Set the dials to Maximum Cringe 205
Posted on
May 17, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This one, from today’s Scottish Daily Mail, might actually be beyond comment.
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Fear of flying 218
Posted on
May 17, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We suppose we should at least commend the “Vote No Borders” campaign for a certain level of frankness. While their output is little different to the daily hysterical fearmongering of “Better Together”, at least they don’t try to pretend that it’s “positive”.
Sadly, when it comes to the relationship their assertions have with the truth, however, they’re singing very much from the same hymn sheet.
This is not a spoof 180
Posted on
May 16, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We have not made this story up. It’s not the work of BBC Scotlandshire.
Just casually, there, beneath an unassuming, innocuous headline. No big deal.
Quoted for horror 113
Posted on
May 16, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
An alert reader directed us to this document this morning:
It’s a 2011 study by the non-political Glasgow Centre for Population Health, which attempts to discern why Scotland, and particularly Glasgow, has such appalling life expectancies compared to the rest of the UK. And its findings are startling.
The Dishface Tapes 147
Posted on
May 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Watch (from 5m 50s) as David Cameron refuses to commit to having a bill for more powers for Holyrood in the first Queen’s Speech should he win the 2015 election.
Vote no, get nothing, and get it never.
Automatic pilot 74
Posted on
May 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The invisible army 154
Posted on
May 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been wiping tears of laughter from our eyes most of this morning, after reading one of the most magnificently bare-faced and audacious pieces of black-is-white lying we think we might ever have seen printed with a straight face in a British newspaper.
It appears in the Telegraph, which seems to have positioned itself latterly as the Daily Sport for people with a reading age above seven, and makes the mindboggling claim that “Contrary to its media image, the campaign to save the United Kingdom says it has more boots on the ground than its nationalist opponents”.
In fairness, it doesn’t actually say whether these boots have any feet in them.
Apocalypse worsens 131
Posted on
May 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Monday:
(UK government “factsheet” issued by the Scotland Office.)
Wednesday:
“For the average mortgage in Scotland, there would be £5,400 more [in] mortgage payments a year.”
(George Osborne to the Scottish Affairs Select Committee.)
Yikes! What the hell happened on Tuesday?
The dangers of the kneejerk 162
Posted on
May 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re so used to reading doom-and-gloom predictions about the apocalyptic future that would await an independent Scotland, readers, that to our shame we occasionally fall foul of a trap we never stop warning you about – reading the headline of a story and not paying attention to the words below.
The one above is a case in point.
Quoted for LOLs 65
Posted on
May 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Mark Wallace in Conservative Home, 14 May 2014:
“Darling might not have been the most dynamic campaigner in the world, but at least he isn’t a complete and utter Jonah. Replacing him with Alexander is the equivalent of replacing your single-bar heater with a bonfire in your lounge because you weren’t warm enough, substituting your Morris Minor with a North Korean missile in the hope of getting to work faster or deciding to shave with a lawnmower because your disposable Bic was a bit blunt.“
Because it actually did make us laugh.
Grassroots concreted over 153
Posted on
May 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, that was odd. No sooner had we posted a rather lightweight little piece this morning, revealing that the fake-grassroots “Vote No Borders” campaign had been in development since June 2012, than the story got a whole lot more interesting.
