The Gauntlet 149
Posted on
March 15, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, this has set the cat amongst the pigeons.
Because the SNP leadership election is now a full-blown four-alarm skip fire.
Archive for the ‘corruption’
The Wrong Answer 135
Posted on
March 14, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
He’s not our man in the contest, but a free bit of advice for Humza Yousaf anyway.
When just about everyone with eyes and a brain in their head thinks the vote’s being rigged in your favour, and there’s tangible evidence of its dodginess, and the party’s track record in this area is in fact somewhat less than immaculate, then “just shut up and let it happen” is a really, really bad response.
Pension Grifters For Devo Max 88
Posted on
March 12, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been telling you for quite some time now that after eight wasted years of doing absolutely nothing with endless mandates, the SNP establishment want to back away from the party’s defining goal of Scottish independence and settle in for some lovely cosy lifelong careers at Westminster and in the devolved Holyrood, with well-paid staffer jobs for all their pals, followed by tidy £50,000-a-year pensions.
Maybe some of you didn’t believe us.
Maybe you could have another think about it.
The words SNP members long to hear 125
Posted on
March 05, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
“We’re working with GCHQ on the election.”
We don’t know about you, folks, but we’re not all that reassured.
The Last Days Of Saigon 209
Posted on
March 01, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
By now many of you will have seen last night’s article on Craig Murray’s site, in which a current SNP branch convener revealed how the party machine is setting fire to all its own rules in a desperate attempt to secure the succession of Humza Yousaf.
Yousaf is the party establishment’s last hope of keeping all of its misdeeds in the last few years under wraps, and realising the magnitude of what’s at stake if he loses to Ash Regan or Kate Forbes, they’re abandoning all pretence of neutrality or integrity and throwing everything they’ve got at getting him elected.
The Thin Pink Line 278
Posted on
February 26, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The charity LGBT Youth Scotland is currently the subject of a live police investigation over its involvement in a second major child-abuse scandal in little over a decade.
So you’d expect Police Scotland to be taking that pretty seriously, right?
The Old Ways 159
Posted on
February 24, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Wings Over Scotland has been monitoring the BBC’s coverage of Scottish politics for over 11 years now, readers, and other than The Nick Robinson Incident we’re honestly struggling to remember seeing anything worse than this.
The Corporation’s “coverage” of Ash Regan’s campaign launch for the SNP leadership election ran for roughly seven minutes. And we suppose we should be grateful that it did at one point feature a brief, incidental cameo appearance from Ash Regan.
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.
The feather-light touch 132
Posted on
February 22, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Yesterday, readers, we warned you that “online newspaper polls are self-selecting and vulnerable to manipulation”. Here’s what that looks like in practice.
Let’s crunch some numbers.
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.
Your enemy’s friends 163
Posted on
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.
