Political pundits on both sides on the border often marvel at how the SNP appear able to defy the normal rules of electoral gravity, still holding a comfortable double-digit lead in the polls after more than 11 years in power. But there’s no great mystery to it, and the answer is simple, in several senses of that word.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow us to present to you Scottish Labour’s offering for who’d be in charge of all the Scottish Government’s money if the SNP weren’t in power – finance spokesman James Kelly MSP.
So as we’re busy today we’ll just refer you to some of the previous occasions we’ve covered it, because literally everything about it is exactly the same now as it was then.
We’re seriously starting to think there’s some sort of competition going on among the Unionist parties of Scotland to see who’s the thickest. We’ve spent quite a bit of time pointing out the scarcely-believable dimness of the Scottish Conservative benches, but this week Scottish Labour really pulled out the stops to try to seize back the initiative.
Yesterday was quite an eventful day, so it’s moderately possible you may have missed the alarming news that some shady Mafia-backed hedge fund or such has apparently funded these irresponsible and morally-suspect chancers (last seen shilling on air for literally Vladimir Putin and BBC Scotland, in that order) to produce an all-new series of scurrilous and dubious fact-grubbing for some inexplicable reason.
We have alerted the appropriate authorities. For safety, remain in your homes.
And no, we don’t even mean the FOUR spelling mistakes in this 42-word tweet.
We mean the bit that we’ve highlighted above in blue. Because what Scottish Labour’s lowest-watt bulb was gloating about earlier today was that Lord Bracadale concluded there’d been no gap created in the law by the Kelly-driven abolition of the OBFA.
And that’s… well, that’s not quite what Lord Bracadale said.
After 27 unbroken pages of royal wedding “news” (following on from a full 46 in its Sunday edition), the Scottish Daily Mail finally gets down to reporting other stuff today.
“Union support rising”, eh? Do we have any numbers on that?
Today’s Daily Record runs with a bizarre story lifted from yesterday’s Guardian, which resurrected the media’s longstanding but latterly-dormant hate campaign against the Scottish Government’s popular “baby box” initiative.
As alert readers will recall, nowadays we only look at the Scottish Daily Express if we’re absolutely desperate for material, so this piece slipped past us a few days ago:
And since the only thing in the papers today is page after page of unbearable fawning drivel about the stupendously insignificant (fifth in line to the throne, will never ever be king unless a terrorist blows up Buckingham Palace with an atomic bomb, is roughly as important to the wellbeing of the nation as Hamilton Accies’ third-choice goalkeeper) royal baby, we figured we may as well have a look at it now.
TURABDIN on And every day was exactly the same: “@Hatey McHateface Effectively you’re talking ex pats….romantic notions of the homeland which never match the «romantic notion». Met the type,…” Jan 3, 19:34
Hatey McHateface on And every day was exactly the same: “Wish I shared your optimism, Andy. The Baltic is full of sanctioned oil tankers. One sub could put six of…” Jan 3, 19:25
Hatey McHateface on List Voting For Cretins: ““The SNP’s clearly stated intention to thwart independence for Scotland is in plain sight” That’s just plain silly, Andy. The…” Jan 3, 19:12
Andy Ellis on And every day was exactly the same: “@ Hatey 6.24pm I agree WRT 4 wasted years, but many weapons systems in development are on pretty long lead…” Jan 3, 19:06
Andy Ellis on The Gulf War: “They’re not my parties or my criteria. Presumably Alba, ISP, I4I, Liberate Scotland….? There may be others no doubt.” Jan 3, 19:02
Hatey McHateface on List Voting For Cretins: ““it’ll only take me five minutes” Odd, Northy, but at this time of year, some things are more obvious. Didn’t…” Jan 3, 19:01
Cynicus on And every day was exactly the same: ““….apparently nothing much has changed since the Americans overthrew Noriega in Panama 36 years ago…“ ====== TWO things have. First,…” Jan 3, 18:51
Captain Caveman on List Voting For Cretins: “Oh do shut up, you fat, useless moron. One thing’s for sure though, no one is going to g to…” Jan 3, 18:47
Northcode on List Voting For Cretins: ““I don’t actually think this is the place – nor indeed do I think the vast majority of readers or…” Jan 3, 18:34
Hatey McHateface on And every day was exactly the same: ““The indigenous peoples of «America» kick the colonists out….” And many millions of them return to Scotland, the land their…” Jan 3, 18:30
Hatey McHateface on And every day was exactly the same: “Again, some good points, Andy. But you’re neglecting the time factor. We’ve wasted near 4 years wishing the problem would…” Jan 3, 18:24
Andy Ellis on And every day was exactly the same: “Not really: US kit is oftentimes amongst the best, but is routinely outperformed by systems developed elsewhere. The US oftentimes…” Jan 3, 17:49
Young Lochinvar on The Gulf War: “AE @ 9.21 Ahh.. And those parties meeting your criteria are??” Jan 3, 17:43
Andy Ellis on And every day was exactly the same: “…waste 10 minutes of your life reading the BTL posts from the usual suspects! Or the twilight zone as I…” Jan 3, 17:40
TURABDIN on And every day was exactly the same: “International Law is the toilet paper of the powerful. Trump’s next target? Iran…..an American funded fundamentalist protestant Iran is projected…..the…” Jan 3, 17:33
James on List Voting For Cretins: “Once you’ve stopped being embarrassed for everyone else Tory Boy you should try Socialist Worker, it’s a good read. Don’t…” Jan 3, 17:26
Hatey McHateface on And every day was exactly the same: “Some sound sentiments, Andy, but the major problem with excluding the USA from our security architecture is that their kit…” Jan 3, 17:24
Hatey McHateface on And every day was exactly the same: “You having a laugh, Andy? If you want to find a place where “apparently nothing much has changed”, waste 10…” Jan 3, 17:14
Andy Ellis on And every day was exactly the same: “What is clear surely is that the post WW2 world order (such as it was) is now irredeemably lost. MAGA…” Jan 3, 17:05
Andy Ellis on List Voting For Cretins: “@Aidan 3.55pm Amongst all of the deluded things that you sa Alf, the comparison between the Scottish people and the…” Jan 3, 16:46
Confused on And every day was exactly the same: “What is clear for us, if we want indy, WE NEED TO ABIDE BY THE NORMS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW and…” Jan 3, 16:44
Andy Ellis on List Voting For Cretins: “@ Northcode 12.40 pm They never make a statement that presents a plan or hypothesis that can be analysed and…” Jan 3, 16:22
Aidan on List Voting For Cretins: “Amongst all of the deluded things that you sa Alf, the comparison between the Scottish people and the people’s suffering…” Jan 3, 15:55
Shug on The Zone Of Interesting: “If Reform offered a referendum and an investigation into the Salmond case they will get a large part of the…” Jan 3, 15:43
TURABDIN on And every day was exactly the same: “AS IT WAS IN IRAQ, so it shall be in Venezuela……«Pax Americana», is that the distant rumble of San Andreas…” Jan 3, 15:32
Alf Baird on List Voting For Cretins: “The colonized are forced to exist every day in an ‘apartheid regime’, ‘a people’ and their culture and language rendered…” Jan 3, 15:17
sarah on List Voting For Cretins: “@ BLMac: “SNP self-id as an independence party”. The leadership and hangers-on do. There’s so many members who are still…” Jan 3, 14:37
Nae Need! on And every day was exactly the same: “Willie, Cheers for typing that, it saved me from doing it 😉 Upon reflection, I think Chris is making a…” Jan 3, 14:15
