A surprising convert 93
Posted on
November 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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A different kind of beat 105
Posted on
November 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So this was in the Times football section today:
And you find yourself thinking, “Well gee, why might THAT be, Alex?”
Britain really is this stupid 136
Posted on
November 21, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
And we’re sure these guys are at least partly to blame.
The dust of the sawdust 269
Posted on
November 20, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re so far beyond mere “scraping the barrel” now.
Unhappy with polls based on asking the simple and clear question “Should Scotland be an independent country?”, and which have been stubbornly refusing to show any movement against independence, our dear old pals at Scotland In Union recently commissioned one of their own seeking to muddy the waters.
Their brainwave was to try to confuse respondents by tangling up the usual indyref responses (firmly and consistently set in people’s minds over the last seven years as “Yes” and “No”) with the responses associated with the EU referendum (“Remain” and “Leave”), in the hope that Scots – who of course are heavily in favour of Remain – would be fooled and/or brainwashed into saying something different.
And it very very slightly worked, right up to the point where it fell apart.
The staunch defenders 281
Posted on
November 19, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If we were to write an article every time Murdo Fraser said something moronic, we’d have to rename this site Wings Over Murdo Fraser, and drink an awful lot of Red Bull to be able to cover it all.
Stuff like this, for example, is almost too easy.
43% (actually 45.3% excluding Don’t Knows) is considerably more than Murdo Fraser has ever achieved in an election, either himself or as part of a party. His average over the seven elections he’s contested and lost since 1999 is just 30.1%, and until a blip in 2016 it had been falling lower and lower each time, as people have watched how he performed as an MSP and got less and less keen on the idea.
That’s still actually slightly more than the 28.6% his party secured in Scotland at the last election, though, in what was nevertheless generally regarded as an unusually impressive performance. Two years earlier they gathered just 14.9% of the votes cast.
Yet neither Fraser nor the Tories disappear for a generation every time Scotland tells them to go and get stuffed. Fraser keeps trousering an MSP’s fat salary despite two decades of unbroken and unequivocal personal rejection from the electorate, even as he demands that the independence movement gives up after losing ONE vote.
But in his defence, his leader’s not setting him much of an example.
Waiting for the penny to drop 96
Posted on
November 19, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the best one of these we’ve ever seen.
Nobody tell him, now. Imagine the moment when he spots it for himself.
The armchair terrorists 456
Posted on
November 17, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the editorial in today’s Scottish edition of The Times:
It seems to be an increasingly popular viewpoint in the country’s media.
The threatened member 136
Posted on
November 16, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ah, remember these simpler times, readers?
Thank goodness for etc etc.
The question begged 516
Posted on
November 15, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Only an idiot would try to write anything today about the epic mess currently unfolding in British politics. You’d barely get to the end of typing a sentence before events had rendered it obsolete. But there’s one thing we’d really like to know, which bewilderingly nobody is mentioning.
The primary root cause of Brexit was idiots complaining about immigration. The core supposed aim of leaving, no matter what anyone said, was to reduce the number of foreign people coming to live and work in the UK. The issue of immigration regularly topped polls of what voters were most concerned about, and a 2017 study showed it was the biggest factor in the Leave vote.
But yesterday the UK government, after two and a half years of quite spectacularly inept negotiation, produced for the approval of the electorate a Brexit deal which did precisely NOTHING about immigration, and nobody in the media even mentioned it.
Theresa May’s Crack Team 242
Posted on
November 14, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…is what they’re calling Jack and James now, we hear.
Draw your own conclusions about the word “crack” there.
Serving the nations 188
Posted on
November 14, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ever aware of its need to deliver informed enlightenment to the populace, the state broadcaster has recently put up a “BBC Brexit Jargon Buster” page on its website. We’re not sure it was meant to be quite this candid.
The whistleblower 432
Posted on
November 12, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
