O'Kelly Isley III

The 'conscious of the nation' LOL - more chance with unconscious zombies of Trump's base.

If only there was still a Labour Party in Scotland...sighs.

I see the glove puppet US Ambassador Woody Johnson has backed his namesake to 'Get It Done'. Imagine that, an American shitstirring in another country's affairs ! Anyone would think they had some sort of vested interest in a car-crash Brexit.

The editor of the Spectator hinting that If Mary Berry backs the deal that could be the clincher.

I honestly think that Johnson is so vain/arrogant/thick that he actually expects the EU to accede to his seven-page document. For their part, the EU should now reply, politely but firmly, in the negative following a period of close examination whilst emphasising that they remain open to further concessions by the UK. The narrative now is just 'get it done', but we must not allow Brexit to occur thro impatience or boredom - I'd rather wait an hour for decent grub than be served dog food in five minutes. I have every faith that Barnier and Co will hold firm.

Nikki Morgan being given a very hard time right now by Emily Maitlis on Newsnight, and delivering a thoroughly gut-churning and uncomfortable performance in response. There is no bar low enough for many Tories to slither under at this time, and you honestly get the feeling that some sort of conditioning therapy has been used - seriously. The likes of Anna Soubry may have been pilloried as an opportunist, but at least she had the integrity to walk away from this political death cult.

Bonzer idea - let's extend (geddit ?) this idea to prisons to cope with the booming numbers !

Lies the lot of it. As the good ship Brexy McBrexfarce sinks below the waves, the Tories are pulling out fantasy policies like a whore looking for a decent pair of stockings. And still idiots fall for it.

Just for the record I actually posted a reply to this last night but for reasons unknown it has failed to appear. It was quite lengthy and I can't be arsed trying to repeat it. However, I'm surprised and disappointed to see that this thread has subsequently veered into British and Scottish military history, courtesy of The Kincardine. What a metaphor for the UK in 2019 and Brexit in particular; forever looking backwards instead of forwards, and a continuing vainglorious obsession with militarism, largely by folk who've never been involved in anything more dangerous than an Asda checkout queue.

We really shouldn't humour you, but given the frequency of your posts you obviously have f**k all else to occupy yourself, so consider this. Ratios are of no account, but the Scotland I wish my country to aspire to has far, far more in common with European politics and sensibilities than those of Westminster. Curiously, they don't serially kiss America's arse or find themselves constantly on a war footing. Europe largely abandoned Ruritanian monarchies a long time ago, and they have an odd notion that societies don't always succeed by impoverishing large swathes of the population. Europeans also tend to learn from the past but live in the here and now, unlike a sizeable percentage of easily influenced Brits, of all intellects and none. Sure, the EU has structural problems but these are as nothing when compared to where Scotland is headed still shackled to Bedlam-On-The-Thames.

When you are in a hole stop digging - there were phases of the game when Clyde overran us, and if they were 'poor' yesterday then if we play like that against 'good' teams we'll be bang in trouble. I'm as disappointed as the next Sons fan but churlishly trying to twist the evidence is embarrassing.

I've just watched Johnson on The Andrew Marr Show. The man's whole life is one massive stinking LIE.

The recent purge has removed a number of once-influentiql figures from the hall. DespiteJohnson being as much a liability as was heavily predicted, the Tories will rally round him as they have become a death cult - I'm thinking a combo of Nuremberg and Waco. Villiers confirmed as much today by attempting to trash the investigation into Johnson's buiness dealings whilst London Mayor, and John McDonnell was correct to quickly point out who is initiating it. Such is the adoration the hard-of-thinking in the UK electorate have for this charlatan, he could have shagged the Queen Mother's corpse and they would still look the other way. The rest of us deserve better, hopefully starting this week.

We didn't miss Hutton, the last thing we needed was another pedestrian midfielder. Clyde demonstrated how to move the ball and the difference in midfield quality was obvious.

Today was a reality check, big-time, and Clyde thoroughly deserved their win. They worked harder, looked hungrier, and won just about every head-to-head across the park. Far too many basic errors intruded on our side, not least the kamikaze attempts to dribble our way out of defence and the pile of mishit passes.

Whereveryoufeckinlike

Earlier today I made a rare contribution to a ‘Have Your Say’ segment of a BBC News website thread. The subject matter was a report entitled ‘SNP Hints At Backing Short-term Corbyn Government’. (Depending on your political viewpoint) there was nothing particularly inflammatory or even novel in the article but it had obviously hit a raw nerve with quite a number of contributors. No-one should have any problem with trenchant views, but a worrying percentage of posts had in my opinion crossed the lines marked ‘respect’ and ‘decency’. In short, far too many were rabid, sexist and on occasion racist. So I posted this:- Reading many of these posts makes me wonder just what it takes to break the House Rules on this thread. Ignorance and partisanship I can understand but the levels of aggression and noticeable anti-Scottish and anti-left wing invective are often beyond what I would consider acceptable. If people cannot use reasoned argument then the moderators should act. At 16.01 this afternoon I was informed by Email by the Central Communities Team that my post had broken the following House Rule: ‘We reserve the right to fail comments which are considered to be off-topic for the discussion’. I’ve never bought into the conspiracy theories about the BBC but on today’s evidence their webmasters seem to have a warped sense of editorial judgement. But I’ll live.

Your last statement falls down Granny; in the event of a No Deal Brexit emotion will be driven by cold, hard unyielding fact instead of the current diet of lies, manipulation and propaganda. No politician, Johnson included, will be able to withstand the economic and social tsunami a No Deal outcome would generate.

You conjure a terrible image there..... for his bidie-in sex must be like a wardrobe falling on her with the key still in the door.

I'm well aware of that, but lo and behold, here is the 6 o'clock BBC News visiting 'Leave-voting Walsall'. But they may have done the nation a favour; if I was a Brexiteer the assortment of bampots they've featured here may give me pause for serious thought.

Johnson has now gone completely for broke, but if there is one thing that history tells us it is that the Tories are ruthless, utterly ruthless in getting rid of any leader who risks the electability of their party. The Mussolini schtick might fire up the already-batshit tendency on his back benches and the Freddy Ffficks of Sowffffend but for every swivel-eyed loon he impresses he will alienate two more 'normal' voters. When this situation starts to manifest itself in poll ratings, coupled to a total implosion of his Brexit strategy, the fabled Men In Grey Suits won't hang about; I reckon we're only about 2-3 weeks away.

f**k me, here we are again this morning with the BBC back doing yet another vox pop in Stoke. Is there any chance we might ever hear from a Remain-voting constituency ?

You would hope so, but as the rhetoric cranks up then so does people's irrationality in the face of the evidence. We have now entered into a tribal bare knuckle-fight and the prospect of Brexit sliiping away is being played by Johnson in the manner of Trump - attack, attack and attack again and portray anyone trying to bar his progress as an enemy of the people. Rather than pause to consider the verdict of the Supreme Court, it is being trashed and to be honest I wouldn't be surprised if the likes of Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Patterson, IDS, Francois, Baker and Bone are tonight silently praying that things start to kick off in places like Hartlepool, Stoke and Sunderland, to name but three, as civil unrest is becoming their last gambit. They ar utterly desperate in every sense of the word and the opposition must now keep their collective nerve and stand firm in the face of the media smear campaign which will surely follow. Johnson, and Trump for that matter, now feel the waters lapping at their ankles and will respond in the only way they know, by lies, bluster, insinuation and aggression. So be it, their eventual defenestration will be delicious.

Mas Mark Francois challenged anyone to a square-go yet ?