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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...
For all the time spent on this trans-women guff, I've yet to come across a single trans-woman. I read some time ago that there were less than 20No of them in Scotland. If that's correct, and surely it can't be, then we are all spending a hell of a lot of time discussing what is a non-issue for many folk.
ReplyDeleteI'll give you an example of the difference in physical performance between a man in the sporting world and a woman...I used to go cycling holidays to France and I know that if I joined a stage of the men's Tour de France I would keep-up with them for about 10-minutes max. One year, the women's TdF was underway while I was there. Unlike the men's TdF, the roads were not closed and I found that I could keep-up with them for half an hour to an hour comfortably.
What may put this debate into some context for Emily Thornberry and David Lammie is the bombing of the Opera building in Mariupol which resulted in the deaths of 300 women and kids. One part of 21st century Europe is dealing with this and we are vexing about trans-rights. The Russians were the worst behaved army during WW2 and I remember my grandfather worrying what they would be capable of now that they have nuclear weapons.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I remember most of the better Labour guys were all university educated: Robin Cooke, John Smith, Tam Dalzeil and all the rest of them. If you look at politicians of all parties at Holyrood, the standard whether they be univesity educated or not, is depressingly bad.
I remember Jordan Peterson complaining about it on QT and making the general point that they ought to be paid double in order to attract the right people. No-one agreed with him, but I sort of did.
I will never vote for Lie@bour again, regardless of how inept the SNP or cruel to the poorest the Conservatives are.
ReplyDeleteAnyone above the age of 35 who has a brain remembers Labour and they are unfit to be elected.
I keep in touch with a guy who works with parliamentarians all the time as part of his job. He's been doing it for years. He's reserved about it and gives nothing away but he told me once that the MP's at Westminster are the worst, most discreditable bunch he has ever known. He doesn't know Holyrood so well, but I think we all know that it is even worse.
ReplyDeleteSome good news is that the war in Ukraine seems to be petering-out. Russia cannot win and the Ukrainian armed forces have given them a sobering lesson which will loosen their grip on the world for a generation.
I don't know about you, but I found the targeted killing of civilians to be barbaric and something that we never saw during any previous war. The retributions on Russia will go-on for a few of generations.
Next winter, there's a good chance of seeing deaths in Scotland due to starvation and cold. This LGBT/trans-rights stuff is meaningless and designed to take everyone's eye off what's really going-on.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Kenny MacAskill, these two Ferguson Marine ferries may end up costing £400m. A major new city centre hospital costs less than that. A new Royal Yacht was cancelled because the cost was running-in at over £200m. Think about that the next time anyone at Holyrood stands-up to talk about anything. They are lying to you.
ReplyDeleteShe's promised to de-Nazify Scotland. All deniers of trans-rights are really Nazis.
ReplyDeleteThe impotence of Labour is demonstrated by the current P&O dispute. The UAE owners are making losses on seaman's wages but make enormous profits elsewhere. The only coherent arguement for Government action to sanction P&O came from John McDonnell. An old dinosaur from then past but spoke very well to an almost empty HoC. No-one in Government is really interested. As McDonnell said though: If they can do it to P&O seafarers than they can do it to anyone.
ReplyDeleteThose that remember the Westminster expenses scandal will remember that some MP's went to jail and others were de-selected. After that, they all agreed not to rat on each other and implored the press to do the same. Hence we have a parliament full of crooks which no longer represents the public interest. A generation ago, corruption didn't exist in UK politics. Can anyone say that now?
ReplyDeleteWestminster has Lammie and Thornberry and Holyrood has Harvie and Slater. I accept what you say but I would still rather have Lammie and Thornberry. Also, they don't run the country the UK Government, Harvie and Slater effectively run Scotland and folk here take them seriously.
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