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I believe The Republic Of Ireland has about 40 ferry links to the continent (Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany) with some level of EU assistance.
ReplyDeleteIt's not about a ferry, or a rowing boat or even a plank of wood to hang onto while you paddle James
ReplyDeleteIt's about anything that Scotland might want now or at any time in the future of the world that isn't granted to us by the great and powerful country of used to be
I think there are two routes from Ireland to Spain, and one or two to France. If you are in Scotland, even when there was a ferry from Rosyth to Zeebrugge it was quicker to drive to Hull for N. Europe, and Portsmouth for S. Europe.
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone operate a ferry from Ireland to Germany when you can drive most of the way there in a straight line? The width of Britain and the length of Denmark x 2 are in the way if you are on a boat.
Good luck driving from Scotland to Denmark in a straight line.
DeleteThat's why a ferry from Rosyth to Dunkirk is a bit pointless too, as James said.
DeleteA 20 hour ferry trip or a 9 hour drive to Dover plus an hour across the Channel.
Some people, myself included, don't fancy a 9 hour drive to Dover, or anywhere else for that matter.
DeleteThen stay at home, dude. Let other people do their thing.
DeleteWhen on a boat from Ireland or hopefully Scotland it has things called beds. You can sleep in them while others are driving furiously to be held in a queue at Dover with men who can’t put their barlaclava’s on properly but are there to complain about boats.
Delete"dude" LOL.
DeleteThere used to be a ferry between Aberdeen and Bergen when the price of fridges and washing machines in Aberdeen made the trip financially viable to Norwegians.
ReplyDeleteeverything Scotland relies on must come up from England on a lorry, that way if we get uppity the lorries stop at the border
ReplyDelete- don't pretend the little englanders wouldn't pull this kind of shite
Desperate stuff from a desperate wee Nat, unable to accept his “dream” has died.
DeleteWhat utter dross!
Go live in England , USA or Russia little man
DeleteIs wee Nat the brother of big Nat?
DeleteCorrect.
DeleteRemember just before Indyref, the yoons were suggesting doomsday scenarios anywhere from alien or Russian invasions, to armed border guards at Carlise in the event of a Yes victory.
BritNats lie for a living.
It is what they have always done and what they will always do.
Embarrassing Nationalist bullshit from deluded halfwits.
DeleteOr is it the same anonymous numpty?
Opines His Majesty's most loyal subject.
DeleteWho oh why oh who do some people harp on about grievances from the past as though the Battle of Calloden were relevant today. We don't go on about the Battle of Marston Moor so why are so many of you obsessed with historical details. We are moving forward together. A few parochial souls cannot hold us back, And shall not.
DeleteI think it would be an excellent investment prospect.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about that. A £6million subsidy hasn't made it happen.
DeleteDon’t you think Alexander would be working behind the scenes to make sure it can’t happen. The British nationalists fury shows it is a viable idea.
DeleteIt doesn't take much to trigger the Yoons and Quislings. They cant abide Scotland having anything..
ReplyDeleteSmyril line run a ferry service from Denmark to Iceland via the Faroes. Surely that could add a stop at Rosyth or Aberdeen?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a plan. Hopefully, something like this could be looked into.
DeleteLol. If a ferry route already runs and sails past Scotland without stopping doesn't that tell you the sums just don't add?
DeleteEat your cereal.
DeleteThe War Game
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of pish. It had me laughing when it said ten high ranking politicians and up popped Jim the Egg 🥚Man Murphy as Foreign Secretary. The man who took Labour from 50 MPs down to only one. Worse than Sarwar and Kezia.
A Britnat tea 🍵party. Sturgeon as Deputy PM - is this the high level international job the WGD numpties claimed that Sturgeon was a cert to get? 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Sturgeon should have got more make up applied. No acting awards for this lot.
On the other hand John Swinney should have got a part in the programme as he did a great act at FMQ sounding like he actually wanted independence. Swinney could be a contender for an Emmy.
You don't have a friend in the world do you IFS? I bet people cross the road to avoid you.
Delete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It didnae take long for a nicophant to turn up. The only question is are you anon at 10.39pm an ordinary nicophant or one of the special crowd - the WGD version - the true Nicola worshippers? Don’t be shy 10.39pm. Are you one of the special nicophants? Why not post as “ A Special Nicophant.” Much better than boring anonymous
DeleteIfS, Scotland's number one bore.
DeleteJust how many nicophants like 9.59am truly think their great Nicola is working away on the likes of Jim Murphy and Michael Gove to convince them of the case for independence rather than filling her boots full of more money. In this instance it is honest money.
DeleteWhat is the % - I guesstimate 90%. For the WGD nicophants I would be confident that it is 100%. Nicophants like 9.59am have extremely high levels of gullibility and stupidity. Not the best combination but at least some like 9.59 have managed to be able to write a few words.
Anon at 9.59. I am at the stage of pitying him. A sad lonely wee man. This blog is his life. In a real world setting he would be overlooked and if he tried to shout out his vitriol and disinformation he would be told to shut up. He gives the site good numbers , and makes up somewhere between a third and a half of all posts, including his anon ones. Some have given up on the site because of him. I have a look a couple of times a week but don't post anymore. Possibly he's best ignored?
DeleteAnon troll at 10.44am says: “ Possibly he’s best ignored?” Please do ya numpty. But you won’t because you are a nasty troll. Your post is full of misinformation and lies.
DeleteWee Jim fae Dundee @ 10-39pm
DeleteWee Jim 'The Misogynist' fairly loves his wee emojis.
10-29 not 10-39
Delete1.07pm and 1.13pm here is one for you
DeleteHi IFSY at 11.29. Get your anorak dry cleaned. It’s filthy.
DeleteFunny how IFS is always banging on about whatever the latest post on WOS is.
DeleteHe is enamoured by Campbell. Say no more. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
DeleteThe War Game at 4.06pm. If you had been paying attention rather than trying to make some pathetic troll comment you would have read me commenting on the War Game long before Campbell. Like all Britnats you think up what you want to say and ignore any facts that prove it to be nonsense.
DeleteAnon(s) at 5.25pm 3.47pm 1.07pm 10.44am simply Nicophantic wankers. Thanks for proving you can only post a few words at a time before exhaustion sets in. Must be all the wanking at the fragrant ( 🤮) Nicola on The War Game.
DeleteJames, you're sounding a bit chippy today. I don't know how many English people you actually know - not many by the sound of it.
ReplyDeletePlease believe me when I say that the vast majority of English people have only good wishes for their Scottish neighbours. For instance Scotland is often our second favourite football team. We may come across as being anti a lot of things, but anti Scottish is not one of them. (I am English but have lived in Scotland for 40 years.)
Mark at 10.56 pm ... James isn't talking about "English people". He is referring to the views of triggered British Nationalists, anti-Scottish right wingers and unionists ... with the emphasis on triggered. We all know some of those.
DeleteMark - presumably you have not been Scottish living in England. Sad that you have lived in Scotland for 40 years but do not consider yourself Scottish. Your comment about football is patronising.
Delete10.46 Well said. Brits abroad (English) don’t integrate!
DeletePatronizing git at 10.56 PM
DeleteThe English have always been a nation of liars an thieves and history has demonstrated that fact clearly
England in its entire history has never once honoured an agreement or treaty with any country in the world
Now you can pat me on the head, smile benignly and tell me I'm wrong, and it's me who has the problem Massa
Right now in the parliament of Northern Ireland the English DUP are arguing that you can't remove propaganda and Union flags illegally put up because they might be booby trapped, so leave it to them to negotiate with the people who put them up
Which of course proves the DUP knows who does it, because it's them
This is England at work delaying and delaying real business to avoid facing facts
Over 60 countries threw England out and the English still insist it was they who are wrong
England cannot evolve, it's gone as far as it can go and the rest of us don't want anything to do with the place
Do you want to buy a balaclava?
Delete@ 12.43 'English DUP' LOL, DUP - far more Scottish than English.
DeleteDUP a bunch of Northern IRiSH crackpots.
Delete12:43pm,
DeleteCretins like you are an embarrassment to Scotland and it’s people.
Nationalists seem to be getting ever more desperate.
ReplyDeleteIndependence isn’t happening. You had your referendum in 2014, you need to get over it and move on!
Move on - typical Blairite cliché.
DeleteMove on to Scotland being an independent nation again. Make Scotland independent AGAIN.
DeleteUtter bull by Ifs and the anonymous numpty.
DeleteRule Britannia, God save the King.
Stick yer independence nonsense where the sun disnae shine.
" Rule Britannia...
DeleteMarmalade and jam....
Five Chinese crackers up yer a******e
bang-bang-bang-bang- bang!"
Let me tell you something.
DeleteIndependence is exactly where the sun don't shine and it's getting shat right out again straight into the pan of Independence.
Let's shit for our future
Let's shit for our freedom
Let's shit for Scotland
Let's shit for Independence.
It’s widely accepted that had Scotland voted Yes in 2014 we’d have, pretty quickly, been forced to go cap in hand to the IMF.
DeleteEven if the IMF thing were true, I'd very much like to have seen an economic comparison now in 2026 between a post IMF injection, EU member state independent Scotland and backward thinking Brexit (what was left of it) Britain
DeleteAnonymous at 2:45pm, I remember reading that at the time.
DeleteCertainly makes you think.
Anon 2.45 It's widely accepted. No it's not except by the Daily Mail, Sun Express, Record etc.
DeleteThe hard hitting, hard shitting campaign for Scottish independence.
ReplyDeleteThe union is getting shitwrecked.
New Norstat Poll -
ReplyDelete'MOST Scots think a second independence referendum should take place in the next decade or sooner, according to a new poll.
A survey has found that 56% of Scots said that indyref2 should come before 2036, heaping pressure on Westminster to grant another vote.'
I think it should have taken place in the last decade as we were taken out of the EU against our clear vote to remain. The SNP had a mandate for indyref2 but the devolutionist leadership did their Westminster masters bidding and instead started talking about men in skirts, toilets and rapists in women’s prisons.
DeleteAye aye aye-yesterday can’t be changed. Of course you have no idea or interest about tomorrow as you greet about things today which then morphs into tomorrow. Broken record
DeleteIfs isn’t forward thinking he is backwards!
DeleteA couple of moaning anon Britnats at 12.16 and 12.33. Probably the same anon. Neither wanted indyref2 in the past and don’t want independence in the future.
Delete@12.23, I think you added an s on at the end by mistake. Just saying.
Delete4.22 Not by mistake. I know that the education system is not as good as it is in Scotland but surely they taught you how to read. Backwards as in mentally just like yourself. Will you take the huff and walk out of a debate?
Delete5.34 Correcting myself! Oops I should have put the word England in there….my bad! Kinda mucks up my statement, never mind ha!ha!
DeleteYouGov Westminster voting intention, field work 20 - 21 Sept, population sample 2,286.
ReplyDeleteHeadline; Labour 2% lead (+2)
Lab 23%, Con 21%, RefUK 21%, LibDem 12%, Green 14%.
Scottish sub-sample (199).
Con 12%, Lab 15%, LibDem 11%, SNP 28%, RefUK 15%, Green 13%, British Union of Fascists 4%.
Electoral Calculus prediction model with Scottish finesse.
Labour 104 seats short of majority.
Lab 222, Con 154, RefUK 106, LibDem 70, SNP 42, Green 33, Plaid 3, others 2.
Tories overtake RefUK as second largest party by some distance.
What if Labour sought to govern as a minority administration? This would avoid concessions to coalition partners; concessions which would include a second independence referendum. The Tories could pass the Labour budget with some amendments towards defence spending. It would protect their pweshios union. The Permanent State and the Security Services would be happy. Reform UK would wither on the vine (as they inevitably will as they are a one person vehicle and Nigel won’t be around forever).
Labour voters (and Tories to a lesser extent) would be livid, but Burnham would be protected by the Permanent State and rewarded lavishly in the future. Burnham is less a creature of the Security Services than Starmer, but that wouldn’t be difficult, Starmer literally had a senior MI5 officer as his first Chief of Staff.
Labour would work with reform and the tories before the snp and greens. In the 70’s that was the practice of labour /tory.
ReplyDeleteCalm down Imperial Worthies. It's only a ferry.
ReplyDeleteDr Jim'll fix it for you. And you and you.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Micky Marra has been spouting off. In terms of cartoon clown comedy characters he's no Micky Mouse, that's all I can say.
ReplyDeleteI see the Reform mob walked out of parliament. I assume they were heading for the ferry?
ReplyDeleteThey were going round to IFS's hoose to ask his opinion.
DeleteTaxi for 6.24pm.
Delete"Court of Session hears Scottish Government bid to keep Salmond files secret"
ReplyDeleteThey'd like to tell us their decision, but it's a secret.