe how”
Of course.
But you won’t. For all sorts of reasons. But mainly because you can’t.
““Want me to describe how””
Just to keep you happy, Hatey.
‘Burnham’s government is even more zion*st than Starmer’s’:
link to dearscotland.substack.com
Cheers, Alf, that’s me convinced.
I’ll buy that bridge off you now. Remember your quoted price has to include postage and packing.
More pictures of Monica Bellucci are welcome.
I was in the mood for a spot of speech writing the other day, and I’m in the same mood today.
I was thinking about all the noise created by the folk who roam this place and it struck me that, as individuals, we give way too much attention to that noise.
And then I realised that Scotland as a nation gives way too much attention to the remnants of the British Empire and its endless, noisy nostalgia.
Indigenous Scots give far, far too much attention, and weight, to a neighbour who has been deafening them with its loud imperial noise for three centuries.
And right then, at that very moment of realisation, a speech popped intae ma heid.
Here it is:
There you go, folks – stop trying to engage with rhetorical ‘noise’… you’ll feel better for it.
Does that mean you are leaving ‘Wings’ for good?
I hope so.
You give way too much attention, Northy, to the voices in yer heid.
If any silly sod replies to derogatory comment at 12.10 then hell mend ye!
On a completely off topic subject – I have once again heard some commentating twit describe the winning of silver or bronze medals as ‘ minor medals ‘ – what is it that drives some arrogant , entitled berk to denigrate the achievement of any medal or indeed, anyone passing the test of their own country to attend a major event?
Assuming no mainstream political party is going to radically improve anything for the country, there is still a good case for a different party with the same policies, over continuing with the SNP.
The cronyism and corruption is so deeply instilled after 20 years throughout every sphere of public life, that a change of face and networks would almost certainly be a good thing just on its own.
I know that is no great inspiration, but we are where we are.
BTW, There’s an easy fix for the ITV screen capture problem – in the browser settings, do a search for ‘hardware’, then switch off the ‘Use graphics acceleration’ (Chrome/Edge), restart the browser, now OBS Studio can see any stream. Win!
Burnham’s been in the job 5 seconds and what has he been doing :
– FUCK OFF SCOTLAND
was near immediate, as well as “infinity money for eternity for that daft eastern war courtesy of mackinder-esque geopolitics”
– then he wants to go after people on benefits, especially the young; maybe they don’t want to go to “Yooni” for a lifelong unpayable debt for a useless degree that won’t get you work as a barista.
And today : I think the plan is to take the old folks houses to pay for them going to the old folks homes. I think care homes cost like 1000 a week. I think most of them die within 2-3 years once put into them. Maybe time to remortgage the house, then spend the money on your kids, and fuck the govt.
Next? – get the disabled into work by training them up as drone pilots for the big one being planned for 2032 or so.
link to archive.ph
– cripples, making more cripples.
at least blackrock is doing just fine – we’re all working on the plantation now
link to archive.ph
– if you’re lucky you might get to work up at the big house, be a “House N1gger”
fagan is running for labour lead; I’d never heard of this guy, and yet he was leader of the local council. I doubt if many of his employees know who he is either. Just something interesting though – south lanarkshire council was the only one in Scotland last year to turn in a surplus, it was small 1.5M, but they did manage it; most of the other councils were in the hole to around 20M
link to bbc.co.uk
personally I think the surplus is just a feature of the amount of dirty money flowing in the economy; the place is a narco state with much white powders coming up the M74 and with massive need for facilitating “laundry” (which goes into property, local businesses, professional services and thus the tax take).
THANK GOD FOR THE -CHING- it provides some money velocity in the local economy and keeps our streets clean, and the bairns at the school, explaining en passant why an area that lost its industry 40 years ago has maserati and bentley dealerships.
What’s that you say, Sooty? Burnham’s going after people on benefits?
Well, well. Maybe he will live up to the hype after all and actually improve something.
Odd isn’t it, how the kind of poster that likes to wang oan aboot inwards migration is usually the first one to get all agitated about the slightest chance that the neurodiverse, the long Covids, the structurally nervous, the morbid consumers of pies, and all the other grifters living off the sweat of the workers may finally have to get aff their precious, flabby erses.
LOLZ…..says the Keyboard Warrior – sitting on it’s fat arse in East Kilbride posting Unionist Shite on here all day, every day.
Had mony pies the day, “Prick”?
“sitting on it’s fat arse”
Ah, Wally W, you’re another who should make the effort to post in Scots.
That way fair-minded readers could be genuinely uncertain about your intellectual capacities.
As long as you post in the King’s English, there can be no doubt.
your posts are like a one man “dirty protest”, and never troubled by any coherent point. Still, quantity, not quality.
– btw how much do they charge you in the old folks home, main?
– if you want to earn a few bob, I can get you some delivery work; one package, 5 grand, just pop down to Liverpool and someone will text you. Use the backroads. They send you a burner through the post.
with a few quid you can get one of those filipino nurses to give you a happy finish after she wipes your arse; save you wanking all over the BTL
Ah, Confused, some casual racism of the real kind, not the “doctrinal” sort dreamed up by Alf.
And some of your signature anal fixation, so we know it’s the authentic you, and not somebody hijacking your identity.
What must astound and mystify all alert readers is why, with the likes of you and James pushing Indy, we’re still not.
« In another place [Carl] Schmitt calls sovereignty “true state omnipotence.” He holds that sovereignty lies with the person who decides in exceptional circumstances not governed by norms, observing that “exceptional circumstances are for jurisprudence what miracles are for theology.”
« This irrationalistic, decisionistic theory of sovereignty is completely oriented towards the modern concept of dictatorship, and in this regard forms the diametrical opposite of humanism’s rationalist idea of the constitutional state. It is a clear example of absolutizing subjective individuality at the expense of law, such as we can continually detect in the irrationalist types of humanist philosophy.
« Schmitt sees the essence of the state as a sovereign and integral organized community of power, the meaning of which lies in the political integration of the nation in terms of its relation to friend and enemy (the sole criterion for politics, according to Schmitt!). He also teaches that constitutional law ultimately derives its force of law from a political decision which preempts all jural norms and which is made by an existing political power. He writes:
——
“Every existing political unit has its value and the justification for its existence, not from whether its norms are correct or useful, but from its existence as such. Compared to this existential decision, all normative rules are secondary [!]. Also, all concepts used in jural norms that presuppose the political existence . . . receive their content and meaning not from a norm but from the concrete reality of an independent political existence.” (Schmitt, Verfassungslehre, pp. 22 f.)
——
« The historicist view of the meaning of state and law could not be demonstrated more clearly. Law has become a secondary form, by means of which the goddess of power writes the bloody decrees of history. »
(Herman Dooyeweerd, ‘The Crisis in Humanist Political Theory’, 1931, republished by Paideia Press, 2010, pp 58,59, 68,69)
Happy anniversary tomorrow of the Battle of Boroughmuir (Edinburgh) 1335.
Fought during the second wars of independence, another one the English lost 🙂
Raise a glass to em..
Cheers!
Which side did em fight for?
Can’t be too careful!
Sudan?
I pointed out a while ago that the worst nutters we have imported to roam our streets tend to be from afghanistan and syria, with the violence stab/r4pe off the charts even with comparison to domestically reared afro-caribs, who were the old champs.
Notably these are countries we destroyed and the people from there we let in were among those doing the destroying (- the taliban would likely kill, without hesitation, these ingrate scumbags we tolerate).
But sudan? Mind badradeen, the mad stabber of george sq (aamer anwar, where are you? Another client), he was sudanese. Now there is another one in the paper today, looking to emulate Alexis Copacabana.
link to archive.ph
– here is the link no one in the media will tell you : sudan is a recruiting ground for jihadist mercenaries where western agencies like cia, mi6, mossad, go recruiting – these fucking chumps – to go and fight “jihad” (against enemies of the west!?), as proxy warriors, in proxy armies, for outfits like ISIS, boko haram, al qaeda, al nusra, bing bang bong niki naki noo … you get the idea.
Furthermore, when it all goes wrong, your unit gets routed, or the job just comes to an end, your “friend” can put you in touch with western NGOs, and they can get you in to the west; so you chuck away the AK and the RPG, then claim to be a refugee asylum seeker even though a week ago you were chopping heads, burning girls alive and executing prisoners – now some fat b1tch with a rainbow lanyard is explaining to you in a travelodge how to fill in the housing benefit form.
aren’t the spooks, truly evil? Would the world not be a better place if every single one of these cunts died an instant painful death??
– “why are these “migrants” all young men of fighting age?”
now you know.
Using islamists as proxy warriors is something the CIA are addicted to, thinking it is “the cleverest thing, ever” since they saw the british do it and we all watched that stupid fucking film about that fucking english queer “Lawrence of Arabia”, whose main concern was butthumping arab lads among the dunes.
– kicking a hornets nest you have pointed at your enemies does not mean you have “trained the hornets”.
link to youtube.com
Another from Confused in which we glean some indication of what his main concern is.
But enough of that. His studied indifference to the ethnic origins of the contents of the bulk of the meat grinder body bags being sent east home from the war does him credit.
When are colonies not colonies? When are colonised ethnic minorities not expendable cannon fodder?
It’s all there to be found out online, but if like Confused you don’t want to know, nobody can ever make you know.
what does that even mean?
I pointed out the “blowback” / unintended consequences of – the west – “arming up the muzzies” because they think it will achieve some purpose, and how stupid and misguided this is, and how the general public are never informed of the real causes of their problems; we get hand wringing about the symptoms.
Who is letting them in? That is the real problem.
The world and his dog knows that ISIS and its related militias are C-I-A backed. Most notorious BFF of US intelligence – Osama Bin Laden and his pals.
Haud Oan, we’re still waiting to hear from you how Scotland’s destiny is controlled from Tel Aviv.
I’m more than happy to allow you the time to make your post a cracker, but if you’re trying to change the subject, that’s different.
BTW. The world’s dogs know that the tea towel wearers religiously detest anything other than working (useful) dogs.
So mind how you string your ideas together. You don’t want to have to go into hiding.
link to x.com
Any news on Sturgeon making a challenge, yet?
“Drive the diehard independence supporters out of the SNP” by focussing on gender policy.
That was discussed by senior SNP members and elected representatives, according to emails seen by Iain Lawson. It has worked, to a large extent.
On my patch there are still diehards but with no power in upper echelons of the party. Their argument for voting SNP is still “there is no alternative” to the SNP. So far, they are right – even Alex couldn’t overcome the smears so Alba didn’t grow fast enough.
Corruption. This is what rules Scotland in every aspect of our lives. As Wings has been detailing for years.
The SNP have corrupted their internal party democracy. The NHS Trusts, police, prison service, Marks and Spencers, that abuse their female staff and customers by prioritising men’s wishes is another example.
Robin McAlpine yesterday [on Voices for Independence] drew attention to the horrific treatment by Glasgow CC of Fiona Higgins. Her court case is to try to bring local authority staff within the rule of law – currently they are not.
In this context, Craig Murray’s article yesterday looks inspired, and inspiring. “Scottish Independence: Set the Date”. John Swinney could, based on the SNP/Green majority, simply inform Burnham of the date of independence and then get organised on the practical administrative side of setting up our own systems. It is legal and do-able. From there, we can put ourselves, the people, in charge of the institutions and politicians.
Swinney won’t do this, of course. But the route is there and we can all spread the word.
The other thing we can all do is sign, and get others to sign, the Liberation Scotland Edinburgh Proclamation [www.liberation.scot]. The new QR code is also on Salvo facebook.
Boosting the numbers supporting the international work for Scotland’s restored independence is important – currently the world thinks there’s c.20,000 who are supportive. The world thinks this because the site has been interfered with so the signatories haven’t all got through. We all know that there’s well over a million.
If you are feeling helpless in the face of all this corruption, do this one thing. And then look for the next thing that you can help with!
Sarah claims “John Swinney could, based on the SNP/Green majority, simply inform Burnham of the date of independence and then get organised on the practical administrative side of setting up our own systems. It is legal and do-able.”.
It might seem more democratic if he waited until a majority of voters had voted for pro-national parties.
Otherwise he is going against the Claim of Right. How can that be legal?
It wouldn’t be legal of course, and Craig Murray is proposing the physical seizure by civilians of key state assets and confrontation between the police/army. It seems a perfect blueprint for descent into violence and chaos.
The Claim Of Right belongs only to the people who voted Yes. Do try to keep up!
I bet you never noticed that the same people have also seized the right to wear tartan and kilts for themselves.
Adapting the policies of the Hanoverians after Culloden for modern-day usage, those Scots who aren’t “genuine” Scots won’t be allowed their own national dress.
“Craig Murray is proposing the physical seizure by civilians of key state assets and confrontation between the police/army”
He’s maybe got the inside intel on how to dig tunnels under schools, hospitals and particularly in Scotland, old folk’s homes.
Check out the colonialists! This post really got them excited
Aiden factchecker wee Adolf. I think they must’ve wet themselves when they read it Sarah.
Aye, Dave, we’ll be independent by Xmas.
And because you’re so confident, you’ll be laying down some big bets at humongous odds to make yourself filthy, stinking rich.
Ye jammy basturt that ye are.
You just can’t shut up can you? You just spew any old rubbish that comes to mind.
Who’d be Hatey? What a winner!
Aw, Dave, dinna be like that. Nae cant’s asking for a share of your humongous betting bonanza pay off.
Although, a wee bit help for a packet of Wet Wipes wouldn’t go amiss. Think of it as a deposit in your favour to the Bank Of Karma.
Hey! It’s because of you we’re wetting oorsels!
House rule No.1:
Thou shall not question the Baird.
Agent Walloper.
Shut up James
“Queer Milk Group”. Scottish executive [Swinney etc] are giving £700,000 to these men to poison babies with chemically induced chest secretions.
Is this enough to make Wings readers desperate for change? To try a non-political effort via the international courts of justice and others? Go to Salvo.scot and join – there’s no fee. Go to https://liberation.scot and join by signing the Edinburgh Proclamation – no fee.
The Scottish government is giving public money to fund a “Queer Milk Group” in which male transvestites meet weekly to feed their chemically created chest juices to help infants for their own sexual gratification.
Isn’t time the SNP was removed from office?
100%yes , where did you read that ? If verified then you are absolutely correct the SNP need removed to jail or Carstairs.
link to joansjigsaw.uk
link to scottishdailyexpress.co.uk
“‘Queer Milk’ charity gets public money to promote chestfeeding
For Women Scotland campaign group describes the taxpayer support as ‘nauseating’
The Edinburgh-based charity LGBT Health and Wellbeing has received over £700,000 combined from the Scottish Government, NHS boards, and local integration joint boards.
The Scottish Government stated that its funding via the Equality and Human Rights Fund is designated for specific, agreed activities and noted, `“We do not provide funding for lactation services through this fund.”, as noted by The Times”
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Some real colonised people, speaking about real colonialism, and the steps they are taking to decolonise against the implacable and real hostility of a real imperial coloniser:
link to theguardian.com
Yet, oddly enough, the target of many of “Scotland’s finest” who assert they lack what it takes to be a real nation, people, culture, etc and must therefore take what they deserve – destruction.
Scotland’s status has long been pored over by academics, we may have even coined the phrase “stateless nation”. Much navel gazing about this from way back. But this is just useless mystification; when you see it (colony), you can’t unsee it. Stark and shocking, but there it is.
– luckily though, we have so much prior art on this; it all happened before and will happen again. All you need to do is read-across, and Alf provides us with references and the connection to us via his own work.
As for liberation, once recognised as colonisation, the tools of liberation – decolonisation – already exist at the UN. You don’t need to re-invent the wheel, for yourself, with 3 sides, every time you go for a drive. You just need the will to use what is already there. The UK is not a big deal anymore, it tries to make itself relevant by hanging onto the US coat-tails – but no one likes them, cares about them and is certainly not afraid of them (they shat it from the houthis); we should just horse all these cunts out, and take it to the UN. Win a landslide, and if the UK tries to pull some crap, we get the peacekeeping forces in.
The skin colour problem is a subtle one; from say, the african view, “all honkies look the same”, then we get diverted by useless categories like “black” and “white”.
– once you realise, as far as the anglos were concerned for example – the irish weren’t “white” and the Scots, that’s a bit more muddied, since at least they were “protestant”, but still were seen as savage, subhuman, and there was a lot of propaganda about this, including the story of Sawney Bean, the galloway cannibal, a completely made-up nonsense tale, concocted to promote ideas of the union as a “civilising mission”.
So, you see folks – WE’RE ALL JUST A GANG OF “WHITE” N1GGERS … and the quicker you wake up to it, the better.
That the english are the same shade of pink as us, has helped hide this fact.
Scotland should be seen as the “patient zero” of anglo / british imperialism; it started here, when as chomsky put it “the celtic periphery was subdued” – the empire then goes turbo, and we get press-ganged into the criminal enteprise (then, hilariously, get blamed by the english for being the prime benefactors and instigators – Scots did nothing, you get a free pass for coercion); as the empire was rolled back, 65 times, it only remains for us to be freed.
Mind, england and the english are the eternal and only real enemy; anything that harms them is good, because it is good for us, and we should support anyone who helps our cause. One great side effect is, once we are gone, it kicks out the remaining pegs holding england together, their future is dismal and dystopian (hastened by their own love of neoliberalism and their worship of the banker as archon), but its just karma, or God’s will, or historical forces, or the cunning of reason (however you want to frame it); they have no future, and this is a good and just thing. (Inshallah!)
Amid the anti-Anglo rant, Confused says “Win a landslide, and if the UK tries to pull some crap”…
Well, yes.
But so far there hasn’t been an actual voting majority of any sort for independence, much less a landslide. I’m sure the UN will be aware of this.
So there’s a bit of persuading to be done.
Aye, Confused, it’s just as well that one Scot is better than ten English. What with them outnumbering us by ten to one. And having most of the weapons too.
Luckily the alert readers will have been following your regular posts about how destabilisation of countries half a world away has an effect here. So they’ll understand how a “dismal and dystopian” future a mere hundred miles or so away from our major cities, across a permeable land border too, will pass us by unscathed.
It’s all so clear when you write it down like this for us, Confused. Keep them coming.
When are you planning doing the Jews and the shirt lifters today?
Surely, this chest feeding practice is challengeable in law? It’s child cruelty to feed these babies an inadequate diet. Human rights abuse? Every farmer knows that young lambs need chlorostorum to thrive.
And the SNP giving them funding for it? They must be really desperate for the tranny votes. Or are the SNP being paid by others to cause maximum social disruption and distraction from trying to get independence?
All the more reason to support the Salvo/UN route and just bypass altogether these politicians who are doing so much damage to Scotland’s children and reputation.
There is a hierarchy of rights nowadays, and children don’t figure in it at all.
SCHOOLS MUST STOP PROMOTING ‘DAMAGING’ BOOKS BY LGBT ACTIVISTS TO KIDS
Parents and campaigners are urging schools to stop using books that promote ‘sex changes’ and gender ideology to kids.
The Mail on Sunday reported that hundreds of primary schools are still promoting controversial books provided by the pro-LGBT No Outsiders organisation as resources for compulsory Relationships Education lessons.
A recent report by Sex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN) in Publishing identified 60 books featuring trans and non-binary characters targeted at young children.
CONCERNED PARENTS
A mother from London explained that she contacted her daughter’s Church of England primary school when she discovered that it was using No Outsiders resources, which included books where characters change their ‘gender identity’.
She explained: “I raised my concerns with the school immediately, as did other parents, but they simply didn’t seem to understand why we were worried”.
“My only option was to withdraw my child from No Outsiders sessions. Other parents did the same. The following year, we heard the children had had an assembly about pronouns. Shortly afterwards, two children ‘came out’ as non-binary.”
PROBLEMATIC BOOKS
The SEEN in Publishing report, ‘Through the Looking Glass’, highlighted several of the controversial books.
The ABC Of Gender Identity, for children as young as five, “teaches ‘A is for Agender, B is for Bigender and C is for Cisgender’. K is for ‘Kynigender – Someone who is unable to pinpoint their gender due to stress of the questioning process’.”
Princess Pete, which was published earlier this year, is described as an “LGBTQIA+ positive picture book of self-expression and gender freedom, perfect for Pride” for kids as young as three, where the titular character is referred to as “they”.
In Ollie In Between, a book for ten year olds, a “nonbinary middle-schooler must choose between pretending to be the girl everyone expects them to be and forging their own path forward”.
‘DISMAL BETRAYAL’
Transgender Trend, a gender-critical organisation which contributed to ‘Through the Looking Glass’, said: “Lobbyists have taken over children’s publishing to serve a trans activist agenda. Books now play an active role in the social conditioning of the youngest children.”
Author Anne Fine OBE, who endorsed the report, called the highlighted books a “dismal betrayal of young readers” and an “unthinking capitulation to a biologically unfounded ideology whose false and troubling messages have damaged so many families.”
The report concluded: “Children’s publishing must turn its focus back to regaining parents’ and young readers’ trust: publishing excellent fiction books that are absent of didacticism and political activism; publishing non-fiction containing verifiable and scientifically correct facts.”
(The Christian Institute, 30 July 2026)
link to christian.org.uk
Driving up the High Street in Glasgow today reminded me to mark the anniversary of the Battle O Bells Brae 1297.
It happened in July, certainly later than the capitulation of Irvine on the 7th of July so by the end of the month it’s appropriate to say the anniversary will have happened by now.
A classic Wallace fight that we know happened as Longshanks is recorded saying the (fleeing) “fighting” Bishop of Durham was “on his travels again”; ie legging it..
Part of the First Wars of Independence, another war the English lost.
Raise a glass to em!
Errata
Bell O the Brae..
My bad..
Dinna fash, Auld Lochnagar.
Wi a’ the glesses ye raise tae em, some loss o’ faculties is tae be expected.
Between holidays and Mrs YLs big birthday I haven’t had a chance to see Odyssey yet, which I am looking forward to.
I see the casting of a black actress (are we allowed to use that word anymore or are they all “actors” now) Helen of Troy is getting some in a tangle, heck there was plenty of that in the most recent – and very watchable – Mary Queen of Scots film.
On that basis I’m looking forward to yet another/ inevitable next Henry 8 Tudor crank the wheel effort on film.
Surely it’s about time he was played by a black actor and called, something along the lines of Big H muddafukkah 8 cents. Bangin!
The actor who played Whisper in the bond Live and Let Die film would have been ideal but if he’s still around will be an oldie like us playing dominoes in the pub – “FOOL!!”
🙂
HMcH @ 10.54
I’m afraid I’ll just have to take your word for that. Voice of experience an’ that..
PS You do know in this day and age not every drink has to be alcohol based eh?
I’m fairly sure my ancestors wouldn’t have given too much of a dam as to what you drink but would have been more upset at the Crystalware getting fired into the grate as you repeatedly suggest.
Hey ho 🙂
“You do know in this day and age not every drink has to be alcohol based eh?”
When toasting those of us who have gone before?
Naw. That’s not how things are done in my hoose.
@ Young Lochinvar says: 30 July, 2026 at 11:05 pm
“I see the casting of a black actress … is getting some in a tangle”
It’s all very progressive, cuddly and sheer darn nice of you to not see that as a problem.
Yet I suspect (I could be wrong) that if somebody made a film about the Martin Luther King story (for example), and peppered it with whites playing black rights activists (maybe even a white boy playing the man himself), there would be outrage you would be all too happy to share as it reverberated around the world.
And thus we would see the usual double standard in play.
It’s never rocket science. Cultural misappropriation is cultural misappropriation. Just like with racism and discrimination, there’s not a direction in which it’s fine, with only the opposite direction being baaadddd.
The story of Shaka Zulu is a great one – just ripe for the big screen (and an X certificate, what with all the frenzied, bloody violence). Idris Elba was born to play the lead.
Helen Mirren as senior wife? Never in a million years for obvious reasons.
HMcH
Nah!
Jackie Chan to play Shaka himself while Warwick Davis in a dress plays first wife.
That cuddly enough for you?
🙂
HMcH
In yer haste tae respond you missed the opportunity to quip about the face that launched a thousand boats (ships)..
Yer slowing down.
🙂
NI FESTIVAL CANCELS WOMEN’S RIGHTS GROUP OVER GENDER-CRITICAL VIEWS
An arts and culture festival in Northern Ireland has cancelled a talk by a women’s rights group over its gender-critical views.
The presentation by Women’s Rights Network Northern Ireland, ‘Respect, Rights & Reality’, was scheduled to take place on 4 August at Féile an Phobail, a large community arts festival. The organisers stated the group would no longer be able to take part as it “campaigns against rights for the Transgender community”. After issuing a legal challenge, the network reached a settlement with the festival and its event will now take place at an alternative venue.
The belief that biology determines whether a person is a man or a woman is protected under the Equality Act 2010.
SILENCE AND INTIMIDATION
Women’s Rights Network Northern Ireland initially said they were “shocked and deeply disappointed” at the cancellation.
The group warned of “an organised online campaign against the event” that included abusive and threatening language against them and the arranged speakers. It added: “No organisation that values free speech should allow intimidation to determine which voices are heard.”
It continued: “Féile describes itself as a festival of the people, of ideas, culture and debate. We therefore have to ask whether its commitment to free speech extends only to viewpoints with which it agrees and only to some people.
“Through this event women have sought to discuss their own rights. Féile has chosen to silence the voices of the very group that makes up half the population.”
DISCRIMINATION
Sex Matters’ Maya Forstater, who is due to speak at the event, branded the cancellation ‘discrimination’. She said: “It is as unacceptable as cancelling someone for their religious or non-religious beliefs”.
Gaels For Fair Play, which is one of the groups invited to speak at the event, and supports women in Gaelic football and Camogie, called the festival’s comments “a punch in the guts to the 20,000+ women and girls” who play these sports in Northern Ireland.
“Wanting female players to have fairness, safety, privacy and dignity in their sport is not anti-rights.”
The organisation Athena Forum, which is involved in the event, wrote: “Attempts to silence discussion do not strengthen an argument. They reveal a lack of confidence that competing ideas can withstand open scrutiny. Every cancelled event, every attempt to de-platform a speaker, every campaign to intimidate organisers only reinforces how necessary these conversations have become.”
VOICES SACRIFICED
DUP politician Peter Martin wrote on X: “Your decision would be laughable if it wasn’t so such a serious matter. The @ni_wrn represents the mainstream public view of what sex & gender actually are and yet you are de-platforming them because you’re afraid of what they might say”.
Peadar Tóibín TD commented: “Poor decision. Wrong side of human rights and history.”
Gordon Lyons MLA noted: “Féile happily takes public money to platform ‘debate’, right up until it involves views they don’t like. Women discussing their own rights shouldn’t need to pass an ideological test. Féile has shown exactly whose voices it’s willing to protect and whose it’s willing to sacrifice.”
SETTLEMENT
Following the settlement, Féile issued a statement calling the agreement a “vindication” of its actions, saying: “Féile’s decision to withdraw this event from our programme stands.”
Nevertheless, Féile agreed to meet with the Women’s Rights Network Northern Ireland to discuss future participation in the festival as part of the settlement. The Network wrote: “We hope this agreement marks the beginning of constructive engagement and greater opportunities for women’s voices and perspectives to be heard.”
(The Christian Institute, 30 July 2026)
link to christian.org.uk
After 6 years I wonder if this book is still doing the rounds.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Watching GB news regarding the invasion of Britain through England of fighting age men arriving in large boats under dark,
The removal and disarming of Brits has taken place over a number of years by authorities and police,
Along with free speech control,
One has to wonder why all the politcians are weakening the the ability of brits to defend themselves.
Meanwhile keeping everyone engaged mentally else where, lets hope Scotland wakes up before England is taken over.
The “Spanish Gibraltar”, Ceuta, is appealing for help from the mother country after an estimated 2 to 3 thousand Moroccans arrived in just one day.
Like Gibraltar, it’s a tiny place, so those numbers count for a lot.
Perhaps they’re all fire fighters, keen to get stuck into the wild fires raging on mainland Spain.
Then again, perhaps the progressive Spanish government’s liking for issuing amnesties and citizenship to hundreds of thousands of illegals at a time, acts as the pull factor every sane, rational alert reader believes it does.
Whatever. There will be few of these migrant brain surgeons, midwives, nuclear physicists and AI software developers unaware that while the benefits in Spain are good, the benefits in the UK are top of the range.
It’s all about pull factors, and we have the strongest in Europe.
“The Spanish interior ministry has just said that more than 49,000 people are believed to have swum or walked into Ceuta over the past 24 hours.”
link to theguardian.com
49,000!
That’s a lot of renewable energy consultants, dentists and optometrists.
Interesting to see that the calls for suspension of EU freedom of movement are already being made.
I expect the Indy EU enthusiasts will be commenting soon on how if Scotland was back in the EU (from which we were cruelly dragged oot agin oor will) our lebensraum and geographical location on the periphery of Europe would make us the obvious choice for warehousing of the “New Europeans”. Especially now that Ireland is filling up.
How much autonomy can any nation really have if they don’t have the right to refuse entry to whomsoever they please?
Moreover, why should that nation feel under any obligation to justify their decisions to any outsider?
I love the way the BBC described these 49,000 as “500 swimmers”.
@Captain Caveman says: 31 July, 2026 at 12:52 pm
‘I love the way the BBC described these 49,000 as “500 swimmers”.’
There’s method in their madness. If the 48,500 “non swimmers” make it to here, they can enrol for swimming classes.
It’s quite plausible that pleading “being only half way through learning to swim” will count towards being granted leave to remain in our asylum system.
Other little less plausible pleas have succeeded. For example, having a child who wets the bed has recently worked.
Ye gods, that must be a new low in ingenuous reporting. “500 swimmers” my fuzzy Buchan bawbag… 🙄
Well, I don’t think the Italians are best pleased with Spain’s hopelessly lefty government right now. Not at all.
Not great times for the EU, by all accounts.
MSM now reporting 60,000 migrants.
The usual population of Ceuta is approximately 84,000.
This is the second mass invasion. The previous one involved a “mere” 8,000.
I suspect the third one, when it comes, will involve sufficient numbers to ensure there will be no pushing them back.
It’s interesting to consider the plight of Spain, a country of 50 million, of which 10 million were born elsewhere. The Spanish have developed a real antipathy in recent years to tourism.
As tourists generally spend big, and usually fuck off quite quickly, it’s surprising that the Spanish have elected themselves a trendy, progressive PM who is encouraging permanent paupers instead.
I guess “go woke, go broke” manifests itself in many different ways.
Caveman, the BBC headline on 31 July was : ‘Spain’s PM blames traffickers after 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta from Morocco’.
A similar article the same days starts with: ‘As many of the 60,000 migrants who swam or scrambled their way into Ceuta trickle back into Morocco, the prospect of a dramatic crisis has begun to gently recede.’
What weird contortions does your brain have to do to only see the things you want to see that back up your worldview?
Oh do be quiet with your “swear white is black” nonsense, lefty.
That was the initial BBC headline. Deal with it.
Truth hurts.
Right, so before much was known about it and no-one was reporting accurate numbers because they were not known, and so they were reporting on immediate witnesses, but when they did, within hours, they cited the actual estimated numbers.
You have no actual point to make, yet you still dig your heels in. Why don’t you deal with that? You won’t because it is you who cannot deal with the truth: the BBC reported the story perfectly well and sensibly as the facts came in.
” Right, so before much was known about it and no-one was reporting accurate numbers because they were not known, and so they were reporting on immediate witnesses, but when they did, within hours, they cited the actual estimated numbers.”
Right, so actually you were plain wrong even by your own admission (since you could hardly do otherwise, facts are facts after all). Glad we cleared that one up, idiot. How’s that scrambled egg all over your boat race doing pal? 😀
Tell me, what weird contortions does your (tiny) brain have to do to only see the things you want to see that back up your worldview?
Scotland does not have time to carry on pretending England rules the waves.
England aided by politicians, judges, police etc has sunk,
Wales & Ireland need to wake up.
But the police and army overall need realise that they are helping the take over of Britains and brittain
Remind me who rules the waves of England, if not the empire of GB. And who is set to dismember the houses of parliament of England and wales this year, and move it to a region of England named manchester,
Broken Britain will benefit Scotland Ireland and Wales, and anyone from England that joins up with the Celtic nations,
For the Celtic nations are not invading Englands shores,
Will someone please explain why some comments have a ‘reply’ annotation and others, not?
AI response:
“On the Wings Over Scotland blog, the absence of a “reply” button on certain comments is caused by WordPress’s maximum thread depth limit, which disables replies on deepest-level comments, and by comment pagination that breaks links when parent and child comments are separated by a page break. These technical constraints, designed for managing high-volume discussions, prevent further nesting in specific threads.”
Thank you Agent x
The following is the latest blog article from Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh, Senior Lecturer in History at St. Mary’s University, Belfast. A Marxist, which I am not. Pro Irish language, which I am. And so on. Therefore content endorsements from me should not be assumed. Mac Bhloscaidh writes his polemically informative blog pieces variously in Irish or English. This current article critiques the colonisation of Ireland from the perspectives of Freud, Marx, Fanon, Zizek etc.
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“THE IRISH ARE THE ONE RACE FOR WHOM PSYCHOANALYSIS IS OF NO USE WHATSOEVER” (BLOSC, July 31, 2026)
« This apocryphal quote from Freud entered popular parlance after Scorsese’s film the Departed. The quote’s cultural afterlife is arguably more significant than its authenticity, which cannot be verified: it became a popular way of expressing stereotypes about Irish reserve, storytelling, contradiction, and attitudes toward introspection, regardless of whether Freud ever uttered the words. Yet, after watching the film, and checking whether he said it, I reflected that while not proven, it was credible. Freud was a cosmopolitan bourgeois who conceived of psychoanalysis as a universal science of the human mind rather than as something tied to a particular nation, but he could not detach himself from his own social and historical context. Fundamentally Freud’s work was based on clinical observation within a bourgeois European society – his diagnosis and analysis didn’t work for the Irish because they were a colonised people. Similarly, I remembered reading Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks as a doctoral student and reflecting on his sympathetic criticism of Freud. […] »
link to blosc.wordpress.com
A highly informative paper, Fearghas. I especially noted the following, although there is much more in the paper to explain behaviour, especially that of political leaders and assimilated intellectuals and bourgeoisie:
“Fanon showed how colonialism produces both psychic and material oppression at the same time… ”
“Fanon was deeply influenced by psychoanalysis, accepting that unconscious processes, desires, anxieties, traumas, and identity formation matter for understanding human behaviour. He was especially interested in how colonial subjects internalise images of inferiority and how racism shapes personality and selfhood.”
“Black Skin, White Masks (1952), identified and analysed racial shame, self-alienation, the desire for recognition from the coloniser, the psychological effects of language, the formation of racial identity.”
“Fanon synthesised Freud, Marxism, and anti-colonialism by arguing that colonial rule simultaneously exploits people economically, dominates them politically, and wounds them psychologically, so genuine liberation must transform both social structures and human consciousness.”
“Black Skin, White Masks”, eh, Alf?
If only we could fathom what that might be about, we could deduce how many Scots it might apply to.
“political leaders and assimilated intellectuals and bourgeoisie”
I’m gonna scan pics of our Scottish leaders, intellectuals and bourgeoisie to come up with some ballpark figures.
Got to say, Alf, from the pictures of you I’ve seen online, it’s not looking good for you.
According to Fanon’s criteria, you’re a coloniser alright. Defo.
A 2016 (English-subtitled) interview with Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh.
1916 Centenary analysis.
1916-2016 COTHROM CÉAD BLIAIN: Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh (Gaeilge: NvTv)
link to gobha-uisge.blogspot.com
Ceuta is land-joined to North Africa and is not a part of mainland Spain.
Most of the 49,000 migrants walked to Ceuta, 500 or so people entered by water to bypass a barrier – and swam a very short distance.
None swam the Mediterranean.
The greater number entered by land when Morocco loosened border enforcement due to a Morocco-Spain political dispute.
That combined with a recent ruling by the Spanish Supreme Court that limited summary pushbacks, meaning Spain has to process arrivals individually, triggered the mass movement of migrants.
Geographically, the migrants remain in North Africa.
Politically, they are now in Spanish territory and are subject to Spanish and European law .
This is the legal significance of Ceuta for the migrants.
All very true, Northy, but on an Indy supporting site like this one, you omit (I’m certain accidentally 🙂 ) the most pertinent fact of the situation.
Which is that the free, independent country of Morocco was formerly (until 1956) a colonial possession, split in two in fact, by the Spanish and French colonisers.
It must be relevant that even if a former colony’s elite bourgeoisie enjoy all the trappings of Independence, the ordinary people desperately seek in their tens of thousands to get the fuck out of the shithole their country still is 60 years (2 generations) after Indy.
Anyhoo, I look forwards with immense anticipation to you explaining why none of that could ever be applied to Scotland!
This is gonna be SO good. Dinna let me doon, Northy.
spain invaded by 49 BILLION potential workers to boost the ECONMYUNTHENETZERO (ursula never done lyin was down there, taking line ups and offering half and half)
they say cuerta is so dark it now looks like Leicester
– and up the backdoor (oh er cecil) 6 TRILLION anglos invaded Skye for the free prescriptions
(don’t worry about the numbers, we just make them up for effect, in all things … )
link to youtube.com
at times like this you realise – the daleks – were the good guys; as was vlad the impaler, who kept the turks out – no barber shops in transylvania, mind
joking aside :
link to x.com
– now do one for legal migration
now do one for UK, pre and post brexit; and remember oor nige loves them, as long as they are “legal” and not on a dinghy, as long as you “pay taxes” you’re as british as the queen sipping an earl grey watching cricket
– you can knock one of these up on the AI (but I have no credits left)
you need to apply some game theory :
– strong actions, solve the immediate problem, and they also “solve” / prevent the next 10/20/30 more problems that were coming as people get the message … OTOH
– weak actions, don’t solve the problem (being “nice”), and create 10/20/30 new problems for you as people observe your weak actions and realise : “we can get away with this”.
the human world is reflexive and full of feedback.
Mind that islam is a filthy gutter religion for the low IQ, a distorted and heretical form of christianity put together opportunistically by a violent psychopath (with a liking for paedophilia) who converted folks at the point of a sword. It is incapable of any high level cultural achievement (no, they did not invent zero) and if dominant puts humanity, not among the stars, but back to the dungheap and pre-industrial levels of development. Read Belloc and Remy Brague. Personally I think they worship satan – that “allah” is God-the-Father, seems unclear to me.
– islamic science : if it’s not in the koran, it’s wrong and if it is in the koran, we don’t need it
Occam’s Razor suggests they did invent zero.
They needed to put something on the measuring stick to record their cultural achievements against.
Quite a few of their names for the brighter stars have stuck too.
To be fair they did have a few clever ideas back in yer Golden Age, but sadly it all went the way of the pear when they decided that Islam was the hip ‘n’ happenin’ thing and science was just a bag of guff. Oh well… 🙄
The words coming out of your mouth started Nazi Party in Germany. But its only joking, its a same that the people lying at the bottom of the ocean didn’t get the funny side of your joking.
Don’t let the hatred inside for people who haven’t even met become your coffin.
Strange as it is for me to be sticking up for Confused, he does have a point.
I am willing to respect the right of an entire religion to classify me as a second class human. And to classify the female members of my family as fourth class humans.
It’s just that while they’re exercising the right they believe their God grants them, I want a wide, deep ocean between them and me. Having them next door is going to end very badly for somebody, and I’d prefer it not to be me and mine.
Assuming your musings on Islamic and its culture are not intended as irony, they then present as the quintessence of prejudice, ignorance and are thoroughly nasty.
My very early years were spent in a «muslim country» my parent bacame migrants as a result of the mess the culturally ignorant US «liberators» made of the place.
I am not muslim but of syriac catholic heritage.
Science in Islamic culture has a noble history of invention and discovery….algebra, algorithm, astronomic observation, astrolabe, the refashioning of the hindu number signs….
link to clrn.org
Many of us here are “prejudiced” over what we see as medieval and barbaric practices. Beheading, for example, we Scots used to practice it a lot, but collectively decided to move on centuries ago. It was quite a shock seeing it re-introduced to our streets.
And then family minded people worry about their kids. Blown to bits at concerts, or horribly abused by monsters believing their scriptural rankings for humanity, which places their believing males at the top, and our unbelieving females somewhere off the bottom.
You have a point about the brief flowering of Islamic culture and science. They made some discoveries and advanced maths and astronomy for example. But that was all many centuries ago.
If Islam has created or discovered anything of use or value since the start of the west’s rational age several hundred years ago, I’m struggling to think of it.
HMcH
Have been very busy today so apologies this is posted after midnight when matron turns your Wi-Fi and lights off.
Barbarity, well there’s a rabbit hole to go down.
Didn’t we hang until (relatively speaking) quite recently? Firing squads in the Great War and the “threat” of the same in WW2?
And before that burning and hang drawing and quartering in front of an audience complete with heids on spikes?
Fired off any fireworks in your time on November 5th?
Beheading is/ was deemed one of the more “humane” methods of dispatch, indeed we Scots had the Maiden long before the French guillotine or indeed the English axe considering how often they conspicuously made a complete a8se of the deed.
It’s a grim business and not really one I’ve to score points on, not least as bombing schools is done at clinically deniable long range now between coffee breaks..
And no I’m not a supporter of them!
Unlike yer good self who is a vocal supporter of those!
Bombing schools, then, YL.
Let’s talk about that.
I fail to see that anybody has a monopoly. It looks to me like there are quite a few operators who would regard a successful school bombing as a good day’s work worthy of a big celebration. It seems to me that if trying to choose between the operators that practice it, some simply have better technology than others.
But others have more perseverance. They’ll keep trying and eventually they’ll succeed.
Luckily for us, the attempts to slaughter our kids on our soil haven’t yet focused on schools, just the more informal settings in which kids congregate – dance classes, concerts, etc. Plus they’ve been south of the border so far, so one or two would say they don’t even count.
Got to say, YL, it’s bemusing to read your post, hovering on the brink of sympathy, as it is, for those who sent home so many of your fellow soldiers in body bags. If it made any sense to you when you wrote it, I’m afraid you’ve failed to get that across.
Headline:
“Craig Murray unveils Scottish independence plan – that could trigger war”
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Read the full fantasy proposals here: link to archive.ph
It’s doable if we get the towel heids to do all the hard bits.
No doubt that’s the part of the plan that’s being kept secret.
A little off topic, but why can’t the Scottish government purchase the oil & Gas from BP?
It would make sense.
Anthem @ 6:05,
You’re having a laugh, aren’t you ?
Because the Scottish government is even keener on Nutt Zero than WM.
Because the Scottish government has committed Scotland to an earlier NZ date than WM has for the entire U.K.
That, Anthem, is why your idea makes sense only to somebody in denial about the reality of the Scottish government.
Ah, so that’s why BP bought up all those natural energy licences and about to pump £bn’s into it. They’re just trying to fool us eh.
The articles are always articulate and compelling, but the comments get worse and noisier.
Colonies and Freedom, you’ll never get freedom under socialists. It’s worse than colonialism, it’s full-on slavery.
And even worse, it gives the power to useless, bitter, uninspired people who don’t like each other.
The current rabble in Labour & SNP? That’s exactly the caliber of people that will get Sotland relegated to the third division. We’ve had 20 years of it so far and it’s still going downhill.
Swinney a leader? He is barely the conductor on the bus. He isn’t driving it, barely knows where it’s headed, and just takes your money. But he’s got a hat and a uniform so thinks he’s in charge.
Very true. This whole left wing inspired “Colonial Victimhood” is truly nauseating, childish, monotonous and frankly offensive misappropriation.
Just what this site needs; yet another Tory Whopper.
Jesus wept.
You’re the only “Whopper” round here, Fatso. 🙂
If you aren’t happy with the company here James, you could always start your own website. Perhaps obnoxious fat stinking shit over Scotland?
Then you could decide exactly who posts, and ban those you arbitrarily describe as “Tories”.
Expect you wouldn’t need to because no one, anywhere, has any interest in what you have to say on any subject.
It’s funny James you would think they would be too busy pushing deform’s vote winning messaging , too busy laying themselves prostrate at Nige’s feet
Wow you called ‘Reform’ ‘Deform’! That’s so funny and clever, have you got a slot at the fringe?
Aw, don’t take on so, Adrian, petal.
Rest assured; it’s only walloper Tory unionist wankers like you, posting all day, every day on a Scottish independence blog that I object to, sweetie.
Now, be a good girl and
go and take a flying fuck to yourself.
Fatso @ 10:59
Be quiet,child!
You are just an embarrassment to yourself and the whole Indy movement!
Oh you object do you James? Well everyone better stop what they are doing immediately then so we can sort this out, because obviously you’re in charge.
A trifle harsh, Wally. I’m convinced my comments continue to improve.
Any chance you could change your handle? We already have a Wally W*nking Walrus and, trust me, you don’t want to get yourself mistaken for that fatberg.
Are the Yoons masochists? Do they post here all day, every day because they seek derision? Or is it the well known air of self-entitlement writ large? House Jocks and English nationalists?
The Site Prick is a special case; more to be pitied than scorned though, surely? It is truly astonishing how ‘someone’ can occupy so much physical space while contributing absolutely nothing of intellectual or moral value to the world around them.
A vacuum; an empty vessel wrapped in unearned confidence, operating under the tragic delusion that its opinion holds weight. The projected ignorance is not merely passive; it is aggressive, loud, and weaponised to mask the hollow echo chamber where it’s intellect should be.
The endless attempts to belittle others are not sharp or clever; they are painfully predictable. Lashing out like a child frustrated by a world it cannot comprehend, using cruelty as a shield for it’s own profound inadequacy. Every insult hurled is a confession – a projection of the irrelevance it secretly fears. Tearing down what others build because it lacks the talent, patience, and depth to create anything of it’s own.
Yup James
Pretty well sums it up.
Yet they bleat that the Rev should ban the likes of you and me.
You couldn’t make it up, well Alf will probably say it’s par for the course.
Cue pelters!!
🙂
Wow, Wally W! Ah didnae ken ye could get yer mammie tae write insults fer ye.
Ye should hae proof read it afore posting, though. Ane or twa syntax errors still crept through. Or in your case, marched through blawing trumpets and waving banners under yer uncomprehending nose.
A braw effort from yer maw, regardless. But give her some peace from now on. She must be heartily sick of still having to fight your battles for you.
Why naw stay in yer comfort zone in future, posting the kind of insults a blazing, staggering Auld Furm fan screams at the opposition from behind the safety and security of a police cordon?
Hilarious, Fatso:
“A vacuum; an empty vessel wrapped in unearned confidence, operating under the tragic delusion that its opinion holds weight. The projected ignorance is not merely passive; it is aggressive, loud, and weaponised to mask the hollow echo chamber where it’s intellect should be.”
I would say that this is the most brazen self-projection I have read here – but of course, you didn’t write it, did you? So then, perhaps tell your mam (or whoever did write it for you) about your other “output” here, which consists entirely of impotent, self-loathing abuse of other posters, all of them vastly more capable than yourself, there’s a good lad.
Your incessant trolling here is a dead giveaway; you are a hate-filled, wafer thin skinned dimwit who is incapable of articulating any coherent point of view, informed only by dumb, blind prejudice. As usual with you left wing types (and however laughably impotently), you seek to silence and de facto “de-platform” those whom you despise with your endless abuse. You are incapable of, and completely disinterested in, any notion of discussion or debate. You attempt to derail any such discourse – precisely because you are too thick to do otherwise, and because you’re a troll.
It’s up to Stu as to who gets to post on his site and who does not. Count yourself lucky that it isn’t up to me, then, because if it were, your arse wouldn’t touch the floor.
” it’s par for the course”
Yes indeed, colonialism only works ‘by de-basing the colonized’ (Memmi), us Scots in this instance. This de-basement is done so often, and as a matter of course, that eventually the colonized believe it; hence oor cultural cringe, and native ‘No’ voters, those cravers of dependence, and their fear of leaving the dominating ‘parent’ or ‘mother country’.
As Cesaire put it: “a nation which colonizes….is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased”, always looking to punish those it considers subordinate or out of line.
Haud oan there, Alf.
We’re still trying tae fathom fit yer “black skin, white masks” is aboot.
Dae some o’ us hae tae black up noo? Ah believe that’s a problematic course tae follow.
Wally Jumblatt says: ‘And even worse, it gives the power to useless, bitter, uninspired people who don’t like each other.’
Ah yes, and the right-wingers all get along famously don’t they? And none of theme are remotely bitter or uninspired and of course they are never anything but competent as was shown by Johnson, Truss and all those excellent Reform local councils.
What a load of garbage. You have no idea what socialism is of course but just spout the word meaninglessly like a lot of deranged hard-right fanatics who spend all their time pissing on anything co-operative and collective and anyone that might actually believe people can work together for the greater good, crying ‘Freedom’ in their faces, instead, freedom that amounts to little more than their utmost desire to do that.
I do enjoy the opening sentence of Wally’s message!
Wally Jumblatt says:
1 August, 2026 at 8:47 am
The articles are always articulate and compelling, but the comments get worse and noisier.
Long may it continue.
Ah miss Chris on a Saturday.
Same here, Ronnie. At least I have a couple of his Hamish mugs to cheer me up!
Further “Colonial Victimhood” (sic) from Bill Rolston, emeritus professor at Ulster University:
BILL ROLSTON: IRELAND, COLONIALISM AND THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
link to gobha-uisge.blogspot.com
The great thing about every revolution is that it can never be finished.
There will always be backsliders, or faint hearts displaying insufficient zeal, or pockets of “resistance” detectable only to the initiated, who must therefore retain their role of enforcement indefinitely.
It’s a job for life. Thus the history books show us that every revolutionary movement eventually turns itself into a hated oppression, sniffing out “heresy” with violence and disappearances, whilst enriching its elect.
It’s trivial to understand why. Just as the inveterate liar finds himself unable to believe that anyone else can ever tell the truth, so the revolutionary, having overthrown the old, legally constituted order, cannot feel confident that his new, legally constituted order won’t in turn be overthrown.
Another sad snatch of “Colonial Victimhood”:
BLACK ‘47 (Trailer)
link to youtube.com
Fearghas, I remember watching and becoming so enraged by man’s disgusting inhumanity with no redeeming features.
“It’s now the propaganda arm of the woke elite’ | BBC insider Robin Aitken on what went wrong” | The Brendan O’Neill Show (22 Jul 2026)
« Robin Aitken – former BBC journalist and author of The Noble Liar – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss what Romesh Ranganathan’s ad reveals about the BBC’s decline, why the licence fee is finished, and how the Covid lockdown proved our ‘public service’ broadcaster is really just an arm of the state.»
Scots worthies such as Andrew Marr and Sarah Smith gain mention.
(For the record I am neither pro-Brexit nor pro-Trump)
link to youtube.com
@Hatey McHateface
In effect there is no such entity as «Islamic science» any more than there is a «Christian science». Science is science pure & simple yet set within a belief system which may or may not influence the mind of the scientist. Observation is paramount but observation is rarely neutral, we all have our particular viewpoints and indeed prejudices hence the requirement for consensus and reproduceability in the field of study.
There was some kind of «Golden Age» in the Islamate world which drew upon the importance of knowledge per se influenced by the early pre islamic contact with the rationalism of the Greek & Indic worlds.
As in the Christian context Islam had its struggles with faith & reason, which was superior, given that reason is finite we cannot «know» what is unknown but we do possess the capacity to imagine what that «unknown»might be.
Is that a matter of faith or reason or both?
Einstein’s General Theory was probably a product of both.
The Islamate world suffered a major shock with the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in the 13th century which is supposed to have signalled the end of the intellectual Golden Age.
Certainly things trail off into our time. Reasons, political and religious instability, the Ottomans, the Europeans, civilizational neglect and decay…but the not inconsiderable legacy survives.
There is too much complexity here for a simple BTL post but its not all about cherry picking the «towelheads», suicide bombers, beheadings and other nasty business.
I agree, TURABDIN, it’s not all about what you say.
It is all about the ongoing colonisation of my country.
The real colonisation – not Professor Baird’s pretendy one.
Anybody still in denial about the real colonisation after Yousaf’s stint as Scotland’s First Minister isn’t worth debating with.
according to stats the majority of not scottish born imigrants are white many of them elderly English.
personally, without a scintilla of bias, those 50k young moroccans «invading» Ceuta would be a godsend to Scotland…..liven the place up from its geriatric torpor.
many of them are rather well educated to boot.
“a godsend to Scotland…..liven the place up from its geriatric torpor.
many of them are rather well educated to boot”
In a way I kind of agree. It’s not as if when I look around I can’t see any amount of jobs that need to be done.
A sane, rational country would willingly import these people to do these jobs. On fixed-term, work-related visas with no residency rights, no asylum rights, no free medical care and no benefits.
Zero tolerance for law breaking too. One strike and they’re out, or in solitary indefinitely if it’s serious.
It’s just insane, irrational countries that would believe that merely in return for voluntarily and freely doing a paid job of work for a few years, the worker is now essentially indistinguishable from a citizen whose residency rights go back many generations.
Countries like Scotland.
SHAFTED…..yet again.
link to bbc.co.uk
Commonwealth Games…..the one nobody gives a ……..about.
Oh dear Mr Swinney! pecking at the crumbs from your master’s table.
The comedy Scotsman, dancing to that familiar alien tune.
link to cartoondealer.com
ottomannish-boy
that’s a sloppy post and with very weak arguments re: islamic culture/science – you admit you took from earlier (better) cultures – the greek and hindu, then its “golden age” ended in the 13th century; meanwhile the Church founds the universities out of which pops the scientific method. The persians were a sophisticated culture, knowing mathematics and astronomy, got conquered, then went backwards (but crucially retained their own language). Some propose the weakness of islam in this is due to “everything is the will of Allah”, so, in a way, you don’t need any more sophisticated explanations like – mechanics, field theory, waves – it’s the will of allah, forgetaboutit; also the koran is perfect and complete, so why do you need anything else. There is a baked in anti intellectualism, which is hard to get round. Everything before islam, is better, and everything after, is also better; islam doesn’t get you much.
for a “syrian/iraqi catholic” (??) you sound a bit soft on them; maybe do some reading, I did give references, and compose your epigrams a bit more carefully
if you really are how you style yourself then – I would really hate amerika, despise the UK (the weaselly sidekick), not be much fond of muslims, and probably either be doing my maths homework or else out doing the things most 20 year olds are doing … I mean, does the student union still sell beer … do girls exist?
– talking to a bunch of old geezers about scottish indy seems a right waste of time, and its not even your fight
then there was the case of the handle change, ottomanboi to turabdin – wossaallthatabout
– in any case, this cultural superiority argument is irrelevant compared to the consideration of islam as a political movement; in this sense, it is powerful. Which brings me to :
100%bullshitter
islam’s not a fucking joke, it is a totalitarian system – it’s an all in one, and the essence of it is – submission; you people need to do some reading, but put it this way, wherever it goes, there’s real-fucking-bother … the hindus, the sikhs, and even the buddhists; the people who won’t step on slugs because of their buddha-nature start to arm themselves when the muslamists arrive; the chinese don’t tolerate it, because they understand it (- very clever folks, the chinese).
– you enjoy the wonderful things we have today – western civilisation / christendom – because some very nasty hard-cases – on our side – kicked the turks, moors, etc back at tours, vienna, back out of spain and so on. Europe was hanging by a cunt-hair.
link to x.com
I do not have a problem with it – in its place – but it likes to spread, and we see, everywhere, when it has the numbers 20-30%, it takes over. Up till that point, they play nice. The english midlands are already getting a bit spicy. Did you know one of those “groomed girls” was suspected to have ended up in a kebab? And Kriss Donald, eyes gouged and set on fire – dont be raciss tho – if that was mine the mosques would have been burning.
The thing about the “grooming gangs” – early on the pakistanis tried it on with sikh girls; the sikhs are a warrior race and went round and trashed every shop in the area … message sent, problem solved, and the cops didn’t want to know as whoever’s side they took, the other would cry racism. You show weakness to these people, they make you a mark.
Islam is better than nothing if there are no alternatives; it gives you a structure, its better than anarchy, actually a good fit for a place like afghanistan where its ancient tribal customs make islam seem like social democracy. Taking a view on it, I think the shia tradition is the correct one – they seem a bit higher intellectually, people you could talk to; all islamic terrorism in the west is done by sunnis. I r an is also providing an example to the world – a masterclass in fact – of how to resist imperialism and retain your sovereignty (- they are also not so bad on womens rights as folks make out – a lot of female scientists over there.)
What worth an islamic indy Scotland? You could always warm your hands on the burning churches.
main : the day I need your support I will pack it in – fuck off, cunt
Not a bad post from Confused, there, shows what he can do when he’s not obsessing about his #1 and #2 hates – the shirt lifters and the Jews.
Silly me! Forgot his #0 hate – the English.
Quite possible I read him all wrong. Might be he hates them all equally, just sheer pressure of time means he can only do one or two on any given day.
Still, though, it’s all a long way removed from the hope and optimism of 2014.
Aw, Confused; don’t be calling Main a cunt.
Everyone knows it’s a “Prick”.
“Aw, Confused; don’t be calling Main a cunt.
Everyone knows it’s a “Prick”.”
Ah yes, your latest pearl of wisdom, Fatso, what a wonderful contribution you make here. Surely the very embodiment of [checks notes]
‘… A vacuum; an empty vessel wrapped in unearned confidence, operating under the tragic delusion that its opinion holds weight. The projected ignorance is not merely passive; it is aggressive, loud, and weaponised to mask the hollow echo chamber where it’s intellect should be. …’
Ring any bells, dullard?
Probably not, seeing as you didn’t actually write it yourself! 😀
Ah, here he is, The Big Chief of dullards, renowned pub bore, arriving to his bum chum’s rescue in his wankers ‘Rangey’…..
“Maaaaate”; away back to your Daily Mail.
“Bum chum” …. What’s your mental age, Fatso? 5? 😀
“Blow it out your arse”™
Ah yes, the intellectual giant that is the Tory cave dweller showing off the limits of his rhetorical skills there.
However, Not often a Fish-Face supporter gets something right… and fair’s fair, I stand corrected as follows;
as Robert Hughes put it succinctly some time ago;
“Next up, I asked … ChatGPT regarding ” Aidan “; another relative newcomer to WOS, who for reasons unknown just decided to share his ( apparent ) exhaustive knowledge re, well, everything, with the mere mortals who also frequent this site.
Then it was the turn of ” Chazzzzzz “, but upon posing the usual question to Co Pilot my computer started emitting snoring sounds and quite quickly went dark – presumably fast asleep. Not so much a case of OK Computer ( the Radiohead gloom classic ) as Comatose Computer by Knobhead. Well, even advanced tech has limited patience.
I proceeded in the same medium with ” Insider “; ” Factchecker “; ” Captain Caveman ” and some of the other non-entities around these parts, on this occasion, rather than emit snoring sounds, my computer started laughing ( who said tech is inanimate? ) and the words ” yr ‘avin a giggle, aintcha ” appeared on my screen.
Finally, growing a bit bored with the endeavour, I asked Google’s Gemini about Wee Johnny Main. It replied to my query ” who is Wee Johnny ” with admirable brevity …..” a cunt “. “
So actually, ‘Confused’ was right after all!
As usual James, nothing you write (or rather copy and paste) is worth reading. Just a collection of childish, unsophisticated insults, provided by someone with no humour and nothing interesting to say.
Are you allowed down your local pub? Or do the English voices give you a migraine?
Here’s unionist Walloper #3 arrived in his clown wagon.
Well, Adrian, petal; your posts certainly gie me a migraine.
I told you aready, sweetie;
away and take a flying fuck to yourself.
@Fatso 6:09pm
What is that incoherent, Frankenstein-esque AI cut ‘n paste even supposed to mean? Too thick to write your own prose – and even too stupid to get AI to do it for you…
Good grief, you really are endlessly moronic. Get back in lane; “Prick!” Is about your limit.
(Oh, glad you like the Rangey. 550bhp “go anywhere” performance, effortlessly delivered, British engineering at its best 🙂 )
Aye James – I bet my posts give you a migraine, some of them contain more than one sentence and use long words.
As I say, I am intrigued as to who put YOU in charge of who can and can’t post on the site. Since I and others continue to post despite your “objections” I’m going to say nobody, so sit doon!
@CC – the 550bhp 5.0 ey? Great model – that will even get James up the Bealach na Ba (provided the tank is close to empty, no other passengers, nothing in the boot, tyres fully inflated, recently serviced, keep in a low gear etc.)
Hey Aidan, it’s the PHEV hybrid Sport, meaning it has e-motor shove, as well as the 6-cyl Ingenium petrol engine that’s good for around 4 seconds 0-60. The “real world” 50 miles electric motor range is more than enough for the commute, wafting silently about on 6p per kW/hr night tariff. 🙂
Plenty of green lanes round these parts, from rutted polo fields, livery yards to farms. Never an issue (on all-season tyres), doesn’t even use 10% of its capabilities. I did a “Range Rover experience day” to see what it CAN do, and was utterly blown away.
@CC
I see a few of them around here. They absolutely boss the reserved disabled parking and the double yellows outside Tesco’s front door.
Lesser mortals in lesser motors have to make do with the Parent & Child spaces.
Not having a go, you understand. Just some observations from “lived experience”. 🙂
@Hatey
You get idiots in all manner of cars, it isn’t the car’s fault. How many Audi drivers do you have tailgating within an inch of your rear bumper? White van man overtaking on the inside in his Citroen Berlingo being thrashed within an inch of its life on the motorway, whilst you maintain safe braking distances to vehicles in front of you?
At the risk of inflaming James & Co. even more, I also have a 992.1 GT3 and am forever having a great drive ruined by some oik in a shitbox Vauxhall Corsa or similar. Sadly, you just have to accept some people are selfish and/or dicks; it’s not as though public transport options are any better is it.
@CC
There’s one experience where Scotland comes out top every time.
Summer evenings, post rush hour, away from the cities, many of the A roads are a driver’s dream. Few cameras or mobile vans. Light traffic. Sun still shining at 10 PM.
An enthusiastic driver with a sporty car (or bike) can sit at the legal limit ( 🙂 ) for mile after mile and hardly encounter anything.
Helps if you know the road and have memorised any potholes. But some A roads are largely pothole free.
Ooh…concerted effort from the 3 Tenors/ sorry wankers.
But the sad fact for these ****s is that Scotland still hates the Tories.
Read it and weep, arsewipes.
Look everybody!
Indy support up 5% today. Just another 5% and we’re free.
Wonder what’s been driving it, eh?
Another surge in Indy support at 6:59 pm.
Up another 5% since yesterday.
I’m gonna lobby to get Scotland’s national animal, the unicorn, replaced by the fatberg.
An interesting article about how the EU – that wonderful EU that so many “Indy” Scots yearn to join with every fiber of their being – is being reduced to impotent hand-wringing by our common enemy’s weaponisation of migration.
The EU disburses billions of Euros a year to so-called “gatekeeper” states. Countries adjacent to EU borders from which migrants seek to reach the promised land.
In return for these billions, the gatekeeper states are supposed to do the EU’s dirty work. Stop the migrants, even send them back.
But now as with the recipients of Danegeld in days of yore, the gatekeeper states have twigged that all they have to do to get yet more dosh is let a surge through. Claim they were overwhelmed or over-stretched. Demand more money for more personnel, more equipment, more baksheesh.
A bit like what the French do to the UK over the boats.
That’s the problem with conceding to blackmail. The blackmailer always returns demanding an even bigger bung.
link to unherd.com