Rab Bruce's Spider

by Rab Bruce’s Spider   Mastodon: @RabBrucesSpider1@Mastodon.Scot BlueSky: @RabBrucesSpider.Bsky.Social     The news coming out of the USA is, sadly, as bad as any of us feared. Donald Trump is, as he promised, acting like a dictator. He is removing rights, sacking people all over the place, enforcing deportation and generally confirming that he despises anyone who is not white, male, Christian and heterosexual. His racism was evident for all to see in his hateful comments about the aviation crash which he blamed on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion. In other words, the people either flying or working in ground control were not the right type of people. Considering we don’t even know the identity of those involved, his comments were utterly bizarre. It should not need to be said that making political capital out of a tragedy is the behaviour of a psychopath. As some have pointed out, he is also trying to deflect from his own culpability because he has been ins...

by Rab Bruce’s Spider   Mastodon: @RabBrucesSpider1@Mastodon.Scot BlueSky: @RabBrucesSpider.Bsky.Social     The Unionist onslaught against Scotland has been unrelenting, and it is appalling that it is left to Prof Robertson to counter the propaganda on his Talking UP Scotland website. I really wish the SNP’s Rebuttal Unit would be a lot more prominent, but we’ve been asking for that for years now without the SNP doing anything serious about it. So the attacks continue, with the Unionists submitting one Freedom of Information request after another, then selectively highlighting anything they deem negative, with the compliant media gleefully trumpeting their findings. They do this, of course, because the majority of the public still relies on the mainstream media for their news, so negative stories sink into the consciousness, portraying Scotland as a basket case. Almost all of these so-called news articles can be debunked, but the public rarely gets to know abo...

  by Rab Bruce’s Spider   Mastodon: @RabBrucesSpider1@Mastodon.Scot BlueSky: @RabBrucesSpider.Bsky.Social     By now, most Scots who voted for Labour in the 2024 General Election must have realised that, as many of us warned would happen, they were lied to. The meaningless slogan of “Change” was simply an attempt to portray them as Not the Tories, with Scottish Branch Office Manager Anas Sarwar being one of the few who actually tried to put a little meat on the bones. He never actually said what change was coming, but he did promise no Austerity, and he insisted his MPs would stand up for Scotland. How hollow those promises must sound now. Fortunately for Anas sarwar, nobody in the media will challenge him about these broken promises.   The UK Labour Government have shown that, while they aren’t on the scale of the Tories, they are quite happy to accept bribes – sorry, gifts and donations . Worse, though, they have shown themselves to be politi...

by Rab Bruce’s Spider   Mastodon: @RabBrucesSpider1@Mastodon.Scot BlueSky: @RabBrucesSpider.Bsky.Social X / Twitter: @RabBrucesSpider   The UK media in Scotland, aided and abetted by Unionist MSPs and a plethora of Freedom of Information requests, has been indulging in an orgy of attacks on Scotland, the aim to paint the Scottish Government as incompetent and failing, clearly hoping to distract us from the incompetence and failures of the Westminster Government. While I fully recognise the faults of the current Scottish Government, the media barrage has been quite ridiculous. We’ve had bad news on a range of topics but, as usual, our compliant media never bothers to check or investigate what they are being told by their Unionist accomplices.   It has been largely left to the excellent Professor John Robertson to do the work a proper journalist would do and provide some context, and what a sterling job he has done, demonstrating that most of the gleeful hea...

by Rab Bruce’s Spider   Mastodon: @RabBrucesSpider1@Mastodon.Scot BlueSky: @RabBrucesSpider.Bsky.Social X / Twitter: @RabBrucesSpider     So we’re into a new year, but some things will never change. Based on the media onslaught over the festive period, it’s clear that no journalist working for the UK media in Scotland is going to do anything except try to put Scotland down at every opportunity. There have been some absolutely scandalous news reports over the past couple of weeks, with the BBC, as usual, being one of the worst culprits. Unionist politicians have used Freedom of Information requests to obtain statistics which they have then used selectively to portray Scotland as failing at pretty much everything. As you’d expect, no paid journalist has bothered to challenge them, simply repeating their press releases as if this was news.   We’ve even had the BBC use a report about the Energy Price Cap to attack the Scottish Government for not paying ...