Odds and Ends Sunday 11th December 2022

It’s not F right it’s inhumane – I don’t want to read any more fucking keep warm suggestions from people online or patronizing tweets from SNP MP troughers, people are going to die this winter if the cold stays the way it is right now. I went out this morning at 7.15am for my walk, my house was freezing when I woke up, and it was freezing outside.

The so called help from the scumbag Tory Government is not enough, it is in fact a joke given we will all pay it back in the years to come through even higher energy bills. Energy companies, and their shareholders, have made trillions since oil was discovered in the 1970’s. Colonised Scotland has abundant oil and gas, not to mention renewable potential, yet people are afraid to put the heating on, for too many it is a choice between eating and heating. I work and have to make a choice when to put the heating on as I also have to get through the month. The so called support from the Government is just f not enough, the energy companies should have been told to freeze prices for the next 2 years and f live with it. They have made trillions and should be forced to give something back, but hey ho, prices before lives, and this is before the next set of rises in January. They are all scum and I don’t care what anyone thinks of my language.

Do the Labour Party actually stand for anything any more – The Labour Party actually disgust me more than the scumbag Tories in so many ways. Under Corbyn there was a slither of hope, under Starmer the Labour Party are just another right wing Tory Party without the money and the real right wing nut jobs backing them. Not only are MPs not allowed to stand on picket lines with the people they claim to represent but now they are going to threaten the health unions, what the f are Labour for any more, they are as big a set of wankers than the Tories, and as effective as the British Scottish National Party. Don’t any of the parasites sitting in Westminster have any principles anymore, the NHS is on it’s knees due to decades of deliberate under funding, staff are on their knees across the whole of the public sector due to pay cuts since 2008 and the Gordon Brown assisted bank crash, as voters we never learn, we keep electing these pricks who are so beholden to the racist vote and their right wing bosses that the voters and the workers are the last thing on their minds. We better wake up before it is too late and we have nothing left.

The SNP are all about Division – Let’s be very clear the leadership of the SNP, and their hangers on, are all about division within the yes community and we will lose any yes momentum if we are not careful and don’t reject their division.

The Scottish Independence Congress will be held online with regional gatherings taking place on Saturday, February 18, 2023, and the provisional agenda has been planned. “The goal of the event is to bring the Yes movement together, to agree goals, tactics and behaviours that will speed up Scotland’s progress towards independence. MacIntyre-Kemp confirmed that the three main independence parties – SNP, Greens and Alba – have been invited, but none will be asked to debate or share a platform. (The National)

The Alba Party did just that very thing yesterday in Perth, where was BfS? Were they there?

“The decision by the Supreme Court to deny the right of the Scottish Parliament to hold an independence referendum and the continuing refusal of the UK Government to transfer the power to hold a referendum present clear challenges to Scottish democracy and the sovereign will of the Scottish people.

 “This weekend’s event has crystallised three immediate priorities: an independence convention, popular demonstration and campaigning, and a clear preference for using a Scottish Parliament election as the vehicle for allowing the Scottish people to express their view on independence if Westminster continue to refuse to transfer the power to Holyrood.”(Alex Salmond)

We have a way forward, there are people in Alba, not just Alex Salmond, who know how to campaign, who have ideas, who in so many ways are our last hope at  a strategy that might work, they opened their doors yesterday in person. The SNP should be begging Alba and Alex Salmond to sit at the top table, however, Sturgeon will continue with her flawed strategy, and her even more flawed ego, and lose, rather than do what is right for our colony.

It is not just the arts it is everywhere –  The proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has shrunk by half since the 1970s. Is it any wonder when the working class in this shit hole of a UK are pretty much the underclass now.

 Private schools teach just 7% of pupils, but top jobs such as the country’s senior civil servants, cabinet ministers and leading journalists are dominated by the privately educated, according to the Sutton Trust, a charity. In some professions the proportion has increased. In the mid-1980s, and even a decade ago, half Britain’s doctors were privately educated; today the figure is 61%. In law the share of judges and barristers from fee-paying schools has also risen in recent years, returning to the levels of three decades ago. Chief executives, however, were more likely to come from a state-educated background in 2015, though the international nature of the job means more foreigners hold top posts now than in the 1980s.

Even in the arts, going private pays. Since the Academy Awards began in 1929, Brits have won 41 times in the three categories of best actor, actress and director. Of these winners 67% were privately educated; most of the rest attended state-funded schools that select their pupils by academic ability. Equally BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award winners are more likely to be alumni of fee-paying schools. (The Economist)

The underclass are the ones hungry and cold right now, the underclass are the ones who were clapped during Covid – 19 by the scumbag politicians in all the parties, the underclass are sneered at and laughed at, many have turned their anger to the right of politics sadly believing the narrative they are fed by the very people who wouldn’t give them the time of day. The underclass need to rediscover their working class roots, some are as we can see by the heroes in the trade union movement fighting for us all right now, we are in a class war and we just cannot afford to lose this one.