Wings Over Scotland

Brilliant! Wonder how the BBC are going to frame that.

That reminds me. I have my great aunts funeral on Tuesday next week.

Judging by all those empty seats, support for the Tories in Scotland appears to be flagging.

Is that Jill and Effie at the front there with the faded jacks ?

The comment by Jamie on the picture tells us one thing; The Tories are buying into the falsehood by the media that they are resurgent. They are believing their own propaganda.

It also tells us that the people who voted Tory are obviously too ashamed to be seen in public!

Don’t know if it’s Jill and Effie but doesn’t the man four rows back, left of centre(!) look like Len McCluskey?

And half of them are from The Royalty and Specialist Protection squad in case of crowd trouble.

Jeez Oh!

Ha,ha,ha! Made my morning!

Must watch BBC in Scotland and see how they report this! ???

Skinny Malinky Long Legs big Banana Feet went tae the conference and found two hundred Seats.
🙂

Peace Always

The Numbers Game…

link to imgur.com

I have a wee felling the next Scottish conference will have more folk for Nicolas speech.
Visitors passes available no delegate available as deadline for them past.

It’s that not Kezia up the back with a wig on?!

The one at the back, by the way, is Kezia Dugdale in disguise.

A real sense of occasion.

Mint imperials sales will have sky rocketed.

I’m sure Ms May’s speech went down a treat with the few present. 🙂

About the same number of people who speak to Tresemme at EU meetings!

Fluffy sounds as if he’s losing it.

Being interviewed by Ligger right now on Daily Politic.

Labour will be along any moment now to tell them that they can’t eat a flag.

UK economy tanking as Eurozone and Rest of the World bouyant.

“Growth of eurozone economic output accelerated to a near six-year high in February of 56.0, up from 54.4 in January, according to the Markit composite PMI.”

Well played, May.

Thing is, those people you see in the audience are not ‘the Tories’. The real deal are the faceless rich donors behind the scenes. They are the paymasters who call the shots.

Contrast that with an SNP conference where the audience ARE the SNP.

In IndyRef2 we certainly needed worry about the ‘activists’ we see here. Their leaders are too toxic to appeal to a majority of Scots. What/who we need to worry about is are the rich donors, ‘think tanks’, pressure groups, and professional manipulators for hire. The Brexit ref proves that!

If that twat on Radio 2 who claimed he voted YES in 2014 (to get out of the EU) but would now vote NO really did vote YES in 2014 I’ll eat my Tam O’Shanter.

BritNat roaster for sure.

#national-hug-a-yoon-day

May’s rant shows she is under pressure. Nothing about EU next steps because there is morning as yet o propose as they have no clue what to publish as proposals as they realise they are in a weak position. They propose, the EU disposes!
All is an anti Scottish rant, not anti SNP as they claim!
When she talks about the Union, and no more devolved powers to maintain it, she is really saying the Tories know they are out of it in Scotland. All she claimed for RD was that she us “good” in opposition! Where are the positive Tory proposals for Scotland through Holyrood? None! Message us inly good things come from Westminster and its broad shoulders.
They would grant more powers if they thought the Tories would ever form a government at Holyrood. Labour are the same. Dog in the manger attitude, nae powers to you cause we will never form a government!
That’s,yous telt! Now get lost!

yesIndyref2 12.07

“The one at the back, by the way, is Kezia Dugdale in disguise.”

and there was me thinking it was Brian Spanner’s poodle.

Oh, wait.

Posted this in the wrong thread…

Breeks says:
3 March, 2017 at 12:42 pm
Utter pish and lies currently on BBC Radio 2.

Tomkins claiming we knew there would be a referendum on Brexit in 2014.

SNP bad, SNP obsessed with independence, the usual pish, Sturgeon being unreasonable,…

Not impressed with Lesley Riddoch either, on the phone naturally, but what we all want apparently is EFTA membership, not the EU membership which we have the clear and unambiguous democratic mandate to defend. Speak for yourself Lesley,… oh yeah, you did.

The other spokesperson for Indy was a former Liberal who did well in fairness but sounded like he was 100 years old, and interrupted repeatedly but a foaming at the mouth anti SNP former YES voter who doesn’t want Scotland changing the shackles of the UK for the shackles of Europe. Absolute pish straight from the Brexit handbook.

Not a word or contribution direct from our elected government.

Usual BBC stitch up and faux impartiality.

John Curtice has just been on Sky news apologising for releasing false information on Tory popularity in Scotland.

He has rescinded the latest polling of 27% support for Scottish tories, and had made it clear that they meant 27…people!

3 March, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Contender for idiot of the year…

Claire Fox, from, and i kid you not, The Institute of Ideas…!!

Here is her reaction to the Angus McNeil interview.
……..

“It’s galling to keep hearing this, Scotland voted Remain, there is something dis-ingenuos about that.

The Uk had a referendum, and just on the figures, you’ll know that 62% is still less numerically..emm..errmm.erm…than actually voted..(inaudible)”..

At this point brillo rode to the rescue by saying..”they voted differently”…

Unwilling to be rescued…she stumbled on….

“They voted differently in the sense that it’s a different place, but it doesn’t, thats..thats not a constitutional mandate”.
……….

Another excellent Phantom Power release.

link to twitter.com

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There’s one thing that we should maybe take comfort from. As we can see today, Theresa has spoken (to a near empty hall) and given an endorsement about how wonderful it is to be British and to live in the British State. The BBC cheer, and all the BritNat and OO knuckledraggers clap their hands and rejoice.

Happily, they are all re-assured!

And yet, when Theresa finally invokes Article 50 (without any plan at all as to what the future direction will be …except back to a past era of 1890 and Empire), there will be a moment of hesitation. A catch of the breath. A ponderous fear.

If the EU lay out the financial Bill and what the actual future will be between the EU and UK …and it is not a pleasant one, then sure as night follows day, Theresa will most undoubtedly get into a heated and bitter verbal spat with Europe. It will not end well. The UK will be the prime losers.

And when that spat takes place …that is when these Unionists who were all cheered and comforted this morning, will feel a creeping dread crawl over them. If Theresa can’t rescue a situation that could potentially begin to spiral out of her control, then these folk (like the daft women wearing Union Jack coats) will feel the fear. How can they counter nationalist arguments? How can they offer the argument of future stability? How can they sneer at what currency Scotland will use when their own beloved Sterling nosedives into the ground? How can they sneer at Scotland wanting to access Europe when they themselves are burning the very bridges to the market that they also desperately need? The image of a panicking, angry, frightened and very unsure British State may be the very thing that makes the people of the Scotland question about the ‘benefits’ of the Union.

Yep, the people who advocate the British State may cheer and feel comforted at this very moment …but that warm glow will begin to fade as we near the date for the invoking of Article 50.

Oops!

Looks like Mayhem arrived too late in Glasgow this morning to use the phone box outside her propaganda studios and was forced to sneak into the SECC then. 😀

If this is a prime example of the “resurgence” of the Xenophobic Tory party in Scotland then I’d hate to see what their “conference” would look like if they were in decline! 😀

There’s a few ways of countering the unionists “what are you going do to do about the £15 billion defict”.

First is as some do, say that GERS is just an estimate and a poor one. And that it reflects Scotland in the UK, not independent Scotland.

Second is as I’ve been doing, point out that according to GERS the onshore deficit has reduced from 17.8% in 2009-10, to 10.1% in 2015-16, and at that rate would be 2.4% by 2022.

Third is to point out that according to GERS the deficit is 9.5%, but the UK had a higher deficit of 11.1% in 2009-10 and that included all oil revenue. The UK borrowed, so would Scotland.

@me @12:36

Alec Salmond

link to youtube.com

Looks like one really cold winter would end Tory Rule in Scotland let alone a referendum.

I notice there doesn’t seem to be anyone there under 60.

Fluffy nearly crying, what is he doing with his hands? Clenching and unclenching his fists?

video here
link to twitter.com

I wonder if there could possibly be a part/time job there for me, I could call out the bingo numbers, but i don’t think the prize money would be worth winning, in fact my wages of £2.22 an hour would take up all the money collected i think
A well, back to the joke centre, that’s allways good for a little free heat and a good laugh

The Duke of Cumberland would have been very proud of those two sitting there at the front, wearing the butchers apron and calling themselves scottish….. UNBELIEVABLE !

Independent Scotland to remain in the EEA, in my opinion, is the clever option.

It would prove the hardest option for NO to campaign against.

Despite not being at the top-table in the EU alongside the mighty Malta. Scotland would still have a greater say than we have at present.

Fishing, agriculture no ifs, buts, totally within our control. Truly free to trade with anyone we would wish to.

EFTA have already said we would be welcome. An option rUK does not have.

@galamcennalath

Thanks for that from Mr Salmond.
He smashed a few 6’s to the boundary there with some aplomb.

That’ll raise a few eyebrows and ruffle feathers darn South.

I rather think it won’t be on shortbread tv tonight. Pity!

Are the two fashion gurus at the front maybe the carers for some of the more elderly activists?

BRING OOT YER DEID!

That Salmond interview is a beauty.

Especially because it shows that the bbc interviewer had absolutely no clue at all about the subject.

She clearly thought a few bullet points would be enough to shoot him down.

Back to the BBC trainee journalist school for her.

@ Shagpile 1:35

And where is the democratic mandate to pursue EEA as a solution to anything?

The SNP has a cast iron mandate NOT to exit the EU. That singular fact is THE reason we have another chance of Independence. Why piss it all that democratic legitimacy away, concede everything to Brexit, and from that hamstrung position of conceding defeat, then try to negotiate a new compensatory arrangement which has no democratic mandate, no formal National representation but self recognised “zonal” status, and can’t even secure sovereign assent if it did?

I despair. I really fecking do.

I wonder which one is Spanner.

Next Scottish FM speaks soon? Torygraph has a good old tory UK roaster sess to itself,

link to archive.is

“Ruth Davidson warns Nicola Sturgeon: Unionists would win second independence referendum by bigger margin

That Simon Johnstone’s a big tory dreamer, in fairness. Imagine a Scotland region of greater tory England, already reigning over us, and with future Baroness Ruth Davidson in charge, 2020?

I see they come dressed for either the Tory Conference or an Orange Walk, since they belong at both. Cut to video of Ruth Harrison drubbin the Lambeg Drum.

Mind you, to be fair to the knuckle-draggers, there is usually a bigger crowd at the Walk …

Today was TMay’s big chance to announce she will have direct talks about delivering Scotland’s wishes regarding single market membership.

She blew it. She threw down the gauntlet IMO.

So come in Nicola, lift it!

My (amateur armchair politician) approach would be to set the date of IndyRef2 for seven-ish months before Brexit with the proviso that it can be cancelled if UK/Eu negotiations are acceptable to the Scottish Parliament. Get the ball rolling.

Neo fascist Voice of the North Evening Express pile on. Ruth says ref 2 tory win 10% up on 2014,

“Speaking on the Good Morning Scotland programme she said: “You’ve got a nationalist Government, hell-bent on breaking us up, they told us it was a once in a generation decision. They didn’t like the result.

“Before the Scottish election Nicola Sturgeon said if she didn’t move public opinion she would have, even by her own measure, she would have no right to call another one.

“All we’ve had for nine months is rhetoric after rhetoric after rhetoric. Ramping it up about how she is going to go for that second independence referendum.”

Well why oh why doesn’t the whole tory millionaire/billionaire funded freak just hold ref 2? is the dumbest query you’ll hear all day, every day until.

I wonder if those wearing the union flag jackets realise how ridiculous they look.

But then maybe they are going to attend an orange order parade after May’s speech.

@ Chipmonkey

See you in Aberdeen 🙂

Spare a thought for the attendant with the bucket, shovelling sawdust under the seats!

Forget media spin. Read Theresa May’s actual unvarnished words. In Glasgow today she notified Scotland of a specific intention for Westminster to intervene in devolved areas to “improve outcomes” in Scotland. There is no other possible logical analysis of the following long passage:

Read the rest here

link to craigmurray.org.uk

The thing about the EEA is that it still requires the consent of the EU-27 for Scotland to join the EEA in our own right. Membership of EFTA does not give membership of the EEA.

There’s a lot of EU-27 support for Scotland remaining in the EU and that route to the EEA, it might not be the same for the EEA via EFTA.

Apart from that the SNP have a mandate for another Indy Ref to stay in the EU if the UK exists, they do not have a mandate to join EFTA and that route to the EEA.

The ScotGov paper talking about EFTA / EEA was as part of the UK, not about Independent Scotland joining EFTA.

Oh Jings! 😀

link to twitter.com

Check out the vid.

Give them nothing no white paper,no this is what we will do,keep our cards close to our chest so no sneaky tory can take a peek.

Last time we handed our strategy on a plate to them and gave them time to pick the places they wanted to fight.

Not this time!

independence means independence

DerekM says:

independence means independence

Exactly. Indy should be what the Scottish people make of it for themselves, by themselves.

That alone should be the theme of IndyRef2. Broad brush, who is best to rule Scotland!? We are!

Ok, have some answers ready for difficult questions but the main case should be about democratic fundamentals.

One more re NI elections.

link to opendemocracy.net

I wonder if the fluffster is even aware that it’s not a matter of want?

I mean he does realise that it’s a case of action and consequence, right?

Two referendums, two constitutionally incompatible outcomes. One legally binding, the other being made legally binding as we speak.

The Scottish electorate made a choice both times. Now for their government and parliament to act, a third choice looks likely to be necessary, but that is entirely down to PM May. Either the choices made by the Scottish electorate will be respected by the unelected PM of the UK, or they won’t.

The choices of the Scottish electorate as they stand are to retain, if possible, membership of both unions. The FM duly obliged and explored this path, collected the necessary expertise and data, then presented the conclusions as a proposal to Westminster and the PM. Over to you Ms May.

Her choice, not the Scottish First Ministers, but the UK PM’s will determine whether there is an indyref likely or not.

If the answer to the proposals is a firm ‘no chance’ to the Scottish electorate? Then it will be for the Scottish electorate to decide whether they like that answer from PM May or not. The FM in this instance is merely a facilitator, a conduit for the will of the electorate. THAT is the reality. PM May isn’t speaking to FM Sturgeon, she’s speaking to you, the public.

She’s not slapping down, kicking, or battering the FM regardless of what the frothing windae lickers of the UK meeja would have you believe. She’s slapping down, kicking and battering you and your choices, your decisions.

Just a bit of perspective.

The hard core Tory support, and May still doesn’t get a standing ovation from the entire crowd!

Just so so Funny – Yeah!

It makes the Labour conference look busy in comparison. Even the Lib-Dem may be able to beat that.

You think they could have bussed up some folk from London to pad out the seating Perhaps the Southern Tories are just giving up on Scotland completely.

I wonder how Ruthy is going to become First Minister with all that backing.

Lol Lol Lol.

Freedo:

I’ve just seen your post, will do, Thanks again.

Peace Always

Oh these idiots are so far out their depth its bewildering.

Have you ever wondered who the UK owes 1.9 trillion,well you see there was this group of countries and they created a union and a new currency,to go with this currency they created a bank which would lend money to the countries in the union.

Anybody else think the troika might want their money back?

Look at their average age…. that’s a small crowd but a large proportion of senior citizens, they will eventually be outnumbered.

Ha ha that woman at the back is auld maggie thatcher,and wot about those two wae the jackets,they look actual ridiculous,one wouldn’t even where those ragsto a fancy dress party lol!

Well I’m sure they all went to the toilet at the same time, and that explains the empty seats.

However it’s heartwarming to see Theresa May’s sister and Ruth Davidson’s sister show support in their Union Jack suits.

@ Breeks,

Good luck with that 😉

@ indyref2,

Guess we’d better just give up on independence because we are just too wee, poor and stupid right enough.

@Shagpile
Don;t be daft. It’s the reality, the facts, the truth. I said nothing about whether an application to EFTA would be successful, or whether through EFTA an application to the EEA would be successful.

Personally I think if we’re a YES in autumn 2018 we’ll stay in the EU on an observer status while our actual application wends its way through on an expedited basis as we already meet the acquis, and meet most of the other conditions required, bar central bank and currency – netiher of which are hard to do.

As a serious suggestion, it will be interesting to see if the hall is filled tomorrow, in which case perhaps Conservative supporters in Scotland stayed away from being seen with May and her toxic Westminster Tories.

Well, I’m with Breeks on this one. The EUref result was to stay in, no more no less. As galamcennalath reminds us, the EEA/EFTA thing was a compromise proposal put forward by the SG to demonstrate, despite all the Tory rhetoric, that it is not hell-bent on “separation” at all costs. If rejected, it serves to demonstrate unequivocally that all the BritNats are interested in is a unitary UK that aims to snuff Scotland out as even a vaguely-autonomous entity.

But if the EEA/EFTA compromise fails, it’s full-bore for indy as the fangs of Brexit start to draw blood. Having the support of the EU behind us will help, not hinder.

And the campaign has to be “broad-brush, who’s best in charge?”. Steady as she goes for now, the least upheaval possible in very fluid circumstances, and after the dust has settled, we can get down to working out our future for ourselves.

The only thing I disagree with galamcennalath is his proviso for cancellation. As Prof. Devine says, you can’t march people up to the top of the hill then down again without losing credibility. (Think El Gordo.)

There is always some possibility that perfidious Albion will do a last-minute Brexit-lite deal to save the City of London, or even that Brexit runs aground completely as cold reality finally dawns, but we’re still better out of all of that, whatever.

We can then choose our own way of facing up to EU membership and everything else besides, in our own way, in our own time. What’s not to like?

Macart @2.46
Sam, you may recall my bit of whimsy over on WGD on Wednesday, forecasting the usual SNP BAD tropes and musing that we should play SNP BAD Bingo, just to keep us awake.
Day 1, and I’ve nearly got a full house: I’m waiting for Mundell to bring up the £15 billion deficit.
May’s speech was unbelievably bad.
Scotland is shite and it’s all that Nicola Sturgeon’s fault.
England is in melt down. England’s Health Service is in serious diffs, ripe for privatisation, Police cuts by 27% over the last 4 years, 20,000 police officers sacked, so some paedophiles will not be punished, hard Brexit will actually cost more than continuing in the EU, May and Davidson abandoning the day job because they are fixated with the constitution, and getting the feck out of Europe, but will cease to trade with Scotland, and so on.
Alex Salmond ripped the lungs out of some BBC 24 News lass who fired a series of smirking patronising superior questions at him.
‘Nicola Sturgeon is ‘scared’ to call another Referendum.’
Idiot woman mouthing a Yoon ‘line to take’ propaganda rant.
Jackie Baillie sitting in the Great Presence letting May spout the same old guff, without challenge.
Well done, lass, your job’s secure at the Beeb.
Is there any truth in the rumour that Hertz and Europcar were hiring out Zimmers by the day with a discount for the whole week end?
The Sterodent stall, a major sponsor (?) was doing great business, and the restaurant was offering steak and chips, with an added supplement to cover the waitress cutting up the customer’s meat for them.
Who the feck hired the hall?
What a massive Presentational blunder.
Was it Ruth? Is she so fixated with NS that she ordered them to hire the same venue as the SNP expecting a 12,000 sell out?
There were maybe 500 or 600 hundred, plus a couple hundred more Dead Tree Scrollers, broadcasters and 150 MI6 Homeland Security bods.
Mundell has completely lost it. On Neil’s wee programme he was ranting and raving. The archetype Loon Yoon.
He repeated the mantra which I forecast in my post,o nWednesday, and Treeza ra Beeza regurgitated the could/should nonsense in her Bird Spot. (Not a question of could but should there be a second Ref.)
They refuse to threaten that WM would block Indyref 2. That way would be political suicide.
As Salmond observed, nobody voted for May as PM.
And her speech shows why she was shuffled into the job. Nobody else wanted it.
Loving the whole farce.
The Dim but Nice Listory Boy9Jaimie Green?) with the beard and the Ranjurs tie must have made the Union Jack girls feel as they were at an OO rally.
I’d hold off on Indyref 2 for another 18 months and let Nature take its course.
What a disaster. Just when we thought nothing could top Khan’s racist nonsense.

Why do you think that the Tory and quasi-Tory Blue-Red BritNats are so anxious to order us that we don’t want another indyref now?

Remember the wise adage: what your opponents are most anxious to avoid is the very thing that gives you strength.

As for the Tory line that we must respect the result of 2014, the reposte is very easy:

“You didn’t respect the result of 2014 first, with your cynical reneging of the Vow!”

I wandered lonely as a Tory
That floats on high o’er Brexit’s ills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of purple seats, unfilled.

Robert J. Sutherland says:

Tory line that we must respect the result of 2014

Everyone seems to have respected it EXCEPT the Tories!

If they had left things as ‘No means No’ (and nothing else) in the run up to IndyRef1, then they would have lost. So they changed their pitch to ‘No means lots of promises and guarantees’, and accordingly they won.

Having won, they swapped it all to ‘No means EVEL, DevoFA and Brexit’.

Respect!? Tories have got no comprehension what that means.

Just had a look at Scottish Tory Twitter photos and the hall is packed…have they been doctoring their photos? No they wouldn’t would they?

@
Shagpile says:
3 March, 2017 at 2:17 pm

” … Without a cast iron guarantee from the EU we will remain part of the EU on existing terms… which is hardly likely to be forthcoming … “

Don’t talk pish, Shagpile.

Fact 1 :- Each and every person who is mainly resident in Scotland and is registered to vote in Scottish elections is already a citizen of the EU.

Fact 2 :- The people of Scotland have been EU citizens since ever there was an EU.

Fact 3 :- The EU has no rules, laws, or other legal mechanisms, to expel any EU citizen against that EU citizen’s will.

Fact 4 :- The EU has no rules, laws, or other legal mechanisms, to expel any EU Member State against that EU Member States democratic will.

Which is why they will not even discus Brexit with the de facto Parliament of England until there has been a request, (an Article 50), request formally submitted to the EU via the EU’s Civil Service, (i.e. “The EC”).

Fact 5 : – What all that means in practice is that the entire raison d’être of the EU is to unify, and to equalise, both the rights of EU citizenship and of all EU State’s membership.

If the EU were to throw out either a citizen or a member state against their will then the EU would have lost all credibility to be a European Union.

If they did throw out the citizens of Scotland against their will then neither existing Member States nor EU member citizens could legally trust the EU parliament ever again.

It is one of the EU’s laws that any EU Citizen who, anywhere in the World, finds themselves in trouble with either an EU or Non-EU government, Monarchy or Dictatorship has the legal right to ask for shelter or aid from any EU Member state’s Embassy.

The EU simply cannot throw out a member State or citizen as it is against EU law to do so. The trouble is that the UK is not legally a unified country.

The United Kingdom is exactly what its title describes it as. It is not now, and it never has been, a single Unified Country. In fact it is being run at present as four distinct countries but is in fact a bipartite union of Kingdoms.

It is NOT, “The United Countries Of Great Britain & Northern Ireland”, but is, “The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland”, and, in 1707, there were only two existing kingdoms.

The birth Certificate that records The United Kingdom’s birth has only the signatures of these two Kingdoms of Scotland & England. Neither the former Kingdom of Ireland nor the Principality of Wales were required to sign the Treaty because they were/are annexed parts of the Kingdom of England long before 1707.

Thus all the EU parliament needs do is point out to Westminster that as the Kingdom of Scotland voted to remain in the EU then the EU cannot legally throw The Kingdom of Scotland out but as the Kingdom of England democratically voted to leave, (and will then have formally requested to do so with an Article 50 request), then to stick by EU rules the Kingdom of Scotland remains and the Kingdom of England should be careful as they leave that the EU door does not bruise their, rather prominent, derrière.

Proud Cybernat, galamcennalath,

Not to forget Jakey’s marital analogue about how the about-to-leave spouse can expect super-improved treatment if they decide to stay after all.

I don’t understand how any student of human behaviour (such as a novelist) who sincerely used that hoary old plotline can possibly still believe it now, yet to her great discredit she has never admitted (in public at least) that the real situation is an abusive relationship that hasn’t improved in the least. On the contrary, the abuser has become ever more irrational and threatening instead.

But I would hug her too (metaphorically speaking, natch!), if she still had the good grace to recognise the truth.

Been following the conference proceedings sporadically and playing catch up by dropping in on Wings twitter.

Dear God! Someone send on those lads from the Full Monty.

Maybe perk things up a bit. 🙂

Those conf pics are the only reason I can think of for ending free prescriptions

The over-abundance of vacant space suggests poor judgement and inefficiency in decision-making. A true expression of conservative values there, not.

British nationalism, eh? Probably unique in being (neo)liberal, culturally and ethnically chauvinistic and authoritarian in nature, yet managing not to be nationalistic and racist. IMHO, that’s certainly a mystery in the cognition of space and time, frankly.

Anyhoo, here’s some black metal to explain it all. Or is it the other one?

Kenny and the Night Riders – Andromeda
link to youtube.com

P.S. anyone else getting the sense that ruthless Ruth Harrison is little more than a cartoon character? If it wasn’t for the BBC pimping her, I’m sure more would see the grotesque, snarling caricature she presents. As for her boss? I’d best not go there.

The white haired chap at the back must be the Grim Reaper.

link to twitter.com

@Capella
I thought it looked like one of the delegates had passed away. Maybe bored to death.

Macart, Mundell was quite simply alarming on Neil’s show. I’d venture that he needs help. It’s all getting just a little too much for him.
They all repeat the mantra: ‘The Scottish people don’t want a second Referendum.’
They know fine well that they are lying, but hope that by repetition the lie will stick.
Can’t wait for Dave Ruthison’s Rally the Troops speech.
Will the , ahem, more senior delegates last the pace?
My Everlovin’ informs me that the Lib Dems were enquiring about hiring my manshed for their Spring Break? Rumble, Bumble, Fumble, Wery ‘Umble, and Rennie. Can’t wait for that one.
What the past two weeks has highlighted is how really amateurish the Scottish Yoons are.
Somebody should do a word count to tally the number of times ‘SNP’ has been mentioned at Yoon Get Togethers.

galamcennalath,

The one useful thing about a crisis, whether personal or social-political, is that it exposes us as we truly are.

Judging by those Phantom Power videos, there are many who have passed this latest test with honour, sometimes, one imagines, despite their social bindings. So maybe there’s hope even for Jakey yet (he says, whistling a happy tune)…

O/T I’m hearing frequent mentions of possible Kremlin interference in the US elections, but nothing about that Cambridge Analytica crew.

Some nice big close-ups and low angles on the BBC to disguise the fact the hall was half-empty After mocking the small group of protestors outside too.

Bastards.

Big screen in that hall.

‘NO TO A SECOND REFERENDUM’ in mahoosive letters.

I’m seeing a pattern forming… 😉