Taking the biscuits 803
Posted on
October 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘media’
Yeah, that’ll work 328
Posted on
September 30, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Because nothing scares Etonian Tory Prime Ministers like a poster on a van.
Your time is over, Daily Record. Tick tock.
And now for something serious 379
Posted on
September 25, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
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No regrets 334
Posted on
September 24, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Or some regrets. It’s so hard to tell.
The UK media, ladies and gentlemen.
The country that wasn’t 1,041
Posted on
September 19, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Last night, everyone in Scotland lost.
45% of the electorate in the highest turnout in modern UK political history voted for hope and for change, and didn’t get them. 55% voted in terror of change, but will get it (for the worse) anyway.
The No campaign desperately abandoned all pretence of being an alliance and turned into a red-and-yellow-branded Labour one, only to lose in Labour’s core Glasgow heartland and doom the party to all but certain defeat in both 2015 and 2016. The SNP will likely take advantage at the ballot box, but win only a poisoned chalice.
The Tories will triumph in the next UK election as saviours of the Union, then be forced into an EU referendum only a demented minority of them really want, and which will result in a disastrous exit from the EU. And of course, the Lib Dems were dying no matter what.
So it goes.
Nick Clegg Signs Another Pledge 502
Posted on
September 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
And then my heart went boom 290
Posted on
September 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The picture the BBC chose to illustrate events in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street today:
Unicorns over Cowcaddens 137
Posted on
September 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
What passes for subtlety 171
Posted on
September 12, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Former Labour spindoctor Charlie Whelan in the Strathspey & Badenoch Herald:
Click to enlarge as Whelan segues seamlessly from terrible Scottish “nationalism” to racial genocide in Auschwitz, because, you know, Yes voters are all basically Nazis*.
*George Galloway’s comments (made in his capacity as a nominated representative of “Better Together”) from yesterday’s BBC “Big Big Debate” were edited out of the broadcast version. We’re sure it was just to keep the running time tight.
Out in the open 526
Posted on
September 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is astonishing. From tonight’s BBC 6 O’Clock News:
Nick Robinson claims Alex Salmond “didn’t answer” his question at a press conference earlier today. That is a brazen and quite spectacular lie. The First Minister gave the BBC man a detailed and direct response which lasted for over three minutes BEFORE raising the matter of the Treasury link. You can see that response for yourself below.
A distinction without a difference 273
Posted on
September 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Earlier today we showed you a clip from a press conference in which Alex Salmond schooled the BBC’s Nick Robinson in some basic financial facts about Corporation Tax, and went on to make a serious allegation about wrongdoing between the BBC and the UK Treasury, in which he claimed that the latter had broken Parliamentary rules by leaking market-sensitive information about RBS.
The BBC dutifully reported the story later in the day.
And as far as we can gather, the First Minister has everyone bang to rights.
If newspapers told the truth for one day 156
Posted on
September 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Today’s might read something like this:
“In a huge boost for the independence campaign, Royal Bank of Scotland today announced that it would move its registered office from Edinburgh to London in the event of a Yes vote. First Minister Alex Salmond was reported to be delighted that the possible future burden of having to bailout the failed bank had been lifted from the shoulders of the Scottish Government.
(The threat was in fact a mythical one, as bank bailouts are not conducted on the basis of head-office location, but had frequently been rolled out as a scare story by the anti-independence campaign.)
With RBS unlikely to pay any Corporation Tax for decades on account of its gargantuan and ongoing losses from the financial crash, there was no downside for Holyrood, with the bank stating unambiguously in a letter to employees that it had ‘no intention to move operations or jobs’.
(Corporation Tax is in any event levied on where business activity takes place, not where the headquarters is located.)
In other words, an independent Scotland would keep all the benefits of the bank – employment, services and employee taxation and spending – with none of the dangerous liabilities. The news will encourage businesses to invest in the Scottish economy, knowing that their money is secure. The outcome would give an independent Scotland the best of both worlds.”
Just imagine it, viewers. Maybe one day.
