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Nicola Sturgeon was good on Sky this morning. Good to see her on tv again.
ReplyDeleteWouldn’t give Sky my money. N S let Scotland down badly, enriched herself through her public office, then literally ran away. You may find that type of behaviour acceptable but I do not. Until she apologises and comes clean I have no interest in anything she says.
DeleteNicola Sturgeon did not let Scotland down or run from her record. She showed courage on net zero by setting 2045 five years ahead of England and on LGBTQIA+ rights. Her anti-hate speech laws protected minorities from far right hatred. That public service stands. She need not answer for her husband.
DeleteLooks like we have a Sturgeon worshipper!
DeleteOh dear! What is wrong with these people?
Anon@5-32pm
DeleteI might ask the same of you.
Not worship. Just a record: net zero five years ahead of England, LGBTQIA+ protections, and anti-hate speech law. Funny how that record draws the same voices on climate denial, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny.
Delete7.37pm
DeleteA politician setting a target is not an achievement.
Similarly what are these protections you boldly claim? Details.
Right. Legislating net zero for 2045, five years before England, was just a doodle. And the 2021 hate crime law covering sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sex characteristics is a secret. The details are public.
DeleteHate crime law is a farce pushed by the Muslim Yousaf. “ Variations in sex characteristics” what is this? You making stuff up?
DeleteAhh the mysoginists and bigots are still going strong.
DeleteExcellent article on WGD on this very topic a couple of days ago. Tory Rory Stewart is an arsehole, somewhat like his namesake on WOS.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see The Greens passing a conference motion that 'Zionism is Racism'.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely correct, but far, far too narrow.
Zionism is Racism, Fascism, Apartheid, Genocidal, Expansionist-Colonialist, Deranged, War-Mongering Shite.
Calm down. You are being suckered into creating a narrative of extremism that will be used by the BBC and the MSM to discredit the Indy movement.
DeleteGet real.
DeleteJust how 'extreme' do you want Israeli Zionism to become, before it is fully called-out?
Do you want to wait until every living thing in Gaza is slaughtered?
Very eminent Jewish scholars and even an ex an Israeli PM are now calling it what it is.
You cannot be discredited fror telling the honest truth about the repugnant scourge of Zionism, any more than you previously could for decrying Nazism.
Calling out Israel as a fascistic, genocidal state is the right move by the Green Party but this Zionism is racism message is pure student politics, the sort of far left, shouty behaviour that puts voters off switching from mainstream parties.
DeleteAccording to the Grauniad
Deletean amendment put forward saying the motion should not be used to “pressure, proscribe or discipline members based on affiliation with Jewish community institutions” was voted down.
Perhaps there's some context missing here, but implicitly voting that members *should* be disciplined for "affiliation with Jewish community institutions" sounds a tad ominous
Very eminent Jewish scholars and even an ex an Israeli PM are now calling it what it is.
DeleteWhich Israeli PM has condemned Zionism? That sounds made up
Holocaust survivor backs Green Party 'Zionism is racism' motion.
Delete'Stephen Kapos, who was born in Hungary before the outbreak of the Second World War, gave a speech backing the motion after it passed at the Green conference in Brighton on Sunday.
Speaking about the “horror” of seeing the genocide in Gaza play out, the Jewish retired architect said: “I felt a strong resonance with our own suffering and it is now visited upon and still visited upon the Palestinian people.
“It is the Zionist ideology and tactics that led to this, inevitably and therefore I feel that Zionism is linked up with an ultimate conclusion which is a genocide and therefore Zionism self-destructed, in my opinion. And from now on, I don’t think that we can accept and tolerate Zionism.”'
June 2925 article -
Delete'One of the strongest condemnations of Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza has come from its own former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, who served from 2006 to 2009. Last week, he wrote a scathing op-ed in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz with the headline ;
“Enough Is Enough.
Israel Is Committing War Crimes.”'
'2025 article'
Delete'One of the strongest condemnations of Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza has come from its own former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, who served from 2006 to 2009. Last week, he wrote a scathing op-ed in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz with the headline ;
Delete“Enough Is Enough.
Israel Is Committing War Crimes.”'
So the claim that he condemned Zionism was, in fact, made up?
He condemned the Zionist Israeli Govt.
Delete
DeleteExcellent 2023 article from journalist based in Israel and Palestine, showing among other things, that even in Israel itself and sometimes directly from the mouths of Israeli Ministers and ex Leaders, the Israeli Zionist State is FASCIST.
Also shows the moral cowardice of those on the British 'Left' in running away from that fact -
'Israelis are calling their leaders fascists. Why can’t British politicians?
February 7, 2023
This article originally appeared in “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. .
“Since the election of the fascist Israeli government last December, there has been an increase in human rights violations against Palestinians, including children. Can the prime minister tell us how he is challenging what Amnesty and other human rights organizations refer to as an apartheid state?”
This should have been a legitimate question for a politician to ask the British prime minister in the House of Commons. But no sooner had Labour’s Kim Johnson asked it of Rishi Sunak last Wednesday afternoon, during an edition of Prime Minister’s Questions, than she was summoned to the office of her party’s chief whip and ordered to apologize.
Within a few hours, Johnson was back in the Commons retracting her earlier remarks. “While I was quoting accurately Amnesty’s description, I recognize this as insensitive and I’d like to withdraw it.”
But in the name of protecting Jewish sensibilities, Starmer is abdicating his responsibility to see the reality on the ground in Israel-Palestine for what it is, and to mount a much needed challenge to the Israeli government from outside.
In little over a month since being sworn in, Israel’s new coalition has set about consolidating the power of the executive and legislature at the expense of the judicial branch. Its radical changes are targeting a judicial system that rarely offered much of a challenge to decades of apartheid and occupation, but did at least maintain its relative independence vis-a-vis the government. The proposed “reform” — which has generated major opposition from Israel’s attorney general, the president, and the Supreme Court’s chief justice, among many others — would strip all meaningful oversight away from the judiciary, eliminating vital checks on the government’s whims.
In addition, the coalition is reportedly preparing to bring forward legislation that would disqualify almost all Palestinian/Arab Knesset members from serving in the Israeli parliament, and ban their parties from standing in elections. This would effectively enable the right wing to dominate in perpetuity, and deprive 20 percent of the state’s citizens — not to mention its millions of non-citizen subjects in the occupied territories — from having any say in their governance. All these moves — from strengthening authoritarian control to disenfranchising undesired racial groups — are taken straight out of the fascist playbook.
Tens of thousands of Israelis have been demonstrating against the proposed judicial reform every weekend for the past month, in a generally conservative protest movement that talks about “democracy” and “equality” yet seeks little more than a return to the status quo ante. But even the Israeli leaders of this movement have been leveling the kinds of criticism that would earn them rebuke in the current U.K. Labour Party. For example, Moshe Ya’alon, the former IDF chief of staff who allied with Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz in their recent election bids to defeat Benjamin Netanyahu, had no qualms calling the new coalition “FASCIST” on Twitter.
Such language is not unusual in Israeli politics; in fact, two former prime ministers, Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, have used the “F word in recent years, long before the current government came to power. But it is not only opponents who are branding it FASCIST: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich referred to himself as a “FASCIST homophobe” in a recording published last month.
Jesus Christ. Reading some if the comments on here it wouldn't surprise me if they wanted Auschwitz reopened. Talk about racism. No body does it like the loonie left
DeleteRory is presented as the smiling, reasonable face of 'gentle unionism'.
ReplyDeleteHe is nothing of the sort.
He is an insidious wee weasel of a man, whose job it is to persuade gullible folk that the UK is actually a harmonious, inclusive, fair and benevolent arrangement between four nations, where all four have an equal standing and an equal say - when in fact it is the polar opposite of that, with England ruling the roost and simply instructing the others how to behave and completely ignoring them if they challenge that dictat.
We should avoid personal remarks. By all means argue using logic and data. But attacking the person is to ba avoided. We in the SNP are better than that.
DeleteShut it ya tadger
DeleteJust 2 of Rory's achievements:
Delete1. Hands along Hadrian's Wall;
2. The Cairn of Unity at the Border.
OK, nobody turned up at the wall, and a lorry dumped a pile of stones in a car park, but if he hadn't tried those jolly japes the BBC/MI5 would never have commissioned his various TV series proving that Scotland has never existed
So, Wall & Cairn weren't a total waste of time. From Rory's career point if view.
Anon 9.30. Made me laugh that. Comedy gold
DeleteExcellent speech today from Russell Findlay at the Tory conference.
ReplyDelete
DeletePoor wee Russell.
About as impactful as a fart in a hurricane, in Scotland.
Rule Britannia, innit.
Who?
DeleteGreat to see the Zionist scum at the bottom of their group after only managing a draw with Ireland tonight, with Ireland comprehensively beating them 3-0 in their previous meeting.
ReplyDeleteWhy would I do that, moron?
DeleteI am a white Scottish protestant.
Stewart’s invention of Middleland was laughable but insidious in 2014. The fact that he’s trying to reinvigorate in 2026 is telling. They really are spooked by the Celtic alliance since it completely undermines the notion of Britishness. Death throes of the English Empire.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the carbon footprint of a bombing mission from Fairford, UK to Iran?
ReplyDeleteAnd from McConnell Air Force base, Kansas to Iran?
Asking for a Green Party friend?
You have a friend in the Green party. That’s taking charity/empathy a bit too far.
DeleteYou have a friend in the Green party. That’s taking charity/empathy a bit too far.
DeleteAnon at 8.03 ... why do you keep posting twice?
DeleteCrunching the numbers on this (bored in my lunch hour), the difference between a B1 bomber being based in UK or US flying a single mission to Iran is 165 tonnes of CO2.
DeleteThat's the equivalent of 17 UK citizen's carbon footprint for an entire year. Just one bombing mission.
200 people's annual carbon footprint just for the bombers based at Fairford to return to their home based yesterday.
ps excuse my stutter
ReplyDeleteStick yer independence where the sun disnae shine.
ReplyDeleteRule Britannia
Long live the King.
Your King would know all about that type of place, wouldn't he.
ReplyDeleteAye defender of the faithS
ReplyDeleteBBC Radio 4 news presenters this morning still describing it as the "Israel Gaza war". Since when has it been a war?
ReplyDeleteThe latest war, since 7-10-23
DeleteNot a war.
DeleteA totally one-sided Genocide, funded by the most powerful country on Earth.
The BBC gives a former spook prominent airtime to promote his hairbrain, amateur thesis about a “middleland”. It doesn’t give the opportunity for a series to present counter arguments. It doesn’t from my memory even put on a panel discussion to interrogate the merits of Stewart’s easily disprovable propaganda musings.
ReplyDeleteFast forward to 2021 when Dr Ronan Toolis published his analysis of architectural features in Iron Age Britain. There is a clear dividing line along the Tweed / Solway border. The most striking feature (among many) is the absence of crannogs in England. Even in Rory Stewart’s beloved Cumbrian there are no crannogs in the geographically local and topographically suitable Lake District.
The concept of building homes with the protection of water was known in England. See Must Farm, stilt houses in Peterborough. But crannogs are absent.
I see the Tories have now said they would completely over-rule any Scottish Govt which stands in the way of Nuclear Power Station expansion.
ReplyDeleteNice to see unionists showing themselves up as what they really are - quasi-dictators 'telling' Scotland what they 'must' do.
Latest Survation poll in early 2026, paints a very different picture of what Scots actually want, though -
'In what will make "grim reading" for Scottish Labour Tories and the LibDems as the election draws near, the study carried out by Survation showed just 14% thought Scotland should rely on uranium used in nuclear reactors for its long-term energy security needs.
Just 20% said it was the energy source Scotland should focus on to "make the most effective contribution to tackling climate change", while almost 60% supported renewables like wind and solar.
Only 12% said they trusted the nuclear industry "to tell the truth about their products" including costs, the pollutants they might produce and their safety record, which put it behind the oil and gas industry.'
Anon 9.00 you no marched doon garvaghy Road yet?
ReplyDeleteI dinnae fancy traipsing roond maist english cities noo or some pairts o’ Glesga at nicht
ReplyDeleteMorning, KC. We love it when you do "Scots".
DeleteNot sure which defination of zionism the E&W Greens have chosen. It's not a term that is used by many Jews, and it is a hazy subject that gets lots of brainless misappropreation. But I would imagine the definition they chose means that the E&W Greens are racist, and that by the same thinking the E&W Greens classify Scottish nationalists as racist, but not Jewish enough for them to be bothered about.
ReplyDeleteI doubt this action will go down well with Jews in the Holburn constituency, and Mr Zac will probably be the subject of as much of their derision as Netanyahoo.
Ridiculous comment. How is it logically possible for any definition of Zionism to make anti-Zionosn racist? Zionism is an ideology, not an ethnic group.
DeleteUtter garbage.
DeleteZionism is a political ideology with heavy tones of fascism.
Political Zionism is also secular and not tied into religion.
Netanyahu is a secular Zionist.
I live in Pollok
DeleteThe Greens are fishing for idiot votes, they'll probably get some too
DeletePeople will invade 90 year old Mrs Goldberg's hoose at number 1 Acacia avenue and burn all her books and smash her windows
The Greens are behaving like children
This is every bit as bad as Reform UK and Restore whatever it is they say they're going to restore
They're so stupid they'll wind people up to have a march against some poor Rabbi outside his house condemning him for just being alive
I hope folk see this for what it is, the protest party Greens with no hope of forming a government anywhere sinks to the bottom with right wing tactics trying to disguise themselves as left wing
just to hook votes from idiots that'll have to look up the word Zionist, then they still won't understand it
The fake Rev in Bath has completely failed to reach his crowdfunder target of £400,000.
ReplyDeleteHe has received a paltry £31,000.with only 26 days left to run.
Of the 11 'testimonials' he posted on his site from dummies daft enough to still give him money, 5 were from folk not supporting Indy/self-proclaimed unionists.
That wee tadger is about as pro-independence as his boyfriend Farage.
Only 8% funded. Disaster for Wee Stewie!
DeleteHe is now busy downplaying the necessity of the larger figure
DeleteNeedless to say, he wasn't doing that before he realised the whole thing was going to fall flat on its face.
You'd think that idiot would have learned his lesson with the previous Dugdale debacle, but no.....
3.06pm liar. 3.10pm liar 3.14pm liar - all probably from the same liar.
DeleteOk Stu.
DeleteAnon 3.06 ha ha ha ! Not enough mugs around for him.
DeleteAnon at 3.57
DeleteThou doth protest too much, methinks.
Some money will come through from Reform UK's back door
DeleteYou might well be right.
DeleteGoing by Wings comments section, Reform/Restore muppets are the main contributors along with ex Albaists and other assorted flotsam from the extreme fringes of our movement.
is it me or are some on here more pro Israel, pro Palestinian than pro Scotland?
ReplyDeletesome are pro middle engerlund.
ReplyDeleteWell done James for deleting KCs post trying to claim an earlier comment wasn’t him.
ReplyDeleteSo KC is a him.How do you know
ReplyDeleteBecause s/he isn't wearing a bra today. S/he likes to run free on Mondays, throwing care and worry to the wind, radiant as an orchid.
DeleteThe decent folk on here are Anti-Genocide by Israel In Gaza, Pro-Palestinian Human Rights and Pro-Independence for Scotland to escape the overbearing, domineering, condescending sneering, feudal- imperialist arrogance of .Westminster.
ReplyDeleteHow do we escape when there’s no prospect of a referendum?
DeleteHow can there be a housing crisis in Spain when just a few weeks ago the socialist government gave over half a million refugees settled status. Something doesn’t make sense
ReplyDeleteSpanish Housing Shortage -
DeleteThe Main Cause: Supply Shortages
• Construction Collapse: Building rates dropped sharply after the 2008 financial crash. While Spain built over 600,000 homes in 2007, completions dropped to under 100,000 homes by 2024.
• Housing Deficit: The Spanish government estimates a current deficit of 600,000 to 1 million homes nationwide.
• Low Public Stock: Social housing makes up only about 1.5% to 3.4% of total housing in Spain, which is among the lowest rates in Europe.
Other Major Contributors
• Tourism and Short-Term Rentals: Record numbers of tourists and platforms like Airbnb reduce the availability of long-term rental apartments for local residents.
• Foreign Investment: Wealthy foreign buyers and large corporate investment funds buying properties for profit drive up purchase prices and rents.
Quite a few extreme right nutters on here now.
ReplyDeleteYou know the type.......everything is the fault of 'those furriners and immigrants', all parts of the UK and Ireland and being 'invaded' by the above, Sharia Law is running rampant all over Britain, it is 'communism' to even suggest giving those most in need any type of assistance, the very wealthy must not be taxed any more than they are already to help everybody else with the cost of living crisis but it is perfectly fine to cut benefits to the poorest and disabled, billionaire Trump and multi-millionaire banker Mini-Me-Trump, Farage, are 'men of the people' fighting for the working man, you can only be truly English/Welsh/Scottish if you are white, etc..........
Those delusional deranged morons are nothing more than a kind of human-pollution and could do with heeding Trump's words about drinking bleach.
We could maybe fit all those wastes of space into one of the super-sized dinghies they get so upset about, sail them put to the middle of the Channel and pull the plug....not forgetting to tell RNLI not to rescue them.
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