Wings Over Scotland

Off with her head?

A little bit of sick just came up.

There’s not a lot you can say about that, it’s so ridiculous!

Oh God! How could any thinking person vote for that? What sort of country does she imagine she could create? Or does she only look in the mirror?

I was just thinking about this, if she was ever the queen of scots, would she be allowed to adopt our future king lol

RUTH Davidson has failed to make the case to her Westminster colleagues for retaining Scotland’s place in the single market, letters released under freedom of information laws showed.

Davidson has repeatedly claimed that as Scottish Tory leader she would ensure Scotland’s voice is loudly heard in Theresa May’s Cabinet.

However, the UK Government’s major offices of state all confirm there were no representations from Davidson about retaining Scotland’s single market membership.

Davidson also failed to ask Ministers about the rights of EU citizens to remain in Scotland after Brexit, it emerged.
The Scottish Tory leader campaigned for Remain in last year’s In-Out referendum.

She promised this year’s Scottish Tory conference that Scottish Secretary David Mundell was “making sure that Scotland’s voice is heard loud and clear in the UK government”.

But Downing Street, the Foreign Office, the Brexit department and the Scotland Office all said they did not hold any correspondence from Davidson asking about the single market and freedom of movement.

Time she got on with the day job rather than obsessing about an Indy Ref2 which she cannot prevent.

Deary me, The Telegraph really is an embarrassing comic, isn’t it? Sadly, this is what happens when you get a bunch of ex-public school boys together, whose one qualification is that they went to school together, to edit a newspaper.

She is so supper confident even organising who will replace Ian Duncan as an MEP.
Obviously her parties polling intention reports from canvassing have him winning.
Seems the SNP polling returns across wide areas including Perth Dunkeld Stanley Coupar Angus Blairgowrie would indicate higher return for Pete Wishart.
I am a bit dumbfounded by her arrogance. SNP are taking nothing for granted yet have seen no door to door canvas for Tory candidate. 3 fly posting posters is it.

Induces reflux oesophagitis in me to be frank.

She may be more pretender than Queen. Ruth is always pretending this or that.

Richardinho 11.09
Murdoch Maclennan CEO of Telegraph went to Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow.

I had a canvasser from the Ruth Davidson Party at my door last week. A very nice, cultivated and civil, upper-middle class lady from the “County” set.

I do not think she was best-pleased with my critique of the character and truthfulness of the would-be Gaulitier of Scotland, but, we enjoyed a civilised exchange of views and agreed to differ.

Such a pity a minority of Ruth the Mooth’s supporters are such nice, if misguided people. And, how can they bring themselves to support her or Mother Theresa, her organ grinder? It beggars belief.

How many egomaniacs does it take to change a light bulb ?

Just one. They hold the bulb whilst the rest of the world revolves around them.

That is Ruth.

I had confirmation of the conspiracy between Scottish Labour and the Ruth Davidson Party, at yesterday’s Scottish Junior Cup Final, at Rugby Park.

As he celebrated with some Glenafton fans post-game MSP Brian Whittle was clearly enjoying the triumph of the team in red over the team in black and yellow.

So the Tories in Scotland have posted that Ruth Davidson is Tory Queen of Scots, have they.

Well has she by any chance, changed her constitutional stance and now supports Scottish Independence?

And what does Liz think about some commer usurping one of her Royal titles?

Ruth and Lies!

link to indyref2.scot

Naw Stu, naw, naw, naw. There is nae wye in the face of god’s green earth will I watch that. That is a step too far for me.AARGH!

Roll on Friday till this farce is over.

They clearly weren’t paying attention to Glasgow on Saturday then. It appears a few folks beg to differ with the Torygraph’s views on Truthless Harrison, on her faux popularity and her assumed right to define or represent anything in Scotland.

They’ve done Nic Sturgeon too. Its a tad different, music accompaniment and comments as rule Britannia England as it gets in their Scotland region.

Oh well, we did vote NO to be governed by the class that makes and consumes torygraph stuff. They make sense if you’re loaded in Scotland I suppose.

link to archive.is

It’s the broadest of broad hubristic grins that just revolts me about her. Then her ultra serious scolding scowl. Both expressions are so over the top it’s just revolting and I am heartily sick of her and her team. They make complete asses of themselves by identifying with her.

She has nothing to offer Scotland but chains. Not one single policy.

Enough to make anyone a Republican!

I think this video should be spread as far as possible.

Initially I thought there was a mistake in the subtitles “… I won’t take any lessons for the First Minister …” Surely it should be “from”, not “for”. Then I replayed the clip, and it really is what she says.

Reality check for the wee bauchle, Davidson: I think it’s unlikely that Queen Nicola (long may she reign!) would waste time giving lessons to an incorrigible wee thug like yersel, hen.

How utterly nauseating.

O/T

From the UNHCR.

link to searchingforsyria.org

There’s yer British Nationalism right there. It’s like an advert for EDL. She ain’t no ‘reluctant nationalist’ is she? Tory Queen of Trotts mair like.

link to urbandictionary.com *

*for those not familiar wi the term 😉

Boak!!

Even rabid #Tory supporters will find this nauseating.

Therefore it should be played hourly on BBC Scotland

Ooops! Would help to start at the top and scroll down rather than vice versa.

From the UNHCR.

link to searchingforsyria.org

I noted this about RD

Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson reveals she has had to postpone her wedding after shelling out a five-figure sum on vet bills when her pet springer spaniel was run over

I feel sorry for the dog but should she not have had Pet insurance and a minimum £10,000 five figure sum seems very large maybe it was more I don’t know,my question to her would be how much did she intend to spend on her wedding not many people would spend that amount.

I wish she would reply to emails the only one who does not.

All show and no substance

She contributes absolutely nothing to the nation.

I’ll leave it to the London Establishment to decide for themselves whether they feel she contributes much to their Union.

I had a scan through the Sunday post yesterday, before putting it back on the news stand, it had a poll predicting the SNP would lose 10 seats, the Tories win 7, Labour 3 and libdems 3.

I hope these poll predictions turn out to be rather optimistic for the unionists.
And that Davison ends up with egg on her face

More like the Tory Trump of Scotland, or should we style her “the Ruth”.

She really does believe her own media hype, doesn’t she. Soon to realise she is just another useful idiot of the London Tory Establishment.

Time to sit down, Roothie-babes – before you are sent flat on your arse on 9th June.

link to caltonjock.com

She obviously believes all her own lies – and unfortunately no one is prepared to call her out on the many lies she has told during this campaign. Programmes like bbc leaders debates and call kaye show without any doubt the bias of the bbc – used simply to ambush snp by using people who are not all they say they are.

I don’t know if kaye adams and sarah smith know what they are doing or if they are just tools of the bbc. More shame on them if they knowingly are complicit.They must have revisited the programmes they make – what do they think? Is it job done – made the snp look bad.

They bring reporters the general public and the bbc into disrepute – and the bbc knows exactly what it is doing talking about the splinter in the snp eye but ignoring the plank in their own eye.

I tend to take the Peffers view of these things – the more we see of her, the more we discover, and the worse it will be for her. Unlike those down south, who are so sadly disconnected from our reality (the very heart of the problem) they think Rude Gal is the Saviour of the Union and thereby can seriously produce neo-satirical dross like this.

As Breeks mentioned upthread in passing, this hagiovideography – like TV coverage in general – carefully omits the clip where she abasingly denigrates the Scots for some cheap laughs from English Tories. There’s a character flaw in her somewhere that one day will out.

Why is no one questioning Ruth Davidson, the Tory Queen of Scots,LOL, about the Tories track record?

The following list is taken from anotherangryvoice blogspot and I’m sure that we could add to it. Chunky Mark’s video is also well worth listening to.

‘Here are 40 things from the Tory record for you to judge.’

Spectacularly missed economic targets.

In 2010 the Tories promised to eliminate the deficit by 2015. In 2017 they’re still nowhere near eliminating it, and they’ve openly admitted that they won’t be doing it any time before 2021. Over 11 years to do what they promised to do in under 5, and more new public debt created in the process than every single Labour government in history combined? If that’s “strong economic management”, I’d hate to see what Tories would classify as chaotic, debt-soaring ineptitude.

Longest fall in value of wages since records began.

Under Tory rule British workers have suffered the longest sustained decline in the real value of their wages since records began. The fall is so bad that it’s the joint worst wage collapse in the developed world with Greece. The difference of course is that Greece did that to their workers because they were forced to by the Troika, the Tories did that to British workers because they wanted to.

The austerity con.

After such spectacularly missed targets and George Osborne’s departure from Westminster politics it’s amazing that millions still believe in his austerity con, but Theresa May is still parroting the same kind of economically illiterate justifications for a blatantly unjustifiable economic agenda. The evidence is now absolutely clear that austerity only succeeded in transferring wealth from the majority to the super rich minority at the expense of the real economy.

NHS cuts.

Between 2010 and 2015 the Tories slashed £20 billion off the NHS budget. Their current spending plans involve a further £22 billion in funding cuts between 2015 and 2020. Slashing the NHS budget, closing dozens of hospitals and other NHS facilities; reducing services; and laying off tens of thousands of staff would be bad enough in it’s own right, but at a time of rapidly increasing demand on NHS services it’s a recipe for disaster.

The productivity crisis.

The UK is suffering an extreme crisis in relative productivity. The UK lags 35% behind Germany and 30% behind the US. This means that the average UK worker has to work an hour to achieve the same economic output as a German can manage in 39 minutes. The problem is getting worse and worse, and it’s easy to understand why. Unhappy and exploited workers don’t work as hard as those who feel valued and well paid. Well educated workers are more effective workers than those who have suffered a poor education system. If the UK wants to resolve the productivity crisis it needs to improve wages and working conditions and invest in the education system. The Tories have been doing the polar opposite of that for seven years.

Systematic abuse of disabled people.

The amount of appalling schemes and degrading assessment regimes disabled people have to go through under this Tory government is absolutely shocking. There’s so much of it I’ve written a full article detailing over a dozen of the worst things.

Huge rise in child poverty.

Since 2010 the number of children growing up in poverty has risen by 400,000. The latest Tory cuts to the child welfare system and in-work benefits are set to plunge another 250,000 kids into lives of poverty.

Railway chaos.

As a result of the shambolic Tory privatisation of the railways the UK has the most expensive, most over-crowded and least reliable rail service of any comparable developed European nation. What’s more is that the profiteering private companies who operate the services take more in government subsidies than it cost to run the entire system under British Rail!

Corporations paying less tax than their employees.

Since 2010 the Tories have reduced the rate of corporation tax paid by the biggest multinationals from 28% to 20%. They plan to cut it even further to just 17% by 2020. This means that the UK has one of the lowest corporation tax rates in the developed world. The global average is 27% and the G7 average is 33.4%. Theresa May has threatened to reduce the corporation tax rate even further too. Labour would reverse the corporation tax cuts and bring the UK back into line with other advanced nations.

Most unaffordable homes ever.

Since 2010 the Tory government has overseen the lowest levels of housebuilding since the 1920s. When Theresa May was Home Secretary she increased demand on the nation’s housing stock by overseeing the biggest surges of net migration in UK history. This combination of weak supply, very high demand and collapsing wages has pushed house prices to their most unaffordable level ever.

NHS recruitment crisis.

One of Theresa May’s first acts as Prime Minister was to scrap NHS bursaries, which caused an astonishing 10,000 decline in applications for nursing courses. Add into the mix the fact that NHS staff from EU countries are quitting the NHS in record numbers and there’s a massive NHS recruitment crisis on the cards.

The school privatisation agenda.

An awful lot of people don’t seem to have even noticed that the Tories have been privatising thousands of state owned schools, property and all, for free, into the hands of private sector pseudo-charities, many of which are owned by major Tory party donors (like Philip “Carpetright” Harris, Alan Lewis and John Nash). Read this article about the scandalous Perry Beeches academy chain to get an idea of the seriousness of this Tory vandalism of our education system.

Rip-off tuition fees.

With the assistance of their lying Lib-Dem sidekicks the Tories introduced £9,000 per year tuition fees for university students, meaning English students now face the highest fees in the world for study at public universities. The fees are so high that 2/3 of graduates will never be able to pay off their student debts, despite paying a 9% aspiration tax on their disposable incomes for their entire working lives.

Huge rise in Food bank dependency.

The Tories have seen a huge rise in food bank dependency since 2010. Over a million food parcels were handed out by the Trussell Trust last year, and they’re just one of the food bank organisations. New research has shown that areas that have suffered the rollout of the Tories’ hopelessly botched Universal Credit scheme have significantly higher rates of food bank dependency than areas where it hasn’t been rolled out yet.

Unqualified teachers.

In 2010 the Tories changed the rules and scrapped the requirement that teachers actually be qualified to do the job. Since then the education system has been flooded with ever more unqualified teachers, rising to 22,500 by 2015. It’s worth remembering that the education secretary who brought in the policy of flooding our schools with unqualified teachers was Michael Gove, you know, the guy who claimed that the UK has “had enough of experts” during the EU referendum campaign.

Secret courts.

In 2013 the Tories (in coalition with the so-called Liberal Democrats) introduced a new law to create secret courts in which a person can have their fate decided in a courtroom they are not allowed to enter, on charges they are not allowed to know, based on evidence they are not allowed to see. In secret courts even the person’s lawyer is barred from entering the courtroom or seeing the evidence. These shocking secrecy rules don’t just apply to criminal courts or terrorism related offences, they can be used in civil cases too! Theresa May was the Home Office minister responsible for this attack on the concept of open justice.

Privatisation.

Since coming to power in 2010 the Tories have been privatising public assets at a faster rate than any government in UK history (even Thatcher). Many of their privatisation scams have been completely senseless and resulted in vast rip-offs for the British public; they sold Royal Mail off at over £1 billion below its real market value; they sold off the publicly owned banks at massive losses to the taxpayer; they’ve carved up and given away £billions worth of NHS services; they gave away thousands of publicly owned school properties, for free, to unaccountable private pseudo-charities; they’ve sold off the student loan books at a loss; and they sold off the UK government’s stake in Eurostar for a tiny fraction of what it cost us to set it up.

Foreign ownership of British rail franchises.

One of the most ridiculous things about the Tory privatisation ideology is that the only country that is barred from bidding for UK rail franchises is … err … the UK! Vast swathes of our rail system are now operated by foreign governments like Germany, France, the Netherlands, Singapore and Hong Kong. These foreign governments then extract their taxpayer-subsidised profits back to their own countries to be used to improve their own rail systems. The Netherlands state rail operator Abellio now operates so many train services here that their UK network is two and a half times the size of the entire Netherlands state railway!

Social care crisis.

The Tories have slashed £4.6 billion from the social care budget at a time of rising demand due to the UK’s ageing population demographics. This social care funding crisis has coincided with the biggest increase in the death rate since the 1960s, and is putting an immense amount of pressure on already overstretched NHS services and unpaid carers.

Tax-dodgers winning government contracts.

The Tories have brought giant outsourcing corporations in to do all kinds of government functions. Huge numbers of these corporate leeches are now having their contracts renewed automatically with no cost-benefit analysis and no competitive tendering process. The Labour Party have proposed a new law to ban outsourcing companies from receiving government contracts if they’re based in tax havens. The Tories are quite happy to continue using taxpayers’ cash to pay tax-dodging corporate outsourcing companies to do the work the government should be doing itself.

Filibustering.

Filibustering is an incredibly cynical strategy politicians use to block proposed legislation by talking and talking until the debate runs out of time. Some of the proposed laws that have been derailed by Tory MPs deliberately blabbering on for hours to run the clock down include first aid lessons for school children, free hospital parking for carers, cheaper off-patent drugs for the NHS, and a bill to prevent revenge evictions by landlords who have been asked to maintain their properties. Several of these bills had cross-party support, but were deliberately wrecked by a handful of hard-right Tories like Philip Davies, Andrew Rosindell, Sam Gyimah, Alistair Burt and Cristopher Chope.

Fire service cuts.

Between 2010 and 2015 the Tories slashed 30% off the fire service budget resulting in the loss of 10,000 firefighter jobs and the closure of 39 fire stations. Between 2015 and 2020 they intend to slash another 20%. In 2015/16 the number of fire deaths increased by 17.4%.

Prisons chaos.

Violence, riots, widespread drug use, escapes, chronic understaffing and soaring suicide rates. The UK prison system is in chaos. One of the worst prisons of all is HMP Northumberland that was privatised by the Tories in 2014. It’s supposed to be a training prison to give prisoners jobs skills so they’re less likely to return to crime. At HMP Northumberland a private contractor Novus was giving prisoners pictures of Peppa Pig to colour in as their employability training, all at the taxpayers’ expense of course.

Unfair dismissal fees.

In 2013 the Tory led government introduced £1,200 fees in order for employees to seek unfair dismissal compensation from their employers. So now if your boss sacks you unfairly (for your age, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, political orientation, trade union activities, or refusal to suck his cock) you have to find over a grand in order to go to an employment tribunal. The Tory presumption of course being that your boss is a great guy and all of his employees are worthless scum, and the fewer people who take him to tribunal the better. The person who came up with these fees is a major Tory party donor called Adrian Beecroft who also runs the payday loan company Wonga (which would obviously benefit from a significant increase in the number of people being unfairly dismissed and priced out of seeking compensation). Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to remove this economic barrier to justice by scrapping employment tribunal fees.

Police cuts.

Between 2010 and 2015 the Tories axed 34,000 police jobs. Between 2015 and 2020 they intend to axe tens of thousands more. The police have managed to juke the statistics by non-recording vast numbers of reported crimes, but the impact of these police cuts can’t be hidden off the violent crime statistics, which have increased by 96% between 2012 and 2016.

Flood defence spending.

Of all of the Tory cuts their decision to slash the flood defence spending budget is one of the most stupid. For each £1 spent on flood defence spending the nation saves £8 in avoided damage and disruption. Several of the areas that had their flood defence schemes cancelled in 2010-11 ended up suffering severe flooding. As a departing gift after resigning in disgrace David Cameron handed a DBE to Caroline Spelman who was the Tory politician who oversaw this ideologically driven lunacy!

Adult education.

Adult education colleges had their budgets slashed by 24% between 2010 and 2015. The vocational training budget was slashed even more, by 40%. Over a million adult learning places have disappeared since 2010. It’s beyond obvious that re-educating adult workers is absolutely vital in the modern era where the concept of jobs for life has been all but eradicated. Any government intent on developing a modern high-tech economy would invest in adult education in order to provide workers with the skills retraining they need to move between jobs. The Tories have been doing the exact opposite.

Forced closure of NHS services.

During the 2010 General Election the Tories promised to stop the forced closure of NHS services. In 2012 the Tory government attempted to force the closure of Lewisham Hospital in South London. In 2014 the Tories introduced new legislation to make it much easier for them to force the closure of NHS services and facilities. Since 2015 the Tories have been working on a secret plan to shut down dozens of A&E departments, maternity wards, walk in centres and mental health facilities up and down the country.

Sweetheart tax deals.

One of the sickest things about the Tory government is the way they allowed HMRC to draw up sweetheart tax deals with massive corporations like Google, Starbucks and Vodafone. Why should Google get to negotiate a 3% tax deal when ordinary working people have to pay what they actually owe?

Democracy under threat.

The proposed Tory Great Repeal Bill is an astounding assault on the concept of democracy and accountability. If this bill passes it will give Tory government ministers the ability to rewrite tens of thousands of UK laws with no parliamentary scrutiny. If people supported Brexit because the EU is too undemocratic, it would take an astounding display of doublethink them to now be supporting Theresa May and the biggest anti-democratic assault on the UK in history that they’re planning.

The Snoopers’ Charter.

Theresa May’s Snoopers’ Charter is the most extreme state surveillance law ever introduced in a developed nation. It allows over 20,000 government employees to trawl through the private communication data of innocent people (including loads of non-terrorism related organisations like the Food Standards Agency, the Health and Safety Executive and the Gambling Commission). It also allows the state to tell lies in court in order to secure convictions.

Dictators and despots.

Theresa May and the Tories love sucking up to dictators and despots like the Islamist tyrants in Saudi Arabia and the Turkish autocrat Recep Erdo?an. The disgraced Liam Fox was even in the Philippines to suck up to the brutal dictator Rodrigo Duterte and talk up our “shared values”.

In-Work benefit cuts.

The majority of people receiving non-pension benefits in Tory Britain are the working poor, not the unemployed. When the Tories slash things like housing benefit and tax credits, what they’re actually doing is further impoverishing the working poor. Incredibly they have repeatedly introduced new welfare cuts to make working families poorer whilst simultaneously spouting the Orwellian propaganda that they’re “making work pay” as they do it!

The trade deficit.

The UK is suffering a massive problem with trade deficits. This means the UK imports far more than it exports. The problem has been going on for a long time, but since 2010 the problem has been getting a lot worse, with the record being smashed over and again. In the month of the Brexit referendum the trade deficit in goods swelled to an astonishing £12.5 billion, the highest ever recorded. The UK’s terrible balance of payments deficit is offset a bit by financial services export and vehicle exports, but a Tory hard Brexit would throw a massive spanner in the works, especially if they go for the “no deal” cliff edge strop Theresa May has been threatening.

Contempt for human rights.

Theresa May has a burning contempt for your human rights. She has expressed her determination to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights on many occasions, and join Belarus as the only European nation that doesn’t adhere to the human rights legislation that was bestowed on Europe by the British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee.

Mental health funding cuts.

The Tories love talking up how much they care about mental health conditions, but their actual track record is disgraceful. Between 2010 and 2015 they slashed £600 million from mental health services. They’re still slashing away now. In fact they even advised the corporate outsourcing companies carrying out their disability assessments to actively discriminate against disabled people.

Taxpayer subsidised malice.

One of the worst things about the Tory government is the fact that several of their malicious anti-welfare schemes actually cost more to administer in corporate outsourcing fees than they will ever save in reduced benefits payments. The Work Capacity Assessment regime for sick and disabled people and their draconian sanctions system are both examples of socially ruinous schemes that actually cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds to operate.

Rising inequality.

While UK workers suffered the worst collapse in the value of their wages on record the tiny super rich minority literally doubled their wealth. There is an abundance of evidence showing that the more unequal a society is the less economically prosperous it is, and the unhappier the people are. Take from the poor to give to the rich, that’s always been the Tory agenda. The worst thing is that these malicious reverse Robin Hoods even had the gall to tell us “we’re all in this together” as they were deliberately rigging society even more in favour of the tiny super-rich minority than it already was!

Armed services cuts.

Between 2010 and 2015 the Tories slashed over 33,000 jobs in the armed services. The army has been pared back to its smallest size since the Napoleonic War! Meanwhile the Tories have been blasting money like it’s going out of fashion on aircraft carriers with no aircraft, paying 40 Admirals and 260 Captains when we’ve only got 19 warships, and the 205 billion renewal of Britain’s privatised supply of weapons of mass destruction.

Biggest education funding cuts in decades.

The Tories are planning the biggest education funding cuts in decades. Follow this link to find out how much they’re planning to slash from the budget of your local school.

The Hinkley Point C scandal.

The Hinkley Point C deal is one of the most scandalous affairs in UK political history. The Tories have agreed to bribe the French and Chinese into building us a nuclear power station by promising to use taxpayers’ cash to pay them double the market rate for electricity for 35 years, then cover the cleanup cost at the taxpayers’ expense too. The reason we have to bribe foreign governments into building our nuclear infrastructure for us is that the Tories privatised the UK’s nuclear expertise in the 1990s, and the private company was then allowed to be purchased by the French government.

And another thing just in case you’re not convinced by the 40 (carefully sourced) things I’ve listed here, listen to Mark McGowan’s reaction when Theresa May used this “judge us on our record” line earlier in the election campaign:

Chunky Mark: ‘Theresa May announcing GE17 asked “Judge us on our record” I give it a go.

link to youtube.com

link to anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk

Folks – can I make a couple of pleas to SNP members who read this site.

1. We need as many SNP supporters as possible to vote on Thursday. Please help get out our vote by volunteering to knock doors of supporters on election day or – better and easier – telephoning our supporters and making sure they’ve voted. It’s our own supporters so you won’t get abuse back down the phone and it’s crucial we maximise our vote; every lost seat will be read by the media as a blow to independence.

It’s really simple to do. Just go to the pollingday site that SNP central bods will have e-mailed you. If you’ve lost the link or never had it, call up the central team and they’ll sort you out. It can be a little tricky to log on the first time so please sort it out today so you’re ready to go on Thursday.

2. Think about where your help is most needed. If you’re in a safe SNP seat don’t waste time getting the majority there up by a couple of % points; use the tool to call supporters in tricky areas such as the Borders, Dumfriesshire, East Dunbartonshire, Perthshire, Moray, East Renfrewshire, etc. as your time is better spent there than Dundee, Falkirk, Livingston, Western Isles (Na h-Eileanan nan Iar) etc. or at the very least split your time between your own constituency and a more tricky one.

The difference between getting 65% of our supporters to vote and 85% of our supporters to vote is massive. And massively important. Help out please (from the comfort of your own home drinking tea and eating biscuits).

According to all the opinion polls and in light of the latest terrorist disasters and policy screw ups the Tories are in something of a free fall down south. Most authoratitive estimates put them around 26 short of a majority. If you include DUP they would still be short of a majority.

What an election this is. From total domination to total collapse through policies you enacted years ago . Let it happen.

Strong and stable ? Not a snowballs chance in hell.

crazycat

Can you imagine the Telegraph’s ire if Corbyn told May to sit down and shut up? They would probably be looking for him to be locked in the Tower for treason. 🙂

One rule for them another for everybody else.

Hubris, meet Nemesis.

So where’s this cesspit of scum gathering now-May and Ruth the mooth.

Disgusting piece of work that Mooth

Tony Little says:
5 June, 2017 at 1:00 pm
@galamcennalath

“You could be right – certainly on the reigning in from London.
She seemed to be ploughing her own furrow and creating some small but real differences in approach at least, between London and Scotland, but then she was brought to heel….”

I don’t think she’s been brought to heel by London. I think London still believe she is the Tory Messiah. But I do wonder whether Ruth Davidson has had a personal epiphany and realised what fool she is making of herself.

She reminds me of a street performer milking cheers from the crowd with her wonderful dancing bear, but who wakes up one day and suddenly understands the misery, degradation and humiliation it has cost the bear. Its teeth and claws pulled out, a chain in its nose, its fur is falling out in clumps and there’s a kill me now broken heart in its eyes. It will dance if it must, but it dreams of freedom.

Scotland is simply Ruth Davidson’s dancing bear; a meal ticket for as long as her conscience can stand it.

Davidson being unnecessarily angry in Edinburgh on the BBC again.
Delivering her usual meaningless rhetoric and mince in her Butch aggressive pompous style we’ve all come to know and love.
And once again its followed by weak and wobbly May delivering yet another meaningless soundbite filled rhetorical rant about nothing worthwhile or significant.
Still hasn’t found anything positive or worthwhile to say about her own intentions policies or ideology so continues to fill her meaningless rants with negative attacks on her opponents.
Surrounded as usual with a bussed up selection of party activists from everywhere but Scotland.
What a travesty it would be if Tory MPS get elected in Scotland because some braindead labour Lib Dem voters decide to be tactical and vote against the SNP instead of for their own party position.

It’s twue, It’s twue I tell you. It must be twue, it’s in Wiki.
link to disney.wikia.com
See! I told you it was twue.
Other names
Rooth the Mooth/Tank Girl (by Wingers)

A fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant (by Alice)

Personality (by anyone with a shred of decency & intelligence)

Mad, cruel, loud, rude, mean, greedy, powerful, impatient, tyrannical, oppressive, spoiled, immature, argumentative, hot-tempered, angry, violent, explosive, pompous, bossy, intimidating, psychotic, irrational, impulsive: And lot’s of other nice things!

Effijy says: “Anyone have the number of a good guillotine sharpener? lol”

Will an Axe suffice Effijy?

Petra: @ 1.33pm, Loved the Book, I like true stories. 🙂

Peace Always

Petra thanks for the post a bit long , but dismal from start to finish , and something the MSM won’t go near its that embarrassing .

Ruth Davidson. The reincarnation of Ted Heath or Judge Death personified? YOU decide.

Voting Tory would be the biggest error any Scot could make.

The Tory doesn’t represent the interests of Scotland’s electorate, nor do they represent the peoples of the UK at large. They represent the interests and ideology of a very narrow yet powerful demographic, pretty much end of. They represent their own interests above all else.

They own to no loyalty of service, or duty of care to the people. They do however, demand that the people owe them. They use the loyalties and affiliations of others to suit their own needs. It’s who they are and what they do.

They are users and abusers of trust. Misplaced trust. Their policies are for the benefit fortunate few in society.

Voting Conservative places people in harms way. It’s just that simple. To vote Conservative is to vote for policy and ideology which will spread misery from Land’s End to John O Groats and most people can’t be in much doubt of that today.

If people don’t like the idea of Indy, then simply vote NO in any referendum, but dear God do not allow the Tories to destroy our lives, our rights, our politics and our democracy.

You really, REALLY don’t want to wake up in that kind of country.

Has anyone found out yet if David Mundell is Ruth Davidson’s candidate in his constituency or does he have a special dispensation to be his own man?

On the subject of police numbers which seems to be featuring prominently in the aftermath of the London Bridge incident it is worth niting that Scotland is the only part of the UK where police numbers are increasing. from the House of Commons Library on the subject of police numbers. The data is in a briefing paper from the House of Commons Library but for some reason I cannot copy the link.

Also the Scottish Government gave additional money to Police Scotland after the Paris attacks so that they could train more firearms police officers.

If the ruth party dont get a majority in scotland on thursday she has miserably failed , now for our sanity can she be securely held in a place of safety ,the BBC should fit the bill that big shed on the banks of the clyde should be big enough to hold even her ,

Robert Graham says:

If the ruth party dont get a majority in scotland on thursday she has miserably failed

Our problem will be – the loyal Unionist media will frame any Tory gain/SNP loss as a victory.

To counter this the SNP, which will almost certainly get a comfortable majority, need to cry out loudly that in FPTP that is what counts.

The Tories will not win in Scotland, and they may not win in the UK!

All politicians’ careers end in failure…

link to imgur.com

Holy cow.

link to archive.is

And you thought the Nicolas Cage remake of The Wicker Man was bad….

If May does not get a majority on Thursday, Ruth will become a sideshow with no one to turn to in power in London.

i would go further ,anyone voting tory in scotland should be sectioned and given an escort to the border,any border ,
Its a great pity we couldn’t reenact the passover with a slight difference all YES suportes will be supported by the scottish government , all the rest will have to endure tory austerity in full tough love works wonders .
I know its daft but this whole election farce is getting to me .

galamcennalath said on 5 June, 2017 at 2:58 pm
Robert Graham said:

“If the ruth party dont get a majority in scotland on thursday she has miserably failed

Our problem will be – the loyal Unionist media will frame any Tory gain/SNP loss as a victory…….”

Time for a Reality Check on who exactly owns the Printed Media in Scotland.
An article from Wings over Scotland in 2014:-

The Governors of Opinion.
“We’ve speculated on a few occasions recently on the effect on Scottish public opinion of almost the entire Scottish media being owned and controlled from outside Scotland.
So we thought it was time we actually put some facts and figures to it…….”

link to wingsoverscotland.com

Well as an avid member of the LGBT community I can honestly say an L doing kickboxing is a stereotype broken. ~Never have I heard the like.

That was bizarre.

Is the Telegraph taking the piss out of poor wee Ruth?

That was NOT attractive…

Vote for Alice Cooper.

He wants to be elected 😉

In addition, don’t you dislike it when they cut an excellent song short on the radio just to go to commercials.

Anyways, back to the article topic…

Scotland.

Further to my post @ 2.49 about police numbers here is the link
link to researchbriefings.parliament.uk

The link may have been posted on previous threads or on Twitter but thought it was worthwhile to post again.

As to Ms Davidson, I think there is one word for her and her foul mouth but I am not going to lower myself to her level, or lower the tone of WoS, by including it here.

Meg @ 3.30

EBC using the old Goebbels strategy, keep telling the lies,candidate they will become the truth. Garvey a disgrace, and I used to like her on 5 live too.

Stunned watching that so I was, it was hilarious as it was and just made RD look like a Narcissist.

She is so in love with herself and the photo-shoots and accompanying publicity that she believes all of it is true. I think she’s in for a rude awakening and will be silently weeping on Thursday night as all the hype starts to unravel.

There was a UK wide poll for the Mail on Sunday at the weekend by Survation and they published the tables this morning. The Scottish subsample has SNP on 44%, Tories 21% and labour up again at 28% hahaha for the smug Ruth.

A result like that would be a disaster for Ruthie and the Tories of course, OK I won’t get carried away just a subsample but perfectly in line with recent UK trends and it seems some voters who switched from Labour to Tory have had an eye opener over the state of this campaign by Theresa May and gone back again.

By the way the same poll showed only a 1% lead of Tory over Labour UK wide at 40% and 39% respectively.

Nicola Sturgeon should press home the fact at PMQs on Wed that only the Scottish Police Service are the only Police organisation to be subjected to VAT payment & demand repayment of the millions payed back, no better time in light of the Manchester & London terrorist attacks , as T May keeps saying Police in England are fully funded, more so as they dont pay VAT.

4.12pm Robert j sutherland. How in God’s name does a ‘supposedly ” snp voter who dislikes the eu,think that by voting tory they will ever get the chance post Brexit to vote for an indy Scotland. With tory/liebour rule in Scotland. Independence is dead and buried.

O/T

link to thecanary.co

Ok!……….who put the mushrooms in the Tory tea?

Mmmm, that opening shot of the jut of the chin, reminds me of il Duce. That and the rest of it doesn’t reflect very well on her at all….might make a corporal though.

mike d @ 17:13,

Indeed. But such was this case, apparently. Though one always has to be on the alert for Tory wind-ups as well.

With the benefit of time to think of a nifty response, I might have told the original self-proclaimed wayward voter “Are you making a desperate appeal for help or are you able to shoot yourself in the other foot unaided?”. =grin=

Smallaxe 5.13

Then I hope you have caught up with this.

Guaranteed to make you feel cleaner!

link to twitter.com

Thepnr:

I’m worried – my house must be marked out!!!

At the last two elections, i have returned all their propaganda back to head office without a stamp.

In the Council Elections, I used my Scale ruler to redraw their inaccurate bar graphs and sent that back with the words – STOP LYING and ‘Please remove my address from your database’.

This election, I’ve had NOTHING/NADA – mind you, do have three big’ VOTE SNP’ posters on my windows.
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Just hearing a report on the 6pm news about a Romanian baker who personally attacked one of the London terrorists with a milk crate and locked several people in his bakery to protect them from harm.

Yeah! Immigrants are such terrible people aren’t they?
Let’s get them out of the UK as soon as possible…

FFS people are people- stab them and their blood is the same colour!
How have we got into this mess?

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Let’s hope NTS tenants are also being told to remove any vote Labour/Tory or Lib/Dem etc. posters as well.
Know your place Scotland and take your cap off in the presence of a higher class…

Peter McCulloch @ 14:46:
mike d @ 17:13,

I mean, it’s not as if any “SNP voter” can’t be aware of what the Scottish Gloriana is promising in this election, because it’s the only think she drones on and on endlessly about: “no to independence”. Duh.

If you vote Tory in Scotland, that’s what you’re supporting. Oh, and that applies no less to the raggedy LibLab chorus as well. You can hardly claim afterwards that you didn’t realise that.

So everybody, make sure to take a short timeout sometime on Thursday to make sure that for Yoonionism it’s still going to be a big fat FAIL.

mike cassidy:

Thank’s, for that Mike, it fairly cheered me up, now I just have to locate a HAZ MAT bin to dispose of this political porn.
🙂

Peace Always my Friend

They mis-heard at The Telegraph office. Their man in North Britain actually said ‘Queen of Clots’.

Good god…labour party broadcast.
………..

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

“SNP BAD”…Nicola Sturgeons answer..another referendum”

Vote labour.
……………….

1. Most of the SNP BAD stuff was devolved issues.

2. Not one mention of what labour would do sort it.

3. At least Nicola Sturgeon HAS an answer…!!

Dire dire stuff.

O/T The latest Labour Party Political Broadcast “Nicola Sturgeon’s answer to everything is have another referendum.She is obsessed” demonstrates that Labour is having a breakdown.

They could have picked so many ways to attack the arrogant toxic Tories but no,they are manically obsessed with the SNP . Labour’s self destruction is pitiful.

I think there may very well be a deliberate attempt to ignore the fact that QE2 is Queen of England and Queen of Scots amongst her other titles. Never mind that she must at a minimum be both equally. Remember her official coat of arms on her car at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow was that of Queen of Scots. If it wasn’t for the lack of intelligence in that article you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a deliberate insult to the dignity Scotland’s monarch.

To all those Scottish unionists intending to vote Tory on Thursday I say please please do NOT try and blame the SNP when the shit hits the fan post Brexit. The consequences of YOUR vote is entirely down to YOU and others like YOU in the rest of the UK….vote Tory get hard Brexit AND all of the negative economic consequences that will surely entail.

Enjoy by all means all of the the benefits YOU currently have living in Scotland because of the SNP Scottish government but do NOT condemn the Scottish government by suggesting they should mitigate the cruel policies imposed by the party YOU decided to vote for in the general election.

Indeed If YOU do vote Tory on Thursday in GE then YOU should be asking, nay demanding, the Scottish government stops mitigating and ALLOWS all of these Tory policies to fully impact Scotland, so that YOU are indeed on par with the rest of YOUR beloved union, because these are the very policies YOU voted for in the GE to maintain YOUR beloved union….so why not fully share some of the hardships….as endured by the rest of YOUR beloved union.

To the fisherman I say if YOU vote Tory then accept whatever deal is made with the EU…even to YOUR detriment as YOU have chosen to vote Tory thus it is YOU who should accept the consequences. It is YOU who thought Brexit would be be the answers to all of YOUR problems. Do NOT then look to the Scottish government to act on YOUR behalf as YOU must be accountable and also accepting of any agreed deal made in Brexit negotiations in relation to fishing rights , as negotiated by YOUR chosen political party and YOUR decision to vote for BREXIT.

For every Scottish Tory that is elected on Thursday there will be one less voice for Scotland and it’s people…. and now more than ever, because Now is the Time, that we need more voices speaking up for Scotland and not just another Tory rubber stamping cruel and ill thought out Tory policies and also supporting and encouraging more powers to EVEL and less to the devolved parliaments.

Vote SNP on Thursday because this IS the TIME to be heard and the TIME to show your love for , support of and faith in your country…to any undecided lurkers on this site please please do NOT waste your vote….if you are thinking of voting SNP but are unsure then please believe ……NOW really IS THE TIME to vote SNP.

For her to be Queen of Scots, Scotland would have to be Independent and retake our Monarchy.

Would Queen Ruth be too high a price to pay for Indy …

Jesus, it felt like that eyesore of a video was on for much longer than it was.

All I can say is: that is the most cringeworthy thing I have ever seen. What a total embarrassment. The woman gives me the creeps.

Still, was a good laugh watching this dafty act like a right fanny. Always showing herself up in some way.

“Could this be CURTAINS for Ruth”? Says James Kelly

New blow for the Scottish Tories as Kantar/TNS poll puts SNP 15% ahead

link to scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk

O/T,
Not posted for over a week. Was over on Islay for Whisky Festival. Lots of Saltires and SNP election posters on the Island. Thursday I was on Jura for the Distillery Open Day. Part was a bus trip treasure hunt with about a dozen folk. Conversation turned to 1984 and George Orwell. Someone mentioned the Ministry of Truth. I responded instantly with. “Yes the BBC”,
The man across from me said he was senior in Office of National Statistics and they did a good job as statisticians but politicians “spun the figures to suite their agenda” Sad.

On the return trip to Islay the fast ferry slowed almost to stop and I saw a Sea Eagle in flight.
Magnificent avian!

Let’s hope that was a good omen for our Country.

Good grief! I think the Guardian just came out, albeit grudgingly, for the SNP in Scotland and advised Labour voters to back us in Tory areas of strength.

They want the Tories blocked every way possible.

Slightly o/t Let’s hope when the new fourth crossing opens every single display of the Union , be it flags banners, dignitaries , anything that refers to the Union is removed and not on display within ten miles of the bridge, it ain’t their f/in bridge Labour- a vanity project- Tory couldn’t give a toss- greens the sky will fall- Libdems who gives a f/k what they think , I wonder if that’s the destination of Trumps big flag ? . Oh what a sight, that flag can be seen from Edinburgh .
Aye I know every post is getting more bloody stupid, I blame this election, Agggggggggggg.