The Fainthearts 248
Posted on
April 14, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Presented without comment.
Archive for the ‘corruption’
The quiet part out loud 550
Posted on
April 12, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The latest group to come out in public defence of the ostensibly openly paedophiliac “Feminist Declaration” which was signed up to last year by a number of Scottish organisations is the “Rainbow Greens”.
The co-conveners of the Rainbow Greens are two men called Blair Anderson and Eilidh Martin. Let’s meet one of them, shall we?
The Paedophile Charter 219
Posted on
April 10, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
While watching reports from the Alba Party women’s conference that took place this afternoon, we saw something that we thought must be wrong.
But it wasn’t.
The Big Sleep 503
Posted on
April 09, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If you still can’t see it, you’re probably never going to wake up.
But have a little think about those highlighted words this morning anyway.
The Great Indyref Swindle 517
Posted on
April 06, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s probably past time that we put this all in one post for easy reference.
Herald journalists with no idea what a story is, start here.
This won’t take a minute 177
Posted on
April 05, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
At the weekend we all beheld the bizarre sight of two supposed investigative Scottish politics journalists sneering and trying to play down what appeared to be a genuinely major story about a live police inquiry into a possible £600,000 criminal fraud involving the party of government in Scotland.
Both of them work for the same rival outlet, so the most generous interpretation that could reasonably be put on their curious behaviour is that they were simply trying to focus attention instead on that outlet’s own big Sunday splash – also ostensibly a story of political fraud, albeit on a much smaller scale.
So let’s just clear that one up now to help them out.
The Unpersons 350
Posted on
April 04, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is an utterly extraordinary tweet.
The three people who were asking to see the SNP’s books weren’t Sean Clerkin, they were MEMBERS OF THE SNP’S FINANCE & AUDIT COMMITTEE. That is, they were people whose actual literal job is to monitor the SNP’s finances, and who are all drawn from the membership of the SNP.
So what Hunter is saying there is that the SNP chose three of its own members to serve on its own finance committee, yet they could not be allowed to carry out their duties because their loyalties did not lie with the party.
In which case, a reasonable observer might very well ask, what sort of stupendously, farcically incompetent organisation puts such people in such positions?
Lessons in journalism 313
Posted on
April 04, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Fresh from being embarrassed over a ridiculous smear story this week about someone complaining to the police about the use of a well-known political phrase by a Wings commenter, Tom Gordon of the Herald went on quite the attack yesterday.
The thread, which contains a number of basic factual errors about events*, continued for several more tweets all generally rubbishing our scoop from Friday afternoon and suggesting that no proper journalist (“the rest of us”) would have run the story.
So he must be feeling quite left out this morning.
Justice stirring 352
Posted on
April 02, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers will know that for the past 15 months Wings has been investigating the apparent disappearance of almost £600,000 raised from supporters of independence (not just SNP voters) by the SNP in two fundraising campaigns in 2017 and 2019.
The money was supposedly to be “ring-fenced” for spending ONLY in a future indyref, and the party gave explicit and hotly-stated guarantees at the time of the first appeal that the money would definitely NOT be spent on party business.
But when the party’s 2019 accounts were published they showed that the SNP had less than £100,000 in the bank at the end of that year, and total net assets of less than £272,000. The £600,000 from the fundraisers was nowhere to be found, and the then-party treasurer’s feeble insistence that it was “woven through” the accounts in some unspecified way satisfied only the most gullible.
This week Wings Over Scotland has been told that the matter is now officially under investigation by the police.
The SNP love Tories 307
Posted on
March 28, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There’s a lot of this going around from SNP and Unionists alike this weekend.
Because, as we may have mentioned before, they really do think you’re stupid.
Chalk and cheese 98
Posted on
March 24, 2021 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
One month ago, writing a mild political slogan on a wall in Scotland in chalk – which washes off instantly at the first sign of a damp cloth or a small shower of rain – was enough to have uniformed officers of Police Scotland turn up at your door on suspicion of hate crime, conspiracy and breach of the peace.
Of course, that depends wholly on which views you’re expressing.
