In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and I discuss the recent easing of travel restrictions (unless you’re unvaccinated), my unsuccessful stalking adventure in Scotland, the new Sharpe novel by Bernard Cornwell, Purgatory’s Shore, the sequel to Taylor Anderson’s Destroyermen series, and Irwin Shaw’s Young Lions, which James loves.
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You get the government you deserve and you, Scotland, just voted these barstewards back. The Scottish Health Commissar is the same guy who wants to criminalise “hate speech” in the home.
As a resident Scot, I couldn’t agree more. Most in the rest of the UK don’t appreciate the extent of the problems there are here. Corrupt police, corrupt courts, the school system pushing extreme ideologies at the expense of literacy, money stolen from the yes campaign and the imprisonment of journalists (Craig Murray with others to surely follow).
A zeal for population control means there will be a confined lust for lockdowns north of the border
“Corrupt police, corrupt courts, the school system pushing extreme ideologies at the expense of literacy, money stolen from the yes campaign and the imprisonment of journalists”
So just like the UK and all other western democracies. With the odd exception, western politicians appear to be selected for their willingness to stay bought.
It’s worse in several cases. For example:
The about-to-depart head of the prosecution service treated the ‘parliament’ with utter contempt during the Salmond affair. Even Mr Kier Smarmer wouldn’t have tried that.
Education standards are below England’s.
Plus more than one ‘journalist’ arguably committed offences far worse than Craig Murray’s, yet because they either outright fawn over the SNP, or at least give them an easy ride, the police have not pursued them. (To be clear, I am not necessarily defending Murray’s actions).
And the SNP generally ‘own’ the Scottish media and the charity sector in a way that is not remotely true of the Cons in Westminster. It isn’t even close.
A minority put the Sad, Nasty Pondlife back into power.
I agree that Yousaf is bad news. That awful bill is extremely sinister.
Resent the opinion that the people like myself “deserve” this terrible government we have up here. More Scots voted against the SNP than voted for them, it’s not our fault the anti-nationalist parties can’t organise themselves into any kind of organised coalition.
When we start saying groups of people “deserve” whatever unpleasantries are coming their way, that sounds a lot like some of the comments and ideas that are voiced by the self styled health Nazis that most people here abhor.
For the record, I know of no one in Scotland that does not view Humza Yousaf as a complete and utter turd.
Turn the quoted figures into a percentage and you see that you have a choice of interpretation :
(1) Insanely unbalanced sociopathic interpretation
or
(2) Venal manipulation using the innumeracy of a majority of people.
Add to the figures the fact that these are just positive PCR results, and you really do have mental illness induced by the certifiably mad.
P.S. I have in my head the figure of 17% as the proportion of PCR+ results that represent an actual illness ….??? … and about the same for the rate of infectivity. So actual risk – even given contact with someone who is PCR+ is (being generous) about 0.20 squared of the x in 100,000.
Which means about a 0.006% chance of catching Covid in the area with the most PCR+ results.
Before a court takes away your liberty you can have a barrister speak on your behalf
For example that barrister could ask Mr Yousef if he could tell the court what the false positive rate was for the PCR test
No such niceties under a dictatorship
As was shown in the Salmond affair the Lord Advocate is under the First Minister’s thumb…there is an issue with the separation of powers in Scotland
Despite the warm weather there was no march on Saturday
No one on the beach yesterday or today, but we COULD be at the start of a third wave
The state propagandists at the BBC makes Pravda look like a beacon of freedom
And of course Nictator has announced this afternoon it is too ‘dangerous’ or whatever word she used to ‘unlock’ further next week. And of course, everyone goes along with it!
However, I can report from my neck of the woods that apart from the ‘vaccine’ uptake, in which everyone seems to have absolute faith, below the surface, there are a lot of disgruntled people. People seem to be doing their own thing & only paying lip service to the ‘rules’ where they have to.
First time, I’ve been able to say that.