Wings Over Scotland

It’s the season for it I’m afraid to say: Trump, Erdogan, now May. 🙁

God help us all indeed.

If it is correct, then the very fact that it seems reasonable to ask such a question demonstrates of backward we’ve become and how low our politics has become.

Great British fascism. Be afraid.

Yes, I’ve seen that question. I was genuinely shocked to even see it being asked. My hope is that people didn’t agree.

Monarchy is also a good fit.

And who would want to ask such a question?

Aye, really, REALLY frightening. Who sponsored the survey. Would be interesting to know where the “selected” areas are.

O/T
“When we do news reports we are not allowed to influence them apparently” The other day I was listening to John Beattie and nearly spilt my coffee when I heard this in response to John quipping “Anne Marie and I are down to the bookies soon” then asks Nick Eardley “Who do you reckon will be back?”. Nick replies “Who do YOU reckon? …we’re not allowed to gamble on stuff…”, followed by the above at 1:10:40 into the programme. I thought this just so slightly ironic as the previous article (0:50:00) had been talking about fake news with “The Ferret”! (link to bbc.co.uk was broadcast midday last Wednesday)

My God, has it really come to this, that they would even think to ask such a question. This is outrageous, what the hell do folk think parliament is for, mind you, the answer to that these days is just what the tories want. This is an extremely worrying turn of events.

I agree with Juteman @ 5.39.

I’m more interested in the answer than the question. I can’t imagine it being higher than 20% positive, but people are nuts. Also any insight on who commissioned this poll?

I am sure most tories here,would welcome Gauleiter Davidson rolling down the Royal Mile in her panzer.

@birnie.
I hadn’t thought of that.
The Signals are too close to sensitive online information for a politician to be involved.

I was asked this

Yes, I had this poll a day or two ago. Scunnered that they are asking such questions. Rest assured I answered appropriately. Meanwhile May “visits” Scotland to a wee hall, audience by invitation only. Democracy in action. We need out of this embarrassment of a union.

I responded to the survey, Scottish Highland area, it was a particularly long one, needless to say my response was to strongly disagree. There was also a rather nasty question about race.

Birnie at 5.48pm

Birnie, Honorary Colonels are, if I remember correctly, appointed for a five year term at the discretion of the Commanding Officer of the unit, with the agreement of the individual appointed and the military command structure. I believe Ruth Davidson served in 32 Sig Regt as a soldier in the past. Honorary Colonels are just that, honorary appointments, and play no role in the operational command of the unit. Yes, they tend to be “establishment” figures but there is really nothing sinister about it, just the following of an old fashioned establishment tradition. A long time ago George Younger was the Honorary Colonel of a TA unit I served in but, if I remember correctly, he relinquished the appointment when he became SofS for Scotland.

Come to think of it, that survey also asked if I was registered to vote and to confirm my postcode.

I’m not generally one for paranoia, but I might be willing to make an exception.

People better waken up. They don’t have to look far to see that already we are on the road to a right wing dictatorship. I don’t believe I’m exaggerating in any way.

Just look at how the disabled are being treated with benefit cuts, just look at people, our own people relying on foodbanks to feed their children at times.

The title of this article is spot on “This is how it begins”.

A fucking disgrace it is and it makes me fell ashamed even though I could never vote for this. I’m ashamed that others can, that our media encourage them and that there seems to be no recourse.

ARE THESE FUCKERS THAT VOTE FOR THIS TOTALLY BLIND & STUPID?

There used to be the vacuous ‘what we need is a benign dictatorships”, amused chittering from the chattering class.

If it happened, as is possible with the UK isolated from Europe, the same class would shitting themselves and chattering, ‘How did it happen?’

Well it happened because so many spent so much time chatting and reading the Guardian,s, and even other broadsheet and thought their reading was the same as doing.

We still have a chance, though when it comes down to it, the UK Gov may arrest leaders. Problem is the ones in the left and the Labour party were the ones who spent most time chatting, and the ones in the Slab party are too dim or blind to see it coming.

on the bbc website we have a short clip of what they present as mayhems visit to scotland , who knows it could be anywhere , we are presented with 19 heads too of them children , the ones at the back holding the usual placards all men and all nodding obediently in unison to her squeaky voice , all the other faces , not one smile just looking straight ahead as if waiting on instructions , a more contrived stage managed piece of theatre i have yet to see , contrast that with Nicolas always light hearted off the cuff visits it couldnt be more stark the differences between them .

Juteman says:

If we don’t escape soon, we are fucked.

Campaign slogan for Yes2?

Too strong for some sensibilities? Well, they bloody well need to wake up and realise the seriousness of the situation. England and Wales are headed for a very bad place and we don’t want to be dragged there with them.

The fact that YouGov accepted the commission to run the poll in the first place surely says something about how low that organisation has sunk.

This is the same type of shite that Bowie was coming out with when he was living on nothing but raw eggs, cigarettes and cocaine.

@ Gullane No4 – there used to be an Institute of Terrestrial Ecology near Banchory – now closed down – with scientists from all over the world, including England. I believe they started up the Morris dancing sessions originally. But many local people also joined it and it seems to be a popular activity especially for men.

Morris dancing used to be very popular in Scotland although now associated with England. Seems to have been imported via Flemish immigrants many of whom settled in Scotland bringing weaving skills.
link to en.wikipedia.org

Calm down, guys! Yougov asks a wide range of questions, sometimes ridiculous ones. It doesn’t mean they think it’s a reasonable question, but there will always be a few who agree.

Capella @ 6.56pm

So, Morris Dancing is a European import. Pass this news on to Conservative Central Office – it will blow their tiny minds.

Here’s a BBC clip of Morris dancing in Banchory in the very hall in which Big Theresa addressed the faithful today:

link to bbc.co.uk

Enjoy

Socrates MacSporran says:

Morris Dancing is a European import. Pass this news on to Conservative Central Office – it will blow their tiny minds.

Aye, and they need to consider that fascism is an import from Europe too 🙂

link to en.m.wikipedia.org

@ Socrates MacSporran – indeed. These foreigners, coming here with their dancing. Why can’t everybody just clomp around randomly. Like we used to.

Morris dancing is only practised by wealth old men who have retired to Royal haha Deeside, no one else.

Royal Deeside’s long been a retirement area for wealthy tories, in the Empire era, even more so. As that empire gen died out, they left a legacy of fine ex colonial estates and mansions that were cheap as chips in the 70’s and 80’s. Ofcourse they have all been bought, jumped in astronomic price and the estates have been infilled with executive villas, for wealthy retirees, get rich quick style.

And all of them at the tory thing today in Crathes, will be all of the above and below.

Facebook,

Exposing anti-independence bias on the BBC. shared Henderson Farquarson-Smythe’s post.

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Theresa May turned up to speak to the people of Scotland, for propaganda and close up shots to make it appear as if she is loved and adored.

The Truth is even more bizarre than her claims of popularity in Scotland. Where did she choose to make this statement? Well she booked Crathes Village Hall under the disguise of a childrens party, to avoid having to meet or answer any questions from the public. (For info Crathes Village has a population of 143 people, is 117 miles north of Edinburgh and 136 miles distant from Glasgow.)

The children’s party was for invited guests only, no villagers or members of the public, with only press there that would look favourable on the Tory Party, No local press allowed.

Now the question is do you believe Mays propaganda about being strong and stable and popular in Scotland? Or do stunts like this child’s birthday Party booking strike you as weak and wobbly in Leadership?
The Tories are just manufacturing propaganda and staged events to be spoon fed to you on the Evening News on BBC & ITV.

All of them would love to live in strong stable fascist UK, maybe.

Have nightmares.

in 1932 Hitler won over the industrialists, the merchants, the Bankers and the Intellectuals by setting out a vision of low taxes for the haves, smashing the Trade Unions, and marginalising/persecuting the Jews, Communists, and Socialists. He promised that he would provide strong and stable leadership too.
I am not worried. May’s the one who cowered in a wee hall in Banchory, despite the Loyal BBC describing it as ‘taking to the campaign trail to Scotland.’
Back in Hitler’s day,they didn’t have the internet, or WoS, WGD, Peat Worrier, Derek Bateman, and so many more Sentinels of the Truth.
But they seem to be following the 1930’s propaganda model, right enough.
They are worried shitless: a telegram will surely land on the Foreign Office desk soon: ‘Scotland has Fallen.’
All together now,
Ho ro,my nut brown maiden.’ jingle jingle, prance dance.

Actually, Banchory has a strong SNP group with an SNP councillor and MP. They will be campaigning enthusiastically to return SNP councillors in May and Stuart Donaldson SNP MP in June.

Davidson says.

Ms Davidson said she will be looking to win all 59 seats in Scotland by the time the election comes round because she gets “so into the campaigns”. I bet this will come back and bite her on the a*** not by me though no postal votes to see yet Tank.

The root trouble is a lack of relevant information and a lack of critical thinking.

Whenever you get a population that crosses a certain average level of stupid you get the potential for anything.

Britain crossed it a while ago.

My god, I have to say, these are truly scary times. Is England sleepwalking into totalitarian rule?

Day after day, we hear Tories talking of a ‘great repeal bill’, which will undo human rights legislation among other things, and nobody seems to bat an eyelid. They talk also of giving Theresa May ‘Henry the Eighth powers’. I mean seriously, that is absolute totalitarianism. Henry the eighth was an evil murdering despot

Post brexit, I think England will be a vary scary place.

Meanwhile in the nonsense general election, I do wish the media would stop covering these farcical ‘event’s’ by the Tory party. What is the point? No questions are asked or answered, it is just a ‘pretend’ campaign.

The media right across the UK, is really, really letting people down. They are all so obediently ‘doing what the party minders tell them’, so no questions get asked. It is an utter joke. It is exactly the kind of nonsense we saw in the EU referendum.

The media across the UK need to wake up and ask just what it is they do, and why do they even exist.

I can confirm , that this was indeed a genuine question that was asked . I do these surveys regularly .

I’m in Rutherglen and got this 2 days ago, amongst other questions and couldn’t believe it being asked. You-Gov know I’m pro-Indy and SNP, so I couldn’t quite work out who this was being aimed at.
Can’t believe how rapidly things are turning nasty and don’t understand the mindset of the yoons. I spend a lot of time trying to get people to look at sites like Wings, but sometimes despair at the level of wilful ignorance and the “I’m doing fine with the BBC and the Mail” responses.

It’s just a cut and paste job from Wiki, but it’s how the Spanish Civil war started…

“The Francoists took control of Spain through a comprehensive and methodical war of attrition (guerra de desgaste) which involved the imprisonment and executions of Spaniards found guilty of supporting the values promoted (at least in theory) by the Republic: regional autonomy, liberal or social democracy, free elections, and women’s rights, including the vote. The rightists considered these “enemy elements” to comprise an “anti-Spain” that was the product of Bolsheviks and a “Judeo-Masonic conspiracy”….

Beware Scotland, let us be watchful and prepared. We need to watch out for any attempt to shut down our parliament at Holyrood, before our politicians start being arrested.

I think the Rev is wrong for once; this ISN’T how it begins, we are an awful lot further down the line than just the beginning.

Ask yourself what actually happens if Nicola Sturgeon proceeds with an Independence Referendum which Theresa May forbids or declares unlawful? Theresa May don’t forget with Henry VIII’s absolute powers unrestrained by parliament. It might seem incredible to us that our First Minister might be arrested, our Parliament closed, and our rights to hold a referendum or political gatherings (like Yes rallies or protests outside the BBC), could be declared illegal. It might be unthinkable to us, and yet the Unionist Press has already called for Nicola to be beheaded for treason. Ridiculous headline? Or is it perhaps the mood down South?

Call me Mr Cynical, but what if Theresa May is thinking precisely that? Maybe not Plan A exactly, but perhaps a credible contingency if the UK becomes dangerously unstable. Nicola Sturgeon detained, and an interim administration under Ruth Davidson put in place. “Separatism” is declared illegal.

Makes you wonder, and wonder hard, what did ordinary German, Italian, or Spanish citizens in the 1930’s recognise as danger signals in their own respective slides towards Fascist dictatorships? Did they find the stories too incredible and unthinkable to take seriously???

I hope it is an overreaction which proves wholly unnecessary, but we really need the UN and EU to be taking a close interest in what is happening here, and laying down some heavy hints that Westminster does not start screwing with Scotland’s institutions and democracy.

Really makes you wonder doesn’t it? Don’t have nightmares now…

Who commissions these polls? That’s what I want to know.

This is scary shit indeed…useful data for whom and for what purpose? Regime change, anyone?

The Tories’ campaign has to be a stage managed pretence, to maintain the veneer of knowledge and the fiction of “British” democracy.The media is totally complicit and supplies the necessary narcotic of ignorance and delusion.

Theresa May is like a badly programmed robot… a prototype, perhaps, before the next one is spewed out from Westminster Central, a new and improved version which can pop up anywhere in the U.K. … Orwellian Newspeak writ large.

A quote from The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt:

” The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. ”

How bad does it have to get before Independence is declared?

We will all remember when it started, the Crathie Hall Rally. The banners were waving, they cheered in unison. One united people, one party, one leader.

Apologies, posted this at the tail end of the previous thread, but seems even more appropriate here:

Theresa May’s “justification” for avoiding a TV debate is that she “prefers to get out-and-about and meet voters”. Oh really? Given her typical invitation-only party-faithful little bubble that was today’s “children’s party” in Aberdeenshire, this is all too obviously a GREAT FAT LIE.

She daren’t meet real people in Scotland, since she would be confronted, and for all the media to see, by what most of us really think of her and her policies, in flat contradiction to all Rude Gal’s grossly-inflated posturing.

May is The Great Pretender:

Not strong – brittle.
Not stable – clueless and drifting.
Not resolute – feart.

Ah, the good old days. Up until the outbreak of World War Two, there were plenty of British aristocrats who supported the nazis. It’s always been there under the surface, hidden, but lately they are becoming bolder. I don’t think it’s wrong to be concerned.

Here’s hoping the SNP can get the vote out as the unionist cabal will be deeply involved in”lending votes” to their fellow unionists and we all know what they are all about after the pitch invasions and monkey chants from rabid unionists today!!

Breeks at 841pm,

You ask what people thought in other countries which slipped into dictatorship. They thought EXACTLY what people think here, ‘oh, that kind of thing couldn’t happen here in
(delete as applicable) Germany/Spain/Italy/Portugal/Turkey’.

Their is no upside to Brexit. Only dictatorship could push such an extreme, and extremely damaging policy through to conclusion.

We need a referendum on independence more than ever.

n.b for those unaware, ALL of the countries I listed above have experienced prolonged, aggressive dictatorships during the 20th century.

Portugal 1926-1974
Spain 1939-1975
Germany !934-1945 (east Germany (GDR) 1949 to 1989/1990.
Italy 1922-1943/45
Turkey – present day (Erdogan)

But hey, let’s keep deluding ourselves with ‘Oh, but it couldn’t happen here’. What we apparently need right now in the UK to pull the country together is ‘strong and stable leadership, with no opposition and those who oppose it are denounced as “saboteurs”.

Tke a look into the history of the countries above, and you will find that almost without exception, each and every dictator used EXACTLY the same rhetoric we now see coming from the Tory party in 2017. Almost word for word.

@ Ian Brotherhood 6.53

That would suggest that May is … The Thin White Plook?

Are those graphs from the Telegraph seriously not printing the party name ‘SNP’ in their voting intentions in Scotland instead denoting as ‘other’ and the country ‘Scotland’ is not mentioned in their graph depicting vote share across the UK?

WTF is happening with these crazy yoonbat nutjobs?

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Is the intended purposes of the poll to create a reaction from activists that would undermine Independence?

‘Strength through unity, unity through faith’

V for Vendetta (film version) wasn’t far off the mark.

This IS how it begins.

Great Repeal Bill – British Bill of Rights – Henry VIII clause enactment. Ministerial legislation without parliamentary oversight or debate.

Your rights, civil and human. What’re they worth under a Conservative government looking at a couple of decades dominance of Westminster parliament and politics?

More than a few of my customers seem up for this iron fist gig.

On me saying May wouldn’t pee on you if you were on fire,she replied ‘maybe that’s what the country needs’.

Another lady thought the Chinese doctor beaten up on the US plane deserved it.

Endless tales of single mum’s on £50000 p/a of benefits.

Mostly very comfortably off women.All No voters.

What a body has to endure to scrape a living 🙁

Mayhem is hardly ‘campaigning’ in Scotland, not when she’s on ‘Peston on Sunday’ tomorrow 10am STV.

I’ve had a look at his twitter and he’s looking for questions, I would ask him:

Is the reason you’re so keen to stop Scotland from leaving the fact that it’s their resources that you will be bargaining with? and:

Just how will more Tory MPs strengthen your hand in the negotiations – aren’t you just after more power in UK.

Pity I’m not on twitter.

RUN

P.S. Ach why not? Topical, me?

Uneasy Bedfellows: Alfred Russel Wallace and Nineteenth-century ‘Socialist Darwinism’

Abstract

This paper’s object is to clarify the relationship between Alfred Russel Wallace’s (1823-1913) socialism and evolutionism. This paper contends that although conflicts emerge between Wallace’s socialism and Darwinism through the issues of the role of Malthusianism, the perfectibility of man and the role of individualism, he remained committed to the Darwinian Theory. Indeed, it will argue that, rather than undermining his belief in Darwinism, Wallace’s socialism evolved within the new intellectual conditions created by the ‘Darwinian Revolution.’ This paper argues that intellectual exchange between political thought and science enriched both, and concludes that to erect any barrier between the two distorts the historical and intellectual reality.

link to www2.warwick.ac.uk

Key thing in the question though is “strong leader”, which May uses a lot, hundreds of times a second in fact. So that does make it possible if it’s published widely, it’s an attempt to turn people off May by associating her with facists and dictators in a solid way. Good luck!

@Breeks –

SNAP!

It’s astonishing.

‘Let’s hit the doors!’ says Ruth, whereupon they both march off into impenetrable swathes of forest…

Phew!…..I thought she said “I will give you a long and painful dictatorship”

Worth reading.

link to weegingerdug.wordpress.com

Trump got less votes than the opposition.
Erdogen – fraud? non stamped votes were allowed.

The Tories cheat and lie to illegally win a GE. Commit electoral frraud in 31 constituency. May lies and calls a GE to cover up. The EU Ref was illegal and a fraud. The Tories should not have a majority in Gov. The criminals should be put in jail.

There is morris dancing at 20.00pm on a Tuesday at Crathes Hall. Says it all. Could May and the Tory/unionists get any weirder? Osbourne sneaking in and out Aberdeen ruining the Oil & gas sector with unfair, unequal, high Tory taxes when the Oil price had fallen was bad enough.

Cameron’s poseur – action man – visit on the RAF jet and then the helicopter (£100m an hour) to Shell HQ Altens. Instead of a regular flight and a hired limo. Quite weird to destroy the Oil & Gas sector and get into such a mess. He had to resign. Did not declared £10Million? of property.

The local Tory not to be trusted in the family business. Too dim. Gets into politics to hoover up some Council contacts of public money. Gets the chance and overcharges consistently. Embezzling public money. Essential services were being cut by the 3rd rate rejects Tory dominated Council. They did not want to put up Council tax but wanted to cut essential services and education. Now going up a pittance for the well heeled. Borrows another £25Million to cover the downturn. Against the tax exempt land? Reckons the Oil sector should ‘stand alone’, with illegal, unfair higher Tory taxes. 40% since Jan 2016. Supports fracking. Is May looking for a donation? It has to be declared.

Scotland lost 120,000 jobs in the Oil & Gas sector There are 120,000 unemployed in Scotland. Scotland could have had full employment.

Multimillionaire Burnett reported for election expense fraud. Gets off. Reported three time for not declaring an interest in parliamentary questions. Inappropriate conduct. 3rd rate reject. Comes last in the vote but still gets in on the list. Ist preference votes go in the bin? The unionist corrupt electoral system. 2nd cousin to the Queen. Nearby estate Balmoral. The right Charlie is in residence. Hols. Ballater and Braemar love the Royals. They reckon they bring in tourists. The visitors line up at 11 am on a Sunday at Crathie’s Kirk, for a sight.

A Tory campaign in a wooden tin hut. Quite weird. Dumbing down or scared to meet and greet. The greeting faces of vacant coupons. Getting some advice? May’s husband the £Billion Fund manager. A nearby estate, Glen Esk, was once sold off by a Jupiter fund manager. Divorce. The Farquarson Estate (Mar?) Braemar Castle. The estate ended up in the hands of a London based cousin with no heirs. Eventually it was sold? Glamis not very far away down the Devils Elbow to Perth. At the Elections. SNP banners all the way down to Dundee. Only few Tory ones in the landowning fields.

Brexit will affect tourism. More complicated visas etc. It will put up the cost of fracked Gas from the US and Norwegian Gas. Now being imported. More Oil & Gas being imported putting up the balance of payment deficit and the debt. Foreign students no longer come because of visa problems.They pay the full cost and benefit the economy. The Tories let foreign students at Oxbridge, Imperial and Bath have a two years, work experience, post study visas. Not allowed by the Tories in Scotland. Scotland has been depopulated by Westminster centrist economic policies for years. Now people contributing to society are being illegally thrown out of Scotland. It is just scandalous.

What if Brexit negotiations means more free movement of people. An increase of migrant getting in for any access to markets etc. The Tories could end up paying more for less. Then propaganda etc setting that as the best deal. Would not put it past them. The price for crushing UKIP. They are that vindictive.

I have a theory – it applies to all cultures over time, but particularly in our modern world the USA, the Russians and the UK – the English in particular, in the latter case.

Put simply, it’s about never having been conquered, in the sense of someone’s else’s flag flying overhead. The problem it creates is a level of latent trust in rulers which is incredibly powerful – the notion that “Yeah,they might be bastards, but they’ll never screw up THAT badly”.

As such, the most vulnerable countries in the world to dictatorship are probably the UK and USA.

Another question on this poll was (paraphrasing a little)

‘What would you think if the UK was to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees but not allow them access to benefits or public services’

The options were , strongly oppose, oppose, neither, approve, strongly approve.

Now, how would you answer that if you strongly approve of the first aspect of it but strongly oppose the second? This sort of skewed questioning occurs all the time in the polls sent out by yougov etc

As I see it the Westminster Establishment have known for a considerable time that their time was up and the end of the United Kingdom was inevitable. They knew the game was up long ago and the things that should have made Scots take immediate action were missed by the vast majority of even dedicated, long term SNP supporters.

The signs of the Establishment thrashing about in an effort to delay matters were all very plain but for some unfathomable reason most Scots could not see what was going on under their noses.

This all goes way back to before devolution and perhaps probably even triggered devolution. Strangely not too many Scots know the full early history of North Sea Oil.

The UK Continental Shelf Act came into force as early as May 1964. Seismic exploration and the first well followed that same year but it and a second well were dry. Then BP’s Sea Gem rig struck gas in the West Sole Field in September 1965 but disaster struck and The Sea Gem sank, killing 13 people after part of the rig collapsed as it was moved away from the discovered well.

The Viking Gas Field was discovered in December 1965 with the Conoco/National Coal Board well. Larger gas finds followed in 1966—Leman Bank, Indefatigable and Hewett, but by 1968 companies stopped interest in the British sector This was a result of a ban on gas exports and low prices offered by British Gas

Then West Sole came on-stream in May 1967. Licensing regulations for Dutch waters were not finalised until 1967. In December 1969 Phillips Petroleum discovered oil at Ekofisk, in Norwegian waters in the central North Sea and Amoco discovered the Montrose Field about 217 km (135 mi) east of Aberdeen.

BP had been awarded several licences in the area in the second licensing round late in 1965, but had been reluctant to work them until the Ekofisk discovery prompted them to drill what turned out to be a dry well in May 1970. This was followed by the discovery of the giant Forties Oil Field in October 1970 and the following year, Shell Expro discovered the giant Brent oilfield in the northern North Sea east off Shetland and the Petronord Group discovered the Frigg gas field.

The Piper oilfield was discovered in 1973 and the Statfjord Field and the Ninian Field in 1974. The 1973 oil crisis caused the world oil price to quadruple, followed by the 1979 energy crisis which caused oil prices to further triple. Oil production started from the Argyll & Duncan Oilfields (now called Ardmore) in June 1975 followed by Forties Oil Field in November of the same year.

The inner Moray Firth Beatrice Field was discovered in 1976 with well 11/30-1, drilled by the Mesa Petroleum Group, (the only oil field in the North Sea named for a woman”).

So actually things were happening and more or less made little impression upon most Scots by a Westminster Establishment scared to death of the oil & gas from mainly Scottish waters being claimed by the SNP for Scotland.

So the Westminster Establishment In 1975 faced a real dilemma. How could they exploit the full potential of the Scottish oil fields without also fuelling demands for Scottish independence? They knew the potential and they knew the likely consequences. So Westminster simply buried the evidence that was given to them in The McCrone Report.

This document could have changed the entire course of Scottish history. It is nineteen pages long, handwritten by the leading Scottish economist Gavin McCrone and presented to the Westminster Cabinet office in April 1975.

Then hurriedly buried deep inside a Westminster vault for another thirty years. It stated that North Sea oil could have made an independent Scotland among the top few rich countries like Switzerland was at that time.

The Freedom of Information Act has yielded many treacherous Westminster dealings but none so treacherous as the many years of theft of the Scottish Kingdom’s rightful resources.

It was written in the dying days of the Ted Heath Governments and the theft continued under every Westminster Government till today. They are not about to relinquish their grip upon Scotland for without it the Kingdom of England will become bankrupt.

So there is the truth – Westminster has been planning how to keep control over Scotland by any means they can. It does not require any great leap of imagination that when they realised the truth would come out they would have already formulated plans to frustrate Scottish independence.

Hence they formulated plans for the bipartite United Kingdom to change the relationship of the only two, equally sovereign, partner Kingdoms. This resulted in devolution whether Scotland liked it or not.

Yet devolution refers to the statutory granting of powers from the Parliament of the United Kingdom to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly and note well also the London Assembly.

However, this is rather underhanded and in fact is totally illegal. The United Kingdom is without doubt a union of only two equally sovereign independent Kingdoms and thus Westminster is a bipartite union.

There are only two Kingdom’s signatures on the Treaty Documents and both former Independent kingdoms must therefore have equal sovereignty. Westminster is NOT the renamed Parliament of the Kingdom of England and there is no documentary evidence that states otherwise.

Yet Westminster claims, without evidence, that in 1707 the Treaty of Union extinguished the Kingdom of Scotland and renamed the Kingdom of England as the United Kingdom. There is nothing to show this to be true.

Furthermore, by dividing the former bipartite United Kingdom up as four separate countries, an actual United Kingdom can no longer exists and thus neither can a United Kingdom Parliament. How can they claim that the Kingdom of Scotland no longer exists but a united kingdom does – united to what, exactly?

Indeed the Westminster Parliament is the de-facto parliament of England and there is no other parliament elected as such. It also uses EVEL to prevent all others from interference in what Westminster claims is English Only matters. Yet it funds England directly as The United Kingdom.

Not to mention that as London is devolved then London is classed as a country and the Kingdom of Scotland is no longer classed as a kingdom but as just another country of England’s dominion like Wales & N. Ireland.

I contend this illegal claiming of sovereignty by Westminster has been planned by the Westminster Establishment since they were aware of the potential of Scotland’s resources.

If ever alarm bells should have been heard throughout Scotland it should have been when Westminster devolved the powers of England to Scotland, Wales, N. I. and even London. Not only that but when they began to claim the Treaty that made the United Kingdom had Extinguished The Kingdom of Scotland but not that of either the Kingdom of England or the United Kingdom we should have walked out of Westminster and called in the international courts, The Council of Europe, the United Nations, The EU and the Commonwealth Countries to save the Kingdom of Scotland.

The allegation is Nicol Stephen re routed AWPR Stonehaven link to avoid the parent’s residence. Labour/unionists blocked the by-pass road for over thirty years. Fifty years of Labour. The LibDems blocked the by- pass road for ten years. The infrastructure chairman was a green. The landowners joined the LibDems to get more control. Get voted in. The local MP was a LibDem, Malcolm Bruce, voted in to stop the Tories. Claim to fame getting investment in the overnight sleeper, which was threatened with closure. The greens protest group were secretly funded by Fortescue Irvine to stop the road going near the estate.

The travellers on the roads spent hours in hold ups spewing out emissions. Not very green. Often hours late etc, 1st Minister on 3rd rate roads. Large lorry traffic going through the City, often loaded with massive oil sector equipment. They could not by pass. The protests put up the cost of the road. The Trump development was campaigned against by a handful of greens. Again the majority wishes. Still £Milliions of investment. The wind turbines in the the Bay are being built funded by £Millions of EU investment. They will power thousands of homes etc.

The NE was one of the only growth area in Scotland because there were jobs. Infrastructure was totally neglected by Unionist politicians. Also underfunded 30% of all other council authority settlement by Labour dominated Cosla. Until Devolution and Holyrood came along with more inward investment in Scotland and the NE. AWPR.

The airport extended for Internatiinal flights. Direct flights cutting emission and less extra connecting flights putting up costs. Anywhere but Heathrow – congestion and extra expense. Overnight stays etc. The rail times should be improved in Scotland. To compete with flight times. For comfortable journeys and customer satisfaction. . For faster direct journeys. Not HS2 longer disconnection. Taking longer. London to Birmingham takes 1.30 hours. Central belt to Aberdeen/Inverness,. A comparative, estimate journey takes 2.30 hours. Faster links and travel times benefits the economy.

£Billions in Oil tax revenues going to London Treasury. Westminster kept it secret. The unionist Scottish Office colluded in the deceit. Kept hidden under the Official Secrets Act by Thatcher. ‘This must be kept secret’, written on Official documents. When Scotland was supposed to be treated equally. Forsyth and Lang her henchman. One of her Ministers resigned, he would not be involved in the duplicity. Andrew Neil, Thatcherite, supported with the biased BBC reports. ‘Of Scotland’s economic demise’. Lies, secrets and video tape. They are still available to view. A multimillionaire on the make. How low could they scoop. A penthouse in Trump Tower is the ill gotten reward. Murdoch, Barclays etc. Not even UK citizens, illegally control the MSM. Millions of innocent people being maimed, killed and harmed illegally.

Zen and the art of Conservative political messaging.
by weegingerdug

EDITED BY REV. STU: There’s a magical thing on the internet called a link. Please use it rather than repeatedly posting entire thousand-word articles by someone else as a comment.

There appears to be some confusion between Crathie -which is close to Balmoral and Crathes, which is close to Banchory and, of course , to Crathes Castle.
It would appear that the Prime Minister visited Crathes to address a highly exclusive selected audience booked under questionable procedures by someone not unconnected to the local laird and Tory MSP. You surely didn’t think for a minute that she would be addressing an open public meeting?
By the way Nicol Stephen got the inevitable bum’s rush from his electorate but secured the equally inevitable ermine and pass to the red benches of the Lords soon after and has sunk now thankfully from view

Dead Ringers, Teresa May, will they do that bizarre Scottish tory characteur Ruth D? They laughed at the Nazi’s too, but did they.

link to youtube.com

Treeza at her meeting in Scotland:

Thought I’d leave this here.

Here is footage of the “gracious” meeting on Saturday between the Gauleiter Davidson and her “glorious” Fascist leader Feartie McFeartie. I must pay a huge amount of praise to our undercover camerawoman who managed, at great risk to her own life I may add, this secret footage.

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then openly with EVEL.

But still they haven’t put down us Vile Separatists.

GE2015 highlighted their irrelevance in Scotland.

Now it is Defend the Union to the Last Man/Woman, Last Bullet.

They are to my mind the last dregs in the Unionist Barrel.

Think of the photos of the last days of WWII Germany, young kids and old guys being sent to take on the Russians in the ruins of Berlin.

That’s where the Unionists are now.

The old and the naive pushed on by the bloated Party Members who now have to get into the trenches, like Blair McDougal ‘cos no one else is left.

Ably protected by The BBC and an MSM (who Joseph Goebbels couldn’t have envisaged in his wettest dream).

Now Der Fuhrer May and her Scotch Gauleiter tRuthless Davidson try to tell the country (UK) they’ve ruined with Brexit that they are winning great victories against those ‘Europeans’

God Save the Queen and her Fascist Regime.

Tick, Tock.

As the Animals sang, We Gotta Get out of This Place (if it’s the last thing we ever do…).

This is really frightening and I don’t want to be a part of it.

I fear for my children and my grandchildren if we go down this route.

@Still Positive

Stay positive, we will not be going down this route. The Scottish people will get the message and come to their senses.

We will have a referendum in the not too distant future and the vote will be YES at least i think so. Ever the optimist me.

Stuff like this article can only make it more likely, there is no way in a million years that Scots would put up with a Dictator.

No, stay calm. Just do what you can to convince others, I think we will get there. At least we have to try and not be afraid.

Be strong xx and hugs 🙂

I think I should offer to let T May use my 6″ x 10′ Greenhouse for her next campaign meeting in Scotland. My garden is completely walled in and she could sneak through the garage to get there. It’s got two chairs and a small table in there and the TV cameras could film her through the glass and nobody would know where she was.

Any news on whether there will be any follow up on the fact that Crathes Debating Union was booked for a children’s party and clause 4 terms and conditions of hiring the hall says “it has to be used for the purpose for which it was hired” i.e. “children’s party”

The eagle-eyed among us will have noticed there were some children in the audience. Do you think they were told to play some games and pretend they were at a a party? Or were they the members of the Conservative and Unionist CHILDREN’S PARTY – got it! ha ha, of course. That explains it!
And did you also notice she’s playing tRuthless’s game now – it’s THeresa May’s party.

Also, they needed extra permission to provide refreshments and a trawl around the twitter sphere tonight revealed that the journalists were there from 5.30 this morning and were not provided with any food or drink. Churnalists also pissed off because she repeated the same speech she used in Leeds.

To quote Wille Rennie: ‘Does she think we button up the back?

Condescending, arrogant Mugwump.

Re May’s ‘meeting with the people’.
A couple of years ago or so, a certain person by the name of Cameron, visited the ETAP platform in the Scottish sector of the North Sea. How many workers did he meet? Apart from one or two selected in the control room, none. All staff shepherded away, just in case. Waste of money, waste of time, & waste of a seat on a chopper.

When Burnett was elected to holyrood, I sid some digging around his home turf so to speak. In and around the area there are in excess of 1500 “retirement” villages / communities / homes.

Add to these numbers the amount of executive housing that there construction company has build in the last 10 years or so and you have the reason that that plank of wood got voted in at holyrood.

Probably it is the biggest case of Gerrymandering we have seen in Scotland for many a year.

Just think, he has his own “Rotten Borough” and has hastened a return to the time when the local landowner would ferry his workers down to vote in his desired direction.

Germany may have lost the war but the Fascists survive to this day, not Neo-Fascists, the same old Fascism that brought death and destruction to millions of people.

Hitler used to have a forest hide-out that he named the “Wolfs Lair” is T.May house or lair hunting with Ruth Braun?

Peace Always

The Effects of Charles Darwin on Imperial Policy

Introduction

The age of imperialism in Europe reached its peak in the years between 1850 and 1950. During this time nations such as Great Britain controlled vast regions of the globe and exerted their dominion over the conquered peoples of their territories. In order to justify their control of the colonial population, Europeans had for centuries stated that the colonial population was subhuman and therefore needed to be controlled by the more intelligent Europeans. However, this changed in the second half of the nineteenth century with the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. The publication, though attacked for its opposing stance to the church and the bible, was soon employed as a “scientific” explanation for the dominance of Europeans. Since Darwinism became a major justification for racism and imperialism, especially by fascist governments, such as Hitler’s Germany, it is important to understand the reasoning behind much of it. In terms of historiography, it is important to note that Darwin himself did not have any involvement in the creation of the various interpretations of his theories, therefore he should not be blamed for the numerous human rights abuses justified using those interpretations.

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@ Arbroath, thanks for that, Janey Godley brilliant, as for the fake knees-up, seen a cheerier crowd at Daldowie!

Smallaxe at 4.42 hits the nail on the head.

Neo fascism, ‘Alt right’, give it whatever name you wish really. It’s My tribe right or wrong. Exclusion, exceptionalism based on whatever criteria the exponents dream up for their tribe. It’s mindless hatred pure and simple. It is also a home for the fearful, ill informed, the gullible, the directionless, those filled with rage and pain who need a target to take it all out on. The very things they accuse the YES movement of in point of fact, but then they are past masters of projection and deflection.

It is also a political tool for those who are beyond flags and empathy. Y’know, the truly evil bastirts.

The truly evil know exactly how to use these lost people. They know how to direct them in order to divide and rule. ‘Course it helps if you have access to compliant and politically compromised mass media control. With the right tools and the right message you can even bring on board normally reasonable, moderate caring human beings. People who won’t realise what they have become, what their society is becoming until it is far too late. Until their actions face them in their own livingrooms, or their own mirrors.

For those looking to tell the difference between Westminster/Unionist media narrative and the Scottish government/YES movement, ask yourself a few pertinent questions.

How many countries have the Scottish government invaded?
How many economies have the Scottish government crashed?
How many policies abusive of the poor, the infirm, the furren and the powerless have the Scottish government passed into legislation?
How many refugees have the Scottish Government turned away?
How many overseas nationals have the Scottish government placed under threat of deportation?
How many riots have the YES movement started?
How many unprovoked violent acts or acts of naked intimidation?

You could probably add quite a few more questions to that list, but you get the drift.

When words aren’t quite enough to convince. When the meeja has your head so turned with spin you don’t know who or what to believe. Pay attention to the world around you, to action and reaction.

When you’ve truthfully answered even that small list of questions I’ve posted, you should be able to tell who the real bad guys are and where the very real threat to your freedoms and rights comes from.

Hysterical ‘Blair Witch’ territory. Or is that a pseudonym for Teresa May. A clue is in the code.

17 miles from third biggest City in Scotland. 1/2million pop. Approx 1/4 million in the City. 1/4 million in the Shire.

Burnett childish Party from 10-17hours. A bit long. The Tories always on the take. Taking food from the mouth’s of babes. £13 a month. No taking the 33,000 displace, vulnerable children. Illegally bombing the Middle East to bits for years. Destroying the world. Wasting a Trns of public money which could be saved or better spent. An international public disgrace. Not nice but dim. May will have to think again,

Will Willy Young finally get his comeuppance. Be investigated. After numerous complaints. If there is any justice. Illegally sold the City on the stock market. Spent £Billion on grotesque projects of little value, vandalising the City. Cut funding for essential services. 130 teachers short. Willy is the last resort propped up by a green deputy. Reneging on all green policies. Elected with 600 votes to stop the essential road. Against the majority and the public interest.

The illegally high Tory Oil sector tax 40%. More Oil & Gas has to be imported. Putting up the deficit and the debt. ACC taxpayer’s now paying back debt to the stock exchange for years. A public disgrace. Willy Young, the green and associates have short changed the City. They have refused a Gift of £80Million which would have transformed, renovated and pedestrianised the City Centre. The Priject was by the majority and in the public interest. To stop the City Centre decay and bring more visitors to the City Centre. Cut the pollution and traffic chaos. The emissions the worst in the UK.

May now hanging about a green hut on the periphery. A laughing stock. The stock exchange tax evading with impunity. The UK Law is not enforced by the Westminster tax evaders and their associates. Wasting £Trns of public money. Borrowing and spending like there is no tomorrow on worthless projects. When there are more credible alternatives. Cutting funds for essential services. Illegal wars, financial fraud and tax evasion. The ones who support the Union tax evade with impunity and break the rules. Westminster unionist make the Law and break the Law. There was electoral fraud in 31 Tory constituencies. May called the election to cover up the fraud. Imagine the choice May, Corbyn, Farron or Lucas. Scotland has the SNP to stand up for Scotland. Another Indy Ref on the way.

The terraces are empty. The authorities were letting paedophiles run the Clubs. Criminals. Rejects swept under the carpet. Littered with abuse and money laundering. £Billion of public/private money has been spent funding the criminality and abuse. It is not only a game. It is a public disgrace. A tax evasion abusive paradise where criminals run the Clubs. The ones who laundered enough public money win. Gain more public money. Private companies fiddling the public purse. Cheats on steroids. Tax evading prima donnas The punters lose and the game deteriorates. Not a good roll model.

@CameronB Brodie

Topical? No. It is relevant only to the history of ideas. Fine if you are into such things but the fact remains that Evolution is true. These days only creationists call it Darwinism, us Biologists don’t. I generally here it referred to as Natural Selection since that is the bit relevant to genes and phenotypes.

Can you be someone who accepts the truth of Evolution and a socialist? Why not? It is still, just about, respectable in Biology to research group selection and it is an obvious fact that Homo sapiens is a social ape. No other great ape tolerates the size and density of societies, including non related individuals that humans do.

This idea that Evolution mandates individualism is hokum, Dawkins deals with it an the end of The Selfish Gene and in later books. I also don’t care about Alfred Russel Wallace’s politics. He was right on Natural Selection, everything else is of no relevance to anything which matters today unless you are a descendant and into that sort of thing.

Wallace was a working man, he earned his living collecting and preserving specimens and selling them to gentleman Naturalists like Mr Darwin. So it is clear that the truth of Evolution is and was available despite different social and political backgrounds. Darwin came from a long line of Whigs.

Muscleguy
As usual, you miss my point completely. I’m talking about the cultural origins underlying the principles of fascism and imperialism and how that might be relevant to Scotland today, not the science of biology.

LINKS!

link to thehighlandtimes.com

PM accused of ‘hiding from public’ again after Scottish forest event
link to archive.is

BBC smears BDS, fails to disclose interviewee’s Israel advocacy role
link to archive.is

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LINKS!

link to politico.eu

link to thecanary.co

link to politico.eu

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This is worrying. We need to declare independence now. Why can’t the SNP see this. Abit ll that everyone says in this post points to that. We have the mandate and if SNP loses any seats in WM media will claim Scotland no longer has.
Mays election call makes it harder for SNP and all of us who want democracy.

ken500

who are these green councillors in aberdeen you keep railing against?

‘We have the mandate and if SNP loses any seats in WM media will claim Scotland no longer has’

That’s the way the British Establishment and the Yoon media want you to think. It is just pure propaganda bollocks, but then that’s all they have.

The mandate Scotland has comes from Holyrood, everything else is just is smoke and mirrors, meaningless crap. They are just trying to brainwash us, all you have to do is, not let them.