Now The Traffic Lights Change 762
Posted on
October 19, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘comment’
The unwritten rules 119
Posted on
October 18, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The average prison term for rape in Scotland is just under seven years. So we really don’t want to think about what Andrew “Amy George” Miller did to the poor young girl he abducted to get 20. (Indeed, strictly speaking 28.)
Miller wasn’t charged with rape, the 11-year-old was described as “safe and well” when the police found her and she was missing for just over one day. Miller also entered a guilty plea. So our blood runs cold at the thought of what must have happened in those 27 hours to nevertheless attract such a huge sentence, and we hope never to know.
But there are some things we DO want explained.
The World Without She 79
Posted on
October 17, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This really is grim, folks. Remember the days when there had to be overflow rooms for the leader’s speech at the SNP conference, in venues holding thousands? Now they can’t come close to filling 750 seats in a 2000-seat arena.
The reception afforded to Sturgeon yesterday, who left the party in the pile of wreckage that the hapless Yousaf is still trying to stumble through, was a symptom of desperate people clinging forlornly to the shadow of better times, like an abandoned dog seeking the last bits of warmth and scent from its owner’s chair.
But those days are gone, never to return. This is the barren, foreboding autumn of the SNP, the cold ground thickly carpeted in the lifeless, crumbling and silent remains of lost members fallen from branches.
The National Embarrassment 156
Posted on
October 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We thought this was overdue an update. It’s got about 16 new front pages on it, one whole new row and a handful of newly-rediscovered replacements. It really is worth taking a few minutes to peruse it properly (click on the pic to enlarge it) to get the full effect of eight wasted years of deja vu disappointment.
It’s not even The National’s fault. They’re a business, they’re simply trying to sell a few papers to a diminishing audience of endlessly gullible eejits. The real fault lies with the halfwitted SNP members who just keep on doggedly failing to learn a single lesson, and repeatedly vote to carry on doing what they know doesn’t work and never will.
Ach weel, as they used to say.
Out of a bright blue sky 152
Posted on
October 12, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, we must admit we didn’t see that one coming.
Although maybe it’s just because over the last few years the concept of an SNP MP having any sort of principles has become so wildly implausible.
Glory days 242
Posted on
October 10, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The SNP put out this party political broadcast (PPB) last night.
And alert readers might already have noticed something odd.
Are we nearly there yet? 165
Posted on
October 09, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Six years ago today.
The mass uprisings will be any minute now, we’re sure.
21 days later 77
Posted on
October 08, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A page 2 “SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE“ from Hannah “Trannah” Rodger today:
Or if you’re a Wings follower, last month’s news.
The Day Of The Jackals 268
Posted on
October 07, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The parasite infestation within the SNP has sensed its moment has arrived.
The final act of hostile takeover is almost upon us.
Getting left behind 96
Posted on
October 06, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Humza Yousaf didn’t turn up to the count tonight. In the end, even on a dreadfully low turnout of 37%, Labour won by 9,446 votes, with more than twice as many as the SNP.
It was a much worse defeat for the governing party than most expected. There should be only one outcome.
Going on a journey 116
Posted on
October 04, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Widowmaker 160
Posted on
September 30, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The greatest intellectual weakness of the independence movement is its attitude towards Trident, and trying to reason with people about it (whether readers or other independence activists) is consistently one of the most frustrating aspects of writing Wings, because nuclear disarmers and Unionists are equally impervious to logic on the subject.
The UK’s nuclear “deterrent” – or as it was more accurately and memorably described by the former Vulcan nuclear bomber squadron commander Air Commodore Alastair Mackie, “a virility symbol, like a stick-on hairy chest” – is the greatest gift to a future Scottish independence negotiating team imaginable.
The rest of the UK gets a lot of economic and infrastructural benefits from Scotland, like water and energy, but ultimately it’s not massively bothered about those. Water is not yet a critical area and energy can be sourced elsewhere, and in any event Brexit shows us that the UK is more than willing to do itself enormous harm in the service of ideological political goals.
But Trident is a whole different kettle of sweaty underwater men.
