The Sacrifice
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March 22, 2025 by
Chris Cairns
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A tall tale
Wee Books
Video
Probably a robbery
Transphobia
SOOOOOOPERB but boak inducing
Not so fast She & Beattie are bang to rights under Electoral Law IFF Murrell is found guilty of shenanigans on the accounts.
The Electoral Commission is responsible for prosecuting political account signatories who have failed to carry out their duties. They signed off on seriously dodgy accounts.
IFF Murrell is found guilty we MUST all write POLITE emails to the Commission urging them to enforce the law without fear or favour.
The chances of her ending up in court are about the same as UN tanks rolling into Edinburgh to liberate Scotland due to a few loonies signing an online petition
It will be English tanks, YS, liberating the majority-English “oblasts”, which include Edinburgh, Perth, and the environs of Saint Andrew’s. Perhaps one or two more.
Perhaps they’ll hold votes afterwards to ratify the fait accompli.
Maybe the WM government will cite “legitimate security concerns” as they seize key energy supply and distribution infrastructure situated on Scottish soil and Scottish waters.
By far the most intriguing aspect of this scenario is that many of the Wings BTL regulars have already posted their enthusiastic support for this sort of thing. Obviously not in Scotland, because we’re special, but still, it’s a risky business to surrender a principle just because you assume it could never happen to you.
Sauce for the goose, and that.
link to tenor.com
No UN tanks were needed for the UN to liberate the Chagos Islands from the Brits. Just good old fashioned diplomacy and alliance building.
Definitely better than the “oh that will never work let’s all give up” brigade.
C’moan now Jamie.
Not only do the Chagos Islands not share a (moderately disputed) land border with a country with ten times the population and all the military assets, they also have zero oil and gas too.
Unless you want to count the kind of oil you can get from coconuts.
There’s nothing comparable between the constitutional situation of Scotland and the constitutional situation of the Chagos Islands.
Just as there’s nothing comparable about the value of each to the Westminster government.
To HateyMcHateFace (won’t let me click reply to his message)
If oil and gas is so important why are the Brits closing Grangemouth?
Why will Brit tanks be in Edinburgh but not Dublin? Ireland is richer than Scotland now thanks to independence and they don’t have many natural resources.
Chagos Islands liberated, Scotland next, the dream shall never die, no matter how many fearties cry in their sleep and roll over for an English pound.
@Jamie
They’re closing Grangemouth to hurt Scotland. It’s what colonisers do. They’d rather pay peanuts for raw materials & refine it themselves for the premium selling price & cut Scotland out. The USA does the same trick with the global south. Keep them perpetually skint, paying off extortionate loans & unable to industrialise & expand their own countries. Cameron could craw to nawbags on September 19th 2014 that Scotland would be getting fck all now & to get to the back of the queue & that’s exactly what they’re doing. They’ve already trashed Holyrood. Now they’ll cut our share of refined premium priced oil. Only they’ll profit from it.
As for the Chagos Islands – well, there’s a story there yet to be fully told. The USA is absolutely fuming mad at the UK daring to agree to give it back. It’s prime military real estate for the USA who are spitting mad. It seems the UK *special relationship* with Uncle Sam is on the rocks regards the Chagos Islands & trying to gazump the rare earth minerals in U from under the USAs nose. Not to mention their defiance of carrying out attacks on U while Trump is trying to barter a peace agreement whilst Starmer is undermining him. I think they’re trying to build an Empire again & it’s all went tits up for the Brits. Whoever seems to have been egging them on have quickly abandoned them for now. I can think of one who’d bankroll that Idea tho…
You’re all over the place with that post, Jamie.
It’s the Scots closing Grangemouth. It’s HR that set a Net Zero target in advance of the UK target. It therefore makes perfect economic sense, where there is a growing surplus of refining capacity, to close first the one that will become redundant first.
It’s a shame you can’t see the reality of the situation – Grangemouth closing has “Made In Scotland” written all over it.
As for Ireland, they’re rich because of the tax dodges possible through globalisation. President Trump could revoke these with a stroke of his pen – and may well do.
BTW, if you’re only in it for the money, what gives you the right to diss others who are only in it for the money too?
I notice you are quite unable to deal with my points regarding the difference between Scotland and the Chagos Islands. Maybe you honestly believe sharing an overcrowded island with an “enemy” ten times our size, where that “enemy” has “legitimate security concerns” for its energy supplies, not to mention which potentially hostile states iScotland might cosy up to, doesn’t matter 🙂
And so we’re back to the UN’s imaginary tanks, versus the British Army’s Challengers.
Haha, it’s enough to mak onybody cry in their sleep!
Cracker of a post, Geri. I think you’ve covered just about everything, other than the fact that these 48-hour anti-perspirants still leave you honking after 36 hours.
Oh, and my questions about your previous post – you’ve inexplicably failed to address them:
Fits a NGI?
Fa aboot is this “civil war” you write about?
Also, see this bit from your latest brainfart:
“It seems the UK *special relationship* with Uncle Sam is on the rocks regards the Chagos Islands & trying to gazump the rare earth minerals in U from under the USAs nose. Not to mention their defiance of carrying out attacks on U while Trump is trying to barter a peace agreement”
Care to expand further? This “carrying out attacks on U” revelation is dynamite!
Perfidious Albion, eh? Are there no depths of betrayal and depravity to which they won’t sink?
To Geri
All the more reason why we need independence then by any means necessary.
To hateymchateface
All you are doing is proving right all the things people have been saying to me for years that the English are evil and would steal and invade us at a drop of a pin. Is that your argument? That the English are evil so we better not get independence and instead stay bitter together and hate the English and England and become an enemy within?
We could do that, that’s a last resort true, but, instead I will carry on the fight for Scottish independence with others who will never give up.
The reason? We know the English are not evil or they would invade Ireland as that’s a security risk right on their border. If Ireland fell England is next.
Also, the Republic has flourished since independence despite a hundred years of threats from various countries while the north of Ireland is still piss poor.
Whilst Scotland is more like Norway, Ireland prove that independence even with no resources is the smart choice.
Well, Jamie, I can see you defer to nobody when it comes to ignoring awkward facts.
This particular strand of Indy should get its story straight. Either England is the most evil occupying and colonising imperial power in world history, or they’re pussy cats who intend to roll over just as soon as Scotland grows a pair.
I notice you have nothing to say about my point that just about the only thing Ireland has going for it is multinational tax evasion. And maybe Guinness. Here’s a link:
link to cso.ie
And a quote:
“In 2021, there were 12,436 foreign-owned multinational enterprises in Ireland, which represented just 3.4% of total enterprises in the Irish Business Economy, but they generated 72% of both total turnover (€798.8bn) and total GVA (€266.7bn). They employed 28.2% of the total number of persons employed in the Business Economy. These foreign-owned multinationals were 26.1% EU owned and 73.9% non-EU owned.”
You better not read this if you want to deny that the Irish economy amounts to not much more than an accounting trick. Successful so far, but one that President Trump might choose to end tomorrow.
He and his pals have just about had it with freeloading Europeans. Fact!
Jamie
Ignore Hatey shit face. England has fck all resources so has hee haw security threat. Ireland has an army, which is legion, at its beck & all under the GFI. The USA is guarantor & the entire EU has sworn to uphold it. Little England has no one & fck all power because it has never been honest a day in its life dealing with other countries on the world stage. It didn’t earn the world wide international tag of Perfidious Albion for nothing. Even now – it’s tried to gazump Trump with the 100 yrs deal to U to steal it’s resources before the US could sign anything, agreed the Chagos Islands to evict the US bases, masterminding failed civilian attacks on R to trash any peace agreement & defying the USA with it’s coalition of the willing pish. That’s how it treats it’s last remaining friends & it isn’t going unnoticed as the EU back off & the USA is more than pissed at them.
I’ll not even mention how much they’re despised at the United Nations. A continual yap at the security council who has absolutely zero business being on it. It’s piss poor, powerless, has hee haw military, hee haw population in the grand scheme of things, hee haw nukes because they don’t belong to Britain & hee haw chance of every having an Empire again. They’ll be removed soon because Africa & India want reforms & they’ll get it too – they’re emerging economies & times are a changing.
Scots independence would be secure because Scotland has a wealth of natural resources the entire planet wants, not to mention the prime location to the North. The EU are already crying out for energy security & offering Canada 100 yr deals for oil & Gas. The USA would be more than interested in an independent Scotland too regards a base & trident belongs to them – not little England. They only own the sub. Not the warheads or the authority to ever use them. So Scotland would be like Ireland – we’d have more than enough security from America & the EU protecting their own interests. Little England has zero to offer anyone & is a Billy no mates internationally. Not many willing to answer it’s called for help to defend it’s 100 yr contract it’s just signed up to with a Nazi regime. As if that wasn’t proof enough that they are fucking evil & will jump into bed with anyone to steal their wallet. They’re weak & alone.
Also, regards the fake climate change pish, that myth has been busted by Mark Carney, of Bank of England game, now PM of Canada – that climate malarky was invented by central banking wankers to award points to countries who’d comply with their targets while removing points from those who didn’t in an effort to control who could & could not receive investments & loans. So basically a colonial blacklist. Another Colonial controlling tactic to keep the poor poor while penalising them with extortionate loan rates they could never pay off. Keeping them under control from ever becoming self sufficient for themselves.
As if Scotland would stop drilling oil while the entire world needs it LOL! Another whakadoo pointless policy from the pointless Greens who I’m sure will have profited handsomely for that brain fart along with the big pharma cheque & failed bottle return scheme. Willing participants to trash Holyrood with their pish & they’ve succeeded.
@Geri – it’s stuff like this that just shows how delusional you are. The U.K. is one of the largest economies in the world and certainly top 5 most powerful and influential. The idea that ant African is going to boot the U.K. off the security council, well that’s just as mad as all the other stuff you write.
Good one Geri.
I note you’re still not telling us fit a NGI is, or about the civil war you claim the MSM isn’t reporting. Nor are you expanding on your bombshell revelation that the UK has been attacking U.
Any thoughts on whether 48-hour antiperspirants actually do what they claim in the ads?
I’m hoping you’re not one of these “special” people who never sweat 🙂
Aidan
It’s you that’s delusional. Little England has nothing to offer the world. It deals with financial services & insurance – big deal! Anyone can do that. It isn’t the largest economy or even influential FFS! It produces fck all of its own. Has no manufacturing, no industry, no natural resources that aren’t stolen from their neighbours & has fuck all military prowess. It fudges the figures of GDP by adding in renters, selling land & a gig economy with no job security. That’s not a product. It’s a scam dreamed up at Bretton Woods after the Americans stripped them of their empire & had to justify giving them a seat on the security council. A system now outdated & on the verge of reforms or collapse & started again. I suggest you stop doing that English exceptionalism thing of thinking yer special & take yer head out yer arse. The English aren’t special. A lesson I’d have thought you’d have learned by now since Brexshit. No one is interested in England & certainly not enough to go charge at R to protect their wee 100 yr deals with U.
Purchasing parity is the real economic measure of a nation & it’s success. little Engurland, Austerity central with a shit standard of living, is way, way down the table of leading countries.
& Don’t be racist, ya wee coloniser. Africa is producing Electric cars & they own Gold. It just so happens the world rather wants gold these days as BRICS moves away from the $ & to precious metal exchange instead & no one country will dominate the currency to rule over everyone else ever again. That’ll soon sort the wheat from the chaff. Where is little England electric car production line & big tech? They, like France, will soon be booted out of the African Gold mines. Colonialism is over, matey. Buckle up.
Little Billy no mates will be booted off the security council. It has already defined an ICJ ruling to cease & desist supplying arms to an already tense region & 40 lawyers from around the globe have got together to start bringing warring fckwits to justice. Another blow they could have predicted but didn’t have the smarts – shipping companies abandon buying shipping insurance from them because of the conflict they helped create. Well done you lot.
All eyes on Poland LOL. The only country that has feverishly bought Gold on the quiet. Soon little England will be concocting a way to relieve them of it. Coming to a BBC channel soon about what barstewards they are & need invading.
& Shitface will be delighted – little England has discovered it has no mates, anywhere. So is looking to reverse Brexshit LOLz! As if they’d have you & Farage back FFS!
Aidan
It’s you that’s delusional. England has nothing to offer the world. It deals with financial services & insurance – big deal! Anyone can do that. It isn’t the largest economy or even influential FFS! It produces fck all of its own. Has no manufacturing, no industry, no natural resources (that aren’t stolen from their neighbours) & has fuck all military prowess. It fudges the figures of GDP by adding in renters, selling land & a gig economy with no job security. That’s not a product. It’s a scam dreamed up at Bretton Woods after the Americans stripped them of their empire & had to justify giving them a seat on the security council. A system now outdated & on the verge of reforms or collapse & started again. I suggest you stop doing that English exceptionalism thing of thinking yer special & take yer head out yer arse. The English aren’t special. A lesson I’d have thought you’d have learned by now since Brexshit non existent trade deals it didn’t already have. No one is interested in England & certainly not enough to go to war to protect their new wee 100 yr deal.
Purchasing parity is the real economic measure of a nation & it’s success. England, Austerity central with a shit standard of living, is way, way down the table of leading countries.
& Don’t be racist, ya wee coloniser. Africa is producing Electric cars & they own Gold. It just so happens the world rather wants gold these days as BRICS moves away from the $ & to precious metal exchange instead & no one country will dominate the currency to rule over everyone else ever again. That’ll soon sort the wheat from the chaff. Where is Englands electric car production line & big tech? They, like France, will soon be booted out of the African Gold mines. Colonialism is over, matey. Buckle up.
Little Billy no mates will be booted off the security council. It has already defined an ICJ ruling to cease & desist supplying arms to an already tense region & 40 lawyers from around the globe have got together to start bringing warring fckwits to justice. Another blow they could have predicted but didn’t have the smarts – shipping companies abandon buying shipping insurance from them because of the conflict they helped create & aren’t willing to sail. Well done you lot.
All eyes on Poland tho LOL. The only country that has feverishly bought Gold on the quiet. Soon England will be concocting a cock & bull story no doubt as a way to relieve them of it. Coming to a BBC channel soon about what barstewards they are & need invading.
& Shitface will be delighted – England has discovered it has no mates, anywhere. So is looking to reverse Brexshit LOLz! As if they’d have England & Farage back FFS! Not a chance.
This is a good point. Saint Nicola of Dreghorn and Colin Beattie admitted to being incompetent, lazy, incurious or uncaring- perhaps a mixture of all of them. What neither of them did is carry out the fiscal duties with which they were entrusted.
Crying not laughing.
If auld Pete goes down, he won’t be downhearted, he’ll be having a ball of a time inside if you catch my drift.
PacMan , I sure do get your drift regarding Soapy Pete. Regarding his ex Mrs or Mr or whatever, something will catch her – him out, can’t have her tip toeing through the tulips whistling off into the sunset.
PM is part of the Whitehall cohort. He’ll have a very nice life.
Mr Cairns – we are not worthy.
Bravo!
LOL!!!!
Thank you!
Aff tae the promised land she goes.
Is it my screen, or is there a wee hint of rainbow in those sunlit uplands?
I don’t see sunlit uplands. I see a well-hidden cliff. Note Muscleguy’s point above.
I don’t now read The Rag its not a Indy paper and never was. I was on grumpyscottishman blog and he had commented on what Swinney had said in the Rag about Independence, so I thought I would go and have a read. So Independence is off the table again for all of 2026-2031 even though we have all been promised it since 2015 and the SNP has mandates to deliver it.
In the article it also stated “Money raised from our members and supporters will always be used to pursue electoral success for the Party and to help us win Scotland’s independence. You have my personal assurance that is the case.
“The Party has worked tirelessly to introduce additional measures within our internal processes to ensure that we are getting the most out of every penny that is donated to us.”.
With this statement in mind, if you donate to the SNP for any reason lets say a Independence referendum fund the money might not be used for that. He didn’t make that statement for no reason, so if your STUPID enough to donate lets say a house worth 500K towards the goal of Independence the SNP can use it for parties, computers or even office equipment. Even if the SNP over night became the party we all remember and loved, I wouldn’t donate to the SNP under any circumstance.
With what Swinney said, I’m now believe the £600K has never been the issue involved and this is the reason these other two have been released.
The Scot are STUPID beyond believe, he stated on the Scottish News that the SNP is the victim, we are all being plaid as fools.
So what have we learnt from Swinney,
1 Independence is OFF and will not be perused until after 2031 and beyond
2 The SNP is the Victim
3 Money donated to the SNP will be used for what ever reason they see fit
4 The SNP is going to work endlessly with the Unionist party’s to form a government in 2026
5 There not bothered about an Indy majority
The SNP have been given an opportunity to put a part of the human rights act into Scottish law and it would allow for a second Indy referendum. I’ve posted it below for anyone who might be interested in it, but instead the SNP is ignoring it.
link to respectscottishsovereignty.scot
We donated to the Independence referendum fund and we got my money back from the SNP.
I really do wonder what it’ll take before people waken up to the fact that SNP doesn’t support Independence and never has since Sturgeon took over and even if you donate your house in a will to the SNP, the money will never be used to secure Independence.
I think you’ll find that the lamb to the slaughter isn’t the SNP its Scotland and the sacrifice the SNP membership has given hasn’t been for Scotland or our people but to secure the Union.
It’ll all be a whitewash and he’ll be back in his old job.
If you think for a minute that Mrs Frobes will secure Independence for Scotland your more deluded than a fool believing the guns empty without checking the barrel for themselves.
If you think the SNP wouldn’t grasp any chance for indy then you’re a loony
HOWEVER
If you think you would be more free after the SNP grabbed indy then I’ve some bad news
Beauty! Just a pity that the inevitable guilty plea means the whole truth won’t be revealed to the public in court.
I suspect that’s the whole idea.
Grok says…
‘Yes, Nicola Sturgeon is indeed appearing at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival this weekend. She will be headlining a show titled “Books & Banter” alongside crime author Val McDermid.
The event is scheduled for Saturday, March 22, 2025 – today – at the King’s Theatre in Glasgow. The show starts at 7:30 PM and features Sturgeon and McDermid in conversation with special guests, comedian Ashley Storrie and author Chris Brookmyre, discussing books they’ve loved, loathed, and laughed at.
The focus is on their shared passion for literature, with a lighthearted twist, promising “lively chat and lots of laughs.”
Tickets are available through the festival’s official website, http://www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com, with prices starting around £27.50, though availability may be limited as the event has drawn significant attention.
The festival itself runs from March 12 to March 30, 2025, and this particular gig is one of its highlighted performances.’
Anyone going?
“Anyone going?”
Sure, countless Sturgeon haters will be packing the hall to express their disapproval and dis-satisfaction with the lack of progress towards Indy under her tenure.
And this will just be the start. Sturgeon will never be able to show her face publically, anywhere in Scotland, ever again, without the development of an entirely spontaneous, vocal, but peaceful demonstration by angry, Sovereign Scots.
Haha, Mr Cairns remains the cartoon king, but I can certainly do humour. Or is it irony? Or sarcasm?
Whatever, as an accurate depiction of our apathetic reality, it’s defo sad.
Oh dear. Exactly as I predicted earlier, Sturgeon’s comedy circuit debut appears to have gone well.
Disapproving, heckling, unhappy Sovereign Scots in the audience seem to have totalled precisely zero.
Or if there were any, they were all to feart to utter as much as a squeak of protest.
Of such material, national liberation movements are very definitely not made.
Anyone going? Good question. I’d rather be garotted than have to listen to those wankers.
‘And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited.’ Lev. 16.22
🙂 🙂 🙂
The scapegoat and the escapegoat.
According to postcolonial theory it is the entire colonized people and nation who are sacrificed in the interest of the colonizer, usually by native elites and collaborators, much as we see.
Alf your wasting your time on here, people don’t seem to be bothered unless its about gender ID or some other issue other than securing Indyref2.
Big thanks to you and the rest of the people in Liberation/Salvo I’m waiting for the West Lothian Hub to open, so I can join.
Can I ask is liberation is contact with Wales in order about supporting Scotland’s cause or Wales putting in a petition to the UN C-24 for themselves.
Yes, there is some evidence the Welsh indy movement are conscious of the Liberation Scotland UN C-24 Decolonization Committee initiative. Less certain is the extent of any split in the indy movement there from a woke national party prone to become party to colonial administration, to any shift towards a national liberation movement. Though former leader Adam Price seems in no doubt as to the colonial condition of Wales, which suggests he may be aware of the only remedy for such a condition – i.e. decolonization:
link to amazon.co.uk
Utter nonsense. The gender ID stuff is so much a part of the lack of independence, but you, evidently, don’t get it. Independence and we’ll sort everything out afterwards? Aye, right! We need to sort this horse manure out first if: a) we are ever going to see independence; and, b) if we are not going to go straight into a Stalinist, independence state. I suppose all those millions of Russians who died were too cock-a-hoop at being independent that they forgot about the Gulag, or thought it was worth it, eh? Will you be the first to volunteer for the Scottish Gulag?
@Alf – it’s been two weeks since the submission was sent to the UN committee on decolonisation. What response have you had and will you be posting it in full?
100%: independence was scuppered by gender ID during the most fertile time of opportunity ever in the party’s history. It is no coincidence. Unless we understand that gender ID was not a distraction, but independence was the distraction for these people, and that the SNP was never again going to risk confrontation with Westminster, we will get nowhere.
Why does the destruction of the rights of half the Scottish population not matter to you? If they are destroyed before we enter into our independence – assuming we will be allowed to do so – we will be bringing it all into the independent Scotland and we will not be able to eradicate it. Desperation for independence – any independence – is blinding us to the 1984 situation we are setting up for ourselves. It needs to be sorted out first so that we can enter a decent new Scotland and try to live up to our aspirations.
Very true.
Only have to look outside of little Britain to see it playing out in real time. Even little Engurland. The faces may change but the dregs remain the same. They’re not elected to serve anyone but their paymasters.
So terrified are they of losing their position at the trough they’re even willing to cancel democracy altogether, arrest opposition, assassinate them or even just eradicate an entire people while they look on contemplating the definition of the laws they wrote themselves.
Sarah – the best explanation of the gender pish was given by Alex Krainer in a recent podcast. The only ppl the elites & banking wankers have to fear toppling their position is the military & that’s why there’s been a concerted effort to infest it with the crazies to weaken it along with infesting big tech/Silicone Valley, AI with authoritarian, vegan, lady feelz, vigilante eejits. The Zizians, death cult or Rationalist cult taking shit into their own hands & writing pages & pages of unintelligible dross or ‘manifestos’ of how everyone must die who doesn’t bend to their tantrums.
Thank f*ck the Chinese are winning the tech race.
Well conceived idea for the cartoon , and then beautifully and tellingly illustrated.
We are lucky to have Chris on this site.
There are so many cultists on X still worshipping at her feet
They’re delighted she’s “innocent” and accuse everyone who thinks a otherwise of being Yoons etc.
Either they’re SPADS, plants or just generally as thick as mince
There’s nothing yo be done with these people.
Those of us I consider to be realists are stuck between them and the BritNats
I continue to support Scotlands right yo be an independent nation but it seems further away than ever.
The UK is imploding though, so who knows.
Chris, brilliant as ever
I believe Murrell will not see the inside of a prison
I strongly believe that many in Scotland treat voting for a party the same as they treat supporting a football team
Nae shit, Sherlock!
It’s number one in the colonialists playbook. Sectarianism. It keeps the masses busy warring each other while they’re busy shafting & asset stripping the country dry & dumb eejits fall for it every time.
Yoons don’t believe in democracy. They take great delight in it being denied – so you can STFU & go sit down if you think you’ll lecture anyone about voting in Scotland. You don’t even live around these parts.
Such a shame you don’t live in my constituency, Geri.
I’d offer you a lift to the polling station at the next democratic election. That will likely be in 2026.
Nae hair pinging noo – keep yer hauns tae yersel 🙂
SPADS.
Heavily funded by three countries who absolutely do not wish Scotland to be independent. Little England, USA & the Zs. USAID has it’s fingers in everyone’s pies. It suits their agenda to keep the SNP in power = going absolutely nowhere on independence.
Look everybody!
Somebody’s funding stream has been re-instated.
Maybe even some backdated remuneration too. Second post in and already antisemitism rears its ugly head on Wings BTL.
Oh well. Guess it was too good to last.
From Wikipedia:
« THE SCAPEGOAT (1854–1856) is a painting by William Holman Hunt which depicts the “scapegoat” described in the Book of Leviticus. On the Day of Atonement, a goat would have its horns wrapped with a red cloth – representing the sins of the community – and be driven off.
« The work exists in two versions, a small version in brighter colours with a dark-haired goat and a rainbow, and a larger version in more muted tones with a light-haired goat.
« In the Royal Academy exhibition catalogue Hunt wrote that “the scene was painted at Sodom, on the margin of the salt-encrusted shallows of the Dead Sea.” »
Another brilliant one Chris.
In a nutshell, Mr Cairns/Rev. Does she actually believe that people will believe it was just him – if that is proved in a court of law? Her grip on the party was so complete that she knew nothing – like Manuel?
Lorn @ 12.00.
I greatly doubt that Ms Sturgeon will care muchly about public perception of her. As long as her own ‘special interest’ fan group and the liberal elite continue to welcome her to their soirees and Arty events I’m sure that she will enjoy her ongoing glittering and enviable lifestyle.
Funded by an index linked Holyrood pension and whatever private Funds she may have accumulated through the years of public “service” dedicated to the cause of Independence. Plus book sales and fees from political commentating and articles with the MSM.
You are very probably right, Sven. All so predictable and so depressing.
Let me get this straight.
Wife is Party Leader. Hubby is Chief Exec. Money appears to go missing. Someone says ‘wheres the money?’. Supporters say stop asking questions. Treasurer says funds are “ring fenced” but “woven through” the accounts, hence why they seem invisible. Treasurer voted out by party members. New Treasurer denied access to party accounts by Chief Exec. New Treasurer resigns. Chief Exec reinstates old Treasurer. Party Leader then releases a video saying there is no foul play, questioners are shit-stirrers and anyone even asking questions is tantamount to treachery. Nothing to see here, move along. Funds still missing. Chief Exec forced to resign (for lying about something else). Party Leader resigns out of the blue. Former Chief Exec arrested. Home (he shares with Party Leader) searched. Treasurer arrested. Camper van seized (from driveway of former Chief Exec’s 90 year old Mum’s driveway). Former Party Leader arrested. Two years pass. Former Chief Exec charged with embezzlement. Former Treasurer and former Party Leader won’t face charges.
Is that about right?
So we are to believe the Party Leader & Chief Exec, wife & husband living in the same house, one was (allegedly) embezzling, the other knew nothing about it but also knew there was no embezzling and released a video angrily/aggressively denying categorically any such thing was happening and signing off accounts to guarantee it beyond all doubt.
I’m trying my best to understand, but…
Frazerio @ 12.46.
Perfectly boiled down and concisely stated.
Brain Hurts !
My understanding is that the Crown Office are protecting the actors who best serve establishment (UK) elites – Sturgeon and the SNP.
You forgot the part about her suddenly leaving said shared home just before plod appeared
Perfect summary.
I’d even throw in the ‘I know it was you Fredo’ video evidence of her giving daggers on a Skype call for them to shut it over party donations. She knew exactly what was going on. That control freak ruled over everyone & every thing. She’s gotten away with it because she’s a Britnat plant – it was her job to fck up the SNP from the inside.
Someone will untether Murrell fae his post & in true Perfidious Albion style he’ll meet with an untimely event like a walking accident off a cliff or shooting himself in the head, twice, while throwing the weapon & driving his camper van off the road..or maybe just good old fashioned depression…
Excellent, Chris. Thank you.
Neil McKays piece of boilerplate pulp in the Herald berates all and sundry for being critical of and not showing empathy for SHE whose name shall not be uttered!
What planet is he on?
What empathy has SHE shown to any of the politicians threw (or shoved) under the bus?
What empathy did SHE shown to those who donated money only for it to be spaffed away under her watch?
What empathy did SHE shown to any to those committed supporters of Scotlands inalienable right to independence and self determination like my late faither who never saw it having passed away during the wasted “kicked the can doon the road” years of her tenure?
NONE.
She a narcissist and doesn’t merit any empathy from me..
Apols for the typos above..
“berates all and sundry for being critical of and not showing empathy for SHE”
Well, as far as I am concerned, Mr McKay can go and take a hike. That 2-faced fakeminist and fake pro-independence leader demonstrated her profound anti-democratic skills, her contempt for Scotland’s constitution and her disregard for international law through each and every single moment during her tenure when she point blank refused to deliver ANY of the MANY mandates for indyref we delivered.
There must be a specially hot place in hell waiting for that useless charlatan. She will be remembered in the history books as the political fraud who stabbed her mentor in the back and who betrayed the people of Scotland for the sake of a foreign crown and preserving a union that is strangling Scotland. All whilst she dangled carrots.
Because being able to dangle carrots whilst simultaneously destroying women’s rights, stifling the progress towards independence and disembowelling the democratic structures of the SNP appears to be her only obvious multitasking ability.
Hear! Hear!
The Danielle DeFaux of our time…?
Very good, JockMcT!
Best. Cartoon. Ever!
How long will wee peem be alive ?
link to heraldscotland.com
Read and boke!
A standing ovation, no less!
I’m starting to worry afresh about a resurgence in Jacobite support.
Let these people have their way, and they’ll be wanting to make her a saint.
Do you think that Andrew Learmonth will get kept on after his work experience or is the school going to recommend another occupation?
Strange how the words “Nicola Sturgeon” and “Comedy Festival” sit so comfortably together in the same article.
It’s cost £2.1m and Sturgeon is joking about it!
I feel your pain. She is laughing at all of us. A civil law suit should do the trick, but we’d have to get rid of the Westminster plants in the “Scottish” law system first and dismiss any interference from the “English” legal system eg the “uk supreme Court” quango.
Police scotland also needs total restructuring with emphasis on serving the public!
” and I looked into brainwashing house and they were all running around playing with each other then my Father leaned over and said to me that’s where you’ll end up if you don’t stop playing with yourself.”
The sad story of the little Nasty and the Gravy Kiddettes.
Should Chris not have used artistic licence to give the scapegoat a beard?
When published Peter Murrell’s memoirs will be far more interesting than Nicola Sturgeon’s
@ Lorn 6:17
I think you’ll find gender ID is a dead duck and the SNP has kicked it into the long grass. Independence isn’t about any other issue other than Independence. If your focus is ID fair enough that’s your priority, its not mine. Like the economy and everything else that’s wrong in Scotland can be fixed when we have Independence lets remember once we are Independent there isn’t any reason to vote SNP.
Yes your right 50% of the population are women and I’d hope at the next Holyrood election they’ll do the right thing and vote the SNP out of office, but the opinion polls don’t back that up.
So, should we just simply give up on Independence until the wind changes or people change there mind about the SNP and their stupid policy’s.
There isn’t a country in the world who isn’t turning there back on gender ID, the subject become a toxic in the world of politics, but Independence is very much still on the table but Scotland is being asset stripped and our identity eroded, this is my priority i’m sorry its not yours.
Trust me ID is no longer a problem, the wind has changed.
As the late (not so great) nicholas fairbairn once said: “when I was young homosexual practice was a criminal offence. Now it is permitted. I fear that before too long it will be compulsary”.
He had reason to know.
The problem won’t go away. It’s permeated every institution, every school, every workplace, every banking sector, every parliament, every NGI, every military, every healthcare system & even tech.
I think the days of it being compulsory are already here. When it takes eight police at yer door for retweeting a mean tweet, or carted off in cuffs by lesbian nana types – or folks bank accounts being frozen for not complying with group think. We’ve arrived. All aboard destination fcked. Not a peep said by most as laws were changed & policies were just rushed through parliaments everywhere.
The world bank & IMF dream up this shit & everyone is to comply or they’re punished economically.
WEF are already concocting ways to make you comply with their crazy shit or your cash, salary, employment will be stopped until you do. AI will turn you off.
They’re already defying Trumps executive orders regards gender woo but there’s been a civil war brewing there for a while that the MSM isn’t reporting. It might kick off..
“permeated” is a good word, Geri, I’m not knocking it, but in this context, I think we can all agree that “penetrated” works better.
BTW, fits an “NGI”?
Why don’t you tell us more about the “civil war” the MSM isn’t reporting?
I am old enough to remember TW3 (That Was The Week That Was) on Saturday nights on television. We used to rush home from the Saturday night dancing to watch it.
At the height of the Profumo Scandal, they had an American on, praising the now disgraced Cabinet Minister John Profumo, for actually having had sex with a woman.
As the American said: “With some of the actors you’ve been sending over here lately, we thought all you Brits were turning Queer.”
Fast forward to today and it appears, in the 21st century SNP, you cannot have sex unless it is of the Gay variety. Such is progress.
socratesmacsporran @ 08.48.
I well recall in the 1980s hearing an elderly speaker, probably in his late seventies, commenting that conduct in private which was condemned in his youth was now being condoned in public and that many of us now listening would live to see it being openly commended.
Oh, how we laughed at the ignorant old coot . In the (almost) the famous words of the late Bob Monkhouse, “we’re not laughing now”. “This is for you, Beth,” in our national Parliament building.
At first glance I wasn’t quite sure of the tethered goat was Murrel or Swinney.
Maybe it can be both.
But to change the comment I worried about where
the luxury motor home gone.
Good cartoon though. Like the allegory of a scapegoat as the wolf bounds free.
Willie, what you perceive as a ‘wolf’ has all the characteristics of a JACKAL and that is to flatter what must be the most evil and obnoxious character ever to have held office in Scottish politics!!
Great cartoon……..nae bus….?
There’s no way she could jump that high.
Course she could.
She’s holding up half the sky.
I suppose it’s all in what SHE actually HAS said;
“There’s not a shred of evidence against me”..
Obviously was tipped the wink sufficiently in advance to delete, shred and burn any evidence.
Kind of explains Quality Polis Toshan turning up with spades for the back garden.
The stink of COFPS and Breathy Bain permeates through all this expensive burach..
Not in the publics interest my bahookie!
Yet again I’m stumped.
The Guardian Online is reporting that nearly a quarter of the SNP’s female MSPs are to pack in politics after the next HR election.
Given that many, if not most, SNP MSPs don’t know what a woman is, even including at least one of them who has conceived and carried children to full term, how can the Guardian make such a claim?
How can any of us assess if it is true?
There’s another mystifying claim within the article. Somebody virtually nobody has ever heard of is quoted as saying “we are losing far too many talented women”!
Talented? Seriously??
Women??? Isn’t it an offence in Scotland to make that assumption?
Bravo maestro!
Non-stick Nic – Allan Petrie’s excellent descriptor of how nothing seems to stick on Nicola Sturgeon. Sadly.
Numbers 32:23 Sarah.
Be sure yer sins will find ye out.
Truth will out in the end..
I find it strange that impending disbarment should have become but a mere trifle in the historical feast that is Nicola Sturgeon
CRAIG MURRAY / ALEX SALMOND / ALBA PARTY
For anyone that missed it, from Craig Murray’s blog of 6 March 2025:
“Alex phoned me and told me I had been elected to the National Executive, but he wished me to stand down and not accept the seat, as there was somebody else he needed on the exec.
“This obviously was unwelcome, principally because it felt like a betrayal of those who had been kind enough to nominate me and to vote for me.
“I subsequently discovered there was a large amount of controversy surrounding the results of that election, with people claiming cheating, and I believe I am correct in saying that the results were never published, with some threadbare excuse about publishing the results of an online election being a breach of the Data Protection Act.”
There was indeed people claiming cheating, people who had seen evidence of cheating; it turns out they were right all along. It was Alex Salmond who was behind the cheating aided by Craig Murray and others.
There then followed a campaign of bullying and purges against dedicated independence campaigners to drive them out of the party during which Craig Murray stayed silent. He later responded to criticism of his silence to say it didn’t amount to a “hill of beans” as Alba was only a wee party anyway.
Craig Who?
Surely not the Craig who thinks the best kind of leadership/political party is one that hides in holes in the ground while the people it’s supposed to represent get blown to bits in their tens of thousands?
Surely not that Craig?
Good thing, Hatey, our bombs and bullets are there to help them see their moral failings while being clinically slaughtered.
Good job, Hatey, our kindly bombs and bullets can help them learn to see their own moral failings before it’s too late.
Ah, Zimba, always good to hear from the kind of poster who believes that any number of dead men, women, kids and babies is acceptable, just so long as the hostages are never released.
What has any of it got to do with Scottish Indy, plenty of us ask?
Seems to me that those Indy supporters who think a reasonable process for furthering their political aims is to medievally slaughter a few hundred innocents, and drag a few hundred more into tunnels for a few years, whilst piling our own Scottish women and kids on top as human shields, need to make all of this a lot clearer and louder than they already do.
Plenty Scots, of which I am one, don’t like this idea one little bit. But forewarned is forearmed as the saying goes.
If we know this is the kind of direct action a certain strand of Indy favours, we can make damn sure they never get anywhere near positions of power over us.
First off, apologies for essentially posting the same (or similar) comment twice. I’m not a frequent poster here (or anywhere for that matter) and not familiar with the mechanics. I thought it hadn’t worked, or had been blocked, and tried to write it again a few minutes later, then thought that comment too had also been blocked. The only reason I see now they both went up is after I tried again a few minutes ago to post a response about something else on another Wings article (mainly to see if it was still ‘not working’) – only to discover, lo, it is. And lo, your reply, Hatey, for which thanks.
Of course my comment has nothing to do with Scotland’s Independence. It is a response to your comment about Palestinian politics.
For what it may have been worth, it was an attempt to ‘help’ (self-irony intended) you identify what I take to be a moral inconsistency in your world view, even when I find myself agreeing with about 75% of what you say on other topics. But maybe that’s just me, as a product of the same white liberal European liberal world views our culture likes to think make us so superior, being unconsciously subject individually to the same category of increasingly unsustainable collective self-delusion as the irony in my post was ettling at highlighting, c’est la vie.
@Zimba
Regarding moral inconsistencies. I believe a meaningful debate between fair-minded individuals acting in good faith first needs some kind of statement of the axioms the individuals hold to.
Like in geometry for example. The axioms include things like “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line” and “two parallel lines meet only at infinity”. Unless these axioms are agreed, further geometrical arguments cannot be sensibly conducted.
In politics, we can perhaps imagine somebody who believes equality of opportunity to be axiomatic, arguing with somebody who believes equality of outcome to be axiomatic. That leads to the ludicrous argument from the latter that the duffer who fails every medical exam should still be permitted to perform brain surgery. Anathema to the former, and to all sane rationalists. Yet the equality of outcome enthusiasts are all through our controlling elites, enforcing DEI on us to all of our detriment.
In short then, for you to be able to make the accusation of moral inconsistency stick, you first need a list of my axioms.
Right now, that does appear to be more than is ever asked of any other contributor on here. Perhaps you should message Rev Stu and ask him to make it a universal requirement for all posters going forwards.
I warrant it would certainly improve the standard of what passes for “debate” on most days.
AFAIK
The trouble makers resigned one after the other
This caused maximum damaged to a fledgling party
Most of those who resigned were voted on to the NEC
Therefore they could have used their position to make changes
Instead they took to twitter to slag everyone off and proceeded to claim all sorts of nefarious shite which was never proven.
IMO some infiltrated Alba from the start in order to destroy it
Alex scared the establishment that much.
So unless you have proof other than what I assume is unsubstantiated gossip from a comment on Craig’s blog, I’m not interested
AFAIK
The trouble makers resigned one after the other
This caused maximum damaged to a fledgling party
Most of those who resigned were voted on to the NEC
Therefore they could have used their position to make changes
Instead they took to twitter to slag everyone off and proceeded to claim all sorts of nefarious shite which was never proven.
IMO some infiltrated A++a from the start in order to destroy it
Alex scared the establishment that much.
So unless you have proof other than what I assume is unsubstantiated gossip from a comment on Craig’s blog, I’m not interested
Will he sing or clam up
It’s not over till the fat lady sings.
(from recent photos we know who that is)
A reminder that we have the SPCA ,the RSPCA is flooding TV with heart wrenching ads – Scotland has a wee population and the SPCA need the donations, don’t get emotionally blackmailed by the ads.
@Chris Cairns
Great cartoon Chris. A cartoon paints 10 thousand words. A toxic feminist has her followers and excludes any male living in Scotland. I never bought into her agenda. The only thing a man has to wear is a tie in the morning or males never have to shake her hand. Factual statements from the supreme leader. Anyway as a post script I got my SNHS operation and it is life changing.2 years later but I am grateful. My life has returned.
Pleased to hear that George. All the best.
@gm 9:45pm
Thanks for your post. Less than a week from my general anaesthetic I had all the grandchildren here today. A triple clash of dates. My wife thanks to getting my husband back. My children thanks to getting my Dad back. My grandchildren thanks to getting Grandad back although that didn’t stop my eldest granddaughter locking me in the garden shed. Fun based on family values. Lost on a Holyrood and especially the former FM.
I hear ye George Ferguson. We know the difference between right and wrong. The politicians, senior mgt of public and private orgs facilitated this ideology but the punters ken fine it is degenerate and so are they.
Leaving that aside – there are more cases to come. We’ll be able to gauge how far gone our institutions are at the end of this. Only then I will give up completely on our police, civil service, press, parliament, prosecution service and judiciary and every human soul that operates in those places. We will be able to draw our own conclusions at the end. External pressure has to be given a chance to right things?
I see Kid Starver is telling Swinney to change Breathy Bains LA purfew..
All because of SHE whose name shall not be uttered being dropped by Breathy Bain from Branchform due no doubt to some made up nonsense in the catchall excuse of “not in the public interest”..
The whole thing honks to high heaven!
Meantime, in other parts of the world, people take to the streets in protest against the utter shambles their so-called leaders have made of their country:
link to bbc.co.uk
While here in Scotland, tumbleweed.
It’s always instructive to compare how other proud nations, such as the one discussed here, or the Turks, currently out on their streets protesting the arrest of an opposition politician, brave real danger and discomfort to make their disapproval of their governments known.
In Scotland, by comparison, we’re reluctant to spend the bus fare to a completely safe demo.
Ah well, maybe some nice deity will gift us Indy some day. What’s the name of the God of sitting about building up your morbid obesity with your thumb jammed up your flabby arse?
Geri –
youtu.be/kpgZy67yjFI?t=65
LOL! Cheers..
They are like a Python sketch.
Every time they’re mentioned on the geopolitical channels the commentators fall about laughing. Sachs is polite but others are not so forgiving when it comes to brutal put downs at their feeble attempts at flexing. I think the military has told Starmer to STFU & sit down now. Even they’ve heard enough & will not be patrolling the Skies anywhere near R.
SENIOR LAWYER JOANNA CHERRY KC WARNS SCOTLAND’S GENDER SELF-ID POLICIES MAY BE UNLAWFUL
A senior lawyer has warned that public bodies in Scotland may be breaking the law through their extreme trans-affirming equality, diversity, and inclusion policies.
Joanna Cherry KC accused employers, including the Scottish Government, of pandering to activist organisations rather than applying the law.
Organisations including Police Scotland and the Scottish Prison Service have been criticised for policies which allow people access to single-sex toilets and changing rooms on the basis of self-identification.
‘INADEQUATE’
Cherry explained to The Herald: “It seems that none of these public authorities have met their duties under the public sector equality duty in relation to these policies.
“When updating their trans and non-binary equality and inclusion policy, the Scottish Government appears to have carried out a wholly inadequate equality impact assessment and ignored the Workplace (Health, Safety, and Welfare) Regulations 1992 in relation to the provision of toilet facilities.”
The former SNP MP continued: “Public authorities taking advice from activist organisations rather than following the law leave themselves vulnerable to legal challenge.”
Policy analysis group Murray Blackburn Mackenzie agreed, adding: “These groups have promoted the unregulated introduction of gender self-identification as a basis for policy across the public sector, without due regard for relevant legislation.”
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT
The Scottish Government’s new Trans and Non-Binary Equality and Inclusion Policy states that staff who identify as the opposite gender “should choose to use the facilities they feel most comfortable with”. It is made clear that a Gender Recognition Certificate is not needed, but that it is solely based on self-ID.
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Rachael Hamilton recently commented: “Women and girls will be dismayed that John Swinney continues to ignore their rights and safety by remaining wedded to Nicola Sturgeon’s reckless self-ID policy.”
She added: “Gender self-ID, by its very definition, comes at the expense of the right of biological females to access single-sex spaces – and the First Minister knows it.”
ONLY TWO GENDERS
In late February, Californian man Ryan Castellucci lost his appeal against a previous ruling rejecting his claim that the UK was legally obliged to recognise his sex as ‘non-binary’.
Upholding the High Court decision, Lord Justice Singh stated: “The concept of ‘gender’ in the Gender Recognition Act, when referred to in the context of the domestic law route, is confined to two genders.”
Lord Singh referred to the Government’s position that “no changes were currently needed and more research and consultation would be needed before any changes were contemplated”.
(From The Christian Institute website, 27 March 2025)