And so far yet to go 199
Posted on
April 18, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Almost every day is now a new crisis for the SNP.
But it better get used to it.
Archive for the ‘corruption’
At close of day 276
Posted on
April 16, 2023 by
Neale Hanvey MP
Some years ago while working in the NHS I investigated a situation where a group of very senior staff colluded in an attempt to cover up the misdeeds of a colleague, in the full knowledge of the devastating effect their dishonesty would have.
Yet in amongst that betrayal of professional ethical values one person’s integrity could not be swayed and they spoke the candid truth. I don’t know how it affected them in the long run, but it was clear that integrity mattered to them and doing the wrong thing was a burden they were unwilling to carry.
Anyway, their courage to hold firm to these principles impressed me and chimed with the values I believe are absolutely necessary when you are charged with responsibility over the lives of others: honesty, integrity and a strong sense of justice.
Fashion And Crisis Hits New York 83
Posted on
April 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As the SNP burns down around their ears, nothing stops the gravy bus. But even as they gallivant gaily around another “Tartan Week” junket in the USA, one might have thought the Constitution Minister would have shied away from this particular photo-op.
Let’s find out why.
Progress to nowhere 160
Posted on
April 14, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may be familiar with the market research and polling company Progress Scotland. Readers of The National certainly will be, as the semi-newspaper has run over 120 stories about it, most of them around the company’s creation in early 2019.
The company was formed by Angus Robertson, at the time an unemployed former SNP MP after he lost his Moray seat in the 2017 election, and its stated goal was to persuade those not yet fully decided.
When you’re already gone 308
Posted on
April 12, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So it turned out there was very little new information in this story.
But the tiny bit there was raises an extremely disproportionate number of issues.
Standing on quicksand 143
Posted on
April 11, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
So let’s just recap where we are with this.
Because it really doesn’t look very good.
From the mouths of idiots 113
Posted on
April 11, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Readers with any modest working knowledge of Scottish politics in recent years would naturally assume at first sight that the illiterate, corrupt, self-serving, gravy-hoovering drama student with whom the SNP hilariously replaced experienced KC Joanna Cherry as shadow justice secretary simply couldn’t spell “final straight”, a term meaning the easy last stretch of a horse race where there are no jumps or turns.
(We are, after all, talking here about someone who can’t spell her own name.)
But they might be wrong.
Lipstick On Your Collar 338
Posted on
April 05, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Until a few weeks ago Calum Steele was the chief of the Scottish Police Federation, so as due-credits go we particularly appreciate this one.
So let’s remind ourselves of a few things.
Two separate facts 114
Posted on
April 05, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Presented without comment.
And a bonus one, from two years and one day ago:
The Smell Of It 113
Posted on
March 26, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the second time Wings Over Scotland has asked Police Scotland a question through the proper official channels, only to read the response in the tabloid press before we’d heard it firsthand (which we still haven’t, incidentally, several days after the 28-day deadline expired).
But the sidebar piece in today’s Sunday Mail raises more questions than it answers.
