Wings Over Scotland

“with all the boring hard work and suit-and-tie wearing that entails”….. a bit of hard work from any of the idlers in Holyrood and the country might be in a better place.

There’s a dude standing in the Inverclyde constituency as an Independent candidate.
However, he has a photo of himself up on Lyle Hill, Greenock, wearing a lot of mainly blue tartan.
Some wonder aloud, if all this tartan he’s got on, scarf, and tartan hat, etc, is to deceive unsuspecting voters into thinking he maybe for Scottish Independence.
Well, he isn’t for Scottish Independence, but we do think he’s trying to flog the “Christian” voters!
So, don’t be fooled by that one, in Inverclyde, folks!

Yes, this is just about Wingsian analysis at its best, and typically, bloody obvious when you simply make the effort to look at the cold hard facts, which few apparently ever do. No idea what Craig Murray was thinking when he was bigging up “Bonnie Prince Bob.”

Meanwhile the bastions of New SNP reaction have done a sterling job of stitching up this election with the attack-soundbite/tropes “sex pest” and “transphobe”. Big Lies which have been every bit as effective as the equivalent demagogic nonsense like “but Hillary’s E-mails!1!” and “but Corbyn hates teh Jews11!”

I’m not hopeful.

Oliver and BPB

They do have a type of Lochlan and Mornay scent to them

Speaking of idiots, Dross is floundering even under softball questions from Andrew Marr at the moment.

Thanks Rev, about time this Clown was called out.
I have very little time for idiots and their egos who think it clever to make politics a joke.
We see that all the time in the English General Election Results, and I’m always quietly pleased that we don’t have that kind of nonsense here.
What do Westminister expect when they play dress up and speak as if they are auditioning for a costume drama, but they seem to like it !
Nevertheless ….
A seat in a Parliament is a serious thing and affects people’s lives and health,it is not a stage to be played on.
We/ Edinburgh do not need a Parody we need a Parliamentarian and I hope those who have an ego learn pretty dam quickly the voters here are no playin.
We have precious little time for campaign exposure because we are treated as though we are having a ” regional ” election and we should waste none on plastic candidates.
I hope this fool and the Twat in the Hat who thinks he’s a Cat are the demonstration that we are no interested in this buffonary in Holyrood elections.

That should have been ‘probably’, now I’ve found my reading specs.

Liz g says:
2 May, 2021 at 9:37 am

Thanks Rev, about time this Clown was called out.
I have very little time for idiots and their egos who think it clever to make politics a joke.

Under the current leaderships, holyrood and abroad, that is the strategy and clearly the point.

Sturgeon’s claim to fame in her home town of Dykehorn was allegedly when she stood in the middle of the town square and screamed:-

“I’m the only Gay is this fuckin Toon”.

Allegedly…

Don’t quote me on that, it came from a dodgy source.

But if she is allowed to lie to very people who elected her, then I suppose anyone else can.

She started it, so to speak.

Don’t Vote SNP.

Eugene Henderson says:
2 May, 2021 at 9:45 am

It is shit living in Scotland.

It has the same problems as any other colony.

It has to be the most pathetic, subservient, ignorant electorate in the World.

Why is that?

We had a chance to be a truly independent nation in 2014 and we blew it.

Anyone and everyone can make a mistake, but surely they all deserve another chance?

And now the same electorate are willing to give Sturgeon and her Freaks their Vote, AGAIN.

Don’t Vote SNP.

Yes, vote SNP in the constituency, Alba on the region.

We need two nationalist parties to utilise the votes that are there.

If Alex Salmond returns to holyrood, our current first minister will bluster and exit.

The husk of the SNP will then be revivified.*

*That is a hopeful reasoning, I would prefer another nationist party to assert itself.

Was calling out this charletan a few months back when certain individuals (hello Craig Murray!) were blibbering over him in spite of all the evidence he was a self-seeking attention seeker.

Another quick wee reminder for those with VERY SHORT MEMORIES of what Bonnie Prince Bob had to say about Wings Over Scotland … straight from this very site:

He may have scrubbed his incriminating Twitter account with the above on it, but his vanity Instagram page, also under the name of NonideeFixe, is still up:

link to instagram.com

Oh, and just in case he tries to scrub the evidence:

link to imgur.com

The same person who called Wings Over Scotland a ‘Snake Oil Selling Charatan Piss Artist’ three years ago (on top of what Stu’s mentioned here) now wants WoS readers and supporters to vote for him on May 6th 2021.

Tell this aging wannabe ‘celebrity’ to fk off!

Paul 10.01

Sturgeon will go nowhere if she is reelected.

And as for her “running” because Alex Salmond is in the chamber just confirms what I said about the Scottish electorate.

Sturgeon, having the last say at FMQs will just scream at Salmond, telling him she will not take any lessons from a man who STILL hasn’t apoligised to the women he tried to sexually abuse.

That clip alone will be the headline story on every news bulletin and newspaper thereafter.

See what I mean about guys like you being gullible and ignorant?

I was convinced the moment the powers controlling the SNP blocked Joanna from this seat that they did it so the tories could win the seat, alienating a good section of the SNP voters by foisting Robertson on the seat.

Now, those figures above could suggest the only presence of the greens in that seat was to stop the SNP winning it, so the tories could get it instead.

But what jumps at you immediately is that Davidson “won” that seat by a whisker. 610 votes. And that was the poster girl of the tory party. After brexit (Edinburgh was one of the most pro EU cities in Scotland), the theft of powers, the corruption in the tory ranks, having an absolute buffoon as the poster boy of the tory party, and having a candidate less popular than Davidson, it was clear the same strategy of just having a green running in the seat to stop a pro indy candidate wining the seat would not cut it this time.

In fact, I am convinced that if had been Joanna contesting that seat, the tories would lose the seat, greens or not. And that is another reason why I have been wondering for quite a while now who the hell is controlling the SNP. Now I wonder who is controlling the Greens too.

So a rearrangement of the strategy was needed to ensure the seat was kept by the tories. The obvious addition to the strategy was to block the favourite SNP candidate and put instead a ninny imported from somewhere else to deliberately alienate a good chunk of the voters.

But that would leave two problems

1. some of those alienated pro SNP voters will not be seen dead voting for the ninny, and that could lead to an embarrassing increase of spoiled ballots or decrease in turnout that might just expose the whole game of deception to the public.

2. Fed up of Labour being useless, disgusted by the anti-women stance of the Greens and appalled by the libdems voting for the hate bill, some of their natural voters may choose to vote SNP instead.

Solution: to put some flamboyant paper candidate with no chance in hell to win the seat but that may have enough appeal to give those orphan pro indy voters and disgusted labour and libdem voters an opportunity for what they think will be a protest vote.

But this paper candidate cannot possibly appeal to tory voters at all because that will defeat the purpose.

And when the push comes to the shove, what are the two main tory voters’ priorities?

tax avoidance and the monarchy.

So, what would be the best repellent for tory voters?

to present the paper candidate as a flamboyant, long haired provocateur, aiming to empty your wallet with taxes. An unashamed socialist who directly attacks local businesses demanding public ownership and that (gasps) cometes the biggest sin of them all: openly pursues the abolition of the monarchy rendering meaningless all those aristocratic titles and imperial bubbles the wealthy tory middle class has received or is expecting to receive in exchange for loyalty to the monarchy.

It seems to me BPB is a text book paper candidate working for the tories.

I am beginning to think we are all taken for a ride and that the result in that constituency (like in a few others) has been already decided, so the vote is just a formality to keep the pretence of democracy.

When you look at things from this perspective, you begin to wonder until what point elections are just a manipulation game and “democracy” in Scotland is a complete and utter farce.

It seems so clear to me that BPB is there to ensure the tories get the seat that the immediate question for me is why is it so important that the tories retain that seat in particular?

What does that seat have that is so special?

Is it because of symbolism as it is the capital city of Scotland and a very much pro-EU city?

Is it because there is something in that constituency, let’s say some MI5 station or society, that is a serious risk of being exposed if an MSP other than a tory has an opportunity to stick their nose in it?

Is it because there are some really dodgy tory money dealings going on in that constituency that may be forced to stop if another tory does not keep the lid on it?

If the SNP keep putting up Perverts and posers what choice do the voters have?
They put Woke candidates up on the list under the guise of BAME or disabled. They rig the rules to give Robertson a free run and then get angry when the voters turn the offer down.
I don’t want the current SNP leadership OR those in elected roles who remain silent as the damage is done to Scotland.
It is not BPB’s fault, or the Greens nor the voters. It is those MSPs and MPs who sit silently and let Sturgeon wreck our hopes of Independence.

Robertson had no chance regardless of BPB standing. However Joanna Cherry would have taken that seat with a large majority. The leader of the SNP lost that seat to the Tory candidate because of her ego and fixation with the transcult.

His real surname isn’t Macock….it’s Hyde-McComb.

Cenchos
Postal ballots
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The number of postal ballots submitted and the turnout on the day is an unknown.
The only thing I would say is that there will be a disproportionate number of young voters on Election Day, due to covid, which is good for the SNP and everything woke.

Can anyone post extraordinary long irrelevant pish?

Thanks.

Late last year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled “Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China,” the institution’s first survey of contemporary art from the country. Situated within the museum’s Chinese art galleries, the exhibition interspersed the old with the new, adding context—or, perhaps, simply conserving space. In the permanent Ming Scholar’s retreat, an aubergine rubber scholar rock by Zhang Jianun cast a long shadow over its limestone brethren, while unusable furnishings by the artist-activist Ai Weiwei—a wobbly stool constructed like craniopagus twins, and a table folded at the middle so its four legs have become two legs and two arms—seemed poised to animate and wander away from their sixteenth-century predecessors. Resistance to tradition is a prominent theme in Ink Art, as is the importance of writing in—subtext, of course—a country with an active policy of censorship.

The exhibition looked at the evolution of China’s calligraphic traditions, but its most powerful statement came with works that play on an idea of language, rather than on actual words. Song Dong’s 1996 performance Printing on Water (Performance in the Lhasa River, Tibet), in which the artist futilely stamped the water’s surface with a large wooden seal, alludes to the hopelessness the act of writing can evoke, particularly if it leaves no trace. The final two works in “Ink Art” are also concerned with meaningless writing—but they combined to create a more comforting message. Xu Bing’s installation Book from the Sky filled the last room with scrolls covered in block-printed Chinese characters. The text cascaded in soft arcs across the ceiling, wallpapering the room and coming to rest in neat piles on the floor. The careful organization evokes a calm—which is abruptly displaced when one learns that the text comprises four thousand nonsense characters. Most Western viewers wouldn’t be able to read the text anyway, but the realization that no one can is transformative. An expanse of gibberish becomes an inhabitable space of words: the viewer is absolved from the act of reading.

For anyone who has engaged in the struggle of communicating through writing—namely, every literate person—the idea of writing for its own sake, rather than for meaning, is incredibly alluring. This isn’t an anti-intellectual position; the creation of a nonsensical non-language consisting of thousands of characters is surely a Herculean task of perseverance and ingenuity. Consider Xu Bing’s Book from the Sky as a counterexample to Borges’s Library, where an endless expanse of rooms containing infinite numbers of incomprehensible books led to chaos. For Borges, the search for a message in the mess leads to insanity; for Xu, the lack of message allows for a focus on, and celebration of, writing as a visually aesthetic art form.

The final work in the exhibition, Cai Guo-Qiang’s Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters, took meaningless writing to incendiary levels. In 1993, Cai and a team of volunteers laid a ten-kilometer fuse leading from the edge of the Great Wall to the Gobi Desert and lit it from one end, videotaping the process and the results. The explosion was visible from outer space. As the charge traveled, sparks and smoke lit up the night sky, painting a line like brushwork across the terrain. The sound—like the hiss of cymbal vibrations punctuated by tympanic explosions—echoed on the plains, bouncing off the crevices of the earth. Though Project to Extend’s ambitions are predominantly architectural, when paired with Book from the Sky it becomes a monumental act of writing. Like Book, there is no literal message, yet if Book is a celebration of writing’s visual form, Project exults in its action. The traveling charge, moving with the swiftness of a pen or brush, creates the eloquent impression of writing: full of drama, force, destruction, and creation.

Lilly Lampe is a writer and art critic based in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, ArtAsiaPacific, Art Papers, Artforum.com, and Modern Painters, among others.

Yep stu, that ego inflated you tuber is no match for you!! He is outed as a me me me me me hypocrite!

As for him and the greens, super ego, no hoper, alison johnstone, they are very comfortable with a woke anti Independence SNP.

Only Alba party has any credibility here.

Anyone calling himself Bonnie prince bob is a right suspect character if ever there was one!

Given what you exposed about BPB, even angus robertson has a slither more credibility and we all know about the skeletons on his cupboard!

” ma hame city” cries Bob. Well its mine too ya chancer, and one more long haired, unwashed smelling hippy in Tory knickers is Not what MY city needs!!

So take your unionism and do one!

The Daily Record giving it large for NS this morning. A unionist rag (among others) showing such interest and support for a so-called Nationalists and “supporter” of Independence? Interesting.

It’s street performance art & he’s passing round the hat

Might cost Robertson SNP a chance of a seat …some might be more upset by that than others

Bob’s video for election is a neat mockumentary soon dismissed as a spoof; too pat by half, studied backgrounds, crash edits, with and well-rehearsed phrases to catch our conscience. Johnny Rebel with no political background.

The question I wanted to ask him was: “Who do *you* vote for?”

It looks like the SNP is now the party that rejects heteros and gay people who do not conform to its gender agenda.

It’s a very small corner to paint itself into.

It will cruise into this election on the back of the support it has gained in the past, but once its new thought crime laws start jailing people the penny will drop for most of the electorate.

Labour only projected to be down 6 seats in this latest poll.

I wis hoping we could take the lot off them , but ah well , thankfull for small mercies.

I see once again south of the border labour are expecting a drubbing in the local english elections , with the tories expectd to take many seats off them in the old red wall areas?

Hopefully our welsh brothers give labour a good kicking as well.

link to tinyurl.com

#AlbaWomenRising
Good video!

Some of the women use the English pronunciation of Alba which I think if fair enough.

I don’t think it was a good idea to listen to Pete Wishart!

Imagine if French, Italian, German, etc speaking politician were to correct foreign words that were ‘mispronounced’ in English!

“Almost suspiciously late”

What do you mean. Please elaborate.

Grouse Beater,
A very good question.

Thing about it is Rev, that a Tory victory in the constitutency seat will get rid of Robertson, and it will simply lose the Tories a seat on the List. And at least as far as I’m aware the Tory candidate isn’t married to a dugshite. And I’ll be doing all I can to make sure the List seat goes to ALBA and not that other dugshite Graham Campbell. Worst case I do get Campbell, whose a dugshite, instead of Robertson, who’s also a dugshite.

So it’s BPB for me, secure in the knowledge that he won’t get elected either

Mia 11.00.

Bad choice of words, not what I meant.

The new pro-indy kid on the block.

link to twitter.com

@David Ferguson 11.04am

I just couldn’t bring myself to vote Tory under any circumstances, but the logic of tactical voting here would probably be to vote for the Tory candidate Douglas Scott. I don’t know much about him: councillor for Murrayfield/Corstorphine since 2017, ex Edinburgh Academy, graduated from Edinburgh Uni in 2010 with a degree in Politics, head of PR and public affairs (naturally…!) at Fife College.

Defeated the better known Councillor Jo Mowat who was knocked out in the first round of voting. Looks like a young man on the make if you ask me given the background. I’m sure Conservative Central Office have been all over him.

Much as I wouldn’t vote for him, I think I’d actually prefer him as an MSP to either Angus Robertson or Graham Campbell, particularly if his victory deprived the Tories of a list seat.

Jaggy.Blog is a welcome edition to the real indy camp. Thistle do nicely.

“The leader of the SNP lost that seat to the Tory candidate because of her ego and fixation with the transcult”

The leader of the SNP (whoever that leader is, because sure as hell is not Sturgeon) did not lose that seat to the tories. They are HANDING it to the tories, helped by the Greens and BPB.

Looking at the figures as the rev presented them in the article, looking at how the SNP blocked the best candidate for the seat and looking at the paper candidate BPB, it seems more and more like the seat owner has already been decided in advance, behind closed doors among parties colluding with each other to frustrate democracy. The voting process appears to be just a formality to make it official.

I would not be surprised if there is a stock of properly labelled postal votes in standby somewhere in case they need to be deployed to ensure the result in that constituency is the “right” one.

The real question for me is: why is it so important for the British state that this particular seat is under control of the “right person”? What is this constituency hiding?

Looks like the Freaks Charter will sail through the Parliament.

All done without one mention of the “I” word.

ALBA will be lucky to get five seats.

All SNP voters, you lot own the shite that is coming down the line and your names are noted.

Don’t Vote SNP.

Look at all politicians, BPB is no were near the bottom of the pile, he puts on a good show, Labour gave us #GulfWar2, Westminster gave us war criminals 20th March 2003. MSPs and party members tried to jail an innocent person. Yes I would give BPB my vote.

Breastplate,

But those are the choices our daft electoral system threw up. And Robertson is extremely dangerous, Nicola’s preferred glacialist successor, plus someone the UK military and security services are comfortable with. Without mentioning other stuff.

Thomas
So you want Sturgeon to remain?
That takes masochism to new levels!

She is the one thing which is holding back independence at this time.

Sarwar is no threat.

He bends the way the wind blows.

Anas Sarwar doesn’t give a monkeys about poverty in Scotland his family business didn’t even pay the living wage, when rumbled Sarwar said, he didn’t pay it because it was voluntary to do so, as if that was some sort of valid excuse for paying minimum wages and maximizing profits.

In contrast his one time boss, and real socialist Jeremy Corbyn did pledge to raise the minimum wage to £10 per hour if elected as as PM.

Gordon,

You’ve made my day mentioning Lyle Hill in Greenock! My dear departed Granny who I miss to this day lived in Greenock (Waverly St initially then Campbell St IIRC, anyway 2as,doon by the wata) for the last 60 years of her life, died a month short of her 100th bless her.

Many a walk up the Hill and view the Free French memorial, plus gazing over the Clyde to the stunning beauty of Argylshire, happy days!!

Craig Murray,
I agree.

I see no reason to doubt that the SNP will win the election at a canter, so what is the need for all the Nicola puff-pieces in the media?

Is it because even a few % bleeding the wrong way, while not enough to stop her winning, will cause her headaches? It’s the only thing that makes any sense because if they thought for a minute that the vote would divert to unionist parties, they’d not be bothering, surely?

In all the eight years I’ve been a reader and supporter (fundraisers) of Wings, I can barely remember a time when there there has been such nastiness and bitterness BTL. That is truly one of the great disappointments of this election campaign.

Anyway, latest polls would seem to indicate the SNP and Greens will do reasonably well, and combined will form a fairly substantial majority.

Therefore, there is an even greater imperative not to waste SNP votes on the list. SNP 1 & 2 will not garner more independence~supporting MSPs in the Scottish parliament.

But voting Alba on the list assuredly will. SNP 1 Alba 2

I’m with Craig Murray and humanity. Angus Robertson simply isn’t an option. I think the technical term is “cunt”.

I listened to Nicola today on the radio and the message has changed as I predicted — vote SNP if you want to focus on recovering from covid and want to give Scottish people the choice on Indy…

You can expect more emphasis on that Indy carrot in the next few days. There’s a bunch of self-mutilating mugs who fall for it every time so who can blame them for taking advantage…

Today I’m in the radioactive coastal resort of Dunoon. I like the place. You always go home with a bit of a glow when you visit Dunoon.

“… and we suspect that reveals rather a lot about whether the SNP are really in this election for independence or to preserve their own monopoly on pro-indy politics… ”

The latter, Rev. The latter.

Anas and DRoss unable to answer a question – they just bounce around the issues even when getting a very tame interview with Andrew Marr – compare and contrast with the interview with NS – constant interruptions, constant heckling – wonder whose side Andrew is on? We are not asking for special treatment just fairness – and of course the complete blackout of Alex Salmond by the media is outrageous. Cant wait to see Kirsty Wark have to announce Alex is back in Scottish Parliament along with at least 10 others.

I see his favourite book is ‘Flowers in the Attic’
And his two favourite TV programmes ‘The Jerry Springer Show ‘ and ‘Sex and the City’
Favourite film?
you guessed it:
‘Broke Back Mountain’

@Craig Murray says: 2 May, 2021 at 10:57 am

I read everything you just wrote and still say he’s a lot nicer than Angus Robertson and wife

Until he starts slagging you off, then he’ll be the Whore of Babylon and “in the pay of MI5” no doubt.

Mark Boyle
Quite who is in the pay of MI5 we shall never know.
Craig Murray perhaps used to know a few, although he will never tell I’m sure.
He has been out of the loop for a long time though.
He may receive tips from time to time but will have no way of corroborating them.

For the Nth time, Craig Murray should have stood against Robertson on anti corruption ticket and raked up all the filth, corruption and criminality that surrounds Robertson, for as many of us know he has a key involvement in the Salmond situation and has shown himself to be a corrupt lying bastard many a time.

Instead for whatever reason Craig decided to back someone who looks like he lives on a park bench and who is as genuine as the Chinese made tat they sell in Gold brothers up the royal mile.

But we are where we are so one can only hope he gets enough votes to keep the bastard Robertson out.

@Mark Boyle
Mark
Say something nice about someone…anyone!
Signed
Concerned

During the referendum on whether or not we wanted a Scottish Parliament, I voted ‘yes’ along with more than 70% of Scots.

When it opened, we were promised that it would be honest and folk’s feet would be held to the fire (for how long now have we been listening to this tiresome skitter?)

During the early days of Holyrood when it was under the leadership of Jack McConnell, Henry McLeish and Alex Salmond etc it wasn’t perfect but the problems were accepted and things were sorted-out in the end. I’m thinking about the Shirley McKee case in particular.

During Nicola Sturgeon’s leadership we have seen the emergence of an all-powerful elite at Holyrood and the civil-service. They don’t think they need to answer or apologise to anyone. It’s a grotesque and overwhelming arrogance that has no place in a democracy and disgraces all of us.

Nicola Sturgeon gives us the option of following her or following Boris Johnson as if it’s either one, or the other. It’s neither. She represents the government of Scotland and it is her job to work with Boris Johnson to deliver for Scots. That’s not complex and if she cannot do that then she needs to move-on.

The investigation into the money used to pay for Boris Johnson’s flat refurbishment illustrates the point. Whatever the cost of that was I think we can all agree it was a small fraction of the money wated on the Salmond trial and subsequent Inquiry. Yet, it is being treated as a criminal inquiry and anyone losing Emails etc will be subject to the force of the law. Compare that to our Fabiani Inquiry.

For me, David Davis called it right in the House of Commons. What we have at Holyrood is a parody of government that wouldn’t be acceptable anywhere else in the world.

Whoever folk vote for on Thursday, I can see no happy outcome in an independence supermajority led by Sturgeon, Swinney and Wolffe.

This is not anti-independence at-all and, in fact, I see great value in having Alex Salmond at Holyrood but the aforementioned three, I can see no value in any of them.

Independence will come when the majority of Scots look at who are leading them at Holyrood and choose to follow them instead of Westminster. It sounds easy doesn’t it?

“… deeply tiresome faux-revolutionary Bella Caledonia-type poseur straight out of the most insufferable kind of student drama society…”

Just brilliant, Rev.

@Stephen says: 2 May, 2021 at 1:03 pm

Mark Boyle
Quite who is in the pay of MI5 we shall never know.
Craig Murray perhaps used to know a few, although he will never tell I’m sure.
He has been out of the loop for a long time though.
He may receive tips from time to time but will have no way of corroborating them.

People really ought to have stopped taking seriously “in the pay of MI5 after the Andy Carmichael affair that forced Stella Remington’s “retirement”. It encapsulated what a complete farce British intelligence’s “infiltration” of “subversive groups” truly is.

Mark Boyle @ 1.37 pm

British intelligence was successful when it came to Northern Ireland, don’t you think?

DJ
You took the words right out of my mouth.
Stakeknife I think.
Infiltration was the preferred tactic.
Perhaps it still is.
You have to expect a few failures.

Another rainbow fascist.

Stephen @ 1.48

Spot on…

Ottomanboi @ 2.21 pm

Thank you for that…eye opening

This is all performance ‘art’ and will probably form part of another mockumentary laughing at ‘weegies’ with his cabal of Leith arseholes which include Kev Williamson and Mike Small.

Their contribution to political life in Scotland is to mock and laugh whilst demeaning others’ commitment. He was always moaning about the Rev making money and posted some pretty gross visual mock-ups of what he wanted people to think the Rev is.

Before he deleted his Twitter, it was a mixture of snarky envy and pseuds corner pontificating. The Jim Murphy stuff was funny but the moment has gone. He would not turn down a Creative Scotland grant and that says it all.

I would not be surprised if this is deliberate in order to promote Graham Campbell on the list.

Malcolm.. .

@Ottomanboi 2.21pm

On the contrary, I think there is considerable doubt. Given the current direction of travel I doubt the British nationalists of any party – whether in England or Scotland – are seriously worried about an SNP victory on Thursday. They know Sturgeon is a paper tiger: whether by accident or design (there’s an arguable case for either) the yoons know that they have drawn the teeth of the Yes movement for at least 5 years.

Given the experience of the past six years, they’ll be hoping they can contain the pro-independence movement using very much the same tactics they’ve employed thus far, i.e. just keep saying “now is not the time” or “a generation hasn’t passed yet” or “how will you survive on your own” etc, etc., ad nauseam.

Meanwhile the toom tabard devolusionists in the SNP will carry on insisting that just one more mandate will see us through, and we have to convince the soft No voters, that there is no short cut, and we need a consistent 60% in the polls and make sure we’ve recovered from the pandemic, then dealt with the post pandemic economic situation.

The British elite can be pretty confident – if not actually intensely relaxed – about the prospects for Scottish independence because they know they’ve bearded the lion in it’s den and found it has no fangs, no talons a squeak instead of a roar.

@Breeks,

I suspect you are right. The polls don’t feel quite right to me.

Going back to 2016, the polls got it wrong, overestimating the SNP on both Constituency and List votes significantly. Also the Greens were well overstated. (This was true of almost every single poll in themselves not just the averaged out poll of polls)

The other thing about current polls is that they all have Alba registering at least 2%. Normal margin of errors would suggest that if Alba is only on 3% then surely one or two polls would have picked up no support at all?

I suspect Alba is really hovering around 6 – 7% as of yesterday. If the Greens are being overstated in the same way as 2016, Alba might already be ahead of them. If not, it seems to me that it is Alba on an upward trajectory and the Greens sliding away under the weight of increased (but still pretty powder-puff) scrutiny.

Might be wishful thinking but there are grounds for optimism that Alba can return a decent sized team.

Breeks:

Not too sure tbh.

Some folk I know who are Yessers have had a total unreasoning “frothing at the mouth” response about Alba when they’ve come up in conversation, to the point that I was quite angry myself at the unthinking stupidity of it (“not for me” would have been fine but it was well beyond that).

That said, there seems a reasonable chance that the SNP and Greens in particular May fall below their polling as their vote may skew younger (witness that young females are mad for the SNP currently) and the youth traditionally vote at lower levels. Complacency may creep in as well (“it’s in the bag!”). A poll lately was saying SNP voters (by a distance) were reporting more certainty to vote. If this is in any way misleading, and the pollsters are not catching it with any turnout weighting, there might be a surprise in the final figures.

Conversely this could mean that Lab, Cons might do a few % better than expected. I’m not sure about the composition of the likely Alba support to even guess at turnout effects.

All pure speculation I have to admit because for all I know the pollsters are accurately getting past any differential turnout issues.

Here’s a piccy of SLAB’s man of the hour Anas Sarwar campaigning vigorously for Project Fear aka Better Together, nothings changed since then Sarwar still wants to keep us under the heel of Westminster.

He’ll probably capture a lot of the eccentric white settler vote in Endingsborough.

If field signage is anything to go by its SNP in 1st position followed by the Tories then possibly Labour then hopefully Alba

I just hope Alba gets at least one seat to make a start. IHTF people wisen up to the Greens but the youngsters will vote for them.

It’s all an idiocracy.

Republic, nobody has ever doubted his unionist position. He isn’t pretending to be pro-Indy, unlike some. He’s remained honest, in that respect. Your point is either childish or meaningless.

Bob’s a big hit for himself and anyone who changes thier name to Prince clearly fancies themself as one of the elite. He has a nice line in designer clothes too. I find him a bit of a fanny tbh. Having said that, I dislike Angus Robertson even more so will be cheering if Bob manages to stop him winning the constituency.

I agree with Andy Ellis@2.29pm re the link at 2.21pm. I doubt very much that the Westminster establishment is troubled by the SNP. They will have been sniffing the wind and closely following the whole Salmond farrago. It would seem obvious to them, as it is to us, that the SNP is anxious to maintain the status quo and is not going to rock their boat.

What does cause some thought though is why are they not using all the evidence of blatant corruption that they have garnered? They and their media cronies will have amassed the evidence that is clear from the Holyrood enquiries and of that given by Salmond – as well as the abject failure of the Holyrood institutions to do anything about executive corruption and collusion in wrongdoing.

There were those on here who predicted a tidal wave of criticism and revelation being released by the UK MSM to damage the SNP chances of being elected and bring about resignations. Yet that hasn’t happened. Their silence is the answer. A ruthless SNP government pursuing unpopular policies and plainly anti-independence in place is probably quietly welcomed in Westminster.(Whether the situation is fortuitous or by design is of no immediate significance – one of those mysteries that might be answered in the fullness of time.)

What is even better for the Westminster mandarins is a hopelessly compromised government in Holyrood sitting on a powder keg while they hold the fuse.

Hatuey.

Who the hell are you talking about, go on gimme a clue, is it Rennie, Sarwar or Campbell.

A wee addendum to Cole-Hamilton, he says he’s been cold water diving since he was sixteen. A great way to extent his Forth Crossings fetish he can view their foundations underwater as well. What a guy.

I’ll tell you what either those two big yellow coaches can dematerialise and then rematerialise elswhere, or just about every SNP candidate has had their piccy taken next to them at one central point, for the coaches are in nearly all the candidates pro-mo pictures in their twitter feeds.

What’s even more creepy is that all of them have the ghoulish gaunt smiling face of the Betrayer Sturgeon in their photos with them, a necessary requirement I think from HQ.

I notice that Nicola Sturgeon is ‘demanding’ that Boris Johnson produces copies of his bank statements proving that he paid for the Downing Street flat refurbishment himself. Nothing wrong with that you might think.

It reminded me of when Nicola Sturgeon was ‘requested’ by the Fabiani Committee to produce her Ministerial diary pages for the dates of the meetings with Geoff Aberdein and Alex Salmond. She produced blank pages….nothing written on them at-all.

I wonder if this would do for Boris. Would it be good enough for the London TV and press? Would they accept that? What do you think?

Maybe Nicola Sturgeon just reserves these pranks for all of us simpleton Scots folk?

BPB reminds me of that idiot LokiCrapmusic who is also a pretentious socialist and both would have supported RISE if they were running again in my opinion

Sorry forgot the link:

link to twitter.com

“his Pals Kevin Williamson etc etc”

A quick perusal of Anguses wife’s twitter reveals Kevin and the Robertsons are extremely cosy.

Bella have also operated at the behest of the Robertsons.

-Closing down an anti air bnb campaign in the town centre after a quiet word.

It appears the Prince has disrupted the opportunity to shill for them.

A certain amount of post-Covid appetite for change might be the SNP’s biggest threat, and one they can do little about.

Sturgeon going on about Covid recovery is a dubious tactic. If there’s recovery needing to be done it’s her government that has overseen the damage necessitating that recovery.

It would be fairer way to vote if,
You didn’t like any of the candidates in an election, there was a section that you could fill in stating “none of the above”
Right now we are forced to vote for old sterile governments parties or spoil a ballot paper, due to the lack of choice.
But that means the same old ones keep coming back every year, as they believe that it was a close call.
That’s not so, and we should be allowed to vote for none of the above, so the message is clear,
However even I am aware that this present voting malarkey is for the benifit of keeping governments in power not the people
This is something I would seriously like to see a change in.

Jeezo oh, Daddy Bear, and the confirmed Russophobe and Sinophobe SNP MP Stewart McDonald both pen articles for the global political magazine Foreign Policy.

Stewart can’t do enough of Westminster’s dirty work for them when it comes to doing down, Iran, Russia, China and Venezuela.

I must say I used to read a few of FP’s articles, but now I see the kind of writers that they allow to write for them. I’ll think twice about the veracity of their articles.

Mark Boyle,

You are quite wrong. BPB has been very disparaging of me in the past. I don’t do grudges from personal slight; he is still, in my opinion, the best candidate in Edinburgh Central. I don’t claim that is a high bar.

But when people are involved in stuff like conspiracy to jail an innocent man, that is of a completely different order of badness.

I want to reinforce what was said above. Edinburgh Central is a Tory seat. A Tory hold is not a Tory gain and will not change the list seat equation.

Geoff Anderson says:
2 May, 2021 at 7:58 pm
” Are Daddy Bear and Stewart McDonald a couple? ”

Aye , a couple of doughballs

Chas. 8.24pm

Best post of the day so far.

Couldn’t have put it better myself.

And of course we have a chance to ditch the poison dwarf at the Polls on Thursday.

Vote Sarwar 1 and ALBA 2 in the Glasgow Southside.

Oh what bliss it would be.

Not having Sturgeon around the place is a win win for the Yes Movement.

DON’T VOTE FOR THE SNP,,, EVER.

They are a shower of creepy weirdos.

And if you vote for creepy weirdos, then you deserve to be labelled a creepy weirdo as well.

The Sturgeon/Deerin ‘interview’ feels like ‘Gold Standard’ trolling. Nothing less.

She’s practically herding Yes-supporting women and concerned men towards Alba.

Astonishing.

@Yossarian 8.49pm

Nobody cares. People wanted a non unionist (and non Green Party) alternative to vote for as a protest vote. Nobody sane expected him to do anything other than stop Robertson winning the seat. Initially I was taken in: what I’ve seen and heard since has changed my mind.

Now I plan to spoil my constituency vote. I have nobody I can support in good conscience. I won’t vote for the SNP. Ever. In any election.