A surprising convert 93
Posted on
November 22, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘europe’
The staunch defenders 281
Posted on
November 19, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If we were to write an article every time Murdo Fraser said something moronic, we’d have to rename this site Wings Over Murdo Fraser, and drink an awful lot of Red Bull to be able to cover it all.
Stuff like this, for example, is almost too easy.
43% (actually 45.3% excluding Don’t Knows) is considerably more than Murdo Fraser has ever achieved in an election, either himself or as part of a party. His average over the seven elections he’s contested and lost since 1999 is just 30.1%, and until a blip in 2016 it had been falling lower and lower each time, as people have watched how he performed as an MSP and got less and less keen on the idea.
That’s still actually slightly more than the 28.6% his party secured in Scotland at the last election, though, in what was nevertheless generally regarded as an unusually impressive performance. Two years earlier they gathered just 14.9% of the votes cast.
Yet neither Fraser nor the Tories disappear for a generation every time Scotland tells them to go and get stuffed. Fraser keeps trousering an MSP’s fat salary despite two decades of unbroken and unequivocal personal rejection from the electorate, even as he demands that the independence movement gives up after losing ONE vote.
But in his defence, his leader’s not setting him much of an example.
Waiting for the penny to drop 96
Posted on
November 19, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the best one of these we’ve ever seen.
Nobody tell him, now. Imagine the moment when he spots it for himself.
The threatened member 136
Posted on
November 16, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ah, remember these simpler times, readers?
Thank goodness for etc etc.
Serving the nations 188
Posted on
November 14, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Ever aware of its need to deliver informed enlightenment to the populace, the state broadcaster has recently put up a “BBC Brexit Jargon Buster” page on its website. We’re not sure it was meant to be quite this candid.
The worst-laid plans 226
Posted on
November 10, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Your occasional reminder about who’s been governing us since we refused to take the responsibility for it ourselves.
To be quite honest, readers, if we’re going to leave our future in the hands of a Fox, we’d probably be better off with Basil Brush.
We must just be idiots 79
Posted on
October 23, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On the face of it, this stuff is like shooting fish in a barrel.
But let’s treat it with more dignity than it deserves and hear her out.
The rules where you are 219
Posted on
October 21, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well well, look who suddenly believes in second referendums.
It’s fascinating to note how you can completely reverse Kezia Dugdale’s position on the subject simply by substituting the word “Scotland” for the words “the UK” in that second tweet, and imagine she was talking about the independence march in heavily-Remain-voting Edinburgh earlier this month instead of the (proportionately smaller) one in London yesterday.
The good, the bad and the other one 672
Posted on
October 13, 2018 by
Chris Cairns
(We apologise for the late arrival of this week’s toon, due to MI5 on the line, probably.)
Correcting the corrections 152
Posted on
October 12, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re blacklisted by the press regulator IPSO, but fortunately when we raise issues with especially blatant inaccuracies in UK newspapers alert readers sometimes take up the cudgel and file complaints with them because we can’t.
One such case was when the Daily Express published a story this summer with the eye-rubbing and creatively-capitalised headline “MAJORITY of Scots BACK BREXIT as SNP support PLUMMETS from voters backing Ruth Davidson”.
And, y’know, that’s not a very true thing to say.
The Man With No Brains 94
Posted on
October 12, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
When indoor-hat-wearing uberYoon nutter George Galloway appeared in some of the madder corners of the gutter press this week after appearing on RT to extravagantly belittle last weekend’s indy marchers, we didn’t bother talking about it because who cares what that irrelevant old zoomer thinks, right?
But when an alert reader drew our attention to this spectacular clip of Galloway’s pre-indyref and post-indyref views on the EU we couldn’t let it go, because it so perfectly encapsulates not just what a huge buffoon George Galloway is, but the jaw-dropping, bare-faced, crass hypocrisy of so much Unionist argument.
We’re only sad he’s neither a politician nor in Scotland, or he’d be a shoo-in.
