“Security Intelligence Consultancy” SC Strategy Ltd has only three directors. One is the husband of the judge in yesterday’s Assange ruling. One is the former Head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett, who is synonymous with crooked security operations and personally wrote the notorious dossier of lies on Iraqi WMD, thus causing the subsequent deaths of millions of people. One is Lord Carlile, who was notably close to protected Establishment paedophiles Greville Janner and Cyril Smith. Is the British Establishment not endlessly fascinating?
The corporate media has published no information about “Lady” Arbuthnot’s background and sinister links at all, despite the fact it is uniformly carrying her jibes at Assange as a major story. There can be no clearer example of the fact that it is the corporate media which, deliberately and systematically, spreads fake news, while bloggers get out the actual facts via social media.
Directors of SC Strategy Ltd from Companies House Register
To anyone to whom British corruption is not axiomatic, it appears pretty rum that the judge in the Assange case is married to a government parliamentarian and close to the security services.
“Lady” Arbuthnot’s Husband
There is some interesting background in the Mirror here. The taxpayer paid £1,200 in restaurant bills for “Lady” Arbuthnot and her husband in one long weekend jaunt to Turkey alone.
If anybody thinks the Assange case had anything to do with justice, they are very mistaken. Please read my analysis of “Lady” Arbuthnot’s judgement here.
TOTALLY OFF TOPIC: A FEW QUICK THOUGHTS ON AMERICAN GUN VIOLENCE.
A. The NRA overwhelmingly funds Republican candidates.
B. The NRA professes a fundamentalist belief in the Second Amendment of the American Constitution; such as funding Mario Rubio in Florida who opposed any checks on gun purchases to mentally challenged persons.
C. If the source of the funding is attacked then the consequences of such funding will also be attacked and hopefully reduced.
Not rocket science and politically do-able.
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard tells a Labour women’s conference in Glasgow that he’s setting up an executive sub-committee to deal with sexism, racism and homophobia in the party. And then boasts that Scottish Labour will lead the way in promoting diversity. How about getting your house in order first before you claim to lead the way?
Who will Richard appoint to chair his diversity committee?
Not Hugh Gaffney MP surely.
Nor Alex Rowley MSP.
Ex-MP Sir David Hamilton who called Nicola Sturgeon a “wee lassie” to howls of laughter at Scottish Labour’s conference in 2015. How about him? Mmmm. Maybe.
Councillor Davie McLachlan, Labour leader on South Lanarkshire Council but suspended for allegedly saying a racist remark to Anas Sarwar. A candidate to chair this? Probably not.
Then there’s Tom McAughtrie who was a Labour councillor for 30 years in Dumfries and Galloway. He’s just been reprimanded by the Scottish Commissioner for Ethics in Public Life. He called LGBT campaigners “deviants”. But apparently he’s left the party, so that rules him out.
They could parachute in someone from down south. After all it’s done all the time elsewhere in appointments in Scotland.
How about Jared “sexy little slags” O’Mara MP? Or Clive “on your knees bitch” Lewis MP?
Well, there’s lots of talent to choose from to make Scottish Labour the leaders in promoting diversity.
Lord Adonis, pointing out what most of us already know.
“Just written to Lord Hall, DG of BBC, asking if he thinks Mr Farage’s 32nd appearance on BBC Question Time, as ex leader of party on 2% in the polls, is consistent with his duty to uphold impartiality.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Ros
If the BBC hadn’t given so much airtime and approval to Farage in the years before 2016 then the 52% Leave win wouldn’t have materialised.
Meanwhile, the GB men’s curling team are losing matches and are unlikely to be medallists. So I suppose the BBC will start calling them Scotland’s curlers.
@John Goos
I too have being trying to donate but the Just Giving page won’t let me?
It just returns to the same page?
Am I doing something wrong?
Great cause and pleased to be able to help!
*Goss* sorry!
The Britnat loyalist foot soldiers the O/O threatening to kill two students in Glasgow, because they filmed them mimicking shooting Tims (Catholics).
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2240457/orange-order-joke-shooting-tims-college-students-threatened/
They ought to ban this lot from marching in Scotland, they’re a disgrace to Scotland.
Scottish Labour works to get rid of the OBFA.
Which pleases the OO.
The OO gets more and more members into the Scottish Tories.
The Tories drank champagne with Labour on the night of 18 September 2014.
What a cosy little trio Labour, Tories and the OO have become.
It the Apprentice Boys Of Derry not the OO.
The OBFA doesn’t cover them at all.
Looks like The US Government, are not only completely out of their depth, they are looking complete and utter morons in Korea. Of course the Americans do the same here in Europe. It seems the Koreans North and South are going to unite, and tell the incredibly embarrassingly stupid Americans to go home, and take their weapons of mass destruction with them.
We should do the same here in Europe and England. If the Scots want to be their “Best Friends” and join the American Controlled EU.. then that is up to them. I used to think they were clever, cos they used to be clever. They invented The Telly didn’t they? Now produced in Korea who are seriously embarrassing The Americans by being nice to their fellow Koreans, who the Americans seem to think they hate.
“Olympic Games Make US Regime Paranoid and Unpredictable”
https://off-guardian.org/2018/02/16/olympic-games-make-us-regime-paranoid-and-unpredictable/
“Disastrous Winter Olympics For the USA, May Lose South Korea to Peace”
https://www.sott.net/article/377661-Disastrous-Winter-Olympics-For-the-USA-May-Lose-South-Korea-to-Peace
Tony
“If the Scots want to be their “Best Friends” and join the American Controlled EU.. then that is up to them.”
As opposed to having Westminster forcing
Scotland to house UK/US nukes in Scotland, no Tony if anyone’s in bed with the Great Satan its your lot in London.
Good comment but it’s a bit of a media over-swing to talk of quick reunification. Certainly Mike Pence was left glowering and brooding like the proverbial spare p****k at a wedding.There is a strong and growing feeling that the US is using South Korea as a forward base for encircling and threatening China rather than defence against an attack from the North.But we have been through this dance before with the Nordpolitik of Kim Dae Jung and Ro Mu Hyon. I am afraid that the Northern Kim clan are looking for a new source of funds now China and Russia are drying up, but will not give up their power in response.
There were many on this blog only too willing to believe our government lies (via its MSM mouthpieces) over what happened on Maidan in February 2014. The truth is gradually emerging. These Georgians, who confess to being the snipers who opened fire on demonstrators and unarmed police, are now disclosing who gave them the orders.
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201802141061632008-ukraine-maidan-georgian-snipers-evidence/
Sputniknews ahead the curve as usual.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31359021
Their article might be a little more convincing if the guy in the last picture was armed with something more lethal than a vintage Baikal air rifle. The slot in the stock for the cocking mechanism is clearly visible.
You are of course right. Sputnik News is well ahead of the curve in comparison with the BBC. Its article, the one you link, gives two arguments. One comes from an unnamed source the reporter chooses to call Sergei (probably a fabrication) and with the other it calls upon the wisdom of neo-fascist Andriy Parubiy. No wonder no thinking person believes an iota of what the BBC puts out as news.
https://bennorton.com/andriy-parubiy-ukraine-fascist/
Andriy Parubiy you’ll note is the commander the Georgians named who deployed the sniper services. To the west he is obviously some kind of a hero!
@ John Goss February 17, 2018 at 21:11
Exactly like the Yanks arranged in Egypt, Syria, and Venezuela, snipers shooting both sides.
They’ve done it before Paul, as you say, they will continues to do it until the evil empire crumbles.
Saw this referenced in the Guardian’s CiF and thought it worth sharing:
https://dangerousglobe.com/news/politics/a-nice-business-to-do-people-with-the-atlantic-bridge/
Mochyn69
Tganks for your link to the Dangerous Globe website.
I found this article concerning Grenfell Tower, A Dirty Job
“We are obviously concerned about the power surge issue and the fact that, in the 16th July Scrutiny Committee report into the matter, it was stated that there was still confusion as to what precisely caused this issue.
If you recall, the surges caused significant damage to electrical equipment belonging to many of the residents of Grenfell Tower and caused much upset, alarm, and distress. Thankfully the damage was limited to property, but there are real worries amongst the residents that something more serious could have occurred or indeed could occur in the future.”
Recording voltages forms part of the regular checks on Electrical Installations. The electrical surges that set many electrical devices on fir prior to the fire, could have been current surges if the overload protection was out of date. For instance a 13 amp fuse will cook rather than blow on a fused spur switch if it is used for an immersion heater. In corporate property out of date overload protection is not usually regarded as a major problem because it would cost too much to replace.
Far more serious is the fact that over-voltages were recorded at Grenfell Tower, which would imply serious defects in the mains transformers. These would also have been extremely expensive to replace.
If the enquiry had done what it said it would do, which is to present a preliminary report in a few months highlighting the main causes of the fire, this information should already be made public.
It is only because corporate negligence is common and frequent, that the powers that be refuse to publicise the main cause of the fire. Basic protection of the electrical installation is out of date in most corporate-owned property. Vast sums of public money are squandered on monitoring terrorism which our own government has
itself created for fighting illegal proxy wars of aggression as part of modern colonialism, which we call eating your own vomit. Nothing is spent on the hidden infrastructure in locked cupboards in public buildings.
Brendan Cox resigns from two charities. Allegations of sexual abuse. Blah Blah. The Heil reveals all.
Craig was writng about this yonks ago. Wake up Mr Dacre!
Cox is reported as crying when making his statement. Of course he was.
Whited sepulchres and fallen idols.
‘Brendan and Jo met while working for Oxfam, where Mr Forsyth had been their boss. Mr Forsyth became Gordon Brown’s campaigns chief when he became Prime Minister in 2007, and Mr Cox joined him in Downing Street, while Mrs Cox became an adviser to Sarah Brown. The Coxes married in 2009.
When Labour lost the 2010 Election, Mrs Cox followed her political dream – eventually being elected MP in 2015. Mr Forsyth became Save The Children’s chief executive and Mr Cox went with him as director of policy, including responsibility for the ’empowerment of women.’
Some colleagues say he had a reputation for pestering women for sex. ‘It wasn’t comfortable being on duty alone with him,’ said one.’
Jo Cox’s husband Brendan confesses to inappropriate behaviour amid new allegation that he drunkenly ‘grabbed a woman by the throat’ as he is forced to quit the murdered MP’s charities
Brendan Cox, husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, admitted to being a sex pest
Also resigned from Jo Cox Foundation and More in Common, charities he set up in honour of his late wife’s memory
He is accused of harassing a female employee at Save The Children in London
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5404241/Jo-Coxs-husband-admits-sex-pest-resigns.html#
The guardian scrambling again to find some other New Labour figure to represent as the nation’s moral shepherd. They’re not even reporting this story.
The Guardian website is limited in what it can publish on a Sunday. It’ll be interesting to see if they report it tomorrow morning.
I also noted a while back that he looks like a wrong-un. His pics online all make him look like a total psycho, same with Ali Campbell (the latter is much admired by the laydeez, I’m told, which is very weird).
Ruth Davidson appears on Peston and gets a totally free pass. Spends the first half of the interview talking about Oxfam and British overseas aid. The it moves on to Brexit and its all garbage spin about how the Tories are securing a great deal and how she’s sorted Scotland’s concerns with May. Absolute garbage. Just Davidson pretending to be the Tory leader in waiting while Scotland’s people get bullied into a major change for the worse we voted against.
No questions about the Tory Brexit report’s dire assessment for the Scottish economy. Nothing at all about an independence referendum. The metropolitan media are pathetic. They’ve decided en masse that if they don’t mention a second independence referendum then it simply won’t materialise.
No one else from Scotland invited on the show to air contrary views to Davidson’s.
“They’ve decided en masse that if they don’t mention a second independence referendum then it simply won’t materialise.”
When they know it isn’t going to happen what’s the point in wasting time on it?
The disgraceful media has given Davidson a pass on everything from racist councillors and MPs to Brexit, but what do we expect from a foreign owned media, not parity that’s for sure.
The Tory councillor Richard Nelson who is in a senior position in the Orange Order in Scotland has got quite a CV. As well as being the South Lanarkshire Council Tory group’s business manager he is a comedy hypnotist, a clown for hire at childrens parties who does magic tricks, a rehabilitation instructor at a high security state psychiatric hospital, a branch officer of the Scottish Prison Officers Association, a DJ and a President of the Apprentice Boys of Derry in Scotland. You couldn’t make it up.
Well he’s certainly not lazy. But are more traditional Scots Tories happy that people who are senior in the Apprentice Boys of Derry or other OO groups are also representing their party at a fairly senior level?
It’s interesting to watch the media, smear Corbyn on just about anything they can find, not that I care about Labour I don’t, they’re part of the problem in Scotland.
However watching Peston and his flunkies, attempt to smear Corbyn over Venezuela, Russia and some loose assertion on spying whilst aiming it at Thornberry, brought back memories of the constant smear attempts by the media of Sturgeon and Salmond.
When the British propaganda machine gets its sights set on demeaning and smearing someone, you can be sure it’s in defence of the status quo.
Fortunately for Scots they have a mandate on independence, however pulling the trigger at the right time will be crucial.
The Britnats are just waiting for a McCarthy type politician to take the opportunity to start an unBritish activities witchhunt against all who oppose the way thing are going in the UK. You can see it building up. We gotta get out this union as a top priority. If democracy and economic sanity are successfully defended by the creation of an independent Scotland then it’s the only thing that can help the decent people in England.
Where’s Mundell? He was supposed to be on a trade mission to Hong Kong and Japan during the Commons February recess. There’s been no coverage of his Far Eastern trip in the media. He’s not tweeted since he left
We reckoned he was avoiding being questioned about the Brexit report. But there’s probably more to it.
We know of the Tory plans for a Scottish Office HQ in Leith and an exponential rise in staff to go with the Tory Tudor powers and devo powers grabs. Why is he so incommunicado? What’s he up to? Normally politicians’ trade trips get loads of media coverage. Their party machine makes sure of it. But there’s been nothing for Mundell’s tour. What is going on?
Mundell is probably doing a Sir George Downing, Downing was a spy for Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II, Downing had Downing street built.
One things certain Mundell’s not out promoting Scottish interests abroad.
Ros
Talking about Ollie Cromwell I saw something someone had posted that said Clare Balding is a descendent of the Lord Protector. Don’t know if it’s true. But if it is and there’s an intolerance gene it certainly explains a lot.
Interesting, Balding, does appear to have a blasé attitude, warts and all. ?
This appears interesting, and could lead to calls for Britain to ditch strict EU safety standards – including rules on food and pharmaceuticals – in order to secure a sweeping US-UK trade deal.
But would the British government agree to such drastic measures to secure a trade deal, don’t be silly of course they would.
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/02/17/hard-brexit-think-tank-accidentally-published-plans-us-uk-shadow-trade-talks/
Fox and Hannan. They’re like the Burke and Hare of politics.
Yes the things some governments will do to safeguard jobs and exports.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/snp-blasted-after-arms-trade-12042375
Firstly Brexit will not save jobs just about every impact assessment has shown it will cost thousands of jobs.
In saying that I’m not a supporter of the arms industry, but yes it supports many jobs and on this occasion it appears the seminar was about showcasing hundreds of potential appenticeships for young people in the industry.
You forget that you support shipbuilding on the Clyde, building aircraft carriers, which are essentially mobile staging posts for offensive warfare. So for you to complain about showcasing apprenticeships in the industry smacks of hypocrisy.
You’re forgetting Ros. Royal Navy carriers don’t have planes, so they’re very pacific in character.
That’s right, I support ship building on the Clyde and I’ve never used the phrase “bairns not bombs”.
Not me that is the hypocrite.
Actually bairns not bombs is more associated with the nukes at Faslane.
You know the ones that Scots can’t get rid of.
RS
“This appears interesting, and could lead to calls for Britain to ditch strict EU safety standards – including rules on food and pharmaceuticals – in order to secure a sweeping US-UK trade deal. ”
EU standards did not stop the Grenfell Tower cladding going up in flames.It is Chief Executive Klaus Kleinfeld who is a top EU Bilderberger. Is being sued.They should have used British standards.
https://www.reuters.com/article/arconic-lawsuit/arconic-sued-in-united-states-over-fatal-london-tower-fire-idUSL1N1K427V
Meanwhile regarding the den of iniquity.
“The Westminster child sex abuse inquiry has announced that it will not look into allegations made against politicians or senior civil servants, due to “national security concerns.”
National security concerns eh, how convenient.
http://yournewswire.com/westminster-child-sex-probe-exempts-politicians-due-to-national-security-concerns/
An interesting five minute read.
Total rubbish isn’t it? If any part of the inquiry had impinged on national security they could simply have held it in camera. They must think most people are gullible.
reel guid.
It’s a case of closing ranks to protect the establishment, it reeks to high heaven.
ree guid.
I can’t read the story it’s behind a paywall but by the reaction of others Mark McDonald’s resignation appears to be over very little.
Though as in the case of Michelle Thomson the unionist media is/has portrayed it as nothing short a scandal.
https://mobile.twitter.com/sundaytimessco/status/965154394663800837
What say you Fred? You’ve been using the Mark McDonald story for months to have a go at the indy movement.
I say he should either do the job we are paying him for and take his seat at Holyrood or resign and let us elect someone who will.
Any news of the woman who reported waking up in his bed and not being able to remember how she got there?
@ Republicofscotland February 18, 2018 at 12:42
‘Your News Wire’ is not a reliable source, they often mix truth and lies up in their ‘stories’.
I cannot find any confirmation of the ‘National Security concerns’ allegations, apart from on a 38* petition, which is based on the ‘Your News Wire’ story.
But of course the PTB are doing everything in their power to kick the ‘pedos in high places’ into the long grass.
Thank you Paul for hightlighting that.
This article from Feb 1st, appears to say that the investigation will be cut back or reduced.
This from a QC on the council.
“But Andrew O’Connor, QC, the inquiry counsel on the Westminster strand, told its first hearing yesterday: “We suspect that much of the public concern relating to Westminster child abuse issues may have been created, or at least exacerbated, by a lack of knowledge.”
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/home-affairs/law/news/92510/westminster-sex-abuse-inquiry-be-scaled-back
Meanwhile as Britain along with the rest of the western world attempts to put down Russia as the only country with active spies around the globe.
Our very own Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has been described by one of them as “A very good friend.”
However you won’t see the BBC, or the majority of the compliant media smear Johnson, or claim he’s in league with the pesky Ruskies.
https://tompride.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/boris-johnson-described-by-known-russian-spy-as-good-friend/
Norway have gone top of the Winter Olympics medals table. Just shows what an independent nation of 5 million people can do. OK I know they’re suited to winter sports. Even so they’ve got 26 medals. To GB’s 4.
Yes they do have the advantage of being able to practice all year round but they also sent 109 competitors to Team GB’s 59.
I don’t know how much the Norwegian’s spent but the Winter Olympics cost the UK £31 million, a little more than a tenth of the spend on the Summer Olympics but I’m surprised there haven’t been more calls to invest the money in the NHS or caring for the homeless instead.
Team GB brought back 4 medals from the last Winter Olympics, the target this time is 5.
Kempe,
Don’t worry – Britain will beat the Jamaican team in the medal standings.
Can’t say I’m going to lose any sleep over it.
I see the Scotland curling team got beaten by Sweden.
It was close though, Fred. Were you watching?
No, I don’t have a television.
The Catalan News Agency reports that a supporter of FC Barcelona’s basketball team was arrested by police at his team’s match in the Canary Islands for displaying a Catalan flag. And was held overnight in police cells.
A SENIOR staff member of a leading Highland MSP has been suspended amid allegations of inappropriate conduct. Reports have been made to Police Scotland against Norman Will, head of office for Inverness and Nairn MSP Fergus Ewing, and he has been suspended from his role.
https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/Inappropriate-conduct-claim-against-MSPs-aide-15022018.htm
Farmers in England still waiting on payments from 2015, but you won’t here much about that in the press.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LesleyRiddoch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
The Tories are fast building Nuremberg in England’s green and pleasant land. And Labour aren’t calling them out because both wings of the party are only fixated with winning office, preferably without the other. The Tories have abandoned the business community in favour of pandering to the votes of foreigner hating Brexit knuckle draggers. Scotland is to be reduced to colonial status like an African colony under the Kaiser. District Commissioner Balding greatly admires our curling expertise but don’t get any big ideas about democracy or equality. The rest of the BBC deals with the emergency by inviting Nigel Farage back onto Question Time for about the 893rd occasion. Trump eggs the fascists on. Europe looks on baffled………and worried.
Here the Home secretary and the PM, say a independent Scotland would be snubbed by the Five Eyes.
They added.
“Whitehall paper concluded that independence would be a high-risk adventure that might leave Scotland more exposed to international nasties and other security threats than she is at present.”
Is that a veiled threat or scaremongering or both. Scotland borders England so in order for Northern England to be safe, info would need to be divulged to Scotland.
Yes it’s scaremongering again, lets get out of this union sokner than later I say.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2013/10/theresa-mays-grubby-little-warning-independent-scotland-will-be-left-out-in-the-cold/
Re RoS Comment – “Here the Home secretary and the PM, say a independent Scotland would be snubbed by the Five Eyes.”
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One good reason for independence. The “Five Eyes” are a menace to democracy.
‘Moscow calls U.S. vote meddling claims ‘blabber’, ‘fantasies’:
https://japantoday.com/category/world/moscow-calls-us-vote-meddling-claims-'blabber'-'fantasies‘
‘Moscow on Saturday dismissed as “blabber” and “fantasies” allegations that it interfered in the election that brought President Donald Trump to power, denials that drew immediate scorn from U.S. officials.
The traded barbs, made at the Munich Security Conference, came a day after the United States indicted 13 Russians for running a secret campaign to sway the 2016 vote.
“I am amazed that… the Russians come, send someone every year to basically refute the facts,” US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Munich attendees about the U.S. charges: “So as long as we don’t see facts, everything else is blabber……….”
Hear, hear! As the American Indians noted long ago, ‘White man speak with forked tongue’. Their descendants still do.
“‘Moscow calls U.S. vote meddling claims ‘blabber’, ‘fantasies’”
They say their athletes don’t take drugs as well but they keep testing positive.
If we are being strictly accurate, Greville Janner was an alleged protected paedophile where sufficient weight of evidence existed for trials to have been brought on more than one occasion. Assuming the judgement of DPP Alison Saunders is worth considering as factual,rather than pandering-to-the-media PC nonsense…..
‘Moscow calls on US not to play with fire in Syria’:
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/moscow-calls-us-not-play-fire-syria/
‘…“In the areas supervised by the US – east of the Euphrates and all the way to Syria’s state borders – they create authorities in such a way that they have no ties with Damascus providing them with assistance in various forms. All that can be a very serious problem from the point of view of compliance with the UN Security Council’s demands on ensuring Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
US lets militants regain strength in American influence area
Russia’s top diplomat drew attention to the al-Tanf US zone of influence created due to the United States’ unilateral and destructive steps. “The unilateral steps made by the United States, which declared the 55-kilometer area near al-Tanf its zone of influence is something we did not agree on,” Lavrov said….’
The true motives and designs of the US and it’s crony ‘Coalition’ War Criminals and proxy headchoppers in Syria has been clear all along for the unblinkered.
Of relevance too is: ‘The US is Executing a Global War Plan’: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48817.htm
As the ‘Project for a New American Century’ document called for in 2000, the US must be capable of carrying out multiple major wars simultaneously. Yet STILL our MSM won’t report the truth.
We shall wake up one morning (or not if it goes heavyweight nukes) and find ourselves in conflict with Russia and/or China and North Korea. And, of course, the blame will be laid at their door, instead of where it clearly belongs.
Concerning times across the ME for the aviation world. Maybe its time to take the bus.
A Russian jet taken out with a man-pad over Idlib, then a Turkish assault chopper over Afrin. Followed shortly there after by an Israeli F16 and a couple of days later; an Iranian civilian airplane killing all 66 on board. Unfortunate set of events.
Hopefully the conspiracy theorists that walk among us didn;t see the admittance by former shn bet/mssad agents published in a recent Guardian book review with regard civilian airliners –
”Israel had plan to shoot down passenger plane to kill Arafat, book claims.
Ariel Sharon allegedly told air force to attack planes if thought to be carrying Palestinian leader”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/israel-plan-shoot-down-passenger-plane-kill-yasser-arafat
They might just add 2 + 2 and get the wrong end of the stick. Be reassured, the decision makers of today in Israel have evolved since those dark days. Would anyone here argue otherwise?
To think this clown represents not just England, but the rUK abroad. Thankfully I don’t present myself as British, so hopefully Boris Johnson will never creep into a conversation on politics, where someone tries to identify him, as my Foreign secretary.
http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/boris-johnson-monkey-head-1-5400342
Don’t know if the monkey head is reminiscent of any Labour folk Ros, but the grin is pure Ruth Davidson
reel guid.
I noticed Rape Clause Colonel Ruth Davidson, has resurfaced and spoke out, not about the disasterous Brexit assessments, nor the xenophobic councillors in the party.
No the Colonel has broken cover to speak about aid workers who abuse people in disaster areas. Such as on the Peston show, where she faced no probing question whatsoever.
Still no sign of the Scarlet Pimpernel Mundell?
The MPs come back tomorrow from their ill-deserved February recess, so Fluffy will have to be back to lead the Fakers’ Dozen of 13 Scottish Tories.
Fakers indeed ?
Poor Boris – he’d only be emotionally attached to the head if it had belonged to a pig..,
I’d say he’s emotionally disfunctional.
So any form of Brexit for farmers that doesn’t emulate the status quo, will be disastrous for the farming community.
Yet unbelievably the majority of farmers (in Scotland anyway) voted no to independence (to stay in the UK and the EU) and to leave the EU.
Now impact assessments show that they’ll be hit hard by any Brexit that doesn’t mimic the current set up. I just can’t understand the mentality of these people, it’s akin to turkeys voting for Christmas.
Thrown cheap imports from the US, China and India, New Zealand and Australia, and whoever else the Tory government agrees a trade deal with and British farming could shrink considerably.
https://inews.co.uk/news/form-brexit-will-pose-serious-risk-scottish-farmers/
No one’s favourite journo David Torrance says that the SNP’s independence proposition is another Brexit like leap into the unknown.
Eh?
Scotland’s going to have to leap in one direction David. There’s no status quo on the option list.
Does anyone take heed of this self serving hipster, who made him name on the back of Salmond, a guy he can’t put down enough.
Pete Wishart has decided not to contest the SNP Deputy Leadership after all. Another sign that those shy of a second indyref are not prevailing in their arguments. Pete’s caution is sincere but with both brexit and the devo power grab going on, Scotland can’t afford not to go for independence.
Yes reel guid, I agree, we need the SNP to be a bit more proactive on the indy front. We need another ref at the end of the Brexit negotiations. That way we’ll have a chance to dodge the bullet.
reel guid / RoS, I’d be delighted if Mhairi Black threw her hat in the ring. She’s got the drive and enthusiasm for independence and she’d take a lot of her generation with her. She’s no baggage and has a quick brain to get the better of any counter argument. Plain talking and a genuine individual.
JOML.
Yes good choice, I like Mhairi.
JOML
Not a bad idea. Mhairi is good at mobilising people.