Wings Over Scotland

Foote in mouth.

To be scrupulously fair, the boy on the left in the blue suit is calling for the SNP to “consider” withdrawing MPs from WM.

The boy on the right in the off-white (!) jumper is merely clarifying that he has “considered” it and the answer is “Naw”.

Is that authoritarian?

Maybes the boy on the right has a Mertilizer Beam and the boy on the left has nothing but a cannon. A loose one at that.

Do the SNP still believe in anything? “Except in Women with a Penis” obviously

Lots of parallels between the Tories and the SNP just now. Lots of undisciplined flapping of gums without prior engagement of brains, multiple u-turns whilst doing Warp 9, complete loss of focus on the big issues whilst farting about round the edges with pish that nobody cares about. Oh, and nobody can stand them.

Vote SNP* The Non-Abstentionist ( but mibbie ) Abstentionist- Nuclear-Free-But-No-Just-Yet – * Trans* Friendly-Women-No-So-Much- Pro-Pronoun-Anti-Everything-Else Party .

* Special Twofer Deal. Vote SNP get a pack of Green plums absolutely free

Is ‘The Usual Suspects’ another cartoon strip?

It’s almost as if the SNP used to be united behind one goal, and now the pursuit of that goal has been called off, it’s a garbled free for all. All those mouths, bereft of the previously clear message about Scotland’s independence, are still flapping open and shut on muscle memory, but what’s coming out is so many flavours of bumf.

In order to have anything resembling a party the SNP requires the unifying self determination drive, or a massively centralised authoritarian leadership structure.

Roddy Dunlop is great. I really like him

“They put their left leg in, their left leg out
In, out, in, out, shake it all about
They do the Dumbza Yousless and they turn around
Let’s vote the bastards out. Oi!”

@ Debatable Lands says: 4 March, 2024 at 9:18 pm

Scotland is capable of producing and electing eejits of a quality equal to any nation on the planet

That’s debatable, Debatable.

I don’t have knowledge about every nation on the planet, but of those nations I do know about, I would say Scotland’s finest quality eejits are world beating.

Take Oor Kirsty as an example. She has already dropped two sprogs, but doesn’t know if she is a woman or a man.

“… talking about XX and XY chromosomes. I have no idea what my chromosomes are. I assume that they are probably XY, but I do not know …”

Eat your heart out, rest of the world. Wha’s like us, eh?

John Main, the SNP hire archy consist of WTF chromosomes.

I’ve been feeling pretty ill for the last week but this article cheered me up quite a bit.
There’s a particular kind of foolishness that politicians are prey to and here is one of the best yet…hey, Viennetta…is that a reverse ferret doon yer breeks or are ye jist pleased to see us?

Spaceman Spiff!

Braw.

When the SNP is winning, the cause of Independence is winning….

Eat your heart out Charlie Sheen.

I despise these SNP jackasses. I truly do.

You have betrayed Scotland and exploited the cause of Scottish Independence for personal gain. How do you plead? Guilty. Every fkg one one of the bastards. In any sane world, there endeth the political career of every last two faced charlatan. Instead, they return an endless stream of political non-entities, each as tedious and deluded as Jim Murphy going to work on an egg.

When the meek shall inherit the Earth, they’ll be handed it on a plate by the contemptible bullshitting arseholes in the SNP.

I hope these wannabe Gauleiters get absolutely destroyed next election. It won’t mean the Indy cause is diminished. It will mean the SNP supporting sheep will have finally opened their eyes and seen through these grifters, and the Independence Movement has put out the trash.

When push comes to shove, you can always rely on the SNP to pull.

Re: SNP withdrawing from Westminster, I think that might be arranged for them by the electorate and the next GE. bye WM short money the lifeblood of the SNP.

The Andy Ellis fanbase is interesting!

Dan, thanks I think – apart from destroying the chortle with which I started the day.

Ruby , me too for Roddy Dunlop , not so much for the fan club – particularly since their first sneer is at least a day late.

Den
Ignored
says:
5 March, 2024 at 7:38 am

Re: SNP withdrawing from Westminster, I think that might be arranged for them by the electorate and the next GE. bye WM short money the lifeblood of the SNP.

What’s the plan?

How do we arrange it?

I’m predicting a very low turnout with nobody knowing WTF to do.

I wish Branchform would get a wiggle on.

I heard that it had been predicted that there would be 6 arrests!

@ Dan says: 5 March, 2024 at 8:06 am

That’s an innarestin article.

Opinions will differ, of course. Some see it as a sell-out by the SNP. Others might see it as just another painful step in the protracted adolescence of the SNP, as it gropes its way towards maturity.

And if that national maturity is not shared by many Scots, then bye bye SNP. Bye bye Indy too.

There’s been a War on for two years now, and just ignoring it isn’t going to make it go away. The EU is well along the route of putting its economy and politics on a War footing. Scotland (the SNP/Green government) intends us to be in the EU. No ifs or buts.

We can back out of greater involvement in The War, just as soon as we renege on our “Scotland In Europe” certainty. The two are joined at the hip.

As for nuclear weapons on Scottish soil, an iScotland in the EU will have to accept EU ones, for the same reason we have to accept UK ones now. Geography, strategic position, and population density. Indy will change none of these parameters.

The corpse of iScotland as the cuddliest, friendliest, nicest, most defenceless, wee country in the world has been ice cold for some time now.

It’s long overdue for burial.

By the way using 100kilotons as assumed blast yield is very optimistic indeed.

The new Ru$$ian Sarmat system can carry lots of different configurations but it would be more like 1 Megaton and maybe much more because next to Faslane dug into the hill are the silos where they keep the weapons. So they are going to hit all of that area multiple times and with weapons that can penetrate deep underground. It is going to get obliterated.

Also fallout. These facilities are obviously on the west coast. The weather typically rolls in from the west (the Atlantic) and travels east. This is why the east coast is much drier than the west, I think it is even called ‘the precipitation effect’ as the Grampians soak up much of the rain… Glasgow, Scotland’s biggest population centre by far does not have that protection, it is 25 miles as the crow flies from Faslane.

Lastly topography works both ways, our enemies will be taking advantage of it as much as we do.

Plus the entrance to the silos are near the top of the hill adjoining the loch. (They don’t even blur their location on google maps.) They are going to carpet bomb everything with nukes up and down the hill and both submarine bases on both Lochs. That is a given, a minimum, if it really kicks off.

It was a disgraceful decision to build these facilities there IMHO.

Chas
Ignored
says:
5 March, 2024 at 9:06 am

Some people would take Independence tomorrow in the full knowledge that the SNP would be at the helm.

The majority of the electorate in Scotland however, are not so daft. Thankfully this number is increasing by the day.

Yeah!

‘The Andy Ellis fanbase’ is interesting.

John Main
Ignored
says:

As for nuclear weapons on Scottish soil, an iScotland in the EU will have to accept EU ones, for the same reason we have to accept UK ones now. Geography, strategic position, and population density. Indy will change none of these parameters.

The Andy Ellis fanbase say interesting things!!!!!

The presence , or absence, of Sottish MPs of any party at Westminster has made no difference to anything. The numbers tell all.
The notion that Westminster will allow the separation of Scotland from the UK is delusional. The only proposition is secession or not?
Matters like nuclear weapons, NATO and membership of the English Speaking Union are flannel.

Nuclear war is looking more likely than independence at the moment.

Effigy @ 09.36

Oh dear, Effigy, disabled toilets for “Transwomen”. We’ll need to be cautious about this suggestion once the dog’s breakfast which is the Hate Bill finally gets actioned. (When the Crown Office and the Police decide how to try to interpret and implement the incomprehensible disaster).
Dare to suggest that lipstickbedecked, wig wearing biological men are “disabled” and should use such facilities … hush my mouth !

link to archive.is

Green Party transwoman defends use of airport disabled toilet to dilate ‘vagina’

We really need a clean, dry, private facility for transwomen where they can lie down, take their knickers off,spread their legs to dilate their ‘vagina’.

Trans rights are human rights.

Good lighting also required so that they can photograph themselves inflating their ‘vagina’

Dilation is an exercise transwomen undertake after undergoing vaginoplasty, to stretch their ‘vaginal’ canal and keep it open. Patients are advised to dilate twice every day for a minimum of 15 minutes.

There are going to have to be quite a few of these ‘Vagina Dilating Facilities’ if it takes 15 minutes twice a day.

How about they just keep their penis. These two guys featured in this article Keith Brown and Humza Yousak believe that woman have penises.

Just because you have a penis doesn’t mean you are not a ‘woman’.

Let me just say this before the hate crime bill comes into force.

Herbert, Heather is fuckin’ off his rocker!

It’s really tragic that nobody is helping this poor man.

Soon nobody will be able to help him because ‘conversion therapy’ is verboten

Reading the bizarre information above regarding “vaginal dilation exercises”, its almost as if its unnatural and going against nature…

Sorry that I keep going on about the same topic which I don’t think is of much interest here on Wings.

Every time I go on the internet and see another story about this madness I get wound up again.

Fuck it I think I might transition and become a man!

Any tips guys?

Alert readers of Scottish independence will wonder how a political party like the SNP sitting in a Westminster parliament legislated devolved government sent to Scotland can even represent Scotlands opinion on WMD.

Even if the withdrew from Westminster, they are still up here here under Westminster legislation and Statues in Scotland,

This is employed Actors politics.
They are the same two cheeks of the same arse. Under legislation and statues of Westminster.
Long ago the devolved Scottish government was known as a wee pretendy parliament of Scotland.

These pretend hot air ballon politicians based in Scotland in the Wee pretendy devolved government from Westminster continue to play their parts so well they are deserving of a Oscar for acting and following their lines,
Not one of them dare raise the obvious line.

If our original Scottish parliament had not been “dissolved from the treaty of union in 1707″ would we (even)be holding conversations of WMDs in Scotland or withdrawing from Englands House of Lords Westminster parliament to pretend to run up back to our pretend branch office parliament in Scotland.

Scotland has no say in these matter on the world stage, whilst we maintain the
The COLONIAL farce OF a ” pretend Scottish devolved Parliament” to retreat to,

“Still think Uk’s Nuke Subs a clever idea ?”

If we allow English nuclear subs and weapons to remain at Faslane after independence, they’ll never leave, for consecutive Scottish governments will factor in the cash (rent) into policies and that will be that, not to mention the pollution of our waters and the real possibility of accidents.

I say get them out as soon as possible after indy.

Oh I forgot, on the nuclear blast simulator if you have not done it you should select ‘airburst’ (not surface). These things generally are never detonated a ground level.

Put in 10Mt airburst and you will get 3rd degree burns out to a range of 32.9km and light blast damage out to 42.6km which pretty much would reach Glasgow city centre from Faslane.

10Mt for a very special target of high military importance buried deep in a hill… it is easily possible. And the harder we have made it to hit the worse it will be for Glasgow as they will have break out the really big stuff to reach it.

I notice that the For Women Scotland appeal has been stalled at under £146,000 for some time. IN my opinion the appeal lost its excitement and momentum when ‘the organisation ‘stopped publishing the amount of individual donations and allowing comments. I suspect ‘the organisation’ was unnerved by a minority of comments becoming increasingly saucy and the references to politicians becoming more and more dodgy.

Thinking about it more I’d guess that the Faslane / Coulport complex would have to be the number 1 target in the UK. If not where else would be more important?

If the Ru$$ians only had one nuclear bomb taking out our ability to nuke them would be how they would use it. (Of course in reality they have no shortage.)

I guess maybe the US bases in the UK if they restock them with nuclear weapons (as they plan to do). So anywhere near those US bases will also have a massive target painted on to them.

But in terms of strictly UK targets there will be no bigger priority than taking out Faslane / Coulport. Cany anyone think of one?

Looking at wikipedia before they were decommissioned the largest nuclear weapons in the US arsenal was 9MT, Russia had similar, probably bigger, as is their way.

Technology has advanced a lot as well. Fuck knows what monsters they have up their sleeves on both sides.

Einstein was right about the fourth world war being fought with sticks and stones. The weapons now are insane.

Re my previous comment is it any wonder that Westminster is thinking of dumping its membership of the ECHR.

However the ECHR says.

“Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) specifically safeguards the right to freedom of assembly and association. Both of these are now under full scale and repeated attack from the most right-wing and draconian government in living memory. ”

link to libertyhumanrights.org.uk

link to gov.uk

Bored now… the largest nuclear bomb ever tested was 50 MT.

If they dropped that above George Sq in Glasgow the fireball alone would extend to the Burrell Collection, Anniesland, Kings Park and Bishopbriggs.

Moderate blast damage would be out as far as Stewarton, Balloch, Bonnybridge and well past Larkhall.

And that is an old technology bomb now. They never stopped developing them, they just stopped testing them, now it is all done by computer simulation.

It is just best we don’t go down this road all together.

@RoS, this week a man in Leeds was jailed for two years for sharing a template for stickers which said things like It’s Ok To Be White. The judge directed the jury that even if they felt that what the stickers said were true and inoffensive an example had to be made to stem the rising tide of anti Semitism in the UK.

On Etsy you can buy stickers which advocate violence against TERFS whilst suffragette/gender critical themed stickers are banned by the site.

@George Ferguson

“… gender dysphoria is a real medical condition…”

Yes, it is, George, as you say.

In Ireland, gender dysphoria was found largely among children who had been in Romanian orphanages or who were autistic.

An American psychiatrist with long experience of gender dysphoria, Ira Levein, said that on reaching puberty most children desisted from their condition. All children with gender dysphoria needed professional treatment to deal with their mental distress.

There were some, very few, who could be said to be born “in the wrong body”.

Anton Decadent.

We Just have to look at what Humza Yousaf said about White people, as did Anas Sarwar if they had changed out white for brown, yellow or red, they’d have been an almighty uproar.

Both Yousaf and Sarwar’s heritage is that of Pakistani, of which I’m pretty sure the rant that both men spouted would of course see brown skinned folk filling the exact some positions in Pakistan.

Of course we had several SNP MPs attend a LGBTI+ march in Glasgow in which these MPs stood in front of very offensive boards, on the boards were descriptions of what some folk wanted to do to what they derogatory call women (Terfs) including decapitating them.

Also in Scotland the SNP and the LA and several of the judiciary wants to do away with juries in sexual offences cases, which is not on, its not about justice its about getting the conviction rates up and judge only trials do this we just have to look at what happened to Craig Murray without a jury, and would Alex Salmond have been acquitted without a jury, a jury I might add made up of predominately women, I think not.

Eva Comrie to stand as an independent candidate.

“Each of us has our own part to play in creating the future Scotland deserves; for that
reason and a few more outlined below, I have resolved to stand as an Independent candidate for the constituency of Alloa and Grangemouth at the forthcoming GeneralElection.”

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

Eva Comrie standing as an Independent in the upcoming GE. Hopefully, the first of a number of honest Scots women and men united not by some political machine, but just a straightforward belief in independence and biological facts.

@RoS, Yusaf should start a Nationalists Against Whites group to target the naw vote. I was posting on here months ago about how he and Sarwar had made the same speech on the same day in the same location but across the West a long con has been operating to brainwash people into accepting the unacceptable.

Good luck to Eva Comrie, the deliberate splintering of the movement via embracing critical theory stuff though is an absolute tragedy.

Going back a few years BTL in the Herald when the subject of the Peoples Assemblies or whatever they were called came up someone who openly despised the white working class announced that he was a member via invite and invited someone else who I believe eventually moved over to commenting BTL at the National. She was from Newton Mearns, also hated the WWC and was a member of RISE. The guy who was inviting her was like a political weather vane, SNP one week, an environmentalist the next and actually said that he considered Anas Sarwar a man of great integrity and was considering Labour. Any time the GRR came up he would try to veer the conversation away from it, it was of no importance etc. If his own words were quoted back at him further down the line he would flat out deny it and try to gaslight whoever was quoting him, sounds familiar. Everything turning to shit isn’t by accident, the SNP welcomed the absolute dregs whilst driving away its core, same with the Greens.

link to wingsoverscotland.com
George Ferguson
Ignored
says:
5 March, 2024 at 1:01 pm
Perhaps Andy who is a founding member can explain further or better than me.

Thanks George. I think you are probably right. I’ll see what Andy has to say.

Ruby: Shame about Alba! You are right, Ruby, you can’t ride two horses at once. have said before and will say again: this gender ordure will kill every party that touches it. As for using disabled toilets, no way. If you are wilfully disabled by your paraphilia or fetish that you feed daily with p**n, and want to indulge said paraphilia/fetish in public, start creating your own spaces. Terrorizing females and making them very uncomfortable is part of the fun for these guys. Vomit. They do not want their own spaces – and Stonewall and its various allies in the ‘trans’ lobby are awash with money – because the excitement lies in harassing women and girls in a sexual manner. These people are without conscience so no point in appealing to a non-existent one. I will never understand why so many people just do not get it. There is always someone who cannot resist pandering to these men. They would trample you into the dust. Do not feel sorry for them unless you are a certified masochist. They hate us.

Republicofscotland16.51.

Maybe just me, RoS, however I genuinely feel that even here on WOS there is a more encouraging feeling getting going.
Just the thought of local people seeing a meaningful opportunity to get decent, everyday folk involved in Scottish political activity instead of the assorted grifters, chancers and troughers (I really am trying to be restrained here) occupying Holyrood and WM, potentially even the House of Lords, could start a ground level up wave of hope and enthusiasm.
Rochdale, with independent candidates achieving great support from the electorate, demonstrated that the Party system is now in serious trouble.

Exactly Lorna!

Herbert, Heather just wanted everyone to know that it was V day. I feel sorry for the attendant at Gatwick who had to listen to him explain why he needed a a space to dilate his vagina.

So much for the idea of keeping your biological sex a secret and Herbert, Heather just wanting to get on with his life.

We’ll see what Andy Ellis says.

I’m stick with the idea that the GRA should be repealed.

link to archive.is

STV news reporting that Scotland’s housing crisis is now a housing emergency, and as heads of housing charities and associations met to discuss what can be done to try and ease the homeless numbers in Scotland, the SNP’s Housing Minister Paul McLennan failed to show up to talk about the housing emergency.

The SNP really are a bunch of useless b*stards.

Scotland will get the westminster governance it deserves, whether it be liebor or snp,
Suck it up mugs.

@ RoS

Looking at the remit.

link to gov.scot

Maybe as Minister Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity Jim Fairlie can instruct the local councils to cut back the bloody tree branches so locals can regain their bus services as some routes are currently off limits with no service due to overhanging branches.
That said it is utterly ridiculous that it should take an MSP’s involvement to get Council to carry out the most basic tasks of maintaining our infrastructure.

As a pesky human I’m not allowed to prune a few branches off trees so buses don’t get their windows broken as they traverse our rural roads. So considering flicking over to #SuperTrans mode and identifying as a beaver so I can go full on furry unrestricted arborist, liberated from the insanity of a zillion rules and guidelines, or maybe just apply for a Scottish Administration of Devolved Powers grant to capture and train a squad of beavers to gnaw down problematic trees. The furry cretins are indiscriminately dropping hundreds anyway so it would make sense to at least get them to focus their gnawing on ones that actually are an issue.

You can say I’m not going to be taken seriously with typing the above, but I’ve already tried the proper serious route by reporting this stuff many months ago through the proper channels so the trees could be pruned when dormant through the winter season. But these cretins take so long to do anything or arrange any work that the sap will soon be rising meaning it isn’t ideal to prune trees at that time.

Cancel the free bus pass for the entitled under 24s. That is a disgrace that they get that.

They cut about with such arrogance. Like that disgusting mob that attacked the Wallace Monument Sword – This is Rigged.

I saw some fruit cake 30 year old Irish woman was attacking the Queen Victoria Statue in Kelvingrove with Jam this week! ahah.

If she hates it here that much, then she can get back on a boat to Dublin and pay the highest rental costs in Europe!

I’ve also seen, having walked through Charing Cross today. The Brittania Hotel is OVER RUN. with Asylum Seekers.

Theres 10-15 Deliveroo just eat bikes chained outside. CHAINED OUTSIDE. Asylum seekers exploiting the gig economy. It’s a disgrace what they’re doing. Angry men loitering around outside.

And the strip club next door. I feel sorry for the girls. Definitely NOT SAFE to walk through Charing Cross during the night. Not with the angry young men and the fake deliveroo drivers at the hotel.

Dan 7:04pm, i live in a small village in england with a 20mph limit,
The sign at our end of the village is covered in algae and obscured by low hanging branches, so without informing any cnut i grabbed my wash bucket, hi-viz, step ladder, folding hand saw, and baseball hat. Job done in 20mins, one passerby said, nice to see the council tackling this. Lol.

@David Hannah 7:18pm
London Manchester and Birmingham are lost. Those people in Glasgow have never met any Old Firm supporters so as you were. I think post Independence we should be gratuitous to our English brethren in claiming asylum in Scotland. The political class in their country has failed. We are not their yet but heading that way. The role of politicians is to advance the betterment of their people. Have we done that in SNP/Green Scotland? No but change is a coming I only hope it arrives timeously.

Dan 7.55pm, ah but once they start trying to hunt people down,
The hunters once its known where they live, have to be careful that they dont become the hunted.

I am assuming the best UK plants in the snp will be making as many daft and contradictory remarks as possible running up to the election.

That is what they are for, to undermine the party and oh here we go!!!

And imaging wanting to run into an election led by Shona Robison.

The tories and split and the labour are headed the same way and nicola and co still to appear in front of the beak!!!

@ Republicofscotland says: 5 March, 2024 at 4:51 pm

due to the Tories and Labour stance on supporting the Zionist genocide

We just have to look at Galloway he romped it in Rochdale off the back of the genocide, a genocide the Tories and Labour support

Snot a genocide though.

And the war, which is what it is, is being treated impartially by the Tories and Labour.

Fundamentally, the war will stop when both sides are ready to stop. It won’t stop just because one side decides to stop. That’s such a no-brainer I wonder at having to explain it, until I remember it’s RoS I’m dealing with – Mr Pretzel fused with Mr Congenital Liar.

Stop press: The IDF has yet to run out of munitions and troops, and Hamas has yet to run out of munitions and Palestinian civilian human shields, so on it goes.

Looks like the hopes for a Ramadan cease fire are fading. Oh well.

You don’t ned to be Angus Einstein to understand that the west costs of Scotland at Coulport, Faslane and Glen Douglas in any nuclear exchange will melt like rocks in the sun.

That is why the whole kit and caboodle of the UK’s nuclear defence is located here. The local nig-nogs to use an absolutely derogatory word are quite simply expendable. Indeed, an attack would sort out the Scotland problem and kill em dead like rats in a trap.

But hey hoe that’s what Jocko is prepared to do. Take a bullet so to speak for the colonial masters.

And the wee half German gauleiter Robertson? Well he agrees. Big time.

Been to the Highlands recently Alf?

Seen the benefits of absentee landlords sitting in Dubai or the Netherlands? Overstocking deer numbers to the point that nothing grows over 12″ above ground level and the beasts themselves are malnourished.

Housing used for VRBO/Airbnb holiday lets with no housing for locals, particularly the youth.

Only low-skilled, low-paid jobs in hospitality, forestry, aquaculture or agriculture, and nowhere to live if you even get a bloody job.

Nat’l Parks and rewilding are just a distraction from the real issues, so the tub-thumping vested interests can maintain the status quo… Have the Factor tell the ‘keeper to take the day off, but only to stand on a corner and wave a flag, together with a couple of press ganged tennant farmers and a few white settlers from the Home Counties who, having found their retirement Garden of Eden, don’t want anything to change.

Rewilding and National Parks have their place, but not in a land where the invertebrates in the SNP refuse to tackle the issue of land ownership – and THAT’S the problem.

Your solution?

Ach, as he is well paid for a ministerial position then here’s another conflict conundrum for Jim Fairlie to deal with.

link to thescottishfarmer.co.uk

I’m interested to hear how the “Beavers are great for the environment” types will explain how the environment benefited from one of the many hundreds of beaver felled trees being washed down the river and taking out my village’s sewer pipe last autumn in the floods, resulting in what now appears to be many months of nasty sewerage being discharged into the wrong watercourse polluting it badly and trashing the local ecosystem and fish spawning grounds.
The beavers also went tonto trashing loads of trees and burrowing into this section of waterway’s riverbank to build lodges without bothering to adhere to proper planning consent processes. Only for them to then find that in winter the river levels rise many feet meaning they’d drown if staying in their now submerged lodges. So they just upped and left leaving all manner of issues behind them. Natch the pumping of sewer waste into the water would mean they’d soon go anyway.
Carnage, just utter carnage and probably going to cost many many thousands to sort the issue properly, so expect increased wastewater charges on your council taxes to cover beaver antics.

Listening to George Galloway eulogizing the Red Army (and Communism) reminds me why (in addition to the utter shite he talks about Scottish Independence) I cant stand the guy, despite agreeing with about 98% of what he says.

Fuck knows what Craig Murray is doing crawling up his arse on MOAT. He characterizes Scottish nationalists as Nazis.

@ willie says: 5 March, 2024 at 8:41 pm

melt like rocks in the sun

Thon Angus Einstein loon is nae very smart. Abody kens rocks don’t melt in the sun.

the whole kit and caboodle of the UK’s nuclear defence is located here

It’s naw though. There’s a wee place called the Atomic Weapons Establishment and that’s in Berkshire.

Angus Einstein will ken that’s in England.

local nig-nogs

Could be worse. Could be Jewish sounding like yon loon Angus Einstein.

Dinna fash, Willie. Pres Poot’s Poseidon penis-extension will drown most of the UK indiscriminately, although Scotland, with the highest mountains, might get a slightly better deal.

Take up Munro Bagging to lengthen the odds in your favour.

John Main @ 20.51

Necessarily just my subjective view, however I suspect that such a large proportion of the electorate are so totally sickened with all the main parties and politics in general that low turnouts are now going to increasingly become the norm.
Were I you, I would be more reluctant to take the views of some WOS on election turnouts, Rutherglen included.
It seems more likely to me that the “ordinary” guy/girl in the street is more likely to turn out to vote for an independent standing for change than any of the old Parties offering, “More of the same”.
And bearing in mind the flood of some of the most committed activists for independence from the SNP I’d guess that many of them would be genuinely fired up by an independent non career politician for whom they could vote.
If aforesaid candidate makes a stand against the gender woo woo they’re really going to have wide appeal, my view.

I am sympathetic to Independent candidates standing in the GE. But the analysis of just losing your deposit is disingenuous. As Hardmans report in the Spectator showed. To win a seat in a General Election requires a lot of money and people. 10 constituents to support you. Marketing materials and people on the ground. A close knit group of advisors. Minimum ten grand. A barrier to democracy?. That was her point. I await to hear if Alba will stand in my constituency. I get the strategy of prioritising the list vote in 2026. Have a big object in view is my response. Scottish politics is melting before our eyes. An opportunity.

Fresh from his election to parliament to the British parliament, MP George Galloway spoke with RT on Tuesday about the state of media freedom in Britain and London’s disastrous policies in the Middle East and Ukraine.

Galloway trounced both Tory and Labour candidates in last week’s Rochdale by-election, winning twice as many votes than both major parties combined. PM Rishi Sunak denounced the result as “beyond alarming” and a threat to “our democracy itself.”

As Galloway pointed out, however, he has been elected to Parliament a total of seven times – far more than Sunak or Labour leader Keir Starmer.

“These people are hypocrites. Things like democracy, human rights, rule of law, rules-based international order, it’s just lipstick on a pig. They wipe the lipstick off whenever they no longer feel the need to look prettier,” he claimed.

“As Sunak’s speech outside Number 10 [Downing Street] on Friday about my election makes clear, it’s not beyond them even to cancel elections,” he added.

George Galloway is not a threat to democracy – only to the elite hypocrites running the UKREAD MORE George Galloway is not a threat to democracy – only to the elite hypocrites running the UK
British authorities have banned RT and the Iranian PressTV outright, refused to renew the license of China’s CGTN, and blocked outlets like Venezuela’s TeleSur.

“The reason is pretty simple if you think about it: Too many people were watching these TV channels. Too many people were watching RT. Not just in Britain, but even more so in Germany. That is why RT was closed down. Because too many of the public were watching it. How’s that for freedom?” said Galloway.

NOTE.

Above is an extract from a RT interview with George Galloway that is being widely blocked by security service censorship.

Yvonne Ridley. She loves Scottish Independence. She’s a socialist to her core. I loved that speech she did at George square. She slated the royal family! She said Scotland is a colony! I loved it! She stood up for the Kenmure Street residents! She told us to rise up and stand up! I was wondering why she’d chosen to leave the prism show. It said she left!

Is it over this? I’m gutted. Loved listening to her every week.

It’s not the same anymore.

She said she was going to tell us all how to avoid paying TAX on the prism show! I couldn’t wait to find out the details over her opposition to Israel.

Listen, White Muslim Yvonne Ridley nobel peace prize nominee. She said made a mistake. And it’s been blown up. I believe her when she says she made a mistake.

Get her back on the prism show and lets hear it from the horses mouth.

SAOR ALBA!

Everything that Yvonne Said. From avoiding tax to protest against Israel. Standing up for the Palestinians. Out of NATO. A scotland for the Scots! She said we’re a colony. She was on all the marches. The rallies. The campaign trails. Yvonne’s been at them all. She is an incredible voice for Scottish Independence.

It’s not going to be the same without her. If anyone in the British state could consider a threat. It would be her. She’s a white muslim that despises everything the establishment stand for.

She’s brilliant. HIRED. PROMOTED. SIGN HER UP.

Unfortunately. The Alba women have over reacted and completely trashed, a great thing they’ve been part of. A special, party. And they had some great friendships there. And have chosen to cut their nose off to spite their face. It’s really sad to hear this because they were brilliant together.

I wish them all well. I’ll still fund the ALBA Party. After listening to Ash Regan’s speech to Jamie Hepburn. She’s a class act as well. The strongest Independence voices in the Alba Party.

David Hannah
Ignored
says:
5 March, 2024 at 11:11 pm

Unfortunately. The Alba women have over reacted and completely trashed, a great thing they’ve been part of

This reminded me of the Tory woman who told Neil Hanvey how he should feel.

Sorry David! I’ll let you off because I really don’t think you understand how strongly women feel about all this trans stuff.

David Hannah
Ignored says:
5 March, 2024 at 11:04 pm
Yvonne Ridley. She loves Scottish Independence. She’s a socialist to her core. I loved that speech she did at George square. She slated the royal family! She said Scotland is a colony! I loved it! She stood up for the Kenmure Street residents! She told us to rise up and stand up! I was wondering why she’d chosen to leave the prism show. It said she left!

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The farce induced Alba is the gift that keeps on giving. It has stumbled from one hilarious disaster to another since it’s inception and I doubt that it will last much longer as a party.

The woman who was torn to shreds by John Drummond on the TNT Show is set to stand as an independent. A lost deposit waiting to happen.

P.S Scotland is not a colony.

P.P.S The ‘Prism’ is pro-autocratic state/anti-western rubbish.

Hannah,
Cut it out with this “Covid” shit. The correct term and reason for our economic destruction is “LOCKDOWN”!

Carnage, just utter carnage and probably going to cost many many thousands to sort the issue properly, so expect increased wastewater charges on your council taxes to cover beaver antics.

I don’t know enough about it, but my instincts are with the beavers.

I can’t get away from that Tropic Cascade story where just half a dozen wolves changed the whole ecosystem of Yellowstone Park. There were individual winners and losers, but the nett balance was a huge improvement for everybody.

Perhaps the issue with Scotland’s beavers is the omission of a natural predator; not to cull numbers essentially, but to modify the behaviour of the beavers in the same way the deer in Yellowstone started to avoid open areas where they were easy prey for the wolves. The effect of this was clearings in the forests were less heavily grazed, allowing more plants to mature / flower/ procreate, which fed and bred more insects, which fed and bred more birds etc…

Scotland’s wild has been so grievously damaged for so long that there’s virtually no chance of any trophic cascade happening here, because we’re introducing wild animals into a virtual desert, with virtually no wild predation. The “problem” with the beavers, is perhaps that it’s “only” the beavers we’ve bought back.

I’m saddened there are problems with human interaction, the same way I’m saddened by farmers losing lambs to eagles, but a stronger emotion than sadness at things which can be compensated, is anger and a deep sense of injustice and “wrongness” that Scotland’s natural habitat has itself been butchered to the point of extinction. Our seas and rivers emptied of fish, our skies emptied of raptors, our forests emptied of predators then emptied of trees themselves. By what fkg right did we do this? The damned arrogance of our species! All of this must be reversed, and we are blind as well as stupid if we don’t see that.

No doubt you’re not alone feeling a bit Billy Murray about the beavers on the golf course, but I’m on the beaver’s side. They should be there. They have the right to be there, and humans in their arrogance, had no entitlement to drive them to extinction in the first place.

If our drainage infrastructure needs beaver-proofed, then maybe beaver-proofing it is a trophic cascade style modification of our behaviour. If more eagles, more owls, more lynx, eventually more wolves and maybe even bears, are going to modify the viability of Grouse Moors or hill farms and sheep numbers, then that too is our price to pay, our contribution to the trophic cascade. And if it hurts, then that hurt is a measure of our unbalanced singularity, and the dreadfully overbearing dominance and unhealthy impact on the natural ecosystem.

If it also reveals that humans in Scotland cannot adapt to life in the wilderness, why are we Scots incapable of doing what Canadians / Ru$$ians and every other population on our latitude, and living in harmony with the environment. Can you imagine the vast Canadian or Siberian wilderness denuded of trees and turned into a desert for bloodthirsty tossers to blast away at wee birds too stupid to flee? Scotland has made its contribution to that bleakest of world realities, , and it sickens me to the core.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a wolf, a beaver or whatever. If we humans discovered a living organism of comparable stature to a maggot living on another planet, it would shake our beliefs to the core. Yet we are living in an absolute paradise, a living world packed with countless species all interdependent on each other, and we seem hell bent on destroying it. The impropriety is all ours. Money? What good ever came from money? Show me a fish or a fox with a wallet.

@ David Hannah says: 5 March, 2024 at 11:04 pm

From what you say in your post, sounds as if Yvonne was just one card short of the full progressive set.

If only she had left it there, but naw, she had to go for the Trans Supporter card too!

tell us all how to avoid paying TAX

Easy peasy, David. Stop grafting and leach off the state, the state being AKA the mugs who still pay their way.

That might still leave you paying taxes such as VAT and insurance tax, so just half-inch stuff from shops and go through life uninsured. The mugs still paying their way will throw in a little extra on your behalf.

Charles Hodgson @ 1:08 am

“The correct term and reason for our economic destruction is “LOCKDOWN”!”

Scotland suffers from additional serious longstanding structural and economic constraints. A colony’s main economic purpose is to serve the needs of the mother country. This means its resources and goods are extracted cheaply, whilst imports dominated by the mother country are expensive. The narrow industrial specialization permitted in the colony means it is more subject to shocks. It is prevented from developing its international trade. Economic surpluses are therefore extracted rather than used to reinvest and develop the plundered economy. Which explains Scotland’s lack of international competitiveness and under-development, with the people also doun-hauden by ‘a cultural division of labour’.

link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

Dan@ 9.20pm
Breeks

The beavers have as much right to be here as we do. They’re a native species which was hunted to extinction a few centuries ago. In the years without them, drainage systems have been put in, rivers straightened and trees felled from riverbanks (also threatening native salmon). All the beavers are doing is putting the rivers and lochs back to their natural state.
It may look messy and untidy to our modern eyes. But crucially, their flooding activities restore vital insect and invertebrate life, providing a food source for many other species in the food chain. It’s the same with hedgerows.
There are ways and grants available to mitigate any damage the beavers do to modern drainage systems.

Dan & Breeks.

This “townie” is fair enjoying a bit of interesting “off topic” guys, (I’ve been known to meander a wee bit myself), so please keep the info coming.
And, how I wish we had you as a local councillor where I live, Dan.

Yes Lockdown. All the economic woes are apparently due to COVID but not due to the massive overreaction by governments to something easily managed (Great Barrington Dec) excess death’s not even worth a mention. Where were all the EXPERTS hiding, the human rights lawyers etc when the clowns in charge were just randomly making rules up? Fucking shameful. Clap for the NHS fuck off.

We should be very careful about reintroducing species that will upset the existing balance and make life difficult or impossible for those that are currently thriving. I’m all in favour of nature, but this isn’t natural.

It’s not like the labour market where bringing in more people and increasing diversity will do much more obvious good than harm, with clearly positive spin-offs for the economy, the housing market, productivity, etc.

A lot of the natural habitats and ecosystems are very finely balanced as it is. Two wrongs (wiping out certain species then bringing them back) are unlikely to make a right.

I am reminded of communist China’s “Four Pests Campaign” which was premised on the “logic” that killing millions of sparrows would lead to increased agricultural yields. Instead it lead to famine and about 20 million people starving to death as swarms of locusts, previously held in check by the sparrows, decimated crops.

What are the lessons? There are a few; don’t assume you are God, think about unintended consequences, don’t mess around with nature, don’t listen to communists, don’t kill sparrows, etc.

In my opinion the SNP are now stumbling from one disaster to another (problems they’ve created for themselves).

“Scotland’s housing minister has denied the Government is “gaslighting” the public by pledging more affordable homes despite a huge budget cut.

Paul McLennan admitted the country faced a “challenging situation” after SNP and Green MSPs last week voted through a 26 per cent reduction in housing spending.”

McLennan wishes he could borrow more to do more, only independence can unleash more cash for Scottish needs.

And there’s this as well.

“Scots council house tenants are footing the bill for steep rent rises at a time of huge pressure on family budgets.

Increases of up to eight per cent have been pushed through while the SNP Government bankrolls a council tax freeze for the rich.

Aditi Jehangir, Secretary of the Living Rent trade union, said: “Freezing council tax whilst letting councils increase rents clearly shows that council tenants are not a priority for the Scottish Government.

“It is shocking the government is continuing to ignore the needs of tenants whilst the wealthiest households are able to enjoy a council tax freeze.”

“The Scottish Government needs to enable councils to freeze rents and to ensure councils are able to properly fund public services.”

“Ian Brotherhood
Ignored says:
6 March, 2024 at 10:48 am
Perhaps we should explore ways of reintroducing real socialists to Scottish politics?”

Ian, I think you might have guessed you would be asked, “What’s a real socialist?”

Can’t think of too many – any – socialists that are elected politicians in Scotland. It’s all neoliberal crap.

What we need are nuclear shelters, the return of the Observer Corp, and to copy the defence policies of Finland (underground Helsinki number two) and Switzerland etc. As warfare increasingly becomes hi-tek with drones, high energy beams and robotics those should be our greatest concerns.