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No, he's referring to this stupidity:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/...

This asshole insists on filming peacekeepers doing their jobs...

Ah, now peacekeepers is one epithet I've never heard anyone here call the polis...most of them could never be repeated in polite society (but there's a lot of fuckers, bawbag, cunts etc. etc. involved)
 

..in the hope that he will catch one of them slipping up.

Slipping up? sorry but that's endemic in the current disorganisation from the top down...

North Sea oil production peaked in 2000 and will be gone within the next 20 years

Because Trump was the Darling of the SNP for quite a while.

Alex Salmond, famous for his supposed love of Scotland and it's people overruled a local ruling and a local man who refused to sell his farm for Trump's golf course because what Alex Salmond actually gives a shit about is power and money, not Scottish people and he saw Trump as a path to that. This is also why he has courted Murdoch on numerous occasions.

But then Murdoch got into phone hacking and Trump got pissed about wind energy, and became quite embarrassing, so Salmond instead decided to pretend he hated these hard right types that he'd been courting so hard for so long at the expense of the Scottish people.

The only travesty is that Scots with a nationalist leaning hate England and in particular Westminster so much because they're so full of nationalist bile that they're willing to fall hook line and sinker for the myth that Salmond and co. give a shit about anything other than themselves and their own thirst for power. The idea they give a shit about Scotland or the average Scotsman is laughable given how close Salmond and the SNP were to people like Trump to the point of being willing to fuck over Scottish people to Trump's benefit. Scottish nationalism is mostly about a racist hate for the English by people who naively thought Braveheart was a factual documentary, because the SNP have shown many a time they have no problem selling parts of Scotland and it's people down river to anyone else, like Trump.

So there's your answer. They awarded it to him because for some time he was the darling of the SNP, which shows what a fucking joke the SNP are to anyone with half a brain as much as they may claim to hate and want to distance themselves from him now. But here is old Alex with his mates that he now likes to pretend were never any such thing, because, as they say, a picture paints a thousand words:

http://cdn2.spectator.co.uk/fi...

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multi...

http://www.heraldscotland.com/...

but dislikes what the European people have their pan-European coalition doing;

What the EU is doing has nothing to do with the people's will.

Merkel is elected. Hollande is elected. Cameron is elected.

You'll note the most pro-austerity one of the bunch (Merkel) is probably the only one who get to 50% in a national confidence vote. Hollande has followed in the tradition of French Presidents who are loved for three months and then hated forever, and Cameron got his majority by collapse of the LibDems nationally and Labour in Scotland.

Again, a clear 60s parallel. The people are consistently voting against you, and you're arguing that's because they've been brainwashed.

Do you consider yourself a member of the Vanguard Party, Comrade? Thinking deep thoughts about the future of things in your own room, coming to conclusions, and then simply knowing that five years from now everyone will agree because you;re never wrong?

meetings consist of a) 50-somethings and b) artists whose entire ouvre is designed around the principle of pissing the median voter off.

Observation of Corbyn's huge rallies indicates that his supporters are of all ages and types.

We'll see how long that lasts. Corbynmania happened at a time when what most people knew about him was that he opposed austerity, and was as different from the establishment as humanly possible. But the establishment was selected by the people in previous elections, which means quite a few of his anti-establishment opinions aren't very popular.

For example, Nuclear Disarmament polls at under a quarter in the UK.

Before I heard Corbyn was a nuclear disarmament/EU-skeptical dinosaur.

Just because your favoured policies are different from Corbyn's doesn't make Corbyn wrong, let along "a dinosaur". Neither nuclear weapon nor EU arguments belong in the past. They are very important issues of the past, present and future. People who talk of political dinosaurs are simply demonstrating their own political blinkers.

The idea that British nuclear weapons are a "bargaining chip" against Russia is nonsense. Russia only does these trade offs with America, not Britain. We're too insignificant a nuclear power to bother with.

It's not a matter of whether I favor them.

My problem is that these are arguments my parent's generation made, and lost. Rather then do the adult thing, and conclude the people disagree with him and therefore further fighting on the issue is a non-productive waste of time, Corbyn insists on continuing the fight. that's charming in a quirky uncle/Prince Charles sort of way; but it's an absolute fucking disaster in a political leader.

As for who Russia does these trades with, that's the kind of thinking that led Blair into becoming Dubya's poodle.

Dunald Trump has been trying to prevent Scotland from building an offshore wind farm because he says they would ruin the view from a golf course he's building on a protected area of sand dunes. Trump also thinks that wind farms cause something called Wind Turbine Syndrome.

It would be idiotic to only look at local generation and ignore power imported from the south

How should the writer of the article know what you want to know? Especially if that is easy to google?

They are a net exporter: http://www.heraldscotland.com/...

They doubled the percentage of renewables from 2010 till 2014, all the charts you need but only till 2011: https://www.gov.uk/government/...

Perhaps you find something more recent ;D I simply googled for: "scotland energy import export"

Fine, here's another: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

He was egged by in irate local resident not a yes campaigner. Jim Sillars got egged, he suggested that he hand it in to a food bank next time and carried on.

Fucking Google the other 400 references yourself you lazy bigoted blinkered twat.

Ok, i tried Google and I got

Here's a No campaigner arrested for kicking a woman in the stomach

80 year old Yes campaigner had his arm broken

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

What was that you were saying about personal attacks. You epitomise the No campaign, playing the victim when it is you who are the aggressor.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is not Scottish? It is not clear who owns it, since it is publicly traded

Isn't RBS 64% owned by the UK government? I know it was 81% earlier this year, but I think UKFI sold some.

but I don't think they would close down their HQ in Edinburgh, just because Scotland is now an independent country.

They've said they will: http://www.heraldscotland.com/...

I honestly think the EU would be fully willing to integrate Scotland from day one.

I'm sure the EU will let Scotland in. I don't think that's really the question (I really wouldn't take those who say that Scotland will be blocked seriously) - it's more about what other countries will want in return, and whether other countries with secessionist movements will want it to do it the hard way or the easy way. Countries in international bodies don't tend to agree to anything without getting something they want, even if it's not related. So, Scotland may find it hard to get all the exemptions the UK has and the budget will be up for negotiation. In theory new states are supposed to join the Euro and Schengen (which I would like but would drive UKIPers and the UK Conservatives insane), but I'm sure they'll be able to avoid that if they give something else up and take longer over it. But I imagine that the worst part for Scotland will the uncertainty whilst it's negotiated. Businesses will hate that.

You don't even need to visit China to read about industrial accidents. Motorway accidents for travelling sales staff are just as dangerous:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/worker-loses-his-hands-in-industrial-press-accident-1.280310

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168607/Woman-25-intensive-care-SCALPED-hair-got-caught-machine-work.html

http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2011/coi-e-4211.htm

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4752201/Scalped-mum-nearly-killed-after-her-hair-catches-in-a-machine.html

by point-blank lying to the United Nations

Bush truly believed there were WMDs in Iraq. The intelligence available to him said so. Bill Clinton also said that the intelligence said so when he left office, as well as in 1998. Saddam Hussein said that he intended for the intelligence to indicate so, in an effort to scare off Iran while calling the US's bluff that they wouldn't invade.

Cleared ?
By who ?
Whitewashed by a corrupt civil servant is more like it.

Done.

It was so warm they were growing wine in Scotland

no there werent bud. the farthest north the roman era and middle ages vineyards were(and this is debated) iun Lincolnshire or the Newcastle area.

definitely NOT Scotland... have a look here ib the herald which is talking about past and future vineyards
especially this bit

"The Romans had vineyards up as far as Lincolnshire. The temperatures were warmer than today and the Romans were producing wine on an industrial scale. Some vineyards were producing 10 to 15,000 bottles per year, probably vin de pays to keep the legionnaires going on Hadrian's war. Then everything collapsed when the Saxons came in. The Normans brought back viticulture and of course the Christians needed wine for Holy Communion. Then it collapsed again in the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th and 18th centuries when it was restricted to the south-east of England. But now it is advancing north again."

sono.... not Scotland...... as a Scotsman i nearly pissed myself at that tbh