LORD BRACADALE

If our understanding is correct,  Lord Bracadale is a retired Court of Session judge.  Some years ago,  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 in legal terms).  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?

After a lot of very unhappy noises from all over,  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 that,  simply,  he was adrift all on his own and without a legal leg to stand on?

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 this dreadfully botched Inquiry and entirely of Bracadale's  own making?  And the wider public question is whether judges should be allowed  to bugger things up on such a large and unprecedented scale without consequence and retain their large and publicly-paid pensions intact? 

It would be an interesting fight.

(It has long been a standing joke in these islands of ours that Free Presbyterians - of whom Bracadale is one - 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.