Firing blanks 1,154
Posted on
May 22, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is getting properly embarrassing.
Because that starting gun must be red-hot by now.
Archive for May, 2022
Scotland is lost 740
Posted on
May 09, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re still retired, but this just can’t go unremarked.
This is absolute banana-republic stuff. Even before you get into any of the specifics of the case, it’s simply not the Crown Office’s job to interfere with a police investigation by telling them who they may and may not interview under caution.
Scottish justice is extremely seriously compromised.
Signing up new seamen fast 134
Posted on
May 08, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As we’re a polling site now, a brief post on polls.
In a column for today’s Herald on Sunday, Iain Macwhirter repeats the frequently-made assertion that “Boris Johnson is loathed in Scotland and is the best recruiting sergeant for independence since Margaret Thatcher”.
The first part is certainly true, as it has been of pretty much every Tory Prime Minister of the last 40 years. But the second part simply isn’t borne out by the facts.
Above (click to enlarge) is the graph of Yes polling since Johnson became PM. It shows support for independence FALLING from 52% to 49% during his term in office.
If you discount the Lord Ashcroft poll from a few days after he entered Downing Street (because Ashcroft isn’t a British Polling Council member), the graph becomes Nicola Sturgeon’s political speciality – a flat line, from 49% to 49%.
Johnson has “recruited” nobody. Those are the cold hard facts.
A Game Of Two Halves 449
Posted on
May 03, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
15 years ago this week (today if you’re counting strictly by date, Thursday if you want to go with election days) the SNP came to power in Scotland for the first time ever. The media operating in Scotland is full of retrospectives and polls on the period, but as usual they’ve missed the real story, as a reader pointed out to us a few days ago.
So for old times’ sake, let’s do their job properly for them one more time.
Voting for people who hate you 77
Posted on
May 02, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We had some poll questions out with Panelbase last week. The results were in most ways wholly unsurprising, in line with all previous polls on the subject. Here they are.
To Ministers of the Scottish Government 34
Posted on
May 02, 2022 by
For Women Scotland
To: Humza Yousaf (Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care), Shirley-Anne Somerville (Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills) and Clare Haughey (Minister for Children and Young People)
28 April 2022
Dear Mr Yousaf, Ms Somerville and Ms Haughey,
Cass Interim Report: Independent review of gender identity services for children and young people – Implications for Scotland
