Wings Over Scotland

Scott.

Haven’t you worked it out yet with Boyle, Chas, Main and Ellis, why do you think they’re in here, the most popular indy site still, in Scotland, here’s a clue its not because they want to see an independent Scotland.

The way they back each other up and give a thumbs up to each other comments, I’ve seen this many times on other blogs. You don’t honestly think with independence at stake and the collapse of the UK and all that entails that this site hasn’t been infiltrated.

A dead giveaway is when they continually link to establishment websites that spew Western right wing propaganda. Like Main and Ellis have been doing.

Mark Boyle says:
29 August, 2022 at 7:28 pm

Let’s take the last five hundred posts (bar this one) on this thread: from my one at the top of this page to Ruby’s latest, comment-2702856 at 29th August 6.06pm.

Here’s what comes from those five hundred posts:

Ruby 89 (18% of all posts made)
Andy Ellis 69 (14%)
RepublicofScotland 57 (11%)
James Che 42

OMG it must have taken you ages to count all these posts. Pleased to be the top contributor. To be fair to Andy his posts are always at least ten times longer than mine. Each one of his should count as 5 posts at the very least.

@Ruby says:29 August, 2022 at 8:24 pm

“Pleased to be the top contributor”

Nah, Ruby.

Mark wrote you are the most prolific poster.

An entirely different thing.

@Republicofscotland says:29 August, 2022 at 8:12 pm

“Haven’t you worked it out yet with Boyle, Chas, Main and Ellis”

“A dead giveaway is when they continually link to establishment websites that spew Western right wing propaganda”

Absolutely no doubt who collects the most irony award.

Step forwards Republic, it’s rightfully yours. Ruby, with her obsession about trolls, is in a far distant second place.

Only yesterday you were quoting the BBC to support some dubious point. Other days, you rubbish the BBC as “Western right wing propaganda”, but that’s on days when their facts don’t suit your overheated fantasies.

Imagine an individual who has never been all that interested in politics. However, he/she is worried about the spiralling costs of everything. They are aware that the Tories and Westminster are a mess and whilst they are not averse to the idea of Independence they are concerned about the competence of the SNP and the direction the Party is taking.
A friend mentions to them that there may be an alternative to the Cult and asks them to have a keek at the Wings over Scotland blog which supports the recently formed Alba Party. I would suspect that they would be horrified at the extent of how far the SNP has fallen, thanks to the investigate work undertaken by Rev Stu. They then turn to the comments underneath the articles.

I do not think it would take them too long, after reading the collective posts of RoS, Che and the rest of the BPHB to realise that the site is populated by too many nutters with a morbidly unhealthy fixation on the past.

Another possible Independence supporter lost.

Aw Brilliant Pete’s back!

He can definitely help me with the Gaelic!

‘Wee Donald Sugar’ Pete? What is that in Gaelic.

You know the song. Wee Donald Sugar, sugar, sugar sugar.

Weak Pishart pontificating from the comfort of his £150k p.a. c/o John-Q tax payer.

No wonder Speaker Hoyle detests the SNP bench-warmers so much… So much hot air for so little results. There to supposedly represent Scotland on “reserved matters”…

Bollocks!!!

Fiddling while Rome burns at the hands of Sturgeon and her biology denying, inclusivity and diversity-ultras.

What an utter shop-full of chocolate teapots the SNP are.

Edinburgh’s Disgrace doesn’t sit on Calton Hill… it sits in Bute House, Charlotte Square, and stands barely 5′ tall.

Ellis Main Chas Boyle Wishart is rumoured to be a wee fat baldy guy who sits at his computer in his underpants in a Dundee bedsit.

Just because you are paranoid, don’t mean they aren’t conspiring …

link to unherd.com

Thought I would throw that one in, as Covid continues to be very much a factor affecting the Indy project.

As is the war, but we don’t talk about that.

Anybody been to the Huanan Seafood Market lately? How’s it going there?

As an outsider whose ancestors hail from a distant land, once a «cradle of civilization» currently going down the pan, Scottish history is fascinating for its points of similarity with so called third world/developing countries.
The salient point of similarity is how easy it is to divide and control over matters of culture, religion and «identity».
Scotland thinks itself a nation, its citizens ought to begin acting as if they believed that to be true. And certainly be more generous to those whose national narrative may differ from their own.
A house divided and built on sand will never stand.

This submission to The Lancet derives from Swedish data where a total population cohort study (with around 800 thousand in 2 cohorts [vaccinated and unvaccinated]) was conducted.

I’m left dumbfounded by this, as I’ll explain below.

link to thelancet.com

To sum up, after 2 vaccines (fully vaccinated) and 180 days (see table 3), immunity to the virus wanes across all age groups and you have significantly higher chance of catching covid than those who were not vaccinated at all. To clarify, that’s the opposite of immunity, which as far as I know we don’t have a word for in any medical book or the English dictionary.

We now have a situation whereby vaccinated people are so immuno-compromised that after 180 days they are more at risk than they would have been which means, and this is why I am dumbfounded, we probably really have no choice but to recommend and administer additional booster shots to those who have been vaccinated in order to re-establish immunity, otherwise we leave them in a severely vulnerable position, more vulnerable than they might have otherwise been without vaccination.

“The results of our study have important clinical implications, as they strengthen the evidence-based rationale for administration of a third vaccine dose as a booster, especially to specific high-risk populations… The implication of the results from the present study and previous studies is that older individuals and individuals with known suboptimal or waning vaccine-elicited immunogenicity should be prioritised for booster doses, because these individuals also are at highest risk for severe COVID-19 manifestations if infected.”

Holy Jesus in heaven. In any other context you’d call it a ponzi scheme.

As a correction to my previous post, it seems the negative immunity I mentioned only applies to certain age groups.

@RobRoy says:30 August, 2022 at 10:38 am

Great post.

The vaccine narrative continues to unravel. Interesting for those who questioned it at the time, and had to listen to all of the Covidiot accusations.

As was clear enough from about Month 2 of Covid. If you are young and/or healthy, your best long term strategy is to catch Covid ASAP. Given the extreme linkage between age and severity of symptoms, you are better off catching it today, than you will be tomorrow. Once you have had it, your natural immunity will keep you safe for a while.

Still, old thought habits die hard. Only yesterday, I was listening to somebody on the radio who is still insisting that it is our responsibility to “protect the NHS”. Until enough people cotton on to the fact that it is actually the NHS that is supposed to protect us, things won’t change.

@ John Main at 1.35pm

I suggest a more equitable distribution of wealth between corporations and citizens could be achieved by means such as, nationalisation, licensing, or taxation.
But as you are a “Brexit” enthusiast which was all about “taking back control”, why don’t you tell us how it should be done as your “Brexit” surely had some kind of plan, aye?

” Better together” in a crises while Britain spends money on War and weapons instead of people?
Lining their pockets with amno sales. Funnelling money in great quanitities out of the UK

” Together it is better”if Scotland disappears into poverty and energy crises along with the rest of the UK.

Cant trust the “better together “word smithing joke for The Scots will be better of with the rest of the UK,
Or we the UK will save you Scotland joke.

link to archive.ph
Scot.gov is grandstandingly abortophile and homophile ie antichild, and that has zilch to do with the current constitutional arrangement.

Its a nail on that Johnson will head straight for a Britnat closed shop if he dares to show his face on his goodbye tour. I was rather hoping that he would walk down Princes St in Edinburgh and be ran out of town by the scruff of his neck rather like Farage was.

“BORIS Johnson could be heading to Scotland this week as part of a farewell tour where he is expected to defend his record in Government, The National can reveal.

It is understood officials are currently finalising his diary for the next week, which will be his last in office.

The outgoing Prime Minister kicked off his valedictory trip in Dorset today, where he appeared alongside die-hard ally Nadine Dorries.

Johnson is expected to make further trips across the UK before his successor is crowned in an attempt to salvage his reputation by trumpeting the achievements of his time in office. ”

link to 12ft.io

Republicofscotland.

The seriousness of how hard the next year is going to be in Scotland has not hit enough people between the eyes as yet,
But that is not far away,

The climate change policy of re-wilding Scotland rids us of our food supply.
While animals such as deer, rabbits and hares are being culled, ( killed off) We see a parallel culling of beef pigs and Sheep imposed on farmers,
The hard policy is threatening supplies of grains under climate change and withdraws many products such as bread and cereals.
These policies in the UK on farmers will effect milk, cheeses, butter, margarine etc productions, in Scotland, and the rest of Britain,

The fact that we have ample energy in Scotland should have seen us here with no worries.
However UK climate change policies will see fuel starvation in Scotland.

The only way is to break free of this idelogical policies that will see Scotland suffer untold deaths.
But to do this we have to dismiss the British/ Scottish devolved government.
And choose a different one not attached in to westminster in politics.

Never mind the Scottish government following UK law,

Let the people of Scotland hold a vote, to vote out the devolved government and all its corruption,

James Che @3.26p

James here’s one for you.

“The office of Prime Minister is also English officially replacing the post of Chief Administrator of England. The first, retrospectively, being Robert Walpole in 1721 who held the post during the Scottish civil wars which led to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. Neither parliamentary sovereignty nor the post of PM are in the 1707 treaty. (The first PM of England taking office 14 years after the treaty was signed and ratified.)”

link to barrheadboy.com

Scottish streets with overflowing bins. Sauchiehall Street, one of the city’s most famous thoroughfares strewn with cans, plastic bottles and even baby nappies along its one-and-a-half miles.

Edinburgh is a disgusting mess and goodness knows what foreign tourists must have thought of ‘beautiful’ Scotland.

Record A&E waiting times with the SNHS dire straits (even prior to the pandemic).

Scottish education, once the envy of the world, is in steep decline and shows no signs of improving.

The ferries fiasco.

Record drug deaths – Scotland is a junkie infested nation.

15 years is too long for any government to be in power. The Westminster Tories and the SNP-Green coalition are both incompetent and need replaced. The current SNP are more interested in importing Californian-style identity politics, than running the country competently.

Imagine this SNP-GREEN coalition setting up a new Scottish state. That’s enough to give anyone nightmares.

AberdeenPict.

That says all you need to know, we can afford to do without the Uk government,
But the Uk government cannot do without Scotland.

“No the right type of oil.”

Translated into Scots language = No the right type of oil for the Scots to own,

“The seriousness of how hard the next year is going to be in Scotland has not hit enough people between the eyes as yet,
But that is not far away,”

James Che.

Yes indeed the perfect f*ck up, Brexit, Covid and the UK and the Great Satan’s (US) war on the country East of their (404) proxy, will not only see the West suffer greatly as sanctions etc hit Europe and the West much harder than their intended target, but a complete change/break in all fields economically with a nation in the East turning away from the West with all its assets that have served the West well at a reasonable price, will now be replaced with much dearer energy supplied mostly by the Great Satan (US), and the huge costs will be borne by the citizens of the West/Europe.

Hit harder still will be the Third World countries who struggled with buying or creating enough energy before Covid and the UK Great Satan’s war on the country East of their (404) proxy.

What might happen if things get bad enough is that the bourgeoisie middle classes might come out with the lower classes in some kind of revolt, recently the people of Sri Lanka stormed their parliament in an act of revolution as economically things became too bad.

“I am not sure why Scots are the only ones that think it is still legal binding anymore while the UK government has pepper shot it full of holes.”

James Che @6.08pm.

The problem is James when you have an FM who reinforces Westminster rule instead of debasing it at every turn, Sturgeon the betrayer plants the seed in the minds of the people of Scotland that somehow the foreign country of England’s parliament is sovereign over Scots, and that we abide by whatever the Westminster government says, when it comes to not just independence but everything else.

We need her out of Bute House and a real indy minded FM in place with a strong will and the courage of their convictions to do whatever it takes to prise Scotland out of this horrific union, as long as the betrayer remains in office Westminster will keep its jack boot on the throat of Scotland.

@Dan says:30 August, 2022 at 1:55 pm

“But as you are a “Brexit” enthusiast which was all about “taking back control”, why don’t you tell us how it should be done as your “Brexit” surely had some kind of plan, aye?”

OK, Dan, you win. I agree – Brexit was and is an unmitigated disaster.

No smaller country should ever leave a political and economic union with other countries again. No good can come of it. The smaller country will forever be a failure on its own.

Uh oh. Haud oan.

You see the problem, Dan? You can’t be anti-Brexit and pro-Indy.

You can’t have an Independent Scotland in a federation, pledged to common policies and ever closer union.

Just maybes, some of the posters on here may one day learn to think things through.

@Christopher Pike,

“The enemies of Scottish Nationalism are not the English for they were ever a great and generous folk, quick to respond when justice calls. Our real enemies are among us, born without imagination.”

said in 1930 by founder of SNP and still very much pertinent.

‘James Cheyne’ is now ‘James Che’ having been ‘James Che.’ and ‘James che’

I’m not saying that this person is posting using multiple aliases…or that different people are posting under the ‘James Cheyne’ alias…I’m just saying I find it curious, based on my lack of knowledge of how discarded Apple products work and the fact my name and email only disappear if I clear site data/cookies.

@George Ferguson says:30 August, 2022 at 7:57 pm

“Forensic accountants are raising their heads above the parapet to suggest that Sturgeon has wasted 1 billion pounds since her tenure as FM”

It’s tax payers money, George.

It grows on trees.

@John Main 8:53pm
It doesn’t John and it would have paid for these pay disputes many times over. It’s about financial and policy priorities and they got it wrong. When I read what is in store next week. A demonstration on Monday about Trans rights outside Holyrood when families are struggling with energy prices and heating. When we have been shouting for a Scot Gov response on the multiple challenges. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was an SNP inspired demonstration. They clearly think that civil disobedience is not going to happen. But it will by strike action. We have a good bit to fall yet. The FM said that she would know when to go by the soundings of a few people. A bunker mentality. Wenck will come.

John Main says: at 7:50 pm

“No smaller country should ever leave a political and economic union with other countries again. No good can come of it. The smaller country will forever be a failure on its own.

You see the problem, Dan? You can’t be anti-Brexit and pro-Indy.”

That’s pretty lame John and you’re deflecting away from what you originally asked.
I suggested using mechanisms such as nationalising, licensing, or taxation to address the imbalance corporate power has over citizens.
Just because the UK hasn’t got a decent strategy for leaving the EU, doesn’t mean every other similar situation of a country or state leaving a union has to follow the UK’s unstructured and disorganised way of leaving.
So rather than keeping up the adversarial modus, why don’t you proffer suggestions on what could be done to help resolve some of the issues you originally mentioned.

Scott,

Its been explained to you,
But hear i go again,
I worked with cheyne, the screen of their old ipad had a crack in the screen, they had the money to buy a brand new one,
I had never owned one one the internet before, they asked me if I wanted it, I told them ont know how to use one, they showed me the basics, like typeing, thats as far as I have got,
I do not know how to link or do photographs or any other thing, but if it worries you that much we could arrange to meet as long as it is does not cost me money,

You will meet a pension age woman of five foot tall,
I am not worried about meeting you, I will bring my family with me.

I hope that helps your worry a bit.

Brian doonthetoon,

This is a site that supports Scottish independence and Stu has been excellient at opening our eyes here in Scotland with separating facts from fiction,
One of the best sites by a mile for a long time, it seems to be the only accurate media for Scotland.

We used to have discussions on here without all the animosity, from those days I enjoy reading the likes of robert pheffers, he educated many of us to the state of the union,
It is sad that over the last year or so this has changed a lot.
There definately seems to be a change in attitudes that is best not defined, but it appears the new norm everywhere to disrespect another humans.

The way I personally balance out this modern world of abuse is o one thing a day that either helps someone else or brings a smile to someone else,
Today I gave free golf balls and a golf club to a young person so they could learn golf,

When it was pouring with rain I took my umbrella out the boot of my car and gave it to a lady walking into town,

Or cut someones grass for them.

I am not a goody two shoes, by no means, in fact quite selfish, but when you do something for some one else it helps another human being and myself, and often makes new friends not enimies,
And it acts like a invisible shield against the nasty side of the world.
This site has the same potentials, for good or bad.

It is what it is!

James Che , I’m a bit taller , probably a whole lot heavier and I’ll have your back!

Just checkin’

SCOT FINLAYSON 8:15pm
The Cunninghame Graham quote’s reference to imagination is pertinent.
Some seem to lack the imagination to see beyond.
That parochial perspective is the greater enemy.
A psychological wall «te ding doun».

Rab Davis says:
31 August, 2022 at 8:32 am

A bigger plant than Nicola Sturgeon.

I can’t cope with any more discussion about Ellis. I tried to give the man a hint on several occasions but it went unnoticed.

He can just stand there in the corner greetin’ and having a tantrum until the cows come home as far as I’m concerned.

I reckon Chas, Main & perhaps Boyle will meet the same fate in the not too distant future.

They all get their rocks off belittling people & calling others names. I think it’s fair enough to return fire with fire only I prefer to use a name that is highly descriptive and hits home.

If you call people names what do you expect in return?

It’s all about cause & effect.

OVER
OVER AND OUT
THE END

My idea with the ‘Gaelic lessons’ was a bit of fun at the same time an attempt to make people less hostile to the idea of Gaelic.

I was trying to show people that they already spoke the Gaelic that there was nothing to worry about.

Ellis @9.01am.

According to the favourite to be the next PM Liz Truss, France isn’t a friend.

@ Effigy at 9.15am

And on the subject of shares…

link to robinmcalpine.org

Brian Doonthetoon says:
30 August, 2022 at 9:36 pm

It’s killing this site, chaps. Either grow up, or remove yourselves.

There is not “two gangs”, there’s one gang with fk all else in their lives but slobbering up here – however utterly irrelevant to Scottish nationalism – whatever last triggered their synapses in their Twitter feed or conspiracy theory website (most of the latter being ad-revenue driven and thus the regular dopamine spiking content …).

Over the last few months it has invented in its own irrational hivemind another “gang” purely consisting of their “enemies” of everyone and anyone who dares to disagree with them over just about anything or – heaven forbid! – take them to task for not obeying the very rules of Stu’s they’re so fond of quoting verbatim.

My own experience is a case in point – I disagreed with the clown who spends her life 24/7 on here once – once! – and all of a sudden I’m part of the grand conspiracy to bring down Wings led by the “Andychrist”?

Funny really how some things in western civilization never change – every self-appointed “chosen people” or “master race” must have their “scapegoat” or “enemy within” out to thwart them … those in the east are more wise in that Yin must have Yang for balance.

FFS Brian, we have ALL disagreed with Andy at sometime. ALL OF US. Including Stu. You know, that guy who OWNS the site.

The difference being most of us agree to disagree, whereas there’s a micro-minority of loudmouths who like the resident blawbag in every pub and workplace treat any gathering as themselves holding court – and woe betide anyone who interrupts or fails to concur. First they become overbearing, then they become aggressive, then they start making up drivel about the person spoiling their wee Brigadoon “Ah’m the Big I Am ‘roon here” fantasy world. Saw this scenario play out too many times in life to count, offline and online.

Well if a handful of psychiatric cases are so insecure they can’t bear to read any contrary viewpoint to whatever theirs is at any given moment in time, that’s their problem, not the rest of ours to help them “work through it”.

So you can stick your concern trolling and your “if you’re not for us, you’re against us”, “solidarity is mandatory” bullshit where it belongs – I for one refuse to take that crap from Sturgeon and her WokeBots and I sure as hell refuse to take it on here from a handful of “won’t somebody please think of the children?” hypocrites who know damn well the problem here is ENTIRELY one-sided – those seeking to silence and drive out anyone not agreeing with them – and are happy to play footsie with them – until the day the mighty moth eaten Sockpuppet Army of SairYin turns against them next …

(Apologies to the neutrals, but as someone who actually spends a fair bit of my precious spare time doing voluntary work trying to promote and preserve actual Scottish history to a disinterested world, I have just about had enough of the clown car of “more Scottish nationalist than thou” kitsch and cliches elements on here, most of whom do more “activism” for boosting multinational brewer and distiller’s profits than for their “nation’s heritage”. Okay rant over, and no I don’t feel better).

The last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev die yesterday aged 91, he was head of state from 1988 to 1991.

link to archive.ph

At the time of all the talk about ‘us’ sharing embassies with ‘our’ colonial cousins there was a British Army colonel or maybe he was a major declaring that we could trust our colonial cousins but we could not trust the French or Germans.

When I read the article (can’t find it at the moment) I imagined this big fat moustached British army major with a very posh voice saying:

‘You just can’t trust these froggies old boy better stick with our colonial cousins’

The question is why would the colonial cousin trust the British?

The other question is do we not trust the French ‘cos they speak French?

Scott, ‘chickens tits’? ??

An expression I am happy to say I never encountered before.

BDDT, have you any news of Ronnie? I worry about him when he doesn’t pop in.

P.S A couple of excellent articles on Iain’s site and one uplifting one from Denmark.

Brian Doonthetoon says:
30 August, 2022 at 9:36 pm
Och, I find myself speed-reading through most of the comments btl here. Because there seem to be two gangs active – the ostensibly pro-indy brigade, Ellis, etc, and the other group labelled the BPHB,by the “other” lot.

It’s killing this site, chaps. Either grow up, or remove yourselves. I quote from:-

link to wingsoverscotland.com

“2. Play the ball, not the man (or woman).

And by all means disagree, by all means disagree forcefully – but argue with people’s views, don’t insult them personally. And that includes calling them “trolls” or implying they’re undercover Unionists. We’ll decide if someone’s trolling or not. But in the meantime, if you think they are, ignore them.

If you know what a “troll” is, then you’ll also know that getting you angry and talking about them, derailing the conversation off the subject, is exactly what they want.

Email us about suspected trolls if you want. But don’t engage them in debate if you doubt their motives, and DEFINITELY don’t engage in on-thread discussions about whether they’re a troll or not.”

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The independence movement has been infected with misinformation perpetrated by chancers posing as “experts”. These chancers spout complete falsehoods and the gullible, who are desperate for independence, fall for it. There really is a sucker born every minute.

Driving instructors pretending to be constitutional lawyers. I hear he runs a ‘Go Fund Me’ page to help with the cost of his ‘programmes’. The guy literally posts 20 minutes of garbage from a Tesco car park on his lunch break, but the gullible will no doubt send him money. The tartan begging bowl is often utilised within the independence movement. Begging to the gullible can even buy you a cottage in Ayrshire.

A retired teacher telling you that she’s uncovered a super, secret route to independence that has gone unnoticed by experts in Scots law, UK law etc. Suuuurrrreeee!

Eccentric professors shunned by the mainstream, telling the gullible that Scotland is a colony. His entire premise is built upon cut-and-paste quotes regarding colonialism.

Salvo – 2022s Digital Covenant. A farcical idea that will lead to nothingness.

UDI bloggers.

Putin-loving bloggers.

The “see, you Jimmy” Scots/Gaelic types who still live in 1707.

None of this would fly in the real world and so long as the YES movement gives oxygen to these chancers, then you’re going nowhere.

Iain Lawson says “independence is coming to a head” and he has two articles to post BUT we have to wait ’til Thursday!

Iain loves the cliffhanger.

I won’t be going there ’til Thursday I hate bloody cliffhangers.

There seems to be a fair number of cliffhangers on the go here in Scotland regarding police investigations.

“Brexit is the monster under the bed Liz Truss is desperately trying to ignore” link to archive.ph

That’s rich, coming from a Unionist rag that did more than its fair share in keeping the truth from folk throughout both the Brexit campaign and Scotland’s 2014IndyRef campaign. And when they weren’t printing downright lies they were blatantly being deceptive.

Aye! There’s more than one monster under the bed. The other is called the BritNat Media. And the two regularly have intercourse. Or should that be discourse? I don’t know, i was too busy doing French. 😉

@RobRoy (10.44) –

An opinion piece in today’s NY Times critical of Fauci. Looks like his time is up. He’s about as high-level a scapegoat as could be found and his resignation announcement is too little too late.

This interview features Dr. Paul Alexander, probably the highest-ranking whistleblower to emerge so far. It’s a long listen and he spends a lot of it laying out the background to his recruitment by the US Govt. (Jeffrey Tucker has already asked him to do follow-up interviews to get right into the detail of what he was working on.)

Here are the main takeaways (times are approximate):

He was asked by the Trump admin to join their ‘Task Force’ because they wanted an epidemiological expert (from outside the Washington ‘loop’) who was non-partisan.

Right from the off he was thwarted, obstructed, ignored – most importantly, he was not paid as promised, despite moving his family and furniture into a $3,000 a month flat.

35 mins: Instructed to investigate the CDC.

37 mins: Firs mention of clashes with Fauci.

44

link to twitter.com

Dan says:
31 August, 2022 at 9:52 am

On the subject of promoting and preserving Scottish history.

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

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That is a quality piece of writing.

The British turn amateurishness and managerial/administrative incompetence into an artform of which one ought to be proud.
link to archive.ph

Breeks says:
31 August, 2022 at 11:09 am

When I was a laddie at school we had a Twin Town exchange, and I found myself billeted with a “poor” French family, (not being snobby, I was from a poor family too), and she cooked steak that was just out of this world. Absolutely delicious, and unlike anything I’d ever tasted before… by a mile.

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Snap. I remember having a bowl of coffee with marmalade and bread for breakfast every morning and something with pasta in it for a tea course every night, for 3 weeks.

Frog legs taste like chicken that’s been soaked in sardine oil. And horse looks like beef, but tastes like kangaroo, which looks like tuna. French cheese is an acquired taste, at least for those it’s not imposed on – I can still ‘taste’ Cabécou from the 80s.

PSA – If you want a proper Strawberry Tart, go to France. (Get me a few dozen anaw).

Hi Dorothy.

I saw Ronnie at a get-together in Dundee for Pete’s pals a week past Saturday. He’s fine but taking things easy. He intends being at George Square on 18th September and in Dow’s for a post rally swallie.

Chas says:
31 August, 2022 at 11:36 am

In an effort to enhance my ‘Scottishness’, a valiant attempt to make myself the right kind of poster that the BPHB want to see on the site, I decided to study Gaelic words and their equivalent when translated into English.
Did you know that the Gaelic word for RUBY is ERSE?

Utterly Pathetic!

Just out of interest are you a Scottish cunt?

Robert Hughes; I agree.

Gorbachov was willing to rid the world of all nuclear weapons at the Reykjavík talks, but Reagan and his swivel-eyed advisors wouldn’t agree to it.

The USA is still the greatest threat to world peace.
No doubt Arms Industry Andy will disagree though, so I must be wrong.

“Does this mean the end of Le Touquet Agreement do you think?”

Ruby.

I very much doubt it, Truss’s innuendo won’t amount to much.

“The USA is still the greatest threat to world peace.”

James

Correct, and this time around with their coup in (404) in 2014, and the West turning a blind eye to the eight years of mass murder in the East of (404) hoping a certain country would step in a prevent the atrocities, the Great Satan finally has the war it longed for against the country East of (404).

However citizens in the West will pay a heavy price though vast amounts of money and weapons being funneled (get now pay later for 404) into (404) and the bonkers sanctions that have backfired and will only add to this Cost of Living in the Union Crisis.

The winners are the arms manufacturers who must be making a fortune, and not forgetting the middle men and the politician that are involved (who could forget the al-Yammamah Arms Deal) who will aslo be getting their palms greased with kickbacks.

Dorothy Devine.

It is impossible to say how much those reassuring words mean to me,
it feels a bit strange that Scott appears to be seeking addresses and backgrounds of women more than men,

Some women would not have such a big family as myself or so many men in it , and that behaviour could be quite intimidating.
Andy ellis I noted was quite quick to protect his daughter from such stalking behaviour,

If a meeting took place it would be some where in a very public place and where my family would turn the tables and shadow him to seek his legal background and address/s. And film with cameras,
My family are all tall, above six feet and are keep fit enthusiast, and rather protective, they wont even let me go fishing on my own,
Going camping with them is like army boot camp,
23 miles a day with camping gear on your back, across the hills to lochnagar just about had me on my knees, but my brother added stones to his ruck sack to keep fit, and they taught their children and my children the same principles of healthy eating and keeping fit,

I suppose thats how I became interested in natural medicines, if no others medicine was available, what plants to use to stem bleeding, or what has the best selection of minerals and vitamins, what bark contains painkillers etc,
I am small and fiesty compared to the rest of my family, perhaps thats why they insisted on training me,

I still climb trees to cut the tops of with a power saw my self, and chop wood, and my sister is a qualified tree surgeon, I dig my own garden to grow my own medicine and veg,
I know how to use a catapult and to shoot a gun, and make a bow an arrow,, and fit as a fiddle “touch wood”

Where would you be without the men in your family being toughnuts raised in the country,

I am not particularly personally afraid of someone displaying stalking behaviour towards myself, its just creepy,
but how many women on here and else where were not raised as I was, or worked in the farming community,

Like I said a while ago I was born a woman, married with kids but as tough as a nails , most men Nowadays are not as fit, especially the couch potatoes whom sit playing games all day long , an eat the fast foods or walk nice flat pavements to the neastest shop.

If things go belly up with energy and food crises in Scotland I suppose I would be more like ( Dan ) with survival skills and self survival skills,

The gratude towards yourself for stepping up as protector warms my heart Dorothy and could never be said enough with words, big hugs and thank you Dorothy from the bottom of my heart.

You might say I seem to be wittering on about everything except independence.

Here’s the thing about me & independence. I have been an independence supporter since I saw all the people on the South coast of England out in force waving ‘our boys’ off to the Falklands and encouraging them to kill all the Argies!

Never seen so many Union Jack Pitchforks in my life. It was a shock.

Nothing has changed I don’t need any more info. I am a supporter of Scottish Independence.

With regards to Sturgeon & the SNP I need no further awakening. I have been wide awake since Sturgeon fired Mark MacDonald for sending a text.

re. “UK Government website says vaccine not safe for pregnant or breastfeeding women”

UK Gov: Decision: Summary of the Public Assessment Report for COVID-19 Vaccine Pfizer/BioNTech (Updated 16 August 2022): Applies to England, Scotland and Wales:

Toxicity conclusions:

“The absence of reproductive toxicity data is a reflection of the speed of development to first identify and select COVID-19 Vaccine BNT162b2 for clinical testing and its rapid development to meet the ongoing urgent health need.

In principle, a decision on licensing a vaccine could be taken in these circumstances without data from reproductive toxicity studies animals, but there are studies ongoing and these will be provided when available.

In the context of supply under Regulation 174, it is considered that sufficient reassurance of safe use of the vaccine in pregnant women cannot be provided at the present time: however, use in women of childbearing potential could be supported provided healthcare professionals are advised to rule out known or suspected pregnancy prior to vaccination. Women who are breastfeeding should also not be vaccinated. These judgements reflect the absence of data at the present time…”:

link to gov.uk

@gregor (3.04) –

Today’s UK Column looks at those conflicting messages in detail.

link to ukcolumn.org

The US and England delight in stoking the proxy war with Russia with their $£s.
These «anglosaxon» protectors of their own interests may yet have to deal with a real one.
«IRAQ» is written on their consciences too, and the rest…

“it feels a bit strange that Scott appears to be seeking addresses” – James Cheyne aka James che

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What a strange comment.

Scott.

Not really,
Andy Ellis also thought it a bit weird to focus on females.

Anyone know anything about Rev Stu’s delphic FB post? Is there something afoot?

Just wanted to remind people about this today. No particular reason.

link to wingsoverscotland.com

Ian Brotherhood,

I am afraid so, one being my husbands sister, after my husband being diagnosed with colon cancer during that time, and my mother in the last stages of cancer.. this last year has took a lot out of us,

Some scoffed at these misfortunes for our family at the time on here, it was a very sad time, my husband has decided not to under go any surgery as his chances of surviving the op are not good,

However head up, this feisty lady will keep on fighting the good fight for those that never made it but fought for independence of Scotland all their lives.

That is my main purpose for being here, besides their are a heck of a lot of nice people here all doing the same while going through their own misfortunes,

Thanks Ian, God bless you.

OK James I’ll put a warning at the start of my posts if it contains swear words. I am very interested in language and that includes bad language.

Interested in how some swear words are more powerful than other and how some enter into everyday speech and have no power.

WARNING SWEAR WORD INCLUDED IN FOLLOWING.

Fuck has been so common even the first minister uses the word.

ie She said she can’t wait until she doesn’t give a fuck anymore.

Bad language is just words and you know what they say about sticks & stones.

Everyday I’m expecting to be banned.

QFMD I don’t care even if I’m banned I can still read all the posts on Wings.

I could go to ‘The Wee Ginger Dug’ to comment but I suspect I might be banned there before I even started.

There’s always The Scotsman & The Herald.

You keep posting James & I’ll keep reading even if I am banned for bad language.

Ooops sorry Eddie not Ronan.

WARNING POST INCLUDES BAD LANGUAGE

“We’re not going to let them take the piss anymore. We’re going to make sure our old people are warm in winter. We’re going to make sure our kids are fed.” Eddie Dempsey

This is really good but

WARNING IT CONTAINS LOADS OF SWEARING.

link to tinyurl.com

John Main says:
Soz, Ruby.

No problem John. You are entitled to your opinion.
I can always rely on you for bites. Chas is pretty good with the bites too.
It’s all pretty strange.

Cheers! At least I know someone is reading my posts. Usually I feel as if I am just talkin’ to myself. Never mind it’s all good therapy. Have a nice evening.

This running a deficit trick has been used before by Westminster.

link to pbs.twimg.com

Also I don’t recall any of the 60 odd countries that have left the British empire via independence, having to do so through a S30.

@James says:31 August, 2022 at 1:17 pm

“Gorbachov was willing to rid the world of all nuclear weapons at the Reykjavík talks, but Reagan and his swivel-eyed advisors wouldn’t agree to it.”

How’s that then James?

How did they intend to get rid of the Israeli bombs, the French bombs, the Indian bombs, the Pakistani bombs, the Chinese bombs?

Not forgetting our own red, white and blue bombs.

I guess Russia and the US could have divvied up the world, each invaded half, and disarmed the other nuclear powers by force.

What other way would there be to rid the world of all nuclear weapons?

Incidentally, the list keeps growing. Republic’s favourite, North Korea has joined the club, while Iran is already in the lobby.

And just this year, getting rid of nuclear weapons has been clearly seen to be a very bad idea. You do that, and in next to no time, you have the army of a vicious, imperialist aggressor destroying your people, economy, cities, culture and nation.

@Andy Ellis says:
31 August, 2022 at 4:22 pm

“Anyone know anything about Rev Stu’s delphic FB post? Is there something afoot?”

Sure, Andy. My sources tell me the second Indy referendum was held in August 2021. The organising company was paid £50K. The eleven participants (all high-ranking office holders at HR) were each paid £50K for taking part.

The outcome was a landslide for No.

Debate has been going on behind closed doors for the past year, over the best way to break the news to the Scottish people.

John Main @ 8.07

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said ‘ An artist is someone who can hold two opposing views and still remain fully functional’. I don’t know any psychologists.

Ruby R.A.?

Auld highlander – watching it for the second time , it tells of the arrogance and evil perpetrated on the Irish folk for anyone interested . It sure won’t cheer your evening but you might learn a great deal.

Dorothy, i just discovered last week that my Paternal gt grandmother was born in Ireland (presume Mayo) in 1847,
Only a couple of generations from me ,
Found her wedding cert online and married at 21 in 1868.
She might have been born on Inishkea South Island, if so probably why she survived, the spores that affected the potato crop never arrived there due to thev prevailing Westerley winds so folk on the Island had it better than nearby Mainland otherwise I would probably not be typing this just now.
Aint seen the Movie will need to find it was halfway through on plus 1 before I saw your post.
Talking about Black 47 , there is an Irish/American band of the same name who sound a bit like Dexy’s Midnight Runners who have some excellent tunes.
Like most bands the early albums are the best.

Thanks for the link, Ian Brotherhood @ 11:06 am

The following quotes were sourced by Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh, I can take no credit for them, but they are most illuminating:

“This is because the 1707 Parliamentary union between England and Scotland undoubtedly created a new State, but it did not create one Nation…The 1707 Union differed from these earlier schemes in that, while ensuring the de-politicisation of Scotland, it put into place measures intended to protect – and indeed to strengthen – other aspects of Scotland’s distinctive continuing nationhood.”

Aidan O’Neill QC

“That the Scots found a perfect union politically unacceptable, and the English an imperfect union intellectually incomprehensible, provides the basis for the odd mixture of the two which was set up in 1707. The English got the unitary sovereign power which they wanted, and got it in the form based upon the existing English Parliament, with an English majority in it. The Scots got their recognition as a separate sovereign state, both from the form of the Union of 1707 as an international treaty, and from the survival of Scots law and the Scottish church. It is that claim that Scotland is a sovereign nation state which is reasserted whenever the English forget that 1707 was not a ‘perfect union’ and has recently been repeated in the Claim of Right. Scotland in accepting the Union in 1707 remained a nation and as a result any sovereignty in the British parliament could not be national sovereignty. This has always been hard for the English to understand.”

Conrad Russell

Jingly Jangly man, it also has a wondrous hero , an avenging angel if you like – I would like to hope that he existed in some form in Ireland and got away with his ‘crimes’.

No people part of the so called British empire can distance it by saying it was nothing to do with them, it was the other lot. Scots, Irish, Welsh, Africans, South Asians all contributed to its «occupation», physical and mental. Its centres both as East India cy and Imperial system were in London, England. That city grew large on the power and wealth accruing to its politico-economic establishments. Without cooperation, willing or not, of those colonized it could not have done that. My people were promised autonomy if they cooperated with the British during the Iraq mandate, a vow casually broken at great cost to many.
Scotland’s rôle was in no way different from that of the other players. It was an opportunity for individuals to get rich through «entrepreneurial» adventures. Everyone involved is «guilty» in some way. That is the way of empires, all get their hands sticky whether nominally Greek, Roman, Mongol or Ottoman.
Learn from imperial history and move on to the concerns of now.

Mark boyle think you are talking of the elite who in all Colonies mostly are integrated into the mindset of the Empire (see Scottish legal system today) how many from anglo norman decent and not irish?
Off course like Scotland and elsewhere peasants would have been used as canon fodder , you can not blame them for the atrocities of the Empire.

Cromwell’s to hell or Connaught policies and the so called Famine murdered Millions and forced millions more to emigrate . You might think that is porn , i dont.

Mark Boyle

Any argument is lost when you start insulting people. Up your game.