FROM NOON SUNDAY.
This week, Eva Comrie, Phil Boswell and Yvonne Ridley join me to discuss the weeks events in Scottish politics.
Where else to start but the Stone of Destiny being meekly handed over to the thieves that stole it in the first place. The panel discuss not only the ceding of Scottish sovereignty. The group let their feelings be known as regards Humza Yousaf’s participation in this insult to all Scots.
This week Humza went/was summoned to London. He again begged for a Section 30 with the usual outcome. A worthy excercise or another embarrassing gaffe?
We discuss the alleged SNP Membership surge after all their recent publicity! We give our opinion on Sturgeon’s midweek intervention to tell us all how all these recent disclosures traumatised her! We ask why she wasn’t traumatised as they were occurring. Perhaps she is going to have another of her amnesiac moments!
Colin Beattie on SKY News saying he knew nothing about any luxury mobile home or its purchase!
Stephen Flynn only found out about auditors in February. What action did he take on hearing the news?
Stephen Flynn also informed us he wants the next UKGE to be fought on domestic issues! There is to be no Independence Referendum in October.We were told previously it was NO IFS NO BUTS Referendum. There has not been the ‘Special Conference’ to discuss the Supreme Court ruling of 23/11/22.
There is not to be a Constitutional Convention that Sturgeon promised in January 2020. We ask, what is the point of voting for the SNP if independence is your motivation?
The Governor of the Bank of England on a salary of over £500,000 per annum informs us that we ALL must accept being poorer! We discuss the meaning of ALL!
The Scottish Government are talking about removing juries from rape trials and ditching the not proven verdict.
We need Alba and the ISP to stand candidates at the next election against this lot of traitors. We need rid of the SNP they are past redemption now ,they have wasted enough of our time. Those who care about Scotland should come over to Alba or ISP. Those who leave it to the last minute should have the door closed on them, we know what they are about. We don’t want our other independence parties infuriated and contaminated by Britnats spy’s. What about the rebel 15 in the SNP they are as quiet as mice , Patriots I dont believe it , they have sold us out
I think this is the article that Yvonne seemed so upset about:
” COMMENT
It’s time to move on from issues with the SNP’s finances
27th April
”
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23483775.time-move-issues-snps-finances/
Perhaps people will take the time to read what Lesley Riddoch was saying
e.g.
” The Yes movement needs the SNP to produce a party conference in October that’s totally different in character from the corporate snooze-fests that have prevailed within the party for far too long.
I’d humbly urge all party members to pause the compulsive headline-checking and/or righteous recrimination and strategise about that vitally important event instead.
There are no second chances for the SNP in the eyes of the public and media. The next conference must usher in a new era of responsive, frisky, discursive and even combative debate.
No more nicey, nicey. No more agendas full of platitudinous addresses by ministers with motions scheduled for days when the First Minister doesn’t even turn up. No more muscling leadership candidates on to every committee. And time to rescind the package of measures introduced by Peter Murrell that has locked MPs into a lifetime at Westminster. We need all hands at the Holyrood pump – and at the very least, we need those MPs who want to work closer to home to do that.
”
Thinking about that,
The YES movement and SNP members need to act now.
Not later. Now.
With a Continuity Candidate elected guess what you will get in October from the SNP. Lesley like so many others that have protected the previous Sturgeon regime need to confront reality.Humza and the Sturgeon cabal need called out and removed from office
Correct Roddy, Yousaf has already had his ‘barra’ set up for him an’ there’s nae sign o’ Independent thocht aboot it!!
The proper thing to do with a large block of stone – by Danny Morrison:
“In 1966 when Queen Elizabeth II came to the North [of Ireland], the newspapers published her itinerary right down to the last detail, three days beforehand. After she opened the new bridge across the Lagan, named in her honour, she went to lunch at Belfast City Hall. At the same time, 17-year-old John Morgan, an apprentice heating engineer, was eating his sandwiches on the new Chamber of Commerce House, then under construction, on Great Victoria Street, opposite the Great Northern Railway station (where the Europa Hotel now sits).
Morgan was that rare being, a nationalist who refused to keep his head down, and despite his youth had often argued politics with his fellow workmates who were overwhelmingly Protestant. Later, at his trial, one of these workmates alleged that minutes before the incident, when they were standing on scaffolding overlooking the route, Morgan remarked: “This would be a good place to pick her off.”
At two forty-five, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Phillip left the back of the City Hall in their closed vehicle followed by a cavalcade. All work had stopped and the streets were packed, ten-to-twelve people deep in some places. In Sandy Row alone, 12,000 thousand people were crammed into a 600-yard stretch waiting for a glimpse of the British monarch. When Morgan heard the cheers rising from the direction of Howard Street he knew she was on her way.
He got ready with his breeze block.
“I saw the bicycle outriders, followed by her glass-topped Rolls Royce. She was waving a couple of fingers at the people. As her car approached I aimed and threw the brick from scaffolding on the sixth floor and watched it go down. It hit the front left of the car with a huge bang. What I remember is the expression on Phillip’s face. It was a joy to behold. The royal car took off in a cloud of dust. It was only a few years ago when I saw a television programme that I realised that it had been filmed.”
A spectator said: “The brick – it was a massive big thing – came down. It must have come from near the top of the building, for it was travelling at quite a speed.”
To be precise, the breeze block weighed 8lbs 12ozs and had travelled 67 feet and 10 inches (the RUC took the measurements), hit the radiator of the Rolls and made a large dent in the bonnet.
The crowd went wild and there was lots of angry shouting. The RUC rushed across the road into the building and other police officers sealed it off at the back.
No one had seen Morgan, who was in white overalls like everyone else, throw the brick. A fellow worker claimed that he asked John if he threw it but he didn’t answer. All the workers were assembled on the first floor. At first the RUC accused a young Catholic by the name of Rooney. But the foreman pointed to Morgan and said: “He’s only up from Dublin.”
Sergeant John McIvor later told the court that when he asked Morgan his name, “He replied in some language that I could not understand.” Morgan initially gave his name and address in Irish. He was arrested and taken out of the back of the building while being punched and kicked. He was put on the floor of a police wagon while RUC men stood on his arms and legs and pointed their guns at him. In Townhall Street he refused to make a written statement but said that it was a personal protest to bring attention to what was going on in the North. According to the RUC he said that, “he didn’t recognise the constitution of Northern Ireland or, indeed, Southern Ireland.”
Morgan’s home, in Dover Street, West Belfast, was raided and republican literature belonging to him was seized. The RUC attempted to make out that the attack on the queen was an IRA plot – particularly when they discovered that in Dublin he had worked for former IRA leader Harry White from Belfast – but he repeated that he had acted alone.
The following day, as the British queen was flying out of Aldergrove, Morgan was being charged. He appeared in court, marked with bruises and with a swollen upper lip.
The charge seat read that on Monday, 4th July 1966, “the accused did wilfully throw a thing, to wit, a concrete block, at the person of Her Majesty the Queen, with intent to injure the person of Her Majesty, or to alarm Her Majesty, or to break or injure the public peace, contrary to the Treason Act 1842, Section 32.’”
“I couldn’t believe it. I was charged – like Roger Casement – under the Treason Act!”
In court another person was charged. Apparently, there had been an incident just a minute before Morgan’s attack which he was unaware of. As the queen’s car had driven past the International Hotel in Donegal Square South, a 44-year-old English woman, Iris Carruthers, a chambermaid from Lancashire, had thrown a beer bottle which smashed near the third car in the procession. When she was arrested and charged she said: “Had I properly wanted to attack the queen I would have chosen the bridge where she was exposed to proper view.”
It emerged that Carruthers had thrown eggs at the queen in Glasgow in 1964. A doctor described her as a ‘paranoid schizophrenic’ with a marked delusion that she had a mission in life to end royalty. “She feels the queen is very jealous of her.”
Carruthers spent time in Armagh Prison until she was served with a hospital order with restricted discharge. No more is known about her fate. Morgan was remanded to the Young Prisoners Centre in Crumlin Road Prison to await trial. There, he was regularly threatened that the UVF would kill him and was involved in fights with youths with loyalist sympathies. Prison officers gave him verbal abuse and he was not allowed to communicate with anyone during his time on remand.
At his trial on September 26th there was no direct evidence that he had thrown the brick but he took the witness stand and stated that he had acted alone, on the spur of the moment and it was a political protest. He smiles at that now, forty years later, given that it was premeditated and had resulted from his politicisation whilst working in Dublin, which he went on to explain.
The jury trial was taken by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord MacDermott, who refused to believe the attack was spontaneous. The breeze block was produced in court to gasps from the jury. The court heard that he had not said to anyone afterwards that he was sorry, and he had no remorse.
“I was fairly philosophical about my arrest and was actually expecting to get about a year in jail. I was found guilty after 97 minutes and then I heard the sentence from MacDermott. Four years for this. Four years for that. Four years for the other charge. I went down from the dock to the tunnel that runs from the court to the jail. I was just seventeen and had been sentenced to 12 years in jail.
“The screw said to me, ‘That’s not so bad, you’ll be out before you know it.’ ‘What do you mean,’ I said. ‘I’m doing 12 years.’ ‘No,’ he explained. ‘It’s concurrent. You only do four, not twelve.’
“I was over the moon and had a big beaming smile on my face when I arrived back in reception. That was definitely the wrong face to be wearing because the screws at reception saw me and immediately thought, here’s this cocky Fenian who needs some manners.”
Will be marching on 6 May.
Yet another interesting Prism, unfortunately it is now attracting an audience of trolls which is unsurprising as the truth and facts don’t sit well within their blinkered and bigoted mindset. Looking over on the You tube channel todays episode has accumulated an unacceptable level of abuse tantamount to hate speech in the comments section against yourself Roddy and the panellists. I am quite sure this is a’ water aff a duck’s back tae ye but You Tube must surely have a strict code of conduct in terms of what is and isn’t acceptable commentary on a public forum.
Anyone know why Wings over Scotland is down?
Interesting how the SNP under Humza have chosen a new firm of auditors from Manchester to audit the SNP’s accounts.
Interesting too the profile of the Chief Executive Ebrahim Sidat.
Hereunder in fact is an extract of Mr Sidat’s profile taken from the company’s website.
” Ebrahim has won numerous awards in recent years and is recognised by his peers and his mentors, including senior members of the business, political and social communities as a future ‘inspirational’ leader with a key emphasis on philanthropy, and as a result has been voted as one of the top 100 most powerful Asian’s within the UK.”
In a country that has all too often suffered from powerful elitist cliques, the wisdom of choosing a company who heralds it CEO as being one of the top one hundred powerful individuals in a group restricted to entrants not of that group is questionable, very questionable.
Open, inclusive is where we want to be. Powerful, and entrant restricted is not where we want to be.
And yes, especially in the West of Scotland we all remember the cancerous policies of selecting from some stratas of society and not others.