Return Of The Great Intervener 114
Posted on
June 15, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Goodness, are the Unionists THAT nervous already?
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The bonehead parade 186
Posted on
June 15, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re seriously starting to think there’s some sort of competition going on among the Unionist parties of Scotland to see who’s the thickest. We’ve spent quite a bit of time pointing out the scarcely-believable dimness of the Scottish Conservative benches, but this week Scottish Labour really pulled out the stops to try to seize back the initiative.
As a warm-up act they came out swinging with one of their big hitters (which for taste reasons we’ve expressed as rhyming slang) in the form of our dear old pal and former Edinburgh South CLP chair Duncan Hothersall – last seen attacking a six-year-old girl for selling 50p cups of lemonade to thirsty festivalgoers – who impressively contrived to badly lose an argument with a bridge.
But hilarious as that was, it wasn’t the high point by a distance.
We might take a holiday 220
Posted on
June 14, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because the World Cup starts today, and with these guys doing our job for us, we’re not really sure we need to be here.
The Whimper 153
Posted on
June 13, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Let there be no mistake about what just happened. Last night, Scottish devolution – an institution 111 years in the promising, just 19 years a reality – died. Iain Macwhirter summed it up concisely and accurately.
And it didn’t even go down fighting.
Joke’s on you, suckers 161
Posted on
June 12, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A little over five years ago.
Strengthen, destroy, what’s a little slip of the tongue between friends?
The Buckaroo Principle 432
Posted on
June 10, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s probably fair to say that the voters of Scotland have been feeling a little put-upon lately. In the last decade they’ve been sent to polling stations on no fewer than 12 occasions (Holyrood elections in 2011 and 2016, UK elections in 2010, 2015 and 2017, council elections in 2012 and 2017, European elections in 2009 and 2014, and finally referendums on AV, independence and the EU).
And they’ve been subjected to endless weeks, months or even years of campaigning and haranguing each time. One woman – who only had to endure nine of those 12 – had famously had enough of it.
Yet Scots face possibly three more in the next 12 months or so, if various factions get their way, taking the total to 15 major votes in a decade. And if we want to secure the desired outcome in any of them, we’re going to have to ease the load on folk a bit.
Logic in reverse 134
Posted on
June 07, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re having a lot of trouble with this one, to be honest.
The Record, along with Scottish Labour and a lot of the left of social media, are up in arms that a mystery benefactor has donated a £230,000 Rolls Royce to Glasgow City Council for the use of the Lord Provost. But nobody can quite manage to explain why they’re so angry about it.
That Went Well Department 207
Posted on
June 05, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
November 2009: “at the end of the day the banks will be paying money to the British people and not the other way round”.
Shall we take a look through the arched-eyebrows window, readers?
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough 74
Posted on
June 05, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ll shortly round up the last pieces of data from our Panelbase poll of English voters last month, but this one merits singling out, we think.
Wait, what?
Being silenced is golden 80
Posted on
May 31, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The findings of Lord Bracadale’s report into hate-crime law in Scotland were published today (tl;dr version: OBFA’s coming back), and we couldn’t help observing them in the context of an interesting Guardian article on the alt/far right yesterday.
Because we’ve discovered something slightly odd about the subject.
