PRIME MINISTER BURNHAM - TAKING HOAX CALLS - (2)

Well,  that didn't take long,  dit it?

Prime Minister Burnham engaging in hoax calls with somebody pretending to be the White House Chief of Staff!!!!!

How's that for naivity and stupidity,  exactly as we predicted?

LORD BRACADALE

If our understanding is correct,  Lord Bracadale is a retired Court of Session judge. A year or two back,  he was appointed by the Scottish Government to inquire into the circumstances of the death of a young man while being restrained by Police in the Kirkcaldy area of Fife.

That the man was openly carrying a large knife is not in dispute.  Neither is the fact that he was high on narcotics,  doped up to the eyeballs in colloquial terms.  A most thorough investigation by Police and Crown Office failed to find any evidence of criminal conduct by Police Officers who attended the scene.  Quite why there is now a Judicial Inquiry is way beyond our understanding.

Anyway,  to date,  the Inquiry has taken up a staggering 122 days of evidence before Lord Bracadale.  There was a major hiccup last year when the Scottish Police Federation discovered that  Bracadale  had had  FIVE private meetings with the deceased man's family.  The Federation took legal issue therewith and asked Bracadale to withdraw (or 'recuse' himself we believe to be the legal term).  A perfectly reasonable and proper request one might think.

Bracadale refused.  Astonishingly,  he told the Inquiry that 'having reviewed the facts,  the fair-minded and informed observer would conclude that there was no possibility that I was biased'.  Quite,  man, quite!!!!!  And what was that about the supposed impartiality of the Judiciary?  And, while we're at it,  what was that about the need for justice to be seen to be done?

After a lot of very unhappy noises from all over the country,  and with the Scottish Police Federation threatening Judicial Review,   Bracadale at long last relented and withdrew from the Inquiry.  A new judge has now been appointed to continue with the Inquiry but why did it take Bracadale so long to accept the inevitable and realise that he was adrift all on his own and without a paddle?  The powers that be,  realising the enormous stupidity of what Bracadale had done,  just washed their hands off him.

To date,  the Inquiry has cost the public purse the extraordinary sum of £55million and rising fast.  Of that figure,  the sum paid to Bracadale has been £711,680 or,  to be more specific,  £5833.44 per day!!!!!  

But does the Scottish Government now have the guts to try and recover this figure from Bracadale over a dreadfully botched Inquiry that was entirely of Bracadale's  own making?  It would be an interesting development.  And the wider public question is whether judges should be allowed to bugger up on such unprecedented scale without consequence or sanction and retain their large and publicly-paid pensions intact?  

The question that has never been answered is why Bracadale behaved in this most unbecoming manner in the first place.  We cannot recall any explanation from him far less any word of contrition or apology.  

Arrogance beyond measure.

(It has long been a standing joke in these islands of ours that our Free Presbyterian friends love money much more than they do God!)

THE MANY SCANDALS OF NICOLA STURGEON (4)

We have been writing about Nicola Sturgeon for years now and for one reason.  She's a dishonest and perfectly horrible piece of work who has long shamed both Scotland and Politics.

Just the other day,  Geoff Aberdein,  her predecessor Alex Salmond's former chief-of-staff, described her as 'of no self-awareness,  no loyalty and no class'.  And Geoff should know.  Translated,  it means she is poisonous,  traitorous, vulgar as they come and couldn't give a toss for anyone but herself. 

Geoff was being kind.  We continue to view her as the ultimate psychopath. 

PRIME MINISTER BURNHAM (OFF ON HOLIDAY!!!!!) (1)

Andy Burnham became Prime Minister on 20 July 2026.  He's off abroad on holiday some 14 days later leaving convicted criminal Louise Haigh in charge of running the country!!!!!

Well done Andy,  well done indeed.  Obviously,  you are much more frightened of The Wife than you are of the electorate.  And what was that we said just a few days ago that you were naive, stupid  and without intellect? 

Didn't take long for us to be proved correct,  did it?

GIANNI INFANTINO

The best thing the World Footballing Authorities could do is get rid of FIFA President Gianni Infantino. 

NOW!  

THE BURNHAM CABINET (3)

Well,  that was some 24 hours.  And another shower of absolute dopes in Cabinet.

The only appointment of which we approve - tentatively - is that of John Healey as Chancellor of the Exchequer and who has replaced the dreadful Rachel Reeves,  the most stupid woman on earth.   And we'll give Work and Pensions Secretary,  Pat McFadden,  the benefit of the doubt for the time being.  Other than that it's incompetent after incompetent.  

Trouble's brewing from this lot alone - and never mind the public or the rejected Starmerites.

THE BURNHAM CABINET (2)

Well,  Andy,  that didn't take long,  did it?  A matter of only minutes into your Premiership and you appoint The Right  Honourable  Louise Haigh PC as First Secretary of State,  Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Secretary of State for Transport!!!!!

Louise Haigh is a convicted criminal.  Some years ago she pled guilty to a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice when she alleged falsely to the Police that her mobile phone had been stolen.  The circumstances are as murky as Ms Haigh herself.

We are all for forgiving and forgetting and all that but bearing false witness against anyone is something we take with the utmost seriousness.  It is a particularly horrible crime and is not remotely a minor breach of the law.  With judgement like this in appointing Ms Haigh to important public roles,  the electorate is going to turn against you - and it won't be long either.  Louise Haigh should never have been  allowed any role in government.

Sadly, it's just as we thought it might be. You have no sense of propriety whatsoever or any sense of decency.  Just whatever it takes in your own personal interests.  The ultimate chancer in other words.  You conned the people of Manchester but it is infinitely more difficult to con the rest of us.  We know a carpetbagging chancer when we see one. 

And forget everything about extending your term beyond this current Parliament.

THE BURNHAM CABINET (1)

We understand The Right Honourable Andrew (Andy) Burnham PC will become Prime Minister tomorrow.  

It is not something we are looking forward to for five reasons.  Firstly,  Burnham has no mandate from the public; secondly, he's yet another schoolboy Socialist class warrior;  thirdly,  he's stupid and naive; fourthly, the intellect required for the job simply isn't there;  and, fifthly,  his hero is the one-time Leader of the Labour Party,  Neil Kinnock,  better known in his heyday as The Welsh Windbag.

There is much anguish within the chattering classes as to who will be in the Cabinet and, especially, who will be Chancellor.  Our own view is that it will not matter a toss as they are all a shower of abject idiots anyway.

THE STURGEONS (2)

The dust has settled a bit,  at least for now.  Let's have a look.

Poor Peter is slumming his sentence of 5 years and 3 months at His Majesty's Prison Dumfries.  Nicola is living in London lording it up in the fancy wine bars of Notting Hill and couldn't give a toss about her man - or anyone else  for that matter.  She's the very coldest of very cold fishes.  She's the classic psychopath.

Nicola has long hated England, the English and Tories. She has said so on many occasions.  Those are her passions in life. The irony of seeking refuge in England is completely lost on her.  'I'm a victim too',  she moaned of her husband.  Me,  me, me, me forever.  Frankly,  Scotland is well shot of her and,  with a bit of luck,  it is eternal.

So,  there is currently quite a difference in their respective fortunes.  We couldn't care less about the poisonous and ghastly Nicola but we hope Peter will use his time wisely in the nick and reform into becoming a good citizen.  Our advice to him is to write his memoirs and provide some sort of accurate record as to those long-running events of yesteryear.

His memoirs would make him a fortune,  many times the price of the assets he purloined.  And those memoirs would be infinitely more entertaining than any self-serving rubbish coming from Nicola's £5,000 pen.

MR BURNHAM MP

So, Mr A Burnham is the latest MP for the Makerfield constituency.  The unrefined Northern Labour Party machine politician won the day.  

Starmer is,  admittedly, a dreadful Prime Minister but we would prefer him any day of the week to Burnham. Burnham is a self-promoting opportunistic chancer with the biggest ego on Planet Earth.   We simply don't like the cut of his jib. His victory is anything but a good omen for UK politics.  And we will never,  ever trust an ageing politician who adds colouring to his greying hair.

If the Labour Party had any sense left it would take a lurch to the Right well away from the Soviet-style politics practised by Starmer, Reeves & Company. However,  should 'Grecian Boy' Burnham ever become Prime Minister,  it would be a gigantic leap to the Left draining the confidence of the Financial Markets.  And we all know where that would lead us - job losses,  more job losses and even more job losses still.

With Mr Burnham in charge the country would be well and truly doomed.  He's the ultimate chancer.

ROZ FOYER (GENERAL SECRETARY STUC)

54 year old Roz Foyer is the firebrand General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.  Like every other trade union official in the country,  Roz has a very loud mouth and is ready to criticise anything and everything under the sun.  Except herself,  of course.

Lately,  it has come to light that Roz,  who 'believes strongly in the redistribution of wealth' (her words),  owns five residential properties.  Like the extraordinary hypocrite that she is, Roz finds nothing wrong with that. She's a millionaire several times over.

These Socialists never change - one rule for them and another rule for the rest of us.

Gaun yersel,  lassie,  and bugger the homeless.

NATIONAL POLICE CHIEFS' COUNCIL

The National Police Chiefs' Council is,  as the name implies,  the organisational umbrella for the most senior Police Officers in the United Kingdom.   According to its blurb 'the NPCC  brings UK Police Leaders together to set direction in policing and drive progress for the public'.  That's the theory anyway.

We have long been critical of Police Leadership both north and south of the Border.  Police Scotland is a dog's breakfast and we have no reason whatever to think that the Police south of the Border is in any better shape.  A lot of Chief Constables and other senior ranks have found themselves in legal difficulties in recent years basically through lack of character and terrible failings in leadership. 

In our view,  far too many senior Police officers are being promoted nowadays without having the character required for the job.  There are failings,  terrible failings,  in Police Forces up and down the country virtually every day of the week  and most of those failings are caused  by utterly inadequate leadership. Sadly,  it is a fact of life that an inadequate and incompetent Police Leader will promote an equally inadequate and incompetent individual over a competent officer so that the vicious cycle of undeserved promotions continues unabated.

We despair with our head in our hands when we see some of the most senior Police officers in the country appear on television and in the Press sporting that ghastly facial stubble that seems to be an almost statutory requirement for senior ranks nowadays. They simply have no concept of just how ridiculous they present when they are seen more as scruffy Social Worker types than senior Police ranks. Perception does matter in the Police to a huge degree.

It doesn't just stop there. Senior Police ranks must nowadays be more steeped in Social Work Speak than policing and they must be politically correct at all costs.  That political correctness has gone mad of late.  Just look at what the National Police Chiefs' Manual says about racial problems in policing the UK when it reads that 'our commitment to racial equality does not mean treating everyone the same or being colour blind'.  

Let's face it, only a shower of clowns could present anything like that for public  consumption.  And they wonder why  there's always trouble about the cop shop - and not least that terrible incident at Southampton recently where a young student lost his life?

Best foot forward.  

THE STURGEONS (1)

A whole lot of stolen goods with a high value amounting to hundreds of thousands of GBP are found by the Police in the house where you live with another.  Many of those goods have been in your house for years and are on open display for all to see on a daily basis.  You even wear some of the jewellery obtained by deceit while preening yourself for the television cameras.

You are arrested by the Police and questioned about those items. You make a 'no comment' reply to all questions the Police put to you despite the civic duty of good citizens everywhere to assist the Police in the investigation of crime.  You offer the Police no explanation whatsoever as to why you are jointly in possession of stolen goods.  And neither do you blame any other person for bringing the stolen items into your home despite having ample opportunity to do do.  You simply clam up like a hardened professional criminal in the style of Al Capone.

If you are,  truly,  innocent with nothing criminally on your conscience, would not the decent and proper thing to do, as a minimum,  be to explain to the Police how that stolen property came to be in your house in the first place and provide a full and detailed account thereof?

And what about a year or two back when you are recorded on video on a number of occasions trying to shut down all dissent over allegations of stolen money and denying that there had been any cooking of the books and that,  financially, things had never been better?  You are in full knowledge of the facts and,  despite that knowledge, you do your usual bullying stuff and get very angry indeed about such allegations and handbagging everyone in sight - and,  knowing your penchant for handbags, quite possibly with an illicitly acquired handbag?

You carry on regardless and wilfully disregard the truth and want everyone else to do likewise.  You are pursuing a deliberately false narrative.  You are covering up fraud and embezzlement when any and every honest citizen would report such circumstances to the criminal authorities as a matter of course.

Add together all of the foregoing and it leads to the very clear conclusion that you are well into tarry-fingered territory and that you have a case to answer.  We disagree strongly with any other conclusion however eminent it may be as the evidence is there right before our eyes.  The universal legal rule,  that if you are found in possession of stolen property it is up to you to offer a reasonable explanation therefor, has been misapplied by Prosecutors.  They have introduced into law the new concept of the Nicola Sturgeon Defence.

To us,  as lay people, it appears a classic case where guilt or innocence should be determined in a Court of Law according to tried and tested Rules of Evidence.  However, Scotland's Chief Prosecutor,  Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain (who,  incidentally,  you nominated as Lord Advocate),   decides with a flourish of her pen not to prosecute.  That failure to prosecute is,  in our view, by far the worst aspect of the circumstances here and infinitely worse than all of the pilfering involved. 

Welcome to Justice, Scottish Nationalist-Style.  

JENNY GILRUTH MSP

We understand Ms Gilruth now to be Deputy First Minister of Scotland under Dishonest John Swinney.  

We have always found Ms Gilruth to be a particularly disagreeable, aggressive and arrogant individual who doesn't take kindly to being questioned on anything and point-blankly refuses any criticism.  She is brash and brazen and is not the sort to bring consideration and reason into any rational argument.  Her way or the highway.

She is wholly unsuited to being a government minister.  We expect a lot of problems.  

LORD ADVOCATE DOROTHY BAIN (2)

We see that Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain,  Scotland's chief prosecutor,  has intimated her resignation.

No wonder after the ghastly mess she made when she decided to venture into politics in the criminal case of Peter Murrell,  Nicola Sturgeon's man (or ex-man, or whatever).  As if that wasn't bad enough,  the Lord Advocate compounded her stupidity with a complete - and very basic - public misunderstanding of the law.  She lost the confidence of the Judiciary.

Simply,  she was out of her depth.

WESTERN ISLES NOW NATIONALIST-FREE

It has taken many years but, at long last and following the recent Holyrood Election,  we have a Nationalist-Free Western Isles.  Alasdair Allan has bit the dust as Nationalist MSP after 19 depressing years and,  of course,  Angus Brendan had already been shunted as Nationalist MP following the General Election of 2024.

We congratulate local boy,  Donald Mackinnon,  on his being elected Labour MSP.  As long as Donald remembers that politics here is local,  very local,  he'll do fine but he must avoid at all costs the Torcuil way of doing politics which is say nothing,  do nothing and keep whistling in the wind.

CONTENDERS FOR PRIME MINISTER

The story so far.  Angela Rayner,  Wes Streeting, Andy Burnham and Red Ed Miliband all jostling to knife Keir Starmer - and each other - into history.  

Traitors to the last.  Each one worse than the other.  To think that the Labour Party has been reduced to this appalling shower of jokers with not a solitary principle in sight.  Labour is plumbing the depths.  The lessons of appointing Jeremy Corbyn as Leader have been forgotten. 

Should Labour pick any of that lot for Leader (and,  thus,  Prime Minister)  the party will deserve to be out of government for many years to come.

No wonder Reform is on the march.  While we don't like Reform one little bit we nevertheless see the attraction of turning our back on all mainstream parties.  They have nothing whatever to offer the country.

TORCUIL CRICHTON MP - WHISTLING IN THE WIND (4)

We've just been looking up the lists of (a)  those Labour MPs who want Prime Minister Starmer gone and (b) those who wish him to stay on as Prime Minister.  Our MP,  the lamentable Torcuil,  is not on either list - surprise,  surprise!!!!!

Torcuil,  the man whistling in the wind.  Do we know where he stands on ANYTHING?

ANAS SARWAR MSP (2)

Anas Sarwar MSP is Labour Party Leader in Scotland.  Labour received a terrible thrashing from the electorate at the Holyrood Election just days ago.

While,  undoubtedly,  Keir Starmer's unpopularity with the electorate was a factor in the outcome in Scotland,  the bigger problems were (1) Sarwar's telling Starmer to resign only a few weeks back in the middle of Election hustings and (2) the fact that Sarwar himself had no policies on display for the electorate.  No wonder it went belly-up.

Anas Sarwar has made a dog's breakfast of it and has no option but to resign as Scottish Leader.  That's the only honourable course.  

Make way for Jackie Baillie.

THE 2026 ELECTIONS

Well,  that's that over and the Fat Lady is back singing again.  With the Elections being a choice of Keir Starmer,  John Swinney,  Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski it was no choice at all and, inevitably, it was going to be a disaster.  The country couldn't possibly produce bigger dummies than that lot.

We have long expressed our hostility to Keir Starmer ever since it became public knowledge in 2024 that he accepted a huge amount of freebies valued at tens of thousands of GBP from Labour Party benefactor, Lord Alli.  We said at the time that the country would not forget  and most certainly the country has not forgotten despite the passage of time. 

We understand Starmer has now appointed two new advisers in former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and a Mrs Harman.  We don't know anything about Mrs Harman but we would appoint Larry,  the Downing Street cat,  long before we would appoint Gordon Brown to anything.  

Remember,  Brown was not only a useless Prime Minister but also was one of those scandalous MPs who had to repay many thousands of GBP following the Parliamentary Expenses Scandal some years ago.  We haven't forgotten that.  Neither have we forgotten how he has kept the UK bogged down in debt interest from those  crazy Private Finance Iniatives from his days as Prime Minister.

While there were, indeed,  heavy Labour losses,  Dishonest John Swinney  managed to lose a lot of SNP votes also and no bloody wonder.  John Swinney is as stupid,  useless and dishonest as they come with not a principle in sight. Scotland knows it but for many reasons the country was reluctant to opt for both Starmer and Scottish Labour Leader Sarwar and especially following the spat between them when Sarwar told the public in no uncertain terms that he wanted Starmer to resign as Prime Minister.  That spat was the death warrant for Labour in Scotland.

Farage and Company managed to make big inroads into the popular vote. No wonder with Starmer and Swinnney as rulers in their respective fiefdoms - it wasn't much of an opposition,  was it?  But,  and mark our words,  Farage,  the shiftiest man in politics,  is heading for big trouble.  A lot of knives are out for him and rightly so.

Oh,  and let's not forget shameless Polanski,  as untrustworthy as the rest of them. The Greens are the  biggest frauds of all.