Come On Arlene 277
Posted on
June 24, 2017 by
Chris Cairns
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Sometimes it’s hard not to despair 299
Posted on
June 23, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re still on holiday, because five years of stuff like this ruins your soul:
Let’s look at the logic of that closely for just one minute, and then we’re going to go back to smashing our head off a brick wall to try to make the stupid go away.
Where you stand 211
Posted on
June 22, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The media is aflame today with some rather woolly “news” to the effect that Theresa May might possibly, in some unspecified manner, have conceded a veto over Brexit to the Scottish Parliament.
We can see no evidence suggesting such a thing has happened or will happen, and would instead direct readers to a report published yesterday by Unlock Democracy. We strongly advise taking five minutes out of your day to read pages 26-33 of it, but if you’re really in a rush this paragraph will give you the basic conclusion:
Remember your place, lesser nations of the UK.
A fundamental difference in approach 202
Posted on
June 21, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Richard Murphy, political economy professor.
Everybody needs a laugh sometimes 233
Posted on
June 20, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Brexit is already a shambles. Everyone south of Manchester is unhappy because it’s too suffocatingly hot to move, and everyone north of Manchester is unhappy because they’ve not got the sunshine. We could all, for various reasons, do with a chuckle.
So without further ado, readers, enjoy the “clueless metropolitan hacksplaining” hit of the summer: Kezia Dugdale, Comeback Queen.
Vote for the funniest line below.
Happy Brexit Day 252
Posted on
June 19, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This map probably correlates quite closely with one of the strength of Leave vote.
It seems somehow appropriate that on the day negotiations begin (with the UK having no government, no mandate and no idea what it actually wants), large parts of the country are essentially already on fire.
To nobody’s amazement 228
Posted on
June 18, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
(From yesterday’s Herald.)
And remember, folks – those 12 Tory gains in Scotland were the difference between Theresa May being Prime Minister and Jeremy Corbyn leading a progressive alliance in Downing Street. That’s where Scottish Labour are at now.
At the bus stop #2 324
Posted on
June 16, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The other side of the mountain 262
Posted on
June 13, 2017 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re going to take our own advice, chill out for a few days and enjoy the show as the No Surrender Tories desperately try to Frankenstein some sort of hilarious government together. There’s nothing much anyone can do to advance the cause of independence right now, there’s no urgent crisis in need of addressing, everybody’s pretty frazzled and crotchety, and a wee bit of downtime is probably the best thing for everyone.
It seems a better plan, at any rate, than running around panicking, screaming that SOMETHING MUST BE DONE IMMEDIATELY! or that nothing must be done ever again, that we must either declare UDI or give up on what many of us have believed in our whole lives and settle meekly for 2017’s feeble equivalent of The Vow – a shoddy, snivelling “soft Brexit” that’s not going to happen and would be awful even if it did.
Independence will still be here next week, folks. It’s not going anyplace. Obviously if anything dramatic should happen we’ll be on it, but otherwise we’ve got some movies and books and games and stuff to catch up on, and we recommend that you all do the same. Recharge your batteries. Smell the flowers. It’s been a long five years, frankly.
From the ground 219
Posted on
June 12, 2017 by
Dave McEwan Hill
NB The following article is the view of an SNP activist, not Wings Over Scotland. Although we do agree with large parts of it.
Let’s be clear on some things. In most of Scotland that unsatisfactory election result had little to do with Brexit, or with “we don’t want another referendum”. It had nothing to do with the potential merits or otherwise of independence.
What gave us the result were chiefly two things.
