The something and nothing election 274
Posted on
May 08, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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Stronger for Scotland 1,718
Posted on
May 07, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s time for a change.
Let’s be it.
No (“Kidding” – Ed), Sherlock 190
Posted on
May 06, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The unwanted vow 164
Posted on
May 06, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve done another poll in conjunction with our dear chums at Panelbase, readers, which we think will be the last full-size Scottish one before the polls open. You may already have seen their headline voting-intention stats, but if not they’re below.
Those numbers suggest, depending which electoral forecaster you feed them into, over 50 seats for the SNP. The poll delivered some extremely interesting results, but we’re going to tease you and hold most of them over until tomorrow, because it’ll actually be a really slow news day.
(September 18 last year was one of the most miserable days of our lives, and we’re not talking about the result. It just seemed to drag on forever and ever, with nothing happening until past midnight. This way there’ll at least be something to read.)
But as a little taster, here’s a fascinating info-nugget.
Popularity contest – results in 399
Posted on
May 05, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Children’s author, billionaire and Labour donor JK Rowling, last year:
You feeling that popularity yet, readers?
Maximum toe-curl 153
Posted on
May 05, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An awkward time for poor Kezia Dugdale on the radio this morning.
(Good Morning Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, 5 May 2015)
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We’ll just leave that there to help you out, Kez.
Waiting for Nicola 323
Posted on
May 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Taken in Greenock earlier, prior to the First Minister’s visit.
It seems an appropriate image for today.
The safety of the town 293
Posted on
May 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This morning we noted the weird double standards of the media when it comes to reporting politics-related violence (and/or the absence thereof) in Scotland. We weren’t expecting such a good illustration of it to come along within two hours.
The side of the thugs 129
Posted on
May 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Amazingly enough, the Scottish press today ISN’T wall-to-wall with stories about Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale, UK peer and lawmaker, endorsing the “f***ing booting” of Conservative supporters at the weekend, in a striking contrast to when a young SNP candidate said similar but less offensive things some months ago.
(Lord McConnell’s friends were talking in the future tense about something they would do. Mhairi Black was talking in the past tense, about things which she HADN’T done.)
As far as we’ve seen, the small piece above in the Scottish Sun is the only coverage. (The Daily Record, as well as not reporting the McConnell comments at all, actually has another go at Mhairi Black instead.)
But we were having trouble recalling any “hate-filled violent mobs” (McConnell’s actual full quote) on the Yes/SNP side. And so was an alert reader who had a dig through the papers from the last couple of years.
The desperate hours 457
Posted on
May 03, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The general election 2015 has rounded the last bend and is heading down the final straight, with no clear winner in sight. Four days from now the UK electorate will go to the polls and deliver, if the numbers are to be believed, an unholy mess. Only one part of the country seems to know with clarity what it wants, and that’s “not Labour”.
The North British branch of the party has in truth been a political Easter egg for years – big and impressive-looking on the outside, but entirely hollow within – and this year it looks like the voters are finally going to shatter the shell and leave nothing but a small heap of fragments revealing just how little chocolate was ever there.
And the realisation has sent Labour completely out of its mind.
