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It is amusing to find someone like Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp talking in about the constitutional issue in terms some of us arrived at some years ago, only to be dismissed as fools or worse by him and other members of the independence movement’s old guard. As I recall, Pete Wishart called us “zoomers” among other such abusive terms. Now, they are all slowly coming to the realisation that the “zoomers”…
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Playing catch-up
It is amusing to find someone like Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp talking in about the constitutional issue in terms some of us arrived at some years ago, only to be dismissed as fools or worse by him and other members of the independence movement’s old guard. As I recall, Pete Wishart called us “zoomers” among other such abusive terms. Now, they are all slowly coming to the realisation that the “zoomers”…
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The singer-songwriter's former bandmate Pete Wishart described him as an exceptional musician.
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Concerns about the numbers of the RAF in the North Atlantic
Diego Alves By Diego Alves 26/07/2023 - 17:00in Military
In its latest report entitled 'Defence in Scotland: The North Atlantic and the High North', the Committee on Scottish Affairs expressed concern about whether the Royal Air Force (RAF) has sufficient resources to maintain the necessary defense and surveillance activities in the North Atlantic and Upper North Regions.
RAF's Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) jets, based at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, form a vital component of the United Kingdom's defense infrastructure, playing important roles in surveillance, anti-submarine warfare and threat response.
Several deponents during the survey expressed doubts about the sufficiency of RAF aircraft numbers, specifically the P-8A Poseidon, E7 Wedgetail and Typhoon aircraft, to meet the growing safety demands of these crucial regions.
The RAF uses military and civilian radars to monitor, detect and identify all aircraft in and around the UK airspace, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The term for this monitoring is "Recognized Aerial Image (RAP)".
The concerns raised point to a potential shortage of resources if the United Kingdom is forced to increase its defense activities in the North Atlantic and the Far North, which may require the diversion of resources from elsewhere.
“In its response to this report, the UK government should address the concerns raised in evidence for both this inquiry and the Defense Committee about whether the number of P-8A, E7 and Typhoon aircraft is sufficient to provide the necessary coverage in the North Atlantic and Far North, and whether any increase in necessary activity in the region will require resources to be diverted from targets elsewhere. The MOD must assess whether the complement of aircraft at its disposal is sufficient to meet the growing security demands in the North Atlantic and the Far North. “
The committee convened the United Kingdom government and the Ministry of Defense (MOD) to address these issues directly.
A Tornado F3 and a Eurofighter Typhoon intercept a Russian Tu-95 turboprop bomber in the past. Illustrative image.
The MOD was urged to conduct a comprehensive review of its available aircraft to ensure their suitability in light of the potential for increasing security challenges in the North Atlantic and the Far North.
Commenting on the report, Pete Wishart MP, chairman of the Scottish Affairs Committee, said:
“The North Atlantic and the Far North are becoming increasingly important for the defense interests of the United Kingdom and NATO, and Scotland's role in defense agreements is considered fundamental. During our investigation, we heard a widespread consensus that the Arctic has a growing strategic importance and that maintaining a well-maintained and resourced military capacity is essential to meet the United Kingdom's defense interests.
Due to its geography, Scotland is home to several strategic military assets from the United Kingdom and, in our report, we ask the United Kingdom government to examine how the presence of defense in Scotland can be expanded, if necessary, to face future threats, if necessary. We are also asking for a review of the United Kingdom's cold climate capabilities.
We also analyze the opportunities and threats that may arise due to climate change in the Arctic and the Far North. Emerging trade routes and the responsibility to protect offshore and submarine infrastructure are likely to become emerging priorities in a rapidly changing environment. As a Committee, we have carried out a series of work on Defense in Scotland, and it is clear to everyone the considerable contribution that Scotland makes to the United Kingdom and to NATO's defense and security. This is a subject we will be paying attention to. We wish to extend our gratitude to all those who work to defend us and keep us safe."
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Senior SNP MP Pete Wishart criticized Westminster chief Stephen Flynn
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Pete Wishart says he’s “puzzled” as to why Stephen Flynn sought to interchange Ian Blackford within the position.
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‘Wanker Wishart’ wants to be Speaker...!
And you thought you were sick of Bercow. Imagine the foul mouthed, snaggle tooth Pete Wishart (called ’Wanker Wishart’ after he (Re - he claims)-Tweeted that description of Labour, Lib-em and Tory candidates in the General Election) in the job..? I can’t!
In typical SNatsi fashion - it was, of course, other people’s fault that he tweeted obscenity..! But that’s not the only social media embarrassment Pishart is responsible for. See here
Prepared to ditch the one thing he came into politics to fight for - just to get the Speakership, his utter lack of principle merely compounds the hypocrisy of now telling everyone how much he respects the conventions of Westminster.
Cynics might instead think Peter Wish-harder may merely be trying to have one convention - that of no party runs candidates against the Speaker - applied to his Perth constituency, where is shaky grip last time round barely made it into double digits. Of course you may say that - I couldn’t possible comment..!
Either way, Weasel Wishart is signaling that he is (as some infuriated fellow SNatsis put it) “settling in - not settling up” at the much hated Westminster.
Somehow I doubt that a man who’s political career has been dedicated to breaking up the constitutional settlement that is the United Kingdom will get to take the key seat of Speaker of the Mother of Parliaments. I mean - they are all useless and untrustworthy incompetents - some a lot more so than most..!
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Cummings accuses PM of encouraging attacks on junior staff over No 10 parties | Boris Johnson | The Guardian
Dominic Cummings has accused Boris Johnson of encouraging attacks on junior civil servants over the “partygate” scandal in order to protect himself and his wife, Carrie.
The prime minister’s onetime senior aide said senior officials had “turned a blind eye” to his behaviour. He referred to briefing against one No 10 private secretary, Hannah Young. It has emerged that her leaving party on 18 June led to the first fines announced this week.
Reports after some of the parties involving civil servants included a staff member breaking a swing in the garden belonging to the Johnsons’ son Wilfred, a suitcase of alcohol being purchased from a nearby Co-op and one staff member acting as a DJ.
A total of 20 fixed-penalty notices have been issued to staff who broke lockdown rules. Johnson had previously told parliament when the allegations first came to light in November 2021 that “all guidance was followed completely in No 10”.
In his latest blog, with an excerpt posted on Twitter, Cummings said: “It is deeply, deeply contemptible that not just the PM but senior civil servants have allowed such people to have their reputations attacked in order to protect the sociopathic narcissist squatting in the No 10 flat.
“Not just ‘allowed’ – everybody at the centre of events also knows that the PM encouraged the media attacks on junior officials in order to divert the lobby’s attention from him and Carrie breaking the law. Some very senior officials have turned a blind eye.”
Carrie is reported to have had parties in their Downing Street flat, while Boris had a surprise birthday party in 2020 attended by up to 30 staff, as well as the couple’s interior designer, Lulu Lytle.
Young “did a truly phenomenal job”, and “made us all safer” during Covid and while coordinating a response to a terrorist incident, Cummings said.
On Friday officials in Downing Street started to get emails saying they were being fined £50 for attending parties, days after the Metropolitan police confirmed they were handing out the notices.
Detectives are investigating 12 events in 2020 and 2021, six of which Johnson is said to have been at. The Met has said it has received more than 300 photographs and 500 pages of documents after a Whitehall inquiry by senior civil servant Sue Gray.
In an appearance before a parliamentary select committee and in statements from his spokesperson after the fines this week, Johnson refused to accept that the law had been broken.
In response to a question from the Scottish National party MP Pete Wishart during his Commons liaison committee session, Johnson said: “I have been, I hope, very frank with the House about where I think we have gone wrong and the things that I regret, and I apologise for, but there is an ongoing investigation.
“I understand the point you’re making, but … I have been very clear I won’t give running commentary on an ongoing investigation.” ...
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On December 16th 2001 singer/songwriter Stuart Adamson took his own life.......
Stuart's parents, expats, lived in Manchester when their boy was born and moved home to Fife when he was just four, don't anyone fuckin dare tell me he wasn't Scottish! The family settled in Crossgate on the outskirts of Dunfermline.
Adamson's father was in the fishing industry and travelled the world. He encouraged Stuart to read literature, and both parents shared an interest in folk music, Fife born author Ian Rankin attended Beath High School, two years beneath Adamson, and would later become a big fan.
Stuart founded his first band, Tattoo, in 1976 after seeing The Damned in Edinburgh, a year later he formed Skids and recruited Crosshill lad Ian Jobson, The legendary John Peel plugged them on his Radio 1 show which led them to playing support to the likes of the Clash and The Stranglers and a record deal with Virgin. Stuart walked out on the group just as they were about to make it big, for a time he rejoined the band for a tour to promote their album Scared to Dance.
Hooking up with guitarist and long-time friend Bruce Watson, Adamson formed Big Country, the line-up also featured, on keyboards, Peter Wishart, later of Gaelic rockers Runrig, and now a polititian. Originally they experimented with the synthiser sounds that were all the rage then, The Human League were riding high in the charts, but Adamson wanted something more traditional and the synth sounds made way for the guitar sound that was a unique sound for the band and that became their trademark sound. Adamson said later....“Music used to be a thing where working people got together on a Saturday night and played some songs. Someone’d play the guitar or the fiddle or an accordion. No bastard’d played the synthesiser.”
They roped in Jam drummer Rick Buckler on some demos which were hawked around a number of recording labels unsuccessfully, a support slot with Alice Cooper went disastrously too, the band’s half-baked sound grating on an audience looking for glam-metal thrills. By the second night of the tour they were sacked.
Their manager Grant Scott called in Adamson and convinced him the band needed a shake up, out went Wishart, in came in came bassist Tony Butler and drummer Mark Brzezinski, who had just finished an album with Pete Townsend of The Who. Butler, a much respected bass player had also played with Townsend, Roger Daltry and The Pretenders. The final link in the chain that brought them success was when they were signed by Phonogram records, who appointed Steve Lillywhite to produce them, Lillyywhite had just finished work on U2's breakthrough album War and had previously worked with Siouxsie And The Banshees, the Psychedelic Furs and XTC.
Initially contracted to just do a single, the sessions for Fields Of Fire produced not only that classic song, but gave birth to the Big Country sound and inspired a new bout of songwriting from Adamson, the band had it all in front of them.
At the heart of it all was Adamson, the punk rocker with the virtuoso talent. He used to say, ‘Don’t call me a musician. I’m a songwriter, guitarist, singer, but muso – I don’t like that tag’,” but musician he was.
The music of their album The Crossing was epic and inspirational, as big as the glens and as loud as a cavalry charge, this was rock music yes, but not the type played by the likes of Led Zeppelin or AC/DC, this had a Scottish spin. The crowd-friendly skirling guitars, big beats and uplifting calls to arms were all great, but The Crossing also tone the sound down with the, in my own humble opinion, brilliant Chance, which Lillywhite describes as a “a beautiful, depressive song,” Released in July 1983, The Crossing went on to sell over two million copies worldwide.
Their follow up album Steeltown hit number one in the UK and hit gold status in sales, another two top ten albums followed, but all the time Stuart Adamson was fighting his demons.Although sales were good the music press started to turn on them, Steeltown was collection of songs born out of the political landscape of the 80's - the Falklands war, unemployment, tales of people trapped by circumstance and crushed by forces outside their control, it wasn’t what the press wanted to hear, the dour Scotsman. In the eyes of the music press, the band were pompous and dreary and so not cool, the dour Scotsman, in the eyes of the music press, were a pompous band and dreary and so not cool.
1985 took the pressure of Stuart a little, they were signed to score the film, The Scottish classic, Restless Natives, the instrumental score freeing him from that "dour Scotsman" tag. The bands manager Grant tells of Stuart leaving the band, but not, relentlessly on the road, doing press, radio, TV and in the studio and not at home as much as he would have liked.He was also hitting the booze big time.Unable, at the time to get a definitive answer from Stuart on the bands future they missed out on a spot at Live Aid, having previously featured on the single Do they know it's Christmas.
Come 1988 they recorded Peace In Our Time, a more mellow Middle of the Road album, which was an attempt at cracking the US market, it bombed there and the band looked east, playing Russia’s first international rock festival in August ’88 (Grant: “My pitch to him was: Bono – Amnesty International. It only added to the music press attitude that they had lost their way and were "self-important, pompous do-gooders."
After Russia, Stuart Adamson decided to split the band.They reformed in 91, recording No Place Like Home, it was the first of their albums that failed to reach the UK top 20. The music of the 90's didn't have a place for Big Country, the ensuing albums didn't dent the top 40, it felt like they were just going through the motions.
There was a small glimmer of hope when their single Fragile Thing looked like hitting the top 40, but some bizarre wrangle with the chart compilers about the CD singles cover having "too many folds in it" meant it was disqualified and languished at 69, it would have given them a springboard to punt their new album.......
Stuart had by then moved to Nashville and the songs he was crafting reflected the country music scene that immerse the place. He had kicked the drink for a while but reckoned he was happy in Nashville and could start boozing again.
In October 2000 Big Country played their last gig in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia. Adamson almost missed it when, drunk, he got on the wrong plane.The gig was a disaster. Butler later said “We were a karaoke version of what we were,”
Butler told the band they should take a break for a couple of years, he didn't think it was helping Adamson's drink problem carrying on.
Various people spoke about the next two years, phone calls from concerned friends, Adamson said in one call from Steve Lillywhite that..."I’ve worked it out, I really can’t drink, I mustn’t drink, I’m happy now not drinking…’”
There was talk of a collaboration, with amongst other the subject of Saturday's post, Mike Scott and other singers a sort of British Crosby Stills and Nash.
On November 15, 2001, Adamson left a bar in Atlanta, Georgia. His marriage to his second wife falling apart, he was also facing a drink-driving charge that could have led to jail time. He fell off the wagon, hard. He flew back to Nashville where, instead of going home, he stayed in various hotels. Grant hired a private detective to find him – to no avail. “He drunk solidly for eight weeks in hotels,” says the manager, “and every time we found out where he was he’d just checked out for another one.”
On December 4, he flew to Hawaii and checked into a hotel near Honolulu Airport where he requested the delivery of three bottles of wine to his room each day. He never left the room. On December 16, he was found by security hanging from a clothes rail. No suicide note was ever found. He was 43.
Putting this post together has been difficult for me, I fight my own demons every day, and could easily fall into a life of constant boozing, I do however manage just to hold things together.
Adamson's music was a big part of my formative years and I still listen to his songs regularly, some with tears in my eyes, like this one, the aforementioned Fragile Thing, the lyric tells a story much like my own and I can empathise with him through this tune.........
Thank you ma'am for asking
Yes I'm on my own
I guess it's kind of obvious
I'm eating here aloneI'm grateful for the company
Tired of talking to myself
Don't you look into my eyes
You might see someone else
If you decide to watch/listen to the track, you might recognise a certain Scottish female singer adding her vocals to the song......
If I have made any mistakes of mispelled anything here please don't tell me know, leave it be, like Stuart Adamson and myself, it is flawed.
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The slow dawning
If anybody in the upper echelons of the SNP still pays the slightest attention to professional Westminster veteran Pete Wishart, they’d be groaning over their morning coffee on reading about the Perth & North Perthshire MP’s latest musings and mutterings as reported in The National today, (SNP MP doubts Westminster will ‘positively’ engage if party wins independence mandate) I confess to having…
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The slow dawning
If anybody in the upper echelons of the SNP still pays the slightest attention to professional Westminster veteran Pete Wishart, they’d be groaning over their morning coffee on reading about the Perth & North Perthshire MP’s latest musings and mutterings as reported in The National today, (SNP MP doubts Westminster will ‘positively’ engage if party wins independence mandate) I confess to having…
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After The Votes Were Counted The Result Was A Night Of Mixed Emotions
This will not be an easy post to write nor indeed should it be. As I look back on the events of last Thursday evening it is I hope with a cool head that I review the results of the UK General Election and in particular what it means for the politics of Scotland. Having won 56 of the 59 Scottish seats in the election of 2015 it is I think fair to say that for the SNP this was always going to be…
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'A New Low' – Labour Slams Comparison Of Ukraine Refugees To Albanian Drug Runners
Labour said the Tories had reached a “new low” today after government sources compared Ukrainian refugees to drug cartels.
Ministers have apparently raised concerns that Ireland’s open-door policy to Ukrainian refugees creates a security risk for the UK, according to The Telegraph.
Dublin has joined an EU-wide scheme that allows those fleeing Ukraine to settle without a visa for three years.
However, the UK has a stricter entry process that requires all Ukrainian applicants to seek a formal visa and to submit biometric data for security checks.
A British government source told the newspaper that Ireland had “basically opened the door” to everyone in Ukraine, creating a problem because of the Common Travel Area.
“We’ve seen before with migrants from Albania that they have come through Dublin, into Belfast and across to the mainland to Liverpool. That’s created a drug cartel route,” they said.
Labour’s shadow minister for immigration Stephen Kinnock hit back, describing it as a “new low” for the Tory Party.
He tweeted: “Conservative ministers are now comparing Ukrainian women and children who are fleeing the horrors of war to Albanian drug runners. This is a new low, even for The Nasty Party.”
The SNP’s Pete Wishart added: “So the UK berating countries doing their bit to help with the refugee crisis because they don’t want people to come here.”
It comes as the Home Office struggles to explain its chaotic response to the Ukraine refugee crisis.
European leaders are bracing themselves for an influx of refugees from Ukraine three times larger than the number from Syria in 2015.
More than 1.7 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion but just 300 Ukrainians have so far been granted visas to come to Britain.
By comparison, Poland has taken nearly 800,000 Ukrainian refugees and Germany around 30,000, according to reports.
Home Secretary Priti Patel was yesterdat forced to deny suggestions that the UK was not supporting Ukrainian refugees at Calais and telling them to go to Paris or Brussels to apply for visas.
Meanwhile, the Disasters Emergency Committee has warned that the conflict puts women and girls at increased risk of sexual and physical violence.
Huge numbers of women, children and young people are arriving at Ukraine’s borders with Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Moldova, with only what they can carry.
HuffPost UK has contacted the Home Office for comment.
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Sturgeon compared to Emperor Hirohito as Rees-Mogg tears into Scottish lockdown rules | Politics | News
Sturgeon compared to Emperor Hirohito as Rees-Mogg tears into Scottish lockdown rules | Politics | News
The First Minister has responded to the Omicron variant of Covid by reimposing restrictions in Scotland, with Scottish Parliament meetings carried out virtually from December. Now, Jacob Rees-Mogg has skewered Ms Sturgeon when he was asked about whether Westminster will start meeting virtually.
In a fiery exchange with Pete Wishart over his demands for a return to virtual sittings at the House…
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