Meta-polling #1 355
Posted on
July 23, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Okay, we’re cracking on with this poll thing. Now we need your opinion.
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Down with this sort of thing 72
Posted on
July 23, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re still mentally paralysed from this morning’s horrific TV, sorry. So here’s a wee screenshot that we took while setting up yesterday’s ludicrously successful fundraiser.
Vote Yes to stop this happening in the future, folks.
Please make it stop 199
Posted on
July 23, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Woke up this morning and accidentally switched on the news, foolishly thinking “It happened yesterday afternoon, surely they’ll have run out of completely inane drivel to say about it by now”. Brain now turned to semolina. Can barely construct sentences, let alone analyse anything. Be with you in a bit.
Stag night 75
Posted on
July 22, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Our hardworking and still-undiscovered mole at “Better Together” HQ reveals the extent to which the No campaign is becoming demoralised and irritable over the Scottish media’s increasing weariness – and sometimes outright mockery – of “Project Fear”.
(Five bonus points if you spot what’s extra-special about this one.)
Let’s get a thing done 0
Posted on
July 22, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Okay, it seems safe to say already that reaction to the idea is very positive, so why waste time? The new fundraiser page is now live. The more money we raise the more questions we can ask, so let’s see what we can find out.
[EDIT: Base target crushed in 70 minutes. Wow. But keep it coming, folks, because we’d love to get to 10 questions, which will take a total of about £3,600.]
For the sake of tidiness, comments on this post will be closed – please carry on commenting and suggesting questions in the original thread.
Let’s do a thing 442
Posted on
July 22, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Recently we’ve seen quite a few people on social media wondering why there hadn’t been any opinion polls on independence published in a while. We thought it was a bit curious ourselves, so we rang a few polling companies with a view to commissioning our own one, but Panelbase told us they were doing fieldwork on one as we spoke, to be published roughly a week today (they’re every two months).
But even though we don’t need to do one on the straight Yes/No thing now, that’s no reason why we can’t take it upon ourselves to ask a few other questions.
The hopeless case 89
Posted on
July 22, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We linked you yesterday to a quite startling display of cognitive dissonance, as a dedicated Labour activist struggled to reconcile his party’s position on Trident with his own belief in disarmament, reaching some quite extraordinary contortions of logic in an attempt to convince himself that staying in the Union represented the best way of ridding the United Kingdom of weapons which are enthusiastically supported by every major UK political party and the Lib Dems.
But it’s not just mad bloggers who are frantically trying to whip up a sandstorm of spin to obscure Labour’s final abject surrender to the nuclear weapons lobby.
If you build it 80
Posted on
July 21, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In the whole of 2012, Wings Over Scotland was visited by 141,012 unique users, who made just under 2.6 million pageviews. In 2013 so far, we’ve reached 285,581 unique users who between them racked up over 6.6m pageviews.
Just wait until we really get started.
One loud noise 60
Posted on
July 21, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In Alan Moore’s legendary graphic novel “V For Vendetta”, the central character tells co-protagonist Evey: “Silence is a fragile thing. One loud noise, and it’s gone”.
Yesterday we ran a guest post from the Scrap Trident Coalition calling for an end to the Johann Lamont and the Scottish branch of the Labour Party to end its silence on the subject of nuclear weapons.
But though Lamont remains “on holiday” and unavailable for comment on a range of issues (or even completely excluded from discussing them at all), her party has ended her silence for her, with a succession of loud noises nobody could possibly miss.
The independent deterrent 25
Posted on
July 20, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Scotland doesn’t need a nuclear missile system. All we need to do is stick a few of these at strategic points around the coastline and see who wants to mess with us.
I think we all know the answer to that question.
Ideological arithmetic 29
Posted on
July 20, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
ComRes for ITV News, 20 July 2013:
The devils you know 32
Posted on
July 20, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Careful readers will be aware that this site primarily concerns itself with the activities of politicians and the media. Doing so can of course leave the way open to accusations of paranoia and conspiracy theorising. So we thought it might be interesting to share with you the findings of Transparency International’s 2013 survey into the public perception of corruption in the United Kingdom. (Part of a global poll.)
The only three bodies thought to be corrupt or extremely corrupt by a majority of the UK population were political parties, Parliament and the media, with the media coming off worst out of the three. (Next up, incidentally, were “business” with 49% and “public officials/civil servants” with 45%.)
Perception isn’t necessarily fact, of course. But at the very least, it’s not just us.
