The Anti-Midas Touch 113
Posted on
July 11, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘analysis’
At A Loss 198
Posted on
July 10, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
To be honest, folks, we’re not quite sure what to do with ourselves at the moment.
Everyone and his wee dug is writing election-aftermath columns and offering the SNP advice of varying intelligence and solemnity about how to recover from the shattering blow they’ve just been dealt by Scottish voters.
But it’s a pointless exercise. They may as well be yelling down a manhole.
The Cuckoos 122
Posted on
July 05, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Don’t say we don’t tell you this stuff, readers.
Because we always do.
End Of Part One 131
Posted on
July 05, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, we hope you all listened to us in January and got your bets in.
Enjoy your winnings. Because the real work starts now.
Do It For John 126
Posted on
July 04, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s almost 20 years since this last happened.
The 2005 election was the last time the Daily Record and the Scottish Sun both endorsed the same party at a UK general election. So, y’know, something is going on.
Avoiding The Worst 167
Posted on
July 03, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Survation released their final projection for the election last night. It’s quite a boring image because they had to make it mostly grey to correctly illustrate the margin of Labour’s lead.
Those ranges are substantial, but even their BEST-case scenario for the Tories is below 100 seats. The WORST-case scenario for Labour – 447 seats – still gives them a majority of 244, which would smash the all-time record of 209 set by the Tories exactly 100 years ago. (The best case is a dizzying 384.)
Scotland is probably the hardest area of the UK to call. In most polls there are only a few points between Labour and the SNP, and depending on how the votes are spread and who’s best at getting their support out either could still win the most seats.
That won’t, of course, make the slightest difference to the governance of the UK for the next five years. Even 57 Scottish MPs out of 57, for any party, would be completely meaningless to a government with a majority of over 200.
But it’ll make a big difference to the independence movement. Because if the SNP manages to hold onto to a significant proportion of its seats, we can all wave goodbye to the slightest chance of progress for another decade on top of the one that’s been wasted since Alex Salmond resigned.
The Days Of No Good Choices 597
Posted on
June 24, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There are now just 10 days until the general election. Wings has never told its readers how to vote and we’re not going to start now. Which is lucky, because if we were, we wouldn’t have a clue how to.
Just, y’know, not for any of these wretched, worthless shiters.
The Absence Of Pride 67
Posted on
June 24, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When you’ve been watching Scotland playing football for 50 years of your life, you become accustomed to disappointment. You expect disappointment. Anything better than disappointment becomes a bonus.
You also come to expect injustice, like last night’s inexplicable failure of VAR – which has unfailingly spotted micro-infringements like a player’s toenail being offside – to even take a look at a nailed-on stonewall penalty in the last minutes of the game.
But because you’re so used to these things, you’re not expecting rage.
An Offer You Can’t Understand 110
Posted on
June 20, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is one of the strangest political campaign videos we’ve ever seen.
Join us as we try to make sense of it.
Square One 250
Posted on
June 13, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re still trying not to pay attention to the election because it’s so tedious and awful and pointless, but this is worth putting on the record because it’s in The National and otherwise nobody’s going to read it.
Short version: all the way back to surrender.
The Elite And Me 245
Posted on
June 05, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you wanted to hear me yakking on about Scottish and UK politics for 45 minutes, an excellent way to achieve it would be clicking this image.
If not, it’s probably best if you don’t.
Agents Of Change 122
Posted on
June 04, 2024 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re going to be really, REALLY generous and not quibble about the “us”.
Because it’s not even nearly the funniest thing here.
