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.
100%Yes on Calm down, lads: “Liberation Scotland and Salvo@ the UN, I hope you enjoyed your week off.” Sep 20, 14:42
sarah on Calm down, lads: “I saw on your twitter that you have been busy dealing with the person who was featured in your The…” Sep 20, 14:42
Effijy on Calm down, lads: “I wouldn’t believe the date on the Telegraph. You must remember at Indy Ref 1 all of the Westminster parties…” Sep 20, 14:18
Mark Beggan on Calm down, lads: “To be perfectly honest I know more about the complexities of deep sea drilling in the North sea than I…” Sep 20, 14:04
Mark Beggan on Calm down, lads: “Drill Baby Drill Speak Freely Speak.” Sep 20, 13:49
Graeme Hampton on Calm down, lads: “Don’t worry about the week off. I can’t remember you having your seaside break this year. I suspect the removal…” Sep 20, 13:12
Xaracen on Monster Zero: “As my original claim stated, Aidan, only Scotland’s sovereignty is represented in the UKP, but it is not owned by…” Sep 20, 13:12
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Monster Zero: “Northcode, You of course fail to mention Gaelic, the actual language of the historic eponymous Scots. As a Q-Celtic language,…” Sep 20, 12:55
Alf Baird on Monster Zero: “Naw he didna. In earlier times the ‘Irish’ were Scots; and the ‘Scots’ were Picts. The Romans referred to Ireland…” Sep 20, 12:55
Mark Beggan on Monster Zero: “Left Wing debating strategy Scream Ignore Scream Ignore Scream Ignore Scream Ignore We Win.” Sep 20, 12:43
Dave Hansell on Monster Zero: “Captain Caveman, You miss the point entirely. What are you measuring with GDP? Would it perchance be the actual condition…” Sep 20, 12:35
Callum on Monster Zero: “There is no grassy knoll to this story. Charges brought against Robinson make absolutely no reference to left or right…” Sep 20, 12:30
Mark Beggan on Monster Zero: “Sharia law has no place in a civilised country.” Sep 20, 12:13
Mark Beggan on Monster Zero: “I think you should focus on controlling your emotions before you indulge in Geopolitics.” Sep 20, 12:06
Geri on Monster Zero: “That’s colonialism for you. They use proxies & warring factions. It my understanding that the government was offered assistance from…” Sep 20, 11:48
Captain Caveman on Monster Zero: ““I’m just glad to see Geri back” Wow, not something you hear very often 😀” Sep 20, 11:42
TURABDIN on Monster Zero: “The Scots are in an enviable position they can reclaim there «birthright». Sadly, the reputation of the Scots in the…” Sep 20, 11:38
Mark Beggan on Monster Zero: “It has been revealed that one of the females in Kubala is actually from Texas. This surely is now an…” Sep 20, 11:35
Mark Beggan on Monster Zero: “‘move on’ did you have a particular direction in mind. Is there something important here that we all missed? Move…” Sep 20, 11:26
Mark Beggan on Monster Zero: “You forgot the Irish. How rude is that?” Sep 20, 11:19
Callum on Monster Zero: “Kirk was a nutcase with a bible. Robinson is a nutcase with a rifle. America under Trump encourages nutcases. That…” Sep 20, 11:04
diabloandco on Monster Zero: “Don’t be daft MaryB , the Herald just saw a chance to cash in AFTER the referendum so invented the…” Sep 20, 11:03
Aidan on Monster Zero: “I’m just glad to see Geri back. It wouldn’t be Wings without some barely literate bloviating occupant of the state…” Sep 20, 11:01
Aidan on Monster Zero: “Right, so the U.K. Parliament has the ultimate lawmaking authority in Scotland but not in the rest of the U.K.?” Sep 20, 10:58
Northcode on Monster Zero: “Guid day tae aw ma fellow Scots and Picts oan here. Aye, and guid day as weel tae aw ye…” Sep 20, 10:55
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Monster Zero: “Thank you. Enlightening article. Eg « In Syria, Assyrian schools have been forcibly shut down, further erasing Assyrian cultural and…” Sep 20, 10:11
MaryB on Monster Zero: “The National have put up “Live from the UN” on utube with Hamish Morrison. So unbelievably bad it’s insulting and…” Sep 20, 10:09
Alf Baird on Monster Zero: “I was there in person. This was far too important an event and opportunity in the Scottish national interest to…” Sep 20, 10:08
Alf Baird on Monster Zero: “Insightful comment from Sandy Allan in The National: “I personally felt that the statements read to the UN & hopeful…” Sep 20, 09:56
TURABDIN on Monster Zero: “SCOTLAND, care to swap with us? https://hrwf.eu/iraq-report-highlights-assyrian-fight-for-their-future-in-their-homelands/ The big G. not actually hiding in plain sight.” Sep 20, 09:37
