The Herald, Express, Scotsman and the P&J have the SNP and the Greens in the harpoon firing line as, with BBC Scotland, they once more find a reason to use the fisherman as ammo in their proxy wars. There’s something missing: Remind you of something else? The media coverage of the SNP gender recognition reforms, supported across the House? Continue reading Scottish Labour support for ‘fishing bans’ hidden by all Scottish media

I’ve seen a horse’s fundament and the well-dressed and articulate John Nicholson bears no similarity. I see a larger, more podgy and odorous form of a man there. ‘Preening and performative?’ A bit of borderline homophobia there? Kevin McKenna knows this: Public records in the Public Record Office, other than those to which members of the public had access before their transfer to the Public Record Office, shall not be available for public inspection until they have been in existence for fifty years or such other period, either longer or shorter, as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval, or … Continue reading There is no recent evidence that MI5 is currently undermining the SNP because recent evidence is not declassified

Pete Wishart MP (SNP) in New York (above and below) spending time with the Scottish Tories, there to celebrate Great Britain. Does he seem a bit too settled and content in that company of Unionists? I’ve been tolerating Wishart and his chumminess for some time and getting on with more important things but these images are bit nauseating and cause me to remember what I wrote in 2020 when he flirted with Rees-Mogg and revealed how well he has settled in by expressing interest in becoming the Speaker: I wrote this last July. As Pete Wishart MP feuds with the … Continue reading Pete Wishart – An ‘Englishman’ in New York?

An unnamed SNP MP has been described, in the Express, as suggesting that the above OTT investigation in the Murrel/Sturgeon home was orchestrated by MI5. The Tory response: Scottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy MSP said: “We know Nationalists like to blame Westminster for everything but even by their standards this is a breath-taking and bonkers suggestion. This extract from the transcript of a Scotland on Sunday piece in 2020, suggests otherwise: THE SNP was spied on by British secret service agents, previously classified Government files seen by Scotland on Sunday have finally proved. Claims of surveillance of nationalist politicians by … Continue reading UK security forces try to undermine movement dedicated to ending it? No! Surely not?

Continue reading Recent mock-ups – ferries, nurses and graphs

Isn’t that Herald headline a bit odd? The Army running ferries? BBC Scotland too, seem a bit hesitant to name the service. Are they thinking of Saving Private Ryan where the landing craft is full of soldiers? Is that the kind of vessel they imagine? One car at a time just dumped on the beach and left stuck? The UK Defence Journal had an idea on, 1 April, I think: It’s not a roll-on, roll-off ferry (RORO) though. You’re still in a wee landing craft or helicoptered onto the deck. It might have been a joke. That date? Does the … Continue reading Saving Private Port Ryan?

The Herald today, deploying all the lack of accuracy and honesty it’s become known for, delivers a howler of a headline. Even BBC Scotland has held back from such dishonesty: The SNP’s ruling body has ordered a review of transparency and the way the party is managed after recent controversy over its finances. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65277808 That’s clear even to a wean/bairn. The SNP itself is not even imposing auditors on itself. All that has been proposed is: Party leader Humza Yousaf said a new working group would publish an interim report in June. It will be followed by a full report … Continue reading The SNP ‘might’ ‘invite’ new auditors just as it has always done anyway?

We’ve seen before just how imbalanced and generally predisposed to undermine the SNP in government, the Ferret Fact Service (FFS) can be. If you can be bothered see: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=Ferret Today, alerted by reader kelticgirl, I see they’re at it again on A&E comparisons with England – Comparing Scotland and England’s A and E performance. First they other us this: In an attempt to suggest a kind of equivalence, they present the data for ‘ALL’ emergency departments and tell us England is doing better. This is irrelevant. The smaller ‘elastoplast’ departments are not A&E facilities in any meaningful sense. No other … Continue reading The Ferret’s FFS checking of A&E in England and Scotland

Rod Liddle, above, in the Times on April 2, still trying to fool us with a very old photo and still revealing he remains the nasty gammon he has always been: Nasty? Where to begin, or end for that matter. These: Quite a striking similarity with Jeremy Clarkson? The face of gammon. Humza useless? No health strikes at all, the best A&E, ambulance and cancer waiting times in the UK, the lowest Covid death rate, more nurses, doctors and health visitors….. Continue reading It’s not anti-English to be more than sceptical about Rod Liddle – I’m just just biased against nasty people

The above response to criticism of their way-out predictions, from @predictorelect is revealing – no rational, evidence-based argument in favour of their findings, just abuse. My comments, two days ago: This yesterday, from the very new (March 2023) Election Predictor is a dramatic outlier prediction of a collapse in SNP Westminster support with: Labour 27 seats (+26) SNP 20 seats (-28) Lib Dems 6 seats (+2) Conservatives 6 seats (no change). On the same day, Polling UK had this: 51 SNP seats and a tiny handful of Labour (1), Con (3?) and LD (4?). The most recent mainstream poll analysis from Electoral Calculus has the SNP … Continue reading Who is Election Predictor and who is funding them?