Wingnut Magnet
I enjoyed the somewhat crazy media comments from Serena Cowdy, the woman at the centre of the Westminster sex scandal involving two SNP MPs, Stewart Hosie and Angus MacNeil.
Apparently, Serena is a keen blogger and wrote an article recently for the Huffington Post on lessons that politicians can learn from the popular TV programme Game of Thrones.
Here are some of Serena's snippets of wisdom:
- Understand that no one is safe
- Don't break your promises
- Don't underestimate the little lady
- Don't get caught with your pants down
Pity she didn't add the epithet from a female SNP MP, a supporter of Stewart Hosie, who told one newspaper, "Bloody men and their willies".
Quite so.
But I couldn't help wondering if Serena, who describes herself as a 'Nut' magnet, now wishes to amend her soubriquet to "Wingnut' magnet.
'Wingnuts' Over Scotland (14/03/16)
I learned the other day that I have been blocked from the Twitter feed of 'Wings Over Scotland' which I take as something of a backhanded compliment, I have to say.
Because this blocking business arose after I criticised as 'juvenile and sexist' an image that was being promoted by 'Wings' (and some his online chums) to mock and ridicule JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books.
Now the chap behind 'Wings' goes by the name of Rev Stuart Campbell who is not a real reverend, by the way, and lives in middle-England despite being a fervent Scottish nationalist.
But the Rev had the brass neck to say that I 'disrespected' him (as if he was deserving of my respect in the first place) during our Twitter exchange which focused on whether the image was crude and stereotypical.
Needless to say Wings and his Twitter pals thought differently, like naughty schoolboys at the back of the class with their name calling and personal abuse, although I could well imagine the uproar if Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, had been portrayed in a similarly unpleasant light.
If you ask me, the Rev must suffer from 'wee man' syndrome which is familiar to folk in the west of Scotland; the symptoms normally affect vertically challenged males who are highly sensitive to criticism or ridicule while being in a permanently 'gobby' and angry state themselves.
In other words, they love to dish it out but they don't like it one little bit if others stand up to their boorish male behaviour.
From my short exposure to these Twitter loons I would rebrand them as 'Wingnuts' Over Scotland because their intolerant and oafish behaviour is a poor advert for Scottish independence which is presumably why Yes Scotland decided to disown Wings during the 2014 referendum campaign.
Or as Frankie Boyle remarked on Twitter recently:
"Can't help feeling that this persuading people to vote for Independence by telling them to go fuck themselves tactic has a few flaws."
Now that is funny, thoughtful and perceptive, and so much more important, politically speaking, than the angry, finger-jabbing invective that is often found on Twitter.
