Patriotic Alternative Scotland

2022-06-24 19:49:22 Humza Yousaf is yet another of Sturgeon's useless cabal. He was a failure as Justice Secretary but (as is the way with the Scottish Government) when you are one of Sturgeon's acolytes, if you fail at one top job you just get moved to mess up another one.

Internal messaging between top staff at the Beatson Cancer Unit in Glasgow reveals that things are so bad that they are actually considering cutting back on people's treatment to ease the pressure on the unit.

Cancer care in Scotland was once, before the SNP took over, considered the best in the UK. Since the SNP took over running the NHS it, like every other part of the health service, has been on a downward trajectory.

Cutting back on people's cancer care is unacceptable but Yousaf seems completely unable to fix the problems in the Scottish NHS. Yousaf is also responsible for the care of our elderly, ,another job he is bungling. The sick and elderly in Scotland deserve so much better than they are getting under this government. People need to see the realities of the situation that Scottish public services are in and vote this SNP government out. Open / Comment

2022-06-24 15:14:46 The Battle of Bannockburn on 23 and 24 June 1314 was a victory of the army of King of Scots Robert the Bruce over the army of King Edward II of England in the First War of Scottish Independence. Although it did not bring an end to the war, as victory would only be secured 14 years later, Bannockburn is still a major landmark in Scottish history.

King Edward II invaded Scotland after Bruce demanded in 1313 that all supporters still loyal to ousted Scottish king John Balliol acknowledge Bruce as their king or lose their lands. Stirling Castle, a Scots royal fortress occupied by the English, was under siege by the Scottish army. King Edward assembled a formidable force of soldiers to relieve it . The English summoned 25,000 infantry soldiers and 2,000 horses from England, Ireland and Wales against 6,000 Scottish soldiers, that Bruce had divided into three different contingents. Edward's attempt to raise the siege failed when he found his path blocked by a smaller army commanded by Bruce Open / Comment

2022-06-23 16:46:21 The SNP are yet again letting down the people of Scotland. They have actually been branded as worse than the Tories, whom they love to attack, when it comes to the care of the elderly.

The Westminster government is putting in place a cap on the amount that someone will have to pay for care under the new National Care Service Plan, whereas the SNP are putting forward a bill for the Scottish national care service that will set no ceiling and leave pensioners who are in need of care in a terrible financial situation. Someone who owns a house and is suffering from dementia would be 99.9% certain to have to sell their house and use all the proceeds towards care, according to analysts.

Our ageing population deserve to be treated better and not be left destitute or under pressure when they need care after working all their lives.

Yet again the SNP is failing the most vulnerable in our nation Open / Comment

2022-06-23 11:46:06 On this day in 1725 the Malt tax riot occured in Glasgow.

After the 1707 Union a malt tax had been proposed, but been talked down. In 1724 the idea was revived, and backed among others by Glasgow MP Daniel Campbell. The duty, at 3d per bushel of malt, was to begin on June 23 1725, but a mob occupied Excise offices and prevented its imposition. Soldiers led by one Captain Bushell arrived but held off at the request of town officials.
Rumour spread next day that Campbell had called for the army, and his house at Shawfield in Rutherglen was attacked and its interior wrecked. When the soldiers lined up in a show of force they were stoned by the mob, and fired into it. Bushell’s troops escaped to Dumbarton Castle , chased by large numbers .
The upshot of the affair was that Bushell was charged with murder but never tried; Glasgow’s Lord Provost and others arrested and sent to Edinburgh for complicity, only to be bailed and return as heroes; two rioters were banished from the city, several were whipped. Open / Comment

2022-06-22 10:09:01 On this day in 1680 the Sanquhar declaration was made by Michael Cameron in Dumfries and Galloway. The memorial commemorating the declaration is pictured above.

The Sanquhar Declaration was a speech read by Michael Cameron in the presence of his brother, the Covenanter leader Richard Cameron, accompanied by twenty armed men in the public square of Sanquhar, Scotland, in 1680, disavowing allegiance to Charles II and the government of Scotland, in the name of "true Protestant and Presbyterian interest", opposition to government interference in religious affairs.

This symbolic demonstration, essentially a declaration of war, was among the first of a series of events that led to the Glorious Revolution and the end of the reign of the House of Stuart. Open / Comment

2022-06-21 10:25:57 The SNP treat the Scottish electorate with contempt and are intent on building a culture of secrecy around the actions of their MPs and MSPs and those of their Green Party minions.

It is unbelievable that they think it is "not in the public interest" for voters to know how their elected officials act.

They claim that revealing the outcome of complaints would stop others from coming forward to raise misconduct allegations. What a lot of tosh. Surely if people knew that complaints were taken seriously and proper action taken when a complaint was upheld, it would actually encourage more people to come forward.

But, of course, as has been shown by the recent Grady case, the SNP have no interest in taking action against their elected members who are guilty of misconduct and in fact are more interested in protecting the guilty than the complainer.

The actions of the SNP and their Green allies are a disgrace. Open / Comment

2022-06-20 21:38:08 Hammer of the Patriot will feature on the PA BOOK CLUB stream on Sunday the 26th of June. The show is streamed live on Odysee, DLive, Radio Albion and Entropy.

I’ll be joining Mark Collett, Laura Towler, Aunt Sally and Natty to discuss and review the book. I hope to see lots of you there. Open / Comment

2022-06-20 20:16:08 A information leaflet about puberty funded by the Scottish Goverment has erased the words women and girls In sections where it talks about periods.

Instead the leaflet says "those of us that have both our ovaries and a womb" and "half the world’s population". In fact the word ‘women’ is used once - when the leaflet says ‘it’s not just women that get periods’.

So in the new world that the SNP seeks to create in Scotland it appears that women and girls are going to be airbrushed out. These leaflets are aimed at a young age group and should be clear in their explanations instead of being used as just another tool to brainwash young people into accepting the curse of transgenderism . Open / Comment

2022-06-20 13:51:11 On this day in 1723 Adam Ferguson, also known as Ferguson of Raith was born.

Ferguson was a Scottish philosopher and historian of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Ferguson was sympathetic to traditional societies, such as the Highlands, for producing courage and loyalty. He criticized commercial society as making men weak, dishonourable and unconcerned for their community. Ferguson has been called "the father of modern sociology" for his contributions to the early development of the discipline.His best-known work is his Essay on the History of Civil Society. Open / Comment

2022-06-19 18:11:17 There are calls for Ian Blackford, the SNP's Westminster leader, to resign. Blackford, who is one of the SNP's most useless MPs (which is saying something), but a close confidant of Sturgeon urged his fellow MPs and MSPs to support the sex pest SNP MP Grady after he was found to have harassed a 19-year-old who works for the party

The SNP MPs and MSPs, near to a man and woman, rallied round cheering and clapping Blackford's call Meanwhile the victim has been ostracised and their career sidelined

These are the people who are running the country. People who will condone the sexual harassment of a teenager and protect the perpetrator, while punishing the victim. The SNP says there is no place for sexual violence and harassment in our nation - except, apparently, within their own party, when it is cheered on. Hypocrisy of the highest degree. The SNP now appear to be the party of degenerates, criminals and sleaze. When will the Scottish people wake up to the reality of those who rule over them, and vote them out? Open / Comment