THE STURGEONS (1)

A whole lot of stolen goods with a high value amounting to hundreds of thousands of GBP are found in the house where you live with another.  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 'no comment' to all questions the Police put to you despite the duty of citizens generally 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 the other for possession of the stolen goods.  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 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?

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,  decides with a flourish of her pen not to prosecute you.

Welcome to Justice Scotland-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.  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 lesons 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.

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.