by Johnny McNeill – ex British Army Sgt Major with 25 years served with operational tours of Iraq and Bosnia. And self-published author of ‘Gaslighting Gilligan‘ (© 2017 – free download – released via Berlin on 25th June 2017).

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident”. Schopenhauer

(10-12 mins) As part of the wider UK political, corporate and media class’s decade-long deliberate agitation of the working class to blame us for what they already have planned via the UKGOV’s Hard Brexit ‘OPERATION YELLOWHAMMER’ militarisation plan…

…it’s not a coincidence that both Rangers and Celtic fans find themselves at odds with their respective club Boards.

Nor is it a coincidence that the recently retired Scotland Rugby international Jade Konkel had this to say about the SRU;

“They’ve [SRU] made our build-up to this really challenging, mentally and emotionally,” Konkel said. “We appreciate the long-term plan, but the timing of it was less than ideal. People were doing job interviews and worrying about what they’d be doing post-tournament”. Jade Konkel via BBC Sport

If Jade Konkel or any of the Scotland Women’s team read this, I can inform them that the “long-term plan” is the politicised SRU’s smokescreen for hobbling short to medium term success, confidence and growth of Scottish women’s rugby.

It’s part of a broader trend which saw elements within the SRU sabotage John Jeffrey to ensure he was kept at arms length from the seat of power in World Rugby, in order that Scotland’s men would remain hobbled by corruption on the world stage; an example of which being the timing of draw for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, when corrupt elements nearly three years prior on the 14th December 2020, seized the opportunity based on the then World Rankings to land Scotland in the same pool with South Africa and Ireland who by 2023 were ranked 1st and 2nd in the world.

‘John Jeffrey said by “pulling the rug” from under his World Rugby candidacy the SRU has sent Scottish rugby into the global wilderness for at least ten years. “I spent so much time building up relationships and now we have a void on international bodies and that will be the case I can guarantee for the next ten years… If I was beaten by another candidate I would have accepted it but to get beaten by my own country is a real kick in the face. It is mind blowing to me. I find it hard to fathom”. Scottish Rugby News

The Scotland football national side was also subjected to a completely ‘mystifying’ decision which also prevented us from progressing in last years European Championships, when both the referee – curiously drafted in from Argentina – and the VAR official ‘didn’t see’ what the studio pundits and watching world saw; the denial of a stonewall penalty for Scotland in the dying minutes of the game against Hungary which wasn’t even looked at! Yes we know we played poorly but to deny the evidence of what we all saw is to deny another reality; that over the years there’s been patterns of corruption in UEFA and FIFA too.

With regard to the Old Firm, the sources of the unrest within each set of supporters appears to differ however I believe both are being deliberately sabotaged by internal and external ideological forces. And as such as the analogy goes – we Scots collectively through our most popular sports which shape our perception of ourselves and expectations for our wee nation – are being shaken like ‘ants in a jar’ to turn against one another.

In February this year I said the following on Norrie Hunter’s Caledon Radio;

“The relegation of Scottish international football to YouTube has been deliberately engineered, as has the pattern of all-too-frequent occurrences of referees, TMO’s and VAR ‘oversights’ in both rugby and football. Since the Craig Joubert travesty in 2015 there’s simply been too many incorrect decisions which have worked against Scotland just to keep putting it down to ‘incompetence’. There’s a consistent pattern in which the officials often miss the obvious yet manage to ‘see’ the obscure. This leads me to suspect that as part of the wider ‘Gleichschaltung’ construct to ‘overwrite’ Scotland’s cultural-identity, there’s something very sinister underway to undermine Scotland’s self-confidence, credibility and belief in ourselves”. (I’ll provide the link at the end).

It’s all part of the ongoing pattern we all just witnessed again last week in the denial of a perfectly good goal for Celtic v Braga – in which a non-existent handball was ‘seen’ by the VAR;

In a Scottish domestic set-up which guarantees at least four Old Firms games a season that reinforces the ‘unique selling point’ perception to watching world, that Glasgow and indeed Scotland as a whole is a sectarian cesspit forever ripe for civil unrest, both Rangers and Celtic supporters each perceive themselves uniquely to be the sole subject of corrupt VAR decisions.

Whereas I think both – as is the Scottish game as a whole – are being targeted for agitation, unlike that which historically has seen a more cyclical approach, generally to ensure that one side is more dominant over the other at a given time.

People must understand that in the past, sport has been weaponised by totalitarian regimes to promote its ideology and dominance. Therefore it stands to reason that the same principle must apply to destabilising confidence, undermining and agitating those cultures who present a ‘threat’ to the regime, doing so via all levers and means at the dominant State’s disposal;

“Fascism should more appropriately be called ‘Corporatism’ because it is a merger of State and corporate power”. Mussolini

Given the current political climate many would automatically assume therefore that to reinforce the ‘British’ position, Rangers would be the beneficiaries of VAR corruption. Not so. Not if the dominant British power wants the predictable emotional-behavioural reaction from the already emotionally-charged Rangers supporters; to compel the most ‘susceptible’ i.e. the youth especially, to angrily ride to the ‘defence’ of both the club and interwoven political ideology.

This is how ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ or ‘people’s community’ propaganda works on a national scale. You see by subversively ‘attacking’ the long-held belief systems of the majority, it’s strongest proponents will vehemently come to the defence of the very same belief system, doing so against anyone and everyone who is not of the ‘faith’ – usually minorities.

None of what is happening in our football and international rugby is occurring in a vacuum separate from politics. It’s all part of the deliberate Gleichschaltung ‘overwrite’ (screenshot above) and destabilisation of Scotland’s economic wellbeing with the ‘re-purposing’ of the Grangemouth refinery, meaning Scotland no longer has the means to refine our oil. Oil which the US wants to ensure is still getting its cut, whilst it sets about invisibly converting ‘Global Britain’ (& Ireland) into ‘Airstrip One’ through attempted wars and sports; principally via NFL (*hint hint* Rangers supporters!) games being increasingly played in London and Dublin.

“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of its propagandistic initiative”. Goebbels

‘Sportsfield to Battlefield & Back: Live. Die. Repeat.’ (2018) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-zj

And just like the propaganda weaponisation of sports, the Grangemouth socioeconomic destabilisation ruse is again historically precedented; with perhaps the prime example being when the Crown chartered ‘British East India Company’ (see my 21st century (and admittedly amateur!) depiction of the British East India Company flag on the front cover of ‘Gaslighting Gilligan’ (©2017) below) whose slow-burn sabotage of the Scottish Darien Scheme by its English Governors and Directors who sat as Parliamentarians on the Westminster benches to legislate The Alien Act, prevented anyone from trading with Scots anywhere.

In addition, the East India Company’s shareholders also operated in Whitehall in preparation to back-up the Alien Act with military force on land and at sea, should anyone attempt to trade with Scottish merchants.

All of which was the original corporate, political and military coup of Scotland and the prelude set-up of the Scots Darien investors to blackmail and bribe them as signatories, in order to ‘ratify’ the annexation of a Scotland in the guise of a so-called ‘Union’.

Week by week, month by month and year by year we deny the evidence of what’s taking place in front of our eyes, that is; the erasure of Scotland’s existence on the world stage and in the so-called ‘UK’ itself. And so acknowledge it or not, just like trade and economics, sport does not exist and indeed cannot exist in its own vacuum outside of politics. And certainly not the modern globalist world.

No, rather than being a ‘peripheral’ product on the fringes of politics, sports – football and rugby especially – are a central component in managing expectations and in the mass manipulation of the collective mood, emotions and morale of a nation which actually drives politics. 

This is why the British globalist cartel with its long reach goes to such lengths to diminish us in our own eyes and snuff-out Scottish successes.

This is why the current and ongoing aim is not only to demoralise Scots and undermine Scottish self-confidence having sealed us within a corporate and billionaire owned ‘Volksempfänger’ or ‘people’s receiver’ propaganda construct, similar to that in which Goebbels broadcast machine enveloped unwitting German citizens in 1933…

‘BBC Volksempfänger (While You Were Sleeping…)’ (2023) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-3u7 

…but in doing so, having failed to secure an external ‘enemy’ to blame for what they already have planned…

‘Brexit ‘Op Yellowhammer’: All Roads Lead to Rome – Militarisation’ (2018) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-Og

…is now gaslighting and seeking to blame the working class by simultaneously attempting to engineer and foment civil unrest – firstly in Glasgow then across Scotland around strategic military, economic and symbolically significant sites.

“A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud”. Orwell

‘Tory Brexit: Angling for the Occupation of Scotland’ (2021) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-2eG

As stated in my standard intro at the top, writing as an ex-soldier, as an independence man and a Rangers supporter, since going public with ‘Gaslighting Gilligan’ on 25th June 2017 via Berlin…

‘Warning Berlin 2017: The ‘Missing’ German Federal & Irish Embassy Recordings’ (2023) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-3KF

…I’m in little doubt that the British State also has its influencers and agitators embedded within both sets of the hard-core and increasingly angered elements. However as a Rangers supporter I can also tell you that the primary targets are the Rangers youth who are being inculcated into a certain historically precedented ‘blackshirt’ militancy, which is intended to seamlessly morph into paramilitary recruitment pool upon a fascist trigger; all of which has been set-up by the very same British Establishment they unquestioningly revere.

‘A Very British Nationalist Government of ‘Unity’: A US Backed UK Police State By The Back Door’ (2022) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-3nu

Soon we’ll all understand and acknowledge that like all long-established and powerful institutions, the British Establishment structures also subversively attack ‘their own’ indoctrinated subjects from within, in order to drive the entirely predictable emotional-behavioural responses…

“Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression onto the targets for hatred”. Joseph Goebbels

…that generate a very ‘British bunkered mentality’ and a collective, ‘defensive’ and self-righteous anger that’s negative emotional energy is designed to be directed against the wrong (usually minorities) targets which itself, is in preparation to ‘justify’ their (long-failing) US/UK corporate-driven Hard Brexit ‘OPERATION YELLOWHAMMER’ militarisation agenda.

‘Op Yellowhammer: Militarisation of UK is Inevitable’ (2022) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-33w

I don’t anticipate the heavily indoctrinated young men on either ‘side’ to pay any heed to what it is I’m trying to alert them to here, so this is aimed at the more level-headed supporters and to those families and friends who have loved ones and pals on the ‘other side’ of the Old Firm so we can get back to something like this.

Therefore I ask you to help yourselves by communicating and discussing this ‘ants in a jar’ piece with one another, before you’re manipulated into street battles against each other.

Video recorded on 25th June 2018, on the first anniversary of going to Berlin and warning the German Bundes Polizei & Irish Embassy on 250617, of the inevitable #ToryAnalytica coup d’etat militarisation of Brexit and the arrival of a US/UK-led global fascism;

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad”. Orwell, ‘1984’.

And so for what it’s worth, in the book itself which is a dystopian ‘fiction’ I describe as…

‘A paradigm shift in the meaning of domestic abuse & the Atlantic Bridge to ‘1984’.

…I refer to Rangers and Celtic as being ‘River City Blue’ and ‘River City Green’. In time you’ll begin to understand why, and why I perceive that there are symbolic clues to this being the case since their inception.

As alluded earlier in this piece, here’s the link for the one hour interview in February this year with Norrie Hunter on Caledon Radio, in which I covered;

Punch and Judy politics. Orwellian propaganda omissions. Agitator ‘activists’. Our emotionally captured ego’s. The Gleichschaltung erasure of our distinct Scottish historical and cultural identity and the demoralisation of Scotland via sports… ‘Caledon Radio (Ep4): The Volksempfänger Capture of Scotland & Beyond’ (2025) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-54y 

NB – I’ve no idea who’s behind ‘The Dandy Dons’ page (see screenshot below) but after having linked my interviews above to his/her Facebook page last year and again earlier this year, he recently posted this meme;

He’s not wrong. But having reminded him that I’d sent him the pieces previously – he ignored me. It could be he has an inflated ego or – and this is the motive in most cases with high-follower accounts – the account itself could be a long-standing agitprop page now attempting to draw traffic away from my blog in order to prevent a wider understanding of what’s actually taking place…

‘The ‘USUKLoCA’ – The 1973 Seeds of the Political, Military & Corporate Coup of Brexit Britain’ (2025) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-5km

…as well as the numerous globalist mechanisms deployed to divide western societies in preparation to more efficiently and effectively put the working classes down by shaming mass emasculated, demonised, dehumanised and angered men – who are the collective key to owning the streets – and who are being ‘nudged’ by orchestrated policies and propaganda into societal and State subservience i.e. whoever has the loyalty and compliance of the men – runs the regime.

“Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street”. Joseph Goebbels

After which if the trigger for war and mass mobilisation were to succeed, these very same ‘patriotic’, increasingly militant, austerity-skint young men without purpose other than contempt and hate housed in a dual ‘superiority persecution complex’ are – as predicted by Orwell below – to be further guilt-shamed and compelled by false accusations of domestic violence to find their socially-engineered ‘sanctuary’, self-esteem, meaning and society’s respect – in a fascist military uniform.

“If you’re a man, you’re the last man. Your kind is extinct. Do you know that you’re alone? You are outside of history. You unexist… When we can cut man from his own past, then WE CAN CUT HIM FROM HIS FAMILY, HIS CHILDREN and other men. We control life. At all levels. We create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable”. Orwell, ‘1984’.

‘Early Warning Signs of Fascism: The MeToo (&🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️) Truth of ‘Rampant Sexism’ (2020) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-1Y2

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“The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense”. Aldous Huxley

‘Fascism, steeped in pathological hypocrisy, superiority entitlement and inveterate victimhood, is the group-characteristic extension of narcissism. And is the Machiavellian-patriotic, militarised business model extension of joint Government and corporate psycho-social engineered crisis-capitalism’. ‘Characteristics Of An Individual Narcissist & A Fascist State’ (©2017) https://wp.me/p94Aj4-dZ

‘Gaslighting Gilligan’ by Johnny McNeill; a contemporary dystopian ‘fiction’ about the intrinsic, interconnectedness of both personal & State-political domestic abuse, was released from Berlin on 25th June 2017. It is copyright ©️ but is a *free*-to-share public-service PDF download from here.

Twitter: @GasGilligan