Odds and Ends Tuesday 7th February 2023 – Opps and more Opps

Ooops the Tories have left us defenseless – Britain’s armed forces are no longer able to play a full role in NATO or defend the homeland after years of cutbacks, according to British defense sources. British tanks “will have gone down from 1200 to 134” in 30 years, the army has dropped from 163,200 in 1982 to 72,00 today, and the UK only has 72 operational Navy ships compared to around 180 in 1982. Last year the UK  had 555 fixed-wing aircraft in the Royal Air Force and other branches of its armed forces, the most numerous of which was the UK’s main fighter jet, the Eurofighter Typhoon, of which there were 137. The Tories are slowly but surely destroying our colonial UK, yet people still vote for them. They are trying to destroy the trade unions, have pretty much destroyed public services, including the Police, they have left the UK a laughing stock as far as the military goes, they lie, they reward their friends, they pander to the rich, they steal. If the state of the UK was not so bad it would be laughable, yet people will still vote for the most incompetent set of clueless idiots who have ever been in office, enough to make you cry.

Alex, Nicola Surgeon set back independence long before GRR – Former first minister Alex Salmond has described Scotland’s gender legislation as “self-indulgent nonsense”, arguing Nicola Sturgeon is “throwing away” years worth of steadily building support for independence. (The Scotsman)

He stressed SNP leaders “well understood” the need to win over all parts of Scottish society to achieve independence at a referendum.

“But to get to a position where you say to a majority of our people that you cannot have single-sex spaces – prized and worked and strived for – because of some daft ideology imported from elsewhere and, as we’ve seen imperfectly understood by its proponents in Scotland, borders on the totally absurd,” he told the gathering.

“And the 6 percent decline in independence vote over a month – think about that. Thirty years of gradually building, building, building, building till we get independence over 50 percent and then thrown away with some self-indulgent nonsense.

“Which even if it was right, which it isnae, would hardly be tactically the most astute maneuver when we’re meant to be taking Scotland to its next date with destiny.”

I would argue that the ongoing poor governance of Scotland overall since Nicola Sturgeon became First Minister has done more damage to the independence cause, to be honest, GRR has just woken up some people or become the final straw for others.

The carrot-eating, comfy slipper wearing, pension grabber is back with a vengeance – Pete ‘ comfy slippers ‘ Wishart has put aside his call for unity, which lasted two weeks, and came out with his favorite sport, Alba Party Hate while accusing the Alba Party of Hate. In response to Alex Salmond’s statement in Dundee comfy slippers Pete said the only thing harming support for independence was Alba and “its nonstop hate”. The latest  YouGov survey of 1,088 Scottish voters for the Sunday Times showed support for independence fell from 53% to 47% among decided voters.

However, rather than have a wee think about why that might be Pete Wishart “The one thing that is ‘harming’ Scottish independence is this party and its nonstop hate. They may be only on 0.4% and totally rejected by the Scottish people but their capacity for harm to our cause is incalculable.”

If Alba is so insignificant what is pension Pete so afraid of. Wishart wouldn’t be out of place in the Tory Party. If there is one SNP MP that I would like to see lose their seat it is this clown, 20 years in the English Parliament and he has achieved nothing, nothing at all. Even the very worst Tories in that time achieved something.

So – I don’t think our colonial UK-imposed Government should overrule the GRR Bill unless it breaks the law, I know a lot of people disagree with me but as I have said before democracy matters. Holyrood has made this mess and Holyrood should have to fix it or pay the price at the ballot box so the Governor General of Scotland, as far as I am concerned, can avoid MSPs all he likes. He just demonstrates our colonial status and again I have no problem with that at all, anything that gets even one Scottish voter to wake up to what the UK actually is and our colonial position within it is all good.

An excellent goalkeeper – It was so sad to hear that Billy Thomson had passed away. Billy only played one season at Dens Park for the Dees, 25 games, I had a season ticket that season and he was unbelievable, esp in that game at Tannadice when Dundee beat Dundee Utd in Coca Cola Cup on Pens and then beating Aberdeen in the next round.  He was signed by Jim Duffy to replace Michel Pageaud. I was skeptical at the time but that didn’t last long, not as good as my favorite goalie Bobby Geddes but not far off I can tell you. So sad that he has passed so young.