A thousand miles of stupid 233
Posted on
February 04, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Even we can’t quite believe this one, readers.
Good grief, where do we even start?
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Those who would rule us 345
Posted on
February 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s currently a fake “petition” on the Labour website.
Ostensibly it’s gathering signatures representing opposition to the bedroom tax, but in fact its only purpose is to harvest email addresses so that Labour can then bombard unwitting recipients with dodgy, untruthful solicitations for cash. (What would actually be the point of a petition about the bedroom tax at this stage?)
That’s not the terrible thing about it, though.
The Super-Duper Mega Vow Deluxe Plus 126
Posted on
February 02, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve already said all we’ve got to say on this one.
The lost art of keeping a secret weapon 272
Posted on
January 31, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Kate Devlin of the Herald has been a political journalist as long as we can remember.
So it’s quite surprising that she’s apparently never heard of Gordon Brown before.
An unsettling development 110
Posted on
January 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Since we’ve been talking about mad letters from Scottish Labour MPs today, we’re sharing this one with you too. We’ve been trying to make sense of it all evening.
We haven’t made any progress. It’s not just a simple accidental transposition of words, because if you switch “increased” and “decreased” around it’s still gibberish – why would the threat have decreased because of proliferation? If anyone can explain it, do drop us a line.
A couple of hours off 170
Posted on
January 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because there’s really no satire we can add to this magnificent zoomery:
So we might as well pop out to the shops for a bit.
Hubris and nemesis 138
Posted on
January 30, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
With a knife-edge general election just 90-odd days away, we must confess ourselves surprised at the sudden rash of candour/indiscipline (depending on how generously you want to frame it) that’s broken out in Scottish Labour.
It started soon after the referendum, when Edinburgh Labour chairman Trevor Davies felt confident enough, with the vote won, to announce on an officially-backed Labour website that his primary loyalty was to his party rather than to the people of Scotland, under the startlingly blunt headline “Labour first, Scottish second”.
But any notion that the comments represented nothing more than a vainglorious and momentary slip from a loose cannon were soon dispelled.
Gathering speed 271
Posted on
January 29, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ed Miliband, who is apparently the leader of the Labour Party, is in Scotland today to make some promises about his lifelong commitment to “Home Rule”, a policy which his MSPs were flatly denying ever mentioning earlier this month.
We’re sure he’ll be as good as his word.
Know what you’re voting for 381
Posted on
January 28, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s been much discussion in the press lately about Jim Murphy’s plan to change the elusive Scottish Labour “constitution”, a document almost nobody has ever seen and which most people didn’t know even existed until a few weeks ago.
Naturally we were curious to have a wee look, so when we stumbled across a page on the Electoral Commission website which said it held copies of party constitutions and provided them on request, we thought we’d take a shot on the off-chance. We weren’t at all surprised by the reply:
“the Commission does not hold a constitution for the Scottish Labour Party per se, since they are not separately registered with us. The Labour Party is registered for GB as a whole.”
But then an alert reader asked the EC a smarter question.
You’re kidding, right? 83
Posted on
January 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re pretty sure the Daily Record is just trolling us on purpose at this point.
Wait, Labour pushed for a what now?
A generous assessment 133
Posted on
January 27, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
What the frack just happened 212
Posted on
January 26, 2015 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The kerfuffle on social media right now over some votes on fracking in the House of Commons tonight would probably dislodge a fair amount of gas trapped in rock by itself. Claim and counter-claim are zinging around furiously, but we eventually found a factual précis that even idiots like us could understand. Buckle up.
