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  1. Mark Beggan says:

    Mr Cairns just gets better and better.

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    • Peter McAvoy says:

      Now this trans rubbish has been defeated,I would like to know why did so many high profile women stayed silent?

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    • Nae Need! says:

      He does, doesn’t he.

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  2. Simone says:

    Brilliant

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  3. duncanio says:

    Women are adult human females

    Bears do nasty things in the woods

    The Pontiff is the head of the Church of Rome

    Coming soon:

    Alex Salmond was stitched-up by redactions.

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    • Heaver says:

      And the scottish media is a bunch of worthless slithering lying mercenaries.

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  4. Newburghgowfer says:

    ?? Brilliant

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  5. silverfox says:

    That’s a cracker.!!!

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  6. Frank Gillougley says:

    Who knew eh?

    I keep on thinking of the myth of Babel and the sheer voluminous cacophony all this kerfuffle generated, the wholly fallacious reasoning of confirmation bias, the mass scamming and consequent mutilations and the endless queue of institutions and dullard politicians all signing up for this nonsense that said THEY were God!

    That is some mess that is all going to have to be cleaned up. Psychotherapists will be engaged for aeons to come. Ker-ching. How sad. How sad it truly is for all concerned.

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    • Alf Baird says:

      “Psychotherapists will be engaged for aeons to come”

      You are not wrong Frank, for there is always a pathology associated with colonialism (Cesaire) which evidently has a significant impact on the colonized group psyche, as well as on the colonizer (Memmi; Fanon); indeed, colonialism ‘is based on psychology’.

      link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

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      • Chas says:

        Same shite as usual Alfie boy.

        Plus the 736th link to some mince written by a closed, one track mind.

        Change the record.

      • Oneliner says:

        Thanks for the cartoon, Chris
        Thanks for the link, Alf

      • twathater says:

        Same shite as usual Chasie dick , still nothing constructive to contribute just like yir fellow yoonies fuckwit

    • Nae Need! says:

      It IS truly sad.
      The damage that has been done.
      The mess that has been created, for no ‘need’, only the ‘want’ of a few.
      Shocking!

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  7. SilentMajority says:

    Very good!

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  8. Dave M says:

    Brilliant

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  9. Effijy says:

    Very supple Chris!
    Well done.
    Are Bears Catholic? lol

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    • Skip_NC says:

      Well, as everyone who follows hand-egg (which America insists on calling football) knows the Bears come from Chicago, which has a pretty big Roman Catholic population. So the answer to your question is “Yes.”

      Cracking cartoon today. I only woke up ten minutes ago so it took me a few seconds. Then the house shook as I laughed.

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  10. Next up for Supreme Court,

    Can you ,in reality, be both British and Scottish,

    can you exist in two different places at the same time,

    or is that cognitive delusion and not based on fact.

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    • Alf Baird says:

      As you imply, Scot, an imperial supreme court is seldom an appropriate place to consider opinion on self-determination of subordinated peoples and colonial territories. But then, the SNP elite appears ignorant of that fact as they have ‘never undertaken a reasoned study of colonial society’ (Fanon).

      On the matter of a colonized people assuming another national identity as a key aim in the colonial hoax; yes, Indians, Kenyan’s, Irish, Scots and many other ‘peoples’ were made to think of themselves as British, and some still do. But as the author of ‘Culture & Imperialism’ Professor Edward Said explained, this is a ‘cultural illusion’, and for Scots a ‘false persona’ (Purves).

      Here we return to the realisation that colonialism ‘is based on psychology’ and that among every colonized people there are those who “suffer from a dependency complex, who are psychologically made for dependence, who need dependence, they crave it, demand it” (Cesaire). There is no shortage of such people in Scotland, as in any colony, and who oppose thay’re ain leeberty an haud doun thay’re ain fowk.

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      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Colonialism “is based on psychology”.

        And there was me thinking it was based on nasty people with more or better weapons invading, destroying, slaying, imprisoning and evicting the rightful occupants.

        Truly every day a school day on Wings BTL!

        But let’s get the message out to the rightful occupants of that Eastern European country, currently in its fourth year of being colonised.

        Tell them it’s all psychological messing in their heids!

      • Alf Baird says:

        The conflict you refer to occurred because, among other reasons, U imposed the U language on the R speaking community mainly in the east of the country and banned teaching R language and imposed restricted public usage of the R language in U.

        Such linguistic imperialism is about imposing oppressive cultural change which in turn impacts the psyche of the oppressed group and in time alters their national identity.

        Scots (and other colonized peoples) believing they are British/English is a case in point, and likewise arguably a consequence of cultural and linguistic imperialism. Hence as you say, “psychological messing in their heids”, and the condition known as ‘colonial mindset’.

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Aye, Alf, “they had it coming” continues to be a staple of a certain cadre of the Indy supporters.

        The central belt of Scotland is hoaching with English speakers. Many of them of recent English descent. Yet you frequently post on here that we in an independent Scotland must all read, write and speak Scots.

        To be consistent then, you’ll have to support England when she invades, wrecks a quarter of the country, kills a few hundred thousand of us and kidnaps our kids to take them south of the border, so they can be taught their native country is an artificial construct with no right to exist.

        I’ll be charitable and say you really haven’t thought this through. But only because it’s you.

      • Alf Baird says:

        “support England when she invades”

        England has been here for ower three hunner year, after annexing Scotland in 1707. Why did you think Scots want independence?

      • Young Lochinvar says:

        It’s cargo culture Alf.

        Ignore the trolls..

      • Hatey McHateface says:

        Young Lochinvar says:

        “Ignore the trolls when they post awkward facts”

        Sah! Yes sah!

    • Not another one says:

      Is that the recently defined Dempsie Paradox? , being in 2 different postcodes at the same time?

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  11. fillofficer says:

    simply superb
    bravo chris

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  12. diabloandco says:

    Love it!

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  13. Old John says:

    The evisceration of the deluded, wonderfully demonstrated, without any words required.
    Robert Burns wrote that “Facts are chiels that winna ding”,
    and three facts are
    The Pope is a Catholic
    Bears shit in the woods
    A woman is an adult human female.
    It says that something is amiss in our collective consciousness, when it was necessary to petition the highest court in the land in order to affirm the last of those three facts.

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  14. Annemariedoc says:

    Brilliant
    Some paid a high price in this insanity. Real bravery is standing up to the cult. Precious few so called representatives of the people showed that courage.

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  15. Wilma Watts says:

    His best yet. ?

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  16. Ronnie says:

    How come nay rocket surgery?

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  17. PacMan says:

    I wonder where all the righteous indignation from the straight, middle class Trans allies are when the outcome of this ruling is that the small number of Trans people have to use unisex toilets in the workplace (which most likely considering the small number of them, they and their team will be moved to the same floor which has them) and the hospitality industry offers something similar?

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    • Mark Beggan says:

      They can clear out the disabled toilets that were being used as storage.

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  18. Gregory Beekman says:

    LOL!!!

    Thanks, I needed that laugh today! Pure brilliant!!

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  19. Jim Bo says:

    Very good Chris, thanks for the laugh!

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  20. Frazerio says:

    Naked Emperor just out of shot.

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  21. Young Lochinvar says:

    Question:
    If Trannies are to be afforded the expensive luxury of their own toilets, then what ISO Standards approved pictograms will the door sign have? A teapot??

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      A garden shears probably covers most variations.

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      • Marie says:

        Why? It’s only very recently that most people have come to realise that gender identity theory is based on what gender you FEEL you are on any given day, hour, week, month. That’s why the ideology destroys the entire concept of safeguarding of women and girls. No surgical operation is required.

  22. agent x says:

    “Mhairi Black: Misogyny underpins this ‘protecting of women and girls”
    link to thenational.scot
    ——————————————–

    Oh dear – failed SNP MP is not happy.
    Good.

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  23. twathater says:

    Brilliant depiction of the imbecility of the politicians that this needed to be shown to them, well done Chris

    As a SOVEREIGN Scot I demand that EVERY POLITICIAN who voted for this abhorrent despicable GRA in HR RESIGN IMMEDIATELY for their REFUSAL to accept their abject stupidity and for the gross financial and socialogical impact this lunacy has wrought on Scottish society , are you listening Alex Cole scuttle “I DID IT FOR BETH” you moronic piece of shit

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    • Hatey McHateface says:

      As a SOVEREIGN Scot I demand more money, a bigger house and some wheels powered by a V8.

      I guess I will be just as disappointed as you, TH.

      For now then, I’ll settle for some of what you’re drinking. Slainte Mhath!

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  24. Mark Beggan says:

    Female Toilets. The Tranny’s favourite place until Wednesday. Have no fear Man in Skirt Swinney The Ass licker is crawling about the excrement as we speak.

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  25. James says:

    Outstanding. Laughed so hard.

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  26. PacMan says:

    It doesn’t look good for those in support of Trans

    link to archive.is

    A former civil servant who played a key role in drafting the Equality Act has said the supreme court’s ruling about the legal definition of a woman contradicted the act’s original intentions.

    Melanie Field, who oversaw its drafting and passage through Westminster in 2010, said the legislation was meant to give transgender people with gender recognition certificates (GRCs) the same legal status as biological men or women.

    She said that treating trans women with GRCs as women in relation to sex discrimination protections was “the clear premise” of the policy and legal instructions to the officials who drafted the bill.

    The supreme court’s ruling on Wednesday that the legal definition of “woman” referred only to biological women was “a very significant” reinterpretation of parliament’s intentions when it passed the Equality Act 2010 and the Gender Recognition Act 2004, she said.

    Straight from the horses mouth.

    While this ruling was caused by a policy of the Scottish government, it was actually caused by Westminster by allowing woman’s safe space to be accessed by Transwomen.

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    • Young Lochinvar says:

      Oh dear PacMan
      That’s not going to go down too well with the John Bull constants on here 🙂

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    • Nae Need! says:

      Pacman, AFAIK, that’s why we now really need the GRA 2004 to be repealed. The GRA 2004 was installed under Tory watch, I believ

      I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong.

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      • PacMan says:

        This is what Ruby who used to post here said all along.

        It was brought in under Labour but the Tories could have replead it but haven’t. Both are culpable.

        As to this current debacle, it was caused by the pretendy parliament in Holyrood, overseen by it’s colonial masters in Westminster.

      • agent x says:

        But the Scottish government love the GRA 2004 so much that they would reduce the age to 16 and remove the obligation to have medical input!

        That’s what an Independent SNP Government would have been able to do without challenge.

      • crazycat says:

        Yes, you are wrong.
        Labour was in power from 1997 till 2010. Both the GRA (2004) and Equality Act (2010) were their shambles.

      • PacMan says:

        agent x says: 19 April, 2025 at 8:49 pm

        But the Scottish government love the GRA 2004 so much that they would reduce the age to 16 and remove the obligation to have medical input!

        That’s what an Independent SNP Government would have been able to do without challenge.

        Let’s imagine two scenario’s.

        One with the what happened with the GRA level in place at Westminster level and one where the GRA legislation wasn’t introduced.

        Which of these scenario’s do you think would make it easier and less political damaging for the SNP to introduce their legislation at Holyrood?

        Lets imagine another scenario, the one you described under an independent Scotland. How much easier and less political damaging would it be for any political party to introduce the legislation without having the crutch of using another legislative bodies framework?

    • agent x says:

      “While this ruling was caused by a policy of the Scottish government, it was actually caused by Westminster by allowing woman’s safe space to be accessed by Transwomen.”
      —————————————————

      The Supreme Court Judgment specifically states that the relevant Acts did NOT allow trans to access single sex places.

      The horses mouth in this case did not understand the law that she drafted.

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    • agent x says:

      “(23) Invalidity of the Scottish Government’s Guidance
      266. For all these reasons, we conclude that the Guidance issued by the Scottish
      Government is incorrect. A person with a GRC in the female gender does not come within
      the definition of “woman” for the purposes of sex discrimination in section 11 of the EA
      2010. That in turn means that the definition of “woman” in section 2 of the 2018 Act,
      which Scottish Ministers accept must bear the same meaning as the term “woman” in
      section 11 and section 212 of the EA 2010, is limited to biological women and does not
      include trans women with a GRC. Because it is so limited, the 2018 Act does not stray
      beyond the exception permitted in section L2 of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act into
      reserved matters. Therefore, construed in the way that we have held it is to be construed,
      the 2018 Act is within the competence of the Scottish Parliament and can operate to
      encourage the participation of women in senior positions in public life.”
      ————————————–

      The Scottish Government interpreted the Equality Acts WRONG.

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      • Young Lochinvar says:

        How much, in the round, has been spent on this crap in the“UK” ?
        As a whole?

        How many public funded posts, so called “charities”, quangos, NHS funded operations cost and the list goes on and on.

        Then how much have “UK” wide political parties benefitted from funding from lobbying organisations promoting this guff?

        I’ll bet the latter is less than the former but wouldn’t it just be good to know how many “greenbacks” have changed hands over the course of this bourach and who the financial beneficiaries have been..

        Politicians all claim they are transparent, so come on, and put away the redacting hidey-hole black pens eh?!

        We’re waiting; elections coming up (here at least) an’ that..

        Personally I applaud the WFS doing a Samson act and pulling their rotten temple down around their ears!

        Tick tock degenerates; you’ve been rumbled..

  27. Nae Need! says:

    Oh, VERY good, Chris.
    Clever.
    Thank you.
    🙂

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  28. Former President Xiden says:

    I see the First Cuck has convened a conference to highlight the threat of the ‘far right’. That’s something else I will file under ‘imaginary threats and distractions’.’ Perfectly in keeping with authoritarian regimes to manufacture fictitious enemies to distract from their own failings mind you.

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    • Andrew scott says:

      First kuck
      Replace the k with a c the 3rd letter c with an n and the last letter with a t
      Sorted

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  29. Jerry Carroll says:

    Yassssssss!! Think that’s the first time I’ve properly laughed out loud at a print cartoon
    Excellent work from holiday boy

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  30. Mark Beggan says:

    When will it sink into the few genuine Transvestites that they have been completely and utterly used by the Scottish government for it’s own purposes.

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  31. Confounder says:

    Whatever else you think of this site, the cartoons are bloody excellent.

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  32. BLMac says:

    If we are going to have special toilet facilities for biological men who believe they are women, what about other people who believe they are something they are not?
    If I believe I’m actually Louis XIV of France will there be a golden chamberpot provided with a servant to wipe my reeking fundament?
    What about other people who have delusions? Will they get special facilities too?
    Historically we did have special facilities, they called them asylums.

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  33. Cuilean says:

    Chris, I just saw this and I think this is the funniest piece of political satire I have EVER seen. I’ll be laughing all day.

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