The endless road 228
Posted on
January 14, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Okay, folks, time to put our hands up and admit it: we got this one wrong.
We thought they’d be subtle.
Archive for the ‘corruption’
The process of softening up 176
Posted on
January 12, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been meaning to talk about this for a few days, but other stuff kept coming up.
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Alert readers won’t have failed to notice a steady drip of stories being fed to the media in recent weeks from SNP figures talking down the idea of the next general election as a de facto referendum.
Many in the party, such as new Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, are clearly very uncomfortable about having been pushed into doing, well, pretty much anything to actually try to achieve independence, even if it’s still two years away, because having (in most cases only recently) acquired themselves some lovely lucrative Westminster careers and pensions they’re not keen on suddenly risking losing them.
But the column above is an illuminating one.
Pete’s New Programming 118
Posted on
January 11, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A few months ago, we all had a good chuckle at Pete Wishart’s screeching 180-degree turn on the subject of using a plebiscitary election for independence, a strategy which switched overnight from “suicidal, disastrous fringe lunacy with no hope of success” to “genius plan Nicola herself came up with”.
But after that crude ad-hoc field patch, we’re delighted to be able to report that Pete has submitted himself to SNP HQ for a full operating system update and is now fully compliant with the New Truth.
The suggestion of blueberries 112
Posted on
January 06, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers of Wings will know that I have a fondness for sweet and fruity things, and a particular favourite of mine are Tropical Vibes still lemonades. (NB Other drinks are available, this site is in no way sponsored by or financially affiliated to Tropical Vibes.)
I especially like their Ocean Blue variety, a deliciously sharp and tangy refresher which contains real blueberry juice.
Just not very MUCH real blueberry juice.
Raise all of the flags 186
Posted on
January 04, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As a journalist, readers, sometimes you want to pep a story up a bit. From time to time, it’s perfectly legitimate to sensationalise a relatively minor aspect of something in order to draw attention to a worthwhile but intrinsically dull subject.
At other times, you find yourself in the strange position of having to talk a subject down as much as you can, because if you simply report the facts calmly and neutrally it’ll sound so outrageous and ridiculous and deranged that everyone will think you’ve gone full-on, tinfoil-hat, pencils-up-the-nose insane.
Today is the second kind of day.
Song For The Yes Movement, 2015-2022 88
Posted on
December 31, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Things change very slowly, then very suddenly. Here’s to better days, readers.
Past and future.
All out of words 127
Posted on
December 23, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
I’ll be honest, readers, I’m so exhausted from despising the sickening nonce-panderers of the SNP this week that I can’t summon the energy to write any more about them. So I’m going to hand over to some other people.
All pics are links so that you can read full threads, see context and access any linked articles, and all these people are worth following.
The Disgraces Of Scotland 323
Posted on
December 21, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Last night this happened.
The events marked simply and unquestionably the most shameful and contemptible moment in the history of the Scottish Parliament since 1707.
Pete’s Big Win 87
Posted on
December 15, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The National must have been enormously proud when it successfully fought off all the other newspapers to secure this stunning exclusive today.
We must admit, when we had a good look in the “Pete Wishart Victories” section of our extensive archives we drew a blank. So we were excited to read on and find out.
Newspeak For Independence 275
Posted on
December 12, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Let’s be quite clear what this means.
It means that the new Westminster leader of the SNP thinks it’s “absurd” to even try to achieve independence while the UK is in a crisis.
For English Gold 187
Posted on
December 06, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The SNP has for quite some time been a hollow shell of a political party. Like the Conservative Party, its members have been systematically stripped of all policy-making powers, with decisions of conference on major issues simply ignored and other policies pushed through (most notably “gender reform”) which have never been put in front of conference for debate at all.
The party is now primarily a vehicle for processing cash and funnelling it to carefully selected and ideologically vetted activists, mostly from the fundamentalist youth wing, who are given well-paid jobs working for MPs and MSPs or parachuted into council seats in return for their unquestioning loyalty to Nicola Sturgeon.
And at this, it must be admitted, the SNP is still a highly effective operation. Which is fortunate, because without UK government money it would be bankrupt.
Above are the Electoral Commission’s donation figures for the third quarter of 2022. They note that 100% of the SNP’s reportable income for that period came from the UK government’s coffers – a trait shared with Plaid Cymru, the SDLP and the DUP.
Given that three of those four parties are nationalists committed to removing various constituent parts of the UK, one might almost be tempted to commend Westminster’s generosity. But perhaps it knows exactly what it’s doing.
The way time flies 182
Posted on
December 04, 2022 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Can this really be six and a half years ago?
We suddenly feel very old.
