[Dalem Lake]

Surprise, surprise, having originated from twitter it appears to be total bollocks.
Fact check: Did Anas Sarwar call Billy Connolly vulgar and offensive?

[Youngian]

Is 'Muzzies diss Billy Connolly' the best Reform can do to consolidate their roll in Scotland?

[Oboogie]

Is 'Muzzies diss Billy Connolly' the best Reform can do to consolidate their roll in Scotland?

Was it Reform?

[Tubby Isaacs]

I've never got Billy Connolly. That's probably because I've never actually seen him performing (even on TV) in fairness to him. He's always just been there on chat shows etc. Seemed pleasant enough.

And he was always being impersonated very badly on Copy Cats, the show where impressions were so bad they had to tell you who they were doing. "Hello, it's me, Billy Connolly, the Big Yin!"

[Abernathy]

This, for me, was probably the funniest routine he ever did. And doubly brilliant because it was such an accurate bit of observation. Growing up in the late 1960s/1970s in the west of Scotland, I actually experienced all that stuff. People actually did vocalise that way.

[Youngian]

And he was always being impersonated very badly on Copy Cats, the show where impressions were so bad they had to tell you who they were doing. "Hello, it's me, Billy Connolly, the Big Yin!"

Probably inspired by Sun cartoonist Franklin. Even the most famous politicians were so badly drawn they carried briefcases with their initials and job title; GB - Chancellor, TB- Prime minister.

[The Weeping Angel]

Surprise, surprise, having originated from twitter it appears to be total bollocks.
Fact check: Did Anas Sarwar call Billy Connolly vulgar and offensive?

If anyone should know about spreading fake news about Anas Sarwar it's the national.

[Killer Whale]

Surprise, surprise, having originated from twitter it appears to be total bollocks.
Fact check: Did Anas Sarwar call Billy Connolly vulgar and offensive?

If anyone should know about spreading fake news about Anas Sarwar it's the national.

Makes no sense. The National was exposing it as fake.

[The Weeping Angel]

The national is the in house paper of the SNP. It's role is to promote Scottish independence now that means that they're not going to have little positive to say about anas sarwar. Even in that piece there's a sneering tone and accusations of running a branch office.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think they're doing their annual "lie about the McCrone Report" at the moment.

Nice of them to do some fact checking on Anas Sarwar and Billy Connolly, mind.

[Abernathy]

Actually, thinking logically about it, it is vanishingly unlikely that someone like Anas Sarwar, an experienced politician with an acutely tuned set of antennae concerning public opinion (as have nearly all high-profile elected politicians) would publicly say something as crass and inaccurate about someone like Connolly, who is easily Scotland’s most popular comedian/actor and held in great affection by a probable huge majority of Scots voters. It is fairly surprising that someone would try to fake this bollocks, but no doubt it will have penetrated the skulls of a few of the hard-of-thinking tendency.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The stupid, like the poor, are always with us.

We could, however, do something about the poor if we tried.

[Youngian]

Degsy on one last heist that goes tits up. Has he been lurking around Liverpool council for 35 years pulling strokes on the QT?

Ex-Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson and Derek Hatton charged with bribery
Pair among 12 charged with bribery or misconduct relating to council contracts, say Merseyside police
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... ry-charges

[The Weeping Angel]

By-Election in Runcorn.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Hit the constituency with quotes from Farage about Putin, the NHS, the RNLI, everything else they can think of.

[Abernathy]

I guess I should mention Dan Norris MP, also Mayor of the west of England, if only to pre-empt whatshischops popping up like a bad penny and claiming it’s yet another step towards Labour getting thrashed at the general election in (*checks notes *) four years’ time.

Norris has been suspended from the party after being charged with sexual offences and a rape allegation .

https://labourlist.org/2025/04/dan-nor ... labour-mp/

[Youngian]

The charges are horrendous and if that's not bad enough, Rees Mogg could be back in parliament.

[The Weeping Angel]

Oh god.

[Abernathy]

Oh god.

Cool your jets, man. It’s bad news, but it’s not going to derail anything. Certainly not something to trigger reaching for the razor blades.

[The Weeping Angel]

Back in 2021 I did some phonebanking for Dan Norris.