The Sweet Smell Of Unsuccess
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So much horseshit
The Traitoress is slowly, but surely, discovering how hated she is.
I sincerely hope that she spends a significant portion of her remaining life in jail.
Brilliant Chris – back of the net.
And in Comedy Heaven, Janey Godley is also laughing.
Where would we be if Salmond had never got involved with Sturgeon and the only reason, he did was that he didn’t want Roseanna Cunningham becoming leader of the SNP?
That vendetta by Salmond against Cunningham changed Scotland and our history and it brought about his own demise, which only shows hold vendetta’s or grudges isn’t the best policy.
Not so, 100%Yes. I saw a comment yesterday [sorry, can’t remember where] from someone who had thought the same but learned later that Sturgeon had threatened to stand and thus split the vote. The “youth” would have voted for Sturgeon. So Roseanne was replaced by Sturgeon.
Sarah, the SNP at the time only had in a region of 6000 members and trust me the youth wasn’t a major problem.
Salmond only entered the race between Nicola and Roseanna who were both standing to become leader of the SNP. Salmond entered the race to STOP Roseanna become leader and offered Sturgeon to be his deputy if she stood down and she did then Alex entered the race against Roseanna and won.
What makes you believe Salmond had a problem with Roseanna Cunningham, 100%YES? It doesn’t sound right to me but all I have to go on is the the odd paragraph written here or there about Sturgeon ousting Roseanna Cunningham from the deputy leader job.
Bruce, I’m not saying Salmond had a problem with Roseanna. He stated he didn’t want her to become leader of the SNP because of the direction she would have taken the party, that’s my understanding.
Maybe vendetta was the wrong choice of words. But from the video I watched Salmond only entered the race for leadership to stop Roseanna become leader because he was worried regarding the direction she would take the party.
I didn’t know that. Judging by the results she’d not much chance & was another gradualist.
Salmond shouldn’t have struck a deal with Sturgeon tho. I’d have thought Russell or MacAskill far more competent a deputy than Sturgeon ever was.
To be honest, in hindsight, Salmond shouldn’t have resigned in 2014 until at least after the general election the following year, by then the Smith Commission would’ve been known along with England’s intention for a Brexit referendum & all those oil licenses were being handed out like sweeties for the stuff that was supposedly running out. Jmo…
The book while be bought by unionists and the trans lobby as they know many things can grow sitting in a bed of manure.
It will be a Dung Done battle to get their claws on it.
Another good one Chris.
I had dealings with sturgeon nearly thirty years ago when she was involved as a then solicitor in the purchase of a house. She was cold arrogant and rude and she left a lasting impression on me. So I never quite understood why a smart man like Alex Salmond who i greatly admired never realised what she was really like. It speaks volumes that she would turn on this great man after his death.
I can’t stand to watch her giving interviews as I immediately start hyperventilating.
Have you ever stopped to consider that maybe Alex Salmond, while obviously head and shoulders above the rest of the SNP leadership, wasn’t quite as “great” as you think–if he made a “mistake” like that?
Same.
What kills me every time I see it, is Sturgeon basking in the adulation of 12000 SNP members at the SSE Hydro in 2014.
Salmond magnanimously gifted her what felt like an unstoppable juggernaut on course to deliver Scotland back its dignity.
Where did it all go wrong? Pretty much the day that hateful wee wretch took over.
I don’t know that Alex made an out of character mistake. I mean he did, clearly, anyone but her, but can you call it a mistake when somebody trusted changes character and stabs you in the neck? That’s full on Manchurian Candidate stuff, and the victim can hardly be held culpable for allowing the turncoat assassin close.
Was it predictable? I’m not sure it was. I think there was a “turning” took place. Something induced the treachery, and the galloping deconstruction of YES momentum and the SNP was certainly beyond the capacity of her narcissistic intellect.
What holds me back from that as final conclusion is the unfathomable stupidity of those who let her away with it; the WGD types who proved themselves dim beyond measure. Were they all got-at too? What fking spell was it that turned them all into gibbering morons? Thank fk I didn’t drink that flavour of Koolaid, but the years might have been easier to bear if I had.
I used to draw such comfort from the Unionists saying Independence was Alex Salmond’s pet one-man project, because it absolutely wasn’t. Keep on kidding yourself Unionist… Scotland was rising up from it’s centuries of pathetic subjugation and Alex was just the lightning conductor.
Thanks to the “army” of Sturgeon acolytes, WGDuggers, Freaks, pervs, and Weirdos crawling out the woodwork, and slimeball after slimeball, like the Fat Controller Blah-blah Blackford, Wishart the cretin, and whatshisname, “Daddy” Alyn Smith licking his own likeness in every mirror he past… Thanks to them, maybe the Unionists called it right. Take down Salmond, and the rest will collapse.
We are now hobbled in purgatory, waiting to see the results of the Stewards Enquiry into the debacle, but we’ll be waiting indefinitely because nothing is happening, and there was never any worthwhile stewardship of the whole fkg process to begin with.
What are we waiting for? The revelations of a dead man’s book? Will that purge this stifling miasma? Oh yeah, that’s right, we need yet another crooked UK Election to light the fuse and set us on our way… Sigh.
The Unionists say we’re easily led. Seems they can’t even get that right…
You had fun with this one, Chris!
Hopefully after the Sunday papers tomorrow she will slide into obscurity where she belongs.
Behind bars. Hopefully
I wonder if Sturgeon will be at the 2025 SNP annual conference in Oct. She is still an MSP although you wouldn’t know that by her frequent non-appearances at HR. She may be the worst ‘no show’ MSP but we don’t know because we’re now not allowed to know.
MSP Attendance Records: What Changed?
Previously, swipe?card logs were publicly accessible under Freedom of Information (FOI) rules. These logs tracked when MSPs entered the parliament building and allowed constituents to see how frequently their representatives attended.
In May 2024, Holyrood officials quietly revised FOI guidelines to block the release of these swipe?card attendance logs. The parliament cited escalating threats and safety risks, including harassment and violence targeting MSPs, to justify the change.
Internal discussions confirmed that the swipe?card logs were withheld because their disclosure could “endanger the physical and mental health or safety of an individual”..
In a striking move, already published attendance data for Nicola Sturgeon (for the period from March 2023 to March 2024) was deleted following her request when broader data access was restricted.
As for the 2025 SNP conference, the burning question is will there be a tribute to the departing messiah or will they just try to ignore a massive festering wound? But then whether she is or isn’t there isn’t likely to make much difference to the hellish smell in Aberdeen. That’s a certainty no matter what.
Despite all our celebrations that the ugly deviant perverted poisoned dwarf is exposing herself to ridicule and denigration through her lies in the media about her comic book, you have to remember that she still has power and clout with all the ARSEHOLES infesting the Scum Nonce Party, remember she is the anointed one and the messiah within the CULT of trannyism and sexual depravity
She will be openly revered , hailed,crowned and celebrated at the gathering of imbecilic mutants who favour political party before country
TH
I reckon SHE has daydreams of being hailed in 100 years time or suchlike complete with statues of her in our cities in a similar light as the suffragettes.
You can almost see it in her eyes while being interviewed.
As for her politics; “Frankly” it’s just figurative opaqueness..
ICELANDIC PROVERB,
«Everyone can tolerate the smell of their own shit»
IF THE CURRENT SNP had a dresscode it might require belt, braces, a hi viz with CAUTION printed on it and insurance polices against unconventional thinking.
You have nothing to lose but your chains!
Too deep for me came the breathless retort.
link to socratic-method.com
Sturgeon has appeared more on TV this week than she has appeared in Holyrood to do the job the taxpayers pay her to do in the 2 years since she resigned as FM.
Don’t complain. The more people who see her for the dangerous idiot she is the better.
It’s probably the publisher spending the money in promoting the book, perhaps they are getting sweaty palms over the negative reception and poor returns as a result.
Maybe the people who blamed the NO supporters for Scotlands ills can now look in the mirror and ask,
Who destroyed independence?
Who followed the idiot blindly?
Who had browbeaten anyone opposed to the disaster that was unfolding in Scotland?
Who walked for miles flag
waving themselves stupid?
Who’s sorry now?
We know who’s to blame. Sturgeon turned rogue on promises made. We’ll soon find out what they are.
BTW, around 50% of the population still want independence. That must really worry Westminster after all their dirty deeds.
No, no, no – you have missed the message – Sturgeon was a Unionist/Westminster plant only put in place to thwart the dreaded SNP and their Independence ambitions. She never wanted Independence and did everything in her power to stop it etc. etc..
For once agent dickhead you got it RIGHT
Now that she’s gone the big indy movement will roll into action, via the United Nations and Salvo. Get the flags out were marching up the hill again. MI5 were going to thwart the Indy movement but when the SNP took over they couldn’t stop laughing.
So who do you yoonionist and Scotland haters BLAME for the despicable state of the yookay,the pervert was only in charge for 11 years , the yookay governments of differing parties have been in charge of the yookay including Scotland for 300+ years and it has turned into a third world country with debt exceeding 2.5 trillion pounds , I know who I would prefer to run Scotland and it wouldn’t be ANY yoonionist party INCLUDING the current Scum Nonce Party
twathater says:
“I know who I would prefer to run Scotland and it wouldn’t be ANY yoonionist party INCLUDING the current Scum Nonce Party”
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Go on – spill the beans, you are not normally shy, receding and hesitant.
Eh I think you’ve answered your own question there.
300 years to build and 11 years to destroy. Not bad for a plant/sleeper/lesbian/idiot.
Spill the beans, TH.
Is it YOU?
Who do the unionist wanks blame for the State of the UK? interesting enough question twathater but they are not here to answer questions.
“GM says:
16 August, 2025 at 7:39 pm
Who do the unionist wanks blame for the State of the UK? interesting enough question twathater but they are not here to answer questions.”
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Answer: The Tories.
When it comes to apportioning blame for the state of Scotland, the huge number of Scots who believe there is no problem that can’t be solved by calling somebody a “wank” must be at the head of the queue.
It seems to be a particular weakness of a certain strand of the Scottish Indy psyche. The belief that arguments are won by hurling primary school playground insults.
It leads to the erroneous conclusion that the route to Indy requires the half of Scotland’s voters who don’t support Indy to be sat down and called a wank, cant, prick, etc. Then, by a mysterious process known only to the primary school playground haunters, those voters will be certain to vote Yes ever after.
#SitePrick1;
If the cap fits etc….
Prick.
Stoatin demo of James’ particular weakness from the master whatchamecallit himself.
Naebody does it better!
Charles is not the king of Scotland.
Please share.
link to peterabell.scot
Does that mean that Swinney is President?
No. Swinney is an arsehole.
I thought we had been over this. Have you been listening.
Naw, x.
Chairman Murray will rule us, just as soon as the UN grants him our independence.
In a concession to universalism, he’ll eventually agree to change his formal title to Chairperson. But not until we’ve spent 10 years bitterly bickering about that and little else.
At least you can vote out a president unlike that shower of racist wasters.
Scotland should hold a referendum on the monarchy. See if we still give our consent. I don’t ever remember being asked, do you?
Geri already has today’s top post, even before most readers have struggled oot their pits.
Read it and weep!
When they going to vote out pres poot, Geri?
Not anytime soon by the looks of it, #SitePrick
Unlike the duds in little England, pres Poot is currently enjoying 85% approval rating & who could blame them? He’s currently gubbing Nazis, their apologists & ALL of NATO combined & he hasn’t even unleashed the Oreshniks yet.
Currently also winning the popularity stakes in Alaska as well as the popularity stakes in patience & deplomacy. My – didn’t Trump go all meek & mild at his presence. Trump not so mouthy face to face is he? Fair play – Poot would’ve decked him. A black belt doncha know. Martial Arts & master of Zen – as well as international law. Nae match. Nae danger!
What was Starmer again? 34% & falling faster than Sturgeons book sales. Tories no better.
How about the dictator Z? He’s not even elected is he? His term expired, yet there is England, the terrorists state, just happened to be passing, striking up agreements not worth the paper they’re written on with just another dictator.
Democracy, Western Style. No wonder the worlds majority have had enough of you hypocritical roasters…
“A black belt doncha know. Martial Arts & master of Zen – as well as international law”
Well, well, guess who wants to have poot’s baby.
Do you have Barbie’s stereotypical pneumatic figure? What steps have you taken to rectify her lack of realism “down there”?
Why don’t you spill the beans about your plastic content and the chromosomes you were “assigned at birth”?
Nobody’s interested in the volume of air between your ears. We’ve already sussed that one for ourselves.
Well look at you admitting on the internet you look ‘down there’ at little girls dolls… Anything else you wanna share with the group? Freak.
We’ll all laugh that was the only come back you could muster on being schooled about Poot & his popularity despite the Wests lions & tigers & bears, oh my! narrative. Got to hand it to him, he’s doing not bad for someone who is only fighting with pot lids & bits from washing machines eh? LOL!
Away back to yer jackanory stories from yer foreign agent press & gies peace.
@ Barbie says: 17 August, 2025 at 11:04 pm
“Got to hand it to him”
Ah c’moan noo, Barbs. At least put up a token “hard tae get” fight.
Otherwise, he’s never gonna respect yo plastic ass.
An ye already get that total lack of respect, wi a generous side order of contempt, richt here in Auld Scotia.
Shit face
Do you never feel a twinge of guilt & shame that yer literally on the side of Nazis?
It’s gonna be awkward for you & yer ilk come Poppy season.
Poot remembers – his countrymen paid a heavy price, won the war & saved yer wee Britnat arse fae currently saluting & speaking German. Here is Poot – doing it all over again for a second time. You should be thankful. He’s sticking to “Never again”
So what if you lost yer Empire in the process? LOL! Get over it already – yer all wee bestie mates now & all is forgiven – yer even funding rearming them & gifting them unregulated bio labs. What could possibly go wrong?! Ummm…
I’ll predict U is gonna be so feckin pissed they’ve lost territory on account of the Wests obsessive compulsive disorder for coveting other people’s resources that they’ll be out on the warpath looking for revenge towards the arseholes that trashed their constitution. Yay, more Anglo made terrorists coming to a street near you…
So piss off, Nazi – & jennysidal maniac. There should be a law passed where all you eejits are forced onto the front line first. That’d soon curb yer armchair enthusiasm. Coward.
“It’s gonna be awkward for you & yer ilk come Poppy season.
poot remembers”
I remember your post on here mocking those who honour and remember our Scottish war dead as deluded saddoes.
That’s one of the problems with having nowt but air between your ears, Barbs – you think everybody is as thick, careless and forgetful as yersel.
No you didn’t cause that never happened.
I remember linking to Joe Glenton absolutely destroying what Remembrance day has become, the Hypocrites who celebrate it & the contempt our illustrious leaders show for it.
He isn’t wrong is he? There’s the UK government & it’s monarch literally arming, funding, signing £billion deals away & cavorting with literal Nazis invited in to the UK parliament. (Lest we forget Canada’s parliament too) Even Bojo celebrating what they’re doing in U – killing civilians & carrying out their terrorist attacks, while they’re stood there with Nazi emblems.
So suck it up, sunshine. Yer gig is up. Yer fake fuckwittery is an insult to the fallen & by today’s standards an insult to the rules of engagement. You lot can only blow up unarmed civilians & countries who have next to no military capability. Wow, what an achievement to have.
Let we forget yer sleverin & enjoyment you have over a current Jennysidal & cheering it on.
You are the absolute dreggs of society & should fck off back to the sewers where you belong.
Pants on fire, Barbs.
Hot enough to melt glass, let alone silicone and plastic.
Nae poot babby fer you.
And for the thousandth time, and counting, the name of the boy who gets to tell posters to fck off on here ain’t Barbie.
I think Bobo, that despite whatever that pompous balloon Peter A Bell says King Charles *is* the king of Scotland.
I look forward to the crowdfunder for the court case where Peter A Bell puts everyone else’s money, where his mooth is!
Just like the effort at the UN, it’ll keep folk distracted from the business of actually winning elections back in the real world.
Peter A Bell for President said no one ever.
So obviously the pompous balloon yoonionist Scotland hater Stuart hasn’t read Bell’s blog, because TAMPAX Cherlie and his adulterous wife aren’t monarchs of Scotland
“FUNDING to support Gaelic culture in island communities has been announced by John Swinney.”
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Alf must be over the moon today.
Alf has it right, x.
They’re not True Scots 🙂
agent x @ 08.15.
I fear it’s more liable to reignite heated argument about whether the true language of Scotland is that of the Gael, the Pict or one of the variants of “broad Scots”. And perhaps the inhabitants of the areas of Aberdeen or Fife fancy expanding the dominion of their own local dialects.
Debates which will doubtless tend to be carried out in the English in which we negotiate our daily lives. And which will bring Scotland no nearer to independence than before.
What’s with the reasoned stating of facts, Sven?
This is Wings BTL. That’s not how things are done on here 🙂
Language is who we are, the basis of culture, and to a large extent determines how we think. Cultural and linguistic imperialism is about making ‘a people’ into something else, giving them another identity and culture/values (Said), e.g. ‘British’.
The colonial process therefore brings with it an important pathology (Memmi). It would seem essential to understand this in order to liberate the nation as well as the mind of an oppressed group. Which also helps explain why peoples in self-determination conflict are always linguistically divided:
link to grousebeater.wordpress.com
Sure Alf.
I guess all these hundreds of millions of people all around the world still speaking English must also still be colonised.
Despite all their sham independence and their fake sovereignty and their make-believe control of their own national destinies.
I guess all these other hundreds of millions of people still speaking Spanish, French and Portuguese will be in the same bind.
Then again, maybe there’s just something wrong with Memmi.
#SitePrick – (loving that tag! Thanks James!)
They are still colonised. By a different Empire tho & through it’s currency. Did you miss the whole Trump tariff thing & NATO protection racket of increased costs? Maybe you also missed England & the EU handing over their weapon stockpiles to help out the two anti social neighbours currently blowing shit up at our expense, or Japan being threatened & how about Ursala Vonder Liar having a face like fizz as Trump shafted the EU on trade? How about missing Biden blowing up cheap Gas pipes? Forcing the EU to buy theirs at triple the price instead.
They’re colonised by big tech, weapons, trade & energy security. Play nice & do as yer telt & they’ll maybe not sanction us, switch off energy completely, give us codes & coordinates we’ve wasted billions buying for their overpriced weapons, allow yer trade to move freely through their ports everywhere & they’ll maybe not steal yer currency reserves too like they’ve done with Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, R, Venezuela & a whole host of other sovereign nations. Stay awake tho cause the majority of countries outside the West want their gold back & the UK seems unable to locate it…Oh deary..
Have you also missed the whole BRICS+ thing too? Flew over yer head no doubt. The reason it exists in the first place – to ditch colonialism. The yanks just couldn’t help themselves weapon using it & it’s time is about cooked.
As for the English language spreading – that’s colonial. Even today free movement of ppl is directly linked to trade deals, universities etc. Hand over the highly educated doctors etc & we’ll not restrict yer countries trade. Those people still have a homeland tho & a native tongue, identity & traditions of their own they still exercise & pass down.
Yer mates over in U were persecuting R speaking regions. You must’ve also missed Minsk agreements.
What is it about language that makes the Anglo American lose their shit in a rage? It’s not right in the heid. It’s verging on Satanic. Try as they might the colonisers just won’t make everyone speak the same way. Get over it already.
agent x @ 08.15.
I fear it’s more liable to reignite heated argument about whether the true language of Scotland is that of the Gael, the Pict or one of the variants of “broad Scots”
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The Gaels can summon in aid the US Navy whose patron saint is Brendan the Navigator. He discovered America several centuries before the Vikings and almost a millennium before Columbus.
Brendan was a SCOTUS- the name given by the ancient Romans to a Gaelic speaker, whether from Hibernia or Caledonia. Brendan was a native of Hibernia while Caledonia’s modern name derives from SCOTUS.
Pictish, alas, is a non-contender, being extinct for over a millennium.
There are, of course, champions here for Scots, formerly known as Inglis (from the Anglic kingdom of Notthumbria). It should not be disqualified because of its medieval origins.
It is an irony of history that the conquest of northern Northumbria (including what is now Edinburgh) by the Scotti, should have resulted in reverse linguistic colonisation of the Gael by their erstwhile medieval vassals.
Yes, yes, Barbie, but fit aboot the biolabs and the F16s?
And the promise ye made it wid a’ be sorted in 24 hoors. Fit aboot that?
BTW. Won’t you lose bonus fer nae mentioning the wee, pretendy jennyside? Dinna piss aff yer handlers, Barbs. They winna play nice.
No horse-shit about this: Alex Salmond was a much stronger champion of Gaelic than Sturgeon. The Gaels can also summon in aid the US Navy whose patron saint is Brendan the Navigator. He discovered America several centuries before the Vikings and almost a millennium before Columbus.
Brendan was a SCOTUS- the name given by the ancient Romans to a Gaelic speaker, whether from Hibernia or Caledonia. Brendan was a native of Hibernia while Caledonia’s modern name derives from SCOTUS.
Pictish, alas, is a non-contender, being extinct for over a millennium.
There are, of course, champions here for Scots, formerly known as Inglis (from the Anglic kingdom of Northumbria). It should not be disqualified because of its medieval origins.
It is an irony of history that the conquest of northern Northumbria (including what is now Edinburgh) by the Scotti, should have resulted in reverse linguistic colonisation of the Gael by their erstwhile medieval vassals.
Picking up from CYNICUS on the “SCOTUS” motif, JOHN DUNS SCOTUS (1266-1308) is the man whose thought, Professor Alexander Broadie convincingly argues, was behind the DECLARATION OF ARBROATH.
I am as yet not aware of any academics suggesting a connection between the thought of Scottish-born John Duns Scotus and JOHANNES SCOTTUS ERIUGENA (800-877) his Irish philosophical antecedent by four centuries, but I do look forward to any such.
Johannes Scottus Eriugena was one of many Gaelic intellectuals involved in the Charlemagne renaissance, and a significant influence on the likes of moderns such as Ezra Pound, Hegel and Heidegger.
Dermot Moran writes regarding the illustrious Eriugena —
« Johannes, who signed himself as “ERIUGENA” in one manuscript, and who was referred to by his contemporaries as “the Irishman” [in the ninth century Ireland was referred to as “Scotia Maior” and its inhabitants as “Scotti”] is the most significant Irish intellectual of the early monastic period. He is generally recognized to be both the most outstanding philosopher of the Carolingian [Charlemagne Renaissance] era and of the whole period of Latin philosophy stretching from Boethius to Anselm.
« […] Eriugena’s uniqueness lies in the fact that, quite remarkably for a scholar in Western Europe in the Carolingian era, he had considerable familiarity with the Greek language. His theory of human nature is rationalist and intellectualist. His theory of place and time as defining structures of the mind anticipates Kant, his dialectical reasoning prefigures Hegel. » ( Dermot Moran, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The spread of Gaelic monastic schools across Europe helped usher in the Carolingian Renaissance. Many of these scholars, poets, and intellectuals bore the appellation “Scotus” or “Scottus”, eg Sedulius Scotus (fl. 840–860), Josephus Scotus (died between 791 and 804), Clement Scotus II (fl. 820), Clemens Scotus (c. 750 – 818), Aaron Scotus (died 1052), Marianus Scotus (1028–1082 or 1083), David Scotus (died 1139), etc, etc.
Here is an interesting quote from Johannes Scottus Eriugena which greatly influenced Ezra Pound:
“For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is seen to be weak, whereas true reason is kept firm and immutable by her own powers and does not require to be confirmed by the assent of any authority.” (Johannes Scottus Eriugena, Periphyseon, Bk. 1, ch. 69).
Perhaps some confusion here with the ‘decalydonis’? According to the historic record Gaelic appears in Scotland from Antrim via the Dalriada Scots of Argyll after the departure of the Romans.
The Picts were not ‘extinct’, rather being subject to a takeover by the Dalriada Scots in the 800s and thereafter renamed ‘Scots’ and subject to an imposed Gaelic.
Scots was not ‘Inglis’, but developed in part from it as well as numerous other languages, as is the case with most language development. Almost all of the Scots speaking areas are former Pictish areas.
A key aspect for any people seeking independence is where their ‘national consciousness’ is built from, i.e. from the culture and language of a people; this is arguably the Scots language some two million Scots still speak today and/or have some understanding of despite their being deprived of learning it in schools.
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
“some two million Scots still speak today and/or have some understanding of”
That “and/or” there is doing a lot of heavy lifting, Alf.
Why not give us the figures for how many Scots are literate in Scots. And how many of us know little more than the words we have seen on humorous tea-towels.
I’ll wager the second category is twenty times the size of the first. For evidence, I need do no more than cite this site. You can count the number of posters capable of putting together something in Scots on the fingers of one hand. They probably use online help in any case. They never persist with their efforts because they know damn well that nobody wants to read posts in Scots.
As for you continually repeating the claim that the Picts weren’t genocided by the Scots, the Declaration of Arbroath doesn’t lie. It was written by pious, God-fearing men as a letter to God’s appointed leader on Earth – The Pope.
The idea they would have filled it with falsehoods is preposterous.
A summary of Billy Kay’s version of the origins story was posted by me on Wings here:
link to wingsoverscotland.com
God doesn’t have an appointed leader on earth, ya eejit.
The Pope is elected by cardinals & The Vatican (at the time of that declaration) was akin to writing a letter to the UN in today’s terms.
Regarding the arrival of the Scots (ie the Gaels) I would direct attention to the following academic article:
‘Were the Scots Irish?’ by Ewan Campbell
(Cambridge University Press 2015)
« To summarize, if there was a mass migration from Ireland to Scotland, there should be some sign of this in the archaeological record, but there is none.
« […] My reading of the archaeological, historical and linguistic evidence is radically different from the traditional account, but much simpler. I suggest that the people inhabiting Argyll maintained a regional identity from at least the Iron Age through to the medieval period and that throughout this period they were Gaelic speakers.
« In this maritime province, sea communications dominated, and allowed a shared archaic language to be maintained, isolated from linguistic developments which were taking place in the areas of Britain to the east of the Highland massif in the Late Roman period,.
« […] In conclusion, the Irish migration hypothesis seems to be a classic case of long-held historical beliefs influencing not only the interpretation of documentary sources themselves, but the subsequent invasion paradigm being accepted uncritically in the related disciplines of archaeology and linguistics.
« […] I believe that none of the evidence is capable of supporting the traditional explanations, and that closer dialogue between historians, linguists and archaeologists can lead to a better understanding of the construction of identity and processes of social change in the early medieval period.
« […] Indeed, merely by re-labelling the supposed ‘Irish settlers’ as ‘Gaelic speakers’, following the practice of contemporary writers such as Adomnan, the whole issue can be studied in an atmosphere free from the colonialist implications which have distorted the study of early medieval western Britain.
link to doi.org
You speaking for God now, Barbs?
It figures.
To pick up on Cynicus’ mention of the “Scotus” appellation —
Johannes Scottus Eriugena was one of many Latin-literate Gaelic intellectuals involved in the Charlemagne renaissance, and a significant influence on the likes of moderns such as Ezra Pound, Hegel and Heidegger.
Dermot Moran writes regarding Eriugena —
« Johannes, who signed himself as “ERIUGENA” in one manuscript, and who was referred to by his contemporaries as “the Irishman” [in the ninth century Ireland was referred to as “Scotia Maior” and its inhabitants as “Scotti”] is the most significant Irish intellectual of the early monastic period. He is generally recognized to be both the most outstanding philosopher of the Carolingian [Charlemagne Renaissance] era and of the whole period of Latin philosophy stretching from Boethius to Anselm.
« […] Eriugena’s uniqueness lies in the fact that, quite remarkably for a scholar in Western Europe in the Carolingian era, he had considerable familiarity with the Greek language. His theory of human nature is rationalist and intellectualist. His theory of place and time as defining structures of the mind anticipates Kant, his dialectical reasoning prefigures Hegel. » ( Dermot Moran, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The spread of Gaelic monastic schools across Europe helped usher in the Carolingian Renaissance. Many of these scholars, poets, and intellectuals bore the appellation “Scotus” or “Scottus”.
A quote from Johannes Scottus Eriugena which greatly influenced Ezra Pound:
“For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is seen to be weak, whereas true reason is kept firm and immutable by her own powers and does not require to be confirmed by the assent of any authority.” (Johannes Scottus Eriugena, Periphyseon, Bk. 1, ch. 69).
This might help resolve any misunderstanding over the fate of the Picts (posted previously on another thread):
I’ve posted this extract here in this place again – and will most likely find it necessary to post it several more times in the future – in the hope that multiple readings of the text might result in understanding.
It appears the Scots ‘exaggerated’ the claim they made about the Picts when scribblin doun the Declaration of Arbroath; that they, in fact, lied about having utterly destroyed the Picts (“Pictis omnino deletis”) to gain favour with the Pope at that time who considered the Picts barbaric heathens.
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Alf Baird writes @ 18 August, 2025 at 8:38 pm
« Almost all of the Scots speaking areas are former Pictish areas. »
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Please note that yet again Alf here offers no linguistic argument whatsoever for his aberrant idée fixe that Pictish gave rise to Scots. Alf habitually presents territorial DNA (place and race) as premises, before drawing his non sequitur linguistic conclusion. This is incoherent, but for the unwary might gain by repetition a certain bamboozling persuasiveness. Alf, it appears, is determined that Scots can be traced back to a posited indigenous Neolithic populace. Yet Scots is Germanic, as Billy Kay points out. The related Celtic antecedents of Gaelic were once spoken throughout Europe from Portugal to Turkey and from Orkney/ Shetland to North Italy. But then the populaces were latinised as the Roman Empire spread. And we are pretty much all English speakers now, whatever our genes.
“the Scots ‘exaggerated’ the claim they made”
That defo has a certain plausibility. Their descendants would seem to have inherited the trait, grotesquely exaggerating and outright lying about things to this very day.
From the highest in the land (Sturgeon and her book) to the schemie pounding away on Wings BTL, knickers aflame.
“pretty much all English speakers now, whatever our genes”
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh doth speak the truth, with neither fear nor favour.
Is there any possibility of this becoming the norm on Wings BTL?
Ah hae ma doots. Naw. Nae chance.
Fearghas, the key point today, and particularly in the context of independence/liberation, is that ‘Scottish’ national consciousness and hence desire for liberation comes primarily from Scots language speakers, not from English speakers (which is spoken predominantly by ‘No’ voters) or Gaelic speakers (which is spoken by very few voters).
This is why the Scots language continues to be discriminated against politically, institutionally and culturally by oor colonial maisters.
“And we are pretty much all English speakers now, whatever our genes.”
Aye, until the English decide they’re not really persecuting x,y,z cause they all speak English regardless of their genes.
I’m not sure that’s how it works..
Colonisers always attack a different language for a reason.
I can think of the current example of U ethnically cleansing & persecuting R speaking regions of U, (burning books, banning the language in schools, banning their churches, all the usual tick boxes in the colonisers playbook) by claiming they weren’t really persecuting Rs cause they could speak both U & R languages.
I don’t know why Unionists get so worked up about Gaelic in Scotland. There must be a half dozen at least languages on all government issued forms these days yet Gaelic (& Welsh) trigger them into a frenzy. It’s racism & they’re not right in the heid.
If they don’t like the Scots “wasting (their own!) money” on a Scottish language then they should fck off back to their mother country. Simples.
Alf, the key linguistic point, however, is that Gaelic being so satisfactorily unrelated to English provides the most optimum independence of consciousness. Scots being so closely related to English offers only capricious levels of devolution of consciousness.
Fearghas, seekin tae mak us Scots langage speakers intae Gaelic speakers is juist anither form o linguistic imperialism, i.e. cultural oppression. It micht tak the UK state funded Gaelic lobby a couple o centuries as weel and independence does not have such time! Gaelic promotion (and Scots marginalisation) is arguably mair a ‘divide and rule’ tactic?
Just because Scots is defined as a ‘Germanic’ language disna mak it alien to thaim wha aye speak it in oor ain kintra. You appear to think it a virtue to seek to replace the Scots tongue with Gaelic (for whatever reason?) but I suspect maist Scots speakers widna be too chuffed aboot that.
Alf, what’s the Scots word for “paranoia”?
Like mony supposedly ‘English’ wirds, paranoid is a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin paranoides
But as to the linguistic realities in any colonial society, as Fanon explained: “The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands out the much greater business of plunder”.
So we can aye be sure the colonial power and its functionaries will be up to no good with their colonial language policies, just as long as the racket continues.
“ The Picts were not ‘extinct” -Alf Baird
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I never said they were. In fact, I limited the extinction of the Pictish language.
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“ Scots was not ‘Inglis’,”
OH YES IT WAS.
Don’t take my word for it. How about Billy Kay’s? Have you actually read the piece referenced by Fearghas below?
Two passages that stand out for me are:
“..,even when the power of Gaelic was at its height and it was absorbing other linguistic groups, the people of this south-east corner continued speaking Inglis..”
AND
“Scots is descended from Northumbrian, while Standard English emerged from the East Midland dialect of Mercia.”
Alf- you find yourself at odds, not only with Fearghas and other non -fantasists here ; also the author of ‘SCOTS: The Mither Tongue’
Bio labs confirmed. Dossier already logged at the UN despite British terrorists blowing up the author. That’s also been logged for war crimes.
F-16s – aye, what about them? Where are they? I thought they were supposed to be a game changer? That’s strange eh? Poot has collected various territories unimpeded despite all the faff & fanfare. Was it cardboard cut outs they sent?
Over in 24 hours? What you on about? I never said that. That was Trump & he failed. He just did what they all do, backpedal when elected & doubled down on stupid. Instead of ending conflicts he’s on course to be the instigator of starting & escalating SIX LOL!
Aye, he’ll win that Nobel Peace prize, hands down…
Jenny side already confirmed, matey. ICJ ruled it has a case to answer to & any countries found to be aiding it will be held to account for war crimes. That means it’s noted. Going via the backdoor of other countries still counts so the UK is on notice it’ll be appearing sometime in it’s future. ICC has also ruled too & arrest warrant issued despite personal sanctions & death threats.
Those organisations will end & a reset will happen at the UN. They’ve proven to be tools of the USA & that’s now a dying empire. Slowly being hoisted by it’s own petard. ME won’t sit back & watch expansion into their territories either – the puppets will be ejected & the supply lines will close. They’ll soon find out what a famine is themselves as they’re cut off completely. Countries already refusing to ship there because of the risk & no one giving insurance. It’ll be uninhabitable & entirely of it’s own making.
Off you pop now, hypocriter.
Oooo, another UN dossier.
Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of them all.
SIX conflicts, eh? Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of them all an all.
You better have that babbie soon, Barbs. Sounds like your hormones are all in a fanckle. See if you can’t get your remaining “work” fast tracked.
Pres poot ain’t gonna want tae be forced intae wearing wellies oan a building sicht!
Amazon are on day two of the book release discounting Sturgeon’s book by 50% And so it seems are WH Smiths.
Looks like her book sales are, like her, going down the lavvy pan. No doubt the pound shop next.
Earlier in the week I saw it at number three in Amazon’s top selling books and is now down to number ten. Perhaps it will go into freefall.
Movies make a ton of money on their opening weekend. Word of mouth from people who have actually watched it determines whether the movie will continue to make money or not.
There has been a lot of hype generated by Sturgeon’s book and no doubt this has temporarily translated into sales but in the days of the internet, a movie can be a flop within days of release and the same happens with books.
It’s difficult to see who would buy this work of fiction. Sturgeon is a fantasist. Under her leadership, the number of SNP members started to free fall from an all-time high. Sturgeon is a narcissist who craves attention. She is only out for herself. People who couldn’t see it before – can see it clearly now.
I will certainly be buying the dear leaders book……just as soon as its price falls below that of a 6 pack of Andrex.
Bum fodder..
Fit only for wiping the nations arses..
“ Looks like her book sales are, like her, going down the lavvy pan. No doubt the pound shop next.”
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If you can bear to wait, hang on for a week or two and the charity shops will let you have a copy for 50p.
What does the world do with unsold books? Are they pulped back to usable paper or just binned,burned ?
I enjoy reading and am wondering why I never questioned what happens to the unread prior to this.Same applies to the things called ‘newspapers’ burned , pulped or dumped?
diabloandco @ 08.01.
Far as I know, paperback books are usually able to be directly recycled with the correct machinery, though glue and/or staples do need separate treatment.
Hard backs need to have the covers removed and are processed slightly differently because of this.
Newsprint may be pulped as far as I’m aware, though I’ve been retired for some time and undoubtedly technology will have advanced in recent years; as will the production of printed material, which will doubtless be manufactured these days with a view to recycling.
I think they flog it & ship it to China so they can make toilet paper & diapers.
Or give copies to libraries. Or are they a thing of the past now except in prisons? LOL!
Imagine that, being recycled into velvety soft bog roll or being read by the likes of Isla Bryson Fae prison..haha!
It’s full of shit either way.
Thanks Sven!
The overwhelming revulsion that has greeted the publication of Sturgeon’s book has made it certain that Sturgeon will go down as a reviled figure in Scottish history. There is no way Sturgeon will ever be seen in public without being challenged over what she has written. An appearance by Sturgeon in the 2026 Holyrood election will do for Swinney and the SNP. The party will hope Sturgeon departs for London ASAP.
Us Scots wha seek oor leeberty fae Inglis colonial oppressioun sall tak tae the streets awthegither an… dance.
Let us ‘mark the card’ of the ‘union’ and dance our way to freedom.
Because a revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
Independence day, Princes Street;
Martyn Bennett’s “Grit” blasting oot….
The day, the venue, and the music has been chosen.
Dig oot yer dancin shoes awbody. It’s gaun’ae be a hoot.
Renamed Schemies Street for the occasion.
Shame hardly anybody turns up, but what did you expect when you let NC publish the flyers in Scots?
You’ll hae moved south by then to grovel at your maister’s feet onywey, #SitePrick1?
James breaking new ground – one handed posts in cod Scots!
Aye, and here’s anither yin – it’s their erses you’ll be kissing no their feet.
Prick.
Twa nae burds?! Dancing fur Scotlands freedom ya say?!! Ah dae that every night! Am takin ma kerryoot sum wir ells. Git yer flag oota ma face ya dobber.
“Twa nae burds?! Dancing fur Scotlands freedom ya say?!!”
They’ll need some way of recognising each other for the hook up. Maybes they can paint their erses blue.
James is gonna need a big tin, so he’ll be starting the date already out of pocket. NC will have to get the drinks in and not be shy about putting out if he doesn’t want James to turn frustrated and nasty.
More frustrated and nasty than usual, I mean.
Aw bless, #SitePrick1 has made a wee pal.
Youse two will be so happy together.
You’ll need both hands tae find yer erse, James.
That’ll cramp your solo CSB for a minute or two.
Nicola is a shoo in for Loose Women at least.
Callum says:
17 August, 2025 at 9:58 am
The overwhelming revulsion that has greeted the publication of Sturgeon’s book has made it certain that Sturgeon will go down as a reviled figure in Scottish history. There is no way Sturgeon will ever be seen in public without being challenged over what she has written. An appearance by Sturgeon in the 2026 Holyrood election will do for Swinney and the SNP. The party will hope Sturgeon departs for London ASAP.
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Baliol Swinney is her puppet
I’ve summarised a recently released ‘book’ called,
Diary of a MadwomanFrankly:There you go… as accurate a summary of the book, Frankly, as is likely to be found among its author’s fans and supporters (my summary’s last paragraph excepted, of course).
Spare a thought.
Spare a thought for Mr and Mrs Indy. Broken and rejected, unable to freely wave their flags or shout crap into thin air. Forbidden to walk in the middle of the road. Banned from public parks. Spare a thought for Mr and Mrs Indy. For all the good it didn’t do.
‘Frankly’ I don’t give a damn.
I see JK Rowling is going full Tonto handbags at dawn with SHE whose name shall not be uttered.
There are similarities in personalities going on I suspect, just different beliefs.
While correct on the tranny issue, Rowling continues to undermine her own critical thinking abilities by utilising characters of her own literary invention as comparators, something rather me me me in that eh and assuming everyone is conversant in HER work.
Where she is totally way off the mark and fails to read the situation from leafy Edinburgh Southside is where she accuses SHE of being totally consumed by independence.
Er, WRONG!!!
If yer going to have a stair heid rammy in public then at least try and get yer facts right eh?
Away back to playing quidditch in the back garden hen..
Most of the Scottish cabinet think they’re at Hogwarts.
Rowling is a unionist. Never forget, she gave a million quid to the No side during the indyref. She has that horrible sneering tone that English unionists adopt when mentioning the subject, which is anathema to them. She’s as much of an arsehole as Sturgeon, to be honest, her and her victorious billionaire cigar photay pish.
link to apnews.com
THE ODD THING ABOUT INDEPENDENCE is that those who,dont want it are more fixated than those who are supposed to want it.
Sturgeon and allies definitely had other fixations.
You make it sound as if there’s only one thing odd about Scottish Independence, TURABDIN. There are actually lots of oddities.
For example, the people pushing Indy insist on pushing policies the majority of Scots don’t want. Whether it’s genderwoowoo, or talking about forcing Scots to speak, read and write only in Scots. They just can’t seem to help themselves.
And then there’s the narcissistic insistence that the people pushing Indy don’t have to exert their flabby arses to convince or convert anybody to their side. That’s all beneath them. It’s supposedly self-evident that the answer to everything under the sun is Indy, and anybody and everybody, whether Sovereign Scot or New Scot, that can’t see that isn’t needed and can just go tae feck.
And then there’s the wide-eyed, disbelieving wonder that even after the two examples I give above (and there are others), that Indy support has been flat-lined at 45% for a decade now!
I must admit I was looking forward to the JKR review of Fankly and was a bit let down when I read it. As expected it was well crafted but then went off on one about her personal abuse during Indyref. It makes you wonder what would have happened had Yes won the bloody thing. Abuse happened on both sides of the debate but I must admit I got over it a couple of weeks after the event and moved on. I admire the lady for her work on women’s rights but not on Indy but so far have resisted the urge to abuse her not just in fear of her island of lawyers but a nagging fear a speccy kid will turn up with a twig and turn me into a toad.
«What J.K. Rowling misses about Sturgeon’s memoir» a piece in the Spectator by some «Scot» called Philip Patrick who lives in Tokyo is another who believes Sturgeon was obsessed with independence.
The more superficial the knowledge the more likely you’ll be called upon to opine.
Scotland must get rid of that colonial training leash.
@TURABDIN
Sure we are awash with the Scottish Diaspora telling us how to vote. People living in Scotland get it after all, 10 years of Scottish Institutions declining and Institutional Capture. Much more money to defend the Supreme Court Decision only to find that swathes of Scottish Public opinion are against it. But it’s our taxpayer money not there’s.But they like to spend it nonetheless.
Why do people insist SHE whose name shall not be uttered achieved nothing while in power?
Please correct me if I’m wrong but I can think of ££Fergusson Marine££, filling her cabinet with bottom drawer dross, embarrassing Scotland on the international stage with gender woo woo, making teeth bared misandry the “thing” of the day but above all, standing proud and wonderful and brilliant; she apologised to witches for what happened back in the day..
Finger on the pulse of the nation so she was..
I know Rowling is a divisive figure because she is a unionist but even on the Trans issue, she is not totally squeaky clean where she has done nothing to help Graham Linehan.
link to archive.is
I watched the ITV interview again and in answer to the gender question she says she thinks ‘thats how people are’. Quite an insight into how people like her think.
So the Toxic Yoon Sturgeons self indulgent diatribe has dragged the Toxic English Billionaire anti Indy White Settler Rowling out from under her Yoon Rock.
And Reform don’t even need a branch office in Scotland to get results. Wonder why that is?
Simple. Sett-lers.
Same as how the Welsh voted to make themselves poorer too = sett-lers.
Scotland doesn’t vote Tory. I think the last time it did was way back in 1955.
Welcome to Scotland where yo vote anyone but Tory & end up with ….Tory!
& ppl worry an indy Scotland will be right wing? We’ve already had it for decades already LOL..
The Left Wing is only interested in big international injustice. Their big international future for themselves.They couldn’t give a shit about the Scottish people.
The Left wing is a dead horse surrounded by flys and it stinks!
When you ignore the proles they have a habit of revolting.
That revolting behaviour can take many forms. Their deepest fear is just around the corner.
Bit of retro lighthearted Scottish levity for a wee laugh and a change:
link to whorattledyourcage.blogspot.com
WhoRattled , I enjoyed that , thanks.
Thanks. Piece of funny nonsense.
I dunno if anyone here ever watched Sturgeon at a UN Q&A way back in 2017/18? Rights of children debate I think. If you did you’d not be shocked at her fully embracing the Gender Woo from the get go & the direction she was taking the SNP.
I remember having to do a double take when an Australian investigative journalist asked her about gender clinics in England, removing children from parents & indoctrinating children in schools when stats show almost all children grow out of it at puberty. He was horrified this was being pursued by the Scottish government on children as young as seven years old because his grandchildren lived in Scotland.
She dismissed his concerns as nonsense, doubted him over clinics taking children into care, rubbished that children grow out of it & **of the children & young ppl she’d spoken to – they were more than capable of making their own minds up at that age.**
That’s when I took another look at her & it went downhill from there..
Aye, weans as young as seven can make their own minds up about adult stuff – who else comes out with that pish to justify themselves?
Is there any truth in any of this, Barbs, or are yer knickers still smouldering?
And if it’s all gospel, how come you were cheering it on from 2018 until quite recently?
BTW. What was the name of the regular poster who claimed on Wings BTL that concern for kids is just the protective colouration of the nonces? Gie us a wee helping hand here, Barbie.
And dinna you be employing the Sturgeon defence, either. Yer knickers will burst into flame again if you try that one oan.
Correct Geri. It’s seems Nicola would do or say anything she thought would get her closer to power and to the dangerous nonsense pedalled by the powerful. Sturgeon is a woman without honour and without conviction. An attention seeker – she was only ever out for herself
Regarding herself…
link to jacobin.com
Sounds like a god-awful book doesn’t it? Thanks for the link.
I see the Transgender NAZI’s haven’t given up according to the Independent rag. They are seeking overturn the Brit Supreme Court ruling stating that women are a biological sex. The Trans Taliban are pernicious.
Is it not just ONE trannyban judge on a crusade? That’s what I saw in the Herald?
They are all hitting the high notes proliferating nonsense allegedly from sound bodies of professional opinion whereas it’s usually come from their yoof section, HR section or yoof Union section..
With any luck the tax payer isn’t stumping up for this headline grabbing blarney..
When is the legal and medical sector going to grow a backbone and stand up to this Shirley Temple(esque) crossing of arms, stamping of feet and scream and screaming and screaming till they get their way then move onto even more invidious behavioural validation?
Heck it’ll be incest and Morris dancing next..
@ YL I think it is one ex judge a tranny who is threatening to usurp the SC decision, he claims to have been forced to move to Ireland because of the ruling in the uk, if so WTF is it to do with him
TH
As he’s clearly suffering from some mental condition then wouldn’t it be ironic if the lawyers and disgruntled defendants lined up to challenge his rulings made during his career?
Maybe it was all that wearing of wigs that he was into..
Story is here:
link to archive.is
From my understanding the UK SC rulings was clarifying that a biological woman can be legally defined as a woman but it also safeguarded the rights of Trans woman under existing pieces of legislation.
From my understanding, the main thrust of the ex-judge’s motivation is that a legal ruling has to involve those affected by it. You could use the same argument for every part of the law. Even if it is was possible, how could you have a functioning legal system if everybody whom it potentially affected had a say in it’s implementation?
It isn’t possible though for ordinary people unless you belong to a specific group with a lot of financial backing which makes it unfair as the result is the law favours one group over another.
As it seems to be perfectly acceptable under EHCR, then could this be another reason to examine whether it is actually worth being in?
Good post, Bilbo.
The answer to your question is a simple one – we need to be out of the ECHR. By “we” I mean Scotland and/or the UK – whatever.
We won’t have a functioning government capable of implementing legislation that works for the majority until we are out.
Just look at the small boats circus. It’s being subject to the ECHR that means that no government can do that one, simple necessary thing – tow the fuckers back to French shallow waters and sink them.
The un-killable trans aberration relies on the same integration with the ECHR “blob” to keep it alive.
If Farage/Reform were to plausibly promise to set us free from the ECHR millstone that is drowning us they will receive a parliamentary landslide like nothing ever witnessed before. At HR as well as at WM.
I didn’t realise I had put down EHCR in my original post rather than ECHR. Some many bodies with acronym’s, it hard to know what they are and what they stand for.
There is no doubt that being part of the ECHR has held the UK government to account and enpowered ordinary citizens but it has also been used to put through policies like Trans ideology and mass migration that would never be voted for by the ordinary public.
This manipulation of this treaty is seen now with migration where other European country who are also signatories are able to deal with the migration issue yet we in the UK can’t because we bound by ECHR and other international treaties.
If the benefits of being in ECHR outweighs the drawbacks then there needs to be a conversation as to why it seems to be working in other countries and not here in the UK.
It is a conversation that needs to be had and not be bogged down by political tribalism just because it is supported by the likes of Reform.
Indeed, the way to defeat Reform is to get involved in these types of conversations so that Reform can be exposed for pushing their own agenda through issues like this that are affecting ordinary people.
“because we bound by ECHR and other international treaties.”
A convenient excuse? England-as-UK has persistently violated the non-implemented Treaty of Union, to no effect whatsoever, as well as numerous other treaty violations over the centuries, and still. Perfidious Albion?
England-as-UK does what it wants. If the elite who aye run this manufactured state want immigration then that’s what we get whether we like it or not, irrespective of any treaty.
“Just look at the small boats circus. It’s being subject to the ECHR that means that no government can do that one, simple necessary thing – tow the fuckers back to French shallow waters and sink them.”
The English government can stop meddling & destabilising other countries & then there wouldn’t be a refugee crisis eh? Farage could do that. Or they could set up official checks & safe routes to sort out the genuine cases. They could do that too!
Naw! You get ppl like Main & Co all triggered if you just stand on a beach & scweam & scweam & have Farage drop in for a pint if you just airbrush over the facts.
The UK is a fully signed up member of various international clubs on the world stage like the United Nations etc. Part of that agreement is accepting refugees & those fleeing persecution. Another part of it is that those seeking asylum CAN CHOOSE themselves what country they’d like to flee to & since you colonising feckwits instilled at the point of a gun to “speak the Queen’s English” guess where they’ll come? Where they speak the lingo & where they’ll likely have family here already.
So this blows yer other crap that they could just seek refuge in the first country they meet cause there’s no point if they don’t speak French or German or whatever..
Welcome to Karma.
Reform can’t stop immigration either. It’d involve telling their donors to fuck off & the chances of that are remote. Corporations/Capitalism need immigration cause they don’t like paying ppl a real living wage, don’t like workers rights & don’t like giving full time job security & contracts to ppl. They like zero hours far better – it helps the poor to manage their busy diary LOL!
You think the English government should scrap the ECHR? And replace it with what exactly?
Geri’s blown that clown right out of the water again.
Farage could do a massive steaming turd on Main’s front lawn and he/she/it would be on here telling everyone what a great job he did.
It’s time at the UN is coming to an end.
The Anglo American bullying Empire is coming to an end & with it the English seat on the security council that has afforded them great privilege to break treaties & international laws with impunity.
America will cling on in some capacity cause they’re a superpower but the UK will not be part of the seating arrangements. They’ll be cut adrift along with France. The UK will have a seat in court facing war crimes & terrorist charges for their activities in R instead cause America will throw them under a bus first.
There’s been growing pressure to have them removed for ages cause they’re not a superpower & bring nothing to the table. USA only keeps them close cause of the UK intelligence agency.
But the war in U, assassinations & the atrocities in Gaza has put the tin lid on it. Blatantly lying of their involvement & parroting that an invading/occupying force “has a right to defend itself” is becoming tiresome now & isn’t international law.
“THE Royal Navy should sail to Gaza and deliver aid to its starving people, an MSP has said.
Scottish Greens MSP Ross Greer told The Herald that the UK and European nations were “allowing” starvation to take place in the besieged enclave, adding that it was possible to “sail straight to Gaza” given that it lies on the coast.
Greer, who is currently standing in his party’s leadership contest, said “there is nothing Israel could do to stop” the Royal Navy from sailing towards Gaza.”
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What a wanker!
Well they do say it takes one to know one?
Isn’t it heart warming to discover that through the wee, small hours, when all guid Scots fowk are peacefully asleep, many of them after a Saturday of well-earned relaxation and conviviality, and perhaps a few drams too, that one or two obsessed unfortunates are still up and hunched over their keyboards.
Poring over old, dead posts, long since forgotten and ignored, burning with the need to broadcast their impotent futility to an uncaring world.
Posting playground insults about wanking.
James can keep it up all night through!
LOL. Take a look in the nearest mirror, Prick.
James is up early this afto. Cooking wi gas, tae. If he wis in a car, we wid say he’s tanking.