DAVID McKIE, BARONESS MONE'S EX - LAWYER

For lay people like ourselves,  legal writings are never easy to follow and trying to read and make sense of legal mumbo-jumbo often leaves us overwhelmed,  underwhelmed and every other whelmed.   We are smart enough,  however, to recognise a stupid lawyer when we see one.  David McKie,  a Glasgow solicitor,  falls precisely into that category.

The circumstances of David's current predicament  arise from a notorious episode during the Covid era when our old friend,  Baroness Michelle Mone,  helped a company,  PPE Medro,   obtain a Government contract for the supply of medical equipment to hospitals etc.  The equipment,  allegedly worth some £300 million,  turned out to be unfit for purpose and certain newspapers began inquiring into how the contract was awarded in the first place.

When the going got too hot for Michelle she instructed the precious and highly litigious David  to represent her.  David replied to the newspapers with a lengthy volley of correspondence that even a child could see was threatening,  intimidating,  unduly aggressive and highly questionable.  The Guardian newspaper didn't take this lying down and lodged a formal complaint about David's  firm  with the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission.  

The Commission decided the complaint should be referred to the Law Society of Scotland for consideration as to whether the circumstances amount to Misconduct. David's law firm,  who says he specialises in Media and Reputation Management - whatever that is - appealed that decision to the Court of Session.  

The Court of Session had little difficulty in rejecting David's firm's appeal so that there is now a chance that the firm,  or someone within the firm, or both,  can expect an appointment with the Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal. At the very least, the firm itself should expect a Writ in the Civil Courts for what David wrote. It was shocking stuff on any, and every, view.  (The Court of Session reference is Levy & McRae v Scottish Legal Complaints Commission XA79/24).

Our advice to Michelle at the time was to get shot of her lawyers as they were - and we quote ourselves - 'stupid beyond belief'.  She should have taken our advice for free as we know only too well that when arrogance and stupidity combine the consequences are never pretty.  

Just ask Prince Andrew.

SWINNEY MEETS TRUMP

We are told that John Swinney,  whom we understand to be First Minister of Scotland,  met US President Donald Trump during Donald's recent visit to Scotland. 

We would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during the three minutes the conversation lasted!  

A crawler to the last.  We wouldn't trust Swinney further than we could throw him. Give us Trump any day.

A TENTH GOVERNMENT MINISTER BITES THE DUST

That's another Government Minister gone.  That's 10 in a row, or,  putting it another way,  10 since this accursed Government came to power a year ago.

Rushanara Ali was a Government Minister for Homelessness or something along those lines.  Apparently,  if Press reports are to be believed,  she used to let a property she owns in London and forced the tenant out only to let the property to another tenant at a vastly increased rent.

This is  what passes for Socialism in Starmer's Britain. 

NICOLA STURGEON AND DONALD TRUMP

She just cannot help herself,  can she?  Moments after Donald Trump told the truth that she had been a 'terrible' First Minister,  Nicola simply had to respond.  'The feeling's mutual,  Donnie',  she posted.  Instead of keeping a dignified silence,  she just had to mouth off.  No decorum whatsoever - and that has been her trademark during all of her time in politics.

She's as malignant and poisonous as ever.  The woman has,  very obviously,  all sorts of personality disorders and now extending into psychiatric problems.

Just look at the mess she has left behind.  From the ferries debacle;  to the disastrous Named Person legislation; to her administration's criminal neglect in giving a £600million loan of taxpayers' money to steel baron Sanjeev Gupta and now lost down the Swanee;  and to the  to the grave danger she has posed to women.  That danger recently found its way to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom  where,  mercifully,  sanity prevailed and Sturgeon's argument,  basically that men and women are the same,  was thoroughly rejected.

That Nicola Sturgeon  was ever First Minister tells you everything you need to know about those craven idiots who vote SNP.

TORCUIL CRICHTON MP (2)

Well,  that's it.  MPs voted tonight in the House of Commons on the proposed Government welfare cuts.  49 Labour  MPs voted against the bill.  Our MP,  the pathetic and shameless Torcuil,  voted for the Bill that will impose swingeing benefits cuts on the most unfortunate people in our midst.

We won't forget it,  Torcuil.

TORCUIL CRICHTON MP (1)

Yesterday,  129 Labour MPs rebelled against this ghastly Labour Government and flatly told Prime Minister Keir Starmer that they would be voting against the government's proposed benefits cuts scheduled for debate in the House of Commons next week.  Much as we expected,  our local MP,  Torcuil Crichton,  was not one of the rebels.

Pathetic.  Torcuil is not fit to represent us.  Even after only 11 months as an MP,  Torcuil's  already living on borrowed time.

AN IDIOTIC PROSECUTION

We have posted little of late as there has been nothing about other than an extraordinary level of political stupidity and our tolerance of politicians is non-existent.  There is only so much one can take.  That is not to say,  however,  that this crazy world of ours remains still.  Far from it.

We were more than intrigued recently with the case of the two Sussex Police officers who stood trial at Southwark Crown Court on charges of assault upon an elderly resident of a seaside care home who had been threatening care home staff with a serrated knife for a prolonged period until they were forced to call the police.  When the police arrived the man was pepper-sprayed,  tasered and subdued.

The jury found both officers (a male and a female) unaminously Not Guilty.  In our view,  that should have been the end of the matter but,  no,  we are now told that the two officers concerned face Police Disciplinary Procedures.

This idiotic prosecution by the Crown Prosecution Service should raise great concern amongst rank-and-file police officers.  As for the senior ranks of the Police Service,  both north and south of The Border,  don't expect any common sense as they are long past praying for anyway.