THE CURRENCY QUESTION CONTINUES TO EAT ITS WAY THROUGH THE SEPARATIST CAMAPIGN LIKE A PARASITIC WORM. SALMOND WILL NOW BE WISHING THAT HE HAD CHOSEN TO TELL THE TRUTH.

The crazy snp bean counters have been hoping that the questions about currency would go away; even they; mad as they undoubtedly are should be getting the message now which is that it is going nowhere. It continues to get more difficult for them to avoid answering significant questions and there are a lot more to come. The bug eyed separatists are now publicly disagreeing with one another on the currency and it can of course get very ugly when thieves fall out, the ferrets are limbering up to get in to the sack. John Swinney wants a currency union that he cannot guarantee, while Yes Scotland board member and political 'titan' Patrick Harvie wants a new currency.

Where will it all end? I hear you ask, if you were to set out to build a template of a nonentity you would come up with a hybrid of Swinney and Harvie, have you ever seen a so called major politician so out of his depth as the former and one so utterly phony as the latter. A shell of a man Swinney and a chancer Harvie who inhabits a sham position because of the bizarre vagaries of the political system which put him where he is, a man who has truly "risen without trace".

They are part of a lightweight and inadequate consortium who are now starting to disintegrate, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (WB Yeats) I ask again; will the wee demented spiv Salmond find a way of calling off the referendum charade to avoid humiliation?

SNP TAKE ANOTHER DOING AS CLLR. KELLY (LABOUR) WINS CASE AGAINST CLLR. MACLAREN SNP.

Some readers will be aware that snp Cllr. Kenny Maclaren recently reported me to the Standards Commission.

He accused me of lying about the non attendance of him and his snp colleagues at a training event which I chaired, an event which I am happy to reiterate they did not attend. I am now of course well used to being reported to The Standards Commission by the political snp pygmies in Renfrewshire Council as well as the occasional accusation by Libdem time servers. I am in fact still waiting for the utterly absurd character that is Libdem Cllr. Eileen McCartin to take me to court, something she threatened to do about a year ago. I can only assume based on my knowledge of her that her hubris has taken second place to her cowardice and we are still waiting. She is the very important leader of her party in the council and nine times unsuccessful parliamentary candidate; Scotland's very own "Screaming Lord Sutch" if you will. She won the leadership election by one vote, she is in fact the only Libdem in the council and she of course voted for herself as the best candidate by far. A very important position judging by the way she reminds everyone that she is the party chief.

I have now received a letter from the Standards Commission indicating that there is no case to answer so; Cllr. MacLaren and the rest of them will have to come up with some other spurious accusation to pester the Standards Commission with; I'm getting the impression that they do not like me. I feel sympathy for the officers of the S. C. Sometimes. You may well ask if Cllr. MacLaren is humiliated by making such a fool of himself. I think it would be far more pertinent to ask if he actually knows when he is making a fool of himself and whether he should be humiliated by his actions; his conduct suggests not. . When you are a single issue political party like the snp and your single issue is fuelled by an irrational hatred of your English neighbours there is always the risk that you will be a magnet for some pretty rum characters. That is why I am enjoying the separatist referendum debate, it exposes on a daily basis the ignorance of the snp and the sheer scorn that they have for the Scottish people.

ANTI SEPARATION STUDENTS DISPLAY GOOD SENSE AND GOOD MANNERS WHILE VOTING NO – SNP UWS STUDENTS SHOULD LEARN FROM THEM.

 

The snp have been striving to conceal the results of the recent poll by students at Glasgow University where a large majority rejected separation. The loony gnats have been persuading themselves that it didn't happen and ordered it a crime for any of their disenchanted members to speak of it. Nor are they allowed to face the reality about the damage done to their campaign in this poll by Nicola Sturgeon who insisted against guidance from gnat "heid yins" that she would play a famous part. She remains blissfully unaware of what the rest of us know and have known for some time. That is that there are very; few if any awful situations that the presence of Ms. Sturgeon can't make worse, witness the state of the Scottish Health Service following her ruinous stewardship if you are in any doubt.

Much as it grieves me to add bad news to bad news for the mad gnats (yes I know I'm all heart) but we learn today of a similar poll, this time at Edinburgh's esteemed Napier University where the astute students determined by a rather handsome majority to reject the barmy snp proposals for separation, 70.5 % of these rather bright young people decided that the union was better. Remember that this was the result achieved without the intervention of Ms. Sturgeon whose typical shrill interference would undoubtedly have made things much worse for the snp. It's all looking pear shaped for the crazed gnats, will wee Eck find a way to abandon this farcical referendum to save his face? What a pity there is no lost deposit clause in referendums to prevent spurious and deluded characters from taking part.

It is refreshing to observe the good sense and behaviour of these students, particularly when they are compared to the "beer hall" conduct of the snp students who continue to blacken the name of the UWS here in Paisley.

PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND, DOFF YOUR CAPS AND TUG YOUR FORELOCKS TO THE LATE BARONESS THATCHER BY ORDER OF ALEX SALMOND AND THE SNP SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT.

Today April 18^th 20 13 saw the funeral of Baroness Thatcher the most reviled and divisive politician of my lifetime, much has been said in relation to her over the last few days by far more able commentators than me and I will not attempt to add any more about her time in power or what she did with that power, suffice to say IMO she gravely misused it.

This short post is however about power and control with a somewhat different slant and in this case the power and control I refer to lies with the snp Scottish Government. A government and its followers who never tire of telling us how much Thatcher was despised in Scotland and about how her influence did not run to Scotland. I'm sure you can all quote for yourselves the insults and declarations of hostility which the snp have shown her, I will add a note of caution however; the insults and hostilities were never more than paper talk.

Consider this; today all flags on Scottish Government buildings were flown at half mast to honour the late Baroness Thatcher. The decision to issue such an instruction rests with and was made by the Scottish Government, yes that Scottish Government, that snp Scottish Government . They decided (which means Salmond decided) that the flags would be flown at half mast. This most recent act of duplicity by them comes as no revelation to those of us who really know them. When next you hear Salmond and the rest of the snp braying out their anti Tory (Engurlish) rhetoric remember, the lies and deceit. The Queen, Sterling, NATO etc. but above all keep in mind the snp and Thatcher. Remember their lies and disdain for the Scottish people when next they ask for your vote.

THATCHER’S PASSING IS A GOOD TIME TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT WE MUST KEEP OUR EYE ON THE BALL.

 

Comparisons are of course odious but; with the passing of Thatcher and considering the mob in Downing Street now. This is a good time to consider the words of a great German playwright on the demise of Hitler.

"Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is in heat again" (Bertolt Brecht)

The message is, don't ever assume that the Tories will never come up with someone worse than Thatcher, they are already competing for her crown now in Downing Street, in the shires, in the great banking houses and in the rest of the criminal fraternity which pollutes our society.

ORGANISE!

MY THATCHER REACTION? “I HAVE NEVER KILLED ANYONE BUT, I HAVE READ SOME OBITUARY NOTICES WITH GREAT SATISFACTION” (CLARENCE DARROW)

Did I want her dead?
I refer of course to Margaret Thatcher and the answer is no. Anything else would represent a victory for her, it would mean me abandoning what I believe in and there is no way I would allow her to do that. How would I have felt had she been run over by a bus during her premiership? I am asking myself a very thorny question here, what would my response have been if the bus had come along just after I had watched the miners fighting the police on the news during the coal dispute? I bitterly resent that she has made it difficult for me to answer such a query. I should not have to hesitate to answer such a basic civilized question but; I would have struggled back then and there is no point in me denying it now, I refuse to allow her to turn me in to a liar either.
I do believe though that our society and indeed the world in general would be a better place today if there had never been a Margaret Thatcher. I look upon her as no better than any of the world's most disreputable despots and unconscionable political thugs, a fanatic of the worst kind and a cr5uel and pitiless reactionary. With me and Margaret Thatcher it is completely personal, I always make every effort not to hate anyone but she beat me in to submission with that one, I gave in to hating her with a burning zeal, I am what I am today because of her so you know who to blame. With every family she destroyed, every community she left in ruins, each time she made some innocent person's life a misery and each act of thought-out malice and destruction she stoked up the revulsion I felt for her.
Is society better off for her having held sway for so long? The evidence suggests no in my opinion. The housing devastation is hers by selling council houses, the street riots are hers by creating long term unemployment and despair among the young , the banking catastrophe was hers by opening the banks up without checks on their activities to the crooks and shysters of the Tory party. The lost jobs and lost hopes, the ruined prospects and ruined lives are hers. Those who died or were mutilated in the Falklands conflict were hers; they did not need to die, she chose death for them by sinking the Belgrano to advance her political career, an act that I am convinced will become classed as a war crime and cause her to be named a war criminal sometime in the future. Her complicity in many needless deaths in Ireland because of her hubris and complete lack of statesmanship. Her record is one of misery for the many and triumph for the few, history will remember her as an aberration and ultimately a grotesque failure.
Any attempt at a state funeral will I hope be resisted, she is the most divisive politician of any of our lifetimes and the sooner she is ancient history the better. When the riots come as come they will; against this unspeakable government her malevolent presence will be there. She ruined more lives than wars and pestilence and we are now about to see a nauseating display of obsequious praise to her "greatness" by the establishment. The tarnished spiv and well heeled barrow boy Lord Geoffrey Archer has already been on TV gushing about her, that's very fitting actually. At such times I hope that there is a heaven and a hell so the celestial gate keeper cans say to her, "well then, WTF was all that about? the descending lift is just ready to go, be on it"
There is already talk of a funeral similar to that of the Queen Mother or Lady Diana! How will the millions who loathed her act in response to that? Will it be large scale rioting with the biggest police presence ever seen at a funeral or will it be large scale partying up and down the length and breadth of the Country as dockers, miners, builders, car workers and honest hard working people celebrate with others joining in around the world?

THE SNP . NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING IN ELDERSLIE.

09.00 Thursday 28/03/2013 and the curtain goes up on the full council meeting called by the snp at an approximate cost to you the taxpayer of £2.5oo.
the explanation for the meeting? They wanted to try to blame labour for closing Elderslie swimming pool. The records show and they are not disputed by anyone that the decision to close this pool was taken by the previous snp/Libdem council administration, not only that but the records also show that they reiterated that decision on no fewer than 4 occasions making it 5 times in total that the snp/Libdem administration voted for closure of the pool.

Despite never having a plan B for the closed pool they now wanted labour to keep the building standing until a plan was in place to develop the site while admitting that it was to remain neglected. They had no proposals for keeping the building safe from vandalism, graffiti or arson etc. and no source of funding to pay for such tasks either. Local residents are incensed at the snp attempt to leave a large derelict building in their midst surrounded by shops, pubs, houses, village hall, bowling green, they are unconscionable chancers who couldn't care less about the people of Elderslie.

At this same meeting labour voted through a motion (opposed by the snp) to guarantee that no council tenants would be evicted because of the bedroom tax. We also called on the snp Scottish Government to enact legislation to ensure that no tenant either council, housing association or private would be evicted. The snp government have the power to do this but they have refused to do so. So much for their claims to be "Scotland's party" what a sick joke that now looks. The truth is that the snp want to see evictions so they can point the finger at the Westminster parliament and remind people that it is of course in England to further their own narrow agenda for the breakup of Britain, this is the lengths they are prepared to go to and make no mistake it's their own Scottish tenants who will be the ones who suffer, Scotland's party my "Jim Royle"

SNP ON THE SIDE OF THE SCOTTISH WORKERS? NOT IF YOU ARE A VICTIMISED MINER. THEY HAVE JUST BETRAYED THEM WITH THE HELP OF THE TORIES. NO CHANGE THERE THEN.

Just a couple of days ago I watched with interest the progress of the campaign for justice on behalf of the Liverpool Football fans who lost their lives or were injured at Hillsborough. The campaign was based on a search for the truth about what happened and an enquiry was granted in to the actions of the police and their behaviour which has been questioned since the tragedy happened. Rather than rehearse the arguments again I will just say that the families of the supporters have been vindicated and the enquiry condemned the police actions and we will hear more about this in future. This result has been greeted with acclaim by ordinary people everywhere as a victory for truth and justice.

What then are we to make of the snp Scottish Government's decision to reject a similar enquiry in to the behaviour of the police during the coal dispute of 19 83 to 19 84? 200 miners lost their jobs and 500 found themselves with criminal records for defending their communities from Tory attack and the accusations of the mining communities have never gone away. The success of the Hillsborough enquiry gave the miners and their families hope of a similar enquiry being granted here by the Snp Government but, the snp chose to dash those hopes with a rejection. For a party which persistently and bogusly claims to care about the Scottish people this is a huge snp betrayal, there is no other way to describe it, they have stabbed the Scottish mining communities in the back and in doing so betrayed Scotland as well.

During the dispute people were denied the right to travel, police operated without identification, spurious charges were made, police ran riot with horses and batons, huge lorries were allowed to go charging through towns and villages carrying scab coal at excessive and dangerous speed with impunity and, it was all planned and coordinated by a right wing Tory Government at 10 Downing Street. This was the British state crushing workers rights so why are the snp refusing to expose them? Why are the snp not willing to act against the UK state when they have a case against them? One would think that this is a godsend for their anti English/British agenda so why? Something smells rotten here.

The National Union of Mineworkers was the backbone of the labour movement and as such they were and still are unfortunately as loathed by the snp as they were and still are by the Tories. Along with the Labour Party, other Unions and various Socialist societies they are what organised labour is all about and the snp have always harboured a deep hatred for the miners and the other trade unions. The snp see the wider labour Movement as traitors to Scotland because they have never bought in to the snp's small constricted nationalist agenda. The idea of Trade Unionism is International, it recognises no barriers and that is anathema to nationalists. The trade unionist reaches out to all workers no matter what colour, race or creed he or she is they do not care what nationality someone is only that they are a brother or sister. That is why the snp hate trade unionism and it's also why they have betrayed the Scottish miners and the rest of Scotland too on this very important issue. Consider the fact that the minister responsible for granting the request for an enquiry Kenny MacAskill did not even bother to attend the debate. They (the snp) could hardly make their contempt for the Trade Union Movement clearer. This is the true face of nationalism and separation and it is deeply ugly, these are the kind of people who want to run Scotland and make it a place where hatred of non Scots. especially English people is fostered, a backward pinched face place separation from the rest of the world.. If thousands of people from the Scottish coalfield communities can't get support from the Scottish snp government just what kind of people are the snp?

Labour MSP John Finnie's motion for an independent enquiry in to the behaviour of the UK national Police Force including the Scottish Police Force during the coal dispute was voted down by the snp in Holyrood aided by the Tories, how did your snp MSP vote? Don't you want to find out? Write to them and ask.

 

 

IS EDUCATION WASTED ON THE YOUNG? HAVE A LOOK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND SNP STUDENTS BEFORE ANSWERING.

It's now 25/02/13 and I attended the debate on the 21/02/13 at the UWS on the question of Scotland breaking up the UK. Though expecting to see hundreds in attendance after the boasting about numbers on facebook, there were only about 50 people there if that many. I have to say that as a first attempt to blatantly rig a meeting and make sure that the Uni's favourite side (snp) got every advantage it was embarrassing. Planted snp speakers in the audience with prepared speeches were ushered in by the chair at regular intervals and Derek Mackay snp MSP was given 3/4 times more opportunities than anyone else to speak, he was also able to interrupt others and speak over anyone else when he wanted to. The audience of mainly snp students played their part by trying to shout down anyone who disagreed with the snp line and broke into orchestrated applause and cheering when one of the snp said anything. It took me a full 25 minutes with my hand raised to be asked to speak , despite me sitting right in front of the chairman and my Labour colleague Jim Sharkey who was sat next to me spent the whole evening with his hand raised trying to come in to the debate to no avail. This was marketed as an attempt to start a debating society in the University of the West of Scotland and I can only advise anyone who might have been interested in such a venture not to waste their time unless you want to get involved in an snp mutual admiration society where they only talk among themselves and then only to sing the praises of the snp and traduce labour. You would be as well to go the pub and join in arguing with the saloon bar politicians once you have all had a bit too much to drink. On returning home I was relieved to see that students in another university (Glasgow) not very far away from this shambolic stitch up had voted against independence, their poll involved over 2,500 and the WSU mustered about 50. Something that the WSU should perhaps think about before trying such an obviously disingenuous stunt again.

The hall looked as if a fire alarm had gone off leaving a handful of rough sleepers dotted around. The turnout was a humiliation for the UWS yes campaign, their immature deceitful conduct and most of all for the university. They now have an even bigger problem with credibility and integrity than they had before and believe me it was already pretty appalling. The snp people present were an inarticulate mob rehearsing the arguments of the seventies. I did what I usually do in a hostile and ignorant environment, I wait to see if I am going to be allowed to contribute on an equal basis and whether I will be heard with respect and when it becomes clear that I am not being treated equally and not being shown respect I respond in kind but; I always give the opposition a fair chance to reveal how they want to conduct the debate. The steward present made a show of speaking to audience members who said anything anti snp while allowing the snp supporters to behave like a drunken rabble. If that is how the snp want to run a so called debate then they should not imagine for a second that I and others will roll over and let them get away with it. The debate was won easily by the NO side but there was no chance of that being acknowledged by the snp gang in the hall, most of them silly and too inexperienced to realize that shouting the loudest does not mean you are winning it more often than not means you are masking your incompetence, that is not winning a debate it is an orchestrated deception.

Any way I look forward to the next occasion if there is one. BTW along with others I expected the chair to announce the result of the Glasgow University referendum vote which was declared a full hour before this farce ended but, alas they didn't do it. If the No vote had lost instead of winning at Glasgow Uni. is it possible do you think that we might have heard it announced?

ANOTHER BIG CON BY SALMOND

 

How many people will be clearing their diaries to celebrate independence day in March 20 16? No it's not a shaggy dog story; it's what the snp and their leader wee Alex (the shyster) have announced. No they don't know the result of the referendum and no they do not know the date of the referendum either, nor do they have answers to many basic and fundamental questions about independence because; no they don't know the answers to them either. In the frantic world of misrepresentation and bluster that Salmond lives in he knows he can get away with such absurd behaviour among his own simple slogan ridden flag waving members and supporters who have nothing left to cling to except this discredited shell of a man. He is all they have left in a world of make believe fashioned by him. A world in which he unexpectedly found himself by winning a majority in Holyrood.

That victory and the lies and spin which caused it has also put him in the position of having to deliver, something he knows deep down inside that he never thought he would have to do and by God it shows. Self-important claims. Downright lies and outrageous deceptions are now what sustains him and his increasingly delusional followers, mainly people who bought the dream from this swindler, they have invested so much in to it and allowed themselves to be kidded that it was possible, it's difficult not to feel sorry for some of them.

"Let's have independence day in March 20 16" says wee Eck and none of his followers bother to ask: but when is the voting day oh great leader? And is it not risky to set a celebration day before we have counted the votes? It's more like being afraid to ask rather than not being bothered, afraid of the great leader but even more afraid of what such questions mean to them as individuals. Such questions sow the seeds of uncertainty and lead to more questions, and consequently fear has taken over. It is also interesting to note that this latest hoax was reported first by a Murdoch Red Top Rag, coincidence? Aye right.

Once this fraudulent snp farce is over and they have been humiliated, the job of putting Scotland right will be difficult. It is however crucial that such people are confined to history and their hateful and poisonous brand of politics with them. Time to clean up Scotland's politics and remove the malcontents and malevolent bullies.

SOME PEOPLE JUST CANNAE TAKE A JOKE. SCOTS?

I remember reading in an art history book that cartoons and graffiti are as old as paintings, drawings, Books etc. I found an example where Michael Angelo had painted 'The Last Judgement' and he painted the faces of his enemies among the church hierarchy, the cardinals, bishops etc. the damned who were shown descending to hell after being judged, he was also a brave man. He was also a great painter 'the Sistine Chapel? 2 coats in 1 afternoon" what a guy.
Fast forward many many years to the roaring fun loving years of Nazi Germany and we find that certain cartoons or jokes or famously books were very dangerous things indeed. A fine example of this was a luminous avante garde left wing cartoonist and painter called George Grosze. He specialized in lampooning the Nazis and upper classes in bohemian Berlin. He rightly decided at one point though that it would be prudent to head for America while he was still alive. I digress but his son Marty Grosze became a celebrated jazz guitarist and band leader a brilliant and hilarious entertainer, he might still be alive you can catch him on U Tube.
So what is this all about I hear you ask? Well; in the past couple of days we have been forced to reflect on the fact that there are still people who think like the ancient cardinals who had it in for Michael Angelo and the censorious protectors of German decency who wanted to jail George Grosze, and they are right here among us. I refer to the 'stushies' surrounding the two great current cartoonists and satirists Gerald Scarfe of The Sunday Times and Steve Bell of The Guardian. Scarfe did a cartoon of Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu building part of the famous apartheid wall where the cement between the bricks was seen to be Palestinian blood. This brought an all too familiar orchestrated cry of Anti Semitism against Scarfe by Zionist liars who trot this scurrilous charge out against anyone who says anything bad about Israel, I have been subjected to this myself despite never having made an anti Jewish statement in my life and it can be very nasty, they are nothing if not powerful and organised.
This brings me to the side-splitting Steve Bell of the Guardian who chose to produce a cartoon of Alex Salmond which was very funny and a bit monstrous at the same time. these words were written behind his huge plump head and his face which had a big blue saltire painted on it "Scotland should go and **** itself" the top of Salmond's head obscured the blank space. Well!!! I kid you not dear readers, the snp/separatist/cybernats have gone 'doo lally' they want Steve Bell's head on a pike, he has traduced our noble country, he has insulted our glorious dead , he has peed all over oor grannie's hielan hame, stolen oor wullie's bucket, this insult must be avenged. Guardian readers will be aware that there is no such thing as an off limits target to Steve Bell; above all among those who like Salmond can strut while seated. Salmond has sensibly chosen to fume in silence but his gullible troops are chewing the carpet. This is yet another example of the state of mind of the nationalists. Just about every significant public figure from Prime Ministers to Popes to US Presidents to the Queen and Phil. to the rest of the royal oafs; to pop stars and you name it have all had their arrogance pricked by Steve Bell's unerring eye for the absurd but, Salmond and Scotland? Oh no Mr Bell you have gone too far. Well Scots. are you on the side of the cardinals, the Nazis and the snp or, do you prefer freedom of expression? It's a difficult one isn't it?

As the late Scottish folk singer Hamish Imlach used to sing

"to whistle or be merry or travel on a ferry.
Would get ye hung on Scotland's Sabbath day" 

This is a vision of an independent snp Scotland, be warned.

 

 

HOORAY HENRY TO THE RESCUE AS ARMY NUMBERS FALL.

Military types and lounge bar commandoes have been on a roller coaster ride over the past 2 days, rumours about massive army job losses turned out to be true causing much grief and sullenness among those who serve and those who have served. 5,300 heroes are for the bagwash, the mallet, the bullet, if you will pardon the pun. The numbers who will be sent 'down the road' will present problems, unemployment of course will be one, considering that an average 800 a year are dishonourably discharged for drug offences a rise in drug taking would not surprise anyone either. Since the greatest homogeneous group to be found in our prisons and mental hospitals are ex army personnel it would seem reasonable to expect extra strain on these services as well, sobering thoughts indeed.

Where stands the protection of the realm though and how much do these redundancies weaken and damage the safety of our country? 5,300 men trained to kill and obey orders are not easily replaced; do you feel safer without them? Fortunately the stories, pictures and interviews of the past few days can serve to reassure us that we can all sleep safe and sound at night knowing that the 5,300 will not be missed as long as we have Prince Harry. Handsome, valiant, gallant and royal; what a package. Sober or soused he's the man for the job, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and slaughter 20 fuzzy wuzzies with a rolled up copy of the London Times before getting pissed and going swimming with naked young women. It's a great life in the army! The newspapers are now telling us that he is now a killer; the template of the warrior prince is now complete. What they have not told us though is whether the person or persons he killed were men, women or children or indeed if they were tied up and blindfolded when he carried out his heroic task.

All this and a royal baby on the way, is it any wonder the wee Spiv Salmond threw in his lot with the Queen of Britain?

HOW MUCH LONGER CAN SALMOND AND THE SNP KEEP UP THE PRETENCE OF A POSSIBLE REFERENDUM VICTORY

As the support for independence slips to 28% and shows signs of dropping further the people wait patiently for the snp/separatist/cybernats to tell us what independence will look like. What will happen to our pensions, what will happen to jobs, what currency will we use and many many more questions. The numbers still talking bullish snp claptrap are dwindling and are looking more and more like Napoleon's 'Old Guard' ready to die on the battlefield for the emperor Salmond, no matter how many times he lets them down or lies to them, blind loyalty? Gullible? the personality cult? It was ever thus. Some people need someone to die for; they have nothing to give but loyalty; no initiative, no spark of intelligence, waiting to be led like cattle.

"Pity the poor country that needs heroes" (Bertlot Brecht) he could have been talking about Scotland and the snp, from the invented William Wallace; through Bruce, Rob Roy? To Oor Wullie and Benny Lynch they need heroes. Even the shyster Salmond will suffice for the more cerebrally challenged. After 70 odd years of the snp demanding independence they are unable to tell us what it is about. They can sing about it and march in it's favour, threaten to die for it, even duff up the odd Englishman for it if he is not too big and there are enough of them together but explain it? Alas no.

It looks like they are heading for a humiliation when the vote is eventually taken and some of them if their language on newspaper comment blogs are anything to go by are beginning to unravel. They are now at the stage where anyone who is voting No is "not a real Scot." or even a "traitor or a coward" these people will take defeat very badly and I predict civil unrest if they get enough to drink. These kilted drink sodden hoards of bearded, tattooed snarling chib carrying thugs will take to the streets and the men of the snp will be no better.

I further predict that when the balloon goes up the first rat with a lifebelt will be the wee spiv Salmond he will be off like a rat up a roan pipe, having made the bullets he will leave the tartan clad rabble to fire them. It will be a time where it becomes prudent to lie low if you have an Engurlish accent.

"them that dies will be the lucky ones" (Long John Silver)

“I WISH I WAS A SPACEMAN THE FASTEST GUY ALIVE, I’D FLY AROUND THE UNIVERSE IN FIREBALL XL5” GERRY ANDERSON R.I.P.

Years ago I heard the creator of Joe Ninety, Miss. Penelope and Fireball XL5 the late great Gerry Anderson being interviewed on radio and he told this charming true story about himself, it sums him up delightfully. He was visiting the Kennedy Space Centre and he went for lunch only to find the place full except for a table with one guy who agreed to share his table with him. Anderson noticed that the guy wore a space centre badge and he asked him what he did and the fellow said he worked there at Kennedy.
Anderson was fascinated and asked him if he had ever seen a launch and he said no he had not, they had a pleasant lunch and the guy gave Anderson his 'card' as he shook hands and left. On the card it said USA Astronaut Commander James Lovelle. Anderson had a good laugh at the great Space legend Jim. Lovelle telling him he had never seen a launch which of course he hadn't as he was up in the nose cone of the space ship on several launches and didn't see anything, he was of course played by Tom Hanks in the thrilling movie Apollo 13 and I believe he also holds the American record for most space miles. They became friends and it is typical of Anderson to relate this story where he was the punch line, a lovely guy who stirred the imagination of millions of kids and some grownups too, I hope he's up there zooming around somewhere.