Regional List Vote
2011
Scottish National Party Votes: 876,421 Seats: 16 Conservative Party Votes: 245,967 Seats: 12
2016
Scottish National Party Votes: 953,587 Seats: 4 Conservative Party Votes: 524,222 Seats: 24

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Regional List Vote
2011
Scottish National Party Votes: 876,421 Seats: 16 Conservative Party Votes: 245,967 Seats: 12
2016
Scottish National Party Votes: 953,587 Seats: 4 Conservative Party Votes: 524,222 Seats: 24
Britain’s COVID-19 Scandal
Call from the Chinese premier to Boris Johnson
Experience of China, Iran, and Italy
Ignoring the warnings from Italian doctors
Mocking Italy
Advice of the World Health Organisation
Britain’s expert advice
Herd Immunity
Poor state of the NHS
Britain’s lack of readiness
Shortage of ventilators
EU scheme to buy ventilators
Vacuum cleaner manufacturers making ventilators
Cancelling ventilator orders
Lies about the ‘missed’ email from the EU
Failure to lockdown on time
Safeguarding the economy over people’s lives
Coverage of the statistics
Moving the sick to care homes to reduce official numbers
Continuing with the ‘herd immunity’ strategy
Heartbroken for Scotland
Scotland could have done things differently. It could have bent the rules, it could have broken the rules, it could have saved lives. Instead, the Scottish government has stuck to Britain’s chaotic and dangerous plan. All it can do now is pray and hope for the best.
Jason Michael McCann
Scotland is quite unique in the horrific unfolding drama that is the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Kingdom is among a small number of states around the world actively working against the expert advice of the World Health Organisation in its ‘handling’ of the crisis - if indeed that is what we can call it, and the consequences of this policy are evident in the cost in human lives. It is already apparent that the UK will experience the highest death toll in Europe, and the international mathematical and statistical modellers are estimating that by August the coronavirus crisis will have claimed in excess of 60 thousand lives in Britain. This certainly is not rocket science. It is simple epidemiology; countries which follow the advice of the experts fare better than those that don’t, and the British government is only now coming to this realisation.
JEGGIT’S WORLD TOUR OF SCOTLAND - Confirmed Dates
This is the list of confirmed dates for Jason Michael’s “World Tour of Scotland” pro-independence talking tour. More dates will be added as they are confirmed and some may be subject to change.
Contact: If you would like to host Jeggit for an event before 29 March, you can reach him on Twitter @Jeggit.
PLEASE HELP FUND THE TOUR
Kilmarnock 29 January Yes East Ayrshire: 31C Titchfield Street, Kilmarnock at 7pm - 9pm
Airdrie 30 January Airdrie Independence: One Wellwynd, 35 Wellwynd, Airdrie at 7pm - 9pm
Kirkcaldy 31 January 20 Hunter St, Kirkcaldy at 12pm - 2pm
Tayport 27 February Tayport Arms, Nelson St., Tayport at 8pm - 10pm
Yes Rutherglen 6 March Sweepers, Somervell St, Cambuslang, Glasgow at 7pm
Yes Inverness 7 March Inverness Caledonian Thistle Social Club, 28 Greig Street, Inverness at 7pm - 9pm
8 March Aviemore
Orkney 9 March The Orkney Club, 16 Harbour Street, Kirkwall at 7pm - 9pm
Elgin 10 March The Inkwell, Francis Place, Elgin, Moray at 6pm - 8pm
Brechin 12 March Caledonian Hotel, 43-47 Southesk St, Brechin at 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Perth 14 March Grampian Hotel, 37 York Place, Perth at 7pm - 9pm
20 March Ayr
Stirling 21 March The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, 40 Albert Place, Stirling at 7pm - 9m
THE EDINBURGH PICNIC
Hello folks! On Saturday I am coming over from Dublin for a very special occasion - the 2018 #AUOB picnic at Holyrood Park in Edinburgh. After marching to the park I hope to address you from one of the stands. Before and after the event I will be meeting and greeting anyone who wants to come and say ‘hello’ at Procaffeination Cafe (4 St Mary's Street). I’ll be there from 11am until the start of the march and I will be going back there afterwards. Please come and see me. I really want to see you.
Here are all the details of the event. This is the culmination of a huge programme of pro-independence marches and rallies all over Scotland. This is Edinburgh. This is our capital! Rallying for independence through Edinburgh is symbolically important. This is massive. Let’s make it massive. Let’s give it justice. This is the big one! I’d like to see 100,000 independentistas - mammies and daddies and grannies and grandpas, aw the weans, everybody - even the dugs. Please make the effort to get to your capital and march for independence on Saturday 6 October. I’ll see you there.
I Believe
and here’s why
Suffering can’t be ignored, no matter how we try. We walk the earth with our eyes tightly closed, but all about us we hear and feel and smell and taste the pain; the pain of sisters and brothers, of fathers mother, daughters son. Natures cruelty and man’s vicious indifference and malice everywhere leaves it mark. There is nowhere, no stage on which the human and animal drama is set, where we are free from this suffering.
It is unjust. It is not right. More unjust still the idea that we are nothing; souls to ache and grieve and writhe in misery without justice - without an eye to see and an ear to hear. What emptiness is this? What futility! Against this my heart, and soul, and mind rebel. This I spit out and cry: NO!
I believe in a God I cannot see or know or even imagine. One in and through all the universe who is - simply is. One by whose being brings life to colour like blossoming flowers, One who loves - just Loves - every petal and stem. From our roots to the bees who visit us loves us and knows us - Loves us and Knows us - because that is what being does, loves and knows. I believe in this God not because I have been told, but because I need, nature needs and craves this God because this is the soil in which we are nourished and find love and knowledge and justice unending.
The Measure of Our Society
Society is not a thing that forms by accident as a mere consequence of people living in a certain place. It is something we construct by our presence together and the native environment - like the family home - in which we learn our culture and develop our shared ethics and morality. Society is the relationship by which we accommodate one another, celebrate and indeed tolerate each other’s differences, and assist others to live in our wider community.
We cannot measure society, as we have been doing, in the same way we measure the health or success of our economy or our body politic. Society is measured by the social capital - the trust and respect - it produces. We measure it in how individuals fare within it, how they thrive as persons and as members of the community. It must be measured always by how the poorest and weakest fare, and how we adapt to the presence of strangers. It is measured by the fruit of the capital it produces: compassion and kindness.
There are two lives involved. One is an unfeeling, unconscious, parasitic, growth being fed by the second, pain feeling, conscious, autonomous life.
Pro-Choice Contempt for Life
It’s Over Now
We were bullied and harassed into silence and submission:
Ireland’s referendum on the Eighth Amendment is over now. Those in favour of repeal won by a considerable majority, effectively ending the discussion in the state for the foreseeable future. It is all over.
This was without doubt the most divisive political experience I have ever lived through - and I am a veteran of the Scottish independence campaign. The debate never came to blows, thank God, but the level of personal abuse - considering the personal and painful nature of the subject - was on a level I have never seen before, and hope to never experience again.
Without God Everything is Permitted
Без бога - то и без будущей жизни - Ведь это, стало быть, теперь всё позволено, всё можно делать.
“Without God, without an afterlife, in the end, it will be that everything is allowed, anything can be done?”
Dostoevsky is little comfort at the best of times, but - for me at any rate - he is no comfort at a time like this. Yet he is correct, and no doubt it is my realisation of the truth of his observation - as spoken by Dmitri to his brother Alyosha in The Brothers Karamazov - that leaves me thus; defeated, depressed, and despondent. Without God anything can be done.
Без бога всё дозволено.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
This Is Our Failure
A Yes vote tomorrow in the Irish abortion referendum - effectively allowing for the unrestricted access to abortion up to 12 weeks - will be the gravest failing of the Church in Irish society. There is no more delicate way to put this. Over decades of clerical and ecclesiastical institutional abuse, negligence, arrogance, and utter incompetence the Church in Ireland and in many places around the world has put people in a position wherein they understand their sense of freedom and personal well-being as secure only when they are ideologically and diametrically in opposition to the presumed authority of Church.
A foetus is nothing but a bundle of cells - but then so too am I and so are you.
Jason Michael McCann
ABORTION IN IRELAND
WHY I WILL BE VOTING AGAINST THE REPEAL OF THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO THE IRISH CONSTITUTION
On Friday 25 May 2018 the people of Ireland will go to the polls to decide whether or not to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, a clause inserted into article 3 of the Constitution acknowledging the equality of the right to life of the mother and of the unborn. There can be no doubt this outright constitutional ban on abortion in Ireland has caused a great deal of suffering, with many women over the years being forced to carry non-viable pregnancies to term or to “take the boat” in order to procure a termination abroad.
Spain - You’ll Never Be Forgiven
España, eres un bastardo entre las naciones. Tú eres el cerdo del mundo. Lo que has hecho nunca será perdonado. Mientras viva, nunca te perdonaré lo que has hecho.
Spain, you are a bastard among the nations. You are the swine of the world. You will never be forgiven for what you have done. For as long as I live I will never forgive you.
Eighth Amendment Referendum
Allow me to put my cards on the table. I am not comfortable with the idea of abortion and neither am I entirely comfortable with the rights discourse that has become attached to the question of abortion. Yet this does not mean that I am in favour of the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution.
St. Patrick’s Day is Coming
It’s the time of year again, the week before St. Patrick’s Day. The streets of Dublin are filling up with tourists with thick American accents. The bars are all packed out and all sorts of crazy is starting to happen.
#StPatricksDay Jaysus! It was only a matter of time. pic.twitter.com/TCMJhR0lCO
— Jason Michael (@Jeggit)
March 11, 2018
We all ought to be looking for somewhere else to be.