Christmas is coming 168
Posted on
August 09, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘corruption’
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 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.
Surrender when you’re winning 161
Posted on
June 08, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Let’s start with what we know.
The SNP tell us that independence support is currently at 53%.
They tell us that most Scots want a referendum within the next year:
And we know that it’s absolutely unequivocally possible for the SNP and Greens to trigger a Holyrood election which would serve as a de facto referendum not only within a year, but within weeks. Scots could entirely realistically go to the polls this August or September, or even on the date Nicola Sturgeon promised less than a year ago.
So why are the SNP choosing this of all moments to give up?
Far beyond the pale horizon 81
Posted on
June 07, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In fairness, on one level it’s really funny.
Assuming you’ve already resigned yourself to independence never happening, that is.
The Battered Can 121
Posted on
May 26, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When I was a boy at Balbardie Primary School in Bathgate in the mid-70s, football was banned in the playground. Of course we were all fitba-daft laddies, so we sought ways around the prohibition. Occasionally someone would bring in a tennis ball, but those were difficult to control in school shoes and also apt to fly over the wall of the outdoor toilet block if somebody caught one sweetly on the volley.
So most playtimes somebody would produce a tin of Pepsi or Irn-Bru or Cresta, chug the contents, stand the empty container on its end and stomp sharply on it, producing something more akin to an ice-hockey puck that would serve for our kickabout.
But even after being skelped and scudded around a concrete playground into stone walls for 20 minutes, that can was still in better shape at the end of our game than the one the SNP have been kicking down the road since 2016.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 459
Posted on
May 21, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you’re still falling for this idiot-fodder after seven years, give yourself a shake.
Because for the love of Christ, an orangutan would have twigged by now. And we’re not talking about the long-suffering fans of Dundee United.
In your face 82
Posted on
May 20, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The SNP now seem to be involved in some sort of competition where they dare each other to come up with the most blatant insult to their own members and/or the wider independence movement and see just how much they can get people to put up with.
First up was this drivel:
Humza Yousaf is leader of the SNP, a political party whose defining purpose – arguably its SOLE real purpose – is the pursuit of Scottish independence, but his “vision for Scotland” didn’t include a single mention of it.
Instead, Yousaf intends to spend the next three years on “equality”, “opportunity” and “community”, three meaningless buzzwords which every political party on Earth would claim to be in favour of. He might as well have identified his key values as kittens, lollipops and hugs.
But it gets worse.
Running interference 64
Posted on
May 17, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers will have noticed some interesting stories recently.
The Scottish Sun’s scoop on Monday evening – a few hours after we tweeted information from a very well-informed source about the Crown Office’s continued attempts to obstruct Police Scotland’s investigation into the SNP’s finances – would have come as no great surprise to Wings readers already familiar with the way the unaccountable, unanswerable body operates.
But we’ve subsequently noticed a number of attempts by various people to muddy the story by talking about a “draft” warrant request, implying that there was no improper delay. So we checked up, and thought you might like to know how the process works.
Battle Of The Rejects 151
Posted on
May 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is where Scottish politics is now.
And it’s a properly grim state of affairs, readers.
If you tolerate this 165
Posted on
May 12, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Below is a clip from last night’s ITV News West Country.
It really needs a wider audience.
A standard progression 108
Posted on
May 11, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
