Sicknote Slippers
The turnout at the “independence march and rally” yesterday was so abysmally poor that it seems almost unfair to pick on any of the scores of SNP elected representatives who didn’t bother to show up.
But dear old Cosy Feet Pete Wishart had the most chef’s-kiss excuse of all.
The reason he didn’t fancy getting his wee Billy Whizz quiff blown about a chilly Calton Hill was that he had important business “taking on the far right” – who were of course nowhere to be seen – with “half a million” (50,000) of his British besties, a convenient short Tube ride away from his London residence, at a pretty openly anti-Semitic protest called, with a double layer of delicious comedic value… UK Together.
Now there’s some more irony you can’t buy.
Just like Mick McCann from Preacher guarding New York from the Kaiser in 1917, the MP for Perth and Kinross-shire has done a heroic job defending Britain from the far right and fighting for Scottish independence from the plush safety of the Palace Of Westminster for the last 25 years – even though we’re out of the EU, independence is nowhere in sight and Nigel Farage is set to be the next Prime Minister.
But time and tide waits for no man, and as Farage enters No.10 and Wishart walks off to retirement, (having handily reached the requisite age by the next election), Slippers will just have to wipe his tears over quarter of a century of total failure on his fat UK Parliament pension of around £50,000 a year for the rest of his life.
His Majesty’s United Kingdom thanks you for your service, Pete.
Well done for highlighting this.
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to call “Present” or “Not Guilty”.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Wet P1shfart is a bad parody of himself..
Wait…Pishfart is one of the SNP UK agents who are ‘Lords-in-waiting’, but “…a pretty openly anti-Semitic protest..”
Really? Seen any ‘news’ lately? In the last two years??
You are blaming the wrong people for what is happening over the last two years.
The blame lands solely on American Evangelical Christians and their influence in Washington.
link to milwaukeeindependent.com
link to religionnews.com
Wet P1shfart says;
“A vote for the SNP is a vote for my pension pot!
Vote SNP, vote for comfy slippers”..
The far right were on the Royal Mile haranguing the indy march. Peter Wishart could have killed two birds with one stone if he was in Edinburgh.
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which”.
George Orwell
Hey, mr Wishy Washy, the «far right» within the rotting BritState is a peculiarly English problem, let them deal with it. Being dragged along on English coat tails is so undignified.
Farage will not be the nest Prime Minister. He is a charlatan, a rehashed Tory and establishment containment. Like them or not, the genuine English right are now seeing right through him and the Reform vote will fracture. Where this leaves us is anyone’s guess.
His only regret is he was never elected to be speaker of the house of commons. Your not a rich man if you’ve got the likes of him on your side.
These are the same tossers who where shutting stop Brexit and then allowed Johnson to win a huge majority to become PM.
Aye, “Trust in Nicola” I’m still waiting on this grand plan she was supposedly working on in the background.
Whit kinda moron tries to reverse a democratic result for Brexshit? One that’s only pretending to be a Yesser.
If I were in charge I’d have these eejits only serve two terms. If they’ve achieved absolutely zero in that time they’d be standing down. All the UK system does is reward failure.
Absolutely Geri, but also Dhondt (Westminsters git) as well!
The non-achieving political and Quango class parasites are everywhere, and, I suspect are being increasingly found out by the electorate!
Hence P1shfarts “untimely” attendance at the anti-right “pwotest” “hey Woodstock man”.. march; it’s all the SNP are politically bothered about anymore..
One superficial student politics crisis after another..
Juvenile charlatans. What a fall from grace and semblance of trust.
But are they bovvering? Nope, not one bit; just dusting down the auld carrots thinking we are as thick as they are.
Special place in hell and all that; Swinney you deserve a riot and most certainly not in your interest.
Meant to conclude:
Signed:
Your angry and defrauded long term true independence voter base..
To be honest Farage can be PM for all I care and certainly couldn’t give a flying F*cking if he did. I’d say to the SNP trying to stop Farage becoming PM, declare UDI for Scotland and look upward and forward this is how you protect Scotland but they won’t. Scotland hasn’t matter to them since Salmond stood down, it must have been annoying pretending to be a nationalist for Pete all that time at leased when Sturgeon took over they where free to be who ever they wanted.
If the SNP showed as much attention to the people who voted for them as they do in trying to safe the UK Farage might not be so popular.
Fat Pete has joined the elite.
and the far right he will defeat.
All his career he’s been on the take.
So have a KitKat and take a break.
Well done to Fiona for her tweet it must have taken this coward hours to reply with a correct response.
I don’t blame Pete for being a unionist, I blame to people who voted for him for being taken in by the every people they voted against.
Rev, your link to “a pretty openly anti-Semitic protest “ shows nothing of the kind. It is to a Twitter post put up by Josh Howie, a comedian who also does stuff for GB News and the Jewish Chronicle.
His group, “proud Zios” were stopped by the police, for their own safety (according to the Met). This is hardly evidence of antisemitism by the police, far less the protesters
According to Sky News, over 500 organisations were represented on this March, several of them Jewish groups.
So where is your evidence of “a pretty openly anti-Semitic protest “?
The Vegan Bloc for Palestine, perhaps (one of Sky’s 500)?
This might remind readers of a certain age of an earlier era of protests, satirised on a button badge, “Gay Whales against Racism“.
Anyone waving the Iranian regime flag is advocating the destruction of Israel. The emblem on this flag states that the world will be Islamic. It connects their revolution as the will of God. Death to all Jews and infadels.
Mark Beggan says:
30 March, 2026 at 2:41 am
“Anyone waving the Iranian regime flag is advocating the destruction of Israel. “
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That is nonsense ON MULTIPLE LEVELS.. The flag has nothing to do with the alleged policy of the regime. And, even if it DID, it doesn’t follow that a flag waver protesting the invasion of the country by IsrUSA supports that policy. Not least, the Jewish groups protesting.
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“The emblem on this flag states…..Death to all Jews and infadels (sic.”
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There has been a community of Hebrews/Israelites/ Jews in Persia/Iran for 2,700 years. Its number has reduced from 100,000 to under 15000 since 1948 largely due to emigration following the establishment of the State of Israel.
“That is nonsense ON MULTIPLE LEVELS.. The flag has nothing to do with the alleged policy of the regime. And, even if it DID, it doesn’t follow that a flag waver protesting the invasion of the country by IsrUSA supports that policy. Not least, the Jewish groups protesting.”
So someone could go on an independence march waving a Union Jack and it wouldn’t mean they supported UK government policy of refusing a second referendum?
It wasn’t an independence march.
It was a march against the rise of the hard right which is what that country currently bombing them back to the stone age most definitely is & even brag about it.
I had an ironic chuckle at Stu having a go at Slipper’s albeit limited hair!
At least as the cost of living crisis hits harder with the warring, and the council tax rises begin to come out of folk’s bank accounts, these dudes don’t have to be overly concerned about cost of shampoo!
I noticed Mike Score of Flock of Seagulls epic fringe fame is bald as a coot now too. Maybe he won’t be Wishing he wasn’t so follically challenged as the price of shampoo hits new highs.
Thanks for saying this. It is of course correct.
It has becomes standard for any progressive / anti-fascist march to be labelled anti-Semitic, especially if support for Palestine is shown, as a way of rubbishing it as full of nasty bigots. The irony of this coming from the hard/far right, traditionally the anti-Semites par excellence, is quite something. I think most sensible people see through it for the lies and propaganda it is.
But where is the evidence that the protest is “openly antisemitic”?
The link doesn’t support the claim.
Read the roll of honour,
Scotland’s bravest men…
I am an anti semite. I did not realise this till 2 years ago when Netanyahu announced that anyone who did not agree with Israel’s military policy in Gaza was anti semetic.
A Lordship in waiting he hopes is Me Peter Wishart.
And where else would one be than in London over a weekend. An interesting commentary Rev Stu but sadly it only reinforces what we already know about Brit ” cosy toes’ Peter Wishart.
In a Independent Scotland we shouldn’t pay pension pots of these individuals who have made a carer out of the Union.
If you weren’t convinced the SNP didn’t won’t Independence you will now, “FRIST Minister John Swinney will push the UK Government for Holyrood control over energy policy if his party wins May’s election, he has said.”. So vote for the SNP 1 & 2 to win a super majority in which NO UK PM can say no, John Swinney has already decided all that GONE.
The FM of what? I ask what is he the FM of, Pinocchio of the Scotland office is running Scotland not John.
This is why John Swinney was and still is a failure even Salmond thought he was a joke.
I’d never wish Sturgeon on Scotland again as FM ever, but I’d have Huza back before Sturgeon or Swinney.
He’s in a election and he keeps sending out all the wrong signals.
He’s just telling every single person who’s going to give the SNP once again both votes and ALLOW REFORM TO WIN SEATS that after the election Independence isn’t going to happen and voting for the SNP at all is wasted unless you want the Union.
I thought last year that REFORM would bevcome the official opposition and I still think that. Why would anyone who wants Scottish independence vote for the “SNP”? Zero motivation to vote for the SNP; whilst those voting Green or REFORM are motivated and will vote for REFORM or Green.
If they continue along their present pointless, empty middle-management of the British system, the SNP might very well find itself in opposition. There is no reason to vote for a party that has turned Glasgow into the grape capital of Europe (quite some achievement given the situation in the rest of Europe).
The polls do not reflect voter motivation but by next year they will (voting intentions are always 6 months behind the real situation in Scotland) : th SNP meassge is what? “Don’t vote REFORM” – that’s the same message as the other parties.
*Do yous want tae march?
Apparently 99% of actual, real and genuine liberty seeking, independence supporting Scots didn’t want to… march with the SNP, Believe in Scotland, and Holyrood rising star, Brian Cox, on Saturday that is.
*Yes, I know… it’s a poor ‘joke’ in poor taste, but it popped intae ma heid when I visited the ‘pretty openly anti-Semitic’ link in the WoS article up above and listened to the wee video.
I then brazenly, and careless of how my actions might adversely affect the mental states of others, used my immensely clever paraphrasing of the chanting in the X video to score a cheap point about Saturday’s ‘Believe in Scotland’ march.
But a point’s a point fir aw that… and all is fair in love, war, and rhetoric.
better together, pooling and sharing
so, exactly what benefit do we draw from this “arrangement”, being siamese-twinned to these kleptomaniac narcissist parasites who pick your pocket then tell you how it makes you richer …
link to archive.ph
– it’s not even a “protection racket”, cuz there is no protection; none of the ships work, they can’t be sent to warzones in case they get damaged. There is not enough staff to do anything (though the military is famously top heavy with brass), and one of the high ups came out the other day saying the army would be pushed to take a small town.
The last two times they tried to fire a trident, it failed, spectacularly; there is now almost open admittance that the “nuclear deterrent” is not independent, it’s only a fucking -rental- and the yanks would never let us use it anyway.
Last NATO exercise, they had, oddly, a bunch of yookies who were expert in the use of drones – who subsequently routed everyone. Can you imagine a DEI based army “fixing bayonets” when the ammo has run out (or someone has misgendered someone, or going to HR as the warzone is not a “safe space”)
– it’s even worse than a protection racket as being associated with these hated-the-world-over pricks puts us in the firing line with them; the only -defence- budget an indy Scotland needs would be a big sign saying “we’re not with THOSE GUYS” (points to England). Not a protection racket – an ENDANGER-MENT RACKET.
So, what enemies does Scotland really have?
– the fucking English; the only real one, get rid of them, remove all touched by them, all influence, you are finally free. A recent example :
The anglos have kiboshed the wind turbine factory “for national security” ‘cept the chinese are all over other projects down south and you just feel like, if it was being built in surrey, no one would have said shit about it.
There is a long term strategic goal to make Scotland entirely dependent on lorries coming over the border. Developments of wind power in the north sea – they are bending the cables south, to come inland in England; a good sneaky accountant might count that as “english renewable power”. Some scots patriots should start shutting down pipelines and cut those interconnectors – give the cunts nothing.
Remember kids – energy is real wealth, money is just “made up” stuff they can print at will and conjure out of thin air. If it’s not then whey doesn’t Swinney get his arse down to that-london and start banging the drum for the city to “create more wealth” to get us through this difficult period (- I dunno, write more derivatives contracts, improve a pricing model, decrease latency – all that shit that puts bread in peoples mouths and fuel in the tank.) Or maybe the city is just a parasite like that tongue eating bug, the cymothoa.
Badenoch’s -scottish- surname bothers me, like if James Cosmo changed his name to Mbebwe Umolongu; jungle fever usually just goes the other way.
The real far right is a tiny minority of heid-the-bas. Always was. Even in the halcyon days of Mosley. What is termed now the ‘far right’ is the once right-of-centre in the UK, especially in England. It is associated with English/British Nationalism, but not in the Nazi style, more like a “what happened to our country in fewer than fifty years?” style. Have we all forgotten how we were tarred as “Nazis” and “right-wing, Tartan Tories” once?
The BBC leads the march against any form of self-expression by people from this group – if not a majority, close to one, if you take the entire UK as your base. They are not people who want to parade around in jackboots, but people who no longer recognise the country into which they were born. It could be on another planet, as they see it.
We are at this point in history because we did not grasp the thistle in 2014. No way round that truth. Those of us who did vote for independence in 2014 and who looked forward to a future when we would be independent – a future that has arrived and that is not an independent one – can thrash around and blame all in sundry for the mess we are in today.
The actual blame, of course, lies in all of us because we believed in the SNP and its promise to deliver us from Westminster. The more astute of us knew that something was amiss right from early 2015, and, in 2016 and the Brexit vote and the subsequent failure to rally people to the cause, settled the issue: we were being fed a line and we knew it, all the while hoping that we were wrong.
Well, we were not wrong: the SNP turned itself sharpish into a party of devolution and betrayal on all fronts. Sturgeon’s penchant for men in frocks and self-ID ensured that independence would not remain on the table. The whole British governing class, including that of the SNP, in Scotland, having dined lavishly on the fruits of privatisation, began to realise that the dripping roast was almost consumed and something dramatic had to be found to take its place.
Intakes of nurses and doctors, midwives, dentists and many other necessary professions had been slashed and, gradually, that loss was filtering down into civic society, social housing was at a standstill, decent jobs were going rapidly and even working families required a two-income tax home pay just to keep their heads above water.
The new ‘woke’ – and they are not just the youth of the country, but virtue-signalling oldies, too – fell for the simplistic arguments of the hard left. Again, these are not the old left of centre folk, but a new, radicalised strain that seeks partnership with the worst elements of post modernism and the new cultural Marxism where everyone is a victim and everyone is entitled to be entitled – especially if they want something that someone else already has. The emphasis is on being your whole self, even if that self is a narcissistic psychopath or a sexual sadist who gets off on others’ pain and lack of agency.
The SNP, the Greens, the Lib Dems, Labourites and even the Tories have all enabled this, along with their compadres in other parts of the UK, and in Europe and the West, in general. Now, like Mr Wishart, they are wringing their hands and blaming the ‘far right’, the biblical scapegoats of old. We need to start the cleansing process by blaming ourselves for allowing such despicable, self-serving and useless politicians and their billionaire marionette masters to govern us – and by starting to fight for what is left of the most enlightened and free kinds of societies the world has ever seen – not perfect, but far better than any alternatives in sight. Otherwise, we walk straight into a totalitarian future where independence means nothing anymore.
Although approaching things from a different perspective to my own, what a marvelous post, though doubtless largely wasted here.
Bravo. Very well said, and almost entirely very true.
I really do not see how a vote for Reform which is basically a vote for unionism and austerity helps Scotland.
Scottish people should be voting for a Scottish nationalist party that will eventually replace the snp not a party that will be an opponent to Scottish independence.
My impression is that though Reform is unionist through and through, in other respects some posters support Reform policies on immigration, the economy, tax, public services, social policy etc. It is basically a fairly hard line conservative outlook on life that they see in Reform and support.
The unionists who post here are also virtually all fairly hard line Conservative ones too (and often English) – it is why they are here – the site’s focus on ‘woke’ injustices and the corrupt SNP is very attractive to right wing Conservatives, especially when coming from nationalists – and so there is a weird alliance.
I don’t think anyone who seriously objects to Reform’s agenda would be considering voting for them or even enjoying the disruption they are causing, as the consequences of a Reform government are too serious. It is also very short-sighted, even delusional to not care about Reform getting in ‘in Westminster’ at the next GE as if somehow that is mostly England’s problem when most of their policies (and very likely gross incompetences) will affect all the UK.
Scotlands vote means absolutely ZERO to Westminster unless it is for an Independence party.
Any Scot even contemplating a vote to make themselves poorer & to flog off the SNHS is a moron. Reform will do absolutely nothing for immigration just as Trump didn’t. Their donors would be angry. They rely on cheap labour cause they absolutely will not pay the real living wage, conform to workers rights or even pay for production facilities.
Reform in charge, the yankie poodle, will give the Don his wishes: fck healthcare. Fck pensions. Fck social projects. Buy plenty of weapons instead & hurry up & rewrite that human rights charter yer itching to do.
Is the far right Nazis? Yes.
Look who funds these groups. *Check*
Look who they support in both wars. *Check*
Is England moving to a Totalitarian/Fascist State *checks*
we are already here. Can Scotland hold a free & fair referendum? No. Nuff said. There’s yer answer.
Southern bystander- Scotland can’t control what England votes so for sure, people can consider what England votes but ultimately what Scottish voters can influence is how important Scottish independence is to Scotland and the only way to get Scottish independence is to vote for parties that will fight for independence and constantly strive to investigate all avenues to achieve it.
Only through independence can Scotland control the Scottish future.
To me, that means supporting Liberation and other parties that put independence first. Not to win elections, but to build something that will eventually replace the snp and take independence seriously. People need to forget about winning elections and focus on the building part.
Neither the snp or Rome were built in a day.
Liberate have absolutely no chance whilst the SNP has a death grip on the independence movement. Nobody knows who they are and they aren’t even registration in polls yet barely a month out from the Holyrood election. The most important mission has to be the defeat of the SNP.
Ah, Adrian promoting the Scotch Yoon vote yet again.
Jamie (& Geri) are spot on with their posts; only a half-wit would vote for “Reform”. And why would any sane Scot vote Yoon, anyway?
Vote Alliance/Liberation.
Right so you are voting for Reform then are you?
What is the point in voting for Alliance/Liberate. It is vanishingly unlikely that any of their candidates anywhere will get elected. They are completely unknown in Scotland and last time I checked they didn’t even have a website. At least if you spoilt your ballot that registers a form of protest!
It’s just another one of the Wings BTL fantasists with no grasp of politics, policy or strategy hoping that ranting and echoing vague slogans is going to win the day. When Liberate inevitably fail to get more than a few hundred votes no doubt you’ll have your excuses lined up – I’m expecting something around the 77th Brigade, D-notices etc.
Aidan @ 12.32
“Liberate not even registered in the polls yet”..
Wowser!!
Curiouser and curiouser as there’s already both a constituency and regional list registered in my area..
Or, did you just make that little bit up to assist making a point?
C’mon, be honest now..
YL; ach, he/she/it’s only following the script.
Only obeying orders….
Aidan, you miss the point. If winning elections was all that mattered I would still vote SNP as they are good at winning elections.
I am interested in getting Scottish independence and I recognise the SNP are a barrier to that as are all Unionist parties.
It therefore follows that voting for alternatives is the new normal. Once upon a time the SNP had no chance of winning elections but people like me still voted for them.
It is not about winning, it is about building the future and you do not do that by voting for unionists.
Liberation, through negotiation with the UN can eventually achieve a referendum, not by this silly idea going around promoted by unionists and snp folk of blue helmets and tanks in London but through soft power negotiation that has led to numerous referendums around the world without violence.
In also follows that we need someone in power who supports this process rather than mocks it as the snp does as it is so terrified of the fact that it has lost control of the independence narrative and has ultimately become a labour clone only interested in winning elections at any cost.
Scotland needs better. It needs independence.
@YL I mean that they aren’t showing up in the opinion polls, meaning they sit in the “Other parties” categories, on track to achieve a stonking 2% to 5%, depending which poll you believe (and of course “Other” is a collection of a whole range of parties and independent candidates, not just Liberate).
@Jamie – I get why not to vote SNP, but voting Liberate achieves arguable less. It eats away (very slightly) and the SNP’s vote share which is still seen as a proxy for independence support in some quarters, whilst doing nothing to shake the SNP out of its cosy devolutionist position (or to further the demise of the SNP).
Don’t let it bother yer pretty wee head who people are voting for in Scotland. It won’t be Yoon unless it’s a rigged election. Everyone remembers *Scottish* Labour in charge & it was a deliberate disaster from day one. Piling up decades of debts, way over budget half finished projects, £1.5 billion left in the London treasury gathering dust & who can forget the SEVEN fckn houses they built in SEVEN years.
Only way Reform would win any seats would be because the interlopers brought their shit here.
You worry about yer own vote.
Jamie is correct, every party has to start somewhere. The indy movement should never have put all its eggs in one basket with the SNP. It was a grave mistake. Not only did they become complacent but they’d absolutely no one challenging them either inside or outside of parliament to stick to the agenda. Another of life’s lessons from the hard school of knocks. Indy would be wise to have multiple parties. A pro indy parliament of SCOTTISH registered parties. Sadly it was too little, too late for Alex to achieve. SNP has monopolised the 2nd vote to block any challenger.
Let’s face it, areswipe, even if Christ the King appeared to run an independence campaign you wouldn’t like Him either! Just as you didn’t like Alex. It’s not a personality test. You just don’t like anyone that threatens yer craven need for dependence on another even when they’re shite at running the country. Grow a set.
The defeat of the SNP will come when there is an indy party to replace them. Until then there won’t be a Yoon in charge of Holyrood because not only will they scrap mitigation immediately – they’d also scrap the moratorium on Fracking too.
I don’t think even the yoons are that stupid cause it’s them that’ll be voting for them.
Aidan – To be clear, the SNP are not only irrelevant to independence, they are corrupted beyond repair due to Sturgeon. They are basically unionists now.
The reasons being that the traditional way of retaking a party is through the NEC and this has been captured by a closed circle loyalists that care about power only.
The only redeeming feature of Labour is the various grass roots movements they have such as momentum but they have demonstrated how impossible it is to retake a party once it has been captured by career politicians.
Just look at Jeremy Corbyn when he was in charge of Labour, he had the full support of the grassroots but was scuppered by the career vampire MP’s who ultimately sucked the life out of him.
The independence movement has rightly started again and has rightly discarded the SNP. We have moved on and our focus now is on building new options. Be it ATLS. Liberate and any others. The more options the better and eventually one or all will rise up and replace the SNP.
The SNP can continue to focus on winning elections at any costs. We will focus on independence and then once the sleepy electorate catch up with reality that only independence can solve our problems be it left wing problems or right wing problems, they will eventually see the new options we have built as an option.
If ATLS and others get people elected in this election that is wonderful news and unexpected progress. If they do not, we move on, we learn and we rebuild for next time and then next time until we finally acheive independence.
Independence then, independence now, independence forever.