The Daily Telegraph just released a video called “100 Reasons Why Brexit Was A Good Thing”. It listed them to a soundtrack of “Jerusalem”, the same song that closed the Labour Party conference earlier this week with its stirring ode to just one of the four nations of the United Kingdom.
We’ve saved a few of the highlights below, just in case the Telegraph should delete the video in a fit of sanity. We’ve also added one fake one. See if you can spot it.
Low-wattage Labour list MSP Neil Findlay (rejected by the electorate of Almond Valley by a thumping 8,393 votes in May) puffed himself up to maximum socialism this week and attacked the SNP’s rather more popular Paisley MP Mhairi Black over a Scottish Daily Express story about travel expenses.
It might have been an idea if he’d read the piece all the way to the end.
You can see the full unedited Kezia Dugdale interview with Gordon Brewer on today’s Sunday Politics Scotland at this link, so you can verify that the shortened edit below isn’t misrepresenting anything. But if you don’t have time or attention span for the full 20 minutes, this’ll give you the gist without all the desperate waffling.
We think readers will agree that there can no longer be so much as a scintilla of doubt over whether Kezia believes Jeremy Corbyn can lead Labour to victory.
This is the longest piece of continuous TV exposure Kezia Dugdale will get between now and next year’s crucial council elections. Judge for yourself whether she seized the opportunity, readers.
A Sunday Times/Panelbase poll released today put Scottish Labour’s support at 16%, with the SNP on 50% and the Tories on 21%.
We’re sure that the media will pin Dugdale down over this weekend and we’ll get a detailed and convincing explanation of exactly what it is that she thinks changed about the fundamental nature of Jeremy Corbyn over that solitary month.
It’s long been a bone of contention for Scots – and not just nationalists – that the UK government, by common agreement, wasted the vast wealth windfall of the North Sea on funding Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s programme of deliberate de-industrialisation, mass unemployment, huge tax cuts for the wealthy and bribes to the working class in the form of Right To Buy.
It did so rather than investing the proceeds in a sovereign wealth fund, as demanded by the SNP (and some elements of Labour) and practiced in Norway, whose fund – only set up in 1990 – is now a literal embarrassment of riches.
But the reality is even worse than that. Because according to a 2015 report by the National Resource Governance Institute that’s just come to our attention, the truth is that if the UK had managed its North Sea treasure better, it could have done both.
With the greatest of reluctance, and only in the absence of anything even remotely more interesting, then, let’s have a few words on Scottish Labour’s latest solemn and sincere declaration of its full, total, complete and utter autonomy.
Because while the media is reporting the development that UK Labour has decided to extend a few extra inches of lead to Kezia Dugdale’s branch office as if it had the slightest importance to anything, it seems oddly reluctant to ask the obvious question.
The Sunday Times has a new Panelbase poll out today, and it borrows a question that was first asked by this website (via the same pollster) 14 months ago. These were the results this month:
They broadly show little change from when we asked last year (for the five options the changes are +1, 0, -3, +8 and -5), suggesting that the main practical upshot of the EU referendum campaign was to halve the number of Don’t Knows, which was achieved by shifting almost all of them straight onto the Leave side with the Remain camp’s abysmal recreation of Better Together’s “Project Fear”.
Nevertheless, the chart is a fascinating and pertinent one. Because while there’s only one of the four non-DK groups in the list who definitely can’t get what they want, there’s another one whose decision will be a lot harder than Yes supporters would like.
willie on A matter of class: “Absolutely Scott Finlayson. Germany. like in the 1930s is in absolute full swing rearming to the absolute hilt. The white…” Dec 27, 01:57
Saffron Robe on A matter of class: “A trio of very interesting articles, well worth reading – if a tad depressing!: www.ronpaulinstitute.org/europe-is-about-to-commit-financial-self-immolation-and-its-leaders-know-it/ www.brusselssignal.eu/2025/12/the-eu-could-be-gone-in-four-years-a-revolutionary-eruption-is-coming/ www.off-guardian.org/2025/12/23/land-of-confusion-the-great-reset-in-motion/” Dec 27, 00:12
Northcode on A matter of class: “I’ve opened all my pressies. I’ve had my Christmas meal. I’ve watched some Christmas telly, But now I really feel.…” Dec 26, 22:21
Northcode on A matter of class: ““I’m not a colonising colonist… I’m a civic nationalist,” said the colonising colonist.” Dec 26, 21:18
agentx on A matter of class: “For God’s sake how false can people on here be? All this Peace and Goodwill to all men. Why can…” Dec 26, 20:11
Anne on The Valley Of The Dolls: “Alex Salmond would have remained in charge of the SNP if we had won the referendum and this would have…” Dec 26, 19:38
Scot Finlayson on A matter of class: “European empire builders have r@ped and plundered the planet for centuries, turned the Earth red with the blood of `foreigners`,…” Dec 26, 19:35
Alf Baird on A matter of class: “So called ‘civic nationalism’ reflects this in the finding that (Bond 2015): ‘Many of those who contributed to the decision…” Dec 26, 18:59
Alf Baird on A matter of class: “Like gender ideology, so-called ‘civic nationalism’ ideology is also “Delusional nonsense” of the ‘snake oil’ variety, and cost us our…” Dec 26, 18:45
Andy Ellis on A matter of class: “Delusional nonsense I’m afraid James, which is sadly of a piece with the rest of the tsunami of bilge you…” Dec 26, 16:20
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “Charles(not the R one). This is infiltration of people encouraged to move to Scotland has been on going for Centuries,…” Dec 26, 14:26
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “That Britain and France encouraged this move, tells you all you need to know. This is what the person whom…” Dec 26, 13:27
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “Maybe some of the Scottish people are not aware of what the warmongering EU attempted to do that was illegal.…” Dec 26, 13:10
Charles (Not the R3 one) on A matter of class: “Willie wrote : “And of course the plantation of Scotland with English immigrants is moving apace. Glendale in Skye, famous…” Dec 26, 13:09
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “If Scotland is stupid enough to go along with encompassing civic nationalism, EU and StarmerS dodgy plans, our land and…” Dec 26, 13:00
James Cheyne on A matter of class: “I hope you all had a lovely Christmas day with family and friends, PR stunt for the king of England…” Dec 26, 12:39
Tinto Chiel on Off-topic: “We had a great family time with the Wee Ones at Tinto Towers, thanks. That was very kind of you,…” Dec 26, 11:43
Andy Ellis on A matter of class: “If the yanks are stupid enough to let MAGA burn their republic to the ground, than that’s on them and…” Dec 26, 10:52
David Holden on A matter of class: “Merry Christmas to you all in here even the troll collective as it is the season of goodwill. The house…” Dec 26, 10:17
100%Yes on A matter of class: “& Happy New Year, 2026 here’s hoping its the end of the SNP for good.” Dec 26, 09:12
Marie Clark on Off-topic: “Aye your right Tinto, it is quiet here. Shame that, but I suppose it reflects the state of Scotland and…” Dec 26, 08:57
Chas on A matter of class: “It appears that Santa omitted to deliver ‘The Big Book of Spelling’ to somebody! Maybe next year but……………….. only if…” Dec 26, 08:51
Scot Finlayson on A matter of class: “If USA falls we all fall. The rest of the world is a shit show, EU,Canada,Australia,Middle East,Africa,China,India Pakistan,South America,England,Russia. Elon`s…” Dec 26, 00:29
Tinto Chiel on Off-topic: “Hope you had a good Christmas Day, Marie. Quiet in here, intit?” Dec 25, 21:55
DaveL on A matter of class: “Take a look at this: https://ppvland.co.uk/scot-goes-pop/ It’s brilliant, what a guy send him money right now Comments are open…” Dec 25, 18:04
Willie on A matter of class: “Pretty much like any other colonial institution, it seems, in imposing its alien cultural ‘values’ on the people of an…” Dec 25, 14:41
Stuart MacKay on A matter of class: “Rallies are the perfect activity for forests, which can soak up the carbon emissions immediately. It’s not as if the…” Dec 25, 14:01
Captain Caveman on A matter of class: “Merry Christmas! A fly press tastic happy new year! 🙂” Dec 25, 12:05
Hatey McHateface on A matter of class: “I’m bloody annoyed now, Alf, because you’ve made me break the promise I made to myself. But please tell me…” Dec 25, 11:28
