Conservative "values" are a figment of Bojo's imagination !

 In the past, the Tories have (with some justification it must be said) accused Labour Governments of profligacy when it comes to the nations finances!

Surprise, surprise then that the UK National debt is now at £2 trillion and to put that into some sort of perspective; If you spent £10,000 per day every day since the pyramids were built, right up until today then you still would not be broke. Now some of that debt will obviously be due to the economic affects and measures taken to nullify the Covid Pandemic!

But it is a fact that there were 4 recessions during Thatcher's reign and a further 3 during Major's term and this is the only way Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson will be remembered in terms of Conservative and Unionist history. 

will be that he presided over the largest borrowing requirement in the history of the UK !

An after thought when we're discussing indebtedness and an apparent inability to give the needy fiscal help such as the NHS. 

This, notwithstanding the apparent shortage of funds it appears that his government has sanctioned a 27% increase in Peers allowances and expenses and Bojo has increased their number by 5% when he included the new raft of flunkies in ermine.

The political Richter Scale is starting to register as despite his puerile attempts to woo the North of Britain a.k.a. Scotland, the demand for Independence is on an inexorable rise with the formal figures at 55% - 45% pro Independence and informal responses much higher.

SAOR ALBA THA GLE MHATH !!

"Quisnam igitur liber" (Who then is free?)

In quoting the Roman poet Horace; "Who then is free"

Who indeed, is actually free in this United (?) Kingdom and the answer is most assuredly not the man or woman in the street nor indeed the countries within it!

"Freedom" is the ability to act or change without constraint.

If only we could indeed, act or change the politics of the Tory Party under the rule of Dominic Cummings and his glove puppet Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

The latest furore/manure to be catapulted into the fan is the educational catastrophe, which in fairness has hit all four nations under the collective "Butchers Apron". 

However, when the Scottish Government dealt with the dilemma of grades in the absence of actual exams due to the Pandemic in the first instance, there was the predictable backlash from Tory and indeed Labour sources, trying vainly to attack the S.N.P. for having the temerity to carry out the remedial action which as of today the other three countries have actually followed !

This devolved area of Educational responsibility is one of the few wherein the 4 constituent parts of the UK can be divergent and as such, demonstrates clearly that Scotland and our larger neighbour England are frankly at odds.

Notwithstanding the devolved areas, there is a chasm opening up between the political entities governing the two largest parts of the UK. 

The Tories have started to send their "big guns" (relatively speaking) on forays into Scotland, but notably only on day-trips. Sunak, Gove, Sharma, Patel, Shapps and last but by no means least De Pfeffel Johnson himself.

Notably none of these so called Cabinet Members has been anywhere near a town or city with a population in excess of 5,000 people. Could it be that they are all shy, sensitive individuals who shun publicity?

Now it appears that Bojo, Carrie and Wilfred (aged 4 months) are "camping" somewhere remote in Scotland !  The quote from his former mistress Petronella Wyatt puts that into perspective;

'Boris and Carrie are going to spend part of their Scottish holiday camping,' Petronella tweeted, ‘That will finish off their relationship. Boris can't cook and Carrie only likes deluxe private villas in hot places.’

The fact remains that Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has been on the Scottish equivalent of the "Witness Protection Scheme" in that no one has seen him and if the 5 star Fairmont Hotel constitutes a "camping" holiday then I'm in line for the next Prime Ministership.

Rambling here a bit though as the original point is that; who is free?

SCOTLAND WILL BE SOON.

The long and winding road to the death of the "Labour Party" in Scotland

 Since its birth 120 years ago with its centre left philosophy, the Labour Party have found a natural home north of the border. 

 

Keir Hardie (A Scot from Lanarkshire), Ramsay MacDonald (A Scot from Lossiemouth in Morayshire) and Arthur Henderson (A Glaswegian) were amongst the principal architects of this movement to improve the conditions for the working classes.  

The principal roots then of the Labour Party, stemmed and were nurtured in Scotland !  

How then did this party of socialism find itself on the margins of politics in its natural homeland?  In simple terms the movement has had weak leadership allied to the drift of the Labour Party away from socialism to a right of centre party of limp "Tory Lite" politicos who are only in politics for the money and most assuredly not for the good of the electorate !

In Westminster, Labours representation there is now reduced to only a single (and frankly useless) M.P. Ian Murray.

As the jacket he wears above will show, this is very definitely a "Unionist" MP.  Even the Tories have 6 MPs in Westminster and they are frankly despised in Scotland.

In Holyrood under the umbrella of the Scottish Government, and led by probably the least successful leader the Labour Party in Scotland (Richard Leonard) the Labour grouping still manages to get fewer MSPs than the Tories and this is thanks only to the "List" system within the assembly.

That the party should be led by a political nonentity to oblivion in Scotland must concern Keir Starmer, as what was formerly the base support for the Labour Party as a whole is a skeleton of its former body !

Requiescant In Pace Labour !

Will "Bojo" actually have the temerity to come to Scotland for a "Staycation"?

 When Editor of "The Spectator" Johnson approved the publication of this poem (?) 

The Scotch – what a verminous race!

Canny, pushy, chippy, they’re all over the place,

Battening off us with false bonhomie,

Polluting our stock,

undermining our economy.

Down with sandy hair and knobbly knees!

Suppress the tartan dwarves and the Wee Frees!

Ban the kilt, the skean-dhu and the sporran

As provocatively, offensively foreign!

It’s time Hadrian’s Wall was refortified

To pen them in a ghetto on the other side.

I would go further. The nation

Deserves not merely

isolation

But comprehensive

extermination.

We must not flinch from a solution.

This frankly shambolic buffoon is rumoured to be heading to Scotland for two weeks holiday. As if his last visit wasn't embarrassing enough, where he came, he saw and he retreated after only one single day and took the precaution of staying well clear of anything resembling a town much less a city.

Of course Baxters of Fochabers is without a shadow of doubt the most visited site in Scotland which explains why he focused his visit to their soup factory and the staff were even given a day off to celebrate his visit (nothing to do with protests potentially from those vile "Nationalists" who may or may not work in this bastion of Scottish Conservatism)

Massed crowds gathered to welcome the "Prime Numptie" to Scotland's foremost visitor attraction !

I'm not a gambling man, but would put money on his not actually coming up north for a holiday under any circumstances as he knows what welcome would await him !

A windy Scottish North 500 is far from "overblown"

Bunty and I took ourselves out of the Highland Capital for a trip on the Scottish Government shielding relief.  This time we (or to be more precise, me!) could get out the car.

I suppose the pandemic has had a dreadful affect on all forms of tourism, and far be it from me to detract from that. However, the lesser number of tourists did make for the drive to be much less frenetic.

What was noticeable was the number of cars parked in such parking laybys that were available and no one near the cars. Presumably hill-walkers setting out for the various Munro's that are close to the road.

Ardvrek Castle built in the 16th century by the Clan McLeod jutting out on a peninsula in Loch Assynt in Sutherland and Bunty and I were greeted by a lady swimming out to it rather than walking over the grassy path. Oh well each to their own !

The Assynt Mountain Range in the distance, but no technology here !  With views like this though do you need it ?

We reached our destination Loch an Inbhir to give the village its Gaelic name ! 

Lochinver  was one of Bunty's ports of call when she worked for the National Health and she's been regailing me of the culinary delights of the "Pie Shop" whose stock in trade was the range of pies to make you wilt under the over-indulgence of these culinary delights.

Prior to returning it was almost "de Rigeur" to visit the Highland Stoneware shop for the lasting memory of a beautifully hand-painted plate form the "Loch Assynt" collection;

The journey back was tranquil since we cut off to head towards Lairg and most of the journey taken on single track road with "passing places". Since this is off the NC500 route it was by most standards quiet.

Crossing the River Carron by the renowned Bonar Bridge;

 

and headed towards "Inbhir Nis" via Ardross and eventually back over the Black Isle.

Almost 200 miles in this round trip, but truly worth the effort !

More Cock and Bull than Cock-a-Leekie at Baxter's hideaway for Boris

Bojo decided to face the "Jocks" to try to stem the tide of movement towards Independence, by flying north in another catastrophically misjudged political campaign.

The trip to the North of Britain (Scotland) was heralded by the lackey press as being his way of appealing directly to the Scots to stay in the Union. 

The pilot of his aircraft must have flunked navigation during training, as Bojo and he, seemed to have perceived the Orkney Islands and Morayshire as the centres of population in Scotland.

The highlight of this momentous trip to the hinterland had to be a gathering of Scottish political nonentities power standing with His Royal Hahooness outside the only bastion of Tory-ism in Scotland, Baxter's Food Factory in Fochabers. 

It is suggested that the staff at the factory were sent home and only maintenance staff were at the plant.

Meantime;

The Tory advance guard went to Edinburgh to meet their electorate;

Bojo the chief clown had the crabs in Stromness since he didn't even visit Kirkwall on this charm offensive. "Offensive" being the operative word in this context;

In a Premiership which has been marked with more accuracy of "Shooting oneself in the foot" moments than would qualify for a gold medal at Bisley for Boris, His Royal Hahooness has his 1st anniversary at the helm and my pain goes to my genuinely kind and considerate English friends who will be stuck with this turkey !

Prince "Bojo" deigns to meet his serfs !

His Royal Hahoo-ness Boris Johnson is heading to the North of Britain (a.k.a. Scotland) to remind the ungrateful Scots that without the magnanimity of the Tories in London they'd be begging in the street!

When he was editor of the Spectator he published a poem describing Scots as a “verminous” race of “tartan dwarves” who deserve “comprehensive extermination.”

He really is a clown if he thinks for a nano-second that anyone in Scotland with the I.Q. of an ant would prefer him to the First Minister.  Even his slinking Scottish gophers must realise that ! 

Jackson Carlaw, Murdo Fraser, Annie Wells, Michelle Ballantyne and some other total nobodies most of whom and I include Turdo Fraser in this, only got a seat in Holyrood by virtue of the list system.

This balloon is most assuredly the record holder for the most failures in elections, a bit like the team he used to support till they too went bust.

With these clowns as his "Foot Soldiers" then Prince Bojo is going to get skelped in 2021.

SAOR ALBA