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On the 31 st July 2023, I did a blog post called ‘political death looms in Rutherglen’, my contention was that the by-election on paper see... -
When former Nicola Sturgeon was cornered like a rat by the Holyrood press pack, you could see in her demeanor that she extremely uncomfortab...
I'm glad someone has complained about Holyrood time being used-up by that ridiculous 15th century persecuted witches debate. What a load of patronizing skitter.
ReplyDeleteThere's a problem with not supporting idiots at Holyrood. If I ask you to list those who you would consider not an idiot, that you would consider sensible, then it would be a very, very short list.
Remember Sarah Smith..... finally when she got herself out of Scotland could hardly contain her elation. Scotland has become home to the Mob....the Junta. Get yourself out of here; it's the only way.
On the subject on the war, is it possible that an amnesty could be offered to all soldiers from the Russian army who surrender. After three weeks in a freezing cold tank I would imagine that some or many would do that. There might be 30,000, who knows, but Ukraine itself would take many of them to help clear-up the mess.
The woke agenda was promoted by Trudeau in Canada and Ardern in New Zealand. After 2-years of Covid, angry truck drivers in Canada and a war in Eastern Europe, both of these characters, and I would include Scotland's woke team too, are looking like a busted flush to me. Many can see it for what it is now, it's vested interests and no-one wants anything to do with it.
ReplyDeleteOn a different subject: while I'm not a great fan of Trident, you've got to ask yourself where we would be now if it were not for a strong nuclear deterrent. Look at Germany, they're almost in a panic to catch-up. There's nothing like a war to re-focus the populations on what really matters. In the meantime, Sturgeon and our MSP's debate 15th century witches.
ReplyDeleteI was brought up and went to school in the south-side of Glasgow, pretty close to Hampden Park. Our MP was Teddy Taylor, who was a Tory. A hard-working constituency MP who was respected by many people there. You would hardly believe that folk in an area like that would vote Tory but they did.
ReplyDeleteNow 40 or 50 years later the MSP is James Dornan who, in my personal view anyway, represents all that is wrong with Holyrood. Folk may think that on the face of it he's SNP and that better than Tory for that area, but that's not true.
The problem is that folk will just go-on voting for Dornan and so it will never ever change. I'm all for closing Holyrood down myself. A decent SNP contingent at Westminster is all we need. It always worked in the past and this isn't the opinion of some bigot. The SNP have wrecked Holyrood and made it not fit for purpose.
From Donald MacLeod of The Herald: "I Felt slightly perplexed after Nicola Sturgeon issued a formal apology and exonerated the 4000 innocent Scots accused of being witches, who were unfairly convicted, vilified, and brutally murdered over 300 years ago, many of them women, to mark International Women’s Day.
ReplyDeleteNot because I believe the victims of these heinous crimes shouldn’t be remembered or pardoned, they should, as in the words of the First Minister it truly was “an injustice on a colossal scale”, but because I firmly believe that the High Priestess of Holyrood and her imperious government should devote the same amount of time, energy, and zeal, with a lot less spin, in dealing with the problems of the present rather than highlighting those of Scotland’s blood-soaked past.
Looks like we're in for another week of needless human tragedy in Ukraine. There are plenty of possible culprits for aiding this in the west, but what's important for now is making Russia as pariah state just as Libya was. If anyone thought that life was good in these countries during sanctions, I can tell you it was not good at-all.
ReplyDeleteNothing to do with Sturgeon or witches, but I was reading that the siege of Berlin during WW2 required 2.5million soldiers. The Russians only have around 80-100,000 and Kyiv is much bigger than Berlin was during WW2. Sounds impossible then, doesn't it.
ReplyDeleteTime to reintroduce the Scottish Witchcraft Act....and try harder this time. I'll give them a hand. So will you.
ReplyDeleteShe had everyone's attention with her regular Covid briefings on the BBC. 'We're heading for a tsunami of Omicron' - remember all of that shite? She's now having to chisel her way into the public psyche, using the power of her brain and the force of her personality and so she is struggling. We all want to hear what Ben Wallace has to say or even Boris Johnson. No-one wants to hear what she has to say about anything. We have reached peak Sturgeon and life gets steadily better for all of us from here. She's finished.
ReplyDeleteWould last year's 'alphabet women' qualify as witches? I'll bet you they would. Why not take them all to Court and try them all under the Witchcraft Act?
ReplyDeleteScotland (or Surgeon at least....she thinks she speaks for all of us) has demanded to become a super-sponsor of Ukrainian refugees. I wonder how many of them actually want to come to Scotland? The BBC's Sarah Smith was a modern, intelligent and articulate woman and she couldn't wait to get-out. Holyrood has turned the whole country into a bigoted, big-mothed shit-house of a place.
ReplyDeleteI hear there are some positive signs of a breakthrough in the Russia/Ukrainian peace talks. If we move forward to a peaceful solution within the next couple of days, that would be fabulous news. What a needless human tragedy this has been. Also, I don't fancy the chances of these BBC reporters stuck in basements in Kiev. The Russians are known for treating foreign journalists very badly. Speaking of Sturgeon pardoning witches, is that not what you would call a 'conflict of interests'.
ReplyDeleteThe take that one commentator had on this was that it was a sign that Scotland was not ready for Independence.
ReplyDeleteI remember when Adnan Khasogghi was killed at the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul, Biden called Saudi Arabia a pariah state and started pumping American oil and gas instead of importing from Saudi. In Scotland, we are happy to close down the North Sea just when other European countries are beginning to panic about the security of supplies. That's what I call inexperience.
Going back to the war, they think this might be the beginning of the end for the tank. They are being picked-off too easily by anti-tank missiles and drones. They weight about 60t nowadays with all of their armour, but they need to be a certain size - too big and they won't fit on railway wagons and through railway tunnels in their way to battle. It was like the battleship, which fell out of favour after WW2 because they were too big and slow and easy to hit.
ReplyDeleteThe central plank of any ceasefire would be that Ukraine doesn't join NATO. Could that not have been agreed three or four weeks ago? It would have saved a Hell of a lot of suffering.
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