One man and his props 122
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September 06, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for September, 2013
Roll call 413
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September 06, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Okay, it’s going to be FAR too much work to plough through well over 500 comments in the previous thread to work this out, so let’s do it the easy way. If you’re planning to attend the march and rally on Calton Hill later this month, please post ONCE in the comments below. (Put anything you like in that one comment, though – jokes, pictures of cute kittens, links to comical tweets by Duncan Bannatyne, whatever.)
Please DON’T post if you’re NOT going or aren’t sure, and please DON’T conduct discussions in this thread – use the old one for that. One post per attendee. Any post breaching these rules will be deleted mercilessly and with extreme prejudice. Cheers!
Errors and omissions expected 42
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September 06, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This just in: Labour policy clarification on the bedroom tax, from the horse’s mouth.
(No, really. We’re not being satirical, although they might be.)
Then they come to fight you 53
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September 06, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s not even a fortnight since we started to document the increasing levels of bullying, intimidation and dirty tricks employed by the No campaign against the far more numerous grassroots activists of Yes Scotland. We must admit, we weren’t expecting it to descend to outright physical violence quite this soon.
The picture above is taken from a story in yesterday’s Edinburgh Evening News. It shows an 80-year-old man, James McMillan (no relation to the differently-spelled composer James MacMillan CBE, who recently referred to pro-independence artists’ group National Collective as “Mussolini’s cheerleaders”), who was hospitalised with a broken wrist and other injuries after being attacked in the street by a woman outraged by his Yes placard.
It was only a matter of time.
159 seconds in Glasgow 65
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September 06, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Click the image below to listen to the last two-and-a-half minutes of Scotland Tonight’s special referendum debate on the subject of welfare.
If you want to give yourself a hollow laugh, count the number of times Anas Sarwar says “I’m going to answer that question”, and then doesn’t answer the question.
The judges’ decision 74
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September 06, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Last night’s debate, as seen by studio pundits Bernard Ponsonby and Colin Mackay.
We can only commend STV on its generous supplies of green-room hospitality.
Back to the future 58
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September 06, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Anas Sarwar’s boorish embarrassment of a performance on last night’s STV debate doesn’t deserve a post of its own, frankly. As the Glasgow MP who thinks Scotland is a dictatorship oafishly shouted idiotic slogans over the top of Nicola Sturgeon non-stop for 45 minutes, all we could hear were the same old hollow canards Labour have been repeating for months on end, and which haven’t changed a bit in all that time.
So rather than expend any effort on debunking them again, here’s an encore.
Assets and liabilities 304
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September 05, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The results of some of the questions in this week’s Panelbase independence poll are so striking we just couldn’t help ourselves. Let’s have a quick delve.
On the other side of fear 111
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September 05, 2013 by
Scott Minto
It’s been a remarkable week in opinion polling, with YouGov calling the independence referendum for No on Sunday, Panelbase calling it for Yes on Monday, and TNS-BMRB, according to Prof John Curtice, calling it for Don’t Know by Wednesday.
When you look at those results more carefully it becomes apparent that only the initial YouGov poll holds good news for the No camp, and the reason for this comes down to the psychology of change.
Rogue bloopers 100
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September 04, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Every single line a classic.
If we must, then 76
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September 04, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The No campaign got itself rather excited today about the third independence poll of this week, this time by TNS-BMRB, which showed a spectacular and unexpected doubling of the “Don’t Know” figures at the expense of both Yes and No.
We didn’t go into the other two in any depth (noting only the difference in media coverage of them), because as we’ve said for the last 18 months, simple Yes/No polls at this stage are fairly meaningless. But this one deserves a little scrutiny.
Labour welfare proposals detailed 113
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September 04, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
