A welcome home 29
Posted on
September 28, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Nice of them to lay this on today.
Author Archive
Make yourselves useful 251
Posted on
September 27, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
One thing we noticed over the last week or so was the near-total lack of campaigning on the streets of Scotland’s cities and towns, from either side. So if you were inspired by the rally and fancy making a more active contribution, why not pop to your local printers, make a few copies of this excellent wee leaflet, and get busy?
You can get 1,000 A6 copies printed for £22 here (5,000 for £40). Hand ’em out or just leave them in strategic locations (with permission, of course). Let’s get the word out.
Right-click the image to get the full PDF version, ready for printing.
Buy one, get nothing free 70
Posted on
September 27, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re genuinely baffled by Ed Miliband’s big conference showstopper announcement this week that a Labour government would freeze people’s utility bills for a year and a half. Channel 4’s Fact Check is extremely sceptical that it can be done at all. The energy companies are predictably furious and making all manner of dire threats.
But what we really don’t get is what the point of it is.
Inspection report 198
Posted on
September 26, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
ASSESSOR: Rev. S. Campbell
DATE: 19-25 September 2013
LOCATION: Scotland, various
Quoted for proof 154
Posted on
September 26, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because we keep telling you what a No vote really means:
That’s Labour’s shadow health secretary Andy Burnham talking to Holyrood Magazine this week, in comments strangely unpublicised in the rest of the Scottish media.
The phoney war 193
Posted on
September 26, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
One of the recurring themes we hear from people about the independence debate (from Yes, No and Don’t Know folks alike) is a bewilderment about the alleged amount of grassroots campaigning undertaken by the No camp. “Better Together” is fond of making extravagant claims on its website about its number of volunteers, events and leaflets, yet almost nobody we speak to has ever seen any of them.
So we were interested to receive an email from a reader this week.
The afterthought 274
Posted on
September 25, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ed Miliband delivered just under 8,000 words to the Labour Party conference in Brighton yesterday. Of those, just 263 of them concerned Scotland. (The actual word “Scotland” was never uttered.) Here are all of them.
Quoted for irony 419
Posted on
September 24, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In a piece entitled “Scottish Labour leader says nationalism is a virus”, the Courier yesterday reported that Johann Lamont’s speech to the Labour conference “appeared to allude to the European 20th century fascist movement”.
And it did, although perhaps not in the way the Courier probably meant.
Throwing mud in glass houses 114
Posted on
September 24, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s been a certain amount of hoo-haa within the independence camp this morning about a Telegraph piece reporting comments by Labour’s shadow Scottish Secretary Margaret Curran in which she appears to cast doubt on whether devolution has been a good thing for Scotland at all.
We’re not sure why, because they’re nothing we weren’t telling you almost a year ago.
Filling in the blanks 93
Posted on
September 24, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Daily Record hack Torcuil Crichton has had another curious memory lapse in the paper today, in a dramatic piece headlined “Labour will axe Atos if we return to power, vows shadow work and pensions minister Liam Byrne”. A Record insider leaked us this redacted image of the original draft version:
Can you supply the missing words?
We’ve got five minutes spare 123
Posted on
September 23, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Arch-Unionist and BBC-favoured pundit (hey, what a freakish coincidence! What are the odds?) Professor Adam Tomkins of Glasgow University has a blog post up today. A reader asked us to go and tackle it, but Prof. Tomkins has one of those infinitely irritating twatblogs that won’t let you post comments unless you hand over all your personal details and give permission for spambots to assail your Facebook and Twitter accounts with annoying gibberish, so we’ll have to do it here instead.
It won’t make any sense unless you read the post first. It’s here.
A flavour of the day 153
Posted on
September 23, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Okay, one last thing. This is the best footage of Saturday we’ve seen:
(Oh, and the Scottish Police Federation are now tweeting a crowd figure of 20,000.)
