Because the media in Britain is now basically just a giant gossip circle repeating each other’s stories, pretty much every newspaper today repeats Michelle Mone’s tiresome publicity-seeking whinge about “cybernats” from the Mail On Sunday.
One of them is the Herald, whose piece contains a quote suggesting that Mone – who appeared to think that flitting from Scotland to England somehow got you away from the internet – does have at least some basic understanding of how Twitter works:
Now, we’re going to assume that by “the C word” she meant the four-letter insult, and by “the same party” we can deduce from context that she must mean the SNP.
So let’s just see if that claim stands up to scrutiny.
Michelle Mone, the titular head of a loss-making underwear company mostly owned by a shady Sri Lankan business group, who’s spent much of the last eight years trying to blackmail Scots by threatening to punish them with hundreds of job losses if they don’t vote the way she tells them to, has a 1400-word whine/house advert in the MoS today about how beastly cybernats have forced her to finally move to England.
Who wants to be the one to break it to her that they have Twitter in England too?
In its kneejerk “SNP BAD” reaction to the Alistair Carmichael affair, the Unionist establishment – politicians and media alike – has furiously tried to divert attention from Carmichael’s smear and attempted cover-up by harking back to an incident in 2012, when the press gave vast amounts of coverage to a claim that Alex Salmond had “lied” about legal advice regarding an independent Scotland’s EU membership.
Many of you won’t have seen this quite extraordinary performance from the Guardian’s assistant editor Michael White on last night’s Scotland Tonight, and you really should.
“Just go on the radio, play it all with a dead bat, fob them off with some bland waffle and kill the story”, the Lib Dems will have said to Sir Malcolm Bruce this morning.
Sorry for the wait, readers, but having fancy custom stuff made simply takes time.
However, we’re delighted to report that all of the donor perks for our 2015 fundraiser are now in our possession, and will be winging their way out to generous contributors over the next few days.
Many pundits are of the opinion that the new Tory Max government will be actively hostile to the BBC, which the party has long believed is an expensive public-sector hotbed of right-on lefties. So when we did our latest poll, it seemed worth finding out how much the people of Scotland valued the state broadcaster.
Much of the commentariat and media has been in a froth for the last 24 hours about the supposed failure of the nation’s pollsters to predict the Conservative victory. This, for example, was Labour’s highly-paid election guru David Axelrod:
But the truth is that the polls – just like the heavily-maligned exit poll which turned out to be bang on the money – got nothing wrong. The people interpreting them did.
Captain Caveman on The End Of Law: ““Boasting” … like a non-existent, “Walter Mitty stylee” military service, perchance? Gotcha. 🙂” Jun 22, 19:59
TURABDIN on The End Of Law: “should be «non sequitur», of course.” Jun 22, 19:51
Young Lochinvar on The End Of Law: “CC .. whereas you (self professed) “slaphead” sport an upside doon heid.. Maybe best lay off a bit Dickinson, you…” Jun 22, 19:46
Young Lochinvar on The End Of Law: “Beggars Unfortunately that myth has been doing the rounds for a bit now. If true, it remains to be proven.…” Jun 22, 19:38
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “MI6 will include that in their daily synopsis of Wings BTL posts. It hits his desk 9:00 AM daily and…” Jun 22, 19:19
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “Wheesht, Lorncal. Nae cant wants to hear how Scotland was much better in many ways before the HR circus came…” Jun 22, 19:13
TURABDIN on The End Of Law: “Non sequitor of the moment «Andy Burnham ‘understands Scotland because he’s from northern England» Glasgow South West MP Zubir AHMAD.” Jun 22, 19:10
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “Ah’m ganging tae dae fit Wally W says. Check him oot! Wi such wit, wisdom and erudeeshun at Indy’s beck…” Jun 22, 19:06
100%Yes on The End Of Law: “I’m wanting to go on the record I support Keir Starmer becoming the ambassador to America.” Jun 22, 18:06
James on The End Of Law: “Here’s the half wit boyfriend appeared….” Jun 22, 17:58
Lorncal on The End Of Law: “I love the Tartan Army, but I had to laugh when I saw some of them cleaning up a public…” Jun 22, 17:50
Captain Caveman on The End Of Law: “What’s the difference between “James” and a walrus? Well, one has great rolls of gelatinous, wet, glistening blubber, has great…” Jun 22, 17:34
James on The End Of Law: “Erm…how should I phrase it so you can comprehend…. oh aye, I know; “away and take a flying fuck to…” Jun 22, 17:13
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “Wally Walrus W resents being unmasked as a closet royalist. For such a lardy blubbermass, Wally, you’ve been very sleekit…” Jun 22, 16:39
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: ““behavioural determinism” What, like a genetic predisposition to sit about greeting into our drams? It’s not difficult to find places…” Jun 22, 16:23
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “And this from the Executive Summary section: “We do not intend to reach conclusions any time soon. We demand, as…” Jun 22, 16:08
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: “You are now trying to cover your tracks with gov.UK. Too late! you let your mask slip. No going back.…” Jun 22, 16:02
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: ““O friends, no more of these sounds! Let us sing more cheerful songs, More songs full of joy! Joy! Joy!…” Jun 22, 15:22
sam on The End Of Law: “Aidan is projecting again. He insists, without evidence, that Dr Cockbain is engaging in sophistry- plausible but fallacious argument. Below…” Jun 22, 15:13
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: “All we need now is Mrs Starmer to divorce the sausage.” Jun 22, 14:55
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: “The Order of the Knights Templar played No role in the battle of Culloden.” Jun 22, 14:35
Lorncal on The End Of Law: “It is not a foreign institution, Onlooker, so long as we are part of the UK, then, one supposes, we…” Jun 22, 14:31
Lorncal on The End Of Law: “Jay, while I agree with much of what you say, I also agree with H McH and I cannot read…” Jun 22, 14:16
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “Posh toff titled scum. Bet they all believed Bronze Age blethers too. These boys would have ridden their horses over…” Jun 22, 14:15
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: “Andy for King! Twenty five thousand votes can get you a country. No plan! No Money! What could possibly go…” Jun 22, 14:13
Mark Beggan on The End Of Law: “Even less acknowledged is the vital part the The Order of the Knights Templar played in tipping the balance of…” Jun 22, 13:57
Hatey McHateface on The End Of Law: “Why shouldn’t they be, Wally W? The likes of you are republican socialists. What’s your latest pig-ignorant wheeze? Claim hereditary…” Jun 22, 13:52
