The Daily Telegraph just released a video called “100 Reasons Why Brexit Was A Good Thing”. It listed them to a soundtrack of “Jerusalem”, the same song that closed the Labour Party conference earlier this week with its stirring ode to just one of the four nations of the United Kingdom.
We’ve saved a few of the highlights below, just in case the Telegraph should delete the video in a fit of sanity. We’ve also added one fake one. See if you can spot it.
The dogged determination of Scottish Labour to insult the Scottish electorate is a source of constant slack-jawed astonishment to us. Over the years we’ve lost count of the number of times the party’s politicians have effectively said “People are just too stupid to vote for us”, in the apparent belief that abuse is the way to win back support.
But it’s not always so overt. The subtler ways in which the party treats voters like morons include the assumption that people’s memories only go back to yesterday’s newspapers, and there can surely be no more stark illustration than its recent adoption of the attack line that the SNP are standing “shoulder to shoulder with the Tories”.
We’re big fans of socialism ourselves, so when a number of delegates at the Scottish Labour conference today, including UK leader Jeremy Corbyn, revived an old Keir Hardie line we were quite excited.
Michelle Mone, the fake-tan-and-diet-pills tycoon who threatened to leave Scotland if the SNP won the 2007 Holyrood election (but didn’t when they did), then threatened to leave if Yes won the referendum (but did when it didn’t), now lives in a very expensive flat by the Thames in London with a lovely view of Tower Bridge.
auld highlander on Bad Santa: “Snake oil ya galoot.” Dec 21, 12:40
Mia on Bad Santa: “Currently, if you order food online from Sainsburys, for lamb, for example, you are simply given the option New Zealand…” Dec 21, 12:38
Gordon on Bad Santa: “It’s it’s specialist subject!” Dec 21, 12:37
znovak on The Cost Of Truth: ““They haven’t been stolen. They’ve been captured & will be part of negotiations.” They ran bogus referenda there, let Duma…” Dec 21, 12:34
Mia on Bad Santa: ““It’s a rare “gen0cide” that could be ended by releasing 100 or so hostages” Whose intelligence are you trying to…” Dec 21, 12:22
James on Bad Santa: “Aye, more Main drivel right enough. Shite, even. Speaking of shite, US food regs allow shite in the human food…” Dec 21, 12:20
PacMan on Bad Santa: “I have no problem with “hormone pumped beef” and the “chlorinated chicken” in the UK as long as they are…” Dec 21, 12:13
Robert Hughes on Bad Santa: “The destruction of the E.U has been a long-term objective of feral U.S ” Foreign Policy ” and is now…” Dec 21, 12:13
Peter McAvoy on Bad Santa: “Abolish the house of lords” Dec 21, 11:56
Hatey McHateface on Bad Santa: “TBQH, I’m more interested in what’s in the green bottle. The comments BTL are far from being a barrel of…” Dec 21, 11:49
Socrates MacSporran on Bad Santa: “Ma auld (now Sainted) Faither was a member of the Old Scottish Unionist Party. After it was taken over by…” Dec 21, 11:45
Socrates MacSporran on Bad Santa: “Ne’erday is the more-traditional Scottish winter holiday. I started working in 1963 and worked Christmas Day on my first two…” Dec 21, 11:33
Hatey McHateface on Bad Santa: “I’ve heard that the millions of tourists who visit the USA every year, gorging themselves on the “hormone pumped beef”…” Dec 21, 11:32
Anne on Bad Santa: “My father worked on Christmas day as well.” Dec 21, 11:32
PacMan on Bad Santa: “The HOL is nothing but another non-job to keep ex politicians from causing trouble to their respective parties. That’s the…” Dec 21, 11:30
gregor on Bad Santa: “The Refreshments: Rock’n’roll X-Mas: I’m the Real Santa: “I´ve been around a long long while Ridin´ round in Christmas-style I´m…” Dec 21, 11:24
sarah on Bad Santa: “It changed to being a public holiday in Scotland some time in the 1950’s, I think.” Dec 21, 11:22
PacMan on Bad Santa: “And a lot of these Brexit voters complain that they never got the Brexit that they voted for. I voted…” Dec 21, 11:15
PacMan on Bad Santa: “Using that logic, the attack on farmers using inheritance tax is a dog-whistle to their support as a rouse to…” Dec 21, 11:07
gregor on The Cost Of Truth: “Guardian (2022): Keir Starmer: I will abolish House of Lords to ‘restore trust in politics’: “…the Labour leader has told…” Dec 21, 11:06
Dan on Bad Santa: “Soz for bumping this from a couple of weeks back, which was also a bump from a previous post, but…” Dec 21, 10:56
James on Bad Santa: “There’s ‘proud Scot but’ Mairget Curran punted up into the lords for her services to the English parliament. Trebles all…” Dec 21, 10:54
Geri on Bad Santa: “According to the world elite over at billionaires central, the WEF – we’ll all own nothing, eat bugs & be…” Dec 21, 10:51
PacMan on Bad Santa: “I found this article about how the US government screwed over the US people through a Federal orchestrated land-grab in…” Dec 21, 10:49
Mac on Bad Santa: “Trump when he was president first time around repeatedly complained that Europe should not be buying its (cheap) energy from…” Dec 21, 10:42
PacMan on Bad Santa: “I think it’s simply the price of a trade deal with the US. I know there has been a lot…” Dec 21, 10:28
Effijy on Bad Santa: “Most odious PM’s Thatcher wears the crown. Boris made a sickening attempt to overtake her. Truss who threw the economy…” Dec 21, 10:27
Meindevon on Bad Santa: “I’m sure I remember my Dad working Christmas Day when I was young as it wasn’t a holiday day back…” Dec 21, 10:23
