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Posted on November 12, 2014 by

There’s so little happening in Scottish politics today, readers, that the Scottish Sun has been reduced to interviewing a brick. And no, that’s not rhyming slang.

nicbrick

Frankly, folks, at that point we may as well have the day off.

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handclapping

The thing is a brick is fit for purpose 😉

AuldA

Stu’, I suggest you find a hole in the wall for you to spend the rest of day.
Or watch the landing on the Philae probe on the comet. A perfect day to really soar over!

Lewis Carlin

Not sure whether to laugh or just cry at this….

Jon D

Why is a brick like an egg?

Because they both have to be laid.

boglestone

Jon D, you are on FIRE!

Lollysmum

Ha ha Rev-what’s the betting he got more sense out of the brick than he would have got out of the Smurph 🙂

This has made my day

fred blogger

fill the appropriate holes with lime mortar could have yersel an interesting game of dominoes.
🙂

Doug Daniel

Off-topic, but definitely worth people’s attention – stupid little shit trying to become a Labour MP, who previously tried to get someone into trouble with their work because he was pissed off at a tweet: link to misssymartin.blogspot.co.uk

Stoker

Slabber are up to their necks in very deep excrement and sinking fast.

We know it and they most certainly know it.
link to archive.today

Filthy red tory collaborators must be wiped out of Scotland.

msean

This candidate might win,solid foundations and all that… 🙂

Valerie

Meanwhile, SNP are gearing up for conference, running the country, running a Deputy vote. 3 Deputy candidates are touring, as is Nicola.

At my SNP branch last night we proposed our PPC. I defo joined the right party.

cynicalHighlander

Will it rebuild the foundation principles of the labour party?

galamcennalath

It’s going to be a tough job convincing Labour voters.

The Sun got it spot on there, no matter who Labour chooses!

AuldA

There’s this, however: “Salmond: I’ll see independence within my lifetime”

link to scotsman.com

heedtracker

I think uncle Rupertt would like to see the red Tories go away for a long long while and it’s proabably pay back for Rupert’s very ex close familly friend Crash Gordon and Leveson. Brown’s appalling legacy will live on for a very long time throughout teamGB. Lie with pigs… And a lot of life lessons for Holyrood too.

Bugger (the Panda)

Jon D says:
12 November, 2014 at 12:15 pm

Why is a brick like an egg?

Because they both have to be laid.

So do I, Jon D, so do I.

Haggis Hunter

We all need a bit of cuddling Panda.

The BBC and the Brit LabServative establishment have already chosen Murphy, he is a true Brit and he did come up to tell these Scots what a bad idea nationhood is, he even had his own security throws eggs at him for a bit of attention seeking.
As for Johann, it looks like she should have voted Yes.
The quality of SlabberServative in Scotland is dire.

BrianW

Some politicians never tire of bleating how it’s not a popularity contest and their policies will speak for themselves..

In this instance, I’m sure the Brick has it in the bag in terms of personality.

Labour Branch Leader in Scotland : Inanimate UK Labour Branch Office Droid

Brick : Inanimate.. err.. brick like object.

Midgehunter

The brick’s policies are half-baked and full of holes. 😉

Which is more than be said about Blab and the Murph..!

We new SNP party members should soon be getting our welcome packs – I reckon I’ll be a good branch in Frankfurt.. 🙂

Lollysmum

Hey Rev-you need to add SLAB to your Zany Comedy Relief section

AuldA

All in all it was just another brick in the wall?

Wee Jonny

W.T.F.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they come to fight you, then you interview a brick, and then the brick wins (W.J.Campbell). I see Andrew in Broughty Ferry now and again. I’ll see if I can get his autograph. Maybe get him to sign a brick.

Haggis Hunter

Hey hey Wee Jonny,
hows life?
Did ye hae a gid necht after we left you in Glasgow during the bus sesh… erm trip!

alexicon

There may not be much political news out there, but I have noticed there’s a concerted attack going on, by the Herald in particular, against the Scottish Government about education.
No doubt Marcus is doing his best to turn around the disastrous poll rating of the Labour branch in Scotland by peddling Labour [lying] hand-outs as news.
Like to know what the education admin costs are for each local authority?
Why should front line services suffer?

[…] Busy doing nothing […]

Valerie

@stoker, that piece in Left Labour is pretty searing. Even the terminology used, daggers, skullduggery – this is key to their suicide, they have never evolved, adjusted.

The rest of us enjoy Game of Thrones as colourful fantasy, they are living it like saddos.

PictAtRandom

Straight outta Eastwood:

link to heraldscotland.com

A Skeletal service?

robertknight

Stick a red rosette on Mr Brick and it’d easily be mistaken for any number of Labour MSPs/MPs/MEPs/Lords.

All joking aside, there remain those in Scotland who would vote for anything provided it sported the necessary red rosette.

They walk amongst us…

galamcennalath

Q. What do you get if you cross a chicken with a cement mixer?

A. A brick layer

Capella

Sill it does allow him to get in a dig at Judy Murray on Strictly.

But there is news today, all over the media, that Scotland is unfairly benefiting from a flaw in the Barnett formula to the tune of £600 m per year. I can’t find any real explanation as to how this was worked out. Still, if the IFS says it’s true it must be.
link to archive.today

Grizzle McPuss

Now just hod on folks… without doubt, the brick has far more integrity than Murphy (it also just oozes charisma).

Author_Al

Meanwhile the BBC online news (I use that word guardedly) page for Scotland has this news… The Barnett funding formula for Scotland is apparently wrongly calculated and ‘unfairly’ giving us extra dosh.

link to bbc.co.uk

saporian

How about this for news, the latest UK wide poll from Ipsos Mori link to ipsos-mori.com
Labour support lowest since before 2010 general election.

Doug Daniel

Author-Al – and so the groundwork begins for the changing of the Barnett formula to make Scotland receive less. Funny they only noticed this now, eh?

galamcennalath

Valerie says:
The rest of us enjoy Game of Thrones as colourful fantasy, they are living it like saddos.

You’ve now got me sitting here wondering which GoT characters Curran, Murphy, Sarwar, Baillie, Alexander etc etc think they are role playing 🙂

link to en.wikipedia.org

Grizzle McPuss

The rousing speech from Murphy…

“So, claymore ready for battle, or should that be ‘more-clay’, it’s time for Slab to build a new red party worthy of building bridges”

A.N.Surgent

Aye labour will have to try a lot harder to cement their relationship with a mortarfied electorate. Pointing fingers at the SNP is not a foundation to build a party on. Troweling over the cracks will only lead to structural issues in the future. Only concrete policies will stop the grouting Thomas` from demolishing the party forever.

Croompenstein

Is that the brick that Cameron shat when he saw the secret poll

Fred

Seeing that things are in the doldrums here’s an interesting wee test to see if you have Scotch/Irish or English feet and does this match how you voted at the Referendum, are we indeed not “genetically programmed” to manage our own affair and have people voted with their feet. 🙂

link to archaeology.co.uk

Gutties Aff.

cynicalHighlander

Labour are bricking it.

A.N.Surgent

Fred

I have got a Scots-Irish female foot which is a bit of a shock since I`m a lad.

[…] Busy doing nothing […]

Lesley-Anne

Great to see the REAL front contender in the race to be the next Branch Manager of Labour in Scotland has finally been recognised and given the full recognition he deserves.

At least any interview that Mr B.R.Ick gives will be coming from a place that is built on a concrete foundation! 😛

think again

If I see or hear or read of Murphy I get angry, if I have a Murphy free day I get agitated and have withdrawal symptoms. Do I have a problem?

To be fair to Jim Murphy, no seriously, his likes on FB have gone up by 56 since the Brick`s campaign started. The Brick has gone up by 7855 and rising fast.

Over to you John Curtice for expert analysis of this phenomenon.

Bugger (the Panda)

I wanted to make up wee jokes about Labour, puns and anything else to crease a smile on this day of nothing.

Then I realised, that Labour is beyond parody; they are the joke.

Lesley-Anne

Thanks for that link Fred. 😉

ARGH!

I’ve got ENGLISH FEET!

I’m now off to have a double foot amputation. If I don’t get these feet amputated who knows what will happen next … I might end up speaking with an Essex accent!

James123

You could watch the Rosetta comet landing:

link to new.livestream.com

Barontorc

Once had a very erudite lecturer who extolled the lateral thinker’s use of the common house brick; paperweight, ballast, hammer, measuring instrument, door-stop, prop, serious weapon-at-hand, and ultimately, a very dedicated part of a wall, forever cemented in and normally fit for no other purpose once put to that use – that is, until said wall is demolished and said brick, has a new purpose in life as any of the above!

Now compare and contrast – brick or *rick?

Looks like the Sun poll’s got it about right, for once.

Tamson

I suspect Murphy’s people will be spitting blood at the Sun. This kind of mockery sticks, and the rhyming slang bit helps it along. Put it this way, neither the Sun nor Daily Record would dare trying the same thing on Sturgeon.

MochaChoca

FFS… It’s not even the same brick, the one in the original article looks like an Earlswood textured buff whereas the one on his desk is quite clearly a Bristol buff multi.

How he expects to get any sense out of that I’ll never know.

handclapping

@Barontorc
I had a very good early bookcase of a couple of planks on sidewalls of gash engineering bricks. It was quite handsome even.

Macnakamura

Will Kezia be opposed by a Briquette?

bald eagle

FRED

i,ve got scottish feet

what about oscar pistorius(the blade runner)is he a kangaroo

Bugger (the Panda)

@ James 123

It will be until 17:00n hours(ISH) until it lands, so back to Ry Cooder and rolling tumbleweed.

AuldA

@James123:

Yup, and get a refreshing cup of French accent! 🙂 🙂

David Wardrope

Personally I think the media are being a bit too pro-brick and are a little biased towards brick candidate. The real buzz going round the grassroots in social media far prefer Murphy’s crate for leader. Will the Sun allow equal coverage to both sides? I’ll not hold my breath…

Bugger (the Panda)

handclapping

Are you up to go through to Glasgow for Nicola’s address to us, the unwashed, at the Hydron on Saturday, the 21st?

AuldA

@Barontorc:
Now compare and contrast – brick or *rick?

You mean: “brick or trick”?

Haloween is over! 🙂

AuldA

Oops. Halloween. 2 L. Sorry.

handclapping

@Bugger
Nah, saw her in Lochgelly before her rise to fame. She was better then 🙂
Thanks for the offer

charlie morris

Labour are going to need all the bricks they can get to enable them to rebuild after the incoming tsunami of voter anger hits them on May 7.
Meantime, John McTernan & Jim Murphy can be found throwing bricks
stamped ‘I HATE SNP’ in the hope that the Red Tories in Scotland
won’t be swept away.

Nana Smith

From Slab to Ed to the tune of The bricklayers song.

Dear Ed I write this note today to tell you of our plight
For at the time of writing this,we are an ugly sight
The natives are rebelling as they’ve now found us oot
So Ed you’ll have to help us or we’re for the bloody boot.

The bbc are working hard to keep us on tv
Our lies and dodgy dealings are suppressed from all to see
It’s getting harder every day,the internet is not our friend
Rev Stu and all those wingers will be our bloody end.

We are pushing forward Murphy for the leadership up here
But as he’s really toxic, it may cost us very dear
We see a scottish newspaper has interviewed a brick
Apparently it’s more popular than eggman who’s a _____

James123

Ah I see the good old IFS are back on BBC Jockland, they’re completely independent don’t you know, not funded by Westminster or anything, or have a pro-Union agenda, no no no. Apparently we’re lucky bastards and get loads more money than we deserve, bows head and gives thanks for our generous handouts.

Scot Finlayson

Are they going to put a European flag on the Comet just incase there is a potential to Frack the thing?

Bugger (the Panda)

H Clap

OK

Next time maybe?

Bugger (the Panda)

@ handclapping

Nah, saw her in Lochgelly before her rise to fame. She was better then.

Yes I know what you mean, I saw the Who, I think, before they were famous.

~I say, I think, because there was a lot of comet dust around at that time, allegedly.

Scot Finlayson

Has the brick got the support of the unions or do they still support the plank .

Stoker

A wee piece of “trivia” for Natasha and all the other Borderers:

Just prior to the referendum The Southern Reporter (for those who do not know – its a Scottish Borders newspaper) was reporting the results of their poll which had 64% Yes and 36% No.

A bit strange, don’t you think, that the Scottish Borders then returned a massive ‘No’ – something along the lines of almost 3to1, apparently, just a few days later.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it!

I guess most Borderers bricked it when push came to shove, eh!
🙂

I’ll quickly grab ma coat.

Flower of Scotland

Sort of o/t

On facebook a 16year old boy named Kyle, asked for more likes than J Murphy. So far Kyle has 6,874 – J Murphy has 4,269! He,he! Well done Kyle!

wingman 2020

A brick? Thick as a brick springs to mind. And yet I am convinced that it will beat Humpty Dumpty Murphy.

I believe Humpty the Eggman sat on a wall (perhaps Antonines) and came a cropper… all the establishment couldn’t put him together again.

Is this an omen for Murphy? I’d say he is going to fall from grace in Scotland… but he’d not really have too far to go. Maybe the height of a brick.

wingman 2020

@Flower of Scotland

Murphy paid for his likes.

http://www.getyourlikes.co.uk

Don’t believe people actually went on to his site and voted LOL

SquareHaggis

Hod on the noo..

wingman 2020

There is a rumour a piece of 4 x 2 and a lavy seat are entering the leadership contest. Murphy would be beaten by both.

Chic McGregor

OT I see Barclays are, yet again, being kept off the radar regarding the latest banking scandal – the fixing of currency exchange rates. They are being allowed to negotiate their fine separately with the regulators.

All very reminiscent, of course, of the way their huge bailout, more than HBOS and RBS combined, was ‘buried’ at the time that that occurred.

Chic McGregor

To be fair to Murphy,… er… nope I’ll have to give up on that one.

Kenny

Has Murphy not won the branch manager election yet? Damn, am I going to have to fork out a fiver and join the Red Tories just so I can vote for him (to hasten along indy)?

So many better things to do with a fiver, of course… But I would be providing the BBC with a new evening news headline, I can just see Jackie Bird trilling: “Labour Party new membership soars, new takers double….. while SNP intake reaches a plateau and is down on last week….. the actual figures?… em, let’s move on shall we, our next report, a man got his heid stuck in a bin today in Aberdeen…wibble wibble….”

Bugger (the Panda)

@
wingman 2020 says:

Agreed but, MacDougall arranged it?

Remember him?

Simples

Doug McG

link to wingsoverscotland.com

Didn’t they notice the way we are overfunded then?

Helena Brown

I want hard cash for that interview, looks like one of the bricks out of our wall? I would reckon that it is a pro YES brick therefore not related in any way to Jim Murphy.

Grouse Beater

I hear the follow-up interview is with an egg:

‘How I raised Murphy’s turgid hustings to national attention.’

Jim Thomson

Waaaay O/T

for all you nerdy types – Philae landing live here:

link to rosetta.esa.int

Don’t get too excited now. No onboard streamed video

wingman 2020

@Bugger the Panda

Surely if McDougall had arranged it… It would be a bag of flour?

In any case… What is the difference between a wank and an egg?

Bugger (the Panda)

Wingman 2020

Why should I know, privately or publically?

Away and beat you own tune.

BtP ;(-

Bugger (the Panda)

They are all busy doing HeeHaw

Please watch all the video, through.

link to youtube.com

Have fun

Bugger (the Panda)

The above was for the Ladies.

Great fun

chalks

SNP hit new high.

Britain-wide voting intentions (Ipsos-Mori) :

Conservatives 32%
Labour 29%
UKIP 14%
Liberal Democrats 9%
SNP 8%
Greens 7%
Plaid Cymru 1%

59% in Scottish sub-sample

Jon D

Yon brick is a lot less abrasive and a damn sight more transparent than Jim’ll ever be.

Sinky

MOD admits Frigates may not be built on the Clyde

link to archive.today

Trust BBC will make this their main news story to compensate for the number of warnings from “respected Labour and Trade Union officials” and all the shipbuilding scare stories they ran prior to September 18th

manandboy

ED’S BUSY DOING NOTHING AS WELL -surprise, surprise.

(labourlist.org/2014/11/10-tangible-changes-ed-miliband-could-make-today-to-kickstart-his-leadership/)

Mark Ferguson in Labourlist offers Ed this advice – no.5 on his list.

5. “Make a proper effort with Scotland –
In a month, Scottish Labour will elect their new leader. Whoever is chosen, they will have a clear mandate for change and will want (and need) to take firm control of how Labour campaigns and is run in Scotland.

But that doesn’t mean you can leave Scotland to the new leader. Arguably the greatest threat to Labour’s ability to win a majority next year is a vote collapse in Scotland.

You’re the leader of the UK-wide Labour Party, you fought to keep the union together – now you need to spend plenty of time in Scotland getting your hands dirty and telling Scots why having a Labour government matters.

Jim Murphy will be so pleased!

wingman 2020

@Bugger (the Panda)

Indeed, why should you care… But you came close to the answer.

‘You can beat an egg.’

Cag-does-thinking

Labour – Game of Crones……

Juteman

The UK never builds warships abroad, says unionist brick.

msean

This warship thing is just a construct to save Ed,or give Mr Murphy a narrative to follow – nothing surprises me now! Cue a press conference complete with vow to protect shipbuilding, this to keep the labour vote up. Not falling for it this time

manandboy

CLYDE FRIGATES

If Cameron can cut a deal to suit him on Europe with the French, then the Frigates will be French.
As for the Clyde, well….. actually, it’s the Brits and the French who are Better Together.
Mais bien sûr.

Juteman

Jim Murphy holds press conference saying that he has saved the frigate order for Govan.

blackhack

Shame they never really interviewed “The Brick” or it’s creator (Myself), I’d have given them something to write about….
The concept of the brick’s popularity came to me whilst researching murphies expenses, political history and lifestyle.
I thought that a brick had more honesty and charisma than him…So decided to ask the online community who would be more popular….currently running at over 8000 for the brick….I think that says it all….

john king

Thick as a Brick
what?
like this
link to youtube.com

Conan_the_Librarian

Was that the wee ginger dug on the party political broadcast?

Bill McLean

o/t What about the SNP changing it’s name to the Scottish National Labour Party – that would scare the sh.t out of Labour in Scotland. OK don’t chuck things at me -I’ve already been told by the boss that I’m senile!

manandboy

Latest:Shock News
Jim Murphy joins the Conservative and Unionist party.

At a news conference this evening in Glasgow, the leading candidate for the Leadership of Labour in Scotland, Jim Murphy MP, shocked his audience of reporters and supporters by declaring his defection to the Tory party.

He said to the stunned gathering, ‘There is no future for me in a Milliband led party. With Labour sinking up here, I had to jump ship. It will make no difference to Labour’s chances in the General Election in Scotland – they will still go down to the bottom. I have had talks with Ruth Davidson and she is delighted to have me on board.’

James123

Didn’t realise Ricky Gervais worked in Scottish shipyards.

link to i.imgur.com

Kenny

@ chalks says:
12 November, 2014 at 4:46 pm

SNP hit new high.

Britain-wide voting intentions (Ipsos-Mori) :

Conservatives 32%
Labour 29%
UKIP 14%
Liberal Democrats 9%
SNP 8%
Greens 7%
Plaid Cymru 1%

59% in Scottish sub-sample

Great to see not only the SNP doing stupendously well, but our Green and Welsh friends also polling strongly.

On these figures, a sort of Yes Alliance would pull in 16% of the UK-wide electorate. Add in a few NI votes. And I honestly believe that if they were putting out national policies, they could pull in a lot of votes from the Lib Dems and Labour. Possibly even UKIP if it is the disillusioned voter who just wants to give the establishment a kick and not a complete anti-EU nutter…

tombee

Sorry OT but,

Is there anything at all, which the Scottish Government can either propose, make policy on or claim to be in the interests of the Scottish people which the so called Secretary of State, supposed to be, ‘FOR’ Scotland can find himself able to promote or support?.
He always seems to find some means to find some objection to whatever the SG advocates in the interests of Scotland. He really is a waste of oxygen.
He was on STV news tonight mumping and moaning again.

Socrates MacSporran

I might have thought that tub of lard which appeared on Have I Got News For You instead of Roy Hattersley, all those years ago, might have been a better candidate for Scottish Branch Office Manager than Murph the Smurf.

After all, it better represents real Labour.

EphemeralDeception

O/T Since its a slow news day – Catalan news latest.

2.3 million citizens cast their vote
81% want of those wanted full independence. If only…

Catalan president requests Spanish PM ‘Rajoy’ to now allow a mutually agreed vote. Today Rajoy responded: A referendum is impossible, change can only happen via constitutional reform within Spain.

That leaves Mas’ Catalans with one option from the 2 preferred: “a democratic mandate will only come from a mutually-agreed referendum with the Spanish Government or early elections transformed into a plebiscite on independence. Mas sent a message to the Catalan political parties: the only reason to hold early elections would be to decide on independence, as otherwise there is no need for “ordinary elections”. Those early “elections are only the tool to make the definitive consultation vote”, if the Spanish Government does not agree on negotiating a mutually-agreed referendum.”

We will know in 10>15 days time what course of action is taken.

Meanwhile…
Spain has tasked the Spanish prosecutor in Catalonia to take the Catalan president to court. Catalan Gov. is also investigating the source of a massive cyber attack during the voluntary referendum last week and obviously they think they know who is behind it. During the attack, it also took out many Catalan public services including access to any prescriptions, at any chemist.

And finally, something with a whiff of Britishness:
“Mas announced they will take to the European Union the Spanish Government’s ban on the Catalan Government’s decree to fight the so-called ‘energy poverty’. Catalonia approved a series of measures to help families in need to avoid suffering power and gas cuts during winter months, by basically delaying the payment of their energy bills. However, the Spanish Government surprisingly considered that this was discriminatory to citizens in the rest of Spain”.

Sources: Spanish and Catalan news eg. (http://www.catalannewsagency.com)

ronnie anderson

@ Square Haggis 3.09 ( Hod on the noo ) the Bricks heid n shooders above Murphy on his irn bru crates.

wingman 2020

Can anyone explain exactly what this means please?

“There is confusion everywhere, so much so that London journalists have included the SNP in the ranks of the anti-politics parties – even though it is arguably the best organised, most political and certainly most coherent party in the United Kingdom.”

Its from a piece in the Hootsmon.

Capella

O/T but interesting. The Keiser Report of 7th October focused on RBS criminal activity which the UK govt is not interested in prosecuting so a private, crowd funded, prosecution is being pursued.

“In the second half, Max interviews Neil Mitchell (Scottish businessman) about the latest in his ongoing legal case against the Royal Bank of Scotland’s subsidiary, Global Restructuring Group (GRG).”
link to rt.com

Plus good insights from Stacy Herbert in the first half. I’m quite addicted to RT now.

Robert Peffers

I have several of the famous, “Blairadam Bricks”, left after a DIY alteration to the house. As, “The Blairadam”, is a very heavy, very hard, oversized brick I’m sure it would make a good Independence candidate to stand against the one in the article.

I’m sure the party could build upon a Blairadam victory and pointedly cement the foundations of the party.
(Ahem!).

Capella

@ wingman 2020
Do you mean this Allan Massie article?
link to archive.today

john king

Conan the librarian says
“Was that the wee ginger dug on the party political broadcast?”

That’s what I thought as well,

Paul?

Robert Peffers

@Capella says: 12 November, 2014 at 1:11 pm:
” … there is news today, all over the media, that Scotland is unfairly benefiting from a flaw in the Barnett formula to the tune of £600 m per year. I can’t find any real explanation as to how this was worked out”.

Och! That’ll be the same old story again by the numpties who think that the, “Needs”, mentioned in the Barnett Formula are related to each Scot personally needing more funding than anyone else when the truth is the, “Needs”, refer to the fact that Scotland has more devolved functions and a devolved function, “Needs”, to have the funding to run it transferred along with the function.

Anyone with savvy can work out the daft claims of extra per capita funding for Scots is mince. It quite simply is the extra funds needed to run the extra devolved functions.

Chic McGregor

OT
If Westminster had refused to sign the Edinburgh agreement then the ensuing ‘illegal’Scottish referendum would probably have been even more positive that the Catalan one.

Reasoning. Around 34% of the entire Catalan electorate voted for independence whereas in Scotland around 38% of the entire Scottish electorate voted for independence.

Natasha

@Stoker

A wee piece of “trivia” for Natasha and all the other Borderers:

Just prior to the referendum The Southern Reporter (for those who do not know – its a Scottish Borders newspaper) was reporting the results of their poll which had 64% Yes and 36% No.

A bit strange, don’t you think, that the Scottish Borders then returned a massive ‘No’ – something along the lines of almost 3to1, apparently, just a few days later.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it!

Yes, I remember that happening; I think it was an online poll, which we foot-soldiers at the time agreed was not reliable, precisely because the respondents were a self-selecting group; ie, Yes voters were more likely to be looking for such polls and to vote in them.

Would have been nice, though, if it had been representative! 🙂

Natasha

I think almost 3 to 1 is a bit harsh; we weren’t quite that bad!

yesindyref2

I expect he’ll be nominated for the 2015 BRICK awards.

mogabee

Have any of the BRIC countries claimed responsibility for this runaway yet?

(S’OK, I know the drill)!

Stoker

Natasha,

Aye, fair enough, it was a bit closer to just over 2 to 1.

But what it does show is, what we’ve discussed previously,
although a hard task, its not beyond us to turn this into
something considerably more positive.

I’ve a feeling there will be a lot of people who made the effort
to vote at the referendum but will not vote come May.

Whether that will go in our favour i couldn’t say, but the
turnout, i feel, will be far lower than at the referendum.

And i don’t just mean those who will not be 18 come May.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we go from one extreme high at
the referendum to THE lowest ever turnout in May.

Barontorc

It’s too bad the ‘egg’ was not a brick, but methinks that might have been a wee bit too sore for Murphy to willingly arrange.

Wee Jonny

@Haggis Hunter
Oy Oy H.H.
Yes I had a great night thanks. It was great putting faces to names. I had a bra laugh on the way through, met a few Wingers in the boozer, got a spesh’ edition Wings badge from Kendo’ (thanks Kendo) had a wee chat with Paul (Wee Ginger Dug) Had another bra laugh with Mr &Mrs John King and I won nearly all the raffle prizes. The only thing that coulda topped that is if the Rev himself turned up. Although I probably woulda got in the same state as I did in ’82 when I asked Tosh Mckinlay for his autograph (I could hardly talk and near pished misel we excitement) when he played for Dundee. I went on to meet my wife who was in Glesgay for a works night oot. So all in all an ace night. Will hay ti day it again soon H.H.


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    • Jay on The People You Most Suspected: “TimewasterNov 14, 21:23
    • Alf Baird on The People You Most Suspected: “It does what a colonial administration does, i.e. keeps the colonial racket going.Nov 14, 21:16
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: “Seriously, Jay, I applaud the wide-eyed innocence infusing your post. I can only conclude you must be new here :)…Nov 14, 21:05
    • znovak on The People You Most Suspected: “Yay, Geri joins the fray and she’s in great form. Be warned, this is strong stuff. “R didn’t go in…Nov 14, 20:59
    • Jay on The People You Most Suspected: “Some but not all of this agreed. Geri. Do some call it ‘disaster capitalism’ where Blackrock and co. move in…Nov 14, 20:25
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: “Ha. I had you pegged as the seedy sort who likes to look up ticks.Nov 14, 20:22
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: ““ordinary people on both sides of the Atlantic remain fucked ( and possibly immolated ny thermonuclear war and/or climate disaster.”…Nov 14, 20:16
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: ““Its a dark dark time for indy” Sure, Ros, and potty-mouthed ignoramuses like you, permanently fixated on the student politics…Nov 14, 19:59
    • James on The People You Most Suspected: “How’s your upticks looking? lol Prick.Nov 14, 19:58
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: ““the SNP couldn’t build a ferry” Maybe naw. I bet though, if they painted the port of registration on the…Nov 14, 19:50
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: “The “British establishment” is not closing down Grangemouth. It’s closing because of the SNP/Green government’s accelerated rush towards net zero…Nov 14, 19:46
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: “Awwww. Fa’s this “scotland” ye keep banging oan aboot? Ah cannae find it oan ony map. Did ye jist mak…Nov 14, 19:43
    • willie on The People You Most Suspected: “Funny old world but the British establishment is not closing down our gas and oil extraction from the North Sea.…Nov 14, 19:15
    • Robert Hughes on The People You Most Suspected: “Excellent post , GP . You’ll have noticed how the ” Progressives ” are now getting EVERYTHING wrong . In…Nov 14, 19:10
    • Republicofscotland on The People You Most Suspected: “Piss-off you Chinthe tosser.Nov 14, 18:50
    • Republicofscotland on The People You Most Suspected: “And who could blame the voters – the left has sold the people out in many countries – at one…Nov 14, 18:49
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: “Wow, my respect for Robin McAlpine just tanked. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for now, accepting that…Nov 14, 18:45
    • Republicofscotland on The People You Most Suspected: “The SNP don’t actually give a toss – though to fool the masses they use prepped speeches and sound bites…Nov 14, 18:42
    • wull on The People You Most Suspected: “Couldn’t the Scottish Government find a way to take the refinery over? Even by a compulsory purchase order. Not to…Nov 14, 18:35
    • Republicofscotland on The People You Most Suspected: “Thank F*ck the disastrous National Care Service will fail to pass in the Holyrood chamber even the Fifth Columnist parties…Nov 14, 18:34
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: “Admit it Ros, you’re just narked he doesn’t support your side, so you never get offered a lift.Nov 14, 18:30
    • Mark Beggan on The People You Most Suspected: “He’s right about one thing the Left has done the Mea Culpa and the Right is on the rise everywhere…Nov 14, 18:29
    • Republicofscotland on The People You Most Suspected: “Meanwhile one of the Mayor of Scotland’s SNP sidekicks “Health Minister” Neil Gray has apologised for his jaunts in ministerial…Nov 14, 18:21
    • Republicofscotland on The People You Most Suspected: “So Grangemouth Refinery will close on May next year – Scotland – a country rich in oil and gas and…Nov 14, 18:12
    • Mark Beggan on The People You Most Suspected: “Paranoid! Who said I was paranoid?Nov 14, 18:08
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: “Gaelic is not a real language. The Gaels are not a real people. Their culture is a myth and their…Nov 14, 17:54
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: ““soon to be accelerated gen0cide and ethnic cleansing will make him irreversibly tarnished within his first 100 days but likely…Nov 14, 17:46
    • Hatey McHateface on The People You Most Suspected: “Geri says: “American made weapons that are out the Arc & don’t even work LOL” You tell it as it…Nov 14, 17:37
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The People You Most Suspected: “Your grievance is of course entirely valid. Your oft-repeated conspiracy theory however does require the question mark you here creditably give…Nov 14, 17:34
    • Garavelli Princip on The People You Most Suspected: “I’m with Trump on this (never thought I would write those words). Except for one thing: The ‘gender insanity’ as…Nov 14, 17:32
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