Wings Over Scotland

To be fair she thought shagging Graham Campbell was a good career move . Fortunately she didn’t realise there were other Campbell’s

The arrogance of politicians who feel they have the right to enforce blatant lies like “men are women if they say so’ and “lesbians can have penises” on the population they purport to serve.

It’s going to be interesting & revealing to see if COPFS or Police take any action
My guess is no

Maybe she knows Operation Branchform is just a con by the establishment against the people of Scotland. Guilty or innocent (of whatever charge), no prosecutions will follow.

At least they’re giving the Scottish media perfect cues to shine a light on what the real… oh, wait.

Come to think of it, I have never heard what exactly the triumvirate were arrested for. Just that they had been arrested and subsequently released.

When plod nicked them, how did the sentence end. As in “you are being arrested on suspicion of” etc., etc., etc.,

Being a leader in the SNP isn’t a crime. Is it?…_

In the dazzling unlikely event she finds herself in the Dock, she’ll escape censure by application of the Dugdale defence. Too fucking stupid to ken whit she’s doing.

Maybe she knows Operation Branchform is just a con by the establishment against the people of Scotland. Guilty or innocent (of whatever charge), no prosecutions will follow.

If they follow the same tactics they did with Salmond, ie if they actually *want* to prosecute her, they’ll find something. He was prosecuted on opening a bottle of water, touching a back in a crowded restaurant, a consensual hug etc.

Then the media played their part by whipping up lurid headlines and allegations bearing no relationship to the charges. Question is whether they want to or it’s all just continuing theatre before she’s whisked off to her reward for helping destroy the real threat.

All I hear now is people weary of the political incompetence that surrounds us from all parties . Career politicians have killed off politics and we are now governed by people who don’t have the capacity and skills to do the job .
Not only is there an Economic burden attached to this but it seems our very freedom of belief is also up for sale .
Collectively we need to stop this type of poor performing politics .
No idea how but spoilt ballot papers starts by sending a message .

Aye, Cath, and in case it turns out to be the latter, the sycophants and hingers-on will already have an eye on the new dining table.

In a few days she’ll probably be in the Herald commenting on how she has been diagnosed with PTSD brought on by this article.

Dear Stuart Campbell.
Thank you for painstakingly and persistently pointing out the law as it is perceived by all right-thinking people, especially a rapidly rusting former court reporter like me who has sat in too many cold and forbidding crown and magistrates courts to see justice being wielded or enacted.
My broad feeling with Scotland is that a new form of justice appears to have arrived there different from England and Wales which, broadly, seems to fit entirely with the ideological preferences of the ruling cadre in political power and, tragically, Ms Sturgeon herself so that proceedings seem, now, to be fitted in entirely with her, “Is it OK to ‘arrest’ you on a Sunday when you have eight hours to spare and have nothing else in your diary wee Nicola?’.
Can you please explain to me what “arrested by police” in Scotland now means? I have been informed that it means something very different to what it means in England and Wales but do not understand this. You appear to be superbly armed and equipped with legal competence so hope you can illuminate me.
You and I being arrested by police would mean we would take a solicitor in the expectation that charges would be put to us and that legal representation in the interview room would be crucial to us because I, certainly, would be naive about my rights and would need an independent third party.
Here, it feels as if Ms Sturgeon knows better than the cops and is commanding and questioning them rather than the other way around. There is no basic humility or grace whatsoever and that is very dangerous because if these people are perceived to be law breakers (or, rather, law makers to suit their own lifestyle and ideology with a police which accurately represents and reflects them rather than us) then nobody will observe laws.
I write having noticed a man walk into a Greggs earlier as I queued to buy a cup of tea push past me, help himself to two sandwiches and just walk out totally brass-faced with no notice nor even concern by the staff who might have said that they did not see it.

WHO WILL SAVE US FROM THESE BONEHEADED CRETINS

That would take a lot gravy to fill that pie face .

Wee reminder that today’s the day the new ‘monitoring force’ at Scottish Parliament starts scouring social media for comments deemed to threaten MSPs.

Just happens to coincide with last night’s big tweet magnet.

Did she manage to find a Scottish law firm prepared to defend her?

Or did she have to hire some obscure Mancunian firm for the job?

Lynn @11:38

The trouble is that anyone with an ounce of intelligence and talent runs in the opposite direction from a “career in politics”.

So what do we get? Idiots who let political parties persuade them to stand “to give the electorate an opportunity to vote for the party – which they won’t have if you don’t put your name on the ballot, because nobody else wants to. But don’t worry, it’s not as though you’ll win”.

Then guess what? The f***wits get elected!

Then they get a whiff of power and privilege and expenses and meals and chauffeurs and hotels and fancy clothes and posh restaurants and before you know it, they’re hooked on keeping their incompetent and incapable snouts in the trough for as long as possible. And the party apparatchiks are happy so long as they continue to do as they’re told and behave like the rest of the obedient Lobby Fodder.

And this is where we are.

The people you’d actually want to run the country don’t want any part of modern politics, which leaves that shown above…

I had to go and look at the comments on twitter didn’t I?

Saying these people are deranged is putting it mildly, the rage towards Ahs Regan for even suggesting that Nicola be suspended is unreal and this is despite Nicola expelling people for lesser comments or actions.

Who could forget that us independence supporters and members were called “Cultists” in 2014, it seems that they were right when you see the comments, they are blinded and beholden to Queen “Ah cannae Recall” Sturgeon.

I really do despair at the quality that is Scottish politics, it’s an utter shitfest.

Nicola Sturgeon, after her release, has also declared that she knows herself to be innocent of any wrongdoing.

Leaving aside for now the plausibility or otherwise of that claim, I’d like to know:

Is an arrested person in a special category regarding what they may publicly say, or is that protestation of her innocence (while investigation is ongoing) in itself a contempt of court?

Who ate all the pies?

That there land whale
That there land whale
She ate all the pies.

Sturgeon says the “investigation played no part in my resignation.”

Well that’s being economical with the truth, wouldn’t you say…

Mrs Murrel’s / Ms Sturgeon’s choice of words was interesting. It was “I” ….am entirely innocent.’

She did NOT say that that she believes that ‘nothing criminal has taken place.’ She may be drawing a distinction between her position and the positions of others.

Having just emerged from police custody (arrested as a possible suspect, as the police said) after some seven and a half hours during which allegations of criminal conduct will have been put to her, one might think that occasional replies like…..” what’s criminal about that?” might have been made.

Despite all she (and many SNP members) may think to the contrary, Sturgeon is not some divinity, is not infallible, and most of all is not exempt from the rule of law.

A first response of ” I am innocent” might just be an acknowledgement that unlawful activity has taken place….or at least what has just been alleged to her is undoubtedly criminal.

I wonder were NS and her entourage would be, or how far they or the Greens for that matter would be if Scotland was not being run by a Colonial Corporate Body (Devolved Government) under Westminster legislation.

Perhaps the old Scots law of treason would be added to any possible forth coming charges.

However that was one law of Scotland that was quickly eradicated in 1708. By the Coloniser changing Scots law that the Coloniser promised “Scots law” “would remain” the same after the “hoax” treaty,

In her defence she is hardly as bright as the sun. More like a 5 watt bulb.

Minister for justice? Snigger. Rewards of being compliant.

Den @ 10:45 am

“I realised that the SNP government and their counterparts have / had absolutely no respect or fear for the rule of law in this country.”

Fascism sits at ‘the root of colonialism’ where ‘the party, a true instrument of power in the hands of the native bourgeoisie, reinforces the (colonial) machine, and ensures that the people are hemmed in and immobilized’. Fascism being ‘the dialectic result of states that were semi-colonial’ (Frantz Fanon), much as we saw for half a century or more in Latin America, and elsewhere.

So it is little surprise to see a co-operative colonial administration exhibit such features. In the colonial society ‘the rule of law’ takes on an altogether different meaning, especially for a complicit native bourgeoisie:

“Because, after all, we must resign ourselves to the inevitable and say to ourselves, once and for all, that the bourgeoisie is condemned to become every day more snarling, more openly ferocious, more shameless, more summarily barbarous; that it is an implacable law that every decadent class finds itself turned into a receptacle into which there flow all the dirty waters of history; that it is a universal law that before it disappears, every class must first disgrace itself completely, on all fronts, and that it is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs. The moralists can do nothing about it. There is a law of progressive dehumanization in accordance with which henceforth on the agenda of the bourgeoisie there is – there can be – nothing but violence, corruption and barbarism. I almost forgot hatred, lying, conceit.” (Aime Cesaire)

Though there is also some hope for the oppressed people, this from Fanon: “The behaviour of the national bourgeoisie..is reminiscent of a gang. Such behaviour shows that more or less consciously the national bourgeoisie is playing to lose if the game goes on too long. They guess that the present situation will not last indefinitely but they intend to make the most of it”.

SteepBrae @12:19

Maybe they can elaborate on an issue that I’m struggling with:

ie my interpretation of their interpretation of the contempt of court act 1981 is that if our kids get arrested, stripped and, for sake of argument, cavity searched/ dingied on way home from school, before being released without, or with, charge, they’ll still not be allowed to tell their ma about it (not even on twitter) without running the risk of aggravating whatever they were lifted for with an actionable contempt of court & potential hate crime.. (and the worst of that since the 80s when Glitter, Saville and that Boy George were sill popular)

I think it is important for us all in Scotland to recognise We have a “Corporate Body” the Devolved Government ( which is a business for profit) making Scots laws under the legislation and Crown for Westminster.
While ” Police Scotland” is conjoined with the London Met office.

It is a high possibility that Scots law would ensure all Court hearings would be open and a jury selected from the public.

But here the definition of “Scots law” and the Crown in Westminster laws become inter-woven under a Corporate body.

How many Scottish people are aware that a Corporate Body is able to make up and pass new laws to the Scottish people, dismantling Scots law, or that a profit making Corporation body under the inserted Crown held sway over the AS case and Craig Murry case.

One wonders how a Corporate body like the Devolved Government can pass a Racist “Hate Crime” bill in Scotland” but not to the rest of the UK, while under Uk legislation and the Crown. That would require royal assent before becoming Scots Law,

As we can be see from the gender issues and Supreme Court issues over section 30 referendums the Westminsters UK interrupts any passage of new Scots law legislation when it suits them,

This new case will be decided by those very same Corporate bodies under the appointments of the Crown made by Westminster,
It has very little to do with Scotland and Scots law,

The Laws of Scotland have been swallowed up and are now ill defined from the laws of Westminster under the fallacious treaty of union,

This just adds to the listed reasons Scotland needs Scotland, to be separated as our Scots laws otherwise become unjust and corrupted,

Ian Brotherhood says on 11 June 2023 at 11:13 pm:
“If Mia, Tinto, BDTT, Lorna, Breeks, Joe, Stoker and many other notable regulars here would like to consider submitting expanded comments to offtopicscotland.protonmail.com, they will be very welcome. So I’m told anyway. Hoots all”

Ian, when i put the address you gave into the URL bar i’m getting “This site can’t be reached” “check spelling” “check if there is a typo” etc. Even preceding the address with https:// makes no difference. Same thing!

dearieme says on 12 June 2023 at 3:15 pm: “Since the police haven’t told us what crime NS and the other toerags are suspected of, it’s presumably still legal to speculate about possible crimes that haven’t been in the headlines.”

Both the BBC and SKY are reporting her arrest being in relation to “the investigation into missing funds raised (£600K) that were supposed to have been ringfenced but may have been spent on other things”

well you say “Evidently she’s confident that the laws of Scotland do not apply to SNP politicians”, maybe so.

But it is certainly clear that they don’t apply to those who are favoured by the authorities, as, for example, how Craig Murray was prosecuted (in the case of one of his articles) merely for repeating information which had already appeared in the press, but those who had already published that information were not

Shes Nae bonnie!

Is it just me or are our women the fattest and ugliest on the planet. Excludng Mrs Blimp, of course.

Alba-commissioned Find Out Now independence poll at 52.5% Yes.

Humza Yousaf will be sick.

Anne McLaughlin, renowned airhead and SNP MP, is living proof of the old adage, ‘stupid is as stupid does’.

Can you just imagine the discussion when they wanted to boot out Joanna Cherry for publicly stating reality and biological facts. ‘oh, who can we replace Joanna with? Do we have any other QCs or lawyers, especially female, that thinks women and lesbians have penises? I know, what about that halfwit drama student McLaughlin, she’ll say and do anything. Mind, she is thick as ten lavvie seats..Aye, perfect’

Alf Baird and James Che still banging on about colonialism and other bollocks and blaming WM (the English). “It’s nae oor fault the nasty English did it bwah bwah bwah!” I’ve got news for you two – you overestimate the English. They just aren’t that clever. No, this debacle, this farce that shames all of Scotland is home manufactured and nothing to do with anyone outside of Scotland. It’s our job to get these lame fuckwits out of control and get a proper political party in that cares for Scotland and the Scotish first and foremost. It’s time we all grew up.

Hi stuart mctavish at 2:23 pm.

You mentioned,
“…the 80s when Glitter, Saville and that Boy George were sill popular)”

What’s Boy George got to do with the criminal pair? He was on TV a couple of days ago with Rod Stewart – they’re going out on tour together.

Doug, I wouldn’t place too much credence in that poll. For a start, it was back in January, and there have been a few events since then. Secondly, it was commissioned by Alba, and commissioned polls tend to be sympathetic to the commissioners.

The long term average of all polls since devolution came into effect with the Scotland Act 1998 is about 45-46% pro Indy, and the needle isn’t moving very noticeably.

I wish some people would check the veracity of their suppositions before posting $h!†€…

NEW POLL SHOWS INDEPENDENCE SUPPORT RIDING HIGH AT 52.5 PER CENT
Posted on 12 June 2023

“NB Find Out Now interviewed a total sample of 1,029 adults over the period 7th to 12th June.”

link to barrheadboy.com

Brian Doonthetoon at 4.19

link to archive.ph

O/T Apologies for breaking the flow of thread. It has been reported by the MSM that puberty blockers in the UK NHS have been banned outwith the recognised established clinical pathway. The BJM is stating NHS England and Wales only (usually a trusted source). Anybody any info on the Scot NHS following suit?. Implications for Sandyford and our young people particularly our girls. Also implications for the GRRB Supreme Court referral by the Scot Gov.

Subversion, comes naturally to the agents of the British state. That these agents have not been active for decades within Scotland’s national movement would tax even the most credulous.
England/BritState having got Scotland by subterfuge is highly unlikely to give up «its northern territory» without the customary struggle.
«Customary struggle», what every other people has come to realise is necessary to break the psychological and political chains of the dominant.

Is there anyone here who believes that the Scum Nonce Party will join with the other indy supporting parties and move forward with a sole indy first representative at the next election , even if hell froze over and they agreed to the proposal what would the percentage be that the ScumNP would DEMAND as their candidates

As we all know the likes of McLaughlan are very highly thought of within the ScumNP and are considered as extremely intelligent with maximum gravitas, if Youseless insisted that she/it were a favoured candidate and must be included as a representative would you still vote for her if it brought us nearer to independence, or would you prefer if she went back to giving her stunning performances of interpretive dance presentations

The sole independence representative from all indy parties really makes sense but it then presents another problem of who within the ScumNP would you vote for whilst still trying to hold your dinner down

Re the posts commenting on her dimensions, after a period on antidepressants in which I felt that this is the day of the expanding man when I see people with a weight issue I am more inclined to believe that they have been prescribed antidepressants and entered a Catch 22 of depression/anxiety and the medication completely demotivating them.

Her actions with her other half, on the other hand, are worthy of comment. Running up a five figure dept in unpaid rent at the Afro Caribbean Centre, now a shop for equipment to grow cannabis, when the due rent was finally called in they did a sit in playing the race card and claiming to have redecorated the building and that this cost them something like forty thousand quid, exactly the amount due in unpaid rent, and claiming that this cancelled out the debt. Gawd luv ’em.

I can’t believe Humza us not suspending Nicola or at the leas asking her to go voluntarily.

Douglas Ross is going to look good on Thursday and will play up, have you asked Nicola what your views are in any subject?

He can list the people who were suspended when they were under investigation and it is a big list.

Humza is going to look totally useless and no mistake.

But oh not Nicola says she is not going cause she is innocent and can’t remember a thing.

@Ian Brotherhood says:12 June, 2023 at 4:21 pm

You off then?

Mind and pop back, give us an update when you get a fix on the “radioactive cloud heading our way”.

It’s taking its own sweet time to get here, isn’t it?

Alf Baird says:
12 June, 2023 at 5:25 pm

It may help if you turned your one-eyed gaze away from post-colonial theory. Just because it fits your demented viewpoint it doesn’t everyone else’s. Yours and James Che’s posts are boring and you both come across as a bit bonkers.

Good evening, welcome to ‘double standards’ and here is your starter for 10. Which of these SNP politicians is the odd one out?

Natalie McGarry
Michelle Thomson
Mark McDonald
Derek Mackay
Patrick Grady
Margaret Ferrier
Alex Salmond
Nicola Sturgeon.

It is rather sad, Humza’s people are getting lots of good news stories out there about things the SNP is doing but nobody is listening.

All attention is in Nicola. He really has to make his own mark.

ALF BAIRD
It id symptomatic of the condition to be affronted by the notion that you are a victim of colonialism. We could never be so stupid, so gullible, so full of ourselves, could we?
That’s just for those guys with a sun tan, we’re exceptional.

It’s quite incredible the tin foil hat collective. I had one blame Alba for reporting the missing money today! They want everyone to whitewash any wrongdoing. Just ignore all the horrible things that have happened to the SNP. Its a bit like a child blaming his brother , when his brother tells his dad that he stole from the family. They are beyond rescuing, the truth cannot get in.

I am glad I escaped the cult.

‘Nicola Sturgeon would have suspended Nicola Sturgeon’.

link to news.stv.tv

She surely is the Delphi Oracle reborn

Why would you not speak out, to save women and children that could be in potential danger from those that pretend they are in the trans category and use it to gain access to these children and female groups,

I always wondered why trans groups do not chase up the politicians and law groups to provide separate toilets for trans groups that have not actually transitioned other than verbal,

It begs the question why they have targeted women’s and children’s spaces as there aim.

Charles (not the R one) 8.34pm

As far as I know,,, James Che is actually a female.

No doubt James Che will confirm shortly.

All of this is happening at a pace and in a manner that is 100% consistent with Scotland being the most corrupt and squalid shithole in the Western world.

We are the wanksock, the petri dish, for every sick dream our imperialist masters can think of to inflict. A grotesque playground for our children’s nightmares to be enacted.

@Shug says:12 June, 2023 at 7:02 pm

It is rather sad, Humza’s people are getting lots of good news stories out there about things the SNP is doing but nobody is listening

Yeah, you would have thought that eradicating poverty in Scotland might have at least got Yousaf some grudging thanks.

But naw, not even that. God, we’re an ungrateful bunch.

On the plus side, they do say that there is no such thing as bad publicity, so looked at that way, this has been a great weekend for Scotland.

O/T

I found this YouTube video about a FtM transgender men who talks about the emotional problems of transitioning from female to male.

The clip below is a commentary on it but the actually TikTok video is on about 2 minutes into the clip.

link to tinyurl.com

It does perfectly highlight the emotional & psychological problems faced by people who transition.

PacMan says:
12 June, 2023 at 9:26 pm

I found this YouTube video about a FtM transgender men who talks about the emotional problems of transitioning from female to male

It does perfectly highlight the emotional & psychological problems faced by people who transition.

………….

I am sick fed up with this “transition” word being bandied about, as if “transitioning” from the gender at one’s birth to the other gender was a routine possibility, a matter of personal choice.

People can mutilate their bodies by surgery, and take all sorts of chemicals and potions, but till the day they die every cell in their bodies could be identified as being male or female, one or the other, of the gender they were born as. There’s a tiny minority who have been born with confused gender, and that too can not be changed. Gender is for life.

Whatever gender a person is born as, CAN NOT BE CHANGED.
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.
Surgical or chemical mutilation can NOT change a person’s gender.

PacMan says:
12 June, 2023 at 9:39 pm
Business people who are looking to invest in the UK must look at these headlines and think the risk is to much to want to invest here.
………………………
It is worse than that.
Businesses already based in Scotland are quietly packing up and moving south of the Border, and others are making contingency plans to cover a move at short notice. This has been going on for a while.
Money is being moved south too, and any number of individual people are buying properties in the north of England which they will call their primary residences.

The SNP is wholly responsible for what could be a catastrophic migration out of Scotland of talent, money, investment, and all. Scotland can ill-afford that, especially in the present economic circumstances.

Can the situation be saved?

Only time wil tell, and I am not optimistic.

@ Charles [not the R one]: “A SCURRY of squirrels”

Excellent! Bet the Rev wishes he’d thought of that!

Men should stand up for women. There’s no stronger voice than Neale Hanvey to do so. Massive respect.

PacMan.

It is undoubtably true the genuine trans man or woman has great psychological problems and difficulties in life,

However that psychological issue they have, should not be transitioned or imposed on to children and women,

PacMan.

You have made wise comments.

President Xiden says:
12 June, 2023 at 6:54 pm
>>>>
Good evening, welcome to ‘double standards’ and here is your starter for 10. Which of these SNP politicians is the odd one out?

Natalie McGarry
Michelle Thomson
Mark McDonald
Derek Mackay
Patrick Grady
Margaret Ferrier
Alex Salmond
Nicola Sturgeon.
<<<<

Nice one!

The Queen of Cretins is above everything.

As Richard Nixon once said: it's not illegal if the President does it.

Of course she says she's "innocent", though she doesn't actually say what alleged crime she's innocent of.

She expressed a very sinister legal opinion when she said, after Alex Salmond was acquitted on all 13 charges, "Just because someone is found not guilty in a Court of Law doesn't mean that he's not guilty."

So much of what she says could have been written by Lewis Carroll.

Anyone got an update on the ferries, which after all are pretty simple ships designed to do nothing more exciting than shuffle between reasonably local ports. One would think that a nation with such a great shipbuilding heritage could be knocking out those sorts of simple ships on time, and on budget, at the rate of one a month.

It’s not just the famous two drydock queens, it’s also the rest of CalMac’s fleet that need replacing. And yet the islanders are suffering, and it’s nothing to do with London.

The more of them who end up in the pokie the better, even if its for something as stupid as this.

Matt Quinn

Rarely have I seen a post on accuracy be undermined so early by an inability, right at the start, to spell the two letter word ‘It’.

“Chic.mcgregor says:
13 June, 2023 at 12:37 am

Matt Quinn

Rarely have I seen a post on accuracy be undermined so early by an inability, right at the start, to spell the two letter word ‘It’.”

…However, I know how to spell the word Twat!

If you’ve any actual counter to the points made (however badly typed) do feel free.

@Matt Quinn 12:07am

A timely rebuke.
The best thing I ever hear, while engaged in the pursuit of whatever bureaucratically shackled endeavour I’m working on is: ‘The Law says you can’t do that’

Brilliant! Saves me a metric fukton of work, because I now know I most probably can do what I’m doing.
This is simply because, in many, many years of ‘getting shit done’ almost every single instance of “Ye absolutely canny dae that because the rules/ regulation/ law says so’ has been utterly wrong. The vanishingly 1% was at least ‘open to interpretation’

What can, or cannot be done, is usually propagated down the chain via hearsay, through people who have never read the regulations, and assume the level above them did – nope.

Any Law is not difficult if one has a passable reading comprehension – “The Law says…” Naw, naw it dizny – that’s at very best, your interpretation of what the Law actually states.

Now that small point is the only issue I’d have with your rebuke.
The Law always ‘states’ – what the Law does not do is interpret – it only states, and only very occasionally gives vague guidelines on the interpretation of what it states.

Betwixt what the Law states, and interpretation of that statement, is where lawyers, judges and the common pleb live – this is where ‘Case Law’ also lives.
It is not the first time that a pleb has put a law (or contract, or otherwise) to the proof, and it has resulted in a ‘finding’ because there was a novelty of interpretation which stood proving.

This I know, because I’ve done it, severally, albeit from a close reading, of what is actually stated, and not hearsay.

The discussions BTL which claim an unequivocal position anent ‘Law’ are invariably wrong, and are worthy of your rebuke; those who seek to probe, query, test, or otherwise put a ‘Law’ to the proof (in the manner of uncertain enquiry) should be encouraged – because that’s precisely what is required to be become a ‘legal professional’

Thanks are due for your reference to McNae – required reading indeed – it consists mostly of what Law maybe means, what it maybe doesn’t mean, and how not to look a complete tit when you state you know exactly what a Law means… with examples.

Gordon,

I don’t care particularly if anyone responds to me about the ferries, but I do know that perhaps 100,000 islanders care about them, and then there’s 200,000 summer tourists, and about 2,000 island businesses that care about them.

You might recognise that. The ferries (and CalMac’s wider fleet) are important, and have been absolutely shambolically shit upon by fucking useless Scots people in government, and in public administration, for years, and the utterly useless Scottish government, led by Scots, and directing Scottish public money to Scottish industry, haven’t got a clue as to how to put it right.

Ian Mhor,

on the matter of the law, the Supreme Court recently ruled that Scotland only gets a referendum on Indy, under the law, via a S30 ruling. And that appears to be game, set, and match under the law.

That was one of the saddest programs I’ve ever watched in my life.

C4 DIPSATCHES- “Britain’s forgotten pensioners”

Recommend folk watch this on catch up and then tell us why these energy companies get away with this.

Fucking disgrace.

All attention is in Nicola. He really has to make his own mark.

Sturgeon getting arrested is a good news story.

My only regret is it seems to be over a relative misdemeanor, not framing somebody as a sex offender and trying to jail him for the rest of his life, being party to conspiracy, perjury,and selling Scotland’s sovereign constitution, (which would have delivered Independence in 2016).

Did I say my “only” regret? I fear her Teflon Red-coat and friends in high places still have it in them to confound and deny Scotland justice one more time.

I genuinely cannot fathom why people cannot see Sturgeon for what she is, a rogue and a charlatan, someone grossly unprofessional, grifting for all she is worth.

Just ask yourself, how many careers have you had that ended in full blown disgrace, ignominy, and ultimately expulsion? One is unfortunate. Two is a damned scandal.

Sorry Shug, it will take more than a few good news stories to save the SNP from their monumental, (and totally self inflicted), humiliation on their current trajectory.

There’s a big difference between good news stories when we’re on the up, and good news stories launched to deflect attention away for dire misadventures which need to be dealt with and / or urgently rethought.

Eva Comrie sums up Humza really well. All he has to do is pick up the phone and talk to Alex Salmond.

Just imagine how the SNP’s fortunes would turnabout and change direction if Humza was to announce a fundamental realignment of SNP strategy and a new-formed alliance with ALBA under a Scotland United ticket?

You’ll have to imagine it of course, because there’s zero chance of it happening.

Frankly, that’s just as well, because the SNP would contribute precious little to that alliance beyond controversy and tainted “baggage”. I’m not even convinced they command electoral support any more. What else would they offer Scotland? A strategy? What?….

‘I’m not going to discuss an ongoing police investigation…I would never do that’ (Copyright N. Murrell)
A short time later- ‘ I didnae do it- I wadnae’

The extreme negative hyperbole of this article and of many comments is dehumanising.

It’s times like these one knows that the SNP would dearly love to pass a contempt of court act that applies to everything official and call it “contempt of the government”, or as they said in the good old ancien regime, lese mageste

A Scot Abroad says: at 12:06 am

“Anyone got an update on the ferries, which after all are pretty simple ships designed to do nothing more exciting than shuffle between reasonably local ports. One would think that a nation with such a great shipbuilding heritage could be knocking out those sorts of simple ships on time, and on budget, at the rate of one a month.

It’s not just the famous two drydock queens, it’s also the rest of CalMac’s fleet that need replacing. And yet the islanders are suffering, and it’s nothing to do with London.”

From earlier in the year in case you missed it.
Don’t get too triggered though as it’s by Alf Baird. 😉
And seeing as you tried to eliminate folk from adding their input to energy matters because they didn’t know about ohm’s law, please list all your shipping / maritime / engineering qualifications and expertise, so we’ll know whether to put any worth on your opinions over that of Alf’s on ferry related matters.

link to grousebeater.wordpress.com

Nothing will happen to Mclaughlin she’s one of the clique, one of the in-crowd of the SNP, the COPFS will turn a blind eye, oh some of Police Scotland’s officers and commanders still want to see justice served, but the LA will put the kybosh on anything happening to McLaughlin, unless a scapegoat is required or an official complaint is made Sean Clerkin has what it takes to make an official complaint, pity Scotland didn’t have more of his ilk.

I recall Craig Murray saying in one of his threads that several so called UK MSM “journalists” had named one or two of the Alphabet women, and jigsaw identified them but as we suspected none of them were prosecuted.

Professor Alf Baird is spot on when he say our colonial administration

Divide to conquer and rule.
When the destination is confused by peripherals, as now, the rulers need not fear.
Sturgeon and her brand SNP were false trails.
The old destination is well over the cliffs of oblivion.
Recalibrate.

Dan 8.35am.

Thanks for the link to this article by Prof Baird. Should be a gift to the decision makers. What is holding them back?

The article follows “a meeting on 27th April between the SNP’s Kevin Stewart, Transport Minister, and maritime specialist Professor Alfred Baird and his colleague, catamaran designer Dr Stuart Ballantyne, to discuss and embrace a progressive policy of commissioning the build of catamarans for use between the islands, and not costly monohull ships”.

It’s worth posting a couple of extracts:
“It is important to note that catamarans, as well as being acquired for less than half the price of a monohull, also have around half the annual operating cost of monohulls, plus half the emissions per car-space. This means that operating cost and emission savings for catamarans compared with heavy displacement monohulls are very substantial indeed when taken over the expected operating 25-year+ lifetime of a ferry”.

Prof Baird’s DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL TO FIX THE SCOTTISH FERRY CRISIS begins:
“On the matter of Scottish Government ferry agencies claim to being ‘neutral’ on the issue of catamarans, this is clearly incorrect as the present intentionally restrictive ferry procurement process only specifies strict monohull (single hull) ferry parameters. If state ferry agencies wished to consider the vastly superior competitiveness, reduced environmental impacts and improved safety aspects of catamarans then this needs to be allowed for in their procurement process; currently it does not.

“Scottish Ministers question why there are “only six similar catamaran ferries” to those in Orkney operating in northern Europe, the implication being that this vessel type is unpopular?

“In fact, there are hundreds of catamaran ferries operating in northern Europe, and well over one thousand worldwide. Some 100 catamarans operate in Norway alone. These are mostly passenger craft under 50m length, however, at least 10 catamarans in Norway also carry vehicles.

“Vehicle carrying catamaran ferries also operate in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and across the Irish Sea to Ireland and Isle of Man, as well as (also a trimaran) to the Channel Islands. Many of these are high-speed craft”.

So what is going on?

A Scot Abroad @ 2:51 am

“You might recognise that. The ferries (and CalMac’s wider fleet) are important, and have been absolutely shambolically shit upon by fucking useless Scots people in government, and in public administration, for years”

‘Scots people’? In fact, the key decision makers on ferry policy and procurement in the UK-SG civil service and in its ferry agency CMAL dealing with the two undelivered hulls 801/02 were not Scottish. Neither are the current and previous CEOs of Ferguson’s shipyard ‘Scottish’.

Most of the big decisions in a colony are of course left to those appointed from ‘the mother country’, or to those who hold the same values. Colonialism, as your comment demonstrates, depends on “debasing the colonized” and where “everything about the colonized is deficient” (Albert Memmi). Dependency culture is where the oppressed group accept this myth.

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

A Scot Abroad said;

“on the matter of the law, the Supreme Court recently ruled that Scotland only gets a referendum on Indy, under the law, via a S30 ruling. And that appears to be game, set, and match under the law.”

There is much more to the matter than Westminster’s legislation, and it is perfectly clear that not all laws made by Westminster are valid within the Union.

I’ve made this argument before that any legislation passed by Westminster by a majority of England’s MPs but without a majority of Scotland’s MPs cannot be deemed valid Union legislation, because in that case clearly the Union didn’t pass it. Only England passed it, and England by itself isn’t the Union in any rational definition, and therefore has no bloody business passing UK legislation on its own.

And let’s have no crap about all MPs are UK MPs so any majority is a UK majority, because that is irrelevant, since it deliberately ignores the most basic fact of the Union; it’s a Union! It’s a Union of two sovereign kingdoms, and each kingdom is represented in the Westminster parliament by its own set of MPs. That means those ‘UK’ MPs are not a single homogenous body, because one group represents the English partner as the English Principal of the Treaty that founded the Union, and the other group represents the Scottish partner as the Scottish Principal of the Treaty that founded the Union. And that’s it.

Two equally sovereign Kingdoms, two different sovereignies, two countries, two crowns, two monarchies, two constitutions, two legal systems, two national religions, two Principals of the Treaty, two bodies of MPs representing them in the Union’s parliament, and two bloody votes, one from each of those two bodies. Which bit of ‘Union’ do you and Westminster not get?

. . . the manager’s boy put his insolent black head in the doorway, and
said in a tone of scathing contempt—“Mistah Kurtz—he dead.”

That’s a line from Joseph Conrad’s novella ‘Heart of Darkness’.

Which was the inspiration for the movie, Apocalypse Now.

Except in the movie Kurtz wasn’t Mistah Kurtz, he was Colonel, like ‘A Scot Abroad’, Kurtz. Anyone here willing to play the role of Captain Willard?

Conrad knew very well that, grammatically, a verb was required to make a complete sentence, but the line “Mr. Kurtz is dead” would have been neither striking nor memorable.

So, he made a deliberate mistake?

That raises all sorts of philosophical questions about whether a mistake can be deliberate. But we aren’t concerned with those.

We’re concerned with linguistic questions about what correct English grammar is, and whether one person ever really has the right to tell another person they’re wrong.

The ancients in their wisdom considered these very questions.

And of course the ancients, because there was no telly back then and they had nothing else to do, gave a name to when a phrase stands out because of its unusual grammar.

Enallage (e-NALL-aj-ee) is a rhetorical figure used when deploying a deliberate grammatical mistake.

‘Heart of Darkness’ is 39,000 words long, but those four words, “Mistah Kurtz—he dead.”, are probably the most remembered.

It the bad grammar what do make the phrase. That enallage, that – which, if you’ve been paying attention, is also diacope.

Xaracen said;

“Which bit of ‘Union’ do you and Westminster not get?”

Actually, I know exactly which bit of ‘Union’ you and Westminster don’t get. It’s the bit that denies England it’s power over Scotland.