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06 February 2024

Lying politicians caught by skilled examination in Scottish cover-up case - Sturgeon on the rack

Read it all here!

https://thinkscotland.org/2024/02/why-sturgeons-clannish-conceit-is-a-challenge-to-democracy/


Sturgeon even tried blubbing - but to no effect. Her day is DONE!


There are many parallels with nineteenth century practice, as described in this excellent book about how Britain started on the road to democracy:




28 January 2024

Anyone watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office - or interested in Marshal Petain's "betrayal"of France in 1940?

 Is Paula Vennells the new Nicola Sturgeon? And how does Alister Jack stack up against Marshal Petain?


For a clear statement of the comparison between Vennells and Sturgeon in point of public spiritedness, charity, compassion and long-term intelligence, I recommend this thoughtful analysis, as it also places Marshal Petain’s 1945 trial for treason to France in the context of the Tory failure to control the Scottish pirate parliament today: https://thinkscotland.org/2024/01/paula-vennells-and-the-snp-beware-the-sordid-parallels/ 



08 January 2024

Scotland: The Declaration of Arbroath, and the fake analysis which surrounds it

 A film (made in a beautiful location on the Hebridean island of Coll) which explains how many Scottish nationalists manufacture history when the reality does not suit them.

The classic document which offers them an opportunity to do so is one of the most important in Scottish history - but not for the reasons they claim.

Watch the video (and practice your Gaelic) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcS15_hFQL4 

(there is also some beautiful music at the beginning and end)




11 December 2023

Scotland's current attempt to destroy the rule of law - a warning to all petty states and pushy princelettes

 

The Scottish government’s attempt to undermine judicial independence, and thereby abolish the rule of law, is deeply concerning – apparently to the judiciary too, and they should know!

 

We are heading for an Orban-style state in which pointless triumphalism, unfounded victimism and endless scams to “disappear” taxpayers’ cash is a substitute for good government.

 

Yousaf should mind his step or there’ll be tears before bedtime, as described here: https://thinkscotland.org/2023/12/learning-at-the-feet-of-erdogan-and-putin-humzas-abolition-of-judicial-independence/

 

Enjoy – but ponder too!




 


23 November 2023

Don't cry for me, Michael Blubbington - weeping Scottish wanker blubs in parliament while pretending to be a minister but in fact lying about disappearing public money

 

Corruption loud and clear – Matheson the Blubber is still in government despite having, in effect, admitted to having lied. Yousaf thinks this OK. One wit on social media said the SNP is like Hamas in that it is happy to use children as human shields.

Until we get rid of this criminal gang, whose only interest is in plundering the public purse for their own personal advantage, Scotland will continue to die as a political nation. If they had weapons, they’d be like Mugabe.

And what is Mr Alister Jack, supposedly the guardian of BRITISH liberty in Scotland, doing about this? NOTHING. Does he realise that Scotland is part of the United Kingdom? Or is he just another plundering placeman waiting for his next salary and expenses cheque?

More on these themes, and the British constitution here: https://thinkscotland.org/2023/11/yousurf-matheson-and-titillating-football-in-morocco/ 


The book below is covered in the article:


31 October 2023

Apparent criminality in the Scottish government - a comparison with China in 1793, when Lord Macartney visited

Now that we now that almost everyone of note in the SNP is trying to cover their tracks about their murderous Covid policy (which killed old agers in care homes due to infections received in hospitals), it seems pointless to comment on Scottish politics anymore. 

We are the victims of a coup d’etat and neither of the two organisations which are supposed to safeguard legality, the British government (constitutional) and the Scottish police (criminal), seem interested in doing anything about it. Either they are corrupt or complacent.

What lessons can we derive in this crisis from the story of the mission of Lord Macartney to Peking in 1793 to open trade relations with the richest country on earth?





28 September 2023

How meditating on seaweed can heal your psyche (as applied to modern Scottish politics)

Another post mocks the pretentions of modern Scottish politicians by making the analogy of how reading the seaweed fronds (like Scottish babushki used to read the tea-leaves) can help you understand the universal realities of egotism in public affairs.

The piece also introduces the great, modern philosopher and neuropsychiatrist, Dr Iain McGilchrist, who lives on the isle of Skye, near where the famous Talisker whisky is made.

Read here: https://thinkscotland.org/2023/09/beware-the-likes-of-tintin-thunberg-and-mrs-murrell/


And here is Dr McGilchrist walking in the garden of his famous house on Skye:




19 September 2023

The man who saved Britain from aggressive nationalism

Dude to perverted nationalism, we have a profoundly amateurish government in Scotland. The pseudo-government's chief job is to furnish themselves with gold-plated pensions while the country they are stealing from drowns in public debt, largely due to their incompetence and indifference to public opinion.

They are anti-democrats in an important sense and the article linked below illuminates that point by giving an example of the opposite, in the unlikely form of Neville Chamberlain--so long considered only the dupe of Hitler at Munich. In fact, he was the man who, in the 1930s, saved the country Yousaf is now trying to destroy. Yousaf, of course, is doing what the early SNP leaders tried to do during WWII when man y thought that they would prefer government by Hitler to the Beritish in London (which included many Scots). They were, and are, traitors.

See here: https://thinkscotland.org/2023/09/does-humza-yousaf-suffer-from-a-bad-case-of-narcissistic-imposter-syndrome/


This is the book discussed: 




16 August 2023

Political carpet-baggers in Scotland today - nationalists are "the party of crooks and thieves"

 Now that we know that the SNP government sprays gifts around to favourites who might be consolidated into a national patronage network, it is worth recalling just how well they treat themselves. The issue of Humza Yousaf’s extravagant hotel accommodation in London has suggested to many that simply spending tax-payers’ money is the way this government thinks it can staying in power.


This is a trick at least as old as the Mongol empire, whose ruling principle was to force subject peoples to finance, through tribute and forced recruitment, for their conquerors ability to keep the subjects in subjection. SNP corruption appears designed to achieve the same end.

Hamish Gobson argues from there to the surprising conclusion that Mrs Murrell and Alastair Jack might have more in common that we thought…. Something to do with tents, I gather!

https://thinkscotland.org/2023/08/just-like-mrs-murrell-high-end-humza-eats-the-taxpayer/

Happy camping!