What Went On
The proceedings at the Supreme Court this week were a tough follow even if you could get the court’s abominably bad livestream to work. They’re all archived here now, but non-lawyers will probably glaze over quickly during the nine hours of intense legalese.
We’re not allowed to clip up any illustrative sections, on pain of possible contempt of court, so perhaps the best way to explain the key parts of what happened in a vaguely comprehensible way is by showing you some commentary from social media.
Please note that most of the people quoted below are lawyers and/or academics.
That seems to be the digest of it. The Scottish Government just spent goodness knows how much of your money sending KCs into the highest court in the land to argue the exact opposite of everything the Scottish Government has been strenously and angrily insisting in public for the last three years.
(That that’s what happened in court is that rarest of things, an interpretation of events which is agreed on by both transactivists and gender-critical feminists.)
Thus leaving their unfortunate counsel to have to present a case which is complete gibberish that even they can’t understand or explain without consulting a flowchart and taking an extended lunchbreak, but which they expect minimum-wage shopworkers and swimming-pool attendants to have complete command of at all times.
Five of the UK’s most senior judges will now spend several months trying to make some kind of sense out of it, and nobody knows what they’ll decide.
And that’s where we are now, readers.
I can’t work out whether I’m more embarrassed for or angry at ScotGov.
If this were written as a farce it would be unbelievable
I for one have always stated the parliament was a huge mistake which was designed to get us to shut up and put up and the last ten years has been a merry go round on issues only affecting 1% or less of the population what a waste and yes I would be embarrassed to. Surely the focus now has to be to remove the SNP from power for good.
The parliament is fine, it’s the media who don’t scrutinise it, the SNP that allowed itself to be infiltrated, its members who did nothing about it and the wheesht for Indy types who continued to vote for it when it was clear they had gone off the rails, who are to blame.
That Alba and ISP are still insignificant shows that Scottish voters never learned the lessons of Scottish Labour’s 80 year piss-take.
Labour won the West Dunbartonshire council by-election last night. SNP finished 2nd, with 30%. The minor fringe parties (Alba, Monster Raving Loonies, ISP) couldn’t find anyone to run.
Both Labour and SNP’s vote share declined from the last election, with Reform surging.
Labour won the West Fife council by-election last night. SNP finished 2nd, with 33%. The minor fringe parties (Alba, Monster Raving Loonies, ISP) couldn’t find anyone to run.
51%
As a young person living in Berwickshire when you acted stupid adults used to say that the white van would come and take you away to the looney bin at Stratheden near Cupar.
Looks like that place is going to be chock a block soon.
chock eh blokes ? 🙂
“We’re going to need a bigger loony bin”
‘Cut Through’ is the major issue here- if the Scottish public understood just what Scot Gov have been wasting taxpayers money on, it would fall by the end of the year. Finished. No more. Gone.
Unfortunately media organisations cannot cover it – due to ideological capture (BBC), fear or funding (STV/Papers).
Let’s be honest- Hollyrood is pointless until we clear this mob out, sometime after 2026. Troughers trough & grifters grift in the meantime.
Surely all these problems date back to 2004 when the Gender Recognition Act was passed by the UK Parliament.
What I find very disappointing is that I haven’t heard any politician suggest this might be the case.
Spot on, Ruby. No either way to fix it. The reason for introducing that Act has gone. Subsequent legislation allows same-sex marriage. GRCs are still possible in certain, very strict documents, while natal sex is retained for data and statistics, but they should, in no way at all, impinge even slightly on female rights.
The Scottish government, the Westminster government, the BBC and every other mouthpiece for these perverted men know perfectly well what they have done and are doing – Barbra Banda was deliberately chosen to rub women’s faces in this s**t. I don’t care if she was thought to be female at birth, or, at least, I do feel sympathy for his/her predicament; by puberty, he/she knew he/she was male; and so did everyone else.
These larpers and TRAs have conned everybody and they still suck public money out of the SG. A total capitulation and cowardice rules now. I’m not kidding: women are going to pull out of what is left of the social contract. It might take time, but, if this case is lost or just remitted back to parliament, we will start to withdraw from every social, political and legal situation as out stands and start setting up our own. A state within a state. If we don’t, it’s Afghanistan for all of us.
It’s worse than that. As Michael Foran has pointed out the UK almost uniquely has decided that ECJ rulings will form precedents in UK domestic law.
So even if we were to rescind the GRA of 2004 it would have little effect on the law because of rulings by the ECJ.
Until that court can be convinced to comprehensively row back on those we are stuck with these in our laws.
are the scots lawyers and judges decided yet whether a pee-pee is a hoo-hoo?
– shall the new law be given the name of “fannybaws”?
did the trannies not want to use the men’s toilets due to the amount of gay sex going on in them?
when the first tranny identifies as having ovarian cancer and demands hysterectomy, it should get the operation, by a person who -identifies- as a surgeon
could I do that? Identify as a surgeon, I mean? I am confident I could scrub up and wear the outfit, cap, gloves and overshoes.I can project a steely glare and rimless glasses will complete the image!
I’m sure I could move about in a sterile environment and not touch anything.
I am perfectly able to order the theatre nurse about “scalpel, the long pointy one and be quick about it. The blood’s pouring out”.
Is that really all I need to do?Self-identify?
Irvine Welsh: ‘The long knives’- ” If you’re a gadge who feels trapped in a bird’s body, have the fucking baws tae get rid ay yir baws. Get them whipped off and have a fanny built. Dinnae prance aboot lassies’ lavies and lassies nicks wi your cock hinging oot, telling every cunt you’re a fucking bird”
Its another fine mess the SNP got us into, thank you very much you’ve caused me ten years of my life can we now focus on the bread and butter of why you’ve been elected and declare UDI.
The SNP couldn’t have gotten us into this ‘fine mess’ had it not been for the UK Labour Government passing the Gender Recognition Act back in 2004.
No Gender Recognition Reform without an Act to reform.
The SNP were born into the wrong movement.
Love this. They were.
Supreme Court told to uphold ‘ordinary’ definition of woman
« The Supreme Court should defend “the facts of biological reality rather than the fantasies of legal fiction”, a leading human rights lawyer has said.
« Representing campaign group For Women Scotland, Aidan O’Neill KC urged the UK’s highest court to rule in favour of its appeal against Scottish Government guidance which allows men who identify as women to take women-only positions on company boards.
« Last year, Scotland’s Inner House of the Court of Session backed the Scottish Government’s position, which asserts that the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 can class men who have Gender Recognition Certificates (GRC) as women, without contradicting other legislation.
‘Biological denialism’
« Mr O’Neill emphasised: “Our position is your sex, whether you are a man or a woman or a girl or a boy, is determined from conception in utero, even before one’s birth, by one’s body.”
« He warned that women are now facing “biological denialism”, where “being a woman has nothing to do with biology” and so they are not allowed to campaign against men accessing female-only spaces.
« But the KC urged the court to denounce the Scottish Government’s “new legal category of ‘certified sex’” in relation to GRCs, and instead defend the “ordinary” definition of sex.
« He concluded: “It’s simple and straightforward if you stick with women being women, men being men.”
‘Laughing stock’
« Earlier this month, the National Records of Scotland (NRS) came under fire for recording gender identity rather than birth sex in the official death registry.
« Those with GRCs are automatically recorded as the opposite sex, but the NRS revealed that it may also change a deceased person’s gender identity on appeal from friends or relatives.
« For Women Scotland’s Director Susan Smith explained that this would skew official statistics on diseases and affect subsequent allocation of funding.
« She said: “Conflating sex with gender doesn’t just risk making Scotland a laughing stock, it may also risk lives and cost the public purse.” »
(from The Christian Institute website)
Everything is being affected, Fearghas. Apparently, sex crimes by women have risen 400% in the past couple of years.
If you voted SNP, Labour, LibDem or Green, you voted for the people who enacted this craziness.
Only the Conservatives voted against it.
Once the Conservatives took over from Labour, they could have repealed the GRA 2004. But they didn’t. Why not? I wish they had.
Conservative MSPs voted 26-2 AGAINST the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. All the other parties voted overwhelmingly FOR the bill.
The UK Conservatives largely voted against the GRA 2004, but did little to repeal it when they returned to power.
“The UK Conservatives largely voted against the GRA 2004, but did little to repeal it when they returned to power.”
That’s exactly what I’m talking about – when they returned to power they did zilch. Kemi appears to be the only one who has been at all GC vocal and even then, has she ever demanded/motioned that her party repeal the GRA 2004? Not that I’m aware of. They’ll be saving that for their re-election campaign. There’s just so much political gain in promising a return to sanity.
Pointless pointing anything factual out to the twat he doesn’t want to know.
Except – Jamie Green Conservative MSP and perhaps other
The Tories gave their MSPs a conscience vote on the GRR bill. Half voted for, half against. The Tories can no more be trusted on this than the others.
The Tories voted 26-2 AGAINST the GRR, not “half for, half against.” Here’s a link to the vote: link to en.wikipedia.org
Why do you lie–and lie so badly? Do you get paid by the lie?
BTW Labour voted 21-0 FOR, the Greens 7-0 FOR, the Lib Dems 4-0 FOR, and the SNP 54-7 FOR.
I daresay the entire situation must be hugely embarrassing. Imagine, if after deriding the Tories by absolute default time and again (with great pseudo-religious zeal and sputtering ire for decades), it turns out that those self same “evil” Tories were (and are still) the only ones trying to prevent this ongoing mind-virus madness.
Ooft.
My head hurts!
Once upon a time, a company called Big Bucks Pharma discovered via its head scientist Fester Bester Tester drugs he called puberty blockers.
He thought there would be no market for these drugs but he took their specifications to BBP’s Marketing VP, Milo Minderbender.
After some thought, Milo decided to create a market for these blockers and other interesting drugs.
First he paid some big bucks to University researchers to come up with studies which showed conclusively that millions of people everywhere needed these drugs right away.
In one study by a Scottish Uni, four researchers found that 20% of the population of the entire planet identified as non binary.
Milo was delighted with the prepaid outcomes.
Milo then contacted politicians everywhere which really appreciated the brown envelopes from BBP pushing the idea that 20% of your electorate and children need to transition from what they are to what we want them to be.
The Greens were especially enthusiastic.
The rest is history.
Milo was promoted from VP to P.
Fester resigned.
Credit where credit is due.
Fester Bestertester was a character created by Don Martin, the brilliant comic artist at Mad Magazine.
Milo Mindeebender was a character from Catch 22 by the equally brilliant Joseph Heller.
A chocolate watch to those who knew that at first reading of my post.
Can we get the names of those who gave the SG such poor legal advice through an FOI request?
And yet, nature always wins.
Put 50 biological men and 50 biological women on a desert island: come back in 200 years to find a thriving community.
Put 50 biological men and 50 males self identifying as women on a desert island: come back in 200 years to find skeletons.
No transphobias in play, just plain biological facts.
And to think that Scotland was once the land of the enlightenment.
@Sven:
If only someone would place your comment on the (not Daily!) record in the Supreme Court, there would be no need for Mega£££, flow charts or anything else.
Well said!
Ecologically speaking,…
Forget it. I’ll leave.
It was also the land of the witch hunter. More ‘witches’ killed here per capita than almost everywhere else, barring the Germanic lands.
Like today, those pushing this garbage knew fine well that ‘witches’ did not exist. Just as today, ‘trans’ identified men know they are men. Hatred, misogyny, envy, jealousy, viciousness, sadism, psychopathy, narcissism ruled then as it rules now. We like to think that we are civilized, but what is happening to female people today, both here and all over the world, proves that we are far from being a higher species.
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
The madness is surely apparent and in full view Lorna, this biological male can only hope that the destruction is following close behind.
For general interest, Edinburgh University has online a project study on this whole subject HERE.
A relevant segment:
« Q. How does Scotland compare to England and the rest of Europe?
« A. Comparisons are interesting but at the same time can tell us relatively little. They are also influenced by which part of Europe is used as a comparison. A gender division of 85% women and 15% men is seen in most other parts of Europe, but in areas like Estonia, Russia and Finland the percentage of men accused is as high and in some areas higher than of women. In Iceland the percentage of men executed was as high as 90%. It is possible therefore to say that Scotland is quite similar to the rest of mainland Europe, but France and many parts of Germany, where many of the European witch trials occurred, were politically, religiously and culturally quite different from Scotland. The Scandinavian comparison should not be ignored even if it demonstrates very different patterns. »
Scotland leads the world in Child Care Home abuse and how to get away with it even when they catch you. Institutional abuse on an industrial scale. Yes Scotland is a sick animal.
Exactly Lorna. And the witchhunts were a means of social control. Read ‘Enemies of God’ by Christina Larner. Although they used these social problems to advance their purpose, they were a top down method of social control.
Spot on, Lorna.
re. “And to think that Scotland was once the land of the enlightenment”
It still is (Scot Gov freak has left reality)..
Nothing was said about sex changes, men living as woman, men gaining a GRC for about 20 years. What happened to bring it to the public’s attention? Was it when reform was proposed? Who was behind having reforms/self id? Did it just all happen as recently as 2021?
*17th March 2021
Oral evidence Inquiry Reform of the Gender Recognition Act
Nancy Kelley
Chief Executive Officer at Stonewall
Lui Asquith
Director of Legal and Policy at Mermaids
Cat Burton
Chair at Gender Identity Research and Education Society
Dr Jane Hamlin
President at Beaumont Society
Was it Stonewall & Mermaids?
Could it be these demands for reform have done more harm than good to the so called LGBT+ Community by bringing this issue to the public’s attention?
Could be something similar could happen with the recent demands for ‘blasphemy laws’ in the UK.
*2021 can’t be right it must have been 2017.
Whenever it would be interesting to know who made the demands for reforms.
https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2004-02-23&house=commons&number=55
Maybe politicians are reluctant to criticise the GRA 2004 because their parties voted that birth gender should not determine one’s legal status and that if you are ‘living as a woman’ you are a woman.
Everyone who had a hand in concocting and supporting this travesty must make a full confession ,apologise, and disappear forever from public life.
Only the Conservative Party voted against this in Holyrood. Every other party (SNP, LibDem, Labour, Green) supported it.
Your suggestion (a good one, BTW) would eliminate the four other parties.
See link to parliament.scot for the actual votes.
Same question as above. What is the ‘this’ that you are referring to.
Conservative party voted against reform but seem to be very happy with the GRA 2004 which allows men to change sex legally.
See my earlier comment.
I haven’t heard a single Conservative say that the GRA 2004 should be repealed have you?
In every one of these type of (increasingly common) discussions in the media, these facts should be repeated again, and again. And again, still.
The Left should never be allowed to forget. Ever.
Which travesty are you referring to Dek?
I truly wish that I could put a different spin on your first-rate analysis, Rev, but I can’t. Too many people are cowards and/or Bonhoeffer stupid. Even if they lose, which is more unlikely than likely, although the UKSC just might shock me in a good way for a change, the TRAs and larpers will continue their destruction of our society.
There will be nothing for it but to face therm head on and destroy them utterly. Withdraw from everything that is female and leave them to stew together and validate each other without us; demand government funding to set up our own institutions or take to the streets; and set up our own party(ies) to fight them.
Women have contributed to this society for many, many years with taxes and purchase power, and, last but certainly not least, by birthing power to keep our species alive. Well, we want what is ours by right and if we don’t get it, we will tear down the walls of Jericho all over again. Oh, and leave the handmaidens to become the doormats.
Couldn’t agree more.
Seems the waste of taxpayers money will not pay off for the woke SNP. Even their own 1st Minister says that men can’t get pregnant.
What a disgrace when more important issues that this party were tasked for by electorate are ignored.
Let’s hope they lose many seats in 2026
Woman:
“An adult female human being.”:
link to dictionary.cambridge.org
STV News:
‘She was a special women’
Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attended a funeral service for comedian Janey Godley in Glasgow:
link to tinyurl.com
‘Woman’
And the whole world stops, The human race cannot continue until the Legal gerbils get their flow charts sorted. Yes indeed folks the world hangs by a knicker elastic with this crucial decision of the human race. When our betters decide what’s best for us. Don’t try and understand it. Your Stupid.. Find out after luncheon.
A Trans- Men WITH a GRC wont be entitled to IVF or Maternity Pay due to being male.
Was this “Have cake and eat it” shark jump attempt televised and presented by The Fonz per chance?
And here’s the thing – his eggs could be fertilised by his own sperm!
We have reached biological Nirvana – human hermaphroditism (or is it parthenogenesis)?
If the former he is both sexes simultaneously; if the latter, he truly is a woman!
Good luck to the team asked to harvest the eggs.
Seems to me that John Swinney, speaking as a man, has no problem saying that ‘a trans woman is a woman’.
But, when the boot is on the other foot ( or any other part of human anatomy) still speaking as a man, he obviously cannot accept that, by the same logic, ‘a trans man is a man’.
Doh!
Is that not discrimination of some description – or dare we call it ‘idiocy’ in the former case and ‘common sense’ in the latter!
We all know that no ‘trans women’ can become pregnant but ‘trans men’ can and do become pregnant, often wanting to be recorded on the infant’s birth certificate as the father.
And Starmer says that ‘99.9% of women do not have a penis!’
As for ‘chest-feeding’ – don’t get me started…
What a mess!!!!!
many years ago I worked with a urology surgeon who had created a “penis” for a woman who wanted to become a man.After years of hormone treatments, psychiatric counselling, lengthy surgery, the “man” could urinate standing upright. 2-3 years later “he” returned to the surgeon, fiancee in tow, asking about having children. Head in hands, the surgeon tried to explain why that was not possible “But I’m a man now!!!”
LOL
Gives the phrase ‘go fuck yourself’ a new meaning.
The only thing that’s on trial here is the Scottish Legal system.
“Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman.”
Especially when there’s a sweaty rapist in the next cubicle.
Do we have to wait months because it will take that long for the judges to stop laughing at Sturgeon and her vindictive cabal of complete arses ?
Feel sorry for the KC involved, but I do hope he never lives this pish down.
If they decide it is a matter for Parliament, and not the courts then I suggest we immediately close the supreme court. As they will have made themselves a very expensive white elephant.
Exactly. The SC becomes pointless.
The KC involved in fighting the SG’s corner is a woman – the biological kind. She was just doing her job, but even she could not make this stuff palatable.
I’m not sure to which KC you are referring. The irony perhaps, as the KC for the appellants mentioned, is that the only women KCs appearing in the case were those representing the Scottish Government. In my humble opinion, I’m inclined to agree with the comment quoted in the W o S article by Ian Smart to the effect that the Court are likely to conclude that the law is an ass but that it is for Parliament and not the courts to sort out! I thought that was broadly the position adopted by the advocate for the EHRC who had intervened and in some respects appeared to support the Scottish Government case but at the same time also agreed with many of the points put by the appellant’s (FWS Ltd) advocate.
What a farce! Meanwhile what do the Scottish Government have to say on independence?
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Karma
@Illuminarty1111:
“Lol , what a fanny”:
link to tinyurl.com
Written by Pish Washout – what an excellent present!
Rest assured this Scot Gov/SNP is gonna provide Scotland with a procession of gifts…
I widnae gie that arsewipe the steam aff ma pish
, just ANOTHER tr@it or using indy to make cash ,roll up roll up clowns and gie meeeeee dosh
More taxpayers cash wasted by the the Vichy SNP government – the SNP government and their degenerate sidekicks the Greens – have squandered millions if not billions of taxpayers cash on vile policies, or trying to defend the indefensible.
Haven’t they just. The fuckers. Rips ma knitting big style.
“Thus leaving their unfortunate counsel to have to present a case which is complete gibberish that even they can’t understand or explain without consulting a flowchart and taking an extended lunchbreak”
You missed out my favourite X comment, I think from the Progressive Misogyny account –
“As Simone De Beauvoir didn’t say “one is not born a woman but becomes one after consulting a flowchart during lunch””
At one point a judge said to one of the KCs on the Scottish government’s side of the argument “I’m not sure I understand your point”
You and me both mate, you and me both!
” What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged, plundered, ripped and bit her;
Tied her with fences and dragged her down.
I hear a very gentle sound.
With your heads down to the ground.”
The Scottish Government have turned Scotland into a laughing stock it’s embarrassing But even worse this is our money they are frittering away on this ridiculous farce of a whole court case to legitimise a mental illness. SNP have completely lost the plot and are on a death spiral down the gender ideology rabbit hole! It’s no wonder folk don’t believe a word they say anymore when they come out with this pile of bull?
Very true, but, anyone listening to the FWS case would have been made aware just how many times the painfully slow progress of women towards full legal humanity has been undermined in law and in the courts.
Every little step has met with opposition initially, then, later attempts to turn the clock back again. ‘Trans’ is just the latest form this on-going misogyny has taken. It really is time for women to turn their backs on all of it and set up their own institutions, parties, etc. and demand their fair share of taxes and all resources accruing to them as half the human race.
The next step will be to try and prove that we are not actually human, but some kind of off-shoot that never made it – inferior men whose biological status and bits never made it to full fruition.
Sorry, chaps, there are two sexes and each is determined in utero, both starting off as female; each is very physically, psychologically and physiologically different from the other in lots of ways; and each is absolutely essential for the procreation of the species. Neither has any special features that makes either sex dominant in any way whatsoever.
Men have physical strength, but, eventually, that will become redundant as human existence progresses. The whole ‘trans’ lobby nonsense is regression on stilts.
Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive
This is the legal equivalence of when Saint Nic couldn’t explain why Isla was to be banged up in a male prison.
Over 1,000 Scots sleeping rough in Glasgow alone – whilst – thousands of Scots children are homeless yet these vile b*stards Vichy SNP government have wasted millions in trying to convince us that a man is a woman if he has a bit of paper telling him he is.
Number of rough sleeper in Glasgow this year rockets | Glasgow Times
[…] 28 November 2024, Wings Over Scotland: What Went On […]
Why has Shirley Anne Somerville today announced winter fuel payments to pensioners?
To distract us from her government’s disastrous gender court case, I suspect,
Almost certainly : and note …..if they do it won’t be until next year/Winter . So basically it’s another case ” we’re going to do something people may need/be appreciative of – but not now : ” later ” . It’s also part of the forthcoming Scottish Elections candied carrot routine , ie ” Vote SNP ( both votes , please ) and we will deliver paradise on Earth ” : * Later *
I have a feeling that tired old pre-Election con-game won’t work this time . They’ve used it too often and the people have nothing to show for it – least of all progress on the one thing , the only thing , that will rescue Scotland from internal ( ie Brit ) & external GBH , ie Independence ; all people have seen as a result of 10 years of this bogus ” Independence Party ” is declining standards of living , more deprivation and hardship AND utter brain-crushing idiocy like the subject of this WOS post .
Why should/would anyone vote for another 5 years of the same ?
It astonishes me that people are STILL falling for the ‘jam tomorrow’ carrot dangling of these liars.
Related to topic.
link to robinmcalpine.org
I find it weird that Robin MacAlpine decided not to write anything about this court case choosing instead to write about adoption.
Why wouldn’t he want to write about this court case?
Absolute madness unfolding.
What is really worrying is that there are still a lot of people in Scotland who think that the SNP are doing a good job and that they are working for benefit of all Scots.
Hundreds of millions of pounds wasted, with more to come, but it is ok, it’s only taxpayers money. What else could we spend it on? Hardly a day passes without another form of SNP incompetence being revealed.
What do we want?-INDEPENDENCE
When do we want it?-NOW
Who will form the Government?-EM, ERR, UM.
I doubt if there will be many on here who will ever live to see an Independent Scotland (me included). The best anyone can hope for is a hung Parliament in 2026. Depending on how that pans out, I expect more of the same mess, there is a chance that a new Party may emerge, Forget about Alba/ Salvo and all the various off shoots. A figure head needs to be found. He or she might still be at school!
How long on this read before some boring fart brings up Colonisation?
Independence requires decolonization which means colonialism is our ‘condition’ with liberation the only remedy.
As colonialism is based on psychology this reality may be difficult for those suffering from a colonial mindset to get thair heids aroond:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
It did not take too long! Answer one question Alfie boy, who forms a government after we have been supposedly decolonised? Loved the wee Scottishy bit at the end..Every post of yours is exactly the same albeit there were no refernces to fanni erc this time. You did manage to include the link to mince written by an erse.
All that ethnic self-hatred is doing you no good, you know. Colonialism isnae really that difficult tae feegure oot:
link to salvo.scot
Great stuff. Another link to mince written by an erse. Have you not got anything original or new? Is plagiarism your hobby?
All you need is a degree in Victimhood Studies.
Those from parties not based in and controlled by London/England.
Some shuffling of desks and slippers may be required. House Jocks and pissheads need not apply
A land free from post imperial sentimentalist stodge (Piss for short)
Awa and lie in yer pish.
Colonial Bingo- knock at the door 4.
By the way, Where’s Hatey?
I guess it’s a case of “never disturb your enemy when he is making a complete arse of himself”
Kind of proves why he trolls here!
Aww sugar, Garavelli, now you’ve done it ! At least with Candyman his name required to be said 5 times. I’m guessing with Hatey that just saying one of his names is enough to elicit a response.
Maybe if everyone just ignores him he’ll get fed up and go away.
What’s the status of our bet, then? £50 too rich for you?
This time of year, there’s plenty of temp jobs going if you’re strapped. Something tells me you’d make the perfect chugger. Let me know if you need a character reference – I don’t mind lying on your behalf, if it will ultimately put me £50 up.
Aw, are you missing him already? S’not even 24 hours. 🙂
Story I heard, he’s ordered a certificate of professorship from the dark web. He’s lying low until it arrives.
The site Prick is mebbies on a training course in Fife.
MEANWHILE we have pensioners freezing in Scotland horrified at the thought of their next heating bill facing a choice of starvation or hypothermia , a mahoosive upsurge of FOOD BANKS which should be called “starving people suffering misery charity hubs” that are DESPICABLE and OUTRAGEOUS in their existence in a supposed civilised RICH country
Homelessness and rent arrears increasing daily, desperation and poverty leading to higher drug deaths and suicide rates, ALL this and more whilst our grossly incompetent and corrupt Scottish parliament and Scottish government WASTE millions of pounds taking a biological impossibility to court
What makes this outrage even more anger inducing is the FACT that these DEPRAVED MORONS are using OUR tax money to push this through a court WHILST simultaneously SANE people are having to BEG for donations to fight this atrocity against biology
The people responsible for this biological insanity and heresy should not JUST be removed from office they should be imprisoned with others of their own kind where they can indulge in their perversions and depravity as much as they want
WE will do it to you Beth
What struck me was how the Scottish Government sent in KCs so unprepared & unaware of the entire trans debate. I’m assuming they want to win this so they can push their legislation through but I got the impression as the day went on and the judges informed themselves that even the SG KCs thought the entire thing was a clown show.
How much is this all costing us at a time of austerity by Westminster and Holyrood is a crucial question. If the SNP are doing this for a handful of pornsick men, some mentally ill women & a load of vocal activists over feeding or housing the poor (and this is a rhetorical question of course) then everyone involved needs voting out in 2026.
Meanwhile Sturgeon glides through the raindrops hoping none of this mess touches her when in fact, it’s all on her. She’s the one who shifted the SNP from a pretty much social democratic party to a neoliberal one steeped in identity politics.
Private school fees have to be paid somehow.
Colonial Bingo – 0 ?
Exactly!
There seems to be no law against their fraud, deceit and lies.
How do we prosecute these people?
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
It is not easy, but lawyers excel at it. I would be surprised if ScotGov’s KCs did not know it was fool’s errand, but it paid well and could mean more business from that deep-pocketed client.
Would it be discrimination if the NHS refused to do a smear test on a ‘woman’ with a penis?
I would love to know what the SG guy said when asked something similar.
Just noticed the link to:
link to supremecourt.uk
I might be tempted to wade through the nine hours of legalese to find out.
I think it would be discrimination if the NHS refused to do a smear test on a ‘woman’
Might be worth having a look at what happen when gynaecologist refused to see Jessica Yaniv.
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John Swinney scrap this policy.
Swinney himself would need to become pregnant to prove his case; tho A widna haud ma breith.
Is he not to old to become pregnant!!
Nothing is impossible with medical intervention (or so some would have us believe!) – and then there’s miracles!!
O/T
(from ALBA):
Saturday 30th November 2024, 12.30pm, His Dream Will Never Die, We call on all Scottish Patriots to put their differences aside & fill Buchanan Street Steps with activists holding LARGE posters of Alex Salmond in memory of one of Scotland’s Greatest Patriots.
Will Alf Baird and James be attending? If not, why not?
I thought it was 11 a.m – am I wrong?
The service in St Giles is 11am but this is at 12.30.
Maybe someone could verify it?
The info is from ALBA Newsletter on 19/11:
“Saturday 30th November 2024, 11am, Alex Salmond Memorial Service, St Giles Cathedral, High Street (Royal Mile), Edinburgh. Entry to the cathedral by invitation only”.
“Saturday 30th November 2024, 12.30pm, His Dream Will Never Die, We call on all Scottish Patriots to put their differences aside & fill Buchanan Street Steps with activists holding LARGE posters of Alex Salmond in memory of one of Scotland’s Greatest Patriots”.
Why weren’t we encouraged to fill the space around St Giles cathedral? With sound provided outside for the crowds? It is deeply dispiriting. The punters have been shown the door.
It’s baffling, G m.
Can no politicians see, as clear as day, the madness of this gender stuff? I mean seriously, we have leaders of countries and senior government figures who get tongue tied when asked the most simple, basic human question, “What is a woman”? The vague answers are even worse, with lengthy pseudo explanations of this and that and caveats a plenty.
I just cannot for one second fathom why so many seemingly otherwise intelligent people have swallowed this gender nonsense, hook, line and sinker.
And so we end up in England’s pretendy ‘supreme’ court in London, England, with lawyers arguing over the rights of a ‘pregnant man’. Literally arguing white is black.
FFS, I mean seriously, FFS, what on earth is wrong with these people? It is like a contagious madness.
Allow me to help. Men cannot get pregnant. They have no uterus or ovaries, they have no birth canal, or fallopian tubes. They have no capacity to allow for the gestation of a human developing foetus, nor to even create one. Their hormones would disallow any notion of pregnancy, and even if such a strange thing were to happen, they could not give birth naturally, as their pelvis (unlike an actual woman’s ) is the wrong shape, thereby preventing a baby descending the non-existent birth canal. I could go on, but you get the point.
ANY person, ANYWHERE who talks about nonsense like a ‘pregnant man’, needs to see a head doctor urgently – even if they are a KC, or government minister.
No wonder actual REAL women, are so pissed off.
I think there are two strands of lunacy here.
As you say, men cannot be pregnant. But people who swallow the lie that “transmen are men” (they would put a space after trans; I’m not going to indulge that) are then able to talk about “pregnant men”, by which they mean females who identify as men, who can and do become pregnant.
But when Swinney says that men cannot become pregnant, he’s probably talking about males who identify as women, thereby deliberately or otherwise maintaining the confusion.
If so, he’s of course admitting that males who identify as women are still men, and females who identify as men are still women.
And yes, as a real woman, I am mightily pissed off by the whole thing.
In a nutshell , thank you Robert Louis!
Looks like the 2024 award for the most institutionally gormless governing body in world politics is in the bag.
The organisers will already be engraving “Scotland” on the trophy (assuming they don’t consult with Ros, of course).
How many consecutive years is that now? I lose count. Is there a number after which we just get to keep it permanently?
Some as yet unknown future historian, writing the definitive work on how it was that stupidity, venality, capture and voter tribalism brought down the curtain on the Democratic Era in politics, is going to give Scotland an entire chapter to herself.
The Scottish Government needs to take UEFA to court. Scotland clearly won the last Euros.
The less said about that’ the better.
A stushie has erupted over whether or not fart suppressant being added to cattle feed is harmful to humans.
I tweeted a polite message to Arla (they produce Cravendale milk and many other dairy products) saying that I would not be buying any more of it.
This is the tweet:
x.com/ianbhood/status/1861817686788825514
At the time of writing the tweet has had 206,000 views, 2,000 retweets and 244 comments.
Tweeters have been revealing the family-tree of business connections between the company, Bill Gates, Blackrock, Vanguard etc. All the ‘usual suspects’ we hear about in a variety of conspiracy theories’.
Arla seem to have doubled-down and issued a statement condemning ‘misinformation’. That’s just made it worse. We’re looking at another ‘Ratner’ scenario and if people are true to their word then yer local farms are going to be inundated with queries/orders and the poor auld cows will be doing overtime.
So what?
If we, as independence campaigners, could somehow highlight the utter dodginess of the SNP/Scotgov dalliances with neo-liberal outfits over the years and underscore the fact that they are a threat to our health, that might help us get through to the unionist/undecided rump.
What is more damaging to anyone’s health than a combination of poverty and hopelessness? That’s what being tied to the Union means in real terms.
The SNP ‘brand’ is fucked, aye, but that hasn’t made the msm ‘news’ yet. So many inquiries/revelations/trials in the offing but there’s always just enough of a delay, for whatever reason, to kick it all down the line just beyond that next election.
The Arla controversy is, ostensibly, about virtue-signalling capitalists tinkering with the food chain. But that’s not why people are going ape over it. It’s about trust. We’ve had so many years of revelations, one after the other, about how Big Agra/Pharma are fucking with the environment whilst simultaneously being told that it’s all our fault. (And, of course, the ‘jag’. It’s easy to forget something when you really don’t want to remember it. But it was real. It happened.)
As consumers we’re entitled to know what’s in the product – be it an injection, a basic food or a political party – and we’ll buy it if we know exactly ‘what’s in the tin’. The SNP, right now, is no different to any other brand which let down its customers. The Ratner moment can’t be far away now, surely?
It’s just hard to believe they’ve got away with it for so long.
My partner was telling me about this ( I’m not on TwitX ) and that the Scottish dairy brand – Grahams – have stated categorically they will not be using any of this shit in their products . Mon the Grahams !
It’s fckn joke , Ian , more garbage being inflicted on the public under the guise of the best marketing tool of recent times – ” Saving the Planet ” . That the ever-present grasping claw of Gates is involved ( profiting ) from this latest assault on anything natural should come as no surprise : and automatically render it highly suspect .
Cow flatulence = APOCALYPSE THE MORRA
Permanent Planet Destroying Wars/Conflicts = Defending ” Democracy “
Guess that means that we can expect to see Grahams disappear from Supermarket shelves and remain only on sale in the smaller independents.
If they stick to this policy I hope they greatly increase sales & make their fortune.
Yes , Sven , I was thinking the same – how long will they be able to hold out if Big Food , ie the Supermarket cartel , decide to blacklist Grahams’ products ?
This post deserves a story of its own. Wings Over Scotland could write about this and give it exposure it needs.
I’ve just poured my Morrisons home brand milk down the sink.
I wonder if we could get a full list of farms that won’t feed their cows this absolute poison.
No wonder the farmers were protesting outside Westminster last week. They don’t want us to have any choice.
Set the truth free. Thank you for this post. You’ve changed my purchases.
The reason we have an obesity and diabetes epidemic is because in the 80’s at the behest of Big Food they demonized fat and told everyone to eat a high carbohydrate diet instead.
Things like eggs and red meat were falsely blamed and gradually replaced with factory made shite.
Then second shoe drops as it is Big Pharma treating people for symptoms instead of the cause, their bad diets. a win/win for them and a lose/lose for us.
Look at the fucking size of people now versus footage of folk in the 70’s. Every shopping mall is a traffic jam of mobility scooters…
They are killing us and it is not accidental. All done for greed and profit. It is the biggest scandal out there and almost no one talks about it.
Where it really struck me was old footage of Scotland fans breaking the goalposts at Wembley… there is hardly a fatty in sight amongst them. Everyone looks so lean.
Compare that to current Scotland fans…
What has caused this massive change. Because something has obviously changed.
We were all taught bad dietary advice, corrupt advice. Designed to maximize profits not health.
My parents were taught what was really healthy but my generation were taught the opposite and it has been like that ever since.
Fast forward to today and it is just more of the same. The attack on farmers being the latest. They want all those farms up for sale at distressed prices for the private equity greaseball backers.
They are destroying the fabric of our countries piece by piece.
As for the jag that really should be a lesson for us all… just another man-made racket at our expense. So many people dead now who would normally be alive.
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Shona
SH-O-N-A, Shona
Sho-Sho-Sho-Sho Shona
Sorry for being crude, but here’s one set of definitions:
1) If its got a c*ck between its legs, its a man
2) If its got a c*nt between its legs, its a woman
3) If its got a c*ck on its shoulders, its a lawyer
4) If its got c*nt between its ears, its a politician
Swinney will be severely beaten for expressing an opinion to the Media.
There are biologically two sexes but as many «genders» as you might dream up.
Good science is concerned with the first.
Bad government the second.
More of the «intellect», much less of the «emotion».
As soon as I see, or hear, or read about the thing called SNP, the first word that comes straight to mind is, ‘shte’… nothing has altered that perspective which has been rock solid over the last 10 years since She/her was universally crowned Paranoid-Dictator-For-Life by a giant conference of the naive, the gullible and the easily manipulated.
What went on? – about 2018 or so, androgynous adolescents started appearing as a phenomenom in Scottish secondary schools. From the top down, the order to teachers was to affirm, indulge and validate their girl boy / boy girl thing. Failure to do so would have brought disciplinary procedures against teachers leading inevitably to their loss of employment. (Oddly enough in Central Scotland there was a clear majority of girls wanting to be boys rather than the reverse).But this insanity had to be indulged. This situation then in turn created whole swathes of design by and discussion by committees / job creation schemes set up to endlessly analyse, consult, discuss, report among the towering babel bureaucracies of schools, governments, health boards, police forces and most major institutions throughout the length of the land as to how best to accommodate this phenomenon. And so here we are here, now that the corollaries of such a reductio ad absurdum hypothesis are painfully apparent to all, and like some surrealist Krasznahorkai story, it all collapses under its own weight, only that its all grotesquely for real.
However, there are some optimistic signs that this spectrum of oppression will be on the wane soon in some parts of the world. Apart from viewers in Scotland, that is as all is truly dead here, save stupidity.
Not even on the Scotland page of the BBC website. You have to know that it’s down in Scotland Politics. Practically hidden.
Of course the BBC is avoiding mention of the UK gender equality act in 2010 that kicked off all this nonsense.
Sturgeon thought she was being smart jumping in on the act to extend it in Scotland probably because she was too close to that liberated community.
Real easy target for the security services to set her up to create the conspiracy against Salmond who was the real risk.
Sturgeon was an effective communicator but no concept of right and wrong. Making up charges to have an innocent man thrown in jail cause you don’t like what he says is simply wrong.
Everyone connected to this act is tainted and can now be controlled by the security services.
Swinney had a chance to clean out the stables but he did not – of course he was the man with the redactor pen hiding the truth!!
Sturgeon and the Lesbian conspiracy tried to bend Scotland into a play thing for the analy enlightened. A progressive way to the toilet. If you think a monotone nark is “effective communication ” then I beg to differ.
I thought she did a good job during covid. However perjury, perverting the course of justice, cover ups lying redacting sorry just not good enough.
These very acts leave you liable to blackmail if you were not already being blackmailed to do them
In all cases once they have you on the hook you are doomed and doomed thet are
Westminster will out them when it suits them
She did not do a good job with Covid.
She repeated everything Cobra said but added in extra restrictions.
She helped ruin our already fragile economy
Off topic.
I have a golfing pal who receives an old age pension. Last year he was awarded £500 for the winter fuel allowance. In reality he needs neither. Feeling a bit guilty he decided to put £250 cash, in two separate envelopes, and stuck them through the letter boxes of two different pensioners he knew were struggling. He did this anonymously.
This year, no WFA but he has decided to do the same again. It got me thinking. I am not yet of pensionable age, but am financially secure and have decided to follow his example.
Maybe more of us, who are in a position to do so, should consider doing the same.
It’s a good gesture and fairplay to yr friend for doing that . The possible negative if many people did this is it would encourage the Government to do even less to help people in need , ie those struggling with ever-increasing energy costs .
This Labour Gov in particular – but the other Parties are more or less the same – would like nothing better than a return to ” Dickensian ” times where wealthy individuals done ” good work ” by donating a few £s to the ” deserving poor ” ; thereby relieving them ( Govs ) of any responsibility for Duty of Care for the people they are meant to serve .
I watched a tv advert for the very worthwhile Marie Curie Foundation asking for donations of £20+ to help them out or whatever you could afford
I searched for the salary of the current CEO but it wasn’t available, the nearest figure was for 2019 where the the then resigning CEO was being paid £168,000+ , the NEW CEO was incoming from another charitable organisation with 2 of his previous employers being other charitable organisations, are these charity organisations just like supermarkets and other organisations where it is just a revolving door for those and such as those , one person resigns as a CEO of a business and then immediately is appointed as head of another business irrespective of their competence
In relation to Marie Curie and other charitable organisations where CEO’S are paid extraordinary salaries can anyone identify WHY they are paid such exorbitant figures , surely the donations alone required to pay these eye watering figures are massive and most people would be concerned that their donations are not being used for the intentions they donated
What is the justification for these greedy salaries that robs charities of donations
Universality is worth saving. Just think what Scotland would be without universal health care and education. The principle that all pay in and all benefit is sound. Take away universality completely and you end up with extreme poverty, wide spread ill health, wholesale ignorance and a society at war with itself. Ending WFA is the thin end of a wedge. What your friend did is very laudable, but charitable acts are always small scale compared to what governments can do.
Chas getting all charitable now. Must be crimbo spirit kicking in. Or maybe jist a ruse to try to extract money from fools to continue to prop up the extortion racket of the big energy corporates ripping the pish out of society with high energy prices.
6 months ago I proffered the suggestion that Chas and I could raise money for good causes but he didn’t take up the offer…
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Talking of crimbo, cats be like.
Keep cleaning the sewers Dan. At least you have found the task you are admirably suited for. As I responded months ago, why would any sane individual want to spend 3 or 4 hours in your company.
Dread to think what you are like in person, it’s bad enough having to read/scroll past the yoon shite that you post. You’re the unavoidable pub bore, the know-all erse.
What is more important in law – biological reality or a social construct based on gender?
Politicians have made bad law and I fully expect these judges will kick this arguement back to the politicians to sort out.
Meanwhile the public have already made their mind up – biological reality is far more important without any need to refer to a flow chart.
What an absolute mess the political class have created.
Never seen this guy (being interviewed) before but I strongly recommend this interview.
A brilliant analysis but also an important warning to everyone living in Europe.
link to youtube.com
The first 15 minutes are very compelling alone. The chances of something bad happening and it being blamed on Ru$$ia are very high at this point… as all else has failed and time is running out.
But then the conclusions after that are equally compelling and really quite frightening. I think this guy is correct. I wish I could make every European watch it.
Coincidentally , I was thinking of sending this to Ian B – or post it here . Who knows if it will happen but no-one should be surprised if it does link to alexkrainer.substack.com
Cheers R, have never seen that dude before. Very interesting and, sadly, entirely plausible.
Will now go and watch the interview Mac linked to.
no prob , Ian . I’ve been * following * yr man for a while now : he’s always spot-on . Let’s hope in this instance he’s not !
As he said, the more people know a false flag is likely to happen, the less likely it becomes. That is why I linked to it. But he says a lot more than just that… cheers for the link.
The chances of something bad happening and it actually being Ru$$ia behind it are very high at this point!
You’ve never seen this guy (being interviewed) before but you strongly recommend we swallow every word he says. Hook, line & sinker. I guess that figures.
Let me guess his message too:
We’re doomed and it’s all our own fault. Welcome the divine judgement of the Orcs as they come to scourge us for our wickedness. [Oh, I nearly forgot – gen0cide – must squeeze that one in too].
Strewth, it never takes long before any post on here gets hijacked by the usual Old Testament prophets of doom, disaster and despair.
It’s the weekend “Mac”. Do us all a favour, including yourself, and go find something you can enjoy.
wank
HM: “It’s the weekend “Mac”. Do us all a favour, including yourself, and go find something you can enjoy.”
RH: “wank”
HM: Too much info, but you go knock yourself out 🙂
Quack Quack
This is 9/11 conspiracy level and the internet is full of this stuff.
The great majority of Europeans are well clued up about what is happening on their doorsteps, there’s a million Ukra***** here and we have a Media which is nowhere near just sucking up to what the politicians want.
It’s not perfect by any means in Europe but at least we’re not trying to kiss America’s a**e like the UK.
The Establishment has you all in chains.
Have you packed your bags, yet, or are you still hoping the AfD never make good on their promises to chuck all the spongers, grifters and useless eaters out?
What’s the German for “Squeaky Bum Christmas”? I bet they have one of these enormous words 🙂
Please don’t tell us you never bothered to learn the language! Why bother – everybody speaks English, right?
Clown.
It went by with scarcely anybody mentioning it, but in a different Livestream, I think it was Ray McGovern, ex CIA analyst who said something very profound, – and said it almost in passing.
I can’t find it, or the exact words he used, but he made the unremarkable observation that while Puteen is very astute and competent as a Leader, but that he also has an incredible sangfroid attitude the likes of which McGovern has never seen in a political leader. He doesn’t allow himself to be triggered or provoked…
I like Ray McGovern a lot. I think he’s spot on. With a lesser man than Puteen in control, we might all of us have been dead by now.
“If” there is a false flag event planned, let us all hope it’s as amateurish and transparent as the Skripal Novichok “poisoning”, and very quickly seen and recognised for what it is.
“Puteen is very astute and competent as a Leader”
Yet Rooshian window catches continue to be celebrated around the world as the very epitome of deadly shoddiness. I mean, have you seen the body count?
“With a lesser man than Puteen in control, we might all of us have been dead by now”
So right, Breeks. Take Dr. Evil for example. If Austin Powers was to help a free, sovereign, independent nation fight back against his aggressive imperialism, Dr. Evil would defo threaten to nuke anybody and everybody helping Powers.
That’s a film somebody should make so you can go and watch it. You’ll cheer yourself hoarse, while the hot tears of approbation for Dr. Evil blur your vision.
BTW, the Orcs poisoned the Skripals. Get over it.
Oink Oink
Thanks for the link Mac, have just finished watching.
Much to ponder, and a lot of it is pretty grim. But at least we can be grateful that some well-informed people are doing their best to sound the alarm. It would be so much easier for him to keep his head down and mouth shut.
Excellent, down to earth, realistic analysis from Alex and Nima. They’ve nailed it. This is precisely where we are at. I sincerely hope that Alex’s summation of, and insight into, Trump’s strategies/manoevering are correct.
Found it fascinating to learn about the cctv cameras in London . . . first I’ve heard about that. I’ve watched one of Nima’s interviews before and he’s such a good listener, very focused, never interrupts.
Not completely off topic, but one of my fave hobbies being a skint saddo, is using google maps street view to travel round other countries that I have next to no chance of ever being able to visit.
I’ve recently been on a wee tour of some Russian (and Hungarian) towns and cities (not Moscow/Budapest) and my eyes have been opened to how pleasant and well maintained so many of them are. I’m not talking about the tourist attractions within these places, but of the suburbs, shopping precincts, the places where locals go, and the streets where they live. Immaculate, leafy, clean, well maintained.
Ok, in the outskirts of some cities you’ll find a suburb consisting of a grid of dirt tracks (no tarmac) with housing on either side, and the housing ranges from modern, new build fortresses (cartel, keeping a low profile) to more ramshackle dwellings . . but the house to plot ratio is something like 20% and there’s trees and lush vegetation everywhere. No fly-tipping, no rubbish, no graffiti. The potholes no worse than here.
I always try and find a ‘shithole’ housing scheme, a huge tower block complex for example, and I’m specifically looking for signs of over flowing dumpster style bin areas, graffiti and burnt out motors . . . there’s been so many large towns/cities where I’ve been unable to find any. I can only assume that many Russians and Eastern Europeans have better funded public services/infrastructure than the UK. I pick my street view explorations at random, usually places I’ve never heard of, and I always check the footage is recent.
Anyway, if you’ve got this far, thanks for reading my ramble :-))
Watched this too. I did post a very long reply but moderation gobbled it up like a hungover alkie, eating cold pizza.
An excellent analysis by Alex. Nima is always a very good listener: focused and never interrupts his guest. Alex’s analysis of Trump’s possible moves, based on his previous actions, was more than interesting. In addition, I never knew about the cctv cameras in London being taken out (and NOT by the bladerunners.) Can we establish this for sure?
Pity I would have liked to read that.
The guy Nima is one of the best listeners of all the folk I watch do interviews. So many others could learn from him. He just actively listens. Not as easy as it looks.
The webcams that are down are these.
link to london-webcam.co.uk
Basically all the traffic cameras, and they are still down.
At the top of the page it still says ‘TFL Security incident – webcams are currently offline’. Been like that for 80 days plus apparently…
Make of that what you will. The webcams are not that worrying to me, it is the logic that worries me.
False flag is really only the last move open to them.
Desperate people do desperate things… and they are desperate as fuck.
The explanation as to why Trump is picking these horrendous picks was also fascinating Gorka etc… I hope he is right.
Trump is walking a tightrope until he gets into power, if he gets into power, and even then…
(Apologies mods screwed up the email address yet again)
Pity I would have liked to read that.
The guy Nima is one of the best listeners of all the folk I watch do interviews. So many others could learn from him. He just actively listens. Not as easy as it looks.
The webcams that are down are these.
link to london-webcam.co.uk
Basically all the traffic cameras, and they are still down.
At the top of the page it still says ‘TFL Security incident – webcams are currently offline’. Been like that for 80 days plus apparently…
Make of that what you will. The webcams are not that worrying to me, it is the logic that worries me.
False flag is really only the last move open to them.
Desperate people do desperate things… and they are desperate as fuck.
The explanation as to why Trump is picking these horrendous picks was also fascinating Gorka etc… I hope he is right.
Trump is walking a tightrope until he gets into power, if he gets into power, and even then…
And who’s to say they won’t find a way to stop Trump taking office?
Neo-cons don’t give a fuck about anything. They respect nothing and no-one.
Remember, Dubya – when he was in office! – referred to the US Constitution as ‘nothing but a goddam piece of paper’.
Here’s an important message for those seeking Independence for Scotland.
To want that you need to love your country well at least like your country.
As it stands I fuckin’ hate this shit of a country. Too many cunts who don’t know what a woman is.
Fuck Scotland! Fuck Independence!
PS If you run out of ‘off topic’ items to discuss remember there’s always the franchise.
Hey it’s Friday how about a wee competition to see who can come up with the best translation of ‘TWAW’ in Scots.
What about that Rab?
My head hurts. Thanks a bunch, Stuart!
Why isn’t Nicola presenting the case on the SG’s behalf – I understand she’s a lawyer of some note – and it was her policy…..
Janey Godley’s funeral is at 10.0am tomorrow in Glasgow, whilst Alex Salmond’s funeral is at 11.0am in Edinburgh.
Nicola’s busy announcing Janey’s event, presumably hoping it will draw big media attention.
Godley was akin the Val McDermid – a good buddy of Sturgeon the Judas, that’s why the foreign media in Scotland has fawned over Godley.
You ask on Twitter
That is a very interesting question & I do hope you will write an article about this.
The tricky bit might be deciding ‘who is a woman’
Maybe like fitba writing political blogs is
predominately a blogs thing.
Maybe women don’t write political blogs ‘cos the men won’t like it.
I corrected your typo hopefully I got it right!
Rev published the latest stats from SimilarWeb re traffic on independence-supporting sites and my baby, OTS, doesn’t even register.
So it’s time to call it a day. Lasted 18 months all-in and it seems fitting to lay it to rest same weekend as Big Eck’s memorial service.
Thanks to Cactus, Jock Scot, Tinto, Margaret E, TenaciousV and everyone else who supported us with donations over the piece, and to the regular contributors. Feels rotten chucking in the towel but no point flogging a deid proverbial.
The final OTS post will be out later tonight.
🙁
the “brought a knife to a gunfight” slogan has been updated to :
brought a subsonic cruise missile to a 36 mirv warhead hypersonic ballistic missile fight …
if the big one goes up, it would mark a proper end to the “summer of hate”
– at least the english will get it first, and worst … will the SNP have the courage to ask for a section 30 from a radioactive cloud in the stratosphere?
link to archive.ph
<i>Obviously there are many serious reasons to build Hazel (Oreshnik) missiles to hold over the heads of these congenitally aggressive Brits. But what if Ru-shia (for whatever reason) is forced to pull the trigger? Speak not of hate, oh no! It’s not that the British inspire hatred. Not at all. They are as nice as the lynx, and as equally ferocious and deadly. But let’s admit it: probably THE WORLD WILL BE BETTER WITHOUT THE MALEVOLENT PRESENCE OF THE BRITISH. THEIR NEIGHBOURS ON THE ISLAND, THE SCOTS AND WELSH, WILL PROSPER WHEN IT IS GONE. And their own Jews, so keen on their own plans of global conquest, will be taken down a peg or two, knowing as they do that it was they who removed the peace-seeking Jeremy Corbyn from his deserved position at the top.
This is a job for a serious man, and it is a job that we can trust to Mr Pout-in. As a dedicated man of peace, he will do whatever is necessary, and as always he will do it neat and clean. And then let the world enjoy the fruits of his labor! Such creative destruction is truly what they deserve!</i>
you need to weed, before you can sow, otherwise the good crop will be strangled by the toxic and wasteful interloper.
– this is out of the box thinking, for the national liberation struggle is multidimensional
“come friendly bombs and fall on Slough …”
this is the kind of assisted dying we can all get behind.
Unfortunately, most of that article is a pile of complete and utter horseshit.
tell it to the micks, the wogs … er, everyone everywhere they ever where …
adolph loved lives of a bengal lancer and had this mad idea that the english were just “germans who took the boat 1000 years ago” and the yanks were just “englishmen who took the boat 300 years” ago, ergo, we were all germans and would do a peace deal. Adolph just wanted to emulate the british empire, not destroy it. Half the english elite loved the nazis and half to this day regret not taking the peace deal as the pyrrhic victory lost them the empire, replaced by the upstart, amerika.
shamir is sometimes style over substance, but he aint wrong about the anglo
Hitler was more interested in the real prize. The shopkeepers would be dealt with later
I missed this wee gem earlier, Confused. Pro-poot, anti-semitic and anti-English, it’s a grand effort to mark St Andrews day, let alone the memorial service for what may be the last great Scot any of us will ever live to see.
Not that I’m predicting an early demise for us. I’m simply looking about at the dross that posts on here, and extrapolating to the quality and character of the Scottish nation and people thus represented.
I don’t believe poot preserves a special place for cuddly, wee Scotland in his heart. Nor do I believe Hadrian’s Wall affords any protection against fall-out, or 500 metre glow-in-the-dark tsunamis. And if we’re going to buy into the “historical guilt of the hated British Empire”, we Scots are going to be strung up with the English, Welsh and Irish. The fiction that some big bad English boys made us join in all the horrors against our will might cut it with cretins, but not with anybody else.
One final thing I don’t believe. I don’t believe that genuine Scottish patriots and real enthusiasts for Scottish independence and sovereignty exultantly cheer on colonialist, imperialist aggression against other sovereign states
So what do I believe about you? I believe you’re just another bitter, sad, old commie, still treasuring your granddad’s Comintern card, carpet bagging on Indy for your own ends, hoping you get to dob in a neighbour or two if you can just survive long enough.
Cluck cluck.
The Gender Recognition Act must be revoked!
I would not dicht my shuch with the paper on which it is written.
It’s a Deviant’s charter
assisted dying is the trojan horse for euthanasia.
-let’s not be too negative.
Make some lists of people who should be euthanased. Great way to solve the “prison overcrowding” problem – the worst half of them get the needle, plenty space. Also acts as a deterrent.
Junkies seem to operate their own assisted dying program, which bizarrely is seen as a bad thing; but high junkie death rates mean less junkies, and one day we could be junkie free. This is surely a win.
Paedos are incorrigible recidivists who cannot be reformed, so, get rid; organ transplants, dog food.
The “english” – to be born that way … it’s sad … what kind of “quality of life” can they have?? It would be for the best.
Pol Pot had ideas, a bit of a curate’s egg – good in parts; knew how to deal with students, landlords … but the hatred for the spectacle wearer seems unwarranted.
– pol pot gets a lot of bad press due to certain excesses, the piles of human skulls, all that, but you need to cut him some slack for some epic shitlording … there was this Scots trotskyist who went over to Cambodia to express his support for the revolution … pol pot had him shot. No messing. You can’t take any chances with bourgeois western intellectuals, they radiate counter-revolution in the air they breathe.
As a cyclist, I would string up most 4×4 drivers; and many would do the same to cyclists (but only one side actually gets killed). Karens on the school run, in a BMW X5 – deadly.
From a growth perspective, everyone should get in on this; my investment in old ice cream vans will pay off – mobile gas vans. To the tune of the candy man …
The GASSY MAN can … !!
– I also offer a will drafting service and can help you free up the cash from any life assurance policy.
THIS IS WHAT BRITAIN HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT – A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE – NOT A COUNTRY … we need to “go for growth” and get this slave plantation shithole working again.
Remember, as Winston Lloyd Mosley used to say : “work makes you free, bitchez”
Don’t be dissing Karens in Bimmer X5s too much.
They do a valuable service to society as the ridiculously wide sized tyres of up to 315/30 22 hoover up all sorts of puncture creating sharps off the roads, thus reducing puncture hazards for other road users that run more sensible sized tyres.
The more enthusiastic followers of a certain Adolf had a bit of a downer on anybody with fillings in their teeth.
When you’re selecting the cadre of those whose superior genetics entitles them to rule the world, you can’t afford any compromise.
Liking the general tenor of your post, Confused. Maybe we would agree that anybody with the available unproductive time to post mince on here qualifies to be on some bean counters list of useless eaters for “helping to a better place”.
This modern day boon of mass unproductive leisure time is surely no more than a short-term historical anomaly. My great grandparent’s generation were never idle other than when at Sunday worship. There is no law of physics that says my great grandchildren’s generation should be any different. Probably without the Sunday worship though, it’ll be Fridays for them.
We’re not deserving of our great good fortune, we’re merely lucky.
“Maybe we would agree that anybody with the available unproductive time to post mince on here qualifies to be on some bean counters list of useless eaters for “helping to a better place.”
Bit of a self own there John. With the copious amount of mince you post btl I’m surprised McDonalds haven’t put in a bid for you to supply them with burger “meat”.
Assisted dying will be exactly like abortion when it was first introduced.
They will say it will be highly controlled and only used in strict circumstances blah blah blah…
Roll forward 30 years and they will be killing hundreds of thousands of babies oops sorry old people every single year with almost no oversight nor morality.
I support it in principle (as I do abortion) because people with severe dementia and other horrible diseases have negative quality of life but I know the scum who control Britain will use it to murder us in huge numbers.
And some ruthless relatives will try to use it too.
Sadly, Mac, what will happen is that palliative care and care homes will receive even less funding and as more and more old people struggle to find somewhere to receive live-in care the facilities will become rarer than hen’s teeth with the result that geriatric people will have nowhere to go and will be forced to ‘choose’ / opt for assisted dying. A self-fulfilling circle as more and more opt for the assisted route there will be even less demand for live- in care until we will reach the point where it becomes compulsory euthanasia at 75!
“I support it in principle (as I do abortion) because people with severe dementia and other horrible diseases have negative quality of life…”
I would very rarely disagree with you, Mac, but have to correct the misconception that when we get advanced dementia our lives are less valid than anyone else’s. In a civilised society, people at this stage in their lives would be shown compassion. With good support and care, there is much that is positive.
Well as someone living this nightmare I will disagree. It starts off with you thinking this is manageable but I can assure you, you end up wishing they were dead, for their sake.
Yes, it’s a nightmare at times. Everyone is different but, from experience, I have no doubt that when someone feels safe and loved there are moments of warmth and humour that far outweigh the difficult times. These are what you remember.
The pity is that, as a society, we tend to undervalue older people. We also don’t pay care staff nearly enough for the fantastic job they do. There’s nowhere near enough backup so families get worn down and everyone suffers. Just another example of a broken system, sadly.
Speaking to nurses in this field about that… they say that some days they think it is worthwhile and others they do not.
The whole system is insane IMHO.
They are offering them zero treatments, nothing.
Yet they have this super expensive structure of ‘care’ homes around them, keeping these poor people alive, to suffer for as long as possible. Why?
Having seen it, I consider it cruel.
And of course while they keep them alive they use it as an excuse to steal their life savings.
How convenient.
It makes sense though… we have an aging population because of abortion.
So the obvious solution is start killing the old people to balance it out.
Logan’s Run Carousel managed to enthuse folk to celebrate the idea of “renewal” at a much earlier age.
link to youtube.com
After a while it’s selfish to hoard all those useful coagulation of elements a human body is made of when they could be used to make other things (and especially so in a rampant capitalist society where the likes of Blackrock gets to own all the space compost minerals).
A madness that nobody in Scotland can escape. For those of you that have Grandaughters. This is a big worry. Recently a big hairy guy turned up wearing a bikini and a princess crown at a swimming pool. He was not challenged. Where are the men in Scotland?. The Supreme Court has one job. Is sex immutable? The Scottish Government should be ashamed . This is a matter for men. At some point we will have to take physical control.
I couldn’t agree more, George. Except men have been coerced (socially and legally) into feeling terrified of the consequences of their innate tendency to sort things out with violence.
Was speaking to a guy at work the other month about our workplace trannie (cock in a frock). My colleague was most displeased that ‘cock in a frock’ uses the gents and not the ladies. His reasoning was this: these freaky guys should not be our(as in men’s) problem to deal with, if these freaks are women it’s up to women to deal with them.
Men are anxious of their own violent desires/compulsions and the trouble they will land them in. They do NOT want cocks in frocks in the gents cos they KNOW they want to give them a serious doing. Cocks in frocks want into the ladies for a variety of reasons, only ONE of which is to AVOID a serious doing.
I grew up with 3 strong men ruling the street. Now anything goes or at least that’s what Holyrood thinks. Alex Cole Hamilton in a Christmas jumper with a tiara on BBC FMQs in the background. Did he think Beth was his audience or me as a Grandad? Asking for a polling friend.
Seems like latent homosexuality on your part Nae Need, all your talk of “violent desires/compulsions” and “cocks in frocks”.
Maybe you should ask Alf Baird for some advice.
Aye, sure Robert. Sure it is.
Is this confirmation of RM comment or sarcastic/ironic counter comment?
Various allusions in RM comments indicate his interest in fascism/national socialism and there could be plenty of latent homosexuality within that political movement.
Is Lady Diana Moseley, in a black dress, (ref earlier comment from RM)a dominatrix figure?
Ask Martin Webster,he would know about that kind of thing.
The Beatnuts (Featuring Greg Nice:) Take It Or Squeeze It. No Escapin’ This:
“Pass the mic to big Psych, the manufacturer
The architect, bringing you the art of wreck…
The heat we fry you with, straight from the armory
Guerilla army, we kill tracks in harmony
My Nut orchestra blowing fuses…
(There’s no escaping this) Or confronting the union
So stop fooling yourself, and feel these Nuts…
I’m the New York power hitter
Hit the devil in the fu**ing shi**er
Take his manhood and all his glitter…”:
link to tinyurl.com
Would this be a good time for the court to rule that the earth is flat, Pi =3, and that the King has Clothes?
I’m deeply concerned at discovering men can be come pregnant. Should I demand my wife wear a condom?
Naw, yir a’right BL Mac – the First Meenister says men cannae get pregnant!
It could just be a phantom pregnancy.
OT But something positive for once.
Congratulations France, and a worthy salute to your Tradesmen and Professionals as Notre Dame Cathedral reopens five years after its terrible fire, and almost to the day it’s reopening was promised.
If only Scotland could muster some competence do the same with the GSA.
link to apollo-magazine.com
Well done to France. National pride. Time we got ours back.
Careful it was the heritage and skills of English craftsmen that were prevalent in the restoration of Notre Dame . I am speaking from a viewpoint of the Scottish pund being worth between 1 to 5 in currency exchange historically Of course I would take that exchange post the Scottish Budget..Principled Independence supporters know the value of their worth. We don’t have a Warwick or equivalent skill base.
Another faux ball and chain to add to our ankles to say we just canae cut it..
Not being facetious, but can you elaborate?
I did hear there was a sharing of expertise and lessons learned from the fire at Windsor Castle, but beyond that, the information I have is thin.
I’m also aware the French operate their spectacular Compagnons du Devoirs apprenticship schemes across multiple trades, which is probably the best training regime I know about.
For example, in the UK, an “advanced” Stonemasonry apprenticeship takes 4 years. A Compagnon apprenticeship takes 9. Kinda tells you something, no?
Guédelon Castle is another spectacular and successful initiative which puts other countries to shame. Show me any other country so dedicated to its culture.
If only Scotland would adopt the French model… Yet that will never happen unless or until Scotland, or even the UK society for that matter, adopts a more respectful attitude towards it’s tradespeople.
Sadly there’s no such thing to be seen on any horizon, while trash built mediocrity hoovers up the nation’s income and land; a complete racket bouyed up by deliberately orchestrated housing shortage designed to ensure demand must always outstrip supply. Maximum money out for minimum money in – “living the dream” UK style.
Save the trades from extinction, or starvation, then a catastrophe like Windsor or Notre Dame can be remedied, or even rebuilt from scratch. Pickle the buildings in aspic, spend the budget on an army of curators and custodians, then when catastrophe strikes there is no functional capacity there to fix it, and we are all left mulling over a mountain of records and pictures, but impoverished by its loss.
Ach, it’s covered Breeks. The kids will jist take a break from PlayStation and fire up a 3D printer to make a new one.
The young modern brain has (d)evolved to function on such a narrow simplistic uninspiring program that it has crushed the joie de vivre like a falling masonry stone from the roof of a badly maintained building would crush a napper.
In these modern times, likes on t’internet trump Donatello’s marble sculptures.
I ask out of ignorance: is there a Report mechanism on here?
Kind of. At the top of the page – the Contact tab is to tell the Rev your message.
Alex Salmond’s Memorial service etc. Does anyone know where the best coverage is – with audio? So far I/’ve only got BBC news text. I’ve not got a tv licence so can’t watch iplayer. I wish indylive had been asked to livestream it.
It’s being streamed on STV News.
Thank you!
thank you from me too.
The whole service is on YouTube. Just search his name and memorial
CNN reel is not what it seems.
« Soctland » (sic)
Just hearing that John Swinney has been booed on arrival at St. Giles cathedral. Big crowds penned back well away from the entrance.
Watching the STV live stream – as guests are leaving St Giles the TV is focussing only on the guests – not once have we seen the waiting public lining the streets – I guess we are meant to think that there is only a handful of people there.
As various people leave the crowd is applauding then 10 minutes or so into the scene the crowd started to chant – immediately the sound was muted. And, at the point where John Swinney possibly might be leaving, the vision but back into an empty St Giles and focussed on the Golden Eagle on the lectern….. censorship in Scotland? Naaaw!
Many of the guests turned to the waiting crowds as they were leaving and stood applauding them.
This was before the service:
and this was after:
Same thing on BBC. sound muted no pictures of crowd and when guests applauded camera started filming the ground.
Shocking. They are scum.
@X Trending: Alex Salmond Memorial Marks Respect and Discord in Edinburgh:
“…While the service was largely respectful, there were moments of political discord as John Swinney was met with shouts of ‘tr***or’ upon arrival…”:
link to tinyurl.com
Loathsome serpent Swinney’s face was a picture as he had to endure listening to The Proclaimers signing “Cap in Hand”
St Alexander Day it is then.
The Proclaimers: Cap in Hand:
“…I can’t understand why we let someone else rule our land
Cap in hand
We fight when they ask us
We boast, then we cower
We beg for a piece of
What’s already, what’s, what’s already
What’s, what’s already ours…”:
link to tinyurl.com
#SovereignScotland
Independence live has got half an hour of video from outside, after the service, on their facebook. It is cheering to see how the guests responded to the crowd – and filmed by media.
Just been reading about the new war front opening up in Syria. No doubt somebody will be along shortly to claim the Yanks, Brits and Dews are behind it.
The interesting thing about the Syrian War is that it has already taken approximately 600,000 lives, and generated approx 6 million refugees, yet due to the partisan plasticity of the term “gen0cide”, it’s not a gen0cide. Naw. No way.
I wonder though. What if the truth is that it is a gen0cide, but just not one the Wings BTL carpet baggers see any advantage in pointing out.
Because it’s their side doing it. Man of peace, poot, etc.
OK then Hatey, just who IS behind it then?
You seem to know everything and are quick to deny all alternative points of view, so lets hear your take on it.
Or would that be a question above your pay grade?
Prick.
The major terrorist attack on Aleppo – was coordinated between Turkish, YOU and French intelligence – with Is-helli support and American approval. The planning was at least two months ago.
The Western backed proxy terrorists attacking Syyria – have once again distinguished themselves.
“I have just watched a most gruesome footage of the so called Erdogan-backed “freedom fighters,” beheading a Syyrian soldier they captured. A POW in western military terms.
I thought those days of ISIS evilness were over, but here we are again as history repeats itself while we are again being told that these are the good “liberators.”
The footage shows a Syyrian soldier surrounded by ‘rebels.’
He pleads with them & pleads to their Islamic faith.
They pull his hand away from his neck & one guy with a huge jaggered knife proceeds to slice his throat. When it gets stuck, he pounds the knife into the neck a few times, then proceeds to continue with the slaughter to the cries of “Allahahu Akbar.”
Whoever in the western world is supporting these NATO-Is-helli backed extremists should really think again.”
Yesterday’s ” evil Islamist terrorists ” magically become today’s ” brave freedom fighters ” .
Such bottomless hypocrisy & ghoulish geopolitical shape-shifting belies a sickness of the mind and soul
News just in fae “scotland”.
It’s the Dews thats going to get the blame.
Nobody knows when that became an Indy trope, but it’s defo well entrenched now.
Oh well, maybe it’s the missing piece needed to get that surge in support Indy needs. I guess we’ll have to wait and see how events proceed.
Baa Baa
Idiot.
Fake BBC News: Who are the rebels seizing control of Syria’s second city?
link to archive.ph
In reality, BBC’s rebel freedom fighters in Syria are UK Government designated terrorist groups (Terrorism Act 2000):
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations–2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version
While deplorable US Democrat War Regime claims AQ terrorist org as a war ally…
Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton Email Archive:
“AQ is on our side in Syria.”
link to wikileaks.org
…And if you get fed-up of the Syrian conflict, violent BBC terrorist has kindly created a fire-bomb social media public guide for you all re. where to throw/whom to throw them at – R***ian people:
@BBC (2022):
“Where to throw a Molotov cocktail. Guide for U***inian volunteers #Kyiv shows weak spots in R***ian armour, viewing hatches and air inlets.”:
link to archive.ph
CPS: Legal Guidance, Violent crime, Terrorism: Explosives:
“…confirmed that a petrol bomb (a bottle containing petrol with a wick) was an explosive substance.”:
link to cps.gov.uk
Very poignant day with Alex Salmond, but thinking about it brought back a “goosebumps” memory.
There’s a lyric in a metal rock band song which runs “I have lost the path before me The one behind will lead me”.
I trust I don’t have to explain why that triggered a memory.
I know the rhythm seems a bit off, (is that called cadence or something maybe?), but I actually think that’s why it stuck in my head. The band is Finnish, the singer Dutch, and trust me, it doesn’t matter. If you’re anything like me, this will blow your socks off.
It comes from a live performance in 2013, back when Alex Salmond as surely at the height of his power. So too was Floor Jansen, a Rock goddess who was a newcomer to the band, and she just absolutely nails this song. They all do.
Maybe warn the neighbours, then crank up the volume. It will take you to another place.
link to youtube.com
Take heart people. The path behind us, will lead us again.
Outside St Giles
link to youtube.com
Thanks for that , I’d have liked to seen the booing of swinney but hey ho
nice that Neil came over to the crowd , and JC but for some reason I do not warm to her and I do not trust her ,
Me too Carol, I baulk when people concoct reasons why she should be admired and praised , afaic she has done nothing to promote or further independence , her fight against bojo’s prorogation of parliament only benefitted the english, IF she had carried on CITING the Claim Of Right and Scots SOVEREIGNTY then her praise would have been warranted , also the fight against the trans issue , I have only ever seen her raise any objection by the ongoing impact on how it affects lesbians and the lesbians cause not the female cause , obviously it is in her case, self interest not female interests overall
Slightly off-topic to this particular piece, sorry Stu, but it’s not off-topic to the aims of Wings.
“Westminster has no democratic legitimacy in Scotland. All democratic legitimacy lies with Holyrood. It is the true national parliament of Scotland which has been usurped by the British state.”
From ‘Unpublished Letter’ by Peter A Bell
Full substack: HERE
Over the last few months I’m really liking Peter’s thinking/plans, and what he is actively doing. Which is a lot. He appears to be 10 men rolled into 1 man. I find that he challenges my thinking, makes me consider aspects of this goal that I might otherwise overlook, and generally HIS thinking moves MY thinking forward, and sometimes in unexpected ways. This is good for me.
Although I occasionally support Alba financially (of utmost importance to me is justice for Alex! NOW. I want heads to start rolling NOW. This comes first),
I will never consider becoming a member of Alba whilst I have questions about their proposed (or lack of) step by step process for reclaiming Scotland as a country. I like concrete, practical steps. I don’t like airy fairy nonsense about referendums.
I suppose what I’m saying is this: I want Alba to be much more robust and hard core than they have been to date. If anyone from the leadership of Alba is reading this, please read what Peter A Bell is saying, what the over-riding purpose of NSP is, please take it onboard.
If HR is indeed the true national parliament of Scotland, then a Plebiscitary Election Campaign for HR in 2026 makes even more sense.
TBQFH, I’m tired of having to point this out.
A majority in HR of MSPs who stood on a Plebiscitary Platform first, with party affiliation (or none) second, would have all the democratic mandate Scotland and indeed the rest of the world would need as evidence of our settled will for Independence.
TBQFH again, the pathetic fact that absolutely nobody wants to engage with this idea speaks volumes about the true level of support for Indy.
Hatey, the “true level of support for Indy” is demonstrated every week, with the Unionist parties getting a consistent 65-70% of the vote in the council by-elections, the (corrupt, inept and devolutionist) SNP 30%, Alba 1%, and the much-cited “Peter A. Bell” the vote of Peter A. Bell.
The comedy double-act holding hands again.
The two stooges.
I’m confident there’s a big difference between A: the percentage of Scots voters who support the theoretical concept of Indy, and B: the percentage of Scots voters who would vote for Indy if it was on the ballot, with A much greater than B.
I’m convinced the Plebiscitary Election route is the only path open to Scotland, because it needs no WM authorisation to happen, and in the right hands, it can be managed, with or without the engagement of the opposition, so as to show the true support for Indy at the ballot box.
Sadly, I notice that every time I push the Plebiscitary Election idea, it’s shouted down.
I don’t know if this is because in their heart of hearts, the blusterers and bluffers know Indy support is not there. Or if when push comes to shove, Indy is still about tribalism and being a member of the right tribe, with everybody else to be excluded beyond the pale.
Obviously anyone with a brain which again obviously Campbell Clown man doesn’t have can look back on the EXTENSIVE list of comments and views over the decade regarding plebiscite elections and how easily they could be achieved IF political parties could be FORCED to adopt them EXPOSES you as the LIAR most posters KNOW you to be
YOU and your erstwhile companion the franchise fanny comment occasionally about the plebiscitery route as if you have discovered gold, but unfortunately for you 2 that gold has been discovered years ago and pushed by many of us here, BUT political tr@ itors are too cowardly to adopt it
“look back on the EXTENSIVE list of comments and views over the decade regarding plebiscite elections and how easily they could be achieved”
C’moan twathater, I’m trying not to spill my pint here!
The subject rarely if ever comes up. What you smoking? Can I have some?
As for “pushing” for some other bugger to do all the heavy lifting while you sit around criticising from the sidelines, why don’t you get aff yer arse and stand yourself?
Why don’t any of the regulars who have all the answers, and have supposedly had them for 10 years?
Some eejit cut out everything before Dougie MacLean, (what’s featured then loops) but check the fizzer on Swiney [sic] at 27:27
youtube.com/live/l410xzVA-1Q
Ooft, if looks could kill!! Was it Fergus that was up on the podium?
Yes… funnily enough.
I can’t link it ? Probably my fault
Manifesto material for Scotland returning to self-governance continued…
Terry’s of chocolate orange fame can get tae fuck with there scalloping out of the segments to reduce chocolate content.
Scotland needs honesty and transparency after enduring years of manipulation to keep oor fowk doun hauden.
Dinnae be trying to punt yer wares here masquerading your product as a chocolate orb the size of an orange, when you’ve faked the weight and in reality it contains the volume of a fat golf baw.
An orange disnae have huge voids of air in it so awa tae fuck with your diet sized portions.
Yip, I’m looking for substance too.
Trading Standards should be all over this misrepresentation of advertising of goods which is bordering on fruadulent activity.
Terry’s Chocolate Satsuma is a more honest and appropriate name for the product now that they have sneakily reduced the weight of chocolate.
The Scottish Administration of Devolved Powers would have better luck going to the Supreme Court over this travesty of cocoa based product injustice rather than trying to state women can have a cock and bawbag.
Other manifesto commitments include a bump to my previously stated one that at least 50% of bread loafs on sale in Scotland should be sized so the slices actually fit a toasty machine and facilitate the toasty to seal properly.
None adequate sealing of toasty peripheral crusts causes lava like leaks of hot molten cheese over the consumer resulting in third degree burns that can on occasion require to be treated and add further burden to oor already stretched health service providers.
#TightBastardTerry
Look at this shit, it’s fucking outrageous!
Being a disciplined chocolate muncher and not a fat greedy bastard, I used to be able to make a chocolate orange last 4 shifts with 25% of the sphere consumed each time.
It’s a complex process to calculate the reduction in volume due to this scalloping out, compounded by the lack of energy I have due to depleted sugar reserves from tight bastard Terry effectively stealing my chocolate, but looking at the cross section it must be close to a third reduction of chocolate per segment.
Two odious treacherous b*stards in attendance – the chief – Salmond must’ve been birlin in his grave, when these two arrived, the crocodile faced b*stards.
“Former prime minister Gordon Brown and Scottish First Minister John Swinney were among those who remembered a “giant of a man” during a memorial service”
Happy Saint Andrew’s Day its important that we comment on this day – it helps distinguish Scotland from the other nations which make up the UK – even if juts to show that Scotland is a country trapped in this illegal union – a country that is treated as a colony and robbed and robbed blind by England.
My last post disappeared into the ether, apparently without the aid of moderation. I will not waste my time attempting to type it all again, and in future will copy posts before pressing the ‘Post Comment’ button, in summary: Make Scotland Great Again. That’s it. Make Scotland Great Again.
Well said…
Happy Saint Andrew’s Day ???????
Ignore the ????????
The emoji doesn’t appear to appear 🙁
As thousands of Scots sleep on the streets – and thousands more Scots families sleep in low grade B&B’s due to being homeless – its been revealed at least 28,000 council properties lie empty in Scotland.
But hey what’s really important is that the SNP spends thousands of pounds of taxpayers cash – in a foreign court in England the (Supreme Court) trying to convince folk that – if a man has a bit of paper that says he’s a woman – then he’s a woman.
Get the Vichy SNP/Greens out of office at every turn – vote ISP or Alba – if no candidate in your constituency then spoil ballot paper – never vote for the other Fifth Column parties at Holyrood – they are not Scottish parties.
Scandal as 28,000 homes lie empty amid Scotland’s housing crisis – Daily Record
You’re not the full shilling either.
Oh look – the third stooge.
Has Scotland much of a history of a fascist movement, apart from on huge landed estates? RM seems to be the expert, at least on the movement in England and continental Europe.
Peter A Bell’s new indy party was launched today in Perth.
“ANEW political party launched today with a single mission in mind: independence.
The New Scotland Party held its launch event at the Salutation Hotel, Perth and promises an unconventional but entirely member-led approach to independence.
Peter A Bell, the founder and interim leader of the New Scotland Party, is a self-described part of the “radical” wing of the independence movement and staunch republican.
A blog post by Bell summarises the political compass of his new party, reading: “New Scotland Party is a national and constitutional party solely focused on the issue of Scotland’s constitutional status and settlement.”
The party manifesto has a single aim: independence. The manifesto seeks a total revocation of Section 30, a law wherein Westminster may restrict the Scottish Parliament’s legislative authority.
The manifesto also calls for all Scottish and UK elections to act as a way to “facilitate the exercise of Scotland’s right to self determination”.
Bell explained: “We do not take any position on any issue except the constitutional issue. The constitutional issue has to be separated from all other issues. It has to be treated in isolation as it sits above and around all other issues.”
He continued: “We are entirely focused on the constitutional issue. [People] won’t be voting for a vision; you’ll be voting for the freedom of the Scottish people.”
The six-point manifesto also acts as a proposed 2026 election pledge for other major political parties. Using the SNP as an example, Bell explained that: “The idea we can do without the biggest party is a nonsense. We can’t. You [instead] work within the SNP to get [our] manifesto adopted.
“That is the objective, to get all of the nominally pro-independence parties to become true parties of independence by adopting the manifesto for independence. That way every vote, for every independence party counts as a mandate for the manifesto.”
The New Scotland Party will not run in the upcoming 2026 Scottish Parliamentary election.
“We don’t see any need [to stand candidates in 2026]. It knocks on the head of all that nonsense of splitting the independence vote, what that really means is splitting the party vote. If we have the manifesto for independence adopted then it wont matter if the party vote is split as it will still be a vote for the manifesto for independence,” Bell said.
One attendee asked whether this makes the party a lobbying group, to which Bell responded: “We are acting as a lobbying group initially, but it is a political party.”
Members will become equal shareholders and directly influence policy and stances. There will be no central headquarters, instead The New Scotland Party will carry out the majority of its business online.
Bell explained that this structure is intended to better represent membership: “Commonly, political parties have been structured on a branch basis with a central headquarters. There is evidence enough that this structure tends to create islands of power.
“This is a formula to creating cliques of careerists who vie for the control of the party. Where is the membership in all of this? Out in the cold. We reject this model. We intend to be a national party dealing with national issues and organised on a national basis.”
However, no plans for a vetting process for new members are currently in place.
Bell began the launch event by addressing the clash with Alex Salmond’s memorial service, which took place during the party’s launch, at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh.
“What ultimately prompted the decision to proceed as planned with the launch was the realisation that the clash with Alex Salmond’s memorial service is in fact a happy coincidence,” Bell explained.
“Alex Salmond brought Scotland’s cause into the modern age. He launched a new phase in the struggle to liberate Scotland from the oppression of a grotesquely asymmetric political union.
“[The memorial] marks the end of a phase to the independence struggle, while [this] signals the start of a new phase.”
The party’s website.
New Scotland Party
Get hyper real guys…
WW3 will start in Syria, rather soon.
merry whatever..slàinte!
Good to see that treacherous b*stard Swinney was booed at the Chiefs Memorial Service – the dirty b*stard had some nerve showing up in the first place – the pr*ck must think – we don’t know he played a big part in trying to imprison the Chief – and he lied through his f*ckin teeth to protect that evil Judas Sturgeon.
I’m just surprised – that no one landed a haymaker on the lowlife b*stard.
So Saint Godley of the Unfunny given a send off with a hundred choir boys and a fruit trifle. Smeagol was in attendance.
Ah, so that’s why the Murrells christened the campervan “The Precious”.
It all makes sense now.
They better check nothings missing from the church.
Turks stab the Palestinians in the back…. shocker.
I admit, I find Turkey very difficult to read from afar. Partly due to the media, but Turkey is a bit of a chameleon.
They are either the masters of taking both sides in the same conflict, or totally mercenary, and for sale to the highest bidder. Turkish principles seem, ahem, flexible, with their bread buttered on both sides.
However, whenever you see a population bewildered by the actions of its leadership, the spidey senses start to tingle, warning that Western interference isn’t far away.
To quote Nelson Mandela, “When two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one.”
In fairness to Turkey however, I am mindful of Istanbul and its location; the place where the continents (and empires), of Europe, Asia and Africa converge. Add religions into the cultural mix, and its very difficult to see the “actual” shape of Turkey.
Byzantine, Ottoman, one moment it’s in and out of NATO, in and out of the EU, in and out of Islam, anti this then anti that; enemies and friends are kept guessing in a perpetual state of equilibrium…
Sort yourselves out Turkey.
I think Turkey – from Ataturk onwards and currently under Erdogan , has striven to maintain a kind of high-wire balancing act between it’s secular and religious instincts – largely successfully .
A manifestation of this volatile dynamic is it’s ambivalent relations with the * West * – as you refer to , in/out ; pro/anti ; defiant/compliant .
Erdogan has walked this high-wire with sufficient cunning/ability to avoid major internal unrest . So far . The current ( latest ) upheaval in the M.E may test his balance to the limit – and over it : in the process precipitate him to an extremely hard landing with the reality of * West */ Z…ist zero-sum fanaticism & contempt for International Law and total indifference to the death of incalculable 1000s of civilians : the latter mostly comprising children , women and the elderly
Cut to the chase and save on the environmental impact of your posts.
Just blame the Dews. Simples.
wank
There’s a great story to be told, about the whereabouts of Breeks “spidey sense”, in the run up to the moment when his company went into bankruptcy.
I guess it must be some kind of calibration thingy. “Spidey sense” provides insight into the geopolitical machinations of regimes, religions and governments thousands of miles away.
But when trying to decipher the import of red-splashed letters arriving in the post, it’s useless!
To also be fair I understand the ordinary Turk on the street is very angry about the gen0cide and ethnic cleansing. But Erd0gan must be the least trustworthy leader out there after Net@nyahu of course. Every single time…
I really feel sorry for the people in Aleppo that they have unleashed this hell on them yet again. These are utter savages (ISIS) and it was apparently Turkey who was supposed to help maintain the peace as part of deal made with Ru$$ia. Instead they help them launch a fresh attack… total betrayal yet again.
All that ISIS weird torture porn and high production glossy videos of people being executed in the cruelest ways imaginable. That is ‘us’.
It totally disgusts me and is as clear a sign of the moral bankruptcy of what is being done there as you can get. Totally depraved. Perverted.
Destroying ancient historical sites that go back to the very start of civilization… it is like they are trying to deliberately wipe them off the face of the earth. Why…
“All that ISIS weird torture porn and high production glossy videos of people being executed in the cruelest ways imaginable. That is ‘us’.”
Zat right? The people shouting “Allahu Akbar” are us?
Defo not me then “Mac”. I reckon you and your fellow Indy travellers need to get yourselves some new mates.
Moo.
This a really interesting analysis by Kevork Almassian. The interviewer is a bit annoying at times but it is well worth a listen.
link to youtube.com
What’s the problem with GRC’s. It’s only a certificate. Swinney has a certificate that says he’s clever and we know that’s not true
SCOUTS FOIST TRANS IDEOLOGY ON 8-YEAR-OLDS
« Scouts as young as eight are being told they can be non-binary and encouraged to use ‘preferred pronouns’.
« Launched earlier this year, an activity for scouts called ‘Pronouns pair’ promotes the idea that boys and girls can “decide their gender identity themselves”, that “genitals don’t equal gender”, and that sex is ‘assigned at birth’.
« To put the teaching “into practice”, members play a card game in which there is a dog with the pronouns ‘he/him’, a ladybird who uses ‘she/her’, and a non-binary butterfly who identifies as ‘they/them’.
Replacing ‘Mum and Dad’
« During the activity Cubs, Scouts and Explorers are encouraged to add their pronouns to a name card.
« Leaders are instructed to ask the group what they would do if they “misgendered someone”, and to let everyone know that “if they make a mistake with someone’s pronouns, they should just say sorry, correct themselves, and keep going”.
« A section marked ‘Reflection’ states: “It can feel awkward or forced when you start implementing gender-neutral language. That’s normal. The important thing is to keep at it, so that it has a chance to become a part of your everyday communication.”
« Recommended ways to make language “more gender-neutral” include using ‘sibling’ rather than ‘brother or sister’, ‘everyone’ instead of ‘boys and girls,’ and ‘parent’, ‘carer’ or ‘grown up’ rather than ‘Mum and Dad’.
Indoctrination
« Defending the activity, Scouts UK said: “Helping young people to use language that works for everyone is a good way to show kindness and respect and to ensure that everyone feels welcome.”
« But Maya Forstater, Chief Executive of Sex Matters, warned:
« “Teaching children that they can’t use ordinary words like ‘he’ for a man and ‘she’ for a woman is a shocking abuse of the trust parents place in the Scouts.”
« She continued: “Activist groups claim that using preferred pronouns is polite and inclusive. In reality, it’s conceding the central falsehood of trans activists – that people’s sex is a trivial matter, and their identity claims are all-important.
« “Requiring children and families who join the Scouts to be indoctrinated into this ideology is belief discrimination. This activity needs to be stopped.” »
(From The Christian Institute website)
To think that it was the Cub/Scouts Institution (child grooming male sexual predator) that stole my childhood and sexually abused me, from the age of 7 –
While filthy Scot Gov and its partners are leading the systematic and institutional child exploitation/abuse way…
#Consequences
re. “Scouts as young as eight are being told they can be non-binary and encouraged to use ‘preferred pronouns’”
Stonewall: The truth about trans:
“Many people know they’re trans from a young age… Other trans people do not know until they are teenagers or adults.
There is no right or wrong way to be trans…”:
link to stonewall.org.uk
The Times (2024): Scottish government ‘gave the most grants to Stonewall’ last year:
“Ministers in Scotland are refusing to quit an LGBT lobby group despite support crumbling among leading public sector bodies…
The Scottish parliament, the Crown and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and the Scottish Court and Tribunal Service (SCTS) confirmed that they have quit membership of the charity, along with Police Scotland…”:
link to archive.ph
The * Boy * Scouts has always been an institution poisoned by paedophilia . Sorry to learn you were a victim of such . I was member for a short time ( really just to be part of their football team ) and though not subject to any unwanted advances , knew lads who were .
The B.S authorities when confronted with evidence of abuse would behave exactly like the Catholic Church in this regard , ie rather than instantly expelling abusers would instead move them to B.S groups in other districts : where they simply continued abusing children .
Hope you have been able to overcome the effects of such horrible experiences .
To have them ( the Boy Scout Association ) now embrace ( inflict ) this * Trans * malignity on it’s members and functioning despite it’s long , disgusting history of harbouring paedophiles defies belief but is symptomatic of how deeply this lunatic ideology has penetrated all our institutions and Society generally
Thanks Robert, I’m grateful for my life experience/s –
All complicit institutions and authorities (et al) will be fully publicly exposed and held to account (they don’t have any other choice:)
And I’ve got every confidence that Scotland and its wonderful people are gonna love our future…
“penetrated”
Something on your mind, Robert?
?
moooooo
Something very nasty has certainly penetrated your sick mind, Fuckface. I don’t know why Rev. Stu is willing to tolerate your vile insults on this site. I doubt if anyone else would.
Are you sure you’re up to supporting Indy, Michael?
Seemingly Scotland is trying to best the most vicious, blood-soaked, evil, rapacious, avaricious monsters in world history (AKA the English), yet you’re close to a maidenly swooning over some words posted online.
I dread to think how you’ll cope if the English throw any real obstacles in our path!
He’s the pantomime villain that keeps on givin’. You love to hate him, but hate to secretly love his appearances. He’s a total c**t and knows it, but f**k me is he entertaining.
If I were a betting man I’d put money on the Rev very much appreciating his presence. Ach no, that’s silly.
You sick fucker
Calm down dear.
And put your string of pearls away before you snap it and the damn things go everywhere.
Very sorry to hear that Gregor.
You’d think that a lesson would have been learned after Boy Scouts of America were bankrupted after paying out compensation to all the children that were abused. Yet here we are, with the Scouts doubling down on path with well-known, unpleasant, life-altering consequences.
How long before “minor attracted” gets introduced into the curriculum?
Save your sorrow Stuart –
“minor attracted” won’t be introduced into the curriculum because Team-Scotland (sovereign boss) will be teaching the lessons –
“Yet here we are”
Yup, right here (stronger and wiser than ever) –
Nothing can stop us now…
#TeamScotlandUnlimited
I hear no sound on I player when John Swinney arrived – BBBC wouldn’t cut such a thing would they???
ISP’s take on things Scottish last week.
link to isp.scot
I noticed Off-Topic Scotland site was clocking out, and now previous content is page not found.
Cheers for your effort Ian Brotherhood in filtering out what you deemed were worthy btl comments from a sea of trolling, and posting other articles too.
Still a bit miffed at the continuing fragmentation of folks that are supposedly supportive of returning Scotland to self-governing status.
If something needs done you need to focus on getting on with that task and not be overly distracted with events and matters that are totally outwith our control.
There doesn’t even seem to be the desire to have conversations on the way forward now as folk splinter off and do their own thing.
Crazy strategy there because it just allows others to take the initiative and fill the void.
A few days ago folk were bigging up a petition for another GE, but what is the point in that when there has been no effort put in to develop an alternative to vote for.
I could see this situation developing years ago as egos would not yield an inch from their way or the highway to work with others. That is not helpful in the slightest because the only way to make progress and reach people in our communities is for activists on the ground to interact with the electorate in their areas.
Pissing around on the internet in wee bubbles of political anoraks has accomplished little of note over the last years.
Voter turnouts are abysmal now and highlights that whatever internet bloggers, political Parties, or YES groups are doing needs to have a serious reset on how they go about things.
I thought calling people w@nks IS the strategy.
Why the change of heart, Dan? Is it not delivering Indy?
Quack quack.
You’re the one posting a non-stop stream of personal insults and anti-Scottish, pro-war bullshit on this site, yet somebody gives you a taste of your own medicine and you’re all offended? Poor wee lamb. You’re utterly pathetic.
Are you sure about any of these claims?
“non-stop”?
“personal insults”?
“anti-Scottish”?
“pro-war”?
As this is a pro-Scotland site, why don’t you tell us all what is so “anti-Scottish” about me calling out the enthusiasts for imperialist, militarist, colonialist aggression?
As I’m so “utterly pathetic” (surely that can’t be a “personal insult”?), you should have no difficulty whatsoever in proving that enthusiastic, imperialist, militarist, colonialist aggression, with a side order of cultural, linguistic and national extermination, is not only anti-war, but is also exactly what Scottish Indy needs to further the cause.
Take your time. I’m here “non-stop” 🙂
Meh.
Cheers Dan, appreciated.
😉
I meant to say thank you, Ian. It was a good effort and was read by many people – it all helps.
😉
Thanks Dan for the link -390 will be released next February – I wonder if their victims will be notified or they’ll just come face to face with them on the streets – it would appear that the Vichy SNP government is saying to some potential and previous offenders – its okay to commit crimes because you won’t go to prison.
The Vichy SNP have done some amount of damage to Scotland post-Salmond and they have also wasted huge amounts of taxpayers cash – on the likes of unwanted gender policies, ferries, court cases and the fit up of the Chief, Alex Salmond.
We must get the Vichy SNP/Greens out at every turn – vote ISP or Alba – if no candidate in your constituency spoil your ballot paper. Never vote for a Fifth Column party such as BLiS, Lib/Dems, Tories or the Tories by another name Reform.
SCOTLAND adopts new flag.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24762871.protestors-label-nigel-farage-s–perth-rally/
An interesting link, TURABDIN. Here’s a quote:
‘Catriona MacKay, Perth Against Racism co-founder, told The National that Reform “enables racism in their views. They’re a populist party. Whatever people believe, they will back”.
She added: “We object to their policies. We need immigration, we need migrants, and we should not be scared of people running away from war and fleeing persecution. They are not the enemy.”’
Time for the usual suspects to adopt their habitual pretzel shape, as they twist their views to virtue signal against racism, against populism they disagree with, against sizzlers, against expanding the franchise, in favour of populism they agree with, in favour of immigrants, but only for bottom wiping and other menial chores, and only if they are entrenched antisemites.
Coming from a privileged cosmopolitan background i can only guess what being an «immigrant» might mean personally.
By observation, however, it does seem to mean bottom of the pile, menial and exploitable.
Immigrants without financial means will always stay rootless.
The pro immigration lobbyists need to recognize that people are not pawns in a multifaceted game of virtue, to be used, like a certain flag and the kuffiyah, to signal their particular idée fixe.
Woof woof.
Rev, did you know? It has only just clicked with me that the Memorial Service was actually an Independence rally AND the BBC, Sky and STV were forced to broadcast it!
Was it intended to kickstart a campaign?
It was a brilliant wheeze, one worthy of Alex Salmond himself.
It also publicised Duncan Hamilton’s talents. Clearly he has the necessary energy, intelligence and, apparently, good humour that is needed to be a prominent and successful campaigner.
I am sorry that you couldn’t be there in person, Rev [though impressed that you could see a GP on a Saturday; also hoping that you will take care of your health because you are an important element in the independence movement].
I thought Duncan Hamilton’s speech (eulogy?) was exceptional. He is a man of great intellect and someone who understood Alex and what motivated him. I would vote for him.
It was noticeable that the ‘big’ media stations were trying to show as little public support as possible – as if there was not much interest in the proceedings and as earlier reported the sound was automatically muted as soon as the unseen crowd began to chant ‘Scot- land, Scot-land’
I’m amazed that they showed any Saltires at all, especially on St. Andrew’s Day.
I’d not come across Duncan before and was very impressed. I do hope that he continues to be active and visible to the public – he exudes, and therefore inspires, confidence.
Kenny MacAskill’s speech/eulogy was also good – did it send a spasm of fear up the spines of the alphabetties etc when he spoke of justice for Alex? I also liked his statement that without Alex there is no integrity left in the [Scots gov?].
It was very obvious, as you say, that the official cameras were trying to hide the public support.
But they couldn’t block out all the Saltires because St Giles puts them up on St Andrews day!
Rev, I’d like to delete the words “because you are etc”. Just take care of your health. Full stop. 🙂
Does the BBC have exclusive custody of the full memorial service footage?
Isn’t it on youtube from Sky and STV as well?
Can anyone provide a link to the full memorial service besides the unsettlingly random CNN-NEWS (?) looped version misspellingly entitled ‘Soctland’s (sic) Former SNP Leader Alex Salmond Memorial Service’ ? Is BBC iPlayer the only option?
link to youtube.com
Excellent! Thank you. Much appreciated. Relieved this alternative exists. Tidy production!
Re-linked HERE
I was once asked if I could sex newborn mice (it is not immediately obvious). I said I could and did it for several litters. The animal techs did not believe me so they were left 10 days or so until the testes had descended and the vaginas opened.
Then the proportions I had advanced were compared and I was shown to be right.
I then taught some of the Animal Techs how do to it. Not all could see it but enough could.
At birth all you have is a urethral opening and an anus in either sex. Mice are born earlier in development than are humans. Sexing them is a matter of the distance between them. Some are long (male) some are short (female).
Males are long because sperm competition is rife in mice so they have big balls. The space is thus required for those to descend. Mickey Mouse should have waddled.
Last night I thought I’d bring St Andrew’s day to close watching St Andrews day on the BBC as they called it followed by a Proclaimers concert.
I tuned in at 10pm as my TV guide suggested only to find two English snooker players in a match that wasn’t even a final.
Perhaps the show will start after this frame, but no.
Perhaps when the match was finished.
Now into the scheduled start of the Proclaimers, but still
snooker.
I have known so called BBC Scotland to be a corrupt mouthpiece for England rich elite to us suppressed, but to become so blatantly disrespectful to the Scottish nation on our Saints day is just sickening.
I wouldn’t fret about it. The BBC don’t schedule anything at all for St. George’s Day.
That will be because it’s not any different from any interest in EBC
Any other day
I was watching the snooker and then went to the pub. It wasn’t a very good match and I thought it would be well over on my return. But no! It didn’t finish till 1.00am. The best man did at least win but you are wrong about ‘two English’ – it was Allen (NI) v. Hawkins (Eng). Hawkins won. Final on now. Personally, I have no interest in any national day and much prefer snooker.
In a blow to the Vichy SNP/Greens – Isla Bryson’s (Adam Graham) mother Janet has come out and said.
“Janet, 65, a rape survivor said: “I believe you have to be born female to be female. No wigs, dresses or amount of makeup makes you female. You can say you’re a woman, but to be female, that is down to biology and how you are born.” ”
“Janet Bryson is backing the legal challenge against the Scottish Government which allows men who identify as women to take women-only positions on company boards.”
I can’t reiterate enough – on how we need to remove the Vichy SNP/Greens from government in 2026 – they’ve already done tremendous damage to Scotland post-Salmond – and they’ve seriously damaged not just Scotland’s reputation – but the indy cause.
Get them out and vote ISP or Alba – but never vote for a Fifth Columnist party such as BLiS, the Lib/Dems, the Tories or the other Tory party with a different name Reform.
“Get them out and vote ISP or Alba “
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Do you have a view on Peter Bell’s New Scotland Party?
Peter Bell’s “New Scotland Party” (NSP) will be just another micro-party. Similar to Alba, ISP, the Monster Raving Looneys and other micro-parties.
With its half-dozen devotees making endless, self-promoting comments on Wings, in an attempt to gain visibility.
Here’s a couple of quotes from the National article:
“The party manifesto has a single aim: independence. Bell explained: “We do not take any position on any issue except the constitutional issue. The constitutional issue has to be separated from all other issues. It has to be treated in isolation as it sits above and around all other issues.””
“Peter A Bell, the founder and interim leader of the New Scotland Party, is a self-described part of the “radical” wing of the independence movement and staunch republican.”
I thought it noteworthy that the “staunch republican” label was permitted. From a single aim to two aims in a matter of seconds is interesting. Arguably, the near million Scots who still like the idea of Scotland as one of the oldest monarchies in the world will already be switching off.
I think Peter wants to try and work with the SNP on indy – however the last decade has shown us that the SNP isn’t interested in indy – this is compounded by the fact that the same people still run the SNP – such as Sturgeon and Robertson.
” SNP minister Angus Robertson will steer the party’s Holyrood election campaign, it has been announced.”
Angus Robertson to steer SNP’s 2026 Holyrood campaign | The National
Robertson to steer the NU/SNP/NU/LAB/LGBZzzz election campaign into a burning house they themselves set on fire , wae Sturgeon as ” Clippie ” n the upstairs of the Gravy Bus jammed with unsold copies of her auto-hagiography ….” IT’S ALL MEN’S FAULT . VOL ONE ” . ( psss….ghostwritten by actual ghosts ; well ….spooks )
Foreword by K.Blackman . wait ….correction it should read
” Four words by K.Blackman ” .
Presumably the rest was written by the * ghosts * ?
So the BLiS/SNP ran North Lanarkshire Council has knocked back plans to allow flats to be built that would’ve included 25% social housing flats – the norm is 20%.
Some of the objections came from the likes of MSPs Jamie Hepburn and Gillian McKay as well as Stuart McDonald when he was still the local Westminster MP.
Building the flats would’ve created some jobs and brought money into the local economy – especially when there’s a housing emergency in Scotland.
North Lanarkshire Council refuse to grant permission for major housing development in Croy – Daily Record
“Alice in Guddleland”.
Unbelievable.
Independence Summit? Announcement on TASP apparently.
Georgian leader puts joining the EU on the backburner – good for him – this is the country that had over 25,000 foreign NGO’s trying to persuade the Georgian public to remove the Georgian Dream Party from office they failed.
“this is the country that had over 25,000 foreign NGO’s”
Hmmm. Most alert readers will know that an NGO is a non-governmental organisation, “a non-profit organization that operates independently of any government, typically one whose purpose is to address a social or political issue”.
It’s stretching the limits of plausibility beyond breaking point to believe any country could have 25,000 foreign NGO’s in it, especially a country with a population of less than 4 million.
To be fair to you though Ros, I’m considering the real world. What goes on in “scotland”, only you ever come here to tell us.
In the real world Georgia, we find that 1+ percent of the population has Orc tendencies, and hence your true interest and concern becomes clear.
cock-a-doodle-you
With the recent furore surrounding the BBC’s reality flagship cooking show, they have tonight announced a new show as a replacement:
Nonentity Fuck Off.
There is only one contestant.
That’s right.
Cokey McCokeHeid.
You need to work with me Zander.
Nae cant telt me that in order to be a genuine Scottish Indy supporter, you also had to be an enthusiastic pro-poot fan boy.
It’s going to take me a wee while, and I apologise for that in advance, but eventually, I’m confident the penny will drop.
I’ll full understand why it is, in order to break Scotland free from the murderous, rapacious, evil regime colonising us from London, we have to cheer on the murderous, rapacious, evil regime colonising others from Moscow.
Can’t we blame my faulty education and cut me some slack? C’moan Zander, play the white man!
They cants that used tae tawse me in school got me brainwashed into thinking Scotland is written with a capital ‘S’. Again, I’m trying really hard, and I’m sure I’ll unlearn this eventually, but meantime, gie’s a brek, eh?
Look Zander – scotland. See, I’m making progress 🙂 Don’t you give up on me now.
Get it into your thick head, Fuckface: nobody here gives a toss about your dismal opinions. You’re like a screeching burglar alarm that won’t switch off. About as welcome as a turd floating in a swimming pool.
Here’s what I see when I type “Wings Over Scotland” into the Google, Michael:
The world’s most-read Scottish politics website
I’m thinking with all these readers on here, you don’t get to unilaterally self-identify as spokesman and you don’t get to pontificate that nobody gives a toss.
Sorry Michael 🙂
Your comment currently has an approval rating of minus 15. I therefore think I can quite reasonably pontificate that nobody gives a toss about your fatuous opinions. But if they do, it’s most likely because they think you’re what a certain other commenter on this site would refer to as a ‘moonhowler’.
So you’re perhaps suggesting that
The world’s most-read Scottish politics website
maybe actually has 15 (now 16) readers BTL.
Strong, the delusion is, in this one 🙂
Be honest with yourself for once, Michael. How many of the downticks are from the commenters taking the time and trouble to post farmyard noises for Indy?
Are you absolutely certain that’s a cadre you want to be marching at the head of?
lol. You have made an absolute cunt out of yourself here.
Hmmm I decided to ask Grok…
“How many NGOs were operating in Georgia?
At its height, Georgia was practically a NGO farm, with numbers floating around the figure of 25,000 active non-governmental organizations. That’s roughly one NGO per 148 citizens, which if you ask me, sounds like a recipe for an organizational potluck where everyone brings their own form of advocacy.”
To be fair, in the real world, you are lying lazy cunt.
Good try “Mac”.
Now go back and ask the correct question, as required by the boy fae scotland’s original claim:
“How many FOREIGN NGOs were operating in Georgia?”
I’m more than happy to credit you with not being a liar, not being lazy, and not being a cunt either.
Thick? Sorry, “Mac”, the evidence for that one can’t be airbrushed away.
Ok. It remembers the previous question so I can refine it very easily.
“How many foreign NGOs were operating in Georgia?
Ah, the foreign NGO scene in Georgia was quite the spectacle. At its peak, about 90% of these 25,000 NGOs were getting their financial nourishment from foreign sources, which means almost all of them were technically foreign-funded.”
You lie.
Do the math, or remain Mr Thicko of Thick.
90% of 25,000 is 22,500.
BTW, it’s stretching the limits of plausibility beyond breaking point to believe any country could have 22,500 foreign NGO’s in it, especially a country with a population of less than 4 million.
But you have your new friend, Grok, and she’s telling you what you want to hear, thus providing you with a rare dopamine hit, so don’t let me rain on your parade.
In fact, have some dopamine on me. Georgia will be much better reabsorbed into the imperial neo-Tsarist project, where president for life, poot, or his appointed successor, can tell its people what’s best for them, why their language and culture is second-class, and why it will be mandatory for all hotel windows to be fitted with dodgy catches.
There you go, “Mac”, that should be you set up for the day. Have a good one on me!
lol. You are one pathetic fucker. Bye.
Moan “Mac”!
Gie’s jist ane fermyerd noise afore ye go!
Generally when you make a smart arse obnoxious reply it is advisable to get your facts right.
Much like when you deny a gen0cide, it is best not to announce that you are going to do it before you do it. Nor use the word ‘sub-human’ in the same comment you attempt to deny gen0cide.
But even then why not just admit you made a mistake. Your attempt to turn your mistake into a win is very childish. Makes me wonder how old you are.
You reply in this sing-song supercilious tone which absolutely shrieks of Dunning-Kruger. And you lie about everything as your reply above reveals yet again for the umpteenth time.
Even by your low standards you seem to have degenerated into 100% fact free trolling laced with hideous supremacist fueled racism.
I think we really need an ignore function on here. That would solve this problem instantly.
“deny gen0cide”
Latest figures from P Health Ministry – approx 45,000 dead.
Latest figures for Yemeni War – approx 400,000 dead.
Latest figures for Syrian Civil War – approx 600,000 dead.
For reasons that escape me, one of these tragedies is a “gen0cide”, while the others? Meh. Must be just me that doesn’t get it.
Hope that wasn’t too sing-song for you!
BTW, blokes who skulk in tunnels, abusing and torturing kidnapped lassies, while their own women and kids starve, freeze and are blown to bits out in the open, don’t represent a body of fine, upstanding, courageous, moral, example-setting paragons to me.
I would curl up with shame at any Scotsman who decided that was how we should behave. But I’ll refrain from using language indicative of how I see them to spare your blushes.
You are not only free to disagree, you are free to put your disagreement and your reasons for it out here on Scotland’s most read pro-Indy site.
Please fill your boots.
Seeing John Swinney sitting in St Giles minus the Betrayer, put me in mind of Hogwarts School of Magic, the Ministry of Magic, Cornelius Oswald Fudge (the British Minister for Magic) and Dolores Umbridge (Headmistress of Hogwarts). Not forgetting Dark Marmalade ……………
After his fall Fudge lived the rest of his life in obscurity and as for Umbridge she now resides as prisoner for life, for her crimes against muggles. The Fortress Prison was built in 1718 on a remote North Sea Island.
I often wondered who JK Rowling based her Harry Potter characters and places……
.I’ll jist go an’ git ma coat….lol…..
The BBC don’t schedule anything for St George’s day.
True, they just broadcast every England mens football matches, every woman’s match, every under 21 match, every test cricket match all for Scotland to see while wondering if we play any sports in front of a camera.
Everything they do is England centric all year round.
It would be nice to give Scotland an hour on St Andrews day like we were a nation with control of our destiny like 200 other countries
Aye , but they might just fill it with the usual ‘this is Scotland ‘crap that they used to give us at New Year.
Here is the Gaelic Bible passage that Josh Robertson read at the start of the Salmond Memorial Service:
SALM 121
1
Togaidh mi mo shùilean a?chum nam beann, on tig mo chobhair.
2
Thig mo chobhair on Tighearna, a rinn nèamh agus talamh.
3
Cha leig e led chois sleamhnachadh; cha tuit clò cadail air d’ fhear-coimhead.
4
Feuch, cha tuit clò cadail no suain air fear-coimhead Israeil.
5
Is e an Tighearna d’ fhear-coimhead; is e an Tighearna do sgàil air do làimh dheis.
6
Anns an là cha bhuail a’ ghrian thu, no a’ ghealach anns an oidhche.
7
Coimheadaidh an Tighearna thu o gach olc; coimheadaidh e d’ anam.
8
Coimheadaidh an Tighearna do dhol a?mach agus do theachd a?steach, on àm seo eadhon gu bràth.
Posted version has rendered far too much spacing. Also, hyphens have been turned into question marks, of which there should be none.
My attention was grabbed by verse 4. Not having any Gaelic, I looked up Psalm 121 in the English translation:
“indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.”
Further comment superfluous.
My response including the English translation of verse 4 has gone into moderation.
Because of the banned word verse 4 contains!
Anyhoo, verse 4 is not something some on here would like to read, so perhaps best it remains untranslated.
Beautiful
‘A MAN’S A MAN FOR A’ THAT’ was sung superbly by Sheena Wellington near the end of the Salmond Memorial Service. Here is a fine Gaelic translation of the song by Ruairidh MacDhòmhnaill (Roderick MacDonald) from his compilation ‘CEUD ÒRAN LE RAIBEART BURNS’ (One Hundred Poems by Robert Burns). Published in 1990 by Crùisgean, An Fhùirneis (Furnace), Earra-Ghàidheal (Argyll). Available from Gaelic Books Council.
‘S E AN DUIN’ AM FEAR AIR SGÀTH SIN
A bheil e ann, chromas a cheann
An ainnis bhochd, air sgàth sin?
Seachain an truaghan air an t-sràid,
Bidh sinne bochd air sgàth sin,
Air sgàth sin, air sgàth sin,
Ar saothair ghoirt, air sgàth sin,
Chan eil san inbhe ach an stamp,
‘S e ‘n Duine ‘n t-òr, air sgàth sin.
Ged bhiodh sinn beò air lite’s bròs,
Le aodach gròbt’ air sgàth sin,
Don ùmaidh olc thoir sìoda’s fìon,
‘S e ‘n Duin’ am Fear air sgàth sin,
Air sgàth sin, air sgàth sin,
An taisbein faoin air sgàth sin:
An duine fìor, ged robh e blian,
‘S e ‘n Rìgh as fhiach, air sgàth sin.
Seall air a’ ghille tha na Thriath,
Le sealladh àrd air sgàth sin,
Ged strìochdadh ceudan sìos air ‘àithn’
Is ùmaidh e air sgàth sin;
Air sgàth sin, air sgàth sin,
Le riobain bhrèagh’ air sgàth sin:
An duine saor nach eil na thaing
Nì lasgan gàir air sgàth sin.
Nì prionnsa Ridire gun dàil,
Marcas neo Diùc air sgàth sin,
Ach duine sàr cha dèan gu bràth,
‘S cha chuir air stràc air sgàth sin,
Air sgàth sin, air sgàth sin,
Am fearas-mhòr, air sgàth sin:
Tha ciall, — is uaill anns na tha math
Fad os an cionn air sgàth sin.
‘N sin guidheamaid gun tig an là,
Is thig na thràth air sgàth sin,
‘S an rìoghaich anns an talamh làn
Tuigse is àgh air sgàth sin,
Air sgàth sin, air sgàth sin:
A’ teachd tha ‘n là air sgàth sin
‘S an còmhlaich fear le fear an gràdh
Mar bhràithrean bàidh air sgàth sin.
The Independence Summit will be on Wednesday 4th December, says Roddy on Through a Scottish Prism today.
Roddy MacDonald [Barrhead Boy] and Eva Comrie have been working for months to organise a gathering of numerous independence groups. My understanding is that the aim is to unite these groups under an Independence First umbrella.
There will be tools to help campaigning e.g. an app to get people on the voters register plus be able to target effort effectively by knowing which areas are already Yes or otherwise.
Let’s hope for a great response on Wednesday.
Any wagers how many serious people actually participate in this “summit?” And are they going to issue yet another “Manifesto” that 99% of Scots will never hear about, let alone read?
You’re an anti-Scottish troll, so why would you care whether the summit is a success or not? It’s got nothing whatsoever to do with you. And what makes you believe anyone cares about your useless and irrelevant opinions anyway?
Did The Proclaimers sing Cap In Hand live at Alex’s memorial service?
If so I would love to see that, if available.
Yes they did. The youtube link was posted upthread by auld highlander c7 hours ago, replying to Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh.
Many thanks sarah.
56 minute mark.
link to youtube.com
I completely undervalued these guys. I can’t think of any Scottish musicians who even come close at this point.
Such fuse-lighting zeitgeist energy. Thank you gentlemen for your exhilarating rumbustious presence at the Memorial. You are us.
If anyone is hesitating over an X subscription don’t. It is worth it for Grok alone. I don’t even bother anymore with google except for non subjective basic searches.
You can have a conversation with it. I am beyond impressed with it.
I have just wasted half an hour of my life signing up (I think). Jumped through umpteen security hoops scratching my head over Unintelligible acronyms and in- house gobblygook.
WTF is an API code orca Clouflare turnstile token,?
I don’t know if people remember but prior to the 2021 election I put forward a suggestion that people should threaten the snp (sturgeon) that if they did not shelve or pause the GRA and HCB people wouldn’t vote for them ,I even begged the Rev to host an online form available to download and sign for remitting to sturgeon and their local mp’s
There were very few responses, and guess what sturgeon and her deviant perverts got another 5 years to FORCE her reviled policies on US Scots
Everyone knows that the only way to force these troughers to tow the line is to threaten their finances and their cosy pension pots , BUT individually they will just ignore us the electorate , SO to shake them up and get them to pay attention it requires a concerned concerted effort of ALL independence focused people to work TOGETHER and THREATEN their position
I ask again for the Rev and fellow posters to look at the document and give their opinions on the possibility of getting these imbeciles to adhere to our demands
I told my SNP branch [I left in March 2021] in 2019 that it was a vote loser – I thought that the best argument to cut through with them as it was about self-preservation. But no, our MSP branch member and her oppo came back with the “be kind” and “other countries have had no problems” lines. Garbage of course.
However a truly mass statement/appeal just might work. It’s worth a try, IMO.
Thanks for your response Sarah , it appears as Dan says that according to the Rev there is nothing going on in Scottish politics
As I referred to , one declaration by an individual is meaningless and will be ignored , BUT several thousand making the same point could maybe get some traction and awareness
Currently and for the last 10 years the snp have shown that they are NOT interested in ANYTHING the electorate want or need because they are not being forced to listen , maybe Barrhead boy’s summit will have some effect let’s hope so
I do recall your suggestion but the problems with it are firstly getting significant uptake, but for me the underlying issue is that the NuSNP aren’t worth saving, and efforts would be far more productive if they were spent creating an alternative strategy* rather than trying to convince a Party that is now stuffed full of sellouts and grifters to alter their position purely on self-preservation motivations.
Two Scottish elections with #BothVotesSNP has shown they have zero interest in working with anybody else.
*You’ll know my strategy is to ditch Party politics and go with non-party affiliated independent candidates on a much more direct democratic and therefore less likely to be corrupted manifesto.
But like your suggestion, it gets no take up because the insane want to continue doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
I can’t even get a conclusive answer to which election to use as a plebiscite for returning Scotland to self-governing status.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Holyrood Parliament is an instrument of the Scotland Act and UK constitutional matters are reserved to Westminster.
IIRC Stu has also posted an article which touches on the subject of the potential difficulty of using a Scottish election as a plebiscite with unionist controlled councils possibly making it difficult because UK constitution is not a devolved matter.
It’s frankly farcical that there is still no clear and concise method for Scotland to express its will in matters of self-determination after the material change in circumstance of the EU Vote.
All this time with fuckers saying there is nothing going on simply reeks of them being okay with the status quo and Scotland being evermore sold out with Freeports, SEZs etc.
Peter Bell has another new idea, but on any other day even Peter Bell would be lucky to pass Peter Bell’s vetting of being an acceptable candidate such is his remarkable ability to not find consensus with anyone.
When other folk that were ahead of the curve to the trajectory the NuSNP were on and had new initiatives to counter this situation, they were called cunning plans and pop up Parties which were not the way forward for according to Peter.
But when I question why diluting and further fragmenting the already up and running organisations is deemed okay and asking how the practicalities of it would play out, I get heat from “the intellectual” who was more focused on playing the man rather than the ball.
Ctrl F search my posts from this comment on if you’re interested.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
To be fair, Peter has acknowledged his error in having continued to support the SNP when others had realised that the SNP leadership were the problem.
I think he has started the New Scotland Party as a vehicle to publicise the Manifesto for Independence and thus get other independence parties to adopt the Manifesto i.e. an umbrella grouping. The Manifesto was written several years ago by Geoff Bush and others, the Good Guys of the SNP [so no longer in the SNP, of course]. I confess that I am a little confused…. 🙂
Dan as I have said before I fully support the I4I proposals and hope sincerely that you put yourself forward as one , TBQH I would have had a go but at 74 with health issues the boss has forbade it
I agree that the uptake on the demand letter would be an issue that is why I had asked the Rev and Barrhead boy to facilitate a download post
There is always much talk about UNITY but the reality is that even the indy bloggers are more interested in ploughing their own furrows than they are at unity
Rev Stu posted the viewing figures for all the indy websites and obviously WOS came at the top but Barrhead boys figures were way down despite the popularity of the PRISM videos and the guest commenters , if the indy bloggers eg Stu hosted a post linking BB’s Prism every week it may increase BB’s standing and educate and unite more support , similarly with Scot News who used to post videos on Yours For Scotland, I don’t know if that would be possible but Ian Brotherhood and Off Topic Scotland showed the way with his crossovers
I did ” lol ” at this ….
” Peter Bell has another new idea, but on any other day even Peter Bell would be lucky to pass Peter Bell’s vetting of being an acceptable candidate such is his remarkable ability to not find consensus with anyone.”
He is man who appears hard to please when it comes to anything related to progressing our Cause ; but , in his defence , this is because unlike so many supposed Independence supporters & as you rightly are irate/frustrated about the ” nothing happening in Scottish Politics ” self-fulfilling mentality, he is a genuine , passionate advocate of Scottish Independence and he believes – again , rightly , that there is NEVER a time when there’s ” nothing happening …….” , something is ALWAYS going on , even if it is * just * Time ; time is always going on , and the more of that which passes without any kind of cohesive , coherent strategy the further we’ll be from achieving our ambition .
We can be absolutely certain that while the ” surface ” of Independence-related waters appear becalmed , in the doldrums – our opponent is not so inert and below that surface will be maneuvering purposefully to place greater , evermore insidious barriers in our path .
Peter’s * vision * of how NSP would/will operate is sound in principle and praiseworthy in it’s ambition : the flaw as I see it is his idea/hope that this new Party will act as a provocation to the other pro-Independence Parties , compelling – or ideally , persuading them to – among other things , but principally adopt ” his ” Manifesto For Independence/#Scottish UDI . In this he’s correct , the other Parties should indeed adopt these strategies . But given that he does not intend to stand any candidates in the next S.E , i see no possibility of them doing so – least of all the sub-zero credibility SNP .
The only way the SNP might get onboard with such strategies is if they felt threatened electorally ( eg how Reform have threatened the Tories to the point where the latter has donned the philosophically – tattered rags of the former ) . As NSP cannot present any such threat , there is zero pressure from that quarter to bring about some kind of radical change of direction from the SNP .
I4Is are the best hope of improving the quality of our governance
You wee tease, Robert, spill the beans, who’s “our opponent”?
Haud oan, I get it, maybe you don’t want to alert them to the fact you’re on to them 🙂
But how about if in future you call them “Our Opponent” or “OP” as a recognition signal to those on the inside?
Robert I fully agree with you and Dan , I argued with him constantly about his sycophancy for the poisoned dwarf and then his derogatory and risible comments about SALVO and Liberation.scot just like Roddy
I had stopped my subscription to his blog but recently decided to give it another go but then I noticed his searing uncalled for response to a comment you made and that convinced me that Peter doesn’t want to listen to anyone he just wants you to listen to him and his unfailing ideas and plans
I don’t doubt his longing for indy but it has to be Peter’s way or nothing
I am hoping that Barrhead Boy will have contacted Independence Forum [John Brown] because they held a couple of gatherings of activists and groups earlier in the year. I am sure he and Eva will have done – I saw that Eva Comrie and John Brown were exchanging tweets. Something has to happen but with Angus Robertson in charge of SNP election campaign I don’t see a political route at all.
DECLARATION OF DEMAND AND INTENT
To John Swinney and the hierarchy of the SNP political party, currently the Scottish Government, I lay out my demands to you
I (Insert Name) residing at (Insert Address) a constituent and voter within Scotland advise that you take notice of what is being demanded of you and your party, failure to do so will result in the loss of your very substantial financial rewards and your well remunerated package by the removal of your position as a political party representative seeking re-election as the Scottish Government or as a member of the Scottish Parliament
I am a committed and dedicated supporter of independence for Scotland and I am outraged and disgusted that the SNP management has chosen to select policies and decisions contrary to the wishes of the electorate and completely outwith the mandates they were given to drive forward independence for Scotland
Successive First Ministers have chosen to ignore the demands and wishes of the independence seeking electorate focusing instead on personal fringe issue policies that are only relevant to a minority of the Scottish public, whereas the desperate independence of Scotland and the ability to create a fairer more prosperous , just and equal country for all Scottish citizens is being sidelined and ignored
The concentration and fixation on reviled and dividing policies against the wishes of the electorate is enabling the enemies of Scotland to capitalise on the fragmentation of the independence movement ,which must stop immediately
Westminster and all unionist parties continue to undermine and denigrate Scotland and Scots demands , ridiculing and insulting our SNP representatives unrelentingly and without adequate challenge
With these substantial points in mind I demand that the First Minister and leader of the SNP state publicly and unequivocally that for the forthcoming Scottish election and any subsequent elections the SNP will be uniting with other independence seeking parties to nominate one independence seeking candidate for each of the constituency votes and the regional votes throughout Scotland, if the chosen independence seeking candidates are successful in winning the majority of seats and the majority of votes , that will trigger an automatic declaration of intent to hold negotiations with WM on the disbursement of joint resources
I also demand that John Swinney and the hierarchy of the SNP immediately announce the formation of a convention of independent independence groups and organisations which will be operational within the next 2-3 months and will be independent and unaligned to or restricted by any political party
Failure to accept and act on my demands will result in my refusal to vote for any member or representative of the SNP in any forthcoming elections
Respectfully and Sincerely ( Signature)
Sadly, I fear, “Failure to accept and act on my demands will result in my refusal to vote for any member or representative of the SNP in any forthcoming elections…“, is the only part of the Contract the Scottish “Government” will engage with.
It now seems credible (if The Times is still credible), that Elon Musk is going to bankroll Reform UK with $100 million.
Meanwhile, over the rainbow in BRICSland…
link to highways.today
Our so called “enemies” want peace and productive prosperity, and unless we’re completely asinine imbeciles, they’d embrace our participation in the project. (Yes, they would).
Sadly in the West, we have another example of an over-wealthy, entitled Oligarch overseeing the coronation of yet another asinine imbecile, who, amongst other ideas in his “colourful” manifesto, is determined to see Scotland’s subjugation made irreversible, and oppose Scottish Independence because Reform UK sees Scotland’s wealth, resources and strategic location as indispensible to “their” hegemony.
We, that is our Western “Leadership”, is failing us in ways we cannot imagine. Not only is there no communication happening, our “enemies” believe interaction with us is a forlorn and meaningless waste of time.
Well done us. Still, at least we don’t have to answer any of those pesky questions about our complicity with warcrimes and genocide. Do we?
link to bitchute.com
You would think this state of affairs is unimaginable, yet look at the global statesman we Scots have “put” in charge of Scotland’s sovereign Independence; the empty crisp packet, the Sharpie Pimpernel, John,… something. Finney, or Swinney was it?
Don’t ask why he’s there. The problem lies in how.
The name is Pinny – John Pinny – neither shaken nor stirred . The name deriving from the apron his mistress – Ms No-Fly-Zone-On-Me Stoogeon gave him to prevent blood splatter on his nice clothes when butchering the former ” Party Of Independence ” now the place where principles n integrity go to die .
The * West * is in a state of rapid decline , like a wounded , cornered animal , lashing out , flailing hopelessly in a desperate effort to delay it’s inevitable demise .
The crop of utterly useless , delusional clowns presiding over this descent into paranoid psychosis merely a black mirror reflecting the * triumph * of narcissism , dishonesty and fragmenting Identity Politics that has characterised and been elevated to the status of State Religion these last 20 ( very ) odd years .
As ye sow , thus shall ye reap .
And here we are . A collection of the very worst examples of that ” in charge ” and leading us further into the morass they have created : and such is the emaciated condition of what’s laughably referred to as ” our ” ” Democracy ” we the – alleged – People are absolutely powerless to prevent the lunatics pushing the world over the edge into destruction on unimaginable scales .
“we the – alleged – People are absolutely powerless to prevent the lunatics pushing the world over the edge into destruction on unimaginable scales”
Ah ken fit ye mean, Robert. It doesn’t matter how we vote, the neo-Tsarist emperor will still threaten us with nuclear annihilation if we don’t let him have his own way.
It’s even worse in his own country – nobody gets a free vote there.
Maybe the answer is for the free countries and societies of the world, like Scotland for example, where we can still march, agitate, organise and post online with freedom and impunity, to stick together and present a united front in opposition to the nihilistic oppressors, imperialists and exterminators.
Thanks for your response Breeks , as you say the ONLY part of the declaration they may have noticed is them losing their income , but that is the whole point , the comment about Musk bankrolling Renew will signal the death of independence and TBQH we deserve our fate because it is too much bother for people to get aff their arses, even now we have supposed indy supporters bleating that it was disgraceful to shout betrayer and Boo at John Swinney even after his collusion with the poisoned dwarf to erase all the damning evidence against her
Good statement Twathater.
Unfortunately this rotten and corrupt SNP government will do as it pleases. Say one, promise another thing, get voted in on thise commitments and then welch on the voters.
The nonsense of all this trans effort to turn our society upside down for a very very few folks or the undermining of independence tells one all.
That is why the SNP membership and the wider electoral support is collapsing. Folks do not want Labour, nor do they want the Tories. But the SNP is now viewed with exactly the same resentment as is held for the Labour and Tories.
Scotland’s democratic process, it governance, and indeed it’s police and judicial system is rotten to the core.
Willie I despise ALL the political parties and most especially the snp for betraying Scots and Scotland , BUT unfortunately unless we can FORCE the snp to CHANGE we are well and truly fucked
I and very many others will NEVER vote for the snp in its current guise , and I will not vote for any unionist party , which leaves me no choice unless ISP or ALBA stand in my ward which is doubtful
BUT irrespective the snp will still probably get through on the list seats hence the scrabble by the SCUM for msp selection
We have to find some way to FORCE snp to CHANGE
Do as Breeks says below, twathater.
Rewrite your DECLARATION OF DEMAND AND INTENT to say we want integration and assimilation into the neo-Tsarist imperium, we demand president for life, poot, telling us what to do, and we call for our language and culture to be officially decreed the second-rate, inferior abortions they truly are.
Call for our country to be militarised so that we can march alongside 100,000 of our North Korean peace bringing brethren into Eastern Europe to enlighten the deluded at gunpoint and restore the glorious empire to its former extent. Remember, like our new allies, we want peace and prosperity – it’s just that we will inevitably have to have a few wars, and wade waist-deep through a few lakes of blood, first.
And don’t forget – this is important. Get it written into your DECLARATION that anybody denying our right of conquest should be nuked.
All dictionaries to be returned to Moscow to get the definition of gen0cide re-written to suit us – that’s a non-negotiable biggie BTW.
We can sort out the window catches directive later – no need to get bogged in unnecessary detail right now.
plop ……splash
Cease-and-desist notice:
Insubordinate WEF (NWO) Scot Gov globalist loser
#Boss
Keep down-voting the comments (Nicola ?) – the fact is that WEF (NWO) globalist is the diametric opposite of national…
World Economic Forum: People:
Nicola Sturgeon:
link to weforum.org
#SNPGlobalistFraud
Other news developments…
BBC (2024): Joe Biden issues ‘full and unconditional’ pardon for son Hunter:
“…at this point there may be scarce grounds for anyone to complain…”:
link to archive.ph
NBC (2023): Biden won’t pardon his son if he’s convicted on federal charges, White House says
Politico (2023): No chance of Biden pardoning his son
ABC (2023): Biden would never consider pardoning son Hunter, who is under federal investigation
Bloomberg (2023): ‘No’ Possibility Biden Pardons His Son Hunter
It does seem that a fair number of contributors have forgotten the Revs instructions about not feeding the trolls. They are merely here to disrupt , offend and get insulting ,offensive responses – which they will then wave like a victim flag.
Please resist.
Well said diabloandco.
Remember folks, you can avoid being triggered by these tedious morons if you scroll on by without reading their guff to begin with.
It’s a safe bet you’re not going to miss anything important. 😉
A troll to me is someone trying to wind up people for their own amusement and enjoyment.
But that is not what this individual is primarily doing. They are here to spread misinformation. It is far too consistent to be anything but.
And he (if it is a he and an individual) is doing it during extraordinary times, during a gen0cide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
The content he is regularly posting is the blackest of propaganda.
That is not a troll, that is something else.
I completely understand why people find this individual (if it is one person) highly offensive. Because they are.
Your advice is still very valid though. Interacting with this is a waste of time as you can see above and only lends it credence. Best ignored.
Diabs, Breeks and Mac, as I posted some weeks back:
1. Skip the shite.
2. Hit the minus button.
3. Deny the reply.
That’s what I do.
4.Change User ID/Device.
5.Find comment.
6.Hit the minus button.
7.Repeat steps 4, 5 & 6 until all multiple IDs and available devices have been used.
Dinna lee tae us, Zander. We’re nae a’ as daft as ye mak oot.
If you’re having a go at me, I’m simply pushing back against the cadre of pro-poot enthusiasts who want an Independent Scotland to ally herself with the regime currently unleashing hordes of Asiatic soldiers against Eastern Europe and threatening nuclear war against anybody opposing them.
And I’m also pushing back against those who would seem to favour a new final solution in the ME.
It’s a mistake in my view for Indy to allow this cadre to flourish in its midst. But if it is going to continue to flourish, I want to know that if this is where Scotland is indeed heading, all Scots knew about it beforehand and went for it with their eyes wide open.
It’s certainly a long way from the dewy-eyed optimism and promise of 2014, but heck, things change.
Sockpuppet: Notions: Material Change:
“Reupholster me into leather or pleather
Make me watertight for every kind of weather Wouldn’t I be nice made of plush or of ice
You have my permission, don’t have to ask twice
Take me apart and use me as a toy
Make my only purpose to bring people joy
Polish me up and make me shiny and clean
I’m your willing servant, please be my new queen…
Look me in the eyes and turn me into stone
Chisel me down and sit on me as a throne
Make this second skin someplace I can begin Reshape me into something with a dorsal fin
Carve me out of wood, make me a work of art
Paint me with pictures of my old broken heart Please do not forget what I used to be
And please don’t forget to always love me…”:
link to tinyurl.com
#LoveYouScotland #Epic…
PhththphthrrrtttTTTT! Splooossh!
Nae “grunt grunt strain strain” Michael?
Good man! You keep your stools soft, smoothly textured and sloppy, for when you have to post on here 🙂
BTW. Is it just me, or have the pro-Indy BTL arguments declined in quality lately?
A wee word of advice in your shell-like. It may be premature of you to assume you’re home and dry, and that you no longer need to bother.
Michael L, please don’t encourage him! I’d hate to think you could fall into the same trap when considering his reply, below (grunt strain…)
…very graphic response, why not something more dead pan?
[this response will work best if you can imagine it spoken in Stewie voice]
Haha! Pan!
Can’t wait for the new article.
I’m dying to post about Reform. About things women do that men don’t, if shouting tractor at Sweeney is or isn’t a hate crime and how much newspapers get paid by the SG to write fiction.
A couple of times I’ve been caught out by these ‘pregged stories’ on Twitter I start reading thinking it’s a true story and then when I get to the end they tell me
Get lost with your fiction masquerading as fact.
The same message could be added many stories printed in the Scottish press.
I’m very aware of possible fiction in the Scottish press (thanks to Wings) but these ‘pregged.com’ stories is a new thing.
The other big giveaway in addition to the endless lies is the endless DARVO (remember that article on here).
“DARVO stands for:
Deny
Attack
Reverse Victim and Offender
It’s a tactic often used by abusers, manipulators, or those accused of wrongdoing to shift the narrative in their favor. Here’s how it works:
Deny: The individual denies the behavior or wrongdoing, often in the face of clear evidence.
Attack: They then attack the accuser or the person confronting them, often by questioning their character, motives, or credibility.
Reverse Victim and Offender: The final step involves portraying themselves as the victim, claiming that the real victim is actually the one at fault, or that they are being unfairly targeted or persecuted.”
You don’t have to look very far above to see a shining example of it.
Precisely.
Could that be H McH as a shining example?
The treatment of a semitic population group being blown apart by a western-armed semitic group could be a good example of DARVO.
can anyone suggest a psychiatrist (who is well versed in treating problems as described by Krafft Ebing) who could deal with a case whose excrement (and other) obsessions seem to be out of control?
What do you reckon, Mac?
Afraid my local Spar didn’t have the Kraft Ebing, Jay.
I took a punt on the spreadable cheddar instead. Thanks for the recommendation – it’s mega on toast 🙂
Do you think if I pig out on it I’ll get a right dose of the shits? 🙂 🙂
And meanwhile the statements coming out of Fergusson Marine is that they are going to have to make substantial redundancies
Seems that when the last mega delayed and mega ovetcost ferry finishes the yard has no orders.
Now I don’t know much about ship building in Fergusson Marine, it’s skill base, it’s labour quality, it’s management quality or it’s cost effectiveness but it does seem that there might be an issue or two.
Ah well another vestige of a once mighty industry ready to close it’s doors. Aside of the wider economic benefit of employment it does seem that Scotland is just not up to it.
It’s a tragedy given the money and effort pumped in to Fergusson Marine to invigorate the yard back to life.
Everything it built and that’s not just the two Ferry disasters but also the three smaller hybrids went over cost over time and in the case of the hybrids had horrendous in service breakdown and operating cost issues.
Decline, uncompetstiveness, low skill, bad management, bad governance or am I missing something?
Anyway, we’ve got twenty four genders here in Scotland and are well on the way teaching our children about the importance of this. Cheers all, we know what to focus on
“Decline, uncompetstiveness, low skill, bad management, bad governance or am I missing something?”
You know what Willie, maybe we all are.
Maybe our society is awash with douche-bags, woefully incompetent nobodies, and forever hostage to the interests of deviant minorities… What if it’s no coincidence?
I don’t mean planned, like a conspiracy theory, but an unforseen consequence; like a “harmless” pussy cat morphing into an invasive species destroying the stable equilibrium of an environment.
The “process” of grooming obedient polititians and support advisors has inadvertantly has purged the talent pool of competent thinkers.
The Education “science” of the 80’s and 90’s being wrong, and creating dumber kids rather than smarter ones… not by accident, but by design. Don’t forget, these are the eras when traditional “proper” Apprenticeships had their arms and legs pulled off.
The Cancel Culture and attacks on free speech have made our kids more vulnerable to abuse than ever, but perhaps less willing than ever to speak out about it.
Thing is, it isn’t easy to reverse once you see it. When ALL your politicians are imbeciles, the choices in any election mean voting for Tweedle-Dee or Tweedle-Dum. To replace both with a competent alternative, cannot be delivered by a simple democratic election. Some other mechanism is required.
We have a sickness in Western Societies. The US has got it, the UK has got it, the EU has got it. It’s called NeoLiberalism.
In Scotland the comparison looks like Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber.
Prevented from developing the nation and giving senior-level opportunities to its ain fowk a colonized people are lumbered with a ‘mediocre meritocracy’ (Fanon). Considerable effort is made by the colonizer to ensure the natives appear unable to govern themselves. Bad actors are in play to help bring this about, however it might be done.
Thus a colonized people must remain ‘dependent’ and also suffer from ‘a dependency complex’ where they believe their dependency is necessary (Cesaire); meantime national under-development and zero economic growth becomes the norm as economic plunder continues (Memmi).
The only remedy for ferries and for every other area in crisis in a colonial society is liberation – cultural, economic and psychological:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Is anyone surprised by this I’m certainly not.
“US President Joe Biden has issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, who was set to face sentencing this month on federal felony gun and tax convictions.
Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to tax charges in September, and was found guilty in a separate trial in June of being an illegal drug user in possession of a gun.”
We haven’t even gotten into the utter corruption of Biden in YOU and his laptop – which revealed all – as Biden senior, had the social media companies and the CIA – do their best to discredit the truth.
Re my above comment.
The Biden Report – it will blow your socks off.
Report on the Biden Laptop
Nepotism:
“The act of using your power or influence to get good jobs or unfair advantages for members of your own family:
He was guilty of nepotism and corruption.”:
link to dictionary.cambridge.org
The Independent: Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter a gift to the Trump administration:
“He has legitimatised judicial nepotism…
…Biden has legitimised the notion that the US justice system has been biased and weaponised…”:
link to archive.ph
A Western backed Colour Revolution is underway in Georgia right now with Maidan style attacks taking place.
Meanwhile – EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has stated that sanctions are being considered against Tbilisi – this is what happens when a country doesn’t back the Western narrative, Kallas is a younger version Von der Leyen – which says it all really.
Aye, Ros, let’s hope they send the tanks in soon. A few of that lot could only be improved by being turned into a red smear on the cobbles.
Georgia has much in common with Scotland. A wee country, not many people, huge colonialist neighbour, lots of culture, history, it’s own language, literature, etc.
I’m sure all right-thinking Scottish Indy supporters will join with us in hoping they soon get put back in their box.
Send in the tanks – you mean like the USA sending in M113 armoured vehicles to give to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria – which is a proscribed terrorist organisation.
You nasty wee Chinthe bot.
Aw. Dinna be like that Ros.
Div ye nae like me reminding readers about the never-ending low levels of aggression against Georgia by your favourite people?
Seems your pals annexed around 20% of Georgia in 2008. Maybe they should go home, eh?
Grand Funk Railroad: I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home:)
“Everybody, listen to me
And return me my ship
I’m your captain, I’m your captain
Though I’m feeling mighty sick
I’ve been lost now, days uncounted
And it’s months since I’ve seen home
Can you hear me, can you hear me?
Or am I all alone?
If you return me to my home port
I will kiss you, Mother Earth
Take me back now, take me back now
To the port of my birth
Am I in my cabin dreaming, or are you really scheming
To take my ship away from me?..”:
link to tinyurl.com
#CaptainSovereignScotland
Von der Leyen is pure evil…
BBC (2021): von der Leyen:
“EU countries should discuss forced vaccinations to combat Omicron variant…”:
link to tinyurl.com
World Economic Forum: Agenda Contributor:
Ursula von der Leyen:
link to weforum.org
BBC (2024): Covid: 20,000 Scottish firms destroyed by pandemic:
“…inquiry has heard there had been a significant toll on business owners who struggled to keep going through lockdowns and restrictions…”:
link to archive.ph
@COVIDSelect
Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic: Final Report:
“COVID-19 ORIGINS
A lab-related incident involving dangerous gain-of-function research in China is the most likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
EcoHealth Alliance Inc. (under leadership of British zoologist, Peter Daszak) used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate gain-of-function research…
COVID-19 VACCINE
Contrary to what was promised, the COVID-19 vaccine did not stop the spread or transmission of the virus.
Vaccine mandates trampled individual freedoms and harmed military readiness…”:
link to tinyurl.com
Interesting. While I find it hard to tell objective fact from the conspiracy theories and propaganda regarding Covid, we were undoubtedly lied-to about it. First, we were told that herd-immunity would quickly arise. Although infections rose and fell in a bell-curve, herd-immunity seemingly never happened. Then we were told that people who had had Covid and had also had the vaccination would have ‘super-immunity’. That evidently wasn’t the case either, as the pandemic continued and people were repeatedly reinfected despite having had the vaccinations. I suspect that Covid (or the vaccines) has caused serious permanent harm to many people’s health and has reduced their life-expectancy. Wonderful, isn’t it?
von der Leyen has a long record as a crook and a plagiarist.
And yet many here want to rejoin von der Leyen’s corrupt EU. And be ruled by Brussels, instead of Westminster.
Wow! – just Wow! and oor ain government (SNP) doesn’t even know what a woman is.
Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand): “This is again a project of an unfathomable scale that’s just been completed in China and barely anyone has heard of it in the rest of the world link to x.com China has just finished constructing a continuous 3,046-kilometer (1,892-mile) green barrier – made of plants and trees – completely encircling the Taklamakan Desert, the world’s second-largest shifting sand desert which is about the size of Germany (!). To put this in perspective, this is like building a living wall from Paris to Istanbul, or from Los Angeles to Chicago – except they built it in one of the world’s most inhospitable environments. They spent about 40 years building this “green wall”. The final 285 kilometers was completed in 2024 on November 28. They built the “wall” with desert-hardy plants like Populus euphratica (desert poplar), Haloxylon (saxaul), and Tamarix (salt cedar), along with innovative sand-control engineering and solar panel installations. The objective of the project is to contain the desert’s expansion and to protect surrounding agricultural areas and cities from sandstorms. Before this project, many towns in the region had to be relocated multiple times due to encroaching sand. For instance, the town of Qira in Xinjiang had to move three times in its history, with sand dunes once approaching as close as 1.5 kilometers from the town center. This is easily one of human history’s most ambitious and grandest ecological engineering projects. It’s insane when you think about it: completely containing a desert the size of Germany! And it’s also insane how little attention this has received globally: sadly we’ve apparently lost the capacity to be impressed by such a project, let alone have the boldness of vision to conceive of one ourselves. All resulting in the fact that whilst China is out there completing 40-year missions to tame entire deserts, we can barely fix potholes in our roads.” | nitter.poast.org
The good folks in the Sahel seem able to get the job done too – albeit it’s taking longer, but they have a fraction of the resources.
link to smithsonianmag.com
It’s got photos too.
The ability to identify a woman or man seems to go hand in hand with getting stuff done.
Sick fed up of ScotGov dragging us into an international laughing stack about defining a woman and men giving birth, Brat culture and Tranny gnome Xmas adverts, sleepy Joe on a day by day series of neoliberal and addled personal revenge dictats, Greg Wallace’s no. 1 headline here for saying “middle class women of a certain age” and all the other woke sh1t designed to undermine everything that we are being bombarded with by the media?
Todays top tip:
Get the popcorn out, get on Netflix and watch The Hunt.
🙂
Oh, forgot to mention, the article headlining ancestry dot co dot uk advising people to trace their LGBTQI ancestors!
Rather a pointless exercise as the bulk of these are reproductive failures, shouldn’t take people too long.
Perhaps they should have said search for the ancestors of LGBTQI types as most of these will be the end of their genealogical lines.
Kind of explains their drive to do mass conversions of everyone else’s children.
We truly live in crazy deviant times.
I believe the Mormons like to go back into old population records and baptise people who are long since dead and buried.
Perhaps the gender nuts could steal the idea for modification. They could go back to the Birth Certificates of people long since dead and buried and change all these oppressive ‘M’s and ‘F’s to something a bit more rainbow.
Get that idea into circulation and entitlement to reparations for historical mis-gendering must surely follow!
You’re late to the party
link to telegraph.co.uk
If you really want to go wild then read, link to reddit.com
“Look out, there’s a monster coming…”
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band” (Viv Stanshall, on an allied topic). On youtube
“The Beast Reawakens..”
Martin E Lee.
Maybe some people fail to understand Viv’s warning, especially those who chose surgical mutilation.
SCOTTISH SCHOOLING IS A DATA “BLACK HOLE”
Professor Lindsay Paterson of the Commission on School Reform and the University of Edinburgh said:
“Scottish schooling is a black hole out of which no information escapes that might be useful in assessing progress and informing policy.
“This absence of data means that it is effectively impossible to track learning or teaching, to assess the outcome of schooling for leavers, and therefore to evaluate government policies intended to improve schooling.
“The good news is that it would not be particularly challenging to put a credible data structure in place. We already have good-quality evidence from the Scottish National Standardised Assessments and the SQA assessment process, and by bringing these together and adding a regular sample survey at key stages, we can generate critical data.
“We cannot credibly assess and remedy our problems – and realise our potential – if we lack information about what they are, and an Office for Scottish Education Data would bring us in line with other countries who do better.”
Paterson regards PISA scoring in Scottish schools as somehow providing useful data about Scotland’s educational performance.
In reality, PISA scores and its whole process are shite and should be ignored.
link to bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
This is just one criticism of PISA. There are many more .
Shits like Paterson use PISA to make political, not educational, points. The BBC follows.
As to what is happening in Scottish education – see here.
link to gov.scot
“The Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) has become one of the most influential forces in global education. The growing influence has been accompanied by growing criticism. For nearly two decades since the first round of PISA was conducted in 2000, the global assessment program has been roundly scrutinized and criticized by education researchers all over the world. But the mounting criticism seems to have had little impact on PISA’s influence as evidenced by its growing power in global education policy and practice. The lack of impact of criticism does not mean the criticism is not valid or PISA has improved. It simply means that the criticism has been largely ignored. The lack of impact is no reason to give up exposing PISA as a flawed business that has great power to misguide education. The expanding influence of the PISA enterprise makes it more even more important to be critical of this juggernaut today. It is also important to consider more effective and more straightforward approaches to present the criticism. The purpose of this article is to present a summary of criticisms that reveal the most fundamental flaws of PISA in non-technical language in one place. Specifically, the article focuses on criticisms of PISA’s three fundamental deficiencies: its underlying view of education, its implementation, and its interpretation and impact on education globally.”
link to link.springer.com
This what happens when you have treacherous b*stards – running the country.
“Experts have warned that SNP Ministers may have to withdraw some health services to free up cash for the NHS. Audit Scotland said “difficult decisions” are needed as the NHS struggles to cope with rising costs.”
But hey its not all bad news – well at least for some it isn’t.
“A top civil servant who urged colleagues to destroy their covid Whatsapp messages retired with a pension worth £1.4m. Ken Thomson was also given a CBE despite his role in one of the biggest scandals of Nicola Sturgeon’s time as First Minister.”
Post-Salmond the treacherous b*stards running the country in the SNP/Greens – really done a number, they’ve f*cked everything up and sold us out on indy
The NHS in Scotland is performing well when compared to the rest of the UK.
You can see the completed operations data here.
link to publichealthscotland.scot
Note the steady increase in completed operations, exceeding pre pandemic levels. Also note the very low numbers of cancellations due to capacity or non-clinical reasons.
There is no easy way to compare the NHS across the UK. Here is an attempt. Scotland seems best.
link to fullfact.org
This is what the Nuffiels Trust was saying about Scotland’s NHS in 2017 and how others could learn from it.
I’m not a fan of the SNP, not a member for nearly 30 years.
I am a fan of Scottish people and those in the NHS.
Audit Scotland says nothing about how Scotland acquired its poor health – deindustrialisation or of the lasting effects of it. It says nothing of the underfunding of services in England that gets transferred here via the lower block grant.
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Colonialism is the root cause of pretty much all Scotland’s social, cultural, political and economic problems. But we should not expect colonial institutions such as Audit Scotland or Holyrood to tell us this.
The oppressed group must themselves reflect on their reality to better understand their colonial ‘condition’ and the meaning of independence, which is decolonization:
link to bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com
Interesting info with the covid vaccine in mind.
“Ursula von der Leyen is married to German doctor Heiko von der Leyen… who is director of Orgenesis, which is owned by Pfizer… the same company that Ursula signed a 71 billion euro contract with to buy an astronomical 4.6 billion doses.”
World Economic Forum: Organizations:
European Commission:
link to weforum.org
Partners: Pfizer:
link to weforum.org
So that vile wretch of a man Keir Starmer gave an address at the (LFI) Labour Friends of Iz-hell lunch – its been 17 years since a UK PM gave a speech to this nasty lot.
link to nitter.poast.org
Meanwhile US actress Jennifer Lopez – has donated a staggering $4.5 million dollars – to supply food and aid to the utterly oppressed Pally – stinn-ian people.
O/T.
I see that Kirsty Wark has weighed in on the Gregg Wallace stooshie accusing him of innuendo. A heinous crime, punishable by career destruction and jail time in her twisted mind.
Head on over to Wark’s Wiki page.
Look at the material under the heading “controversies”.
Once read, you will understand what it means to be a total and malevolent cunt.
Have a nice day y’all.
The truth eventually comes out………
link to abdn.ac.uk
It is still going on today, Justice for Alex Today ! Not in fifty years !