It has been debated for weeks in the English press whether or not Harman should apologise for her involvement and a huge furore has been unleashed. The 60s and 70s was a time when ideas of liberation got mixed up with libertarianism and celebrities saw nothing wrong in campaigning on behalf of the publishers of Oz, a hippy magazine, one edition of which allowed schoolkids to produce a magazine containing pornographic images. Nowadays such people would be condemned but back then even John Lennon brought out a record to support them. But let's leave aside that debate and look at another aspect of the current story.
As far as I know the NCCL was, and, under its new name 'Liberty' is, a UK organisation. Harriet Harman is a member of the UK Parliament, is Deputy Leader of the UK Labour Party and even the Paedophile Information Exchage was a UK organisation. So why have the press in this part of the UK been so quiet about this story? Do they think this is a story that doesn't concern Scotland? They keep telling us that we're 'Better Together' and that the Westminster Parliament is there for all of us; have they changed their minds? Or maybe it's that they think Scottish people are too thick to understand the issues involved and will make a knee-jerk reaction condemning members of the Labout Party and this might cause some folk to vote 'YES' come September.
Our press is equally coy about another big Westminster story. A dossier about paedophiles at Westminster was handed to the Home Secretary, Leon Brittan in 1983. Nobody seems sure what happened then. Brittan maintains that he never actually read it, while a review last year said that relevant information was passed to the police and the remaining documents were destroyed. Folk have been asking, what did the police do with the information? It all smacks of a huge cover-up and another whitewash, I mean review, is going to be carried out. This is big news in the English press; in the online Daily Record the story is tucked away and only seems to appear at the bottom of the article about Rolf Harris. Again it looks like securing a 'NO' vote is more important than letting us know what's going on in what they never tire of telling us is OUR parliament.
It just goes to show how cynical the Bettertogetherers are. It'll be interesting to see what other news stories are suppressed, ignored or hidden away between now and Referendum Day. All in all it's just one more reason to vote 'YES'.
Meanwhile, the deluded ones are up in arms over what was obviously a typo in the Daily Record. The article reporting on the match between Bisto FC and the mighty Buckie Thistle was full of sycophantic stuff like 'returning goal king Kenny Miller,' 'third Light Blues spell,' 'journey back' and 'returning strike duo'. All standard stuff in the Daily Record, doing its best to perpetuate the Big Lie. In the last paragraph, however, there was a mistake:
"But the Gers supporters got what they'd turned out to see as Miller scored the first goal of his first spell at the club as he latched onto a Dean Shiels throughball to round the keeper and slot home."
Laughably The Peeppull are up in arms at this, even though a six-year-old could see that it was obviously an error. "This is part of a consistant mhedia campaign of hate against Glasgow Rangers (sic)" is just one comment that sums up the attitude. What campaign? Our media have done nothing but cravenly promote the Big Lie since it started (the evidence is all there in black and white in Clash of the Agnivores). What the hell more do these clowns want?
Saturday saw the annual bigotfest and march of the rickets sufferers through many of our streets. There were a few token arrests but, in the main, The Peeppul were pretty much left to do what they liked as usual. Apparently eighteen folk were arrested in Glasgow; I've seen bigger arrest figures for village Gala Days, where the police have recently been clamping down on public drinking. Maybe they should rename these Gala Days and pretend they're commemorating old Seventeenth-Century battles. I'm sure the arrest figures would fall dramatically as the police give a knowing nod, a tap of the forefinger on the side of the nose and look the other way.
I see in the Daily Record that a fifteen-year-old girl was hit in the face with a bottle during a gang fight at Glasgow Green. Why do folk take minors to this kind of thing? The big gathering at the end of 'The Walk' is renowned for drunkenness and violence; not that you'll see any of it reported in our media. Usually you have to rely on folk that have seen it. I remember my brother went once back in the 80s with a few of his mates for a laugh. Laugh? They had to end up running for their lives as their punk clothes were viewed with suspicion and hostility by some of The Peeppul. I can't remember which park it was at but there were drunks lying everywhere in pools of pish and vomit while numerous fights took place and empty bottles and cans were strewn all over the place. The police stood by and did nothing.
It looks as if not much has changed, with even one of McMurdo's disciples reporting that his young relative was punched in the face and had his mobile phone stolen by a knife-weilding crowd looking for drink. Where were the police, I wonder? He says, "I was brought up to know that getting pissed and causing or looking for trouble wasn’t what celebrating our culture was all about." Really? So what is their 'culture' all about? As far as I can see it extends no further than hatred of Catholics and the Irish and getting pissed and causing trouble at every opportunity! I suppose all the fighting with the police in Ulster never happened, eh? And I'm willing to bet we see the same thing happening next weekend. A quick look at some of their Facebook pages confirms that it's for that reason that many of them actually go to Northern Ireland.
It's the same when they follow-follow their team, whether old or new. Causing riots, beating up innocent bystanders, damaging property and even pishing on cenotaphs are all de rigeur for The Peeppul. Some culture! I've probably said this before but I'm reminded of when Glasgow was chosen to be City of Culture. I was in a pub in Edinburgh, where a local, clad in a Rangers top, was annoying everyone by giving his views on the world in a loud voice. There was vomit on his clothes and in his hair, while the front of his trousers and his wet shoes were testament to the fact that he hadn't made it to the toilet on time. "Culchur?" he yelled. "What dae fuckin' Weedgies ken aboot culchur? If ye waant culchur ye need tae come tae Edinburry. We'll show thum what culchur is!" I think that's the point when he was finally chucked out.
I've noticed a new name on McMurdo's site: Carson. After being castigated by others for letting the cat out of the bag and being too vocal about his bigotry, he's doing his best to do some serious arse licking. Is it the same clown that used to haunt Mick's Bampots United site? Yes it is. He revealed himself to be one and the same yesterday morning with this: "offended by everything ashamed of nothing section of the lower end of the gene pool !" He also shows how thick he is by not even being able to copy one of Hector's favourite phrases properly!
Talking of 'ashamed of nothing' the Daily Record has another story hidden away in its online edition. Auld Dignity is bleating about how he had to, just had to, leave the Scotland job when Rangers came calling. Why? It was RANGERS! What other explanation is needed? Funnily enough that's not what he was saying at the time. When he left the Scotland job he complained that it was because he hadn't been given a permanent contract. A year later he was boasting about how he was working at Ibrox without a contract! Of course, The Peeppul are on, after a short absence yesterday, to show their support. That's why I still would have loved the Celtic job to have been given to Gordon Strachan, just to hear what all the hypocrites had to say about it!
One of the features you always got at the end of the Orange Walk was self-righteous bell-ends on soapboxes banging on about the Pope being the Antichrist and the like. My brother saw one of these characters fleeing in a hail of bottles and cans; he'd upset a crowd that couldn't hear their tape of Orange tunes for his voice booming out of his portable speaker! Anyway, it looks like that particular tradition is still around as one of these heid-the-baws was rousing the troops on Saturday for a march on Rome. He spoke of “dignity, might, rights and leadership”. Wait a minute and I'll check what the clown's name is...there we go...it's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Abu Bakr? Was she not in Bucks Fizz?
He goes on:
"God has granted your brothers...victory and a conquest after years of patience and holy struggle"
and
"taking the Word of God for her guide...she enjoyed the favour of Heaven, and became great, her people rose in character and intelligence, and manliness and honesty distinguished their conduct. Her arms prevailed"
Oh, wait. One of those quotes is from Wullie WontHe, the cutter and paster on McMurdo's site. I'll leave you to decide which is which.
Finally, there's a special offer coming up on the Kindle version of Clash of the Agnivores. I'll let you know the details as soon as. Are you listening, Monti?
SING-ALONG-A-BAKR
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