Losing the plot 158
Posted on
February 23, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is beyond insane.
Like, obviously Rangers aren’t better than Celtic.
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Tears Of Terror 171
Posted on
February 23, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We read some harrowing tweets this week from an Edinburgh SNP activist. Sensitive readers should look away now, as the following article contains potentially triggering information about the wild and lawless streets of [checks notes] Corstorphine.
Steel yourselves, folks. Unsettling images follow.
The White Flag Gang 139
Posted on
February 22, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s remarkable how openly a certain faction of the SNP is now declaring surrender.
And it’s becoming increasingly clear that the events of the next few days and weeks will not just determine the future of the independence movement, but whether in any meaningful, practical sense it continues to exist at all.
A time of fear 136
Posted on
February 22, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Indian Council of Scotland and the Muslim Council of the United Kingdom have this morning issued an extraordinary joint statement regarding their serious concerns about the SNP leadership contest. We reproduce it below at their request.
A change of tone 111
Posted on
February 21, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alex Cole-Hamilton, December 2022:
And it was for Beth and for you guys that we were doing it, we were fighting it.”
Alex Cole-Hamilton, February 2023:
We wonder when Patrick Harvie, Ross Greer and Maggie Chapman will follow suit.
If you want to know 174
Posted on
February 20, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The racecard 216
Posted on
February 19, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So we finally have two official runners.
And to be honest, we’ve never had an easier decision to make since that time when we caught fire while standing next to the sea.
Your enemy’s friends 163
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February 17, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When assessing who might be the best choice for the next leader of the SNP, and by extension of the independence movement, it’s a pretty good rule of thumb to beware of anyone being bigged up by the Unionist media.
(Not only because they don’t have the SNP or Yes movement’s best interests at heart, but also because these are the people who thought Jim Murphy would take Scottish Labour surging to triumph in 2015 and Kezia Dugdale would win the 2021 election.)
So let’s take a quick look at the runners and riders.
The road ahead from here 150
Posted on
February 17, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Can you spot the subtle change between these two National stories, readers?
Now, as they’re both in The National the standard of journalism is obviously completely dreadful, and so neither of them actually explains their headline. Nobody is named or quoted even anonymously, and there’s no elaboration other than that “[a member of] the NEC appeared to halt any proposal to use the next General Election as a proxy constitutional vote”, with no indication of HOW they “appeared” to do that.
But they DO raise the question of where on Earth – whoever becomes its new leader – the SNP goes from the smouldering bomb crater that Nicola Sturgeon has left it in.
Third Rock From The Sun 139
Posted on
February 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The SNP constitution states that a leadership election should take place over a period of four and a half months. Having not had one in almost 20 years, the SNP are now to conduct one from start to finish in the space of four and a half weeks.
The voting period of two weeks (who needs two weeks to vote after three weeks of debate?) means that it’ll be over just a week too late for the party to be able to hold its “special democracy conference” to determine its independence strategy for the next couple of years, but also that the new leader will be in place just in time to file a legal challenge over the Gender Recognition Reform bill before the April deadline.
(Something the party president Mike Russell publicly called for today, in an apparent attempt to influence the outcome of the election. Indeed, he called for candidates not to go back on ANY of the outgoing leader’s policies, which rather invites the question of why they should bother electing a new leader at all.)
Isn’t that convenient, readers?
The Great Beyond 228
Posted on
February 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So here we are, the morning after the morning before.
The thing that had to happen happened. What happens now?
