Now You See It 150
Posted on
July 01, 2023 by
Chris Cairns
Archive for the ‘comment’
Fun with words 61
Posted on
June 30, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is, strictly speaking, semantically, true:
It is, however, as the famous phrase goes, not the whole truth.
Unserious People 189
Posted on
June 29, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Tuesday’s front page headline in The National was roughly the political equivalent of introducing yourself to your new next-door neighbour by saying “Hi, nice to meet you, I’m Jimmy from No.22 and it definitely wasn’t me who killed your cat last night”.
Humza Yousaf’s great masterplan of an independence strategy is imploding faster than the OceanGate Titan, and scarcely any less disastrously. And unless you’re one of the colleagues, family or friends of the tragic victims on board the doomed vessel, it’s even more painful to watch.
The Burning House 503
Posted on
June 26, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This one goes out to all the “rebel” MSPs at the SNP desks in Holyrood.
Because it’s nearly time for you to choose whether you want to fight, or die meekly.
The Final Burn 118
Posted on
June 24, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The word “packed” is working very hard here.
Because the video Riddoch tweeted tells a rather different story.
Kiss With A Fist 56
Posted on
June 23, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve seen some hilarious demands for “unity” in the independence movement in the last couple of years, almost all of them from the most divisive figures ever to wave a wee plastic Saltire (Pete Wishart, Neil Mackay, Wee Ginger Dug etc etc).
But this effort from the SNP’s new airhead mascot takes the shortbread.
The queen is dead 131
Posted on
June 22, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Winnie Ewing, who has sadly passed away a few weeks short of her 94th birthday, was the second SNP politician I ever heard of.
My dad met her, and would speak of her with Billy Wolfe, the party leader who was also his employer at a forest machinery company in Bathgate (and our family friend), during her second term as an MP in the UK Parliament.
She now joins my dad and Billy as people who worked for the cause of independence but died before it came to fruition, after many wasted years under the leadership of Nicola Sturgeon.
Spoiler Alert 295
Posted on
June 20, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Still wondering what Humza Yousaf’s going to say to the SNP’s pretend “conference” on independence strategy this coming Saturday? Well, wonder no longer, because this morning he told Sky News.
In other words, he’s waving the white flag and praying for a miracle.
Yellow for timewasting 351
Posted on
June 18, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, no wonder they’re having trouble shifting tickets.
Because that’s all you’re getting for your tenner, SNP members.
Humza Yousaf’s Last Week 132
Posted on
June 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So this is pretty embarrassing.
The Scottish National Party’s primary and defining purpose is Scottish independence. Next weekend’s “special conference” will at least notionally determine its policy on that subject for years to come. On the face of it it’s the most important congregation of party members in the SNP’s history.
The Caird Hall can accommodate just 3% of the claimed membership. (And you’d expect at least half the seats to have been reserved in advance for the faithful payroll.) Members ought to be fighting like dogs for a ticket. And yet a week before the event the leader is having to send out pleading letters to try to scare up enough attendees that it won’t be a half-empty humiliation.
