Unhinged Malady
Yesterday the Scottish media gave Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman what she’s never willingly given anyone else – a platform on which to make her case.
Most did a very poor job challenging her on her outrageous comments about the Supreme Court, with BBC Radio Scotland’s Drivetime show being an especially wretched example of allowing the interviewee to ignore every question and then just ramble on endlessly about something else entirely, but LBC’s Gina Davidson was on top of her brief and put all the points that reasonable people wanted to be made, while giving Chapman ample time to answer uninterrupted.
Let’s break down how that went, with the help of our handy Bullshit Buzzer.
BZZT! Chapman seems to have inexplicably managed to confuse the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom with some sort of human-resources focus group. “Speaking to trans people” is not its job. Interpreting the law is its job.
BZZT! They really, really did, you know. The court heard the arguments of both sides at considerable length. The “trans” side of the argument was presented by extremely experienced counsel including Ruth Crawford KC, supported by an intervention from Amnesty International, paid for out of the essentially bottomless pockets of the Scottish Government against a small crowdfunded group of ordinary citizens.
The claim that only one side was heard by the court is some way beyond deranged even by Maggie Chapman’s debased standards.
BZZT! The court in fact explained all of the reasoning behind its ruling, including which interveners were accepted, in a thorough, comprehensive 88-page written judgment which is publicly available for anyone, including Maggie Chapman, to read.
BZZT! That question has been asked and answered scores and scores of times by lawyers and other legal experts. The Supreme Court only accepts interventions from individuals in very exceptional circumstances, which did not apply here.
So on we plough.
BZZT! See above. The court is not interested in whether its rulings will hurt anyone’s feelings or not. Its job is to consider legal arguments relating to interpretation of the law. When it’s specifically dealing with an appeal – as in this case – it does not hear evidence at all, because all of that was presented at the original hearing(s). An appeal considers only the preceding judgments and whether they were legally correct.
What’s next?
BZZT! This really isn’t how courts work. Most lawyers defending people accused of murder are not themselves murderers. Most lawyers defending alleged rapists are not themselves rapists. Nevertheless, the Scottish Government was perfectly at liberty to employ trans barristers and advocates to present its case if it had so chosen.
(As we noted yesterday, it had available options. Robin Barry White is a self-professed discrimination law specialist and would, we’re sure, have happily taken on the job.)
Perhaps more to the point, though, Chapman’s claim is a flat-out lie. Because Amnesty’s lawyer was Lui Asquith, who identifies as both trans and non-binary.
(AND as “queer”, for even more oppression points. And sometimes as a woman and sometimes as a man. So we’re talking really pretty darn trans here.)
Until 2023 Asquith was also the legal and policy manager at trans charity Mermaids.
Which leads us neatly to the next section.
BZZT! Furthermore, as pointed out by Gina Davidson, trans advocacy groups could have applied to intervene, but didn’t even try. Chapman’s feeble excuse for their failure to do so was that they feared “consequences”. What sort of consequences?
BZZT! This is a really quite disgraceful slur on the Charity Commission to add to Chapman’s attack on the Supreme Court. She can only be referring to the Commission’s investigation into Mermaids in November 2022, which was initiated not as some sort of “punishment beating” for speaking up for trans people (as shamefully claimed by transactivist KC Jolyon Maugham of the Good Law Project, who has transed two of his own children).
(Why yes, since you ask, that IS the same person as this Jolyon Maugham.)
The investigation was in fact triggered in response to the findings of an internal inquiry commissioned by Mermaids itself, which highlighted major failures in governance.
Chapman appears to believe that trans organisations should be allowed to conduct their businesses free of any sort of criticism or scrutiny whatsoever – a privilege enjoyed by nobody else in the country, including the King.
BZZT! As a point of fact, it DOES mean exactly that. The Supreme Court is the final court of appeal in matters of Scottish or UK law. There is no superior authority. Once the Supreme Court has made a ruling, that’s it. You just have to suck it up.
BZZT! At this point Chapman stuttered and stammered and tried to find a way to squirm out of what she’d said by insisting that she hadn’t named any individuals when accusing the court of “bigotry, prejudice and hatred”, although the identities of the judges who made the ruling are public knowledge and there’s nobody else she could have been referring to.
She insisted that because sexism, transphobia and homophobia exist in society, it logically followed that some of the country’s laws must somehow be transphobic, thereby presumably adding the drafters of the Equality Act 2010 to the list of people she was calling bigots, alongside the Supreme Court and the Charity Commission.
BZZT! Audaciously, Chapman then tried to present the Scottish Parliament as a body that could somehow fix the (unspecified) problems in the Equality Act, despite the Scottish Parliament’s last attempt at legislating gender issues – the Gender Recognition Reform Act – having been perhaps the worst trainwreck in Holyrood’s history and having been thrown out for being legally incompetent after doing untold and irreparable damage to the Parliament’s reputation.
BZZT! The Scottish Greens were instrumental in excluding misogyny from the disastrous, much-mocked Hate Crime Act, and the separate anti-misogyny bill and the controversial, homophobic, child-endangering proposed conversion-practices bill have been booted into the long grass since the end of the Bute House Agreement.
Ironically, mostly because the transgender ramifications of both would result in another catastrophic legislative failure like that of the GRR as well as being toxically unpopular with the public.
Hang in there, folks, we’re getting near the end now.
BZZT! Never mind an MSP publicly undermining pretty much every lawful authority in Scotland and the UK, and taken part in protests openly calling for violence against women, something much more important has happened – TRANS PEOPLE ARE “CONCERNED”! SCREW THE LAW! STOP EVERYTHING AND PANDER TO THEM!
BZZT! Yes. Yes they will. Because transwomen are male. That was the whole point.
BZZT! Incredibly, Chapman really does seem to have completely failed to grasp what happened last week. The court’s judgment was extremely clear that the idea of “case by case” decisions was not acceptable, and that “blanket” rulings in such matters were indeed the intention and meaning of the law. Therefore, male officers must search male people, female officers must search females. Biology, not feelings, is the determining factor.
BZZT! So the position taken by the Supreme Court WAS “transphobic” and bigoted after all? Make your mind up, Maggie. But it’s interesting to hear about how many politicians are apparently willing to speak up for these views, given that we’re constantly told by Chapman and her ilk that the GRR was passed by an “overwhelming” majority of MSPs from every party at Holyrood, no?
Where have they been all this time?
BZZT! Chapman doesn’t “condone” the violent banners and threats, but can’t bring herself to condemn them either, and anyway it’s okay because trans people are “scared” of having to obey the law and pee in the proper toilets like everyone else, and in any event she won’t be apologising for massively inflaming the situation because she’s a “legislator” and (more importantly) a transactivist and therefore seemingly not answerable or accountable for anything she says.
So that’s that all cleared up, then. Phew!
“Unhinged Malady”
One shudders to imagine just exactly who, “Hungers for her touch”.
I doubt the Righteous Bros ever had her in mind back in the 1960s.
Peter McColl.
Can’t this freak just finally FUCK OFF? Seriously. Enough of this psychotic African gibberish. Life’s too short.
A great take down – I commend you Sir, that must have been really hard going.
Ms. Chapman’s musings are clearly the ramblings of a severely psychotic individual.
£72000 per year, plus £23000 expenses. That’s what she gets from us.
She’s not mad, it’s a racket.
There must be a law in Scotland that can be used to remove public servants with this level of incompetence. She is clearly inciting public discourse. She’s no better than Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon.
Westminster politicians are awful
I hate them
I think they are dishonest and detached from reality
I think they are incompetent
I’d love to be rid of the lot of them
With that in mind
Concentrate on the following statement
I refuse to vote for indy until idiots like Chapman are in Holyrood
As I see no reason why indy would do anything other then to empower her
I, sadly, have to agree. I will not be voting for indy while this current crop of Green and SNP loons have any chance of forming another government. The level of institutional capture over the last decade has been frightening.
Oh dear Lord, how much more of this must we bear? These lazy parasites could have campaigned for third spaces or unisex spaces (not disabled, they are for disabled people and, often babies, too, and they do not want ‘trans’ identified men spreadeagled on the floor, dilating their ‘holes’ which are, sometimes, augmented with bits of colon).
They thought it was such a wheeze, though, to oust women and girls from their spaces instead. Women had to fight tooth and nail to get their spaces, and they were, in the early days, often financed by funding appeals. The very first female public toilet was burned to the ground by angry men who wanted females to stay at home.
That woman, so captured that she simply cannot understand anything about legislation or the UKSC or any court, for that matter, has the absolute audacity to call herself a politician. If she is not at least formally disciplined for her illegal outbursts that breach parliamentary standards, too, we will know that the SG has no intention of bringing any legal form to its proposed guidance this summer.
I fear that it will try everything to weasel out of implementing the ruling properly, and will try to find loopholes and grey areas in which to ensure that women’s spaces are still under threat. Strange, isn’t it, how, when the men hit a legal brick wall, the ‘trans’ identified women are wheeled out to provide cover again. Most of the time, they don’t exist.
Some of the ‘women’ I have listened to in the past few days are so male-supporting, they must keep their brains in their knickers, and have lost all reason. I really do believe that there is something missing in some female brains in relation to men. It might well be biological – in which case, advocating for these men could be said to be a female trait that is self-destructive.
I don’t know, but some of them are definitely missing the part of the brain that reasons. So little sympathy and/or empathy from these handmaidens that cannot see that their own sex makes them as vulnerable as every other woman and girl. How they have reached their 20s without having been sexually assaulted, even in a small way, leaves me baffled. It is usually an obstacle course that most females must endure.
What a strange troubled person she is.
Possessed perhaps?!
Needs exorcised from Holyrood anyway, that’s for sure..
There are real issues going on in our country. Closure of our only oil refinery, while Labour give £600 million to the Chinese company to build one in Belgium. Our roads ard falling apart, children in poor families are starving and she gets ramped up about 0.04% of the population.
She is having a laugh and grifting and trough feeding.
A total disgrace with most of her party along with the SNP.
Unfortunately a few unionist MSPs are now standing out as better constituency MSPs except that the want to keep us bound to this awful union. Mind you so does SNP.
Ok I have said enough.
The Faculty of Advocates has accused Chapman (according to The National) of breaching the Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008 – under which MSPs must uphold the independence of the judiciary.
link to thenational.scot
Whilst this may be so, we hear nothing from the Faculty or the Scottish judiciary regarding the many ongoing breaches to the Treaty and Act of Union, of which the very creation of a UK Supreme Court is but one, Brexit another.
The Treaty of Union was and remains ‘conditional’, not least in regard to the Claim of Right Act 1689, the articles of which have been breached on numerous occasions.
The Faculty maintain that “all judges – are in post to apply the law. They do not take sides. They decide without fear or favour, consistently with the judicial oath.”
Yet in Scotland, and especially in respect of the Treaty and Act of Union, which is law (and indeed is all that protects what remains of the Scottish legal system itself), this does not appear to be the case.
Well said Alf…..
I said much the same thing on a previous post Alf ,the Justiciary within Scotland have been outraged and outspoken at the heresy of this fuckwit daring to challenge their respected (by whom)colleagues determination and ruling of this lunacy
But their SILENCE has been amplified by their blatant ignoring of the NUMEROUS breaches of that fabled respected SCOTS LAW that was PROTECTED and ENSHRINED in the TOU
Such HYPOCRISY how dare these supposedly eminent expert legal professionals bring their guns to bear on IMO a deluded mentally repugnant individual who REFUSES to understand that Scots law is sacrosanct and cannot be questioned (except when the illegal Supreme court of england choses to do so)
Quite honestly I have asked this question many times, WHY does our fabled respected law officers allow another countries legal officers to run ROUGHSHOD over our laws and legal system if they are so PROUD of it, does SHAME or an INFERIORITY COMPLEX explain it
Twathater
It’s the same as always – pretty wee baubles mesmerise them. A wee title & they’re sold.
Well said, Alf…
twathater: the judges cannot, unilaterally, interpret, remake or introduce laws. Someone has to take a case to them. That is how it works. No one has. Sturgeon tried to get them to rule that the SG had powers to overrule UK law, and that is simply not the case. Any rural solicitor could have told her that, let alone a UKSC judge. I have been calling for a SALVO/Liberation-style case for years, since Cameron and Boyle’s entirely false pronouncement that Scotland had been subsumed in 1707, and I was very pleased when Sara Sawyer’s and her colleagues did just that.
No one else has presented a case like the SALVO/Liberation case that has gone to the UN. It is one thing knowing that you have the right of it; it is another to actually put a case together and find a constitutional lawyer of sufficient calibre to present it. The Faculty of Advocates is a conservative (small ‘c’) organization and, I should imagine, fairly Unionist in outlook, as will be most judges. However, having said that, they would have judged the SALVO/Liberation case fairly, I think. Sometimes, the Faculty of Advocates and the judiciary have been far braver than any politician.
I firmly believe, Alf, had anyone brought a case before the Scottish courts, or even the UKSC, on the same evidenced lines as the SALVO/Liberation evidenced case, they would have had to find for rather than against. It’s just that no one did, despite lots of us screaming that they should. They were too feart to be handed independence, so they sabotaged every attempt to move forward, and would have sabotaged SALVO/Liberation as well had SALVO/Liberation not been smart enough to take it out of their hands. Remember, had FWS not taken this to the UKSC, men would still be commandeering every female space and the SG would have been cheering them on. For many women, this issue was almost as, and for others, more, important than independence.
I don’t think they would have. They’re an English court who only seen things through an English lens. They’ve practically ruled we’re colonised, cause, as if by magic, every countries constitution throughout the whole wide world relates to Scotland.
Indyref was never going to be fair within a domestic setting. Constitutional & International lawyers need to visit the actual contract regarding the Act of Union & the non negotiable Claim of Right before it.
Regards Gender woo was this not presented to the English court because the dunce at the Scottish one couldn’t interpret the law regarding the equality Act the first time?
Then there’s the current dunce sitting in Holyrood who couldn’t interpret it either regarding a referendum. Everyone & their dug knew a branch office, hog tied up in the Scotland Act, doesn’t get to announce a referendum.
& Dunlop couldn’t be arsed to read Salvos claim.
So there’s that morally upstanding faculty for us – their own position & titles will decide how they interpret things. Same as it always was. As Alf has said – they’ve had ample opportunity to do so regards the many violations to this union but don’t seem to bother their arse.
GERI: at the risk of being repetitive, you have to bring a case to court. Before SALVO/Liberation, no one had done so. The UKSC ruled out Holyrood’s have the powers to bring a referendum within the UK context – which was correct, constitutionally. Everyone knew that, but Sturgeon wanted to waste even more taxpayers’ money on a ruling which was self-evident.
The SALVO/Liberation constitutional case is very different and is backed by painstaking work and research, from the archives, from legal documents, from constitutional documents, from Hansard, etc. There is no way that any court could simply rule it out without months of debate, with both sides putting forward their arguments.
Just as the gender woo woo lost their case last week, so would England-as-the-UK because they have no case. That is the whole point. Their case is built on sand. I’m not trying to claim any credit for all SALVO/Liberation’s hard work and determination, but I have been saying for years that Scotland’s case is all but water-tight because the evidence is there. The indisputable evidence of breaching of the Treaty and of every aspect almost of constitutional law in the UK being breached is enormous.
In 2013/14, and again, I have little ego left to build up and couldn’t give a toss, too long in the tooth to care, I tore Crawford and Boyle’s piece on Scotland’s subsumption, to pieces, and even before then, very eminent Scottish constitutionalists had already lain the groundwork for a case against the Union. The Scottish courts and the UKSC could not have dismissed such a case as SALVO/Liberation have brought to the UN, without appearing completely political.
It would have finished the courts, the separation of powers and opposition to independence or kickstarted a real thrust for independence. I’m not naive – I know how the law works – and the case would have been a sound one – as, indeed, it still is. Call me stupid, mad, anything you like, as I said I don’t care.
Lorn I don’t believe anyone posting here would call you stupid or otherwise in relation to the Scottish judges or the Scottish legal system, there are many on here who have IMO a very good grasp of our constitution,the COR and the Articles relating to the Treaty of Union
As you say the work undertaken by SALVO,SSRG,Liberation.Scot has been highly enlightening and extremely informative BUT as you also say we are FAILED by our politicians and our legal hierarchy, I understand what you have said in relation to the justiciary that they are there to judge a case that is put in front of them but it is still an immense FAILURE that our esteemed (hahaha) legal profession has NOT found a way to challenge the unending and ongoing despicable breaches of our constitution,the very establishment of a supreme court should have had our legal profession outraged and riotous as they have been reduced to a second class legal establishment that can be ignored at will by the wm establishment
“the very establishment of a supreme court should have had our legal profession outraged and riotous as they have been reduced to a second class legal establishment”
If that is the case, then it applies equally to the English legal establishment too.
If you’re struggling with the concept, TH, check out the meaning of the word “supreme”.
@Lorn – I’m afraid the Salvo case has no chance, there have been innumerable cases on the U.K. constitution in the last 10 years, with a significant number directly concerning the relationship of Scotlands institutions to the U.K. Whilst its true that Salvo’s argument has not directly been tested, it stands in direct opposition to what the U.K. Supreme Court has decided on the constitution of the U.K. I’ve been around the houses with others on this.
Lorn,
Not suggesting you are stupid.
I just doubt we’d get a fair hearing within a domestic setting. The UK is corrupt from top to bottom. Indyref should never have been conducted either within a domestic setting – that’s how all manner of skulduggery was allowed to go on, example: breaking the rules of purdah & 24/7 propaganda pumped through our TVs all day promoting fake grass roots *unionist* movements – ‘No Borders’ astroturfing – & who was that outfit traced back to? Our foreign friends currently committing gen-ocide. The plonker who promoted that fake pile of shite on our TVs & describing the UK as a nice cup of warm Coco, was promoted – guess where to? HoLs. Currently another level of shit to shape our laws.
The Supreme Court is English. Under the current arrangements it is a direct violation to the Act of Union & Scotlands Claim of Right. So no, I do not believe we would’ve had a fair hearing. We’ve even had SNP QC/KC elected to Westminster parliament & they didn’t bother their arse either & this is why, letting things slip by just to save their own position & prestige is what reinforces the unionist position they are supreme. BTW, I fully support Salvo. Going external is the only option. Going round endlessly within a domestic setting pussy footing around the very ppl who’ll never agree to let us leave, is for the birds. It’d be rigged &, just like breaking purdah, who are we going to cry to? The UK electoral commission? Another outfit run by the English.
Shitface,
Just because the English gave it that title means nothing.
Aidan,
What do you actually think the Supreme court said? Because you seem to have the impression Scotland was told to get back in its box & shut up. It wasn’t. The ballot box cannot be ignored & it will have serious consequences for the UK. They ruled Holyrood (the branch office) had no powers.
They did NOT say Scots had no powers over what happens OUTSIDE of it because they can’t. It’d be a direct violation of the treaty of Union #ClaimOfRight. Scots are SOVEREIGN & the Union is by CONSENT of Sovereign Scots. Scots remove that consent & there isn’t a single thing they can do about it. Yoons seem to have a hard time grasping that their Parliamentary Sovereignty doesn’t trump ours – it’s equal.
Flooding the electorate with UK blow-ins to continually fck up the voting to falsely inflate that consent doesn’t hold under international law & the right to self determination either – so as they say, yer teas oot soon, pal.
Stu
If you have a moment can you tell me why my post is in mod? Thanks..
Ach – it doesn’t matter…
I’d also direct you to Roddy Dunlop’s interesting response on the Claim of Right: link to x.com
@ Aidan at 6.55am
Linking to the shitfest that is twitter / x means many folk won’t be able to view the content.
As your link is to Roddy’s 2022 article, then here is a further response to it by Dr Mark McNaught posted on the Yours For Scotland site.
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
And here is an archived version of that article as I don’t know how long the YFS site will remain after passing of Iain Lawson.
link to archive.is
Thanks Dan for reminding folks of Dr Mark McNaught’s comprehensive rejoinder to Mr Dunlop, which illustrated the significant gap in knowledge between domestic (i.e. colonial) law and international law vis-a-vis the matter of self-determination decolonization.
And included therein, is a reminder of what elected ‘nationalist’ majorities in any colony are supposed to do, but often do not have the courage for, and/or for other reasons, as in the case of the SNP leadership:
“…the only thing preventing Scotland from withdrawing from the 1706 Treaty of Union by peaceful and democratic means and becoming independent is political will.”
And the only Scots lacking that political will are, Alf … ?
I guess it will be an article of faith with you that it’s the politicians.
Me, I believe politicians do actually respond to demand, meaning that it’s us Scots who lack the sustained, focused, majority will for Independence.
Not a POV that goes down well in this echo chamber!
@Dan – thanks, I actually found Roddy Dunlop’s piece via the rebuttal from Dr McNaught.
However, I do find the ‘rebuttal’ unconvincing if I can put it mildly. He starts by conceding that Dunlop KC’s reasoning is sound under what he italicises as ‘current UK constitutional law’, which is essentially a completely concession in a legal argument. The assertion that somehow Mr Dunlop, the dean of the faculty of advocates is limited by his education is beyond arrogant coming from a lecturer in US law at a French university with, as far as I can see, no qualifications or occupational expertise in U.K. law. Putting that to one side, Dr McNaught also provides no authority for his opinions in U.K. law, which is again strange for a legal argument. He appears to believe his personal opinion is by itself a form of authority.
But I think those criticisms perhaps don’t really point to the fatal flaw in Dr McNaught‘s plan. Even if Salvo any others could convince the Supreme Court that the ToU was entered into causative to the most egregious fraud and coercion, they would still not grant the remedy Salvo are proposing or indeed any remedy. They will decide that the constitution of the U.K. has moved on from 1707 and the democratic checks and balances we have are matured and refined to the specific legal and political context of 2025, and that the interests of legal certainty and the preservation of the legal order we have are more important that symbolically righting the perceived wrong of 1707. There is a certain view of law that suggests it operates like magic, where by digging up an ancient ‘spell’ you can grant yourself some great advantage, but it’s not true. Law is an intensely practical subject, which has to deal as best as it can with day to day problems and issues.
On the contrary, colonial regimes do tend to depend on various forms of ‘magic’ and trickery to deceive the oppressed group, given its main purpose is to defend the ‘colonial hoax’, i.e. what some still regard as a UK ‘union’, which in reality does not exist, certainly in any meaningful sense.
Colonialism is always ‘a co-operative venture’ and colonized elites, being the most pampered and privileged group in a colonial society (Fanon), will do pretty much anything to alleviate their anxiety caused by a national liberation movement. A range of established psychological ‘defence mechanisms’ are noted here:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Sure, Alf, the UK doesn’t exist in any meaningful sense.
It certainly seems to just about everybody in it though, that it exists in so many practical senses, it would take all day to list them. Come to think of it, that’s true for just about all of the 8 billion or so folks outside of the UK as well.
So, given this reality, I’d downplay on the “non-existent” trope. For starters, rationalists are going to wonder why and how you are struggling to turn something non-existing into something non-existent.
HTH.
“I’d downplay on the “non-existent” trope. For starters, rationalists are going to wonder why and how you are struggling to turn something non-existing into something non-existent.”
The anti-biological woman ‘trope’ (and many other socio-political deceits throughout history) comes to mind, where almost all social institutions adopted and dictated to the people a totally false and highly damaging pathology and ideology, until a few judges telt thaim it wis unlawfu!
The faux UK ‘union’ is just such a mass societal deceit, though thankfully around half of Scot have twigged the ‘colonial hoax’, whilst the rest need to catch up with reality. Much as 60+ former colonies around the world ditched the absurd notion they could all be British/English, Scots need to do likewise, and are doing so; casting oot the colonial mindset is liberating stuff.
It’s worse than you say, Alf.
Your “mass societal deceit” has gone globally viral. All over the world, countries have signed treaties with your non-existent UK, traded with your non-existent UK, and even gone to war with your non-existent UK.
Faced with your denial of the existence of the UK, I’m minded of the image of a would-be spawning salmon trying to jump Niagra Falls, but hey, good luck with it all.
I’m really of the view that we should accept the tangible reality of the UK as having existed for 300+ years and work from there.
@Alf – no offence but we have heard this before a few times, perhaps you could tell us what response Salvo have received from the submission to the UNCDC on the 7th of March? I would be very interested to hear about it.
“I’m really of the view that we should accept the tangible reality of the UK as having existed for 300+ years”
Yes, colonial elites may point to and may even touch a worthless violated mankit treaty; but it remains worthless, violated and mankit.
Much like a supposed monarch touching a Scottis croun (raither than pittin it on thair heid whair hits supposed tae be) and refusing to take an oath to respect and uphold it. All part of the colonial hoax, i.e. an illusion to deceive the fowk of Scotland’s annexation and colonial exploitation.
Which only goes to show that: “colonialism is based on psychology” (Cesaire), and that; “a people can be totally brainwashed by colonialism” (Fanon).
oh maggie I wish I’d NE-VER
SEEEN YOUR FAY_AY_ACE …
https://iapwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cassowary-1536×1024.jpeg
politics is showbiz for ugly people, but there is a limit
Actually seen Chapman’s Linked-In – seems like a highly competent professional, which just goes to show what a load of shite linkedin is … everyone in Scotland knows she is mental.
Badmouthing the judges eh?
– why do some people think – the rule of law, independence of the judiciary, respect the courts … then when they get a decision they don’t like it’s : let’s disobey the law, and slander the judges and have a massive public strop, because of the “feels”
The rev outed one nutter who is claiming the disability, despite doing a little dance in public; worst case of screwing the social since the anti nowhere league got their dole cut because the dole clerk … saw them on top of the pops
maggie chapman’s defiance is extaordinary
link to youtube.com
expect her to eat 50 eggs in an hour
phrases like “failure to communicate” and “get your mind right” come to mind, except it was these woke-fuhrers who wanted to impose it all on us
It was the Exploited not the Anti- nowhere league. Just to make sure facts are correct
@ Helen Murray: Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of arseholes!
“I love sex! I love oriel sex! Oriel sex, and pu-in-the-boo-in!”
What are people thinking voting for scum like this, this is another import from SA I think who has created hatred and anxiety on the Scottish people adding to the already despicable burden of mental illness created by perverts and deviants within the Scottish administration
Her co member big bird Tranadian and her have created more mayhem and more financial fuckwittery on Scottish taxpayers in their destructive careers in HR, all thanks to a fake independence party and a fake feminist betrayer of Scots
They are the perfect example of why blood and soil nationalism should be encouraged and faux progressiveness should be discouraged
“Her co member big bird Tranadian and her…”
LMAO!
I was saddened to the core when I found out yesterday that this cretin will be the rector at Dundee University later this year.
It’s already in a mess and I can only imagine what bullshit she’ll be forcing on those poor souls.
She has already served two three year terms as Rector of Aberdeen University.It is part of the strategy to capture and subvert our public institutions.
Narcissists never accept they are wrong & they’re always super special – rules don’t apply to them.
As for punishment beatings – the only ppl to do that have been trans activists. Another trait of theirs is projecting. Wasn’t there a court case a few yrs ago where they tried to remove an LGB charity status? Unless that was the Mermaids one already mentioned.
My head hurts with all this irrelevant bullshit. They can’t pee in the ladies & they can’t cheat women out of their positions, either in the workplace or in sports – get over it already.
Quite right Geri but Professor Frink is clearly on a (heavily funded) mission.
Strange that the Revs pic above of her being cheered by her extended polycule is the only time she has been caught smiling.
Obviously smiling must be a very TERF thing and can only be done in public behind the anonymity of a face mask otherwise yer polycule will lop yer head aff..
Very good piece, amazing that little word turns them into raving lunatics. Accountability.
I am reminded at this point about the monty python sketch
SPOT THE LOONEY
Just shows how important this rabid inbred is to the established order. This War of Women were men are cardboard cut outs or sick little handbags. It will be more fun when real Men get involved. Handbags at ten paces is all very amusing but when does the real fight begin.
link to heraldscotland.com
Court of Session order that schools must provide single sex toilets. Today! More good news post the Supreme Court ruling.
link to archive.ph
Here’s the archive link to that Herald article; when I followed your link I hit a paywall. So I’ve provided a more “inclusive” one :)!
The woman is undoubtedly well out of her depth and was like a rabbit caught in the headlights trying to get out a sensible response to people pointing out her shortcomings.
I have never supported the GRA but don’t really want another fight over it.
I think the real villain of the piece is Nicola Sturgeon, the Sturgeon clique and the small group of batty individuals who had her unquestioning support.
If you read the submissions to the SG on the GRA before it was passed into law it was obvious that there was no reasoning behind the supporters of the GRA. You could sum up their submissions as “I want to be able to transition instantly with no interference from anybody.”
The submissions from opponents of the Act, apart from the usual religious suspects, were lengthy and reasoned. They pointed out the potential problems, such as a lack of definition of terms and a lack of logical steps plus many other objections legal and medical. No notice was taken of the objections given the unthinking pushing through of the legislation with the help of MSPs who were jumping on what they thought was a winning bandwagon. Leading the charge was Nicola Sturgeon and her small group of unstable, self centred and self important chums pushing her on.
I just hope that if there is another attempt to introduce similar legislation that a full range of opinions from medical and legal experts and from the general public is taken into consideration.
“…leading the charge was Nicola Sturgeon and her small group of unstable, self centred and self important chums…” Does that adequately describe the possible involvement of state actors such as Lloyd and Evans with others, more senior, in the background?
ANYONE-ANYONE ANYWHERE HEARD FROM THE AUTHOR OF ALL THIS MESS
OR IS SHE/HER/THEY/IT RAPIDLY RE WRITING HER/IT /THEY FICTIONAL BOOK??
I actually am thankful for the fact that these self proclaimed “progressives” are as dim witted as can be, because they just managed to throw themselves & their cause under the bus. Thank goes out to the guardian for putting it in B&W for the world to see…
Melanie Field, the civil servant who led the team that created the EA, has since come out publicly to say that it was “based on the clear premise that for a person with a gender recognition certificate (GRC), their ‘sex’ for the purposes of the EA is that recorded on their GRC”. Ofcourse politicains (actual lawmakers not their scivvy’s) say otherwise.
What was missed by the transcultists is that “dr upton”,”Mridul Wadhwa” & “Isla Bryson” DID NOT HAVE GRC’s so should have been no where near single sex spaces even if the SC somehow did get it wrong they were all in breach of the EHRC either way it’s read and anyone who was forced to share a protected single sex space or worse was denied service from any of these organisations now has a legitimate claim to their rights being breached on multiple occasions. Wonder how much this will cost the taxpayer funded NHS, PSS, RCS & numerous educational establishments when the class action lawsuits all start rolling in.
Swinney’s Anti Right Wing Summit.
Or a picture of Dorian Grey?
Not directly relevant to the article but as far as I’m aware Jolyon Maugham is the only lawyer in history to have beaten a fox to death with a baseball bat while wearing his wife’s silk kimono and then boasted in a tweet about what he had done. He is what the Americans would call a piece of work.
Shes a fucking fruit bat. Mad as fuck. She won’t condone violence, but won’t apologise as people are scared. Not as scared as a teenage girl seeing a grown man’s penis in a changing room in the local swimming baths. She needs jailing or sectioned, she must be thrown out of Holyrood immediately.
While I agree with you
I think that Ross Greer is even more terrifying
And I don’t think for a second the Scottish greens would even hesistate to have “re-education camps” for this who they disapprove of
Can you imagine if that bunch of tubes gained power? We’d have puberty blockers added to the water, a 95% income tax for anyone earning over £25,000, a ban on private ownership of vehicles and wind turbines and/or solar cells plastered over every bloody acre of land. Scary stuff, no?
Maggie Chapman, also known the maggot and rectum of Dundee, has been reported to the Woke presiding officer, for breaching standards of Parliament by Ash Regan.
So nothing will happen because the woke presiding officer is another gender obsessed lunatic and spawn of Satan.
Must have been torture putting this together Stuart and having to listen to this mental mix of soulless meaningless words..thing is, started to feel very sorry for her, so utterly pathetic and depressing.
Excellent writing, breaking it all down. Brilliant.
SNP voters used their list votes for the Scottish greens!
YEP
if the NATs want to blame anyone for this clown show
might I suggest they look in a mirror with the plan to cheat the system by voting for the greens in the list vote
Second poll conducted since Supreme Court decision has RefUK up 2% on poll from same company one week earlier.
YouGov, Westminster voting intention, field work 21 – 22 April, population sample 2,012.
Con 20%, Lab 23%, LibDem 16%, RefUK 25%
Scottish sub-sample (175): Con 9%, Lab 14%, LibDem 11%, SNP 32%, RefUK 23%, Green 8%
Yeh but don’t worry – Swinney had an away day to sort out Reform in Scotland.
And they came away with a (fucking) Mission Statement for God’s sake.
Read it here if you can be bothered:
link to thenational.scot
Reform are just another establishment tool. They can’t even be honest about their accounts far less be honest to voters.
They’ll offer Scotland hee-haw. Give Scotland hee-haw & we’ll all get hee-haw. Anyone daft enough to think otherwise deserves all they get.
It’s a racist party. Designed to noise up the disenfranchised to blame everyone else for their woes & shit standard of living which conveniently takes the heat off the billionaire fuckwits who are really to blame as they’ve shafted the UK blind & left it a vassal state. Farage will be no different. We already see who his chums are. He will only be serving their interests & their interests are in the only thing they’ve not fully canalised yet, the NHS.
Cheer Farage into power & you’ll be cheering on private health care quicker than he can run hide in a pub..
“It’s a racist party. Designed to noise up the disenfranchised to blame everyone else for their woes”
there goes another irony meter
So true, YS, and with the Trump Tariffs, these irony meters ain’t cheap.
Maybe we need to start billing Barbie for everyone she breaks
@ Geri
Been talking to a few people about this Trans issue and the ruling and they are sick to death of hearing about it.
This whole thing, both the implementation and response of the ruling last week, is systematic of weak government both in Holyrood and Westminster.
It’s hardly surprising that when faced with this, people turn to Reform.
So what, i’ve been to Hasting and Brighton.
So what.
Anti Nowhere League, So What.
Trumpesque accountability. They are deranged, unhinged, totally unfit for any office and supported by the state media machine. Essentially the rump of a once great party and we are supposed to trust them and vote for them, to gain our independence…? I think not.
“Mr Harvie said he does believe a trans woman is a woman.”
link to heraldscotland.com
People voted for him!
It’s started!
Scottish Borders Council ordered to provide what should never have been changed in the first place.
It’s simple; effectively contempt of court.
Put her in the same cell as “Isla Bryson” for a lengthy spell and see how she really enjoys the rampant perversion she so publicly promotes and applauds..
Daft wee minger.
TRUE DEMOCRACY IS ACCOUNTABLE. A mandate, however interpreted, is not a free ticket to indulge fantasies especially in a system where the calibre of those seeking public office through the elective process may be flat line mediocre.
Major Swinney convenes a forum of the great and good from Scottish civic society (read; comfortably sinecured, middle class, humanities graduate, parasites who are responsible for this clusterfuck in the first place) to address the “existential threat of populism”.
The resulting “mission statement” can be summarised as follows: Beatings shall continue until moral improves.
I see that the free speech card is being churned out now:
link to archive.is
Of course free speech only works for these sorts of people when it suits their argument. With everybody else, they are cancelled and deplatformed.
Firstly, Chapman can’t have free speech when it interferes with her role as deputy convenor of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee. She has to step down from that role and then she can have all the free speech she wants.
Secondly, there is no degree of absolute free speech in our mulitcultural, multiracial society. There needs to be limits to free speech in order to hold together a society that isn’t homogeneous or have common ground apart from living in the same geographical area.
This is what the likes of Chapman strived for in politics. They’ve got it but they can’t complain when they have to compromise in order to maintain social cohesion that is required because of their politics.
She and her Green party fools needs to take for the team
My thoughts exactly.
This idea of free speech that McKay talks about in the article has never existed here in the UK, anybody who has a brief knowledge of the history of Scottish independence knows this.
This idea of free speech is an American things where free speech and the right to use arms to defend that free speech is enshrined in the American constitution. People who are pedaling such things over here know it is a falsehood but there are certainly a lot of gullible and naive people about.
The fantasy is this free speech is seen with the article that was posted above which I’ve archived.
link to archive.is
A conference held with nearly all the main political parties in Scotland on how to deal with the Far-right. The article mentions:
Asked if Reform UK winning seats meant the talks had failed, Mr Swinney told journalists: “The electorate will vote for who they choose to vote for—that is a matter for the electorate, and we have to deal with the consequences of that.”
Mr Sarwar said people “tempted” by Reform UK are not necessarily “naturally politically inclined” towards Nigel Farage.
Instead, he said people are turning to the likes of Reform because they are disillusioned with other parties.
“I think many people are going towards that direction, to put it in a crude sense, as an ‘FU’ vote because they are so scunnered with institutions, political parties, with governments,” he said.
So we have free speech but if the electorate makes a decision based on that free speech, the politicians have to deal with the consequences?
One of the BTL posters to the article sums it up:
The same thing also happens when the Right has an extended period in power.
People are turning to the likes of Reform because they’re sick of seeing and hearing immigrants everywhere.
Nae need to over complicate things.
Whether that “sickness” is justifiable, or compatible with a general reluctance to leave all the difficult jobs to incomers, is a different argument.
But we can safely extrapolate a couple of facts from Wings BTL to the voting public as a whole:
1. Plenty of people hate inwards migration.
2. Plenty of people lack the capacity to do joined up thinking.
Both facts are easily verifiable for any reader prepared to read the posts on here for a day or two.
“But we can safely extrapolate a couple of facts from Wings BTL to the voting public as a whole..”
Actually, we can ‘safely’ do no such thing.
People who read and comment here are a self-selecting minority of a minority.
Were it otherwise Scotland would already be independent.
There is no scientific way in which comments here can be extrapolated to any general conclusion whatsoever, on any matter at all.
Having said the above, that doesn’t mean that the lady isn’t as deranged as … well… a man who thinks he is a woman.
Or a ?woman? – even a ?woman? with a degree in zoology… who thinks a man can be a woman.
It is just that the people who post here are, by and large, not susceptible to the mad secular theology that seems to have infected so much of the population.
“Multicultural and multiracial”
You don’t need to walk to far to see this is another Teletubby fantasy. In fact if you dare walk about towns and cities of Scotland now, you will see the reality of the situation. A breaking down of law and order. A breaking down of society. Everyone is shut up in their bubble. Too scared to speak out. The fantasy is played out again and again in the media. I dare you to walk about the southside of Glasgow and then tell me how you feel. Drive around the city centre at night but be prepared, be prepared.
If Reform win the NHS is gone. So why the SNP not putting Scot first?
I was housing lists for 2 years while Johnny Foreigner and every one his children was housed before I got the chance. Not to be better than anyone else. Simply to be.
I hate migration. Now that Male and female is setted. Up next is the race war. And it’ll men like me that get deamonised unfairly by the corrupt political elite. They need an enemy. And it’s always a white face like mine, never the invaders. Hear to steal the houses and benefits. Because of their war torn third world shithole that’s, not my problem.
Ah c’moan now, Mark.
If they’re mostly called Navid, it’s all going to be grand.
Never forget that for some of the usual suspects, re-population of Scotland with Navid’s is their preferred option.
The Glasgow southside has a history of Asian driven violence that the authorities doesn’t want to deal with. However, the picture you paint of Scotland, which includes the area I live which has seen a recent large influx of non-whites, doesn’t ring true.
Like the rest of your posts, absolute mince.
Hatey McHateface says:
24 April, 2025 at 12:12 pm
I’m not going to comment on the rest of what you said because I haven’t a clue what you are talking about but I want to pick up o this.
I work a very UK private sector company so my experience may be different from those working in smaller companies.
There is stereotype of Gen Z being lazy, argumentative and virtually unemployeable. With my experience of them at work that is true but it is also true in much older employees who should know better.
For me, the problem lies squarely with HR. With any disciplinary matters they don’t want to touch and pass it back to local management and being a witness to a disciplinary hearing involving a colleague and a manager, they are absolutely hopeless, offering no guidance whatsover.
The distinct impression I get is that if the HR department in my company was abolished nobody would notice but what it means in practice that managers have absolutely no power towards employees and anybody who knows how to play the system, gets away with murder, which a lot of employees in the part of my company does and the work is left to the rest of us who believe in the work ethic.
In that way, foreigners are brought in not only because they are cheaper but because they are more reliable and actually work.
Maybe rather than criticising foreigners, this criticism should be directed at those closer to home who is the cause of them having to be brought in?
“I haven’t a clue what you are talking about”
I was making the points that people are generally sick and tired of immigration and all the problems that it brings, as observed personally in our local neighbourhoods (high rents, impossible property prices, pollution, crime, low wages, abysmal public services, etc), and more widely when we watch TV news reports of chanting armies of Arabic speakers on our streets, and ethnic groups abusing our teenage daughters and granddaughters.
Yet people are generally disinclined to do the jobs that many immigrants do.
The rise of Reform is because of the former point. The strongly suspected fact that there is some overlap between Reform supporters and those who “won’t get out of bed for less than £40K” points to the inability to do joined up thinking.
And yes, PM, these are generalisations, so of course there are exceptions. But those of us old enough to have benefited from a traditionally good and comprehensive Scottish education know what exceptions prove.
As for your work problems. Maybe your line I quoted at the top gives alert readers a clue where the root cause lies.
Is it me or are news programmes continuing the promotion of trans individuals? I have watched several he, she or its pearl clutching and bemoaning the treachery of the ‘establishment’.
I also saw a trans athlete bemoaning the status in which the supreme court left him/her – no-one pointed out the reasons behind – like muscle development , lung capacity , blood flow or that they should never have been allowed to compete against biological women in the first place.
All the pseudo sympathy of the MSM is getting on my wick.
Frame it in the context of Be Kind/discriminated minority facing further victimisation. The news media likes every other part of our society is infected by this Trans ideology.
My previous post about free speech has probably descended into a rant but one of the hallmarks of free speech, as much as we have it in the UK, is the liberal left defending it and in doing so, trying as much as they can be in their news covering of being impartial, balanced and championing every sides right to free speech, even those whom they disagree with.
They are not doing that and won’t do that even if they could as there are more clicks in being divisive and controversial.
No, it’s not just you, diablo. This is precisely the tack they have taken. It’s all about the ‘trans’ men (women) now when they were invisible before. It’s all about “both sides” when there was only ever one vicious, nasty side. These people are getting centred again. I haven’t heard or seen one ‘trans’ man (woman) but I’ve seen and heard plenty of the ‘trans’ women bleating and weeping and talking for ‘trans’ men (women).
Someone suggested that their behaviour is like an abusive relationship, and I think that comes as close to the actual truth of it as possible. They truly want women to be obliterated off the face of the Earth, some of them. Vicious misogyny. The movement was and remains a men’s sexual rights movement.
The deluded female handmaidens and ‘trans’ men would be jettisoned in a split second if that was to be the price if this male-centred laydeeee feelz was ever to regain control of the narrative. Some of the media is doing its best to reinstate them and, please, folks, don’t relax for a moment because the SG, too, is plotting how to make sure they remain centred.
Get Swinney to say Woman, Woman yes Swinney W O M A N. Say it Swinney.
Admittedly, RefUK friendly polling company Find Out Now, has the Faragists with a 8% lead. Eight percent!
Westminster voting intention, field work 23rd April, populations sample 2,139.
Lab 20%, Con 20%, LibDem 14%, RefUK 28%, Green 13%.
Scottish sub-sample (99): Con 10%, Lab 16%, LibDem 14%, RefUK 17%, Green 5%, SNP 33%.
I’ve seen 3 posts on instagram from left wing lunatic friends of mine criticising Starmer over Brianna Ghey and the post says: “How can he look his mother in the eyes.” He should be egged #stonewallwasariot
He’s lost the left wing loonballs now! Labour are plummeting!
Just passed a few Transvestites on the street. They have lost that “we are taking over the world” look on their faces. Just another man walking along the street.
Why do the Greens not remove her (or he if that’s how the cookie crumbles) from the list for 2026 after all she does deserve it. In the meantime the Parliament should suspend Chapman with out pay, paying her staff directly. If she apologises and goes on a training course explaining the Constitutional role of the Supreme Court at her own expense then reinstatement could be considered, Greens should still remove her from the list. All this when Honest John worries about Farage one would suggest the Greens are as big a issue.
I agree with everything you say, but will any of this happen? I doubt it..sadly.
As the greens are 100% in agreement with her
” I am ahead. I am advanced.
I am the first mammal to wear pants.
I am at peace with my lust I can kill because in God I trust.. it’s evolution baby..”
It really is outrageous how the BBC,STV & Sky News are still promoting the “poor vulnerable trans” story. Yet hardly a word about their hate campaigning, harassment, fetish promotion, kid grooming and threats to anyone that objects to their ideology. Surely this must be seen by the authorities and criminal prosecutions must also follow.
Why are the authorities allowing this bias media propaganda to happen without question?
I don’t know where we’d be without you Rev
Keep up the good work!
The media, advertising, politics and the infamous “3rd sector” are awash with them.
That’s what comes with a joke further/ higher education syllabus and a demolished manufacturing base.
Remember listening to the youngsters as-one whining if they had to (not even fight for their country) but even devote 12 months or so of their lives learning some aspect of national service – of whatever kind – for their countries betterment before they eff off for the compulsory years backpacking and drug fuelled self centred risk taking and moral torpitude care of bank of mummsy and deddy?
Doing something for the country?
Heaven forbid!
Nah..
That’s for the working classes and those from “broken homes”..
That’s the attitude that’s got us where we are now: an unrepentant and “proud” me me me poor me attitude.
And before anyone jumps in, aye, I did my time in the army and regret not one iota of it.
Maybe it would give gen “zee” it’s missing backbone and moral path in life..
Robert Heinlein was pretty out there but had a point, nothing done for your societal wellbeing; then NO vote.
No real argument from me over that post.
I would add that as paying swingeing taxes is defo contributing to societal wellbeing, then no tax contribution – no vote.
By all means live on handouts, but don’t expect to ever be able to vote yourself more.
Haha, cue screams of anguish
And for “new” citizens, a solid track record of 20 year’s contributing before they get the chance to vote to further their own ethnic minority’s advantage, at the expense of everybody else. Maybe then they’d take their dreams of Sharia to some other, softer country.
Simply unfit for office and should be sacked forthwith!
Just been reading that Wes Streeting has announced that the NHS needs to make provision to treat transgender people with gender recognition certificates privately in rooms away from single sex wards.
I have no idea what such a proposal will cost the hard pressed NHS but it sounds like an absolute money pit for anyone with a self select GRC to be able to require to be treated in a private ward.
It’s absolute insanity in a NHS already struggling with huge waiting lists.
But here’s a thing. Such a policy is discriminatory to all the men a woman who will be denied private rooms and who have to be part of a ward.
And think about high dependency wards or intensive care wards where maybe four folks are attended to and kept alive through intensive high technology care.
Is Mr Streeting saying this is wrong since such mixed sex intensive care impinge on the dignity of a transwoman.
It frigging madness. But hey that’s Labour for you.Personally, I’d have thought Starmer and his clown service would have more important things to focus on like the collapsing economy and collapsing social protections. and support.
Who are the rich people funding all these ideologies working behind the government,
And who is funding the attempt to change the religion of Britain, which in turn would end the main article of the treaty of union specific stated religion.
It would appear that all ideology from of the Westminsters politicians just plow ahead without some deep intellectual thought.
Some more exspansive questions and over-al deeper thought needs to be applied for Scotland
If funding for these ideologies, such as stonewall and quangos infiltrating and coming from outside the government. Which includes the ideology playing out is the Scottish legislated devolved government from Westminster.
All The devolved governments are going as idealogical crazy as the main stem.
Only those passing the legislation and laws can break up Britain, not the people.
And the way that it is playing out in the UK (breaking up the old rules of law)) right now. I personally do not see a future where Scotland, Ireland or Wales will find it necessary to lift a finger to end Britain, as the present main stem government is positioning all the jigsaw pieces together for Wales,Scotland and Ireland through quangos and ideaology.
James Cheyne says: 25 April, 2025 at 10:54 am
Detailed here:
link to archive.is
Of course it isn’t them that’s funding it, these rich American’s put all the money into charities who then allocate it to charities throughout the world, including the UK much in the same way that we saw with how USAID money was allocated.
These UK charities that receive the funding will allocate the funding to other charities which will no doubt get to a charity who uses it for political lobbying. I have no doubt that the money will also be used by individuals to fund law cases to get rulings in favour of Transgender causes.
IIRC, a nurse had recently took a NHS trust to court because they refused to use the correct pronouns in the documentation they received. I can’t find the link but it was definitely last year. Where did that nurse get the money to fund that case?
Of course it will be dismissed as conspiracy theory but regardless, the media are stringing it out and people are getting sick of it to the point that they ignore it and the Trans ideology continues although in a less noisier way now.
Found this article from 2016 which details how the Trans movement was born in America:
link to archive.is
Some details of it below:
These Green lunatics are a disease in Scotland BUT so is the SNP.
Imagine REFORM gets enough seats to form a minority gov and offers IndyRef2 (a term I coined the morning of the stolen IndyRef1 result) if the SNP enters a pact allowing the English to form a gov they mostly prefer.
I imagine those captured wokeholes would say no – naive waistrel devo fuds.
Maybe I’m wrong…
Most of what is offered in Scotland is politically wrong. And most parties have affiliations through one background idealogical political connective belief systems or another. due to think tanks, quangos and lack of common sense.
Separating the fundamental party colours is for the fairies.
The Greens, Labour. Lib dems and the Snp are similar to a cheap bad blend of alcohol that is is poisonous to the people in the same way that Reform party will eventually wear a blue rosette.
SO WEIRD, support for independence now seemingly exceeds 50% and party support despite everything remains strong yet the party of independence is distracted by two hobby gee gees «Gender & Gaza».
How about the three gee’s of «Go, Go, Go for it»?
«It» being that thing whose name is rarely uttered but tokenly.
O/T
I hear that as part of any deal to take over Sevco, the soccer team formerly known as GRFC, the owners of the San Francisco 49ers will insist upon a change of club name…
“Glasgow 1690ers”
In keeping with the 49ers house style with regard to their club mascot, “Sourdough Sam”, the 1690ers will have a new mascot, bedecked in a McEwan’s Export Cavalier-style costume, called “Bawbag Billy”.
Should keep the mouth-breathers happy!
That’s a braw comment.
Rangers the 1690ers. You couldn’t make up a better quip.
But here’s a thing. Anyone know about the complexion of the big money investors behind the 49ers.
Could their greenback be ” green ” money from ” green ” investors.
Deary deary me that could be a cause of anguish for many a poor Rangers supporter.
But levity aside. Do we really want our clubs foreign owned.
And you might here it here first on Wings.
PacMan @ 13.17.
The case of Nurses raising court actions against NHS Trusts would seem to be operating both ways when it comes to transgendering.
Senior Nurse Jennifer Melle from Croydon took Epsom & St Helier Hospital Trust to court on the 25/03/2025 following disciplinary action being taken against her for refusing to refer to a convicted male child sex offender as “she”.
Her action is, I believe being funded pro bono by the Christian Legal Centre.
Just bumped into this very unhinged malady in Dundee 15mins ago- quite conveniently at a crossing so was able to confirm it was her.
She now knows exactly how I / we feel about her, on the very unlikely off-chance she doesn’t read Wings, and that we all expect her to resign and stop betraying women and girls.
I feel so much better now, having had the chance to get that off my chest no matter the likelihood of it falling on deaf ears.
Bravo you!
Bet she didn’t even have the decency to blush..
You do realise she’ll just “hurty feelz” and dismiss you as a male (horror) and misogynist, probably the only way she can get to sleep at night without rocking back and forward..
Like these Transgender charities, the funding of this Christian Legal Centre and other similar charities are unknown, most likely coming from the US.
I think the supreme court ruling has saved the Transvestites from themselves.
Off topic, almost … but Leah Gunn Barrett has written today about the advance of Blackrock in Scotland under Nicola, Kate Forbes and John Swinney. And all this time, we’ve been deliberately distracted by gender woo woo. They’re determined to prolong this to keep distracting us, whilst allowing Blackrock to buy us up.
MaryB,
As far as I understand the Scottish Devolved government is not a Sovereign government within Scotland,
So I am mulling over who is selling Scotland to Blackrock.
It’s me, James.
The mirrors are braw and they’re offering wampum like you wouldn’t believe, but I’m holding out for durbs.
A big bag hoaching with big, beautiful durbs, like the ones I always wanted as a loon but never got.
MaryB,
Thank you for kind thoughts, he is sadly missed and early days still yet, a hard call indeed.
He once said he would have wanted me to continue contributing to Scotland in his name, although it may not be up to his standard and intermittent. It is nice to back.
SEX ED BRANDED ‘INAPPROPRIATE’ AS PARENTS IN SCOTLAND INCREASINGLY WITHDRAW KIDS
Thousands of children in Scotland have been withdrawn from sex education classes over the last five years, it has been reported.
According to freedom of information requests obtained by The Scotsman, at least 2,382 primary school children and 181 high school children have been removed from Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) lessons by their parents. The newspaper noted that the overall number is likely to be “far higher” as Edinburgh and Glasgow figures are not included.
Reasons given by parents for removing children from RSHP lessons include the use of images of “real-life” body parts, information on transgenderism, and the use of inappropriate language.
TRANS IDEOLOGY
According to local authorities, the number of primary school children being withdrawn has quadrupled since 2021-2022, just before the Scottish Parliament debated and passed proposals to allow 16-year-olds to change legal sex. In 2021-22, 204 children were removed, which rose to 427 in 2022-23 and more than doubled again to 908 in 2023-24.
During the current academic year, at least 654 primary school, and 94 secondary school children have already been withdrawn from RSHP classes by their parents.
Argyll and Bute Council received a complaint reporting that “revision of body parts introduced real-life images of male and female bodies, which some parents deemed inappropriate and traumatising”.
Scottish Borders Council was told that information regarding transgender ideology was inappropriate in sex education, while Renfrewshire Council received several complaints after schools failed to inform parents of the lessons in advance.
‘LACK OF TRUST’
Roz McCall MSP, the Scottish Conservatives’ Deputy Party Spokesperson on Children, commented: “Parents should always be able to decide whether this sort of material is age-appropriate for their child.”
Deputy Alba leader Neale Hanvey added: “Parents must be regarded as active partners in such matters and have the right to know what their children are being taught and be able to decide what is acceptable, particularly on sensitive topics such as sexual health.
“It is unsurprising that there has been a sharp rise in pupil withdrawal from sex education as it reflects a growing lack of trust, especially in the context of recent gender policy difficulties and the Scottish Government’s so-called ‘sex survey’ of pupils in 2021.”
PARENTAL RIGHTS
In response, a Scottish Government spokesperson stated: “While local authorities are responsible for the delivery of relationships, sexual health and parenthood education in schools, national guidance states that it must be age and stage appropriate, and is presented in a sensitive manner.
“The Scottish Government is finalising updated guidance, which will be published before the end of 2025. This makes clear that it is good practice for schools to regularly involve parents and carers in discussions around curriculum content.”
According to current guidance, “authorities must be sensitive to the cases in which a parent or carer may wish to withdraw a child or young person, or a child or young person wishes to withdraw themselves from all or part of a planned sexual health education programme within a RSHP education programme”.
It also informs schools that where a “parent or carer decides to withdraw a school aged child from sexual health education lessons, arrangements should be made for the child to have alternative positive educational provision”.
(From The Christian Institute website, 25 April 2025)
This woman was born to be ignored.
Prediction – The Greens will lose their North East Scotland list seat (won with 6.3%) with improved outlook for Reform and Lib Dems might do the trick…
Just Stop Oil has stood down!
Eventually they worked out that Vaseline is a petrochemical bi product and that going without has led to sare-botty syndrome-penguin walks all round for the lot of them..
What a “blooming” tangled web they weave..
Proctologists on speed dial?!
Nothing to do with the middle class poncers facing consequences for their actions in the form of prison sentences.
That’s not what I read, YL.
They’ve simply decided to change strategy. I can’t be arsed to link to the fairly detailed online article backing up my statement, but hey, neither could you.
Be honest now. Did you even read whatever article it was that “inspired” your post?
Dimming the sun experiment.
UK parliament discussing.
Getting to the stage that giving these people blasts of Oxygen by putting up posts about them is just free advertising for them
The SC ruling is an opportunity to starve them of it and let the whole thing wither away.
Wings over Transland has no future
Wings over Scotland just might.
Add to that putting that pic of the rainbow penguin as first thing you see logging in.. jeezo
I’m away again
Have to laugh it this with charities wanting the Scottish Government to take action on ‘misogynist extremism’ amongst young men yet the Scottish government doesn’t deal with the the ‘misogynist extremism’ amongst Radical Trans activists:
link to archive.is
James Che(yne) @ 4.28 Friday
Good to see you back.
Bereavement’s a tough call.
I’ve missed your contributions.
I don’t know just long long the sameme subjects can be discussed.
The first indyref was defeated in a vote when there was a halfway decent Scottish government in place, there is absolutely no chance of a second indyref being successful withe the current bunch of corrupt, morally bankrupt clowns we have now. That needs to change before anything more can happen.
As far as the trans issue goes, when did a tiny minority become the biggest issue the sg had to deal with, what happened to all the real issues the sg should be dealing with which are far more important, and by definition assist the tiny group of folk who are trans along with everyone else?
@ Rob: Who are you blaming for the preoccupation with woke bullshit? It seems like you’re blaming Rev Stu for writing about it. Don’t blame the messenger! Gender ideology and identity politics aren’t going to disappear just because critics of these ideologies don’t write about them. The whole ideology itself needs to be eradicated, and that almost certainly means that the SNP needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Indeed, I suspect that’s exactly why the SNP has been taken over by promoters of woke ideology: to destroy the party, and by extension, independence.
I know your number 1 issue is ensuring folk like me are eradicated
You know
Unionists
BUT
After we move away from the politics of English heads on spikes we might discover we have very similar concerns
Now if you aren’t a toddler then lets look at something like the ferries fiasco
If you are honest you’ll agree it is a massive cock-up and things like that are more of a concern to normal folk then the chicks with dicks subject
With that in mind
Re-read the post you are replying to with that in mind
“lets look at something like the ferries fiasco”
Yes, lets. Most of the high-level officials responsible for the ongoing ferries fiasco are not Scots, including the CEO’s of CMAL and state-owned Ferguson, and senior ‘ferry’ officials in Transport Scotland.
One of the main benefits of national independence is that the former colonized nation would no longer be haud doun back by ‘a mediocre meritocacy’ (Memmi).
After indy
Will filth like myself be allowed to work for any for the Scottish state?
Or will we just be rounded up and shot
A Grouse Beater article today rightly lauds Alf Baird:
WHAT IS COLONIALISM?
“This article was first published in 2019 in National Geographic, about the time I embarked on a serious campaign – amid ridicule from key figures on my own side of independence – to teach how and why Scotland is a colonial territory of England, desperately corralled for its natural resources, and our youth for England’s wars. I am pleased to say, that an informed view is gathering acceptance among influential people, bolstered by my good friend and compatriot Professor Alfred Baird, now that my own studies and conclusions are proven substantial. But it has been a long, painful journey.”
link to grousebeater.wordpress.com
Sg is Scottish government which is an SNP green led parliament, not sure how you got to where you are with my post blaming others.
If the sg concentrated on what was important to the folk of Scotland instead of the gender war nonsense Which only affects a tiny minority maybe we would not be here just now.
Who are the idiots that vote for the SNP and greens over the last few paraments?
YS
I think shooting will be too good for you.
Confused and Barbie will collect you in their mobile gas chamber. I expect it to be easily recognisable – the windows will just be painted on.
Unless ScotIGov bans cruel and unusual punishment, there’s a real risk Barbs will subject you to a 5-minute unhinged rant before turning on the valves.
On the plus side, by the third minute, you’ll be desperate for an end to your torment
Rob, it looks as if you have not been keeping up with scores of Rev Stu’s excellent essays or hundreds of comments during several years, and i was a late-starting reader. I found it very useful to dig through various older posts when i found Wings’.
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After indy
Will we be banning English from being used in official government communication?
Will people like myself be allowed interpreters?
CRUAIDH?
Le Ruaraidh MacThòmais (1921-2012)
[…]
Is caith bhuat briathran mìne
oir chan fhada bhios briathran agad;
tha Tuatha Dè Danann fon talamh,
tha Tìr nan Òg anns an Fhraing,
’s nuair a ruigeas tu Tìr a’ Gheallaidh,
mura bi thu air t’ aire,
coinnichidh Sasannach riut is plìon air,
a dh’innse dhut gun tug Dia, bràthair athar,
còir dha anns an fhearann.
STEEL?
by Derick Thomson (1921-2012)
[…]
And throw away soft words,
for soon you will have no words left;
the Tuatha Dè Danann are underground,
the Land of the Ever-young is in France,
and when you reach the Promised Land,
unless you are on your toes,
a bland Englishman will meet you,
and say to you that God, his uncle, has given
him a title to the land.
(from ‘Ruaraidh MacThòmais / Derick Thomson: Creachadh na Clàrsaich: Cruinneachadh de Bhàrdachd 1940-1980 / Plundering the Harp: Collected Poems 1940-1980 (Macdonald Publishers, 1982)
YS, having seen numerous of your posts (which seem to have commenced very recently) i doubt that you will ever comprehend the issues entailed in nationalism and independence whether or not you are provided with an interpreter. You are an excellent example of what happens to persons trapped within a colonial mind-set.
If i remember correctly, Alf has been involved on the right side of history where ferries are concerned, maybe prior to your involvement with ‘Wings’.
@Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh
I enjoy and value your learned contributions.
The mention of the “Promised Land” in the poem you quote tells us of a cultural and religious strand within Scottish public and private life, still within the living memory of many of us, yet comprehensively repudiated by plenty of the regulars on here.
It is beyond ironic that on this very thread, we find Jay pompously lecturing us on our ignorance of “the issues entailed in nationalism and independence”.
From where I sit, I see daily evidence posted on here by the usual suspects of the widespread ignorance of Scotland’s history, culture, mindset, linguistics and religious belief.
The usual suspects have been aptly served by their Year Zero bastard creation, the new SNP.
And it’s the majority of sane, rational Scots who have suffered as a result.
“the right side of history where ferries are concerned”
I believe it’s widely accepted in debating circles that anybody spouting “the right side of history” gets consigned to the same group as the comparers with Adolf.
To loosely quote The Donald, the group of “Bigly Losers”.
Granted Alf is an expert on ferries, just as many luvvies are Oscar-winning experts on method acting, Musk is second to none on big rockets, and the bloke two doors down from me has perfected masterful handling of the bins after 25 years on the refuse wagons.
Sadly, though, none of that translates to politics. That’s a unique skillset. And that knowledge is just something else that has been generally lost in an age where nearly everybody fancies themselves as an expert. And nearly everybody reckons politics is simply money for old rope.
The evidence that successful and results achieving politics is actually bloody difficult, if not impossible, is all around us for anybody with an open mind to see.
Will that stop us Scots from voting abject, useless eejits into power, and then bumping our gums interminably at how clueless these eejits are?
Ah hae ma doots.
Maybe Chapman and Swinney are holding out for the following Judicial Review to change the landscape again:
link to archive.ph
link to bbc.co.uk
“Who was at Pope Francis’ funeral and where did they sit?”
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Oh dear no mention of his Gracious Lordship Swinney the non confessor.
I suspect a complaint in The National coming up!
I see a famous Scottish actor wishes JK Rowling no ill will but says the trans community are being demonised – I say women are being demonised.
Perhaps certain actors , especially those that owe a deal of thanks to the author , should just zip it – not to mention should have a wee glance at the threats that have been issued by these lovely folk they are supporting.
New article needed Rev..
Where’s Robert Louis? I miss his input in this area.
It really is time more people took Scotlands position as a de facto colony if England more seriously
It allows a different view on our predicament
And it allows you to think about different solutions to it.
It will get mocked by unionists precisely because they’ve been psychologically colonised and will be mocked by the colonisers because well cui bono ?
The sooner we realise our true situation the sooner we look at viable means of ending it
The shenanigans round the last Indy ref should have been enough to take the blinkers off
But no, we were told that despite all the circumstancial evidence and blatant breaking g of rules that everything had been above board.
We are in many ways our own worst enemy but we have been greatly helped by the colonial powers who like things as they are
Not just in London but across the Atlantic too
We are but a small pawn in a big game
Sure. Ordinary Scots need to stand for office on an “End Colonialism” platform.
It goes without saying (hopefully) that these Scots need to be well presented, capable of holding up their end of a conversation, possess non-swivelling eyes, know absolutely what a woman is, and know what a bloke is too.
Oh, and be absolutely incorruptible and unbribable. That’s key.
I have to say, Tartanpigsy, that the simple fact that not a single one of the colonialism trope pushers is prepared to nail his or her colours to the mast and put it to the people of their local constituency for their votes speaks volumes to me of what they internally believe.
But hey, you can be the first to prove me wrong. In your own time …
Topic for everyone.
DIMMING the SUN, Uk PARLIAMENT. This week.
In the most newspapers, google search and wiki.
Experimental geo engineering in the UK without consulting the people on a massive scale, what if these experiments go wrong? As wrong as geo engineering children, gender, or vaccines.
It will include all of us. All Animals and have side effects on the growth of our food sources.
Aye James. Who’d trust anything these lunatics in power and their handlers try to implement when these same twats deny biological reality. Let these same cretins drink male bovine “milk” drawn from the cock of a bull and end the veal trade issue if sex doesn’t matter…
But good luck getting anybody to bother disccusing anything other than genderwoowoo on this broken barely functioning site now.
There was no serious comment on GM and GE crops and foods after the Julia Pannell posted about it on the weekly ISP bulletin she posts.
link to isp.scot
Touched on this subject years ago btl but folk are too disinterested and or lazy to learn about the importance of how the food that we ingest is grown and why it is so important to a healthy existence.
Link to previous ISP weekly bulletins on the off chance anyone is actually interested in reading what is going on in Scotland.
link to isp.scot
Dimming the sun
I’m scottish
What is this sun thing they talk about
Is it the newspaper?
As that and it’s readers are already very dim
Weel said Tartanpigsy.
According to the United Nations the true meaning of independence is decolonization, and Scots are well into the process of decolonization:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Hi Alf,
Are you also aware that the UK parliament are about to discuss dimming the sun,
This is a massive issue wether were Scots, Irish, welsh, English or from timbuctoo.
Not much will function on the planet without sunshine,
It is important enough to have a all encompassing Britain referendum on, seeing as it will have an affect and take effect on each and every one of us in Britain.
744th time!
I’m afraid you’ve got it wrong. There’s vanishingly little evidence that many, still less most, Scots buy the “Scotland as colony” snake oil being so assiduously pedalled by Alf and some of his fluffers in here. To most people is still just seems that characterising Scotland’s situation as one of de-colonisation is at best hyperbolic and at worst an insult to the victims of “real” colonial oppression both in the past and in the current environment.
It’s not just unionists mocking this false analogy: it isn’t accepted by most in the independence movement either. The fact a small minority with a chip on their shoulders have convinced themselves that the main reason we’ve failed to achieve independence isn’t our own lack of political courage, judgement, talent or leadership but rather is attributable wholly or mainly to external factors (inter alia one or more of the following: “we wuz robbed”, “the furriners dun it”, “native Scots voted for indy, it was the incomers fault, so restrict the franchise”, “the MSM is against us”, “MI6 / Opus Dei / the Illuminati / Space Lizards / WEF & Davos / Soros/ the Jews” ZZzzzzzzzzzzz) doesn’t make it true.
The vast majority of voters and the majority of independence supporters don’t buy the colonisation schtick, because it makes those pushing it sound like total fruit loops.
If there WAS any mileage in it, we’d know. If folk felt so strongly about it they’d be on the streets demonstrating about it in Catalan La Diada numbers….but they just aren’t.
They all think your just a bit mental.
The lack of progress on independence is adequately explained by political stupidity and a lack of political cojones on the part of the majority of Scots to take the political, social and economic leap of faith and actually vote for it.
They haven’t been convinced that the cost benefit analysis of the risks and benefits of independence versus remaining in the union falls on the side of independence.
Despite brexit, BoJo, Trussonomics, the closure of Grangemouth, the threats of the UK’s splendid isolation outside the EU as Trump destroys the post WW2 rules based international system, Scots still aren’t prepared to force the issue and take their independence rather than meekly ask for it, or accept that they simply can’t do any better.
That lack of confidence isn’t because we’re being colonially oppressed, or have been subject to violent suppression or ethnic cleansing or cultural genocide….it’s just plain auld political and moral cowardice.
“Despite Brexit”
I’m generally in agreement with your post, Andy.
But Brexit isn’t something that increases Indy support. Quite the contrary.
Brexit shows that when a smaller political and economic entity leaves a much larger union, it’s the smaller entity that suffers.
The fact that plenty on here simultaneously crow that smashing the EU was a disaster, whilst claiming that smashing the union won’t be, just demonstrates how joined up thinking is a foreign concept to them.
I wonder what they think the U in EU stands for. Udder?
The scottish nationalists who bang one about we’re an oppressed colony are referred to as the Moon howlers
The Moon howlers do a VERY good job at two things
Entertaining me as I troll them
and
Convincing me that an independent scotland would be a absolute shitshow
And they are so good at convincing me to stay as a NO
I’d be open to believing they are paid by the English to be Moon howlers
@Hatey 5.48pm
I doubt the figure support your view. Last time I looked the % of Scots who favoured EU membership has INCREASED since brexit, and it was already a supermajority. There’s no mileage in an anti-EU independence movement.
Given Trump’s apparent determination to euthanise NATO, it’s vanishingly unlikely post independence Scots will want to exist in splendid isolation, in fact there’s even less likelihood of that given Finland and Sweden’s decisions to abandon their neutrality and join NATO.Scots will want to be shoulder to shoulder with their neighbours in Scandinavia.
Let the little Englanders try to go it alone as Airstrip One for post Trump America if they want. Perhaps they can become the 51st state? Seems more likely than the Canadians agreeing to it.
The “last, best hope” for Scotland may be as part of a confederal Europe, independent of the US security architecture. I think most Scots would take that over being part of an isolated UK trying to play off the US against the EU.
You’ve often come up with this false equivalence of it being mad to leave the UK union just to join the European Union before: it becomes no more convincing for the repetition. The two things aren’t the same, and the argument is as spurious in its own way as the “Scotland as Colony” BS.
I 100% want to be back in the EU
Explain to me how leaving the UK means we are instantly back in the EU
With the EU replacing all the cash we lost from the barnet formula
Hi Dan,
It is a serious issue and one wonders at what stage idealogical driven mad well funded scientists become terrorists against the human population.
There is a thin line between the criminal mind actions and the insane actions of ideology.