BIGOTS TOGETHER

So the March of the Knuckle-Dragging Bigots passed off without major incident, much to the disappointment of our media. Cameras were out in force, hoping that somebody would throw an egg and make it all kick off. There have been a few grumbles from The Peeppul that, despite the abundance of TV cameras, there were no reports about the march on the television. They're moaning that the media is too scared to show them in a good light. If trouble had flared, however, we all know who would have been blamed for it. As it is, our biased media don't want to besmirch the Better Together campaign by aligning it with these clowns.

To read about it in the papers, you'd think it was a fun day for all the family, with all welcome to join in. I've heard that the police went down the Royal Mile beforehand, telling all the tacky souvenir shops to take down their saltires and lions rampant in case it offended any of the Bitter Brigade. You won't read about that in our newspapers, though! The whole thing ended with them practically taking over the pubs in the Old Town, their usual haunts in the Grassmarket no doubt being full to overflowing. Apparently tourists headed over North Bridge and down The Mound in droves to escape from all the bile and bigoted singing emanating from the pubs. That'll help the tourist industry no end!

The Daily Record went overboard, talking about how the march passed by the house of their 'inspiration' John Knox as well as the General Assembly Hall, where there is a statue of the man. Somehow I don't think the members of the Church of Scotland will be too chuffed at being associated with these idiots! I also laughed at them paying tribute at his 'house'. What is known as 'John Knox House' was actually never the abode of the man; he stayed at a house further down the street. The only connection this house could possibly have to Knox is if he went there to borrow a cup of sugar or a shilling for the gas meter!

Some Orange heid-bummer from Northern Ireland was there to spout the following shite: "Let me remind you that when an enemy came against the city of Londonderry, God's people famously said there will be no surrender to this evil enemy." Er...so the rightful king, trying to regain his throne from a foreign usurper, was an 'evil enemy'? Christ, they make this stuff up as they go along. Speaking of Northern Ireland, I was reading recently how most of the Scottish Protestants that settled there did so during the 1690s when there was a dreadful famine in Scotland. Does anybody else feel a song coming on?

Another one of them, called Ron Bather, is described as the "grand master of the Grand Orange Lodge of England and imperial grand Master of the Imperial World Council". And they try to make out that they have no ties to the Ku Klux Klan! Anyway, this supreme being had this to say, "As individual nations, could we have succeeded in defeating Nazism in 1939? I don't think so." What a load of manure! If you look back at Newsreels of the time, as well as war films, I think you'll find that it was 'England' that vanquished Nazi Germany; Scotland was not even involved. Neither, of course, were all the other countries of Europe nor were the USA and the USSR.  So the Union didn't make the slightest bit of difference as far as the English were concerned! The Master of the Universe has got a bloody cheek bringing the war up anyway; his relatives were probably hiding in the shipyards at the time.

The Daily Record seems to have thrown caution to the wind and is now coming out with the kind of pish that would be laughable if this referendum weren't so serious. Every day  their forums are full of folk comparing Alex Salmond to Hitler and calling YES voters 'Natzis'. The DR even published Alistair Darling's disgusting 'blood and soil' slur. For them to now express faux indignation at somebody calling Jim Murphy 'Quisling' is really plumbing the depths. 

Today their site has a story about the Queen seemingly endorsing a NO vote as she spoke to a crowd of arse-lickers outside Crathie Church. According to Frau Windsor we should all 'think carefully' before we cast out vote on Thursday. We have and we shall, hen, and we shall put our cross in the YES box. Meanwhile, in the same, royal territory, Jackie Bird shows our media's complete detachment from reality with her piece about the new parasite...I mean royal baby. She honestly expects us to believe that the first-born, George, will be helping out with the new baby! AOL has the story that Wullie and Kate are already looking for a nurse for the brat before it's even born, and we'll be paying for it! So, as Frau Windson says, think carefully!

McMurdo, meanwhile, is all over the stuff being reported about Jim Sillars.  It would, of course, be a boost for the NO campaign if it weren't for the fact that it's a load of shite. Watch this video and you'll see Sillars explaining what he was on about.

Finally, the Daily Record made a complete arse of itself, not for the first time, on its website at the weekend. They showed a video of Groundskeeper Willie, from the Simpsons, talking about the referendum. Willie calls the YES side, "the freedom-loving heirs of the Highland tradition." The Daily Record, however, wrote this as
"the freedom loving YEARS of the Highland tradition". Now, I'd imagine that those working at an English newspaper might have problems understanding Willie's cod-Scottish accent; but the DR boasts that it's a Scottish newspaper. I know it's petty but it makes you wonder what's going on at Central Quay!

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