Auld Pishy, of course, has his own take on everything. Not only is he seeing double but he is seeing 'tens of thousands' supporting The Requisitioners! He really is in a wee world all of his own. Now he's dragging Mike Ashley, the Sports Direct magnate, into his fantasies. Apparently, Ashley made some kind of deal with Hughie Green and Imran Ahmad whereby he rakes in a fortune from every item sold in the Bisto shops, including, of course, the Celtic ducks. Pishy is calling for a boycott of Bisto shops, since you can get all the products easily from other outlets. (Do other outlets sell XXXXXL tops?) One thing Pishy has neglected to do, however, is to withdraw those bigoted scribbles he calls books from the Bisto shops. Don't do as I do, do as I say, as my old Satan-worshipping granny used to say.
Uber-ned, Barry Ferguson, dictates the usual pile of crap for his Daily Record column. Whoever transcribes it must have a hell of a job deleting, and working round, the various "n' at know" at the end of every sentence and the word "pyoor" cropping up time and again. Anyway, his column this time round is all about support for Scottish referees. Of course, Ferguson hasn't a bad word to say about them, especially since they let him away with murder for years. Remember the numerous times he manhandled referees, including the occasion where he put his hands on a referee's chest and pushed him away. He didn't even get a yellow card for these offences, when anyone else would have received a hefty ban. The real reason for the proposed industrial action, however, is all too plain: they're missing the old brown envelopes.
McMurdo's blog, as expected, hails Mr Blobby's statement as up there with the Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech. Dissenting voices are soon shot down with a few glib remarks. One of the contributors posts a link to the Vanguard Bears website, claiming it as 'proof' of wrongdoing. A quick look at said website shows the usual tripe about Jock Stein, Torbett, Glasgow City Council etc etc etc with no proof whatsoever, except for an excerpt from Lou Macari's autobiography.
One of the problems with autobiographies, though, is that everyone wants to make their life more interesting than it actually is. When the headteacher of a school I used to work at was arrested for having images of child abuse on his computer it was amazing how many people said that they always thought there was something not right about him. Strangely, none of them said anything before this and they all worked happily with him with never a bad word said against him. I would imagine that Lou Macari's autobiography possibly falls into the same category.
Speaking of the Vanguard Bears, I'm always interested in their claims to be fighting to defend their 'traditions' and 'way of life'. I've never, however, seen any explanation of what these traditions and way of life actually entail. A read of the same page that McMurdo's contributor linked to provides an answer. They moan about not being allowed to sing 'The Billy Boys'. Apparently, the meaning of 'fenian' has been changed to accomodate all the 'Rainjurz-Haters' out there. So what does it mean, then, in the context of their charming little ditty? A Nineteenth-Century Irish Republican? How many of those were around in Glasgow in the 1930s for Billy Fullerton to be up to his knees in their blood? It seems that the 'traditions' and 'way of life' they bang on about are just being bigots and singing bigoted songs with impunity. Oh, and if they want to use the old 'Sticks and Stones...' bit, why do they all get so upset over the word 'Hun'?
On the same theme, there is another site that McMurdo's blog has a direct link to, called, 'The People Together'. This site has the following paranoid and laughable agenda:
"WE are no longer the disenfranchised, spat-upon, put-upon, vilified and demonised rabble they want us to be. We, the Protestant, Loyalist and Unionist people of the UK demand our human rights be respected and protected."
To show that they're not joking, they have an online petition for all these poor, downtrodden souls to sign. Unfortunately, they don't say who they're going to send the petition to. Rather pathetically, they also demand an enquiry into the SFA and the SPL in regards to the 'Rangers crisis.' They threaten to withdraw their votes from any political party that 'fails to satisfy these demands'.
This petition has been running for a while, now, so you would expect that huge multitudes have been signing it; after all, they are The Peeppil. The grand total reached so far is... 2,837. That's a fraction of the folk that vote for 'I'm a Celebrity' and 'The X Factor'. The politicians must be quaking in their boots! It just shows that when it comes to the crunch these bigots don't want to be named, prefering to stay in the background, sending death threats, bullets and bombs.
Finally, the news of the death of Nelson Mandela has brought out the Bisto bigots to condemn him as a 'murdering terrorist'. If anyone is a reader of the novels of Wilbur Smith they will notice a theme running through many of his stories: people that are excluded socially, economically, politically and educationally will, through desperation, turn to extremism. This has been apparent the world over, not least in Northern Ireland. When peaceful demonstrations and media campaigns are brutally suppressed, it's hardly surprising that the oppressed will turn to more violent forms of expression. One point worth noting is that the state religion of the Apartheid regime was a Calvinist Presbyterian church; the same lot that ruled the roost for all those years in Northern Ireland!
'We ayr The Peepl!'
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