To celebrate Scotland reaching the World Cup final the Scottish government have decided June 15th will be a lovely new Bank Holiday..
But only for those employed by….the government.
Speaking at an event in Glasgow, Swinney said: “The whole nation will come to a standstill in June – even more so in July once we’ve seen off Brazil and progressed to the knockout stages.
“This is a moment 28 years in the waiting – and I want as many people as possible to share the occasion.”
So there you have it,well done if you are on the Haggis Gravy Train..
If not,fuck off the nooo!
Nominated by : Unkle Terry
Does anyone in Scotland have a job? I thought they just ate deep fried mars bars and poncèd off the English.
Still it gives me an excuse to post this again..
https://x.com/i/status/1787936103862870463
Stupid wee baldy ballbag.
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Does anyone in Scotland have a job?
Yes Barry, 200,000 in the oil and gas industry which, despite their best efforts, the SNP haven’t yet managed to destroy.
So Mental Ed is giving them a helping hand.
Ed’s going to close down all North Sea industry and cover Scotland in solar panels so it can generate all that lovely green energy from 30 minutes of sunshine a year.
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That’s no way to talk about our next prime minister, geordie.
Show some respect.
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Full haggis nut job 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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“once we’ve seen off Brazil”.
Errrrmmm…yeah, right.
There’s more chance of Sydney Sweeney turning up at my house with an empty fanny and demanding I fill it for her.
Good morning to one and all.
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He meant ex-Jock international and now 66 (years of age and waist measurement) Alan Brazil.
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I am sure that if Pakistan ever reached the finals of the World Cup then England would do the same.
I know that there are many people on this site that don’t like football, but they also don’t like anyone that finds it impossible to support their country.
It’s either one or the other and even if you hate football, you have to recognise that it’s a brilliant way of showing your loyalty to your country.
Flags will be flying proudly all over every country that have reached the last stages of the competition.
People that otherwise have no interest in football will be watching their national teams and cheering them on.
Except in England, where councils will find it impossible for one reason or another to display the cross of St George.
They will tear down any English flags so as not to offend immigrants.
Go for it Scotland!
White, Scottish people are still the majority.
Fly your flag with hope and pride and fuck the foreigners.
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@art….yep I’d make every one of the country/flag hating vermin watch each game wrapped in a flag of their choosing 👌… be great to watch them squirm at the sight of all those patriots enjoying themselves and especially nice as they’re overwhelmingly Caucasian, which would make them even more squirmy 😁
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Pakistan at the World Cup?
That could be interesting, AC.
Even more interesting, would be England vs Pakistan in the knock outs.
West Midlands police could advise FIFA that no England supporters should be allowed to travel on security grounds.
Only to see the rag heads smash the fuck out of the locality when they get knocked out.
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How is it that the UK has separate football teams for regions, i.e. England and Scotland, rather than one team for Great Britain? AFAIK this is not the case for other sovereign states, France or Italy for instance.
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I think that there are national sides in the various regions of the countries that you mention Arfur.
Cataluña has the Selecció de futbol de Catalunya.
The Basque region has the Equipó Vasco.
They are only allowed to play friendly matches but they would soon be recognised by FIFA if they started doing well.
Players from those teams who are good enough will be included in the Spain squad for competitions.
Allowed by FIFA.
Although not a part of Spain, Gibraltar has a national side as well.
They were accepted to full international status in 2013 but since then have only won 10 games against really shit opposition.
As the Gibraltar national squad is recognised by FIFA, I don’t think that any Gibraltar International players would be allowed to play for England as well.
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A ‘Britsin’ team would be mostly English players anyway. There might be the odd ginger shoe-horned in to kick Meritocracy in the teeth, but it wouldn’t make much difference.
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i worked in the private sector for 38 years and i remember the uk gov giving an extra holiday for 50 years since VE day and again 75 years and both times the company said fuck off and we didnt get it
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I suppose the jocks, even if it’s only government staff, may as well fill their boots.
And if any costs are incurred, it doesn’t matter a fuck, because English tax payers can fund it.
Pretty much like their extra new years bank holiday and free prescriptions, to name just a couple of examples.
Isn’t the ‘United’ Kingdom wonderful?
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It’s a shame a certain glass-eyed, haggis munching fuckwit didn’t take a few days off 20-odd years ago. Then maybe we’d still have decent pensions, some gold reserves and we wouldn’t have had Petie Y-Fronts elevated to the Lords and made Business Secretary.
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Speaking of Petie Y-Fronts, I see Jockland Yard were so busy arresting people for hurty words that it took them a week to get round to ‘raiding’ Petie’s sodomite love dens.
In fact just long enough for Petie to destroy all the evidence.
How odd that the BBC didn’t hire a helicopter to film the ‘raids’ like they did for bachelor boy.
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This whole article was completely ruined by the bbc as per-usual for pronouncing it as the MENS World Cup. Who fucking else is going to represent it. The fucking Martians !
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Hopefully not in my lifetime, but I think that it’s inevitable that there will be, besides the men’s and women’s World Cup……The mixed World Cup.
The gay men’s World Cup.
The gay women’s World Cup (I think that it already exists, but is not called that yet).
The women’s with penises World Cup and the disabled World Cup.
Make the most of what we have while we can.
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I can’t stand change. Leave the fucking thing alone.
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All those other things go on, but not at the forefront. They don’t need to be mentioned.
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I suppose it really doesn’t matter..
The Scottish Public sector will be “working from home”:gardening watching daytime TV and gambling or searching for hereon on their taxpayer funded phones.
So loss of “productivity”.
Och aye laddie.
Fuck off.
Good morning.
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Ffs NO loss of productivity..
Maybe I shouldn’t have had that scotch after all.
Dear me.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx1xl98qkpo
OT but there is always someone having a worse day than yourself..
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😂😂😂
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As David Byrne once sang, ‘Animals, they think they’re pretty smart Shit on the ground, see in the dark…’
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Again, I am inclined to think when will we have an English Parliament?
Westminster sends money out to these various satellites to fund whatever.
Lots of pompous twats stand up and talk about decentralising Government and how fantastic they would be (as long as the magic money turns up).
Perhaps that is why, but for the time being we have separatist’s actively engaged in voting for laws that do not effect their own country.
Small wonder we are fucked.
Any way Jock enjoy your bank holiday, I am sure your gainfully employed nation will enjoy it.
How come fucking football crept in to it? any more football noms and I might stop looking here.
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It is another legacy of Blair. The man who destroyed Britain. I’m unsure if there is any facet of the country he didn’t defile. I wrote a cunting about him a couple years back. I pray Epstein/Mandi fallout gets something on him. However, I suspect not as he was such a good at being a politician, therefore being good at being a cunt.
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Full McGravy Train oven
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It’s a shame we can’t say, “Scotland haven’t been in the World Cup this century” anymore. I liked saying that.
I shall be cheering on anybody playing the Scotch.
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Drink always ruins it in the end.
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Will we have a bank holiday if Iran wins the World Cup?
Good morning, everyone.
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No, but you can bank on a war.
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It should be the other way about. Private industry giving a holiday IF it feels it can afford to, and not the Gov. thinking it has the right to spend the tax paid by industry and the public on itself. Cheeky fuckers.
Any way a day off not working? Well how the fuck will we tell the difference?
Put me in a right grump now.
Mornin’ all
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The last new named day was Father’s Day, which I found ridiculous. Just because we have a precious one day a year for Mother’s Day, the rest of the year is Father’s Day every fucking day. We don’t deserve it.
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Well it will only be a few weeks before we have a regional holiday here for Father’s Day.
A day off work!
Mother’s Day is always on a Sunday anyway, but people that work on Sundays do not get the day off.
That’s how it should be done.
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