Eight hours, 24 minutes 438
Posted on
February 26, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ll have some comment on that for you when we’ve prised our jaw off the floor.
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Our end of the bargain 851
Posted on
February 26, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s time to finish the job.
Just over a year ago now, the readers of Wings Over Scotland quietly revolutionised the independence campaign. When we launched the first ever formal public fundraising appeal for a Scottish political website (indeed, as far as we know the first for a politics site anywhere in Britain), your response was incredible.
Click to go to this year’s fundraiser
Our £30,000 target was smashed, enabling the site to become a full-time professional concern, and others followed in our footsteps. By our reckoning around £150,000 was raised in 2013 for various pro-independence sites and projects, including the Common Weal and “Scotland Yet”, a full-length documentary currently being produced by Jack Foster and Christopher Silver, makers of “The Fear Factor”.
Now we need to do it again.
After the gold rush 309
Posted on
February 25, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve got a lot to do tonight, readers, so this is just a quick passing thought. We’re constantly told, among the endlessly contradictory stories about oil, that the biggest problem with it is that it’s running out. Production is declining, they say, and what’s left is harder and more expensive to get to and might not be worth all the bother.
We can’t be independent, then, because while we might be fine for 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 years, after that we’ll be knackered and bankrupt. (Which assumes we don’t find any more oil west of Shetland, or in the Clyde Basin, and that we’re too incompetent to build a lucrative renewables sector in four decades, and that we weren’t able to budget for an oil fund. But let’s go with it for now.)
There’s one question nobody asks, though.
Vote for DEATH 165
Posted on
February 25, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Scottish Conservatives have put out a properly disgraceful press release today:
No they wouldn’t. That’s a complete and utter lie.
Return of the space monsters 78
Posted on
February 25, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
From the Scotsman today:
Firstly, of course, the assertion fundamentally isn’t true. We know from official figures that an independent Scotland even WITHOUT oil would have a GVA of 99% of the UK average, and an independent Scotland wouldn’t have to follow UK spending plans, like blowing public cash on a vastly inflated military. But that’s not even the point.
Tory Cabinet visits Scotland 63
Posted on
February 25, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE:
Bad news rapidly improves 112
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A story from Reuters tonight:
Ooft. How big is this majority of the chairmen of the 100 leading companies, then?
Woah there! 65% of 32? Isn’t that, um, 21? That’s not really a “majority” of 100, is it? And while we’re here, how many of the chairmen of FTSE 100 companies have a vote in the Scottish independence referendum anyway? We have a strong suspicion that the effective sample in this survey might actually have been zero.
Scottish Labour in one tweet 122
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We still don’t get it 170
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you were wondering why we hadn’t written about today’s oil-industry shenanigans yet, it’s because we’ve been scratching our heads for hours trying to work out what the heck David Cameron thought it was he was proving on the Cabinet’s trip to Aberdeen.
Sadly, we’re still none the wiser.
We’ll never have that recipe again 89
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A remarkable insight into how Scottish Labour MPs see the people of Scotland, and the future that awaits us after a No vote, from an article posted on Labour Uncut today:
Hear that, people of Scotland? For even considering taking control of your own affairs like adults, Scottish Labour (ironically) thinks you’re behaving like stupid kids too dumb to come in out of the rain. Mm, feel the respect from your representatives.
The remedial class 45
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve written often about the contempt with which both the No campaign and the media regards voters, particularly in respect of their willingness to tell them even the most insultingly transparent lies in the assumption they’ll be swallowed anyway.
Allan Massie in today’s Telegraph may have set a new all-time record, though.
A developing theme 223
Posted on
February 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
